"I'm really tired today."

It was already dark, and in Viruga, Hank, the city defense officer and city councilor who was also in charge of the city's defense, pushed open the door of his house and hung his coat on the wall.

He was going to ask his wife to give her a glass of wine, as usual, and then take a comfortable bath and go about the work of making people in the evening.

He shouted twice, but he did not receive a response from his wife, and a voice similar to an exclamation, mixed with the heavy footsteps of a man.

"This slut! This is the third time this month! ”

The rage instantly shattered his reason, and he held down the short sword at his waist and rushed upstairs with a quick step.

He didn't notice the figure of the maid who was always busy in the kitchen downstairs in the past, he subconsciously thought that she was colluding with the man and woman, so he didn't go to the kitchen, let alone find a few traces of blood on the kitchen floor.

He rushed upstairs and pushed the door open. But what caught his eyes was that his wife was tied up tightly, and her mouth was covered by a masked man.

And the moment he pushed the door open, another person hiding in the doorway turned around and stabbed the dagger directly into his neck. He drew his dagger and stabbed it indiscriminately, but it missed the target at all, and a few seconds later he collapsed with his eyes glared. The man walked over and drew another dagger and mended a few stabs on him.

And his wife, who was also cut in the throat at this time, struggled until she was completely out of breath before being thrown to the ground.

"Compared to before, we didn't do much this time."

The assassin who had killed Hank withdrew his dagger and spoke to his companion in Sarandan.

The other man nodded, then quickly changed his clothes with him and left through the back door.

In two other parts of the city, two other high-ranking officers in charge of the city's defense were also killed on street corners and in their homes.

At this time, Byron's army had also entered the sight of the defenders of Viruga. Of course, in their eyes, those soldiers were dressed basically the same as them, riding on the horses of the city, but there were a lot of blood stains on their bodies. The leader was still the Alphabe-sama they knew, but his equipment was slightly damaged. They took with them a number of prisoners, as well as a few wagons covered in blood-stained linen, which looked like they had returned triumphantly.

When Captain Rhodok, who was defending the city, saw Alfabe, he immediately ordered the gates to be opened and welcomed them into the city.

Because it was dark, he didn't realize that something was wrong until half of the troops entered the city gates, because there were so many faces he didn't recognize.

He was about to sound the alarm when he heard a few shouts from someone in the opposing army, and then several soldiers who were close to him stepped directly from their horses, pulled out the captured Rodok military hoe, and quickly killed him.

The militia on the city walls panicked at once, and the crossbowmen immediately began to shoot downward, but because the light was too poor and inexperienced, the hit rate was very poor, and dozens of crossbow arrows were fired, but only a few fell.

The mercenaries smashed through the wooden door at the staircase of the city wall, rushed to the top of the city, and tore through the green burqa on their original bodies, revealing the peony pattern inside, so as not to be accidentally injured in the battle.

The armies of both sides immediately fought together, and these improvised citizens could not stop the fierce mercenaries in the panic, and they were defeated in the melee, and even the noose that controlled the city gate was controlled by the mercenaries.

There were two walls at the gates of Viruga, and when the outer city was lost, the soldiers guarding the second wall immediately lowered the iron gates to prevent them from entering.

However, as a set fire carriage was pushed in front of the iron gate, and a loud noise enough to wake up the whole city, the iron gate was blown out by the force of the impact and inserted into a private house.

Outside the city, flames burst into flames, and Byron's army rushed to the gates of Viruga when they saw that their plan had succeeded. The militia on the city walls were now fighting against the mercenaries who had entered the city before, and they were at a disadvantage, and they were powerless to stop them. Therefore, the troops outside the city basically did not meet any resistance, and they killed them through the city gate.

The situation was critical, and the city patrols and soldiers near the city walls hurriedly went to their superiors to report the situation, but the officers were also at a loss at this time, because they had just received the news of the death of several city defense officials and military councilors.

In desperation, they had no choice but to give orders to resist while reporting to Count Mateas, during which they lost hundreds of soldiers and several blocks due to the confusion of command.

The citizens were awakened by the sound of battle, and they looked out of their windows in horror to see the flickering fires in the streets, and the shouts of soldiers in their ears.

And because of the heavy use of the taure by Byron's soldiers, a fire was caused, and the fire spread so that a corner of the city was engulfed in flames.

Some soldiers were forced to break into some houses to defend themselves, and their fighting caused serious damage to the property of the owners, filling the streets with screams of women and children.

The southern wall had been occupied by Byron, and the streets were full of fighting soldiers. However, despite the desperate resistance of the soldiers in the city, they could not stop the mercenaries from advancing. Some of the townspeople also picked up their clumsy weapons in the confusion and tried to assist their armies in resisting the invaders, which caused the mercenaries to suffer an unexpected blow, but only slowed them down slightly.

After almost half of the city had been lost, the remaining city defense troops, together with the count's guards, lined up in the streets, raised their shields, and set up spears and machetes, on the orders of the enraged count.

A band of Swadian light infantry and mercenary swordsmen attempted to break through their defenses, but before they could get close, their sharp spears pierced through their armor and flesh, and they fell to the ground in a wail, chopped into pieces by their machetes.

The infantry retreated, and crossbowmen from all over the continent stepped forward to shoot arrows. Their arrows were powerful, but to little avail. Just like the Lordok citizen crossbowmen before them, the damage inflicted on the other side was almost negligible.

The mercenaries were forced to retreat, while the phalanx of spearmen advanced slowly but steadily, forcing them into narrow alleys.

At this time, the cavalry of the Peony mercenaries was almost useless, and the crowding made it impossible for them to charge at all, so they could only dismount and fight on foot, and confront the turtle-like Rhodok army formation head-on.

The mercenaries withdrew from the neighborhood, but the citizens of Rhodoc didn't have time to cheer. Because before they could reclaim the street, another force took the place of the mixed mercenaries.

Most of them were dressed in leather and soft armor, and a small number were dressed in scale and chain mail. Wearing pot helmets and holding sharp halberds about the same length as their spears, they rushed towards them in a similar formation without shields.

The crossbowmen behind the shield wall fired a round of crossbow arrows, knocking down a dozen people, but this did not slow down the opposition's charge, and soon the long-pole weapons of both sides collided together, constantly reaching forward and retreating, stabbing down one soldier after another.

However, Rhodok's soldiers soon discovered that despite their poor protection and lack of shields, their halberds were extremely lethal, and their armor did not protect them much. Moreover, the halberd can slash through their shields from above, and can also cut off the barrels of their own guns, forcing them to stop their progress after a few encounters. And these people seem to be undertrained, but their morale is very high, and they are always in an offensive position and do not suppress them.

It was a battle between two groups of infantry, with both sides using their weapons to kill the enemy, and the battle quickly became scorched, and the casualties on the Rhodok side began to increase rapidly, outpacing the damage they inflicted on the opposing side.

At this time, the spearmen on the other street were routed by mercenaries twice as large as them, and a large number of lumberjack mercenaries and Nord soldiers soon rushed in, brandishing halberds and battle axes, and attacked them from the right. Under the two-line attack, even these well-trained Rhodok spearmen could only retreat back to the castle with the support of the sergeants who came from the rear to support.

However, despite being a castle, the city of Viruga is not a well-defended semi-fortress city like Dehrim. Although both were important agricultural lands in both countries, the commercial value of Viruga was far greater than that of the military, and the castle in the center of the city was more like a large, well-defended manor house, and was not protected by moats and tall walls.

Moreover, after Byron's raid, the defenders in the city had been reduced by half, and the remaining soldiers could not resist the attack of the other side.

So Count Mateas made a very painful decision, and he left some of his loyal soldiers behind and left the north gate with his family and the most valuable things. Byron's troops were not large enough to surround the city, nor did they cut off all the streets of the city, so they fled.

But the fall of the city was inevitable.......