At the beginning of the second year of the Emperor's calendar, several encounters broke out on the border of the two military powers on the continent of Shusyare, and each side suffered losses. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoA few months later, Satya's 30,000 vanguard troops had arrived at the satellite city of Tallinnburg.

At this time, the main city of Tallinnburg gathered the main force of 50,000 imperial elite "Red Panther Knights" and 30,000 conscripts, and the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest are ten kilometers away from the main city of Tallinnburg is the four satellite cities of Tallinnburg. The satellite cities differed from the main city in that each satellite city was a pure battle fortress, with troops ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 deployed in each fortress, and the castle was covered with shooting holes, and a two-meter-wide moat circled the city. There were only two gates in front and back of the entrance to the castle, and even without reinforcements, a single satellite city would be enough to withstand Satya's 30,000 vanguard troops.

Tallinn Fort was located in the Otlan Empire's closest city to Satya, and was built from the beginning with defensive purposes. Rival the walls and moats of Lisbon as the strongest line of defense for the main city. The distance of supporting four main cities from the main city will take only a few hours for the speed of any army's march, and the enemy besieging the satellite city will be overwhelmed. If the enemy were to besiege the main city of Tallinnburg, the four satellite cities could simultaneously attack the besieging forces from four directions or transport a steady stream of war supplies to the main city.

No matter which castle the enemy attacks, he has lost all advantages in terms of time, place, and people. When Tallinnburg was built, the chief architect lamented that if it took more than three times as many troops to conquer a city, it would take at least thirty times as many troops to conquer Tallinn.

Today, there are 100,000 regular Imperial troops deployed within the city limits of Tallinnburg, and the defenders are more than double the strength of the garrison in peacetime. The castle guard was the eldest son of the Marshal of the Imperial Army, Earl of Hebrew. Familiar with military books, he understood the importance of Tallinn Fort, and sent most of his troops from the three nearby cities to Tallinn Fort to defend it. The Earl of Hebrew understood that the loss of a few cities was not as important to the empire as Tallinnburg.

If Satya allowed Tallinn to attack the Empire's inner cities, Tallinn would become a time bomb behind the enemy. Regardless of which direction Satya attacked Osland, the Hebrews could at any time draw cavalry from Tallinn to raid their material transports. Even if the Satyan army that has lost its supplies has hundreds of thousands of troops, it will naturally collapse within half a month. As long as the battle can be won in the end, losing a few strategically insignificant cities is not too much of a mistake.

Over the past few decades, Tallinnburg has played a significant role in several of Satya's attacks. So whoever the defenders of Tallinnburg were, an order was given that it was forbidden to make the number of defenders of Tallinn less than 30,000 men in any case. As long as there were 30,000 defenders, Tallinn could hold out for at least half a year. By that time, even the reinforcements sent by the imperial capital had already arrived.

In addition to the 100,000 defenders, there are hundreds of magicians and the same number of priests, of which the total number of high-level magicians and second-order priests is about a hundred. There is also the Blue Dragon Knight, one of the four great dragon knights of the empire, and no one will think that Satya can get any battle merits this time.

At this time, there were two people on the top of the castle in West Tallinburg, watching the Satya troops who were camping several kilometers away. The Earl of Hebrew was squinting, and His Excellency, who was nearly fifty years old, did not seem to have a good eye. Fortunately, Cosimo, the dragon knight who was about the same age beside him, could see clearly and was explaining to him Satya's military deployment.

"You say...... There are 30,000 people in the vanguard of this Satya, so it can't be a real joke this time, right?" The Earl was not worried about the oppression of the soldiers coming to the city, and was making innocuous jokes with his colleagues.

"No matter how many people he comes, he will not be able to conquer Tallinnburg. The Blue Dragon Knight also regained the composure of the Dragon Knight at this time, and the battlefield was their dominant place.

"What the hell are they trying to do? Could it be that they are trying to lure me out of the city? 30,000 people is still a bit tempting. ”

"Your Excellency, do not forget Your Majesty's order, to strictly guard the city, and not to go to war. Cold words came from Cosimo's heavily armed helmet, reminding his superior, who was two levels lower than himself.

"Then why don't Your Excellency the Dragon Knight ride the Dragon to their camp for a walk?, maybe they will withdraw their troops?" Lord Earl seemed to be a little speechless, and cold sweat broke out on the foreheads of many officers behind him.

"It is a taboo for the general to disagree before the battle, Your Excellency the marshal, please stop making fun of me. ”

This guy is not funny, he has no humor at all, and the Earl of Hebrew is bored. At this time, he suddenly rode into the castle on a fast horse, and His Excellency the Earl simply waited.

After a while, the ranger sentry who had returned from the front line ran upstairs: "Marshal Qiyu, the enemy rear spies have reported that the enemy's second unit will arrive tomorrow, and the number is initially estimated to be about 50,000, mainly infantry. Hebrew waved the sentry down to rest.

"Could it be that they really want to attack the city?" The first two troops who arrived were actually infantry and archers, and the fastest cavalry had not yet appeared, and the enemy's food consumption in a single month had reached tens of thousands of gold coins in such a large-scale dispatch this time. Satya really plans to take Tallinn Fort this time. If Tallinn Fort is lost, the Empire will create an impregnable fortress for them.

But for Satya, Tallinn Fort is also a thorn that will be pulled out sooner or later, just sooner or later. In order to seize such an important strategic position, perhaps they felt that it was worth sacrificing hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

"Duke Cosimo, the western city is handed over to you, please keep an eye out for the beacon fire on the western wall. "The great war was imminent, and Hebrew had to put away his cynical character.

"It is bound to live and die with Xicheng. Cosimo struck his left chest hard with his right hand. West Talimburg is the first and most important line of defense against Satya. If the western city is lost, Satya will be given a fortress to recuperate, so the Hebrew will arrange the strongest dragon knights in the army to be in the western city. Moreover, the dragon knights act quickly, and if something happens to the main city, the beacon dragon knights who have lit the western city wall can arrive in a quarter of an hour. At this time, there were 7,000 elite troops deployed in the West City, and if there were no more than a plurality of dragon knights on the opposite side, it would be impossible to lose them with the support of the main city.

Hebrew, who had arranged everything, immediately rode back to the main city on a fast horse, after all, the most important thing as a marshal is to command the overall situation, and the matter of charging into battle should be left to the generals below.

In the five days that followed, the forces of the Satya Empire arrived at Tallinn one after another, and the number of spies reported by the last wave had reached 150,000. Although the number of troops in Tallinn Fort has already outnumbered, it is far from enough to encircle Tallinn Fort and its four satellite cities in one go. But Hebrew also understands that the first wave of tentative attacks will come today.

In the days before, the woods near Tallinn Fort had been devastated. Although siege engines can travel with the troops, in order to maintain the longevity of the war, consumables such as crossbow arrows used in ballistas and stones from trebuchets must be made locally. When the first wave of attacks was launched, more than a dozen trebuchets and ballistae were fired at the same time, and the iron-hard walls of the western city were also shaken into a mournful roar.

At the same time, three squadrons of light infantry of Satya rushed up with ladders and other siege equipment. The distance of one hundred meters to three hundred meters is the harvest of death for the infantry covered in leather chain mail. Whether it's the trebuchets on the opposite ramparts, or the archers who lean out from time to time and shoot arrows, it is possible to take their lives.

Dozens of kilograms of stones were thrown out by a huge trebuchet and shattered into stones more than a dozen centimeters in the sky. The blood stained the battlefield red in an instant, and many stones bounced onto another soldier after hitting them, and the huge impact directly shattered their internal organs.

In just one round of projectiles, nearly a hundred lives lay on the battlefield, but neither the defenders nor the attackers were moved by this. For them, it's just a number.

While the archers on the walls continued to harvest the lives of the besieging troops, the bows and arrows in the Satya troops continued to shoot down the soldiers on the walls. Bows and arrows infused with wind magic continued to draw pale yellow trajectories in the air, and at a distance of three hundred meters, only the magic archers and elves could aim and shoot.

The appearance of the magic archers relieved the light infantry of a lot of pressure, and the archers on the city walls could only occasionally show their bodies to shoot, and the light infantry suddenly increased their marching speed. A hundred meters, the light infantry who rushed to the front let out a cheer, this distance was already out of the range of the trebuchets thrown from the city wall, and the next thing was the battle of blood and sword. Even so, nearly a thousand soldiers could not see the sun the next day.

The first group of infantry to reach the moat placed the ladder in their hands on the moat, and with a long sword in their mouth, they climbed the ladder to cross the river with their hands and feet. The archers on the walls kept shooting arrows into the moat, and the light infantry kept falling into the river. As soon as the soldier who had managed to climb the river reached the bottom of the city wall, a boulder fell from the sky and splashed his brain for a long distance.

The second group of soldiers who arrived at the moat carried a plank and threw it directly on two ladders, and the light infantry that followed jumped over the moat directly on the plank. The infantry with the ladder in their hands set up the ladder on the city wall, and the defenders above the wall kept throwing boulders, and the corpses piled up under the wall gradually increased.

When the light infantry began to climb up, the hot oil on the city wall was already boiling, and several strong soldiers carried oil pans down the city wall, and the screams instantly resounded in the sky.

"Shoot rockets!" the captain of the city defense squad gave the order, and a large number of torches were carried up the city wall, and the archers kept wetting the arrows with oil, and the torches were immediately ignited as soon as they touched it.

"Poof!" the first soldier who had been doused with hot oil was shot, and the fire immediately began to climb up with the oil on the man's body. "Ahh

"Throw the torch!" As if they hadn't heard the screams below, the burning torches were thrown off the city wall, and a sea of fire enveloped the entire West City.

In the first tentative attack, the three light infantry squadrons that Satya took the lead in were all wiped out before they could climb the city walls, and several soldiers who had not yet crossed the moat fled back to their positions for fear and were cut off by the law enforcement guards.

At this time, the defenders also suffered nearly 100 casualties, and they were basically shot by the magic archers. Siege warfare is about attrition, constantly consuming the troops and materials of the defending army with several times the number of the enemy, and launching the final offensive after they run out of ammunition and food.