The report of the arrival of pirates was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the governor of Maranster, who never dreamed that he had been trying to cut off the trade routes, and that the pirates who had been plundering would take the initiative to attack the port at this time, and his escape route would be completely cut off. For Corbius, it was a catastrophe. Therefore, the defender who presided over the entire port of Maranster was actually General Sam.

Elda's sailors arrived at Port Maranster on time and reached a situation with Li Tianhao's troops to encircle it, and a few days later, Port Maranster was cut off from the outside world.

On Maranster's side, Sam was hit hard by this. Obviously, Li Tianhao bought these pirates to act with him with a lot of money, probably using the treasures in Maranster Harbor as a reward, which made Maranster's crisis worse. And the troops he sent to rob outside originally numbered 800, but now only more than 300 have returned, and a considerable number of people simply disobeyed when they got the news that the port was attacked. This made the already insufficient defensive force even more stretched - the location of the port of Maranthert made it less vulnerable to land attacks, so the garrison numbered only 5,000 men, and was still less than 4,000 troops stationed for many years; On the contrary, because it is vulnerable to attacks from the sea by Arubania, its maritime defense system is quite complete. The total number of soldiers available for defense today is only about 3,500 men, and the severity of the situation is evident in the fact that they have to face ten times the number of enemy attacks, and they also have to add the enemy on the sea.

In this situation, General Sam was quite right. He judged that Li Tianhao was running long distances and could not carry heavy siege equipment. Therefore, he decided to abandon the idea of attacking completely from the beginning, relying on the walls of Port Maranster to buy time. Defend against land attacks with the help of the city walls. With strong coastal defenses to defend against pirates from the waterway, as long as you hold on until help arrives, then there may be a glimmer of life. Of course, Sam had prepared for the worst, that is, if this harbor was in danger of being lost, then perhaps it would be a good choice to sacrifice the Governor at the right time. Because according to Li Tianhao's order that as long as he surrenders, there is at least one way to live, then at least he has been able to retain a considerable part of the wealth obtained by sharing the spoils with Corbius for so many years, and with this money, he can at least live a luxurious life comparable to that of a king for the rest of his life.

With this layer of consideration. Compared to the frightened Corbius, who hid in the Doge's palace all day and shivered, Sam's actions were much more active. He inspected the operation of all the defenses in the city, and at the same time organized manpower to transport the weapons and equipment that were usually locked in the warehouses to the city; He worked hard to boost morale, strengthen the confidence of the residents of the city to hold on to help, and even accompanied the soldiers to the city all night.

On the other hand, Li Tianhao's actions are much slower. On the one hand, his troops were exhausted from the long march, and his troops lacked siege equipment as Sam expected, and knew that the four gates of Maranster Harbor were closed, and that a strong attack would surely suffer heavy casualties; On the other hand, he didn't want to take the city easily, and he had to let Corbius and Sam experience the feeling of despair. Therefore, during the first ten days, his main job was to complete the siege and recuperate the soldiers, but Elda on the waterway was more active.

The port of Maranster has more adequate maritime defenses than many ports on the narrow sea. Mainly because Corbius was a relative of Kadir III. After he became governor, the king attached great importance to the defense of the port, and he sent skilled craftsmen and a large number of men to build these fortifications in order to ensure that Corbius would not be threatened by the sea from Arubania. Today, Yaqui's navy is completely wiped out. However, the dockyard of the port of Maranster itself has been busy building warships day and night, and the seven newly launched warships have been anchored in the harbor and refused to sail, so that they can strike again to defeat the pirates after the fleet is reorganized. Plus six giant chains outside the harbor. Heavy ships simply could not sail into the interior of the port, and light ships were to storm at all. You will be hit by the dense fire of the forts on both sides, which are quite cleverly constructed. They only face land on one side, they are surrounded by water on three sides, the revetments made of stones make them resistant to the impact of the water, and the strong walls can block the attack of arrows, even if they want to attack by land, they will be in a situation of being attacked by the fortress, so it is very difficult to attack Maranster from the water.

In response, Elda shows Sam his terrifying powers. Now Elda's power is undoubtedly greater than that of Yaki and Arubania combined, and he has ten huge foreign ships, plus the most powerful surface combat ships of the Li family merchant group, there are a total of 220 warships of all kinds from Sindra, Paz, Arubania, Yaki, and Silk Country, and more than 400 small ships. Facing the impregnable port of Maranster, Elda mobilized all his combat forces, relying on the catapults and ballistas carried by ten large ships on the outer ships, launched a fierce attack on the fortress along the coast, while covering the other capital ships to pull up iron chains from the sea to destroy them. The terrified Yaki soldiers found that the opponent's giant battleship was at the same height as their own fortress after removing the main load, and the condescending advantage was gone! His every move was under the watchful eye of the enemy, and the rain of stones and arrows from the sky continued to smash on his head, and the terrible ballista shot spears with ropes, which could pierce the stone walls of the fortress in one fell swoop, and then with the power of the winch they pulled the spears back, leaving a large hole in the walls of the fortress. The result of this cycle was that the outer walls of the fortress were constantly damaged, and eventually faced collapse.

At this time, the biggest weakness of the fortress became apparent, that is, the lack of troops. Although there were as many as six fortresses along the way to form a network of fire, each fort was equipped with only a hundred men, and given their terrain, they were not easily attacked from land, and it was difficult to get support from land. Under Elda's fierce firepower, two fortresses fell on the first day, and two chains were burned. Elda did not let up, attacking overnight, and by the next morning she had destroyed another fortress, burned a chain, and sank two Yaqui warships that had come to support from the harbor, damaging one.

In the face of such a powerful and terrifying attack ability, the soldiers and civilians in Maranster Harbor fell into a panic - no matter how impenetrable Maranster Harbor was in their eyes, it was so vulnerable to pirates, so could the city wall they relied on really withstand Li Tianhao's attack?

Elda did not let up on the success of the attack, and continued his onslaught, and by the night of the third day, all the forts outside Port Maranster had been destroyed, almost all six hundred soldiers had been killed, and the seven new ships of the Yaki fleet had been sunk, along with those still under construction in the dockyard, and the entire dock had been burned. Elda's soldiers then stormed the docks, and by dawn on the fifth day, the docks of Maranster Harbor and all the buildings outside the city were burned, and more than 600 Yaqui garrisons were killed. Sam's forces were reduced by a third.

After that, Elda's ten outward ships continued to fire stones and ballistas at Maranster, weakening the city's defenses little by little. And Elda herself came to Li Tianhao's camp. (To be continued.) )