Chapter 780: Heading for the small town!
In a big city hundreds of miles away from Shengke City, Batman sank into the water in a small building in the manor behind the temple.
As time went by, he had already anticipated that the situation was not good.
He sent out three teams, totaling 110 air knights and a thousand elite soldiers, but since Kitto left, no news has been received until now.
Batman couldn't figure out what was going on.
Apart from anything else, a Red Flag Knight like Kito, with thousands of Golden Knights, would have no problem capturing a city of tens of thousands of indigenous people.
But now they were just chasing and ambushing a team of only more than 500 people, and there was no news from them.
Even if the God of Death is strong, can he be stronger than Kito? Bartman had seen how strong the God of Death was in the arena, and he certainly couldn't reach the level of the Red Flag Knight.
Even if Kitto really can't take down the God of Death, he can always escape back, right?
Now it is so deep that no one can be seen, and no corpse can be found.
From then on, Batman had to wonder in his heart whether the Sky City was plotting against him while he was plotting to kill the God of Death. Because only this could explain why Kitto and more than a thousand elite soldiers disappeared out of thin air.
What's even more incredible is that even the squadron of air knights that went to look for Kitto has no news.
The knights in the air are different from those on the ground. His air team is composed of swift dragon birds. Their flying speed is so fast that even the griffins of the Sky City cannot match it in a short period of time.
Moreover, the field of vision in the air is excellent. If he really encounters an enemy, he will be able to discover it at the first moment. He believes that no matter what, the griffins of the Sky City will not be able to annihilate his Swift Dragon Bird Squadron.
But now there is no news about the swift dragon bird. The matter is so strange that Batman no longer dares to send people to investigate there.
Nowadays, there are not many Dragon Bird Knights that the Golden Shield Family has worked so hard to train. There are only two-thirds left, which have been accumulated over decades.
Knock, knock, knock! "Come in!"
Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door outside Batman's study, and Batman immediately responded in a slightly gloomy voice.
"Your Excellency the Duke, what do you want from me?"
Batman's study door was opened and a middle-aged man in armor walked in.
This middle-aged man had tattoos on his face and cracked skin. He was the powerful man who was sent to the Golden Shield Family by the descendant of the servant of God who was on good terms with the Golden Shield Family.
"How's the contact going over there?"
Batman's complexion recovered a little.
"Your Excellency the Duke, the message has been delivered, but I am not sure how long it will take to arrive. After all, the Land of God's Fall is too vast!"
"Well, report to me as soon as you receive the news!"
"Yes, Your Excellency the Duke!"
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After returning to St. Ann's City, Gervis watched the slave soldiers practice fireball for a while, and then returned to his own building.
After coming to the small building, Gervis went directly to the backyard. As soon as he entered the backyard, he saw from afar the little guy Wally flying in the back garden. He was holding two small buckets in his little arms and scooping water from the fountain of life, and then pouring the spring water down from the top of the sacred tree.
"Wall-E!"
This scene was extremely interesting to Gervis, so he walked slowly forward and called out to Wall-E.
"Master! Master! You're here to see Wall-E!"
When Wall-E heard Gervis's shout, a happy smile immediately appeared on his little face, and he flew over by flapping his two pairs of transparent little wings.
"Little guy, thank you for your hard work!"
Gervis stretched out his hand and let the little creature, which was only about twenty centimeters long, rest on his palm.
"It's not hard! Wall-E likes big trees very much. Big trees are very comfortable!"
Wall-E knelt on Gervis's palm, shaking his head vigorously, and the ponytail tied at the back kept swinging.
"Haha! As long as you like it, little one!"
Gervis was also amused by the little guy's words.
It is not known whether this elf insect was specially prepared for the sacred tree. Edward had told Gervis about this at the beginning.
The holy tree must be taken care of by the great elves, and the master does not even need to give orders to do so. As long as they see the holy tree, the great elves will automatically begin to take good care of it.
Perhaps this has something to do with what Wall-E said, "Big trees are very comfortable." Perhaps the holy tree has some special influence on the great elves.
After interacting with Wall-E for a while, Gervis checked the sacred tree again and found nothing unusual.
The goddess in the sacred tree did not contact him either. Perhaps, as she said that day, she was in a deep sleep during this period.
After that, Gervis left the backyard and returned to the study.
After returning to the study, he took out the letter paper and began to write.
Now that the trade route plan has been established, Gervis needs to speed up its completion.
There is also a Red Flag Knight in charge of the small town, and Gervis is now ready to find help.
After writing the envelope, Gervis directly found a soldier from his direct guard and asked him to ride a swift dragon bird to deliver it to Johnson and several dukes.
Originally, Gervis could have asked Alex and Hayden to deliver the letter, but the two guys haven't returned yet.
When returning yesterday, Gervis learned that the two men did not find the City of Saint Science, but flew to the cities behind the City of Saint Science. As a result, they were detained as spies of the Golden Shield Family.
Fortunately, they had letters from Gervis on them, so they were simply confiscated.
This message would have been sent to Edward for a decision, but because of the war it could not be delivered, so the news was not released until the war was won and Gervis inquired about it.
After Gervis left, Edward and several other city lords had already conveyed orders that they must confirm the identity of the swift dragon bird when they see it in the future. In this way, there is no need to worry about the messenger being detained this time.
After sending the letter, Gervis began to practice hard in the next few days.
In the blink of an eye, it was a week later.
And on this day, more than 400 silver knights and 98 slave soldiers under Gervis were all summoned.
After so many days of preparation, he is about to set out to attack the small town.
"Grevith, you better be careful!"
Caroline stood at the gate of St. Ann's City, looking at Gervis sitting on the back of the giant crocodile reluctantly.
"Don't worry, I've already found several strong men to help. There won't be any problems. We'll be back in a week at most!"
Gervis nodded towards Caroline, signaling her to be at ease.
"Um!"
As it was time to go to war, Caroline didn't dare to say anything more for fear of affecting morale. She just nodded and stepped aside obediently.
"Gust, father, while I'm away, Saint Ann City will be handed over to you!"
Gervase turned his attention to Gandalf and Ghost.
He brought Hayden with him on this expedition, so Ghost and Gandalf had to stay in the city.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty!"
"Gervis, my father and Earl Hayden are in the city, don't worry, I wish you a speedy triumphant return!"
Ghost and Gandalf answered immediately.
"Set off!"
After nodding to a few people and finishing his instructions, Gervis gave an order, and then their team, which included the logistics team, totaling more than 600 people, slowly moved out of the city gate.
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Because there were no cities or enemies along the way, Gervis and his men traveled very quickly. After two days of trekking, they arrived outside the small town.
When Gervis and others arrived, hundreds of flying beasts immediately flew up from the ground on the other side and gathered towards Gervis and others.
"Lord Gervis!"
"Lord Gervis!"
"Haha! Duke Johnson, Duke Bruno, and Duke Sole, thank you for coming to help!"
The ones who came on flying birds were Johnson and the three closest lords of the Holy City.
The letter that Gervis sent last week was addressed to them, agreeing to lend a helping hand today to capture the small town.
"Haha! Lord Gervis, you don't have to be so polite. We are all allies and we are just helping each other. And we need more of the barrel of wine that Lord Gervis sent. It is so delicious!"
"Yes! I really hope that Lord Gervis' wine can be sold in our city soon, so that we don't have to save it!"
When delivering the letter, Gervis also asked the messenger to bring three barrels of wine, one barrel each for Johnson, Bruno and Sole.
As there was no war these days, Johnson and his two companions spent their days drinking wine. They felt uncomfortable if they didn't drink a bottle of wine a day.
"Haha, isn't that why we ask the three city lords to come and help? Once the trade route is opened, you won't have to save on drinks!"
Gervis laughed out loud. In the eyes of ordinary people, these holy city lords were superiors who had the power of life and death.
But as long as you gain their approval, there is actually not much difference in getting along with them than with ordinary people.
"So we have Lord Gervis to thank! Then we have to work harder today!"
"I dare not! I dare not! When the trade route is open, I will definitely treat the three city lords to a good meal!"
Gervis waved his hands quickly and was polite to the three of them.
"In that case, Lord Gervis, shall we begin now?"
At this time, in the small town more than a mile away, the soldiers guarding the city had already discovered their group of people.
At this moment, the alarm bells in the city were ringing urgently, and soldiers were running up to the city wall which was only more than 900 meters long in an endless stream.
"Then let's get started!"
Gervis nodded, and without further delay, he turned around and looked at his subordinates.
"Long Yi! You guys start moving now!"
"Hayden! Take your guards and wait six hundred meters outside the city wall!"
"Alec! Set up the artillery five hundred meters outside the city!"
"Everyone follow the plan made in advance!"
"Yes! Master!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
As Gervis gave orders one after another, Long Yi, Hayden, Alex and others started to move.
As the team started moving, Gervis and several city lords also flew high into the sky on flying monsters.
In this sacred continent, with the existence of flying monsters, the way of fighting has become more diverse. The defenders not only need to take into account the enemies on the ground, but also have to guard against the air knights in the sky.
This city, which is comparable to a small fortress, is naturally equipped with weapons to defend against air knights, namely crossbows with a range of hundreds of meters.
Because of the existence of these crossbows, Gervis's swift dragon birds did not launch an attack immediately, but hovered at an altitude of more than 400 meters. At such a height, the crossbows on the city wall no longer posed any threat to them.
At this time, Ik had led dozens of guards and pulled a small cannon to a place more than 500 meters away from the city wall.
After arriving at the designated location, Alex quickly began to direct the guards to set up the artillery and load ammunition.
When all five guns were placed and loaded, Alex spoke loudly on his own initiative without the need for Gervis to give any more orders.
"Target enemy crossbow, aim in one minute!"
"Fire!"
Boom boom boom! A minute later, under Alex's order, the soldier in charge of ignition ignited the cannon with a torch, and then five deafening explosions were heard outside the small town.
Bang, bang, bang! The explosions here were still echoing in the wilderness, and the flaming shells had already smashed into the city wall.
In an instant, bricks and stones on the city wall flew everywhere, and people and horses fell to the ground.
However, although this attack was aimed at the huge crossbows, only one of the five cannons actually hit the target.
The other shells hit other places on the city wall, killing and injuring some soldiers on the wall.
When the natives saw that the strange smoking thing outside the city could actually launch an attack from such a distance, they immediately aimed their crossbows at Alex and others outside the city, and then shot out crossbow arrows as thick as their forearms.
Knock, knock, knock! Unfortunately, the distance of 500 meters was the safe distance that Gervis came up with after testing the crossbows on the walls of Saint Ann.
The maximum range of this crossbow is only about 450 meters, and it can only shoot about 300 meters into the air, so it can't hit Alex and the others at all.
"Calibrate the artillery angle, aim in one minute!"
In just a short while, the five guns were reloaded, and Alex also recalibrated the shooting angle.
Following his orders, the soldiers began to re-adjust the artillery based on previous errors.
"Fire!"
Boom boom boom! After the second calibration, Alex ordered the artillery to fire again. Puffs of white smoke rose outside the small town again, and deafening explosions were heard.
Bang, bang, bang! Five flaming shells hit the city wall again at a speed that could not be captured by the naked eye.
This time, because of the secondary calibration, four out of the five shells hit the crossbow on the city wall.
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"good!"
During the first round of shooting, the effect of the artillery was not very significant, it just made a lot of noise.
But the second round destroyed the four crossbows on the city wall in one fell swoop, which immediately made Johnson and others' eyes light up and they couldn't help cheering.
"Lord Gervis, what is that thing that has such an effect!"
Afterwards, several people couldn't help but ask about the origin of the cannon.
The most troublesome thing for Johnson and others when they attacked the city was the crossbow. Don't think that the Golden Knights are no longer afraid of the damage of ordinary crossbows, but that is just ordinary crossbows.
Facing the elves and such a large crossbow with arrows made of mithril, not to mention the Golden Knight, even the White Flag Knight would be doomed if they were not careful.
Therefore, every time the city was attacked, the crossbows on the city wall would take away many soldiers' lives. Now that Gervis had such a good thing that could destroy the crossbows in advance, Johnson and others became interested.
"This is called a cannon. I got it by chance. But it requires a black substance to fire, and the amount of that substance is very limited! So I only have a small amount of cannon!"
Gervis knew what Johnson and the others were thinking, and he quickly spoke up to stop them. Although cannons were useless against strong men, they were still quite effective in sieges.
(End of this chapter)
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