After Carlin's storming failed, on the seventh day, the Dark Empire's "brutal" legion of 90,000 infantrymen and 10,000 attacked the city. The engineering troops arrived, followed by the Dark Empire's 3,000 dark mages. On the tenth day
, a total of 150,000 troops led by the Wright Empire's "Holy Sword" Corps arrived, together with two thousand mages with the magic power of the God of Light. On the same day, on the tenth day, the Wright Empire arrived behind and behind the Wright Empire's army.
One hundred thousand heavy infantry and four thousand mages with the magic power of the God of Justice.
On the eleventh day, the Smart Empire once again mobilized the private armies of three lords and arrived, with a total of 150,000 infantry. Carlin was overjoyed: "This is great, the cannon fodder has almost arrived. The three cannon fodders have arrived."
In four days, we can definitely conquer this damn city wall, right?" Karin stroked his slightly swollen buttocks and looked at the city wall fiercely. After analysis by Bobkart and the others, they could use such bamboo arrows at night.
The person who shot such a sharp blow must be that boy Lei. Carlin couldn't help but regret having released him in the first place...
Now, the total strength of the six empires added together, the total strength is more than one million, and those magicians have not been counted. The half-section of Turk Canyon that is more than a hundred miles long cannot accommodate so many people, so we have to put all the troops from all countries together.
The cavalry all rushed to camp outside the canyon. Even so, the infantry team also occupied a camp of the boss outside the canyon.
In the dense forest near the city wall, countless high-level knights surrounded a huge tent, and Karin's lazy voice came from inside.
In the tent, Carlin pointed to a military map on the table and muttered: "Look, the northern territory of the Vant Empire has five provinces in the north, four in the west, three in the east, and five in the south.
There are a total of seventeen provinces, not counting the territory directly under the imperial capital. Now the Wright Empire has reserved the territory of their imperial capital. The Dark Empire needs three provinces in the east and one in the southeast. The Raifu Empire wants them.
The four in the west, the Reite Empire wants the four in the south, and the remaining five northern provinces belong to the Bicester Empire and are directly bordering the imperial capital, right?"
Bobcat laughed: "Of course, this is what we have already discussed. Do you still have any questions? But I just don't understand. Does the Wright Empire only want the territory directly under their imperial capital? That is only equivalent to one and a half
With the size of the province, what kind of profit can there be?"
Karin shrugged his shoulders, lightly clicked on the map and said: "Dear His Royal Highness, oh, by the way, it's His Royal Highness Prince Bobkart. I forgot that there are two princes in our tent. Well, don't you
Do you know that all the gold, silver and jewelry of the Vante Empire's treasury are stored in the imperial capital? According to our calculations, their savings over the past three thousand years are worth about six billion gold coins in total. Don't forget that the territory directly under their imperial capital is
There are thirty-seven gold mines in it, dear Prince Bobcat."
The prince of the Wright Empire smiled: "I'm sorry, it seems that we have taken advantage of it, but we all just get what we need. Our Wright Empire can be self-sufficient in food, and we don't lack anything. The great God of Light told us
We, we need to love all beautiful things, and the Vante Imperial City is one of the few places in the Vante Empire that has a large number of exquisite buildings, so we are not welcome."
Bobcat sneered a few times, narrowed his eyes, and began to think about whether he would need to send troops to rob the Vante Empire if it passed by. Six billion gold coins? How many gold nuggets, silver nuggets, crystals, and gems are that?
.. Bobcat had a fierce look in his eyes. His Royal Highness, Prince Wright, saw his expression and sneered a few times in his heart, turned his head and said nothing.
Karin also laughed in his heart. He pointed at the map seriously and said: "I emphasize these again today to tell everyone that we are close to victory. Our millions of troops are here. The current Fante Empire is no matter what.
It is impossible to resist us, not to mention we have follow-up reinforcements coming continuously, and our advantage will only get bigger and bigger, so we must consider some issues."
Bobcat's fist hit the table hard, and he roared: "Where is all this nonsense? Just conquer the city wall and drive straight in. Kill all the Vant people who dare to resist. What else do you need to consider? Is it you?
Not satisfied with our Bicester Empire occupying their five northernmost provinces, do you want to take one more?"
The commanders of several other countries ignored Bobkart and just looked at Kalin. Kalin patted Bobkart's fist gently and said with a smile: "Dear Prince Bobkart, let me ask you a question. Let's attack the city.
Will someone die?"
Bobcat laughed: "Of course people will die if they attack the city. The defenders take too many advantages, so the attackers will naturally suffer heavy casualties."
Kalin nodded seriously, looked into Bobcat's eyes and said: "There are about 150,000 soldiers behind their city wall. The most conservative estimate is 150,000. According to the normal one-to-one casualty rate, we will
We lost 150,000 troops. In fact, facing a intact Violent Lion Army, our losses should be much greater. We would lose about 300,000 people, and the total casualties would be around 300,000 people. This is a very big loss.
Big price."
Bobcat was stunned. He opened his mouth and murmured: "But in a war, people must die. What's so strange about this? If you die, you will die. Anyway, you will be given a pension. People who are seriously injured and disabled will also be given a pension."
Compensation is based on military law. This continent always breaks out a war every three to five years. Either you hit me or I hit you. Aren't there many dead?"
The commander of the Dak Empire, a middle-aged man with a gloomy face and a bit of brown skin, said: "Your Highness, oh, by the way, it's His Highness Prince Bobkart. Please tell me, who will take care of these 300,000 casualties?"
Where is the burden? Your army or mine? Three hundred thousand casualties, which means that all the armies here equivalent to two empires will be lost here. What we have here are our most elite legions. Who will come?
Should you bear such a loss?"
Bobcat was stunned again, and said with sudden realization: "My soldiers are all heavy cavalry. Hehe, siege warfare is not possible, but I promise that as long as you can conquer this city wall, we will do the rest."
The special cavalry can be completely taken care of, so you don’t have to work hard.”
Kalin said faintly: "Your Highness, you are kidding. Once we conquer this city wall, the Vant Empire will no longer have an army that can resist us. What's the use of your majestic cavalry then?"
Bobcat grinned, shook his head and said: "As far as you have a lot of troubles, well, what do you think we should do? I admit that after the siege, you do not need our Bicester cavalry to completely overthrow the entire Vatican."
It’s a special empire, but I can’t help it. Do you want my people to attack the city? They don’t know how to climb ladders at all. The cavalry’s legs are not suitable for climbing high. Their legs are all looped.”
Bobcat had an innocent expression on his face, and Carlin nodded a little funny, saying: "That's the reason, this time your Bicester Army cannot participate in the war, then we have decided to pay all the casualties, pensions and future
You, the Bicester Empire, will bear half of the settlement costs, and because our elite regiments have been depleted, your Bicester Cavalry may pose a threat to us in the future. Therefore, you must swear to strictly prohibit harassing us in the territory of the Vant Empire in the future.
Province."
Bobcat rolled his eyes and said nothing for a long time.
Karin sneered: "What's wrong, my dear Prince Bobkart, are you ready to plunder the territory we occupy now? Then, you are really too..."
The commanders of several other countries snorted at the same time. They had decided that if Bobcat did not swear, then they would first jointly kill Bicester's cavalry. This is the entire military strength of the Bicester Empire.
After killing him, the Bicester Empire will not be able to recover for at least ten years. Anyway, their cavalry will not be needed for the rest of the war.
Bobkart saw the malicious looks of those commanders. He quickly raised his fist, put it across his chest, and shouted: "In the name of the great and invincible God of Beasts, Haturu Bist."
, after conquering the Vante Empire, if you do not take the initiative to harass the territory we occupy, we, the Bicester Cavalry, will never step into your territory."
The people present felt relaxed. On this continent, except for the nobles of the Smart Empire, no noble from any country dared to violate the oath made in the name of the gods they believed in. As for the Smart Empire...
Anyway, everyone knows that they can't make countless oaths, and no one asks them to take an oath.
Carlin laughed: "Well, great, what about the amount of compensation..."
Bobcat said impatiently: "What compensation? I will personally lead our knights to participate in the siege. Hum, although our soldiers cannot participate in the siege, our invincible knights in Bicester can. I
, personally participated in the siege, do you still want our Bicester Empire to pay that damn pension? Is my life not as good as 10,000 ordinary soldiers? They are just civilians."
Carlin and several other commanders had proud smiles on their faces. This was what they were waiting for. The other high-ranking knights of the empire would not participate in the siege anyway. Their lives were precious, so they were not allowed to participate in the siege.
They will take risks to attack the city. However, if no high-level knights participate in the siege, the casualty rate of the soldiers will increase by about 30%, because ordinary soldiers cannot resist the impact of the knights of the Vante Empire.
These cunning guys figured out that Bobkart would not give up such a pension, and easily made Bobkart agree to lead the charge in person. With such a group of tough Bicester Knights charging ahead,
, enough to withstand the high-level knights of the Vant Empire, then the remaining work is to let the soldiers fight each other and completely exhaust the troops.
Bobcat seemed to feel that he was a little cheated, but when he thought about half of the pension of 300,000 soldiers, he felt heartbroken. The total population of the Bicester Empire was only 10 million, and it relied entirely on animal husbandry to survive, and its commerce was extremely underdeveloped.
Too much financial income? If they want to pay such a thick pension, they might as well kill their finance minister. In any case, Bobcat firmly believes that he and his subordinate knights will complete this task well.
.He didn’t believe that anyone in the Vante Emperor’s body could withstand his impact.
While he was still making calculations here, Karin continued to speak: "Then, we need to carefully study how to attack this city."
Bobcat yelled impatiently: "What is there to study? Just rush forward with a knife, kill all the people, rush into their northern territory, divide their land, rob all their beautiful women, rob them all
Gold, silver and jewelry, and then I just go home to attend the winter ceremony to worship the gods, what else do I need to study?”
Karin shook a finger and sighed: "Your Highness Bobkart, we now need to study how the armies of several of our countries attack each other. Siege machinery can be put into use at the same time, but this army?
, As mentioned before, we cannot let the allies of a certain country or countries suffer, so we must come up with a plan to attack. Should our countries take turns to attack, or should we combine soldiers to attack?
, let’s have your say... Of course, it doesn’t matter if His Highness Bobkart doesn’t want to listen. Anyway, your army doesn’t need to participate. You can now form a team of your high-level knights. We need their strength.”
Bobkat nodded, pulled out the giant sword stuck on the ground, and walked out with two wild bear knights.
Carlin laughed softly: "What do you think? As long as Bicester's knights charge forward, our soldiers can reduce a lot of casualties."
The prince of the Wright Empire laughed: "Lord Carlin is indeed a good trick, and he easily fooled those stupid bears. However, I think that if we mix the soldiers, it will not be easy to cooperate, right? Each legion has one
The combat styles and habits of each legion force the soldiers to mix together, and they will not be able to exert their combat effectiveness at all."
Shatramu gently stroked his long beard and finally spoke: "It makes sense, each country should take turns to attack. How about each country attacking for a day? You are responsible for your own casualties and losses.
, there is no need to blame others. If there are too many casualties, it is because his own strength is not as good as others, and there is no reason to say." He was very relieved. Anyway, the Raifu Empire could not be the one with the worst casualties anyway.
It doesn't matter.
Karin immediately laughed: "Well, respected high priest, please tell me, how do we decide who will attack first? You know, the first one is definitely the unlucky one."
Shatramu stopped talking. He is not an idiot. Although he is not the commander-in-chief of the army, he has lived for more than a hundred years. He knows that the first person to attack will definitely face the most intensive counterattack from the side defending the city.
, after all, that’s when their arrows, falling rocks, thrown spears, etc. are most abundant.
The soldiers outside suddenly started to commotion. Carlin frowned. The commander of the Reit Empire immediately rushed out of the tent and yelled: "What's your name? That's... damn..."
Ruite's commander walked back to the tent with a solemn expression and whispered: "We have to launch an attack as soon as possible. The Vant Empire has erected hundreds of arrow towers and ten mounds behind the city wall.
Twenty catapults were rushed to be built. If we give them more time, our casualties will increase too much, which is really not cost-effective."
The commanders in the tent were silent. Reiter's commander frowned and said, "The tallest of their newly erected arrow towers is nearly a hundred feet high. The crossbow arrows fired from it can shoot to a distance of fifteen hundred feet."
, I am afraid that the life mages of the Lefu Empire are not safe now. Fortunately, the one hundred-foot arrow tower is almost at its maximum height, otherwise they would have built it even higher."
Karin's mouth opened wide: "How high is our siege platform? How far can our slingshot hit?"
The prince of the Wright Empire shook his head and said: "Our siege platform is sixty feet high, but it moves very slowly, and the soldiers on it are very vulnerable to attack. Is it a catapult? The longest range of our Wright Empire is eight hundred feet."
, there is absolutely no way to compete with their catapults that have a high advantage."
Karin fumbled and pulled out a piece of parchment from under the map, tore it into several pieces, and then wrote a few words on it. He said: "Then, let's draw lots.
How about luck determines who attacks first? Don't say you are unlucky if you draw the first one. It's really luck if you draw the last one. You can't blame others, okay?" After that, he put the parchment paper away.
He crumpled it into a ball of paper and threw it casually on the table.
The commanders-in-chief of each country looked at each other, nodded slightly, and stretched out their hands at the same time.
The Wright Empire is the first, the Reit Empire is the second, the Rifu Empire is the third, the Dark Empire is the fourth, and the Smart Empire is the fifth.
Karin laughed: "I'm really sorry, everyone, I seem to be lucky, but as you know, apart from the stronger magicians in our Smart Empire, the army really can't do anything about it. The real combat effectiveness is still there.
Not as good as the Blades of Grass Legion, so please forgive me."
The leader of the new mage team from the Dark Empire, a skinny dark mage, had a strange smile on his face. He nodded towards Carlin and slowly closed his eyes. The commanders of other countries were really speechless.
It can be said that the prince of the Wright Empire can only blame himself for his bad luck.
Karin muttered in his heart: "Damn it, did this damn dark mage see the mark I made in advance? Damn it, good thief's eyes, I hope you are shot to death by the Vant's repeating crossbow, damn thing, hum.
, I guess you were smart and didn’t expose me, since you are the fourth one anyway, so you have already taken advantage of me a lot.”
The plan was decided, and the commanders of various countries walked out of the tents one after another. After a while, there was a commotion in the camp of the Wright Empire. Just when the sun was hanging high in the center of the sky, the soldiers of the Vant Empire roared and carried well-made weapons on their backs.
A ladder with iron hooks and iron claws below pushed a siege platform forty feet long, wide and sixty feet high, surrounded by catapults twenty feet high, arranged in a neat siege team, heading towards the city wall
Walked over.
Bobcat walked out of the woods with a group of high-level Bicester knights with murderous intent. Before leaving, Bobcat suddenly whispered to Carlin: "Look, the Wrights are not fools.
, the one he drew was on the first day, but half of today has passed, and they will have no time to attack at most twice. "
Carlin's eyes widened, looking at Bobcat walking away, and murmured in a low voice: "It turns out, this guy is not as stupid as I thought."
The siege troops had approached the city wall within a thousand feet. Sure enough, the forty repeating crossbows that had been moved to the newly erected arrow tower with a height of a hundred feet were the first to make a "rattling" sound, and rain of crossbow arrows poured down.
Next. The catapult on the earth platform behind the city wall also roared and threw out the first batch of thousands of fist-sized stones with sharp edges.
With a roar, Bobkart rushed out at once with his giant sword. The white fighting spirit surged, shrouding the twenty feet around him in a thick layer of chill.
On the top of the city, Lei with a murderous look on his face had already pointed the bamboo arrow at Bobkart. On the arrowhead, a layer of green sumac sap shone...
