The ground outside the city was burning with flames, which were caused by the oil on the ground from rocket fire or the flammable cloth and wood products on the corpses. Soldiers holding shields kept stepping over the corpses and other obstacles on the low mountains towards the city.
After rushing to the position of the ladder, most of them died on the way. Only a few lucky ones or soldiers with more flexibility and faster reactions were able to successfully climb the city wall.
But climbing up the city wall was just the beginning. The soldiers defending the city had been waiting for them for a long time. Most of the siege soldiers were stabbed to death by prepared soldiers with spears or used big sticks by strongmen as soon as they climbed onto the city wall.
It was directly knocked off the city wall. Under the leadership of Meluses,
, the morale of those blacks was very high, and with the cooperative training during this period, it was impossible for the siege party to pose much threat to the city wall if they only relied on ladders. The number of defenders killed by the soldiers was not even as many as those on the ground.
Archers and catapults have half the number of kills.
High-intensity hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons is very exhausting. The defenders on the city wall have been rotated into the second echelon at this time. The only one who has not been replaced is Meluses, who is still fighting hard. He was not included in the previous battles.
Although Ronan assigned him an equally important mission, it was still a little uncomfortable for a warrior who was dedicated to the battlefield.
This time, Ronan gave him such a distant task, fully expressing his trust in him, and Meluses naturally had to perform accordingly in return.
"Ha!" He waved his shield and slapped an enemy soldier against the wall, then pierced his chest with his spear. After pulling out his spear, he hit the shield of a soldier who had just climbed to the edge of the city wall with a sweeping sweep.
, he hit it so hard that it fell backwards with a scream.
"We'll stop them right here! We'll kill them right here! Brothers, let them see our strength! Let them know that we are no longer slaves to be slaughtered!" Meluses said to an enemy.
Jun Chuan impaled the tip of the spear, raised it hard, threw it out, and roared loudly.
"Hoo!!!" The other black people immediately responded to him with loud shouts, and at the same time they waved their weapons harder, making the enemy's struggle even more difficult.
More than an hour had passed, and the Leon army continued to attack but could not even gain a foothold on the city wall and win a piece of space.
Seeing that morale had dropped to freezing point, Leon knew that continuing to attack would easily cause the morale of the troops to collapse, so he had to order the soldiers to withdraw.
The Leon troops who were fighting on the city wall immediately turned over and began to climb down from the ladder after hearing the order to retreat. However, it was so difficult to get up. How could the defenders let them leave at will?
After a fierce pursuit, only a few of the soldiers who climbed onto the city evacuated back to their ranks under the heavy cover of catapults.
"Order to retreat, Your Highness, we have no chance. Return to the east of the kingdom, we will cultivate our health and regain our strength. We will soon be able to send troops to attack the rebels again!" The green hills are still there, so we don't have to worry about running out of firewood.
, Barbosa's consideration is actually the best choice now, but Leon has difficulty making a decision.
"The southwest is more fertile than the east, the land is more fertile, and the population is larger. When we complete our training, Roderite will not be as easy to deal with now. If nothing else, the numerical advantage of our troops will definitely not be maintained.
, will only make it more difficult to deal with, and if we miss the opportunity that his current strength is not as good as ours, it will be difficult to win in the future." Leon sighed.
"But Your Highness, if this force is lost here and we die here, there will be nothing left. Gaoling will become the world of Roderet and Mayweather. If we return to the east, we can still save the Gaoling royal family.
Bloodline, there will always be a chance to regain the throne. Even if we fail, there will still be your descendants!
Retreat, Your Highness! We must leave fire for the Gaoling royal family!" Barbossa continued to persuade.
"Alas!" Leon closed his eyes, sighed deeply and nodded with difficulty. Barbosa looked happy, and then quickly turned his horse's head to arrange the retreat.
Leon withdrew his troops. This was what Ronan had expected, but it was earlier than he expected. As a result, he had no chance to form an encirclement with other incoming troops and launch an attack on the Leon army. Ronan had to let
The troops who had arrived returned to their positions, taking Jackson and Ravenluck, who were still harassing the border behind enemy lines, back.
As for intercepting Leon's army, Ronan gave up after thinking about it. After all, he and Magna's troops were the only ones around him now. If he wanted to rely on these soldiers to block Leon's remaining army of about 20,000, it would be like using a mantis as a chariot.
It can't be stopped.
"Well, after a series of battles, we also need to take a breather. The territory has been conquered, but there is no time to take care of it. Now it is simply a mess. The remaining and surrendered southwest nobles also need to reorganize.
The division of power in the southwest of Gaoling is bound to be rewritten!" Ronan said with a slight smile.
A month later, the situation in Gaoling has basically stabilized. Ronan occupies the southwest and is still taking over the role of regent for the injured Cassiano. Mayweather has established his own troops in the north. He is said to be the King of Gaoling.
The dead Leonard had agreed to his establishment of a principality, and it was no longer attached to Gaoling, but an independent country.
However, his country is bordered by the desert to the north, the vast mountains to the west, Ronan to the south, and the Eastern Noble Alliance currently led by Leon to the east. This means that his Northland Principality is currently isolated from the world. After all, with him and
Ronan and Leon's current diplomatic relations make it impossible to have any exchanges other than swords. Fortunately, the North has been self-sufficient for decades and has its own economy and living system. It was almost self-reliant before.
, but there was no official announcement of separation from Gaoling.
After Leon returned to the east, he had not been able to take a long breath before he became nervous again because of the strange movements of the Eagle at the border. Fortunately, the Eagle had not directly broken the agreement and launched an attack, otherwise Leon might have to bear the consequences from the East and West.
The attackers on both sides directly became the second person after Leonard to withdraw from Gaoling's competition for the stage. Once he withdraws, he can directly announce that Gaoling has changed his surname.
On the throne in the palace of Starfall City, Ronan was sitting there with his eyes closed and concentrating. He had been very busy this month. Once the war stopped, all kinds of debris and messy things were almost driving him crazy.
, he now knows why the ancient emperors were short-lived. In addition to excessive indulgence, overwork in dealing with various government affairs was definitely one of the reasons.