The defection of the Patriarch of the Imperial Capital was a heavy blow to the entire Church. Along with a dozen or so bishops, a cardinal and a number of priests, they defected, making it the greatest disgrace in the history of the Church. Attila ordered a hunt and killed, and at great cost hired a former ascetic to be the main pursuer and hunt down Hano and his party.

The shock caused by Hano's defection continues, and many people feel that Hano and his followers will end badly. After all, as the only high-end force in the world today, the Church, will not let this group of people live.

But is that really the case?

Attila could only pin his hopes on the ascetic, hoping that the few ascetics who had been with Sol for a period of time and had only one of the few remaining fruits would succeed immediately.

In another world, Rosie is doing hard labor with his knights.

When news from the front finally came the next day, before the gates were closed, the consuls immediately ordered the gates to be closed, and more men were recruited to prepare for the possible arrival of Jeruth's army. Some of the consuls held the opposite view, believing that Jeruth had just taken a city and that it was necessary to stabilize the situation and lay a stable rear for the impending deeper invasion, and that it would not be easy to go deeper.

Instead of closing the gates early and placing defenses, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the Jeruts have not yet come to attack and flexibly carry out some operations.

This operation, in fact, refers to the transfer of assets and family members, and the initiators are the upper class people in the city, including the supervision officials and some grassroots officials.

The leader of a city, when disaster is imminent, is likely to face two extremes.

The first is that the leader is deeply popular and majestic on weekdays, and everyone is convinced, willing to follow his leadership and arrangement, and follow closely behind.

The second is that the leader is unpopular, and his subordinates are disobedient, and the filthiness of the past completely explodes under the temptation of external pressure.

The first is rare, and only the Lerea people have ever seen Rosie have done it. In the face of Jeruth's army, they were united, and regardless of the outcome, at least in the process, Leriaya and their leader were worthy of recognition.

Here, it's the second case.

The consuls wanted to hold on to the city and live and die with it. Even if he might run away in the end, he wanted to hold on until the last minute. After all, it is also a sin to flee without a fight, and whether or not he wants to go to court to stand trial in the future, in short, his career ends here. Accustomed to being a soil emperor, and suddenly losing power, I'm afraid he will be worse than dead.

But the people below think differently.

The Jerutian offensive was unstoppable, as the Huiths once existed have demonstrated. This group of barbarians who have been fighting with each other since the time of the city-state were born for war, they have been preparing for this war for tens of thousands of years, from generation to generation, and their familiarity and mastery of war have long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, how can a small city stop it?

Rather than losing the city and losing ground after dying in battle, it is better to surrender or leave early.

Commoners, untouchables, and slaves are reluctant to resist, and their lives will not change because of the arrival of the Jeruts, whether they are slaves or slaves, and whether they should be commoners and untouchables, they will not embark on a journey of prosperity because of the arrival of the Jeruts. It is the citizen class and the elite class who really want to run. And a war is precisely what they need.

In the middle of the night, the inspector took two commanders and secretly opened the city gates, sending away a large number of family members and supplies, leaving only a small number of elite house slaves to use when they were ready to break through. These officials have more flexible brains, they know very well that it is not okay to run away at this time, they are officials, not those rich people. Even the rich do not dare to run away, and Jettel's laws will turn them from powerful to slaves.

So they have to wait, wait until it's enough for them to get away with their sins.

Opening the gates this time means that there will be a second time.

Before dawn, the gates were opened again, this time again by the Inspector and a commander himself, and a group of people were sent away.

The news was quickly reported back to the consul, who had nothing to do but scold and throw things but pretend not to know.

On the morning of the third day, Jeruth's horses began to appear frequently, and the atmosphere in the city became tense at once.

Rossi carried generations of sandbags and threw them behind the closed gates to prevent the Jeruts from breaking through the gates with siege engines. Some people pointed out that there was no point in doing so, because the Yeruts were accustomed to using siege monsters to fight the first wave of attacks, and if they could not entangle or even destroy the siege beasts, the city would definitely not be able to stand it.

Probably provoked by two blatant violations, the consul did not listen to the persuasion of others at all, and insisted on going his own way.

He also sent all the men he had recruited to the top of the wall to fight the Jeruts to the death.

Rossi and his men were also sent to the wall, each with a long sword and a small round shield.

"Boss...... , this ......", the centurion who spoke gritted his teeth, gasped, and had a toothache, and he didn't know what expression to use to express the ridiculous feeling in his heart at this time. Obviously blended into the city and prepared to respond to the army outside the city at any time, and was ready to sacrifice for this, who Cheng thought that in the blink of an eye, the consul of the city gave a big gift, and actually sent them all to the wall.

How funny it feels, if the archons knew their identities, would they vomit blood?

Rosie glanced at him and lowered his voice, "Hurry up and get to work, don't grind." ”

At this point, you must not make mistakes, otherwise you will fall short. Originally, his plan was to be responsible for guarding the city gates, but he didn't know that the archons decided to block the city gates, so that the enemy would not have the possibility of attacking through the city gates, and also put an end to the possibility of insiders going out of the city gates. Perhaps this was the result of his deliberation, but more likely it was his vengeful decision.

Don't you like to open the gates of the city without permission?

Okay, now I'm blocking the city gate, everyone don't leave.

Just when Rossi was worried about this, he didn't expect that they were all mobilized to the city wall.

Two thousand elite knights mixed with these loose soldiers is a big joke!

After a day of careful reconnaissance, early in the morning of the fourth day, Jeruth's army appeared not far outside the city.

The consul and a large number of his officials looked at the sparse number of people, and their minds couldn't turn for a while.

Why is it just such a small person?

Are there 20,000 people?

It seems that there are less than 10,000 people, but are they really here to attack the city? What about the siege beasts? What about the siege equipment?

While they breathed a sigh of relief, a question also arose.

How dare such a small person attack a city?

When the sun climbed into the air, about ten o'clock in the morning, the siege began.