An eagle soaring in the clear sky, with its wings folded, landed in the military camp of the Ayub Empire.

Stretching out his arm to let the eagle stop on the horseskin armguard, the commander untied a small copper tube a few centimeters long from the eagle's ankle and hurriedly ran towards Saladin's big tent.

Taking the brass tube from the guard, Saladin opened the seal, took the note inside and read it carefully, and stretched out the frown.

"After all, it came."

Standing under him, Elem asked puzzledly: "What's coming?"

"According to the report from the northern spies, the Muxi Kingdom sent a three-hundred-man cavalry regiment, which has crossed the border and is rushing towards Guyan City."

Elem pouted his lips: "A cavalry regiment of three hundred people? Wouldn't it be impossible for such a small number of people to attack Ratib's army?"

Saladin looked at him amusedly: "What if these three hundred cavalry are all the black-armored knights you have seen before?"

Elem's expression stagnated.

Saladin looked at his general, and said earnestly: "Now you should understand why I insist on not letting you capture Guyan City, right?"

Elem suddenly realized: "You want to borrow the hands of the Muxi Kingdom to get rid of..."

"If you know, don't talk nonsense!" Saladin slapped the table and said loudly, "Notify all the troops and prepare to launch a general attack!"

Elem stood up excitedly and replied loudly: "I will do your will!"

The long horn sounded from the army of the Ayub Empire, and it spread throughout the battlefield in an instant.

At this time, Regent Jennings was discussing the next battle with Randall on the wall of the inner city of Guyan City. The sudden sound of the horn forced them to stop talking and cast their sights on the imperial army at the foot of the mountain.

"I saw a flag waving there. Are the southerners gathering forces?"

Hearing Randall's words, Jennings shook his head quite puzzled: "The guys down the mountain, they have been quiet all this time, it doesn't make sense to suddenly..."

Before the words fell, the sound of intensive artillery came from below the mountain, and a few seconds later, dense black spots flew in the sky.

"It's a bombardment!" Randall grabbed Jennings by the skirt and pulled him behind the city wall.

Before everyone could react, the iron ball with a big bowl fell from the sky, and a "cannonball rain" started in the inner city.

The dozen or so defenders who could not evade were torn apart and spattered on the spot.

Sitting behind the city wall, Jennings dodges the splashing gravel, shouting: "Look for shelter! Archers, go up to the tower!"

After a round of shelling, there was dull drums and neat footsteps at the foot of the mountain. Randall looked through the observation hole, and was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him.

Hundreds of majestic giants with a height of two meters, wearing masks that look like evil spirits, carrying huge iron shields weighing a thousand kilograms in both hands, walked step by step along the winding mountain steps towards the inner city gate.

"Are these soldiers really humans?" Jennings stared at these giants dumbfounded, approaching the city gate step by step, and hurriedly ordered to his troops: "Bows and arrows! Throwing stones! Attack the soldiers with shields!"

A dense rain of arrows shot from the city wall and poured onto the huge formations of giant soldiers on the mountain road. Most of the arrows were blocked by the iron shield, and occasionally one or two passed through the gap in the shield and penetrated into the body of the giant, but they were unable to cause any substantial damage, and even stopped the attacker’s steps slightly. Can't do it.

As for the slings hitting the giants, they were like acorns dropped on the elephants. At best, they could only shake the soldiers a few times, and they couldn't hurt them at all.

These shield giants slowly walked under the city wall in the rain of arrows and stone bullets. They set up a huge shield on the ground to resist the attack, then untie the spherical object from the waist, ignited it, and threw it onto the city wall.

Seeing a round iron ball with white smoke and sparks rolling to his feet, Randall opened his eyes wide and yelled, "Bomb!"

After a while, a dense and violent explosion sounded on the city wall.

The defenders caught off guard were killed and injured in the fire and impact, and human flesh and limbs immediately covered the entire city wall.

Randall, who possessed keel parasites, protected Jennings from rolling down to the haystack under the city wall at the moment of the explosion, and escaped the catastrophe.

Soon, the second wave of throwing explosives was thrown on the city wall, and the successive explosions completely destroyed the will of the defenders.

Seeing this scene, Jennings stood up from the ground, looked at the tower on the top of the city wall, and shouted to Randall: "You take the remaining soldiers and people and retreat into the city. There is the last hope. !"

Randall watched Jennings rush up the steps, ran to the tower quickly, and hurriedly shouted, "My lord, where are you going?!"

Jennings' voice is getting farther and farther away: "Go buy time for you!"

Randall got up from the ground, saw two unexploded bombs not far away, picked them up and put them in his arms. Immediately afterwards, he found the remaining soldiers and told them to immediately notify all the people that everyone retreated to the Guyan City King City at the top of the mountain, where it was the last refuge of the city.

Fifteen minutes later, Randall, who was standing at the gate of the king's city, looked pale and did not say a word as he watched the inner city gate being swallowed by the fire.

"Master Jennings once ordered us to bury a large amount of kerosene under the inner city gate. This was the last resort to die with the enemy..." A soldier with a bandage on his head looked at the fire. Said sadly.

Barbara, with a dusty face, walked behind Randall and asked softly, "Master Jennings, isn't it...?"

Randall nodded heavily.

Barbara glanced behind her, and said sadly: "What shall we do next?"

Randall turned around and looked at the thousands of soldiers and people gathered in the King City Hall. Among them were soldiers with wounds, gray-haired old men, and innocent children, and these people were also looking at him. .

Looking at the umbrella badge on his chest, Randall recalled the scene when he became a knight, and recalled what he said when the holy king Todd walked in front of him and put the sword on his shoulder. oath.

"Swear to the sky, to clarify my will; not bully the weak, but live the time humbly; in the battles you have gone through, don't be afraid of strong enemies; wherever you are wrong, I will cut your own!"

He drew the long sword from his waist, raised it above his head, and said loudly: "Swear in the name of the Holy King! Fight! I will fight to the last minute!"

The fire at the inner city gate ~lightnovelpub.net~ burned for thirteen hours. The fire is so big that people who are tens of kilometers away in the dark can clearly see the fire here.

However, the flame will eventually go out.

In the early morning, the fire gradually disappeared, and Saladin led the army and finally entered the inner city of Guyan City.

"The throat bone, you led the immortal legion to occupy the north gate! Control the mountain roads of the back mountain as soon as possible!" Saladin rode on a horse, and ordered from a distance: "Whether it is Latib or the Western Army, no matter which one of them finally obtains Once the victory is won, they must not be allowed to step into the city for half a step!"

The throat bone in the black robe did not speak, but respectfully saluted Saladin, and then led hundreds of shield giants to the north gate.

Saladin looked at the scorched and smoked city in front of him, and said to Elem beside him: "My order for you is to wipe out all the enemy troops in the city!"

Seeing the latter want to leave after taking the order, Saladin suddenly stopped him: "The black-armored knights have not found their bodies so far, which means that these people are still hiding somewhere in the city. Corner... Next, you should understand how to do it."

Elem nodded heavily, and walked quickly towards the city with his army.