Unknown Knight

As the Memphis army entered the city, the lord of Humamu, who was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, actually had more troops than Aix outside the city, which led to a relatively stable situation between the two forces inside and outside the city.

Although Lord Humamu in the city had an advantage in terms of the number of troops and their weapons and equipment were also excellent, most of them were new recruits who were hastily formed. In comparison, their battle formation capabilities were far weaker than that of the army of Aix. In addition, the continuous defeats had caused the morale of the entire army to be low. Naturally, they did not dare to leave the city to fight a field battle with the army of Standstill outside the city. However, relying on the strong city of Berbera and the advantage in numbers, it was still no problem for them to defend the city.

Although the army led by Aix outside the city does not have an advantage in numbers, with only a little over 10,000 people in total, the main force among them is good at fighting, and has won many victories in recent times by capturing cities and strongholds. Their morale is relatively high, and they also have advantageous weapons such as flaming oil, which makes the entire army have a psychological sense of superiority that they have the advantage and will eventually win.

Even the other newly recruited local soldiers were all poor people who had received benefits and land. Although their fighting abilities might not be good, they were determined to follow Aix to the end and had a strong will to fight. With just a little training, they would become qualified soldiers.

Moreover, the army of Standstill outside the city took the initiative, and was not idle even after the two sides were in a stalemate. Aix still had more than 3,000 prisoners, most of whom were captured soldiers and former nobles, and were the objects of dictatorship. When had Aix ever kept idle people? He immediately arranged them to be divided into two parts, one part built and reinforced the camp, and the other part carried soil to pile up two nearly 30-meter-high earthen platforms 100 meters outside the city of Berbera.

In order to prevent the enemy's cavalry from sabotaging and harassing, Aix also built two trenches and earth walls on the two earth platforms. They were connected to the camp, like two giant pincers extending from the camp, strangling the nearby city of Berbera.

The battle a few days ago had almost used up all the incendiary oil in Aix's hands. Now it was a good opportunity for the prisoners to build an earthen platform and wait for the incendiary oil to arrive from Fort Standstill. At that time, Aix would let the Bayi masters of Berbera City have a good taste of the fire.

A few days later, a batch of kerosene that had been hastily produced from Fort Standstill was finally shipped over, along with the food and military supplies collected by Fort Standstill and purchased from Gronia through the Ogbai family.

The arrival of this batch of supplies and food represented the sustainability of the war. It not only gave people peace of mind, but also boosted the morale of the entire army.

Aix struck while the iron was hot and immediately ordered the army to push the catapults onto two high platforms and fire dozens of cans into the city to test the saltiness.

Soon, one after another, flaming oil tanks were thrown into the city of Berbera like meteorites falling from the sky. This attack from the sky was like a disaster sent down from heaven, and immediately caused more than a dozen difficult-to-extinguish fires in the city.

The flaming oil, which was mainly made of petroleum, produced thick smoke as it burned. Aix also ordered his men to add sulfur, pepper and other substances to it, making the smoke carry the effect of biological weapons. For a time, the entire city of Berbera was filled with smoke. No matter the dignitaries or ordinary soldiers and civilians near the fire point, they were choked to tears and cried out in pain.

Seeing the good effect, Aix did not continue the attack. Most of the buildings in Berbera City were made of earth. Firing too much incendiary oil at one time would not cause much damage. Instead, the smoke would make it difficult for the catapult to see clearly, which would waste a lot of incendiary oil.

As the saying goes, slow and steady wins the race. He had the idea of ​​precise and continuous attacks, launching dozens of uninterrupted attacks with fierce incendiary oil every day to focus on destroying targets in the city. This not only made the output of fierce incendiary oil more effective, but also had a psychological deterrent effect.

The daily fixed-quantity but irregular-time fierce flaming oil attacks caused a lot of losses to the defenders on the city wall, burning and burning many soldiers. As a result, they only dared to post a few unlucky sentries on the city wall, while the others hid trembling in the soldier hiding caves at the foot of the city wall, and dared not go up to the city to guard. This strategy had a great impact on the morale of the Berbera city troops.

For more than ten days, with the advantage of the height of the two earthen platforms and the sights on the catapults, there were almost no intact buildings within a 200-meter radius of the Berbera city in front of the camp. The biggest loss was a granary that had not been moved in time. Under the focused attack of the catapults, the grain in the entire warehouse was basically burned to ashes. Not only that, all the city defense equipment on the city wall was also burned out, and the entire city wall was like an old stove hole that had been there for many years, a dark patch.

Standing on the earth platform, Axe looked at the effect of the fire oil attack with satisfaction. With this kind of uninterrupted attack, the stock of fire oil can be used until the next batch of fire oil is transported from Standing Fort. Judging from the posture of the defenders on the city wall, it should be easy to capture the city wall by launching a fierce attack at that time.

However, compared to his calmness, the city lord Humamu in the city could not hold it anymore. Finally, he sent people to lower three hanging frames from the top of the city wall. Three messengers came down with white flags held high, waving the white flags all the way towards the camp.

The three messengers risked their lives to deliver the letters. After Nana scanned and confirmed that the letters were non-toxic, her subordinates handed the letters to Aix.

After reading it carefully, the content of the letter was completely different from what Aix had imagined. This was not a letter of peace or surrender. To be precise, it was a letter of challenge to a fight. He didn't expect that at this time, the Lord of Humamu was still stubborn and wanted to end the dispute between the two families through a duel. The general meaning of the letter was:

The last time, the Lord of Humamu was instigated by a villain and launched an attack on the territory of Aix. There is a misunderstanding here. If Aix is ​​willing for the two families to negotiate, the conditions can be negotiated.

The Lord of Humamu City also heard that Aix was the agent of the Supreme God on earth and a walking god living in the world. They also wanted to convert to the faith of the Supreme God and become believers affiliated with Aix.

However, the priests in the city's temple said that he was just a mortal with flesh and blood, a liar who was deliberately making things mysterious to fool the people. They did not believe that he was the man with the destiny unless he could display his supernatural powers in public.

The specific lord of Humam also gave the only way to verify it, which is that there is a warrior with natural supernatural powers in the city of Berbera - Magnus, and Aix needs to duel with this warrior. If Aix wins, it means that he is the true prophet of the Supreme God. The lord of Humam and the residents of the city will be convinced and willing to open the city to surrender and unconditionally convert to the Supreme God religion.

On the contrary, if Aix was defeated, it would mean that he was a false prophet who was deliberately mystifying, and his war would be unjust. All the residents of Berbera would fight to the death under the leadership of Lord Humamu and would never surrender.