Release that Witch - Chapter 510

[Chapter 503 Battle King Capital (Part 1)]

“Your Highness, there is a team stationed in the dock area,” Lightning Exchange, which is in charge of monitoring the enemy’s situation, reported. “The number is about a hundred people, and they look like militiamen.”

“Only a hundred people?” Roland was a little surprised. It was not surprising that Timothy would set up defenses at the outskirts of the pier. The huge fleet sailed through Chishui City and Silver City all the way, and it was bound to be noticed by interested people.

Although the speed of a steamship is much faster than that of a sailboat, and it takes only five days to complete the latter’s one-week journey, it is still not as good as a messenger who changes horses continuously and stays around the clock, let alone a carrier pigeon—if The new king’s spies used carrier pigeons to deliver the news, and Timothy could probably get the news two or three days in advance.

However, it was surprising that the other party only sent a hundred people to defend the pier. According to Roland’s vision, the first battle should take place near the pier. In order to prevent his troops from landing smoothly, crossbowmen and musketeers would be deployed on both sides of the river. It might even be possible to set up a trebuchet, which is why he built the river gunboat before the Spring Offensive.

The efficiency of water transportation far exceeds that of land marches, but it also has the disadvantages of limited docking and easy ambush in advance. With the ability to attack land, he can easily defeat the enemy’s ambush and open up a safe landing place.

The other party seemed to have given up the “huge advantage” of attacking halfway, which was correct in terms of the result, but it was unreasonable in theory-it was impossible for Timothy to know the range and power of the 152mm naval gun.

Thinking of this, Roland called Sylvie over, “Do the militiamen carry crazy pills?”

Sylvie summoned the magic eye and waited for a while, “I didn’t find anything like meatballs, and some of them didn’t even have complete weapons, but…the ground seems a little strange.”

“In the field?”

“They buried some things in the ground… There are also some on the pier,” Sylvie said with a frown. “It’s earthen jars and wooden barrels…they contain black-gray powder.”

“This is… gunpowder?” Nightingale couldn’t help but ask.

“So that makes sense,” Roland pretended to be relaxed, “The militia team of about a hundred people is just a bait sent by Timothy to attract our attention. The real purpose is to let us catch this rare Opportunity to land on the shore, capture the docks, and then detonate the gunpowder, sending us and the docks into the sky.”

Although it was easy to say, he didn’t think so in his heart. This kind of tactic similar to the ancient mine warfare was indeed a good plan. Timothy was obviously aware of this as well.

It’s just that he didn’t plan to defend directly, but set up an ambush secretly so that he could be caught off guard.

If it wasn’t for Sylvie, he might really suffer a lot.

However, since it was discovered in advance, it is still very easy to solve it. Without wireless detonation technology, Timothy will inevitably arrange ignition personnel near the buried gunpowder barrel, as long as they are solved in advance.

In any case, the pier must be preserved, otherwise it will be difficult to transport artillery and ammunition to land.

Under Sylvie’s careful observation, Roland found two suspected ignition points. One was located in a shack by the dock, with an iron pipe underground leading to the nearest gunpowder barrel, and the other was in the warehouse at the dock.

What both of them have in common is that they both have the lightless black hole caused by God’s Stone of Retaliation moving.

After discussing the result with Iron Axe, the battle plan was quickly finalized.

First, Nightingale sneaked into the warehouse, quietly killed the fire starter, and guarded the door to prevent possible substitutes from breaking in and igniting the gunpowder.

It doesn’t matter if the naval guns are used to destroy the shack afterwards, even if it leads to an early detonation underground-as long as the dock is safe and sound.

Leaning on the wall stack of the western city wall of the king’s capital, the steel-hearted knight Wei Masi raised his lookout glass to observe the movement on the canal.

The slender canal is like a gleaming golden ribbon, shuttling through the brown and white wilderness, most of the snow has melted away, revealing the tender green of the land, which is the proof that the grass is sprouting and everything is recovering—such The scenery is so pleasing to the eye no matter when you enjoy it.

The only thing that doesn’t fit is the black smoke billowing above the canal.

That was the fleet of traitor king Roland Wimbledon.

Unexpectedly, he actually dared to attack the capital.

This made Wei Masi feel amused, but also a little admiration.

Since the establishment of this capital, it has never been attacked once in more than two hundred years. Any enemy will not be able to muster up the courage to attack after seeing its majestic bluestone walls.

Not everyone has the guts to compete in the most dominant field of the enemy.

At least His Majesty Timothy Wimbledon did not.

It’s a pity that the other party is his enemy.

The knight obeys the glory. As the guardian knight of the capital, he is given the responsibility of defending the capital, so he must fulfill his responsibility to the end.

“Sir, the rebellious king’s fleet is coming!” A servant ran to the top of the wall.

“Don’t shout, I’ve seen it a long time ago,” Wei Masi put down the binoculars and spit, “I ordered that the first cavalry and the second cavalry be on standby behind the city gate. As for the group of mercenaries, let them They just follow the cavalry, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com Don’t pee your pants when the gunpowder explodes. Also, the oil pan is burning, although I don’t think they have the ability to touch the city wall.”

The surrounding knights suddenly burst into laughter.

According to the predetermined plan, when the rebel army occupied the pier, the flag would be waved on the city wall. At this time, the strong snow powder buried near the pier would be detonated, which would definitely cause heavy losses and chaos to the opponent.

At this time, open the city gate and launch a cavalry charge to secure the victory.

“The bumpkins in the western region probably think that the capital is just like the most magnificent Longsong Fortress there, and they can take it down with a wooden ladder,” Skaar, the iron feather knight, echoed, “I think you can save these firewood and take it with you. Go home and burn it.”

“It’s all about being prepared.” What a fool, the Jazz thought to himself, even if things like boiling oil and rolling stones are useless, they have to be shown to His Majesty Timothy—just deal with them casually because the enemy can’t get in. The mentality of being careless and underestimating the enemy will sooner or later be kicked out of the King City Knights by His Majesty.

He raised the binoculars again, and saw that the frontmost sailless ship in the fleet had left the team and was heading towards the pier alone.

The black flames emanating from its head can be seen from miles away, and there are no oars on the side, and it is not clear how it moves.

But these are irrelevant, no matter how weird the ship is, it cannot go ashore to fight.

The ship gradually slowed down, and finally stopped slowly on the other side of the pier.

“What are they trying to do?” Skaar raised his eyebrows and asked, “Could it be that they want to land on the other side of the river? Couldn’t it be the militia team of hundreds of people that scared His Royal Highness the rebel king?”

Wei Masi was also quite surprised. Seeing that the defense of the pier is so weak, most people should occupy the pier as soon as possible.

He opened his mouth, and was about to say something, when a ball of flames suddenly lit up at the front of the weird ship.

——The orange-red flame heart is like the new dawn.

[End of this Chapter]