Chapter 399: On Danger
Sure enough, as soon as Martin's words fell, he only heard a "rattle" sound above his head.
This is already more than ten meters deep into the inner city wall, and the sound of artillery outside has become very small, so it is relatively quiet.
Bernie and Doris mingled in the crowd of Velton Imperial soldiers pushing wooden wheelers, and looked forward in the not-so-good light, as if something was coming down.
I only heard the person in front of me shouting loudly: "Be careful, everyone be careful, don't cross the line, Nick, do you want to be a meatloaf?"
Since there were still many people in front of them, Bernie and Doris couldn't see them, but it was less than ten seconds after this person finished speaking, and they heard a "bang" in front of them.
"Down, down, everyone, hurry up!" There was another commotion in front of him, and then, the team slowly moved again, and many Witton soldiers began to walk back from the front pushing the empty wooden wheeled carts.
The two of them had been walking with Martin all along, and after walking about ten meters or so, they turned a corner only to find that there was a passage that went straight up and down.
The top of the passage was swarthy and nothing could be seen, and below it was a wooden platform made of wooden planks, which was not too big, but a dozen empty wooden wheelers were haphazardly placed.
Moreover, there were no torches in this small space, and they could only be seen clearly by the torches in the passage, and there was an iron chain hanging from each of the four corners, and Bernie and Doris immediately understood the meaning of "hoist" in Martin's mouth.
Each of the Witton soldiers pushed their own cart with two shells onto the platform, turned around and pushed another empty cart away.
Martin was no exception, but as he was leaving, he told Bernie and Doris that if they wanted to go up the wall, they should stand still on the platform, and in a moment the platform would be raised and they would be sent up.
Doris looked at the passage above her head that she didn't know how high, a little frightened, and held Bernie's hand tightly.
Fortunately, Bernie came along, otherwise, Doris would definitely not dare to sit on this "hoist" by herself.
After all the empty wooden wheelers had been pushed away, the two of them also stood on the wooden platform, Martin left, and the rest of the Witton soldiers looked at the two people of the Oskaia Empire who didn't know why they had to come here.
Just when I was feeling a little embarrassed, suddenly the wooden platform under my feet shook slightly, the iron chains at the four corners were stretched straight, and there was a "bang" sound, and the whole platform slowly rose together with these wooden wheeled carts with two shells, as well as Bernie and Doris.
It was fine at the very bottom of this upward passage, at least with the torches of the passage that came in, but now that the platform was raised, it was dark all around.
"Bernie!" Doris couldn't help but scream, she was already afraid of the dark, and in such an environment, the fear in her heart was about to reach its peak.
"I'm here, don't be afraid. Bernie gripped Doris's hand tightly with his left hand, and gently took her in his arms with his right hand.
Sensing her lover's body temperature and arm, Doris felt like she had found a place to rely on, and half of her body was nestled in Bernie's arms.
The speed of the ascension was not fast, and she trembled gently as she ascended, and it took a full five minutes to reach a height of nearly 100 meters, and as the light above her head grew from far to near, Doris's heart gradually relaxed.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The closer you get to the top of the wall, the louder the cannon fire becomes, and the smell of whistle smoke grows.
"Quick, quick, this batch of shells come up and send them to Eyler, they don't have many shells there!"
Gradually, the voices of people talking above their heads also came, and the light was no longer so dark at this time, and the two separated.
An officer on the top of the city wall who was in charge of dispatching suddenly found that the hoist that came up this time had broken into two uninvited guests, and he was very surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Huh, who are you? Why did you come here?"
As soon as they reached the top of the wall, Bernie and Doris felt a wave of heat coming over them, and when they saw the situation around them, Doris's face turned red.
I saw that the soldiers above had taken off their shirts one by one, naked, covered with sweat and even the clothes on the lower half of their bodies were wet, and sweat droplets splashed all around with their gestures.
Doris is an unmarried girl, who has ever seen this kind of scene, fortunately, she is not the kind of person who twists, since she has arrived here, she simply turned her heart sideways, and forced herself to pretend to be calm and said: "I'm reporter Doris, I'm here to interview people!"
"What? Who are you?"
The cannon rumbled all around, and Doris didn't speak loudly because she was too shy, so the officer didn't hear it clearly. 8090 Chinese
"She's Doris and she's a journalist! she's here to interview you!" Bernie replied aloud for Doris.
"Doris, I don't know, what is a reporter, what are you interviewing us!" the officer's voice was already a little hoarse, and he still asked loudly.
Although the title of reporter is almost unknown to everyone in the imperial capital, after all, it has only been a few days, and these soldiers have already come to the battlefield of Dukemahon, so they have never heard of the word reporter at all.
Doris also found that she couldn't say anything if she couldn't say no, so she also shouted vigorously: "The purpose of interviewing you is to publish your deeds of resisting the monster in the newspaper, so that everyone can remember your exploits!"
But although she was shouting loudly, her voice was still muffled by the sound of artillery, and the officer still did not hear clearly.
"Go, go, go, you like to interview whomever you like, don't make trouble here, get out of here!" The officer didn't know what she was talking about, but the two of them were a little in the way here, and the other soldiers looked at the two ordinary people, who stood still for a while.
Seeing that he was indeed in the way, Bernie pulled Doris down from the wooden platform and took a few steps forward, watching them busy with their work.
This is a transit station for artillery shells, which is really not suitable for interviews, and the voices spoken are not very clear, and none of the soldiers are idle when they come and go, so they can't delay the delivery of shells to the front.
There was no way, the two of them looked here for a while, and found that no one was paying attention to them, so they walked forward.
The width of the city wall is about fifty meters, and the place where they came up by hoist is almost in the middle, and more than twenty meters further on, it is the real front line.
Everyone was busy, Bernie and Doris had never seen a monster since they were young, and since no one cared, they simply walked to the edge of the city wall where they were fighting.
The closer they got, the more deafening the sound of the artillery became, and there was no way, they didn't have earplugs, so they had to cover their ears with their hands.
With each shot, a flash of fire flashed from the muzzle of the gun, and the smoke dispersed, and the smell Bernie could bear, but Doris was retched from the smoke.
However, more than 20 meters, the two walked forward step by step, and it took a long time to reach the battlement of the city wall.
Looking forward, I saw a majestic fire burning under the city wall that was two or three kilometers wide, and countless dense demonic beasts wanted to rush through the sea of fire to reach the foot of the city wall, but most of them only rushed to two-thirds of the distance, and they could no longer bear it, and fell down with a bang.
The screams of various demonic beasts when they were burned were endless, and the smell of burning, which was completely different from the smell of gunsmoke, wafted up, making it even more unbearable.
In the distance, countless cannonballs exploded in the group of demonic beasts, and each shell explosion would blow up countless dirt, and the dirt was mixed with several small demonic beasts, or the stumps of demonic beasts.
"This is the battlefield, this is the power of artillery!" Bernie and Doris stared at in amazement, the scorching air making them sweat as well as the soldiers, and after only a few minutes of watching, they had to retreat to avoid the fierce heat.
"Attention, attention! There are Babi Lizard Demon Beasts below, the short gunners are prepared, they must not be allowed to come up again!"
Just as Bernie and Doris were stunned and overwhelmed by the scene outside the city, suddenly a loud sound of a megaphone came from behind them.
"What is that?" they didn't know what to do, but they saw several rows of soldiers with an iron pipe on their shoulders rushing to the edge of the wall, despite the heat of the fire below.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Bernie and Doris saw streams of fire coming from the end of the iron pipe they were carrying on their shoulders, and the same fire came out in front of them, as if something had flown out, but it was only a flash and could not be seen clearly.
"This is also artillery, why is it so small?" The two hurriedly returned to the battlement and looked down, only to see that among the countless demonic beasts in the sea of fire, there was a demonic beast with a slender body, a flat head, a large long tail and thick limbs, which was crawling quickly under the city wall in groups.
The shells of the small artillery that were carried on the shoulders just now fell in this group of demonic beasts, although a lot of them were killed and blown away, but the number of such demonic beasts was too large, and a small number of them still rushed through the sea of fire and reached the city wall.
"Ahh
Instead, he sucked into the walls of the city wall with the flippers that were split into three toes under his thick limbs, and writhed his body and quickly climbed upward.
"Demon Warrior, Demon Warrior, the sixty-eighth section of the city wall needs support! The sixty-eighth section of the city wall needs support!"
I don't know who is shouting in front of the microphone, and I can tell from the tone of my voice that I am panicked.
The soldiers carrying shoulder cannons had already leaned out of the city wall half of their bodies, and under the pull of their companions behind, the small cannons on their shoulders stood up, attacking the Babi lizards who were walking up the city wall.
However, this small cannon can only be fired once, and if you want to fire it again, you have to turn around and reload again, and then lean out again to attack.