No one expected that less than three hours after the siege began, it would enter the white-hot stage.

The volcano-like assault completely stunned the rebels, and in their opinion, relying on the towering walls of Aston City, they could hold back the opponent for at least a few days. Therefore, the rebels did not place a large number of soldiers on the city walls, of course, this is related to the fact that the rebels have not yet been able to judge the enemy's main direction of attack. Without knowing which walls would be targeted, they could only place their limited manpower evenly on all four walls.

Add to this the fact that there are enough reserves left in the city, and that they will be drawn to repair the various facilities that have been damaged in the bombardment of the previous night, and the number of soldiers that can be allocated on each wall is less than 30,000.

This number of soldiers is far from enough to fill the entire city wall, and in the face of the waves of phalanx attacks launched by players before, they can also rely on various defensive facilities and long-range suppression to resist, and when the siege tower is a large-scale killing weapon, the impact of the rebels' numerical disadvantage immediately leads to serious consequences.

Especially when the rebels lack mages, especially high-level mages, and the inability to destroy siege towers at a distance means that players can easily push this powerful siege machine onto the city walls, and in this way directly enter the battle for the walls.

It has to be said that Pompeii and Pearl are very sensitive to the perception of the battlefield situation, and they are also very good at seizing fleeting opportunities. When they found that the rebels' magical attacks were beginning to weaken, they immediately decided to attack with all their might, rather than letting this opportunity pass and continue to consume the rebels' supplies through continuous wave attacks.

In fact, after Mikael determined that the air force would not be able to destroy the magical defensive shield in a short period of time, he was ready to use attritional tactics to fight this brutal siege battle. Compared with the rebels who have been cut off from the teleportation array and cut off from all foreign aid, the biggest advantage of the Angel's Covenant is sufficient logistics and a large amount of supplies.

"Qiu Ming! Qiu Ming! Pastor, come on a priest! Hillman hugged his comrade in his arms, this player named Qiu Ming is a rare berserker, after their team climbed the city wall through the siege tower, it was by relying on Qiu Ming's arrow to overcome all the obstacles, so that they were able to resist the rebels' fourth-order swordsmen and firmly control this small section of the city wall.

But unfortunately, before more comrades rushed to the city wall, several arrows from the arrow tower hit Qiu Ming's chest, knocking the berserker to the brink, and Hillman, as a shield warrior, could only protect Qiu Ming in his arms, protect him with a shield, and wait for the priest's rescue.

Soon, a priest player ran over under the protection of a knight player, took a cursory look at Qiu Ming's injuries, and took out a roll of gauze and a bottle of potion from the satchel on his waist: "Put him on the ground!" ”

Two other members of Hillman's squad immediately came over and carefully lowered Qiu Ming to the ground, while Hillman, along with the knight player, held a shield and set up an improvised defense for the makeshift field hospital.

The Priest player first empties half of the healing potion over the wound, then draws the dagger and carefully pulls out the arrows that have been pierced into the chest. Fortunately, Qiu Ming's physique attributes were good, so these arrows didn't pierce too deeply, otherwise, he would have to choose to resurrect Qiu Ming after he died.

After taking out the arrows, the priest quickly wrapped the wound with gauze, then poured the remaining half bottle of healing potion into Qiu Ming's mouth, and then directly brushed him three healing and healing techniques, the former to restore his health, and the latter to speed up the healing of the wound.

After this standard battlefield rescue process, the Priest player, with the help of two other squad members, dragged Qiu Ming behind the corpses of the two rebels: "Fill him with a bottle of healing potion in three minutes, if he can wake up, it means that he doesn't ask, if he can't wake up, you'd better choose to give up, and find another team to continue fighting." ”

Similar scenes happen everywhere on the city walls, compared to the rebels, the biggest advantage of the Angel Covenant is that they have a large number of priests, and for humans, having a priest means that there is a guarantee of safety, even if they die in battle, as long as the body is still intact, they can still be resurrected, and then continue to fight.

Although most of the Priest players are not very strong, and even a small percentage have mastered resurrection-type spells, even so, it has been a huge help in this battle.

With the help of these priest players, the situation of the entire southern wall is gradually tilting in the direction of the player, more than twenty siege towers continue to transport players to the city wall, slowly expanding the scope of the occupied city wall, gradually squeezing the activities of the rebels, if it continues to develop, it will not be enough to completely squeeze the rebels' defensive forces in the south to completely squeeze down the city wall and seize the southern area of Aston City.

Without the protection of the city walls, the battle will enter the battle for the streets within the city, and at that time, the rebels can be regarded as the general trend, and the player can use the special environment of the streets to give full play to the characteristics of his own small-scale battles, so as to clean up the rebels little by little, and finally capture the entire city.

Just when Pompeii and Pearl thought that the general situation was settled and that the First Army was about to occupy the entire southern wall, the rebels finally launched a counterattack!

The closed gates burst open, and a heavily lined and murderous cavalry rushed out of the open gates, targeting the follow-up player corps who were rushing towards the walls, ready to support.

"Quick! Let the cavalry regiment attack at once! Be sure to entangle the rebel cavalry and not let them succeed in their purpose! Pompey said in shock, he didn't expect the rebels to throw the only cavalry here so decisively.

But it was too late to give this order, this cavalry was arguably the most powerful assault force in the hands of the rebels, and the cavalry regiment composed of all sixth-order lancers swept across the battlefield like a violent wind, sweeping away leaves along the way, crushing the player regiments that were ready to reinforce the city walls, leaving stumps and broken arms in one place.

Even if the cavalry regiment of the First Legion rushes up, it is useless, and the strength of the player himself cannot compete with these lancers, not to mention that the cavalry regiment of the First Legion is not the one led by Camilla, it is just a team organized by players of some knight professions, and it is not the opponent of this rebel cavalry regiment in terms of quantity and quality.

Pompey closed his eyes helplessly in the face of as many as 3,000 rebel cavalry, knowing that this desperate attack had ultimately failed.

"Order the 2nd Corps to advance immediately, protect the siege equipment troops and retreat, and the Warlord immediately collect the rout, rely on the trenches to defend on the spot, and never let this cavalry rush into our position!" Pearl immediately said to Guan Ning, she knew that now was not the time to think about how to win, but how to reduce her losses! Once that cavalry has routed all of the player legions on the battlefield, it will naturally target the siege engines, which are the Achilles weakness of the First Legion compared to the loss of players.

After the rebel cavalry defeated the two player corps, the third corps, which ran at the rear, wisely chose to stop the advance, move directly to the local defense, and start to collect the rout first, hoping to stop this cavalry from continuing to wreak havoc.

It is a pity that the Third Corps, which was less than 20,000 men, was no match for this cavalry at all. In Lasgard, millions of players couldn't stop the undead cavalry of just a few thousand, let alone the stronger rebel cavalry today.

It only took less than half an hour for the 3rd Corps, which had formed a temporary defensive formation, to be broken through by this cavalry, suffered heavy losses, and had to choose to retreat, while the rebels also paid the price of nearly 200 cavalry killed.

But it was all worth it, and it was precisely because of the half an hour won by the Third Corps that Pompeii was able to retreat the siege equipment safely into the position, and relied on the trenches to arrange a tight defense, and in the process of constantly collecting the rout, this line of defense had tens of thousands of players, which was enough to resist the attack of the rebel cavalry.

Seeing that it was impossible to continue to expand the results, the commander of this cavalry could only lead his soldiers to attack those siege towers instead, and this decision forced those players who had already attacked the city walls to draw a group of men to rely on the protection of the siege towers to resist the attack of the rebels, as for the battle for the city walls, it was obvious that it was no longer possible.

If the tide of battle continues like this, the First Corps will still have a chance to regain the advantage, and as long as the players near the walls can hold out for an hour or so, the reorganized Second and Third Corps can once again come to their aid, repel those cavalry, re-suppress the walls, and fight for control of the walls.

But when two heroic rebel beings appeared on the city walls with up to 10,000 soldiers, Pompeii and Pearl had to admit that it was time for the battle to come to an end.

"Let them retreat! Order the 2nd and 3rd Corps to pick up and withdraw the siege towers as much as possible. Pompeii shook his head and said helplessly.

If it weren't for the cavalry that suddenly appeared, and if it weren't for the two heroic-level powerhouses who came out of nowhere, I'm afraid the outcome of this battle would have already been decided.

Eventually, when the last player retreated to the position, the battle, which lasted from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., finally took a short break. This was the only time the First Army had the opportunity to climb the walls of the day, and although Pompeii still launched several waves of attacks in the afternoon, the results were not satisfactory in the face of the well-guarded rebels, and they could not even reach a distance of a hundred meters.

When night fell, the fierce battle finally came to an end. According to statistics, on the first day of the ground offensive, the First Army paid the price of nearly 150,000 casualties and the destruction of 16 siege towers, and once burned the battle to the city walls, but under the strong counterattack of the rebels, it had to end in failure.

The rebels also paid a lot of losses, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed, and nearly 500 cavalry were killed, in addition to the destruction of the traps outside the entire southern wall, and even two arrow towers and a watchtower were destroyed, and four heavy catapults and eleven heavy ballistae were destroyed.

As a result, although the First Army did not capture the city walls, it still inflicted huge losses on the rebels, and it is not an exaggeration to say that both sides were defeated.

The only problem is that the large number of lost siege towers will make the next attack very difficult, and the early exposure of this killer feature will undoubtedly make the rebels more vigilant and countermeasure accordingly.

At 8:17 p.m., the commanders of the four major corps, where Mikael was located, arrived to discuss the first day of the offensive.

"Pompeii, why don't you follow the plan that was laid out before? Losing sixteen siege towers at once, do you know how difficult it is to make that thing? Meng Xiaodong, the commander of the Third Legion, unceremoniously accused, "It's okay now, there is no siege tower, I see how your First Legion will attack the main attack tomorrow!" ”

"You don't have to worry about it!" Pompeii replied coldly, "You just take care of yourself!" ”

"Humph! I'm afraid that some people don't have the ability to do it, and they obviously don't have that ability, so they have to do it! It doesn't matter if you lose face, if you let others think that our angelic covenant is all like this, I'm afraid it will affect the prestige of His Royal Highness Raphael! ”

"Xiaodong, it's okay!" Mikael stopped Meng Xiaodong's cynicism, Pompey's sudden ascension to the throne obviously made many people feel uncomfortable within the Angel Covenant, plus there was a board of directors fanning the flames behind his back, such as Meng Xiaodong, who had long been thinking about watching Pompeii's jokes.

"Malton, report on today's results!" After Meng Xiaodong sat down in a huff, Mikael said to his deputy.

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief!" Marton saluted the four corps commanders present, "Based on the battle damage reports and battle results submitted by each corps, and after comparing them with the observation group, we have roughly drawn today's results. ”

"The total battle losses of the First Army were more than 153,700 men, the loss rate of equipment was 65%, 22 improvised catapults, 39 ballistae, and 16 siege towers. In terms of results, a total of about 12,000 enemy troops were killed, of which about 1,500 were fourth-order main forces and 500 were sixth-order cavalry. ”

"The total battle losses of the Second Army were more than 60,000 and 400 people, the equipment loss rate was 30%, the loss of 9 catapults and 11 ballistas. In terms of results, a total of more than 1,300 enemy troops were killed, of which 200 were fourth-order main forces. ”

"The total battle losses of the Third Army were more than 77,600 men, the equipment loss rate was 42%, the loss of 17 improvised catapults and 16 ballistae. In terms of results, a total of more than 1,700 enemy troops were killed, of which 150 were fourth-order main forces. ”

"The total battle losses of the Fourth Army Corps were more than 59,000 people, the equipment loss rate was 39%, the loss of 6 simple catapults and 9 ballistae. In terms of results, a total of more than 2,500 enemy troops were killed, of which 500 were the main force of the fourth order. ”

Glancing at the people in the room, Pompeii, the leader of the First Legion, did not show any annoyance on his face, as if the battle damage of as many as 150,000 was not the First Legion, and the leader of the Second Legion, Oedilus, looked ashamed, as if he regretted that the Second Legion had only killed less than 1,500 enemy soldiers.

Meng Xiaodong, the commander of the Third Legion, still looked like he was empty-eyed, and as for Lei Ze, the commander of the Fourth Legion, he directly closed his eyes and began to pretend to sleep.

"You must have heard the results of the various legions today. I don't want to argue with you about the merits, but I just want you to understand that compared to the rebels, we are not strong enough to crush them! Mikael said in a deep voice, "Tomorrow's plan remains the same, and the main direction of attack is still the south wall!" Pompeii, I'll hand you over the last seven siege towers, and I hope you won't let me down again tomorrow! ”