Russell and the others did not dare to waste time, and hurriedly packed their belongings and moved their small camp to the side of the empress's residence.

After the handover, Russell finally regained his status as a member of the nobility of the Empire, even though he was now only a lowly knight loyal to the royal family.

This incident is just a small episode, and what the Empress cares about is that she knows that the supply of military rations in logistics is insufficient, and she cannot let the legion survive the terrible reality of half a month of consumption.

So on this evening, Empress Gladyse once again issued an edict inviting the upper nobles of the empire to hold an urgent meeting.

After a sleepless night of discussions, the Empire's top brass decided to hold a decisive battle in the next few days, and now began to send small forces to attack the Snow Tribe, so as to find the enemy's flaws and test the enemy's reality.

The next day, the Empire continued to send agile archers, so that even if they were attacked by the enemy, the archers would be able to inflict damage on their enemies with their mastery of archery.

For some reason, the archers who were originally able to shoot huge arrows in the enemy formation suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Originally, according to the plan, the legions of the empire should march slowly, step by step. However, now that the situation is compelling, the Imperial Legion's main formation can only advance slowly after the scouts have tested the danger.

As the vanguard of the army, Earl Pike bore the brunt of the attack with his elite cavalry at the forefront to destroy the enemy in sight.

The forward cavalry played a major role in this advance, often relying on the combat experience they had accumulated over the years to destroy their opponents.

However, even if their battle loss ratio was very low, many soldiers were killed in the scattered and continuous small wave battles.

The vanguard cavalry had been searching for Gael's elite troops, but after the last encounter, Gayle and his warriors had disappeared without a trace, nowhere to be found.

It was in this slow advance that the Imperial Legion finally advanced under the capital of the Snow Tribe.

The city, known as the Jewel, was larger than the Empire had expected, and instead of being a weak city of timber as it had been rumored, it was built of the same solid stone as St. Caron.

The city has only three walls, and the remaining side is backed by a natural mountain, and no one can break through the city from this side.

According to the scouts, there is also a newly built wooden house halfway up the hill where the city is located, there appears to be a lake near it that is not depicted on the map, and there are some two-meter-high wooden walls around the building.

The upper echelons of the empire didn't care about these unguarded wooden houses, and the most important thing now was to quickly storm the castle of the snowfield barbarians and seize the food in the city to sustain the army that was about to collapse.

The Imperial army did not stop for a moment when they arrived at their destination, and the soldiers rolled out the rebuilt trebuchets, and after the trebuchets had been erected, they began to bombard the southern gate of the city.

The tribes did not tirelessly fight, and many trebuchets were erected on the city walls to start a confrontation with the empire.

Originally, the empire suppressed the tribal warriors on the city walls by cutting down the forests and creating a large number of trebuchets.

However, due to the rush of the Empire's trebuchets, many trebuchets soon malfunctioned.

The soldiers had to remove the damaged trebuchet so that the warriors of the tribe could have a chance to rest, and they took advantage of the Empire's lack of strength to fight back, and aimed at the Empire's positions and began to bombard.

Countless stones lit with fire oil burned across the sky and fell onto the Imperial camp, and the soldiers who had been attacked by the surprise ran out of their tents in a panic, running around looking for a place to hide.

Seeing the heavy casualties of the Imperial soldiers, Empress Gladyse was furious and ordered the Imperial army to begin assembling and preparing to attack the city.

The soldiers hurriedly formed a long lineup under the reprimand of their own lords, and after receiving the order to attack from their respective lords, the soldiers carried the ladder, and the soldiers next to them held shields to help their comrades who carried the ladder next to them resist the rain of arrows falling from the sky.

Near the southern gate of the city, which was the direction of the Empire's main attack, countless soldiers began to advance towards the city gate with the siege towers that were flush with the city walls.

The siege towers were embedded with a thin layer of iron armor, arrows that could be fired to prevent the enemy from igniting flames, with thermal insulation nailed in the middle, and thick wooden planks that finally surrounded the soldiers.

The price of these well-established defenses was the heavy weight of the siege towers, which were already moving very slowly, and this time the city they were going to attack was built halfway up the mountain, making the siege towers almost unbearable to move forward.

Soldiers were constantly being shot by stray arrows and falling to the ground screaming. In the face of the rain of arrows, the soldiers finally set up the ladder on the city wall.

The warriors on the walls held wooden poles and tried to push the ladder down the walls, but as soon as they appeared, the Imperial archers waiting below the walls fired waves of arrows at them.

Most of the tribal warriors who tried to overthrow the ladder were shot by arrows, and seeing this, they stopped taking risks and retreated behind the walls.

Seeing this, the Imperial soldiers climbed the ladder and climbed up to the city wall, seeing that the soldiers were about to climb to the top of the city wall.