Chapter 70 (2/2)

Earlier information stated that Reuenthal had launched a very quick surprise attack to capture Trier Fortress and Blackstone Fortress With that in ainst his attacks there

Sure enough, during the past few days the Great Moon Kingdoo the Great Moon Kingdoathered thousands of soldiers and launched a surprise attack They iht General Reuben by surprise His stupid ht by surprise Four hours before the siege, the scouts reported that the eneic location a few hundred li away However before he knew it, the enemy was at his doorstep If it was not because of the precautions that General Reuben took after experiencing a few defeats, the enemy would have succeeded

The past few days, the Great Moon Kingdoht and only harassed the It was obviously a th of General Reuben's soldiers and also to make them collapse from the exhaustion

The cavalries were extreion were after all, still the Empire's elites They were unable to defeat Reuenthal on the plains as the foreign cavalries were very fast However, it was a siege No er had the advantage Sieges were best encountered with infantries

Reuben ordered the archers to get ready Then, his only hopes left were the archers During the surprise attack on Redwood garrison, the Northwest soldiers had abandoned their catapults and other weapons when they retreated They had also abandoned the catapult stones and fire crossbows There was no way they could bring those weapons along with the the chaos in the retreat

Luckily, General Reuben made as probably the boldest decision of his life!

When he knew that defeat was inevitable, Rueben reluctantly ordered his arrison that they had gathered over many years There werecatapults and also a year's worth ration of food for 100,000 soldiers All of it was co continued for three days and three nights In the end, Reuenthal had to order his soldiers to help put out the fire That cost him the lives of a few hundred soldiers and in return he only e a little bit of food

It was fortunate that Reuben doe to the rest of the Empire with their catapults

”Your Excellency, they have arrived!” One of the commanders cried out

Reuben raised his sword in high spirits and shouted, ”Raise the flags!”

Below the walls of the city, the Great Moon Kingdom had assembled The cavalries were on both sides with the infantries neatly lined up in the middle

”damn them!” Reuben cursed ”Infantries! Reuenthal's ht on foot! H able to use the phalanx formationyour infantries are!”

The sun started to shi+ne from the east It shone on the wilderness as rows of sciht!