Saiga's determination to capture Halma is indelible, but bigger questions are yet to come.

Nearly 90,000 horsemen rushed to Halma and besieged the city first. The siege still depends on Yi Ye's melee infantry. Although this heavy infantry team was mixed with a small number of light infantry, each one was the best soldier that the lords could come up with, and the equipment on their bodies did not affect their strength. Yi Ye can command a hundred such warriors, which is really a little undaring.

Almost all of the equipment is at the mercy of Yi Ye. At first, he chose a set of exquisite iron armor, and also matched a Germanic God of War helmet, but after wearing it on his body, he found that it was simply a burden, not to mention that it was difficult to move an inch, and he was out of breath after walking only a few dozen meters, and what else to use to fight with the guards at the head of the city. Then Yi Ye replaced the lighter chain armor and an ordinary Nord-style helmet (also called a pirate helmet), and chose a small knife and a half-sword for weapons, and carried a giant heavy crossbow on his back, although Yi Ye had never used crossbows, bows and arrows These long-range weapons, but because of the existence of his "Eagle Eye", it was very difficult to shoot people.

The marching speed of the cavalry archers was much faster than that of these besieging soldiers, and Yi Ye had just left the city gate, and the cavalry archers had run out of ten miles. Considering the strength of the heavily armed soldiers, Saiga allowed them to delay their arrival by three days, and with the expected seven-day journey, they had ten days to get from Fort Ahuen to Halma.

This time the battle of "Recapturing Halma" Saiga has been prepared for a long time and has been carefully considered, for which he has made sufficient preparations, but the fly in the ointment is the problem of morale. Morale is a little low, this is a difficult problem to solve, in this ice and snow forced expedition, not many people are willing to participate in such crazy things, but this is a direct order from the Khan, no matter who is stubborn, they must also put on armor and charge. The Khan's order was absolute.

Now it is no longer as clear and distinct as it was at the beginning of the partition of the Six Kingdoms, the fat and wide faces are all Kujits, and the tall and sturdy are Swadians, in fact, after the continuous change of territory, the intermarriage of people from different countries is becoming more and more frequent.

Hiss was the supreme commander of this Guards infantry, and Yi Ye was only one of the insignificant hundreds of squad leaders, but he had a lot of right to speak, and the Khan and the prince of the commendation conference praised him by name. Many people know that he is about to have a bright future, so there are many people who come to talk to him. Even the captains of the third and fifth squads of the neighboring team handed over food from time to time, full of kind words. Yi Ye doesn't eat this set at all, he knows that many people turn their faces faster than books, but these foods are not collected in vain, let alone in this situation of insufficient reserves.

The sky is changing, the snow is long gone, and the rising temperatures are slowly melting the snow.

It's almost February, and in previous years it was the climax of the declaration of war, but this year there has been no movement. However, many lords have lost their breath.

Outside the city of Halma, Saiga looked at the previous waves of battles from afar, the situation was very clear, almost to the besieging side, but Saiga felt a little uneasy. At first, the khan thought that this was because the other side was retaining strength, but according to the battle reports from the front, there was not a single banner on the walls of Halma. No matter how you say it, it is impossible for the other party to give up dignity to yin hand, for nobles, dignity is more important than life.

After several lords who knew Halma well, it was confirmed that there were indeed no more defenders here. So Saiga himself took his sword into battle, and without waiting for the besieging soldiers behind him, he charged towards the city with thousands of Khan guards.

Saiga's elite swept away Halma's defenders like wheat harvesting, and the siege lasted less than a day before it ended, but problems followed, Saiga had no energy left to open more passages, which meant that the food became tense again, and in order to calm morale, Saiga could not give them food at this time, and it was necessary to transfer another batch of food from Rana to Ahuenburg.

Saiga wondered why Halma, who was so important to the people of Salander, was handed over like this. Do they have a bigger and wider passage to and from the desert? No, it can't be, it will take years to dig through the thinnest part of this ridge. Not only Saiga, most people feel that it is a conspiracy. If you want to get a fish to take the bait, you have to put the bait first. Saiga undoubtedly became the fish, and the bait was Halma.

Saiga was blinded by the snowfall, and it seemed natural that the entire continent would be clogged with traffic in such a heavy snowfall. But forget about one of Salander's three secret weapons: the desert.

The Salander Sultanate was not affected much by this heavy snowfall, except that the temperature dropped to a pleasant point. Sultan al-Hakim had long ago assembled a large army in the holy city: the Fort of Wiyeha. Saiga took Halma, and I'm afraid the army has been out for a long time. The people of Salander did not need to attack the city, but only besieged the city for dozens of days, and the Saiga would collapse in Halma.

The roads near Halma have not yet thawed, and Saiga has no further information, and it is still unknown whether Salander's army will come. Even if he knew that the enemy was coming, Saiga would never have given up his newly acquired territory and fled like a tail dog. For a monarch, it is impossible to give up easily.

By the time the heavy infantry led by Hiss saw Halma, the Sultan of Hakim had already lined up in a ten-mile radius of Halma, blocking off all possible places where they could slip away, and even some unknown paths were full of soldiers. Saiga has no way back, but he still has a few trump cards in his hand.

The holy city of Weiyeha Fort is the place that the Principality of Rhodok has always wanted to occupy, all the passages to the north of the Principality of Rhodok are blocked by the Kingdom of Svadia, and they can neither get out nor enter, the west and south are by the sea, but its maritime trade is not developed, so most of the diplomacy of the Principality of Rhodok is in and out of the east road, and the holy city that the Salander people are proud of is just a thorn in the side of the Rhodok people. In times of peace, there are some arrogant lords who rob passing caravans, let alone wartime. Most of the lords of Salander like to gather here to grab some treasures.

Rhodok was in a stalemate every time he fought Salander, and for decades he had no chance of taking the holy city - Salander rarely waged large-scale wars, resulting in the Holy City outnumbering the larger towns at one point. And now that the army of Salander has gathered in Halma, this is perhaps the weakest moment in the Holy City in decades. Now that the snow is beginning to melt, revealing the surface of the ground, the Rhodok are in dire need of a new territory, and this is undoubtedly the perfect time.

Combined with the interests of Rhodok and Kujitte, it is now necessary for them to join forces.

It is inevitable that King Graves will go on the expedition, after all, Saiga has released such conditions in the letter, and now it depends on how long Saiga can hold out in the city, otherwise this "encircling Wei and saving Zhao" will not work.

Under the Khan's rectification, there was no chaos in the city of Halma, but the people of Salander were very uncomfortable in this ice and snow, and in just one day, some people in the army began to have runny noses. The Sultan of Hakim led an army of 120,000 men with the idea of completely destroying the main force of Kugit.

Hiss's brigade fell into a very embarrassing situation, because with all the infantry, if they wanted to enter the city in front of tens of thousands of cavalry, it was tantamount to looking for death, and they could not advance or retreat. I wanted to sneak in through the night, but I didn't expect that the lights were bright at night, and its brightness was not much lower than that of the day. They can only wait where they are.

On the fifth day of the siege, the Sultan of Hakim had already begun to move, and the soldiers gathered in large numbers, ready to attack the walls.

At Saiga's call, most of the Kugit steppe horses were slaughtered to satisfy their hunger, although this was something that every cavalryman did not want to see, but in order to survive, they had to abandon their pawns to protect the chariots, and about 30,000 war horses and 10,000 traveling horses and pack horses were killed. However, the owners of these horses have not escaped the grief of losing their beloved horses, and the second round of "horse slaughter" has begun again. Cannibalism! Everyone knows it.

Kujit, who claims to be a people on horseback, but personally kills his love of horses, must be a joke if it is to be spread, and in fact it will definitely be spread, but when this kingdom is dying, I am afraid that these things can be ignored directly.

The first to lose his breath was Sultan al-Hakim, who began to attack the city in a hurry as if he sensed something, a radical departure from his previous composure.

The arrows fired by the Kugit were fast and accurate, and with such a large population base, the army of the Sultan of Hakim would not be able to get close to the walls for a while, and most of the arrows fired were blocked by shields, but this did not affect anything, and every moment of time fought for at the moment was very meaningful.

Salander's siege ability is also relatively weak, unlike the Kingdom of Swadia, which has hundreds of giant catapults and siege towers, they only have some small ballistas and small catapults, but these pose no threat to Halma. And the long-range strike ability is not as good as these senior archers, the Sultan is very helpless about this, in this huge siege war, even a thousand or so bow masters can not change anything.

However, the downside was that the blow would be devastating if the city was stormed, and only a small number of men, except for the Khan's immediate guards, could stand on the walls to fight it. However, because of the advantage of the tall city walls, the Salanders would have lost almost a long time ago. It is almost impossible to besiege a city with the same number of people.

Saiga's primary concern is how to survive for a few more days, and if necessary, it is not too much to kill all the horses and eat them, and it is also that Hiss did not enter the city, otherwise the deep-rooted nobles of Halma will be unlucky, and the food of these nobles will definitely allow Saiga to survive this time, but Saiga has a lot of problems to consider, and there is no time to play word guessing games with these nobles, they hide the food, and the khan can't find it.