Iron Powder and Spellcaster

Sergeant Taylor, who was resting at the sentry post, heard footsteps coming from outside. He alertly asked: "Who? Password!"

"Runliu." The visitor answered the code: "It's me."

The codes were matched. Old Taylor relaxed and answered the code: "Hundred Flowers."

The sound of footsteps approached quickly, and Warrant Officer Montagne easily climbed over the wall and jumped into the corridor.

Taylor saw at a glance that Warrant Officer Montagne was holding a strange short blunderbuss - it was strange because the short blunderbuss did not have any ignition device, just like the kind that requires one hand to hold the gun and the other to hold it. The ignition is the same as the old hook gun, but it is indeed a musket.

"What's going on, sir? Enemy attack?" Sergeant Taylor asked hurriedly.

"No enemy found." Winters took out a bell: "But the alarm trip wires have been cut."

"What should I do? Do you want to warn me?"

Winters hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Ring the bell! Sound the alarm!"

Seeing that the duty officer was so determined, Taylor became frightened. He licked his lips and dissuaded him: "Do you want to confirm again? The tripwire may have been broken by himself... If the alarm is mistakenly sent out, it will be a big mistake. Yes, do you want to wait a moment?"

Winters wasn't sure whether the trip wire had been cut artificially. To be on the safe side, you should wait and wait until you actually encounter an enemy before issuing a warning.

Because once it is later discovered that it was a false alarm, Winters will definitely be severely held accountable, and even other sentries may follow suit.

"Sound the alarm now! Light the beacon!" Winters gritted his teeth again: "I would rather make a false report than miss a report! Go and send the alarm, I will be responsible for anything that happens."

Seeing that the duty officer was resolute, Sergeant Taylor had no choice but to obey. He quickly ran to the alarm bell, picked up the hammer and started striking it with all his strength.

The rapid ringing of bells echoed on the battlefield in front of the city wall. At first, only the West-4 sentry post, and the sentry post on the old siege wall behind Winters also sounded the alarm.

The military camp was awakened from its slumber. The officer rushed out of the tent and shouted "Emergency assembly!" The soldiers were hurriedly looking for their clothes and weapons.

Two beacon fires were lit on the earthen wall next to the West-4 gun position to signal the police.

Other artillery positions and sentry posts lit a bunch of beacon fires to indicate that there was no change in their positions for the time being.

Winters climbed up the fort wall and carefully counted the beacon fires three times. After confirming that the count was correct, he immediately called Sergeant Taylor: "The third west artillery position did not light the beacon fire. Something may have happened. Who among your men did not light the beacon fire?" Night blindness?”

"Dan, Wake." Old Taylor named the two names without hesitation.

"Tell them to bring their weapons and follow me." Winters buckled on his helmet, drew his sword, and threw the scabbard to the ground.

"Are you still going out?" Old Taylor was very surprised: "We just need to hold the cannon and wait for support."

"We must find out what happened at the West-3 artillery position." Winters explained: "Huddled at the sentry position is equivalent to being blind. We don't know where the enemy is running."

Sergeant Taylor grabbed Winters' arm: "Then I'll take the people and you stay here."

Winters asked sternly, "Are you as good at fighting as me? And I don't worry about others scouting. I have to see it with my own eyes."

Taylor's ten men were all halberdiers, which were difficult to use in the narrow corridor. Dan and Wake abandoned their long weapons and replaced them with one-handed swords and followed Winters along the corridor toward the west-third artillery position.

In order to guard against artillery, the corridor is winding like a snake, with corners every four or five meters. When he was about to reach the gun position, Winters heard footsteps coming from the corridor ahead.

"Password?!" he shouted immediately.

The person who came didn't answer, and the footsteps were approaching faster.

"Enemy attack!"

Dan and Wake saw a figure flashing out of the corner ahead. Then Warrant Officer Montagne pulled out his strange blunderbuss and knocked down the figure with a single shot in the pocket.

Dan could see clearly that the blunderbuss in the warrant officer's hand had neither a matchlock, a spring wheel, nor even a trigger. It was just a butt and a barrel.

However, in the hands of Warrant Officer Montagne, it fired normally like an ordinary firearm.

"The black magic of wizards", a sentence came to the minds of the two privates at the same time.

Winters' palms were numb from the recoil of the firearm. This was the first time he used this spell to fire a firearm in actual combat. Unexpectedly, it actually worked and was very easy to use.

For Winters, firing firearms with spells is much more convenient than flying arrows. He is not good at kinetic energy spells, but he is very good at fire spells.

Before he could boast, several enemies armed with daggers rushed out from the corner ahead.

The shortcoming of the spell-activated firearm is also obvious - there is still only one shot.

In desperation, Winters threw the empty gun at the opponent.

An idea popped into his head: "Maybe tie three barrels together?"

However, now was not the time to think about this. Winters put on his sword and stabbed at the enemy.

Even a weak coward like Winters, who has experienced several bloody battles, has long been tempered into a fierce warrior, not to mention that Winters himself has been trained as an officer for many years.

Dan and Wake watched in shock as Warrant Officer Montagne efficiently killed - no, massacred - the charging enemy.

The corridor is narrow, and enemies can only enter one by one. As soon as one came up, the warrant officer knocked down the next one. There was no enemy that could be his enemy.

In the end, there were only three of them, Winters, Dan and Wake, who were advancing forward. It was not Dan and Wake's turn to take action. They followed Winters and stabbed anyone they saw who was not dead yet. .

After eight or nine people were killed in a row, the Tanirians' will completely collapsed. The few remaining Tanirians were so frightened that they rolled around and ran away.

Winters saw Tanilao climbing over the earth wall and escaping to the city wall, but he did not continue to pursue him.

He picked up the shotgun he had just thrown out from under the body. Dan and Wake looked at him in awe.

"Let's go to West - Third Artillery Position." After the gun was retrieved, Winters took the lead and continued to walk at the front.

Dan swallowed his saliva and couldn't help but whisper to Wake: "I finally understand why Warrant Officer is called 'Blood Man'..."

Continuing to move towards the West Third Artillery Group, the bodies of Veneta soldiers began to appear in the passage. The dead Veneta people were lying in various places in the corridor where the West Third Artillery Group was located, and their bodies were still warm.

"Sir! There is a centurion here!" Wake reported loudly to Winters.

I saw a corpse wearing an officer's uniform lying on his back on the ground, his arms hanging limply, and his eyes had lost their look.

Winters carefully identified him for a while before he recognized him as Lieutenant Dyke, the duty officer of the West Third Artillery Group. There was a gruesome gash on Dyke's neck, which was presumed to have been fatal.

"Dead." Dan Yan concluded concisely.

Wake spat: "Bullshit."

Winters tried to reconstruct the scene in his mind when Decker and his men were killed, but there was one problem that he couldn't figure out.

With his brows knitted together, Winters thought doubtfully: "No matter how you look at it, there was a fierce battle here, but why didn't I hear any movement right next to the West Third Artillery Group?"

The cannons were all on their mounts, but the fire doors were all nailed firmly, and they were all scrapped in a short time.

Obviously the purpose of the Tacheng defenders' raid here was to destroy the Venetians' artillery. The Venetians were fully prepared for this, but why didn't they hear any sirens?

Winters went to check the alarm bell again. It was intact.

A sharp whistle came from the west side, and Dan shouted in panic: "Sir! It's our artillery position!"

"Go! Go back!" Winters drew his sword in his hand and strode towards the west-fourth gun position. Both Dan and Wake were left far behind.

Among the eight artillery positions, the smaller the number, the closer they are to the central axis. The West-4th artillery position is on the westernmost side and is the artillery position closest to the city wall.

Armed with nails and hammers, the Tanirian soldiers climbed over the ramparts, jumped into the artillery positions, and rushed towards the cannon positions.

Winters' two ten-man teams wanted to stop the enemy, but their numbers were too inferior and they were already pinned at the sentry post.

Two sentry posts were arranged in the shape of horns in front of the artillery position. The structure was modified according to Winters' requirements: the entrance was narrow, but the interior was large enough to accommodate a ten-man team.

A fierce Tanirian swordsman howled and rushed into Taylor's post. As soon as he entered, he was stabbed in the stomach by Bubba's halberd. The second Tanirian who wanted to rush in was also forced back by the halberdier.

Seeing that they could not break through from the front, the Tanirians walked around to the outside of the post, climbed over the wall and jumped into the post. Old Taylor held a steel crossbow and shot a Tanirian who climbed up the fortress wall to death, then drew out his sword and slashed at another Tanirian who jumped in...

Outside the sentry post, a bold Tanirian archer simply stood on the top of the fortress wall and fired arrows at Sergeant Taylor and the others from a high position.

Winters knocked the archer off the wall with one shot of his flying arrow. He didn't care to check whether the archer was dead, picked up his sword and charged towards the sentry post.

The Tanirians were entirely focused on attacking the Veneta outposts, and did not notice Winters approaching them from behind.

It wasn't until screams came one after another from behind that Taniriya realized that he was surrounded by someone.

"Kill! Warrant Officer Montagne is back! Reinforcements are coming!" Taylor was stabbed in the head, and blood flowed from the top of his head into his eyes. He stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face, holding the knife high and shouting: " Big Veneta!”

"Huzzah!"

The morale of the Veneta soldiers at the sentry post was greatly boosted, and they counterattacked from the sentry post with shouts.

The Tanirian soldiers in the corridor were attacked from both sides and were immediately defeated. They jumped over the wall to escape. All the Tanirian soldiers who ran slowly were dragged back and killed.

After dealing with the Tanirians in the corridor, Winters put his hands on his knees and panted heavily, asking Taylor in a hoarse voice: "How are you now?"

"Cannon! The cannon is lost!" Old Taylor was so anxious that he forgot to use honorifics: "To say the least, a hundred Taani guys came! The other sentry post was also lost!"

"Where are the reinforcements behind?"

"Still not here."

"Let's go! Go to the cannon! Follow me!" Winters wiped the blood from his face with the hem of his coat and replaced it with a scimitar in the dead man's hand - because his sword had been curled - —Hold on to the wall and lead everyone towards the artillery position.

The soldiers of the Third Legion had rumored that Bloody Montagne was the bravest officer in the legion, and the soldiers of Taylor's Ten had just personally confirmed that the rumors were true.

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