Upon receiving Müller's report, Chail immediately gathered all his forces and mobilized men, women, and children in the city to strengthen the city's defenses. Zaire heeded Müller's suggestion and transferred the garrisons in the surrounding cities of Mekir, Andaru, and Kuran back to leave those cities completely undefended, if the Yaki army arrived and surrendered directly. Anyway, those forces can't hold it, so it's better to concentrate on defending the main city of Asras.

Mueller's disposition was very timely, as soon as the garrison returned to Essrath City, the advance of the Yagi Army had already driven to Kuran City, and the food there fell into the hands of the Yaki Army before it could be delivered back, but Mueller already felt quite lucky, with the soldiers of these three cities, the strength of Asrath City reached two thousand five hundred, which was already much better than he expected. However, with most of the bows and arrows supporting the front line, there is currently a shortage of arrows and arrows in the city of Essras. Müller approached Pokel in the hope of temporarily assembling all the usable bow and arrow parts to equip the troops, if not too lethal, at least better than nothing.

Muller then put Chail in the middle of the city, and his own defense of the relatively weakest north gate was given to Drum, and the east and west gates were delegated to two of Chail's cronies.

The Yaqui army moved faster than Muller had expected, and arrived at the city of Essras the next day. Seeing nearly 20,000 enemy troops surrounding him and preparing to attack the city, Muller, who was standing at the head of the city, frowned: the opponent's actions were very orderly, and all parts were well coordinated, even if he had the strength to attack, he could not find a weak point to attack, obviously Ulysses was a very great general, and the next battle would be very difficult. The only hope now is that Li Tianhao will come to the rescue within ten days.

The only consolation to Muller was that the Yaqui Army had no baggage because they had been smuggled in. Not to mention siege weapons, their main weapon against the fortified city of Essrath is their shield. Axes, ropes, and improvised ladders made from collected materials. Despite their poor equipment, the morale of the Yaqui army was very high, and under the cover of shields, they stormed the city gates, and a large number of soldiers attacked the city from the few ladders they had to the city.

If he had enough bows and arrows and defensive equipment, Muller could have made these Yaki soldiers cry and lay their corpses under the city of Aisras, but unfortunately he had a shortage of defensive equipment at hand, and the damage he could do to the enemy was very limited, and it was almost a hand-to-hand combat with the Yaki army who climbed up to the city. It didn't take long for the archers to pick up the arrows that the Yaki army had shot at the city's head to fight back.

The men, women, and children in the city carried all the things that could be demolished in the city to the city, and smashed them down to prevent part of the Yagi army's movements, coupled with Müller's timely and effective command, the Yaji army was never able to set foot on the city or break through the city gate for a whole day, but paid hundreds of casualties, and the 500 people in Mueller's hands also killed nearly 50 people and wounded more than 100. According to the news coming from several other doors, the situation is broadly similar, except for slight differences in intensity and casualties.

The war situation is not optimistic. Mueller frowned as he looked at the retreating Yaqui Army. On the first day, the casualty rate was as high as 20 percent, and at this rate, the soldiers were killed and wounded in less than five days, and as the number of their own soldiers decreased, the ability to defend would also decrease day by day. On the Yaki Army's side, there will be almost no impact, and it will not be easy to hold out for ten days. Thinking of this, Müller once again approached Pokel and asked his craftsmen to make as many tools as they could that could be used for defense. When necessary, women and children may be mobilized to rush to work overnight.

Before the matter could be arranged, there was another urgent report that the Yaki army had begun a night attack. Muller immediately returned to the command post. After a night of fierce fighting, the Yaki army, which had not been able to succeed, retreated again. But before Muller and his men could catch their breath. A new wave of offensive has begun.

The other party is divided into two groups, one group is responsible for attacking during the day, and the other is responsible for attacking at night! Muller understood that the other party was doing this in order to exhaust the soldiers defending the city with a non-stop offensive. Although he was well aware of the other side's intentions, Muller could not use the same method against the enemy - the defenders were not numerous enough to rotate and rest, and these soldiers were not elite troops, and their combat effectiveness was not enough to compete with the regular subunit soldiers, and their morale could be maintained while maintaining a certain number, and it was really difficult to imagine how their will to fight would be shaken if their numbers continued to decrease.

After two consecutive days and two nights of attack, the number of soldiers at Müller's hand had been sharply reduced to less than 300, and most of them were wounded, and fatigue swept over everyone, including Müller, and everyone was holding on with willpower. Müller saw a qualitative change in the eyes of a few of these soldiers, who had completed the transformation from ordinary soldiers to seasoned veterans, and their eyes showed firmness and composure, but unfortunately this was only a rare phenomenon, and the eyes of many more soldiers were full of helplessness and despair.

It seems that civilians and slaves have to be dragged into battle. Although Müller knew that the guards of the other three gates had already done this, Müller still wanted to try not to involve civilians in this war, after all, untrained civilians would undoubtedly die in vain in the face of such battles, but now there is no way. Mueller had singled out those who had become veterans and appointed them captains to command the young civilians and slaves who had been selected, and no sooner had he completed his appointment than a new assault began. At this moment, the shadow of a troop appeared on the hill in the distance.

Is it reinforcements? Mueller stared. Soon he understood that this was not Li Tianhao's reinforcements, but the reinforcements of the Yaji Army. Although there were only about 2,000 men, he caused a great psychological shock to the soldiers defending the city: the long-awaited reinforcements did not come, but the enemy was strengthened. The impact on the already exhausted soldiers was undoubtedly enormous.

Mueller had to try to boost morale, claiming that it must have been the Yaji Army that had sent troops from other cities to return to his team, and that Li Tianhao's reinforcements must be advancing here. However, he knew very well in his heart that if he wanted to get rid of Evje outside the city of Heru, he would have to stay in the city of Horur, but in that case, Li Tianhao would be able to mobilize no more than 6,000 troops, even if he added the troops of Silis City, it was only a little more than 10,000, and the enemy army outside the city at the moment must have exceeded 20,000, if he failed to defeat this enemy army in one fell swoop, once Horur City and Silis City were lost, the consequences would be devastating.

On the afternoon of the fourth day and the afternoon of the fifth day, a reinforcement of about 2,000 Yaki troops each came, and the number of Yaki troops besieging the city reached about 25,000.

The hard-fought defense lasted until the afternoon of the sixth day, during which Muller took only two naps, the least of all the people rested. At this time, less than a hundred of Müller's men were able to fight, more than half of the 100 men sent in reinforcements from the Chayl headquarters, and the casualties of the civilians and slaves were even greater, and only 47 of the 500 selected survived. Even Muller himself began to suspect that a battle like this would be precarious for another day, let alone until the tenth day, unless he forcibly pushed the old and infirm and women to the front line of the defense.

At this moment, a soldier ran up with a crawl, and his voice was as if he had seen an evil ghost: "My lord! Lord Drum's surrender in Kaejo! (To be continued......)