Chapter 883

Raindrops of arrows shot up and down the city wall, and deafening cries filled the whole battlefield.

The roar of the magic crystal gun is one after another. Every time, it will explode a group of brilliant fireworks and a series of screams in the dark sun shining army under the city wall.

The catapults continue to hurl huge stones at the towering city wall, bombarding the immortal defense barrier, making the originally flickering defense barrier even more precarious.

Under the wall, a cloud ladder and siege tower were pushed to the wall by imperial soldiers, and soldiers like ants began to climb up along the cloud ladder and siege tower

Fierce fighting has broken out on the city wall. The guards and elves of Fengyue's free leader roared, fighting with the imperial soldiers who boarded the city wall, launching a fierce tug of war at the place where they boarded the city wall.

The gray city wall has been dyed dark red by a steady stream of blood.

This is Argus City, the gateway of Fengyue's freedom to lead the north.

It has been five days since Joseph ordered to attack the city. In these five days, the northern army launched a strong attack on Argus day and night, which brought great pressure to the defenders.

In five days, the defenders of Argus city have suffered great casualties in the continuous attack of 700000 troops. More than 6000 of the 20000 defenders have been killed, and countless of them have been injured.

Among the 10000 players who helped to defend the city, more than 3000 died. They returned to the forest of elves and were unable to fight again.

There was no way. There were too many troops on the imperial side, including experienced veterans.

Although there is no heavy siege force in the whole army, the siege tower and light catapult assembled temporarily also pose a great threat to the garrison.

What's worse, the continuous fighting makes the defenders of Argus more tired.

Even the energetic players, in a long time of high-intensity fighting, many have been tired.

Commander Arthur has enlisted new volunteers from the city.

There are many civilians who are eager to sign up. In order to protect their homes, everyone's enthusiasm is quite high.

However, this is only a drop in the bucket.

Because most of the new volunteers are civilians without extraordinary strength.

In the face of this professional coalition of noble private soldiers, they did not have the strength to fight back.

Although Argus city is barely able to stick to it now, everyone can see that the situation of Fengyue's free leader is not optimistic.

"Mr. a Dai, how long does it take for our reinforcements to arrive?"

On the tower of the city wall, Arthur braved the dense rain of arrows and cut down an imperial soldier who tried to climb up the wall from the cloud ladder. He gasped and asked.

On one side of him, the All-Star a Dai, who was the commander of the player's garrison, was also not calm a few days ago. He was covered with blood and looked rather embarrassed.

"Soon, if we insist again, the other side will be in a mess."

All star a Dai said.

What else does Arthur want to say.

But looking at the bloody elves soldiers, looking at the fatigue in their eyes, they finally swallowed the words.

Biting his teeth, he yelled to the soldiers around him

"If you insist, our reinforcements will support us soon!"

There is growing pressure on the city side.

On the other hand, the Imperial Army, as one side of the siege, had no less pressure than Fengyue.

Looking at the city which had been attacked for several days, but still had not won, Joseph's look became more and more ugly.

He never thought that a small city of Argus should be so tenacious and hard to chew.

Yes, the defenders of Argus have suffered a lot.

However, as one side of the offensive, as one side of the forced siege, the empire lost more.

In just a few days, more than 50000 soldiers of the northern Legion died because of the siege. If it wasn't for the pressure of the big nobles, some soldiers, even some small nobles who took part in the war, might have mutinied and retreated.

The original high morale has also been weakened in the repeated attacks. The resentment brought by the high casualties has gradually spread in the army, shaking the cohesion of the entire northern army.

Joseph knew very well that if he couldn't attack the city in a short time, I'm afraid the people and morale he had managed to gather would be scattered.

This is the drawback of the aristocratic coalition.

In the final analysis, we just gathered together for the rich rewards of the great jihadi. In fact, each of us has his own way, and the degree of unity is not very high.

In this way, it's OK to fight with the wind. If you meet a tough guy, Joseph doesn't think that this huge army can really break out its combat effectiveness.

"Argus city is known for being easy to defend and hard to attack. In history, the elves used airships to successfully attack the city from the air. However, we don't have airship technology, and the Griffin troops in the air are not suitable for attacking cities with magical defense barriers... So, it will be a little difficult to attack."

Beside Joseph, Roland, a middle-aged nobleman, sighed.

The young Duke looked even more ugly.

As the middle-aged nobleman said, he took another look at his own army besieging the city and continued to shake his head

"It's just that this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that during the siege in recent days, everyone has realized the difficulty of this city. Now many great nobles have begun to choose to preserve their strength."

"Only the little nobles were forced out and put on their heads..."

"But their strength is not strong at all. We can only wait longer if we fight like this."

"Your Highness, we must let the great nobles send their own elite. Only the elite of the great nobles can destroy the city in a short time!"

Said the middle-aged nobleman solemnly.

At his words, Joseph nodded gently, his eyes twinkling.

His sight wandered among the nobles behind him, and many of the nobles who looked at him lowered their heads subconsciously.

Joseph's eyes, at last, stopped when he saw one of them

"Count Mies, it is said that you have brought 70000 people to this holy war, but I don't seem to have seen your troops go to war these days."

The thin Countess of Mies's face changed in an instant.

His eyes flickered and he was about to explain, but he was soon blocked by Joseph's next sentence:

"Count, if I remember correctly, the city of Argus originally belonged to the West. As a former West Lord, you want to take back this land. Should you set an example? Or are you going to give up and take back the territory nearby? "

"No! Your highness, Argus has been a part of the West since ancient times! It's the jurisprudential territory of our MIS family! "

Said count Mies subconsciously.

"Let's set an example. There are many leading nobles in the west this time. In the next round of strong attack, the leading nobles in the West will take the lead."

Said Joseph.

Then he took a deep look at the pale count of Mies

"Don't think about preserving your strength any more. Otherwise, even if I finally take over here, I will also reflect to the Council, and ask the Council to take back your ownership! "

Count Mies was struggling.

A moment later, he finally sighed in frustration:

"I see, Duchess."

"Then get ready quickly. The next round of heavy attack will start in an hour."

Said Joseph with satisfaction.

With that, the young Duke left, leaving count Mies with a different look.

"Count, do we really want to be the main force of the next attack?"

Asked the great nobleman with the Western collar.

"It's only for the sake of Prince Rosen, even if we don't want to."

Sighed count Mies.

He looked at the hesitant vassal nobles around him and sneered again

"OK, don't worry. After spending these days, the strength of Argus city has weakened a lot. Although it may lose a little, it's not as difficult as it was at the beginning."

At the end of his speech, he took a deep look at the vassal nobles

"Don't hide. I know you guys have better siege equipment. You'll have to take it out later. Otherwise, when the war is over, I'll report to the Council and deprive him of his title!"

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"Well, I've known for a long time that these selfish idiots always hide their talents and don't want to contribute at all!"

Half an hour later, looking at the three magic crystal cannons pushed out by the western leading noble private soldiers headed by count Mies, Joseph snorted angrily.

"No! It's a heavy magic crystal gun

On the wall, seeing the siege cannons pushed out by the Empire, commander Arthur's expression changed slightly.

The magic defense barrier in Argus is crumbling.

If you are bombarded by heavy magic crystal for several times, you are likely to collapse completely.

At that time, the ordinary city wall alone could no longer resist the destruction. Its destructive power was a bit stronger than that of the golden master. Its power of breaking the city was comparable to that of the legendary magic heavy cannon

On the other hand, outside the camp, more than 150000 elite western leading nobles slowly gathered and prepared to launch a strong attack on Argus city.

The count of Mies, dressed in full armour, stood behind the command of the army.

Looking at the army in front of him, he took a deep breath, and his eyes gradually became firm.

However, at this time, a bloody and embarrassed noble knight suddenly rushed over from the rear, running towards him and shouting in panic:

"Count, count!"

Count Mies slowly turned back, and then was slightly stunned:

"Robert, what are you doing here?"

He recognized that it was one of his guard knights who stayed in Morningstar city.

"No, count, no! Morningstar city is broken by the elves

The knight named Robert panted.

"What are you talking about?"

Count Mies's eyes widened in disbelief.

"It's true... It's true... Elves, suddenly there are many elves... They also have a lot of magic crystal guns... They broke the city in less than two hours..."

The knight said, trembling, with a trace of fear in his eyes.

On hearing this, count Mies was stunned.

"No, nothing. The elves ransacked the whole Morningstar City, and distributed the Lord's house and all the aristocratic Treasury to the common people..."

The knight continued, even with a little cry in his voice.

Hearing this, count Mies felt a surge of blood, which almost made him faint.

Morningstar city is the core capital of the MIS family.

The Treasury of Morningstar city is basically the property accumulated by their whole family for hundreds of years.

It wasn't until a moment later that he came over and gritted his teeth

"These cunning and shameless elves

"Wait... No!"

It seemed that something had come to mind, and count Mies's face changed greatly.

He grabbed the knight's clothes and asked with red eyes:

"And the countess? Where are little Phyllis and Mia

"The countess, they were lucky. They went to the country castle just a week ago for a holiday and escaped. Now they should have returned to the fort Russell in the rear."

Said the knight.

Count Mies was relieved to hear that.

Russell is the second largest city in the western region and the main city of the Mies family. It is a city built around the fortress and is easier to defend than Morningstar.

There, there's the last bit of the Mies family.

However, the next moment, with the words of the guard knight, his heart came to his throat again:

But... But the elves seem to have got the news that they have marched into the fort Russell! "

At that moment, count Mies turned pale.

He changed his expression several times, gritted his teeth, raised his sword and roared:

"Give me an order, attention, retreat, retreat! Let's go back to the West! Now go back to the West! Back to the West! Back to Fort Russell

The other western leading nobles looked at each other.

"No, we can't, count. We're ready to attack the city. We can't retreat now!"

"Yes! It's too late to go back now. What we should do now is to capture Argus city and recover the loss as much as possible! "

The nobles of the Western leaders advised one after another.

The sunk cost of siege is too high.

Although the strong attack is not what they want, but now that they are full of bowstring, there is no turning back.

Few of them are willing to leave now.

As for the elves?

Hey, it's not them, it's their Lord, or their Lord's Lord.

Don't worry. Many nobles even gloat, so they almost put the ridicule on their faces.

Before the battle of count Mies, the wave forced everyone to join in the war, but many nobles were also quite dissatisfied.

At this moment, many people have a little pleasure of "Heaven's good reincarnation, heaven spared who".

However, the next second, the pro guard Knight brought more explosive news:

"My lords, it's not just Morningstar city. The elves seem to have got the map of aristocratic territory in the West. They scattered their forces and went to many of their castles and towns! Also played the banner of "fight aristocracy, share property"! The manors and castles of several adults have been demolished by them! "

Just now, the aristocrats, big and small, who were still secretly laughing at count Mies, froze on their faces.

Their eyes, gradually dull.

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