The accompanying nun nodded in agreement, but the next second after she hung up the phone, another extremely shrill ringing sound was heard.
Ding-a-ling. Ding-a-ling.
Snap…
The nun hung up again.
In the end, the person on the other side still persevered.
The pleasant and rapid ringing of the bell made the two people present feel irritated, as if it had to hear the Saint's voice before it would give up. Even the Witch of the Night, who thought she could tolerate the noise of the palace, had the rare urge to destroy the summoning bell.
finally-
The Saint recognized...
She sighed heavily, took a deep breath, walked to the nun who bowed her head, and then directly opened the summoning bell on the wall:
"This is Cecilia. I repeat, don't bother me with those trivial matters. I really don't think a small town celebration requires my presence-"
“Lady Saint, Lady Saint—Kajiad, Kajiad has been breached by the demons!!”
On the other side of the summoning bell, the priest's terrified scream stunned the saint.
Kagad—what kind of place is that? And it was actually… conquered by the demons?!
Before the saint could figure out what was going on, Priscilla, who came with her, suddenly turned pale.
She rushed to Cecilia and shouted into the bell:
"What happened to Kagad?!"
Although the pastor on the other side was somewhat puzzled by the strange voice, he still cried out:
"Kagade was attacked by demons during the celebration. The chief patriarch who stayed behind was killed on the city wall, and now the demons are slaughtering the people of Kagade—
Saint, if you don't send the Crusader Army, the residents of the Earldom of Kagad will be wiped out! In order to participate in the celebration, almost all the residents of the Earldom have gathered in the town, please think twice..."
Priscilla and Cecilia looked at each other.
At the same time…
In the town of Kagad.
He impaled Kagad III, who had wrongly convicted him, on the cross of his favorite church so that he could witness the entire process of the destruction of the town where he had lived for generations while he was still alive.
While Yang Hao was carrying the unconscious chief doctor and his family to Golem's back, he said to the chief of the Ling tribe behind him:
"Let the golems attack every living person except us. Every..."
Chapter 23: Prologue to Kagad
Two hours ago, when the people of Kagad were celebrating in the town of Kagad and waiting for 0:00 the next day to hold a sacrifice, the yawning guards on the city wall looked at the joyous scene in the city with envy, while calculating with each other how much money they had earned when they entered the Monster Forest last time.
"We caught several monsters, and each person's antler can be sold for several thousand gold coins... That means each ordinary farmer gets one, each ordinary citizen gets four, and we can probably get... 10."
"10 gold coins - it would be great if I could catch more. Ten gold coins won't last long now, prices are rising..."
"But if the sacrifice is successful this year, and the God of Light takes pity on us and sends down heavy rain for us, as long as the harvest is good this year, the price of goods will go down, and we will be able to become the upper class in this poor village!"
“People are better than others, and people are better than others.”
Although the guards lamented that they could not participate in the celebrations in the city, they were delighted with the actual profits they made.
After all, what can I say? If I go to the Monster Forest this year and catch a few pagans, I can earn more money than I might have earned in five years as a guard.
Even after distributing the money to everyone in the Earldom of Kagad, there was still so much left.
How could this not make them feel happy and hopeful about their new life
While they were thinking about how to use the money in the future, they turned around and looked at the wooden altar rising in the square in the city.
Accompanied by loud and festive "God is above" - the guards' mouths curled up slightly, as if they imagined the scene of the pagans being burned alive on the altar and judged by the God of Light tonight.
"God of Light." A guard responded to the rumbling sound coming from the square and closed his eyes devoutly. "God of Light—"
But the next moment after he closed his eyes, he seemed to hear the sound of wind behind him.
Phew…
Then, as his face was suddenly covered with hot liquid, the guard who had closed his eyes and prayed from the bottom of his heart pushed his companion beside him while shouting and cursing. Before he could finish the curse, "Don't spray the wine on my face!", he heard the sound of a limp body falling to the ground.
What? This is
He opened his eyes blankly.
"Huh?"
What he saw were the shadows of rocks that flew into the night sky for some unknown reason, and the dead body of his companion who had already fallen to the ground beside him, his head smashed by a fist-sized rock.
He was confused...
The crowd celebrating below were also stunned after a large number of stones fell from the sky.
The songs praising the God of Light were turned into screams and cries in the next moment by the hail of bullets thrown from outside the city.
…
Outside the town of Kagad.
Yang Hao and others hid in a mill on the outskirts of the town, surrounded by the bodies of farmers who were crushed by golems.
At first, Yang Hao just planned to chase him away - but he saw here the surgical kit that only the chief doctor of the Red Cross he founded had, as well as the suture marks left on the farmer's family after the operation, and the gold coins hidden behind the fireplace and farm tools that were not something a farmer could get.
He understood everything in an instant, and after executing everyone, this place became his small command post.
Right now, under the control of the Ling people, the golems are repeating simple actions of "digging stones", "grasping" and "throwing".
The stones thrown by the golems were as powerful and fast as bullets fired from a counterweight trebuchet.
He could clearly see that a crossbow on the city wall that was used to defend the city was directly destroyed by stones, and that the city wall was full of bullet holes left by stones being thrown. He could also see guards who were killed by stones, and more stones flying towards the city.
He turned around and ordered Nalujia: Don't continue throwing stones into the city. At least don't do it before finding her people. Otherwise, if the people you want to save die under the stones you throw, it will be too embarrassing.
The head of the Ling tribe obeyed Yang Hao's order, while the nun who had been accompanying Yang Hao shook her head and said:
"We can't achieve our goal just by throwing stones. Besides, the Roman Empire will definitely not let us off if we do this... We have to delay the pursuit as much as possible in the Earldom of Kagad after the battle."
"We'll talk about that later - now we still need to throw rocks to destroy the catapults and ballistas on the towers, otherwise the slow-moving golems will be threatened by the enemy even with their "armor"... Take them all down, and we'll continue the assault."
After all, Yang Hao has been on the battlefield.
Although his ability to command battles may not be as good as that of the little queen's father, his brother-in-law, he does understand one thing.
Because you are poor, you use your mother's tactics.
Rich, just blow his ass off.
Now the ammunition reserves of the Ling people can be said to be very abundant.
Because golems don't have strict requirements on ammunition like siege weapons - some ballistae must be fired with crossbow arrows or stone bullets, and some crossbows can't kill the enemy without suitable arrows... Golems don't have such worries at all!
They dig deep into the ground and throw out any stone they find as ammunition.
If they can't even find stones, they can simply dig up the cracked bricks and stones overgrown with grass on the national highway and throw them at the target.
If they can't even find bricks, stones or wood, they can simply pile up the soil into balls and throw them out like water bags.
The only thing to worry about is that the golem might accidentally dig a trench in front of it, and then be blocked from its original destination by the "roadblock" it dug.
Not to mention that golems are not living things, so they can throw as far as they can—
If humans throw stones too much, they will feel sore arms and feet and tremble. But even if Gorem throws stones for a whole day and night, and can throw 300 meters, he won't feel tired at all.
With ammunition everywhere and no need to worry about physical exertion, only a fool would attack the enemy when their defenses are well-equipped.
So Yang Hao said, let’s wait another ten minutes.
Ten minutes is enough for 80 golems to throw stones or other garbage at the city wall 10 times to kill the enemy. Even with the most extreme probabilistic calculation, it should be possible to destroy the defensive ballistae and catapults on the wall.
Yang Hao waited patiently with the nun, and Golem lived up to expectations under the control of the Ling people—
Although the objects they threw could only create countless dents on the city walls and were not fatal, those stones would cause real casualties when they hit the city defense equipment and people.
Yang Hao could hear the chaos coming from the city from a long distance away. He could also see from a long distance that there seemed to be a catapult equipped with fire pots that was about to be thrown at the Golem's position. However, before the fire pots were thrown, a rain of stones smashed the catapult and the surrounding operators into pieces.
The fire pot was broken, and the fire spread to the tower along with the fuel in an instant. The guards who were still huddled in the tower waiting for the rain of stones to end did not expect the disaster to come. They all rushed out of the tower, which was already on fire, wailing and flaming, and then fell off the city wall and disappeared.
They seemed to have fallen into a wooden house. Because Yang Hao noticed that there seemed to be thicker and thicker black smoke coming from the area near the city wall of Kagad Town in the night sky.
"We have to move forward," he said, "but it's time. After all, the golems have dug trenches around us. If we don't move forward, they will be stuck in the mud and unable to move. Anyway, the town has become quiet. What's going on?"
Nalujia, the chief of the Listening tribe, was unable to respond because she was not familiar with human customs.
Sister Teresa tilted her head and said, "Perhaps there are priests of the Church of Light in the city. The magic of the Church of Light has the ability to soothe people's hearts. Well, I know that those magics are probably used for adultery."
"A secret affair?"
"Because when I was pretending to convert in the village of Skool, someone in the city asked me to use that magic to hypnotize a noble girl so that I could take her back and violate her."
"Well… "
"Hmph, don't look at me. I can't do that. I refused directly, and I didn't forget to lock the door that night - that was really scary. But now let's focus on the siege."
Sister Teresa snorted softly, and after gently hugging her man's body from behind, she patted his chest and signaled him to finish the work first.
…
When the rain of stones finally stopped, Karls, the captain of the guards in Kagad Town, was celebrating the casualties of his guards.
57 people died and all the city defense equipment was fatally damaged. Even if craftsmen came, they could only choose to dismantle and rebuild.
One tower was burned by kerosene and fire, and all the supplies needed for the battle in that tower had disappeared.
Although the three gates and drawbridges of Kagad Town were all raised, looking at the suburban ground illuminated by moonlight and the approximately 20 tall stone giants that were attacking slowly but steadily, Karls came to a conclusion as quickly as possible: If the priest of the Church of Light did not come quickly to offer help, Kagad Town would probably be doomed.
"Captain, should we ask the residents to evacuate?!"
A guard trembled, but still did not forget that there were a large number of civilians who were in a state of chaos in the town of Kagad where the celebration was being held.
If these civilians were allowed to stay in the town, not to mention whether the guards could withstand the attacks of these strange stone giants, the chaos in the rear alone might cost them their lives.
After much thought, it is better to let out than to block. Since these civilians are bound to fall into chaos in the end, why not just let them out through a city gate? This will not only attract firepower, but also help to find out the enemy's strengths and weaknesses. Wouldn't that be great
Unexpectedly, however, Karls simply angrily rebuked this useless behavior: "With their firepower just now, it is useless for those civilians to go out. Instead, the enemy may take this opportunity to rush into the city directly along the open drawbridge - and the enemy cannot have only 20 or 30 stone giants. In other words, we need more troops!"
"But, where do we get the troops?"
The guard was a little confused, but Captain Karls just patted him on the shoulder and said earnestly:
"Now go to the square and find the Earl! Ask him to distribute weapons. Even if those people can only use dung forks, they must arm themselves and then be sent to the city gate to use their flesh and blood to help us stop these stone giants who will definitely break through the defense line!
The priest must be beside the earl, begging him to come to the city wall immediately to release the magic of the Church of Light...
All the city defense equipment we are facing in this direction has been destroyed. If the priest doesn't come over, we will be doomed!
And, and you—immediately seek support from other cities through the portal network, but don’t let too many of those untouchables pour in at once, otherwise—"
Captain Karls hadn't finished speaking yet.
A violent explosion was heard at the location of the portal to Kagad Town.
They were so stunned that they didn't even pay attention to the stone giant that was slowly approaching. Instead, they turned their heads stiffly and looked at the purple flames that shot up into the sky and turned the ground purple. They all cursed in their hearts at the same time: Damn pariah!
Chapter 24: The Gates Are Breached
Damn untouchables!
It wasn't just the guards on the city walls who cursed.
Even Kagad III, who was on the top of the church tower, cursed subconsciously.
The Roman Empire's portal network is a creation that combines industry and magic.
Based on the original ancient human ruins, the former regent provided a plan, the magic power was injected by the Mage Corps, and finally the necessary parts were provided by the steam factory - with the combination of the four, an expensive portal was built.
Although it was originally used for military and industrial purposes, everyone can see its commercial value. It can also be seen that in an emergency, it can not only be used to evacuate people, but also to immediately send soldiers from another city to support when a city is besieged...
Originally, the portal in Kagad town was supposed to be used for this purpose!
But the bad thing is that there are too many people in Kagad town!
When attacked by the enemy, the first thing the people who were in chaos thought of was to escape through the portal.
Not to mention, there are so many places to go in Kagad Town for those who want to run!