There were no sneak attacks or unexpected incidents, and although the generals who had been holding military meetings day and night were quite tired, the military meetings did not stop because of this, and everyone actively prepared for the decisive battle.

This period of calm was the most restful sleep Fidel had since he arrived in the Theoguna Empire, and there was no special information from the enemy-occupied areas to the south. Although General Glenn also received letters from the two barons, the two barons who claimed to be willing to secretly assist the Theoguna Empire in the enemy line did not convey any useful information. According to the information from the letter, all of their surrendered troops were left in Yiwang City, and even General Bonzina was named the lord and earl of Yiwang City, which was a rare non-noble general to receive a knighthood.

Although there is no movement in the south, new situations are constantly emerging in other parts of the continent.

The Kingdom of Cosai has reached an armistice with the Duchy of Mageni, the details of which are unknown, which has led to a draw in the war between the two countries, which has lasted for more than half a year. The Duchy of Mageni did not take advantage of the invasion of the Kosai Kingdom by the Eastern Oguna Empire, and even the fortresses and castles that had been previously occupied were returned to the other side after the armistice. On the contrary, the northern invading forces of the Eastern Oguna Empire gradually gained a foothold in the Winter Kingdom, much to the concern of Ludwig in the Western Oguna Empire, and Fidel could occasionally see Ludwig standing on the walls of the southern side city facing north.

The Kingdom of Sahlins was also too ill to take care of the wars of other countries, and their establishment declared neutrality in the civil war between the Western and Eastern Oguna Empires. Although they secretly promised the regent Xiumo that they would be on his side, they did not take any real action.

Soon it was the middle of April, and the weather in the southern part of the continent was already warm and wet. On this warm day, the invading forces of the East Oguna Empire began to quietly appear in the sight of Doret City.

The first to notice the enemy was a five-man reconnaissance team, which had only been patrolling a small area less than five kilometers outside the fortifications, but the presence of the enemy did not surprise them - the invading forces of the East Oguna Empire were moving very slowly, and they did not react when they noticed these small reconnaissance teams, as if a giant crocodile did not mind the flies that appeared in front of him.

By the time the scouting team had delivered the news to Stanley, who had reported the news to the regent Schumo, and then sent a warning message to the entire defensive line, the enemies who had approached Doret had not yet appeared in Fidel's field of vision.

The commander-in-chief of the invading army, Saresa, has always given Fid the impression of a resolute commander, and in the previous period of time when the defense line of Yiwang City has not been lost, Saresha's troops have invaded the defense line of Yiwang City many times and harassed the defending army. Her other subordinates, such as Carlos, the leader of the Knights of Lightning, and others lobbied the lords who had not yet surrendered, until they firmly chose not to give in, and then they sent troops to attack the city.

The regent Shumo turned a blind eye to this, he did not care at all about the lives of the people in the south, and he only wanted to station all his troops around the city of Doret from the beginning to the end, intending to fight to the death here. Seeing that there was not much food, the appearance of the invading army of the East Oguna Empire made the regent Xiumo feel excited and happy, and while he ordered the entire defense line of the capital to be guarded, he also personally climbed the wall of the sub-city to the south of Doret City, and looked far to the south.

Fed was also invited there to watch the enemy's movements, but what he didn't expect was that the seven nobles were also brought over by the captain of the guard, Leland. The seven nobles looked listless, and one of them sneered at Fielder as a mercenary when he saw him. Fide didn't know if they had learned that he had become a mercenary hero of the Theoguna Empire, but he could guess from the way the Marquis of Montres looked at him that he already knew that his son Möngke had been saved by Fidel.

Lord Möngke had also recovered from his injuries, and he stood by the side of the regent, Xiumo. The young lord had changed into a suit of full-body plate armor, and instead of being placed under house arrest in the inner city with his father, he became a trusted general at the side of the regent, Xiumo.

In addition to the seven nobles, General Glenn, General Derek, General Staff Stanley, Winter Envoy Ludwig, Count de Barlo, Lixson, the great merchant Gabrihaus, and other noble generals stood on the city walls, accompanying the regent Xiumo to the south.

Of course, the Holy Maiden Golia did not appear here, and no one mentioned this mysterious Holy Maiden, and everyone only looked at the head of the regent.

Feder found that most of the people who had participated in the defense council had appeared here, except for the head of the Wave Mercenary Regiment, Fuller, who had been executed, and the head of the Knights of the Church, Satnam, who had been wounded and retired, and the deputy leader of the widow mercenary group, Myla!

The female deputy commander named Myra only appeared in the defense council and disappeared from the defense army's view. Fidel had always believed that the man who was involved with the mercenary guild must have a conspiracy. The fact that the MONOCULUS Mercenary Regiment was involved in the plan to attack the capital of the Republic of Marvier, and that Marven used the Church Alliance to snatch the weapon of life, both of these events made Fed feel that the Mercenary Guild was not an ordinary mercenary alliance, but a very ambitious organization. Maybe that widow mercenary group will have an impact on this battle, as for whether it will be beneficial or disadvantageous, now we just have to wait.

Feder looked to the south, and there was nothing to see on the horizon except a few trees. It's just that as time goes by, a "black line" begins to appear on the horizon, and that black line is not something else unknown, it is the army of the East Oguna Empire!

The first thing that came into view was an entire array of infantry in heavy armor. It seems that the width of the array is wider than the east-west distance of Doret City, and it is estimated that there are already thousands of people in this platoon! With the multiple rows of hoplites in dense formation behind them, the first infantry formation has already numbered tens of thousands.

With neat steps, facing the setting sun, they approached step by step to the outermost fortifications of the city of Doret with near-perfect military appearance, the potholes that had been specially dug out. Behind these hoplites, you can also begin to see some siege towers more than ten meters high! These behemoths are like moving giant arrow towers, made of solid thick wooden strips. The base of the tower has a row of large iron wheels capable of rolling, and the highest part of the tower is filled with crossbowmen, and a number of crossbow machines are placed above the tower. Fede nodded, there were a total of fourteen siege towers, each tower was a towering monster, and it was estimated that these towers used for siege could accommodate more than two hundred people. The towers were about the same height as the walls, and it seemed that if the towers could get close to the walls, the soldiers inside would be able to break through the walls along the wooden bridges that the towers might have lowered.

Seeing this, Ludwig also gritted his teeth. Living in the cold and barren north, he never expected the enemy to have this kind of siege tower that had never appeared in the Kosai Kingdom, and the trap that was set under the city wall now seems to have become a joke in the eyes of the siege tower in an instant, and it is estimated that it will only cause damage to some confused and ignorant enemies.

In addition to the giant siege towers and infantry formations that were slowly approaching, there were also giant siege trebuchets looming in the distance. The trebuchets were slower than the towers, but they were much larger than the defensive trebuchets in the sub-city, and if Doret were alone, he would have been terrified of the weapons that could throw destructive stones at him.

The number of trebuchets is unknown, but it is estimated that there are more than the towers. There were also more ballista carts and medium-sized arrow towers next to the giant siege towers, which Fidel guessed were most of the siege weapons of the East Oguna Empire, after all, the northern front of the East Oguna Empire only needed to be defended on the land occupied, but the rebel cities in the west were very strong.

The core of the invading army was these siege weapons, while on the east and west sides there were other classes of troops - archers and crossbowmen in clusters. The crossbowmen all had a thick shield on their backs, and it was estimated that they would stick the thick shield on the ground and then shoot behind the shield when fighting. Archers, on the other hand, are a little less numerous than crossbowmen, as they don't have the same range as crossbowmen, but they are agile and quicker to reload arrows, and these archers are likely to go around the flanks to shoot cover.

"There are at least 100,000 enemies here. Count de Barlo of the Tail Peninsula stood beside Fed, and he couldn't help whispering.

Fei De looked at the endless stream of troops behind him, the number would definitely be above 100,000. He didn't expect that the invading army of the East Oguna Empire would present most of its military strength in front of the defenders at the first time, if the invading army really had a military strength of 300,000 people, it was estimated that in a limited space, it could only allow 70,000 or 80,000 people to attack the city at the same time. It's not a good thing to have too many soldiers charging together, as it will only overflow the effective siege force. If that's the case, then it's good news for the defence. But the appearance of the enemy in the next minute immediately shattered the illusions of those who thought in this way.

A large number of "black lines" appeared in the southwest and southeast directions at the same time, and like the hoplites coming from front, those were also infantry units of the invading army of the East Oguna Empire. Although the troops on these two sides did not cover the advance of any siege weapons, they were no less numerous than the frontal troops, at least more than 60,000 men each.

The visible infantry were all armed with huge shields one meter long and half a meter wide, wearing airtight steel helmets, and sharp swords were hidden behind the giant shields. Under the light of the evening sun, all black equipment slowly poured towards the city of Doret like a black tide. But the soldiers, under the command of the horn, stopped and stood in place. Enemies approaching from all three directions stopped their advance and stood out of the range of the defensive weapons of Doret City. When the trumpet stopped, the world was quiet.

All the nobles swallowed their unpalatable saliva, and they seemed to stop breathing, because no one had ever seen such a huge number of enemies, and even Ludwig, who was full of bamboo, stared at the soldiers with his eyes, and seemed more of an unbearable excitement. After the soldiers stopped advancing, the Kuroshio seemed to be stopped in place by some force. Fei De roughly estimated in his heart that there were at least more than 200,000 enemies in front of him, but what puzzled Fei De the most was that the invading army of the East Oguna Empire did not seem to even have a single war horse on the battlefield, could it be that those cavalry had made a detour to the rear of Doret City?

After thinking about it, he rejected this idea, after all, whether it was the vice-city in the east or the mercenary camp in the west, there was also the interlocking defense line of the entire capital. If the enemy were to break through to the rear of the defensive line, it would not be possible for the defenders of the city not to find out. Moreover, according to the current military situation of the enemy, they must have concentrated all their main forces in front of the city of Dorette, intending to use the siege as the main means to fight to the death with the emerging regime in the west! Then it seems that the other side did not choose other breakthroughs, but fell into the hands of the Western Empire, which does not seem wise at all.

But if you think about it from another angle, the other party must have full confidence and confidence to choose this way, and I am afraid that the next battle will be an unimaginable vicious battle.

An orange-haired middle-aged man dressed in aristocratic clothing suddenly said, "Lord Regent, please believe me, there are some guys in the enemy army who can change their appearance!"

Count de Barlow could see that Fed did not know this man, and he whispered to Fett, "He is the Earl of Francester of Windmill City, the man nicknamed Count Orange Peel." ”

Unexpectedly, the Earl of Franchester, who had lost the most important city, was released by the regent. When Fidel first came here, he heard that although the earl was released by the invading forces of the East Oguna Empire, he had been imprisoned in the city of Doret after a series of interrogations, but he did not expect that at this most critical moment, he gained trust and appeared here.

A general said impatiently: "Count Franchester! You have said this countless times, those so-called methods of changing appearance cannot exist at all, it is estimated that you have been drugged to have the illusion of seeing the wrong person!"

"If you still put the responsibility for the loss of Windmill City on the enemy's use of unknown spells, it will be in vain for Lord Regent to release you. You're allowed to stand here because of your experience fighting enemies and your work in building Windmill City. ”

Everyone else was gossiping at the mouth of the defeated general, but Francester, who seemed to be unrelenting, was anxious, and the regent Xiumo was indifferent. It was the first time that Feder had heard that someone was able to change his appearance, and if it was really as Count Orange Pi said, then it was also possible that the regent Xiumo who was standing in front of him now was someone else pretending?

At this moment, General Glenn clapped his palms and turned everyone's attention to him. Behind him were four guards escorting two generals who had appeared in the military council before, both of whom were tied up so tightly that they looked like they had become prisoners.

"Lord Regent, these two are traitors in our army, and during this time, the last general found that these two people are the enemy's internal response, and now I am waiting for your fate Lord Regent. Everyone just looked at the two dejected guys, and no one knew exactly how they had fornicated with the enemy, but it was certain that Glenn had not wronged them.

The regent Xiumo glanced at the massive number of enemies who had stopped, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Forget it about throwing them down from here, throw them into a big basket, and then use them as cannonballs for trebuchets, and 'send' them to the opponent's army for me!"

The rest of the people present all frowned, and even the two collaborators raised their heads sharply, as if they couldn't believe that they could be so brutally executed, "Shumo, you traitor! when Lord Hollow arrives in Doret City, he will definitely cut you with a thousand knives!!" one of the generals immediately scolded after being slightly surprised.

"Yes, that old man with rheumatism and dying bone pain is also coming here? Then why don't you bring the dead Emperor Electhor Exom IV here? Let me see with my own eyes?"

The other prisoner hit the man who was still angrily scolding Xiu Mo with his shoulder, and whispered to him that he didn't need to say any more.

"Hold on!" As soon as General Glenn's words fell, the four guards dragged the two of them down, and it was estimated that the moment the battle began, the bodies of these two people would turn into ** shells and fly directly into the enemy formation.

The eleven-year-old boy, Lixson, saw all this, but the young boy was expressionless and cold. The Regent Shumo also noticed that he was a little arrogant, and he turned to reassure Luxon, saying that this was a necessary means, otherwise he would not be able to convince the people.

After calming Lixson, Xiumo stood on the edge of the city wall, then looked at everyone and said, "From this moment on, the capital will enter the most urgent state of combat readiness, and from this moment on, we have no way to retreat. Even if we have to give up our lives, we must not retreat! We must not run away! Because there are countless people behind us who support us!"

Feder looked at Xiumo's hypocritical face, those bold words were just words to play with people's hearts, and if he wanted to escape, he would be the first one to escape from this regent. At this time, deep in Feide's heart, he remembered Ayana's words to persuade him - "If you want to leave, you can take yourself away." "Yes, if you want to escape, you still have a chance!