Alien Knights

Todd, who entered the form of a tyrant, reflected the panicked appearance of the enemy in his huge scarlet eyes.

Holding the iron claws of the crossbow bolt tightly, he charged back slightly, his beast-like golden pupils instantly enlarged, and he threw his arms forward violently.

The heavy iron crossbow disappeared into the air in an instant, and in the next second, the head of the defending commander and a city wall behind the opponent exploded almost simultaneously into a pile of mustard.

The soldiers of the defenders first looked at the headless corpse of the officer, and then at the trembling bed crossbow stuck in the city wall. After a brief moment of absence, all the enemies began to retreat in horror.

Todd, who had regained his human form, let out a long breath, and said to the Valkyrie and Jerry next to him, "When the morale of the enemy is low, drive them out of the corridor and block the road to the top of the city wall!"

After the order was issued, there was no response.

Todd turned around strangely, and found that the people around him looked at him with expressions of horror.

Shaking his head helplessly, Todd yelled: "What are you still doing?! Hurry up!"

Watching the others come back to their senses and go to perform their tasks one after another, Todd walked to the winch room alone.

Along the way, with severed limbs flying and corpses strewn all over the field, it is not difficult for him to imagine how tragic the battle that just happened here was.

When Todd walked into the winch room, Valkyrie Evie and her sisters were pinning the iron chain on the winch of the city gate to prevent the enemy from using the winch to raise the gate again.

Seeing Todd's appearance, Evie put away the parasite limbs under the armor, first wiped the blade and shield surface with the clothes of the corpse, and then said: "I heard the alarm bells in the city. It won't be long before the enemy troops stationed outside the city will come to the city."

Todd nodded indifferently: "The key question now is whether we can survive until the reinforcements arrive when the enemy forces attack the city."

Evie put the long sword back into its scabbard: "We questioned a few guards and learned a piece of news. Half a month ago, the Kingdom mobilized most of the slave-hunting troops outside the city and sent them to the border to participate in the war with the Kingdom of Connaught, so there are not many troops that can really support the ancient city."

"This is good news!" Todd said overjoyed, "There were two things I was most worried about. First, the defense of the ancient city port is too tight. Our fleet was discovered and alerted before approaching the port. The defenders will have enough time to build a defense line and wait for reinforcements at this time. Second, there are a large number of reinforcements stationed outside the city. Once they know that the city gate has been attacked, the commander of the enemy's reinforcement army will launch an attack regardless of cost and consumption if we are the only ones who see through the city. Human sea wheel tactics. Under such a premise, it is difficult for us to defend until the reinforcements arrive."

Todd shrugged: "Fortunately, neither of these things is likely to happen."

Evie said to Todd with a serious face: "I want to remind you that the wall of the ancient city is 30 meters long. There are only ten of us in such a long defense line, and we have to leave two people to guard the passage below to prevent the enemy from attacking. In this way, there are only eight people who can really defend the enemy on the wall. With such a long wall, it is impossible for only eight people to defend the siege force."

Todd smiled and shook his head: "You will know if you can keep it."

After leaving Jerry holding a dragon spear and wearing heavy armor and a Valkyrie who is good at using a bow at the entrance of the corridor to defend against the enemy's counterattack in the city, Todd climbed up the city wall with the remaining seven people, quietly waiting for the enemy's arrival.

In the ancient city, the war in the port area has already reached the lower city. The three-way alliance of gladiators, barbarian warriors, and the North Island Knights, under the belief of "rebuilding Asgard", transformed into a group of fanatical holy warriors, crushing all enemies in front of them with endless fighting spirit and crazy killing.

These people only have one thought in their minds when they face any living creature that can move - kill to the front!

Todd, who climbed up to the watchtower at the top of the city gate, looked at the direction of the gunpowder in the city, nodded in satisfaction and said, "The advance speed of the landing troops is faster than I imagined."

Evie under the watchtower looked at the distant horizon and shouted at Todd in a deep voice: "The enemy's reinforcements are coming!"

Todd turned his body and turned his gaze to the plain outside the city.

At the end of the hill in the distance, a thick black line crossed the top of the hill and was slowly moving towards the city gate.

Using the ability of "Eagle Eye", Todd tried his best to look far away, and he could see the enemy's formation and composition of troops at a glance.

The Ulster slave-hunting army that was reinforced this time had about a thousand people and was divided into three phalanxes: the front, the middle, and the back. The front phalanx was composed of slaves, the middle phalanx was mostly regular infantry, and the last phalanx was the Ulster cavalry regiment and the general’s guard.

In addition to these, Todd found an extremely interesting thing. The reinforcements did not carry any siege equipment.

But if you think about it, the port of one of your own cities is attacked. According to normal people's thinking, the landing troops will march through the entire city step by step to attack the city gate. The troops who came for reinforcements could never have imagined that the city gate would be captured so quickly, so it was only reasonable not to carry any siege equipment.

Waiting for the enemy to walk down the hill, Evie looked up at the flags fluttering on the city gate, and measured the distance with her eyes. To Todd: "The enemy is in range, I'm ready."

Todd was a little surprised. The enemy's striker was still about 400 meters away from the city gate. Even if the English longbow fired light arrows, there was no way to reach this range, let alone cause lethality. But Evie's expression was clearly telling him - "I can shoot and kill the enemy".

Todd motioned everyone to squat down and hide under the battlements, and said softly to Evie, "Don't worry, wait."

The latter glanced at him, nodded and said nothing.

Soon, the enemy advanced another 150 meters.

This is already within the normal range of bows and arrows, so the enemy's pace has slowed down significantly.

Evie cast her inquiring gaze on Todd again, who still shook his head and said, "It's not the time, just wait."

In the enemy's phalanx, a cavalry squad rushed to the gate of the city to shout. After no one answered, the enemy advanced another 100 meters.

Todd, who was hiding under the battlements, could already faintly hear the enemy's arguments.

Evie opened her eyes wide, stared at Todd and asked in a low voice: "The enemy will soon be under our noses! Do you still decide to wait?!"

Todd looked at her with a smile, and said slowly, "Trust me."

Evie took a deep look at Todd, clenched the bow in her hands, clenched her teeth, and turned her head in the direction of the enemy.

The enemy army finally came to a distance of 50 meters from the gate of the city, and a deep voice sounded outside the gate: "I am Mashev, the deputy commander of the Second Crusade Legion in Ulster! In the name of the king, I command you to open the gate!"

Only a silent city wall answered him.

A person who looked like an aide walked up to Mashev and asked, "My lord, the current situation is completely unreasonable. What should we do?"

Another staff member suggested: "Looking from the hill just now, the port area is full of thick smoke. It must have been captured by the enemy. The enemy is probably marching towards the city gate. It won't be long before they attack here."

Mashef on horseback has the typical appearance of the Ulster people, with a beard, a burly figure and a face full of scars. He yelled at everyone: "I understand what you said! What I wonder most is, where did the defenders of the city gate go? Why didn't anyone respond to us?!"

The staff members looked at each other, but no one answered.

Seeing that no one gave an answer, Mashev started to think quietly after firing a fire, and then he asked the quartermaster behind him: "Do we have any climbing tools? Wooden ladders? Hooks are also fine!"

The quartermaster shook his head in embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "My lord, your instruction is to throw away all unnecessary supplies and send reinforcements to Gubu City as quickly as possible, so..."

Mashev waved his whip angrily: "Damn! How did I know that the city gate is closed when I come here!"

A staff member gave a suggestion: "If you just want to climb up the city gate, you can gather the ropes in the general and make a noose, so that one person can climb in and find out."

Mashev immediately agreed with the idea.

Soon the noose was made and thrown over the city gate, hooked on a sharp corner of the battlements.

Driven by a club and a sharp knife, a slave began to climb up the rope along the rope.

Todd, who was hiding behind the wall stack, looked at the direction where the noose fell, first gave the others a gesture of calm down, and then signaled Evie to follow him and move towards the noose.

Under the watchful eyes of thousands of people, the unlucky slave soldier finally climbed up the city wall with great effort. Jumping off the wall, before he could see his surroundings clearly, a hand covered his mouth from behind, and a sharp knife slit his throat.

Without making a single sound, the hapless slave soldier lost his life.

"That bastard up there! Tell me quickly, what's going on inside the city gate?!" Mashev yelled a few times, but found that there was no response at all. He shouted angrily: "Find someone to climb up! Hurry up!"

The second and third slaves climbed up, only to end up in the same fate as the first hapless ghost.

Already on the verge of rage, the deputy head Mashev threw the whip in his hand heavily to the ground, and shouted at his subordinates with red eyes: "Everyone! Get out of the city wall and climb in with a human wall! I really want to see what's going on inside!"

An aide said worriedly: "The way of building a human wall will disrupt our army's formation and give the enemy the best chance to attack..."

Mashev raised his arms and yelled at the man: "You idiot who can't think! Can't you see it? If there were enemies in the city, arrows would have fallen on our heads long ago!"

The staff paused for a while, thinking about it carefully, the deputy head's words were quite reasonable. If there were enemies, according to the standard defense process, they would usually attack with arrows, stones, wood, etc. How could it be possible for the attacking army to swagger to the city?

"But... the few slaves we sent in before..." The staff waited to persuade, but found that Mashev had already started to give orders.

"Listen to me, everyone. The enemy's landing force has captured the port area and is heading towards the city gate. Our time is running out! We must control the city gate as soon as possible before we can reinforce the friendly troops in the city!" Mashev waved his hand: "All infantry phalanxes obey orders! Build a human wall! Climb in and open the city gate!"

At the order of the commander, the infantry who lacked siege equipment dropped their weapons and shields, and began to transport soldiers to the top of the city wall using the most primitive method of "stacking arhats to build a human wall".

Listening to the movement outside, Todd smiled and opened the wooden box next to his feet, revealing a full cotton bag.

"Remember how I told you how to use this thing?" Todd took out a dynamite pack from the wooden box and said to the Valkyries behind the wall: "Light the fuse, and when you see white smoke ignite, immediately throw it down the city wall."

Evie looked at the wooden boxes brought by the griffins, picked up an explosive package from it, checked it repeatedly, and asked, "On the ship, you did repeatedly explain how to use it. This thing looks familiar, but what is it for?"

Hearing more and more soldiers climbing the city wall, Todd first pulled the fuse of the explosive package in his hand, and said to the others: "Do as I said, and you will soon see its usefulness."

The soldiers who were climbing the city wall suddenly found white cloth bags one after another, falling to the foot of the city wall as if it was raining.

The cloth bag fell to the ground, the white smoke of the gas, and the sparks of the stars, aroused people's onlookers, and some brave soldiers even wanted to pick it up to find out.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Accompanied by deafening loud noises and dazzling white lights, one after another red lotus flowers bloomed brightly under the corner of the city.

The huge impact tore the person's body into unrecognizable pieces, and blasted the soil three feet underground into the air.

Blood, stumps and corpses dyed the 30-meter-long gray city wall into blood; howling, crying and groaning resounded above the gate of the ancient city.

Mashev was thrown from the horseback to the horse by the air wave from the explosion. The deputy head of the legion passed out completely before he could say a word.

Waiting for the aftershocks of the explosion to subside gradually, the Valkyrie poked their heads out from behind the wall, staring dumbfounded at everything on the battlefield, each with a hellish expression on their faces.

Todd patted the dust off his body, and just about to say something, there were sounds of fighting and shouting from the other side of the city gate.

The landing troops who responded to Todd broke through the defense line of the entire city and arrived at the gate of the city.