Chapter 750: The Fall of the Capital
The strong combat power makes it impossible for the Holy Grail Guardians to advance the battle, and it can be said that the Holy Grail Guardians are already the strongest infantry in the Astra Kingdom.
It was the killer weapon of the kingdom of Astra, but even they were defeated by these Norweed regular troops, which shows what a blow to their morale.
Although the castle is still well fed, the lords have lost confidence, and even the Guardians of the Holy Grail have been defeated by the enemy, so the remaining soldiers are obviously no match for the enemy.
King Leonac looked at his lords and knew what was in their hearts, and he cried out loudly, "My vassals! This setback is nothing, our Grail Guardians have failed! But we still have this castle! Kajavin City! The capital of the kingdom of Astra! ”
"It has endured countless trials and tribulations since its establishment, but it has never been captured by the enemy! The enemy is very strong! But so what! The kings of the kingdom of Astra will bless us! The Holy Father will also bless us in victory over this group of infidels who have blasphemed the Holy Father! ”
"O children of the Holy Father! Will you be able to watch the infidels conquer this castle in our homeland! Is it raging in our lands, slaughtering our subjects? ”
"Answer me out loud! Can you bear it? ”
King Leonarque's voice was so loud that it was hard to imagine that his aging body could still make such an impassioned sound.
"Can't!"
The nobles shouted loudly, King Leonac still had a strong ability to deceive people, and under his encouragement, the nobles let out an unwilling roar.
They are not willing to let their territory be ruled by this group of damned infidels, and the place where their family has survived for generations has been taken away by others.
At this moment, the morale of the lords suddenly soared, and as for mobilizing the morale of the soldiers below, it was not his responsibility, he was only responsible for the lords.
Outside the city wall, Emperor Porioye was also more satisfied, and he conquered the opponent's outer wall in one day, which was okay.
Proud and arrogant, he never thought he would fail to conquer the castle.
He lightly ordered: "Wait a minute, let the soldiers rest for a day first, and we will attack the city tomorrow morning!" I think my warriors can conquer this castle in two days! ”
"Your Majesty is wise, no one can resist the mighty Norvid warriors!" Kirunde said flatteringly.
Although he had already planned to retire to the mountains and forests after the revenge, and not participate in these things, at least for now, he still needed to befriend Emperor Porioye.
Seeing that the enemy had no intention of attacking, the people on the wall relaxed their vigilance a little, and after ordering the soldiers to guard the wall, they left the wall.
King Leonac returned to his room, feeling that this war was really not optimistic, and if it was not supported, it was really risky.
Unaware of the future, King Leonac gradually fell asleep, and the next morning he was awakened by a loud noise.
"No, Your Majesty is resting, please wait a while!" The servant's alarmed and humble tone reached his ears, and King Leonac immediately rose from his bed.
Before he could wash and change his clothes, he opened the door to his bedroom, and when he got out, he saw who was going to come in.
"Don't embarrass him, Sheriff Pablo, why are you in such a hurry to see me?"
"Your Majesty, the enemy launched an attack on our city walls early this morning, and the attack has continued until now, and the soldiers on the city walls have suffered a large number of casualties, and the casualties of the Holy Grail Guardians have exceeded a thousand! Other soldiers lost thousands! ”
King Leonac was shocked to hear this, for in just one morning, there had been so many casualties, and that they had lost more than 10,000 troops in this siege.
Even if there are a large number of troops in the castle, they will not be able to bear such losses in the long run, not to mention that the continuous unfavorable situation of the battle has also made the morale of the soldiers begin to be low.
The Guardians of the Holy Grail have been brainwashed and their morale is extremely high, but the successive defeats have also lowered their morale, after all, they were invincible in the past, and suddenly an army appeared that none of them could compete with, which hit their invincible self-confidence.
What's more, the defeat of the Guardians of the Holy Grail also took a toll on the morale of the other armies.
A large number of soldiers kept moving towards the city walls, and even though they were already a little afraid in their hearts, they still had to go to the walls to fight the enemy.
The battle on the city walls was fierce, this was already the second line of defense inside the castle, and the last line of defense, the royal palace of the kingdom of Astra, was about to open in front of the enemy.
The regular army of Norweed fought extremely fiercely, and even if they died, they had to take an enemy away, and that's it, dozens of people died almost every second on the city walls.
King Leonac listened to the difficult situation on the front line, and immediately mobilized the Holy Grail Knights to the city wall, but this was to no avail, the Holy Grail Knights were originally born to fight on horseback, and most of their training time was spent on riding training, and most of their infantry strength was trained when they were trainee knights.
Therefore, even if they are not bad, they are only half a pound and eight taels with the Holy Grail Guardians, and they are no match for the tall Norweed regular army at all.
After slowing down the enemy's onslaught, the Knights of the Holy Grail were still overwhelmed by the enemy, and even though they were still resisting stubbornly, the enemy continued to advance slowly on the walls.
The battle continued without any rest for the soldiers on either side, and it was already noon, and the battle went on for several hours.
More than 20,000 people were killed or wounded on both sides of the walls, and of course, the army of the Kingdom of Astra suffered more casualties.
If you can't kill the enemy with a huge amount of bows and arrows during the defense of the city, then the city wall is actually not very useful, and the enemy has already carved out a base on the city wall, so there is not much difference in peaceful combat.
By the afternoon, the defenders on the walls were finally on the verge of collapse, and the kingdom of Astra had already paid the price of nearly 20,000 men on the walls.
However, it only inflicted more than 10,000 casualties on the enemy, and not all of them were the enemy's regular army, and the casualties of the enemy's regular army were roughly estimated to be only about 6,000.
This war basically did not bring out the true power of the Astra Kingdom, and their strongest was still the field battle on the plains.
The Knights of the Holy Grail and their own knights are invincible, but they also seized the previous opportunity to rely on the knights to take each other away in waves, and now they are about to be pushed away by the enemy.