Chapter 156: The Calm Before the Storm

The two Bostuat soldiers suddenly turned at an intersection, turned around, and soon disappeared from view. Let the barbarians who are preparing to do it feel sorry.

"Want to be a deserter and caught by the Overseers?" Richard felt that this was the only way to explain why the two groups of Stuarts were hostile to each other and chased and fled.

"Maybe. "As the only berserker among the more than a hundred barbarians, and the only lone seedling in a thousand hectares, Russell has been relatively active recently. He set up a pergola on his eyebrow bone with one hand, looked around the inside of Winterfell, lowered his arm and smacked his lips helplessly, "But why are the defenders gone?"

"How do I know. The lord glanced at the Pompeii soldiers who had entered the city together, and had already run a long way along the city walls, and there were no Stuart men who came out to stop them.

He couldn't help but suspect that it might be Seedorf, an old fox, who couldn't hold it and deserted with his subordinates. The other day, the lure of the enemy to go deeper, was a smokescreen to facilitate the retreat. The more cautious the Pompeii army, the less likely it was to spot their small movements.

The more Richard thought about it, the more he felt that it was very likely that the two Stuart soldiers had just been left behind. One of the gangs was unwilling to die, so they were chased by the other gang.

"Your Excellency. Dracula walked over to his lord and looked at the city with his cloudy eyes, "I can feel it, it's still there." ”

"Hmm. Of course, Richard hadn't forgotten the Ring of Sky and Thunder, but now was the time when it was the most crowded, and he was going to wait until the evening.

"Hey, it's all a good thing. Gunther walked over to a dragon hunting crossbow at the base of the wall and stabbed it with his tomahawk, causing the crust of the stick and papyrus to collapse immediately.

This kind of thing can fool people from a distance, and you can see the flaws at a glance when you get close. However, even if it is an imitation, the size should be about the same as the real thing, and you can vaguely see how exaggerated the volume of the dragon hunting crossbow is.

The huge base occupies an area larger than a bungalow, and there are no parts such as crossbow arms and crossbow strings on the main body, only a thick and long cylinder, which is more than enough to throw a half-sized person into it.

If it is genuine, it will weigh at least three thousand pounds or more, and it will be very difficult to maneuver. If you want to use this thing against the dragon, you have to work on how to attract the dragon to it - for example, defending the city is suitable.

The soldiers sent the news that Winterfell had turned into an empty shell and sent back to the camp, and at first they thought that the defenders were engaged in a conspiracy, but it was difficult to fake the fact that there was no one in the whole city, and after the empty cavalry circled for a week to confirm, the army quickly arrived.

The sappers set up improvised levers to remove the stones from the holes, and the gates were opened from the inside.

Although the victory came a little inexplicably, after all, after a month of hard fighting, it is still worth celebrating. Therefore, the Pompeii expeditionary force still carried out a ceremony to enter the city, lined up in a neat line, and entered this important city of the enemy country with a blow.

When entering the city, Suffolk looked at Richard with a very complicated expression - someone had lost half of his legion and had failed to make any achievements. Someone didn't fight a copper fight, and everything was fine when he walked over. The contrast made him so depressed that he almost wanted to vomit blood.

The lord smiled modestly, and this modesty came to an abrupt end at the sight of Higuain.

"Look at it! Eyes will be plucked out for you!" Richard smiled on his face, but his mouth was not forgiving. He kept his voice so low that no one but Higuain could hear it. However, the commander-in-chief, General Pinto, happened not far away, and Higuain was not daring to be presumptuous, and his face was flushed.

The army remained vigilant for a while after entering the city, until they searched the city again and again and found few enemies, and finally confirmed that Winterfell had completely fallen into their grasp.

In front of everyone's eyes, General Pinto personally removed the insignia hanging from the town hall and the noble court, marking the end of the rule of the Stuart Kingdom. In order to bring the good news back to China in the most solemn gesture, the dragon knight Zed took the initiative to act as a volunteer and immediately set off to fly to the royal capital with two emblems.

With the dragon's flying speed, he could be back in Winterfell by noon tomorrow without delaying his business.

"Where did you say all the civilians in the city were?" said Béderick, still looking at the ceremony, not forgetting to make small talk.

Winterfell has about 300,000 residents in peacetime, and more people will take refuge in the city in wartime, at least 400,000 civilians. But these people are nowhere to be found, and no one knows where they have gone.

When the defenders retreated, they brought hundreds of nobles with them, and it was impossible or incapable of managing ten times more civilians than them, so doing so would only drag everyone down and immobilize them together.

"Maybe they were dismissed before the siege. "Your Excellency, Lord Lord, is now full of Sky and Thunder Rings.

It's exciting to think about it, it's a remnant of the Titan era, and now it's lying in a corner of the city where no one knows, waiting for him, Lord Richard, to pick up the leak.

"Yes. "Bederick didn't take it too seriously, either.

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More than 100,000 people waited four or five hours just to line up to enter the city. After entering the city, it took about some time to redivide the defense area and arrange patrols. When everything stopped, only the last rays of the sun were left in the sky.

"Let's go!" Richard snapped his fingers and set off sneakily with Dracula.

According to Dracula, the Sky and Thunder Rings belong to the collection of a former traveler whose mansion is located in the aristocratic district east of the city, a little far from the barracks. However, it was not only the two of them who sneaked there, and there were many people who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make extra money, and the upper echelons of the expeditionary force chose to turn a blind eye to this.

After all, a month's siege battle is too hard, and no matter how strict the military discipline is, it is inevitable that it will be a little unkind at this time.

"This is the Ring of Sky and Thunder?" Richard stood in a showroom, holding a bracelet-sized white ivory ring. To be honest, he really couldn't believe that such a thing that didn't even have a magic crystal could be magic equipment.

"Absolutely!" Dracula covered his cloudy eyes, as if he were looking directly at the sun. He can see the "light" that ordinary people can't see, the more precious the item, the brighter the light, and at this moment, the strong light in front of him makes him unable to open his eyes at all!

"Okay. ”

It's a pity that Qiqiu is not there, otherwise you can try it on the spot. Richard smacked his lips regretfully, the little thing seemed a little annoyed since the wall gave it a catapult start. The lord had planned to bring it with him, but he didn't find it for a long time.

As time passed, the last remaining afterglow of the sky set below the horizon with the sun.

No one noticed, at the same time that the sunlight was gone.

In the soft mud, in the ditch, and even in the pit of the dry toilet, pale palms suddenly poked out.