While Bishop Barth gathered hundreds of soldiers for an impromptu speech, Baron Jacques was in a state of panic and took refuge in the safest position in the heart of the city with his best troops.

Baron Jacques and Bishop Bart were clearly two different types of people.

Bishop Barth's job is to demagogue, so he is also quite immune to the demagogy of the enemy. Especially in the long-term religious competition, struggle, and even war work, Bishop Barthes has also accumulated a considerable degree of experience and coping strategies in the face of mysteries.

For example, the so-called thunder, such as those loudspeakers...... The longer he came into contact with God, the more it became clear to Barth that all gods were imaginary, and that as long as people truly believed, the power of God existed, and as long as they did not believe, they did not exist - and the same is true of the devil, they are just another name for a failed god.

So Bishop Bart sent men to inspect the walls to find out the real tricks of the enemy.

Baron Jacques obviously did not possess such insight and awareness, he was only a lord, he did not have the curiosity and curiosity of Bishop Barth, he did not care how these thunderbolts were cast, he only knew that the enemy had breached his two castles, one wood and one stone, in this way.

And Baron Jacques knew quite well that he was clearly not capable of building a castle stronger than stone.

Jacques was not as skeptical of the effectiveness of this new weapon as Barthes, and after determining that the fort had been breached, his first thought was that since the city walls could not be defended, he would simply give them to the enemy, and he would lead the whole city to resist in the city, so that the enemy would realize that if they wanted to take the city, they would have to step on the corpses and blood of the whole city, which was his property!

Even if the whole city were to be burned, Baron Jacques would never give it away!

Anyone!

Even gods!

In Baron Jacques's view, only with such determination can the enemy's ambitions be truly stopped—war is nothing more than for the city and the population, and if the end result is only a defeat for both sides, then both gods and men will carefully consider the necessity of continuing the war.

In Baron Jacques's view, this determination is the most important factor, the major factor that really determines the outcome of the war, and even whether the war itself will happen.

As for how the thunder is generated and how it is destroyed, Jacques knows that he is not good at this, and his subordinates do not have talents who are good at it, so he completely gave up fighting wits and courage with the enemy in this aspect. Since Bart is willing to do it, then let him do as he pleases, if he can succeed, it is best, if he fails, at least it can be regarded as a wake-up call for himself.

The news that Bishop Bart had found the "Heavenly Thunder" on the city wall actually reached Jacques's ears as soon as possible.

The baron's first thought at that time was to go over and see the excitement immediately. - If you can master the use of this kind of thunder, then in the future holy wars, maybe you can rely on this method to break through more cities.

However, when Baron Jacques had just walked out of the house and was about to mount his horse and set off, he saw two knights who had just been canonized by him, two of the three brothers, waiting for him, and they told the Baron that their eldest brother had been summoned by the priest to the other side of the city wall, and that they should come over when the eldest brother left, and that they must stop the lord and not come near! Don't go close! Never get close! - They had all seen the Elise explode the fort at night, and they all knew very well that the Elise did not need to light a fire or get close to it to detonate the thunder in the distance.

But these explanations were obviously not acceptable to Bishop Barth and their priests, for the Boss himself could not be 100% sure - what if the Elis had only used a small candle on the side of the "thunderbolt" to delay the detonation? This little trick is easy to do. And on moonlit nights, the light of a small candle in the distance can easily be overlooked.

The boss couldn't resist the bishop's order, but he couldn't dispel his worries - so he asked his brothers to come back and report the news to the lord.

Just when Baron Jacques was still hesitating whether he should believe the new knight who didn't know these two words, the shouts of the people were already heard from the city wall, and they made rhythmic waves, which were even more shocking and exciting than the loud sound of the Elise people persuading them to surrender just now, and they shouted over and over again that the Little Yang Sect would win! The shout made Baron Jacques feel a little emotional—those were his soldiers and his people, but apparently, they only remembered that they were believers in the Little Sun God at the moment.

The vague unhappiness dispelled the idea of Baron Jacques to see the excitement, and rushing there would only cause embarrassment. Jacques sent a herald to tell Bishop Barth afterwards that he was going to treat the bishop to dinner in the evening.

Bishop Barth's speeches and cheers grew louder and louder, and soon many of the townspeople began to commotion. Obviously, the bishop's intention was obvious, he wanted to expand the influence of this matter as soon as possible, and establish his prestige in Xiaoyang City to the greatest extent.

Just as Baron Jacques was beginning to hesitate whether to send another herald to terminate the Bishop's out-of-line actions now, he heard his mount neighing from the stable at the door, and just as he was about to get up to check what was happening outside, the Baron felt a faint vibration under his feet.

The baron almost subconsciously thought it was an earthquake, and then he heard a loud noise! The sound was identical to the thunder described by the three sentinels at the time of their report - louder and heavier than the actual thunder.

It's also more powerful.

Jacques almost ran out of the door, sprinting quickly to the top of the bell tower.

Two minutes later, standing in the bell tower, the Baron clearly saw that a huge amount of smoke had risen from the north gate, which seemed to completely envelop the gate and the arrow tower—but soon the baron realized that he had seen it wrong, not the cover, but that the gate and the arrow tower had disappeared completely—they had become a large pile of stone fragments piled on the ground.

Shing mun! It became! Fragments!

Then Jacques heard screams, countless screams, as if it had become hell in an instant, and his soldiers were now poor souls tormented in hell.

"Help us!"

"Oh my God! My hand! My hand! ”

"The Devil's Thunder...... The Elis are the real devils! ”

"Nope! Help me......"

"Hurry up and plug the gap to prevent the Elise from rushing over!"

"The Elise are coming!"

……

Jacques' first thought was the same as that of his officers - gather your troops! The Elise are about to take advantage of the siege!

He shouted to the officer on duty under the bell tower: "Hans, ring the bell!" Ring the bell! ”

The bell quickly summoned the nearby reserves, and Baron Jacques immediately sent sentries to all the surrounding walls, and when these sentries returned to make sure that the Elise had not attacked the city, almost half an hour had passed since the explosion.

Those who were injured by the explosion screamed much weaker, not because they had been treated, but because most of them had lost the strength to scream, or had simply lost the ability to scream forever.

One of the most daring troops had gone to the blast site to confirm that the Elis were not attacking the city—fortunately, Jacques could not have imagined that if the tide of Elise took advantage of this great opportunity to rush into the city, the army that had been terrified by the thunder would not have the courage to resist.

As for Bishop Bart, and the noisy priests - not even their bodies were found at the scene, strictly speaking, only a large pile of corpses. By this moment most of them had become pieces, like meat in a hodgepodge, completely mixed with the stones of the destroyed city walls into a disgusting mass.

Although Bishop Bart has made countless mistakes today, there is one sentence that he is right and has done:

They became part of the city walls with their bodies.

Almost all the soldiers who watched the excitement were dead, and many of them were still wearing decent armor - but the armor that could hold off swords, guns, and crossbows clearly could not hold off the thunder.

According to the incoherent reports brought back by the officers, the armor on those people had been completely smashed by the stones from the explosion, and the entire body was completely mixed with the armor, making it almost impossible to distinguish.

There were many more people at the scene, who did not die for a while, they were all buried under the rubble of the city wall, and some of them were still able to cry out for help - but the people outside were completely incapable and did not have the courage to do so, because no one knew whether there would be a second thunderstorm at the scene.

Those men were tortured to death almost alive under the rubble, and a few minutes before they were buried alive, they were united in their vows to Bishop Bart to give everything they had for the war - but no one could have imagined that they would be sacrificed so quickly and so miserably.

In the time since the explosion, dozens of inhabitants living near the city walls have gone out of the city to surrender to the Elis, taking advantage of the fact that the army has not yet sealed the entrance.

By the time the army arrived, hundreds of people were trying to flee with their luggage – apparently, none of them had any confidence to resist after the explosion. The will that had just been gathered by Bart had been completely shattered by this thunderbolt, and even the inhabitants, many of the soldiers, had begun to think carefully - many of them were already asking each other, learning, or determining with each other the standard surrender actions that the Elise demanded when they persuaded them to surrender.

"That opening must be closed immediately!" The baron immediately gave the order, "Set up a monitoring zone in that area, and no one is to approach the walls without permission!" Tell the soldiers that the Elise Thunder can only be used once! Casting a thunderbolt requires a huge amount of mana! Just go! ”

"And what if the Elise release a second heavenly thunder?"

"Then you can only put it twice!" The baron roared, "It doesn't matter what you say, the point is that we have to say something now!" ”

The officer quickly went down to carry out the order, but the effect of his execution was obviously not very good, and the aftermath of the explosion soon caused waves in Xiaoyang City.

The Baron had to send more officers and troops to maintain order in the city. And these actions obviously caused great discomfort among the inhabitants - all these military operations required some "reasonable military pay", and the baron would certainly not pay, and in the end the residents had to bear the burden.

Fortunately, however, the greed of the soldiers overrode the fear for the time being, and as the night wore on, the restlessness in the city was quelled, and the baron began to send several of his sons to restrain the soldiers from acting too excessively.

Just when the baron thought that the challenge was finally over and that the plot of the Elis had gone bankrupt, the same loud bang was heard again in the direction of the west gate—and then the same screams and commotions.

As the damned, crow-beaked officer had feared at first:

The Elise released a second thunderbolt.