1044, the sun in the dark

Granero remembered how, three days earlier, when the defeated Zenit army appeared in the foothills of St. Petersburg in the distance, he and some of the soldiers patrolling the city walls trembled from indescribable shock, disappointment, and fear.

Then the whole of St. Petersburg was in a panic like never before.

Less than 100,000 of the 400,000 army remained, most of them were wounded, and he and his colleagues witnessed the defeat enter the city, repair, count the supplies, the wounded and disabled soldiers wail and the pain of the families who lost their father, husband, son, brother or brother, and saw the seriously injured and comatose second prince and the old Alyang, who was also injured, being carried into the Zenit palace to report the battle situation, and saw the entire imperial capital running in panic like a crazy spinning top......

There was an atmosphere of sadness and panic between heaven and earth.

A large number of the most elite armies in bright armor and high-ranking warriors with a fighting spirit all over took over every inch of the city walls on all sides of St. Petersburg, thousands of large and small magic towers in the city began to operate at full strength, and the various talismans and magic formations blessed on the city walls began to shine with a slightly safe magic luster, and the magic weapons that had never been seen in a hideous appearance were pushed to the top of the city, and even the most powerful [Mother Earth Guardian] of the Guardian Emperor The magic array was also activated, forming a yellow mist, guarding this century-old city like a giant egg.

At the same time, the imperial capital was completely banned.

War is like a storm that has already shown its signs, coming when people least want it.

Less than an hour after St. Petersburg had completed its final defensive arrangements, the black-pressed Barcelona army appeared in the distance, roaring and pouring like a flood of the end of the world, slapping and slamming the walls and defenses of the imperial capital.

Later, it became known that the precious time of completing the defense of St. Petersburg was won by sacrificing the lives of more than 200,000 imperial soldiers.

This first meeting lasted a whole day and a night.

St. Petersburg's powerful magical defenses and sharp defense tools played an indescribably huge role in this process, and the people of Barcelona finally had to temporarily stop the siege and begin to re-examine this ancient city after dropping more than 60,000 corpses and paying the heavy price of at least hundreds of moon-level powerhouses falling and three great day-level powerhouses being seriously injured.

Even the Zenit themselves knew for the first time that the defense of St. Petersburg, the imperial capital, was so strong.

Of course, only a few such as Granero know that this is because the magical defense of the imperial capital is so powerful because it has been transformed by the high-level magicians of Chambord City, and it is said that it is infiltrated with incredible divine rune technology, and those hideous magic defense weapons that killed one after another Barcelona moon-level powerhouses during the battle also came from the Chambord City Arsenal.

If it had been changed half a year ago, how could the untransformed [Mother Earth Guardian] be able to withstand the attack of a demigod-level powerhouse?

Next, the Zenit were given about half a day to recuperate.

After a little respite, St. Petersburg was about to face another fierce and terrible attack by the Barcelonans, the lives of countless soldiers disappeared as quickly as dandelions in the wind, and the walls of the imperial capital were like a huge and terrible meat grinder, and thousands of lives were crushed into pulp every moment.

In this process, a mysterious demigod-level powerhouse from Chambord City made dozens of shots, coupled with the strong attack of Emperor Yaxin, he barely survived.

St. Petersburg is like a small sampan fluttering on the stormy sea, crumbling and in danger of being swallowed up by the waves at any moment.

Last night, Granero, as the confidant of the second prince, finally met the second prince who had recovered from his serious injuries and some other imperial generals from the battlefield in southern Xinjiang, and finally knew what happened in the southern frontier of the empire after that great victory, and the battle situation supported by 400,000 troops and so many masters would deteriorate to this situation.

"After the victory of Delumbo and the defeat of the famous Barcelona general Pedro, we received the support of the 300,000 troops of the empire, and the supplies were also replenished, and we have some confidence in the next battle, and the order we got from the military headquarters was not to defeat the Barcelonans, but only to delay us as much as possible, if we can drag the Barcelonans in the south for a while, it is undoubtedly the best result, because His Majesty Yashin seems to be planning some kind of counteroffensive means, and it will take a certain amount of time to complete it......"

"In fact, in the next ten days, we did this, and it was very successful, the Barcelona follow-up army and the commander named Alves, once disturbed by the clever plan of the Aryang army, could not carry out an effective advance, nor could we win a battle of more than 10,000 people, after all, we have a slight advantage in the number of troops, and there are also extreme powerhouses like Mr. Hasselbaink, and the powerful Chambord City Leo Gold Saint Seiya Frank ยท His Excellency Frank Lampard is in charge, and the battle ship of Chambord is in the air......"

"The more favorable news for us is that after a period of time, we also discovered that there is also an elusive demigod-level mysterious powerhouse, who has secretly attacked and killed the Barcelona powerhouse dozens of times, greatly disrupting the enemy's arrangement...... Everything is extremely beneficial to the Empire, and even the Aryang army has already begun to plan the total annihilation of the Barcelona army......"

"However, everything changed a day or two ago, and such a good situation was reversed in one fell swoop, just because there were three more people on the Barcelona side, three demigod-level powerhouses......"

"The people of Barcelona were obviously prepared, they were tired of fighting with equal forces, and decided to crush everything with absolute strength, such a conspiracy was precisely the deadliest for the imperial army...... With just a slight contact, the army of 400,000 will be defeated for thousands of miles......"

"Aryang tried everything he could, but it was just for the army to hold out for an extra four hours, and Mr. Hasselbaink, the demigod-level powerhouse who arrived in time and the two Xuange warships joined forces to barely stop the attack of the opponent's demigod-level powerhouse on the ordinary army, and His Excellency Lampard was seriously injured......

"The next thing, you should be able to guess, if it weren't for the protection of the masters of Chambord City all the way, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness and most of the people sitting here today would have died on the road...... Those soldiers of Chambord City are real warriors, if the empire's 400,000 troops were like them, they would have annihilated the people of Barcelona a long time ago, but unfortunately, more than half of the more than 500 elite Chambord City soldiers were killed or wounded......"

"It's really strange, in such a battle, why didn't His Majesty Yaxin and His Majesty Alexander Wu Crown make a move?"

Standing on the city wall, [Redbeard] Granero's ears kept ringing the content he talked about when he met His Royal Highness the Second Prince last night, and chatted with many colleagues who came back alive from the battlefield in southern Xinjiang, although it was only a few words, it was vaguely as if everything that happened on the battlefield in southern Xinjiang had reappeared in front of his eyes.

"The Barcelona Empire is really too strong...... It's just irresistible!"

Granero couldn't help but sigh.

"Where is the way out for the Empire? Can you really win this war? The first few times the empire encountered danger, it was King Chambord who turned the tide, this time, King Chambord, where are you? Why don't you show up?"

I don't know why, he naturally thought of Sun Fei.

It's like a traveler in the dark thinks of the sun.

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