Xiao Chen tore apart the directional teleportation scroll, and the landing point of the teleportation was set by him in an abandoned courtyard.

The owner here estimated that he had escaped from the city earlier, but the house was too small and remote to be requisitioned by the marquis, so he was picked by Xiao Chen on the way to the bell tower as a hidden point in the planned retreat plan.

Xiao Chen and Master Kona hid in the room, Xiao Chen sat down at the table panting, took out a bottle of water from the Traveler's Heart and poured it into a big gulp, the battle just now consumed too much of his energy and physical strength.

Xiao Chen said: "Those imperial people must have sent people to infiltrate the kingdom earlier, and then persuaded Bardini to prepare to take control of Suero in advance. ”

Master Kona sat beside him and said, "Bardini is probably disappointed in the royal family, and the appearance of the Imperial is probably very much to his liking. ”

Xiao Chen said: "The imperial people really have a lot of appetite, and they actually skipped the Heimu Pass and came directly to fight Suero's idea. It seems that we are out of action with Bardini, and we must destroy the city defense barrier as soon as possible, and then send this news out. ”

Master Kona said, "Those people should be the Black Guards. ”

"Blackguard?"

Master Kona said, "Emperor Alfred of the Purple Eagle Empire recruited a group of masters from various countries a few years ago. When he recruits people, he only asks about ability, not morality, no matter what kind of bad things he has done before, he can join this team. Even many felons imprisoned by the empire were fished out by him and received under his command. He made a pact with these people that the empire would provide them with a new nobility as long as they served him for ten years. This is the Black Guard, who specializes in solving some dangerous and unpopular things for the emperor. According to our information, they even assassinated the senators of the Imperial Senate who opposed the emperor. ”

Xiao Chen asked, "So it's similar to those people from the Shadow Troupe of the Nature Temple?"

"It's different, the Blackguards are more numerous, and they will go to the battlefield to fight, unlike the people of the Shadow Regiment, who mainly do some secret work. In the early years when the empire was fighting against the orc tribes, the Blackguard also served as a vanguard to attack orc strongholds. These people were outlaws in the first place, and they fought much crazier than ordinary armies. ”

"So, is it possible that these fifty or so people will be the trouble for us to attack Suero this time?" Xiao Chen pondered for a moment, and then laughed, "But I'm wondering how to rely on a few of us to deal with the black guards, isn't it too arrogant?"

"For magicians, there is no impossibility, as long as the conditions are met, there is nothing that cannot be done. After all, mages are a group of people whose goal is to kill gods. "Master Kona's words always reveal the confidence that magicians are accustomed to.

Xiao Chen shook his head with a smile and said, "After all, this is war, and it is enough to embellish it with personal heroism." I should trust my companions, whose strength is the strongest. Whether it's the Black Guard or the Imperial Army, it's everyone who faces it together. ”

"Then I'll go back to the meditation world first, and then summon me when you need it. As he spoke, Master Kona's body slowly weakened, and the clothes and equipment on his body were collected by Xiao Chen into the traveler's heart.

Xiao Chen rested for a while, recovered some of his mental strength, and was about to go to the cemetery to pick up Tasia and them, but as soon as he walked out of the door, he felt a wave of magic fluctuations in all directions. This magic fluctuation is grand and far-reaching, and it also carries some ancient aura, the kind of aura that envelops the heavens and the earth, and the continuous aura is by no means something that can be manifested by one person casting a spell. He looked up and saw that pale golden curtains of light began to rise from all directions of the city, and although these light curtains were fast and slow, they extended and then gathered together in the air, turning into an egg-shaped shield that enveloped the entire city of Sueroone.

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By the time the shield was raised, Wang Jiyuan's army had reached the outside of Suero, and his 2,000-strong army had already begun to camp under the noses of the defenders.

The speed at which the barbed wire and tent-covered convoys set up camp was far beyond that of the locals. By about 3 p.m., the camp was basically set up. Even watchtowers and searchlights were erected.

The tent adopts the style of the military tent of the original world, but the difference is that the current tent also depicts a protective array, which has basic fire prevention and puncture resistance, and is more powerful than the tent of the original world. The barbed wire fence is connected to a small spar generator, which can be turned into a high-voltage power grid as soon as the gate is opened. The tower is made of metal brackets and is three stories high, with the True Eye of Invisible Detection housed on it, controlled by the mage on duty in the army. These mages also periodically unleash probe spirit magic, using psychic light orbs to determine if there are any enemies sneaking up on them. Searchlights are hedron lamps that do not require electricity, and are powered by hedron to illuminate the powerful lighting circle, which can illuminate all the ground around the camp at night.

Wang Jiyuan took an infantry battalion, an artillery company, a cavalry company, and a mage squad of a regiment, accompanied by Master Gabriel and Roger, to a place less than a kilometer away from Suluo City.

"Master Gabriel, what type of defensive barrier do you think this is?" Wang Jiyuan handed a telescope to Gabriel's hand.

Gabriel observed for a moment and said, "Judging from the shape and color, it should be of the same type as the enchantment of the royal capital. However, I am afraid that the specific situation will have to be clarified through testing. ”

Chang Yujie, the head of the first regiment, said: "Chief, since the enemy has raised all the turtle shells, why don't we go up and knock a few times, but I'm sorry for these cannons that have been pulled over." ”

Wang Jiyuan said: "You're right, we are here today to test the strength of this enchantment, let the artillery company prepare two 80mm guns and two 120mm guns, shoot a quarter of the base number of conventional shells, and then try elemental shells and shield breaking shells." ”

The artillery company's movements were very fast, and Wang Jiyuan only waited for less than 20 minutes, and the artillerymen unloaded the pneumatic guns from the spar trucks, arranged their positions, adjusted the shooting of Zhuyuan, and began the test firing. The pneumatic cannon made a much duller sound than the air gun and began to spit out shells, sixty shells for one base, and fifteen for a quarter.

The shells are now filled with explosives, and the destructive power is much greater than the last time they attacked Arano. But when they landed on the barrier, they were all blocked by the thin layer of shield, turning into huge sparks, and after a dozen shells, the shield still did not change with the naked eye, and still stood there completely.

"In fact, where we can't see it, it's changed. "The shield relies on energy to resist all kinds of damage, so when the cannonball explodes on it, it will definitely consume energy, which is provided by a large amount of hedrons. If the supply of hedron can't keep up with the demand for mana, the shield will naturally dissipate. ”