Chapter 378 Juano’s Last Lesson
The raging firelight turned half of Catherine’s face orange-red, and the hard-soled riding boots made a clicking sound on the hard city wall floor.
Putting on the breastplate and helmet, Catherine held a one-meter-long sun stick in her hand and ran quickly under the protection of more than a dozen mercenaries.
Beside them, fires were burning in the city, and from time to time, flames would erupt from the doors and windows of a house.
The militiamen wearing blue cloaks with white trim, under the command of Mitterni, pulled down all the houses outside the fire source to create a fire-free zone.
In the midst of the fire, the wizards in black robes stood in a row. Under the scolding of the wizard leader, they no longer used frost spells, but worked together to throw bottles of alchemical potions into the sea of fire.
The continuous explosion of three red dragon breaths in the city quickly expanded the fire. At present, some militiamen have gone to arrest the murderer, but so far they have only caught a few rogues who helped.
“Drink!”
Looking up, Catherine saw the melee between the imperial soldiers and the parliamentary soldiers again.
In front of me is another section of the city wall that has been breached. There is only room for four people to stand side by side in the narrow wall corridor.
The black armor and the light blue shorts squeezed each other, the swords clashed and made a harsh clang, and the vortex of steel kept turning.
"Rush over and leave me alone!" Catherine took out the good-day stick and pointed it at the group of guards.
"Kill!" The black knights were unambiguous, drawing out the long swords from their waists and killing the group of guards.
They kicked over the shields of the guards in the back row with several kicks, and with a few blows, seven or eight heads flew up neatly.
“Where did the extraordinary knight come from?”
"Quick, turn around."
"The damn armor can't be broken."
"Aha!" Just as all the guards were fighting in front of the formation, a proud cry came from sounded behind Catherine.
An armored sergeant raised his sword high, jumped up from behind Catherine, and hit Catherine on the back with a heavy jump chop.
Katherine immediately snorted, but the armored sergeant's expression changed from ecstasy to horror.
This jump attack, which could split an ordinary farmer in half, only left an invisible white mark on Catherine's expensive alchemist-level special dwarven adamantine-forged white crystal steel armor.
Before the armored sergeant could recover from the fear of the kryptonian warrior, the dwarf's master-level thorn forged from adamantine smoothly penetrated his simple chain armor and penetrated his soft body. abdomen.
"Sunday stick?"
The armored sergeant looked at the weapon in Catherine's hand in astonishment. This is a special stick for the militia. Who has time to install the stick? It's so expensive to get a hammerhead.
"President, are you okay?" Seeing Catherine being attacked, a guard captain immediately left the battlefield and returned to Catherine.
Catherine shook her head: "He bumped into me, it's nothing serious."
Under the charge of more than a dozen square-level knights, the dozens of guards who climbed up the city wall were quickly driven off city.
When the last guard was thrown out of the wall by the militiamen, the entire section of the wall on the west side was recaptured by Catherine.
But looking around the entire city wall, there are scattered battles between the Imperial Army and the Parliamentary Army.
In order to extinguish the fire in the city, Catherine had to deploy a large number of troops to put out the fire.
If there are more troops in the city, there will naturally be fewer troops on the walls.
In addition, the red dragon's breath has exploded. Without this powerful weapon, the defenders of Rapid City have no ability to fight back against large engineering equipment.
But if you don't control the fire in the city, you will be attacked from both sides by the flames and the army.
Even if we defend it, it only delays the time of death for two or three days.
Perhaps by then, it will be the most determined city militiamen who want to open the door and surrender.
It was the time when Rapid City was at its weakest, but at the notification of the insider, the imperial army outside just launched an attack.
We should follow Sissi’s suggestion and set up a military police force. At the time, I thought it was too harsh, but now it seems that it is really necessary.
But fortunately, under the unified deployment of Pettier, they actually withstood the empire's offensive with their limited strength.
To be honest, Pettier has definitely made a great contribution to their ability to hold on until now.
Even if I beat Catherine to death, I would never have thought that an ordinary Grocers Guild in Gaubourg City could cultivate two military and political wizards, Pettier and Horn.
"President, President, look quickly -"
"What's wrong?" Catherine, who was still resting, raised her head.
"On the west, on the west wall." The beacon soldier who delivered the news stuttered, "The knights are ordered, the knights are ordered to go up the wall."
Catherine stood by the wall, Look towards the west wall.
The place was covered in flames, but you could still see figures dancing with orange-red spots.
That was the Order Knight, the Order Knight that only the red dragon's breath could kill and drive away. "It's over..." I don't know who said this word, and everything around me seemed to have become colder.
“Is it over?” Catherine suddenly stopped talking.
She knew a way, a way that she was most afraid of and least willing to mention.
She still remembers those looks of disdain and fear in those two years, those strange looks, as if she was not a seven-year-old girl at that time, but some kind of savage beast.
Catherine often suffers from insomnia, not because she drinks too much black tea during the day, but because she always dreams about those experiences at night.
The experience of being abandoned by her mother, the experience of being driven away by the villagers with pitchforks, the experience of being chased by the knights...
Finally, she found a group of fellow refugees who were willing to accept her.
But after using her to defeat the bandits, he was afraid of her power and sold her to the church.
If she hadn't been smart enough to escape in advance, she might have died long ago.
She didn't want to go through this again.
With other guards, Catherine ran down the city wall quickly in a daze. She stood under the wall and saw the running militiamen.
Under the command of Pettier, they were running towards the west wall where the gap was getting bigger and bigger.
Petier, with arrows stuck in his shoulders and his hair turning white on his temples, was still shouting to move groups of soldiers to the front.
“Finally found you.” A senior partner of Megdi ran over, “Quick, let’s go.”
"Leave? Where to go?"
"Leave from the underground sewer, of course. The Azik Alliance will protect us." Seeing Catherine's dazed expression, the senior partner thought she was reluctant and hurriedly added, "If Archduke Meliati wins, we can still come back."
Since Catherine's Megdi Chamber of Commerce is performing well and has a large number of wealthy Al merchants as shareholders, the Azik Alliance will not let go. Leave Catherine alone.
But Catherine stopped where she was.
Take off her glasses and put them in the palm of her hand. This pair of exquisite crystal glasses was given to her by her teacher when she was sixteen years old.
Fifteen years have passed, and there is not a single scratch on the crystal.
She has at least ten fifteen years left, but how many years do the people of Qianhe Valley have? How many more years can they endure it?
Now that she has withdrawn, how long will Qianhehe Valley have to wait for such an opportunity?
Ten and fifteen years? Maybe there were twenty or thirty, or maybe the people of Qianhehe Valley had been replaced by immigrants from Farlan and Leia before that, right?
Suddenly she realized what she was doing?
I led the Megdi Chamber of Commerce to the top step by step, and did a lot of dirty things for what?
When did she start thinking about her place in the Thousand Valleys after the war? When did she start thinking about the power position of the Megdi Chamber of Commerce?
If the teacher were here today, what would he do?
"President, President?"
Katherine raised her head and looked at Mittern in front of her: "What did you just say?"
"For the sake of Qianhe River Valley, you'd better run away."
"..."
"President? You should give me an accurate answer." The senior partner was almost dying of anxiety. .
“For Qianhe River Valley?” Catherine looked at the palm of her hand, the crystal lens reflected the raging sea of fire, “The teacher died for Qianhe River Valley, am I going to run away for Qianhe River Valley?”
< br>"President, I am not..."
"Then what's the point of the teacher's death?!" Catherine almost growled and said these words.
The persuading Mitnich wanted to speak again, but was stopped by Karl. He looked at Catherine with burning eyes: "Then what do you want to do?"
Put on his glasses again. , but Catherine closed her eyes.
The location of Rapids City is too important. If it is lost, Meliaty in the north and Horn in the east will be in danger.
If the teacher were here, he would probably let the women, children and young people board the ship, and then lead the remaining people and soldiers to fight to the death.
Yes, even if there is only one percent chance, he will not give up.
What about yourself? Hesitant, but still hesitant even though he is more than 50% sure.
After a lifetime of being a student, if you can’t surpass your teacher, that would be too bad.
If that means the old nightmare comes back, then let it come back!
Although it is more terrifying than death, even though it will make Catherine lose everything she has, everything she has now is not what she really wants.
What she wants is the free hometown in her dream, the free Thousand River Valley, a place without wandering.
“Do we still have the seeds of the vampire vine?” Catherine opened her eyes, but those eyes belonged to sixteen-year-old Catherine.
Mitny was stunned, then smiled bitterly: "I really didn't expect that there would be a chance to use it..."
(End of this chapter)
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