The sound of artillery resounded throughout the royal capital, awakening the generals and citizens from their sleep. After five days, the fear of war once again filled everyone's hearts.
Regarding the war outside the city, the people in the royal capital were divided into two situations.
The more devout believers prayed from the bottom of their hearts that the messengers of the great Lord could drive away the evil and return the Kingdom of Hadratah to the embrace of the Lord, while the remaining people fell into panic and confusion.
At the same time, in a courtyard of the palace, Lin En and others, who were discussing a counterattack plan, also received an urgent notification from the attendants - the Holy See's crusade outside the city suddenly launched a large-scale attack. Looking at the elite posture, even The chaplains have already been dispatched, and Sanchez, who is stationed there, urgently requests them to send more manpower to support, otherwise the city gate is likely to fall.
"They actually came so quickly. It seems like they were already waiting before we even took action!" Raphael said with a sneer.
"But it's only been five days. Since Adwell dares to take action, he must have someone to rely on!" Adela frowned and guessed with a worried look.
The previous crusade was defeated and retreated, leaving more than 20,000 corpses behind. He thought that the opponent would need to rest for at least ten days and a half before launching the second wave of offensive, but he did not expect that it would come so quickly.
"I received news before that a support regiment of about 40,000 people has arrived at the capital city and joined the crusade. I think they are probably planning to use the cover of night to launch a general attack." Lin En pondered.
"In this way, the advantages of the new weapons we have will be weakened..." Everyone present immediately realized the problem.
The range and power of muskets and artillery have always been the basis for their ability to easily defeat the imperial army and achieve an excess casualty ratio. Now that their field of vision is restricted, the musketeers and artillery cannot effectively attack the enemy at long distances.
And once they enter hand-to-hand combat, these temporary signs will appear, and the musketeers who have only been trained for a few months will never be able to match the elite of the Holy See, and may even be directly defeated.
Thinking of this, Raphael spoke eagerly. "That means the number of enemies outside the city may exceed 100,000. We must send people to reinforce Sanchez and the others immediately!"
Since Sanchez took the initiative to ask for support, it means that the situation is very urgent, and the plans they have made are far from enough to deal with the powerful offensive of the Holy See Crusade Army.
Linn nodded, looked around the conference hall, and then asked Anthony, Adela and other five great wizards to lead two hundred official wizards to the city gate immediately for support.
In addition, 5,000 musketeers and 10,000 Praetorian Guards were dispatched...
"Is this a little missing? I remember that there are at least 7,000 musketeers in the capital." Adela asked in confusion.
There are about 30,000 musketeers they have trained, of which 18,000 are responsible for defending the city. They are rotated three times a day to ensure that all their combat effectiveness can be put into the battlefield when necessary.
The remaining five thousand people serve as a reserve force to support at any time, which is the manpower Lin En is currently dispatching.
In addition, there are 7,000 people scattered throughout the capital, 4,000 people guarding the granaries, ammunition depots and various key nodes. There are still 3,000 people who can be called upon... even more extreme, they can completely Those on the defense also went into battle.
The number of enemies may be beyond imagination. Now any force is very important, and these people can fully utilize it.
"No, we can no longer mobilize the troops guarding the royal capital. They need to be responsible for maintaining the stability of the city!" Lin En said decisively. "In addition, inform Alex and the others to let the airship take off, get rid of those arson gryphon knights, and then support the battle on the front line. This should be enough!"
Compared to Raphael and others who had experienced such a large-scale war for the first time, Linn remained extremely calm in the face of such a crisis.
Although the Holy See's crusade was coming fiercely, he knew that it would not be that easy to capture the royal city from the front!
The city wall of the royal capital is a full eighteen meters high, and it has been reinforced by magic, and there are hundreds of wizards to help defend it. No matter how much strength Edwell puts in, he will definitely hit his head and bleed.
On the contrary, within the royal capital, a portion of fresh troops must be reserved no matter what. Otherwise, once internal chaos breaks out, it will easily cause a chain reaction and lead to a complete defeat!
"Okay, if you insist." Adela shook her head and said nothing more. She immediately stood up with Anthony and others, summoning a group of wizards to rush to support, not daring to delay for a moment.
Raphael, who stayed behind, was a little worried about whether air combat in the dark would affect the performance of the airship. Although each airship had been equipped with a laser transmitter, how to aim was a problem.
"It doesn't matter, it's the same day and night for them!" Linn said, but he didn't mean to explain in depth. Then he called Alok and asked him to turn on the power device in the Alchemy Research Institute.
Of course he had also considered the possibility of a night battle, so in the past two months since they captured the royal capital, it was not that they had done nothing. In fact, he had ordered people to build a power cycle that covered the whole city, and connected several The crude electric lamps developed a few months ago were placed throughout the streets of the royal capital.
However, since the power reserve is not sufficient and has to be supplied to power-hungry power users such as electromagnetic guns, it has never been turned on. Now that Edwell plans to launch a decisive battle, there is no need to save power!
Lin En carefully thought about whether there were any omissions, and suddenly remembered something. "By the way, where are the Speakers? It's been several days, haven't they arrived yet?"
He remembered that before leaving the wizard's land, Harrov had promised him that they would rush to [Hadra Tower] after they finished handling the affairs of the council.
After all, after the Holy See learns that the fall of the kingdom is related to the Wizarding Land, it is very likely that it will dispatch legendary-level forces. Unless they, the great wizards, attack in groups, it will be difficult to compete with them.
"I heard that two speakers have left the Wizarding Land, but I don't know why they haven't arrived yet!" Raphael said hesitantly.
Stuck? Or is there something temporarily delayed?
Lin En thought to himself, it would be impossible for the Holy See to send another army to attack the Wizarding Land at the same time, right?
Even so, they should receive some news...
But since Harrov and others haven't arrived yet, they have to rely on themselves tonight!
(End of chapter)
