Chapter 311 [Taking over the Royal City Guards]!

The magic light shone over the imperial capital for three days and three nights.

When the third day of the New Year came, the magic light finally dissipated on the tall magic tower in the palace.

The magic circle that enveloped the imperial capital gradually faded away its dazzling light.

For the Second Division of the Royal City Guards outside the city, after watching the muzzle of the magic cannon, which had originally shining with terrible light on the city wall tower, finally dimmed, many soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

It's been three days!

In fact, since the night of the coup to today, over the past three days, the entire royal city guards, especially the soldiers of the Second Division, experienced the initial restlessness, anger, passion, shock, and finally disappointment, grief, and confusion...

In the end, what was left was a sense of uneasiness and a little numbness!

On New Year's Eve, when the coup happened, when fireworks rose in the palace in the city after midnight, officers of the royal family faction among the royal guards took over the army and led the royal guards back to the imperial capital. That night, they once attacked the city and tried to rush into the imperial capital to serve the king!

Under normal circumstances, the royal city guards were stationed in the imperial capital for a long time and had a very good understanding of all aspects of the imperial capital's defense, and they knew the strength and weakness of the capital. Even if the rebels of the Thunder Whip occupied the city defense, it would be difficult to resist the guards' attack.

However, when the thousand-year-old magic array in the palace was activated, the guards, who were originally full of morale and wanted to rush into the imperial capital to serve the king, immediately hit the iron plate!

The power of this thousand-year-old magic circle built by the founding emperor and countless generations of emperors spent a lot of national, financial, material and manpower was indeed not to be underestimated.

The founding emperor once boasted about Haikou: Even if the dragon clan comes to attack, he will not be able to break through this magic circle!

This bold statement has never been confirmed for thousands of years.

But that night, the 20,000 high morale soldiers of the royal city guards almost broke their heads under the city defense, but they could never touch the city gate!

This most well-equipped army in the empire almost proved the power of this magic circle with its own blood!

That night, when the royal city guards attacked the city, the city defense was almost unprepared! Most of the troops of Thunder Whip almost abandoned the city defense and rushed to the palace.

Originally, the Royal City Guards thought they could easily break through the city defense, but when the magic array was activated,

The magic defense light shrouded the entire city defense!! The royal city guards outside the city suffered heavy losses just when they tried to approach the city gate!

Above the city wall, those magic cannons set in the tower - these mysterious weapons left by the lost craftsmanship of thousands of years ago, will be automatically charged after the magic circle is activated.

With the activation of the magic circle, all troops outside the city trying to approach the city defense were subjected to indiscriminate counterattacks from magic cannons!

Manstein, the general of the Second Division of the Royal Guards, was a loyal royalist general who came to the front line after the first wave of siege, and almost saw the tragedy happening in front of him!

The Second Division of the Royal City Guards was the Arc de Triomphe in the imperial capital, the largest city gate in the imperial capital.

The first wave of offensive was just to let an infantry team try to get close to the city defense. Moreover, when siege, Manstein's army strictly followed the infantry army's siege.

The soldiers in the front line raised a giant shield covered with skin to cover the soldiers in the back row. In the team that was under the command, there were archers ready to perform long-range cover shooting at any time to cover the siege.

But when the siege infantry touched the city's walls one hundred meters away from the city wall, the roar of the magic cannon sounded!

More than ten magic cannons in the tower above the city defense roared at the same time, and the fiery red magic light turned into more than ten huge fireballs and fell into the siege!

The strong shields held high in the hands of the soldiers in the front row of the queue did not provide any protective effect at all!

Almost at the first moment when the terrifying red light fell into the crowd, the soldiers in the front row, and the shield in their hands, were bombarded into pieces in the red light!

After this wave of magic cannons, the originally neat team of 500 people from an infantry battalion that sieges the city were smashed into pieces!

Less than one-third of them ran back alive!

Just a volley shot, completely crippled an infantry battalion!

Anyone who was hit by the terrifying magic cannon's red light, without exception, was torn into pieces by the magic light! And even if the red light was not hit by the front, as long as the red light was swept or wiped a little, he would end up with a broken hand and limbs!

The soldiers who originally planned to attack the city gate in the middle of the team had the most miserable outcome!

Originally, a big tree had been cut outside the city, and a cart was used to temporarily transform the crash that attacked the city gate.

But under the bombardment of the magic cannon, only wood scraps were left everywhere! Almost no soldiers standing near the siege cart could leave a complete body!

The first wave of attacks caused Manstein to lose an infantry battalion!

And he couldn't even touch the edge of the city gate!

Manstein, who was shocked, immediately ordered to stop this act of dying.

Because he and the other officers could see clearly that the guns of the magic cannons on the city wall were still flashing red. If he dared to get close, then the one who greeted his side would definitely be another terrible bombardment.

Manstein quickly changed his strategy.

He ordered people to cut down trees temporarily, and then the engineering supplies battalion assembled several siege siege vehicles as quickly as possible.

He also ordered the archers to line up and carried out secret volleys on the city defense.

However, the following scene made all the hearts of the guards in the royal city sink to the bottom!

The stones thrown by the catapult cart and the arrow rain fired by the archers... were all blocked by the silver-white magic light shrouded on the city defense!

Once anything touches the magic light, it seems to hit an invisible wall and bounces away directly!

The dense rain of arrows was bounced to the ground, and the stones thrown by the chariot were easily blocked to the side and fell directly under the city wall.

Not to mention the damage caused to the city defense, even a scratch mark on the city wall could not be left!

Manstein tried to take a fire attack again.

He ordered the archers to use a fire crossbow. After the ignited rockets fired, they still could not break through the magic light curtain. The first moment they shot on the magic light curtain, the rocket was completely extinguished, and the arrow fell to the ground.

Then Manstein was furious and asked the engineering team to assemble two crossbows to make an attempt, but it still couldn't break through the light curtain.

The same scene also happened at another city gate.

The First Division of the Royal City Guards conducted an assault at the northwest gate of the imperial capital. However, compared with the Second Division, which had a relatively stable commander, the First Division of the Royal City Guards suffered even heavier losses!

Because the first one has always been the direct division of the generals of the Wangcheng Guards, and the commander of the Wangcheng Guards! The commander was the patriarch of the Garonin family who had already secretly participated in the rebellion, and Panin's father.

The Galonin patriarch wisely gave up his command and took the initiative to protect himself when the officers and generals of the Guards asked to return to the imperial capital to serve the king.

But because of this, the First Division of the Guards did not have such an original number one commander, and it seemed a bit hasty and chaotic when siegeing the city.

Because there was no supreme commander, the battalions below were not affiliated with each other. Unlike Manstein of the Second Division, who was in charge, the first wave only took tentative attacks, and carefully invested only one battalion's troops.

The first wave of attacks from the First Division could not wait to invest in four infantry battalions!

Nearly two thousand soldiers rushed to attack the city defense, but were counterattacked by the magic cannons guarding the city defense by the magic circle. After a round of volleys, less than three hundred people ran back to the formation alive!

An infantry regiment was directly destroyed in front of everyone!

The First Division, which was shocked, seemed increasingly chaotic. No backbone was in charge of command. The officers of each regiment below fought almost on their own. Many officers were smart enough to think that they could bypass the city gate and attack the city defense in other areas.........As a result, they were shot back by magic cannons on the city defense without exception.

In one night, the entire First Division lost nearly 4,000 soldiers!

This is almost a quarter of the first division's strength!

Under this situation, the morale of the First Division quickly declined. The officers and soldiers from the top and bottom all changed from being full of morale to being confused and desperate, and even panic!

This has gone beyond the scope of war they perceived!

I have never seen an enemy who has never fought against it. Just such a lifeless city wall has caused my side to lose so much life!

The most terrifying thing is that this city defense should be the most familiar place for me and others on weekdays!

At dawn, Manstein of the Second Division sent a liaison officer. After finally contacting the First Division, he successfully took over the First Division, which had already been in a mess.

But then, Manstein also faced a problem that made him helpless:

Where should I go?

He was naturally anxious. There must be a major change in the city, otherwise, the mysterious summoning fireworks would not be set up in the palace for no reason!

But now, my own troops are blocked outside the city by this terrible magic circle, but they are unable to enter if they have a gate!

Judging from this attitude, even if the more than 30,000 people in his hands were killed outside the city gate, he would not even rush into the city!

Just think about the muzzles of those magic cannons on the city defense, and it will make people's scalp numb!

Moreover, Manstein knew that even if he ordered a strong attack, he would probably not be willing to go forward and do such a sacrificial act of dying for nothing.

However, Manstein is naturally not a fool to be able to sit in a position like the general of the division.

After dawn, the first thing he did was to send someone to contact the First Division. After learning that the First Division had no leader and General Garonin, the commander of the Royal City Guards, gave up his command and stayed in the military camps in the suburbs, Manstein realized that something was wrong.

However, he immediately took over the command of the First Division and gathered the two armies in one place.

The second thing he did was to immediately send someone to the Magic Academy outside the imperial capital for help!

Although Manstein himself is just a general, he has never eaten pork and has always seen pig run.

His idea was very simple: Since the biggest problem in blocking his army into the city was this terrifying magic circle, then the magic problem should be solved by the magician.

What made Manstein breathe a sigh of relief was that shortly after he ruled out the contact officer, he received the expected support:

The dean of the Hugo branch in the Magic Academy and three elders of the white-clothed wizards led more than a dozen outstanding students from the Magic Academy to the Imperial Capital.

According to the liaison officer sent, they met these magicians only halfway through.

The dean of Hugo Branch and the people in the Magic Academy also discovered that the magic circle of the imperial capital was activated. After realizing that something big had happened, he immediately brought a group of students to the imperial capital.

After a brief conversation with Manstein at the temporary barracks outside the city, Dean Hugo's face became extremely ugly!

The scheming man of this fat old man is much deeper than that of Manstein.

As the top magician in the empire and a top alchemist, his attainments in the field of magic arrays are also the top in the empire. He knows very well how powerful this legendary magic array that has been passed down for thousands of years is!
To be continued...