Game of the World Tree - Chapter 887

887. Chapter 883: The Hometown Was Destroyed

Arrows like raindrops flew up and down the city walls, and deafening shouts of killing filled the entire battlefield.

The roars of the magic crystal cannons rose and fell, and each time a brilliant firework exploded in the dark Sun Shining Legion under the city wall, and a series of screams.

The catapults continuously threw huge stones at the towering city walls, bombarding the flickering divine defense barrier, making the originally flickering defense barrier even more shaky.

Under the city walls, ladders and siege towers were pushed onto the city walls by the imperial soldiers, and soldiers like ants had begun to climb up along the ladders and siege towers…

Fierce fighting had already broken out on the city walls. The guards and elf players of Maple Moon Free Territory roared and fought with the imperial soldiers who climbed up the city walls, and a tragic tug-of-war broke out at the city wall.

The gray city walls had been dyed dark red by the endless blood.

This is the city of Ogus, the northern gateway of Maple Moon Free Territory.

It has been five days since Joseph ordered the siege. During these five days, the Northern Legion launched a strong attack on Ogus City day and night, which brought great pressure to the defenders.

In five days, the defenders of Ogus City have suffered great casualties in the continuous round-robin attacks of the 700,000 troops. More than 6,000 of the 20,000 defenders have died in battle, and countless people were injured.

Among the 10,000 players who assisted in defending the city, more than 3,000 died and returned to the Elf Forest, unable to fight again.

There is no way. The Empire’s army is too large, including experienced veterans.

Although the entire army has no heavy siege troops, the temporarily assembled siege towers and light catapults also pose a great threat to the defenders.

What’s worse is that the continuous fighting has made the defenders of Ogus City more and more tired.

Even the energetic players have been exhausted after a long period of high-intensity fighting.

Commander Arthur has recruited new volunteers from the city again.

There were many civilians who signed up enthusiastically. In order to protect their homes, everyone was very enthusiastic.

However, this was just a drop in the bucket.

Because most of the newly joined volunteers were civilians without extraordinary powers.

When facing this professional coalition composed of noble private soldiers, they had no power to fight back.

Although Augs City can barely hold on now, everyone can see that the situation in Maple Moon Free Territory is not optimistic.

“Sir Ah Dai, how long will 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 city wall from the ladder, and asked with a heavy breath.

Beside him, the All-Star Ah Dai, who was in charge of the player’s defense of the city, also lost his composure in the past few days. His body was covered with blood and looked quite embarrassed.

“It’s almost there. If we persist a little longer, the other side will lose their composure.”

All-Star Ah Dai said.

Arthur wanted to say something else.

But looking at the elf warriors fighting bloody battles and the fatigue in their eyes, he swallowed his words after all.

Gritting his teeth, he shouted to the Maple Moon Territory warriors around him:

“Everyone hold on, our reinforcements will come to support us soon!”

The pressure on the side of Ogus City is getting greater and greater.

On the other hand, as the siege party, the pressure on the imperial army is no less than that of the Maple Moon Free Territory.

Looking at the city that has not been captured after several days of strong attacks, Joseph’s expression is getting uglier.

He never thought that a small city of Ogus would be so tenacious and so difficult to deal with.

Yes, the defenders of Ogus City did suffer heavy losses.

But as the attacking party, as the party forcibly attacking the city, the losses of the empire are even greater.

In just a few days, the number of soldiers killed in the siege by the Northern Legion has exceeded 50,000. If it were not for the pressure from the great nobles, some soldiers, and even some of the small nobles who participated in the war, might have mutinied and retreated.

The originally high morale has been continuously weakened in the repeated attacks. The resentment caused by the high casualties has gradually spread among the army, shaking the cohesion of the entire Northern Legion.

Joseph knew very well that if he could not capture the city in a short period of time, the people’s hearts and morale that he had gathered with great difficulty would be dispersed.

This was the disadvantage of the noble coalition.

After all, everyone was just gathering together for the rich rewards of the Great Holy War. In fact, everyone had their own ulterior motives, and the degree of unity was not very high.

In this way, it was okay to fight a favorable battle, but if they encountered a tough challenge, Joseph did not think that this huge army would really be able to burst out the due combat power.

“Ogus City is famous for being easy to defend and difficult to attack. In history, it was the elves who successfully broke through the city from the air using airships. However, we do not have airship technology, and the aerial griffin troops are not suitable for attacking cities with divine defense barriers… So, it will naturally be a little more difficult to attack.”

Next to Joseph, the middle-aged noble Roland sighed.

The young duke’s expression became even uglier.

The middle-aged noble said, and then took another look at his army besieging the city, and continued to shake his head:

“But, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that after the siege in the past few days, everyone has realized that this city is difficult to attack, and now many nobles have begun to choose to preserve their strength.”

“Only the small nobles were forced to go out and bite the bullet…”

“But their strength is not strong to begin with. If we fight like this, we will only delay it for a longer time.”

“My Lord Duke, we must let those nobles send their elites. Only the elites of the nobles can break this city in a short time!”

The middle-aged noble said with a serious expression.

After hearing his words, Joseph nodded slightly, his eyes flickering.

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

And Joseph’s eyes finally stopped when he saw one of them:

“Count Mis, it is said that you brought 70,000 people to this holy war, but I don’t think I saw your army fighting in the past few days.”

The expression of the thin Count Mis changed instantly.

His eyes flickered, and he was about to open his mouth to defend himself, but he was quickly stopped by Joseph’s next words:

“My Lord, if I remember correctly, the city of Ogus originally belonged to the Western Territory. As the former lord of the Western Territory, you want to take back this land. Shouldn’t you set an example? Or do you plan to give up taking back the nearby territories?”

“No! My Lord Duke, the city of Ogus has been part of the Western Territory since ancient times! It is the legal territory of our Miss family!”

Earl Miss subconsciously argued.

“Then set an example. There are many nobles in the Western Territory participating in the war this time. In the next round of assault, your great nobles in the Western Territory will take the lead.”

Joseph said.

After speaking, he looked deeply at the pale Earl Miss:

“Don’t think about preserving your strength. Otherwise, even if you finally capture this place, I will report it to the parliament and ask the parliament to take back your ownership!”

Earl Miss struggled.

After a moment, he finally sighed in frustration:

“I understand, my Lord Duke.”

“Then get ready quickly. The next round of large-scale assault will start in an hour.”

Joseph said with satisfaction.

After saying this, the young duke left, leaving Earl of Meath with a changed expression.

“My Lord Earl, are we…are we really going to be the main force in the next assault?”

asked a great noble from the Western Territory.

“We have no choice but to go. Duke Rosen has said this. Even if we don’t want to go, we can’t.”

Earl Mis sighed.

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

“Okay, don’t worry about it. After spending these few days, the strength of Ogus City has also weakened a lot. Although the attack may cause greater losses, it will not be as difficult as at the beginning.”

After speaking, he took a deep look at the vassal nobles:

“Don’t hide it. I know that you guys have secretly brought better siege equipment. You have to take it out soon. Otherwise, when the war is over, I will report to the parliament and deprive him of his title!”

…

“Humph, I knew it a long time ago. These selfish idiots have been hiding their elites and don’t want to contribute at all!”

Half an hour later, looking at the three siege magic crystal cannons pushed out by the private soldiers of the Western Territory nobles led by Earl Mis, Joseph snorted angrily and cursed.

“Not good! It’s a heavy magic crystal cannon!”

On the city wall, seeing the siege cannon pushed out by the Empire, Commander Arthur’s expression changed slightly.

The divine defense barrier of the city of Augs was already shaky.

If it was bombarded by a few heavy magic crystal cannons, it would probably collapse completely.

At that time, the ordinary city walls alone would probably no longer be able to resist this heavy cannon whose destructive power was stronger than that of a gold-level magician, and whose power to break the city was comparable to legendary magic…

The defenders were facing a formidable enemy, and outside the camp, more than 150,000 elite nobles from the Western Territory also slowly gathered together, preparing to launch a strong attack on the city of Augs.

Earl Mis, wearing a full set of armor, stood behind the army command.

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

However, at this moment, a bloodstained and miserable noble knight suddenly rushed over from behind, running towards him while shouting in panic:

“My Lord Earl, My Lord Earl!”

Earl Mis slowly turned his head and was slightly stunned:

“Robert, why are you here?”

He recognized that it was one of his personal guard knights who stayed in Morning Star City.

“My Lord Earl, no… It’s bad! Morning Star City has been breached by the elves!”

The knight named Robert panted.

“What did you say?!”

Earl Mis widened his eyes and couldn’t believe it.

“Really… It’s true… Elves, suddenly a lot of elves appeared… They also brought a lot of magic crystal cannons… They broke the city in less than two hours…”

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

Hearing this, Earl Mis was stunned.

“It’s gone, everything is gone, the elves looted the entire Morning Star City, and distributed the lord’s mansion and all the nobles’ treasury to the civilians…”

The personal guard knight continued, his voice even with a hint of crying.

Hearing this, Earl Mis felt a surge of blood, almost making him faint.

Morning Star City is the core capital of the Mis family.

The treasury of Morning Star City is basically the wealth accumulated by their entire family for hundreds of years. It was not

until a moment later that he recovered and gritted his teeth and said:

“This group of cunning and shameless elves!”

“Wait… Not good!”

As if he had thought of something, Earl Mis’s expression changed drastically.

He quickly grabbed the clothes of the personal guard knight and asked with red eyes:

“Where is the countess? Where are little Felice and Mia!”

“The countess and her friends are lucky. They happened to go to the country castle for vacation a week ago and escaped. They should have returned to the Russell Fortress in the rear now.”

The personal guard knight said.

Hearing this, Earl Mis breathed a sigh of relief.

Russell is the second largest city in the Western Territory and the main city of the Mis family. It is a city built around a fortress and is easier to defend than Morning Star City.

There is the last bit of the Mis family’s assets.

However, the next moment, with the words of the Knight of the Royal Guard, his heart rose to his throat again: “

But…but the elves seem to have received the news, and it is said that they have marched towards Fort Russell!”

At this moment, Earl Mis’s face turned completely pale.

His expression changed several times, he gritted his teeth, raised his sword and shouted:

“Pass my order, all troops pay attention, retreat, retreat! We go back to the Western Territory! Go back to the Western Territory now! Go back to the Western Territory! Go back to Fort Russell!”

As soon as these words came out, the other nobles of the Western Territory looked at each other.

“No, we can’t do this, My Lord Earl, we are ready to siege the city, and we can’t retreat now!”

“That’s right! It’s too late to go back now. What we should do most now is to capture the city of Augs and recover the losses as much as possible! “

The nobles of the Western Territory advised one after another.

The sunk cost of the siege was already too high.

Although a strong attack was not what they wanted, now that the bowstring had been fully drawn, there was no turning back.

Now, except for a few people whose territories were closer to Earl Mis, who were more anxious, few of the rest, especially those who were far away, were willing to leave.

As for the elves?

Hey, it’s not them who were being beaten, but their lords, or the lords of their lords.

Not to mention worrying, many nobles even gloated over their misfortune, and they almost had ridicule written on their faces.

Earl Mis forced everyone to join the war before the war, which made many nobles quite dissatisfied.

At this moment, many people felt a little happy that “God has his way, and no one can escape it.”

However, the next second, the Knight of the Royal Guard brought more explosive news:

“My lords, it’s not just Morning Star City. The elves seem to have obtained the territorial maps of all the nobles in the Western Territory. They dispersed their forces and went to many castles and towns of the lords! They also raised the slogan of “beating the nobles and dividing the property”! They have already demolished the manors and castles of several adults! “

The Western Territory nobles who were secretly laughing at Earl Mis just now froze in an instant.

Their eyes gradually became dull.

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