The task force's operation ended in failure, and at dusk, the fire of the southern city was ignited again with the rain subsided, and Isaac came to the battle line with the intention of capturing the southern city wall to draw a perfect end to today's battle, but then met with desperate resistance from the defenders Julius and Nabal and others, and the Druas changed their course when the siege weapons could not be strong, and the huge bridge-like weapons of the Boz rebels opened the way, and forced their way to the southern city water gate under the escort of two warships.

Since the location of the south gate happened to be the blind spot of the heavy firepower on the city wall, the Potts easily placed the two weapons, and two thick iron locks shot out from each end of the weapon, one end pierced the outer layer of the wall, and the other end connected to the embankment along the river, and several layers of thick wooden planks quickly stretched along the chains, and at an astonishing speed built a bridge large enough for the passage of a hundred cavalry troops in the circular water outside the water city, but this giant fortification was not just a bridge, the Druas brought a large amount of wood from the rear, as if they wanted to take advantage of it'Bridge' to make a giant ram to break through the main gate.

Despite the hard work of the Druas, the amount of work to process a giant breaker was enormous, the archers on the city walls quickly shot the enemy sappers in sight, and the trebuchet controlled by Nabal was lucky enough to sink an enemy sailboat transporting metal fittings, disintegrating the last wave of the day's attack, Isaac saw through the siege methods, so he ordered the army to withdraw into the sea of trees for the night, leaving only a thousand cavalry on guard at the front line, intending to keep the bridge intact, and a small number of lumberjacks overnight to process the giant wooden stakes needed for the ram。

At night, the North City defense line ......

An hour earlier, under the cover of night, Lemuel and Porcha had evaded the eyes and ears of the Heidred rebels, and had returned to the city with the help of the volunteer soldiers on the city walls.

"In those distant times, dark storms swept across the earth, mountains and rivers shattered, and lives were destroyed......"

Outside the tent there was a sudden melodious singing, similar to the story of the poets who had cheated them out of money at the inn in Wocheze, and Lemuel lit the candle on the side of the bunk and stepped out of the tent to find out where the song came from.

Due to the heavy rain during the day, the clouds in the sky have not completely receded, and the moonlight shines on the earth through the bustling clouds, accompanied by the howling night wind, which makes people feel a chill in their hearts.

"Just when the people were desperate, five-colored light fell from the sky, and O king of the brave, with the sword in his hand, tore through the darkness. The earth recovers, and hope is rekindled ......"

The voice came again, and the creature who was chanting poetry in the middle of the night was very close, and after passing through several very crowded tents in succession, he finally found him dancing on the back of a horse next to the stable, and the seemingly cold moonlight shone directly on the white steed he was riding, and the halo of light that made people intoxicated, very similar to the guy Sig encountered in the pedestrian street the day before.

When Lemuel began to pay attention to his image, he was dressed in a classical Ryrdian-style cloth armor, with old Kujit shin guards tied to his legs, a Vigian scimitar and a Nord broadsword hanging from the side of the saddle, an older Veruga machete within reach, and a shoulder length of hair tied in a hemp braid, the first thing this guy gave Lemuel was like a madman with all the characteristics of the Calradian army, and when he noticed Lemuel's approach, he suddenly turned his head and had a light stubble on his cheeksThe face with a moustache on the chin appeared in Lemuel's field of vision, and the overall look was quite rounded, at least much better than the angular faces of Porcha and Nabal.

"It's a pity that on such a beautiful moonlit night, you have to worry about being attacked by the rebels at night...... Hey, boy, I heard you're from Wings of Freedom?"

He stopped suddenly, and rode his horse closer, and greeted him first, his voice a deep voice completely different from the timbre of the poem he had just recited, and as he approached, Lemuel could clearly see the wrinkles on his forehead by the moonlight, and the few scars that were not obvious under the gray dirt on his face, which, together with the rest of his facial features, looked like a warrior of nearly forty years old and experienced in combat.

"Ah, I'm not actually from Freedom Wings, but my boss is a member of Freedom Wings. And sir, what about your name?"

"I haven't decided to make you a friend yet, after all, I didn't ask your name, and you shouldn't have asked me. ”

This answer was unexpected, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, but the other party didn't seem to want to embarrass him, and quickly changed his words.

"Tsk...... The name is Gorko, Gorco of Agollon. What's your name, kid?"

"Lemuel Sigris. That one...... I'm almost thirty years old, can I change my name?"

"All right, young man. Your eyes are as vicious as a crow that hasn't eaten in a long time, are you a Nord, or a Northuriku half-blood, are you interested in talking about your hometown?"

Lemuel's complaint finally had some effect, the term young man was more acceptable than a child, and in fact there was no need to guess, for Lemuel had been born in Fairchen twenty-eight years earlier, and his parents were native-born Nords, so he had no characteristics of Virgia or Ryrdian, and it was not necessary to think much about his origin.

"I come from the coastal town of Ferchen, which has always been my hometown, sir, though it was devastated and reduced to a small fishing village worth mentioning after the Novi War. ”

"It turned out to be a Nord...... I visited Fairchen once 10 years ago, when it was still one of the few bustling towns in Hokuriku, with welcoming residents, delicious seafood and, most importantly, plenty of Nord beauties and young women around. It sounds like the Nords' war with Viria has destroyed a lot of valuable things, and I'm sorry to let you talk about it. ”

"It's nothing, since I lived the life of a pirate, I haven't cared about my hometown anymore. Mr. Gorco, the ballad just now seems to be about the story of the dark ages of Calradia, and you are referring to the town near the sea of trees in Gernroze?"

"Yes, Ancient Tales is one of the first poems I learned at the poets' school in Agoron, and as my name suggests, I used to live in the town of Agoron in the territory of Rhodoc, and as a young man I traveled most of Calradia, served in the armies of all the nations, and then crossed the sea to Gronia for some personal problems. ”

After a few words of chatter, Gorko said that he was also a Calradian, a former troubadour, and some interesting stories about serving in the armies of various countries, which could explain the origin of the old equipment on him, but there were still some attractive things about him that made Lemuel more confused.

"This is the first time I've heard this poem...... By the way, Mr. Gorko, why are you here, this is a volunteer camp, isn't it, it's really okay for you to make so much 'noise'?"

"It seems that I have forgotten to introduce my current identity, the commander of the Volunteer Army, Gorko, along with four hundred and fifty volunteer soldiers, is at your service. ”

"Huh!?"

The middle-aged man in front of him, who was crazy for a while, and very serious for a while, was actually the commander of the Volunteer Army, which surprised Lemuel, and couldn't help but scream, and the volunteer soldiers in the tents around him jumped out when they heard the sound, and they were very angry after finding out that it was a false alarm, but when they saw Gorko, they immediately saluted, and a few people with a bad temper rolled their eyes at Lemure, and then went back to rest, and at this time, he accepted Gorko's identity as a commander.

With the urge to meet new people, Remuel wanted to have a little more to talk to this interesting guy, but the herald of Atros came to the camp and asked Gorko to lead ten soldiers to the battle site to meet up with the rest of the team, and it seemed that there was a major incident outside the defensive line.

"Mr. Gorco, the rebel leader Sir Kenrad is suspiciously present in the city, and I hope you will find out if this is the case. ”

When Gorko heard the news, he immediately turned over and called more than 20 lightly armed volunteer soldiers to the camp with a casual shout, Lemuel said that he could go with him, Gorko quickly agreed, but mentioned that they would go to their destination from the sewers, and Lemuel suddenly felt that he had made a very unwise decision.

At this point, it was too late to change his mind, and Gorko counted the number of people who had reported for duty, and the volunteer soldiers, who were slightly inferior to the regular army, but at least armed with swords, maces, and kite shields, had already stood in line and waited for the order to pull.

The destination is a very famous racecourse in the northern city, about a mile away from the location of the volunteer camp, according to the news, a group of unidentified people bypassed the defense line of the city wall through the sewer system of Gronia, and were able to reach the area behind the defense line without alerting the defenders, but friend or foe has not yet been clarified, and one of the leaders is suspected to be the rebel leader Kenrad, so the task of suppressing this investigation is handed over to Gorko, and all that is to do is to quietly reach the horse farm where the gang gathers through the underground passage, surround and secretly find out the truth。

"This task is not easy, there are about twenty enemies, all of them are fully armed, it seems that it is a bad plan to occupy the horse farm privately during the war, our task is to quietly surround the horse farm through the sewers, and then I will find out the truth myself. ”

On the way to the place of battle, Gorko constantly stressed to his men the precautions of the trip, and the soldiers followed him closely with torches, and made rapid progress in the aisles by the sewer drains, while giving advice to the commander-in-chief, just like Lemuel's goshawk regiment, with no barriers of status at all.

The team's tortuous route proves that the sewer system in Gronia is very complex, and if an outsider enters the sewers without a guide or a structural diagram, he will definitely get lost due to the many and complicated branches of the passages, but considering that the enemies who infiltrated the city this time also took this route, it is not surprising that they are rebel soldiers.

Although it is a sewer used to treat domestic water, the environment here is not dirty, except for the air underground, which is not so pleasant, and there is no place to find a thorn. After the team walked through it for about ten minutes, Gorco, believing that they had reached their destination, the mouth of the manhole near the casino, motioned for his soldiers to climb the metal ladder to the ground, but one of the soldiers who climbed first said that someone had pressed the manhole cover with a heavy object from above, making it impossible to open it. Seeing that the remaining stagnant water during the day was still flowing down the small hole in the manhole cover, Gorko did not believe in this evil, and sent the remaining men to climb the ladder and hit the manhole cover in turn, but they still could not open it.

"What the hell! What kind of character, find another manhole cover to go on. ”

"You've all heard the captain's orders, let's go back to the previous well. ”

The team moved again, ran back into another fork, and saw another metal ladder built against a wall, topped by another manhole cover.

This time, the warrior who opened the way pushed the lid off without much effort, moved it to the other side, and the whole team returned to the surface through the metal ladder in an orderly manner.

When they set foot on the stone pavement of the street again, Lemuel found that there were more than a dozen stables evenly distributed along the street, most of which were domesticated for horse racing competitions, and the cold night breeze could not help but make people shiver, and they were located in the middle of a street about 100 meters long, with the camp of the volunteers to the east, and the end of the west to their destination, the North City Racecourse.

Gorko was the last to return to the surface from the sewers, put the manhole cover back in its place, and led the team to move quickly in the direction of the horse farm, and at the end of the street, several regular soldiers found them, and only after confirming that they were friendly troops did they put a team of more than a dozen people into the battlering position, it seems that Atros is not worried about the efficiency of the volunteers, and still sent the regular army to surround this place in advance.

The so-called racecourse consists of only two buildings, a staff rest area and a warehouse for valuables, and the staff rest area is temporarily empty due to the arrival of the war, and the infiltrators are gathered here at this time.

Knowing the current situation, Gorco decided to go first to explore the wind, and explained that his men and Atros would continue to maintain the encirclement, and walked through the gate of the racecourse, and went straight to the candlelit building, strangely the door was not locked, and Gorko quietly pushed the door and flashed in.

"God, it's really you, Dejure!"

"Boss Gao, are you here to convince me to be restrained, saying that this place is already surrounded?"

Gorko collided head-on with a heavily armed knight in green clothes, but the armor was slightly different from Gronia's current dog knight, and before Gorko could react, more than a dozen armed swordsmen who looked like a dog knight sprang out of the building that looked like a simple tavern, and surrounded them.

The man in front of him, who looked like a dog knight, was named Dejule Kenrad, forty years old, with a majestic face, short hair, and a thick mustache under his nose. This man was once an elite member of the Atros army, who became the leader of the rebels after the Hydred Incident, and was hired by the Druas to besiege Gronya, but the reason for his presence in the city is still inexplicable.

The first thing he did was to set his swordsmen aside, pull Gorko to sit down at the table, and send a few heavily armed men to guard the door, and talk to Gorco himself.

"Old friend, it's true that the outside is surrounded, but I'm not going to persuade you to surrender, I just want to make sure if you really appear here, and now it seems to be the truth, so what are your intentions in infiltrating the city with Gronia as an enemy?"

After being asked straight by Gorko, Kenrad sneered a few times, changed the tone of the old friend meeting just now, and contemptuously rejected Gorko's question.

"I use the peaceful end of this war as a bargaining chip to offer a deal, but a little person like you doesn't have the capital to negotiate business with me, let Atros come personally. ”

Gorko was momentarily speechless, he didn't know what the deal Kenrad was referring to would affect Gronia, and since the other party wouldn't reveal much about him, he decided to stabilize the other party before the friendly forces moved.

However, Kenrad was not a good negotiator, so he directly let his men control Gorko to prevent the regular army of Gronia from attacking the place from giving the order to attack, but asked his men to write the words 'Ask Atros to come to negotiate' on the door with white paint, and then pushed the side with the words to the outside.

After some time, Gorko saw that his allies had not yet moved, and felt that it was important for him to get out, so he proposed to let himself inform Atros to come here to consult, so that he could take the opportunity to break free from Kenrad's control.

Before Kenrad could make a decision, a heavy oversized sword pierced through the door panel, and the cracked door was kicked open, completely turning into a piece of wood, and a pair of heavy red iron boots stepped in, and the owner of the big sword swung his sword again, and the two swordsmen under Kenrad who were in charge of guarding the door were instantly attacked and slashed to the ground by the overweight big sword.

The person who broke in was wearing a red iron full-body armor similar to that of the Red Lotus Knight, and a frog-beaked helmet with feathers on his head, which seemed to be much heavier than the ordinary Red Lotus Knight's armor, and Gorco naturally knew this person, he was the eldest son of the King of Andorra and an important disciple of Atros in Gronia, Sir Lancelot, who was in charge of the Red Lotus Knights.

"This is really rare, the former Red Lotus Knight Leader and Fan Dog Knight Leader are going to fight!"

Kenrad took his bucket and put it on, quickly picked up the mace and the chain flail and pounced on Lancelot, the moment the two heavyweight knights fought, neither of them took advantage, they collided with each other for a round and then withdrew from each other, Lancelot's big sword could not be used in a small space, and Kenrad seized the opportunity to attack with dual wielding attacks in succession, and finally smashed a blow on Lancelot's chest.

Surprisingly, Lancelot's plate armor was stronger than Kenrad imagined, and the hammer slam did not cause him any damage at all, after ignoring the opponent's attack, Lancelot no longer considered the limitation of the weapon, picked up the big sword and smashed the wall towards Kenrad, and the attack power of the slash with the super large sword was even more terrifying than Okuma's dragon slash, once hit, it could instantly kill the attacker.

Of course, the battle between the two powerhouses could not be ended so easily, and Kenrad rolled at the last moment to dodge the slash, compared to Lancelot, who was heavily armored and over-armed, the lighter armor and abundant physical strength gave him a slight advantage, and when Lancelot's slash missed, he picked up the mace and smashed it at the opponent's head, but unfortunately he couldn't do damage, and the attack was bounced off again.

"Damn, what the hell is your armor made of!"

In fact, this second blow still had an effect on Lancelot, after all, the shock caused by being hit by a heavy weapon while wearing a closed helmet was enough to stun a person, and when Lancelot came to his senses, Kenrad and his men attacked at the same time.

"Dejure, I've come to negotiate according to your wishes, stop it!"

A sword aura appeared from behind Lancelot, and it did not hurt him in heavy armor, but Kenrad's people were once again injured, almost all of them were overturned to the ground and were slightly injured, Kenrad himself was not hurt much, and took a few steps back to take off his helmet, wanting to confirm whether the person he was waiting for was really here.

Lancelot stepped aside with his great sword, and Atros's flowing figure appeared behind him, and a hint of fear appeared on Kenrad's face, but he still hid his fear well, pretending that it was not difficult to deal with Lancelot.

"Atros, I'm a little sorry for your nickname, you last apprentice of the 'Wind of Shadowhunting' almost lost his life. ”

Lancelot, who was on the side, disagreed, presumably with very strict training, so he was indifferent to the opponent's provocation, and Atros also came to the room, accompanied by Lemuel, who had been waiting on the periphery.

When Atros calmed Kenrad, Lemuel immediately rescued the trapped Gorko, and Kenrad could only stare at him, after all, the momentum of his former boss forced him not to act rashly.

"I heard that you were looking for me, so I came, it's as simple as that, tell me your purpose. ”

With a look of course, Atros put away his sword after confirming that there was no threat, and asked Kenrad briefly and directly about the purpose of his visit.

"Hmph, yes, I'm here to tell you the true purpose of the Druas invasion of Gronya, after all, this is also my hometown, and you and I should join hands to retreat from the enemy. ”

"Is it not true that your rebels took money to besiege Gronia on behalf of the Druas......? As if you rebels were on par with our regular army, that's enough. ”

"Atros......!"