Chapter 36: War and Family
When he saw his parents and loved ones again, Viren's excitement was indescribable. As early as when Saint Sophie was surrounded by the apostolic army, Viren, as a member of the ordinary soldiers, was transferred to the front. By now, it's been almost April. For nearly four months, Viren followed the army in the southern gates of Saint-Sophie until the crushers breached the gates, and then moved with Stellers. I didn't have any time to travel to my family who lived outside the city.
Fortunately, at the beginning of the crisis, Magellan VII placed all the residents of the outer city in the palace, and even now, in order to avoid a recurrence of the Protoss crisis, Magellan VII has placed all the residents of the outer city in the inner city. At this time, the outer city had only a formal army, except for some militia organizations that volunteered to join.
Veren did not tell his family that he was now a nobleman of Magellan, and he did not want to let his family be treated better because of his status, because everyone was equal at this special time. Besides, even the families of nobles with higher titles than themselves are not all placed in the inner city, and they cannot play a better role.
Viren came back this time just to report to his family that he was safe, and to taste his mother's home-cooked food. Even if it's not very hearty, but in the barracks, you basically can't eat such a delicious thing. He will soon be leaving again, because the current crisis has prevented him from staying at home for a long time, after all, Viren will only be able to enjoy real family life until the real crisis has passed.
After a peaceful day at home, the next morning, Viren left his parents' place with reluctance.
"Boy, I hope the next time you come back, we'll have kicked those aliens out. I don't know how you're doing in the military right now, but I always feel that you're different from everyone else. Fight with peace of mind, your father and I will take good care of your mother. Don't die outside, we'll wait for you to come back. “
Before leaving, Viren's father endured the reluctance in his heart and commanded his child. Although there are not many words, there is no doubt that it represents the concern of parents for their children.
"I see, Dad. I'll definitely drive them back with my own hands. I'm not the same as I used to be. “
Leaving his parents' residence, Viren returned to his and Hilqi's heavenly residence, only to find that the two were already waiting for him.
As soon as he meets Viren, Hill brings him bad news. "Those aliens are back again,"
Viren was shocked, it had only been a few days. "How is that possible? Didn't they just get kicked out of the city by us the other day?"
"Do you think we've broken those aliens these few times?" Hill sneered, "this time they're not just focusing on one place, they're going to be in all directions of Saint Sophie. An apostolic army of about 10,000 encircled Hagia Sophie from all parts of Hagia Sophie, with the southern, eastern, western, and southwestern walls being the most stressed, while the northern walls were less stressed. Now they haven't launched an offensive yet, I think they are waiting for their siege weapons. ”
"Let's go, let's go up the wall. Coming to the southern city wall they were familiar with, and looking at the black and oppressive apostolic army outside the wall, Viren couldn't help but take a cool breath. In the previous attacks on St. Sophie, most of the apostles' troops did not exceed 2,000 men, but this time Viren looked to the south and was shocked to find that the southern area alone was densely packed with the apostles' army, and the number was more than 3,000. I saw them lined up in a neat line, at the front were about seven or eight hundred apostles with huge shields, in the middle were more than a thousand apostles equipped with various ladders, and the last apostles made Viren even more frightened, each holding spears as tall as they were, Viren had no doubt that these spears could fly a long distance and fall directly into the city of St. Sophie.
Magellan VII hastily dispatched almost all of his troops to the various city walls, and even Stels's guards were sent to the castles in the outer cities to guard them. Once the walls were breached, Stels' Guards became the strongest bulwark against the Apostles. However, compared to the other walls, the northern wall was not replenished by many troops, and the biggest reason for this was that the apostles did not seem to have made this wall the focus of their attacks.
The two sides remained at a stalemate until Viren saw the hill-like crushers in the rear of the Apostle's circle slowly walking towards the city gate with heavy steps, and as the Apostle's characteristic battle horn sounded, hundreds of pitch-black spears began the battle.
These spears fell towards the city in unison with a strong wind-breaking sound, this huge force was beyond the resistance of ordinary soldiers, even if they were equipped with the best defensive shields in the human world, they could only be pierced like tissue paper in front of these spears, and they could only helplessly let the soldiers who used them be firmly nailed to the ground. In this first attack alone, the soldiers in the south of the city lost about three or four hundred.
The soldiers who were lucky enough to escape tried to pull out the spears nailed to the ground and shoot them out like the apostles, but even the most powerful soldiers only barely pulled out these spears, and the soldiers who could project these spears were only a few dozen, even so, after Viren wasted no time in using the magic bonus, these dozens of spears smashed from the city wall towards those apostles with no less power than the apostles, with great power, these dozens of spears actually took the lives of hundreds of apostles.
However, this was only the first wave of attacks of the apostles, under the cover of the sword and shield apostles in the front row, the apostle soldiers carrying various ladders were slowly approaching the city wall, and at the same time, those crushers were also slowly walking towards the city wall, although there were only five or six, but the crushers with cover were undoubtedly the biggest threat to the city wall. However, Viren did not notice the presence of those terrible stone throwers, which made Viren breathe a deep sigh of relief.
At this time, the captured stone thrower began to show its unparalleled power, under the focus of the stone thrower, those huge crushers looked vulnerable in front of the powerful stones, even if the accuracy was not good, but when more than ten boulders hit the first three crushers, even the thick-skinned crushers could not stand the huge impact, and fell to the ground unwillingly after roaring a few times helplessly.