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"Of course it's the Little Sassini. Ambratu is fighting the Little Sassini!"

Hearing this, the confusion on Harvey Shelvin's face gradually turned into fear: "Didn't Ambratu send troops to Little Sasini? Why did the Little Sasini people come here? Could it be that the Ambratu citizen militia was wiped out? What should we do? What should we do? Should we rush in and escape? Yes, we will be safe if we escape to Viscount Lanwan's territory!"

In fact, Harvey Shelvin is also a one-wing swordsman from the Royal Griffin Knights faction, but the gap between one-wing swordsmen and one-wing swordsmen is sometimes no smaller than the gap between humans and dogs.

Harvey Shelvin usually doesn't train his physical fitness, nor is he too lazy to practice swordsmanship, and he has no combat experience. The power increase of the ability awakened when he was a wing can only help Harvey Shelvin deal with bullies and bullies. Knights like Jack Moore, Herman Green, and Jarrod Garcia, who are strictly self-disciplined and have rich combat experience, can easily kill ten Harvey Shelvins on the chaotic battlefield with their skilled swordsmanship even without using any extraordinary abilities.

Even Harvey Shelvin was not sure if he could defeat those unawakened but well-trained squire knights.

Robin Mancini despised Harvey Shelvin's cowardly behavior, but Robin Mancini still had his own mission and could not leave Ambratu yet, so he had to persuade him: "The city is in chaos and it is very dangerous to go out now. We may encounter the enemy before we escape the city. It is better to hide in the house. The Lesser Sassiani are not as strong as the Ambratu people. This should be just a detachment for a roundabout attack. The number of troops will not be too large. We just need to stay here until dawn, and the enemy should retreat."

"Well, okay, Knight Mancini, you guard the front door and I'll guard the back door. We'll be safe as long as we can hold on until dawn." Harvey Sherwin said while holding Robin Mancini's hand, then hurried to the bedroom.

Robin Mancini was even more speechless - what the hell is this house doing with a back door!

The residents of Ambratu were even more panicked than Harvey Sherwin. The Little Sassini citizen soldiers who rushed into the city destroyed homes and killed anyone they saw. In order to speed up the massacre, they even set fires around the residential area, causing the flames to spread toward the center of the circle. The residents were also forced to gather in the center, and eventually all were burned to death in the center of the flames.

Just as cruelly as the Ambratu militia had treated the Lesser Sassini, the Lesser Sassini militia was just as cold-blooded towards the Ambratu people.

Crying, begging, screaming and wailing were heard everywhere, like a sudden punishment from heaven, befalling this unfortunate city.

However, not everyone can feel the pain in the disaster. On the contrary, some people can even feel secretly happy about it.

"Sir, the damned little Sassenians are setting fires all over the city! Should we call up the remaining citizen militia at once?"

Harry Kane, the elder of the Ambrato Democrats, advised the leader of the Democrats, Olivier Capino.

This is a reception room in the Capino family manor. The manor is located outside the city of Ambratu, on a higher ground. From the windows of the reception room, you can see the scenery inside the city of Ambratu. If there are citizens of Ambratu here, they will find that almost all the democratic elders of the Senate have gathered in this magnificent reception room.

Although Antanas took away almost all of Ambratu's elite citizen soldiers and supernatural powers, in name all citizens of Ambratu have the obligation to perform military service. Therefore, if an elder can stand up and give orders at this time, Ambratu will have hope of gathering a few thousand more citizen soldiers. Their combat effectiveness will be worrying, but it is much better than no resistance after all.

However, Olivier Capino shook his head and said, "No need. The city is in chaos and it is too late to summon the citizen soldiers. Besides, I have already sent a giant eagle to inform Elder Antanas. I believe Elder Antanas will come back to help in time after hearing the news."

"If we do nothing, will we be criticized by the Citizens' Assembly in the future?" Jurgen Voller, another democratic elder, said hesitantly.

"Why are we being blamed?" Martin Kramer took a sip of the tea brought by the servant and said with a curled mouth, "This matter is obviously Antanas' fault! If he hadn't taken away almost all the troops in the city, how could Ambratu be attacked?"

"That's right." Olivier's younger brother, another democratic elder, Lucas Capino, slammed the table and said angrily, "We have long advised Antanas that there is no need to bring so many troops to attack Little Sasini. He turned a deaf ear to our advice and even deceived the Citizens' Assembly to give him full command authority. Now, Ambrato has been attacked, and the citizens and their families have suffered misfortune. Antanas must take responsibility!"

"That's right! You must be responsible!"

“You must be responsible!”

The democratic elders echoed one after another.

Martin Kramer stood up and said loudly: "I suggest that tomorrow, as the Citizens' Assembly proposed, we remove Antanas from his position as commander and elder! To punish him for the harm he has brought to the citizens of Ambratu!"

"I support you. I also think that Antanas is not suitable to be the commander-in-chief!"

"support!"

"support!"

"Support! Antanas is guilty of a heinous crime!"

"..."

Martin Kramer's suggestion again aroused cheers.

The atmosphere of discussion in the reception room became more and more heated. The democratic elders painfully condemned the pain that the oligarchs had brought to the city-state and sympathized with the unfortunate situation of the citizens. As they spoke, they couldn't help but smile on their faces.

Outside the window, the city of Ambratu was still burning.

The Viscount of Lanwan.

The knights and squires of the territory guard were just about to go to bed when Charlotte sent people to wake them up from their beds one by one.

"Knights, according to Knight Jack Moore's investigation, Ambratu was attacked by the barbaric Sasini people, and the people there are in dire straits. As neighbors across the sea, we have an obligation to save them from the crisis."

Charlotte said this to her knights.

The knights were all confused. It was true that Viscount Lanwan and Ambratu were neighbors, but were their relations good enough to help each other? The Viscount had closed the border between the two sides a while ago and extorted compensation from Ambratu. It was good enough that the two sides did not have any grudges against each other.

Although they didn't understand the situation, Charlotte led the battle personally, so the Cavaliers naturally had to follow.

However, although she said that Ambratu was in dire straits, after setting out on the road, Charlotte walked very slowly. It did not seem like she was going to rescue someone, but rather like she was taking a walk.

After the team had walked for two or three hours without being able to leave Viscount Lanwan's territory, Herman Green, the captain of the guard, could no longer bear it and suggested to Charlotte: "Your Excellency, if we don't speed up, by the time we arrive, the people of Ambratu may have suffered heavy losses."

Charlotte looked at Hermann Green with a strange look, and then said to Hermann Green in a very helpless tone: "Knight Hermann, helping the weak is a virtue of knights. I really want to save the people of Ambratu from danger, but you may have forgotten one thing."

"What's the matter?" Hermann Green asked confusedly.

"Compared to Ambratu and Little Sassini, our Viscount Lanwan is the weakest," Charlotte sighed and said, "They can easily mobilize thousands of troops and hundreds of extraordinary people. What about us? There are only a few hundred people. This time, Little Sassini's detachment that attacked Ambratu has thousands of people. We will suffer heavy losses if we confront them head-on. The Little Sassini detachment will not stay in Ambratu for a long time. We will walk slowly. When we arrive, the Little Sassini will just withdraw on their own. That would be perfect."

"For us, it's mainly to express our gratitude," Charlotte concluded.

Hermann Green was speechless.

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Volume 60: Chapter 52 Chapter Two Big Victories

Antanas and his men were forced to spend most of the night outside the inner city walls, and were unable to attack the siege city.

It was not until the second half of the night that the fire in the inner city of Little Sasinia began to die down and gradually died down. Antanas regained his spirit and prepared to launch an attack.

However, suddenly a giant eagle descended from the sky, and a panicked young citizen jumped off the eagle. When he saw Antanas, he cried, "Elder, Elder Antanas, please save Ambratu! Ambratu has been breached!"

"What did you say?" Antanas grabbed the young citizen's arm. "What happened to Ambratu?"

"Ambulatu has been breached! The little Sassenians have attacked Ambulatu! Ambulatu is burning!" wailed the young citizen.

"What!" Antanas's face changed drastically.

"Ambratu was breached?"

"how is this possible?"

"Why is this happening?"

"Damn little Sasseni!"

……

The giant eagle that descended from the sky attracted everyone's attention. The young citizen's wailing voice did not lower its volume. At once, all the Ambratu citizen soldiers heard the bad news.

"How many men were there among the Lesser Sasseni who attacked Ambratus?" asked Antanas.

"I don't know, I don't know," the young citizen said with tears on his face, "There are little Sassi everywhere, killing people everywhere, and fires everywhere. Elder, elder, please go and save Ambrato, please..."

Antanas' face turned pale - his achievement of conquering Lesser Sasini ten times could not make up for the mistake of conquering Ambratus once.

Often, citizens are more sensitive to immediate losses than to long-term gains. Apo did not understand this and was deprived of his property and citizenship, becoming a wandering mercenary. But how could Antanas, who had been a city-state elder for more than a decade, not understand this?

but……

Antanas looked up at the mountain city in the distance, feeling very unwilling.

At this time, the oligarch elder Salius saw Antanas' hesitation and persuaded him: "Sir, you should focus on rescuing Ambratus, otherwise the democrats will definitely impeach you in the Citizens' Assembly."

"Damn it!" Antanas gritted his teeth. "There are at least 10,000 citizens in Ambratu. If the democrats could do something, how could the little Sassenians capture Ambratu so easily? They are obviously letting the enemy run wild in our city-state!"

"It's useless to say this now," Salius said with a wry smile, "The democrats don't want to see us successfully eliminate the little Sasini. For this, they would rather let the citizens of Ambratu pay a heavy price. If we don't rush to help, all these sacrifices will be blamed on us, and the citizen soldiers will also be dissatisfied!"

Antanas looked around and saw that the Ambratu citizen soldiers were all staring at him. He took a deep breath and said, "Okay, I'll go back for help!"

These words seemed to be squeezed out from the throat!

After hearing what Antanas said, the young citizen who came to ask for help finally calmed down a little, and then he provided some useful information: "When I flew over here on the giant eagle just now, I saw many torches on the road along the coast. It seems that the army of the Lesser Sassenians has blocked the road..."

Antanas did not find this strange, as he had never thought that the news of his expedition to attack the Lesser Sasini could be kept secret. It was a normal choice for the Lesser Sasini to send heavy troops and set up checkpoints on the main roads to prepare for the attack.

Unfortunately, he was more skilled than others and managed to climb over the mountain, avoiding the main force of the enemy, rendering the defense line of the Lesser Sassiani useless!

Thinking of this, Antanas had a new idea. He said to Salius, "I will bring half of the citizen soldiers back to help. The remaining half of the citizen soldiers and the three hundred mercenaries are all left to you. The main force of the Lesser Sassenians is on the seashore, and they have also allocated a part of their forces to attack our city-state. Therefore, there should be few defenders in the Siege City. You still have a chance to break through the Siege City."

Salius opened his mouth. He wanted to say that he had never commanded an army. Before he became an elder, he was a fishmonger. Unlike Antanas, he did not have many years of military career.

In fact, Antanas also understood this, but the problem was that he had no one available.

It is well known that in party politics, identity labels are far more important than talent.

It is almost a necessary condition that the elders of the oligarch faction come from the middle and lower class citizens. However, even if the middle and lower class citizens are called up to the battlefield, most of them can only become ordinary soldiers and rarely have the opportunity to hone their skills in command positions.

Most of the members of the Democratic Party had served as team officers, and some had even served as generals. However, due to their democratic stance, Antanas would rather take Zaryus, who had no command experience, with him than appoint a Democratic elder as his adjutant for this battle.

The Democrats probably think the same way.

After arranging Salius to stay and continue the siege, Antanas led half of his troops back to Ambratu. Of course, Antanas still did not intend to take the main road by the sea. He planned to cross the Biong Mountain and the Horse Head Mountain again to return to Ambratu.

Because according to the young citizen, there were at least four to five thousand Minor Sasini troops stationed on the seaside road. Antanas believed that if he went that way, he would inevitably have to fight a bloody battle. Even if he could successfully break through, it would waste a lot of time. It would take him an unknown amount of time to return to Ambrato.

Fortunately, the miracle "White-headed Ape Claw" distributed by Antanas to the citizen soldiers can still be used for a while.

On the way back, the citizen soldiers, eager to return home, ran very fast without Antanas urging them.

After Antanas left, Salius launched three attacks on the besieged city according to Antanas' strategy, but all three attacks failed to achieve any results. He gave up the idea of ​​continuing the attack and ordered his men to set up camp on the spot to guard against the main force of the Lesser Sassenians stationed on the seashore from attacking from behind.

In fact, the defense force in Weishan City was indeed very weak. Awa only left a hundred extraordinary people to defend Weishan City. In the third wave, the extraordinary people of Ambratu had already climbed the wall of Weishan City. The extraordinary people in the city and other defenders relied on their determination to fight to the death and barely repelled Zaryusu's third wave of attack. If Zaryusu had a stronger belief, it would not be a luxury to break through Weishan City.

However, there is no "if" in reality. After three setbacks, Zaryusu backed down.

Even more deserted than Weishan City is the camp set up by Apo on the road by the sea. There are indeed more than 4,000 citizen soldiers there, but most of them are young recruits who have never been on the battlefield. There is only one extraordinary person, who is another old subordinate of Apo - Dean.

Such an army was no different from an empty camp, and had no ability to attack Zaryusu from both sides with the defenders surrounding the mountain city.

If Salius knew the strength of the enemies in front and behind him, he would definitely be confused - where did the main force of the Lesser Sasseni go?

Soon, Antanas would be able to answer this question for Zaryusu.

The moon sets and the sun rises, and it's the next morning.

Antanas led the citizen militia to cross Mount Bion, and they only needed to cross Mount Mashou again to return to Ambratu.

However, just as Antanas and the Ambratu militia were in the valley between Mount Bion and Mount Mashou, a horn sounded on the opposite Mount Mashou.

One after another, figures stood up from behind the rocks and bushes. They were wearing light leather armor and each carried a bundle of heavy javelins on their backs. They stared at the enemies below the mountain with eyes burning with hatred, as if they wanted to tear these people to pieces and eat them one by one.

At this moment, Antanas felt his scalp tingling.

Apo was also standing on a protruding rock and recognized Antanas, the leader. The moment he saw Antanas, he knew that his plan was successful - generally successful.

The Ambratu people's extraordinary marching speed resulted in the residents of the inner city of Little Sassini being unable to evacuate in time, resulting in heavy casualties, which Apo had not anticipated.

However, as a veteran, Apo knew that regret would not solve any problems, so he still said calmly: "Javelin."

The citizen soldiers of the Little Sasseni raised their javelins in unison.

"Throw!" Apo ordered again.

Javelins rained down.

The heavy javelins used by the Sokyans can weigh up to ten kilograms or even more. Their front section is a long metal rod with an armor-piercing cone or barb on the head, which has extremely strong penetrating and destructive power.

The javelins thrown by some of these extraordinary people may not seem fast at first glance, but as the flight distance increases, the flying speed will become faster and faster. When they finally hit the target, the javelin will be given even more amazing lethality by the amazing kinetic energy.

If Charlotte saw this scene, she would probably find it familiar.

"Charge forward, they don't have many troops. If we charge forward, we can survive." Antanas drew out his sword and pointed it in the direction of Awa, shouting loudly.

Antanas's judgment was correct. Although the ambush was successful, the troops of the Little Sassini were still at a disadvantage. Especially the extraordinary people. Apo only brought less than 400 extraordinary people, which was almost the last of the Little Sassini people. But even after a division of troops, Antanas still had more than 600 extraordinary people under his command.

However, the problem is that the factors that determine victory or defeat on the battlefield are often not just the number of people.

The terrain of Ma Shou Mountain is too rugged. Even with the help of the miraculous "White-headed Ape Claw", it is impossible for the Ambratu citizen militia to rush up the mountain in one breath.

During the upward attack, the Ambratu citizen militia had to go through at least five rounds of heavy javelin fire before they could engage in close combat with the Lesser Sassenians.

In fact, it was only after the third round of heavy javelins that the Ambratu citizen militia began to waver.

The ten-pound heavy javelin could nail a person to the rock if it hits the torso, and could explode the head if it hits the head. The armor on their bodies could not provide them with any sense of security.

By the fifth round of javelins, the morale of the Ambratu citizen militia had reached rock bottom. They lay on the ground and hid behind rocks, unwilling to charge towards death again.

The Ambratu soldiers did not charge, and Apo also ordered the Little Sassini to stop throwing spears. When the Ambratu soldiers showed up, Apo ordered the Little Sassini soldiers to focus their fire on those who showed up and kill them.

"Charge! I order you to charge!"

Antanas roared in anger, but faced with such a deadly path, the citizen soldiers simply did not listen to his command.

Antanas finally despaired, and he rushed up the mountain alone, brandishing his dagger.

"Throw!" Apo ordered again.

More than a dozen javelins hit Antanas at the same time, turning him into a porcupine.