December 25, 831 in the Julian calendar, was cloudy with scattered light snow.
Many years later, when those people who had survived countless battles looked back at this era, they still remembered this day clearly.
This day was originally just an ordinary day.
Most of the people at Maple Leaf Danlin Academy originally planned to go home after watching a duel on this day, visit their long-lost relatives, and have a comfortable winter vacation.
People who are about to graduate even plan to take this opportunity to walk around and see if they can find a good position for themselves in advance through certain connections.
But when the Almohad expedition fleet came from afar like dark clouds, hundreds of Cui Wei warships filled with soldiers filled the surface of Jingshui Lake.
Those war horns, sad and loud, broke the thousand-year peace of Maple Leaf Danlin.
In this sudden way, the Almohad Empire directly and forcefully announced the coming of war to everyone, dragging the people of Maple Leaf Danlin Academy into the strange and unpredictable whirlpool.
Whether they are willing or not, from this day on, their destiny is no longer in their own hands. They can only drift with the tide like duckweeds in the torrent of this great era.
And December 25, 831 in the Julian calendar, this day has also been fixed in history forever.
After the war, when people traced the origins of this war, they were surprised to find that the fuse of the war that triggered the tragic Holy War, led to years of turmoil in the mainland, and ultimately changed the political landscape of the mainland was so funny.
ridiculous.
It was simply because the deputy head of the Almohad Empire's envoy, Despi, met Hilmeria in a chance encounter and was scolded contemptuously by the goddess's daughter as 'a dead rabbit'.
Frankly speaking, even if Hilmeria dislikes Deputy Captain Despey and wants to vent her anger on her queen cousin, she can just point out that Despey is a rabbit, because this is just a statement of fact. But in her words
With the word 'death'. This is completely her fault.
Despi held a grudge and designed to ambush the Maple Leaf Danlin inspection team in order to take revenge.
Then the inspection team found him, put him on trial, and sentenced him to death.
Unexpectedly, although the Emperor of the Almohad Empire was not loyal to his wife, he was loyal to his lover.
When diplomatic mediation efforts were fruitless, despite the fact that the southern front was extremely tight under the advancing step by step approach of the Methodist peasant uprising army, he still insisted on deploying an elite army of navy and army to forcibly cross the sea.
Go on an expedition to save your lover.
After receiving the news, the Imperial War God Amor and General Hadou commented: 'A monkey is holding a dog's tail grass to tease the tyrannosaurus~!'
But in the early stage, their sneak attack was extremely successful.
Maple Leaf Danlin Academy was already on holiday that day, and a large number of students had already left. Moreover, the inspectors on duty had also relaxed their vigilance. As a result, the Almohad Empire Navy and Army Corps did not realize it until right before their eyes.
Following Inspector Jack's shout, everyone in the academy immediately woke up.
When they saw that the warships on the opposite side had blocked the port and were approaching with murderous intent, they turned around and fled.
In the port, the students and sailors who had boarded the ship also swarmed and jumped off the ship.
There were many people who couldn't squeeze onto the gangplank. In their panic, they didn't care about the cold winter. They jumped directly from the boat into the water, then swam to the shore hand and foot, rushed into the crowd of fleeing people, and fled towards the college.
Loud bugles, horrified shouts, the 'dong-dong' sound of jumping off the ship and falling into the water, and the neighing of horses being pushed aside by the rushing crowd.
For a while, people shouted and horses neighed, and there was a chaos.
Lorraine stood on the sandbank and saw Catherine and others struggling to squeeze through the crowd and rush towards him. He couldn't help but feel anxious, glared and shouted angrily: "I have legs myself. You guys go quickly~!"
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With that said, he jumped on a small boat, then held the rudder with his hand and stood on it waiting for Jack and Joey. As soon as they got on, he would immediately start the boat.
At this time, with the help of Jack, Joey struggled to stand up from the ground. When he saw the ships on the opposite side, there was a strange look in his eyes.
He suddenly pushed Jack away, then jumped onto the opposite boat, holding the oar in his hand, and rowed quickly towards the battleships.
Lorraine was stunned, looked at Jack and said: "Is he crazy? Isn't he looking for death?"
Jack glanced at Joey's back, then hurriedly jumped onto the boat and said: "The sea access to Mirror Lake is the territory of the Principality of Portores. Let's leave quickly and leave him alone."
A cold light flashed in Lorraine's eyes, and he understood immediately. With so many warships entering the Mirror Lake, it was impossible not to alarm the Principality of Podores. But no news came out from them.
That is to say, it must have received a lot of kickbacks from Almohad. The two of them wore a pair of trousers and got together.
He looked at Joey's back and cursed loudly: "Traitor~!"
Joey's body was shaken.
He looked back with a pale face, and then rowed hard towards the battleship.
At this time, the Almohad Empire warship was getting closer and closer, and the faces of the soldiers on it could almost be seen clearly.
Lorraine did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly turned the oars and rowed towards the shore.
In just a moment, the two of them arrived at the shore.
Lorraine had just jumped off the boat when several waves of fragrant wind hit her.
Before he could turn around, he felt huge pain coming from several places in his waist.
Lorraine couldn't help but sigh and said, "Didn't I tell you all to leave first? How come no one is obedient?"
He endured the pain and turned around with a grin on his face. Sure enough, he saw those young girls all looking at him angrily with rosy faces.
Behind them, Hilmeria was also struggling to squeeze through the crowd, and then hurried towards this side with an anxious look on her face.
Adele even put her hands on her hips with an angry look on her face, and shouted in a cold voice: "Say~! What on earth is going on?"
Hearing her voice, Hilmeria immediately froze, but then she gritted her teeth and ran towards this side again.
Lorraine opened her mouth and was about to speak.
At this time, Jack fortunately came to his rescue. He shouted sternly: "Now that we are entering war, all irrelevant personnel should get out of my way~!"
The girls were immediately suffocated and their arrogance disappeared.
Jack ignored them. He turned around and looked at the dozen or so inspection team members who were rushing over. He waved his hands and shouted in a hissing voice: "Quick, quick. Everyone, cover the retreat of the students. Remember to hold them back."
, they cannot be allowed to land."
The dozen or so inspection team members looked at the hundreds of battleships on the opposite side and the elite warriors on them who were armed to the teeth and filled with murderous intent, and couldn't help but show bitterness on their faces.
Jack straightened his back, glanced at them coldly, and shouted sternly: "Do you want to give up your responsibilities at this time? Tell me, I won't blame him."
However, these inspection team members looked at each other, but none of them retreated and ran away. Instead, they agreed, and then rushed to the high gun emplacement.
A few people took off the oilcloth on the gun emplacement and quickly and nimbly operated the heavy Dioisos repeating ballistae. The rest of the people also took out their weapons and staffs and stood on the fort.
Above are prepared for battle.
As the pentagonal gears and iron chains made clattering sounds, the bow arm of the crossbow continued to bend, and a long, sharp and thick crossbow arrow rolled down from the V-shaped magazine and fell into the arrow trough.
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The exploding crystal inlaid on the front end of the crossbow kept flashing a red light that represented danger.
At this time, those warships had reached the extreme limit of their range.
Seeing that the imperial warship was about to cross the invisible line, the shooter immediately leaned down, put his finger on the trigger, and concentrated on preparing to shoot.
At this moment, a bugle sounded.
I saw dozens of black spots rising slowly from the battleships. Then they formed an attack formation and flew towards this side quickly.
Those are the magicians of the Almohad Empire.
One by one, they grasped their staffs tightly and prepared explosive spells, intending to clear the obstacles for the legion's forced landing.
Lorraine looked at it and couldn't help but secretly admire: I don't know which general on the opposite side is commanding the battle. Just the smooth connection of the battle is enough to show how experienced and calculating that person is.
Jack stood up in front of the gun emplacement, pulled out his staff, and stared coldly at the mages flying through the air with a tense face.
Behind him, the patrol members either took out their staffs, chanted spells, or pulled out their crossbows and cocked their bows. They waited quietly, waiting for the opponent to come into range and fight them to the death.
Lorraine saw that the Imperial Legion on the opposite side was powerful and vigorous. There were only a dozen inspection team members blocking the way here. It was like a mantis trying to block the car. It was simply not enough to fill the gap between the opponent's teeth. Not to mention anything else.
A single volley of spells from the opposing magicians is enough to destroy them.
Thinking of this, he stretched out his hand and was about to pull the girls away. But when he turned his head, he saw all the girls opening their big, bright eyes and looking at him fiercely. He was startled, and then he understood.
Lorraine stamped her feet anxiously, thinking to herself: These women are really unreasonable, they are so angry. They are still fighting for jealousy here~!
He didn't care much, raised his hand and pushed hard behind everyone, begging: "Everyone, I beg you, let's leave quickly. If we don't leave, it will be too late."
As soon as he said this, he looked up and saw Leo holding his long-barreled musket in his arms and staggering over. He shouted excitedly: "Is there going to be a war? Count me in. Count me in...
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Lorraine stamped her feet, took a few steps forward, stretched out her hand to stop him, and said: "What are you doing here to cause trouble again? Get back!"
As he said that, he reached out and grabbed the musket, threw it to Vera, and then picked him up.
He just turned around and shouted: "Let's go quickly..."
Before they finished speaking, Hilmeria, Lorena and Adele looked at each other hatefully and saw the look in each other's eyes.
Their eyes slowly turned into surprise, and then they smiled at each other in relief, then nodded together, each drawing their staffs and swords, and rushed towards the artillery position.
Lorraine looked at it and saw that the veins on her head were so anxious that she almost died of a stroke due to high blood pressure.
He couldn't help but sigh, and shouted in despair, "You...which song are you singing?"
While running, Adele turned around and shouted loudly: "You guys, hurry up, we are the teachers of Maple Leaf Danlin. We have responsibilities and we cannot leave our students alone."
As he spoke, he smiled brightly at him.
A strand of naughty black hair hangs down from her forehead, drifting gently in the breeze next to her gorgeous and waveless face. Behind her are countless imperial warships coming across the sea.
The myriad of amorous feelings at that moment, like a fairy, captivated the country and captivated the city, which was intoxicating.
Lorraine couldn't help but moaned lowly, this goblin, even at this moment, still hasn't forgotten his charming nature~!
The other two people also turned around, waved to him, and then continued running towards the gun emplacement.
At this time, Catherine looked at them, her expression changed several times, and finally she couldn't help but said: "Wait for me~!"
Saying that, he also quickly chased after him.
Lorraine immediately froze and cursed in her heart: What is this! Everyone ran back, but these women ran forward like crazy~!
He looked back at the carriage not far away, and then looked back at the overwhelming imperial warships. Gritting his teeth, he threw Leo to the ground and said, "I have no time to care about you now. Go back quickly.
Don't let us worry."
As he said that, he turned around and took Vera with him, running towards the gun emplacement guarding the throat of the port.
Leo stood there, blinked his big black and white eyes, and then shouted, "How can the war be without me? Wait for me~!"
As he said that, he followed Lorraine on his short legs and ran over quickly.
Lorraine didn't notice either.
He ran all the way to the gun emplacement, and then looked across the way, only to see the imperial mages in black robes flying towards the opposite side like crows.
Perhaps it was due to the lack of necessary team training, or other reasons. After the mages flew a certain distance, the formation began to become scattered. The distance between the leading mages and the group behind them was extremely wide.
big.
Lorraine stretched out the thumb of her right hand and made a few gestures to calculate the distance of the leading people. Seeing that those people had already entered the range of the musket, she waved to Vera without saying anything.
Vera immediately took out a musket from her ring and threw it over.
Lorraine opened the hammer, checked it briefly, then looked at the magician opposite, raised the musket diagonally, with the butt pressed against his shoulder, took a brief aim, and was about to pull the trigger.
Jack looked at him strangely, shook his head and said, "Earl, you are too far away. Even the magic fireball may not be able to hit it, and you are even less likely to hit it."
Lorraine looked sideways at him and did not argue. Instead, he moved his fingers that were holding the gun stock slightly, then took a closer look. Then, with a slight movement of his fingers, he pulled the trigger.
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With the sound of a gunshot, the magicians on the opposite side suddenly saw a black figure falling from the air like a bird.
At the same time, the beginning of this war was also officially announced.
Seeing this, everyone present couldn't help but let out a loud cheer.
“Awesome~!”
"Okay~!"
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Although Catherine had seen Lorraine's marksmanship before, looking at it again now, she still couldn't help but the light flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she looked at Lorraine in admiration along with everyone else.
Hilmeria was even more surprised. If it weren't for the other people watching, she would have almost rushed over and hugged Lorraine to celebrate.
You know, until now, there has never been a conventional weapon with a range that can exceed the magician's fireball. This is also an important reason why magicians can run rampant on the battlefield.
But now the musket in Lorraine's hand has completely changed this situation, which means that they can now rely on their own range advantage to completely suppress the opponent.
Lorraine was rude and gunshots rang out one after another.
Two more reckless mages were knocked down from the sky by him. They let out extremely miserable screams and fell into the lake.
The remaining mages couldn't help but become timid and hurriedly retreated into the group.
The mages on the opposite side couldn't help but hesitate when they saw one of their own being sniped to death.
The flagship sitting in the rear immediately noticed this situation, and then, the loud bugle sounded rapidly with endless murderous intent.
When a group of imperial mages heard the horn, they seemed to have some reluctance and began to fly forward again.
Seeing this, Lorraine smiled evilly and said to Vera: "Put iron sand in the next shot for me."
As he spoke, he raised the musket in his hand, took aim, and then pulled the trigger. Immediately, another mage screamed and fell from the air.
At this time, the imperial mage's brigade had already attacked.
When everyone saw that they had entered the shooting range, they aimed at them and fired arrows and threw fireballs.
The Imperial Mages have entered their shooting range, which means that they have also entered the Imperial Mages' shooting range.
The imperial mages also began to attack the artillery positions without any politeness.
Seeing this, Hilmeria took a few steps and came to the front of everyone.
She clenched her hands into fists, crossed them on her chest, and recited a prayer in a low voice. Immediately, a solid and transparent wall of divine blessing unfolded.
The Wall of Divine Blessing was completed at the right time. As soon as it was completed, it immediately blocked several fireballs that were thrown accurately.
The two sides began the confrontation phase.
There were a large number of imperial mages, and as they poured out more and more fireballs, although everyone was blocked by Hilmeria's wall of divine blessing, the surrounding areas were drowned in the sea of fire.