On the civilian streets of the outer city, groups of Spanish privates armed with flintlock pistols were on guard, while on the corners of several streets and behind the houses on the periphery, Spanish guerrillas in groups of three quickly hid and carefully acted as open and dark sentry to provide cover for the large army in the middle of the street. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The streets of the commoners were not destined to be very spacious, and it seemed that because of the need for the nobles of the inner city to go outside, the pavement more than ten meters wide was also paved with bricks.

The horses slowly moved forward, sneezing one after another between their snorts, and behind them, heavy artillery was slowly crushing the ground forward, and on the heavy wooden wheels, there were also artillerymen assisting the horses to push hard, to speed up the march and quickly move forward to the target area.

They are the siege troops of Cape City, and at the forefront, thousands of Barbary pirates armed with scimitars have already arrived more than two hundred meters away from the inner city wall, looking at the seven or eight meters high city wall, there is a sturdy square tower every twenty meters, and their faces are full of excitement.

But what they have to do now is to clear a huge open space, and thanks to the fact that outside the inner city gate, there is a relatively empty small square, and their workload is not too much.

The pirates, who had a keen sense of smell, easily dragged out the people who were hiding in the cellars and basements, and drove the poor civilians away, regardless of the belongings they were carrying, because later, these civilians were ready to cry in the face of their collapsed houses.

But it was better than dying here, and at least they found that these troops had not robbed them of their belongings, nor had any intentions against their daughters or wives, they were simply a force of good people.

In the Middle Ages, when an army attacked a city, it was already a strong-willed force that could restrain without looting, but in fact, most generals would take the initiative to let their troops plunder civilians after capturing the next town, which not only relieved the highly tense nerves, but also obtained a lot of supplies and goods.

"Looks like they're scared?"

Levi turned his head and looked at the group of terrified civilians, with a faint mockery on the corner of his mouth: "Do they think that we will look down on their humble belongings?" After a pause, he couldn't help but touch his chin and said, "But Gray Mist City is indeed rich, and even civilians have a lot of silver jewelry in their hands. ”

This is probably due to the large amount of silver mines produced on the Silver Coast, at least in the hands of these civilians in Grey Mist City, they can still accumulate a lot of money over time to buy various silver jewelry.

In fact, the lives of the civilians in Grey Mist City are very good, it is said that they are much more decent than those civilians in the South Roaring Sea, at least with silver mines as a foundation, those nobles are not willing to extend their greedy hands to these civilians, because this will not only dirty their identity, but also make other nobles laugh.

Mainly these commoners, in fact, do not have much money, compared to the nobles who sit on the silver mines and serve as sea merchants, it is better to have this effort to exploit the commoners, it is better to buy a few obedient slaves to dig some silver mines in their own mines.

Now, for Levi, there is no need to plunder, even if these civilians have a lot of wealth, but in fact, he needs energy points more, and he doesn't look down on the wealth of this world at all, or in other words, this kind of trade item cannot be directly transformed into strength.

He needs to have partners and cities that can trade in order to convert these riches into his own strength in a certain period of time, but it is too troublesome for him to have a system.

Perhaps when his city becomes larger and the population becomes larger, he will need an abundant and stable trade partner, but now, when it is still on the rise, and the Goldfinger system can solve most of the problems, what Levi needs to do is to lay down an island of his own before his development completely collapses.

The development route of military priority will inevitably not be able to accompany Cape City for a long time, and if you want to develop, the Cape Town in front of you must be completely conquered, and the Spanish flag will be planted on the top of the Doge's Castle.

"We're here."

Wilmot spoke slowly, and the towering towers in front of him were lined up one after another, and the wide walls surrounded the entire city like a dragon, completely separating the real Gray Mist City from the outer city that could be abandoned at any time, as if they were two different worlds.

They are now at the edge of this world, and if they want to enter the real Grey Mist, they will have to cross this line of walls, towers, and defending soldiers.

Opening his binoculars, Levi looked at the city wall in front of him, the elite guards of the inner city wearing chain mail were all on standby on the city wall, all kinds of archers and crossbowmen had appeared behind the city wall, and on the tower, ballistas, bed crossbows, and light trebuchets were all ready.

He even saw a clay pot the size of a human head, which, as expected, should have contained grease, and for wooden siege equipment, these smashed oil cans, plus blazing torches, were the best means of destroying siege equipment, even if they were covered with animal skins and soaked towels.

But for Levi, the real force is not the traditional siege machine at all, and he doesn't even have the idea of constructing any siege machine, because he brought artillery, a new siege weapon, to open this seemingly impregnable wall, in fact, it is very simple.

The 12-pounder infantry guns had begun to be loaded and unloaded, and the 20 guns were lined up on the opened artillery positions, the black holes of the guns aimed at the front walls, and most of the guns were also aimed at the closed gates.

There are three gates in the inner city, the outermost is an iron fence, the inside is a pure wooden gate, and behind it is another wooden gate used to block the gate, including a large number of piled up support poles to prevent the gate from being knocked open by siege vehicles, in short, the engineer who built this gate was quite cautious.

The soldiers on the city wall are also quite relaxed, although many people are still a little panicked about the upcoming battle, but according to past experience, if you want to capture this city wall, then the enemy outside must at least tens of thousands of people, and there must be a large number of sufficient siege equipment, including heavy trebuchets, large and small ballista bed crossbows, and wooden siege towers higher than the city wall, etc.

But now they also found that the enemy outside had less than 5,000 men, and there were not even many siege weapons, and the only siege weapons were dwarven artillery, something like chicken ribs.

Even many of the brave soldiers above were mocking the artillerymen outside, obviously expressing their disdain for the 12-pounder infantry gun that was not too large, and the 24-pounder howitzer that was still being towed, because the dwarven artillery with a short range, a slower rate of fire, and a power that might not be able to shake the city wall, was really not very afraid.

Even the dwarven artillery in history was not used to siege cities, but was used by loading a large number of stone bullets to inflict instant damage on the enemy in field battles, and then the dwarven heavy infantry advanced to break the enemy's formation.

The dwarves did not have cavalry, and their stocky bodies could not ride war horses, so they invented the dwarven cannon and dwarven musket, which were used to open the gap in the enemy's formation when the heavy infantry advanced and charged.

Even this tactic was only temporary, most of the dwarves still used larger bed crossbows, or heavy crossbows used by infantry as long-range weapons, and dwarven muskets were chicken ribs in the dwarven army, and they would not have invented these weapons if it were not for the lack of cavalry to divide the enemy line.

"Is it really that funny?"

But on the city wall, the person responsible for guarding this city gate was the nobleman who had been saved by Levi, the Baron Charleson, and his apprentice Strong, who were standing outside a lookout hole in the city gate tower, looking at the neat Cape City army.

The pale orange color of the military uniform is like a fresh orange, which makes people feel a sense of freshness, but after forming the troops, the bright appearance also makes people feel depressed in their hearts, especially when these pale oranges come together, as if they are a turbid torrent that can sweep everything.

Baron Charleson is a real nobleman, and he is a powerful figure sent by the governor, otherwise he would not have been ordered to garrison this city gate, but he looked at Levi outside, who had had a brief communication with him, and couldn't help but squint his eyes, and sighed: "I still remember when he was a small merchant and led sailors to escort me back to Gray Mist City. ”

"At that time, his sailors were already very powerful with dwarven muskets."

Strong also nodded, looking at the appearance of the elite guards standing neatly outside, even the elite guards of Gray Mist City, took a deep breath, and said lightly: "But no one expected that the dwarven musket was so powerful in his hand that even our troops could not resist it." ”

After a pause, his tone became a little strange, he turned his head to look at his master, and said: "But our knights haven't been dispatched yet, and those dwarven muskets still have a long filling time no matter what, enough for our knights to rush over and slaughter all these unarmored infantry." ”

Baron Charleson shook his head, looked at the Cape City troops outside who were preparing to attack the city, let out a long sigh, and said with a wry smile: "If it's really that simple, it would be great." ”

The Knights are composed of nobles and are the backbone of Grey Mist City, if they really lose in this battle, even if they are killed or wounded, it is not cost-effective, because the ruling force of Grey Mist City is composed of these knights, and it cannot be casually given up as consumables!