Riding a horse was a stern man, dressed in a fur coat with ornamentation and a fur hat on his head, which covered his hair and the side of his face, revealing only a few slightly curly brown hairs. The man had sword-like eyebrows and dark pupils, full cheeks covered with a faint beard, and a mustache on his chin, even when he motioned to Sig for them to give way, without the slightest expression on his face.

Sieg immediately pulled the three children aside, and the lobbyist continued to reach the center of the square, quickly jumped off his horse, drew his saber and plunged into the gap in the granite tiles of the square, and coughed a few times to signal the surrounding crowd to be silent.

"As announced the day before, tomorrow morning, the Dark Knights and two powerful rebel teams will attack the city, but you don't have to worry about anything, just stay at home, the walls of Gronia provide the best protection for the city, and you don't need to worry about your relatives and relatives outside the city, they will all arrive safely in the city under the escort of the last patrol of the night, until the war in Gronha has passed. ”

He briefly informed the citizens of the king's intentions, and no one doubted this, believing that the impregnable walls of the city of Gronia would be able to hold back the enemy, but the lobbyist had no intention of leaving, and leaned over and raised his saber in front of his head.

"As much as I don't want to say this, the walls of the city are made of rock, but the enemy also has the most destructive siege weapons, and once the walls are breached, all the protection you rely on will be gone. As the old saying goes, it takes three times the force to break a city. However, this does not apply in Gronia, where it is difficult to mobilize the existing manpower once the walls are attacked. ”

"So what the hell are you going to say?"

"Don't sell it. If you have anything to say, just say it!"

Some citizens who didn't know what to do excitedly asked the lobbyist, but he just smiled and swore that he would raise your hands. ”

At that moment, many citizens consciously raised their arms, except for a few veterans who had been discharged from the army. Most of them were Navy fighters who had recovered from the Karadia rescue three years earlier, and after three years of peace, they also vaguely felt that their mission had been awakened. As soon as the lobbyist asked questions, they immediately stood up.

"Very well, Gronya needs you again, most of you have seen the power of the Druas. and their style. But that will not affect our spirits, and the Gronians will fight to the death, and those who are interested are invited to report to the naval station in the last hour, to regain your past honor, and to protect your homeland. ”

The celebration in front of him suddenly turned into a recruiting scene, and Sieg was a little incredulous, and when the lobbyist led a hundred soldiers who voluntarily returned to the army, Sieg also said goodbye to the children. The square was lively again, and the crowd swallowed them up in the blink of an eye.

I managed to squeeze through a street. Believing that he was chasing in the wrong direction, Sieg continued to move outward, and finally caught up with the lobbyist at the pedestrian street pier, who was curious why he was chasing all the way, so he motioned for the soldiers to board a large transport ship first, and he stayed at the dock to talk to Sieg.

"It's you, red-haired little brother, I know you're our foreign aid, the Wings of Freedom, what's the matter with chasing you all the way?"

"Mr. lobbyist, you are not wrong to recruit soldiers for this war to defend your homeland, but they are all survivors of the previous war, you should not let them give up their hard-won comfortable life, is the defense of the city wall really as empty as you say? ”

"Actually, I'm not a lobbyist, and I have nothing to do with the court of the King of Andorra, but tonight I'm too addicted to being a poet!"

The other party revealed that he was not from the palace, but pretended to be a lobbyist to recruit people for someone, and the doubts in Sieg's heart intensified, and the other party also sensed something in his eyes, so he jumped off the horse.

"Don't worry, this was General Atros' idea, and I don't have any bad intentions. I don't know about the military stuff, but Atros was worried that the walls would be breached, so he came up with this method to recruit more men to protect them. ”

"In that case, I shouldn't have asked. But I don't know who you are, and you can let Atros personally entrust it, let alone a lobbyist pretending to be the king of Andorra. ”

He smiled, took his mount and got into the boat, and said, "I have lived in Gronia for several years, and I am just a poet who does not want to see his homeland fall. ”

Several flames suddenly rose in the pedestrian street behind him, exploding in the air more than fifty meters away, splashing bursts of colorful fireworks, which was not only the affirmation of the citizens to the Gronya army, but also the fire over the water city also transmitted this confidence to the invaders who were marching outside the city.

After some time, Sieg returned to the Knights' garrison on the Central Island, where he put on a lightweight set of chainmail, fastened his shin guards and forearm armor, put on his long coat with black marks on the outside, and hurried to the city wall with his sword to meet his companions.

"A rock barrier based on the façade of an ancient dwarven city, 78.74 feet high and 17.1 feet thick at the top, built in 751 A.D. – a record of the study of the façade of Gronia by the royal architect Sir Arteman. ”

At dawn the next day, the sky was still overcast, and the foggy canal was overcast, and the last naval warship that had gone out to carry out an evacuation mission returned, and from the top of the towering southern city wall, the shadows of a large number of sailing ships gradually appeared in the depths of the thick fog, and at the same time, the sound of horses' hooves on both sides of the river, accompanied by the earth-shattering war drums, gradually approached Gronia.

The quality of the rock-made walls was unquestionable, and in order to facilitate the climb to the high walls, a number of metal platforms were erected along the walls, similar to the architectural structure of a naval dockyard, and the various platforms were connected by steel stairs, providing multiple routes for soldiers to ascend the city, and the five hundred defenders above had already lined up in a neat line, each in a group of ten fully armed naval soldiers. Led by two knights, all the points of the high wall were tightly guarded. Several cranes beside the tunnel continue to salvage the remains of ancient buildings from the waters below the city, providing sufficient stones for the catapults on the platforms along the high walls. At a high steel platform built next to the southwest city wall, Julius, who was ordered to garrison the southern city, set up a command post. The view is excellent, and even in heavy fog, you can see the movement from the west.

At the end of the horizon, countless villages were burning, and the position of the invaders was already obvious to the defenders, and the commander ordered the sealing of the naval haven, the water gate, and the passage of access to all parts of the city wall, and sent a herald to mobilize all the volunteers in the residential area to rush to the city wall to reinforce it. He used the main port of the South Gate as an intermediary point for transport ships, and the platform at the top of the tunnel as a temporary armory, so that soldiers from the garrison could choose the right weapons when they climbed the walls. It is convenient to integrate into the defense line as quickly as possible.

In the early morning, the fog in the city gradually lifted, and after completing the fortifications during the night, we returned to our temporary quarters in the residential area to arm ourselves, and after being notified again. The group met on time at the dock in the residential area. In order to cope with this battle, Sig had long since changed into the same chain mail outfit as the knights, the hem of the black striped robe was still fluttering in the wind, and Shoy had also added hard leather shoulder pads and chest guards to his combat jacket, and Nabal took his old-fashioned leather inlaid armor to the tailor's shop for processing, not forgetting to wear a light chain vest underneath, only the chain mail on Porcha's body had not been taken off during the trip, and today it was only slightly scraped with sandpaper. I'll wear it again.

Soon after, the receiving ship arrived. Except for Sieg, who insisted on acting alone, the group took a boat to the south gate under the leadership of Xiao Yi, and we did not encounter many civilian boats along the way, except for the city guard patrol boats along the way, yesterday it was the main river where people came and went, and in wartime only a few citizens who volunteered to help the regular army were still busy in the waterways.

"Hey, Commander, how did that guy from Atros transfer Sewolle's men to the North City? We came to him just to join forces to fight, but the old friend was lost, and he was grouped with a whole bunch of unfamiliar chengguans. ”

"What can I do! The matter of dispatching troops is up to Atros, and Sig refuses to go along. But what the hell are you going to do with that glove when you keep knocking on that glove...... It's annoying. ”

Annoyed that Nabal was upset that Atros had organized the Wings of Liberty and the City Watch into a team to carry out the most basic defense missions, so he kept tapping the steel hand armor on his left wrist with his throwing axe, as if to vent to the City Guards on several nearby patrol boats. Gradually, Porcha couldn't stand it anymore and snatched his short axe and threw it aside.

"What's the matter, stupid horse thief. I'm just unhappy with those guards, what is your opinion?" (Note: In the previous game, the Goshawk was forced to pay a berthing fee)

"You guy, just stop, look at this high wall, the range of the catapult and the firearms cover almost all the area of the circular water outside the city, and it is impossible for the enemy to enter the range of the defenders and take the initiative to seek death before he is fully prepared. Although they surrounded the city, behind this impenetrable wall, we must have outlasted them, so you, don't complain about anything, unity is the most important thing. ”

"That's it, what Brother Cha said is awesome!"

Shoey clapped his palms in accord and smiled and grimaced at Nabal, under her arbitration, Nabal stopped complaining, just signaled the boatman to row faster, and his teammates were preparing for the next battle, and inadvertently, I suddenly thought of the top-secret plan that Shoy had mentioned.

"Commander, you have prepared a plan for this situation last time, what is it?"

She scratched her hair nonchalantly, tied her scarf around her collar, and said, "It's a secret." Friendly cover is still needed, but I've consulted with Atros that he doesn't intend to send knights out of the city to raid before the battle, especially now that we're so surrounded that it's almost impossible to get a large number of knights and horses to the shore outside the city. ”

Hearing this reply, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but she still smiled and comforted me and said, "Don't sigh, I will take everyone to defeat the Druas together, so agreed~"

Her attitude towards war was not at all like that of an eighteen-year-old girl, but none of the warriors who had been born and died together and had passed countless death trials questioned her leadership skills, and were full of confidence in her unborn plans, and I, who had sailed with her as a crew member of the Goshawk in the past, gradually realized this and stopped asking questions.

When the reinforcements arrived at Port Royal ten minutes later, we found that there were less than a hundred guards on board the eight patrol boats, all of whom were temporary combat forces called up by the mission to protect their homeland, and their uneven equipment was obviously much rougher than the elite of the navy on the city walls, not only heavy weapons such as sledgehammers and halberds, but also inferior flintlock pistols with lower accuracy, but compared to the navy uniformly dressed in light sword and leather armor, these heavy guards in Gronya heraldic armor had a stronger combat ability.

After landing on the shore, Shoy handed out the extra daggers on his body to his two teammates, and suddenly remembered something, fumbled in his backpack, and turned out a rusty knife and handed it to me.

"In this last hour, let us make a covenant with the dagger in our hands. ~ No matter what kind of enemies are waiting for us outside the city walls, we must not give up, and when the war is over, I hope you can return the token to me with your own hands. ”

As Nabal put away his dagger and smiled, Polcha looked at the high wall, wiped the rusty chain mail again, drew his long knife and saber and swung them one by one, not looking very sure about the defense of the city, but he still took the dagger and hung it on his belt, and gave her a thumbs up in thanks.

"Thanks, it'll be done. If we're lucky enough to survive this war, we'll have a drink together at the tavern. ”

"I really don't understand what you're worried about, strategy or something, I'm too lazy to bother with it, since the commander asked us to protect the city wall, so let's do it...... Lemuel, let's go first. ”

Porcha's worried expression made Nabal feel unhappy, and I answered and walked away with him, in fact, I understood Nabal's concerns, he had experienced many tragic losses of his best friends, and he did not want any of us to die in the war. (To be continued......)