13 Resounds

Before the fall of Tum City, the reason why humans were defeated in the battle against the djinn was not the sudden attack of the djinn, nor the advantage of the djinn in size and strength, but the proud attitude of the human being. The army of djinn spirits in their early 100,000s is scattered all over the continent, and the largest number group is only more than 20,000, but it has swept through half of the continent and captured many cities, and the light enemy of mankind has played a great negative role in it. By the time humanity finally began to reflect hard in front of the ruins of Tum City, it had paid a terrible price, and those who had once thought of djinn as stupid-minded, strong-limbed creatures despaired of their stupidity and ignorance...... Djinn are not creatures of low intelligence, they will also ambush, flank, cut off the back road, especially in siege warfare, djinn can use all the resources at their disposal - including temporary appearance on the battlefield, to climb walls or break through city gates, they are not only skilled in hand-to-hand combat, but also improvised, invincible inventors and sappers, even a giant city like Toom City is completely unable to withstand their attacks.

But humans are learning creatures after all.

During the Battle of Windrun, the Viscount was shocked when he spotted a djinn attacking their line from behind. When the brass bell rang two triple strikes, Captain Hans turned around and rushed to the drawbridge with the militia on the Viscount's instructions, followed by the magician Snow Dog. When they arrived, the djinn was still leaning inside, and Hans knew that it would be unwise to turn the artillery around and strike only this one djinn, so he immediately organized the militia: "Use rockets." "One of the militia was holding tar, and the snow dog motioned to everyone, and he used his magic to ignite everyone's arrows, so the rocket was ready in an instant.

"Aim for his head. Aim and shoot again! Shoot the arrow!! Captain Hans commanded calmly, his roar hoarse. Several rockets stabbed into the djinn's head, and he staggered, as if unconscious, and fell toward the trench - with another loud bang. Captain Hans saw that the plan was successful, but he did not slack off in the slightest, he was afraid that there were also "stacked arhats" djinn here, and carefully looked outside the city wall, he saw the djinn who had just fallen down and lay down, and made a "stone ladder" with huge stones. Hans motioned to the viscount on the watchtower, who said there was no danger around. "Powder keg." Hans gave the order to the militia, and soon a small powder keg arrived, which could effectively damage the enemy and destroy the "stone ladder", but did not cause much damage to the city walls, and Hans could use it with confidence. "It's all back, I'll come." He carefully descended the powder keg to the "stone staircase", stuffed it between the top two boulders, and climbed back to the wall with great difficulty, "Give me the torches." All he had to do was throw a torch on the powder keg and the "stone ladder" would be destroyed. While waiting for the torches to be handed over, Hans looked in the direction of the defensive line again, and the soldiers continued to fight valiantly under the command of the two captains, seeing that the djinn's attack did not decrease, but the soldiers were exhausted.

The torch was brought, and as soon as Hans got his hand, he felt that he was being dragged under his feet, and the djinn who had fallen turned around again, climbed up the "stone ladder", and grabbed the leg with his hand, because Hans had been watching the defense, and did not notice that the djinn was leaning out behind him. He felt as if his leg was caught in the pincers, and he couldn't move at all, and he was lifted up by the djinn, and he lifted it very high. Seeing this, the surrounding militia and the magician Snow Dog wanted to help but were afraid of accidentally injuring Hans, so they had no choice but to see Hans easily lifted up by the djinn, and even some of the militia were already paralyzed there in fright. Hans had a torch in his hand, and it burned the djinn's hand with it, but to no avail, the djinn continued to carry himself and wanted to throw it into the trench. Hans saw the timing, and when he was lifted outside the city walls and could see one side of the powder keg, he did not hesitate and threw out the torch......

In the shelter below the fortress, the inhabitants heard another loud bang, followed by a violent tremor, the candles on the walls were shaken off, and the shelter was half darkened in an instant. In the darkness, the cry of a child sounded...... In the council chamber of the fortress, Count Lee sat precariously with no servants around, and he lined up all his servants to look after the inhabitants of the vault. Just now, when he was watching the battle on the top of the fortress, a flying stone hit him in the shoulder, he couldn't hold on, motioned for his son to continue to guard the watchtower, and walked back to the council hall by holding on to the wall. The council chamber was no brighter than the sanctuary, the only three candles had been extinguished, the sun was already in the west, the battle was still going on, and the Count kept hearing roars from outside, mostly the shouts of the soldiers in dire need of ammunition, and the occasional sound of arquebus, and the cannon had long since run out of ammunition, and its roar had not been heard since noon. The Count stood up suddenly, and he wanted to rush to the top of the fortress again to see the soldiers who were still fighting, when a new voice echoed in his ears—

"Uhh The viscount immediately looked west, and he saw what he most hoped for - reinforcements.

Rows of neat soldiers formed two phalanxes and were approaching at full speed, and the sound of neat marching steps was gradually becoming clear. Behind the two phalanxes, there was also a cavalry contingent, who raised the Split Sun Banner of the Sprelet royal family, followed closely by the two infantry phalanxes. The djinn spotted the approaching imperial reinforcements before the soldiers on the defensive line, and with a desperate roar, all the djinn began to retreat from the trench, and the reinforcements' infantry array bypassed the northern part of the fortress, following the fleeing djinn and chasing them down. Seeing this, the soldiers on the city walls cheered and raised their weapons to greet the reinforcements, and then most of the soldiers collapsed on the ground and on the city walls. Melo and Charlie were also wounded, their scorched faces lacked the joy of the arrival of reinforcements, and they looked at the corpses of djinn spirits and the bloody corpses of soldiers in the trenches under the walls, and the two prepared to count the results of the battle. Parrett also put down the hammer and bandaged the wounds of the wounded soldiers who were still on the city walls, he thought that reinforcements from his country would appear in time, but the reality added a touch of helplessness to his face. The two mages hugged each other, the Night Sparrow kept saying comforting words, and the Snow Dog remained silent, the two of them had done so much for the soldiers in battle, and as mages, they were very reliable.

When the inhabitants of the underground shelter heard that the fighting was over, they poured out, and the fortress was crowded, and the residents applauded and cheered at the soldiers who were still standing in the defensive line, and the people who witnessed the victory hugged each other and congratulated themselves on finally getting through this moment of crisis. Heidi also ran out of the fortress after dealing with the last of the wounded, and she made her way through the crowd to find Milo, and the two people who had just gone through the test of life and death were reunited. The Viscount on the watchtower came down with a smile of joy and rejoicing, and he walked out with his father in his arms, and when he saw the cheering crowd in front of the fortress, Count Lee burst into tears of emotion.

The old man with the arquebus walked up to Charlie, looked east with him, and with a triumphant smile on his face, he picked up the arquebus, extinguished the arquebus, blew the gunpowder near the fire cap, cleaned the muzzle of the gun, and made sure that there were no projectiles or other debris in the barrel—

The fire lid of war has finally been closed.