"Urgent report, the Moonlight Valley fortress has been recovered, and the Niutou Kingdom has withdrawn!"

The next morning, Alan also received news from the carrier pigeon, learning that Moonlight Valley had been reclaimed by Lionheart.

It is rumored that the damage of the Minotaur Kingdom was not high, and the Lionheart Kingdom spent a large price to invade the city, but the city was full of cracked earth and rubble.

After the secret reconnaissance of the assassins, it was found that the fortress of Moonlight Valley was full of spider web-like cracks, the soil cracked, the earthen houses collapsed, the woods were dug up by the roots, and no part of the city was intact, and Moonlight Valley was completely turned into an abandoned city.

The walls also completely collapsed, and the Minotaur used their abilities to shake the ground and blow the city apart during their confrontation with Lionheart.

Next, the Lionheart Kingdom is preparing to rebuild the wall, and a large number of troops are needed to be stationed in Moonlight Valley, beware of the Minotaur playing tricks, and there is no idea of sending troops to suppress Tomorrow Town for the time being.

A few days later, Marianne returned to the city, and there was a rumor of politics in the royal city.

It is rumored that several great nobles went out in place of the king's army to set foot in the town of Tomorrow, but the exact number of troops to be sent is still under negotiation and there is no certainty.

Because of the approaching war, the towns around Tomorrow Town also received rumors a few days later, and the merchants all rejected the black merchants of Tomorrow Town, so that there was no way to sell low-priced cloth, and no one dared to sell high-priced grain.

Only those small villages are still trading, they are inconvenient, and there is no special carrier pigeon to send news, and they do not know that Tomorrow Town has been targeted by anti-lion forces.

There are not many nobles who can intervene in the crusade of Tomorrowtown, the old king only sent a team of 100 Templars, and the rest of the ordinary soldiers are provided by the lords near Tomorrowtown, and the nobles in the western region basically have no idea about Tomorrowtown.

One is the long distance, the other is that the walls of Moonlight Valley are gone, and the eastern region is not safe enough, and the nobles want to put their private soldiers in the castle just in case.

At the end of September, on the eve of the late rice harvest.

Wang Cheng finally issued an order to mobilize troops, and nobles such as Viscount Morning Glory, Count Silver, Count Viscount of Saltpeter Town, and Nan'an Town transferred a large number of troops, including 4,000 ordinary lion soldiers, and 300 Awakened, with a total of 4,300 people.

This number is very large, but the specific number of people is not something that ordinary people can inquire about, the cat clan assassins have studied the laws of other people's actions for many days, and have sneaked into the aristocratic room many times to check the information, and finally know the approximate number of the army.

Last time, Tomorrow Town faced a small beast tide without a beastmaster, and the beast was scared out of fear after three or four shots.

Orcs are different, they have a boss who can charge with muskets.

The walls of Tomorrow Town are not fully encircled, the area where the walls are not repaired is all undeveloped forests, all kinds of small animals are Allen's eyeliner, and the assassins place all kinds of traps, entering the forest is simply unguardable, and there is a possibility of falling into a trap at any time.

If the other side underestimates the enemy and is afraid of trouble, they will stand outside the wall and gather troops and attack collectively.

If the other party does not underestimate the enemy, and at the same time is not afraid of trouble, and breaks around the forest to break into Tomorrow Town, Allen's army line will not be opened, and factories and houses will be destroyed, or they may not be destroyed.

After all, it takes a lot of financial resources to build another town, and it would be a pity to destroy it.

Alan tapped his finger on the table, one hundred and forty guns were mass-produced in September, and with the addition of the previous musketeers, the musketeers had expanded to two hundred and forty people.

The first batch of cannons has recently been processed, and the steam engine-driven drilling machine has drilled out the bore, qualified to produce three guns, and only the artillery test firing process remains.

This batch of guns was a rear-loading smoothbore gun, each gun had a shell of 32 pounds, or about 14.5 kilograms, and round shells were made of steel, lead and other ores.

Why not make rifled guns, in fact, it is still a matter of time.

At present, the steam engine in Tomorrow Town has been able to output stably and can carve rifles, but the output of the steam engine is not high enough, and the production of cone shells requires the establishment of relevant process machine tools, and the time cannot be delayed.

……

Test range, a large open space.

The three guns were lined up, and the artillerymen who had been trained for three weeks stood in a row, and each cannon was in charge of three soldiers.

"Lord Allen, can we really defeat the more than 4,000 elite soldiers formed by the Lionheart Kingdom?" Hood, the priest, wagged his tail and feared it.

He had seen the power of the musket, it was very powerful, killing people dozens of paces away, piercing through the three-millimeter-thick plate armor, no one could match.

But there are many other soldiers, and there are only more than 200 musketeers in Tomorrow Town, and after three rounds of shooting, others can burst out of their faces.

Don't look at the height of the ten-meter wall, you can rest assured, others are not stupid, they will definitely break the city wall with trebuchets, and when the height of the wall is lowered, the Templars will climb the wall as soon as they jump, and the ordinary lion soldiers behind can also set up a long ladder to attack the city.

"You can ask this question after you have seen the power of the artillery." Alan was too lazy to answer the priest's question.

Before they saw the power of the artillery, the orcs were still very worried about their fate, after all, all the Assassins were not fully equipped with flintlock pistols.

With a single flintlock pistol, thousands of troops could be defeated.

"Priest Hood, have you forgotten that Lord Allen shoots at a target of three hundred meters, just with the range of the trebuchet, you can't get close to Lord Allen." Ivan snorted, trying to maintain Alan's majesty.

When Hood heard this, he was stunned, it was really like this, how could the range of the trebuchet be as powerful as Allen, three hundred meters with one shot and one head, and the trebuchet was destroyed before it was assembled.

"Reload!"

Allen gave the order, and the artillerymen moved, approaching the wedge-shaped bolts of the rear-loading guns.

There are two handles on the bolt, and the orcs have been training all day yesterday without shooting the reloading and reloading process, and they have long been proficient in it.

Now the lions can slide the bolts to the side with their eyes closed, another lion man is responsible for loading the right amount of gunpowder, and another lion man is carrying a huge steel cannonball, putting it into the big handle, pushing it with his hand, and filling it into the chamber.

After a meal, the rear-loading cannon was loaded, and the three groups of lionmen, tigermen, and kobolds stood up straight and saluted Allen.

The orcs who watched the cannon also held their breath, and there were more than a thousand people standing there, all of them free people from the village.