The four great ironclad beasts had been Yun Meng's subordinates for many years, and this time they were also brought to the fortress, but they had not shown up in the previous battle, and they suddenly rushed to the city wall at the last moment to play a role in deciding their surname. After the battle, Yun Meng turned into a human form again, her delicate face had lost its blood, she was not lightly injured, and she was almost cramping from exhaustion.

Raphael, who was in the underground hall, was of course unharmed, but his face was also pale, and he could barely stand up as he sat there. As for the magicians, they are no longer able to fight.

This day's battle did not take place only in this fortress, otherwise no matter how great Raphael and Yunmeng were able, they would not be able to stop the all-out onslaught of the Giant Legion. As yesterday, the Salem Legion was again out of the city on this day, gathering its army and slowly advancing in the direction of the battlefield, and the Philistines decided to remain on guard but ignore it for the time being, and concentrate on taking the fortress with all their might.

The Salem regiment marched slowly, stopping for lunch at noon and continuing its advance in the afternoon. Seeing that the fortress was about to be taken, the Philistine of course refused to give up, believing that he had enough troops to fight on two fronts, so he ordered his men to meet the enemy when the Salem legions marched ten miles away, and not to worry about it until this distance was reached.

I didn't expect the Salem Legion to come for real this time.

When the siege was at its worst, the Philistines gathered a thousand men and shields and cavalry to meet the enemy on the road. At this moment, it was another fortress that suddenly launched a counterattack, and Link opened the city gate and rushed towards the battle formation of the giant army with two hundred cavalry. In his direction, the Philistines also placed 500 sword and shield soldiers on the alert, and immediately lined up to meet them.

The impact of the cavalry was very strong, but it did not completely defeat the army formation of the giant warriors with heavy shields. Link also took ten magicians out of the city, and they were wrapped up in the cavalry to perform magical attacks. Unfazed by Link's attack, the Philistines believed that a phalanx of five hundred giant swords and shields would be able to hold off the two hundred cavalry, and gave the order to fight to the death.

Link left the city because the situation of the other fortress was critical, and he also saw that the opponent's catapults could not be transferred to attack his own fortress, and the most feared crossbowmen were not in the battle formation, so he sent cavalry out of the city to fight. Link himself is also a great magician, and with the assistance of ten magicians in the team, as soon as he left the city, he killed a man on his back, killed hundreds of giant warriors, and lost dozens of horses himself.

However, the opponent fought hard and did not retreat, the army was tightly organized, and the cavalry could not continue to exert its impact and could not resist it, so Link hurriedly ordered to return to the city. The cavalry, which had no battlefield experience, was inevitably a little chaotic when they retreated, and the giant warriors took the opportunity to cover up and rush into the gates of the fortress. At this moment, there was a sudden buzz, and Link, who had already rushed back to the city, immediately activated the protective array and launched a counterattack outside the city, and the soldiers defending the city also flocked to the city gate.

The gates were shut, and the giant warriors who had stormed the gates were all killed or captured alive after a fierce fight. And the priests of the Giant Legion are all attacking Raphael's fortress under the command of Lu Sien, and the crossbowmen and catapults are all in that direction, and they can't hold off for the time being to attack Link's fortress, and the giant warriors outside the city have to retreat and continue to be vigilant, and this battle is also thrilling.

...... When the four great ironclads finally joined the battle, George led the Salem Legion and saw the Philistines' Giant Army in the distance. John whispered from the chariot, "You see their formations, there are very few cavalry, almost all sword and shield soldiers." ”

George muttered, "The strength of the giant warriors is great, and when you charge to within a hundred paces, be careful of the pike guns they throw. ”

John sighed and said, "No matter what, in the end, we have to fight head-on, and this is the best fighter." They don't have catapults, they don't have crossbowmen, they don't even have chariots, so we can take them in stride. ”

George nodded slightly: "They have fewer horses, and in many places on the Assyrian Plateau, war horses cannot pass, and they have to rely on strong plateau giants to carry the horses, and there are no more chariots with fewer horses, and even fewer cavalry, so we must make good use of them." Their chariots are all erected on high platforms for the crossbowmen to attack the fortress, and the Philistines are too confident to use their sword and shield infantry to resist the charge of our chariots?"

John narrowed his eyes and said, "He has the capital of self-confidence, and the spear and shield phalanx composed of giant warriors is difficult to deal with. Moreover, now that he had transferred all his crossbowmen to attack the fortress, he should have been tired from shooting arrows for a day, and could no longer go to battle. Thanks to Raphael and Yunmeng, their most threatening combat power has been consumed. ”

George's original plan was to hold the two fortresses for seven days, to deplete and contain the combat power of the giant legions, so that they would not be able to storm the city of Salem in the short term, and the decisive battle would be a war of attrition. Unexpectedly, the plan did not change quickly, and I didn't expect the Philistines to use their troops so violently, staring at a fortress and launching a continuous onslaught, while Raphael and Yunmeng were so tenacious in defending the city that they had already completed the expected goal ahead of schedule.

If the Giant Legion rests for a few more days to replenish its war supplies and continue this onslaught, the fortress will definitely not be able to hold it. George and John had already made two preparations when they led the army out of the city, but seeing this situation, they marched with the tide, and the head-on decisive battle came ahead of schedule.

When the armies of both sides were laid out in the setting sun, the siege battle was finally over, and after a day of fighting without taking the fortress, the crossbow arrows and flints were exhausted, the chariots and catapults were pinned, and another decisive battle was about to begin. At this time, the most bitter people are probably the priests of the Giant Legion, they have formed a divine array to assist in the siege of the city for a day, but now they must return to the big array, such a battle between the two armies cannot be fought without the help of the priests.

By the time the battle was set out against each other, the Philistines were already in a state of rage, but the two armies he longed for had come when he least wanted them to fight. He was about to curse with his greatsword, when he heard the sound of horses' hooves rumbling, and the chariots of the Salem Legion suddenly attacked.

John marched slowly, but when he came closer, he said he would fight, and he didn't even say a word of nonsense. The war drums sounded, George flew into the air, and in the center of the Salem battle array were twelve priests with magic staffs, none other than the twelve judges. George had sent all the mages to the two fortresses, and the Twelve Judges were the last available priests in the city of Salem, capable of not only casting magic but also attacking in close combat.

Each chariot was drawn by two horses, with a master, a pikemen with a shield and a sword, and a crossbowman, who rushed to the front of the battle and fired a volley of arrows, with ironclad heavy cavalry on both flanks to assist in the charge. After the rain of arrows, the giants also threw their spears, and the neighing and screaming of the horses continued, and a general, wielding his sword, surrounded by his guards, jumped out of his chariot and rushed straight to where the Philistines were, and all the spears fired at him were swept away by the wind.

This man was really stunned, in the blink of an eye, he had already entered the Philistine guards, and the guards of the two sides immediately fought together, and the Philistines shouted and waved his sword and jumped up: "Who are you?"

The general shouted, "John!"

Immediately after that, a dazzling white light exploded, and the huge energy impact caused the surrounding warriors to fall to the ground, John was already fighting with the Philistines, and the chariot behind also crashed into the giant warrior's spear and shield phalanx, and the battle was in full swing at dusk.

Lu Sien, the chief priest of the Giant Legion, secretly complained that the general named John on the other side launched a terrifying charge, and the chariot rushed halfway and jumped out of the car and entered the army on foot, involving the commander Philistine in the melee, and the others couldn't get close at all. As soon as the war began, the commander of the regiment himself was no longer able to command the army formation, and the responsibility of directing the battle fell to him, the chief priest, which was not expected in advance.

The Salem Legion seems to have spotted the weakness of the Giants' uneven armament, and charged with chariots, while the ironclad heavy cavalry protected the flanks of the chariots, which was the most feared tactic of the infantry phalanx. Fortunately, the giant warrior Kong Wu is powerful, and the giant shield in his hand is amazingly heavy, and he can resist it for a while.

However, the time of the outbreak of the big war was a bit wrong, seeing that it was almost dark, and after a long time, it was bound to fall into a melee with a clear line of sight, which was very unfavorable to the infantry in formation, and it was difficult to ensure that the front and rear army formations took turns to advance and retreat neatly.

Thinking of this, Lu Sien ordered to launch an interspersed counter-charge, and eliminate the other party's priest first at any cost. Because he found that there was a great magician on the other side who was commanding the whole army to fight, but the number of priests was very small, and only twelve of them formed a formation to follow the chariot forward. Their position was too far forward, and the commander of the opposing side seemed to have made a mistake not to put the priest so close to the battle line.

There was a vacuum in the center of the battlefield where John and the Philistines fought, and the two generals' personal cavalry were repeatedly charging around. Under the command of Lu Sien, the priests worked together to exert all kinds of protection on the most elite giant warriors, bypassing this wargroup and desperately counterattacking into the center of the Salem Legion's chariot formation.

After this round of swoop, the giant warriors threw their shuttle spears at the Twelve Judges, and the whistling shuttle spears rained down, and the shuttle spears they threw dozens of paces away could even pierce a wall. However, something surprising happened, the priests unexpectedly swung their iron rods, and in a thunderclap like a large net of swords in the sky, they swept away the pike spears that were fired, and then they actually rushed over.

In front of the Twelve Warriors, there was a burst of wind and sand and fire, and the dust on the ground rolled up and hit the shield of the Giant Warrior with a loud sound, making it impossible for the Giant Warrior to hold the shield steadily. George swung his staff down in the air, and countless white lights shot down like arrows, and the counter-charge launched by the giant legion was crushed. Lu Sien was dumbfounded, what kind of priest was that, he actually played a charge battle on the front line!

The battle between the two armies did not last long, but Lu Sien had been waiting hard, he was afraid that his commander Philistine would have an accident. Once the center of the battle formation is broken, the morale of the whole army will be greatly weakened. The Philistine was very irritable, he didn't expect that the other party would have a great warrior who could penetrate the guards and fight directly with him, and this person knew magic, and the powerful energy impact exploded with the sword, and the thunderbolt lightning entangled him to death.

Most of the plateau giants are born with divine powers, but there are pros and cons to everything, most of them are simple-minded and have well-developed limbs, although they are much stronger than the warriors of the same level, but it is very difficult to cultivate to a high level. The warriors of the Giant Legion were the elite of the Assyrian kingdom, composed of all plateau giants, but only two great warriors, the commander of the front army, Ju Fei, had been wounded during the siege, which allowed John to succeed in the raid.

The priests of the Giant Legion are not from the plateau giants, and most of the trained plateau giants are samurai, and magicians are very rare. Therefore, Lu Sien commanding the army is very uneasy, the Philistines want to solve the battle with John as soon as possible, he has an eighth-level achievement, and he is stronger than the average eighth-level great warrior, a heavy sword with the power of wind and thunder. Unexpectedly, John was able to hold on, and the bones of his whole body exploded with a manic force, and he did not retreat at all.

It was soon dark, and the Salem Legion suffered no small casualties in their chariot charge, leaving the wreckage of the chariots and horses all over the wilderness, but they broke through the two lines of defense of the Giants and repelled a counterattack. Lu Sien pushed the battle formation behind him to the front, and all the soldiers let out a hoarse shout, arrows flew continuously, and the sound of swords and spears fighting, chariots and giant shields clashed endlessly.

A loud shout came, and a powerful energy surged out in the center of the battle group, and the two figures turned over and shot out separately. The Philistines finally delivered the most powerful slash, and the greatsword struck John's sword with an arc of light, and the two swords burst into a gap, and the impact sent them both flying backwards, and the boss finally escaped from the melee.

Seeing this scene, Lu Sien quickly ordered the horn to be sounded, and the last row of guns and shields left a gap to move forward, and the tired warriors in front of him fought and retreated like a tide, and he wanted to stabilize his position when night fell to end the melee. At the same time, the sound of trumpets was heard in the Salem legions, the chariots stopped charging, and the battle ended as night fell.

The result of this battle was invincible, and although the Salem Legion had the advantage in tactical arrangement, the Giant Legion still fought evenly with its strong combat strength. With more than 300 casualties on both sides, and the casualties and attrition of storming the fortress, the Giant Legion was no longer able to attack with all its might, and had to retire later. George was also unable to take advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack on the city of Enriel, but he advanced the battle line between the two fortresses and reinforced the forts that had been held for three days.

From the situation on the battlefield, it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser, but this result was a victory for the city of Salem. Although this battle did not defeat the Giant Legion, it reversed the situation of the entire battle, formed a stalemate situation, held the forward defense line, and maintained the stability of the rear. And after the baptism of this battle, the soldiers of the Salem Legion also gained real self-confidence and became a force that could fight tough battles on the battlefield.

The most tragic battle was naturally the fortress defended by Raphael, more than half of the 500 defenders were killed, and the remaining half were all wounded. The section of the city wall that the Giant Legion stormed was almost completely shattered, and without the protection of the Divine Array, a great warrior like John could have kicked a large area with all his might.

Defending the fortress and fighting in line with the two armies, the casualties of the 3,000 soldiers of the Salem regiment exceeded 900, which is a staggering number. George was also unable to defend for the time being, and the Salem Army was in dire need of rest.

But the people of the city-state were encouraged like never before, because their own legion actually repelled the army of giants, and everyone regarded it as a great victory! In the people's mind, this was also the victory of the god Amun, and everyone entered the temple together and offered sacrifices to the goddess Muyun and Amun on the high platform. Then the people heard the oracle of Amun, who encouraged the people to have faith in building and defending their homeland, and the city of Salem was boiling for a time.

...... Amun was far away in the Garden of Eden and learned of what was happening in the city of Salem through the statues in the temple. The principles of battle with Enriel had already been formulated, and Amon did not want to intervene in the war, unless something went wrong with George's command. Naturally, George did not make any mistakes, and Amun, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, seemed to him to be the Philistines who had made a mistake.

The Philistines should not have stormed the fortress so much, and it was wiser to besiege it for a long time, striking and depleting the reinforcements of the city of Salem, and the Legion of the Giants was perfectly capable of this. However, the Philistines underestimated the defensive ability of the fortress, and blindly stormed it to the end. On the other hand, the Philistines also had to do this, he wanted to win a quick victory, solve the supply problem of the city of Enriel in the plain of Duk, and did not want to have a long-term confrontation with the city of Salem, but George won this result in the first battle.

Now the armies of both city-states are resting, and neither is powerless to deliver a decisive blow. In the ensuing battle, as long as the commander does not make serious mistakes, whether it is won or lost, there is no way for either side to defeat the opponent. Unless there is a turning point in the balance of power, this situation has already taken shape, and the complete elimination of the other side has become a plan that is more than worth the loss and unlikely.

The war was like this, and Amon didn't have to pay much attention to it.

But Amun had to pay attention, and when all the people prayed to his idol with one heart, a strange force was formed, which "woke up" Amun from the spirit world, as if the idol standing on the altar had opened its eyes. Amun finally understood one thing, there were no restrictions on building a temple to accept the sacrifices of the people, so that the soul could draw on the power of life. When everyone is concentrating on the call of faith, his soul will also be disturbed, and he will even have to watch it all.

For the first time, Amun was "persecuted" by the faith of the believers and opened his eyes on the altar, and the meditation in the Garden of Eden was briefly disturbed. He has absorbed this power, and being "coerced" by this power at such a time is also a price to pay as a matter of course. In this case, Amun simply took advantage of the situation to send down an oracle to encourage the people.

...... The celebration in the city-state was only a small episode, and then Amon was still in the Garden of Eden, and the fighting on the plains of Duk broke out several more skirmishes as he expected, but neither side could achieve a decisive victory, and entered a state of stalemate and attrition. With this war, Amun's vision and mentality of looking at the world gradually developed a sense of detachment, he was really like a god that people could not see, but could feel.

But a few days later, another major event happened, and George and Aesop were unable to make their own claims, so they had to ask for guidance from Amun. They did not come to the Garden of Eden, but prayed and called to the idol in the temple, and Amun could hear their voices, and such a call had to be heeded.

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(To be continued)