Inside the steam chariot, Ness looked at the galloping war horse with an expressionless face, his eyes revealing an incomparable cold ice, and as the range of the dwarven cannon got closer and closer, Ness showed a sneer.

Looking at Rod's figure from a distance, the secret hatred in Ness's heart became deeper and deeper, he never thought that a small bug that could have been killed at ease would actually cause him so much trouble, and even make his heir position fall behind by a large margin.

First the guard died inexplicably, and then the magistrate was sentenced to death for colluding with bandits, and he was almost taken down by the impersonal inspector, if it weren't for the fact that he still had some connections in the family, he would have been in prison now. Because of this incident, he was disliked by the elders of the family, thinking that he was not calm enough, too impulsive, and needed to be tempered, so he was actually sent to the army to suffer.

In the end, he had a home and could not go back, so he could only stay in the army to eat civilian food and sleep on civilian plank beds.

"When the effective firing range is reached, the six-barreled artillery must be activated immediately, and the thieves must be wiped out, and the bandits must not be allowed to wander abroad, let alone endanger the stable life of the citizens of the kingdom."

"Honorable Order, Master Nice."

Next to Nice sat an officer-like figure, who looked at Nice and made a sonorous voice, and although he had doubts in his heart, the frosty face of Nice made him dare not ask.

For the three people they tracked, he could easily make a judgment, it was the campers of the camp that was destroyed by the flames, although there were traces of bandit activity in that camp, but it was more like the traces left after resistance, according to the convention, he felt that he should give a warning first, but this young master of Nice didn't know why, and directly concluded that the other party was a bandit.

The officer shook his head in his heart and sighed, this is not the first time he has seen this kind of thing, forget it, the so-called official level crushes people to death, not to mention that this little young master is still a nobleman, he doesn't want to be unemployed now, anyway, after killing someone, this little young master will bear the consequences, he doesn't have to worry.

At this moment, the officer saw the gesture made by Rod, and after many years of military life, he easily interpreted the meaning of the gesture and asked his companions to be careful of dwarven artillery attacks, which made the officer's face change greatly.

Because this gesture is semi-public knowledge, both nobles and soldiers can get it, but the commoners are categorically inaccessible, they have no need to understand, let alone a channel to understand, that is, these three people are most likely not commoners at all, if there are nobles among them.......

The officer shuddered, and quickly looked at Young Master Nice, and found that the other party looked uncertain, so he had to bite the bullet and say a suggestion: "Young Master Nice, the three people on the other side seem to know the sign language of the Kingdom Army, this kind of sign language is inaccessible to civilians, should you issue a warning first, if the other party is a noble......." ”

Ness sneered: "It turns out that the gesture is the sign language of the Kingdom Army." Ness didn't care, because he knew that Rhodes was the chief student of the Kingdom Higher Academy, and this was one of the courses that the academy would definitely teach, how could the other party not, as for the two people around him, hmph, how could the cheetah be in the company of mice.

"Don't worry, the other three will definitely not be nobles, and I will bear all the consequences."

“…… Yes, Master Nice. ”

Now that the responsibility has been clear, the officer doesn't care if the other party is a nobleman, and secretly touches the military card in his arms, fortunately he brought the military card out, and the words of the young master Nice just now were all recorded by the military card, so that at most it stops here, and there is no need to worry about unemployment.

"Report, about to enter the effective range, tracer shells are ready." At this point, observers reported that the Dwarven artillery was about to enter effective range and began to prepare to fire tracer shells to determine the trajectory of the six-barreled gun.

……

After Rod gestured to Alyssa, Alyssa also looked back with some feeling.

Looking at the steam chariot that still did not stop, but was getting closer and closer, his heart couldn't help but sink, the other party was really a bandit, and he immediately prepared to deal with the attack of the dwarven artillery.

At this time, even Alyssa couldn't help but be secretly annoyed, did these kingdom troops eat dry food, and even the latest steam chariot would be robbed by bandits.

As the steam chariot got closer and closer, Alyssa and Rhodes glanced at each other, quickly exchanged countermeasures with gestures, and soon determined the countermeasures to meet the enemy, that is, first try to reduce the striking surface as much as possible, and then find cover at the right time, or find a way to get close to the enemy, and melee with the enemy, absolutely not fall into a long-range tug-of-war, so that there is only a passive fight.

With countermeasures, the three of them quickly changed their positions, Rhodes had just strengthened his magic and strength, and naturally offered to face the attack of the dwarven artillery, and the butler Sil took the initiative to become the middle shield in order to protect Elisa, while Alyssa ran at the forefront, looking for cover or a suitable opportunity to face the enemy.

With a familiar roar, Rhodes really saw tracer bullets, he had learned relevant knowledge in the academy, although the dwarf artillery was powerful, but the accuracy was very poor, and the trajectory needed to be determined by using tracer bullets, otherwise the experience was slightly worse, and the trajectory might deviate.

As the first tracer round was fired, the dwarven cannon suddenly rang out with a loud roar, interspersed with a tracer projectile that corrected its trajectory.

Rod clamped his legs around the horse's belly hard, threw his left hand behind him, and his palm instantly spewed out a large stream of magical power, and then instantly turned into a huge shield.

Hundreds of bullets hit the magic shield in an instant, there was no crashing sound, there was no scream, the bullets hit the magic shield, as if entering the water, quickly losing kinetic energy and falling to the ground, all bullets are like this.

And as the distance approached, the firepower of the dwarven artillery became more and more powerful, and the magic power that formed the shield was quickly dissipated by the bullet bombardment, although each bullet could only disperse a small amount of magic power, but hundreds of bullets quickly dispersed a large amount of magic power.

This escaped mana was not wasted, and was immediately reabsorbed by Rod's left hand, used to replenish the mana consumed in his body, and then refilled to the shield.

This cycle makes the mana consumption unexpectedly rare.

This is also a natural result, no enchanted dwarf artillery, the rating in the mainland is +0~+2, it is a weapon whose power will fluctuate with distance, and it can reach +2 when it is powerful, and it is not even as good as an ordinary long sword when it is powerful.

It's just that although it can block the bullets of the dwarven artillery, the horses that are extremely overdrawn have become slower and slower, making the distance of the steam chariot rapidly closer, and the artillery is becoming more and more powerful.

Fortunately, Rhodes' current mastery of magic is a beginner second-class, and although his magic is not good at physical defense, it is enough to withstand the conical warheads of dwarven artillery.

It's just that this is not the way to go, as the distance approaches, it will soon enter the attack range of the dwarf close-range missile, and in the face of the missile that is also powerful in +2 weapons, the magic shield may not be able to defend against it.

Although it stands to reason that this kind of chariot in the interior of the kingdom will not be equipped with missiles, this is a chariot driven by bandits, and Rhodes is not sure that there is no such thing as missiles on it, so he must find a way to find cover or get close to the other party.

Almost immediately, Rhodes typed out sign language and motioned for Alyssa to find cover, but it was a plain where there were so many covers.

At this moment, the sudden drop in vision made Alyssa stunned, and then noticed the dwarven cannon that suddenly stopped in an instant, and immediately realized that it was now in a downhill state, and looking at the hillside that was skimming at great speed, she had a bold idea.