The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

"But who gave them the audacity to attack the Alban family? Even though our main force has left the family, we still have nearly a hundred legendary-level fighters and a large number of other combatants. As long as we defend the mansion, we will win!"

"Immediately report this message to the Akatsuki organization and the family soldiers who just went to provide support. At the same time, send a message to the main family, saying that the city lord directly sent troops to attack the Orben family, and we have decided to counterattack immediately and keep them here forever!"

"Yes!"

Soon, intelligence was transmitted out one by one. At this time, the head of the Alban family also contacted all the fighting forces still in the family and organized them to fight against the magic arrays that were spread throughout the Alban family's territory, relying on the mansion.

We will win. Just hold on for half a day, just half a day, no, even just an hour, and this attack will come to an end!

Then they can take this opportunity to kill the city lord and completely control Roland City!

……

Meanwhile, the city lord led 800 warriors to attack the Alban family. Even though he felt he had overestimated the Alban family's strength, he went all in, putting all his hidden cards on the table.

But now, he is still struggling immensely, and after only breaking through the first line of defense, he was stopped by the remaining arrangements of the Alban family.

"damn it!"

Why does the Alban family have such a strong guard force after supporting the Akatsuki organization and sending their main force to protect their daughter in a marriage alliance?

He had no way back now. He knew that once the battle started, his disguise as the Akatsuki would fall apart. The only way was to kill everyone in the Orben family, leaving no one alive.

Only in this way can we hide everything and frame the Akatsuki!

"Gentlemen, we have no way out! Charge with me! Kill!"

"kill!"

A brutal war of attrition broke out between the two noble families, with both sides giving their all in an effort to bring the conflict to a complete end.

There's no turning back for either the Alban family or the city lord; they must eliminate one of them here today.

……

Meanwhile, Xue Luding, leading two teams of more than ten people, watched this scene from afar. Both the Alban family's convoy and the Alban family's residence were under their surveillance.

"Is this what they mean by gang warfare and the sudden death of nobles?" Faust exclaimed as he looked at the scene.

Without even directly participating in the battle, he merely used the marriage alliance with the Alban family to incite a bloody fight between the city lord of Roland and the Alban family.

In fact, the Akatsuki organization didn't participate in the slightest thing from beginning to end. The two noble families were like suicidal madmen, hacking at each other like crazy, saying things like "Aiya ya ya, I'll kill you!"

Looking at Xue's Law, Faust had only one thought in his mind.

Horror!

Then he realized that this was his current ally, so it was alright.

"Boss, Miss Alban's side is about to give out," a girl from the Akatsuki organization immediately said.

"Brothers and sisters, follow me to Roland City!" Xue Dinglu immediately gave the order and mounted his warhorse.

Chapter 391 Becoming the Most Evil Villain in Modern Times Starting Today

"What? Someone actually dared to attack our Alban family?" In the main house, the elders who received the news looked at each other in disbelief.

After hundreds of years of development, the Alban family has become one of the world's leading noble families, and can even be said to be the absolute rulers of the western part of the world. The Alban family has also spread to nearly a hundred city-states.

Basically, even the worst-performing branch member can effectively control nearly half of the city's resources.

It can be said that the entire Alban family is a world-class aristocratic family.

But now, a mere city lord dares to attack the Alban family's mansion?

That's incredibly audacious! You're asking for it!

They immediately informed the head of the family about this through a special ceremony, and at the same time arranged for people to go to Roland City.

Meanwhile, in Roland City, once the war began, it would not end according to human will. The two sides, blinded by rage, had completely lost any possibility of reconciliation. The war would only stop when one of them became a corpse under the wheels of war.

The Albanian family's defenses have been breached twice. Apart from the outermost sentries, the first line of defense was broken through again by the city guards' relentless attacks. The city guards have completely occupied the Albanian family's outer courtyard and are now advancing towards the inner courtyard.

Corpses and limbs littered this once most prosperous mansion in the city. The ancient building, which had stood for hundreds of years, and the courtyard where a single tile was worth a fortune, were destroyed in the battle.

The city guards and the Alban family continued to fight at the intersection of the outer and inner courtyards, and the walls were gradually reduced to ruins and debris by the attacks and battles.

The place was littered with corpses, the vast majority of whom were members of the Olburn family, with a smaller number being members of the city guard. Although the city guard was stronger, this was the Olburn family's stronghold, and the place was teeming with Olburn family members. In addition, the family's magical incantations scattered across the ground were strengthening and motivating every member of the Olburn family.

This is why the current situation has become a stalemate.

Although the city guards had the advantage, this advantage was only useful before reinforcements returned. Once the Alban family returned, the situation would be hopeless!

So the city lord launched a frenzied and fierce attack, while the Orben family defended with all their might.

In the thousands of acres of the Alban family estate, the struggle for control of each courtyard resulted in the deaths of nearly a thousand corpses. Blood and flesh stained the noble family’s mansion red. However, no matter how many courtyards were lost, the Alban family would immediately organize their forces to fight back.

In less than an hour, only 500 of the city lord's men remained, and most of the remaining men were injured.

The Albanian family suffered even greater losses, with thousands already dead. Their corpses turned the city into a scene of terror, and they could no longer hold out.

The city lord's eyes were bloodshot with rage. He had no way back. This time, it was either success or certain death!

"Follow me and kill! Slaughter every member of the Alban family! Kill the head of the Alban family, and you'll receive a bounty of ten thousand, a thousand beautiful women, and a noble surname!"

Such a generous reward rekindled the fighting spirit of the exhausted city guards, while most of the Orburn family's able-bodied men were killed or wounded, and their resistance was now growing weaker and weaker.

The head of the Alban family witnessed this scene. He had already prepared an escape route and arranged for a double to remain in the family. He even drugged the double and hid in the escape route himself.

This time, he admitted defeat. He never expected that there would actually be fools who would launch a full-scale attack on the family. Also, because the Alban family had not waged war for so long, he had forgotten how to seize power through force.

However, the Albanian family won. They had just received the final intelligence that most of the troops sent to support the marriage procession had returned. It would only take about half an hour to travel there, allowing them to launch a pincer attack from both sides.

In fact, the stronger ones could even get back in just over ten minutes, at which point they would be the ones to win!

But could the Alban family hold out until then?

Hard to say...

"Faster, faster..." he kept urging. Although they would achieve final victory if they held on for just half an hour, he knew that the city lord would launch his most frantic attack during that final stretch.

……

On the other side, on the battlefield of the marriage alliance convoy.

"Protect the young lady!" the head guard roared, but now, blood had blurred his vision.

The family's reinforcements arrived, but to his utter surprise, the reinforcements numbered less than a hundred, and were mostly elite members, with at most one legendary-level leader. However, this group had already been surrounded by enemy forces.

Damn it, why did the family only send so few people!

His heart was filled with anger and confusion. The marriage of the young lady was the most important event for the entire family recently, but now, they felt as if they and the young lady had been abandoned.

The head guard was unaware that the family's situation was far more dire. If he were calm, he probably could have analyzed the problem, but the prolonged battle and the constant suppression by arrows and muskets, where they would die if they showed their faces, had pushed their nerves to the limit.

The blood vessels no longer flow with blood; they are filled with adrenaline.

Damn it! Where are the other support teams? Where is the Akatsuki?

He even started fantasizing about a gang coming to their aid. He would never have thought of this before, but now, even just a few Akatsuki squads helping to draw fire would be fine. Anyone who comes to help would be welcome!

"boom!"

The explosion of the magic cannon rang out beside him, and the captain of the guard felt his head buzzing, as if he had tinnitus.

A corpse lay scattered around him. The person under the armor had been chatting with him before, but now he was like this. He opened his mouth, wanting to roar, but no sound came out.

miss...

They were too busy to care about anything else; in this chaotic frenzy, he couldn't even care about himself anymore.

He could only cling to the wrecked carriage and forcibly continue to protect it behind him.

Anyone, please save me! Please save the young lady! Anyone will do!

At that very moment, the muskets, bows and arrows, and cannons all ceased their attack. The captain of the guard dared not show his face, fearing that this was merely a brief respite for the city guards as they began to reload.

However, after several minutes when no further attacks came, he dared to stick his head out, only to see the ambushing city guards lying on the ground in droves under the afternoon sun.

People in black robes with red cloud patterns stood atop the surrounding buildings, looking down at the world below.

"Akatsuki... Akatsuki organization..." He tried to look up with difficulty, but the sunlight was too bright, making it impossible for him to open his eyes. At the same time, the aftereffects of tinnitus made him feel dizzy.

"Finally, you've finally arrived..."

"what!"

Screams erupted; it was a massacre, a massacre of the city guards.

The city guards ambushing here weren't particularly strong, but they brought a lot of weaponry. This was the city lord's allocation. Because it was an ambush, they could bring more weapons and equipment, while the attack on the Alban family would be a blitzkrieg, so everything had to be carried lightly.

As for ordnance, especially large ordnance, its drawbacks are fully exposed when faced with attacks from all directions and its turning problem!

Headless corpses were pushed off the building, while Xue Dinglu observed the world's weaponry and technological level with great interest.

The musket... although it's like magic, allowing the initial velocity of the projectiles to reach over Mach 5, the reloading is too slow. Even for a skilled musketeer, the interval between each shot is several minutes.

Because this musket has never deviated from the principle of the simplest three-barreled musket.

As for cannons...

Xue Luding looked at it; it was clumsy, big, and rough, somewhat like the Red Cannon in a museum. It was also very outdated, but it was more stable than the Red Cannon because of the magic detonation, and the initial velocity of the projectile was several times greater.

However, loading and charging the magic circle are even more troublesome.

According to Xue's assessment, although the power was much higher, the overall military technology was still inferior to that of World War I, or even lower.

It looks like something that traveled from the Ming Dynasty.

Oh, right...

Xue Dinglu slapped his forehead, only then realizing that Mephisto himself was from the late Ming Dynasty, but had simply transmigrated to this world.

In the eyes of people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, firearms and cannons were probably the most advanced technologies.

This is like a certain outer disciple of the Tang Sect believing that the Rain of Pear Blossoms Needles and the Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus are the most powerful weapons in the world. But in reality, the Rain of Pear Blossoms Needles are far inferior to the Three-Eyed Firearm of the same period, and as for the Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus...

Isn't that just an old-fashioned hand grenade?

Its principle is exactly the same as that of a hand grenade, the only difference is the amount of explosive.

To this day, this thing isn't as powerful as the gas cylinders sold to the Middle East.

After all, the equivalent of a single gas cylinder is quite exaggerated, and no matter how much medicine Buddha's Wrath Tang Lotus contains, it can't compare to the amount in a gas cylinder.

The technology in this world seems so bizarre. After hundreds of years of development, are muskets and cannons still the most powerful weapons in the army...?