boom!
In an instant, there was a sudden explosion in front of the city wall.
Wow!
Along with the explosion, one of the suspension bridge chains that had been jumped straight was immediately broken.
"Is this a missed shot?" Keelin, who was hiding in the arrow tower, was a little surprised when he saw this scene.
"No, Master Keelin, they are planning to use extraordinary archers to shoot off all the chains!" The vassals of the Carlo family immediately reacted and their expressions changed slightly.
He finally understood why the enemy yanked the suspension bridge, just to straighten the chain, making it easier for the extraordinary archer to break the chain of the suspension bridge.
"Garp, what should we do now?" Keelin was not stupid and reacted immediately after hearing the words.
"Master Keelin, there is no way. Not to mention that the enemy now has a trebuchet to attack the city wall. If we dare to send long archers out of the tower, we will be shot to death by the opponent's extraordinary archers in the first time. They can add fighting spirit to the arrows. A top shooter, this is definitely a unique marksman!" Garp explained.
However, seeing the anxious look on Kilin's face, he continued to comfort him: "But don't worry, Master Kilin, even if the suspension bridge is lowered by the enemy, they will definitely not be able to attack it without a siege ladder!"
"Moreover, our city gate is impenetrable and is covered with iron sheets. Even the crossbow arrows cannot penetrate it!"
After hearing this, Keelin was finally relieved and his expression returned to normal.
While the two were talking in the tower above, Vivian had fired four arrows in a row, and the arrows accurately hit the suspension bridge chain.
Boom!
With a loud rumbling sound, smoke and dust suddenly filled the outside of the gate of Carlo Castle, and the five or six meter long suspension bridge lost the pull of the chain and crashed to the ground.
"I was really pulled down!" Looking at this scene, Ryan and the others in the distance murmured.
Although relying on Vivian, a superb shooter, Nalant was able to lower the suspension bridge, which also gave them a severe slap in the face who were originally dismissive.
"Although the suspension bridge has been pulled down, there is still the castle gate!"
"The castle gate is different from the suspension bridge. It is carefully built by craftsmen and covered with iron sheets. Even iron arrows may not be able to penetrate it, let alone pull it open!"
Unwilling to be slapped in the face, Ryan and others began to predict again. It was obvious that they were still unconvinced by Nalant.
However, Nalant was not in a hurry. He would definitely press the faces of the three of them to the ground and rub them together today.
"Sir, the suspension bridge has been lowered, shall we start taking the next step?" Soon, Quick, who was in front, returned on his horse to ask for instructions.
"Well, let's get started! Finish this castle quickly, we have to move on to the next castle!"
"Yes, sir!"
After receiving the order, Quick immediately dismounted and took out a clay pot from the carriage on the side.
This clay pot is not small, bigger than three watermelons.
There is only a small hole four to five centimeters in diameter above the bulging body.
After Quick took out the clay pot, he carefully took out a sack from the wooden box on the side, and then slowly filled the black powder in the sack into the clay pot.
When the pottery pot was almost filled with black powder, he placed a layer of linen cloth on top of the black powder, and then began to fill it with the yellow mud that had been prepared earlier.
Of course, before installing the yellow mud, Quick also placed a hollow thin iron pipe in the middle for the purpose of inserting the lead later.
That's right, the core step in Nalant's siege without ladders is black powder.
Although his black powder is very primitive, as long as the dosage is increased, it can still produce full power.
The best proof was when I was guarding the bridge on the riverside a few days ago.
Before this expedition, Narant's 'paper talks' were all planned around black powder.
This clay pot can hold at least forty kilograms of black powder.
Of course, in order to facilitate the sealing of yellow mud, the actual amount of powder charge will be reduced.
However, in Nalant's opinion, this should be enough.
He only needs to blow a hole in the city gate to allow the guards to enter the castle. He does not need to blow through the city wall or gate.
As for whether such a small amount of black gunpowder can really cause damage to the strong city wall gate?
Narant is quite confident about this.
According to the information on the Internet in previous lives, the charge of projectiles fired by ancient muskets was basically about 12 grams.
Imagine that twelve grams of gunpowder can produce so much energy.
What if it were replaced by thirty or forty kilograms of gunpowder?
Forty pounds is equivalent to twenty kilograms, and each kilogram is 1000 grams!
…
Soon, Quake finished filling the jar with yellow mud, and then carefully used a wooden stick to completely compact the mouth of the jar.
After everything was done, he took a five- to six-meter-long lead and inserted it into the thin iron pipe that had been reserved previously.
The hollow interior of this iron pipe fits the size of the lead exactly.
"Sir, my subordinates have completed the 'Wrath of Glory'! Do you want to go and place it immediately?" Quick wiped the sweat from his forehead and reported to Nalant.
No wonder he was so nervous. On the bridge that day, a grenade with a diameter of only ten centimeters could blow away the Bronze Knight and his armor. If the big thing in his hand exploded, he would probably not be able to find any of his scum.
"Go, remember to light the fire and run quickly!" Nalant was also a little scared and quickly waved to Quick.
"Yes, sir!"
Soon, Quick was holding the clay pot and heading towards the castle gate ahead.
"Your Excellency Nalant, what is the Wrath of Glory?"
When Quick loaded the gunpowder, he hid from Lane and others, so the three of them didn't know what was in it.
However, when Quick reported, he and Nalant's fear of the clay pot was clearly visible to them.
They were curious as to why a small clay pot made two people so afraid.
"The Wrath of Glory is the wrath of the God of Glory!" Nalant turned his head with a smile upon hearing this, and seeing the confused faces of the three of them, he continued, "In layman's terms, it is the power of divine punishment of the God of Glory! "
"I forgot to tell you one thing. In fact, I am the spokesperson of the God of Glory in the world. The God of Glory has bestowed a lot of His power on me. The clay pot contains the power of divine punishment of the God of Glory! I am ready Use him to open the gate of Baron Carlo's castle!"
Ryan and others' faces turned dark, feeling that Nalant had taken them for fools.
He immediately said angrily: "Your Excellency Nalant, although we are prisoners, our dignity as nobles cannot be trampled on!"
Let’s not talk about the spokesperson of the God of Glory. How can the power of divine punishment be contained in a clay pot?
As long as their brains are not broken, Ryan and others think this is impossible.
"Sir Ryan, I didn't lie to you. You will know later!" Nalant smiled and was still not prepared to say anything. He would wait to see if the three of them wet their pants.
While they were talking, Quick had already arrived under the city gate with the clay pot in his arms.
The defenders above also saw him approaching the city wall with several barbarians, and they immediately couldn't sit still.
Several guards from Carlo Castle risked being hit by trebuchets and came to the wall, hoping to throw a few stones at Quick and others.
As a result, before they could show up, four or five of them were shot down by Vivian's precise arrows.
Suddenly, several guards were so frightened that they crawled and ran back to the arrow tower. They could only hide in the arrow tower and fire cold arrows.
It's a pity that this cold arrow has no use against the barbarian's iron shield.
Under the protection of the iron shield, Quick placed the clay pot next to the gate, then pulled the lead and began to retreat.
When the fuse was straightened, Quick took out the fire starter and placed it on the fuse!
Bah, bah, bah!
The fuse was directly ignited, and the next moment Quick stood up suddenly, and then roared with a look of shock on his face: "It's lit! Run! Everyone run!"
"Run!"
Immediately, both Quick and the barbarians beside him, as well as Vivian and others behind, ran towards more than 100 meters away.
"Garp, what is that clay pot? Are these people from the Agate Principality sick?" Shang Shang, who was originally hiding in the arrow tower, was worried that Quick and others would start breaking down the door.
It can be seen that when they dropped the clay pot and ran away, their minds were filled with doubts.
"Master Keelin, I don't know what they are doing, but there seems to be smoke coming from the front of the clay pot!"
"Garp, what should we do now?"
"Master Keelin, we can only wait and see what these people from the Agate Principality want to do!" Garp also didn't pay attention because he had no idea what the enemy's purpose was.
"Okay!" Keelin had no choice but to take the initiative and walked to the shooting hole of the tower, staring closely at the clay pot in front of him.
As time went by, the smoking lead became shorter and shorter. From the initial five or six meters, it finally burned down to only the length of a finger.
"What exactly is it?" Keelin waited curiously.
Boom!
And while Keelin waited quietly, the answer was finally revealed.
When the smoking fuse reached the loess of the clay pot, he felt his eyes suddenly flash and be covered by a dazzling red light.
Along with the red light, there was also a wave of air visible to the naked eye sweeping towards him.
Although Keelin didn't understand why the fine air would form ripples like lake water, it really did appear.
The ripples started to spread from the city gate, like a bulging bubble, and expanded before his eyes in the blink of an eye.
Boom!
Buzz!
Immediately, Keelin felt his head blur and his whole body became light and airy.
He... seemed to be flying...
And at the moment of flying, he heard an unprecedented explosion in his ears that could not be described in words, and he could no longer hear any other sounds.
All that was left was the strange, sharp sound of creaking in my mind.
…
The castle at the previous moment was two hundred meters away.
When Quick and others ran back like hares, the three Lanes saw their minds filled with questions.
Is this really a battlefield?
Why do I think these people are here to be funny?
The three of them looked at each other, and they all felt that they and the others were really ashamed that they had been captured by a group of lunatics.
After these Agate Principality guards ran back, they covered their ears with their hands one by one. Even Narant, who was not only sinister and shameless, but also treated himself and others as fools, also covered his ears.
After seeing this, they were even more certain that the people in the Agate Principality had different brains from those in the Northern Principality.
I guess my brain has been damaged by staying in the mountains in the south for a long time!
The three of them thought so superiorly.
Boom!
And just when they were still immersed in the sense of superiority worrying about gains and losses, very suddenly, there was a earth-shaking explosion in front of them.
That sound, even the thunder on a stormy night, was not even one-tenth as loud as it was.
"ah!"
Caught off guard, Ryan, Duke and Karen suddenly trembled and then squatted on the ground.
Wow!
This was not over yet. Just when they were squatting and had no time to think clearly about what happened, a fierce wind suddenly blew from the front.
The strong wind mixed with sand and gravel particles kept hitting their faces, causing pain to the faces of the three of them.
The next moment, the three of them had to raise their arms to protect their heads, so that the pain was relieved.
Ahem!
After a long moment, the three of them opened their eyes with blank expressions.
"What...what's going on?"
The three of them looked at each other, saw the dust on each other's bodies, and then looked pale in the direction of the explosion.
And when they saw clearly the scene two hundred meters away, they immediately became stunned.
At the castle gate more than two hundred meters away, there was a large amount of gunpowder smoke rising in the air that had not yet been blown away.
And at the gate of the city wall that has gradually been revealed, the surroundings are now scorched and black.
The city gate that was originally covered with iron sheets was broken into pieces and scattered in the door opening, and large gaps were blown out of the wall holes around the city gate.
In addition, with the eyesight of extraordinary knights, they could also see a large deep pit on the ground.
"Really...is it really the power of divine punishment?"
The three people earlier felt that Narant had taken them for fools.
But at this moment, they already believed it.
Apart from the power of gods, what else can cause such a huge damage effect and produce such a earth-shaking explosion?
Could it be the Golden Knight?
I’m afraid that won’t work either!
Of course, they had never seen the Golden Knight take action, but they felt that the Golden Knight would definitely not be able to produce such a shocking effect.
"Dear me! This is too powerful. It seems like too much medicine has been put in!" At the same time, the instigator, Narant, was also stunned for a while.
While patting the dust off his body, he looked ahead and complained.
He was originally just planning to blow up the city gate to create a gap for people to enter, but now he actually directly blew the two city gates into half.
What's more, they seemed to be standing too close to each other.
The shock wave of the previous explosion carried mud and sand and made them look gray and gray.
"I hope I didn't shock the meat ticket to death." Nalant muttered, and then looked at Quick and others: "What are you still waiting for? Rush in and occupy this castle for me!"
"Yes...yes, sir!" Quick and others finally woke up from a dream.
"Your Majesty has your order, everyone, charge!"
"kill!"
Immediately, Quick and Raymond rushed directly towards Carlo Castle with the Storm Riders and guards.
Their charge went smoothly this time. They couldn't even see the shadow of the enemy on the city wall, let alone attack!
"Three noble young masters, would you like to go in and have a look together!" Upon seeing this, Nalant was also ready to head towards the castle.
When he turned around and saw three noble young men squatting on the ground like pheasants, he playfully extended an invitation.
