In the port of Fatan, the main city wall is in shambles at this moment, many walls have been destroyed by magic, rubble is scattered all over the ground, and in the smoke and dust, Imperial soldiers in red and white battle robes are stepping on the collapsed walls and rushing in. On the still-preserved city, the army dressed in the same battle robes is gradually gaining the upper hand, and dense siege ladders are hanging on the battlements one after another, and more and more red and white ladders are gradually converging into a torrent on the city. In contrast, the cyan army, which represented the defenders of Port Fatan, was losing ground and in fact in most areas the fighting had come to an end and turned into street fighting.

The change seemed to have occurred just moments ago, when Sidney summoned the wrathful angel Akroma to descend and destroy all the undead in the valley in one fell swoop, before the Harbor Guard launched a counter-offensive to retake Sea Cliff Fortress. However, the White Legion then arrived on the battlefield and attacked, and on the Imperial side, a group of magicians led by Tony, the archwizard from Senion, almost at any cost, leveled the Sea Cliff Fortress, leaving a bottomless pit hundreds of meters square. The Guards suffered heavy losses in this blow, and due to Brando's prior orders, Charles did not allow Tonigel's mages to fight back - in fact, the counterattack was ineffective, and the difference in strength between the two sides was obvious.

The White Legion immediately launched an offensive against the port of Fatan, and although the morale of the port guards who had been boosted by the previous victory also put up a desperate resistance, the disparity in strength still determined the outcome from the beginning, and the Empire's mage regiment quickly collapsed the main wall of the port of Fatan, so the previous scene appeared.

Delphien moved her position to the Priory under the cover of the crowd, and she listened to the sound of fighting on the front line, and soon the current Guards could not stand firm.

The Empire deployed garrison infantry on the frontal battlefield, and these phalanx infantry advanced along every street, and as far as the eye could see, there were moving walls of floating shields, behind which the hoplites covered in armor and barely showing a pair of eyes under the metal armor. They were armed with spears several meters long. The spear stretched out from the gap between the shields, as if a forest of spears had risen, and the dense spear tips flickered with cold light.

The archers of the Harbor Guard were almost powerless against these metal fortresses, and only occasionally did the sharpshooters in the army achieve the results of the battle - shooting arrows into the gaps in their shields, or shooting them in the eye. However, if the infantry in front falls on its back, the hoplites behind will immediately fill up. Filling the gap in the upper formation, the few casualties looked like throwing stones into the sea, without waves.

The advance of the garrison infantry, though slow and desperate, was compelled by them to launch a hand-to-hand counter-charge in the western part of Port Fatan, but the results were very unpleasant, and the whole battle was devastated, and the whole squadron was barely left in a quarter of an hour's battle, and there were few wounded. Most of them turned into cold corpses lying on both sides of the street.

Only then did everyone understand that the reason why the garrison infantry of the White Legion was called the 'Dragon Lance Phalanx' in the Second Holy War was not for nothing.

On the rooftops, there are also White Legion Flame Eagle Archers wearing red backgrounds and white cloaks at work - these ranger units are actually from the Red Legion, but in the Year of the Hare, the Silver Queen intends to train similar troops in several other legions, so 6 Continued to draw a large group of Flame Eagle Archers from the Red Legion to the other three legions. However, this plan did not go well, as most of the Firehawk Marksmen were in fact rangers, coming from the mountains of Cloud Hills, Anzlova, Anzeruta, and Anzelin; The other three legions were mainly based on the peasants and mountain dwellers of the Metz, Mehotofen, and Ludwig and the countryside of Banker and Cloak Bay. The talent and understanding of archery between the two are too different. Although many outstanding shooters were still cultivated in the end, they were still far from the original expectations.

However, after the plan ran aground. The Silver Queen did not return the Flame Eagle Marksman Brigade that had been drawn out to the Red Legion, but let them stay in the three major legions to store the Zài in a special formation. Each of these Flame Eagles has a different experience, with the White Legion's Flame Eagle Marksmen even having a record in the Year of the Pillar against the Silver Banner Knights of the Faenzan in the Arka region, so they have a falcon's tail feather on the left chest of their cloak to distinguish them from the others. Inside the White Legion. These Flame Eagle Shooters are often referred to as 'Falconers'.

The falconers were cautiously crouched on the rooftops, and in groups of two or three they advanced in a skirmish, small in number, but a great threat to the Harbor Guards. Often, in street battles, the captain, chief knight or grand knight of the Hong Kong Guard will be attacked by unpredictable cold arrows. The accuracy of these cold arrows was astonishingly high, and at one time the subordinate command system of the Hong Kong Guard Army was almost on the verge of collapse.

As for the soldiers of the Harbor Guard and the White Lion Guard, who were entrenched in the makeshift fortifications, the Falcon Men used rockets and refractive fire to clear them one by one, which was their specialty. The Firehawk Archer's rockets can inflict explosive effects similar to fireballs, while refractive shots can be used to attack enemies hiding inside buildings, with few impregnable fortresses in front of them.

If the garrison infantry is like an unpretentious, bladeless heavy sword that can easily break through the opponent's defenses from the front, then the Flame Eagle Archer is like a dexterous boning knife. The two blades cooperate with each other, and they are invincible in the street fight.

The Harbor Guard soon lost their first and second barricade lines, and the Eruin White Lions were in trouble in the initial battle, and although they managed to halt the White Legion's advance in the direction of the Temple of Fosa, they themselves suffered the heaviest casualties since the start of the war. On Delphien's map, the port of Fatan was almost instantaneous, and all important street intersections were planted with red and white flags representing the Empire, and the aggressive fighting power of the Empire caused everyone present to fall silent.

Even including which imperial nobles-

Although every Empire may have heard of the pride of the Empire since birth, the legends of the four legendary legions of the Bernett, Anderson, Odysfis, and Donnett legions during the Age of the Sage's War, which later evolved into the current Blue, White, Red and Black Legions. But without really standing in opposition to them and being their opponents, people won't understand how powerful they really are.

The glory of the empire, the majesty of the empire, the power of the empire. This is not an empty phrase.

"What should I do?" Baron Ludwig's wrinkled face turned very pale: "Shall we retreat to the fortress of Fatan?" ”

"No," Count Orcons shook his head, "it will cause morale collapse if you retreat now, and it's not time yet." ”

"If we don't retreat, we won't be able to hold it when the old wolf's men push it in again!"

Count Alcons smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that old guy to really have two brushes. ”

Everyone else looked at the prime minister's daughter in a wheelchair, as if they wanted to see if she had any solution. But Delphien's face was also solemn, and she just nodded, agreeing with the former's opinion.

This offensive is really suffocating, the previous judgment is still too optimistic, the other party has not yet invested the griffin knight and the silver pegasus knight, otherwise it will not be able to support after noon. In fact, even now, the entire port defense line can collapse at any time, and the port guard is like a string stretched to the maximum, and no one knows when it will suddenly break.

You must know that the White Legion is also the legion that is better at defense and field warfare among the four major legions of the empire. The garrison infantry they were proud of was in fact a formidable defensive infantry, and the Knights of the Dragons could not be engaged in siege battles at all.

"Has the Empire stopped in the direction of the assault on the Temple of Fossa Temple?" She asked suddenly.

"Yes," replied the nobleman with the message, but Delphien was a little uncomfortable with calling the White Legion 'Empire', and in fact most of the people present still saw the war as a civil war. He sorted out his feelings for a moment before replying in a somewhat incredulous tone, "It's true, Miss Delphien, I really don't know how those Eruin people did it. They seemed to have repelled the attack of the legions from the front. ”

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The White Legion was equally puzzled by the strength of the enemy in front of them, and the sound of a tsunami could be heard from the Eluin positions at all times. It's like crazy. On this side of the street, the knight captains of all sizes within the White Legion looked at each other, they had organized three attacks before, but each time they were repulsed without mercy, and the ratio of the Eruins and their casualties on the opposite side was almost three to one, but the other side still followed one after another. I don't know what death or fear is.

The streets were in shambles, the two sides fought almost until they had no time to recover the bodies, blood stained the streets, and every stone on the street seemed to be soaked in blood, reflecting a strange brilliance. So much so that the soldiers below have already figuratively called the street in front of them 'Blood Street'. But the Eruins still held on to a few key intersections, refusing to take a step back, as if the legion would not be able to advance half a minute without killing them all.

These junior non-commissioned officers of the White Legion have experienced countless battles, but they have never fought such a fierce battle, so that the heavy infantry on the front line has been reduced by nearly ten percent. In fact, by now, at least three squads have been completely disabled and retreated from the front line.

The 'falconers' on the rooftops had the same opponents, and they were in a much worse situation, far more powerful than the Eruin infantry - a ranger force that came and went, mostly pointy-eared elven soldiers, who were not only stellar but also had a nerve-wracking ability to conceal their whereabouts. The first time the 'Falconers' appeared on them, they were approached to a distance of nearly thirty feet without realizing it, only to be fired in a dense row from almost a rooftop distance, and the guide was almost completely annihilated.

The soldiers of the White Legion who reacted from behind tried to pursue, but the elven archers had already unfurled their cloaks and jumped far onto the rooftops of the other roofs in a few leaps. Then he turned around and sniped them for a while, and in the end the heavy infantry in front suffered heavy losses, and several knight captains died.

Almost half of the credit for the attrition of the front-line troops of the White Legion was attributed to these elven archers, and later the commander of the White Legion had to mobilize all the nearby 'falconer' squadrons in this direction, which finally relieved some of the pressure.

But it only relieved the pressure, although the number of 'falconers' gathered was far greater than that of the elven archer team, but in fact they were still pressed and beaten by one side of the ground. After countless sneak attacks, these shooters from the Red Legion finally appeared, and it turned out that the other party was invisible.

The 'falconer' on the roof was suppressed so that he did not dare to show his head, and this battle had actually reached a stalemate. Even if the White Legion is fearless, it is impossible to rush forward without cover at all, not to mention that the Eruins on the opposite side are in a posture of fighting to the death, even if they show a momentum regardless of a qiē, they may not be able to make a breakthrough in a moment and a half. What's more, among the heavy infantry on the front line, there are not so many middle and lower-level knight commanders who can snipe the opponent's elven archers.

"On the other side should be the White Lion Legion of the Eruin," after a moment of silence, one of the knights finally couldn't help but speak, "Their will to fight is a bit unexpected to me, and I'm curious now how Anzeruta's second-tier legions have the upper hand in the war against these guys on the high ground." ”

"No, it's not a pure White Lion Legion, they have White Lion shawls on their shoulders, obviously distinguishing themselves from other White Lions, perhaps a special formation similar to our falconers. Did you notice that their outfits look a lot like the White Lion infantry recorded in history? ”

"But anyway, it's the elven archers who are really powerful," said the other knight, frowning, "where they came from, we've never heard of Vaulnd having such a ranger unit, their abilities are too special to be unknown." It can be seen that street fighting is not their main battlefield, and this ranger unit is the real king of jungle warfare. ”

"Is it the Wind Elf?"

"No, that's the Tree Elves, but the forest shadow shooters of the Tree Elves are not like this, their appearance in the street battle is far worse than this ranger army."

"Well, whoever they are, at least I'm sure this Ranger force will be famous after today."

The first knight looked at his helpless companions, frowned and waved his hand: "You guys are off topic, now what we want to discuss is, what should we do next?" It requires us to cooperate with the offensive from the south and take the temple of Fossa within an hour. But now these Eruins are like crazy, and the others won't listen to us, they will only laugh at us for not being able to solve a bunch of hillbillies. ”

"This problem is not easy to solve, if these guys are only hillbillies, then I can't help but doubt our combat effectiveness."

"You really should review your watch." At this moment, a majestic voice interjected, and all the knights present couldn't help but turn pale when they heard this voice, and turned around respectfully to salute the person who interjected: "My lord! ”

The man who walked into this circle was none other than the commander of this unit, Sir Rushi, who glanced at his subordinates with a stern face, and replied, "There is no need to discuss it, the order from above has come down." ”

"What, are you willing to give us air support, my lord?"

"No," replied Sir Rushi succinctly, "this is the order of the Duke of Ambunar, who orders us to halt our attack at once, and to retreat back to the Valley of the Golden Needle. ”

"What!? Why, it's time to take Port Fatan? ”

"There is no why, the offensive has been blocked, do you see the fleet of the Buga? This is an order, and it is carried out immediately. ”

"Yes—" The knights were silent for a moment, but nodded yes anyway.

…… (To be continued!)

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