Planetary Museum

Baron Jacques trembled his lips and could hardly believe his ears.

Looking at the three sentries kneeling in front of him, Baron Jacques couldn't help asking again: "You say it again?!"

"Shuanghe Fort was breached, and no one in the city was spared." The boss carefully placed a seal where the baron could see it, "We found this in Shuanghe Fort, Your Excellency Andyco... very brave."

With just one glance at the seal, the corners of Baron Jacques' eyes began to twitch, and the baroness on one side rushed up, stretched out her trembling hand to hold it, and while stroking the seal, cried out: "I... my Ann Dicko!"

"You, with your own eyes, saw them attacking the city?" The baron asked word by word, his eyes fixed on the sentinel who replied, as if he wanted to dig out some signs of lying from the eyes of the sentry.

But no, the sentinel nodded immediately, what appeared in his eyes was not the uneasiness of lying, but the deep fear of the enemy in his memory.

"Yes, my lord," the boss recalled what he saw yesterday, still feeling terrified, "Their envoy summoned the thunder."

"Tianlei?"

"Yes, we saw it with our own eyes," the three brothers said together, as if they were afraid that the lord would not believe it, "but the thunder is different from the thunder that rains in general, it does not strike from the sky to the ground, but from the ground to the sky. "

"The city gate and the city wall were overturned in an instant, and before the soldiers defending the city had time to react, the Elisians had already rushed into the city."

"When they attacked the inner city, they summoned it again. We went to the city to see it. The inner and outer city gates were all opened up by such thunder, and the cast iron gates were twisted into pieces by this divine power. Pieces."

The combination of such absurd words and the extremely certain expressions on the faces of the three brothers when they uttered this absurd words made the baron's mind confused, and he could only feel the bitterness in his mouth.

But the three sentinels couldn't care about their lord's mood at the moment, because there was still important information to report: "They are very likely to come for Xiaoyang City today, my lord."

"Xiaoyangcheng...he...they dare to come?" The baron's tone at the beginning seemed to be certain, but this certainty only lasted half a sentence and turned into a question.

When this sentence just ended, Lord Baron actually knew the answer to this question in his heart.

Before Elis launched a formal declaration of war, the baron had actually made full preparations for the invasion of the Kingdom of Elis in accordance with the requirements of King Louis and the Pope of Xiaoyangjiao. An important part of these preparations.

In Baron Jacques' war vision, the loss of the outpost must only be a matter of time. Although it is a pity that it was quickly breached, it is not completely unexpected.

However, the Shuangchahe Castle was the focus of construction. In order to ensure the safety of the castle, Baron Jacques specially deployed more than [-] soldiers in the Shuanghe Castle, and half of them were veterans who had experienced wars.

With a tall city wall, a double-layer defense system inside and outside, plus a moat, various other city defense facilities, and various sufficient war supplies prepared early, even if the entire Kingdom of Elis attacked the city together, this castle would be able to Easily defend for more than half a year.

As for Xiaoyang City - this city named after the name of God, if King Elis is wise, it is best to stay away from here, because this is the gathering place for the holy war army of the entire Kingdom of Louis, and it is also the gathering place for other kingdoms, all the lords Come to support the destination of the war.If that lunatic in Elis dares to attack this city, the continuous support army, the towering walls of Xiaoyang City, and the tens of thousands of residents in the city will destroy the expeditionary army of the Kingdom of Elis, which lacks successors.

If the outpost is regarded as the eyes of the Kingdom of Louis in this war, the Shuangchahe Castle is the armor of the Kingdom of Louis, and the last Xiaoyang City is the sharp sword.

According to the general thinking of war, the enemy from the kingdom of Elis will first find a way to cover his eyes first, and then slowly consume the armor, and when the enemy is doing these hard work and revealing weaknesses and flaws-in war, there will always be At times like this—the Lord Baron will quietly gather the whole country—if the time is long enough, there will even be troops from the Quan Xiaoyang Sect—to come to help, sharpen this sharp sword, and defeat the enemy with the last sword.

But Baron Jacques couldn't imagine that it was just a striker of 600 people. In just four days, he stabbed the Kingdom of Louis blind with just one sword, and it was easy with just one sword. After piercing through the armor of the Kingdom of Louis, the army not only didn't feel any difficulty, but instead came towards his sword.

At this time, the letters sent by King Louis to the whole country, asking the lords to come to support, have not yet been delivered-according to the time concept of this era, it will take three or four months to arrive at the fastest.

Now, Baron Jacques has not had three or four months, he only has two days, no, not even.

If this striker marched at full speed at night like those days before, it would appear at the foot of Xiaoyang City tonight, or tomorrow morning at the latest.

At this time, the entire force of Xiaoyang City is only over 2000 people.

If it was four days ago, the baron would definitely not think that a force of up to 2000 people could not deal with a striker with less than 600 people in the city. He would only worry that this small force is too cunning and may be difficult to locate and catch. Scurrying around, looting and messing up the village near the castle...

If it was yesterday, the baron would at best think that his opponent might be trying to lure him out of the city to rescue Shuangchahe, and that he was preparing to besiege the city and fight for aid, and he would not have any doubts about the safety of Xiaoyang City itself...

However, now, Baron Jacques is really starting to feel fear-if the angels believed by the Elis people really have such magical skills, then why are they afraid?

Can turn stone into powder...

Can turn steel into pieces...

Xiaoyang is on top!

Will the body of only 2000 men be heavier than a stone wall, and the armor of only 2000 men stronger than a steel gate?

"Officer, draw up an order," Baron Jacques felt as if he was frightened into a cold sweat, "All men over the age of 16 in the city, gather them!"

"Everyone must issue weapons!"

"Execute now!"

"immediately!"

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Just when the whole city of Xiaoyang City was mobilized to actively respond to the invasion of the Kingdom of Elis, the city of King Elis, hundreds of miles away, was also doing the same.

A large number of people and supplies have left the city one after another, and the whole city of Elis has disappeared from the bustle and noise of the previous half month, as if it has returned to the peaceful and stable days in the past.Only the looks of the passers-by on the road made everyone realize that the current King City of Elis is no longer the King City of the past.

There were hardly any young people on the street, and all those who stayed in the city were basically old people and young children, besides a small number of nobles and their families.

In the eyes of these people who stayed behind, their lives are now as if they are already in heaven.The large amounts of spices and wealth brought by the envoys have been exchanged for their subordinates and food. These nobles who stayed behind have now become rich, rich people that they could not have imagined before.

But their wealth is not good news for ordinary citizens. The price of food in the whole city is rising rapidly. Although people in this era don't know what inflation is, everyone can feel it, that is In the Royal City of Elis, gold, pearls, crystals, spices... these things began to become common, while food, the most common food, gradually, slowly, but firmly and irresistibly became rare.

It's not that no one is aware of the dangers involved.

Just when King Elis left with his original subjects, the first thing the future king, now Duke Anthony, did was to organize other nobles to try to buy more youth and food from other countries .

When new immigrants enter this strange and famous city, they can still see many strange signs posted in various places in the city. That is the great turmoil that the city has just experienced, and it is also the most important part of the city. history.

There are pictures of cakes everywhere on the bulletin boards, and there are many wells everywhere in the city, and their names are often related to the two keywords of God and cakes.

earth well...

sweet well...

White Cake Well...

If you ask many of the original residents who stayed on the street, you can still hear a lot of stories about angels and cookies.If you are really interested in these stories, you can even ride a horse. Just go south for more than 140 miles, which is a little more than a day’s journey on horseback. You can also see the team that just left, and you can eat for free. Bakery.

Wang Youquan and Xu Yan had already left yesterday, and Shen Changwen was supervising the last batch of food delivery teams from the city.While riding past the Duke's mansion, he found that something seemed to be going on inside.

Out of concern and some kind of worry, Shen Changwen decided to visit the door to inquire.

His Excellency the Duke personally received him, and told the envoy what he was doing - he was going to dig a huge underground space to deal with the possible disaster that the envoy said.

After telling the description of the project, the Duke also asked Shen Changwen tactfully—if the disaster Shen Changwen said was true, would the project work or not.

Shen Changwen was a little dumbfounded. Many nobles had asked him this kind of question in private before. It is estimated that after they left, they would dig a hole under the place where they lived, just like the Duke.Of course, in theory, as long as the basement is dug deep enough, the space inside is large enough, and the equipment is complete enough, it is not difficult to achieve the effect of refuge.In the initial rescue plan, Shen Changwen also focused on consulting many experts for the plan of digging underground.

If it is only a small number of people's refuge, such as a nobleman, a family, it is not impossible to do it at all.

But this can be done, just to say that during the volcanic eruption stage, they will not die for the time being, but it is hard to say whether they can live, how long, and how well they will live.

If it is just to prolong life for half a year or a year for no purpose, even in the best case, a few people, or a dozen people, will barely struggle to be tortured by the extremely harsh environment in the future for more than ten years, and then die in pain. , what is the point?

If it exceeds a certain order of magnitude, such as hundreds of people, it is basically impossible to extend even this point.

Moreover, even if this standard is to be achieved, the premise is that the design and construction should be based on modern design concepts. Relying on them to hire a group of masons to try to build an underground air-raid shelter to block the magma is as ridiculous as Qin Shihuang's attempt to build a Great Wall to block tanks.

Shen Changwen would not laugh at the ridiculousness of these ancients, because the concept of a world-class volcanic eruption was unimaginable to the ancients.He is not going to tell them the fact that building this kind of underground space may not save their lives, but as a tomb for preservation, it still has a little historical significance. Judging from their remaining lives of more than a month, It is also rare to find something meaningful to do.

So Shen Changwen could only comfort Duke Anthony and said, "It will be useful."

This purpose may be that hundreds or thousands of years later, their bones will be dug up and used as stupid specimens to commemorate.