Chapter 654: The Pope's Campaign: Who's the Fisherman
"Ahh As one of the adjudicators armed with a mace was temporarily controlled by the man in black with one hand, he slit his throat with a dagger, and except for the men and horses on the side of the man in black, the rest of the people in the huge religious court, whether they belonged to the religious court or other people, fell to the ground.
"Whew, it's more strenuous than expected, but fortunately, there are your own people outside." Throwing the dagger aside, the black-clothed man who had killed the adjudicator with the mace inserted the dagger back into his waist, crouched down and groped for the man's clothes with the hammer in the hope of finding something, and said to himself.
"No. 7, I don't have a few on my side, but you don't have one on your side." At that moment, a man in a ninja suit with a sword in his hand thrust the knife back into the scabbard on his back, and walked straight up to the man in black who was groping with the adjudicator and asked him.
"Found it, this is it! Here you go, number 4. After finding a key from the adjudicator, the man in black named No. 7 tossed the key to No. 4 and took out a paper bag containing black powder from his backpack behind him, and said to No. 4, "Okay, I'll stay here and plant explosives, you can go find No. 5." There's not much time left for us to open the secret room, by the way, you can take No. 6 with you, and if the last door can't be opened, then blow it up, anyway, we must not let those handles fall into the saint. In Elcott's hands, it won't be long before the guys on the other side of the Cathedral of Light will notice that something is wrong outside. ”
"Okay."
At this time, the Midtown of the Holy Light City (the Holy Light City is similar to the City of London in terms of urban differentiation, mainly divided into the outer city, the middle city, the inner city and the core area, of course, the barracks area of the Holy Light City is in the middle city, in addition to the inner city has an area called the religious district, and as the core area of the Holy Light City, it is not called the Imperial City. Rather, it is called the pilgrimage area), and the commercial and barracks districts, which should have been in serious peace on the day of the papal election, are now in chaos.
......In the clash between the battle axe and the axe, the mace and the steel shield, the Sunset Michael mercenaries wearing light sleeveless chain armor made full use of the powerful lethality of the combination of terrain, hand axes, and old Mo forged crossbows, and the guards of the Holy Light City, the cathar warriors and the foot knights who were too late to react were caught off guard.
Although the Knights and Warriors of the Cathar are excellent front-line troops, and can even compete with elite troops to a certain extent, this cannot prevent them from retreating here, as for the reason is actually very simple, first of all, they are engaged with the enemy in the case of a surprise attack, and they themselves are taken advantage of by the enemy at the beginning of the battle.
And secondly, because it was a pope election and not a military parade. Therefore, most of the apologists who fought against the mercenaries of the sun were holding unbladed axes, although these unbladed weapons could cause blunt damage to the enemy, but could not cause armor-piercing damage, at most they only caused severe pain on the enemy's body and could not be killed directly, and although the cathar knights were wearing sharpened steel swords and knight shields with sharp corners, the problem was that these apologists majored in riding and horse swordsmanship. It can even be said that these guys have been professionally trained in foot combat at all, unlike the Knight of the Sun, who is not only skilled in horsemanship. And after dismounting, you can also use the terrifying armor-piercing axe and hammer to directly kill the enemy's battle array.
And the most rear. And most importantly, the Knights and Cathars are not facing the semi-professional mercenaries in the Sunset Mercenary Guild, who can only be at most in the 2nd and 1st tier troops, but the well-equipped Mishaal Raiders who have been prepared and simulated several siege battles in the Holy Light City: the only front-line unit in the Sunset Empire that can still win after facing the heavy infantry head-on.
In fact, long before Padelan was in the morning, Sun Lin had already learned through intelligence that he was still the Pope's holy saint at that time. Elcott had no intention of passing on the papal throne to anyone else. Elcott had already begun to release his power in the open to confuse the crowd. And then in the secret accumulation of their own rights, which was also the time of the saint. Although Elcot was able to launch an attack on the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, he did not launch it. Elcot needed to keep a low profile in everything at that point.
However, knowing the way to know the road, Sun Lin originally had no plans for the pope election. But when Badran came to the door and asked Sun Lin to give him a force to back him up, Sun Lin began to put on the idea of the pope's election, to be precise, Sun Lin wanted to use the pope's election to fight the Holy Light City.
Of course, Sun Lin has not yet been arrogant enough to capture the Holy Light City, not to mention that the defense system of the Holy Light City is sound, and it is also an inland city that makes the Sun Never Set Fleet unable to support, just because Sun Lin does not have the ability to fight with the Holy Light Empire now, this situation is enough to make Sun Lin dispel the idea of seizing the Holy Light City, but according to Sun Lin, since this thing will not be his own, then it must not be someone else's, because it is very likely that he will not get what others can not get. Under such circumstances, Sun Lin decided to take advantage of the opportunity of Badelan to hire a group of troops from him to destroy the Holy Light City, and it would be better if he got some confidential information from the Holy Light City.
Therefore, before the start of the papal election, Sun Lin not only used the "pass" given by Padran to transport these Michar raiders who had been destroyed from the outer city to the midcity city, including the speed dragon mounts that they used to escape, to the Holy Light City, but also ordered the spies lurking in the intelligence network of the Sunset Empire to infiltrate the Holy Light City as much as possible and fish in troubled waters when the Holy Light City was in chaos, which is what is now the situation where the Sunset spies raid the Inquisition. You must know that this information can not only give the Great Empire that the sun never sets a foundation in the face of the future army of the Great Empire of Divine Light, but also like the bad deeds of the bishops and great priests of the Holy Light Sect collected in the Religious Judgment After being disseminated, even if it can't make the Great Empire of Divine Light fall into chaos, it is enough to disgust the Great Empire of Divine Light, and it may even delay the pace of the Great Empire of Divine Light.
Of course, in fact, intelligence seizures and the like are not the main goals, these Mishaal raiders did not hesitate to use the lives of soldiers to fill in the 3 walls of the Holy Light City in such a short period of time, the main reason is because the goal of these Michar raiders is not to burn and loot in the Holy Light City, but to destroy all the famous buildings or decorations that represent the Holy Light in the Holy Light City, and it would be better if the Holy Light Cathedral could be demolished.
"Boom, boom, boom." In the midst of the explosion, several large statues of the Knights of the Cathar fell to the ground and turned into rubble due to the black powder at their roots being blown off. At the same time, after killing the cathars and knights guarding the area, the Mishaal raiders armed with two axes began to rush into the surrounding shops to see if there was any oil and water, and if they did, they would kill and pick up the goods, and if not, they would simply light torches and burn them down.
It is worth mentioning that since this is the edge of the commercial district, and there is a road at the intersection where the statue is located in the Cathedral of the Holy Light at the core of the Holy Light City, so when the surrounding Sunset soldiers looted not long after, with the arrival of the second Sunset Soldiers, a man who looked like he should be a thousand-captain in the Sunset Army jumped on the gravel and instructed the people around: "Give Lao Tzu's eyes a bright spot, don't take those ornaments and silver coins and other broken things, If you want to take those gold coins, gems and jewelry, those things are valuable, Sun Lin Mian said, after going back, whoever grabs the more gems and gold coins will be promoted to level 3, if the eyeless person grabs a lot of useless things back, then the official will be demoted to level 3, do you understand? ”
"Yes!" And at this moment, a Mishaal warrior ran to the side of the officer who was at the top of the rank in this raid and said: "Captain 3, the 2nd team has broken through the defense of the last city wall, and now the Holy Light Cathedral has been exposed under the noses of our army, and according to the previous information, we still have about 1 hour or so to do evil in the Holy Light City, and the captain thinks that this time is enough to put a few barrels of black powder near the Holy Light Cathedral, or use a canister to set fire to the inner city of the Holy Light City." , so the captain asked everyone to stop looting and raid the Holy Light Cult Cathedral in an all-out way.
"Then what is the mission of our 3rd team, you must know that we have used up all the black powder and canister throwing bows before this, and the captain will never let my light infantry go to fight the apologetic warriors in the Holy Light Sect who are armed to the teeth, right?"
"The captain said that he found three counterweight trebuchets on the fourth wall, and the range of these three counterweight trebuchets is just right to bombard the west side of the Basilica of Light, and now there are about 200 cathars guarding there, and the captain hopes that you can take it."
"Do you hear that, brethren?" Because he was in the midst of chaos before, the soldier who came to report completely used his roaring voice to say the order, so the officer who never set the sun said directly to everyone present after listening to his order: "Go! Let's go and smash the Cathedral of Light to the ground! (To be continued......)