The warm spring breeze made people almost dozing off. The Rangers hiding in the woods in the wind looked at the scattered branches of Lucia's army in the distance.

From Barrett's eyes, the small town called Camplin doesn't cover a large area, and whether all the walls have one mile or not is a problem. The permanent residents around here only have 2,000-3,000 people per day. In addition, foreign business travelers and mercenaries should not have exceeded the 4,000-person mark.

Although a large number of soldiers were mobilized after the war began, the proportion of military and civilians here reached an amazing level. But if they were all arranged on the city wall, it would be like pepper sprinkled in soup and could not be found.

So Barrett was unable to set up soldiers standing in a while behind the female wall at the top of the city. Before the Syrians launched an attack, they were probably hiding in the watchtower between the two sections of the city walls. This would only better maintain their physical strength and resist the enemy's cold arrows.

But in this way, the empty city walls give people the feeling that the city is completely unprepared. But if any fool really thinks so, waiting for the former will be a feast of interweaving arrows.

Although it has been impossible to determine how many cities guarding equipment there are in this small town called Camplin. It is not difficult to tell from the eye holes of the cattle on the watchtowers and the city walls that there are absolutely a large number of crossbows in the local area. Before these crossbows are damaged in fatigue, any creature who wants to attack Camplin will be hit head-on.

Unfortunately, since he hadn't even seen a few Cruze soldiers guarding the city, it was even harder to find Barrett's players. After struggling for a while but not getting any results, he could only turn his attention to Lucia's army outside the city.

Through the camps built in the wilderness and the flying flags, Barrett has initially judged the approximate size of the Lucia troops in front of him. Although their number is indeed far more than the number of defenders in Camplin, it is still quite far from being surrounded by ten. Therefore, they cannot launch an offensive at the same time from four directions, which gives Camplin's defenders a chance.

However, between the blue and white flags, Barrett still saw the disturbing iron-wood monster - the medium-sized swaying stone tool. Although this little guy was not in the lineup among the big family of siege equipment, it was enough to deal with a small town like Camplin. Cooperating with those torsional crossbows, it was completely impossible to suppress the defenders behind the female wall so hard that they dared not show up.

"It seems that these Lucians are quite prepared! If no one can help, Camplin City may not last long." The Knight Baptis, who suddenly appeared beside Barrett's shoulder, carefully controlling his voice.

Barret, who turned around, nodded and said in a low voice: "The current situation is indeed unfavorable to the Cruzes. Now I don't know if there are also knights in the small town in front of me. If so, can you and him work together to severely damage the gentleman who Lucia has dispatched to this team."

"There must be knights in Cruze, otherwise this small city would not last until now. You should understand what changes will happen to the scale of war after unilaterally investing in the knights." Knight Bapti said very surely.

But then he suddenly changed his voice, "But even with that one, I don't know whether it can severely damage the Lucia Knight. After all, I don't know the fighting style of both of them."

The knight is powerful, so powerful that even if it is a battle between knights, it is not easy to severely damage the other party. Even if it creates a situation where two-for-one can be fought head-on, no one can guarantee that the fight will be cheap in the pursuit of fugitives - unless there is an absolute gap in strength between the two sides.

But now the Knight Baptisi is neither clear about the fighting style of the Lucia Knight nor the specific strength of the Knight Cruze. The former makes it impossible for him to formulate targeted tactics based on the characteristics of the enemy, and the latter makes the cooperation between the two sides greatly reduce the effect of cooperation.

And the Knights of Baptis cannot enter Camplin first to establish a tacit understanding with the Cruzes. He is not at all at ease with the intelligence work of Cruzes. The government agencies like sieves, as soon as he comes to the door, the Lucians will know that they leave - that sudden attack will become a joke.

"If you can't severely damage Lucia's knights, then the gap between conventional force will be too big. All we can do is to delay Lucia's siege progress, and at the same time, we hope that Cruze can send troops to rescue the siege in time!" Barrett, who has war experience, quickly made a correct assessment.

It was obvious that Barrett was in a bad mood and patted him on the shoulder: "Anyway, we are not here to guard that small earthen city. It is a success to be able to save yourself who appears in the trap when the city is broken. Don't put such great pressure on yourself?"

Just as Barrett and the Knights of Baptis were initial planners, Lucia's army in front of him also began to launch a new round of offensive towards Camplin City. Lucia soldiers holding shields began to run towards Camplin City at a possible blow. Some of them were carrying ladders for climbing walls, while others were carrying a heavy iron siege hammer together, but more were the soldiers holding short swords.

Soon, the Cruze soldiers in the watchtower reacted. The crossbow arrows shot out from the bull's eye window and flew to the crowd at high speed. From time to time, Lucia soldiers were shot by arrows that crossed the shield, and then lost their balance and fell to the ground. Then they completely disappeared into the crowd coming from behind.

However, there are too many Lucians siege, and the firepower that the defending soldiers can project in this direction is still limited. So even though many Lucians were shot to the ground, it was like throwing a small stone into the waves, which could not be seen in a blink of an eye.

When the crossbowmen launched a strike, soldiers gushed out of the watchtowers and rushed to the selected section of the city wall for the enemy to attack the city. But at this time, the catapults and crossbows far away in Lucia's camp then exerted force. Under the operation of the enemy's shouts, ropes and pulleys, dozens of ammunition were thrown into extremely high altitudes. Stained stone bullets rolled in mid-air and smashed towards the city wall.

"Bang, bang, bang." One after another, stone bombs fell on the city wall and fell on the roof behind the city. The former left a clear mark on the wall, rubbing a piece of skin from the thick brick and earth building. The latter directly smashed the roof of the house and opened a skylight for the residents in the city for free. Among them, the beams of the house were broken. Then a group of people rushed out of the house with their families, fearing that the collapsed roof would be pressed into it.

Although there were many stone bullets that were far or near, several still successfully landed on the top of the city. With the sound of "bang!", a soldier guarding the city on Cruze broke his arm by a stone bullet flying towards him. Then the projectile fell to the female wall behind him. Then it rebounded from the female wall and smashed another soldier to the ground.

Although the soldiers from both sides had not yet contacted each other, they had already begun to see blood. However, only a few of them were actually hit, so the impact on morale was not large. Soon the ladders were put on the top of the city.

"Put the fork stick!" With the order of the non-commissioned officer, the soldiers who had already prepared had hit the simple fork stick in their hands on the ladder of the siege. If they used their strength to push forward, they would jump along the Lucians who had climbed into the air and then fell backwards and experienced the free fall.

The first wave of attacks was like a wave hitting a huge reef. Like most Lucia's offensives, although it seemed to be huge, the actual effect was indeed not very good.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Camplin's city gate began to be shocked by the siege hammer. Although the Lucians only used the light siege hammer without a bracket, Camplin's city gate was not far inferior to the real fortress. It seemed to be shaking under this series of blows - immediately forcing the shooters on the city tower to concentrate their firepower on the huge threat at the gate.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, several ladders erected against the city wall again. Another wave of enemy attacks unfolded wildly from the city wall and under the city wall, and the pressure of the defenders was instantly increased. Some of these arrivals were pushed out by the fork bar at the first time. However, some of them were nailed to the top of the city with the iron hooks on it - in this way, the threat of the fork bar was completely ignored.

The soldiers responsible for solving these wall climbers stood on the trunk. They kept throwing stones and limes down. So most of the Lucians made free fall movements and fell into balls in shallow pits formed on the ground.

Of course, some Lucians also rely on their agile skills to avoid the thrown objects that were constantly thrown above their heads. But just as they reached out to grab the wall and tried to climb up, several weapons immediately greeted him, but fell down and hit the heads of other Lucians heavily.

However, there is a big gap in the quality of soldiers in the Kingdom of Cruze and Lucia. After a series of strong attacks, Lucia soldiers soon climbed to the top of the city. At this moment of crisis, the reserve team on the top of the city also entered the battle amid the alarm bells.

The professional soldiers who had invested a lot of resources in Cruze were waving their glittering weapons in their hands and rushed to the shaking line of defense. A figure that was far taller than ordinary people was particularly conspicuous.

The guy roared and his skin began to turn red, and then the blood vessels and his muscles began to swell together. With the sound of tearing and the sound of sword blades breaking through the air, the Lucians wearing leather armor were knocked away one by one. Their weapons were broken, their bodies were distorted, and several others were swept out of the city walls in the air.

Just this point, the barbarian in front of him was not much worse than Barrett's strength after the violent storm. However, this outstanding barbarian quickly attracted the attention of officers Lucia. As the few people in the camp whispered, a flash of light passed by like a meteor over the battlefield.

But just as the meteor was about to fly to the top of the city, the stream of light it had originally shrouded suddenly disappeared, and then it revealed its gray prototype.

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Barromain took the cup with his thick and short fingers, held it with his hands and poured a large mouthful. The house seemed quiet for a moment. The calm was soon broken: "Later, four chambers of commerce found that they actually had a lot of goods transferred from our port to ashore than their original trade route. I hope to open up a new trade route here. Judging from the cargo volume they provided, the berths reserved at the original wharf were a little bit reluctant. In addition, some fleets hoped to replenish midway at our wharf. If we don't build a new wharf, the existing berths at the port would be completely insufficient."

Qiao Ji touched his chin and pondered for a while: "I will arrange the matters of the dock as soon as possible. The city hall will start a feasibility investigation and arrange a budget tomorrow. The craftsmen of the association have already contacted him, but if the construction starts, it will not start until the autumn harvest at the earliest."

"No problem, as long as those merchants know that a new dock will be built here, there will be no problem. After all, good trade routes and supply points are not so easy to find." Barroman put down his cup and rubbed his hands.

"By the way, Barromain, how much information do you have about the pirates? Although the current situation is beneficial to us, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not become a threat in the future." Georgie couldn't help but say with some concern.

"The place where pirates are active has a sea itinerary of almost half a month away. And now the trade route is not smooth and the news is not as flexible as before. However, there is no news of the attack on the port yet. But there seems to be some lords in the south to organize a joint fleet to clear out the pirates, but the news of the failure has been heard. However, it is not clear whether it is true or not." Barroman said and started sweating on his head.

"The clearance failed? Whether the pirates were not found or the naval battle was not found. If the naval battle failed, it would be troublesome." Qiao Ji emphasized his tone and his expression became much more serious than before. "In the next period of time, information in this area will be the top priority of the work. Of course, I will also arrange other channels to inquire about this area of ​​information, but the port has a natural advantage in this kind of information, so don't let people down."

"I understand, I will try my best to pay attention to the news in this regard." Barromain immediately began to express his determination.
Chapter completed!