Lord Highlander

   Chapter 648 637. Night of Constantinople 2

On such a cold snowy night, I drank a little ale and ate some sausage and smoked fish served in the tavern. I feel that everything is good except that the variety of meals is not rich enough, and the order is more free. You can avoid the complicated constraints of high-end restaurants.

  The taste is also very delicious against the backdrop of ale.

  In taverns, in order to match ale, many dishes are salty. These are like some salted nuts, which taste crisp and tasty.

  The arrival of Suldak and Aphrodite brought back some vitality to the quiet tavern. Several drunken drinkers looked at Aphrodite's back with straight eyes.

There was no liquor girl in this tavern, and the drinkers at that table gathered together and whispered a few words. Among them, two strong men in hard leather armor came over with large ale glasses. , sitting silently on the seat next to Aphrodite.

The man grabbed a large wine glass on the bar counter, and he didn't come over to chat with Aphrodite, but asked the bartender to fill up the ale in their glasses. Wipe his beard.

"Did you know?" one of them said loudly, "Last winter, at about this time, I saw in the mountains a gang of more than a hundred bandits trying to cross the middle of Maccurie Hill. Gu Luo and I were only a few meters away from them. Worried about being discovered by them, we hid our bodies in the snow pit and hid for a long time without making a sound. It's too cold to control."

  Just talking loudly about the dangerous experiences that happened to them, as if the only way to show how brave they are.

From their words, it can be heard that these two strong men seem to be hunters. They specialize in looking for some rare pets for their employers, and occasionally hunt and kill low-level monsters. , Warcraft has basically disappeared.

  If you want to hunt monsters, you must go to the Pagros Mountains.

  Aphrodite lowered her head and slowly took a sip of the ale before her face recovered a trace of blood.

It seems that the frequent activation of the summoning circle this time is very burdensome to her body. The succubus bundled her long hair high to cover the two corners of her head, looking like a glamorous beauty. She didn't wear the Mithril mask of the Faceless Man, and she had a faint smile on her delicate face, listening to the conversation of the two strong men beside her.

  Suldak lowered his head and ate smoked fish. He glanced at the drinkers around him. Some of the drinkers might be drunk, and they opened their thick cotton coats, revealing their chests covered with chest hair.

   "Do you two want to stay? I have a relaxing room here." The bartender asked the strong man.

"Rich…"

  Before the strong man finished speaking, there was a loud rumbling sound outside the tavern.

Suldak has been in the guard camp for so long, especially when he participated in the defense battle of Vojmara City, so he is not unfamiliar with this kind of sound. Above the city of Wal-Mara, almost every day, hundreds of fire scale bombs were thrown by the catapults into the city, and exploded among the hellhounds.

Suldak woke up suddenly from his contemplation. This is the hinterland of Bena Province. It might not be surprising to say that there are some bandit gangs occasionally appearing in the surrounding mountains, but if there are people in the The fire scale bomb was detonated beside the city wall. Besides the fire scale bomb self-detonation, would anyone use it on purpose?

   Just as he was hesitating, the sound of cracking fire scale bombs came out one after another in the distance.

  Suldak stood up suddenly from the bar, threw two silver coins on the bar, and walked quickly towards the door of the tavern, followed by Aphrodite.

  A group of drinkers in the tavern also heard the cracking sound, and they were stunned. When they saw someone walking out of the tavern, they planned to follow them and go outside to see what happened.

  Suldak was standing on the street, just in time to see a series of flames flashing across the northwest corner of Constantinople, followed by a series of explosions.

   Then the big bell on the clock tower in the city was rang, and the bell never stopped.

  The drinkers in the tavern were the first to go to the street, and everyone looked into the distance in panic.

Afterwards, some surrounding citizens ran out of their homes wearing overcoats, some were only wearing fur coats, some were even wearing pajamas, many people's eyes were filled with horror, and some people kept asking other people around them: "...what happened? "

Everyone ran towards the square where the clock tower was located. No one knew what happened, but the clock tower in the city rang the alarm bell continuously to inform all the citizens that something important had happened. Running out, the street looked a bit chaotic.

  A group of knights passed by on the long street, hurrying, and the direction happened to be where the explosion sounded.

  In the chaos, some people ran against the current into the city, and some people asked those who came back: "What happened?"

  The man who ran into the city said in a panic: "It's a war. There is an army outside the city. Now it has attacked the city wall and fought with the city guards."

   "Where did that group of enemies come from?" Someone in the crowd asked again.

   "I don't know!" The man who was running into the city said in a panic. He wanted to continue running in, but was stopped by a group of people, and he couldn't get out no matter what.

   Someone in the crowd asked again: "Alien or human?"

   "It seems to be a country bumpkin from the northern part of Tarapagan!" The man's voice was a little hoarse and his voice trembled.

  At this time, there was a rumbling sound of shouting and killing from the city gate.

  The city was in chaos. From time to time, cavalry teams passed through the street, and the citizens in the city gave way to both sides of the road...

  This night is destined to be not so peaceful.

  …

  Suldak didn't expect to encounter such an incident when he rushed to Constantinople.

He was actually very curious, and wanted to go to the city wall to see what happened, so he kept walking towards the northwest corner of Constantinople amidst the crowds. Traveling around in a magic caravan, no matter where the destination is, the horse-drawn carriage will arrive very quickly, so the feeling is not so accurate.

   But now the city is in chaos, and there is no magic caravan at all. He wants to go to the northwest corner of the city, so he can only rely on his feet to cross the streets of the city.

  The succubus Aphrodite followed behind him, she retreated into the shadow, her body gradually faded and merged with the shadow, blurring like a shadow.

   "What should we do? Should we leave here as soon as possible?" Succubus felt that he should not be involved in the battle of Constantinople. Since he had already bought the full armor, he should leave as soon as possible.

   "Let's see the situation first." Surdak replied.

The farther you go, the more people are crowded together on the street. After walking for a while, the street is crowded with infantry from the city defense team. The shields lined up neatly, and it seemed that there were too many people congested to move forward.

   There was even a group of cavalry from the guard battalion crowded on the street, because they carefully controlled the horses under their crotches, trying to avoid stampede incidents.

  Suldak praised inwardly: The garrison of Constantinople reacted really quickly. The defense troops had been assembled so quickly and rushed to the city wall.

  In this way, even if someone attacked the city, it would be absolutely impossible to take Constantinople in a short time.

Seeing that the street was too crowded and he couldn't get through for a while, he climbed to a high roof and looked towards the city wall at the northwest corner. There was a faint flame, and it seemed that the battle had been going on.

   Looking at the chaotic streets and alleys, I could vaguely smell a conspiracy.

He jumped off the roof and said to Aphrodite who was hiding in the corner of the alley: "I always feel that this doesn't look like an attack on the city. Those people seem to be deliberately causing chaos in the west of the city... If you are a bandit leader, you will stare at the city. What in Constantinople?"

  Aphrodite said without hesitation: "In addition to the gold coins stored in the vaults of various manors, of course there are also materials here. After all, Constantinople is the most famous material transfer place in Bena province!"

  She turned into a phantom, and her voice seemed a little ethereal.

  Suldak set his sights on the trading firm not far from the south gate of the city, and said to Aphrodite, "Do you think they will rob the firm in Constantinople?"

Aphrodite shook her head and said: "It is easy to sneak in while taking advantage of the chaos, but it is not easy for them to loot trading houses at this time. The guard camp in the city will not let them mess around at this time. Instead of sneaking into the city and looting trading houses, it is better to loot the fire scale bullet workshop beside the crescent lake outside the city!"

Suldak's eyes lit up slightly and he said: "You mean they are probably creating chaos on the west side of the city, just to attract the city's defense force, and then let a large number of robbers loot the firearms workshop outside the city? "

  Even if the Firearms Workshop sent out a distress signal, the city was in chaos, and neither the guard battalion nor the city defense department had time to send people out of the city to help.

   "Maybe, since the west side of the city is difficult, why don't we go to the firearms workshop by the lake?" Suldak said. "I don't want any problems over there. After all, our sulfur mines will still be sold here."

  The city of Constantinople was still in chaos, except for the explosion in the northwest corner of the city, only the clock tower was rang in a row, causing a large number of citizens to rush out of their homes and gather towards the clock tower square.

Suldak and Aphrodite came to the south gate of the city. A large number of city defense troops gathered at the south gate. The gate was closed and the suspension bridge outside the gate was raised high. It was impossible to leave the city. Duck was a little hesitant, whether he should go back to the hotel to sleep, a group of cavalry rushed to the gate from the street inside the city, and the cavalry headed by it happened to be Captain Jude of Constantinople.

He brought a team of knights to the gate of the city, took out a token from his pocket and threw it to the captain of the guard at the top of the city, and then said loudly: "The third brigade of the guard battalion has been ordered to leave the city, please open the gate and let them go! "

   "Obey! Wait a moment." The guard at the top of the city said, carefully inspecting the token in his hand, and after a while, someone opened the city gate and lowered the drawbridge.

   Captain Jude, who was waiting by the city gate, glanced around casually, and his eyes fell on a person by the roadside at the city gate.

   "Baron Suldak, why are you here?" Captain Jude looked at Suldak in surprise and asked him.

  Aphrodite was hiding in the dark, and at night, no one noticed her.

  Seeing Suldak, Captain Jude seemed a little excited.

Suldak did not expect to see Captain Jude again at the gate of the city, so he said, "I happened to buy a batch of armor at the Constantinople firm. Run out to see the sound of the explosion."

"There were bandits on the west side of the city who tried to climb over the city wall and sneaked into Constantinople when they were discovered by the city defense team. Let this raid alarm the whole city." Captain Jude said, and then asked Suldak: "What do you think of this robber group attacking the city..."

   "If it were me, I would focus on the firearms workshop in Crescent Bay!" Suldak said casually: "Siege... should be impossible!"

"I think so too, Baron Suldak, if you are interested in verifying your conjecture, would you like to go with me to Crescent Lake to have a look." Captain Jude said to Suldak, pulling the reins of his horse .

   "I wish for it." Suldak really wanted to take a look.

  At this time, the gate of the city was opened by the guards. Amidst the piercing sound of the axle turning, the suspension bridge connecting the outside of the city fell down. Captain Jude waved his hand and led the team to rush out of the city.

A knight under Captain Jude gave up a horse to Suldak, and Suldak was not polite, stepped on the horse, and followed Captain Jude's team towards the firearms workshop on the shore of Crescent Lake. go.

  Suldak can only leave Aphrodite in the city, she may take the opportunity to return to the hotel.

  The road at night is difficult to walk. Suerdak is not good at horsemanship, and he is not familiar with the road, so he can only follow behind the team.

Walking down the road opened by the red rock boulder, the knights of the guard battalion were still on the way, when they saw a big fire burning on the shore of Crescent Lake, Captain Jude didn't dare to delay, and immediately asked his cavalry to speed up , rushed towards the firearms workshop.

   Immediately afterwards, there was another rumbling explosion from the direction of the firearms workshop.

  Suldak was more sure of his previous judgment, and urged his horse to rush towards Crescent Lake.

   Before arriving at Crescent Lake, the knights of the guard battalion came under the red rock, and they suffered a rain of arrows.

  The rain of arrows was shot from the side of the forest, obviously these people had premeditated...

  (end of this chapter)