The regular troops of Ikanathan and the mercenaries met, and they began to attack the city day and night, attacking fiercely like waves of rage, and for a day or two, the walls of the Azores remained unmoved, but the mercenary coalition army ambushed the corpses of the city in large numbers, and no one took care of them.

On the fourth and sixth days, the defensive barrier of the Azores city was completely destroyed, the walls of the city were exposed to the stormy boulder attacks of the enemy, and the members of several small mercenary groups in the mercenary coalition had been exhausted, and their names were gone.

The mercenary coalition faltered, but the offensive continued.

On the eleventh day, part of the western wall of the Azores showed signs of collapse, and the two sides fought fiercely, ending with Starmia stubbornly repelling the enemy's attack.

The soldiers of the mercenary coalition were exhausted, their eyes were bloodshot, their voices were hoarse, and there was a strong sense of resistance, and for the mercenaries, such a continuous, lifeless attack was extremely stupid in itself, and completely inconsistent with their mode of action.

Half a month later, Icanathan's siege plan was interrupted, and several major mercenary groups were seriously divided due to heavy casualties and frustration that could not be captured for a long time, and Colonel Philip had to intervene to mediate, and at the same time changed his strategy, besieging the city of the Azores without attacking, and the follow-up troops directly bypassed here and continued to go inland.

At this time, the bigwigs of the four northern provinces of Starmia had just confirmed the news of Icanathan's troops.

The city of Azores, which had held out for a month, still could not wait for reinforcements, and the 200,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were in an emergency. The miners used their skills to dig tunnels and sent people out of the city many times to ask for help, but there was no news, and finding tunnels to the outside of the city became the pleasure of supporting the army.

In order to prevent them from using the tunnels to attack the city, Justin had to order the destruction of all the tunnels, on the other hand, the overstretched troops made the counterattack an extravagance, and the defending troops began to recruit civilians to join the army, and Justin opened the vault and moved all the belongings stored in the vault as a bonus to boost morale.

Time has lost its meaning, after the start of a new round of attack on Icanathan, many walls of the Azores City were trampled down, and the 'walking wall' that was built in advance to block the collapsed city wall was pushed out, because of the blessing of magic, it is more durable and durable, but it is only relatively speaking, it can block this attack, but what about next time? What about next time? Jester and others were sent out of the city for help at that time, and it has been half a month since then.

Jesteen stood on the walls of the Azores, ruined inside and out. The city had just been ravaged by boulders thrown in by enemy trebuchets, and the flames of magic had burned the ground everywhere with gray-black scorched earth.

The buildings near the city wall are all the living quarters of the miners and their families, so many of them are wooden structures, before because the weapons defending the city were exhausted, most of these houses were demolished and used as weapons, and now everyone is demolishing the solid stone buildings in the city, everywhere is a scene of collapsed walls and houses, and corpses are transported away and buried, there are soldiers, people, miners, women and children......

Jastin's gaze rested on a dead wood that had been burned with black charcoal, standing alone in the ashes.

The siege had lasted more than seventy days, an unprecedented insistence for a border city, and the heavy casualties were not enough to describe the condition of the entire city, perhaps the corpses outside the walls were more evidence of the brutal fighting they had experienced. The thick black-red liquid seeped into the soil, the earth was black and red, but the original color of the soil could not be seen, and the air was filled with a foul smell, mixed with the fishy smell of corpse burning, that was the mercenary coalition's method of disposing of corpses, the weather was too hot, and allowing the corpses to rot like this could only breed epidemics. Of course, they did not forget to use these corpses against the stubborn defenders in the city, and now that the water in the Azores has been cut off for almost ten days, there are only a dozen magician troops left, and the first duty at the moment is to create rain.

Jestin licked his dry lips, his rough hands pressed hard against the pheasant moat on the wall, he looked up at the sky, the sun was high, and the power of the magicians was about to reach its limit, just like the wall under his feet, it was in danger.

Reiner ran up the wall in a few steps and handed Jastin half a black loaf of bread. Jestin looked at the big man in front of him, the bloodstained and tattered armor on him, looking empty, the original strong body had already lost his shape due to the fatigue and hunger of these days.

"Stay, I'm not hungry. Jastin said.

Reiner wrung his eyebrows and shoved the bread into Jesteen's hand forcefully.

"You haven't eaten water all day. "The voice was hoarse.

Jastin sighed and didn't refuse the pitiful half of the bread anymore, but he didn't eat it either, and he looked at the mercenaries roaming the mountains outside the city, a group of ferocious beasts that coveted their prey, roaming around, baring their sharpest fangs and pounce on them at any moment and at any time.

"You've done your best, sir. Reiner said suddenly, in a steady tone, "Without reinforcements, no amount of ordinary young adults will help, they won't fight." ”

Although fighting side by side for some time has given many people the most basic qualities of soldiers, it is only limited to daring to stand on the wall and smash down the enemy who climbs up.

Who would have thought that what they were holding in the end was a lonely city, and the lonely city could not be held after all.

Jesteen doesn't seem to want to discuss the topic, for the Azores "reinforcements" are meaningless, unless they appear on the distant horizon now, and maybe saved.

"How long will the stockpiled drinking water last?" said Justin turned and walked down the wall.

Reiner shook his head slightly, only to realize that he couldn't see.

"I have to leave it for the children and women, even if it is a day longer, it is hope. Reiner replied.

Jestin nodded: "The tunnels are all dug up?"

"I'm already arranging for them to go in and take shelter. Reiner said.

Tunnels, this is the only skill they can use now, breaking the city is just around the corner, hiding children and women, and with the help of the labyrinth-like tunnels under the city, at least the enemy can delay the slaughter of the city.

In the ruins beneath the city walls, people are searching for the remains of their loved ones, at least for now, and tomorrow they may not even have their bodies left. The child who was put aside sat beside the corpse and cried, and Justin walked over and squatted down and put half of the bread in the child's hand, and the little one immediately stopped crying and devoured it.

Jesteen stroked the child's gray little head, squeezing out a gentle smile on her tired face.

"Eat slowly, and your mother will pick you up later." Jastin said, turning to Reiner, "You see him eating, it's just like when Little Five hid in the kitchen and ate cake when he was a child." ”

Reiner was silent for a long time, and said, "The little master will be fine...... this comfort even he feels unconfident, Jester and the others have been away for more than half a month, and the reinforcements are still not heard from, what will happen to them? Where are they? What is the situation now......? No one wants to think about it.

Jastin's smile slowly disappeared, and he changed to his previous steady but resolute expression, he stood up, looked at the child again, and continued to walk into the city, the streets were full of relatives saying goodbye to each other, the father holding the child, the husband kissing goodbye to his wife, the mother and son who couldn't bear to be separated...... Desperately thirsting for hope in hopelessness, obviously in a desperate situation but unwilling to give up, gradually it is rare to see people crying other than children, the look on people's faces is numb and indifferent, only occasionally revealing the fear hidden deep in the heart.

What to do? Except to wait, in addition to welcoming death, they ...... What else can I do?

The bow broke the bowstring, the steel knife rolled up the edge, the iron armor became tattered, the magicians were exhausted, the warrior's body was riddled with holes - Justin couldn't help but close his eyes, not knowing whether it was because he was exhausted and in a trance, or because he was full of sadness because of his own powerlessness, he smiled bitterly and let out a long breath.

"How many crossbows are there?"

"There are eight hundred and forty-one crossbows left, and the number of arrows is not much, so we have to save them. ”

"Arrange more people to pick up the enemy's shots. ”

"Yes, I'm afraid the western wall won't hold ......."

A shrill trumpet sound came from afar, signaling the beginning of a new enemy attack, a sound they were already familiar with. Under the protection of the mercenaries, the Icanathan soldiers rushed to the city wall with long ladders, and at the same time, the sky suddenly darkened, and the dark clouds entangled and rolled against each other to the ground, and lightning slashed down from the sky above the city, and in an instant the rain poured down.

"My lord, I'll take command first. Reiner said as he hurried in the direction of the city walls.

People on the streets were excited to see the rain and reached out to pick it up.

"Don't drink this water, quick, inform everyone, don't drink rainwater......" Justin ordered loudly, by the way, to stop the people around him, they were running out of water when it suddenly rained heavily, no matter how you look at it, it was a conspiracy of the enemy. Several of his subordinates who followed him also reacted, shouting and running around.

Soon, without any notice, people knew that there was something wrong with the rain, and the skin began to reddened and blistered when it was stained with the rain, and a layer of skin fell off when touched by hand. At the beginning, the people who drank the rain had abdominal cramps, and when they saw their stomachs rotting from the inside, they begged in pain, fear, and screaming to the people around them to kill them, and for a time the entire city of the Azores became a hell on earth.

The rain came and went quickly, and it seemed that the enemy could not support such a huge amount of magic consumption, but the blow he inflicted on the entire city was huge, and the enemy wanted to wear down their will to resist.

The only thing that was fortunate was that the defending troops were busy fighting and didn't drink the rain, so it was just skin burns.

Jastin orders all the women and children to hide in the tunnels, and maybe this is their last chance. Their resistance will not stop, because it is their home, but their strength is exhausted, and I am afraid that they will not be able to support the next sunrise.