Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard Chapter 19: A long day (six)
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Lane stood on the city wall, looking to the north. At this moment, the whole land was bathed in the soft light of the setting sun. The surface of the emerald green grass seemed to be painted a layer of crimson. I don’t know if it was reflected by the setting sun or was Stained with blood flowing during the day.
In the distance, there are endless camps of orcs, one by one, spreading out of the field of vision, and nearer, there are the corpses of the orcs left behind during the daytime siege. The soldiers of the Thor Fortress had reached outside the city wall through the cable, converging all the corpses of their dead soldiers, but the tens of thousands of corpses of the orcs did not have time and not much manpower to manage.
"This is the war." Ryan said lightly as he looked at all of this in front of him as if he was still in the water.
Allen said: "Since it is unavoidable, don't be the one to fail."
"Haha," Bart said with a smile, standing aside, "You two are not very old, and you seem to be very experienced adventurers when you talk."
Ryan and Allen smiled at the words, and did not speak.
Bart continued: "The evening on this city wall is different from other places, because there are towering mountains on both sides, so the sunrise here will be slower than other places, and of course the sunset will also be better than other places. It disappears faster."
As I was talking, the glow of the sky gradually faded, the crimson color turned crimson, and the crimson quickly turned pale red, and the sky dimmed a lot all of a sudden. Finally, when all the red light disappeared, the whole land was plunged into darkness.
On the wall of Thor Fortress, a raging bonfire was lit about every 50 meters. The soldiers and mercenaries who watched the night sat around the nearest bonfire, relying on the blazing flames to resist the cold. Since they were not allowed to make loud noises or sleep during the night watch, they had to chat quietly with the people around them, occasionally making a little louder laughter, and immediately patrolling soldiers passed by and stopped drinking loudly.
Ryan and Allendo sat side by side, and Xiao Bai squeezed between them, curling up into a large furry ball. Sitting with Ryan and them, besides Bart, there were three mercenaries and six soldiers. These 12 people were all assigned to a group, and the group leader was a human archer with a bow and arrow in his hand.
Seeing the darkness all around, the cold north wind blowing from time to time, a mercenary couldn't help complaining: "Damn it, I would not take this task if I knew it, and thought it was a good job." /
"Haha, what you think is beautiful." The team leader with a bow and arrow in his hand smiled and said, "In fact, this vigil is not a very hard work, but it's a time of war, and it's not as relaxed as usual. You must be vigilant at all times."
"Ah, you said. Will the orcs come sneak attack tonight?" another mercenary asked in a low voice.
"Who knows? Maybe it will come, or it won't. Anyway, we just have to be faithful to our duties."
"Then, how do we investigate the situation outside the city? Look at the large black areas all around. If there is not a campfire, I am afraid that you are sitting opposite me and I can't see your appearance."
"It's easy, look at it." The group leader with a bow and arrow said: "You can come together, anyway, it's not everyone's turn in the end."
After finishing these words, the group leader with the bow and arrow stood up, and walked to the north side of the city wall with the longbow in his hand. Ryan waited for the five mercenaries to stand up together and walked over. It's the first time for them to watch the night, so naturally they need to get familiar with it more.
The leader of the bow and arrow in hand drew a special feather arrow from the quiver behind, and then said to Ryan: "Torch!"
Ryan nodded and agreed, walked back to the campfire a few steps, picked up a torch that was burning vigorously, and walked quickly over.
The team leader holding a bow and arrow put the arrow on the torch to light it, then pulled the bowstring and shot the rocket toward the north. The rocket drew a beautiful arc in the dark night sky, as if a meteor struck the sky, fell about 400 meters away, and quickly extinguished.
Under the shining of this rocket, the originally dark ground was illuminated by a large area. Ryan looked around, and there was still a daytime scene, faintly visible, the corpses of the orcs, and the densely packed " Arrow Forest", nothing has changed. .Mobile viewing
"That's it? It's easy." After watching a mercenary, he said nonchalantly: "As long as you can shoot arrows, it's not difficult to complete."
The team leader holding a bow and arrow smiled and said: "This method is used for surprise inspections, because the angle and distance of the archery can be controlled freely. However, the scope of this method of inspection is too small and the time is very short. Short. If you want to check the situation at close range, you can just go out with a torch, and the effect is the same. Hey, don’t just sit down, show them all.” The leader of the bow and arrow in hand rushed Said to his team members, that is, the five soldiers sitting by the campfire.
The five soldiers stood up together without looking at them, and then quickly walked to the dump truck on the south side of the city wall, and motioned to Ryan and the others to pass. When Ryan and the others were all there, one of the five soldiers said in a blunt voice: "I will only do it once, and you are optimistic." After speaking, the five people stood in their positions very tacitly and vigorously. Winch the winch of the boulder, and slowly pull the upright projectile rod to a horizontal position.
After securing the winch, the two soldiers brought a dark object from the ammunition cart on the side and placed it in the "spoon" at the end of the projectile rod. The soldier explained: "Remember, don't use stone bullets. Use this kind of'cloth ball' made of soft rope and linen. If you take the wrong ammunition, there will be no effect at all."
After saying this, the soldier strode to Ryan's side, grabbed the torch in Ryan's hand, and put it on the "spoon". After a few seconds, the dark thing immediately It burned, and the soldier's face was immediately flushed red by the flames.
The soldier said hurriedly: "Hurry up this time, because this ‘cloth ball’ can only burn for a short period of time."
After finishing speaking, the soldier loosened the mechanism that fixed the winch, and the catapult rod, which was bent at an almost ninety-degree angle, immediately bounced back from the horizontal position to the upright position, and this huge elastic force would also release. The "fire ball" at the end of the ejection rod bounced out.
"Boom!" Accompanied by a loud voice, the burning fireball flew high under the action of the huge elastic force produced by the projectile rod. The fire group took a clear picture of where it went, allowing Ryan and others standing on the wall to have a panoramic view of everything.
Soon, the fire ball began to fall and hit the ground with a "poof", but the fire ball did not go out and continued to burn violently like a bonfire. I believe that if there is a night attack by orcs, it will be exposed under the radiation of the fire ball.
The sound of using a stone dumper here immediately caught the attention of others on the entire city wall. Seeing that their companions had started, the soldiers sitting by the campfire could no longer sit still, and stood up to teach. The mercenaries who were with them used the dump truck, and for a while, the silent night sky was broken by noisy sounds.
The soldier who explained did not care about the actions of others. He still said in that blunt voice: "This kind of'cloth ball' is expensive to build. Don't use it too often. Moreover, the launch angle of the stone dumper is different. The distance is basically fixed, and it must be combined with the bow and arrow to play the best role."
"Thank you." Although the soldier's tone was blunt, as if someone owed him hundreds of thousands of gold coins, Ryan was grateful for his detailed explanation and expressed his gratitude seriously. The soldier looked slightly startled, and then returned to the campfire with his four companions.
Bart said in a low voice: "Don't care, he is like that."
"Huh!" A mercenary with a full face whispered: "What kind of attitude is this, as if we are begging him. Did we walk thousands of miles to come here? Smelly face?"
The leader of the bow and arrow in his hand lowered his voice and explained to everyone: "It's not anymore, don't care, his brother died in the daytime battle."
The mercenaries who were still angry heard this and immediately closed their mouths.
The leader of the group with a bow and arrow in hand continued: "He and his brother are both in charge of the drappers, but they are in two different units. Who knew that when the orcs attacked the city in the morning, they would use the drappers to fight back at Thor Fortress. , Actually destroyed the car his brother was in charge of. At the time, his brother was wringing the cable and was hit by the stone bullet and was killed on the spot. Alas..."
After listening to the group leader with the bow and arrow in hand, everyone sat back by the bonfire in silence, and the atmosphere instantly solidified.
After a long time, all the groups have finished their demonstrations. The noisy Thor Fortress walls have calmed down, and only the bonfire made a "crack" burning sound.
Because of doing nothing, many people started chatting again. The soldiers told the mercenaries about their training, and the mercenaries vividly described their adventure stories that they didn’t know whether they were true or false, which was not lonely. . A few mercenaries were so eloquent that even a group of soldiers on patrol stopped and stood beside him and listened quietly.
"Hey, Ryan." Bart asked Ryan, "What wonderful adventure story do you and Alan have?"
Ryan smiled and shook his head. To be honest, if Ryan tells his own experience, no one in Thor Fortress will be more exciting and exciting than him, but Ryan always hopes to be low-key and naturally won't be aggressive. show off.
"Oh, you guy, everything is good, but your mouth is too hard to ask anything." Bart and Ryan have not been together for a short time, so naturally they have a certain understanding of Ryan, but he is not dead. Xin, continue to ask: "Then you and Ellen are going to go deep into the North Taren prairie, can you always talk about it? In such cold weather, if you just sit like this, it's too boring."
"Yes, yeah." The other mercenaries also said: "Lane, just talk about it. What did you see over there? We are very curious.