Lord of Industrialization

Helm City is located in the southwest of Wesen Territory, leading south to Lissie Territory. It is surrounded by several hills, numerous small rivers and streams, and many small swamps.

This city, which was just upgraded from a town, is not large in scale, with a permanent population of about 3,000 people, and the city walls are only 6 meters high.

On the morning of April 20, Earl Rees commanded an army consisting of three thousand mountain mercenaries, one thousand peasant soldiers, five knights and forty-five gilded knights to enter Wesson Territory and attack the city of Heim.

According to common tactics, the mountain mercenaries first sent out a hundred mounted infantrymen riding ordinary horses in groups of ten in the early morning to enter the Weisen Territory to attack the villages and drive the villagers into the city.

Compared with the day before yesterday, today there were a few large trees randomly placed on the road to block the road. The tree stumps were still on the side of the road. There were many slimes that had eaten sawdust digesting food in the grass not far away.

The group stopped on the road, and someone dismounted and moved the tree away.

Buzz buzz!

A large swarm of wasps suddenly flew out of the tree crown. They were as big as a thumb, and their body surface looked like black crystal, giving off a dangerous light in the sunlight.

[Helveti swears]! It's the Hessian Bee!

Run quickly, it's a monkey from the Black Forest!

ah!!!

These mountain mercenaries immediately saw the masterpiece of their old enemy, and they turned their horses and ran away. When they came down to move the trees, they saw that they could not escape, so they used methods such as lying on the ground and burying their faces in the mud to avoid exposing their skin. .

The horses couldn't wrap themselves up. The angry Hessian wasp stung them hard. The stung area was blackened and swollen in the blink of an eye. The severe pain drove the horses crazy.

Some of those running behind were stung by their horses and knocked them to the ground, and then attracted Hessian bees to their faces.

Those people's faces or necks quickly swelled up after being stung, squeezing their trachea, and were eventually suffocated to death.

The mountain mercenaries ran for more than two kilometers before they dared to stop. They found various things to wrap their heads and faces, lit torches, and turned back to retrieve the place.

When they returned, they found that the people lying on the ground were all dead.

This caused them to lose fifteen people in one fell swoop, exceeding the losses of Wesson's army so far.

Several torches were thrown into the canopy, and the fire quickly destroyed the hive hidden inside.

At this moment, several fist-sized objects fell into the crowd, and the explosion shock wave and unqualified bearing steel balls swept across all directions.

The fire brigade of Heim City is also equipped with cherry cannons, but today they replaced the cold melon bombs used to extinguish fires with anti-personnel grenades.

Bullets followed one after another. At a distance of less than 30 meters, the leather armor and mail armor on the mercenaries failed to provide much defense.

After several rounds of shooting, there was no one left standing on the road.

A group of people with grass growing on their bodies suddenly appeared from the bushes in the mountains on both sides. They ran away one by one and disappeared without a trace after a while.

The person in charge of the defense in Helm City is Otto, the commander of the Whetstone force. He is very familiar with the fighting methods of mountain mercenaries. He has also studied the weapons and operations of Wesenland's new army, and the Whetstone force also accepts it. After training with new weapons, this time the troops and the eager firefighters were sent out to harass the enemy.

The members of this force are all veterans, and all of them are full of intrigues.

The forward led by Reese suffered more than half of his casualties in one fell swoop, and those who survived were those who dismounted and lay on the ground decisively when the situation was bad.

Now these people were angry, and they were still able to collect their uninjured horses. They rode up the mountain and bypassed the burning roadblocks, intending to massacre a village in front of them to relieve their anger.

They walked across the stone bridge, but they didn't notice that among the reeds on the roadside behind them, several people came up soon. They installed a few things with the words This is facing the enemy, broke a few reeds and laid them across the roadside, and connected the other ends. fuse.

At this time, the mountain mercenaries arrived at the first village. The fence outside the village was burned into black charcoal, and a big tree could be seen on the road into the village.

Now they didn't dare to enter the village, for fear that another swarm of Hessian bees would appear.

Near noon, the large force led by Earl Rees arrived at the place where the first battle took place and learned about the battle from the mouths of the wounded left behind.

Just be clever. Earl Rees shook his head and let the army continue to move forward.

Behind him, the Gilded Knights chattered and discussed whether Belle Burke, who had been missing for two days, was having sex with the four suitors somewhere, without any tension.

The army soon arrived in front of the stone bridge, and the mountain mercenaries lined up in several columns to cross the river like a normal march.

The reed pole lying on the ground had been stepped on countless times. Someone walked by and kicked it to fly it away.

The next moment, huge explosions erupted one after another, fireballs erupted from both sides of the stone bridge, and countless steel balls rushed towards the bridge like a tsunami.

At that moment, the bridge seemed to be shrouded in red mist, and after a few breaths there was no longer a living person.

The mercenaries no longer dared to step onto the bridge and asked for a different route.

Earl Rees's face was horribly dark, and he finally made a decision.

He first asked people to light the reeds on the opposite side, and after crossing the river, he divided the team into five equal groups, led by farmers and soldiers who were familiar with the terrain. The main force chose to take a long detour, and none of the troops followed the originally planned route.

This time, to the surprise of the attacking troops, all the traps laid along the way were useless.

Then they made the mistake of dividing their forces themselves.

In this way, the damage caused by killing from a distance is greatly reduced, and the enemy can ignore them and continue on their way.

On the evening of April 20, when the News Broadcast broadcast on the radio that Baron Wesson led the army to attack Fort Krot, Reese led the army to a place one kilometer south of Heim City and began to set up camp in the farmland.

The morale in the military camp was a bit low. The mountain mercenaries counted the number of people. All the 100 people sent out at the beginning did not come back. Nearly a hundred people were missing on the stone bridge. There were dozens of casualties along the way. Almost 10% of the people were dead. So gone.

During dinner in the evening, Earl Rees went to ask the gilded knights: Which of you can use magic to build a slope of earth to the top of the wall?

Several people immediately answered that they could.

Very good! Earl Rees said, We will attract the enemy's attention here tomorrow. There are not many of them, and they will all gather in the south. You can quietly go around to the back, build a slope and rush up directly.

When you reach the city wall, the enemies in the south will be in chaos. Then we can attack them from both sides!

When Heim City is conquered, you guys will be the biggest contributors!

Those young people immediately became excited, but there was also a calm person among them. He said: Earl Reese, you don't treat us as bait, do you? If you don't attack in time, wouldn't we be finished?

Earl Rees immediately replied: How dare I let you use me as bait? If I do, can your family let me go?

In the past, these people were accustomed to relying on their families to dominate. When they heard that someone was afraid of their own background, they thought it was natural, so they all agreed to attack Beicheng as a surprise force tomorrow.

On the other side of the city of Helm, Otto stood on the city wall, watching expressionlessly as the bold merchants accompanying the army set up tents to do business outside the enemy's camp.

According to tradition, the place where the merchants accompanying the army are located is a neutral zone. They provide the army with logistical services such as drinks and catering, and at the same time purchase trophies. No one will attack them.

Otto called a few clever guys to go there with some cans and instant noodles to sell.