The Belém Desert, originally a plain of yellow sand, is now shrouded in darkness.

The sea breeze swells from the Devil's Strait to the north, and the strong wind sweeps through the majestic walls of Fort Wick, and through the arrowholes of the towers, it makes a ghostly whining sound.

A black crowd poured out of the golden corridor and approached Fort Wick. Xu Xun stood on the terrace and looked into the distance, and suddenly stomped his feet and said: "The art of war is cloudy, the soldiers are fast, you should strike hard before the enemy army gains a firm foothold, and you will definitely be able to defeat the enemy army, this is a good time to assault, but why didn't Emperor Xisai move?"

Guo Xinzhu said: "We have been observing for the past few days, the Emperor Xisai sent surprise troops to attack Mitarion in the Golden Corridor, from which it can be seen that the Emperor Xisai is still very bold in using troops, and I am afraid that he is waiting for reinforcements at this moment, or ...... It was his prince who was seriously injured and affected his decision. ”

At this moment, at the very top of Wickburg, the Emperor of Heater was staring at Mittalion's movements. Looking at the Mitarion army surging in front of him, his brows were furrowed, but he seemed so calm.

The 5,000 elite soldiers sent to the Golden Corridor before, only a few dozen people were able to come back, including his eldest son was seriously injured, which was really a big blow to him, and the 20,000 reinforcements sent from the two allies of Westland and North Shilan in the east would take two days to arrive, and what made him even more anxious was that according to the report of the remnants of the Golden Corridor withdrawing, the Mitarion army was probably far more than 100,000, he originally hoped to defend according to the danger, and then there was foreign aid to help, even if it was difficult, he still had the confidence to hold here, and now the situation has changed drastically, Fort Wick is afraid that it will not be able to hold it。 He was not afraid of death, but it was really frustrating to think that Belen's inheritance was about to be buried in his own hands, and it was for this reason that he did not dare to act rashly, and only hoped that Mitarion would also slow down and give himself some time to wait for reinforcements.

Seeing that the enemy army had begun to enter the Belém Wasteland, the third prince Satans beside him took the initiative to ask for Ying, asking Emperor Hisai to give him 2,000 men and horses, and take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to go to the raid. Hisai the Great shook his head, but did not say a word.

For an entire day, Mitarion's army continued to enter the Berém Moors. As night fell, the troops who had arrived early began to set up barracks and light up their lights in the wasteland. The firelight illuminated the entire Belém moor as bright as day.

On the Belén side, the Belén soldiers who were originally stationed under the first and second city walls began to enter the entire Wick Fort, and soldiers were stationed on every floor of the main roads and terraces. Tens of thousands of soldiers moved quickly, and soon the entire Fort Wick was filled with barely any lights. Only on the top floor, the palace of the Emperor Hissai still shines brightly.

Mitarion's army, on the other hand, seemed to be in a state of mind and was in no hurry to storm the city. They lit dozens of huge bonfires in the wasteland, and began to perform some kind of ritual around them, and all night they heard the cries of "whoop, drink" from the Belém moor.

The next day, the sky was overcast, and a storm seemed to be converging over Fort Wick. This was even more beneficial to the guards of Fort Wick, because if the storm hit, it would be difficult for Mitarion's fleet to use it, but since Mitarion's army entered the Belém Wasteland yesterday, it seems that there has been no shadow of the Celestial Ark.

It was nearly noon, and the Mitarion army in the Belém moors gradually began to change. They slowly divided into fourteen or five square formations. Each phalanx is nearly a mile wide, and according to Xu Xun's estimate, each phalanx should have nearly 10,000 people. In other words, the number of the Mitarion army is definitely more than 100,000, I am afraid close to 150,000, far exceeding the initial estimate.

As Mitarion's formation change was completed, a group of giant elephants came out of their central army. The giant elephant is a giant beast unique to Kanchanaburi, they are more than a foot tall, their temper is violent, one leg is taller than a person, and two huge tusks, more than a zhang long, ordinary ten people can not get close to it at all.

There were more than a dozen of them, each carrying a wooden tower that could hold three or four people, one of whom held a horn made of the teeth of a giant elephant. The elephants walked all the way to the front of Mitarion's army, and then a low trumpet sounded in unison from more than a dozen giant elephants, and the horn sounded incessantly, and Mitarion's siege began.

The first to act were the two phalanxes on the left and right of the Mitarion's army. The phalanx moved neatly towards Fort Wick, and soon it was less than a mile away from Fort Wick.

At this time, on the top floor of Fort Wick, Heather the Great stood at the very edge of the terrace, drew his sword, pointed at the sky, and shouted, this shout was full of breath, and the low sound of the horn reached the ears of everyone in Wickburg.

Chenguang sighed: "This Fort Wick is really an excellent place for defense, and even the momentum can be so enhanced. ”

Xu Xun also nodded: "Wick Fort is built between the two mountains, and the sound in the middle echoes between the mountain walls on both sides, and the momentum is a hundred times stronger, which is an absolute boost to the morale of the soldiers. ”

After hearing only a shout from Emperor Hissai, Belen's soldiers immediately began to fight back. The generals of each floor began to direct their men to attack.

The first to attack was the defenders of the first wall. More than a dozen huge trebuchets tossed table-sized rocks into the air and smashed them into the Mittalion army as they approached Fort Wick. Each rock would smash a small white circular hole in the black phalanx of the Mitarion's army, and at this distance, Mitarion's long-range weapons could not be used for the time being, and could only be beaten in vain.

However, just as the defenders of Belém began to attack, the speed of the Mitarion's march suddenly increased, and the phalanx on both flanks was soon less than two hundred feet away from the first wall, and the roar of the Mitarion's army could even be heard on the terrace on the eighth floor in the morning light.

At this time, the archers of the first city wall began to shoot intensively, and a rain of arrows sprinkled on the phalanx of the Mitarion army, but the Mitarion army had been prepared for this, nearly half of the soldiers in their phalanx were carrying a large rectangular shield, and thousands of large shields were raised in unison, and the defense above the formation was suddenly impenetrable, and this rain of arrows almost did not cause damage to the Mitarion army.

The generals of the first wall also adjusted their tactics in time, and the archers stopped firing and waited for the enemy to approach, seeing the enemy's lax interval, and coldly placing a few arrows, which was more effective than the previous arrow rain attack. The Mitarion's constant use of arrows, combined with the heavy damage of the trebuchets, soon caused hundreds of men in both phalanxes to fall on the road to Fort Wick.

However, the advantage of the Mitarion's army was that it was outnumbered, and this loss had little effect, and the two phalanxes still pounced at the foot of the first wall.

The walls of Fort Wick have been painstakingly maintained for decades, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the first fortress in the world. The first wall is the shortest of the three, but it is also thirty or forty feet high. The city wall is made of a whole rectangular rock, each rock has thousands of catties, and the rocks are glued with a mixture of volcanic ash, seawater, and gum, which is extremely strong. And this city wall also has a hidden function, it is actually two city walls connected together, with a passage in the middle that is more than a zhang wide. The passage is divided into several levels, each of which can accommodate soldiers, and has arrow holes that can be shot outward. At intervals in each passage, the two walls in front and back are supported by sturdy giant logs, so that the entire city wall becomes extremely strong, and the city wall itself has a strong defensive ability, if ordinary people want to climb this wall, it is simply a fantasy.

However, Mitarion apparently also studied the walls of Fort Wick deeply. When their soldiers came to the city wall, they took out a pair of iron gloves shaped like cat's claws, put them on their hands, and put an iron hook on their feet, and began to climb upwards with their hands and feet.

Fort Wick's walls were huge in rock, and they were meant to defend against the enemy's heavy siege equipment, so the gaps between the rocks were not small, which became a flaw for the Mytarionian soldiers to exploit. Mitarion's soldiers climbed the crevices in the rocks with ease, and soon the lower half of the wall was crawling with Mitarion's soldiers, like a herd of geckos crawling on the walls.

The Belém soldiers at the top of the wall began to fire arrows under the walls, but the Mitarion soldiers carried their large shields on their backs and climbed up with their bows hunched, and the arrows could barely hurt them, and the trebuchets could not fire against the walls at all, so they were helpless.

Seeing that the Mitarion army had climbed half of the city wall, the Belém army suddenly changed formation, the archers withdrew from the wall, and a group of strong men stood on the city wall. They lifted hundreds of pounds of boulders and smashed them one by one at the Mitarion army who were climbing the wall, this time, the Mitarion army was in the air, and they couldn't dodge at all, and they were smashed under the wall one after another, and even the soldiers waiting under the wall were also affected. Several rounds of boulder attacks smashed hundreds of Mitarion soldiers into meat sauce, and the scene was extremely tragic for a while.

Chenguang and the others stood on the terrace on the eighth floor, listening to the wailing in front of them, watching the continuous people with their livers and brains, broken hands and feet, it was really unacceptable for a while, Yu Tuo's master and apprentice had already sat down cross-legged on the side, chanting scriptures constantly, and Amytis even ran to the corner and started retching.

Xu Xun shook his head and said, "At any time, war is always so disgusting......

Chenguang looked at the tragic scene in front of him, and said hoarsely: "In just a few moments, so many lives have been lost, how can we end the war as soon as possible?"

Guo Xinzhu said: "The war has started, where can it be so easy to end? Unless one side surrenders, or the person leading the war changes his mind." ”

Chenguang looked up at the Emperor Hisai standing on the edge of the terrace on the top floor, he was defending his own people, and even the people of the entire state of Nanchanaburi, he was definitely not going to back down, then only the commander of Mitarion was leading this war.

Chenguang looked at the Chinese army camp in Mitarion in the distance, there was nothing unusual there, several large tents were located in the middle of the Chinese army, and it was impossible to see where their commander was, as if the deaths and injuries of thousands of soldiers on the front line did not exist at all.

The crowd was staring at the battlefield, and the situation had changed again. The giant elephants of the Mitarion army sounded the horn of the attack again, and this time, the horn sounded long and short, and the two phalanxes in the center of the front army of the Mitarion army began to advance towards Fort Wick.

At this time, Mitarion's forces on the offensive had surpassed Belém's defenders by a lot, and the situation immediately began to change.

Originally, the Belém army killed and wounded thousands of Mitarion's initial attack almost unscathed, but Mitarion's first attack was obviously just a temptation, or a drag. The defenders of Belém had to defend a wall several miles long, and it was obviously difficult to take care of it all, relying only on the 5,000 men and horses in the first wall.

Mitarion's Chinese army was different from the phalanx on both flanks, and there were dozens of ten-zhang high trebuchets and hundreds of ladders tens of zhang high. This ladder was clearly the real force of the siege of Mitarion. The ladder is in the shape of a square cone, made of countless giant trees, and is not afraid of the attack of bows and arrows. At the top of the ladder is a door-shaped boom that swings several feet in front of the ladder, and it is obvious that there is some kind of equipment behind the ladder. Hundreds of huge logs rolled forward under the ladder, and as soon as each log left the sliding range of the ladder, a group of soldiers immediately lifted the log to the front of the ladder and continued to carry the ladder forward.

The Belém army obviously knew that this attack was the beginning of the real power, but the bows and arrows could not hurt the ladder and the Mitarion army behind it, and the Belém defenders immediately became a little scrambling, constantly converging the men and horses on both wings to the center, so that the defense of the two wings immediately appeared to be a little lax, and the two Mitarion troops who had been suppressed under the city wall began to climb up again.

Chenguang saw Emperor Xisai turn around and beckon his third prince to him, and teach him a few words, and the third prince immediately mounted his horse and galloped towards the front line with a group of cavalry.

By this time, Mitarion's ladder forces were getting closer and closer to the first wall, and their trebuchets began to throw rocks at Fort Wick. Mitarion's rocks were clearly superior to Belen's, as they burned the rocks to a red color before throwing them at Fort Wick.

Mitarion's move was clearly premeditated, because many of the houses and markets in Fort Wick were made of wood, and the scorching rocks could cause chaos in Fort Wick if they set these wooden buildings on fire. Moreover, the scorched rocks are loose, and many rocks disintegrate into countless fragments in the air, making them even more powerful.

The third prince led a group of his own soldiers to rush down from the top floor to the second wall, and then the defenders of the second wall began to move towards the first wall, and at the more than ten watchtowers of the second wall, the Belém army once again erected more than a dozen trebuchets and began to shoot rocks at the Mitarion's army approaching Fort Wick. At this time, Mitarion's ladder had also advanced to less than 100 feet from the city wall, and Mitarion's soldiers began to shoot arrows at the city wall.

For a time, the entire battlefield was staggered with boulders and arrows. Under Fort Wick, tens of thousands of Taleon troops were climbing on the city walls, and some were advancing towards the city gates, and the battle soon entered a stalemate.