When Vulture saw the city of Epsommiton, a sense of foreboding rose in his mind, for he clearly felt the murderous aura emanating from the city.

As Vulture had a hunch, Tia succeeded in convincing the Ancadiri Missionary Order and the Cathars, who lacked the power and discipline to survive; Elaine was also ordered to take over the command of Jimda, because Elaine had participated in the defense of Viscount Libera's attack on the city of Epsmirton, so she was familiar with the city, and it only took half a day to basically complete the deployment of troops and preliminary defense preparations.

Since Lee captured the city of Epsommiton, he has not stopped strengthening the city's defenses. Li Tianhao's intention is to build it into a bridgehead for attacking Yaki, and after all is completed, Epsommiton will not only have a huge grain reserve warehouse, weapons depot, a complete defense system, but also a large number of military camps for soldiers to rest, which can be used as the largest base for attacking Yaki in the north. Therefore, although the city defense facilities were not well prepared for the surprise attack of the priest army, the well-structured city defense system could also provide a lot of help to the soldiers. Elaine's judgment on this battle was that the priest army was sneaking here to launch a surprise attack, so they could not have any large-scale siege equipment, so even if their own preparation was insufficient, they could still use the numerical advantage of the cathar army as much as possible to delay time, give time to the preparation of other city defense facilities, and over time, they could use the city defense facilities to offset the numerical disadvantage and complete the goal of holding.

But as soon as the battle began, Elaine realized that she was thinking too well. She was not led by the Dils army, but by the soldiers of the cathars. These soldiers were not comparable to the Dils Army in terms of combat ability or organization, although they had a very high morale in order to protect themselves. But this morale did not have the ability to obey her command, or even if it wanted to obey Elaine's command. I didn't know what to do, but it took less than ten minutes to start the battle and it turned into a situation of fighting on the walls. This gave the priestly army, who had no siege facilities, a godsend, and with their own quality and fanatical faith, they managed to climb the city wall with only hooks and a few simple ladders!

The priest army who jumped on the wall did not rush to attack, but used their shields to buy time for their comrades in a few seconds, and as the number of priest troops who climbed the wall gradually increased, the cathars began to panic more and more, and some even shot their own fighters by mistake, making the situation more and more chaotic.

"What are these pieces of waste doing?" Elaine roared as she led a hundred Tiers to the slaughter - she didn't care about the Cathar's casualties. But according to their attrition method, it will not take half a day to suffer more than half a casualty, and then the battle line will not be able to maintain.

Elaine waved the knife in her hand and slashed the priest army to the ground one by one, and let out a deafening roar from her mouth: "Cheer me up!" These enemies are nothing more than flesh and blood! You are no more than they lack arms or legs, what is there to fear? Whoever has weak legs at this time, I will chop his cock to drink and eat! ”

With Elaine's martial courage and the fighting of the Dils army, he finally succeeded in annihilating all the priest armies that attacked the city, but before Elaine could take a breath, a new situation appeared again. As a result, Elaine was almost unable to command in the rear, and was completely reduced to a front-line firefighting team. In fact, even if Elaine wanted to command the whole army, the only people who could keep up with her pace were the 1,000 people who belonged to the Dils army.

Jimda, who commanded the eastern wall, suffered the same fate as Elaine in the north, but he did not fight for the future like Elaine. Deliberately preserving the strength of the Diels army, from the very beginning he led his three hundred Diels troops everywhere to rescue the crisis. Relying on the hard work of these two generals, the priest army failed to achieve any results that day.

Just when the head of the city of Epsommiton was in full swing. The people in the city were also very busy. Lysius and Bodecka organized their men and braved the rain of arrows fired by each other. Assign the weapons and equipment that are too late to be transported to the head of the city, and then assemble them. The two civil officials were terrified despite the armor they were wearing. It's just that Lysius's fear is still controllable, at least on the surface, and Bodeka is much worse, his pale face and cold sweat on his head, and his trembling legs all betray him mercilessly.

"Lord Bodeka, you'd better go to the city and organize the men." A crisp female voice awakened Bodeka's nerves. Bodelka turned his head to see that it was Tia who had changed into a military uniform.

"Miss Tia, I" Bodeka knew what Tia meant, and his performance on the city walls would only affect her morale.

"Fighting is not what you are good at, the little girl also knows a little about martial arts, so please leave the affairs here to the little girl to command, and you should stay in the place where you can exert your strength."

Tia's words were already clear, and Bodeka didn't say anything more, just nodded and said, "Then please, Miss Tia, please be careful." ”

"Don't worry, sir." Tia replied with a smile.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, Tia and Lysius hurriedly assembled a batch of defensive equipment, which brought great help to the next day's battle. The next day the attack of the priest army was more violent, but the effect was not as good as the ideal of the first day, the Dilus army and the cathar army used these defensive equipment to form a much stronger defense line than yesterday, under the command of Elaine, the priest army stormed for a long time but did not even come up to the head of the city once, in the afternoon the priest army began to divide the army to attack the west gate and the south gate, but there because there was no attack by the priest army the day before, the defense facilities have been installed, although the defense force is much smaller than the north and east gates, The Priest Army was still unable to make progress, and the Tiers Army did not even send reinforcements in either direction because of this, because Elaine was aware that this was a deliberate feint by the Priest Army to distract her forces. Sure enough, the priestly army abandoned the attack on the southwest gate before sunset, and began to continue the fierce attack on the north and east gates.

The fierce battle continued until midnight, and as the casualties of the soldiers in the city increased, the efforts of the priest army finally achieved some results, and some of the priest army climbed to the top of the city again. Tia, who was still directing the people to continue her work, witnessed the whole day of fighting, and it was the first time Tia had experienced war herself, and although she was not directly involved in the killing, the thick smell of blood and screams in the air stimulated her nerves at every moment. Splashes of blood, severed limbs that flew into the air from time to time, corpses lying on the ground, rolling heads, all this was like the gates of hell had been opened, Tia had never imagined that the battlefield was so tragic and cruel, and people became like wild beasts roaring and roaring in this bloody feast, and the part that belonged to people was less and less visible on their faces.

In a flash, something flew onto Tia's shoulder, and when Tia realized that it was a human eyeball, she couldn't help but let out an exclamation and struggled to shake it out.

But at this moment, a voice flashed in Tia's ears. It was not a cry of fighting, nor the crash of weapons, nor a scream, but a deep chant.

Tia thought it was her own delusion, but when the voice reached her ears again, she was sure it wasn't it! She slowly discerned the direction of the voice, and searched for it step by step, and gradually, the voice became clearer and clearer, coming from the western city wall.

The more Tia listened, the more she felt that something was wrong, because she could vaguely hear that it was a prayer for the god Ra, and that there were some things mixed in that were not part of the scriptures.

By the time she heard the chant perfectly, she was approaching the western wall. There was silence after the day's fighting, but what Tia saw was not what she had imagined, in fact two things hit her senses almost simultaneously - the chant was a verse in praise of the glory of the god Ra, but the last sentence was, "O people of the god Ra, open the gates to meet the light of God"! In front of Tia's eyes, hundreds of civilians were using rudimentary weapons to kill the soldiers stationed in Xicheng one by one! (To be continued......)