Chapter 1741: Seize the Door

The iron gates at the exit of the sewers of Calais were not just one large lock, but several. It took more than two hours for the four team members to corrode and break several locks and put them in packages.

Afterwards, they took out the lime powder from the oiled paper bags and sprinkled it on the ground to neutralize the strong acid residue on the ground, so as not to get on the skin of the British soldiers entering and leaving the country, causing great damage. The acid and base are neutralized and a lot of heat is released. The four of them hurriedly avoided it, waiting for the heat to pass before they began to deal with the iron gate.

The iron gate is inserted from top to bottom from a bayonet made of stone, and it is very strong. Furthermore, the lock is on the castle side. It is extremely difficult to open the sewer gate from the outside. You know, the iron gate is as thick as an iron rod. Even if you hit it with a sledgehammer, you can't smash it.

Before pulling up the iron door, the four of them took out two bottles first. The bottle was filled with flax oil, and when the bottle was opened, they poured it directly into the gap between the iron door and the stone wall. The reason for this is to reduce the friction between the iron gate and the stone wall. Because, if the friction is too great, when the iron door is drawn, the sound will be too loud, and it is easy to alarm the French defenders. Pouring oil into the gap between the door and the stone wall reduces friction and minimizes the sound when the door is pulled out......

Sure enough, after pouring two bottles of oil, the sound of the iron door pumping up became very quiet. Under the cover of the rain, neither the patrols at the head of the city nor the French soldiers at the nearby outpost supervising the iron gates of the sewers were unaware.

After pulling out the iron gate, Balk, the leader of the four, bent over and entered the sewer culvert, ignoring the stench. Then, he took a tube out of the package......

Pulling out the end of the pipe, the second time the discoverer turned out to be an arquebus......

They had long prepared the fire rope, but put it in a pipe to protect it from the rain. There is a hole in the pipe, so that there is air in the pipe, so that the fire rope will not be extinguished. But when the tube is closed, there is no fire outside.

Then, he took out another candle from the oiled paper bag......

The head of the candle stood with gunpowder, and when the arquebus touched it, the gunpowder burned at once, and the candle was lit......

Then, under the cover of a small umbrella, Balk was at the exit outside the walls of the sewer culvert, holding an umbrella and holding a candle constantly shaking from side to side outside......

And 300 meters away from the exit of the sewer culvert, a group of British soldiers wearing rubber raincoats produced in the North Sea Kingdom were quietly lying there.

"Harrison, do you see the fire?" Hughes, the British army captain who was about to nap, immediately came to his senses when he saw the candlelight swaying from side to side.

The vice-captain named Harrison on the side was originally napping, but after hearing the captain's words, he took a closer look and found that there was indeed a fire shaking 300 meters away. So, he excitedly said:

"That's right, it's the swaying fire, it's the code of action! Give the order, Captain! ”

"Okay, all of them, let's go! Be careful, don't make a noise! Captain Hughes commanded in a suppressed voice.

Then, 200 British death squads, dressed in raincoats, carrying small round shields on their backs, and sailors' scimitars hanging from their waists, tiptoed to the sewer culverts.

Fortunately, the French did not notice them. When they arrived, Balk threw away the candles, took out the Night Pearl, and crouched in the culvert to illuminate the British troops.

Then, the British soldiers lined up in a long line and crawled lightly from the culvert inside.

After entering the city, they all quietly crouched down against the corner, for fear of being discovered by the French patrol on the wall.

After Hughes waited for everyone to come in, he planned to take someone to open the north gate, but was stopped by Balkla:

"Your Excellency, don't go to the North Gate! Go to Simon! "Balk is Frisian and has no problem communicating with the British.

"Why?" Hughes was puzzled.

"There are a lot of things piled up in the north gate gate, and you can't open the door when you go, so you need to move those sundries first!" Balk explained.

"What? There are still debris piled up in the hole of the city gate of the big iron gate? As for it? Is it the same with the other gates? Hughes was taken aback. If there is a pile of bricks, stones, logs and other debris in the gate hole, it will be doomed. Because, it takes a lot of time to remove those clutter.

Balk shook his head and said:

"At present, only the debris has accumulated in the north gate hole, and there is no other gate hole in the city gate. The French were the most heavily guarded at the north gate, which is why they piled up debris. The south gate and the west gate will welcome reinforcements, and generally will not pile up debris. ”

"However, the original direction of our army's main attack was the North Gate!" Hughes said depressedly.

"Then let's wait a while before going to the West Gate, and first send a fast runner to the vicinity of the North Gate to inform the elite troops to rush to the West Gate. Later, I'll take you to take Simon!" ”

"Okay, that's it!" With that, Hughes sent a fast boy named Bolt to crawl out of the city through the sewer culvert and go to the north gate to inform the assault troops.

The assault force has a total of about 3,000 people, and their task is to cooperate with the death squads to seize one of the city gates, and then, hold the city gates, and wait for the large army to enter the city. Among them, 2,000 people are elite veterans of the Beihai Kingdom......

Hughes and his men squatted under the city wall, waiting in the rain for more than an hour. It wasn't until about 3 a.m. that Bolt came back to report that the commandos were in place......

Then, Hughes and his group of 200 daredevils, led by the four Balks, followed the root of the wall in the direction of the west gate......

Seeing that the West Gate was getting closer and closer, the members of the British death squad were all happy. They took out their small round shields and drew their scimitars......

However, just as he was approaching the West Gate, an accident happened......

On the city walls, a squad of French patrols was patrolling. But a French soldier named Domene was suddenly in a hurry, so he approached the inner side of the wall, unbuckled his trousers, and peed down......

Coincidentally, his urine line fell directly on the heads of the British death squads who were walking underground......

Before the "French ——......" could say the "gram", Domene, a French soldier who was booing at the head of the city, felt that something was wrong. He asked warily:

"Who?"

Then, he poked his head out and looked down......

Hughes saw that it was not good, and immediately led the team to speed up and rush towards the city gate. And Domene also saw a string of figures flickering at the base of the wall, and then suddenly shouted:

"Someone has attacked Simon! Someone attacked Simon! Rise up and protect Simon! ”

Then, the French soldiers who lived in a large courtyard near the west gate were awakened......

"What's going on?"

"What's wrong?"

A bunch of French soldiers were awakened, and in a panic they got dressed, and raised their weapons to try to Simon.

When the 50 French soldiers living in the compound close to the West Gate came to the West Gate Gate, they happened to meet Hughes and his party......

Hughes immediately made a decision and shouted:

"The second team will open the city gate, and the first team of warriors will follow me to meet the enemy!"

After speaking, Hughes led a group of 100 daredevils, holding a small round shield in his left hand and a sailor's scimitar in his right, and met 50 French soldiers......

But it was not only these 50 people who were alarmed, the hundreds of French soldiers living on the gate tower of the West Gate were also awakened, and they also began to rush down the stairs and rush towards Hughes and others......