After the handwritten letter written by Marshal Rocherio was sent, although the morale of the 9th Division was high, the defenders of Crete were still in full force and refused to surrender. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Those stupid idiots dare to defy the military might of the Empire, it seems that they have to pay more blood to make them understand that the dignity of the Imperial army cannot be desecrated! Everyone, I won't say much else, for the glory of the Empire, prepare to fight!" James almost roared and made a general mobilization for war, and all the generals under his command raised their arms and shouted, eager to try.

"Marven, it seems that Rocherio's payment did not have the expected deterrent effect. Rogge walked up to Marven and said with a wry smile, "Are you sure James will still do what you planned?"

"He would, and now that should be expected. Marven smiled and patted Rog on the shoulder, "Master Rog, although Marshal Rocherio is prestigious, but his black and white paper alone may not be able to intimidate the Iliad monarch, not to mention, the defenders of Crete City have just repelled our first round of attack not long ago, and their morale is high, if you don't teach them a lesson, I'm afraid they won't be sober." ”

"I hope they can wake up soon, I hope this war will not destroy that ancient magic array. Rog's eyes looked at the city of Crete in the distance, and his gaze seemed to penetrate the thick walls.

"I hope so!" Marven also sighed, "That ancient magic array, maybe it can really help us......"

"Trebuchet! Prepare for the siege! Mage Regiment! Auxiliary Shooting!" With an order, the battle for the city of Crete soon began again.

The boulders thrown out by the trebuchet suddenly burst into huge flames in mid-air, and hundreds of boulders blessed with magic roared from the sky above Crete like meteorites, and with a huge roar, the city was full of fires, the streets and alleys were in shambles, the sky was dyed red by the flames in an instant, and the inhabitants of the city shouted and wailed in despair, as if the end of the world had come.

With the assistance of almost half of the mage troops of the Iron Shield Legion, the siege troops of the Ninth Division burst out with extremely terrifying combat effectiveness, the fire of the defenders of Crete City was quickly suppressed, several arrow forts on the outer wall were quickly destroyed, and the defenders on the city wall suddenly fell silent.

Seeing this, James quickly gave the order to attack, and the ladder full of heavy infantry slowly approached the tower under the pull of the mammoth, and the engineers quickly rushed to the moat under the escort of several teams of heavy infantry and crossbowmen, and built the pontoon bridge that had been prepared in advance on the river.

James watched the battlefield nervously and with a little excitement, as long as the heavy infantry climbed the tower with the assistance of these siege engines, it would only be a matter of time before the city could be breached with the strength of these imperial elites.

"Woo ......" At the moment when the ladder was about to cross the moat, a loud horn suddenly sounded on the tallest white spire in the city, and several arrow forts on the inner city wall were in full fire in an instant, and the giant crossbow fired locust-like magic crossbow arrows at the ladder of the siege, accompanied by a burst of violent explosions, the ladder carrying the heavy infantry was shattered, and the soldiers besieging the city fell into the water one by one screaming.

The heavy infantry who fell into the water struggled to swim towards the shore with their arms flailing, but the armor they wore was too heavy to move in the water, which made them almost a live target for the defenders' crossbowmen, and with the dense rain of arrows, these skilled imperial elites were shot into hedgehogs one by one, and the entire moat was almost dyed red with blood.

A few heavy infantry commanders who had been lucky enough to go ashore had no intention of fighting again, and fled like ghosts, but they ran not far away when they ran into a somber commander.

"Your Excellency Commander, the enemy's counterattack is so fierce that our entire brigade has been killed, and we can't hold it anymore, so let's withdraw!" the heavy infantry commander panicked and pleaded with tears.

"Sonorous!", James was furious, pulled out his command knife made of stainless steel, and shouted categorically: "As a commander, you actually escaped from the battle, this is simply a shame for the imperial army! My ninth division is the elite of a hundred battles, and there is no such a bad seed as you!"

"Everyone, this is what happens to the deserters!" he waved his bloody command knife at the city of Crete, and shouted angrily, "Crossbowmen and mages cover fire!"

The 9th Division, under James's death order, again charged the city of Crete, and under the cover of the crossbowmen, the heavy infantry and engineers finally crossed the river by pontoons, and once again set up improvised ladders to storm the towers.

Since the fortifications of the outer city wall had been completely destroyed in the first round of long-range attacks of the 9th Division, and these tall and strong walls had also been severely damaged by the attacks of the magicians, the heavy infantry who crossed the river quickly seized the fortress on the outer city wall with their superior martial arts.

Seeing that the Ninth Division had finally begun to gain a foothold on the other side of the moat after suffering heavy casualties, James's expression finally eased.

"Your Excellency, the cost of such a siege is too great, why don't we carry out a few more rounds of long-range attacks, destroy all the fortifications in the city, and then advance and occupy them?" Marven was a little puzzled, although the walls of this Cretan city were strong, James had already concentrated half of the mage troops of the Iron Shield Legion, if he used the magic array to cast a large magic, the power would be no less than the full force of any magic master today.

James smiled helplessly, and stretched out his finger to point to the tallest white spire in the city, with a look of jealousy on his face, "Do you see that tower? If we can't capture it, then even the Grand Magus won't be able to really take the city." ”

Marven was surprised: "Even the Great Magus is helpless! Is there anything special about that tower?"

When the defenders of Crete began to counterattack, he vaguely guessed that this tower was somewhat simple, under the devastating long-range attack of the siege troops of the 9th Division, almost all the buildings in the city were damaged to varying degrees, except for the strange white tower, which stood still in the monstrous flames of battle, and the defenders even sounded the horn of counterattack there.

"The origin of this tower is not ordinary, it is a relic of the era of the Dark Horse Empire, called the Obelisk White Tower, its tower body is made of thousand-year-old white crystal, and there is also a guardian circle laid by the magic master of the Dark Horse Empire in the tower, and any long-range attack method in the world today is helpless to use it!" James's words were full of awe of this ancient ruin, and Marven involuntarily touched the armor-piercing arrow hidden in his sleeve robe, and he was even more admired.

The Dark Horse Empire a thousand years ago was really powerful, not only did it successfully conquer the whole world, but any civilization crystallization it left behind was enough to make the world fall for it a thousand years later!

"In addition, the internal structure of the obelisk white tower can also be described as unique, the well water in the tower is connected to the river water outside the city, and can be pumped to the spire by mechanical power, this tower is as high as a hundred zhang, can accommodate thousands of people, the basement at the bottom of the tower is extremely large, and what is even more amazing is that it can also make hundreds of tons of grain for decades without rotting!" James took Marven into the camp tent not far behind him, and kept gesturing his fingers on the sand table, telling Marven all the details of the obelisk white tower.

"So powerful!" Marven's shock in his heart at this moment is completely indescribable, this obelisk white tower is the tallest building in the city, and it is indestructible and well supplied, and it is extremely difficult to deal with the arrow fort on the inner city, even if the combat effectiveness of the Ninth Division is obvious compared to the defenders in the city, but it may take a lot of trouble to completely conquer Crete City.

"Boom!" There were a few loud noises, and while they were talking, there was a sudden change on the battlefield!

The top of the majestic obelisk tower suddenly emitted several blue-purple rays of light towards the surface of the moat, and a moment later, with several loud roars, several waterspouts with a diameter of more than ten meters rose from the surface of the moat, roaring and pounced on the pontoon bridge and the crumbling ladders.

The soldiers on the pontoon bridge and the ladder did not have time to let out an exclamation before they were swallowed up by the turbulent current, and the pontoon bridge and all kinds of siege equipment on it were reduced to a pile of pieces under the heavy blow of the waterspout, and the river seemed to be boiling, and countless huge whirlpools appeared, and countless soldiers who had fallen into the water struggled in vain with their logs, and were swallowed up by the mighty waterspouts and whirlpools one by one.

The engineers and crossbowmen on the edge of the moat involuntarily took a few steps back, and the moat, which was less than 100 meters wide, had become almost an impassable barrier at this moment.

Marven ...... Ho, Your Excellency the Commander is also there......" Rogge ran over, gasping for breath, he was assisting the crossbowmen's long-range shooting with the mage troops of the Pioneer Battalion, and immediately rushed back when he saw the sudden change in the situation on the battlefield.

Rogge pointed to the obelisk white tower standing tall in the distance, shook his head and sighed, "That tower...... That tower is so wicked! The magic array that the defenders have planted in the moat we can't detect in advance, and we can't dispel it......! After trying for a long time, I realized that the eye of the magic array was actually on top of that white tower!"

"Then gather all the magicians and fight against magic!" completely overwhelm them!" James shouted coldly, "I don't believe it, they can block half of the magicians of the Iron Shield Legion with an ancient tower and a moat!"

"Obey!" Marven and Rogge received the order, and then gathered together with other magicians under the escort of heavy infantry, and formed a huge blue ** magic circle on a high ground not far from the moat, and then chanted a spell loudly.

The mage group casts a super-level frozen magic -------- "Frozen Miles", which can completely freeze the water of a large river in an instant, paving the way for the army's attack. However, due to the interference and resistance of the magic array, this super-level magic that can instantly freeze the river did not exert its due power in front of a small moat, although the temperature gradually decreased as time passed, but the boiling river still showed no signs of being frozen.

After about an hour, the situation finally improved, the boiling moat finally began to quiet down, a thin layer of ice crystals formed on the surface of the river, Marven and Rogge were already tired and sweating, the mage troops they led finally had the upper hand, although the mages of the defenders of Crete City were blessed with the power of the obelisk white tower, but after all, they were still unable to resist the mage troops drawn from half of the imperial legions.

The Cretan defenders finally panicked, and the obelisk white tower continued to shoot heavy crossbow arrows at the mage group outside the city, trying to interrupt the magician's casting, but the tower shield of the heavy infantry phalanx had already protected the mage group like an iron bucket, and the crossbow arrows shot only clanged and sparked on the tower shield, not hurting the opponent at all.

However, the first wave of heavy infantry of the 9th Division who climbed the outer city wall was not so lucky, because the back road was intercepted, they had to face a large-scale counterattack by the defenders alone, under the enemy's dozens of times the strength advantage, these brave and good warriors fell to the head of the city one by one, and the strongholds on the outer wall were recovered by the defenders step by step.

Seeing that the results of the previous battle were about to come to naught, James was furious in his heart, gritted his teeth, and ordered the quartermaster to take out two magic crystal cores the size of eggs and personally send them to the mage group.

The commander raised the magic crystal nucleus in his hand and shouted loudly: "Everyone! This is the trophy I obtained from the expedition with Marshal Rocherio ten years ago, and it is a symbol of the glory of our division! Today, I will use them to help you, hoping that everyone will unite sincerely to break through Crete City!" After speaking, he threw the two precious magic crystal cores into the giant magic circle in the center of the mage group.