While Loren was still trying his best to bypass the battlefield from the Gem River and enter the imperial capital under siege, the "Battle of Golovin" in West Saclandand was already in full swing.

But in fact, there is a "small misunderstanding" in the middle, that is, there are almost four or five answers to the question of when the "Battle for the Defense of the Imperial Capital of Golovin" began.

The reason for this is because of the time difference in the middle - whether it began with the Byrne's army going north and holding the imperial capital, or did the Azorean elves break through the defense line and invade West Sacland by land and water, or did the Ebolden defense line completely collapse and the Grand Duke of Elemand began to break through?

During this period, there were also various niche sayings, such as "Duke Byrne went west", "Boe Hussar crossed the road", and "Crown Prince Brandon went south......

All kinds of theories are mixed with ambiguity, and they are also mixed with the entanglement of interests of several forces, or the purpose of some scholars to start sects and write books and theories, so that the official history of later generations had to include almost all the theories at the same time, and the starting time was roughly set within a month before and after.

As for why this is happening... In addition to the chaos of the war and the time lag in transportation and communication, one reason that was rarely noticed was a letter for help from the imperial capital of Golovin – more precisely, the Heavenly Dome Palace.

In the thirteen generations since the founding of the empire, the imperial capital of Golovin has not been subjected to any war—for the simple reason that it is Ebolden in the north, Sackland in the east, Lothair in the west, and Byrne in the south... The imperial capital, which is protected on all sides, is unlikely to encounter the threat of war.

After thirteen generations of comfortable life, the nobles of the imperial capital have long forgotten what war is, and the Heavenly Dome Palace is the core of the world, so the end of the world is the walls of Golovin - as for what happens outside the walls, it is just the anecdotes of the other world, the talk of banquets and receptions.

Therefore, although the empire entered a state of all-out war, and even the emperor himself went north to sit in the fortress of Broken Boundary Mountain, the nobles of the imperial capital were still very calm, complaining about the increasingly scarce luxury goods and the recent expropriation of the Heavenly Dome Palace.

This "calm" lasted until the Ebolden line was first breached, and a small group of Azorean elves attacked an estate near the imperial capital.

The first reaction of the nobles of the imperial capital who heard the news was not panic, but excitement.

For this group of "long-eared elves" that suddenly appeared, the nobles of the imperial capital did not regard them as mortal enemies, but some kind of "new thing" - curiosity about different cultures and different races, so that these nobles who were full of food and nothing to do suddenly found new fun in their boring lives.

So under the "excitement" of the noble council, a "Imperial Capital Guard Legion" was formed, mainly composed of the imperial capital patrol, mixed with fanatical Holy Cross believers, and young knights, and specially submitted a declaration of war to the Azorean elves on the opposite side, fighting to the death in a flat meadow near the Gem River.

The Azorean elven warrior who received the challenge letter was very moved, and specially asked the messenger to send a letter of thanks, saying that he would "abide by the noble reputation of the samurai and fight fairly with the imperial knights";

Then the elven warriors, who had waited for the "Imperial Capital Guard Legion" for a whole day and found that they had been released pigeons, and in the evening, they found that this legion had only completed two-thirds of the way, and launched a surprise attack in anger, leaving no piece of armor behind the group of people.

In order to retaliate for the "unkeeping of the word of the Imperial", the Azorean elven warriors escorted all the captives captured alive to the walls of the imperial capital, and beheaded them on the spot in full view of everyone.

The terrified guards of the city wall watched as these people were beheaded—including the heirs of more than a dozen wealthy families, radical imperial nobles, and more than a hundred of them were related to the royal family of de Salion.

These "noble bloodlines" were beheaded like hyenas in the spring breeze in the clear sky.

The nobles of the imperial capital finally panicked - after three hundred years, they once again knew the difference between street riots and war.

They found out for the first time. The war could be so close to itself, and the Ebolden Line, which seemed to be far away, might only be a few days' journey for the light cavalry.

If the Ebolden defense line collapses, then the imperial capital, as the rear of the army, will be directly exposed to the hundreds of thousands of Azorean elven troops.

At the suggestion of some "responsible" young nobles, the Imperial Diet wrote a very severe rebuke to the front-line commander-in-chief, the Minister of War, Severin de Salion, accusing him of "supervising the war so badly that the imperial capital has been harmed and the royal family has been disgraced".

Then they received another terrible piece of information - the port of Ebolden had thawed, and the Azorean elven reinforcements had arrived, and the number of troops was probably no less than 100,000.

The already shaky Ebolden defensive line could collapse at any moment.

In the midst of the "excitement of the crowd", the chief of the imperial cabinet, the minister in charge of the seals, Metternich Leopold, "indifferently" refused the request of the nobles to send the legions stationed in the Heavenly Dome Palace outside the city to defend the imperial capital, especially the private estates of the nobles.

In order to appease the emotions of all parties, and after consulting with Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, he agreed to have the Imperial Diet send a letter of request for help to "all parts of the Empire".

But on the question of "who to ask for help", the nobles of the imperial capital fell into a great contradiction.

For there is no doubt in the distance, the nearest must be Lothair, Ellemont, and East Sackland, but Lothair is in charge of the western battlefield, and is still counting on the emperor to give them assistance; Ellemont is full of hills, and it will be cold when reinforcements arrive.

The best option is, of course, Brandon de Salion, who is quelling the rebellion in East Sackland - but the last thing the nobles of the imperial capital want is Brandon de Salion!

His Royal Highness, the "disgraced prince", has already obtained the status of the Prince of East Sackland and the first in line to the throne in the last exchange of interests, and once he has the great prestige of "saving the imperial capital", it is equivalent to making him the next generation of emperors.

For the nobles of the imperial capital, this may really be worse than letting them die.

After a short quarrel, more precisely, after one bad news after another came from the front line, the nobles of the imperial capital had to set their sights on another force - Byrne.

This is also an option that makes the nobles of the imperial capital very "difficult".

The Byrnes and the Sakrands... More precisely, it was the imperial aristocracy of West Sacland, which was always at odds and was in a state where everyone looked down on the other.

This state of affairs culminated in the era of the "Black Duke" and ended with the death of Roland Turin and the division of the Thirteen Lords of Byrne.

And now, in the face of Byrne's strong rise and the empire's "internal and external troubles", the reluctant nobles of the imperial capital have to once again ask for help from this powerful vassal who is always trying to challenge the authority of the empire.

In order to ensure that Byrne would not refuse, the nobles of the imperial capital specially described the current situation as very dangerous - the Ebolden defense line has collapsed, the fate of the Grand Duke of Elems and the Minister of War is unknown, and the imperial capital of Golovin is in danger... How miserable it is.

They know that this ancient "land of knights" has always had some very stubborn "heroic traditions", and rarely refuses requests for the sake of honor and face, especially for actions that can win prestige.

Even if the hook is straight and salty, they are sure to let Byrne take the bait.

On the same day that the Imperial Capital's letter for help arrived, a letter of request for help from the Broken Mountain Fortress also arrived at the Red Blood Fortress, and the hesitant Charlotte decided to rush to the imperial capital Golovin, while she personally rushed to Brandon's military camp to "urge" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to rescue the Broken Mountain.

The elite army of 80,000 people of Byrne quickly marched north, marching into West Sacharan territory at a speed comparable to that of the Sakran army, and the wishful thinking of the nobles of the imperial capital finally succeeded.

Unfortunately, this world has never been happy for anyone.

Almost on the same day that the Byrne Legion entered the imperial capital, the bad news from the Ebotden line also reached the imperial capital of Golovin - after confirming that an army had broken through the defensive line, the little prince of Rodria Azores finally did not hesitate and immediately organized an army to launch a full-scale attack on the Ebolden line.

In the face of almost twice as many enemies, the Ebolden defense line was caught off guard by heavy casualties, and many fortresses were directly bulldozed, and finally the overstretched defenders were seized by the elven prince and organized a vanguard army of 30,000 from the gem river by land and water, breaking through the Ebolden defense line and pushing all the way to the imperial capital of Golovin.

Two days later, Brandon, who had just put down the rebellion in East Sacland, finally received the news that the Ebolden line had been breached, but finally decided to go north to support the fortress of Fracture Mountain, while the Byrne army, which was full of preparations to become the "liberators of the imperial capital", was a little late, and finally arrived at its destination the day after the Azorean elven army invaded the imperial capital.

Both sides did not carry much baggage equipment in order to march quickly, so the outpost scouts on both sides collided directly with the opposite side without warning, and a fierce conflict broke out.

After receiving information about the outpost battle, the elven prince believes that this is a reinforcement that has collided with the imperial capital to support the Ebolden defense line, and must be eliminated;

The commander of the Byrne Legion, Count Angot of Mountain Rock Castle, judged that it was the Azorean elves who were fighting against him, and it was an army that was besieging the imperial capital, and if he could not defeat them as soon as possible, the 80,000 Byrne legions under his command would lose the opportunity to enter the imperial capital.

So the two sides threw all their forces into it, and an extremely fierce encounter broke out outside the imperial capital, and the battle lasted from noon to evening, and after the morale and physical strength of both sides had seriously declined, they chose to temporarily retreat.

The defenders of the imperial capital watched the battle from the city walls from beginning to end, and the gates were closed without supporting the Byrne legion, let alone sending cavalry to provide any useful information.

This headless and doomed encounter lasted another day and night, and the cautious Elven Prince chose to retreat temporarily, putting in order to put in order an army that was so scattered that it almost lost its formation;

The Byrne Legion took advantage of this short "window period" to march overnight, and finally entered the imperial capital of Golovin before the imperial capital was surrounded by the enemy.

At the same time, the two commanders of the Ebotden line, Yuli Wirtz, Duke of Ellemont, and the Minister of War, Sevelin de Salion, were at odds over the breach of the line.

Princess Elemon retreated on all fronts, attacking the vanguard of the Azorean elves from the back before the imperial capital was encircled, and at the same time asking for help from all parts of the empire;

The Minister of War, on the other hand, insisted on continuing to hold on to the already dilapidated line, because the army that broke through the line was only a small part of the enemy, and abandoning the line was tantamount to abandoning a large territory, allowing the enemy to attack in any direction without any interference.

As a result of the dispute, the Archduke of Ellemont led his army southward, while the Minister of War continued to organize his very limited forces and resources to reorganize the defensive line on the border between Ebolden and East Sacland, and to resist the repeated and uninterrupted attacks of the Azorean elves.

On the second day of the south, the Grand Duke of Ellemont met the rear of the elven prince's army that had retreated briefly - the Azorean elves who raided south had no defense against the back at all, and the attack from behind caused the elven prince to suffer quite heavy casualties, and was almost broken through the whole line, and the army was almost divided into two and fell into a separate situation.

The empty rear of the enemy gave the Grand Duke of Elems an opportunity, and the brave and skilled Elems two-handed swordsmen stormed the barracks, burned them and most importantly, burned the elven fleet.

The reason why the little elven prince was able to invade the south at such a fast speed was because of the elven fleet on the Gem River, and he threw a large number of supplies and overly heavy equipment onto the ship, which greatly accelerated his march.

Elleman's backstab hits the elven prince in the soft underbelly.

But Duke Yuri Wirtz was not carried away by the victory, he knew very well that he had enough troops at hand to confront the Azorean elves head-on, even if it was equal in force.

That same night, the Elemon Legion broke into pieces and broke out - mixed with the incessant pursuit of the angry elven prince, and the whole of northern West Sackland was reduced to a battlefield of blood and fire.

The Archduke of Ellemont, who had paid a certain number of casualties, entered the walls of the imperial capital on the third day after the arrival of the Byrne legion.

It took three days to reorganize the armament, with 30,000 vanguards as the core, gathered a large number of scattered troops that rushed through the defensive line, and finally reluctantly gathered about 100,000 Azorean elves, and officially went south to launch a comprehensive encirclement of the imperial capital.

Tens of thousands of elven warriors stormed the defenseless and defenseless plains of West Sacharland, burning and looting villages and towns, looting the estates and warehouses of the nobles, and slaughtering all those who resisted.

From the beginning to the end, the imperial capital never sent a single reinforcement to protect those who were burned and looted in the countryside;

After a full week of such crazy days, the army of the Azorean elves finally completely blocked and occupied the perimeter of the imperial capital, and the siege tents and banners appeared outside the gates of Golovin.

The offensive and defensive battle of the imperial capital officially began.