But now no matter how much they regret it, it is useless, in the years before they left the castle, there were also the disciples of Master Alva from time to time to send back news, fifty years later, even the councillors have changed twice, when it comes to Alva, they only think that it is a symbol of hatred and ridicule, the speaker knows very well, they are now beginning to miss Alva, just looking for some solace in a desperate situation, and even if Alva is still alive, he is already more than a hundred years old, although among the people who have been blessed by magic, there are countless long-lived ones, but these old mages will almost only stay in their mage towers, not an inch, only their disciples came out to walk, and even the disciples of their disciples.

However, to the anger of the people of Cape Fortress, these mages they hired with gold and silver really did as they said, and left Pills without even one attempt, although the people were deeply dissatisfied with them, no one dared to stop them, or say anything, and the moment the spellcasters disappeared, the army of Falun outside the city also began to attack.

As previously described, the two sides of the Piercing are plump "cheeks" Compared to the cliffs at the back of the city, it can be said that this is a fairly gentle slope, and the merchants have installed dwarven equipment for mining pits on the gentle slopes, which can easily twist thousands of pounds of stones, especially for only a few hundred pounds of goods, so that the merchants can send the goods on the ships to the Pier, and then deliver the goods of the Pills to the docks, but at this moment, these instruments have been destroyed, so as not to be used by the enemy to transport troops. There was only one road left for the enemy's attack, and that was the road that connected the Partridge Hill, which had been carefully maintained by the men of the Piercing Fortress, and was smooth and wide enough to accommodate six caravans side by side, which was praised by the merchants who came and went. And on this morning, instead of the hooves of the horses, the leather-soled boots of the merchants, and the heavy wheels of the caravans, trampled on it, it was the bare feet of the outcasts and slaves, dressed in rudimentary leather armor, armed with short swords, and carrying ladders, and they would be the first to die, and for the army of Falun they were not counted in the army at all, and they were only recruited to consume the strength of the fortress.

But these men, who had lived in despair and misery all year round, did not think so, and they thought that they had been treated very well—for the first time in the army they could eat bread and porridge to their heart's content, and they could taste a small strip of dried meat (the officer assured them that there was more dried meat waiting for them in the fort), and wine, something that only the old man could touch and drink, and they feared that the slightest glance would be ridiculed and whipped— Otherwise, how could they let their children become thieves' apprentices, they knew very well that such children, only one out of a hundred thieves would survive, and of the hundred who survived, ninety-nine were hung on gallows or had their hands and feet cut off, bleeding to death, but among the last hundred, I don't know if one of them would be able to become a member of the official thieves' guild? Do they love their children, of course, but this love can't offset the hungry stomachs and cold hands and feet for the time being. Now, they were told that if they could climb the walls and open the gates, they would be able to get what they wanted in this rich city, but how could they hesitate?

Not to mention, there is also the glass of sweet wine infused with refined "tobacco", the drugs in which affect their ability to think, make it difficult for them to think, make accurate judgments, and reduce their perception of pain and their fear of death - now they are nothing more than a bunch of numerous, simple-minded beasts, but their numbers are so staggering that they occupy almost the entire field of vision. The people of Cape Fortress watched them approach the first wall, the outer side of the first wall, where the homeless people had lived, they were familiar with the place, they even remembered where they had been driven away by the guards, and where they had received the mercy of a certain merchant, ahh- Although there was only leather armor and no suits of clothing and boots, the soldiers still thought that they had met a generous master, and they did not notice the smell of fresh blood and feces that filled the leather armor, and there was nothing wrong with the leather armor being new, because the old leather armor did not have spells attached to it.

The soldiers, who were originally either outcasts or slaves, were struck by small trebuchets about three hundred feet from the city walls, and at two hundred feet from the city walls, they were struck with bows and arrows, and at a hundred feet from the walls, flames poured down from the walls, and some of the ladders burned before they could fulfill their obligations, carrying with them the soldiers who crashed and overwhelmed them as they fell, but the archers standing on the siege towers finally began to return their colors, they were all archers drawn from the mercenary group, skilled, precise, and cruel to the average soldier, who could ignore the death and wounding of those soldiers, until the siege towers finally reached the closest they could have hoped in shaking— Their arrows are all stainless steel armor-piercing arrowheads, which can penetrate leather armor or black iron armor with a single shot, and some people use needle-mounted arrows, this kind of arrows are used to deal with chain mail, these two kinds of arrows, although the first type can penetrate the armor or armor, and will not be stuck, but because the shape is blunt and wide, and the lethality is not strong, so the archers quenched the venom from the warlock's hand on it, even if it is just rubbed through the skin, it will make people faint - The defenders of the fortress immediately recognized the threat posed to them by the siege towers, and they ran on top of the walls, pulled up small trebuchets, and threw the jars containing white phosphorus at the location of the siege towers, and the white phosphorus immediately burned violently, and if the siege towers did not want to be affected by this dangerous flame, they had to retreat. But just when the defenders thought they could wait for a moment of respite, they saw the archers at the top of the siege tower leap off the platform, and then, perhaps only a few breaths, the platform on the siege tower creaked and creaked, and then the transformation was over, and the people saw a towering platform ten feet higher than the original, it was smaller than the original platform, but it was high enough for the archers above to look down on the first wall.

There were only two such siege towers, each thirty feet wide, and there were about fifty soldiers hidden in them, all of whom had served a lord or king, had plenty of experience, were in the prime of life, and had abundant food that gave them a strong body, quick reflexes, and strength like bears and oxen, and they waited in the dark, the sun shining through the cracks in the sticks and shining on their faces, they were not nervous, and if the siege towers burned or toppled, they might have died needlessly before they could enter the battlefield, but with a rumbling sound that almost made the ears ache (mixed with the cheers of the soldiers) , and the violent impact and shaking, they knew that the siege tower they were in had successfully crashed against the wall, and the soldiers immediately grabbed the ladder of the siege tower and climbed out, they heard the screams of arrows, and the sound of swords slashing on the wood - they jumped out of their hiding place, unsurprisingly to find that they were surrounded by enemies.

Smoke billowed from the walls, and in addition to the white phosphorus that Falun's army had returned to him, there was also a cauldron that people used to boil grease and dung, except for going to the battlefield, probably no one could imagine what it was like to see and smell, while the soldiers in the siege tower were fighting with the soldiers guarding the fortress, some of the defenders were still hurriedly pushing away the ladders, lighting them, or pouring the boiling grease and dung from the cauldrons, and the first person who climbed the ladder let out a short scream, his face flowed down like a melted candle, revealing the white bones inside, and the secondThe third man saw this tragic scene, and in spite of the urge of medicine and wine and the desire for low desire, he could not help jumping down the ladder, and they fell into the crowd, and together with the unfortunate ghosts who were struck by them, their flesh and skin were opened, their limbs were broken, and countless pairs of feet trampled over their bodies— With each dumping, dozens of people lost the ability to continue fighting, but there were still too many of them, and the empty part was quickly filled by the soldiers, and as the second siege tower was erected on the wall, more and more ladders rose from the wall, so that the soldiers guarding the fortress heard the sound of the bronze bell ringing, and they ran towards the established position, where the drawbridge was erected to allow them to retreat to the second wall, and about hundreds of soldiers ran from the drawbridge, and they followed the enemy closely.

"Wait!" one of the soldiers suddenly shouted, "Wait!, my brother," he cried, "My brother hasn't come up yet!" he grabbed his companion who was turning the trap to pull up the drawbridge, "He's right there, the gods are up, he's running here." ”

The knight in charge of the matter just looked up and saw that it was a young soldier who was fighting three crazy outcasts, he shook his head, even if the soldier could kill those three outcasts, this would be enough time for the follow-up enemies to tear him apart, but unfortunately it was a good boy, "Pull up the drawbridge," he said, casting an apologetic look, his duty was this, it was a thing that would never be allowed by him and others to make the enemy rush into the second wall because of personal affection and respect— He drew his broadsword and pointed it at the soldier who had stopped the drawbridge from rising, forcing him back a few feet away, the soldier was in tears but not much resentment: "Then let me go," he said, "let me be with my brother." ”

"It's too late. The knight removed his broadsword, and in a few words, the soldier's brother, who had been forced to face the other two outcasts with his bare hands, and many more enemies, because the dagger had been stuck in the ribs of a homeless, let out a young and loud roar, not afraid at all, but everyone knew that his life could already begin to count down— But just as people thought so, a blinding white light struck the soldier's brother's body, and the two homeless people in front of him turned their heads, and at that moment, a shadow with a broad back suddenly jumped down to the soldier's brother's side, and sandwiched him in the crook of his arm like a package, and then the knight, and the soldiers of the Cape Fortress beside him, watched him jump up to the battlement on the inside with a heavy burden, and then jumped from the battlement to the second layer of the wall, and at the edge of the wall they shook suddenly, but fortunately the soldiers immediately dragged the two men in。

"Speaker?" shouted the knight in surprise, then a look of disapproval. The white-haired Speaker just stood up and slapped his white robe, "Don't do that," he said, "I'm the priest of Tyre after all." ”

The priests also insisted on the premature entry into the war, and the councillors believed that those lowly soldiers could be used as sacrifices to pre-stuff the belly of jackals, and the death of some small people would not have any effect on this war at all, but the priest was different, if a priest unfortunately died, then it meant that the knights and more important people might lose a chance to heal, or that it was unknown if they lost their lives, and if this was the case, maybe even the future of the fortress would fall into an unknown whirlpool- In fact, many of them tried to flee when they found that they could not play with money, women and wine, but unfortunately, they soon discovered that even the harbor of the Castle had been planted with the banner of the silver dragon of Falun, and their escape was likely to turn into a trap. But this does not prevent them from holding on to their selfish ideas until the last moment.

But will the priests do what they do? Of course not, if the priests and paladins had thought so, they would have been out of the city long ago, like the warlocks and mages who had been involved in the defense of Cape Fortress from the beginning, only now that they had to show up.

The outcasts of Falun quickly occupied the first wall, but to their disappointment, there was only a narrow and empty corridor between the first and second walls, no more than a hundred feet deep, if you let the mercenaries and real soldiers who are familiar with the battlefield see, they can immediately tell that this is a trap that is not dangerous, but even if the homeless people have seen it, they have never cared, what they care about is that there are no shops or residences here, there is no object worth plundering, when they finally follow the order to open the gate of the first wall, they find that it has been blocked by huge stones。