The sound of horses' hooves came to his ears, and the bishop standing on the city wall heard the hinges rubbing as he closed the gates, and the rattling of the chains as they were turned, and he shouted loudly for the city guards to prepare for defense, but he kept praying in his heart: "It must be closed... Be sure to close it..."

"Bang!"

The huge brass gate made a dull sound as it closed, but the sound sounded heavenly to the ears of the city defenders—and even the cheers of the soldiers rang out all around. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the same moment, the whistling sound of horses' hooves also completely rushed to the city gate, and the more than ten knights led by him did not slow down, and the cavalry spears in their hands suddenly flashed with light, and at the same time sprinted, they stabbed towards the gate that had just closed and had not had time to put on the deadbolt!

"Woohoo..."

The battle qi of more than a dozen advanced knights converged, and the movement was so loud that the soldiers above the city wall felt the vibration from the soles of their feet - but the quality and defensive power of this gate were not at all something that the knights could shake, so the gate with the iron bolt firmly resisted the attack of the other party!

"The Holy Light is above..."

The bishop on the city wall almost sat down on the ground, he felt as if his legs were unconscious, he took a few steps, looked down, and saw that the army that had rushed to the city wall one after another was actually carrying a simple siege ladder, and was ready to attack the city after arraying!

"Call for help!

The danger that the gates were almost broken spread throughout the Temple City, but after the alarm bell rang continuously, the cardinals in the inner city did not realize for a moment what was going on—didn't they mean to negotiate? What does it mean to ring the bell?

Fortunately, the "Rosicrucius" did not really neglect the defense because of the long absence of the battle, and after the alarm bell sounded, the only remaining troops in the outer city immediately reinforced the city walls, and at the same time, the city quickly began to recruit auxiliaries to help transport the defense materials - but this operation, the shortcomings were immediately apparent...

"Not enough temple guards!?"

There was an exclamation from within the Cardinals, but then they immediately realized that it was they who had just made the decision to send the last remaining Templar guards out of the city to participate in the "rescue".

Before they could say anything about it, news of the urgency of the outer city wall came one after another..."The Pit Viper Cross", a team of more than 2,000 people who originally traveled with Count Mirno, had come with the purpose of raiding the "Temple" from the beginning, so they used simple ladders to put great pressure on the temple's not tall walls as soon as they came up.

The main reason is that the strength of the soldiers defending on the city wall at this time is too weak, and it stands to reason that this kind of defensive task should be handed over to the heavily armed temple guards, but now it is a group of patrols who are not in good armor and have not received much military training to defend against it, and the effect can be imagined - if it were not for the remaining hundred or so temple guards gritting their teeth to support it, I am afraid that one of the remaining temple guards would be taken down by the other party!

"Immediately send a signal to the surrounding dioceses and ask for support!"

"In any case, the city wall must not be lost at this time!"

The Cardinal Conference and the Pope are highly consistent in their thinking at this time, the "Temple" is the core city of the "Rosicrucifix", and it would be a shame to be broken so easily - the two sides have been fighting for decades, and there has never been such an act of one side hitting the other side's lair... Because whether it succeeds or not, the price to pay is too much for the respective denominations to bear.

"Why did they do that?"

The Pope was still calm at this time, and immediately thought about the reason why the other party was so impulsive, and naturally, he thought of the artifact "Pit Viper Kiss" that he was so hard to suppress...

"That's why it's so important to them?"

The aura of the artifact was powerful and difficult to suppress, and even as the Pope, he also felt the vast power of this artifact—it was not that he had not tried to control the other party, but in his limited attempts, he was almost consumed by this scepter. Therefore, he did not underestimate the attraction of the "pit viper's kiss" to the enemy, so while ordering the reinforcement of the guards, he named the eight cardinals and ordered: "The city walls are not manpowered, you should support with all the forces you can use!"

The eight cardinals named were the strongest in the entire College of Cardinals, and their addition meant that at least twenty bishops and fifty guards entered the battlefield, which naturally alleviated casualties and attrition on the battlefield.

At this time, the eight cardinals, although they were very old, did not hesitate in the war against the infidels, and turned away after receiving the order.

"Half of the inner city guards on duty will be sent to support the outer city walls! The guards will be sent one hundred and fifty people to rotate as reserves!"

This is the final plan to increase the number of troops - there are a total of 12 guards in the inner city, and now only about 80 people are left after half of them are drawn. And the Holy See guards, whose strength was far stronger than ordinary temple guards, were only more than eighty people left.

In other words, the current defensive strength of the inner city is less than half of what it used to be.

The Pope frowned at this conclusion, and suddenly felt that today's battle had come too strangely, as if every step was out of judgment, let alone controllable...

Is the "Pit Viper Cross" really planning to attack the city like this?

Listening to the figures reported by the soldiers, the Pope knew that the number of people attacked by the other side was less than two thousand, which was really not much for siege warfare. But on his side, he can only muster six or seven hundred defensive forces on the city wall, and whether he can hold it or not can only depend on the support of the Cardinal Order.

After all, the characters who can enter the Cardinal are all priests who have advanced level 25 or above, and many of them are above level 30. In terms of strength, no one is a vegetarian. When it really comes time to get all the old bones on top, the Pope himself will never hesitate.

The "Temple" is the face of the "Rosicrucifix", and it cannot be lost in any way!

Inside the city, the army and the bishops roared from the streets to the outer walls, the alarm bells rang again and again, the pedestrians who had been walking on the streets ran home in panic, the original bazaar was now almost empty, only chicken feathers and vegetable leaves were left on the ground, but the taverns that provided shelter for the traveling merchants were still bustling - at this time, the merchants from all over the world were talking about the situation outside the city, most of them did not understand what was happening, but they were not worried that the city would be captured.

After all, there is no record of the Temple being breached and looted, and for merchants who don't know about the city's defenses, all they need to worry about is whether their business will be affected.

However, while they were chatting, the other three caravan members who had been living together in the tavern were surprisingly silent, at first they just thought that these people were "timid" and "uninformed", but when several teams rushed from the streets to the outer city, this group of people suddenly "lala" stood up and rushed out of the house collectively!

"Huh, you guys..."

Someone was curious to ask something, but then he closed his mouth in horror - because he saw that the men had pulled out their weapons and armor from the carriage parked in the backyard one by one, and quickly armed themselves and rushed straight out! )