Todd, who entered the form of a tyrant, reflected the panicked appearance of the enemy in his huge scarlet eyes.

The iron claws of the crossbow bolt were clenched, and he charged back slightly, and the beast-like golden pupils instantly dilated, and his arms slammed forward.

The heavy iron crossbow disappeared into the air in an instant, and in the next second, the head of the defender commander and a city wall behind the opponent exploded into a pile of powder mustard almost at the same time.

The soldiers of the defending army, first at the headless corpse of the chief, then at the bed crossbow bolt that was still trembling stuck in the wall, and after a brief moment of distraction, all the enemies began to retreat in terror.

Todd, who had returned to his human form, took a long breath and said to the Valkyrie and little Jerry beside him: "Take advantage of the low morale of the enemy, drive them out of the corridor and block the road to the top of the city wall!"

After the order was given, there was no response.

Todd turned his head strangely and found that the people around him were looking at him with horrified expressions.

Shaking his head helplessly, Todd yelled: "What are you still doing in a daze?!

Watching the others come to their senses and go on their respective missions, Todd walked alone to the winch room.

Along the way, severed limbs and corpses were strewn all over the field, and it was not difficult for him to imagine how tragic the battle had just taken place here.

When Todd walked into the winch room, Valkyrie Evie and her sisters were pinning the chains from the gate winch to prevent the enemy from using the winch to raise the gate again.

Seeing Todd's appearance, Evie put away the parasite limbs under her armor, first wiped the blade and shield with the corpse's clothing, and then said: "I heard the alarm bells in the city, and it won't be long before the enemy troops stationed outside the city will be under the city. ”

Todd nodded indifferently: "The key question now is whether we can hold out until reinforcements arrive when the enemy army is attacking the city." ”

Evie retracted her sword from its scabbard, "We asked a few guards and got a piece of news. Half a month ago, the kingdom transferred most of the slave hunters outside the city and sent them to the border line to participate in the war with the Kingdom of Connaught, so there are not too many troops who can really support Guyu City. ”

"That's good news!" Todd said overjoyed, "There were two things I was most worried about. First, the defense of the port of Guyi City is too tight, and our fleet is discovered and alerted before it gets close to the port, and the defenders will have enough time to build a defensive line and wait for reinforcements at this time; second, there are a large number of reinforcements stationed outside the city, and once they learn that the city gate is attacked, the commander of the enemy reinforcement army, if only a few of us are the ones who are defending the city, they will launch a sea of people wheel tactics regardless of cost and consumption. Under such a premise, it is difficult for us to hold on to the arrival of reinforcements. ”

Todd shrugged, "Thankfully, neither of these things is likely to happen. ”

Evie said to Todd with a serious face: "I want to remind you of one thing, the walls of the ancient city are thirty meters long. With such a long defensive line, we only have ten men, and we have to leave two people to guard the passage below in case the enemy attacks. In this way, there are only eight people who can really defend the enemy army on the city walls. On such a long wall, it was simply impossible to defend the siege force with only eight people. ”

Todd smiled and shook his head: "Whether you can hold it or not, you will know when the time comes." ”

After leaving little Jerry, armed with a dragon lance and heavy armor, and a Valkyrie skilled in bowing, at the entrance of the Yongdao to defend against enemy counterattacks in the city, Todd climbed the city wall with the remaining seven men and waited quietly for the enemy to arrive.

Gladiators, barbarian warriors, and the Knights of the North Island, all of whom are well-equipped gladiators, barbarian warriors, and the Knights of the North Island, have transformed into a group of fanatical holy warriors with the belief of "rebuilding Asgard", crushing all enemies in front of them with endless fighting spirit and crazy killing.

These people have only one thought in their minds about any living creature that can move - kill the front!

Climbing to the watchtower at the top of the city gate, Todd looked at the direction of the gunsmoke in the city, nodded with satisfaction and said, "The advance speed of the landing force is faster than I imagined. ”

Evie, who was below the watchtower, looked at the distant horizon and shouted at Todd, "Enemy reinforcements are coming!"

Todd turned around and cast his gaze on the plains outside the city.

At the end of the hill in the distance, a thick black line crossed the top of the hill and was slowly moving towards the city gate.

Using Hawkeye's ability, Todd is looking into the distance, revealing the enemy's formation and class composition at a glance.

The reinforcement of the Ulster slave catcher, about 1,000 people, is divided into three phalanxes, the frontmost phalanx is composed of slaves, the middle phalanx is mostly the regular army infantry, and the last phalanx is the cavalry regiment of the Ulster and the main guard.

In addition to these, Todd found an extremely interesting thing, this reinforcement did not carry any siege equipment.

But think about it, if the port of one of your own cities is attacked, according to normal people's thinking, the landing force will march through the entire city in an orderly manner to attack the city gate. The troops who came to reinforce could never have imagined that the city gate would be captured so quickly, so it was natural that they did not carry any siege equipment.

Waiting for the enemy army to descend the hills, Evie looked up at the fluttering flags on the city gate and took another look. Said to Todd: "The enemy is in range, I'm ready." ”

Todd was a little surprised, the enemy's forward was still about four hundred meters away from the city gate, and even if the English longbow fired light arrows, there was no way to reach this range, let alone cause lethality. But Evie's expression was clearly telling him, 'I can shoot and kill the enemy'.

Todd motioned for everyone to crouch down, hide under the battlements, and whispered to Evie, "Don't worry, wait." ”

The latter glanced at him, nodded and said nothing.

Soon, the enemy advanced another hundred and fifty meters.

This was already within the regular range of the bow and arrow, so the pace of the enemy army slowed down significantly.

Evie turned her inquiring eyes to Todd, who still shook her head and said, "It's not time, wait." ”

In the phalanx of the enemy, a cavalry squad rushed to the city gate and shouted, and after no answer, the enemy advanced a hundred meters again.

Todd, who was hiding under the battlements, could already faintly hear the enemy's chatter.

Evie's eyes widened, staring at Todd and whispering, "The enemy will soon be under our noses!!"

Todd looked at her with a smile and said slowly, "Trust me. ”

Evie took a deep look at Todd, clenched the bow in her hand, gritted her teeth hard, and turned her head in the direction of the enemy.

The enemy finally came to a place fifty meters away from the city gate, and a deep voice sounded outside the city gate: "I am Mashev, the deputy commander of the 2nd Expeditionary Regiment of Ulster! In the name of the king, I order you to open the door!"

The only answer to him was a silent wall.

A man who looked like a staff member walked up to Mashev and asked, "My lord, this situation is completely unreasonable at the moment, what should we do?"

Another staff member suggested: "Looking from the hills just now, the port area is full of smoke, and it must have been captured by the enemy, who are probably marching towards the city gates, and it will not be long before they attack it." ”

Riding on horseback, Maschev had the typical appearance of the Ulsters, with a beard, a burly body, and a scarred face. He shouted at everyone, "I understand what you are saying, and I wonder most about where the defenders of the city gate have gone, and why no one has answered us?!"

The staff looked at each other, but no one answered.

Seeing that no one had given an answer, Mashev fired a fire and began to think quietly, and then he asked the quartermaster behind him: "Do we have any climbing tools with us?

The quartermaster shook his head awkwardly and whispered, "My lord, the instructions you gave are to throw away all unnecessary baggage and reinforce the ancient city as quickly as possible, so ......"

Mashev waved his whip in annoyance: "Damn! how did I know that when I came here, the city gates were closed!"

One of the staff members gave a suggestion: "If you just want to climb the city gate, you can gather the ropes in the army and make a rope sleeve, so that one person can climb in to find out." ”

Mashev immediately agreed to the idea.

Soon, the noose was made and thrown to the city gate, hooking a sharp corner in the battlements.

A slave, driven by clubs and blades, began to climb up the rope.

Todd, who was hiding behind the battlement, looked at the direction of the noose's landing, first gave the others a sign of calmness, and then motioned for Evie to follow him and move in the direction of the noose.

The hapless slave soldier, under the watchful eyes of thousands of people, finally climbed the city wall with great effort. Jumping down from the battlement, before he could see his surroundings, a hand covered his mouth from behind, and a sharp blade slashed his throat.

Before the slightest sound could be uttered, the hapless slave soldier lost his life.

"That bastard up there, tell me what's going on at the gates!" Mashev shouted several times, but found that there was no response, and in a fit of rage, he shouted: "Find someone to climb up again!"

The second and third slaves climbed up, only to end up with the same fate as the first unlucky man.

The deputy commander of the regiment, Mashev, who was already on the verge of rage, threw the whip in his hand to the ground, and shouted at his men with red eyes: "Everyone, roll all of them under the city wall, and climb over the wall! I want to see what the hell is going on inside!"

One of the staff members said worriedly: "The way of building a human wall will disrupt the formation of our army, and it will also give the enemy the best opportunity to attack......

Mashev raised his arms and scolded the man: "You fool who can't think! Can't you see that if there were enemies in the city, arrows would have fallen on our heads!"

The staff was silent for a while, and after thinking about it carefully, the deputy head of the regiment was also quite reasonable, if there was really an enemy, according to the standard process of defending the city, it was generally an attack of arrows, throwing stones, sasswood, etc., how could it be possible for the besieging army to swagger to the city?

"But...... A few of the slaves we had sent in had ...... yet to be persuaded again, only to find that Mashev had already begun to give orders.

"Everyone listen to me, the enemy landing force has captured the port area and is coming towards the city gates. We are running out of time! We must take control of the city gate as soon as possible before we can reinforce the friendly forces in the city!" Mashev waved his hand: "All the infantry phalanxes obey the order! Erect a human wall! Climb in and open the city gate!"

Under the order of the commander, the infantry, who lacked siege equipment, dropped their weapons and shields, and began to send soldiers to the top of the city wall in the most primitive way of "stacking arhats to erect human walls".

Listening to the movement outside, Todd smiled and opened the wooden box next to his feet, revealing a full cotton and linen bag.

"Remember when I told you how to use this thing?" Todd pulled out a dynamite bag from the wooden box and said to the Valkyries behind the battlements, "Light the fuse, and when you see white smoke ignite, throw it off the wall immediately." ”

Evie looked at the wooden crates brought by the griffins, picked up a bag of explosives and looked at it repeatedly, and asked, "On the ship, you did repeatedly explain how to use it, and this thing looks familiar, but what is the use?"

Listening to the increasing number of soldiers climbing the walls, Todd pulled the lead of the explosives bag in his hand and said to the others, "Do as I say, and soon you will see its usefulness." ”

The soldiers who were climbing the city wall suddenly noticed one white cloth bag after another, falling to the foot of the city wall as if it were raining.

The cloth bag fell to the ground, and the white smoke of gas and sparks attracted people's onlookers, and some brave soldiers even wanted to pick it up and find out.

Boom, boom, boom!

With a deafening loud noise and a blinding white light, one after another red lotus flowers bloomed brightly under the corner of the city.

The tremendous force of the impact tore the human body into unrecognizable pieces, blasting three feet of dirt into the air.

Blood, stumps and corpses stained the thirty-meter-long gray city wall with blood, and wailing, cries and groans resounded over the gates of the ancient city.

Mashev was swept off the horse's back and under the horse by the explosion of the explosion. The deputy commander of the legion completely fainted before he could say a word.

Waiting for the aftershocks of the explosion to subside, the Valkyries poked their heads out from behind the battlements and watched everything on the battlefield in amazement, each with a hellish expression on their faces.

Todd patted the dust off his body and was about to say something when the sound of fighting and shouting came from the other side of the gate.

The landing force that received Todd, broke through the defense line of the entire city, and had rushed to the city gates.