Soon, the sound of the horn "woo" sounded in front of the battle, and the royal guards who had received the order also obeyed the order not to fight, and quickly joined up with the advancing cover shield, and retreated in an orderly manner. Seeing this scene in front of him, even Viscount Dominic, who had always been proud of his Seventh Corps' combat effectiveness, had to nod and sigh to himself, even though his Seventh Corps was not inferior to this Royal Guards in terms of combat effectiveness and fighting will, but he had to admit that his subordinates were half inferior in terms of discipline.

"Lord Marquis, if we continue to fight hard like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win. The location of this Jiayuguan is really unfavorable to us, although almost all the siege equipment has been used in the past few days, and our soldiers have done their best, but the effect does not seem to be good, the enemy still retains at least more than seventy percent of the combat effectiveness, and they can also temporarily recruit young adults in the fortress, I am worried about ......"

Viscount Dominici was full of sorrow, this was the third time he had spoken to his commander, the Marquis de Claudia, although he was against such a strong attack without sacrifice and without hope, but as a soldier, he still resolutely obeyed the orders of the commander, and in a few days, the loss of his seventh corps had exceeded forty percent.

Claudia can understand Dominic's intentions, the viscount has always been known for loving soldiers like sons, so his prestige in the Seventh Corps is also quite high, and the soldiers are willing to serve, he did not reveal the key points of this plan to the viscount on the first two occasions, but now he can tell the other party, because the arrow book presented by the soldiers has already decided that the outcome of this battle will be revealed tonight.

The confused but enlightened Viscount Dominici flipped through the letter handed to him by the boss several times, and there was only a short sentence on it, "Three watches tonight", still not fully understood, he looked at Claudia with some excited eyes: "Lord Marquis, you mean tonight." Do we have an internal response?! ”

Claudia's grim face also showed a red tide of excitement, and he nodded, "Yes, the city will be broken tonight!" Your Excellency, go and arrange at once for the 120,000 troops of the Seventh Corps to be in reserve. You are responsible for leading the team, and I will personally lead my first and 20,000 teams to attack tonight, and the victory or defeat is here! ”

"Adult ......"

"Needless to say, I've made up my mind." Waving his hand to interrupt the Viscount's words, Claudia took a deep breath and calmed her mind, "The glory of the empire is tonight, I hope the blood of our soldiers is not shed in vain." ”

There was silence in the tent for a moment, only the flaming candlelight dancing tirelessly. reflects the two figures that have gone through vicissitudes in front of the case.

The canopy of the dark night was like someone splashing a bucket of ink, reaching out and not seeing his five fingers, and after checking his duty from the city wall, Shen Jin returned to the center of the fortress - the Command Embassy Mansion, which was a small building, and the guests here were not fixed, sometimes it was the city guard, and sometimes it was himself as the commander of the first garrison division. Sometimes Hou is Wang Fengshan, a colleague of the commander of the Second Garrison Division, and the commander of the Third Garrison Division, who has been the army for the shortest time, has never had the opportunity to live here. Because the garrisons of two divisions were retained at the same time, there was no chance of getting them in their turn at all.

The situation on duty at night is more satisfactory, it seems that the Kamans will not attack tonight, it is pitch black outside the pass, and the Kamans need to rest. The high-density assault for several days in a row did make Shinjin feel a little difficult, and the enemy fully demonstrated the power of the siege equipment they had. In particular, the powerful attack power of the mobile catapult and the nine-bow bed ballista made Shin Jin really gain a lot of knowledge.

The Kamans succeeded in improving their accuracy as mobile attack weapons, greatly increasing the hit rate of these two types of weapons, and also inflicting great damage on their own side, although their own side was also prepared, but obviously underestimated the power of the enemy's improved weapons. In the past few days, the number of soldiers killed and incapacitated by these two types of weapons alone has been as high as 6,000, while the casualties caused by the actual hand-to-hand combat are only more than 3,000, which can not help but give him a headache as the commander-in-chief.

The intensity of the attack of the Mans can be said to be greatly beyond Shen Jin's expectations, after how many bloody tests have been experienced, Shen Jin's attack on the Kamans has long been accustomed to it, if there is no attack by the Kamans, it is abnormal. But this attack is a bit unusual, in addition to attacking from the north and south, what is surprising is that even the rarely seen Kaman Royal Guards also joined the battle sequence, and the number and quality of various siege equipment used by the Kaman people in the attack in the past few days are also unprecedented, which cannot but arouse Shen Jin's attention.

Judging from the number of the enemy's attacking troops, the Royal Guards Regiment of the Kaman people located in Guannan is naturally needless to say, and the other force is also the main force of the Kaman people - the Seventh Corps, and the third corps of Kaman in Guanbei is known as the "Iron Cone", and its attack power is also in the forefront of several main forces of Kaman. After a few days of fighting, the natural defensive ability of the fortress certainly caused huge losses to the Kamans, but as a defensive side, the losses were not small, far exceeding Shen Jin's pre-battle estimate.

Of course, this does not affect the overall defense capability of the fortress, as Jiayuguan, which is known as the first pass in the world, has already established a complete set of emergency defense plans. There are about 20,000 strong men among the 80,000 civilians in the fortress, they are all from the interior of the empire, and the long-term life in the fortress has created their fierce character and style, and the fortress has to carry out routine reserve training for them almost every year, although it is not really organized into an army, but it only takes an order to immediately form an armed force that is not weak in combat effectiveness, and there are sufficient weapons and materials in the fortress, as long as it is fully equipped, a brand new team can be used by Shen Jin. As long as they rely on the excellent fortifications of the fortress, they can also exert great power.

Back in the command mansion and brewing a cup of strong tea, although it seems that the Kamans will not be attacking tonight, Shen Jin has always been unable to sleep, especially the inability to see through the conspiracy behind the other party, making it difficult for him to sleep easily even though he has the strongest and most complete defense system.

The careful inspection of the front and back passes made him feel a little relieved, the strict duty system, and the reserves of each wing at the gates of the front and rear passes, such a strict deployment, Shen Jin also consciously did not dare to boast that it was foolproof, at least it could be regarded as impregnable. (To be continued......)