Carry the Ring of Elden with you

"On the way here, I was robbed by a group of bandits, and then I was sent here by that dead old man Lionel to deal with some assassin. Now I have to face thousands of enemies with you, a rigid knight. That's not all. Are you having bad luck?" Robert replied in a "happy" tone.

Chapter 67: The Faded Seven

"Quick, quick, quick!! Move!! If you don't want others to climb in directly from the stones that fell from the city wall and chop off your head, then use your shovel to clean up these ruins!!" Nickles said here Roaring loudly and roughly, urging the soldiers of the Holy Empire of France around the city wall.

He climbed up the city wall, grabbed the telescope hanging around his neck, looked at the soldiers of the Charlie Land Empire who were charging in formation, and cursed: "Damn it!! What kind of son-of-a-bitch nobleman is in charge of the maintenance of the Oakland front camp?" ! How come the city wall was hit by a trebuchet from the opposite side and cracked so much like a fucking egg!!"

At this time, behind the charging soldiers of Charles' Empire, the huge battering ram chariot was pushed out.Although this huge tank did not move, it put a lot of visual pressure on Niklos.

Moreover, the Charles Empire also dispatched a ramming vehicle specifically responsible for hitting the wall. The sharp metal giant striker left Niklos with no doubt that as long as it could hit the outer city wall, it would collapse.

"Damn it! Alcott! If your mage troops are still playing the you-draw-I-guess game with the mage on the other side, then just wait for the other side to put a knife on your neck!" Nickles quickly put down the telescope. , shouted at Alcott, the legion commander of the mage troops standing in the open space behind the city wall.

Alcott concentrated on guiding the magic power that came with the support of the military mage behind him. After hearing Nickles's roar, he also roared back. The elegant posture before was completely gone: "Shut your noisy mouth, if not I'm blocking the enemy's spells, and your fortifications made of broken stones have long been cleared by the bombing, so you can find a way to block the gaps created by the bombardment."

Alcott was right. Ever since the mages from both sides competed against each other, various spells have been colliding with each other in the skies above the Auckland front and the Charles Empire's military formations.

The remaining ether after the spell collision caused the environment of the surrounding mountains to become chaotic. It looked very strange from a distance. Flames and frost coexisted, thunder and lightning danced with poisonous gas, like a huge paint tray accidentally knocked over in the Oakland Mountains. superior.

Nickles could only send someone to call for help from the legion commander of the Holy Armor troops, Biqier, who had been recuperating and waiting, and asked him to send the Holy Armor soldiers to the city wall to speed up the cleaning of the ruins and strengthen the manpower for city defense.

Nickles has minimized the losses. Next, he can only pray that the thick city gates engraved with magic runes in the Oakland camp can withstand the terrifying battering ram chariots on the opposite side for a while longer, but the city wall His performance just now made him feel bad inside.

If he could return to the capital alive, Nickles said he would chop off the heads of the nobles responsible for maintaining the fortifications on the Auckland Front.

Otherwise, if the outer city wall cannot resist the enemy, they will have to retreat to the inner city wall to engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

On the other side, Enoch, the general of the Charles Empire, was surprised when he saw that the first round of catapults used for counterattack unexpectedly smashed several places on the outer city wall of Auckland, which was known as an iron wall of defense.

"General...could this be a trap by the Holy Empire of France?" Enoch's lieutenant general put down his telescope and was also dumbfounded.He couldn't believe that a few ordinary stone pellets could break through the defense of Auckland's city wall.

Without saying a word, Enoch dodged the telescope from the deputy general's hand and carefully observed the reaction of the soldiers on the city wall. When he saw them hurriedly cleaning the stones and rubble on the city wall, he laughed and said: "No, look. The reaction of the soldiers on the opposite side does not look like a trap. The fighter plane disappears in a blink of an eye. Send the order and let the first batch of soldiers attacking the city come forward!"

"Yes! The first legion attacks!" the adjutant shouted, and the messenger behind him immediately blew the horn of attack passionately.

The military formations of the Charles Empire began to change in an orderly manner with the sound of horns, and soldiers numbering in the thousands began to move according to the orders of their respective commanders.

After all, the barrier on the Auckland Front is not very wide, and it makes no sense to add more soldiers. About 2000 soldiers are enough to fill the entire front.

The black heavily armored soldiers who had just finished a hand-to-hand battle with the Death Legion were at the forefront of the team. Behind them were agile shieldmen holding swords and bucklers. Strong spearmen and longbowmen were crowded on high ladder trucks. Go up, followed by a naked hard labor soldier pushing a ladder chariot.

However, the battering ram only advanced slowly. Enoch was prepared to use the vanguard to consume the physical strength of the defending soldiers on the opponent's city wall before making the final decision.

Siege warfare is a matter of patience. If you are too impatient and want to achieve your goal, the generals who defend the city will catch the flaw.

The mage troops stayed in place and continued to release and resolve the spells released by Alcott's mage troops. The anxious spell battle even left them unable to spare any energy to help their own troops cast some buff spells.

As the attacking army of Charles's Empire got closer and closer, the good-looking archers on both sides began to narrow their eyes, bend their bows and set arrows, and took the lead in starting the siege battle.

Due to the existence of the ladder truck, the longbowmen of Charles' Empire did not suffer much loss in height. They aimed at the city wall of the Auckland front.

Similarly, most of the archers of the Holy Empire of France aimed their attacks at the hard-working soldiers under the ladder truck who were struggling to push the vehicle forward.

However, the heavy armored soldiers of the Charles Empire used their bodies and steel armor to block the incoming sharp arrows. More arrows sank into the wooden structure of the ladder truck. Occasionally, one or two lucky bows and arrows passed through these human walls and hit the shirtless people. However, the death of several hard laborers was not enough to affect the progress of the ladder truck. Other hard laborers immediately supplemented the positions of the dead, so that these archers did not achieve their goals.

On the contrary, the longbows of the Charles Empire posed a considerable threat to the soldiers on the city wall. The soldiers of the Holy Empire of France were suppressed and could only hide beside the battlements. From time to time, unlucky soldiers were hit by bows and arrows. He groaned when he was shot.

"Push the crossbow over here! Attack those ladder trucks!" Niklos hid behind the battlements and yelled the command.

The crossbow cart that was quickly prepared was pushed over by the soldiers holding shields to block the arrows. Although the thick crossbow arrows on it were not as large as the anti-dragon ballistae used to kill dragons behind the camp, they could destroy Charlie. The defense of these ladder trucks in the Sri Lankan Empire is more than sufficient.

"Bam—!"

The crossbow carts made a muffled sound, and the crossbow bolt fired by one of them penetrated the platform above one of the ladder carts that was crowded with spearmen and longbowmen from the Charles Empire. Broken limbs and blood mist covered the top of the ladder cart in an instant. , like exploding cotton, followed by the screams of the soldiers who were seriously injured but not dead.

As for the attack effects of other bed ballistas, they are not very ideal.

The imperfection here means that the crossbow arrows fired by these bed crossbows did not successfully destroy the ladder truck, which does not mean that they did not cause much damage.In fact, although these bed crossbows did not have precise and clear targets, the crossbow arrows also shot into the military formation of the Charles Empire, causing considerable losses to the heavy armor soldiers and sword and shield bearers.

The remaining longbowmen on the platforms of the three ladder trucks took advantage of the soldiers who controlled the crossbows on the city wall to turn the winches and reload the crossbows, and fired arrows at these soldiers frantically to stop their movements.Even if there were companions protecting them with shields, the soldiers manipulating the crossbows would suffer heavy casualties in an instant.

But the archers of the Holy Holy Empire of France, who were no longer suppressed by the longbowmen, also began their own counterattack. This time they aimed their attack at the longbowmen on the three ladder truck platforms, and the two sides began to fight in the archery. .

And our faded ones Robert and Ludwig were also hiding behind a collapsed battlement, leisurely watching the battle between soldiers on both sides, as if the war so close at hand had nothing to do with them.

But it's not really unrelated. It's just that after the fight, the soldiers who were clearing away the rubble had no time to care about this side. Even Nickles felt that since he didn't have time to deal with the collapsed area, he might as well pile more obstacles to cover the city wall. It was isolated so that even if the soldiers of the Charles Empire came up, they would not be able to immediately attack the outer city wall through this gap.

So Robert and Ludwig huddled behind the battlements, listening to the obstacles piling up around them, and looked at each other.

"Honestly, I'm sure they have forgotten about us, or think that we have been crushed to death under these rubbles." Robert counted the crossbow arrows he placed on the ground to confirm their use in the upcoming battle. How long can it be used?

Ludwig sat cross-legged on the ground with his back against the battlement. The magic knight nodded in agreement with Robert's words: "Yes, so we can only rely on ourselves. Are you ready? Mr. Robert?"

"If you just defend here, there will be no problem." Robert raised his head to confirm the collapse of the city wall, and when he confirmed that the gap could not allow more than three enemies to enter at the same time, he confidently said to Ludwig said.

Then he shrugged again: "Of course, if you expect me to fight back and clean up the enemies, you are looking down too high on me."

Ludwig shook his head: "I didn't mean that. Although I can barely do it, the risk of this method is too great. Moreover, if we perform too brightly, it will also attract the attention of the Charles Empire. When the time comes, There will be more soldiers attacking our place, and the pressure on defense will be much greater."

"?" Robert tilted his head, expressing doubts about what Ludwig just said, "barely able to do it."

I was just joking, but why have you really seriously considered this possibility?

Robert looked at Ludwig's Kalia Knight suit. The handsome and gorgeous magic knight outfit looked majestic because of Ludwig's words just now. He couldn't help but asked: "You can't really be Kalia." Isn’t there a group of 20 or so monster knights from the Leah royal family who fought against the many heroes of the Golden Tree to no avail?”

After he came to the junction from the land of reeds, he met a Kalia knight named "Mugram" when he was wandering in Lienia of the Lake. At that time, he was keen to challenge various strong men in the junction. He saw the strength of this knight, so he stepped forward to provoke him, and was easily defeated by the opponent's unparalleled superb skills.

If the other party hadn't rushed to the mage academy, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been saved by Miss Feiya who passed by later.

Facing this question, Ludwig shook his head again: "No, I tell you seriously that I am not one of those Kalia knights. It's just that I have always dreamed of becoming a real Kalia knight, but unfortunately my strength is not enough. To support my dream."

"It's a good thing for a person to have a dream, Mr. Knight, it means you have the motivation to move forward. Unlike me, who was just waiting to die when I was at the border, when I came here I was just waiting to die." Robert listened after a long time. When it comes to this word, how long has it been since he heard this word?The last time he seemed to have heard it was from the mouth of his deceased friend.

What is your friend’s dream?Robert's eyes suddenly became confused, and he found that the words spoken by his friend were so blurry in his ears.

Then Robert realized something and said to Ludwig: "Don't ask me what my dream is. Let's discuss how to defeat these siege soldiers later."

"Uh... Okay, since you don't want to talk about this topic, Mr. Robert." Ludwig really planned to continue talking about this topic.

Robert rolled his eyes, but Ludwig didn't see it: "Because I don't want us to look like a young man in love. You take these things, and we will hide them later. Give the soldiers a surprise when they're about to climb up."

He carefully handed the three flame pots to Ludwig: "Hold your hands steady and don't shake! Otherwise, we two brothers will become firemen immediately. This is a flame pot. Have you ever used this thing? No? That's okay. , please remember that the explosion splash range of this thing is very large. Don’t get close to yourself, otherwise we will have no place to stand. How do you use it? It’s very simple, just throw it out. Others Leave it to the materials mixed in the flame pot to handle."

Robert patiently taught Ludwig how to use the flame pot.

After Ludwig knew how dangerous the three humble pots in front of him were, he took them with the same caution.

"Mr. Robert, do you always seem to carry so many props with you?" Ludwig glanced at the soldiers of the Charles Empire who were getting closer and closer, and wanted to talk more in his last free time.

Robert nodded in response to Ludwig's question, and at the same time took out a bottle of incense he got from Roland from his backpack, smiling with satisfaction.

He flicked the five-glazed bottle and said to Ludwig ostentatiously: "This thing may be of great help at critical moments."

Just when Ludwig wanted to say something, they suddenly felt the city wall shake slightly, and then there were shouts of killing rising to the sky.

Chapter 68: Robert: Where is the stability promised?

The baffle erected on the platform of the ladder chariot was kicked open by the spearmen of the Charles Empire, and the hard steel teeth were firmly inserted into the stones of the city wall outside the Auckland front, and connected to form a walking pedal.Then, with bold roars and roars, the soldiers on the ladder truck platform raised their spears and stepped on the pedals and filed out, like hungry lions seeing delicious prey.

"Don't retreat! Don't retreat! Come on, we can't let them climb the city wall!" Nickles shouted loudly.

He took the lead, holding a machete in his hand and rushing towards the city wall where the ladder truck was approaching, leading the surrounding soldiers to fight fiercely with the spearmen of the Charles Empire.

Some of the strong longbowmen in the ladder car also took out weapons for close combat and crowded behind the spearmen, while the remaining longbowmen continued to exchange fire with the archers on the city wall.

"Dang——! Dang——!" There were two more steel collisions on the city wall, making a crisp sound. After a brief tremor, the other two ladder trucks also lowered their baffles, and the soldiers of the Charles Empire stepped in. Quickly ran out and trembled with the nearby French Holy Empire soldiers.

The soldiers of the Charles Empire under the city wall were not without means to climb the city wall, and long ladders with barbs were hung heavily on the battlements.The skilled swordsmen and shieldmen raised their shields above their heads to resist the stones thrown downwards or the arrows fired by the soldiers on the city wall. They used their hands and feet to quickly climb up the long swaying ladder like monkeys. , from time to time, unlucky soldiers would be hit in the body by thrown stones or hit by arrows flying diagonally. They would let go of their hands and scream in agony, falling from the long ladder to the ground.

After seeing this, the longbowman on the ladder truck immediately changed his attack target and began to cover the heroic soldiers who climbed the ladder with their bodies.

After the sword and shield bearers of the Charles Empire suffered a lot of casualties, one sword and shield bearer finally climbed up the city wall. However, in the next moment, he was stabbed in the neck by a soldier on the wall who had been preparing for a long time. Blood gushed out. It sprayed on the city wall in front of him, and the body of the sword and shield wielder fell down weakly.

But before the sword-wielding French Holy Empire soldier could relax, another grinning sword-shielder jumped up from the long ladder, jumped on the soldier, and slashed the opponent's face with a simple sword. Throat, but he was also killed by other soldiers on the wall.

However, the gap has been opened by the two sacrificial sword and shield bearers, and more and more soldiers of the Charles Empire came one after another from the long ladder to tear apart the defense line on the city wall with their own lives.

The strength of the soldiers on both sides is evenly matched. It depends on who can sustain this breath to drive the other side off the city wall or occupy a small section of the city wall to facilitate the subsequent attack of our own soldiers.The Charles Empire soldiers who jumped from the ladder truck to the platform were also approaching the positions of the sword and shield men, hoping to join together to form a temporary front on the city wall.

Nicholls, who organized soldiers to fight back on the outer city wall, naturally discovered the intentions of the soldiers of the Charles Empire. He chopped down the spearman who had just jumped off the ladder truck in front of him with a knife, and at the same time commanded the soldiers to divide the battlefield.

"We can't let them join together!! We will use your corpses to stand between them even if we die! The archers shoot in the direction of the enemy's sword and shield wielders!" Niklos roared loudly.

However, the small city wall corridor cannot allow more enemies to stand, but it also limits the number of soldiers on the city wall. In addition, the steps of the city wall are blocked by collapsed ruins, making the supporting soldiers unable to do so for a while. Climb the wall.So Nickles found that as his own soldiers gradually died, he was really unable to stop the other party's intention to reunite on the outer city wall.

Moreover, the other party also judged that Niklos was the general in charge, and sent more soldiers to target him.Although the strength of these soldiers could not pose a threat to Niklos' life, it still made him unable to pay attention to the battle on the city wall.

Damn it, they have to be stopped.Niklos's eyes were bloodshot. This pure-blooded imperial nobleman slashed the weapon in his hand anxiously, but the enemies seemed to be endless and endless. After killing one, two more came immediately.

"Don't worry, Commander of the Niklos Army. There is still the Holy Armor Army on the city wall. Leave these enemies to us. Please command the soldiers to resist the enemies outside the city wall." Captain Bichir of the Holy Armor Army appeared in Nick. Next to Les, he patted Nickles on the shoulder, and then raised the expensive magic sword in his hand.

As Bichir poured his own ether into it, the white blade of the magic sword sprayed out blue ether and converged into a sharp blade of light.

The enemy in front of him naturally recognized Bichir as a holy armor soldier of the Holy Empire of France. The powerful and iconic white and gold magic armor was too eye-catching. The sword and shield hand raised the shield in his hand. Want to go back.

Bichir stepped forward suddenly, aimed at the shield-hands who raised their shields, and slashed away with the magic sword. The beautiful blue ether blade brought a bloody storm.

Following the attack of the captain of the Holy Armor troops, the other waiting Holy Armor soldiers also relied on their superior magic armor to suppress the once tense battle for the city wall with a crushing force.For a time, the city wall was filled with white and gold colors representing the magical armor of the Holy Armor. The appearance of these Holy Armor also boosted the morale of other soldiers of the Holy Empire of France.

Niklos thanked Bichir profusely and said: "Thanks to your help, Bichir's belly is bloated. This is the enemy's first wave of offensive. Please make sure you and your fellow Holy Armor soldiers maintain sufficient physical strength."

Then he glanced suspiciously at the collapsed place on the other side of the city wall, which had been silent. The previous chaotic battle on the city wall left him without the energy to notice whether there were soldiers from the Charles Empire climbing on the other side of the city wall.

Nicholls was just about to send a team of soldiers to check out the situation.But the next second, there was a sound like a broken earthen pot at the collapsed city wall, and an orange-red fire flashed, making Niklos's expression change, thinking that the enemy was preparing to explode the pile of ruins.

But the screams that followed made him a little confused. It couldn't be that the soldiers of the Charles Empire were stupid and burned themselves, right?

Of course not, the gradually extinguishing high-temperature flames were caused by the flame pot thrown by Ludwig under Robert's command.

"Okay, Sir Knight. It's a pity that I didn't prepare an oil can, otherwise the fire would be enough to withstand them for a while." Robert pointed the pulley crossbow filled with ordinary crossbow arrows at those whose bodies were burning with flames and kept struggling to try. The head of the extinguisher pulled the trigger while praising Ludwig.

Ludwig did not answer Robert's words, but stood in front of the gap, withdrew the sword from the chest of a Charles Empire soldier, and kicked him down the ruins.

Long before the ladder truck crashed into the city wall, they had welcomed at least 50 sword and shield bearers from the Charles Empire.However, relying on the cooperation of Ludwig and Robert and the last flame pot, the enemy was temporarily cleared.

But soon another group of soldiers from the Charles Empire came to the ruins. This time they were not just sword and shield men. They also sent heavy armored soldiers to try to break through.

Because of the suppression of the Holy Armor soldiers in other parts of the outer city wall, the frontline commanders of the Charles Empire discovered that they could not expand their victory, and began to focus their attack on the collapsed city wall in front of Robert and the others.

"Ding——!" The crossbow arrow fired by the pulley crossbow bounced off the heavy black armor of the heavy armored soldier, leaving only a faint white mark.

"Tsk, I knew it couldn't be that easy." Robert sighed in dissatisfaction, put the roller crossbow back into his backpack, picked up the cross knife on the ground, held the gun barrel and stood behind Ludwig.

"Hey, you can take care of those tin cans, and I'll take care of the others." Robert raised his head to Ludwig, his eyes under the warrior's helmet showing a surging fighting spirit.

Ludwig nodded slightly. He knew that the cross knife in Robert's hand would be difficult to kill the enemy in one shot against an iron can that was protected by heavy armor. On the contrary, he could rely on the Kallia Knight Sword to use magic combat skills. Quickly break through the defenses of these iron cans.

"kill!"

Although the soldiers of the Charles Empire were curious as to why there were two men wearing different styles from the soldiers of the Holy Empire of France guarding here, at the urging of their superior officers, they just regarded them as war mercenaries who came to work for their lives, and stepped on the broken pieces. The pile of stones rushed towards the red reed warrior and the blue and silver magic knight.

As the defensive side, Ludwig took the lead in attacking. The sapphire blue pyroxene inlaid on the sword exuded a glimmer of light. The Kallia Knight Sword was originally a catalyst that could cast magic.

Five shining swords appeared next to Ludwig, and then automatically sensed the enemy and shot at the nearest heavy armored soldier.

"The enemy is a magic swordsman! Prepare for magic protection!" A sword and shield player who led the attack team reminded loudly the moment he saw the Hui Sword, but this move also caused him to be locked by Robert.

The squad leader's reminder was already too late. Before the heavy armored soldier who was automatically targeted by the Hui Sword could react, the Hui Sword penetrated his armor, and then his body was rolled down by his own weight.

"Bang!" Robert narrowed his eyes, took out a thunder kettle from his backpack and threw it.

The effect of using a flame kettle against these heavy iron cans coming forward was definitely not good, but Robert's experience told him that the thunder kettle could produce miraculous effects.

Sure enough, the golden lightning exploded by the thunder kettle electrocuted two heavy armored soldiers on the spot, and the remaining thunder and lightning also spread and paralyzed the remaining heavy armored soldiers.

Robert took advantage of this opportunity and rushed out of the gap that was supposed to be guarded. The tip of the cross knife was pointed at the captain who was leading the way.

Ludwig didn't ask why Robert rushed out or worried about the other party's comfort. The battle of the faded ones didn't have so many reasons and concerns. Once it started, it was only to achieve the goal.

So he reacted quickly, jumped down from the gap, raised the Kalia Knight Shield to cover in front of Robert.

The knights of Kallia never stand behind their teammates.

The two of them passed by the heavy armored soldiers who were paralyzed and unable to move. The captain of the sword and shield bearer did not retreat but advanced. Apparently he also understood the principle that the brave will win when meeting on a narrow road, so he did not raise his shield, but raised his sword with both hands to strike at the road. Derwig.

Just when the blade touched the Kalia knight's shield, Ludwig suddenly exerted force.Not only did the silver shield inlaid with magic gems deflect the incoming blade, it not only made the captain of the sword and shield wielder almost lose his weapon, but also made him unable to maintain his body balance, and he stumbled to his knees on the ground.

In the end, Ludwig did not take another look at the enemy who lost his balance. Instead, he blocked the attacks of other sword and shield players with the experienced Kalia Knight sword block. He knew that Robert would kill the captain.

"Pfft-"

The tip of Robert's cross knife penetrated the captain's armor and heart. Then he raised the cross knife and threw the corpse towards the enemies in front of Ludwig. The heavy corpse knocked back those enemies who wanted to sneak attack from the side. .

Seeing that Robert's goal was achieved, Ludwig stabbed the enemy in front of him in the throat with his sword, kicked the corpse towards the soldier who wanted to climb up, and immediately filled his own body with the Kallia Knight Sword while the other party was unable to attack him. Ether, the two-handed sword that turned blue when the second section of the sword was charged, slashed out.