Chapter Twenty-Six: Blowing Up the Wall

The entire city of Aldolph was immersed in screams, begs for mercy and prayers throughout the day today. No one dared to rest first, no one dared to be lazy, tried their best, shouted until they were hoarse, killed until their hands were soft, and they dared to close their eyes until their bodies were stiff.

Robert's cavalry charged back and forth twice and was dragged by the giant swordsmen, plus a thousand spearmen and crossbowmen who came from the reinforcements later, even the powerful beast of the griffin died one by one under the rebels' crossbow arrows and spears, completely in exchange for people, and the rebels outside the city still had almost five thousand people ready to go, Hans was not in a hurry at all, as long as he could take Aldolph twenty for one, it was worth it, but first, he had to kill all the credit in it, since he won, he had to win the biggest!

Robert's cavalry was almost wiped out, but all of the Middenheim's greatswordsmen were replaced. Karl's last Praetorian Guards on the walls and the newly formed spearmen and swordsmen below the city converged under the command of Field Marshal Robert, Rick, desperately trying to keep the rebels at bay around the walls, while only a small half of the ranged soldiers were withdrawn, relying on the building and firing at the condescending rebel crossbowmen, each suffering casualties. The junior mages who can't attack magic hide in the houses that are a little closer, and do their best to release buff magic.

After Robert took command of the whole army, Old John disappeared into the crowd with Teucer and Beanie, and they rode on the horses that had lost their masters, and crept into the walls of Aldolph from a long distance on the side, but what they did not notice was that the black-armored knights, who had disappeared since morning, also quietly followed.

"Uncle John, where are we going?" Teucer had a dirty face covered in mud, which had been rolled on the ground after falling from his horse, but fortunately John and Beani had answered, otherwise Teucer would have gone home.

"I said Teucer, you don't usually talk much, why are you more than me now" Bini has gone through a day of brutal fighting and got out of his heart from yesterday's fear, at least he can communicate with Teucer well.

"Binny, don't ask more questions now, you'll regret it when you're killed."

"If you're dead, you don't know anything, what's the use of asking so much."

"You ......"

"Okay, okay, two little guys, we're here to carry out a secret mission, if the mission is completed, you can both remember a lot of credit, and then you can go back to the prince's mansion with me, I want to teach you two well"

"Huh? Really, Uncle John, did I stay in the city? "John Sr. had invited Bini, but had never invited Teucer, so Teucer was particularly excited.

"Teucer, don't be so loud, lead the enemy again, but you have good fruit to eat!" Although Bini said that he did not want to enter the prince's palace because he didn't want to go if he was alone, but now that old John invited both of them at the same time, Bini was still sincerely happy for Teucer.

"Alright, alright, it's almost there," said old John, who led the way to the end of the passage, and took out a key three times more than normal from his body and inserted it into a gap in the wall. The wall slowly opened to the side with the sound of machinery turning, and a puff of dust mixed with the smell of decay and a thick pungent smell hit their faces, causing Teucer and Beani to cough violently.

"Come on, the situation outside is very critical, you have to hurry, every time you delay, the warriors of the empire will have to sacrifice a lot"

Old John fanned the dust from the air, took out the key, and walked in first, followed by Teucer and Beani.

The small space was full of red wooden barrels, and Old John went straight to the innermost part, and after a while, he took out the stone bricks from the wall, and behind the bricks was a deep tunnel half a man high.

This passage led to the opposite side of the gate, and was covered with thin gunpowder primers that stretched out to the point where it could not be seen, and there were small spaces every fifty meters in the passage, which were also filled with gunpowder.

"You light it, remember, we only have five minutes to get out of here."

Teucer and Binny looked nervously at each other, then took their torches together and prepared to walk forward.

At this time, a black shadow suddenly pounced out outside the door, and rolled on the ground with Old John in his arms, and the sudden change made the two teenagers who had been nervous for the past few days quickly turn around, draw their guns, and aim, but Old John was still restrained.

Jones stuck his sword in his left hand to Old John's neck, and with his right hand he drew Old John's pistol and pointed it at Teucer and Beaney.

"I didn't expect it, old thing, when I fell from the horse, I found a large amount of gunpowder on the ground, and then I have been sneaking around, staring at you closely, there is a conspiracy, haha, what a miracle from heaven, hey! You two boys, if you don't want this old guy to die, quit with me! Jones's voice just fell, not waiting for Teucer and Beanie to react, Old John grabbed Jones's left hand with both hands and instantly exerted force, with rich combat experience, he left Jones's left hand behind him, Jones only hit the wall next to him with a shot, Beani reacted the fastest, and kicked the gun in Jones's hand with an arrow step forward, Teucer hurriedly made up the gun at Jones, but the panicked marksmanship and Jones's rolling after breaking free from John, dodged the shot.

Jones on the ground rolled around and quickly got up, a sword in his left hand slashed towards his nearest Teucer, Bini saw this and hurriedly pulled Teucer who was dodging the sword, and dragged him to his back, Jones missed a sword, did not retreat, and his backhand was another sword from bottom to top, Bini, who had no time to dodge, was slashed from chest to face, Jones wanted to exert his strength again, but he was kicked by the old John who picked up the torch in time, and threw the torch into the passage, and the flame instantly ignited the gunpowder in the passage, It crackled and burned into the passage very quickly.

Teucer dragged the bloodied Beney and Old John to the door quickly, inserted the key to close the stone wall, and although Jones, who couldn't get up, rushed forward but still couldn't get faster than the stone wall, he shouted heartbreakingly and picked up the pistol in front of him and pointed it at the crack in the slowly closing wall, and shot all the bullets out in one go, and then cried and begged for mercy, hoping that Old John and others outside the wall would spare his life.

But as soon as John Sr. went out, he lifted Benny's leg and ran swiftly with Teucer towards the exit, not stopping a single step, leaving Jones, who was constantly repentant within the wall, alone in tears.

The rebels who continued to fight in the city were also exhausted, but they didn't hear the call to collect the troops, so they had to continue, the defenders in the city formed a long array, not fighting with the rebels, holding the front line without taking a step back, and not taking a step forward, so they blocked the rebels in front of the city wall, and the rebels did not have the strength and energy to impact the opponent's array, and the long-range troops were also out of ammunition, so they retreated first, and the rebel generals and the defenders formed a wordless tacit understanding, fighting and fighting, but they did not take the initiative to attack, it was a weapon touching a weapon, everyone wanted to take a break, After a whole day of fighting, the hungry weapons were almost out of reach, the rebels did not reinforce, and it was extremely difficult to take down this group of defenders who were determined to die as if they were home, and the number of defenders was small, and if they wanted to eat this wave of rebels, they had to act according to the plan.

Suddenly, a huge explosion woke up the entire drowsy battlefield, and while everyone didn't know what was happening, Robert had already begun to command loudly "Spear array, shield to protect the head, retreat, mage casting, ranged troops fire suppression!" ”

Although the rebels were stunned, they subconsciously moved forward when they saw the defenders retreating, and they were greeted by crossbow arrows and bullets that had long ceased fire. The rebel generals had no choice but to pause to figure out what was going on.