As the first roar came, more loud noises rang out. The stones that had been thrown by trebuchets into the southern side of the city shook the ground like a giant dancing in the city.

The guards outside immediately walked into the camp tent, saying that it was no longer safe for the headquarters to move quickly! Stanley did not believe that the enemy's siege weapons could fire stone shells at such a distance, but the roar of those stones was indeed hovering in his ears, and he had to immediately follow the guards and move closer to the northern wall.

The others immediately followed Stanley and walked out, and Lord Möngke walked up to Fed's side and said loudly, "Lord Fed, we can fight side by side again this time! I remember that I owe you the grace to save your life!"

Fei De didn't say much, he just quickened his pace to follow Stanley and his party, and not long after everyone walked out, the next door to the original headquarters site was hit by a stone cannonball with a radius of one meter, and it collapsed with a bang.

After the generals had moved to safety, Fei De took advantage of the lights in the sub-city to the south to see the stone cannonballs that had been thrown. The stone cannonballs that flew from outside the city walls were not accurate at all, and almost half of the stone cannonballs were thrown on both sides of the sub-city and fell on the ground outside the city walls, but a small number of stone cannonballs still fell on the southern side of the sub-city. None of the stone shells were thrown into the main city of Doret City, and it was estimated that the place in front of them was already the limit of what these trebuchets could attack.

Feder noticed that the stone shells that landed not far away were not very large, a little smaller than the stone shells on their defender's side, which may be why they were able to throw them farther.

Although the power of these stone cannonballs was not very good, they only hit a few unlucky guys, and basically did not have any effect on the defenders in the vice city. The defenders who later ran down from the walls also said that they did not cause much damage to the walls of the walls because of the light weight of the enemy's stones.

The soldiers who ran down the walls also said that they could not see the enemy's siege force clearly, but that they should not have moved to the area where the barriers had been erected. Moreover, the enemy's heavy troops did not appear in view, only some stone shells were thrown from the darkness, and it did not seem that they were planning to attack the city now.

Despite this, Stanley put the soldiers of the southern sub-city on the highest alert, ready to meet them at any time. Everyone thought that the enemy would not choose to attack the city at night, but the other party took the lead in throwing stone cannonballs at the defenders and preemptively attacked.

"It's a harassing tactic from the enemy, and they're not going to let us sleep well. ”

After thinking about it, Fidel agreed with Ludwig. The invading forces of the East Oguna Empire seemed to be harassing the defenders of the city with these light stone shells, making the people of the city uneasy, so that even if they launched a siege the next day, they would have gained a mental and physical advantage.

"Do we need to fight back?" said Lord Mönggo, looking at Stanley, Chief of the General Staff, who had been dressed in black and white plate armor.

"No, we don't have many stone shells, we should stay when the enemy attacks us, and aim at the enemy's siege weapons," Stanley did not sit down, although he did not expect to sleep tonight, but the current situation has put his army into a more passive situation, "If they just surround us on the perimeter and then throw stone ammunition every night, then we have to find a way." ”

The meaning of the Chief of the General Staff was clear, but all the generals did not agree to leave the walls and send troops to confront the main forces of the enemy head-on.

"How about letting the soldiers who surrendered be the vanguard and try to find a breakthrough?" suggested Lord Möngke.

It turned out that the thousands of surrendered soldiers who had been arranged outside the vice-city had already been transferred to the rear of the vice-city to the west when the enemy appeared, and were stationed on guard in the lower reaches of the shallow river. These soldiers were used to sacrifice and charge in the plans of the defenders, and although it is unknown how the soldiers who surrendered would feel when they learned of their mission, both the Regents Schumer and Stanley were adamantly opposed to putting these untrustworthy troops into the city.

"Is this the night?" asked Derek.

"It could be tomorrow night, I see that the enemy's troops have not yet been assembled, and if they use this method to attack the city of Doret in the days to come, and at the same time launch a fierce attack on other strongholds of the capital's defense line, I'm afraid"

Fide had already thought about it. The reason why the regent Xiumo showed an excited expression when he saw the enemies who appeared outside the city was because now was the best time to fight to the death.

If the war continues to drag on, the Western Guna Empire, which has lost half of its food, will only be pressed and beaten. And the other strongholds of the capital's defense line will also be broken one by one by the superior forces of the invading army, just like the defense line of Yiwangcheng. In the end, the defense line of the capital will only repeat the mistake of the defense line of Yiwang City, so constantly delaying is no longer the strategic core of the West Oguna Empire, which has concentrated all its forces, and the enemy attacks Doret City and then waits for an opportunity to counterattack is the goal of the strategic plan. Today is the first day of the appearance of the enemy, and in these few days, the morale of the soldiers on the defense line of the capital will definitely increase greatly, but after a few days

"Don't worry, they'll get caught in the net. Ludwig had already regained his composure, he smiled slightly, and then glanced at everyone present, especially General Derek, who thought he was just playing tricks.

Feder had envisioned a possible battle plan for the invading army, and it was undoubtedly the most stupid thing to do by directly attacking the walls of Doret City, but why was Ludwig so sure that the enemy would choose this approach? Feder looked at the other party's calm expression, and he couldn't help but think of the secret troop scrolls that the regent Thumo asked Lixson to show during the defense council. At that time, the regent Xiumo also showed the same calm expression, could it be that among the commanders of the East Oguna Empire, there would be an affair with the regent and instigated the invading army to directly attack the high walls of Doret City?

Even after following Stanley for many days, Fielder had never been exposed to the most classified information, and the chief of staff seemed to be loyal and honest, not like he had any secret weapon that he hadn't told everyone.

In the ensuing period, meetings began in the new High Command on other issues, such as the distribution of the previous defensive areas. Since the four mercenary groups led by Fidd, with a total of more than 2,000 troops, entered the southern sub-city, one of the generals proposed that Fidd's mercenaries defend a certain area.

In the end, it was decided that Fild's mercenaries would defend a wall to the east of the sub-city. This wall, which is close to the main city of Doret and the sub-city to the east, is an aerial link between the walls of the three cities, which echoes the main city and the other sub-city, and there is also a wall passage to the two cities. The lower side of this place is surrounded by walls on both sides, so it is very likely that there will be enemy siege towers approaching, and because the four mercenary groups under Feide are mainly melee mercenaries, they only need to be vigilant against the approach of the enemy's siege towers, and leave the task of long-range attack on the enemy to the defenders in the next area.

Stanley also informed Feder that the fourteen massive siege towers were the hardest bones, and that although they were moving slowly, their shells connected by iron bars were so strong that even if they were hit by the defensive trebuchets of the Vice-City, it would take them more than a dozen times to scrap them. Moreover, once the fourteen siege towers advance together, there will always be a tower that can approach the walls, and then the enemies hiding in the towers will jump directly into the walls and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the defenders guarding the walls.

The Chief of the General Staff also stated that if a tower did approach any area of the wall, he would immediately mobilize his forces to defend that area. He said that in the southern sub-city, he could command as many as 60,000 troops, most of whom would defend on and below the walls, and the rest would be on standby in the sub-city, ready to support at any time.

In this way, all the generals of the high command received defensive orders. Stanley and Ludwig were to command everything at all times at the High Command, General Derek was ready to mobilize military supplies between the three vice-cities and the city, and Lord Mönggo was placed next to the area that Fielder was responsible for defending, and his thousands of men were all armed with powerful crossbows and ready to meet the enemy who tried to climb the walls.

Fed knew that from tonight, the battle for the defense of Doret City had begun, and he would be the first such major battle as a mercenary.