The night attack of Rhodok's army failed, and the losses were not small.

As a result of this defeat, the commander of the Rhodoc side changed his strategy, narrowed the encirclement, moved out the camp hidden in the forest, and set up improvised catapults and ladders to storm Serindil.

Rhodok's infantry was so strong that it could even take on Swadia's heavy cavalry head-on.

But that had to be done by forming a phalanx and choosing the right topography. When it came to the siege, the Rhodoks did not have much advantage.

Byron gathered all his archers and patrolled the walls day and night. This time he rearranged the team to prevent the previous situation from happening.

After that night, the Rhodoks launched a strong attack every day, as if the opposing commanders had lost patience.

3,000 Rhodok infantry besieged a town defended by less than 1,000 men, although they did not have an overwhelming advantage in numbers, but because the defense facilities were relatively rudimentary, Byron was also very difficult to deal with.

Especially when Rhodok's trebuchet was erected, the pressure on the city's defense was directly doubled. Serindil's wall of wood and stone was somewhat fragile in the face of stones fired by trebuchets, and in just one day, after 30 salvos from four trebuchets, half of Serindil's wall collapsed. If it weren't for Alleyne, wielding the moonblade axe and enduring the pain of the crossbow arrows on his shoulders, leading the soldiers to plug the gap, and then Bandak and Desayvi led the crossbowmen to suppress Rhodok's troops with a rain of arrows from the wall against each other's crossbows and trebuchets, the wall would have been lost by then.

In order to take out the trebuchets, Byron accepted Kress's suggestion and had her and Desai Vikenrad leave the gap in the wall at night with a squad of Swadia infantry and mercenary infantry, as well as Kenrad's elite mercenaries, and launched an attack on the enemy position.

Although the other side had already defeated Byron and would attack these trebuchets, they still underestimated the ability of Kress and Desaivi to attack and assassinate at night, as well as the combat effectiveness of Byron's soldiers. They defeated the guards, repelled the ambushes, burned three of the four trebuchets, and lost less than a fifth of their own.

Unfortunately, although Byron planned a beautiful night attack, when Rhodok's army entered the gap in the wall the next day with a phalanx like turtle shells, Byron and the two barons' soldiers were unable to stop them. However, they blocked the streets with debris and piled the ground so high that the Rhodok hoplites could not form a hoplite phalanx. A simple arrow tower was erected at the top of a nearby building to snipe the Rhodok soldiers below from a height.

Even though the western wall was lost, Byron built a strong line of defense behind the wall. However, the Rhodoks also occupied a section of the wall, and placed their crossbowmen on it to shoot at the Swadian guerrillas.

The main forces of both sides are attrition here, but it is clear that Byron is at a disadvantage in this regard. Rhodok's army was three times outnumbered, and after abandoning the spearmen and crossbowmen at the militia level, who made up half of the total, there were still half as many regular soldiers as there were in Byron and theirs. If you don't want to do something, you will be the ones who will destroy the troops first, and it will definitely be Byron who will break their morale.

After careful consideration, Byron put on his best armor and weapons, and when the alarm bell rang again, he personally led his most elite warriors, as well as Johnny's little squire, and shouted "For Byron!" For Svadia! The slogan rushed up.

"Peony mercenary! Svadia warriors! Rush with me! ”

Byron's mace slammed into the helmet of a skilled Rhodok spearman, and the blunt blow directly smashed the opponent to roll his eyes, and his neck was crooked and he fell, and Johnny beside Byron made up for it with a long sword with trembling hands.

The soldiers guarding here boiled when they saw Byron and the heroes who followed him. This time, even Jamila, and even James, rushed up with weapons in hand, forming a formation to block the Rhodoks who tried to climb over cover and attack the streets.

Just like what the Rhodok soldiers are best at, Byron also made his soldiers form a phalanx, which is almost the same as the Rhodok phalanx, with shields and spears, forming a wall behind the bunker, once an enemy enters the attack range, immediately stab them, pull them down from the bunker, and then drag them into the phalanx and smash them to death with a few hammers.

Using Rhodok's army against the Rhodoks was much more effective than Byron had believed.

Soon, Baron Chico's bodyguards, as well as Baron Phyllis and the elite warriors around him, rushed to his aid.

It's not that they really want to help Byron, but because Byron can't die now! Once he died, the backbone of the Peony mercenary would be broken, and Serindil would definitely not be able to defend it. Who knows what will happen to these mercenaries after Byron's death, whether someone will take over or if there will be chaos. They had put their treasure on Byron, hoping to keep Serindil and fight for their own greater good.

If Byron hangs up in the middle of the battle, they will either be captured by the Rhodoks or killed by the mercenaries because of civil strife.

So when they heard that Byron was taking the lead to boost morale, they could only stubbornly lead their guards and rush up. And their actions further inspired the soldiers around them.

Serindil's defenders were so demoralized that a few hundred men charged and pushed Rhodok's army back from the wall and pushed the front back to the area of the West Gate wall.

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A full week passed, and the armies of both sides were still fighting inside Serindil. At this time, the battlefield had been pushed close to the center of the town by the Rhodok side, taking almost half of the town, and opening a gap at the south gate.

However, to the disadvantage of their commanders, Byron demolished some of the buildings and knocked them down in the streets, setting up barricades all over the town. Every house has to be fought over, and every street is a fierce battleground. Byron's style of play caused great losses to Rhodok's army, and he was not much better.

Finally, when the Swadia cavalry unit stationed at Grunwald Fort reached the other side of the town with the Swadia banner, the hard-working Swadian soldiers and peony mercenaries all cheered.

And the Rhodok army also knew that the army coming from the south was probably deflated, and in this case, even if they took Serindil, it would not be of much significance.

The Rhodoks eventually retreated, and Byron, who was watching them from the top of the tower, finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground.