Chapter 21: Retreat

Looking at Alice's busy figure in and out, Sophia and Owen could only pay attention silently on the periphery. After all, one of the key people involved in this incident is their childhood playmate, and several of them are also "outsiders" in the Restorationist camp, in order to keep the investigation as impartial as possible, Sophia, as the supreme leader of the Restoration, and Owen, the chief instructor, did not directly participate in or intervene in the investigation, and could only let Alice play freely.

Although Sophia wants to share Alice's worries, she should not intervene in public or private.

"Now whether it's the confessions of witnesses or other evidence, it's more and more favorable to Joyka. And Alice is also preparing to withdraw the surveillance of Joeyka after tonight, Sophia, what are you worried about?"

It was another night, and Owen came to the rocky hill before him, and said to Sophia, who was looking at the village below, with a sad face.

"Owen, I have an ominous premonition. I always felt that things were not as simple as I imagined. Sophia spoke out of her distress.

"Let it go. Look at Joyka, he knows that he is being watched, he still eats when he should eat, he eats when he sleeps, and he doesn't care at all. Even Joyka herself isn't nervous, so why are you so tight?" Owen comforted.

"No, Owen, don't you think it's strange?"

"What?"

"If Veronica is really an undercover agent of our enemies, why did she just stun Christina and tie her up when she decided to use her enchantment magic to control Joica, instead of killing Christina directly?

Sophia has become more and more adept at independent thinking and analysis, and has taken another step towards being a true leader. Owen was relieved to see this, but he still had to pour cold water on Sophia.

Perhaps, Veronica was thinking about her old feelings and not being ruthless. Owen uttered an ambiguous guess.

Hearing this answer, Sophia fell silent for a moment.

"What's wrong? I have bugs on my face?" was stared at by Sophia for a few seconds, and Owen was a little uncomfortable.

"Owen, what the hell are you thinking about now?" Sophia said her doubts, "even I can see the suspicions, Owen, you can't fail to see them." Now that you have found something suspicious, you will go and find out the truth behind it, which is the real Owen. But now you ...... I can't read it. ”

"You're thinking too much, Sophia. Owen patted her on the shoulder and said, "These days, troublesome things have come up again and again, and we are all busy. You sleep very little, and I sleep very little, and lack of sleep will make people's minds unconsciously drill into the horns. So, I want to go back to my room and get a good night's sleep. You should also get a good night's sleep. ”

With that, Owen left the hill and walked down the mountain.

Sophia silently watched from behind in the background of Owen's disappearance, muttering to herself, "You know the truth, don't you? Why can't you tell me!"

"The last ship is about to leave port, so let's get out of the harbor too. Prince Harun, who was on the tower, shouted to Julian, who was fighting his way below.

As he spoke, the prince buckled his bowstring, and only heard two "whoosh" and "whoosh" sounds, and the arrows flashed like silver lightning, and the two Medine officers standing in the distance of the commander's team fell from their horses.

"Good!"

Julian replied, holding the magic sword "Tears of Repentance" in both hands, and the cursed crescent-shaped sword qi poured out, and several of the Medin soldiers who surrounded him were cut in two by the sword qi like harvesting mustard greens.

In the past few days, the remnants of the Kingdom of Zealand, trapped in the fortress of the city-state of Solai, are withdrawing from the fleet in an orderly manner, and the number of troops in charge of guarding the city gate behind the palace is getting smaller and smaller. The besieging Mei army got this news from the intelligence agents lurking in the city, so they launched a powerful offensive, even if they failed to kill General Finger or Prince Harun, it was a great achievement to bury a few high-ranking generals of the Western Army. We must not let those invading Sealand people slip away so easily.

But these Medins were overly optimistic. It was precisely because it was at the last critical moment of returning home that the Sealand army did not dare to be a little careless, and although the garrison continued to decrease, it became more and more elite. By the final stage, only Prince Harlan, Julian and a dozen officers above the champion knight level were left on the battlements, relying on the strong city defense, narrow terrain, good tactical layout, coupled with Prince Harun's bow skills and Julian's superb swordsmanship, they could withstand the onslaught of hundreds of Medin troops for nearly 30 minutes.

After receiving the order to retreat, more than a dozen elite Western Army soldiers who were sticking to their respective posts rushed out, and under the cover of Julian and Prince Harun, they withdrew from the battlements to the fortress.

The pressure on the front subsided sharply, and the soldiers of the besieging Mei army rushed over with a roar, shouting slogans to avenge their recently killed commander. But all this was also calculated by the defenders, and a few days earlier, the soldiers of the Western Army had dug hundreds of small holes in the base of the city walls.

Just when the Mei army troops rushed to the city wall, hundreds of bottles of explosives buried in the small hole at the base of the wall were instantly detonated.

"Boom Rumble Rumble......"

Earth-shattering explosions rang out one after another, and the impregnable walls were shattered by the intensity of the internal destruction, and the entire thick walls collapsed outward.

The soldiers, who had rushed to the bottom of the city wall with high morale to set up a ladder, were frightened by this unpredictable scene, hurriedly threw away the siege equipment in their hands, and fled backwards with all their strength, trying to escape from the growing shadow before the city wall slapped themselves into pulp.

In the end, there were still 7 or 8 Mei soldiers who could not escape and were crushed under the city wall. The walls of the fortress collapsed, but the large number of ruined tiles and uneven ruins left behind also prevented a large number of Mei infantry units from entering the city.

Breaking away from the elite detachment of the war, they rode a dozen fast horses prepared in advance and galloped through the city.

In order to reduce the resistance to the retreat, the Sealand army demolished all the buildings in the straight line between the tower and the port of Solai, clearing a "road" that looked like it had been slashed by a huge scythe from the air.

This shocking Mo was witnessed by the air knights of the Mei Army who were soaring in the sky. With the strong anger of national hatred and family hatred, the air knights drove the griffons under their seats to swoop down on the ground as they fled for their lives.

Prince Harun lay down on his horse, drew his bow and arrows, and displayed a masterful skill of mounted archery that even the barbarians would have seen to marvel at, and an arrow struck the mid-eyed of the air knight who rushed in front of him, causing him to fall heavily from the griffon's back.

The other airriders were so shocked that they didn't dare to rush blindly, but instead pulled up the height of the griffons and, with their condescending superiority, threw javelins at the fleeing elite detachment of Sealand.

The two knights of the Western Army, who rushed to the rear, were unfortunately pierced by the men and horses, leaving their lives one step away from returning home. Two other knights were pulled up by the Medin's intelligence agents lurking in the city, tripped over their mounts, and fell off their horses. Julian, who was in charge of the palace, reached out and fished one of the fallen knights onto his horse, while the other, less fortunate one, was caught in a fishing net thrown by the griffon's air rider from behind, dragged for some distance, and then caught into the sky by the griffon's claws, where he became a prisoner of the enemy in a painful manner.

However, most of the personnel of the elite detachment managed to withdraw to the protection of the battleship.

Faced with the powerful giant crossbows on the Western warships, and the countless Sealand archers standing on the deck, the Medin air troops and undercover personnel who were desperately chasing after them also knew that they had reached their limit and had to stop, and they could only watch the group of thugs who had invaded their country flee back to sea......