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The general offensive is about to begin.

The Imperial Army gradually spread out beyond the range of the frontal city defense weapons of the Divine Bless City.

At the foreground are some siege machines, ballistas, magic cannons, and trebuchets.

After that, it's time for the war phalanx.

The formation is a large horizontal formation of 12 people in a column and several kilometers wide.

Because the composition of human soldiers is too large, the phalanx that makes up this huge horizontal formation is some of the super long spear array, some of the large shield short sword phalanx, and some of the javelin short sword phalanx.

The cavalry lined up on either side of the array, the archers behind the array, and the reserves behind the bow array.

Looking at the front of the formation, the formation of nearly 100,000 human troops seemed to extend boundlessly on both sides.

Surprisingly, the princess did not interfere with the command of the commander-in-chief, William Harris, and her army did not serve as a reserve, but lined up in the front row of the most dangerous formation.

In the center of the procession was the heavy infantry of the Royal Praetorian Legion brought by Princess Elizabeth.

Each warrior was armed with a large shield, three javelins, and a sword at his waist. Once these elite warriors finished arraying, they immediately did not say a word, and their murderous aura naturally overflowed.

In comparison, the aristocratic private soldiers lined up on both sides with various weapons and weapons were simply a rabble.

The princess herself, along with the heavily armed royal knights she had brought with her, was also not in the rear with the reserves, but on the far right of the formation.

And in the reserve are the 10,000 men of the Divine Blessing garrison legion.

The nobles were puzzled at first by how Harris dared to put the princess in danger, but soon came up with an explanation-"Eighty percent is to show that the virtuous and brave princess has forcibly requested, right?" ”

It's a reasonable arrangement.

Since His Royal Highness wants to take the lead, I am afraid that he will be chewed on the root of his tongue just by commanding in the back. Anyway, in the face of a weak enemy, even if His Highness is inexperienced, it is enough to rely on these elite subordinates to cooperate with a large number of noble private soldiers.

And the 500-person Earth Dragon Knights and the 100-person Wyvern Knights of the Commander-in-Chief Harris are second only to the princess Royal Knights in strength, and it is indeed not good for them to compete with the princess for performance opportunities, but it is a more eye-catching arrangement to serve as a reserve team to fight fires when necessary.

Quite unexpectedly, while the humans were arrayed, the army in the city actually left the city.

The Divine Blessing occupation forces were mostly terrifying skeleton soldiers of Bai Sensen, and they also lined up in a dense phalanx of eight men and several kilometers wide with their backs to the city gates.

The humans were soon surprised to find that the number of the undead army was forty or fifty thousand.

-- Twice as much as humans had expected.

The "Cultists of the Night God" ransacked the Blessed Armory, most of them armed with new shields, steel-tipped spears, and light armor. Even if there is no unified loadout, it will still hold a sword and mace. Much better than the skeleton soldiers in the Dead Wastes with rusted or bony weapons.

The skeleton soldiers were under the unified command of the necromancers in the city, and the formation change was much faster than some human nobles' private soldiers.

But humanity still has a two-fold advantage in quantity and nearly a tenfold advantage in quality.

If there is no fatal command error, humanity will win.

The order of the commander-in-chief soon came down.

The horn of the earth-shattering attack was sounded, and according to the flag and the herald spell, the human long-range siege equipment that was originally arranged at the front as the first wave of siege firepower was the first to take advantage of the undead to complete the array.

These days, these siege equipment have been destroyed a lot by the city defense crossbows, city magic cannons and city defense trebuchets arranged on the city of Divine Blessing, but there are still a certain number, plus the princess's reinforcements have been replenished, and the threat to divine blessing is great.

The various trebuchets and ballistas operated by the nobles' private soldiers were the first to bring the enemy into range - and soon, the half-man-high boulder, under the influence of the trebuchet's enormous elastic potential, flew in the direction of the divine blessing.

Although it was not a big threat to the huge wall of the Divine Blessing that had been blessed by the magic array, once it fell into the dense skeleton array, it could be smashed into pieces immediately.

Then the rumbling cannons rang out, and more than a dozen magic cannons brought by Her Royal Highness the princess also began to wield their might. This time, even the city wall could not effectively defend it, the outer layer of the city wall was peeled off by a large number of cannonballs, and the pheasant moat on the city was like a sand fortress, which could not protect the skeleton archers behind it at all, and the skeletons were shattered along with the defenses of the city wall.

But at this time, the first command error of mankind appeared unbelievably.

The siege equipment was already placed at the front of the human battle array, and this time if it went forward alone, it would be even farther away from the human team.

As the order to advance continued, the siege equipment units not only completely lost their support, but also penetrated into the range of the Divine Blessing's defensive weapons.

The divine blessing of the city defense weapons immediately returned to color, although the number of magic cannons and catapults on the city was not much, but it was condescending, and it was still enough to destroy the siege equipment of the future invaders one by one.

At this time, many gargoyles swooped down from above the divine blessing, slaughtering ordinary soldiers who controlled siege equipment.

This is the first time in more than 30 days that the "Night God Believers" have dispatched gargoyles.

The second problem arose with the human command at this time - Captain Harris neither ordered any army to rush to rescue the siege equipment unit, nor did he give the first order to meet his Wyvern Knights, who were also flying troops.

In fact, he did not give any orders, and still maintained the order to let the siege equipment troops advance.

So the human army stood there in formation, watching as its siege equipment was destroyed and the soldiers who operated it were chased and scattered.

Behind the gargoyle, the phalanx of skeleton soldiers also began to move forward in order.

More skeletons poured out of the Blessed Gate, this time mixed with some high-ranking undead.

The gargoyle did not leave there, but launched an attack on the human array.

A distance of a few hundred meters is just a few hundred meters away.

Looking at the gigoyles' massive minions and terrifying appearances, many of the young human privates began to panic.

Suddenly, a silver pillar of light shot straight into the sky, and the pillar of light only swept a few times, and several gargoyles that flew closest were divided into several sections and fell.

It is the "holy sword" of Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

At this time, all kinds of magical lights and shadows and enchanted bows and arrows flew into the sky.

Leaving behind a dozen more corpses, the gargoyle who saw that he had no advantage of it stepped back.

Seeing that Princess Elizabeth inspired the brilliance of the "Holy Sword" with her magic power, and lightly repelled the terrifying flying monsters that were majestic at the last moment, the nobles of the royal family were greatly boosted.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Long live the Empire!"

"For Her Royal Highness!"

But Princess Elizabeth, who put away the "pillar of light", had no smug look on her beautiful face, and just asked the clerk next to her, Yuri Qil, "It seems that something is wrong." Isn't Legion Commander Harris a famous warlord in the Empire? ”

"The subordinates also think it is strange, it does feel substandard, maybe I shouldn't have advised you to completely delegate command to him before." The clerk's voice was also full of doubt.

But the two didn't have time to discuss anything more.

The trumpets sounded again, and the order to attack spread throughout the army.

The humans, whose morale had been boosted again by the princess, began to march in line at a uniform pace to the beat of the whistle and the war drums.