The next day, bucken suddenly lowered his troops and horses in the city. The original concentrated formation became sparse. The cavalry that could hardly be used in the siege were arranged on the two wings of the team. It seemed as if they were going to start a flat ground war.
The change was so unusual that long Gesen, who had been fighting for half his life, immediately raised his vigilance. He wanted to report the matter to the king, but his messenger was stopped outside the palace.
The king refused to see anyone, even longson himself.
Longersen could not think of anything wrong with the king. The king was fighting, and the king didn''t even want to hear the War newspaper.
In desperation, he had to tell the news to the government minister. Although it was against the rules and he still had some disgust with the government minister, this was the only person he could trust in the king''s capital.
Seeing the changes of the enemy, the Government Secretary immediately made a correct judgment.
"The enemy wants to divide the troops. They ride horses to move quickly, not to let the cavalry fight."
Longson said, "it seems that they still want to attack the city from the west of the city."
"Don''t be so arbitrary," the minister shook his head. "It may be the west of the city, the east of the city, or the north of the city. My father often said that the enemy can think of what we can think of."
Longersen stared at the Minister of state for a long time. He was very familiar with this sentence. At the beginning, general lesio had told him many times.
"I''ll send someone to explore the city to see if there is any movement. Most of the weapons guarding the city are in the south of the city. In case the enemy attacks from other city gates, we have to prepare early."
Long Gesen was about to go down the city, but was stopped by the government minister: "don''t go anywhere. Just stay here. Leave the city to me. Don''t leave the position at all."
"But if the enemy really..."
"General, you are used to attacking cities and pulling out strongholds. You must have forgotten the essentials of defense," said the government minister. "My father also said that when defending, the most important thing is to see the position of the enemy. Now that the enemy is still here, you must stay here."
With more than 100 guards, the Minister of state took the lead in starting an investigation in the west of the city. He did it all morning and found nothing.
Back to the mansion, he had a simple lunch. The government secretary just wanted to set off for the east of the city, but he saw longersen''s commander Georgia come in.
"Sir, the general has something important to discuss with you. The enemy''s formation is more scattered, and there are many carriages on both wings."
The Minister of state frowned. Obviously, this is also a sign of the enemy''s division, and the scale of the division may become larger.
What else can we discuss? Didn''t you say everything you should say? With longson''s ability, he should know how to deal with this change.
"I know about it," said the minister casually.
Giorgia said, "Sir, if you need help, I can stay and help you. This is also the order of the general."
"Thank you for your kindness," laughed the minister. "I think general longson needs you more than I do. Go back to the battlefield."
When Georgia came to the door, she suddenly turned back and said, "I found some strange things on my way here. I should have reported to the general first, but you are responsible for the affairs in the city. I think I can show you first."
Giorgia gave the minister a dark stone with a vertical line, a circle and a few dots engraved on it.
It seems nothing special. It seems to be a failed sculpture. The government secretary took the stone and looked at it for a moment. He suddenly got up and said, "it seems that you are right. I really need your help. How many people do you have?"
"I have only fifty soldiers with me."
"Fifty people, enough. Follow me to the east of the city immediately."
The Minister of state knows this stone tablet, which is an ancient way of sending messages in the divine punishment army. Although it has been abolished for many years, the Minister of state still clearly remembers the meaning of this stone tablet.
Pure black stones are rare. As long as they are discarded on the road, they are easy to be found by other divine punishers.
The vertical line on the stone refers to the sword of divine punishment, which means that there will be a war today. The circle represents the sun, which means that the battle site is in the East. The number of stars is very dense, which means that the battle time is late at night. A few simple strokes have sent enough information. Whoever finds the stone has the obligation to participate in the war.
The punishers in the city are finally going to act, but why do they send letters in such a backward way? This is too easy to find, and how much combat power can the temporarily assembled divine punishers have?
"You have to think about it," the minister said to himself all the way. "You have to think about it."
At night, barken led his troops to attack Wangdu from the south of the city. Longsen was not surprised. He knew that barken had little food left, and Longsen would not be surprised by the other party''s attack at any time.
The battle goes step by step, the disadvantage of the troops will not change, and the advantage of the city wall will not change. Although the king did not visit the battlefield in person, the soldiers who have experienced the battle of life and death have learned how to face the war.
The holy light flickered and the arrows flew. At the gate of hell, the soldiers calmly completed their mission.
There is no need to ignore the dead companions, no need to fear, no need to be sad. Killing one more enemy is the best memorial to them.
A group of divine punishers gathered in the street in the east of the city. He rushed frantically to the city gate with simple weapons. The leading divine Punisher shouted: "avenge the Archbishop!"
The rest of the punishers shouted the Archbishop''s name: "Howitt! Howitt!"
When the gate was close at hand, Stanton, who ambushed in advance, led his law enforcement officers and rich businessmen to shoot arrows on the wall.
The law enforcers'' archery is so bad that some don''t even know how to bow.
The rich businessmen''s archery is not much better. Although they have many servants who can fight, they are also Rangers and ruffians, which is far from the real soldiers.
But it was such a temporary army that killed all the punishers. There were two reasons. First, they took too much advantage of their position above the city wall. Second, their opponents were very unbearable and their combat effectiveness was even worse than them.
Even if Stanton couldn''t stop the punisher, there were 50 soldiers led by Georgia to serve as their rear.
"Fifty people, enough!" the Minister of state said the same thing to Stanton. He despised the punishers because he knew that the real threat was not here at all.
Looking at the cheering Stanton, Georgia shook her head and said, "don''t be so happy, sheriff. You didn''t kill bucken''s soldiers."
Stanton frowned. "Whose soldiers are they?"
"They are the rest of Howitt''s party. Didn''t you hear that just now? They keep shouting Howitt''s name."
Stanton sneered, "I hate smart people most. The enemy outside the city also shouted the name of Howitt, but they are bucken''s army."
"That''s different," Georgia sighed, looking at the body of the punisher. "Although they are all fighting for Howitt, they are really different."
In the shack in the north of the city, the old man covered with abscess heard the news in the east of the city.
"They''re all dead," the old man nodded. "They''re brave people. They deserve the dead Howitt. Now it''s our turn. It''s time to give Archbishop bucken a gift!"