Although Paulai is a port city, civil ports and tourist beaches not only do not have any protection, but are instead isolated from the high city walls. Therefore, even if the enemy fleet occupied the ports and beaches against artillery fire on the city walls, ground troops without corresponding heavy siege equipment cannot invade the city.

There is a circle of thick walls outside the military port as a protection, and only an iron gate is used for passage. There are many magic crystal cannons and solid fortifications on this bunker that looks like a city wall, and a large number of soldiers are stationed at all times. They can not only fight against the enemy fleet but also protect the military port from being captured by the opponent. Of course, this is prepared for the failure of the fleet or the enemy's sneak attack. However, due to the powerful strength of the Birea Empire Navy, everyone is in awe and dare not act rashly. These old antique-level defense measures have never been used.

Maybe it's the first time today?

However, for the civilians in Paulai City, no matter how strong the defense of the military port is, even at the fortress level, it still cannot stop the inner anxiety. The enemy appears around the city, threatening their safety at all times, and may even log in and try to seize the city... As long as you know this, it will be enough to panic ordinary people.

Because Li Huayin took the initiative to jump out to maintain order, Jebtan and his group were unable to leave Paula before the city was strictly prohibited from entering and leaving. They were placed in the square in the center of the city with the rest of the people. Because there were too many outsiders, tourists, mercenaries, adventurers, etc., so that all public buildings such as churches could not be accommodated, the city guards could only let them camp in the open air. There were now countless tents on the huge square, which looked like a standard refugee camp.

This treatment naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many nobles who came to travel, such as the young green-haired man in luxurious clothes not far away from Jebtan and others who stopped a group of soldiers who were giving food and drinking water to the people furiously at their squad leader.

"You are not allowed to leave the city without authorization, you can only live in a doghouse. What's even more outrageous is that you can't guarantee how long this situation will last!?" The man's voice attracted many people's attention and made the captain on the opposite side frown, but he still had no intention of restraining it. "Forget it, it's an extraordinary time. But treating aristocrat like me as the civilians next to you as well, will your mind be broken? Change me to a suitable place, now, immediately, right now!"

Chasi, who sat in a circle with his friends, couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this: "A name with a reputation at this time cannot play any role. It will only make the soldiers even more disgusted. However, Mr. Glyon, your identity can be fully valued by the military, and it is not impossible to even be sent out of the city. Why do you choose to stay?"

Jebtan smiled bitterly and glanced at Li Huayin, who was biting the bread with excitement and high interest, showing a helpless expression.

Obviously, the red-haired girl did not intend to leave; on the contrary, she also wanted to take the initiative to participate in the city's defense.

After using body language to make the nobles who were spitting on their faces realize who is the boss here now, the team leader slowly wiped his face and stepped on the face of someone who was foaming on the ground and said loudly: "I won't say much nonsense. You have more or less guessed what's going on now. That's right. The enemy has come to the vicinity of this city. Although we don't know what happened on the front line, as soldiers, we have the responsibility to protect everyone's personal safety. As long as there is one person on the top of the city, you will not be hurt. I can swear by the reputation of all the soldiers in Paulai City! But to be honest, since reinforcements have been sent to the front line these days, the city has a little insufficient strength, so we are planning to recruit some volunteers from the people to participate in the defense operations together. How about it, is there anyone?"

Li Huayin was about to stand up and raise her hand, but was pulled by Yue Ge next to her, and shook her head gently to the former with inexplicable face and whispered: "Wait first."

After the captain said the last two words, the people who were already a little noisy immediately became quiet. The air at the scene was so dull that it was almost suffocating.

Avoiding danger is an instinctive reaction. Compared to the front line of life and death, most people would rather hide behind and eat bread in water. When the surroundings remain silent, even those who volunteered were not able to speak in this atmosphere, and naturally evolved into the current situation.

"It's obvious that no matter how the front-line fleet is, at least the situation in the war near Paulai City is definitely not very good, otherwise the army would not recruit people from the civilians." Just as the captain who had his hands added a forehead sighed helplessly, Chaxi, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly said leisurely. Her voice was not loud, but because the surroundings were very quiet, everyone could clearly hear what the girl said.

"But the situation is not so bad that it is hopeless. If that is the case, the army will definitely force the men from the people directly, rather than recruiting volunteers." As everyone's eyes, the beautiful silver-haired girl stretched out her index finger and gently wrapped her hair around her ears and drooped to her shoulders and continued to analyze herself, "And it is clearly the current state of the enemy, Paule's city defense force still arranged a large number of civilians in an orderly manner. In other words, the scale of the enemy is not large; or there are not many troops they can use to land. The army can completely use the period of time when the garrison fleet blocks the attack to settle civilians instead of going to the city to prepare for battle... What's wrong, Sun Xiang? Why do you pull my clothes?"

Chaxi, who came to his senses, faced countless pairs of shining krypton gold dog eyes staring at him, unable to help but half-covered his cherry lips and screamed in surprise. He hid behind his lover, feeling flushed and anxious, and suddenly blinded the dog eyes.

Is this girl deliberately cute? Before her friend was watched more and more enthusiastically, Li Huayin stood up and took over the conversation and said, "Well, in short, we still have the power to fight?"

Chasi was obviously deliberately acting cute. She quickly said seriously: "Yes. The battle situation on the front line may be very serious, but during this period, Paulai City has been sending reinforcements, which means that Alixiya and the others have not been completely defeated; (shaking their heads) No. From the fact that the enemy's small troops suddenly appeared near the port city without warning, Alixiya and the others must have entered a stalemate with the opponent's main force. In order to break the status quo, the enemy had to draw troops to attack us behind us! If we lose the city here, Alixiya will be in a huge passive position. Because it is a small-scale sneak attack, the enemy's troops are not very strong, and we can fight."

"So even if the enemy has an absolute advantage, we must defend ourselves, right?" Li Huayin said as she took out her two one-handed swords from her luggage in the tent and grinned grinning, "What's more, the other party is taking such a despicable sneak attack. In order to avoid distracting Little Ellie, we have no reason not to fight. Hello, the captain and the volunteers are me!"

"Who is the uncle?? I just look a little mature. I am completely a very good young man who is just 23 years old this year and will marry his girlfriend during the New Year!"

"Is it really okay to blatantly erect death flags like this before the battle?"

"I don't think it's because of whom!" The captain even thought of pulling off his sword and falling to the ground hard. Then he suddenly came back to his senses and said in surprise, "Wait a minute, what you just said, Alicia, is it... Her Majesty the Queen?"

"Of course." Li Huayin said indifferently while hanging the weapon around her waist. "In addition to the queen of the Birea Empire, she can lead the coalition fleet while fighting against the Dark Empire, and can also play daily shows of welfare and moral integrity and pay a post to a certain (divine beast) palace man's blonde Lolita in the continent, right?"

"Are you acquaintances with Her Majesty the Queen? Also, did you get into something strange in the middle just now??"

"Don't care about details or something." Li Huayin waved casually in the cold sweat of everyone's eyes, "In addition, we are not acquaintances with Alicea, but just classmates in the very ordinary Hope Garden that responded to her combat call. Just as she said in the recruitment advertisement she posted before, we are not timid goblins, we are willing and capable of fighting against the enemy. Therefore, at this critical moment, we dare to stand up on our own initiative!"

"I always feel that the mobilization of morale just now seemed to have wrapped myself in..." Chaxi couldn't help but cover his face and sweated. "Ah, you are the only one, always make people feel a little worried. Sun Xiang, Yue Ge. Let's go together, right?"

nod.

"Can you all be..."

"We are just ordinary classmates of a little queen in the Garden of Hope." The four of them looked at each other and replied in unison.

Maybe it was because someone took the lead, maybe it was just inspired, or maybe it was through these four people that Alicia, who worked tirelessly to protect the Western Continent, felt that she should do something at this moment. The nearby mercenaries, adventurers and even nobles who had received combat skills were standing up and demanding to participate in defense. Things called courage, glory and hope were back in people's hearts.

"Very good." Even the captain himself couldn't help but ignite his blood, and grinned and laughed loudly, "The others obediently follow the instructions of the left-behind soldiers. And you, come with me to the city wall to give those uninvited guests a little color!"

I'm climbing the dividing line of the city wall

When Li Huayin and the others stood at the city wall, many small black dots appeared on the distant sea level. The small black dots burst out from time to time, and if they didn't look carefully, they wouldn't notice it at all.

"It's our fleet." Chasi said after a while, "He is fighting with the enemy, but I don't know what kind of situation it is when it is too far away."

In order to avoid the volunteers who had never received military training from sabotage their cooperation without authorization, the army spread them and evenly distributed them to the lower-level troops. Originally, Li Huayin and others were no exception. They did not do this after the team leader who brought them to the commander reported the special characteristics of several people to the commander, but directly incorporated them into the team leader's team. Since they were classmates in the same school, their cooperation was naturally stronger than others. Moreover, a warrior, an archer and two mages focused on attack. Perhaps unexpected results could be achieved under the cover of regular troops?

By the way, the two personal guards who followed Jebtan's order to protect Li Huayin were miserably assigned to other teams...

As the captain of ten soldiers, the prospective groom, who was called uncle by Li Huayin, first assigned tasks for his subordinates, then walked to the four people and raised his hand and greeted: "Oh. How do you feel? Are you nervous? After all, this is not a trial, and it is inevitable that you will be nervous. But be at ease, just keep a normal mind."

Li Huayin, who was standing in the front row, shook her head indifferently: "No, I dare to guarantee that none of us feel nervous. Compared to the big scenes we experienced around Alicea before, this one can only be regarded as a playhouse."

"Are you? You are indeed companions who have fought with Her Majesty the Queen." The captain couldn't help but sigh. "I have a lot of peace of mind with you, who have witnessed the legend with your own eyes. Her Majesty the Queen is still fighting on the front line of the distant sea, and we can't lose her face here!"

"... Although I really want to respond to your encouragement loudly." Chasi said, covering her forehead and sweating hard, "But every time I think of the girl Alicia's usual appearance, it's okay even if she loses her face, because there is no word "skin" in her dictionary!"

"Well, what kind of curious image does Her Majesty the Queen usually have?"

Li Huayin patted the captain's shoulders and smiled with an old face, "Uncle, don't know some things in this world to get a longer time?"

"Thank you for successfully reducing my san value. Also, don't call me uncle! You red-haired girl definitely did it on purpose, right? Hello!" The angry team leader pinched Li Huayin's cheek and pulled it hard and said crazy.

Just as Chaxi was hesitating whether he should go forward with Sun Xiang beside him to separate the two people in daily life. Yue Ge, who had been observing the distance, suddenly spoke: "You can see clearly."

Everyone hurriedly turned their eyes and then showed shocked expressions.

As the alarm bell sounded in Paulai City, everyone has guessed that the stationed fleet basically cannot stop the invading enemy, so they have been mentally prepared for the fleet to retreat while firing artillery. What really surprised everyone was that when they went out, there were more than a dozen old warships, and when they came back, there were not even a scratch on their armor plates, as if they were not going to fight but just going out for a walk around the wind.

What's going on? Are all the weapons loaded on the enemy's warships electric toys for cosplay? Just as everyone was puzzled, something appeared again on the sea level. They were obviously much larger than the warships and were not slower. They were indifferent to letting the colorful magic crystal shells hit the oval.

"Those are definitely not warships." Chasi said very surely, "it doesn't look like it just in appearance."

"Giant tentacle monster?" Yue Ge suddenly answered for no reason.

The silver-haired girl who was not choked to death by this divine word tried hard to clean her respiratory tract and then casually twisted her arm when she heard the lines of the high elf and was obviously trapped in some strange fantasy: "What are you imagining randomly? (Turn to Yuege) That's right, have you really not got any strange books from Alicia recently to read?"

Shake your head.

"Stop doing it everyday." Li Huayin interrupted without looking back, "Although I'm not sure if it's really a giant tentacle monster, those things are monsters. Look, that silver-white carapace is obviously a creature."

"Ah, it's true." The captain next to him looked carefully and nodded, then changed to a confused expression. "But why is it a monster? Is the enemy planning to let the monsters in the ocean siege ashore? After leaving the sea, such a big body can't even move."

Even when facing this problem, Chasi couldn't help but scratch his head and fell into confusion: "I don't know. Maybe the other party is just to scare us? Well, no, this is even more impossible. Only by completely capturing a city can it have enough deterrence and intimidation effect on the entire Western Continent. It is definitely not possible to just go around two rounds nearby."

Without giving everyone much time to consider, the Warcraft quickly entered the range of the magic crystal cannons placed on the city wall during the high-speed movement. Although the fleet tried to lure them to a more solid military port during the period, the other party did not take this trick at all and only recognized the prosperous city in front of them. After seeing this situation, the commander-in-chief of the city immediately issued an order to fire the cannon.

Compared with warships, the magic crystal gun on the city wall is much more powerful. In just one volley, the magic beast carapace that rushed in the front was split into pieces, and countless bright red liquids and fragments were scattered out on the spot, and they all scattered into the air.

Its activities also stopped immediately. Just as the officers were relieved, ordinary soldiers and volunteers cheered, a silver-white monster that seemed to have cracked several large holes suddenly appeared from the body of the monster that seemed to have been buried. It spread its wings and flew into the sky, or swung its tail to drill into the water, and rushed towards the beach.

It turns out that those huge monsters cannot get ashore actually only serve as troop transport ships, and all the real siege troops are hidden in their belly!
Chapter completed!