Yousef was right.

The army outside the city did begin to attack.

Following Reitz's order, this giant city that had stood in the middle of the empire for hundreds of years finally withstood the baptism of war for the first time.

Under the control of the soldiers, the trebuchets roared loudly, and the heavy stone bullets drew a perfect parabola in the sky, and then fell quickly with the force of thunder, turning the houses in the city into ruins.

.

Although the soldiers under Rez's command have experienced war after war, they only rely on their past experience to throw stones.

so……

Compared with the Idar soldiers who had specially studied mathematics and were specially equipped with telescopes to observe the enemy's situation, they were still far behind.

All they can do is throw the stone bullets with a trebuchet, but where they hit and what they hit depends entirely on God's will.

As for hitting wherever you point, it's even more impossible.

Only veterans with sufficient experience can lock a rough range based on their own intuition and judgment, and then operate the trebuchet to repeat the previous steps again and again.

While the trebuchet throws stone bullets one by one,

On the east, west, south, and north sides of the imperial capital of Saint Lawrence, soldiers were already ready to attack the giant city in front of them under the command of their respective generals.

This siege was led by Imperial Marshal Teodoro Lawton, and the second prince Reitz personally supervised the battle. He vowed to conquer this giant fortress like a copper wall and an iron wall in the shortest possible time.

Following the order from Imperial Marshal Teodoro Lawton, countless soldiers carried or pushed countless powerful siege weapons and slowly advanced towards the nearby city of St. Lawrence.

Ladders, flying bridges, battering rams...

Taking advantage of the time when the encirclement was formed, the soldiers under Reitz built countless siege equipment early on.

And at this moment,

They finally came in handy.

The scene of tens of thousands of soldiers attacking the city together was undoubtedly extremely shocking.

As far as the eye could see, everything was covered in darkness, which brought a great visual impact to the defenders.

War drums rumbled and war flags fluttered in the wind.

The siege tactics were formulated by Marshal Teodoro.

No one likes to attack by force. Siege without attacking is the most common strategy, because forcefully attacking a city means that the attacking army will pay extremely heavy casualties and cause extremely painful losses.

But……

Rez had no choice at this time.

The shortened war time can only be made up for by the lives of soldiers.

Under Marshal Teodoro's decision, the siege was divided into two parts.

In the process of rushing from the main formation to the city wall, the first row was all cannon fodder.

Their role is only to consume arrows and the physical strength of the defenders, dismantle the resisting horses, and promote the ordnance used in the siege.

For example, battering ram, ladder...

But in the process of rushing from the foot of the city wall to the top of the city wall, the first row was filled with elites.

All of them are battle-hardened veterans with extremely rich combat experience, all in order to scale the city wall in one fell swoop and open up the situation for the following armies.

These veterans have the heaviest mission on their shoulders, because once the initial attack suffers too much setback, the morale of the army will undoubtedly suffer a very serious blow!

…

On top of the city wall.

Royal Guards Commander Yan Padilla looked at the soldiers coming like a black tide not far away, and couldn't help but frowned tightly.

Four directions, four fronts.

The pressure he was under was really great.

Although the imperial capital of St. Lawrence had a towering city wall and was built by Pitzman into a giant fortress with abundant food and grass, the number of defenders was limited after all.

The disastrous defeat on the central plains caused heavy losses to the most elite Imperial Guards Division in Pitzman's hands. Compared with the past when the garrison was the largest, the number of defenders in St. Lawrence City is now tens of thousands less!

So much so that even though he forcibly recruited countless young civilians to climb the city wall, Yan Padilla still couldn't say that he was a sure success.

"Fire the arrow!"

Looking at the soldiers who were coming like a tide, Yan Padilla finally gave the order.

Of course he knew that the people at the front were just cannon fodder used to consume arrows, and most of them were young men captured temporarily, but Yan Padilla had no other choice.

Immediately,

The defenders behind the battlements bent their bows and set arrows.

Thousands of arrows fired!

Dense arrows shot through the air, leaving cannon fodder corpses on the ground.

But even so...

The civilian soldiers who were charging towards Saint Lawrence did not dare to retreat at all, or even stop at all.

Because standing behind them was a team of supervisors armed with sharp blades.

Once they show the slightest hint of cowardice, the members of the supervising team will not hesitate to kill themselves on the spot, and even their families, relatives and friends will be implicated.

Therefore, they had to recall the appearance of their family while staring at the blood-red eyes and charging towards the city wall not far away.

There is still a slim chance of charging forward to survive until the end.

But once he retreats, what awaits him and his family is undoubtedly a certain death situation.

"Damn it! These damn guys!"

Yan Padilla stared intently at the battle situation under the city wall. Although the volley of thousands of arrows caused the attacking army to leave countless corpses, the distance between them and the city wall was shortening all the time.

"Delay as much as possible, don't let them get close to the city wall..."

Yan Padilla knew very well that once the troops under the city wall were allowed to successfully scale the city wall, it would be difficult for the newly recruited civilian soldiers around him to compete with those battle-hardened veterans.

But……

Under the stimulation of the supervising team and the generous reward promised by Rez, as long as someone fell, the soldiers behind him would immediately take over that person's position and continue to charge forward carrying the ladder.

The dense rain of arrows showed no mercy, and countless soldiers fell.

But relying on that crazy momentum of advancing one after another, the distance between them and the city wall is constantly shrinking.

"pang——"

finally,

With a unique sound, the last thing Yan Padilla expected to see happened - the first ladder was erected at the top of the city.

But this is the first day of the siege!

"Keep it! You must keep it!"

Looking at those trembling civilian soldiers, Yan Padilla roared!

Just when the first ladder was erected on the city wall...

The first wave of elite soldiers following the cannon fodder had already rushed over and began to climb up the city wall using ladders.

Falling stones, hard wood...

Under the threat that the enemy might board the city at any time, the soldiers guarding the city seemed to have overcome the fear in their hearts and used their swords and axes to slash at the soldiers who wanted to board the city, smashing the stones and wood.

One pushed down the city wall.

Both sides were paying casualties, and the attacking side had suffered casualties several times higher than those of the defenders.

But……

Although his heart was bleeding all the time, Rez couldn't stop.

that's all,

one day……

Two days...

Three days...

After three consecutive days of unsuccessful siege,

On the morning of the fourth day, the army under Reitz finally reached the top of St. Lawrence!

Reitz sent battle-hardened veterans, while the defenders were heavily armed Royal Guards and temporarily organized civilian soldiers.

but……

To be honest, although the name of the Royal Guards sounds deceptive, they have never been on the battlefield before.

Marshal Teodoro, who commanded the siege, also keenly discovered the gap in the southern city wall, and immediately pressed on more elite troops, intending to capture St. Lawrence in one fell swoop.
To be continued...