Vol 6 Chapter 19: A long day (6)

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Ryan stood on the city wall and looked far north. At the moment, the whole earth was bathed with the soft light of the sunset. The emerald green grass surface also seemed to be coated with a layer of magenta. Stained with blood.
In the distance, there are endless camps of orcs, all spreading out of sight one by one, and nearby, the orcs corpses left during the siege during the day. The soldiers of the Thor's Fortress have reached the city wall through the cable, and the dead bodies of the soldiers who have been killed have been converged, but the tens of thousands of orcs' bodies have no time and so much manpower to control.
"This is the war." Ryan looked at all of it in his heart like water, and said lightly.
Allen said: "Since it is unavoidable, don't be the losing side."
"Haha," Bart said with a smile, standing next to him, "You two are not very young, and you look like an experienced adventurer."
Ryan and Allen smiled at each other, but did not speak.
But Bart continued: "The evening on this wall is not the same as other places, because there are high mountains on both sides, so here will see the sunrise more slowly than other places, and of course the sunset will disappear more than other places. fast."
As the saying goes, the sky's glow gradually faded, the deep red color turned crimson, and the crimson quickly turned into a light red, and the sky suddenly dimmed a lot. Finally, when all the red light disappeared, the whole land fell into darkness.
A wall of fiery bonfires ignited about 50 meters from the walls of the Thor Fortress. The night watch soldiers and mercenaries 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 vigil, they had to whisper quietly with the people around them, occasionally making a slightly louder laugh, and immediately the soldiers on patrol passed by and stopped loudly.
Ryan and Elendo sat side by side, and Bai squeezed between them, curling up their bodies into a furry mass. Sitting with Ryan and them, in addition to Bart, there were three mercenaries and six soldiers. These 12 people were all assigned to a group, and the leader was a human archer with a bow and arrow in his hand.
Seeing the darkness around, the cold north wind blowing from time to time, a mercenary couldn't help complaining: "Damn, I knew I wouldn't take this task, I thought it was a good job."
"Haha, you think it's pretty beautiful." The team leader holding the bow and arrow said with a smile: "In fact, this vigil is not a very hard thing, but now it is the war period, not as relaxed as usual, and it's time Be vigilant now. "
"Ah, you said. Will the orcs come to attack tonight?" The other mercenary whispered.
"Who knows? Maybe it will come, and it won't. Anyway, we just need to do our duty."
"Then, how do we investigate the situation outside the city? Look at the huge dark area around you. If it's not a campfire, I'm afraid you are sitting opposite me. I can't see your appearance."
"It's easy, you look at it." The team leader holding the bow and arrow said: "You can come together. Anyway, it's not everyone's turn to do it in the end."
After doing this, the leader holding the bow and arrow stood up and walked to the north side of the city wall with the long bow in his hand. Lane waited for the five mercenaries to stand up and walked past. But for the first time, they have to be more familiar with the vigil.
The leader holding the bow and arrow took a special feather arrow from the back sac and said to Ryan, "Torch!"
Ryan nodded in agreement, walked back to the campfire a few steps, picked up a burning torch, and hurried over.
The leader holding the bow and arrow put the arrow on the torch and ignited it, then pulled the bow string and fired the rocket northward. The rocket made a beautiful arc in the dark night sky, as if a meteor had crossed the sky, fell about 400 meters away, and quickly extinguished.
Under the rocket's reflection, a large piece of the dark ground was illuminated, and Ryan looked out, where the scene of the daytime, the orc corpses, and the dense "arrow forest" were still visible. , No change at all. .Mobile phone watch
"That's it? It's simple." After watching a mercenary, he said carelessly: "As long as you can shoot arrows, it's not difficult to complete."
The team leader holding the bow and arrow said with a smile: "This method is only used for surprise inspection, because the angle and distance of the archery can be freely controlled. However, the inspection range of this method is too small and the time is very short. You want to check the situation at close range, you can still directly go out with a torch, the effect is the same. Hey, you do n’t just sit, just show them. "The leader of the bow and arrow is pointing at his own The crew, the five soldiers sitting by the campfire, said.
The five soldiers stood up without a glance, and then quickly walked to the stone dump truck on the south side of the city wall and motioned Ryan to pass them. When Ryan and they were all together, one of the five soldiers said in a blunt voice: "I only do it once, you guys have a good look." After that, the five people stood in a very tacit understanding and worked hard. Twist the winch of the rock-throwing truck, and slowly pull the upright shot to the horizontal position.
After securing the winch, the two soldiers moved a dark object from the ammunition cart on the side and placed it in a "spoon" at the end of the projectile. It was the soldier who explained,
Remember, do n’t use stone bullets, use this kind of‘ cloth ball ’made of soft rope and linen. If you take the wrong ammunition, it will have no effect at all.

After saying this, the soldier strode to Ryan, grabbed the torch in Ryan's hand, and put it on the "spoon". After a few seconds, the dark thing immediately burned. The fire suddenly turned the soldier's face flushed.
The soldier said quickly, "This time is faster, because this" cloth ball "can only burn for a short period of time."
After finishing talking, the soldiers loosened the mechanism that fixed the winch, and the catapult ejection rod bent at an angle of almost ninety degrees immediately returned from the horizontal position to the upright position, and this huge elastic force will also be placed on the ejection rod The "fire ball" at the end bounced out.
"Boom!" With a loud voice, the burning fire mass flew high under the influence of the huge elastic force generated by the projectile. The fire mass made it clear what was going on, so Ryan and others standing on the city wall had a panoramic view.
Soon, the fire began to fall and hit the ground with a "pop", but the fire did not extinguish, it continued to burn fiercely like a bonfire. I believe that if there are orcs attacking at night, they will be exposed under the fire.
The sound of using a rock-throwing car here suddenly attracted the attention of others across the city wall. Seeing that his companion had started, the soldiers sitting by the campfire could no longer sit still, and stood up to teach themselves together The mercenaries used stone throwing cars, and for a moment, the silent night sky was broken by the noise.
The warrior who explained did n’t care about other people ’s actions. He still said in a blunt voice: "This kind of" cloth ball "is very expensive, don't use it too often. And the angle and distance of the launch of the stone thrower are basically It is fixed and must be combined with the bow and arrow to play its maximum effect. "
"Thank you." Despite the harsh tone of the soldier's voice, as if someone owed him hundreds of thousands of gold coins, Ryan was very grateful for his detailed explanation and expressed his gratitude very seriously. The soldier looked startled slightly, and then returned to the campfire with his four companions.
Bart whispered: "Don't care, he is like that."
"Humph!" A mercenary's face-scarred atmosphere whispered, "What attitude is this, as if we were begging him. Do we come here for thousands of miles to see his stinky face?" "
The team leader holding the bow and arrow lowered his voice and explained to everyone: "No, no, you do n’t care, his brother died during the daytime battle."
The few mercenaries who were still angry immediately closed their mouths when they heard this.
The team leader holding the bow and arrow continued: "He and his brother are in charge of throwing stones, but they are in two different troops. Who knows that when the orcs attacked the city in the morning, they used stone throwing vehicles to return to the Thunder Fortress, and they were destroyed The car in charge of his brother was dropped, when his brother was twisting the cable and was hit by the stone bomb and was killed on the spot. Alas ... "
After listening to the group leader holding the bow and arrow, everyone silently sat back at the campfire, and the atmosphere suddenly solidified.
After a long period of time, all the groups had finished the demonstration. The noisy wall of Thor ’s Fortress had calmed down, and only the campfire made a crackling sound.
Because they had nothing to do, many people started chatting again. The soldiers told the mercenaries about their training, and the mercenaries described their adventure stories that they did not know whether it was true or false. It was not lonely. Several mercenaries were very good-spoken, and even a group of soldiers on patrol stopped and stood beside him listening quietly.
"Hello, Ryan." Bart asked Ryan, "What wonderful adventure story do you and Allen have?"
Ryan shook his head with a smile, to be honest, if Ryan told his experience, I am afraid that no one in the entire Fortress of Thor can be more exciting and exciting than him, but Ryan has always hoped to be low-key and will not show off.
"Ah, you guys, everything is good, but the mouth is too hard to ask anything." Bart and Ryan's days are not too short, naturally he has a certain understanding of Ryan, but he does not give up, continue Asked: "Then you and Ellen go deeper into the North Taryn prairie, can you always talk about it? Such a cold weather, if you just sit like this, it's too boring."
"Yeah, yeah." Several other mercenaries also said together: "Lane, let's talk about it. What have you seen over there? We are very curious."