Although Paulair is a port city, the civilian port and tourist beaches are not only unprotected, but are isolated from high walls. Therefore, even if the enemy fleet occupied the port and beach under the artillery fire of the city walls for landing operations, the ground forces without the corresponding bulky siege equipment would not be able to invade the city.

Outside the military port, there is a thick wall as a protection, and there is only an iron gate for passage. This wall-like bunker is equipped with many magic crystal cannons and strong fortifications, and a large number of soldiers are stationed at all times, which can not only bombard the enemy fleet but also protect the military port from being captured by the enemy - of course, this is prepared for the defeat of the fleet or the surprise attack of the enemy, but because of the strength of the Birea Empire's navy, everyone is afraid to make a mistake, these antique-level defensive measures have never come in handy.

Maybe you can open meat for the first time today?

However, for the civilians in Paulais City, no matter how strong the defense of the military port is, even if it is at the fortress level, it still can't stop the inner uneasiness. The enemy appeared around the city, threatening their safety at all times, and it was even possible to land and try to take the city...... Knowing this is enough to make ordinary people panic.

Because Li Huayin took the initiative to jump out to maintain order, Jebutan and his party finally failed to leave Baolai before the city's martial law prohibited entry and exit, and they were placed in the square in the center of the city along with the rest of the people. There were so many outsiders - sailors, tourists, mercenaries, adventurers, etc. - that all the public buildings such as churches could not be accommodated, and the city guards had to camp them in the open air. The huge square is now densely packed with countless tents. It's a standard refugee camp.

This kind of treatment naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many nobles who came to visit, such as the green-haired young man in luxurious clothes who stopped a group of soldiers who were distributing food and water to the people not far away, and was angry at their squad leader.

"You are not allowed to leave the city without permission, you can only live in a kennel, and you are provided with such hard bread and water that is hard to swallow, which is even more outrageous. You can't guarantee how long this situation will last!?" The man's voice attracted the attention of many people, and also made the team leader on the other side frown, but he still didn't mean to stop there, "That's it, it's an extraordinary time. But if you treat a nobleman like me the same as the commoners next to you, won't your brains be broken? Change me to a more suitable place, now, immediately, immediately!"

Chasi, who was sitting in a circle with his friends, couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this: "At this time, an empty title of nobility with a name will not play any role. It only makes the military more disgusted. However, Mr. Glion, your identity can be taken seriously by the military, and it is not impossible to even escort you out of the city. Why did you choose to stay?"

Jebutan smiled bitterly and glanced at Li Huayin, who was biting the bread with excitement and excitement on his face. showed a helpless expression.

Obviously, the red-haired girl does not intend to leave;

After using body language to make the aristocratic children who sprayed their faces realize who was the boss of the place now, the team leader slowly wiped his face and stepped on the face of someone who was foaming on the ground, and said loudly to the people in the area he was responsible for: "I won't say more nonsense." You have more or less guessed what the situation is now. That's right. The enemy has come to the vicinity of the city. We don't know exactly what's going on on the front lines, but as soldiers, we have a responsibility to protect your personal safety. As long as there is one person left in the city, you will not be harmed, and I can swear by the honor of all the soldiers in the city! But to be honest, due to the continuous sending of reinforcements to the front line these days, the strength of the city is somewhat insufficient, so we are ready to recruit some volunteers from the private sector to participate in the defense operation. How's that, is there anybody?"

Li Huayin was about to stand up and raise his hand. But he was pulled by Yue Ge next to him, and shook his head lightly at the former who was full of inexplicability, and whispered: "Wait first." ”

After the squad leader uttered the last two sentences. The people, who had been a little noisy, immediately fell silent. The air was dreary and almost suffocating.

Avoiding danger is an instinctive reaction. Compared to the front of life and death, most people would rather hide in the back and comfortably nibble on bread with water. And when everyone around them is silent, even those who have volunteered are not able to speak up in this atmosphere, and it naturally evolves into the current situation.

"Obviously, whatever happens to the fleet at the front, at least the battle near Paulais is certainly not very good - otherwise the army will not be able to recruit men from among the civilians. Just as the captain of the squad who was adding his hand to the forehead sighed helplessly, Chassi, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly said leisurely. Her voice was not loud, but because of the silence around her, everyone could hear what the girl was saying.

"But the situation is not so bad as to be desperate, and if that were the case, the army would have forcibly pulled the men directly from the population, rather than recruiting volunteers. Under everyone's gaze, the beautiful silver-haired girl stretched out her index finger and gently wrapped her index finger around the hair hanging down from her ear to her shoulders and continued to analyze herself, "And it is obviously the current state of the great enemy, but the city defense army of Baolai still orderly first placed a large number of civilians. That is, the size of the enemy force is not large, or there are not many troops that they can use to land. The army could have used the time when the garrison fleet was blocking the attack to settle the civilians instead of going to the city to prepare for battle...... What's the matter, Sun Xiang, why are you pulling my clothes?"

Chassi, who came back to his senses, faced the countless pairs of shining kryptonite dog eyes around him who stared straight at him, couldn't help but half-cover his cherry lips and screamed, busy and red, and hid behind his lover with a red face - suddenly blinded the dogs.

Before her friend received more and more enthusiastic onlookers, Li Huayin decisively stood up and took over the conversation: "Well, all in all, we still have the strength to fight?"

Chasi is obviously deliberately selling cuteness. When she heard this, she quickly said seriously: "Yes." The battle situation on the front line may indeed be very serious, but the fact that the city of Pauli has been sending reinforcements all these days shows that Alysia and they are not completely defeated; Judging from the fact that a small force of the enemy suddenly appeared near the port city without warning, Alicia must have entered a stalemate with the main force of the other side, and in order to break the status quo, the enemy had to send troops to attack our rear! If we lose the city here, it will make Alicia fall into great passivity. Because it was a small-scale sneak attack, the enemy's forces were not very strong, and we could fight at all. ”

"So even if the enemy has an absolute advantage, you have to defend it to the death, right?" Li Huayin said, taking out his two one-handed swords from the luggage placed in the tent, grinning casually, "What's more, the other party is still taking this kind of indiscriminate sneak attack. In order not to distract little Ellie, we have no reason not to fight. Hey, Uncle Captain over there, the volunteers count me as one!"

"Who's the uncle!? I'm just a little more mature. Hey, hey, a young man who is just 23 years old this year and is going to marry his girlfriend during the New Year!"

"Is it really okay to blatantly erect a death flag before a battle like this?"

"I don't want to know who it was for!" the squad leader even had the thought of tearing off his sword and slamming it on the ground, and then suddenly came back to his senses and said in astonishment, "Wait a minute, the Alicia you just talked about." Could it be...... Her Majesty?"

"Of course. Li Huayin said nonchalantly while hanging the weapon around his waist. "In addition to the queen of the Birea Empire, the blonde Lolisi who can lead the coalition fleet and fight with the Dark Empire can also play daily shows, welfare, and festival exercises, and by the way, there is no second one on the continent that can be found on the continent of a certain queen (divine beast)palace man?"

"Are you acquaintances with Her Majesty, and did you just get into something strange!?"

"Don't worry about the details. Li Huayin waved her hand casually as everyone stared at her in a cold sweat, "Besides, we are not acquaintances with Alicia, we are just very ordinary classmates in the Garden of Hope who responded to her call to fight. As she said in her previous recruitment advertisement, we are not cowardly goblins, and we are willing and capable of fighting the enemy. Therefore, at this critical moment, we dare to take the initiative to stand up!"

"I always feel like I've been caught up in the words that mobilized my morale just now......" Chasi couldn't help but cover his face and sweat when he saw this. "Ahh Sun Xiang, Moon Song. Shall we go with us?"

Nod.

"Is it possible that all of you are ......"

"We're just classmates of some little queen in the Garden of Hope. The four of them looked at each other and replied in unison.

Maybe it was because someone took the lead, maybe it was just inspiration, or maybe it was because these four people thought of what Alysia felt she should do at this moment after she had gone on a long expedition to protect the Western Continent, and the nearby mercenaries, adventurers, and even nobles trained in combat skills stood up and asked to participate in the defense. Something called courage, glory and hope has returned to people's hearts.

"Good. Even the squad leader himself couldn't help but ignite his blood, grinning loudly, "The others obediently follow the instructions of the soldiers left behind to stay here. And you, come with me to the walls and give the uninvited guests a little color!"

――――――――――――――――――――I am the dividing line of the city wall――――――――――――――――

When Li Huayin and the others stood still at the head of the city, many small black dots appeared on the distant sea level. From time to time, those small black dots burst out with a faint colored light, and you won't notice it if you don't look closely.

"It's our fleet. Chasi looked at it for a moment and said, "We are engaged in a battle with the enemy, but we don't know what kind of situation we are in if we are too far away." ”

In order to prevent volunteers who had never received military training from acting on their own and disrupting cooperation, the army scattered them and distributed them evenly among the lower ranks. Originally, Li Huayin and the others were no exception, but after the team leader who brought them here reported to the commander the particularity of a few people, they did not do so, but directly merged into the team of the team leader - since they were classmates in the same school, the cooperation between them was naturally stronger than others. And a combination of a warrior, an archer, and two mages with a heavy attack. Under the cover of regular troops, maybe unexpected results can be achieved?

By the way, the two and the two personal guards who followed Jebutan's order to protect Li Huayin were sadly assigned to other teams......

As the captain of the ten soldiers, the prospective groom, who was called the uncle by Li Huayin, first arranged tasks for his subordinates, and then walked to the vicinity of the four of them and raised his hand to greet, "Yo." How do you feel, are you nervous? After all, this is not a trial, and it is inevitable that you will be nervous. But don't worry, as long as you keep a normal mind. ”

Li Huayin, who was standing in the front row, immediately shook his head indifferently: "No, I dare to guarantee that none of us felt nervous." Compared to the big scenes experienced by Alicia's side before, this one in front of me can only be regarded as a playhouse. ”

"Yes, you are indeed your companions who fought with Her Majesty. The team leader couldn't help but say with an exclamation expression. "With you people who have witnessed the legend with my own eyes, I feel a lot more relieved. Her Majesty is still fighting on the front lines of the far seas, and we can't afford to lose her face here!"

“...... Although I would love to respond loudly to your encouragement. Chasi said as he covered his forehead and sweated violently, "But every time I think of Elicia's usual appearance, I always think that even if I lose her face, it doesn't matter, because she doesn't have the word cheek in her dictionary!"

"Uh, may I ask what kind of curious image Her Majesty usually has?"

Hearing this, Li Huayin patted the squad leader's shoulder and smiled with an old-fashioned face: "Uncle." There are some things in this world that you still don't need to know to get longer?"

"Thank you for successfully lowering my SAN value. Also, don't call me uncle!, you red-haired girl, you definitely mean it, right, hey!?" The angry team leader pinched Li Huayin's cheek and pulled hard.

Just when Chasi hesitated whether he should step forward with Sun Xiang beside him to separate the two of them in his daily life. Yue Ge, who had been observing the distance, suddenly spoke: "I can see clearly." ”

Everyone hurriedly turned their gaze away, and then showed stunned expressions.

From the time the alarm bell sounded in Baolai City, everyone had already guessed that the stationed fleet basically could not stop the invading enemy, so they had enough psychological preparation for the fact that the fleet was retreating and firing cannons. What really surprised everyone was that when they went out, there were more than a dozen old warships, and when they came back, there were not even a single scratch on their armor plates, as if they were not going out for a battle but just going out for a ride.

What's going on, are all the weapons on the enemy's warships cosplayable electric toys? Something appeared again on the horizon. They were obviously much larger than battleships, and they weren't slow. Let the colorful magic crystal cannonballs smash on the oval's body, and be indifferent.

"Those are definitely not battleships. Chasi was very affirmative, "It doesn't look like it just by looking like it." ”

"Giant tentacle monsters?" Yue Ge suddenly answered for no reason.

The silver-haired girl who was choked to death by this divine word worked hard to clean her airways, and then casually twisted Sun Xiang's arm, who was obviously caught in some strange fantasy after hearing the lines of the High Elves: "What are you imagining wildly, hey!(Turning to Moon Song) What, haven't you really gotten any strange books from Alicia recently?"

Shake one’s head.

"Don't be routine. Li Huayin interrupted without looking back, "Although I'm not sure if it's really a giant tentacle monster, it's already certain that those things are demonic beasts." You see, that silvery-white carapace clearly belongs to a living being. ”

"Ah, indeed. The team leader next to him nodded after taking a closer look, and then changed to a puzzled expression on his face, "But why is it a demonic beast, could it be that the enemy plans to let the demonic beasts in the ocean go ashore to attack the city? ”

Rao is Chasi couldn't help scratching his scalp in the face of this kind of problem: "I don't know." Maybe the other side is just here to scare us? well, no, it's even more unlikely. Only a complete capture of a city can have a sufficient deterrent and intimidation effect on the entire Western Continent, and it is definitely not possible to just go around the vicinity twice. ”

Without giving everyone much time to think about it, the monster quickly entered the range of the magic crystal cannon placed on the city wall during the high-speed movement. Although the fleet tried to lure them to a more fortified military port, the other side did not accept this at all, and only focused on the bustling city in front of them. After seeing this situation, the commander-in-chief of the city immediately gave the order to open the cannon.

Compared to warships, the caliber of the magic crystal cannon on the city wall is much more powerful. With just one salvo, the carapace of the demonic beast that rushed to the front was torn apart, and countless bright red liquids and debris rushed out on the spot, scattering them into the air one after another.

Its activities also stopped immediately - just as the officers breathed a sigh of relief and the ordinary soldiers and volunteers cheered, from the body of the monster that seemed to have been bento, and several large openings suddenly appeared, and a dense crowd of silver-white monsters the size of a man suddenly appeared, either spreading their wings and flying into the sky, or flicking their tails into the water, and rushing towards the beach.

It turns out that those monsters that are too big to go ashore are actually only troop carriers, and the real siege troops are all hidden in their stomachs!

The faces of the warriors standing on the city wall suddenly turned green. (To be continued.) )