Black Iron Crown

The fighting power of the Golden Lion Guard is terrifying, at least in foot combat, they are almost the same as the Scarlet Griffin Knights, which makes Lena admire the founding monarch of the Loric Empire, William the Great.

The Golden Lion Guards swept across the enemy with one-handed battle axes. The battle became bloody for a while. Countless internal organs, brains, and broken arms of table paper were thrown on the city wall, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

Such was the cruelty of war, that it continued until knights armed with heavy weapons reached the walls.

The Golden Lion Guard fought and retreated, gradually withdrawing to the wooden boards, and the defenders in the city did not pursue them. They were already used to this kind of behavior. If they continued to pursue, they would lose many people.

After more than three months of siege, there were less than 4,000 defenders left in the city, and more than 2,000 defenders were either killed or injured, unable to continue fighting.

They can only keep the number of defenders as much as possible, and it is not worthwhile to lose too many people for a moment of impulsiveness.

After the Golden Lion Guards left the city wall, the defenders immediately hid behind the battlements at an extremely fast speed.

They knew that when such a siege was over, it would be followed by a violent rain of arrows.

Fortunately, Lehner's preparations were sufficient, and more than half of the more than 100,000 arrows produced by the residents of the northern border are still left.

Sure enough, the sharp sound of piercing through the air reached their eardrums, the sound of arrows hitting the city wall was endless, and occasionally someone would let out a scream from being hit by an arrow.

The archers on the arrow tower fought back feebly, but a relentless bombardment followed.

Time is passing by like this, life is disappearing every day, the siege is always going on, the royal lords are not in a hurry, their logistics belt is very sufficient, the siege here is like a vacation, and Living in a castle makes no difference.

On the contrary, the cold and damp castle is not as comfortable as here.

The news of the invasion of the Western Territory is well known, but the royal lords have no intention of caring about that. They just want to send the damned queen and upstarts to the gallows and restore the glory of the Merland family.

The courier from Fort Creek rushed north without stopping, and finally arrived near the imperial capital on July 12, the twenty-first year of the empire.

The moon-watching emblems on a blue background showed their identities, and they successfully entered the camp of the besieging army.

Reiner received them in his tent.

After Reiner read the letter sent to him by Earl Crick, his expression became more and more perturbed, another external enemy had arrived, and the enemy's target was himself.

After Reiner sent the messenger away, he couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

I let the messengers from the western region enter the emperor to let the lords of the western region understand that the imperial capital is no longer able to protect themselves. He originally planned to ascend to the throne after defeating the imperial capital, and then led the neutral lords to rescue the western region and enhance his prestige and the loyalty of the lords.

But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and the southern Bookden Kingdom invaded at this time, and directly stated that he came to defend the queen, and Reiner couldn't ignore their arrival at all.

If Reiner immediately launches a fierce attack on the imperial capital, he can indeed conquer it before the Kingdom of Bukeden arrives, but this means that he will also have to face Fort Bukeden in the south while fighting against the Kingdom of Bazaran.

Reiner may not be able to win against these two countries at the same time under the enemy's back and forth.

After thinking about this, Leiner couldn't help but feel a little irritated. He has already reached this point, and he only needs to go one step further to become the supreme emperor and be honored and worshiped by all Ridka people.

However, at this time, he had no choice but to give up this position at his fingertips. Otherwise, even if he was powerful, he would have no choice but to be defeated by the attacks of the two countries.

The two thoughts of attacking the imperial capital and retreating flashed back and forth in his mind.

After thinking for a long time, Reiner reluctantly admitted that retreat was indeed his best choice.

As long as he retreats by himself, the sea and the sky are really open for so long, and he can stick to it after returning to the north.

It is impossible for the army of the Kingdom of Bukden to bring the army thousands of miles to the empire with love power generation, and it is bound to get some benefits.

In this way, the Queen and the others would have to pay some things to these people, and spending money in vain to allow the army of the Bookern Kingdom to enter the empire is obviously something that the upstarts and queens do not want to see.

They had only two options. One was to let the army of the Kingdom of Bukeden go northward.

Another option is to go west to support the lords in the west.

This also gave Reiner a chance to recuperate. Reiner did not believe how long the people of the Kingdom of Bookern could stay in the imperial capital. Even if Reiner was afraid of the siege of the two kingdoms now, he would have to wait four or five years later. The strength of the northern border will once again be greatly increased.

Even if four or five years is not enough, Reiner is only twenty-two years old now, and he can imagine how much the strength of the northern border will expand after waiting for the last ten or twenty years.

When the time comes, it will not be difficult for the army to press down and push everything down.

After thinking this through, Reiner couldn't help but have a wry smile on his face.

Although I understand the truth, it is still very uncomfortable to give up this easy-to-get throne.

In the past, Reiner didn't feel that the throne was too attractive to him. Even when he first came to this world to become a baron, he thought so, thinking of spending his life leisurely as a little country baron .

But when he really embarked on the road of fighting for hegemony, after he tasted the taste of power, he began to want to stop.

He finally understood why Yuan Shu blatantly proclaimed himself emperor under such circumstances in the previous Three Kingdoms.

Holding huge power, that feeling is what every man wants to try, and the throne of the emperor is undoubtedly the pinnacle of power.

Shaking his head helplessly, he summoned his vassals and the royal lords to explain the situation.

These lords were also silent one after another, and they knew very well that if the enemy was only the imperial capital or the Kingdom of Bazalan, they could still be somewhat sure.

But now they have to face the attacks of two countries, and they have to face the situation of fighting on two fronts. They can't see the hope of their own victory.

"Then... we are now?"

The atmosphere in the tent was very low, and Earl Jollal first stood up and asked Reiner.

"Let's retreat, we have no choice!" Reiner also said helplessly.

"However, we came here all the way and spent so much resources, do we just go back empty-handed like this?"

The meaning of war is always profit, and they are already losing money at this point in the war, and they really don't want to leave like this.

"Of course we can't leave like this, we have to make that damn queen bleed!" Reiner said viciously.