The rumbling drums of war shook the sky, and the rapid trumpets mixed with the shouts of the soldiers almost dispersed the clouds in the sky.

On the plain, groups of soldiers rushed forward one after another, rushing forward like a tide, and then struggling to move forward in the dense rain of arrows covering the sky, like a frenzied tide, slapping towards the tall city wall.

On the walls of Osgilia, ballistas among dozens of towers fired at the same time, thousands of arrows were fired on the walls, and the catapults hiding in the walls also roared and roared. After seeing the rebels rushing to the riverbank like a wave, there were already corpses left behind them! The direction of the rebels' main attack, the southwest wall of Osgilia, there were three gates, and three bridges that originally crossed the river, after many days of fierce fighting, at this moment, almost the bridge deck was already full of corpses, and the water on the river almost turned a faint red, "There are hundreds of corpses floating on the river!" From a distance, the majestic walls of Osgillia were already in flames, and even the strongest walls had finally been blown out of some mutilation after the rebels had concentrated almost all of their catapults and bombarded one section of the wall for several days.

The rebels forced their way across the river and braved their crossbow arrows to move forward on the bridge, as well as soldiers holding up their shields and hiding. Below, after barely crossing most of the bridge, he ignited rockets, and set fire with arrows tied to oil bags and fired them at the city gate.

A large flame soon burst into flames at the gates, but the soldiers on the towers immediately leaned out and poured buckets of water down to extinguish the flames, and occasionally some of the defenders leaned out too much of the walls and were immediately hidden. The rebels threw more than 100,000 troops in the direction of the siege, but on the northwest side of the battlefield, there was still a phalanx of 10,000 Armenian hoplites, waiting for the battle, watching closely to the northwest of the battlefield.

In the northwest of the battlefield, a large battalion has been stationed on a low high ground, and the imperial eagle flag is flying high! This is the reinforcement that came to the aid of the imperial capital, and in just a few days, two central standing corps finally broke through the occupied area along the way, and came to the city of Osgilia after hardships, these two armies are the Second Corps and the Ninth Corps of the Imperial Central Standing Army.

In the last battle with the Odin in the wildfire field, the 2nd Corps was attacked by Hasting, and the whole corps was almost defeated, and the general Perizzoli was also killed. Although the Second Corps had just undergone the analgesia of reconstruction, too many new recruits in the army were far from being able to regain their combat effectiveness. But the new general Sosia was originally the top general in the Rodria cavalry corps, and he used to be Adric's most admired subordinate, and even had the idea of letting him take over as the general of the Rodria cavalry.

Sosia fought bravely, and when he trained, he also took the lead, and when he trained, he ate and lived with the soldiers, and he led by example, and he was a famous fierce general of the empire, and he quickly established his prestige in the army, so this new army had him in charge, although he was still inexperienced, but most of his morale had recovered.

And the new general of the Ninth Corps is also the silver-haired man Butler, the general of the original Rodria Cavalry Corps. Butler was an old man, bold and loyal, not as brave as Sosia, but he was more experienced, and the losses of the Ninth Corps were not too great, and Butler took over and quickly regrouped his forces.

Both corps had arrived in Osgilia a few days earlier.

Speaking of the arrival of these two corps, there is another episode......

When the Armenian rebels attacked the city before, Adrik led a mixed local garrison corps to rush to help, Adrik deliberately let people blow the horn of the Redria cavalry, confusing the rebels, so that the rebels mistakenly thought that the Rhodrian cavalry corps had arrived, and the rebels had to retreat because of the prestige of the Redria cavalry, and as a result, Adric's more than 20,000 tired mixed infantry took advantage of the retreat of the rebels to have the opportunity to enter the city calmly.

Hughes, who only learned the truth afterwards, was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

If he had seen through Adric's tricks, the more than 20,000 troops that Adric brought were all mixed regiments temporarily drawn from the local garrison, and they were exhausted from long distances. If the rebels had directly sent a fresh force to attack at that time, they might have been able to defeat this support army in one battle! But once Adric's reinforcements entered the city, and after the supplies in the city were available, it would have been easier for the city to be replenished with such a number of troops, and it would have been even more difficult to break through Osgilia.

Funnily enough, just three days after Adric entered the city, the 2nd and 9th Corps also arrived on the battlefield almost at the same time.

Sosia and Butler were very coincidental, and their armies appeared in the northeast and northwest corners of the battlefield successively, almost coincidentally choosing the same strategy as Adric, blowing the horn of the Rodria cavalry corps to try to confuse the rebels.

Hughes, who had already been fooled once, could be fooled again? He directly divided a team of 10,000 people and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to attack. This strategy worked, after all, Sosia and Butler's army had also made a long journey, exhausted, unable to break through the resistance of the rebels, and did not get a chance to enter the city, so they could only join forces and camp in the northwest of the battlefield. However, fortunately, both of them were generals in the army, and since they could not enter the city, the two immediately discussed and made a decision, and divided their troops to attack an acropolis in Osgilia in the northwest. The Acropolis had originally been occupied by the rebels, but after it was recaptured by the emperor's ** team, a batch of food and ordnance was originally stored in the Acropolis, and it was re-owned by the emperor.

The two joined forces, and the strength reached about 40,000, which was enough to deter the rebels, so that when the rebels attacked the city, they had to divide their forces to prevent their sneak attack, which could be regarded as relieving the pressure on Osgilia.

Coupled with the two corps of Sosia and Butler, as well as Adric's reinforcements, and the original city guard in the city, at this moment in Osgilia, the emperor's strength has reached about 80,000, and the strength has been greatly strengthened.

However, the situation is still not encouraging.

Because the emperor ** has received reinforcements, the strength of the rebels outside the city has also been greatly replenished, and the number of troops still greatly exceeds the number of the emperor.

After the Armenian rebels attacked the city unfavorably, Hughes gave up the plan to attack the city on the one hand, and only maintained two or three feints a day to maintain the pressure on the city defense, and in addition, he continued to mobilize troops from the Armenian Military District, and mobilized more than 100,000 people, and the number of rebels in the Armenian section exceeded 50,000 at this moment.

And in the past few years, rebels from all over the country have also sent troops to come.

El Salvador really did not break its promise, and in its capacity as the speaker of the "Red Round Table," it issued a call to summon the governors of the rebellious military districts in various places to raise troops in response, and for a time, the 21 military districts in the northern part of the empire all raised troops at the same time, and El Salvador also wrote very clearly in the order that there was no room for ambiguity at this moment! There is only one way left between us and the royal family: "Either you die, or I live!" If we can't destroy the royal family in a war and get rid of the aftermath forever, everyone will have no way to live in the future! You must know that the Byzantine Empire's Tema Military Region system has a history of 100 years, and there are a total of 46 Tema Military Districts in the Empire, most of which are in the northern part of the Empire. Just because in the early days, the Tema military region system of the empire was set up to resist the Odin, so most of the military region was naturally set up in the north of the empire to counter the Odin.

For a time, the northern military districts were in turmoil, and the governors of all the provinces raised their troops and gathered towards Osgilia.

The 21 military districts in the north all came with troops under the call of El Salvador, and the strength of each family varied in size, with as little as ** thousand and as many as 20,000 or 30,000, and after Salvador himself ran back to his own territorial military district, he brought 40,000 troops in one go! Among them, there was also a cavalry corps of 20,000 people! At this time, the strength of the rebels outside the city of Osgilia had exceeded 300,000 people.

And Hughes was also the same as before, taking out all the armor and equipment that had been hoarded in the treasury of the Armenian Military District for many years, and selling them to the rebels who came from all over the country at a low price.

With the sophisticated armor and equipment produced in Armenia, the fighting power of the rebellion was greatly enhanced, and the two or three surrounding counties had fallen, and a large amount of grain was requisitioned.

Food and grass are worry-free, the armor is excellent, and the strength is several times that of the enemy, and the cooperation of the upper families is in a honeymoon period, more than 20 rebel governors have gathered together, and even Salvador, who has always been cautious, believes that with the current comparison of strength, even if Osgilia is the first male city on the main road, with its own strength, it will be enough to break through this heroic city within half a year! At that time, as long as the royal family of Krenma is wiped out, then the future ......

Although the city defense of Osgilia is majestic, no matter how strong the city is, it is always impossible to defend it for a lifetime.

As an imperial capital with a population of more than one million at its peak, Osgilia's daily food needs could not be met only by the production of villages and towns outside the city. In normal times, Osgilia's grain had to be transported from the surrounding areas, as well as trafficked by the great chambers of commerce. On the one hand, this caused the city to develop trade routes, but on the other hand, it also made the city have a fatal flaw, which was the need for blood supply! If the external blood supply is cut off......

Just like this31, the imperial capital was besieged, the trade routes were naturally cut off, and the surrounding areas had indeed fallen. The food in the city can only be used from the previous reserves, and if you eat a little, you will have less, and there will be no replenishment! And a large city with a population of more than one million, and the consumption of the army in wartime is even more than the huge number of people in hand, and the daily consumption is a huge number! Even if the royal family has been very careful about hoarding supplies in the past, how much can they hoard?

That's more than a million mouths! Each person eats two catties of grain a day, which is two million catties a day! That's a thousand tons a day! Although there are also a small number of farmlands and gardens in the city, there are some livestock...... But how long can you last on all of this?

The only thing to worry about is the shipping lines at sea.

Surrounded by the sea on three sides, Osgilia is a city with a peninsular topography. When the land roads were blocked, the only route that could supply the city was by sea.

But in the past few days, the rebels have divided part of their forces and collected a number of ships, and sealed the sea into the sea.

The Byzantine Empire was not without a navy, but the empire's navy had been suppressed by the Landis for decades, especially the outlet of the inland sea was occupied by the Landis, and the empire's navy could only cruise in the inland sea, and naturally could not develop and grow. The number of wars and the number of the navy are not large. At that time, the best opportunity was to take away the sea mouth, but Merlin, the powerful man of the world, forcibly intervened, so that the Byzantine Empire could not seize the opportunity, and the navy fell more and more.

And there is a delicate situation in the empire, from a clear point of view, the military power of the empire is divided into two factions: the royal family and the warlord party, but in fact, when you look into it carefully, the empire's navy is a system of its own.

The navy of the empire has always been a strange phenomenon, that is, it is not completely loyal to the royal family, and it is not in the company of the warlord party. Investigating the reasons for this, it is a bit laughable: if the navy wants to grow, it must invest a lot of material and financial resources.

For many years in the empire, in order to compete with the military party, the imperial family could only use its limited financial resources to support the central standing corps loyal to the imperial family, and the consumption of just one Rhodelia corps was already very huge! Where is the surplus financial resources in the central part of the empire to build a large number of navies?

As for the warlord henchmen...... They didn't have time to expand their strength, and naturally they wouldn't spend money on the navy.

The interest groups of the navy have always been the biggest victims, and they have no financial support from the central government, and their annual military spending is extremely limited, which has caused deep resentment among the navy from top to bottom.

It's not that the empire doesn't want to reorganize its navy, it's not that it doesn't want to regain sea supremacy. But if the warlord party is not eliminated for a day, the royal family itself is in danger, where is the energy to take care of the problem of the navy?

The result of this is: The Navy became more and more disillusioned with the center of the empire and more and more centrifuged. Although he did not directly stand on the side of the warlord party, his loyalty to the imperial family was only based on a little face-saving official correspondence.

Osgilia was besieged at the moment, and it was not for nothing that the rebels gathered a group of improvised boats and dared to block the sea. Just before the war, El Salvador sent a letter to the naval headquarters stationed at the southern end of the inland sea, and sent someone to hand it to the current Admiral Llorente of the Empire. The letter stated: As long as you do not help each other, all the members of the Red Round Table after the war will recognize the status of the navy as a separate family.

El Salvador's letter used both hard and soft language, and it clearly explained the current situation: "In the current comparison of strength, the royal family has almost no chance of winning! If the navy stands in the wrong line at this time, then it can only accompany the royal family to be martyred! When the warlords win the war, all parts of the mainland will be the territory of the warlords! Even if the navy is dominant on the sea, you still need to have a foothold on the mainland and a military port base in order to survive! If you offend the heroes on the mainland, you will have to be a robber at sea in the future......

El Salvador even promised that after the war, it would be able to cede three coastal cities from two military territories along the northern coast of the Inland Sea to establish a military port base for the navy, as long as the navy remained still. The three cities and the surrounding land were given to the navy, which was almost half the size of a county, enough for the navy to stand on its own in the future.

Sure enough, after the letter was sent, the navy has been silent to this day.

Listening to the sound of horns and war drums outside, and the sound of shouting and killing came one after another, Salvador, who was sitting in the tent, looked calm. Although he could tell that today's siege seemed to be a failure again, he was not worried at all.

Osgilia is the first male city on the mainland, there are almost no weaknesses to take advantage of, to break this city, it is impossible not to spend some time, the only way, is to fight for consumption, take human lives to fill! In the end, the city is exhausted, the ammunition is exhausted, and the best chance to break the city is to take it.

There is no need for any tricks, and don't think of opportunistic tricks, that is, the opponent's forces in many places are several times larger, and they will press over in a dignified manner until the opponent is crushed! At this point, the Byzantine royal family has no chance of winning at all! The overall situation has been decided! Even if that guy from Cavihill is still alive, there is absolutely no way to turn the situation around! El Salvador has also received news that the Odin people have gone south.

But he was not worried that the Odin would take advantage of the fire.

Just because, on the southern train of the Odin people this time, it was simply that El Salvador and the Odin Empire had reached an agreement.

He even had a letter written by Emperor Odin himself, in which the two sides agreed that Odin's army would go south and only take away the four counties of the central administrative region in the north of the empire as territories, and at the same time, Odin's army would also arrive under the city of Osgilia and join forces with the rebels to attack the city of Osgiria!

In the tent, Hughes looked at El Salvador coldly, and El Salvador at this moment is no longer the appearance of escaping from the imperial capital in embarrassment, and El Salvador at this moment, as the speaker of the Red Round Table, is in high spirits! In fact, even the governors in the big tent, and some of the governors who did not come in person, and the generals sent by the army were all satisfied.

At this moment, suddenly, a loud sound of the military temple came from afar, and the sound of the military horn was short and rapid, one faster than the other, and the rhythm was unique and distinct! This sound was obviously very different from the sound of the trumpet on the battlefield, and it immediately aroused the minds of many rebel leaders in the tent.

Immediately, a rebel officer of the Armenian army ran in and shouted: "My lord!

"Rhodría?" Hughes stood up, and he smiled coldly: "Rhodría's cavalry is still blocked in the North Central Region......!" Adric deceived me once, and then Sosia and Butler saw through the second time. Now someone is using the military number of the Redria cavalry to deceive me? Let the rear battalion transfer 10,000 men to see the situation, and have a chance to give me this support army!"

After letting his men out, Hughes laughed: "Come on, let's continue drinking! Hmph! These guys always use the name of the Rhodrian cavalry to scare people, do they really think that the Rhodrian cavalry is invincible in the world? Even if it is true that the Rhodrian cavalry is coming, and we have more than 300,000 troops, are you still afraid of those 20,000 cavalry?"

A moment later, the trumpets of the rebels outside were heard, the war drums in the rear of the camp shook the sky, and the sound of shouting and killing could be heard from afar.

Even in the big tent, you could hear the sound of the fighting of the golden iron horses in the direction of the rear camp sweeping like a tidal wave! And in the tent, many people changed color! It was only because everyone saw with their own eyes that the wine was vibrating gently in the wine glasses on the case in front of them! It was the horses' hooves! It was the horses' hooves! It was a large-scale cavalry charge that could cause such a huge vibration! In just a few moments, someone outside rushed in and threw himself on the ground, shouting: "My lord! It's really Rodria cavalry! It's really Rodria cavalry! Our rear battalion of 100,000 men was routed head-on!!"

Hughes only felt a "buzz" in his head, and immediately rushed out with a scream, and the leaders of the rebels behind him also ran out. Hughes rushed to the nearest lookout and climbed frantically, looking in the direction of the back camp.

I saw that on the wilderness outside the rear camp in the distance, a piece of military horses had been fighting to the death! A large number of cavalry poured down like a dark cloud, the gray-black outfit was the color of the armor of the Rhodría cavalry, tens of thousands of cavalry galloped on the battlefield, and the 100,000 people in their rear camp were cut into several pieces, which had already been washed away, and the opposing cavalry calmly kept attacking on the side, cutting the defeated rebels into small pieces one by one, and then engulfed in the gray-black cavalry wave! Hughes picked up the monoculars, and saw in the distance on the hillside, under a group of cavalry, surrounded by a tall red war horse, immediately a burly and huge body, a golden hill armor, a face like a disc, a wide face and big ears, with a smug and cunning smile on his face, his spirit was flying, it was the famous rabbit general of the empire, Ruhr! And just behind him, a huge war drum was being beaten! And under the war drum, holding a double hammer, ** The upper body, showing strong and strong muscles, with a cloak of hair, and the one who beats the drum vigorously is not the drummer in the army, but the blonde hair fluttering, it is ...... It's ......

It is His Royal Highness Garcia, the crown prince who was recognized as weak and old-fashioned and restrained!