readx; Qu Jianhong and the other two senior officers knelt on the ground, and when they gave Daqingshan and Horns a kowtow each, they didn't say a word, turned over and got on their mounts, although their eyes were red and swollen from crying, and they couldn't see anything clearly in front of them, the young Grand Duke still gave four orders in a row. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The four troops of the Light Knight Legion of Tongyun Pass, the Heavy Knight Legion of the Earth Walking Dragon, the Camel Legion of the Desert Empire, and the Allied Brigade of the Flower Language Plain moved in turn! The young soldiers, regardless of their official ranks, bowed to the other two deputy commanders of the small mercenary group at the moment when they took their mounts.

"Deputy Leader!" Ling Yun and Hu Er both walked out of the cadres of the small mercenary group and bowed to the two deputy leaders.

Da Qingshan nodded slightly, his face and tone returned to calm: "Go ahead." Send someone to inform Uncle Balbas of them. ”

"Yes. The two young dragon knights bowed again and quietly left.

In just over ten minutes, the once empty school military field was once again empty. Nearly 10,000 ironclad armies disappeared in the northeast corner of Moyada City.

"Let's go! It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married! We're going back!" the dwarf stomped hard, and dust was everywhere.

All the mercenary cadres and senior officers stared at each other with wide eyes, depressed, angry, puzzled, helpless, and ridiculed by a few jokes...... Plural eyes weaved silently through the crowd.

The cadres in the small mercenary group system are all helpless in the face of this kind of scene, and Deputy Commander Chi Aotian is good at everything, but his temper is too big at some point, and no one can explain it at all.

In the meeting hall, after all the middle-level cadres and middle-level officers were seated, the black pressed a crowd.

Horns thought for a moment, waved his hand to let the commanders of each unit stay, and everyone else went down first, and arranged for all troops to enter the first level of combat readiness.

The cadres and officers were all stunned, the first level of combat readiness is the highest combat readiness, after entering the first level of combat readiness, that is, ready to open at any time and enter the state of war at any time, now the northern and southern fronts of the theater are already very stable, the soldiers of Scambrai have long since withdrawn completely, and the soldiers of the Sanganhe theater have also changed from offensive to defensive, and they have begun to build fortresses and are preparing for long-term defense. Now that you have entered the first level of equipment, which direction are you going to war?

No one dared to touch the acting general's head now, and everyone had just seen the embarrassing scene for Horns, and hurriedly went down to make arrangements.

When these officers and cadres had all gone down, General Lantian, who had already paid homage to the generals of the Northern Theater of Operations, coughed lightly and asked, "Your Highness, we ...... Is it a rebel who is preparing to attack the Boundary Forest War Zone?"

Lord Lantian, the former first deputy head of the Colorful Dragon Knights, is now ranked first in the uniform group of the Northern Theater of Operations.

Lord Lantian once commanded 10,000 regular army knights to attack the city on the northwest side of the empire, and swept away the rebellious family forces of the empire led by the former vice minister of the empire, Delaware, except for the last few castles of the Delaware family supported by the Scambrai pseudo-dragon knights, the entire northwest was basically cleared. After the bloody battle that year, Lantian's noble title had been officially promoted from a marquis to an imperial duke by the Imperial Ministry of Affairs.

"Why do you think so?" Horns snorted coldly, "Is it ...... We have not fulfilled our obligations after handing over the army, and we must give the icing on the cake to Lord Huayu?

Once again, the air in the chamber cooled down. His Royal Highness Horns' rare tone and expression had already shown that he was really angry, otherwise, he would not have said such things that seemed to be Ren Xing like His Excellency Daqingshan.

It's just that...... Several high-ranking officers and Deputy Regiment Commander Gelsu all showed a strange look in their eyes, is it necessary to show their dissatisfaction in front of such a middle-level officer? Although the deputies of each unit have been allowed to retreat, there are still 20 officers and cadres sitting in the hall, and there are also two commanders of the Berserker and Berserker Knights...... No one can expect a berserker to keep even a single word of secret. Some people joked that if a berserker entered the intelligence system of the Thieves Guild, it is estimated that ...... All informants will be cut down because they have been betrayed, and all the information will be shouted out by berserkers at the top of their voices, and from then on they will enter the prosperous world of the balance of the world. Now we can only hope that these two berserkers will be able to spread less "rumors" when they go out.

Horns waved his hand to open the curtain on the wall, picked up his baton and poked a part of the map hard: "The little mercenary group is rarely defeated, and it must be recovered." Captain Amy said that you can eat anything, but you can't suffer losses. Captain Amy also said that we don't do loss-making business. We must admit that the attack of the Pirate Skeleton Legion is too strange for us to resist now, so the new battlefield must be located far from the river. That's it...... There is a saying in human society, which I have always thought is classic, that is, 'there is no room for half a grain of sand in the eye', hehe...... This pea-sized piece of sand has been in my eyes for two years now, reminding me of its existence all the time. ”

This is also sand, and all the officers in the room are looking at each other. They had already seen that the sand that Horns poked turned out to be Didu Scambrai. What a big one...... Sandstone.

Indeed, as Horns said, within 300 miles of Scambrai, all the cities and fortresses were filled with colorful dragon pennants and black sè rattlesnake pennants, and only Scambrai and several surrounding sub-cities were planted with small golden sè triangular flags symbolizing the family of the Western Emperor.

Horns knocked twice more, and the brick wall behind the map let out a groan: "Pass my order, all the territories under the jurisdiction of the Northern Theater of Operations, with villages and towns as units, draw one of the three strong men to be the strong men, and one of the five strong women to be the strong women, bring their own basic equipment for dry food, and assemble 40 miles southeast of Scambrai before April 15 of the eighth year of the magic calendar." ”

The senior officers roughly estimated that the population under the jurisdiction of the Northern Theater is now between 2 million and 3 million, and about 20 percent of them are strong men, and that means that there will be 20 to 300,000 strong men and more than 100,000 strong women under the city of Scambrai.

However, even so, will it be possible to conquer Scambrai? Those who think so are probably either in the water or have a short circuit in the brain, and the acting general does not want to continue to sit in this position, right?

Scambrai is marked with SS on the defense map of the Empire's strategic locations, and there are several cities marked with SS in the entire Eminole continent, but only Scambrai has the highest gold content.

Scambrai ranks first among cities on all continents in terms of population and area. The outer city wall is surrounded by a full forty miles, and if you want to surround all these forty miles of city wall, you need at least 400,000 troops. Corresponding to the already shocking figure of forty miles in circumference, the relative height of the wall from the ground was 20 meters.

20 meters, this figure is already the height of the arrow tower for the walls of other cities, but for Scambray, it is only the average height of the city walls. There are 50 arrow towers on each side of the octagonal city wall, and the average height of the arrow tower is 28 meters, divided into four layers, that is, the siegers rushed to the city wall, and they must also face the arrow towers that are 8 meters higher than themselves, and each arrow tower is quadrilateral, and the standard shè holes on each side are 20. There are five beaded crossbows in the front shè hole on each floor, which is semi-fixed on the ground of the arrow tower, and can rotate about 20 degrees up and down, left and right, and the effective shè distance of the crossbow is 100 meters ~ 500 meters. An arrow tower can produce 300 crossbows in a minute.

Most of the officers who arrived in Scambray for the first time would have been amazed: the Arrow Tower on Scambray was simply a 392-strong fortress.

However, in Scambray, this is the Arrow Tower, which is at best a relatively solid Arrow Tower.

Because on the city walls, there are also real fortresses: the city gate tower and the regimental city.

In the battle of the city wall defense, there are two fatal weak points, the first is the city gate, even if it is a city gate made of steel and iron, the back is empty after all, and once it is subjected to a huge force, such as a rushing car, it may collapse.

Scambrai, like other cities, built towers on all gates, and there were walls below them to hide the soldiers. On the eight city gates, the height of the four main city gatehouses in the north, south, east and west is 40 meters, and the height of the four auxiliary city gatehouses in the southeast, northeast, southwest and northwest is slightly shorter, 38 meters. Each gate building is equipped with 10 fixed catapults, and like the city of Hamburg, all fixed catapults are steel beam structures, shè distance of 100 meters ~ 300 meters. As for the fixed ballista, the standard configuration on each tower is 60. Historically, no army has ever braved the flying stones and crossbows that came from the gates of Scambrae.

After the construction of the Eight Great City Towers of Scambrai was completed, there were envoys from all continents to visit at that time, Yan Yuan, one of the four ace professors of Ulu University, came to visit, stood under the city tower in the east and looked up, and the black sè high-brimmed hat on his head fell to the ground at that time, which was the bachelor's hat issued by the school when Professor Yan Yuan graduated from university, which had supreme commemorative significance, and the result was ...... It was trampled into a bird's nest by the bustling visitors behind.

Professor Yan Yuan was so angry that he immediately took out the Ugin dagger for self-defense from his boots, and buckled it vigorously on the bricks of the city tower, intent on digging down a few bricks to vent his anger, at least carving a row of small words "Yan Yuan came here to visit".

But...... In the end, the professor reluctantly left such a famous sentence for the ages: "Zhanzhi is in front (forgot to wear a nose clip, what is this?), suddenly in the back (when I look up, how did the hat fall from the back to the ground and be trampled flat), Yang Zhi Migao (it turned out to be a high-rise building), and Drill Mijian (I can't dig it for half a day). Later, these four sentences were carved on the four auxiliary gates of the city, which shows that the Scambray gate was extremely tall and strong.

The second Achilles heel of a normal wall is the corner of the wall, which is a protrusion where other sections of the wall only withstand a 180° attack, while the corner of the wall is a 270° attack. Defenders are relatively slow to support from both sides, and corners of walls are most likely to collapse when attacked by catapults.

The regimental castle, a structure that was invented during the construction of the city walls in Scambrai.

At each of the eight corners of the city wall of Scambrai was built a huge circular fortress, 30 meters high, with a separate march road, a separate defense system, and a separate garrison system, like a small city, hence the name Regiment City. In addition, it is difficult for siege equipment such as ladders, towers, and flying stones to get close to the circular city wall, and the circular platform can accommodate the most defenders without any dead ends. It can be said that the regimental city was a major revolution in the history of the defense of the city wall.

After the construction of the Scambrai City Wall was completed, the special city wall structure of the regimental city was imitated by various empires in the pan-continent.

The walls of Scambrai are 11 meters wide and can be ridden by six chariots or 13 bikes. In a conflict with the Holy Desert Empire 400 years ago, the Desert Empire's 60,000-strong camel army immediately showed off its might under the city of Scambrae, when several of the Empire's main commanders commanded the expeditionary force in the Lanshan generation and the Lion River generation respectively. His Majesty did not send officers to fight for the sake of prudence, and for the first time the southern and eastern walls of Scambrai were filled with soldiers and civilians, and according to post-war counts, the walls at that time contained a total of 60,000 men.

In the Imperial Ministry's strategically important data book, Scambrai, Hamburg City, and Ice Fortress are called the tridents that never fall from the Imperial Defense Front.

Now, the idea that His Highness Horns dares to fight the city?

The officers of the regular army also knew that Hamburg City, one of the tridents that never fell, was not only a shining little star on the crown of the small mercenary group's achievements, but was finally dismantled by the regiment commander Lord Amy right under their noses.

Even so, the senior officers still did not think that with the 30,000 or 40,000 regular troops under the command of the current Northern Theater, they could conquer Scambrai, which had a permanent population six times the size of Hamburg and an area ten times that of Hamburg.

The dwarf's brown eyes swept over the faces of everyone in the room, and finally landed on several high-ranking Imperial officers, and Horns turned his words slightly, directly piercing everyone's nerves: "I know that the city of Scambrai has been mythologized, just like the city of Hamburg before it was conquered. But ......"

The dwarf took a soft breath of cold air and continued, "I don't know what other people think, but this city is a shame for me, a great shame. In the past few years, I have never dared to forget this shame, little mercenary group...... An elder died here to protect His Majesty the King. Oh, I forgot...... At that time, this elder was still the highest commander of the Gyeonggi Theater of Operations, which is about the same position as me. ”

The cold air outside seemed to pierce the walls of the entire council hall and the clothes of the middle and senior officers and cadres in the hall in an instant.

This damn dwarf...... It was not just an officer who cursed in a low voice and dared to challenge the noble knight's supreme credo of "honor is our mission".

"Actually, this city's shame for me is nothing more than that. But, for all of you, I would like to ...... Whether it is the nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Colorful Dragon Knights who were martyred in the bloody night of Didu, or the officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Legion who guarded the palace, it seems that they ...... They used to be the robes of the officers, right?" Horns unceremoniously continued to widen the wounds on all the senior officers in the Northern Theater.

"Therefore, I have always admired you for being able to endure this shame to this day. ”

Before Horns could finish his words, the air in the council hall of the Moyada City Guardian Mansion was already tense to the extreme.

The more than ten imperial officials in the room were really committed to the word "obedience" that the army must have, so they suppressed the boundless anger in their hearts, and several young officers rushed up and pressed Horns to the ground and kicked 10,000 feet.

The dwarf then said to Da Qingshan: "I will take the little mercenary group of the Wild Eagle Jing Spirit Knight Battalion, the Blocking Sword Battalion, the Demon Swordsman Battalion, the Knight Battalion, the Forest Jing Spirit Archer Battalion, the Prairie Jing Spirit Archer Battalion and the Forest Tomahawk Dwarf Battalion, all the dragon knights, as well as the Praetorian Guard and the Colorful Dragon Knights Heavy Knight Brigade, I will also take it away, and I will leave early the day after tomorrow." The Great Swordsman, Vulture Swordsman, Berserker, Berserker, Mountain Warhammer Dwarven Battalion, and the Rainbow Dragon Hoplite Brigade are left to you, and it will only take me 60 days to conquer Scambrai. Are you sure?"

Hold it for 60 days? How is this possible? All the senior officers muttered in their hearts.

In terms of the distribution of troops, Horns took away the best units of the small mercenary group and the regular army of the Northern Theater, and the regular troops left behind in Daqingshan will not exceed fifteen thousand, and the main force is actually the Great Swordsman Battalion, although the personnel of the small mercenary group The Great Swordsman Battalion is very high, but the equipment level is there, how strong can it be?

General Raybaton commanded more than 20,000 mobile regular troops, including more than 5,000 knight troops, how could it be possible to hold the knight troops for 60 days in a plain area where they had nothing to rely on? These are completely different concepts from the Battle of Grass City.

It's hard, it's not a little bit hard.