It took almost two or three hours, and the thousands of demonic beasts that were driven in were basically killed and injured, plus the death of one or two hundred Fallen Star Believers, the Fallen Star Sect broke through a gap in the first outer line of defense.

As a large number of professionals from the Fallen Star Sect drove straight into this gap, the collapse of the entire line of defense completely fell in an instant.

In order to prevent the enemy from breaking through horizontally along this gap and completing the counter-encirclement, the Yanjing base, which had been prepared for a long time, withdrew the people as soon as possible and retreated to the second line of defense on the periphery.

Of course, before leaving, the professionals did not forget to leave a small "gift" for the enemy.

Elemental Salt Bomb!

This was a generous gift from the Salvation Guild, and its recipe came from the loot that Fang Jin had scavenged from Yunshui Heavenly City. Once buried, it can cause huge damage within a radius of more than ten meters after triggering.

Several flame bombs are connected in series, and even a slightly weaker silver-tier professional can be killed!

Although it is expensive, it involves life and death, so it is not a matter of cost. In addition to the thousands of elemental salt bombs that had been produced and stockpiled intermittently, in recent weeks, under Fang Jin's instructions, the sub-professionals of the Rescuers Guild have divided part of their production capacity and stepped up the production of no less than 2,000 pieces.

At this moment, the first batch of more than 800 elemental salt bombs planted had a very good effect.

Either passively triggered, or actively remotely controlled, two or three hundred Fallen Star believers and deacons were killed one after another in one go, plus a large number of injured people.

Although ordinary injuries are of little significance to professionals, such an effect can affect morale a little bit. What's more, the number of believers killed by these explosions alone has already exceeded the number of believers killed in the attack on the outer defense line.

Seeing the series of shocking explosions, Wales's face was much darker when it had just cleared.

In order to guard against the possibility of similar insidious tactics by the enemy, he had to order the troops to slow down their progress a little and carefully investigate the occupied defensive line, which invisibly wasted a lot of time.

When the Fallen Star Sect stopped for a while and relaunched its offensive, it was already the afternoon of the same day.

The second line of defense on the perimeter!

This is also the last barrier before the official defense line of the Yanjing base, and the strength of this defense line is much higher than the first line of defense that is only delaying and tentative.

Whether it is the manpower arranged, the resources invested, or the depth of defense, they are far beyond the former.

There were no less than five thousand Bronze-level professionals scattered across this line of defense alone, plus hundreds of Silver-rank elites who were divided into multiple groups. And behind them, there are the same five thousand people in reserve, ready to come up and replace them!

In order to prevent a possible sneak attack by the enemy, Fang Jin even arranged for several Gold-level masters to keep an eye on this line of defense.

In order to stop the aerial reconnaissance of the Fallen Star Sect and monitor the personnel movements within Yanjing in real time, starting from the second line of defense, the sky was full of hunting forces composed of reconnaissance warhawks and storm griffins. In order to avoid excessive losses, they did not take the initiative to attack, and they desperately maintained air supremacy in their own positions.

"It's a little tricky!"

From a distance of six hundred meters, looking at the second line of defense in front of him, several priests, including Wales, looked a little solemn.

More magic traps, wider and deeper trenches, magically spawned nets of thorn vines, arrow towers repaired every fifty meters, a large number of ballistas and throwing carts operated by gray iron professionals, and the shadows of the dense defenders looming behind the slopes of the trenches......

It seems that they need more time, patience, and the consciousness of enough sacrifices.

Wales frowned, but finally waved his hand and continued to let the minions wade through a wave of troubled waters!

But this time, the effect is far less pronounced than before.

With the experience of the outer defense line, the defensive combat command of the Yanjing base immediately made adjustments, and also summoned a group of mages from the advanced summoning branch. While a large number of bronze-level professionals continued to attack and suppress from a distance, their own summoned creatures rushed out of the reserved route and collided with the summoned legions of the Fallen Star Sect and fought.

It is also a summoned creature, and both sides have no concept of death, and they are killed in the dark for a while.

The summoning legion on Yanjing's side is one notch weaker than the Fallen Star Sect in terms of overall combat power. However, the number is not inferior, and the second is that there are ballistas, throwing carts and arrow towers on the defensive line to assist. Even if there were still a handful of summoned creatures from the Fallen Star Sect that could break through in the end, the threat to the second outer line of defense was minimal.

It is impossible to repeat the old trick and break through the defense line without sacrificing believers as much as possible!

After three consecutive attempts, all of which ended in failure, the morale of the army was greatly boosted on the defense line of the Yanjing base, which thwarted the enemy's attack. Many professionals who had never dealt with the Fallen Star Sect had optimistic thoughts. There are a small number of professionals who even have a contempt for the true strength of the enemy, believing that it is nothing more than that.

On the side of the Fallen Star Sect, a dilemma was placed in front of the Welsh priest who commanded the front.

Either a large number of elites will be directly invested in the outer defense line, and a lot of sacrifices will be made to forcibly break through the defense line; Or, please move the archbishop and dispatch the main force of the Golden Rank in advance!

In fact, according to Wales's own ideas, sacrificing some low- and middle-class believers and deacons is nothing. It is a great honor for these believers to be able to sacrifice for the cause of resurrection and devotion to God.

But he was just a priest after all.

The real decision rests with the archbishops of the two archdioceses.

For these two powerful figures who stood at the apex of the Fallen Star Sect, the gold-level priests were just pawns to use, nothing more than the more precious ones. If they can crush the immediate resistance with the least cost and the most efficient efficiency, the two archbishops do not mind the so-called face problem.

Even if the main force of the Golden Rank is dispatched on the outer defense line, what is it?

A quarter of an hour later, a total of twenty golden-level professionals from the two dioceses completed the assembly in a place that could not be seen from the Yanjing base.

Behind them, there are six more clerics who form a follow-up reinforcement and will intervene in the war as appropriate.

The two archbishops were at the end.

In order to cooperate with this unprecedented battle, the Fallen Star Sect also put on a posture of large-scale attack. At the front of the battlefield of the second line of defense, six thousand deacons and believers of the fallen star were gathered, as if they were going to break through the second line of defense in one fell swoop at any cost.

This fanfare offensive momentum made the Yanjing base nervous and successfully attracted their attention.

Four o'clock in the afternoon!

With the dull sound of the horn, six thousand Fallen Star Believers let out an earth-shattering shout, and the tide rushed to the second line of defense.

At the back of the front, more than twenty priests had quietly blended into the crowd. They will use the attack launched by these 6,000 believers as a cover to launch a decisive attack in the hinterland closest to the enemy's defensive line!