Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

The war continues.

For more than ten days, the situation has obviously undergone new changes.

The Holy Temple Army is clearly no longer satisfied with harassment tactics.

In recent days, they have been taking advantage of the opportunity when the other side is throwing dung at each other to push their cannons forward and actively attack.

Each time, a group of five people braves the Fika's artillery fire and the soup to try to break through the city gate.

Each attack involves at least a hundred groups of people, more than half of whom are naturally fake.

They use branches and wood disguised as cannons to disturb Fika's line of sight.

In fact, this method of disguise has indeed caused Lai Gou'er a lot of trouble.

Even with telescope observation, the number of people appearing on the other side is too large, making it difficult to distinguish them.

It is only possible to determine the enemy's position after firing the cannon, which has led to many shells hitting the city gate.

The city gate has been riddled with holes, but fortunately, the gate cave behind it has been blocked, and with constant repairs, the enemy does not dare to easily move forward for the time being.

However, Da Jing has not been without gains. According to observations, at least half of the enemy's artillery has been destroyed.

However, Da Jing's ammunition consumption is also extremely serious.

Lai Gou'er is hoarsely commanding: "Reduce shelling, wait for the enemy to move first, and then fire after confirming their position, only aiming at the enemy's cannons."

"The rest of you, shoot with muskets after getting close...."

He was constantly deploying when his subordinate suddenly came to report, shouting: "Report! Sir, the wooden barrels in the city are almost exhausted and not enough."

Lai Gou'er took advantage of the slight lull in the enemy's offensive and shouted: "There are several warehouses in Baling Street that specialize in storing bamboo tubes and coconut shells. Bring me everything inside!"

"If they are all used up, throw all the rubble and garbage in the city over there!"

As the world's largest fish-body engineering juicer production base, there are obviously enough containers to hold 'items'.

The subordinate responded and quickly ran down the city wall.

Lai Gou'er continued to monitor the battle situation.

General Maude on the opposite side put his hands on his hips, looked at the position of the city wall crenellations from afar, and constantly calculated in his mind.

The attack frequency of the opponent's divine punishment weapons has obviously slowed down, indicating that there is not much inventory left.

At present, his side's training is also progressing extremely smoothly.

If this momentum continues, a large-scale attack may be launched in another ten days or half a month.

It is a pity that too many divine punishment weapons have been severely damaged, slowing down the speed of breaking through the city gate.

"High Priest, give me a month, and there will be no problem in taking this city! I calculated that the fleet we requested for reinforcements should have already besieged Fika Port at this moment."

"When the opponent's divine punishment weapons continue to be consumed, we can attack them from both inside and outside, and break through in one fell swoop!"

The High Priest was in a daze: "Attack however you want."

Anyway, he will not be in a good situation when he returns, so he simply starts to slack off.

Maude snorted coldly when he saw his virtue and stopped paying attention.

The waste from the church, besides eating, drinking, and shitting, and giving blind commands, has no other skills.

I really don't know how the Pope sent such a piece of trash to the battlefield.

Suddenly, a familiar and dense sound faintly entered General Maude's ears.

Maude frowned, looked at the High Priest, and asked: "Did you hear a strange sound coming over? It sounds like the sound of divine punishment."

The High Priest was stunned: "Isn't divine punishment always being used?"

The two sides on the battlefield are simultaneously firing cannons at each other. Besides the sound of cannons, no other sound can be heard.

Maude raised his hand to signal him not to speak, his eyes were a little vigilant.

After waiting for a while and not hearing the strange sound, he slowly lowered his hand and said: "It's not coming from the city wall... it seems to be a very far away place, didn't you really hear it?"

The High Priest shook his head: "Then I don't know, hallucination?"

Maude nodded and stopped dwelling on it.

Perhaps it was because he was exposed to weapons like Divine Punishment for the first time, and he hasn't adapted to the strange noises on the battlefield.

At this moment, Lai Gou'er was also standing on the city wall, looking back.

Just now, it seemed that there was a faint sound of cannons coming from the seaside... but there were also cannons firing near his ears, so he didn't know if he had misheard.

Shaking his head, he refocused his attention forward.

The two sides continued to fight fiercely.

This battle lasted for more than two hours before there were some signs of stopping.

More than a dozen shells were fired into the city gate below.

Just as Lai Gou'er was preparing to rest for a while, Duke Alvis's figure appeared hurriedly from the side of the city wall.

Followed by an unexpected person.

Lai Gou'er stood up suddenly, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he said in surprise: "Brother Zheng!"

The person who came was Zheng Hui, followed by a translator.

Seeing Lai Gou'er taking the initiative to greet him, Zheng Hui took a step back without showing any emotion, and looked down at the city through the observation port.

His face suddenly turned pale.

Damn it... no wonder there was a stench as soon as he arrived in Fika, how the hell did they fight the battle like this?

Lai Gou'er stopped and looked at Zheng Hui and said, "Brother Zheng, why are you here?"

Zheng Hui said: "The imperial court sent me here to establish relations with Fika to show sincerity."

"When I came, I happened to run into the reinforcements from the garrison, so we came together."

"Speaking of which, I was lucky. When I came, I ran into three ships preparing to block the port here. When they saw our fleet coming, they not only didn't retreat but took the initiative to meet us."

"Was the cannon fire on the beach fired by you?" Lai Gou'er asked happily.

Zheng Hui nodded: "Yes, a group of idiots on the other side tried to outflank our main ship from both sides, and we sank them in one round."

"We captured the remaining ship and it is parked in the port."

After Zheng Hui finished speaking, he first said to the Duke: "Duke, this time I came in person to build diplomatic relations with your country under the order of the imperial court. The imperial court has long been aware of the church's affairs, so we had to make more preparations. It was unavoidable to occupy your country's port."

"But Da Jing is a land of etiquette and will never occupy it rudely, so this time I specially brought two ships of goods as the cost of renting your country's port. In the future, Da Jing also hopes to continue to strengthen exchanges with Fika."

As he said that, he took out the letter of credence from his arms and handed it to the Duke.

Duke Alvis's eyes lit up, looking at the letter of credence excitedly, and nodding repeatedly.

Unexpected, too unexpected!

Originally, Fika had already given up the port because of the other side's force.

Unexpectedly, Da Jing was so benevolent and righteous and sent two ships of goods as compensation.

That level of morality is much higher than the church's!

Obviously a very good partner... perhaps he has picked up a treasure!

Thinking of this, the Duke's face glowed.

He quickly thanked him and said: "Thank you, General, but the city is currently facing some difficulties. It is not convenient to entertain you. We will hold a banquet after we repel the enemy. There are still many things in the city that need me to coordinate, so I will not disturb the General for now."

Zheng Hui nodded, and Duke Alvis left happily.

After he left, Zheng Hui immediately asked Lai Gou'er: "How is the battle situation now?"