My Magic Age

After saying goodbye to Felix, we walked out of the quartermaster's office. Catalina seemed a little depressed. It seemed that most people in the stronghold were very optimistic about this battle to defend the city. They believed that even if Trum could not be defended, relying on the various large-scale weapons and various arrangements on the city walls, the troops in the city could withdraw from Trum in a planned, step-by-step, and orderly manner.

The reason why the garrison troops in the stronghold had such great confidence was mostly due to the oath of Count Horace. Although it was not publicly stated, the identity of this young earl was no longer a secret in the Trum stronghold. His father, Marquis Armand, was the second son of the Duke of Samoyed, so the Duke of Samoyed was the grandfather of Count Horace.

In the Yello plane, some people may not know who the Emperor of the Green Empire is, but there will be no one who does not know who the Grand Duke of Samoyed is. In fact, the Grand Duke of Samoyed is the real ruler of the Yello plane. Therefore, when these garrisons saw Horace patting his chest and promising to live and die with the Trum stronghold, this sentence immediately became the most powerful spiritual pillar in the hearts of all the guards.

I secretly sighed and thought: If these garrisons knew that the second son of the Duke of Samoyed, Marquis Armand, was also trapped in Tanton City, I don’t know what they would think.

"Don’t be so depressed. Since they are all determined to defend the city, let’s sneak out of the city tonight. We can also find opportunities to hunt down the spider warriors who ran out alone in the Black Forest as before. At least we can help the defenders of the Trum stronghold to slightly contain the Nibru spiders. I think we can still do this easily." I patted Catalina’s shoulder and comforted her.

Then he pointed to the strong fortress-like walls of the city and said to Catalina: "Look, this is a strong city. It is not that easy to break through. The walls are made entirely of rocks containing iron ore. Although it looks old, it is definitely very solid."

The soldiers on duty on the back wall looked much more relaxed than the soldiers on the front tower. It is known that patrolling here can be said to be stress-free.

So I pointed to the soldiers on the wall and said to Catalina: "Look at the soldiers on the wall again. Their faces are full of desire for fighting. It can be said that joining the army and fighting is a kind of experience that every imperial man must go through. Every man must serve in the military. As long as their beliefs are still there, the defense line will not collapse."

I wiped the tears from Catalina's eyes with the tip of my thumb and whispered: "Wipe your tears quickly. You promised to take me to visit the Trum stronghold today. Tell me how you have been through these years."

Catalina sniffed, tried to force a smile at me, took a deep breath, and said to me stubbornly: "I didn't cry!"

Then, Catalina really sorted out her bad mood, smiled again, and took me from the stone steps in the northeast corner of the stronghold to the wall behind the stronghold. She was still the red-haired girl in the dance troupe's caravan. Her enthusiasm and tenderness were revealed in front of me little by little.

I'm afraid that before this, she had almost completely integrated into her new role, the battalion commander of the seventh battalion of the Trum stronghold.

The Trum stronghold can be regarded as a small castle. The whole castle is very complete. There are two gates in front and behind the stronghold. One is the main road in front that can allow eight horses to pass. There is also a moat in front of the city wall that has been filled with sand and gravel. The wooden suspension bridge has been completely crushed and broken into several pieces and discarded at the front gate.

The front gate has been completely blocked by sand and gravel from the inside by the defenders of the Trum stronghold.

The back gate of the Trum stronghold is very narrow, only two horses can pass through in parallel. This road leads to the back mountain of the Trum stronghold. I didn't expect that there was a passage left behind the back gate of the stronghold.

The Trum stronghold was built along the mountain, on the gentle slope of the mountain, with low terrain in the front and high terrain in the back. This is the intersection of two mountain ranges.

Although the actual height of the city wall in front of the stronghold is much higher than that of the city wall behind, due to the terrain, standing on the city wall behind, you can have a feeling of having a panoramic view of everything.

The building structure in the city is very simple. The outermost is a circle of solid city walls. Inside the city wall is the barracks of ten battalions. A little further inside, there are actually some craftsmen workshops that serve the barracks. When we walked over, we passed a woodworking workshop, so we could see the whole pile of crossbow arrow shafts piled together.

In fact, there is more than one workshop surrounding the parade ground.

I stood on the city wall and turned my eyes. On the other side of the parade ground of the stronghold, I found a blacksmith shop and a leather shop. This stone house is very special. A tall chimney emits thick smoke, and there is a faint clanging sound from inside. Another leather shop is even more eye-catching. The entire shop is full of wooden racks, and some animal leather is drying on the wooden racks.

The most central area of ​​the Trum stronghold is a huge parade ground that can accommodate thousands of people.

Catalina took me to a watchtower on the city wall. The guard at the gate was about to stop us, but Catalina took off the helmet on her head and held it in her hands. Her long red hair fell down like a waterfall. The guard widened his eyes and looked at Catalina in astonishment, unable to speak.

Caterina walked past the guard with a stern face, and the guard did not dare to stop us. We easily climbed the arrow tower in the northeast corner.

I looked carefully at the architectural layout of the Trum stronghold and silently wrote down every detail.

I looked around and said casually: "Those guards seem to be afraid of you?"

Caterina smiled faintly and said: "They are all soldiers of the third battalion. I have taught them a lesson in the parade ground."

Seeing Earl Horace standing majestically on the city wall in front of the stronghold, he was still surrounded by a group of trusted followers.

The guards on the city wall carried bundles of thick crossbows and arrows to the top of the city wall. Some soldiers were repairing the crossbows. On the raised platform behind the city wall, there were catapults built with huge wooden frames. These catapults looked like tower cranes. They used the principle of levers to throw out the greased boulders in the iron frame. The range of this catapult could reach a long distance. The stone balls thrown were also huge rolling stones weighing one ton. When these stones fell on the ground, the shattered and flying stone chips were also very lethal.

All the longbow archers in the Trum stronghold were stationed on the southern city wall. At this time, they were resting behind the protruding battlements of the city wall.

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A thumb-sized piece of broken stone suddenly rolled down from the cliff above my head and landed on the square brick ground of the arrow tower next to me. It shattered with a "snap". The sound scared me. If I had been a little off, the stone would have hit me directly on the head. I secretly said: What a close call!

Just as I was glad that I had escaped a disaster, I looked up at the top of the cliff carelessly, but saw dozens of thick spider silk hanging from the top of the cliff. A group of spider warriors with one or two pieces of armor covering important parts of their bodies were silently swooping down along the ropes.

Seeing the spider warriors hanging above my head, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. I didn't expect the spider people's surprise attack to come so quickly. The spider people also used a cliff-top airborne surprise attack method, intending to capture the back gate of the city of Trum and completely block the garrison of the Trum stronghold in the stronghold.

However, the defense force on the wall of the rear city was the weakest, and it seemed that these spider warriors had just seized this weakness.

"Enemy attack!" I tore my throat and shouted loudly to the guards on the top of the city below the tower.

The guards on the top of the city below the arrow tower did not hear my broken shouting for a while, but they all looked up at the arrow tower. I pointed to the stone cliff above their heads. The guards who originally looked relaxed raised their heads and saw those black figures falling from the sky, and their faces turned pale with fear.

Before the guards could prepare their longbows, a huge black figure appeared above the stone cliff with the rolling gravel.

The spider warrior climbed only halfway up the cliff. Seeing that the wall guards below had already looked up, he did not hesitate too much. He released the white spider silk with both hands, and the eight spider legs were pulled out from the cliff at the same time. The heavy body suddenly lost control, like a boulder, with countless stones rolling down from the top of the head.

The defenders on the top of the city had already picked up the longbow, and when they saw the spider man on the cliff jump down directly, they threw away the longbow in fear, and grabbed one spear after another at the side, facing the spider warriors.

Katarina reacted faster, and ran directly to the arrow tower to place the bed crossbow. She shook the capstan with both hands quickly and shouted to me: "Ji Jia, help me quickly, bring the crossbow arrows behind!"

I didn't dare to neglect it, and hurried to the corner of the arrow tower, picked up a crossbow arrow from there, placed it on the arrow support of the bed crossbow, and fixed it.

At this time, Catalina had already adjusted the crossbow's sights and turned the mechanism on the crossbow to adjust the angle of the crossbow, but the crossbow's elevation angle was only about 30 degrees. No matter how it was adjusted, it couldn't aim at the spiders on the cliff.

I looked at the spider warriors like a tide, and without any hesitation, I took out a magic scroll of "magic catalysis" from my magic waist bag and tore it open quickly. I clearly felt countless magic elements floating in the air around my body, and at this moment they began to stir. A huge light blue magic circle floated under my feet, and an ice spear appeared above my head.

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Just at this time, the horn of war finally sounded on the top of the city in front of the Trum stronghold.

"Woo woo woo..."

A row of black waves suddenly rushed out of the spider camp in front of us. Those black waves were spider warriors holding heavy shields in one hand and black iron spears in the other hand. Behind them, four spider warlords as big as hills also walked out of the camp one after another. The four spider warlords held ten-meter-long spears in their hands and followed behind the spider warriors.

This battle came without any warning.

At this moment, Earl Horace, who was standing on the top of the city, was so scared that he almost sat on the ground, but the next moment he was helped up by his followers. He immediately pointed at the spider warriors on the battlefield with both hands and issued some orders. The distance between Earl Horace and me was too far, and I didn't know what the young earl was saying.

However, the warriors on the top of the city in front of us also reacted quickly. After hearing the horn of the sentry, the longbow archers hiding behind the parapet immediately grabbed the longbows beside them and stood behind the parapet. Each longbow archer had a shield warrior to cover him.

As the sound of "creaking" began to come one after another, one crossbow after another was pushed forward, and the shining crossbow arrows all appeared from the city wall. The levers of the catapults were stretched tightly, and the huge rolling stones in the iron frame were wrapped with a layer of hay. The hay was tightly wrapped on the stones. Some soldiers poured the black oil in the bucket beside the catapult on the hay.

In just a few breaths, the spider warriors on the front battlefield of the Trum stronghold had been fully deployed. Thousands of spider warriors ran together, and the entire Trum mountain felt a strong shaking.

There was a "whoosh whoosh whoosh" sound that tore through the air, and the longbow archers standing on the top of the city shot the first round of arrows at the spider warriors in the distance.

At the same time, the sound of continuous arguments also sounded one after another. The soldiers standing behind the bed crossbows pulled the handles hard, and the bed crossbow arrows, which were no less powerful than ordinary spears, flew out at lightning speed, making one explosion after another in the air.

There were a total of more than a dozen bed crossbows on the front wall, and they fired the first round of crossbow arrows almost at the same time. Then, the loader next to the bed crossbow quickly installed the next crossbow arrow, and another soldier immediately turned the capstan.

Several large fireballs streaked across the sky again. These fireballs were thrown from the catapults with billowing smoke, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, and from time to time, some grass leaves that were not completely burned fell to the ground.

A siege without any signs was just the beginning.

Katarina and I looked at each other, and we both understood each other's concerns.

The meaning in my eyes was: once an uncontrollable situation occurs, I will open the portal, let her hide in, and then find a way to escape.

But Katarina's eyes were full of pleading. She wanted me to find a way to save the Trum stronghold. But when I saw the black waves surging in the Spider Forest, thousands of spider warriors were impossible for the guards in the stronghold to resist.

At this time, the first wave of armor-piercing arrows had already fallen into the spider wave...