When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#354 - Current situation in Rapid City

“Devil's Fireball!”

A Leia sergeant screamed.

In the narrow alleys, the bursting flames swept through in an instant, and the thatched huts made of wood and mud were ignited in a flash.

Thick smoke and debris spewed from both sides of the alley, and the heat wave hit the faces of the sword and shield soldiers who were preparing to rush into the alley, forcing them to raise their iron shields and retreat while coughing.

In the raging flames, a dozen Leia mercenaries were engulfed in flames, and in the sound of cracking and collapsing, the original blockhouse slowly collapsed, with bricks and stones flying around.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Church army, the wizards and council infantry in the blockhouse quickly crawled out of the tunnel.

Traveling through the low thatched huts and wooden houses, the halberdiers hired by the Rapid Current City Merchant Guild rushed to the front, followed by wizards, crossbowmen, and two or three greatsword swordsman.

Occasionally, a few night watchmen tremblingly raised their battle axes and armed swords, trying to stop them, but they were shot down by crossbowmen and then stabbed to death by halberdiers.

In the muffled sound of boulders hitting the city wall, the earth was shaking, and the clamor of shouting and killing rose and fell in the residential area outside Rapid Current City.

“Hurry up.” The wizard, his legs weak and sandwiched in the middle, with effort shouted, “The next block is the entrance to the tunnel.”

However, the halberdier in front suddenly stopped, stopping like a brake in front of an empty street.

“What's wrong? Go.”

The wizard raised his head, and from the gap between his shoulders, he saw the scene he least wanted to see: a dozen squire knights from the Order were raising their curved bows, aiming at them.

In the sound of bowstrings shaking, a dozen arrows flew into the air, densely covering the area where the wizard squad was located.

Several unarmored halberdiers were shot on the spot, covering their arms and wailing, and the halberds crashed to the ground.

“Is there any Red Dragon Breath left?” The wizard pushed away the two attendants supporting him and asked loudly.

His companion gave him a desperate answer: “The fireball just now was the last Red Dragon Breath.”

The square flag knights, wearing light blue and white casual clothes, leaped over, the strong wind was split open by the long sword, and they deftly chopped off the heads of several halberdiers.

“Church bastards!” The Black Serpent Bay wizard took out the short sword from his waist, and roared angrily towards the leading knight without fear.

The short sword gleamed with a greasy green light, and even if the skin was illuminated by this light, it would be corroded and ulcerated.

This kind of magic-driven alchemy weapon is the standard melee equipment for combat wizards.

Ordinary extraordinary infantry are actually difficult to fight against a wizard with strange methods in a one-on-one situation.

It's a pity that they are facing extraordinary knights who have been blessed with the 【Protection against Poison】 blessing.

Before the Black Serpent Bay wizard could run close, an arrow had already shot through his chest. At the last moment of losing consciousness, he bit his teeth and threw the short sword.

The short sword spun and flew over, grazed the knight's black armor, only chipped out a few sparks, and then completely disappeared.

Taking off the visored iron helmet on his head, revealed a head that didn't even sweat much, Edmund, the captain of the third company of the Order, looked towards the towering city wall by the river.

Not only were there countless traces of smoke on the nearly 8-meter-high city wall of Rapid Current City, but flying axes, javelins and arrows were inserted in the gaps.

At the foot of the wall, the poisonous smoke blowing out by the Green Dragon Breath faintly shrouded the festering corpses.

“These low lowly wizards deserve to die.” Looking at the many knight corpses piled under the city wall, Ellard's face revealed a rare violence.

Like most cities, Rapid Current City is divided into inner and outer cities.

The inner city is where citizens, craftsmen and priests live, while the outer city is where commoners and laborers live.

All kinds of wooden houses and mud-brick houses radiate along the main roads outside the city to both sides of the road.

However, as of today, these residents' homes have either been affected by the fire or have been demolished to build siege equipment.

The originally lively and dense city outer city market is now only ruins revealing wooden strips.

The refugees and beggars who lost their homes hide in the ruins, fearing being affected by the war.

Among them, the port in the south of the city was originally a bustling area. On weekdays, cargo ships from the north and south always had to unload, change waterways and repair at this most important crossroads.

However, the river at this moment is full of fragments of sailing ships, and in the rippling river, half of a charred mast protrudes out of the water.

Ellard still remembers that when they arrived about a month ago, the port was surrounded by a slightly shorter city wall, which was connected to the inner city wall.

It only took them five days to break through the outer city wall of the port.

At that time, both Ellard and Alman thought that the city would be captured within three to five days.

Then they fell into a long siege quagmire.

The Rapid Current City Council relied on the solid and tall city wall to block the knights' charge, and the wizards took advantage of the tunnels, sewers, and wealthy merchants' blockhouses to fight in the alleys in the port.

After the initial panic, Rapid Current City quickly adapted to the battlefield, and could repel attacks every day at a fairly small price.

At least in this month, in addition to the initial battles, the Church army hardly gained any advantage.

After the siege progress stagnated, troubles came one after another.

After Rapid Current City was besieged, the entire Thousand River Valley trade route fell into complete stagnation.

A large number of merchant ships docked at Flying Fall Fortress and Small Pond City, complaining looking at the goods in the ship gradually deteriorating.

Flying Fall Fortress even has nobles and bishops pressuring Barneyfoss all day long. You must know that many of those merchant ships and goods have their shares.

Especially now is the harvest season. The waterways are blocked, and the manors scattered all over the place cannot harvest grain or sell money, so aren't they anxious?

Now that Rapid Current City is besieged, the nobles' capital chain broken, and many nobles cannot even afford to hold banquets, so they can only condescend change the banquet frequency to once a month.

After this pressure transmitted to Barneyfoss, it transmitted to the eloquent knight Alman, and then transmitted to these Order company captains and lancer captains once again.

No wonder Ellard is irritable, after all, every extra day of attacking is a loss of hundreds of pounds.

They can't figure out how a mere isolated small city can stubbornly withstand their offensive.

Especially their Red Dragon Breath and Green Dragon Breath, as if inexhaustible.

Whenever the Church thinks they have used up these two evil things, they will miraculously take out one or two.

“Lord Ellard, look, the siege tower is deployed again.”

Ellard concentrated his eyes, and sure enough, he saw a huge silhouette appearing on the hillside, and this was already the third siege tower.

Unlike the blockhouse alley warfare on the port side, the attack in the plain direction is a serious siege war.

After a month-long attack, the original moat has long been filled with corpses, soil and stones to create several roads.

The iron-clad wheels rolled. On the bridge deck composed of corpses, soil and stones, the 8-meter-high siege tower slowly advanced.

Dozens of peasant soldiers and extraordinary infantry shouted in unison, and the shoe uppers and armed clothes were already covered by the hot weather under the messy pace.

The tall siege tower is like a giant advancing, and the defending commander is naturally not blind.

With the defending officer's order, a wizard with strong arms inlaid a bright red Red Dragon Breath gem on the front end of the staff, raised over his head.

The surrounding defending soldiers could clearly feel that the air was hot and dry by a large margin.

“Red Dragon Breath Fireball! Dodge!”

The peasant soldier in the siege tower observation post rolled down the siege tower stairs incoherently, and a incandescent fireball with a diameter of about 1 meter flew out from the city wall.

“Boom——”

Before everyone could make any preparations, a large ball of fire suddenly exploded out from the middle of the siege vehicle.

wood chips and fire waves splashed, and the peasant soldiers who were pushing the siege vehicle forward immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

Seeing the siege tower stagnated, the defending officer stepped on the crenel and roared to order: “Launch the ballista, fiercely poke their eyes!”

The hammer smashed down, the ballista bowstring flicked, and more than ten spears two meters long pierced the air attacked.

The group fleeing peasant soldiers and soldiers fell down one after another. At this time, extraordinary infantry and peasant soldiers are almost no different.

More than ten sharp spears took at least seven or eight lives, and there were even three unlucky ones who were pierced continuously.

Only a few extraordinary knights quick-witted jumped off their horses, thus saved their lives.

When the soldiers scattered, the siege tower collapsed in the black and red smoke column that soared up.

Along with it collapsed was the confidence of the siege soldiers. Many soldiers seemed to be wearing invisible long skirts, and their walking changed from long strides to short steps.

Ellard knew that the rear would probably temporarily withdraw troops.

Sure enough, with the blowing of horns, the soldiers who were originally pushing the battering ram and carrying the ladders breathed a sigh of relief and left under the command of the captain.

Taking the knights away from the port area, Ellard irritably picking his ears, as if that could cover up the cheers on the city wall.

When will this siege war have to fight?