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A day later, Tumenes' army finally approached the city of Gangdo......

An army of 30,000 men, like a long dragon in gray, winds along the road between the Camino and Gangdo, but when the morning sun climbs into the sky again, the siege has already begun!

The city of Gangdo has a 30-foot-high wall, and after the fall of the Camino city, a round of reinforcement and rebuilding has begun, although it has only been a few days, but it looks a lot thicker. There were even a few new watchtowers erected.

After all, with the help of magic in this world, problems such as broken stone walls are easy to repair. And now that the teleportation circle cannot be used, and the roads around the city have actually been secretly blocked, the people in the city have also given up the idea of escaping, and have instead gambled all their lives on the road of defending the city.

Of course, even if the repair work is improved, the role it can play is limited, Gangdo has never been the main battlefield of the Empire's southwestern front, but a small city on the route, with a population of just over 20,000, and the defenders are only in their early 4,000s. The city defense is neither perfect nor strong enough, and if it is surrounded and besieged on all sides by more than 30,000 troops, this small city will probably be like a sand sculpture piled up by children by the sea, as soon as the waves come, it will immediately crumble.

But what can be done?

In fact, in the past seven or eight days in the city, four or five Bo people have secretly left the city to deliver letters of surrender to Tumenes...... It's a pity that these people are like a stone in the sea. Not a single one came back. And so among the already terrified inhabitants, some terrible rumors began to spread, that is, the Tumenians did not intend to accept the city directly, but intended to slaughter it!

The fear gradually dissipated, and rumors spread in various versions, some said that Tumenes was preparing to use a magical ritual to increase his power, and some said that he was going to summon the undead with their corpses, but without exception, the conclusion was that Tumenes' attack was bound to leave no one behind!

No one doubted the truth of this rumor, because at least a month or so ago, the expeditionary force that Tumenis had infiltrated into the territory of the empire did just that! The name of the Demon Wolf Legion had already resounded in every corner of the empire, and had even become the symbol of the Tumenis army, and there was only one of the deepest and most painful memories they left to the people of the empire, and that was the massacre!

Therefore, in the city of Gangdo, the idea of surrendering most of the people was finally cut off, and, as the time dragged on day by day, the people in the city instead raised some hopes, if Tumenes did not plan to attack the city in the short term, the empire was also likely to send troops to rescue, so they simply put aside all illusions and prepared for a battle to defend the city!

It is also possible that the army of the Empire will soon arrive and take this murderous and arrogant Tumenians by surprise.

Although the imagination may not be realized, it will come after all.

When the sun had risen high in the east, the desolate sound of trumpets echoed over the city, and in front of the south gate of the city, groups of Tumenesian soldiers lined up in a neat phalanx, and did not spread out their formation under the city, and huge trebuchets, siege engines, crashes, and ladders began to be dragged up behind them, and the rough shape of those logs tied and nailed, exuded a heavy murderous aura!

In the sound of drums in the military formation, the crane arm of the catapult began to creak, and after a short command, the first batch of polished stone bullets flew up with a sharp scream, and after flying for a while, a large roar was smashed in the city defense!

It's like a signal for an all-out offense!

Tumenes' phalanx boiled, and with the roar of magic from the besiegers' side, the formation of the phalanx instantly became denser, and the broad shields were raised above the heads of the warriors, the shields were tightly connected, and the phalanx fluttered slowly like a floating iron flying carpet. With four huge ladder trucks, rush towards the city!

And the response from the castle tower followed!

Hundreds of bowstrings trembled in no particular order, and the arrows suddenly rose into the air, sounding like a swarm of bumblebees suddenly bursting out of their nests from a distance! The rain of arrows formed a dark dark cloud in the air, which quickly turned into a heavy hammer after losing its momentum. The hammer seemed to stay in the air for a moment before slamming into the ground.

Time passed in a breath, and the rain of arrows finally knocked on the warrior's shield, at first a sparse three drops and two points, and then immediately overwhelmingly followed!

However, these arrows, which are heavy enough to penetrate the tower shield on weekdays, are now meaningless at all, and the magic wrestling between the mages on both sides has already divided the victory and defeat in the blink of an eye! The three ring ceremonies composed of more than a hundred mages used majestic magic to roll the atmosphere, and the storm formed a tumbling strong wind in mid-air, and the sunlight was obscured by the wind and sand in an instant, and the huge air pressure almost made it impossible for the warriors to grasp the big shield held high, let alone those light arrows.

However, there are still weapons that magic can't shake.

The low, sharp voice pierced the sky, and also attracted the attention of everyone on the battlefield, and they saw four huge fireballs rising from behind the city wall! But for some reason, the magician's reaction was stunned and sluggish, and he actually watched as those fireballs fell into the crowd that was charging!

The heavy crash sound woke the people to astonishment, their eyes widened, and they staggered back a few steps, also noticing that the huge fireball was rolling in the crowd! The flames gradually dimmed, and 1u came out of it, the true face of a boulder more than a dozen feet square! The terrible boulder bounced irregularly on the ground a few times, and then stopped a hundred feet away, but just this section of advancement had already pressed a wide gap in the crowd! The boulder weighed at least 10,000 pounds in a dozen feet, and with the projectile of the trebuchet, there was no flesh and blood that could stop it!

Not even a hundred or so sturdy soldiers!

Behind the stones, there was a trail of flesh and blood, and the fragments of the human body were crushed like mud, mixed together, and turned into a strange trace of dark red sè! Then, before the Tumenians could react to the disaster, the second and third stones had followed!

The warriors began to rush forward, and the mages began to turn to the field spells against the huge fireball stones! However, in the blink of an eye, more harsh grinding sounds fell from the sky, like the cheerful music of the Grim Reaper! The neat phalanx was soon crushed into a dozen large openings! And more stone bullets flew even farther, heading straight for those who were still on standby!

Roars, smoke, fire, roars, screams, and flying flesh and blood are intertwined at the same time, constructing a unique scenery of this battlefield, but it is similar to any war!

Or, compared with this ordinary scene, this war is still a little different.

For example, after the army of Tumenis, on a large gentle hillside, the high platform that was erected, also made of rough wood, followed the simplest rules like the siege engines, but wide enough and high enough for the hundred nobles standing on the platform to look over the battlefield from the railing.

It was still far from the battlefield, and the distance of two or three miles was impossible to reach for magic or arrows, but when the huge stone-throwing pressed into the military formation of Tumenis, the young and adult men on the platform still let out a small exclamation like girls, and almost all of their faces were pale, visible to the naked eye—

For these little people like viscounts and barons, those war drums and shouts from the air, roaring and screaming, represent another world they are not familiar with, although many of them have entered middle age, but almost all of their lives are spent in the chaos of brocade clothes and jade food, and the biggest battle they have seen is just to command the servant si army to kill a disobedient farmer fugitive slave, and it is the first time to set foot on the real battlefield, but the eagle eye and ear sharpening technique blessed by the magician on their bodies allows them to clearly see the details of the battlefield, this real impact of death, bloody war, for themIt's really a psychological shock.

But now almost all the lords of the whole kingdom have gathered here, and His Royal Highness is in the high tent among them, observing the changes of the war with them, so everyone here is unwilling to show the vulnerable side, so as not to fall into the laughing stock of the whole country, so that the few who are a little timid have already suffocated their faces!

"Scared?"

Standing on the inside of this platform, closest to the central tent, Edward retracted his gaze slightly, turned to the two miserable white faces beside him, and smiled softly.

But the question immediately drew a sharp echo. "What's there to be afraid of in this little scene?" The girl standing beside him rolled her eyes angrily, but she didn't seem to notice that her breathing was a little short, and beside her, the little young master of the Lane family just pursed her lips and shook her head stubbornly. Although his eyes had turned away from the battlefield, his face was still pale as paper when the long horns on the battlefield in the distance mixed with the tidal noise came.

"There is no need to hide your fears, as long as you don't let him occupy your heart, that's enough. Edward said lightly, and then couldn't help frowning.

The two sisters and brothers came with him this time, so they have been by his side from the beginning, which makes him feel a little constrained, and the reason why they came here is naturally not because of the children's hearts, but for their city- Edward may have been a good supporter, strong enough to stay in Burgundy, and the two siblings would naturally have no worries about their lives, but the young lord had no interest in their city either, and if he couldn't come up with any suitable conditions, he obviously couldn't be kind enough to help them get that city back.

Therefore, Edward's original plan to enter the military tent in the camp could not be realized.

Of course, don't get me wrong, what interest did Edward have in participating in such a war- He knew very well that this siege battle was just a pomp, a gimmick, a show to boost the morale of the lords everywhere, such a large army pressed the border, and the number of mages occupied an absolute advantage, even if the defenders in the city were all Imperial Guards Jin Jinhua Knights, I am afraid they would not be able to hold it for two days, and now the elite in the city is less than a thousand, and the rest are just some peasant soldiers and conscripted farmers, it is already a miracle that they can maintain without surrendering, and according to Edward's malicious speculation, this is probably also a situation that has been planned for a long time, and eighty percent of the imperial nobles in the city are ready to surrender, symbolizing Xing's guard, and then surrendering, although the first batch of defectors should be technically the unlucky guy in Camino City, but now that James has come to the front line, the captives in this city should also be of great significance to the kingdom.

Edward's intention to visit the command post was simply because he wanted to turn over the minds of those around him to see if there were any memories that he could use to speculate about the intentions of the mage Thomas.

"Teacher, didn't you say that this time the empire will surrender soon?" After taking two deep breaths, little Ryan seemed to finally break free from the shadow that had just accidentally observed the boulder fireball too closely, and began to pay attention to more questions: "How long do you think they can hold on?"

"Well, it's hard to say, in their current state, they can probably hold on until noon, but if they go crazy, I think there will be two or three more days-

Hold on

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Although the Pyrenees in his sixties are called by some as an old fellow, it is true that for human beings, this age should be the time when he begins to hunch over, be accompanied by crutches, and prepare to live with his grandchildren, but the general of the Pyrenees seems to have appeared to refute this tradition, he is as strong as a middle-aged man, standing on a high platform, the bronze muscles of his body are bulging, and the whole body armor on his body is bulging in a circle, and his sideburns have a few strands of silver, but they are even more stout and heroic, and the years of battle have left several scars on his face。 Looks less like a general, more like a pure warrior.

In fact, he did spend most of his life as a fighter, from a civilian orphan who entered the barracks at the age of twelve or thirteen, to now becoming a leading captain, a third-class count of the empire, he has long been molded into a standard warrior, a soldier, even in the face of the future emperor, he even said a few simple polite clichés bluntly, completely lacking the minimum tactfulness that a person in officialdom should have.

At this moment, the old general frowned, staring at the battlefield in front of him, watching the ladders move forward, but they were destroyed before they reached the moat, and there were more than a dozen large trebuchets on the city wall out of thin air, and those huge stones were like grinding out of neat formations pulling out gaps and screams!

In fact, according to the old general's initial plan, taking the city is indeed a simple game, but when the second round of attacks moved, he already felt that something was wrong, and the enemy's attacks were too crazy than he imagined.

Originally, the easiest way to attack a city was to use spells- Even if the city will open the anti-magic force field during the war and interfere with the operation of the magic, but that thing has no effect on things like the elemental creatures that have been summoned, as long as the number of mages is enough, you can use a large enough earth element to smash the city gate wall, and use the flying wind element and fire element to climb the city tower to sweep the guards, if the general city does not have enough mages to carry out magic countermeasures, after a round of summon attacks, the garrison will be full of holes and will not be attacked. Therefore, before the siege war, there is often a magic war first, and the attacker tries to consume the magic storage of the garrison as much as possible, and when the summons appear, the battle is basically coming to an end.

However, now is different from the past, although Tumenes is a large army this time, the number of mages with the army is almost more than five hundred, of which more than half are formal mages, and there are about a hundred who are close to or past the threshold of high-level mages, but Pan Duo Ryan's evil talisman flickered in the sky, and the danger of summoning creatures, which need to be operated across the plane, has increased, and although the summons that cannot return will gradually disappear due to consumption in the main material plane, they will no longer be bound by the summoner before they disappear, and it is even possible to attack the summoner at the first time, even if the effect of this counterattack is only a certain probability and not absolute, but now that His Royal Highness the Prince is leading the army, it is not a risk at all.

Elemental creatures that don't need money can't be used, so they're left to fill with soldiers' lives.

With a loud roar and a terrible cry, the warriors of Tuminis flew into the air. The cart tilted slowly, the soldiers screamed to escape from the cart, they fell to the ground, and they huddled together. Soon, the building car slammed to the ground, and the dust and smoke raised high drowned out the despair, bringing countless spirits into the clear sky.

Everyone is bursting, igniting, turning into a rising torch!rs!.