I was a knight in the Middle Ages

Chapter 165: Jumping out of the maze

Alpha's call was like a fire that ignited the ambitions of the mercenaries. The mercenaries who originally just wanted to live a lazy life and earn some gold coins no longer hesitated and marched forward towards the city gate.

Of course, Alpha's cry was just a drop in the ocean; the real desire was the suppressed anger in their own hearts.

The city was in flames, and the blazing flames lit up the night sky. At this moment, all the important agencies in Rimuru began to get nervous. They received news that the revolutionary army had begun to besiege the nobles.

"Close the city gate quickly!" Rimuru and all his men took action. Before the noble army arrived, the revolutionary army was already at the gate of the city.

Some of the revolutionary soldiers attacked the city with injuries, heading straight for the Rimuru Castle. At this moment, the Rimuru defenders knew that even if the external noble army came with bad intentions, they could only rely on themselves to defend the city.

On the city wall, the mercenaries bravely fought against the revolutionary army. Alfa led the newly recruited mercenaries to the inn and assembled the team. Although he did not want to help the nobles attack the revolutionary army, he had no choice in the situation.

The battle was fierce and lasted from day to night. The revolutionary army attacked fiercely and the city gate was almost lost.

"The time has come, let's leave the city at night." Alpha has been lying in wait for this moment.

"Monkey, which city gate has the laxest guards now?" The city was full of revolutionary soldiers, and Rimuru's four gates were tightly closed, making it almost impossible to enter and exit normally.

"Lord Apollo, the city is now full of revolutionary troops. The actions of the soldiers guarding the city depend on the number of revolutionary troops and are not fixed." After the monkey and the ninja scouted the four gates, they did not find any obvious slackness.

"Lord Apollo, I have a friend who has a way to leave the city, but he needs money, one gold coin per person." Suddenly, a thin boy stood up.

"Okay, can we find him now? Remember, money is not a problem. The important thing is that everyone can get out safely." Alpha didn't want to lose his troops here and make unnecessary sacrifices.

"It's hard to say, but I roughly know where his secret passage is?"

"Okay, what's your name? If you get out successfully, you will be the team leader with a basic salary of three gold coins." Alpha didn't care about the money. The key was that he was impressed by the young man's quick mind.

"Thank you, Lord Apollo. My name is Oba Mas and everyone calls me Oba." Oba was a little shy, but his face was filled with an excited smile.

"Okay, Obama, take us there."

Obama led Alpha and other mercenaries to the back wall of a residential building. He knocked on the wall and found that a stone slab was slightly dented.

"Look, this is it." Obama pushed open the stone slab, revealing a small hole that a person could fit in. Judging from the situation, this place had been abandoned for a long time and there seemed to be no human habitation at all.

Obama was the first to get in, followed by Alpha and other mercenaries. As the cave entrance was small, everyone could only move forward slowly. Fortunately, they had left Gale outside the city, otherwise they would have no idea how to get out.

It was dark inside, so the mercenaries lit torches to illuminate the way forward.

Obama introduced the tunnel as he walked, saying that this was the tunnel he dug when he was a child in order to facilitate entering and leaving the city and save city taxes. It took five children five years to dig it.

Later, this secret passage became a secret passage connecting the inside and the outside, but later the city’s control was strict, and several groups of people were arrested and killed before the digging of the tunnel was curbed.

Once, the toll road collapsed, killing three of five friends, so Obama gave up the toll road.

Who would have thought that with the nobles and the revolutionary army fighting each other, the tunnel would actually become a way of survival.

"Come out, follow me. There's a giant dry well ahead. You can climb up along the rope." Obama said, pointing to the black hole ahead.

"Wait, don't move. Monkey, go up and investigate." Considering the manpower issue, the dry well outside the city seems to be not far from the city. Once everyone goes out, the probability of being discovered is very high.

Alpha stood at the exit and waited carefully. Not long after, the monkey's voice came clearly from above: "Report, there is no enemy. As long as we keep quiet, we should be fine."

Upon hearing the news, Obama and others climbed up carefully. Alpha then retracted the rope, and everyone continued to move in the opposite direction of the city.

After walking about three miles, Obama saw a patch of low bushes that was out of tune with the surrounding environment and caught Obama's attention.

"Boss, what is this? I've never seen it before." Alpha walked closer to observe and said as he looked at the thing that looked like fruit.

"I haven't seen it either. It must be a species found here. It's completely different from what we see where we live." Obama said as he observed them for a long time.

"It's so small, what use can it be?" the monkey said indifferently.

"Don't underestimate them. Look at its leaves, and their golden color. Based on my many years of experience in fighting wars, I know that they must be highly poisonous." Alpha was deliberately trying to scare Obama, but in fact he was just talking nonsense.

"Boss, you are wise." Obama immediately expressed his admiration when he heard Alpha say that. But he was still very curious about what this thing was.

"Boss, will you die if you eat it?"

"It contains a black liquid. If my guess is correct, you may not die if you eat a little, but your whole body will become numb, and you will have a runny nose, diarrhea, and vomiting. It is very likely to contain deadly toxins."

"How terrible!" Obama took a big step back when he heard this.

"But this thing is good and can be used to make poison. If it were in our territory, one fruit could be bought for ten gold coins." Alpha pretended to be profound.

"Oh my goodness, it's so expensive, let's grab some and take it back." Obama reached out to pick it, but was stopped by Alpha.

"Are you crazy about money? You don't even want your life." Alpha immediately interrupted Obama's crazy behavior. In fact, he didn't know what this thing was. It was all nonsense from Alpha.

However, it was this unintentional explanation that Obama remembered, and he eventually developed a poisonous arrowhead that killed people invisibly, which was quite powerful. Although it was later replaced by firearms, the history of special forces has continued.

Late at night, Gulis' camp welcomed hundreds of uninvited guests. "Who are you? Why are you approaching our camp?" the camp guards shouted.

"We are the revolutionary army, you are the running dogs of the Rimuru nobles, surrender and prepare to be punished!"

"We are just merchants passing by. We will leave here after a night's rest. We don't want to be your enemies. Please leave our camp." Gulis looked at the enemies in front of him, who numbered only a few hundred people, and sneered in his heart. How dare they attack our camp with such a small force?

Although he did not want to be an enemy of the revolutionary army, Gulis had already made his preparations. If the enemy dared to get within the attack range, they would be killed without a burial place.

"We don't trust you. Put down your weapons and equipment and we will let you go." The revolutionary army has increased its strength by thousands of people, but these people are basically the lowest class of people, and their weapons are just hoes and carrying poles. They pose no threat to the fully armed knights.

At this moment, there were two hundred people on the battlefield, all fully armed and full of momentum. Although they would be defeated in one battle compared to the regular knights, compared to these unarmed revolutionary soldiers, it was an indescribable punishment from heaven.

"We won't actively attack you, but if you continue to get closer and break into our range, we will not show mercy." Gulis shot an accurate arrow at eighty meters away. This is the red line.

"Since you are here to die, I will fulfill your wish. The price will be your lives." After saying that, Gulis ordered the knights to draw their bows and arrows, preparing for the first round of warning shots.

"Lady Barbara, they are good people, not bad people. They help us chop wood, help us repair the house, and give me candy. Please don't attack them." Suddenly several children rushed out and stood between the two sides.

"Lord Barbara, they used gold coins to exchange our surplus food and did not make things difficult for us. They are different from those merchants and nobles." Several adults also stood up. These people were all residents of Locke Town.

Barbara stood on the low city wall of Locke Town, watching his soldiers confronting the members of the Sky Mercenaries, and his mood became increasingly heavy.

Barbara knew that the residents of this town had received favors from the Sky Mercenaries, at least they had not been threatened or coerced. But he could not change the existing facts, and now all the residents were looking at him, hoping that he could make the right decision.

Hundreds of people from Locke Town had joined Barbara's revolutionary army, but now most of them were here talking to members of the Sky Mercenaries, which made Barbara feel very confused and overwhelmed.

"Lord Barbara, there are a large number of enemies coming ahead, hundreds of them. What should we do now?" An adjutant hurriedly came to ask Barbara.

Barbara felt very heavy-hearted after hearing this. He knew that if he ordered a retreat at this time, the enemy would attack from both sides, and these hundreds of people might be wiped out by the enemy. But if he continued to hold on, his people might not be able to defeat the enemy, and his revolutionary army would also suffer great losses.

"From which direction are the enemies coming?" Barbara was hoping for a lucky break, as long as they were not coming from Rimuru.

"Sir, they are heading towards Rimuru," the adjutant replied.

Just as Barbara was hesitating, he suddenly felt a voice behind him: "Lord Barbara, I have a plan that will allow our army to retreat smoothly."

Barbara looked back and found that the person who spoke was an old man in a black magic robe. His name was Brian, a hidden magician and one of Barbara's secret weapons.

Barbara immediately asked, "Mr. Brian, do you have any good ideas?"

Brian smiled and suggested, "We can use an illusion magic to make the enemy think that we are still holding on to the city wall. In this way, they will overestimate our strength and slow down the pace of the attack. We can take this opportunity to safely escort the residents out of the city."

Barbara was delighted after hearing this and immediately adopted Brian's plan. He ordered the residents of Locke Town to evacuate immediately, while the soldiers on the city wall followed Brian's instructions and began to prepare illusion magic.

Soon after, the enemy army arrived as expected. They saw that the soldiers on the city wall were still fighting bravely and the flames and smoke were still rising in the city. They mistakenly thought that the battle in the city was still fierce, so they slowed down the pace of the attack without thinking and did not attack the city directly.

"Lord Alpha, the situation is different. There are magical fluctuations ahead."