Just like he was now, his mind was full of Randall's appearance of making them happy like a pistachio, as well as the tenderness and loneliness revealed in those peach blossom eyes.

But he still cried very sadly and blamed himself, just like Wesleyan and the others at this moment.

"You just said the signal to retreat was slow?" Philip asked in a deep voice, forcibly reining in his uncontrollable emotions.

Phelps and Wesley glanced at each other and shook their heads: "We have verified, it is indeed an accident, the steppe people recently sent Ah Xun and the Sky Knights to specifically target these technical troops, and the casualties of the heralds and medics are very large.

At that time, the herald was killed, and the horn fell into the urn city, and there was no conspiracy. ”

Philip nodded, he knew that he was sensitive, or in order to divert the guilt in his heart, he was subconsciously looking for a scapegoat.

Everyone hugged each other, and Wesley whispered in Philip's ear, "Randall has an illegitimate child, who is already a year old, and I just learned that he is now in Gokan City.

His eldest brother was also killed in battle half a month ago, and his two sons were all killed in battle, and Deputy Director Kyle was hit and had already taken the mother and son to the Grand Knight's Mansion. ”

Philip nodded and rubbed his eyes to sober himself up: "You guys go back to the defensive line, Grandpa Douglas has been waiting for me over there for a long time, I'll leave it to you to clean up here, I'm going to Gaokan City." ”

Although his friends are very curious about his presence here, and there are countless gossips waiting for him to confirm, they all know that this is not the time to greet each other, and they all know about the urgent crisis situation in Gaokan City, but it is a pity that the whip is beyond reach.

"Kill a few more steppe wolves for us, and don't let them spoil the pictorials under my bed. ”

"yes, kick Bruce and Chris's ass, those two bastards are dead. ”

"When we win this damn war, we'll go back to Gokan City for a drink. ”

A few more people explained, and then they really went back to their defense area, this was just a short rest, and there were harder battles waiting for them and testing them.

Douglas had already known that Philip was coming, and that he had provided the steppe people here, but such a stunning appearance still made the old man as strong as a bear very admirable.

The situation in Gaokan City has touched the hearts of countless soldiers, and they have successively put together several troops in the past few days, totaling more than 12,000 people to return to Gaokan City, but the shortage of troops still makes the results look not optimistic.

"Would you like to say hello to your grandfather?" asked Douglas, several lines of defense of the Wild Lion a dozen kilometers to the south.

"No, my grandfather said that he didn't have much pressure over there, and he could handle it, so let me go back to Gaokan City as soon as possible. ”

To be honest, the terrain outside of the Lion's line was too empty, and unlike the hills that were all over here, Philip himself didn't have the confidence to replicate the miracle he had just done.

And it takes at least more than an hour to get around there.

Rather than wasting time and troops here, it is better to return to Gaokan City as soon as possible, after all, relying on the city walls is the choice with the highest lethality and the lowest casualty rate.

Douglas opened the long-closed gates of the city, and the magnificent armor of the Red Rose Knights and the heroic appearance of tens of thousands of female warriors attracted the applause of the warriors at the head of the city.

And the girls proudly held their heads high, straightened their backs, and enjoyed the treatment of the protagonist for the first time in their lives.

Since the eastern defense line had been blocked by a large number of troops on the city walls, there were many idle mounts here, and they were quickly replenished with war horses, and they needed to return to Gaokan City day and night.

Douglas solemnly expressed his gratitude to Sophia on behalf of the Giant Bear Division and on behalf of Gaokan City, no matter what her original intention was, no matter what her identity was, the tens of thousands of female warriors in front of her were the only rescuers in Gaokan City at this time.

It will take at least six days for the next wave of second-line divisions to arrive, and their combat strength and equipment cannot be compared with the main divisions of the three major military cities.

Instead of counting on them, it is better to hope that Philip will be able to pull off another miracle.

Standing on the city wall and looking at their distant figures, Douglas silently thought: "Sean, you old fellow, you must hold on, you can't fall again." ”

The train between the eastern defense line and Gaokan City is still open, although it is limited by the power of the front of the locomotive and the speed of the terrain, it is also faster than walking on the mountain road, at least it can save enough physical strength to deal with the next tough battle.

Along the way, Philip saw two or three abandoned villages, the villagers in which they basically made a living from the processing and manufacturing of military products, and had already gathered in Gaokan City at this moment.

The location of the castle is very elegant, relying entirely on the mountain, although there are tall walls on all sides, but in fact only the east and west walls really work.

The other two sides are steep cliffs and tall mountain walls, and it is impossible to enter the city from here unless an incoming enemy can fly or jump from the cliff.

Because the main consideration was given to the enemy from outside the gate when it was built, the barracks were also placed on the east side, and the outer wall of the barracks was the main city wall.

The city wall on the west side is relatively much simpler, not because it is not tall enough, but compared with the composite city wall on the side of the barracks, the ancillary facilities and structures inside are not so complex and complete, and the tactical level is thin.

The difference between the two walls is evident from the color of the two walls, and in the thousands of years of war with the steppe people, the city of Gaokan has not been without the baptism of war.

When the border defense line was not complete, there were often steppe people invading, so that the eastern city wall as a whole showed a black-brown color, and the hard masonry was covered with traces of swords and fires.

The color of the western wall is much cleaner, and you can even see the original gray-yellow color of the masonry.

But I didn't expect that this time the enemy came from the inside, and the main wall, which was more fortified, became the Maginot Line, which was useless.

The total length of the western wall is six kilometers, but four kilometers of it are combined with the northern wall, and below it are cliffs of several hundred to tens of meters in descending order, and there is a huge freshwater lake from which the water from the moat is also drawn.

The freshwater lake is full of hot spring water, and in winter, not only will it not freeze on a large area of the ground, but it will also be steaming in the fog, like a fairyland, which is a wonder of Gaokan City every winter.

Outside the city wall, in addition to a square that occupies a large area for the market, there is a stone bridge 100 meters wide and more than 200 meters long, and a moat more than 10 meters deep below.

From this point of view, the difficulty of defense is not too high.

The Marquis of Noor stood at the head of the city, and the telescope showed the steppe camp in the distance, which was supposed to be a village that depended on the existence of Gaokan City, where the people would fish all kinds of fresh fish from the lake, clean it and dry it into dried products, and supply it to the inhabitants of Gaokan City, but now it has become a trophy of the steppe people.

However, Sean will not let them take advantage of anything, and it must be a key point of terrain to form a village, since this is the case, it is not difficult to understand that he is favored by the prairie people.

Old Sean, who had long expected this, sent the dead soldiers to set a fire, which was regarded as a gift to them.

It's a pity that the steppe people are not all straw bales, and they have learned a lot of caution in the enemy's territory, and they have found traps in time, so the losses are not large.

Different from the old Sean's previous conception, the steppe people showed great patience this time, no longer blindly relying on human life to pile up, but spent two full days transporting thick and long timber from dozens of kilometers away to build a large number of siege equipment.

The ladders that climbed the walls, the turrets where the archers hid, the mallets that slammed the gates, the shield carts that protected the infantry from charges, and the other mess of equipment showed that they were very confident.

This will be a classic war of attrition, depending on whether the steppe people's forces are exhausted first, or the isolated city of Gaokan will not hold out first.

It's a pity that old Sean put down the binoculars, the time was too hasty, and it was almost too late to just collect materials and personnel, not to mention the establishment of nearly ten large and small bunkers and blockades outside the city walls like in the east.

Troops, time, and materials are the things that are most lacking in Gaokan City and even the three major military cities at present.

At the thought of time, old Sean felt as if he had been hit in the chest by a sledgehammer, and he couldn't breathe.

If it weren't for the sacrifice of his son Bedri, I'm afraid that countless imperial people would have died at this moment.

There were 60,000 soldiers in the city and men who were temporarily recruited, but unfortunately, with the people brought back by Matthew, there were only 20,000 real soldiers, not even the elite.

Recruits who have just started training are not much different from ordinary people, and they may be able to kill wolves, but they don't have time to learn how to protect themselves on the battlefield.

Win or lose, after this battle, not too many of these people will survive.

It is a painful thing for any conscientious commander to consume ordinary people as cannon fodder, not to mention that these are his people, the people of Gaokan City.

Whether he can hold up that breath in the tragic offensive and defensive battle, old Sean is not too sure.

The rumbling horn sounded, and the steppe people in the distance began to assemble again, this was the first siege in three days, and old Sean couldn't remember.

More than 400,000 steppe corpses were left under the city, but the casualties on the walls reached nearly 20,000, as he had estimated, most of them were new recruits and civilians who had just taken up arms, and in this way the steppe people were weakening the defense and preparing for the upcoming general attack.

There was a burst of explosions behind him, and it was the trebuchet troops behind the city walls who attacked first, and a full forty trebuchets were lined up, all of them moved from the barracks to the east, and even several houses were demolished for this purpose, which happened to be the source of the stones.

Unfortunately, after three days of fighting, only twenty-three of them remained, and the air cavalry of the steppe people risked their lives to destroy, even at the cost of suicidal attacks.

Hundreds of wide stone bars smashed into the ranks of the steppe people, leaving behind ugly red spots, which looked like fragile flesh had been crushed into flesh.