After most of the defenders had withdrawn from the walls, the enemy temporarily halted the attack due to the rain, and at an emergency meeting, Julius explained his plan to the crowd......

"As long as they still have fuel bombs, we must not rush to the city wall to garrison, and we must take a single means to destroy the enemy's destructive weapons. ”

A noisy human voice came from outside the canopy, and in the pouring rain, I saw five or six navy soldiers with a large iron ball with a flange each walking into the canopy, and the thick black line on the iron ball was sealed with wax oil, which seemed to be something like a lead.

Julius disbanded the porters, personally pushed the seemingly dangerous orbs in front of us, and did not forget to check for any defects in the quality, before finally handing over the unidentified 'goods' to Shaw.

"These are depth charges used to open underwater tunnels, and this rain is the best cover, and I want to borrow your skills to plant these explosives in the waters below the enemy ships and destroy their hydraulic siege weapons, I don't know what Miss Ogust's wishes. ”

"I can't do such a task, although you say that the rain is the best cover, but my people are not ghosts, nor are they water ghosts, how can they just slip out of the city surrounded by enemies, let alone swim across a moat fifty or sixty meters wide without being detected by the enemy sentinels. ”

She was contrary to her confident attitude in the past, and she did not intend to accept the task rashly without a plan, but now that Sieg and Nabal were not around, she could only pull Polcha to the corner to discuss, but Porcha was also not confident in this situation.

Looking at Shaw's hesitant expression, Julius noticed that he had not been able to express himself clearly. "This tall façade was not originally built for war, but because of the frequent invasions of Gronia when the ambitions of the Western countries grew. The outer walls were transformed into a barrier against enemies, and even now, some of the old remnants of the city are still in operation, such as secret passages that lead directly to the outside of the city. ”

This news changed Shaw's attitude, and she approached Julius to inquire about the details of the city's walls, which had drains and inlets throughout the walls, and that the passages above the water had been temporarily sealed due to the enemy's exploitation. But the many passages under the water were still in operation, enough for Shoy and the Porcha and the Goshawk brethren to carry bombs through Guò once they reached the ring of water outside the city. In the rainstorm, the enemy along the coast will not be able to see the water at a long distance, and it will not be too difficult to sneak.

In this way, Shoey and Julius agreed on a plan, a quarter of an hour later. A dozen of us sat in a crowded dinghy. Accompanied by Shoy and Polcha, four Gronian knights in leather armor, and the experienced sailors of the Goshawk, the towering walls slowed the howling winds of the city, and only the heavy rain poured down on us at intervals through the buildings on either side of the waterway.

It didn't take long for the boatman to row the boat under the city wall, under the water where we were, according to the wall structure diagram. About five meters away, there is a passage leading to the outside of the city, which is cut off by a fence. Shaw got the fence key from Julius.

"Hey, Lemuel. You old seamen are good at water, so take care of moving those bombs, and I'll dive down and unlock the locks first. ”

She brushed her soaked hair, jumped into the water with the key, and gradually disappeared under the rippling water, I did not intend to delay, according to her wishes, came to the center of the dinghy and picked up a bomb, strange to say, it seems to be a very heavy metal ball, but it does not feel cumbersome in her hand, it is estimated that it is only twenty pounds, and a sailor who is proficient in water can carry objects of the same weight underwater.

After the crew was ready, Shoey resurfaced, panting and gradually adjusting his breathing, asking us to dive out of the city immediately, and the sailors who received the order jumped into the water one after another with bombs, and Porcha patted his burdensome armor and reluctantly paddled to the end of the group.

The underwater condition is not bad, Gronia attaches great importance to the ecology, the clean water provides enough view, Shoy swims alone at the front, the others follow her instructions to paddle down, and after diving for a while, the group reaches the entrance to the water built under the city wall.

I put the bomb in my arms at the mouth of the pipe and pushed it forward gradually, and in a few moments I reached a rusty iron gate, where Shoy had already unlocked the lock, and the team adjusted the order at the exit of the passage, and I led the procession forward.

We managed to sneak out of the city, and when most of us couldn't hold it anymore, Xiao Yi motioned for us to float against the outer wall, and a dozen people poked their heads out of the icy river one after another, and just wanted to breathe for a while, when the dense rain came up again.

Porcha, who was not good at water, choked enough underwater, and in the face of the heavy rain on the water, he was helpless for a while, but found that a large number of driftwood fragments were floating not far away.

"Those logs fell from the catapults, right? Maybe you can use ......."

With that, he swam over quickly, cradling a broken catapult rod arm and returning, and the sailors who were carrying the bombs were relieved to manage to attach the bombs to the wooden poles, which they could easily carry without suspicion by pulling the poles from underwater.

Under the cover of the rain, we did not have much difficulty to dive through the enemy's forward cordon, and managed to sneak into the canal under the noses of thousands of soldiers, and the battleship connecting the two groups of siege weapons was anchored not far away.

At this point, I have to admit that the plan of carrying bombs with driftwood is very effective, the Potts are completely unconcerned that this slow-moving wooden pole is approaching their battleship, we surface for the last time to breathe, Shoy decides to divide the troops into two ways, she will lead half of the men to solve the target in the rear line, and Porcha only needs to be responsible for the target in front of him.

Shoey and a group of people dived from the other side, and we also dived underneath, and through the blurred underwater vision, I could see the true face of this weapon a little, it was powered by an advanced water mill device, and through multiple huge gear sets to strengthen the kinetic energy to start the boom arm. In order to achieve the efficiency of continuous projection, but the water mill as a power source is built underwater, which does not conform to its principle.

Of course. The purpose of this trip was not to study this Western weapon, but we swam close to the giant weapon with a few bombs in our hand and set it up, and the two Gronian knights who remained in our group pulled out a long wax seal from the bomb, signaling us to take one of each and detonate it on top of the siege weapon, but the enemy on the two ships could spot us at any time.

Porcha was the first to probe in the water, and slowly climbed to the top of the weapon that floated slightly on the surface of the water in the rain. Taking advantage of the turn of the patrolman on the deck of the battleship on the south side, he took the lead of their respective responsibilities from us, smashed the surface of the wax and set them on fire. The fuse gradually continued to burn without cracking the surface of the wax oil, and the spark gradually went deeper and deeper, and Porcha hurriedly signaled us to move the battleship to the south to prevent it from being affected by the explosion.

At this time. There was a roar under the water between another group of warships, a few tens of meters away. The huge shock wave caused the two ships to shake repeatedly, and the defenders on board were suddenly in disarray, as if Shoey's team had succeeded, and we followed Porcha's movements to climb up from the side of the ship, luckily avoiding the sentry's view, hiding in a hidden place on the deck, waiting for the explosion.

But things didn't go so smoothly, and the bomb seemed to fail at this point. I poked my head out from behind the wooden crates where I was hiding, and the dozen or so defenders on board were attracted by the riots that were taking place in the rear. The military formations on the north shore began to disperse, and the entire coast was put on emergency alert.

Despite the dismay of the failure of the operation, Porcha decided to leave the danger zone to join Shoy first, so he took out the dagger that Shoy had given him and touched it to a few Potts sailors who were still looking into the distance.

He stabbed the throats of the careless men neatly, dragging the bodies to the backlight, and I followed behind him with the others, and Porcha's ability to sneak up on the backstab was also very good, relying on a small dagger and the craftsmen's hammers that were everywhere on the ship, it didn't take much effort to clean up the entire ship's defenders, and let the two knights remove a few sets of heraldic armor and other equipment from the dead and distribute them to the team members who were willing to disguise.

The coat of arms of the Pozzians was a deer's head on a black background, each coat of arms was made of fine workmanship, the burqa was made of fine linen, and the sailors, who had not seen much good things, without saying a word, changed into the enemy's equipment, and according to Porcha's intentions, they searched the crew's private inventory for a while, found some covered helmets, and finally completed the camouflage.

Counting the two Gronian knights, four of us disguised as enemy soldiers, and before I could change my gear, I was attracted by the shouts of the enemy formation, and I slipped out onto the deck in the rain to find that the enemy had blocked the canal with chains, and that not only the Druas on the north bank, but also on the south bank, had begun to search for infiltrators, and the situation was extremely bad.

"When I change my equipment, it's time to leave, otherwise I won't be able to go. ”

I took off my fur coat and put on the chain mail on the ground instead, and fastened my burqa with a belt, and Porcha put the last steel helmet on my head, not forgetting to joke: "You and these dead ghosts are really carved out of the same mold." ”

This time, Porcha did not disguise, he carefully looked out of the cabin to look at both sides, the canal in the torrential rain has been completely blocked by enemy patrols, I am afraid that soon our hiding warship will also face a full search, if we want to leave this place, we must think of a foolproof plan.

"Hey! Lemuel. I have a good idea, come and help me and tie my hands. ”

"What, you're trying to tie yourself up as a gift to let the others go?"

"You've got a slimy head!, in the eyes of the Druya, five dutiful friendly guards have captured the filthy infiltrator and are ready to take him to the base camp for interrogation, do you need any more reason? ”

When I realized that Porcha had hidden a blade in his sleeve, I had already guessed a little of his plan, so I joined the others in tying his hands, and he told us to dismount the dinghy from the boat, and rowed to the south shore to escort ourselves to Druya's camp in the forest, waiting for an escape on the way.

"I don't have much faith in this plan, but now that you're the leader, let's go. ”

We removed his knife from Porcha, along with some other weapons, and together we hooked the dinghy and lowered it to the surface of the water, and descended into the dinghy towards the south bank of the canal...... (To be continued......)