The next day, civilians outside the city began to be moved into the city. As the war was approaching, the whole city was mobilized. All the sealed weapons depots in Camelot were opened, and bundles of weapons and arrows were moved out of the warehouse. All adult men between the ages of 16 and 50 in the city were gathered together. These people were assigned jobs according to their level of training. Those who had served as soldiers were given priority to be supported on the city wall, and those who were strong and healthy were assigned to the reserve team. The old and infirm were assigned to the reserve team. Those are assigned to logistics.
In short, everything became just orderly under Kai's meticulous attention to detail. Kai was also an experienced veteran, so this was not a problem for him. What's more, there was also the help of a large group of palace ministers, so both the mobilization order and the internal relocation of personnel went smoothly.
"Hakashu! Send messengers to all the lords quickly and ask them to assemble their armies for rescue. Remember, tell those lords that they must wait for the army to gather before advancing to Camelot, and let them listen to my father Sir Ector Command action.”
Although the city of Camelot is impregnable, its military strength is still too small compared to the entire kingdom. There are only 150 knights and their attendants in the entire city, as well as 3,000 defenders of Camelot. According to the scout report, Sen. Nord's military strength exceeds 30,000!
Although Camelot is confident in its defense, it is severely lacking in troops if it wants to counterattack. But passive defense has never been the habit of Camelot people. So when formulating the battle plan, Kai made a good counterattack plan.
First, they will use Camelot's strong defense to hold back the enemy and consume the enemy's vitality.
Once they fall into a strategic stalemate, they will have an absolute advantage by sticking to Camelot. It's January now, and last year's autumn harvest has only been over two months. The city has enough food reserves, so we really aren't afraid of a protracted war.
After that, as long as it takes a while and waits for the Sennod army to become unstable, King Qin's army can cooperate with the inside and outside of the city to defeat the Sennod army in one fell swoop.
Seems simple, right?
Fighting never needs to be complicated.
Moreover, the key to this battle is not at all the strength competition between Cenoud and Camelot. The real focus is on Sergon and Nivi! Sennod dared to openly attack Camelot at this time, someone must have given them confidence.
It can only be Segon and Nivi, otherwise Senod would not be so stupid!
Thinking of this, Kai felt panicked. He didn't want much, he just wanted to find a place to live his life in peace. At most, he just wanted to change Arthur's miserable fate. But he didn't expect that before he even started to change Arthur's fate, there would be a lot of trouble.
Soon, Kai shook these messy things out of his mind. No matter what the outcome was, Kai would not evade his responsibilities. If the price of saving Camelot was exposing himself, Kai would never hesitate.
Anyway, even if he leaves Camelot, he can live a good life anywhere. What's more, Morgana is following him.
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At dusk on the third day, the army pressed on. Under the city of Camelot, Cenoud's army stood in darkness.
Arthur stood in his room, looking in the direction of the city wall, feeling both nervous and expectant. As a young man, as a young man who wants to prove himself, Arthur encounters such a scene for the first time. At the same time, he also knows that this battle is destined to be written into the history of poetry. He hopes that he can be in this battle. Establish your own merits and let everyone see that you are not just the son of King Uther and the younger brother of Grand Duke Kai of the Rhine!
He is the Crown Prince of Camelot! He is Arthur!
Merlin was helping Arthur put on his armor at this time. Both of them were very heavy and had no interest in having sex. After helping Arthur put on the knight's half-armor, Merlin drew out his sword and said seriously: "You are destined to become an unprecedented wise king. Today's victory will be recorded in the annals of history, passed down from generation to generation, and will be remembered throughout the ages."
Arthur took the sword handed over by Merlin with a confused look on his face, his expression was very strange.
"You must believe in yourself." Merlin nodded seriously after saying this.
Merlin, who was so serious and aggressive, really made Arthur unable to adapt to him for a while. Arthur suddenly felt a little weird. Although it couldn't be said to be weird, he still felt like he didn't know how to respond to Merlin's serious remarks.
Accept it all? It seems a bit too shameless.
Don't accept it? It seems...he likes this rhetoric. He has the same character as King Uther, and to put it bluntly, he is a great success. This is not a bad thing at all, because almost all rulers throughout the ages have this problem.
It took Arthur a long time to come back to his senses.
"Stop pretending, you're usually a complete idiot!"
After saying that, he turned around and left, with the intention of running away. Merlin curled his lips from behind, feeling that this kid was really a piece of shit and couldn't get into the main table. Then his thoughts spread to other places. For example, on the Grand Duke of the Rhine.
He sometimes thought about how great it would be if the person he was destined to assist was the Grand Duke of the Rhine.
Compared to Arthur, this Grand Duke undoubtedly has a more royal appearance. Not like Arthur, impulsive, childish and always likes to boss him around. If Kai was the king, Merlin felt that his responsibilities would be much easier and he wouldn't even have to do anything. Kai would definitely become a good king.
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Night falls quickly.
Originally, night was never the time for war to break out. Because the visibility is too low, among other things, the difficulty of command is greatly increased. In the dark sky, you can only issue orders by shouting, and receiving orders is even worse, you can only listen to them.
On a battlefield with tens of thousands of people, let’s not talk about other things. The sound caused by it is not much like thunder, but it is not much different. In this case, you rely on your mouth to shout? Give me a break!
In short, launching an attack at night is definitely a thankless task.
However, Senode's army did not set up camp outside the city. Instead, they lit torches and still stood outside the city wall, looking ready to attack at any time.
"What are these guys doing?" King Uther stood on the tallest city tower, looking at the 'starry sky' under the city wall, completely confused.
Kai did not answer his question, but kept patrolling the surroundings. He felt that Senod was waiting for Nivi and Segon to make some move.
Suddenly, Kai felt that the ground was shaking. It was very slight at first, so Kai thought it was his imagination, but soon the vibrations became stronger and stronger, and he felt it very clearly.
"not good!!!"
"Boom!!!" Before Kai could finish his words, a huge explosion attracted everyone's attention.
A huge explosion occurred in the direction of the west gate of Camelot, and a gap was directly blown open in the city wall in the direction of the west gate! ! !
King Uther was shaken by the explosion just now, and he held on to the battlements on the side to prevent him from falling. But he didn't have the intention to pay attention to this. He immediately stood up and looked in the direction of Ximen.
"Quick! Quick! Send people to the west gate to establish a defense line immediately. We can't let them break into the city!!!"
