At this time, in the tense street, a man with a hat and scarf covering his face was hurrying by with a package.

He skillfully used the corners of the wall and the cover of the moving vehicles to bypass the checkpoints and lines. But when passing through the intersection, a patrol of guards came up to them and was knocked into the square. Seeing him suspiciously, the soldiers immediately shouted at him to stop, and at the same time gathered around him.

Unmoved, the man immediately turned and quickened his pace, running in the other direction. Behind him, the guards shouted and drew their swords in their hands and chased after them. Turning the corner, he leaped up to the wall with agility and landed silently on the other side. Moments later, the pursuing guards ran past.

It was a long time before he climbed back from behind the wall, looked around, lowered his hat, and walked briskly deeper into the alley.

Coming to an old abandoned inn somewhere, the man turned back and carefully checked that there was no tail, came to the door and tapped it three times. Then he said a secret signal through the crack in the door, and the door was opened. He quickly entered, and the door was slammed shut again.

In the basement of the inn, Pullman unbuttoned his hat and scarf and unwrapped it on the table, revealing a few healing runes and some herbs. In the situation of chaos and martial law everywhere, this is the limit of what can be achieved, and it has already taken a great risk.

Pullman poured the herbs into the cauldron and asked the other warriors, "Isn't little Martha awake yet?" ”

The warriors sighed and shook their heads.

Two days ago, after reuniting with the guards, Pullman, who had rescued Marisa, was temporarily in hiding due to curfew, unable to leave the city. They were originally going to evacuate the next day disguised as a caravan, but due to the stricter martial law soon enforced throughout the city, all roads out of the city were blocked, and they were finally trapped in the city.

Marissa is badly injured and can no longer withstand the bumps and dangers of forcing her way into the card. Pullman thinks about it and leads his team into the slums in disguise, hiding in the cellar of an old inn that was once a secret home for the former beggars. As soon as he settled down, he went out to find medicine, because magic healing could never replace real medicine, and it was easy to convert the victim into a demonic addiction.

That night, under the cruel cruelty of the mad nun, the young girl almost broke one of her ankles, and half of her ribs were broken, and the broken bones were inserted into her lungs. Although the trauma was urgently healed with healing runes, he remained in a coma and had a high fever for two days.

The hall master Marissa is quite popular among the rebels, and the soldiers are so angry that they can't wait to avenge her immediately.

One of the fighters clenched his fists in anger and said, "That half-human, half-machine madwoman, it's a pity that the deputy gang leader in Xishan didn't listen to Keith's words, and killed her with one shot, taking the life of a comrade in vain." Now that the hall master has been injured like this again, it's time to settle these two blood debts! ”

The other fighters agreed, and Captain Pullman advised, "Calm down, now that we are behind enemy lines, the limelight is very tight outside, let alone action, it is not easy to go out." Besides, our first priority is to get Martha back, and when she gets better, we'll find a way to leave. ”

Pullman said as he shared the information he had found outside.

During the few days of lurking, because the outside guards were hunting for people who might be the eyes of the rebels, in order to reduce the target, Pullman asked the other team members to guard Marisa and went out alone; On the one hand, he engaged in medicine, and on the other hand, he investigated the enemy's situation by the way.

The enemy has a large number of troops, but Pullman is not an ordinary person, relying on excellent skills and soldiers to resolve several crises without blood, and also roughly understand the deployment of the guards. In addition, he encountered a strange thing.

During his scoutings, he repeatedly saw guards and men who appeared to be engineering mages digging deep holes all over town. Although these people are on their own turf, they are sneaky and haunt at night. Divided into many squads, working at the same time, they buried a metal cast, with runes on it and hedrons on it, and it was obviously some kind of magic artifact deep underground, I don't know what it was used for.

Even if he was very strong, Pullman could not stay under the noses of his enemies for too long. Because Marisa's injury was serious, he didn't have time to take a closer look, so he withdrew with the medicine.

After applying the medicine and runes to Marisa, Pullman gathered his team and discussed how to contact headquarters.

There is a camouflaged communication orb on the roof of the Foothold Inn, but the current situation is tense, and the officers and soldiers must be listening to the communication channel. If you use it blatantly, it is likely that the location will be exposed, so you can only choose a more secure way.

Fortunately, when Oster took over the Nanchuan stronghold and the Artists' Guild, he had transformed the Magic Courier and mixed it with the Beast's Eye magic to create a slower but secure means of communication for the Rebels' confidential communications.

Pullman finds an opportunity and releases the magic messenger disguised as a pigeon. The messenger carries a message informing the headquarters that Marissa has been safely saved.

Half a day later, the rebel headquarters at the crossroads. Skar, who had been attacking for several days because of this matter, received the news and breathed a sigh of relief and immediately called Modias.

The commander-in-chief of the former enemy had already made all preparations, and at the sound of an order, all units immediately moved. In the bleak autumn wind, magic pierced the sky, and cannon fire rang out to the sky. With the neighing of war horses and the roar of the harvesting puppet engine, the tide of rebel soldiers rushed to the well-guarded official positions, and the Armageddon of the Montenegrin Uprising officially began.

However, despite the full preparations, fire coverage and feints, the siege did not go well from the start.

As the third-largest town in the Western Wilderness after Moonstream and Sentinel Ridge, Black Mountain is simply too big and fortified. The garrison of the county government concentrated almost the entire county of guards and a large number of remnants of the Crossroads Corps, which were numerous, densely fortified, and had ample ammunition and supplies. The rebels had no previous experience attacking large towns, lacked heavy assault weapons, and were not skilled in cavalry and puppet harvesting tactics, as well as fighting in walls and streets.

Relying on trenches and bunkers, officers and soldiers can effectively evade a wide range of magical bombardments, and can be reinforced, any location under attack. The rebel attacking force was relatively smooth on the periphery, but once it broke into the city and entered the street fighting, it was suppressed by enemy magic and firepower.

Modias changed the attack breakthrough several times, but failed to effectively kill the enemy's forces. Attacking troops often struggle to break through a position, and then face the next few lines of defense in depth, not to mention the loss of troops, and have to retreat. After a day and a night of fierce fighting, the rebels advanced slowly and suffered heavy casualties.

After repeated observations, Modias reported to the headquarters, saying that the defenders' preparations and strength were far beyond estimates, and that the assault should be postponed. According to the reconnaissance of the front-line sentinels, it was found that there were still several supply lines in the north of Black Mountain Town, and they could receive a steady stream of support from the northern knight territory.

The commander-in-chief suggested a change in the strategy of attack, a wide mobilization of militia forces, and a total encirclement of the town of Montenegro. As long as the supply lines and water sources are cut off, and the siege is not fought, after a few weeks at most, even if the defenders have enough troops, weapons and ammunition, they will run out of food and water. At that time, even if they use magic to make water and food, the reserves of magic powder will not last long, and the defenders who are running out of food will soon collapse.

Modias' suggestion was adopted by Headquarters after an urgent study. However, the only weakness of this method of warfare was that it took time, and at about the same time, Skar received another report of battle from the southern border of Montenegro, and a worse news came;

Because the big man from Stormwind City was sitting in Sentinel Ridge to supervise the battle, the great lord Grian Stallman, who had been secretly in contact with Skal and planned to stay still, finally couldn't resist the pressure and ordered troops to support the Black Mountain County Government. The Sentinel Fortress Corps and the Western Prefecture Security Force have already arrived at the border, waiting for the Moon Creek Corps stationed on the Gold Coast to converge.

Skar's worst fears had already happened, and the rebels were now unable to withstand the blows of the two regular legions. In particular, the Yuexi Corps, as one of the top ten trump cards of the kingdom, had just been withdrawn from the northern front line and was equipped with a large number of over-specification combat weapons used by the expeditionary force. Not only is there a mix of court archmages who are allowed to use forbidden arts, but it is also equipped with two flying carriers and hundreds of attack gyroplanes. The elite troops of the epic military rank are not at all something that ordinary troops can compete with.

The frontal attack was unfavorable, and the rear was again trapped. Once the main force of the state capital army is assembled, the rebel army will face a desperate situation of being attacked on the back of the enemy.