Zhu Wenkui's expectations were not wrong. Seeing that he had not agreed, the other side began to act again. The knights drove the Greeks and surrounded the house on all sides again.

"Your answer looks like a provocation." Little Jeanne was still a little unwilling: "I'll tell you." ”

"Then you can try." Zhu Wenkui did not object: "If we can really negotiate and let them withdraw from the siege, we can discuss anything on our side." Everybody listens to you. ”

"Huh?" Seeing him talk so well, Jeanne was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, she decided to give it a try.

She came to the wall with her waist and shouted, "Mother, mother, I am Jeanne!" I'm fine, don't worry about me. Can we stop being so tense? Everyone is discouraged, what is there to discuss. ”

However, after waiting for a while, no one on the other side answered, but the sound of digging earth came from behind the wall. Jeanne Jr. shouted several times, but there was no response. In the end, she herself fell silent.

"Young master, I'll take her back." Seeing this, Captain Jeska glanced at her with some sympathy. After talking to Zhu Wenkui, he picked up little Jeanna, pulled a few mine wires, and returned to the back of the base.

"Let her rest. ...... shouldn't have come," Zhu Wenkui muttered, and began to tinker with the earth-shattering thunder in his hand again.

"Okay." Captain Jaska nodded, picking up a pistol as well. "I see those Italians are starting to cut down the walls again, shall we kill a few while they are busy?"

He pointed to the iron hook and wooden stick next to him: "I'll go and see if I can drag out a few more." ”

"No, wait until I get this done." Zhu Wenkui said, holding up the iron-clad explosive in his hand that looked quite heavy.

Captain Jeska nodded.

"I don't know what these Italians are smoking. I thought about it just now, and then I realized, why did they come here? He muttered, too.

"There are a lot of Italian mercenaries here." Zhu Wenkui said: "Europe is not very peaceful, and when a big caravan goes out, it must be defended by bringing people." On our side, Italian merchants have always been the main players in cross-border trade. Although nominally only able to stay at the docks, the docks are not far from here, and there are no people to manage them at all. After this chaos, it is not surprising that their mercenaries came running over. ”

"Not really." Captain Jeska explained: "After the chaos, the Italian merchant group is the most unsafe, right? Although some people are attacking us now, to be honest, if it weren't for this accident, the risk on our side would not have been great, after all, the government is notoriously poor. This kind of place that has no oil and water and is not easy to mess with, it stands to reason that no one is going to die. ”

"But it's different on the Italian side. Everyone knows that they are very rich, and now they are in chaos, and they are sending the guards away - what is this plan? Did the princess and them have an agreement a long time ago? Or have they already secretly prepared more soldiers, and even this 'accident' has their participation? ”

"It has nothing to do with us, does it?" Zhu Wenkui asked.

"It's hard to say." Captain Jeska covered the rope and said, "Don't forget, the last time Constantinople fell, the Italians led the scenes, and the French directly handled it. These people all have criminal records. ”

"This time, Princess Jeanne came from France, and I heard that it was also the help of the Italians. Within the French royal family, there have always been voices of eastward expansion into Italy, and the Italians also support them, wanting to use their help to deal with the forces of the Holy Roman Empire. Anyway, if there is a connection between the two sides, I won't be surprised at all......"

"I'm really idle, and I'm still thinking about the south." Zhu Wenkui said speechlessly: "Have they solved the English in the west?" ”

"Maybe it's because we can't solve the west, so we have to get some compensation from the east, which is better bullied." Captain Jeska guessed.

"Why is the whole world coming to this ......," Zhu Wenkui muttered.

But that's even weirder. According to common sense, a raid on the capital of the Great Qin State would be too risky for them, and there would be no chance of victory, and it would only annoy them. If the Great Qin State is determined to tear its face and interfere, the French will have one more enemy in vain. One Alemanni was enough for them, and if they looked for something like this, they would never be able to gain a foothold in Italy. He analyzed.

"But since ancient times, successful military operations have broken through the 'common sense' of the parties concerned. We really don't know what's going on. Perhaps they decided to woo the closer kingdom of Alemanni in exchange for their acquiescence to Italy? Zhu Wenkui said, shaking his head:

"It's a pity that I'm not a person who is in a position to fight. We are also understaffed, so we can't go and see what is going on in the Italian lair. ”

"I don't know if it's related to the movement on Young Master Guo's side tonight." Captain Jeska said with some confusion, "Fortunately, we have already informed them. If there was any movement, the Romans should have been prepared in advance. ”

"I hope so." Zhu Wenkui also knows that he can't manage so much now.

He picked up a long wooden stick, tied it to the groove on the surface of the earth-shattering thunder, and handed it to Captain Jaska.

"I put the bolt here in the ignition hole." He pointed to the sky-shaking thunder in front of the long pole: "Stretch out the stick, pull this rope, and the bolt will fire at the sky-shaking thunder." Do you know how to use it? ”

"Got it."

Captain Jeska was about to pick him up when the white-bearded veteran next to him reached out and stopped him.

"Command here, I'll go."

Captain Jaska glanced at him, then stopped insisting and turned his head and shouted, "Brother Zerik! Come over here! ”

A young man came running from the west side of the courtyard, and after a few mutters to him, he took off his helmet, revealing the monk's hairstyle, and then took a roughly carved wooden cup from his waist bag, opened the kettle, and filled it full.

Zhu Wenkui recognized that it was some kind of cheap wine, and he didn't know where they bought it from. It's just that the people around the car all showed solemn expressions and stood up straight.

"We don't have time for the whole ceremony." The young monk said, "Do your best, brothers. Heavenly Father is watching us, don't let Him be ashamed. ”

"Heavenly Father is above." Several others chanted.

The monk took a sip and handed them the cup. Everyone followed suit, and soon, everyone in the car drank it and passed it back. The monk took the remaining half cup and muttered for a moment, as if considering the wording.

Zhu Wenkui stretched out his hand and took the cup.

"I'm also a believer in Heavenly Father, so I should have a share here." As he spoke, he took a sip, then raised it to the sky, gestured to the ancestral hall, and finally tilted the cup and poured the rest of the wine on the ground.

"As the heavens and the earth have seen, we have done no unrighteousness today." He muttered: "What the Emperor Taizu has seen, the descendants have not disgraced you. ”

So saying, he returned the empty cup to the monk.

Everyone else looked at him in surprise, and the monk looked curious. He hesitated and asked, "What kind of ritual is this?" ”

"Meaning, whether it is heaven or hell ahead, we all have a clear conscience."

"What about your ancestors? I know the new customs on the Roman side. But we're ...... there."

"My ancestors were also country farmers." Zhu Wenkui said: "However, he defeated the foreign rulers and established a new dynasty. ”

"Then, on our side, we should indeed be able to serve as saints." Brother Zerik thought for a moment, finally sighed and put the cup back.

After the simple ceremony, the veteran Karl jumped out of the car, called out to another person, and brought a wooden barrel over. The two men went behind the wall, and the man grabbed the rope, and Karl stepped on the barrel, held the long pole, raised his hands, and stretched it out from the wall.

Before the enemy outside could react, they jerked on the rope. With a bang, the big iron ball exploded directly in midair.

Immediately there was a scream outside the wall. Carl and his assistant both fell to the ground, and a few pieces of iron, even flying high, fell back into the yard. Captain Jeska immediately led a few people next to him, and under the cover of the smoke and the chaotic crowd, ran to the gap in the wall.

The Italian mercenaries who were originally digging the wall were blown up in a large area. The group of people who were close were killed on the spot, and everyone on standby behind them was injured. A few of the seriously wounded were lying on the ground wailing, while those who could still move were scurrying in panic, and even the thugs and mercenaries who were working hard elsewhere retreated in a panic, even trampling down a few people.

The French knights, who were supervising the battle in the rear, immediately stepped forward and quickly drove back those who instinctively wanted to flee. After cutting down the two wounded soldiers who were running around, the others calmed down a little. A man with a flag shouted at them, urging them to keep working.

Captain Jeska pointed at the man and waved his hand, and the two veterans behind him immediately stepped out of the gap and opened fire on the knight with the flag. The mercenaries who were originally staring at this place were all looking at the chaos ahead, and they didn't pay attention to this place, so the two of them aimed and shot all the time, and knocked down the standard-bearer at one time. Then, the mercenaries exclaimed, and began to shoot arrows in this direction again, and those people were already hiding.

Seeing the flags outside falling, the guards in the courtyard cheered, and the previously oppressive atmosphere dissipated a lot. However, the attackers also recovered quickly.

After losing some of their mercenaries, they simply replaced them with even less valuable Greek thugs and came up to cut down the walls. Although these people began to shake when they walked, under the threat of the sword of the warlord, they had to rush up, bite the bullet, pick up hoes and axes, and try to tear down the wall.

The explosion just now also caused damage to the wall, which was not too strong. Zhu Wenkui quickly made another one, but Captain Jeska estimated it and felt that it was no longer bearable, so he changed direction and detonated it in the northwest corner.

This time, as soon as the long pole was extended, the people below were so frightened that they turned around and ran, so that only a few of the closest ones were killed. The nearby knights immediately came to chase them away, and slashed to death several of the fastest runners, making them crawl back to their places again.

The wounded thugs lay on the ground and screamed, causing panic in the hearts of the people, and the knights of the war did not say a word, but killed several of the wounded on the spot with one sword and one sword. At this time, even the people who were still bleeding on their bodies ran back in a panic, not daring to slack off, but digging up more vigorously.

Now, the pressure on the guards is even greater.

(End of chapter)