Chapter 823: Holy Leaf City
This time, Gervais was going to take an unprecedented number of people with him, more than 6,000 people.
Among them, there are 2,000 direct guards, and they are the most elite 1,000 people led by Gandalf.
and a thousand men led by Oderri who were later recruited and trained.
In addition to that, there are the 3,000 native sea tribes that Gervais brought with him from Fort Saint Bridge.
Although the overall strength of his subordinates was still not comparable to that of other holy cities, in general, this was the largest number of troops in Gervais's previous expeditions.
In addition to these 5,000 people, the rest is the air power and the mage team, the medical team, and the logistics team.
"Oh well! Gervais, you have to be careful! Sister Caroline and I will be waiting for you to come back! ”
Lolita heard that her thousand sea tribes were so important, so she no longer insisted that Gervais bring them.
Then, like Caroline, he said the words that were waiting for him in St. Ann's.
"Don't worry! With such a beautiful wife of yours, I will definitely come back soon! ”
is the so-called red face is easy to age, and now Gervais has a lot of wives in his family, he is no longer the single dog he was at the beginning, so he will naturally be more life-sparing and more concerned about his 'home'.
With that, Gervais pulled his hands out of their arms, and then stroked their cheeks.
"That's it! It's almost time! ”
Kiss!
Kiss!
"Gervais, we're waiting for you!"
The two also knew that they couldn't delay Gervais's business, so they obediently kissed Gervais on the cheek and then stepped aside!
After the two girls retreated, Anna's little maid obediently handed over Gervais's helmet.
Gervais took a deep breath, pressed the sword at his waist with his left hand, and walked towards the temple gate with his helmet in his right hand.
"I've seen His Majesty!"
"I've seen His Majesty!"
When Gervais strode straight outside the temple gate, a deafening greeting immediately sounded in the square outside the temple.
At this time, I saw that colorful flags were fluttering in the square in front of the temple, and thousands of soldiers were neatly arranged.
The soldiers were uniformly dressed in black armor.
This black armor was processed by Gvester to the dwarves, and the black armor can not only condense a thicker momentum, but also increase concealment.
Now the other holy cities in the Holy Continent are equipped with silver shining silver armor, which is easy to expose if it is marching at night.
"Get up!"
In the face of this huge greeting, watching the uniform movements of thousands of soldiers, the pride in Gervais's heart suddenly appeared, and he smiled and asked everyone to get up.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The soldiers immediately stood up and stood neatly again waiting for Gervais's lecture.
"Today, I will take you on an expedition, and under my leadership, Stormwind City will surely rise, and Eurasia will surely prosper!"
"And you will be my sharpest sword! When I repel all my enemies, it will be the time for you to be glorified! ”
"Rise! Rise! ”
"Rise! Rise! ”
When Gervais's brief words fell, the soldiers below immediately swung their fists and hammered their chest armor and shouted loudly!
"Excellent! For the rise of Stormwind, for triumph! Dry! ”
At this time, Icke, who was beside Gervais, quickly handed over a silver cup, which contained the Hellfire Wine!
"!"
The soldiers below also picked up the wooden bowls that had been prepared from their feet.
These wooden bowls are not filled with hell fire, but dwarven fire.
The next moment, thousands of people in the square raised their bowls and drank the dwarven fire wine in it!
Boom!
"Now, let's go!"
The spirits of the Gervais soldiers were very satisfied, and they immediately raised their long swords and gave an order to all the soldiers in the square.
This kind of drinking expedition is naturally not available in this Western world, but it is specially arranged by Gervais in order to increase the sense of ceremony.
Now it seems that the effect is very good, at least it is a great boost to the morale of the expedition.
Then the soldiers immediately went into motion.
The first to move was Gervais's Monster Squad, led by Gandalf as the striker.
Then there was the rest of the immediate guards plus 3,000 native soldiers of the Sea Clan.
When the native Sea Clan soldiers left the square, it was three hundred and fifty magic teams and one hundred and thirty medical teams.
Seeing that his subordinates were almost gone, Gervais also looked behind him with his sword sheathed, while Caroline and Lolita were hiding in the door and staring at him.
Gervais didn't say anything more, just nodded to the two of them and walked down the steps.
After descending the steps, Gervais rode directly to the city gate on the giant crocodile brother.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty!"
As Gervais walked forward, the crowds of people from Eurasia in the streets bowed down and saluted Gervais.
Gervais smiled and nodded.
A few minutes later, the group passed through the city gates and came to the outside of St. Ann's City.
At this time, Gervais took one last look at St. Ann's City, and walked towards the front of the group without looking back.
……
Tap! Tap!
On a wide dirt road, lined with trees, a team of black-clad soldiers marched rapidly.
The march was unified, and there was no loud conversation in the procession.
Gervais and his party had been away from St. Ann's for three days.
Before he set out, he had sent people to the front line here, and the hinterland of the natives was three hundred miles away from the nearest city of St. Ann's.
The city is not very large, and it is tentatively estimated that there are 30,000 to 40,000 natives, which is not as good as St. Ann's City.
Of course, with Gervais's current strength, he is actually still on the weak side compared to others.
However, Gervais has a squadron of mages and siege weapons from the Sea Clan.
So now Gervais is full of confidence in capturing such a small city.
Crash!
As Gervais and the others were marching, a dragon bird in charge of scouting ahead fell from the sky.
"Your Majesty, ten miles ahead is the indigenous city! At present, the gates of the city are closed, and the walls are guarded by indigenous soldiers! ”
"No other enemy troops have been found around the city!"
As soon as the guard in charge of spying on the military intelligence landed, he reported the situation to Gervais!
"Excellent! Keep exploring! ”
Gervais nodded, ten miles away, it only takes more than half an hour for them to arrive!
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
The guard answered, and then jumped on the Rapid Dragon Bird and flew straight into the sky again.
"Ike!"
After the guard left, Gervais shouted to Ike, who was riding his horse behind him.
"The subordinates are here!"
"Let everyone rest and eat lunch at once, and we'll be off in twenty minutes! When the time comes, we'll start attacking the city! ”
Gervais commanded Ike.
"Yes! Your Majesty! ”
Ike immediately responded, and then instructed Alec and several other guards.
"Pass Your Majesty's order, rest and eat in place, and set off immediately in twenty minutes! When you arrive at the Native City, you will immediately attack the city! ”
"Yes!"
With Ike's message, Alec and the others immediately rode their horses and began to run towards the back of the team.
This time, Gervais's team of 6,000 people traveled for more than two miles on the avenue.
Therefore, in addition to the horn, the current way of heralding is to ask the guards to act as the herald and run to tell each other.
As Acrylic and the others rode to the rear to convey Gervais's orders, the whole team gradually stopped, and the soldiers came to the shade of the trees on both sides of the road in an orderly manner and began to light fires and eat.
After about twenty minutes, the team finished repairing on time, and with the order of Gervais, the taxi began the journey again.
……
Dangdang!
Half an hour later, the alarm bell in the indigenous city of Shengye City rang out, and a team of divine servants began to climb the city wall with weapons.
"Priest Jenny!"
"Priest Jenny!"
Jenny, the priestess of the Holy Leaf City, also came to the city wall after hearing the alarm bell, and the divine servants and guards on both sides of the city wall saluted respectfully when they saw it!
"Gallaher! How's it going, did this team come from St. Ann's? ”
Jenny came directly to the commander of the Holy Leaf City who was in charge of leading the three thousand divine servant guards, and asked.
"Yes, Priestess Jenny, this band of invaders is coming from the south!"
The Commander Gallaher replied immediately!
"This time there are a lot more people than Priest Di Lia said, last time when Priest Di Lia was defeated, but it was said that there were only more than 500 invaders!"
Jenny looked at the number of troops outside the city that were twice as large as her side, and she was worried.
The last time the priest of St. Ann's City had evacuated, Delia had already informed them of the information about the invaders.
They have not dared to relax for a moment in the past few months, and today they finally waited for the enemy, but the number of enemies was a little more than expected.
"Priest Jenny, don't worry, these intruders look like there are a lot of people, but I have observed that their strength is not strong, and there are only a thousand golden knights!"
"And our side has already transferred support from the main temple, although the number is only three thousand, but it is three thousand golden knights!"
Gallaher was not worried about the enemies outside the city, but instead comforted Jenny.
"And last time, Priest Delia also said that this group of invaders is their leader who is stronger, and then has a strange means of luring demonic beasts!"
"This time, as long as we strictly guard the city, and don't go out of the city on our own like St. Ann's City, these invaders will never return!"
"Then please, Commander Gallaher, if this invader is defeated, I will definitely ask the main temple for you!"
When Jenny saw Gallaher's confidence, she relaxed a lot and encouraged him.
"Yes, Priest Jenny!"
Gallaher was immediately excited when he heard Jenny's words, and then looked at the army of invaders of more than 6,000 people outside the city.
"Come on! We will not be as inferior as St. Ann's, and no matter how clever you cunning invaders may be, we will not leave the city! ”
……
While Gallaher was excitedly waiting for Gervais to step forward to provoke, Gervais began to arrange his troops.
Except for the logistics team and the medical team, the rest of the soldiers have already set up a formation, just waiting for Gervais to give the order to start the siege!
And Gervais naturally won't step forward to provoke and scold this time.
Last time, it was because he was short of troops, and there were thousands of elite pursuits from the Golden Shield family behind his butt, so he had to make this strategy to lure the divine servants of St. Ann's City out of the city.
And this time, Gervais came with so many men, and he was ready to have a dignified siege battle.
Seeing that the soldiers were almost lined up, Gervais nodded to the herald beside him.
When the herald saw Gervais's signal, he immediately ran to the front of the large horn, and then put his mouth up.
Whining!
As the herald puffed out his cheeks and blew hard, the melodious sound of the horn immediately spread throughout the Holy Leaf City.
"Everyone obey the order, aim at the enemy's city crossbow, time one minute, ready to shoot!"
With a team of fifty people, Ike had already arrived five hundred meters from Shengye City, and when he heard the sound of the horn, he immediately began to urge the soldiers to adjust the angle of the fort.
"Huh? Aren't you ready to make a provocation? ”
Gallaher was a little strange to hear the horns outside the city, and the intruders who were constantly stirring up something a few hundred meters away.
This is a little different from what Delia said at the beginning, the cunning of the invaders.
"However, it's better if you choose to attack directly, it will save you a waste of time, if you are solved this time, the merit you get should be enough for me to transfer back to the main temple to continue cultivating!"
Gallaher thought to himself, and then turned his head to look at the subordinate beside him.
"Can the bed crossbow shoot the dozens of intruders at the front now?"
Gallaher watched the fifty or so people slowly pounding around there, a little uncomfortable, feeling that it was a provocation to himself, so he wanted to use a ballista to give them a good look!
But it's a pity that the distance of five hundred meters is something that Gervais has long verified, and the bed crossbow on the walls of such a small city can't hit at all.
"Lord Commander, those invaders are at least four hundred and fifty meters away from the city wall, and our bed crossbows will not be able to shoot at all, unless they go another hundred meters!"
"Okay! Then wait until they start attacking! ”
Gallah was a little disappointed and could only continue to wait patiently until he got up.
However, he didn't know that the dozens of bed crossbows on his city wall would probably cease to exist in a while.
Whining!
A minute had passed, and a short trumpet sounded again outside the walls.
"Fire!"
As the trumpets fell, Gallah faintly heard shouts coming from outside the city.
Boom Boom!
Just when he didn't know what the word cannon meant, a loud explosion suddenly came from outside the city.
The explosion was untouchable, and Gallah couldn't help but shudder.
"Bastard, what is this......"
Bang bang bang!
Ahhh
Gallaher was frightened and wanted to curse, but the next moment the muffled sounds and screams in his ears interrupted his thoughts.
I saw that the bricks and wood chips on the city wall were suddenly splashed, and with the sound of screams, several divine servants were instantly beaten by something and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.
"What is this black ball, it's not good, the bed crossbow ......!"
Looking at the scene on the city wall, especially the five or six bed crossbows on the city wall, Gallaher's face changed greatly, and his heart was undoubtedly distressed!
It's just that what makes him feel distressed is still to come!
Just over thirty seconds later, there was another rumbling sound outside the city.
Boom Boom!
Bang bang bang!
With the second round of shelling, the bed crossbows on the city wall lost seven or eight again, directly destroying two-thirds of the bed crossbows on this section of the city wall.
Woooooo
And as the bed crossbow was almost destroyed, an even louder trumpet sound was heard outside the city.
This is Gervais ordering the attack!