I was a knight in the Middle Ages

Chapter 133 Battle at the City Gate

"Hurry up, as long as the city gate is opened, your family will be safe, and wealth and glory will be at your fingertips." A group of men in black took advantage of the riot in the city, sneaked into the South City Gate, and were opening the gate.

"Sir, according to the procedures, we have opened the first step. We need to wait for five minutes and wait until we hear a 'dong' sound before we can proceed to the second step." The man in black obviously knew the process of opening the door, but he didn't know why it was so troublesome.

"No, there is no time. We only have ten minutes to change shifts. We will be handed over to another wave in ten minutes." The sergeant's face was full of anxiety and he obviously couldn't wait any longer.

"Go directly to the second step, hurry up." The sergeant urged again, and the man in black had no choice but to proceed to the second step directly.

"Why did you stop again?" the sergeant urged impatiently.

"Sir, you need to stop for five minutes for the second and third steps." The man in black reminded again.

"No, open the city gate immediately." It has been eight minutes now, it is too late, the sergeant has drawn his weapon and is ready to kill the soldiers who are coming to relieve the guard.

"Sir, we are changing guard. Leave this to us!" Another team of soldiers began to take over. Twelve minutes had passed, two minutes later than expected.

"Why are you a few minutes late this time? Are you slacking off?" The sergeant took the opportunity to move closer.

"I had diarrhea and was two minutes late. I don't know why my eyelids were twitching today? It seemed like something bad was about to happen?" The sergeant who was on duty looked reluctant.

"Then should you take a leave today?" Without any warning, the sergeant grabbed the man's neck and stabbed him directly.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! There are a lot of enemies outside the city." Suddenly, the guards shouted, awakening the silent Titanium City. The soldiers looked outside the city, but no one noticed the fighting at the city gate.

"God help me, it looks like I will take the Titanium City today." The sergeant dragged the last person into the darkness, and now they had another five minutes of safety. This twenty-minute interval was enough for them to open the city gate.

"Lord Liad, Captain Alpha has sent an order. Please be careful at the city gate." Seeing Liad coming in full armor, everyone made way for him.

"Is the city gate safe?" Liad sent someone to shout towards the city.

"Everything is fine, sir!" the sergeant replied loudly, without any sign of abnormality.

"Report any situation at any time." Liad's mind was on the cavalry that was getting closer and closer outside the city, and he didn't pay much attention to the situation below the city.

There was a clear thud.

"What's that sound?" Liad was startled.

"Sir, it sounds like the city gate opening." Everyone was shocked and immediately looked down at the city.

"Let's go and take a look." The cavalry outside the city had already arrived at the moat. Because of what had happened before, the enemy didn't dare to cross the river directly, at least not in a large army.

However, the enemy had already built a wooden bridge and the army was approaching rapidly.

"Lord Liad, the city gate has been captured and they are opening it." The sudden reminder made Liad horrified.

"Hurry up and take the city gate, otherwise we're finished." Liad knew the situation was critical. Except for 1000 regular cavalry in the city, the rest of the people were no match for those powerful bandits. Without the protection of the city walls, the Titanium Mine City would inevitably fall.

Unfortunately, it was too late, as Costanelli's army had already led their men in to attack.

"Hahaha, I said, I can definitely take down Titanium City. Send the follow-up reinforcements immediately." After waking up, Kustanly launched his final big move, ordering the insiders in the city to open the city gates. Although his soldiers were taken away, he relied on his personal strength to get his 300 cavalry back again.

As before, only after Costanelli entered the city would the subsequent reinforcements set out.

However, just as Costanelli's cavalry had entered the city gate and the follow-up reinforcements had just set out, a huge stone slowly fell from the city gate.

"Hold on, hold on!" Seeing the huge rock falling, Coustanley was so scared that his soul flew away. This was his last chance. If he couldn't take over the Titanium Mine City, he would never have the chance to own it again. Even if he took over the Titanium Mine City, it would only belong to the nobles.

Countless spears and stones were placed below, but they could not stop the boulder from falling. They could only watch it fall bit by bit.

"Hold on!" Costanli, who was extremely angry, kicked the two knights beside him under the boulder.

"Save me, save me, I don't want to die!" Seeing the huge rock falling, the soldiers below were scared out of their wits.

Finally, because there were too many debris below, the boulder stopped less than 50 centimeters from the ground. However, such a small space can only be crawled in without armor, but it would be faster to directly capture the city wall.

"I'm done." If he lost the Titanium Mine City, then Coustanli would just become an ordinary bandit. He didn't know yet that his old nest, the Menis Iron Mine, had been captured, and he became completely alone.

"Kill!" The city gate was blocked, and Liad vented all his anger on the more than one hundred cavalrymen who rushed in. As for the more than one hundred cavalrymen outside the city, they could not get in at all and had no way to attack the city walls. Everything was left to the infantry defending the city.

"Wait, I will be back." Regardless of the life and death of his cavalry, Costanelli jumped to the lowest part of the city wall and then escaped over the wall.

Custanly did not wait for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements, but led more than a hundred cavalrymen outside the city and disappeared without a trace.

Custanly knew that it was meaningless to stay here with only a hundred of them. Even if he could capture the Titanium Mine City, it would not bring him any benefit. And the biggest possibility was that his hundred people would also be taken away by them, and he would have no freedom from then on.

"What's going on? Didn't Costanelli already open the city gate? Why is there no fighting at all?" The noble cavalrymen near the moat had a bad premonition in their hearts.

"Shoot!" Countless crossbow arrows were shot out in an instant. After a round of rain of arrows, at least hundreds of noble cavalrymen died.

"Retreat! That idiot Kustanly is my enemy!" Gorbachev roared to the sky, but there was nothing he could do. After three rounds of shooting, the noble cavalry finally escaped the enemy's range.

Gorbachev was in tears as he looked at the heavy casualties of the cavalry. Now his cavalry brigade only had a thousand men at most, and Kustanli had taken away more than three hundred men, so the casualties just now were at least two or three hundred.

"Everyone retreat another two kilometers, and at the same time notify the other five major families in the Slave Alliance to each send 500 soldiers for support." Gorbachev knew that it would be difficult to capture the Titanium Mine City with just his own people.

The 3,000-plus cavalry originally formed a mighty force, but now they have been decimated and only 1,000 are left. Continuing to gather more than 2,000 troops will only return to the previous state.

And now, the Titanium Mine City is still raising its walls, and needs more soldiers and more siege equipment. Gorbachev needs to absorb more than 6,000 troops to directly flatten the Titanium Mine City.

In this way, the Slave Alliance and Titanium City ushered in a relatively stable two-week peace period. Alpha used this time to train troops, strengthen the city walls, store supplies, and continue to research gunpowder.

Before, Darwin used magic to force gunpowder to explode, and Alpha tried it later, and found that natural energy is the catalyst for gunpowder explosion, including magic power, fighting spirit power, internal force, etc. In other words, the fighting spirit potion given by Athena to Alpha is the best catalyst. So, Alpha asked Athena for help, but was glared at by Athena, and did not gain anything substantial.

However, after research, Alpha and everyone else discovered that although they could not find a way to store Dou Qi, they could release it instantly by using Dou Qi to stimulate the explosion of gunpowder. This method could be used to make guns, but it could only be used by people who had reached an intermediate level of Dou Qi training.

So, Alpha made a rifle, and it actually worked, but it had serious air leakage, the accuracy was too low, and the range was too short, so it could not be put into practical use for the time being.

Finally, after Alpha sacrificed his beauty to seduce her, Athena taught Alpha a few tricks to increase the pressure of his fighting spirit, allowing it to penetrate his skin and slowly gather.

This method is not applicable to Alpha, because increasing the pressure of Dou Qi requires breaking through the bottleneck period, and Alpha is still in the initial stage of cultivation, and the bottleneck period is far away.

Alpha just developed a method to let the dwarves build a few handheld shotguns for the generals to defend themselves. Since the accuracy is not high, they simply no longer consider accuracy.

As for the artillery, Alpha thought it could be done under the current technical conditions, but no one could use it because it required at least an earth knight to activate it. Among Alpha's army, only Darwin and Athena met the requirements. Athena's whereabouts were uncertain, and Darwin was a magician, which seemed to be putting the cart before the horse.

Although Alpha had developed gunpowder technology, it always felt a bit useless. Soldiers who could display fighting spirit did not seem to need muskets, and those who needed muskets could not use gun technology. Therefore, Alpha temporarily stopped the development of muskets because there were still thousands of enemy troops outside, eyeing them covetously.

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The day after the rebellion broke out, Alpha sent all the hostages who participated in the rebellion out of the Titanium City. The enemy had promised that as long as these people participated in the rebellion, they would be set free regardless of success or failure. However, when these people arrived at the enemy's camp, the enemy refused to accept the conditions offered by Custanly and prepared to kill these hostages.

Alpha had anticipated this situation and sent 500 cavalrymen to support. Seeing this, the enemy fled without a fight. In the end, more than 20 of the 50 hostages survived. Alpha took these people back to the Titanium Mine City, and they became Alpha's loyal fans. They hated the grassland bandits and rushed to the front line in every battle.

Alpha did not use these hostages to fight the enemy. On the contrary, he wanted to let the remaining hostages know that even if they obeyed the enemy's orders, the enemy would not give them freedom. Only by relying on themselves and defeating the bandits can they and their families gain freedom. Relying on the bandits' promises is simply unrealistic. From then on, these hostages no longer believed in the bandits' sweet talk and were determined to build Titanium Mine City into their ideal home.

A rebellion that won everyone's unanimous support, Alpha felt it was worth it. After all, it was better to solve it thoroughly than to hide it. At present, the situation seems good. As long as there is no major crisis, these people will not have other thoughts.