The Sunset Palace, the inner palace wall.

One after another, the ladders were erected at the head of the city, and the ordinary soldiers of the Blood Sword Legion climbed the ladders desperately like ants walking in groups, risking their lives to climb towards the city.

The bed crossbow at the head of the city suddenly fired heavy crossbow arrows towards the city with a hiss, harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Blood Sword Legion under the city, and a crossbow arrow sometimes penetrated several times before stopping, causing a lot of casualties to the soldiers of the Blood Sword Legion, but the speed of the bed crossbow was really slow.

The bed crossbows were wielding, but the knights weren't shooting arrows or dropping heavy objects, because they weren't needed for the time being.

As soon as the first soldier came out, a knight of the Royal Knights, and then the sword fell, and the soldier's head rolled down with a "click", and the headless body fell to the bottom of the city in a spray of blood.

"Kill!"

The knights of the Royal Order soon had red eyes, and in the blink of an eye, they had fallen into madness, they knew that once these soldiers were allowed to stand on the head of the city, they would die a terrible death, this was a battle to the death, and they must not have any mercy!

A roar shouted from the mouths of the knights of the Royal Order, and with the dying wails of the soldiers who ascended the city, corpses fell from the ground.

Mars was familiar with military books, and he was also very weak at this time, and the victory of such a defense war mainly depended on supply and morale, including the supply of soldiers, supplies, and military supplies.

Morale is a delicate thing, and Mars is not worried about the morale of the Royal Knights, after all, this is Du Wei's Knights, and it is the Knights who defend the palace, and the morale should not be bad.

And now the only worry is the supply of soldiers, the royal knights only have two thousand knights, and only five hundred people are currently engaged in battle, but these five hundred people are not machines, they are people, and people always have a time when they are tired, and at that time, it is the most dangerous time.

Before that happens, though, there's one more thing to solve.

Mars looked at Du Wei not far away and asked, "Have you caught the betrayer in the Royal Knights?"

Du Wei smiled bitterly: "It's hard to determine, but I doubt five goals." ”

"I'm afraid they'll strike when we're tired, so we need to be cautious and not careless, or you'll lose our lives!" Mars said cautiously.

Almost everyone knows that there are many bought knights in the Royal Knights, but who they are, they can't find out, and they can only suspect some targets, but it's difficult to really catch them, after all, they are all brothers who get along closely on weekdays, and they can't easily frame anyone, otherwise, the Royal Knights will cease to exist.

Du Wei looked serious and said angrily: "If I let me know who is the betrayer, I will kill him with my own hands!"

The bloody and brutal battle of defending the city lasted for half an hour, and the Blood Sword Legion left behind more than 5,000 corpses, and then retreated like a tide.

Mars exhaled lightly, and within half an hour, less than ten of the five hundred knights who participated in the battle were seriously wounded, and the others were almost intact but also exhausted.

Mars and Duwey went up to the city to inspect the battle and calm the knights.

The five hundred knights who participated in the battle were quickly replaced, and the newly replenished five hundred knights were all in good spirits, and when they saw Mars, they all saluted slightly.

The damage was minimal, but there were ten bed crossbows that needed to be replaced, and at the moment the palace craftsmen were urgently repairing.

This time the defense battle can be said that Mars's side has taken advantage of a little, after all, there are two gates in the palace, if the Blood Sword Legion attacks two gates at the same time, maybe the effect will be different, but I don't know why the eldest prince muse did not attack the other gate.

Looking at the corpses of the ordinary soldiers of the Blood Sword Legion thrown down at the head of the city, he couldn't be happy in his heart, these are his future soldiers, and he died of internal friction like this, it's really a pity, he even has a little heartache.

But no matter what, he must win this war before he can have a future.

Mars really had a new understanding of the effect of knights participating in the defense of the city, and the role of knights can be seen from this.

Of course, Mars felt that it should be attributed to two points, one was that the knights of the city occupied a favorable position, were condescending, and could attack at will. The second is that knights can use Dou Qi and practice martial arts, and Dou Qi can not only make martial arts exert greater power, but also enhance a lot of physical endurance and fight longer.

In terms of combat effectiveness, a low-ranking knight can easily defeat the siege of ten ordinary soldiers, of course, this means that ordinary soldiers do not use some special means.

"Special means?"

As if he had thought of something, Marston immediately asked, "Du Wei, who is the general guarding the gate of the palace?"

Du Wei was stunned for a moment, but said quickly: "It's the deputy head Thorndike, what's the matter?"

"Which family is he from, is it from your Quaker family?" Mars asked immediately.

Du Wei didn't understand, but seeing that Mars's eyes were a little nervous, he said: "It's the sister-in-law of Baron Luth, and the Ruth family is a third-rate nobleman in the royal capital of Sunset City." ”

Thinking of this, Du Wei's face changed slightly, and he said, "Your Majesty, are you ......suspicious?"

Mars sighed lightly: "I hope I'm right, I'll leave it to Deputy Head Kelsen here, let's go to the palace gate!"

With that, Mars immediately told Audrey to go down to the city to prepare his horses, while Dewey approached Kelsen to give him a mission.

Ten minutes later, the three war horses galloped towards the gate of the upper palace.

There are two gates in the inner palace, the upper palace gate is due north, and the lower palace gate is due south, and it is the lower palace gate that the Blood Sword Legion attacks.

And just as Mars and the others rushed to the upper palace gate, more than a dozen people in the upper palace gate slowly approached the city gate, and the deputy head Thorndike was patrolling the city, speaking with a loud voice intentionally or unintentionally.

The knight who was on duty was a little strange, how could Deputy Head Thorndike, who was usually silent, talk so much today, and it seemed that he had changed as a person.

At the same time, a group of about three hundred knights in red armor was lying in ambush at the corner of the gate of the upper palace, and because Thorndike talked a lot today, it attracted the knights defending the city, and they did not notice that the enemy was at their feet.

Just when the more than ten people approached the city gate, Mars and the other three people galloped over, Du Wei saw that more than ten knights actually approached the city gate, he couldn't help but be shocked, and shouted: "All the knights obey the order, I am Du Wei, Thorndike intends to rebel, all the knights immediately arrest Thorndike!"

Thorndike had already seen the three horses galloping towards him, and he had heard Du Wei's shout, and he ignored the shocked looks of the other knights, and immediately shouted: "Open the gates, open the gates, open the gates!"

With that, he drew his long knife and slashed at a stunned knight beside him, but the knight didn't react at all, and was slashed off his head with a terrible wail.