The city walls of Hildears were now full of Sechtor people. Of course, those standing on the city walls were basically the civilians of the city. That's right, the church finally approved the method of gathering civilians to defend the city. Sonia was also temporarily persuaded by Li Huailin.
These civilians' thoughts were simple. In fact, they hadn't experienced any war. Anyway, when they heard that the Byakee god they believed in needed them, they stood up and didn't think about the cruelty of war.
Hildears was a main city, after all, so it was well-prepared. Every civilian received a weapon and was sent to stand on the city walls. The troops directly under the church were temporarily promoted and became low-ranking officers who led these civilians. After all, they had at least received military training. Although they might not be much different from these civilians in terms of combat, at least they could carry out and convey orders.
However, most of them didn't know what they were facing. Some even chatted on the city walls as if they were here for an outing. This relaxed scene lasted until Li Huailin's troops arrived.
When the enemy troops appeared, the entire scene suddenly quietened down, because there were simply too many enemies. They didn't need to use their eyesight at all. When they looked out from the city walls, they could only see patches of red torches. It looked like a sea of fire. This feeling of a large army pressing down on their borders made everyone's heart heavy. Of course, they couldn't even joke around.
The siege immediately began. Li Huailin's troops had just arrived and didn't prepare for long before they immediately launched an attack. Seeing the sea of fire rushing toward their main city, the Sechtor civilians on the city walls hurriedly launched an attack.
As soon as the battle started, these civilians immediately experienced the cruelty of the battlefield. This wasn't a joke at all. Their friends who were chatting with them before might be shot by arrows in the next second and fall off the city walls and turn into a pile of powder. The battlefield was in chaos. The civilians didn't know what to do at all. Fortunately, the troops directly under them were still shouting for them to counterattack, so they could only mechanically listen to orders and think of ways to counterattack.
Of course, finding a way to counterattack was not something he could do casually. As mentioned before, Hildears had sufficient armaments, and in theory, it was more than enough to defend. But the problem was that these armaments were used by soldiers. For example, there were a lot of bows and arrows, but would most of them be used by civilians? It's fine if you can't draw the bow, but even if you have the strength to draw it, can you hit the target? Therefore, the efficiency of the civilian army's counterattack was appallingly low. The more reliable method they came up with was to smash things.
That's right, the effect of directly lifting something and throwing it down was much better than using a bow and arrow or something that was more difficult to use. The skill required was much lower than using a bow and arrow. But the problem was … It was obvious that Hildearth City's military reserves would not consider this situation. They had a lot of bows and arrows, but stones and the like …
Of course, the idea was thought of by humans. What could they do without the stones? Everyone came up with a plan and decided to demolish the houses. There were so many houses in the city, and they were all built with stones. Now that the Church needed their houses, they should quickly pack up and get lost.
Therefore, the city immediately set up a demolition team and a moving team. After demolishing the houses, they hurriedly moved them to the top of the city wall and began smashing the soldiers below.
Needless to say, the effect was pretty good. What surprised everyone was that such a defensive battle was actually going well. In the past few hours, the human invaders had attacked several times in a row, but they were all repelled by this temporary army of civilians. Up until now, no one had climbed up the city wall, let alone breaching the city wall.
This news excited the entire Church Parliament. They didn't expect things to go so smoothly. Didn't they say that this army was strong? They could easily annihilate the 3rd Army. What's wrong with them now? This kind of combat strength isn't a problem at all.
This news made Sonia look at Li Huailin worriedly. However, Li Huailin immediately gave her a reassuring expression as though everything was under control.
Yes, Li Huailin had expected all of this long ago. The efficiency of the Sechtor civilians' defense was so low, but how high did the offensive efficiency of Li Huailin's troops? As a matter of fact, Li Huailin's troops couldn't do anything to the city wall at all.
The city wall of Hildearth City was a little too exaggerated and insanely sturdy. Li Huailin initially thought that the city wall would be easy to deal with. If it didn't work out, he could just find a dragon and slap it. But later on, he found out that it wasn't that simple.
The huge black pillar that appeared after clearing the dungeon in China was obviously created by Byakee to pollute the mainland. It was the black pillar that was constantly spewing out black smoke. Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation Who said that they could just destroy the black pillar? Someone had indeed said that, but they had tried it. They didn't know what material the black pillar was made of, but it was abnormally hard. Not to mention ordinary items, even a Sword Saint couldn't do anything to it when he slashed it with his sword.
It was obvious that the hardness was almost 'indestructible'. But why did they mention this? Because the city wall of Hildearth City was made of this material. According to the Sechtor Star Monsters, back then, the Sechtor Star Monsters were still very weak and uncivilized when they followed Byakee. They couldn't even protect themselves on this dangerous continent. At that time, the Byakee Star Monsters understood their suffering and stepped forward to build such a wall for them to protect them. After that, they built a city within the walls and slowly developed. After that, the current city wall was built on the foundation of the old city wall with stones, which resulted in the current situation.
Of course, this was only a legend, and no one knew the specific situation back then. According to Li Huailin's theory, Byakee Star Monsters probably wanted to build a base here to protect their defensive facilities. As a result, the Sechtor Star Monsters mistakenly thought that it was the protection of the Byakee Star Monsters. But Li Huailin had also verified with Sonia about the authenticity of the city walls. It was really difficult to deal with the city walls.
Li Huailin's troops couldn't do anything about the city wall. The biggest problem was that they didn't have siege weapons. Previously, when they fought against the 3rd Legion, they seized some simple siege weapons. However, those siege weapons were brought by the 3rd Legion to support the siege troops in the east. Those siege weapons were prepared to deal with a city like Willings City. What would the consequences be if they were used against a city like Hildearth City? To put it simply, the ladders in their hands couldn't reach the top of Hildearth City's city wall even if they were connected together.
Therefore, even though Li Huailin's troops were attacking the city ferociously and the soldiers were carrying these grafted ladders to the city wall, in fact, even if they managed to reach the front, the ladders wouldn't be able to be erected. They weren't long enough.
That was why Li Huailin didn't intend to let them take down the city from the beginning. It was basically impossible, unless all the soldiers could fly. Of course, Li Huailin was just putting on an act. In fact, the soldiers carrying the scaling ladders were there to be smashed. Even if they were lucky enough not to be smashed, they would still fall to the ground as if they were injured when they were near the city wall. After a while, they would slowly climb back up. In any case, the battlefield was so chaotic that no one would care whether these people were hit or not.
These few attacks seemed to be very powerful, but they were all just for show. Li Huailin's side did not use their full strength at all. These charging troops were basically the reserve army, not the main force at all. The casualties were also very limited. It seemed like the people on the city wall were very effective, pushing back the attacking troops a few times. It seemed like the attacking troops suffered heavy losses, but in fact, Li Huailin's troops rarely got close to the city wall. How far could they throw things? In fact, many of the people who fell were running and fell down inexplicably, as if they had suffered a heavy injury. Of course, they were indeed killed and injured, but not as many as they looked.
Li Huailin's troops were obviously pretending for the next step of his plan. That was why he came to the church to continue "reporting secret information".
The battle went on for a few hours. After a few hours of fighting, the Sektor civilians on the city wall were almost exhausted. Even if they were born with strong bodies, they couldn't play like this. It was so tiring to just throw stones. But from their point of view, the current situation seemed to be pretty good. At least the enemy didn't attack.
And now, the battle seemed to have stopped temporarily. The enemy didn't blow the horn to attack again. Now, the troops were slowly retreating. It seemed like they were ready to take a break. This also allowed them to take a breather. After all, the battle was too hard.
On the other side, Li Huailin's assault troops were ready to attack.
"Your Majesty, will they really open the city gate? In this situation? "Maccon couldn't help but ask.
"Don't worry, I've talked to the commander. They will open in a while." Li Huailin nodded.
"Huh?" Maccon was still confused and didn't know what to say.
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