"A rock barrier based on the façade of an ancient dwarven city, 78.74 feet high and 17.1 feet thick at the top, built in 751 A.D. - a record of the study of the façade of Gronia by the royal architect Sir Artiman. ”

At dawn the next day, the sky was still overcast, and the foggy canal was overcast, and the last naval warship that had gone out to carry out an evacuation mission returned, and from the top of the towering southern city wall, the shadows of a large number of sailing ships gradually appeared in the depths of the thick fog, and at the same time, the sound of horses' hooves on both sides of the river, accompanied by the earth-shattering war drums, gradually approached Gronia.

In order to facilitate the climb to the high wall, a number of metal platforms were erected on the side of the wall, similar to the building structure of a naval dock, and the various platforms were connected by steel stairs, providing a number of routes for soldiers to ascend the city, and the five hundred defenders above had already lined up neatly, every ten heavily armed naval soldiers in a group, and then led by two knights to guard all the points of the high wall. Several cranes beside the tunnel continue to salvage the remains of ancient buildings from the waters below the city, providing sufficient stones for the catapults on the platforms along the high walls. On a steel platform built next to the southwestern wall, Julius, who had been ordered to guard the southern city, set up a command post, which provided an excellent view of the movement from the west, even in the fog.

At the end of the horizon, there are countless villages burning, the position of the invaders is already very obvious in the field of vision of the defenders, the commander ordered to block the naval haven water gate and the passage that can be accessed throughout the city wall, and at the same time sent a herald to mobilize all the volunteers in the residential area to rush to the city wall reinforcements, he used the main port of the south gate as an intermediary point for transport ships, and the platform at the top of the tunnel was used as a temporary armory, so that the soldiers from the defender garrison could choose the right weapons when they climbed the city wall, so that they could integrate into the defense line as quickly as possible.

In the early morning, the fog in the city gradually lifted, and the members of the Wings of Liberty returned to their temporary quarters in the residential area after completing the fortification work during the night, and after receiving the notice again, the group met on time at the residential dock, in order to cope with the battle, Sieg had already changed into the same chain mail outfit as the knights, the hem of the black striped robe was still fluttering in the wind, Shoy also added hard leather shoulder and chest guards to the combat jacket, and Nabal took his old-fashioned leather inlaid armor to the tailor's shop to have it worked, not forgetting to wear a light chain vest underneath, only the chain mail on Porcha's body was never taken off during the journeyToday, I only scraped off some rust with sandpaper, and I wore it again.

Soon after, the receiving boat arrived, and the group except for Sieg, who insisted on acting alone, all took a boat to the south gate under the leadership of Xiao Yi, and they did not encounter many civilian boats along the way, except for the city guard patrol boats along the way, yesterday it was the main river where the boats crisscrossed, and in wartime only a few citizens who volunteered to help the regular army were still busy in the waterways.

"Hey, Commander, how did that guy from Atros transfer Sewolle's men to the North City? We came to him just to join forces to fight, but the old friend was lost, and he was grouped with a whole bunch of unfamiliar chengguans. ”

"What can I do! The matter of dispatching troops is up to Atros, and Sieg is still playing tricks and doing it alone. And what the hell are you going to do with that glove when you keep knocking on it...... It's annoying. ”

Annoyed that Nabal was upset that Atros had organized the Wings of Liberty and the City Watch into a team to carry out the most basic defense missions, so he kept tapping the steel hand armor on his left wrist with his throwing axe, as if to vent to the City Guards on several nearby patrol boats. Gradually, Porcha couldn't stand it anymore and snatched his short axe and threw it at the stern.

"What's the matter, stupid horse thief. I'm just unhappy with those guards, what is your opinion?" (Note: In the previous game, the Goshawk was forced to pay a berthing fee)

"You guy, just stop, look at this high wall, the range of the catapult and the firearms cover almost all the area of the circular water outside the city, and it is impossible for the enemy to enter the range of the defenders and take the initiative to seek death before he is fully prepared. Although they surrounded the city, behind this impenetrable wall, we must have outlasted them, so you, don't complain about anything, unity is the most important thing. ”

"That's it, what Brother Cha said is awesome!"

Shoey clapped his palms in response, and smiled and grimaced at Nabal, under her arbitration, Nabal stopped complaining, but just signaled the boatman to row faster, and his teammates were also preparing for the next battle, inadvertently, Lemuel suddenly thought of the top-secret plan that Shoy had mentioned.

"Commander, you have prepared a plan for this situation last time, what is it?"

She scratched her hair nonchalantly, tied her scarf around her collar, and said, "It's a secret." Friendly cover is still needed, but I've consulted with Atros that he doesn't intend to send knights out of the city to raid before the battle, especially now that we're so surrounded that it's almost impossible to get a large number of knights and horses to the shore outside the city. ”

Hearing this reply, the team members couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but she still smiled and comforted: "Don't sigh, I will take everyone to defeat the Druas together, so agreed~"

Her attitude towards war was not at all like that of a young girl, but none of the warriors who had been born and died together and had gone through countless death trials questioned her leadership skills and were confident in her unborn plans, and Lemuel, who had sailed with her as a crew member of the Goshawk in the past, gradually realized this and stopped asking questions.

When the reinforcements arrived at Port Royal ten minutes later, they found that there were less than a hundred guards on the eight patrol boats in total, all of them were temporary combat forces called up by the mission to protect their homeland, and their uneven equipment was obviously much rougher than the elite of the navy on the city walls, not only heavy weapons such as sledgehammers and halberds, but also inferior flintlock handcuffs with lower accuracy, but compared to the navy uniformly wearing light swords and leather armor, these heavy guards wearing Gronian heraldic armor had stronger combat ability.

After landing on the shore, Shoey distributed the extra daggers on his body to his two teammates, and suddenly remembered something, fumbled in his backpack, and turned out a rusty knife and handed it to Lemuel.

"In these last hours, let us make a covenant with the blade in our hands. ~ No matter what kind of enemies are waiting for us outside the city walls, we must not give up, and when the war is over, I hope you can return the token to me with your own hands. ”

As Nabal put away his dagger and smiled, Polcha looked at the high wall, wiped the rusty chain mail again, drew his long knife and saber and swung them one by one, not looking very sure about the defense of the city, but he still took the dagger and hung it on his belt, and gave her a thumbs up in thanks.

"Thanks, it'll be done. If we're lucky enough to survive this war, we'll have a drink together at the tavern. ”

"I really don't understand what you're worried about, strategy or something, I'm too lazy to bother with it, since the commander asked us to protect the city wall, so let's do it...... Lemuel, let's go first. ”

Porcha's worried behavior upset Nabal, and Lemuel answered and walked away with him, in fact, Lemuel understood Nabar's concerns, he had experienced many tragic losses of his best friends, and he also did not want any of his teammates to die in the war.

Following the queue of the City Watch, the two of them gradually approached the top of the city wall along the stairs connecting several steel platforms, the sound of boots of various materials stepping on the steel steps was very harsh, especially at this terrifying height, the area of the city in view was reduced a lot, Lemuel and Nabal leaned against the fence of a high platform overlooking the temporary armory at the top of the tunnel, and waved to the two more conspicuous figures in the crowd, and Xiao and Porcha, who were still sorting out their long-range weapons and ammunition, finally left.

There was still one last drop from the top of the wall, and Nabal ran up quickly in three steps and two steps, and Lemuel was already a little weak in the height of his position, and slowly moved his trembling legs between the stairs, and finally reached the top of the wall, which was not wide compared to his height, and then squeezed into a line of sentinels and stretched his neck to look out over the waters outside the city, and the enemy troops scattered all over the canal instantly frightened him back two steps.

Remuel, who had regained his footing, no longer bothered to look for Nabal's figure in the line on the city wall, and quickly scanned the enemy positions under the city one by one, although he was overlooking from a high place, but the enemy deliberately set up a formation along the coast far from the city wall in order to avoid the range of the Gronian city's defending weapons, and the baggage and ordnance were stored in the forests on both sides, and the nearest enemy position was also separated by more than four hundred yards, and the height difference was extremely large, so it was impossible to distinguish the number and personnel of the enemy formation. However, it is not difficult to see from the difference in soldiers that the south bank is occupied by the Druya, and there are nearly twenty infantry phalanxes in pitch black from clothing to armor, and there are a large number of cavalry in the rear, protecting more than a dozen catapults and other siege weapons. On the north bank, the Poz rebels from the west, a large number of chainmail horsemen with spears lined up in front to protect the fixed catapults and siege ballistas, and the rest of the heavy infantry lined up in multiple formations along the canal, pulling two huge machines on the canal with the help of ropes and water buoyancy, ready to follow the current to the city wall, from his first impression it was simply a moving bridge made of heavy iron chains and a solid metal frame and wood.

"This is the body of the Spear of the Underworld Expeditionary Force and the Western Rebellion Army...... Of all the military formations I've seen in my life, this is second only to the Siege of Zenda......"

Polcha, who came up a step later, passed by Lemuel with a knife, although the enemy formation under the city caused him a little oppression, but it was not enough to surpass the strongest Dark Knights he encountered in Zenda , and then Xiao Yi did not take these enemies into account, only cared about finding the most suitable position among the many military columns, watching the time pass minute by minute, Lemuel has been wilting in place and looking at the enemy formation for a long time.

At this time, Nabal came from somewhere, patted Lemuel on the shoulder from behind, and urged with a reproachful expression: "Lemuel, don't be stunned, I was worried that I couldn't find you near the ballista, and I thought you withdrew first because of fear of heights." Hurry up and keep up, they all need you as a master of the giant crossbow to command. ”

When frustrated, it is true that only the most important companion can regain his motivation, Lemuel smiled and responded: "This place is high, but Uncle Lemuel I can't do anything to leave my partner and escape, let's go!"

"Get down!!"

In the rain of arrows flying from below the city, a huge metal ball approached at high speed, destroying the trebuchet commanded by Lemuel in an instant, and exploded, spraying a large amount of fuel and turning the place into a sea of fire......

Swept away by the impact of the explosion, the burning sensation that penetrated into the bones rushed into Lemuel's nerves, and he opened his eyes in the smell of fuel and burnt flesh, and the scene before him was spinning, and he could only tell that he was lying in a sea of fire that was not too strong, and that the crossbow in his hand was stained with fuel and scrapped, and the leather boots on his feet were burning, and the situation was terrible.

"Fuck me!"

With a loud curse, he took off his charred shoes, tossed them aside along with the waste crossbow in his hand, and crawled away from the ignited area. At this time, the vision was almost restored, and Lemuel quickly stood up, except for the countless pieces of wood that were still burning from the smashed catapult, most of the soldiers were shaken off the city wall by this wave of attacks, a few unlucky ones were burned alive by the flames, and the lucky ones were blown far away like him, although they narrowly escaped, the trebuchet position was no longer functional.

Seeing that the flames were spreading on both sides with the fuel, the sky suddenly became extremely dark, and the rain clouds that had been floating in this sky for nearly a week finally reacted, and the rain poured down in the lightning and thunder, extinguishing the flames that were gradually spreading, and the flames on the platform where the defenders were located and several other positions that were hit by fuel bombs had been extinguished, and in the rain, another Bogronian soldier arrived at the southwest corner of the city wall, and continued to shoot at the enemy positions below the city with longbows and crossbows, and the enemy's siege fire did not stop the attack because of the rain, and another round of thunderbolts was thrown up, destroying many defensive points of the city wall in a blink of an eye......

"Oh my God...... What's next......

According to the vague impression of the wounded, Lemuel only remembered that the battle had begun about two hours earlier, the deafening sound of war drums mixed with the sound of high horns, the Druas pushed a dozen catapults behind the formation to the front, and broke the stalemate without prior warning and negotiation, about two hundred yards from the city wall, their old man-powered catapults could not have thrown stone projectiles to a height of about twenty meters, but this did not prevent the Druas from launching a frantic offensive, round after round of catapult attacks hit the city wall one after another, but unfortunately this kind of catapult that is common in Calradia has no way to overcome its shortcomingsAt most, it caused minor abrasions to the rocky outer walls, and did not pose a threat to the defenders on the city walls at all, and dozens of Drua soldiers who operated their weapons instead entered the range of the defenders, and the Gronians returned the enemy with a rain of arrows, and the Druas who were at the farthest range were as if they were hit by the tide, and all of them were killed by arrows, and a row of siege vehicles was also abandoned in place.

Compared to the non-threatening Drua siege team, the Gronians had very advanced fortifications, and various points on the city walls were equipped with counterweight trebuchets and powerful ballistae that could rotate the chassis. The stones were used by the shooters and trebuchets, only because they were facing the Drua position on the south bank of the canal, the effective range of the slings just covered the queue of catapults left by the enemy, the commander's herald arrived at the scene soon after giving the order to attack, the lookout finally gave the coordinates after several confirmations, Lemuel adjusted the direction of the trebuchet as soon as possible, the deputy of the team swung the hammer towards the live hook, the huge heavy stone hanging on the outside of the city wall fell down, pulled the boom to throw a huge rock pillar, the stone pillar flew in the air for some distance and smashed a catapult impartially, and the nearby fire points also launched an offensive at the same time, easily destroyed the enemy's siege weapons with a stone-throwing counterattack, and the Gronian soldiers on the city walls immediately let out a burst of cheers.

"Well done! They must know how strong our walls are, and the catapults are probably just to test the waters for the next attack! ”

Nabal simply complimented, and the actions of the Druas confirmed his fears, and in the field of vision provided by the telescope, a column of elite crossbowmen arrived in front of the formation, quickly dispersed in a line, and poured a series of arrows into the city, since most of them did not have shields, the battlements that could hide from the rain of arrows were also relatively separated, most of the defenders retreated to the inner side of the city wall to avoid the arrows, and the enemy also took advantage of the fact that the defenders at the head of the city were suppressed, pushed out several newly built large ballistas, and once again attacked the city wall with siege equipment.

"Now is not the time to observe!