At noon that day when the defenders of the Frozen Fortress refused to surrender, Jupiter ordered his troops to launch an attack on the inner city wall.

Tens of thousands of tribal warriors carrying siege equipment seized from the armory were walking on the road leading to the inner city wall, intending to breach the inner city wall in one fell swoop.

However, before these tribal warriors had time to push the siege equipment to an effective striking distance, they were strongly blocked by the ambush.

These ambush soldiers were mostly equipped with light individual equipment such as scimitars and small shields, light crossbows, fuel, and fire breakers. They did not engage in hand-to-hand combat when they came up. They would either throw fuel bottles to burn down the siege equipment, or use light crossbows to fire cold arrows, and then run away after the attack.

Tribal warriors tried to pursue them, but these ambush soldiers were elusive. They would often run around the corner of an alley and suddenly disappear, or they would sneak into a certain house and chase them in, but after a long search, no one was found.

Later, a tribal warrior with quick eyesight and quick hands finally caught an ambush soldier while chasing him, only to discover that they were conducting guerrilla warfare through underground secret passages.

Although the existence of underground secret passages has been discovered, the battle situation has not changed for the tribal warriors. They are not familiar with the structure of the secret passages. Even if they chase after them, they can only wander around like headless flies and just get lost.

If you are unlucky enough, you will be ambushed by those who know the structure of the secret passage.

In this way, the advancement of tribal soldiers became very difficult. From time to time, some people were killed and injured, and siege equipment was frequently damaged. They had to beware of cold arrows and fuel bottles flying from nowhere, and their movement speed naturally slowed down.

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Jupiter, who was overlooking the battlefield from the outer city wall, was originally full of confidence and felt that it would be easy to break through the inner city wall and crush those stupid remnants. But now he saw that the opponent was carrying out authentic guerrilla tactics in an orderly manner without any collapse. He couldn't help but frown.

He frowned and looked at Asuma coldly: "What's going on? Why do these people still maintain their fighting ability?"

Ashuma didn't know what was going on, so he could only answer bravely: "I think it may be that Larson's beheading inspired those idiots, and they are planning to kill them all."

Jupiter snorted coldly and ignored Asuma. He looked at the battlefield in the distance and said to himself: "Our soldiers can't die here needlessly. Those idiots want to fight? Hahaha, then let's

They've fought enough! Apollo, send troops to take 'those people' up."

Apollo showed a sinister smile and walked towards the bottom of the city wall

On the inner city wall of the Frozen Fortress, Solandel was standing under the banner of the Laurel King, overlooking the battlefield. The battle situation ahead was in line with her expectations. The guerrilla troops passed through the tunnels and greatly delayed the enemy's attack rhythm, without allowing a single siege equipment to be pushed.

It can threaten the range of the inner city wall.

However, at this time, with the sound of trumpets coming from the enemy camp, all the tribal soldiers suddenly broke away from the guerrilla troops and withdrew from the war zone.

This scene made Solandel wonder. The opponent had finally advanced some distance, and now it was fully retreating. All the previous advancement was in vain, and the guerrillas would be killed again. Why is this?

A soldier looked a little excited and asked tentatively: "Are these barbarians afraid of us beating them?"

Solandel stared at the dead battlefield ahead, a bad premonition came to her heart, her heart beat faster and faster, she frowned and said: "Something's not right."

At this moment, some figures appeared at the end of the war zone, and the soldiers on the inner city wall also became alert.

Everyone originally thought that the remnants of the Six Kings were defeated in the first battle, and now more elite tribal warriors should be dispatched to prepare to forcibly break through the guerrilla war zone.

But when those figures gradually approached, the scene in front of them made everyone's hearts sink to the bottom.

Among the figures walking towards them, none of them in the entire row were tribal warriors, but civilians. Judging from their clothing, they were all aborigines who used to live in the Frozen Fortress. There were old people, women, and many children.

, those children are not yet adults, some are even five or six years old, only as high as an adult's waist, the total number of them is at least 500.

Behind every civilian was a tribal warrior, who hunched over and hid behind them, as if they were using these civilians as human shields.

The old men and women were so frightened that their faces turned pale and their legs were shaking. Some were so frightened that they could not walk. They were forced to carry them forward in the hands of tribal warriors.

The younger children were not aware of their situation. They tilted their heads innocently, looking at the foreign strangers behind them, and at the royal flag flying on the city wall in the distance. Their eyes were full of love for the laurel flowers.

of longing.

Seeing this scene, Garrott felt chilled. It’s not that he thought the actions of the Six Kings remnants were too despicable. During the Laurel War, what despicable methods did the Far Eastern Dynasty not use? On the battlefield, soldiers are always deceitful, and sometimes they have no moral bottom line.

It can be said that he has seen too many things like using civilians as human shields.

Garrot was not heartbroken by the actions of the Six Kings' remnants, but felt uneasy for Solandelle and the upcoming battle.

This was Solandel's first time commanding a large army in combat. Her experience was extremely immature and she had never dealt with emergencies. As a result, she happened to encounter such a despicable enemy again.

Even if an experienced commander were to handle such a difficult situation now, he would probably hesitate. Garrot could not imagine what Solandel was feeling right now.

Equally heartbroken are the soldiers on the city wall. Those being pushed out now are all their compatriots. They have lived together in the Frozen Fortress for several years. Many of them are even familiar faces. They met and greeted each other on the street yesterday. Today

He became a hostage to the remnants of the Six Kings.

Just when the soldiers were at a loss, Solandel's voice suddenly came: "Fire the arrow."

Everyone, including Garrot, fell into horror. A soldier looked at Solandel's back and shouted in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, that is our compatriot!"

Solandel turned around, and the scene in front of her made the soldiers freeze in place.

I saw Solandel shedding tears, her thin shoulders kept shaking, her tears were frozen into ice crystals by the cold wind in the far north, and kept falling on her clothes. The look in her eyes was desolate and sad, but her voice was firm and unwavering:

"I know they are compatriots. They are, and so are you. If the enemy is allowed to advance and approach the dangerous area, the inner city wall may be captured, and hundreds of thousands of people behind us who have not evacuated in time will die."

"I'm not a god. I can't save everyone. I can't put most of you in danger for the few people in front of me."

Solandel turned around and looked forward firmly with her tearful eyes: "For 30 seconds, remember the compatriots who are about to pass away, and feel repentance and apology to them. Then"
Chapter completed!