The next morning, when the warm winter sun shone outside the city of Riley, the peace and tranquility of the winter day were shattered by a burst of footsteps.

As the heavy steel plate doors slowly opened under the huge twisting plates pushed by the townsmen, groups of sunset heavy swordsmen in silver armor marched in neat steps, forming one neat phalanx after another towards the west, and on either side of these phalanxes were Yoman longbowmen armed with purple-shirted longbows and steel inlaid armor, or crossbowmen with powerful heavy crossbows and huge shields on their backs.

In the center of the procession, there is one of the few Royal Horse Guards who can scare a large number of Mars soldiers, that is, the only knight unit in the Sunset Empire that can be equipped with the best horse breed Nightmare Horses unique to the Vampire Empire of the Northern Continent.

As for the rear of the marching team, in addition to the same phalanx configuration of heavy infantry, longbowmen and heavy crossbowmen as in front, surrounded by heavy swordsmen, trailers full of arrows, asphalt clay pots, grain and grass and folding scorpion crossbows pulled by many mules are moving forward at the same speed as the team, of course, if you are careful people will find that there seems to be a siege weapon missing from these baggage - counterweight trebuchets, However, except for a few high-ranking personnel of the Military Department and Sun Lin who participated in the poison needle plan, no one knows the reason for this situation.

On the way, the unit passed through a ruin of many flames that still exist, the traces of the previous night's battle. In the battle last night, when the commander of the 2nd Longbow Regiment surrounded all the west, south and north exits of the Mars camp with fire, and at this time, the Mars soldiers, who were only aware of the abnormality, found that they had been trapped in this fire prison that they had built and "the sun never sets". The sun never sets, and the captives are not killed! Something like that.

Mars soldiers are also human, and Mars soldiers are equally afraid of death, although they doubt whether the sun does not set is true, but as long as there is a glimmer of hope of survival, Mars's soldiers are still willing to try. And after several Mars soldiers surrendered their weapons in public and were carried away by the soldiers on which the sun never sets, many Mars soldiers verbally cursed "traitor!" Coward! But physically, it seemed to be like the soldiers who had surrendered, and the soldiers who had stopped advancing and killing had stopped advancing and killing, and were facing their side with swords, shields, bows, and crossbows.

In the end, under the general trend, although there were still a few Mars soldiers who chose to fight to the death (because they were in the camp at the time, the body left behind by General Andrew, who woke up but died in anger when he learned that his soldiers chose to surrender, was still in the camp, and those Mars soldiers who chose to fight to the death were more or less related to the young general of the Mars Empire, so .......) but most of them chose to surrender as prisoners, The Mars army, which originally totaled more than 100,000 people, finally left more than 50,000 corpses and more than 60,000 prisoners in front of the western wall of Riley, and ran away for nearly 3,000 people.

"Andråt, then you are here and wait for the 4th Force to catch up with me when it leaves! Now I will first set out with these 20,000 men to join the 5th Heavy Infantry Regiment on which the sun never sets. After staring at the ruins left by last night's battle in front of him for a while, Sun Lin pulled the reins of the horse and said to Andert beside him.

"I know your majesty, but is it really okay to do this? Divide the 80,000 soldiers in the city of Riley who can participate in the battle into 4 echelons of troops, march in the order of ladders and columns, and conduct training after each city captured in the march and adjust the order of their own advance to the last place, although this practice can allow our soldiers to get enough rest while marching, but ............."

"I know your concern, the biggest flaw in this approach is the distance between the column and the column, but now there are not many troops in the Mars Empire, so you don't have to worry about those Mars people and the ability to make a truncated ladder column so that our head and tail cannot correspond.

"I hope so."

"That's right! Speaking of which, Andrelt, has the Sunset Smuggling Team I asked you to assemble now begun to transport those 'things' to the Imperial City of Mars as originally planned? Sun Lin seemed to think of something, and suddenly stopped Andelt, who was about to leave and return to the city, and asked,

"Yes, Your Majesty, in accordance with the instructions you have given, we have sent the merchants on whom the sun never sets to begin transporting the goods you have brought with you, and the nearly a hundred............ Gnomes, but my majesty, I wonder what are those things wrapped in cotton and those brass-colored spheres with patterns engraved on them? Although I know that the material is made of steel, it seems to be at least a strange ornament that is useless. ”

"Hehe............. that thing isn't an ornament, and that hundred-dozen people aren't dwarfs, but ......... I can't tell you exactly what I'm bringing with me yet, anyway, when the siege of the Mars Imperial City begins, you'll get the answer you want," Sun Lin thought for a moment and smiled slyly, and then left a puzzled and curious look on his face, Andert returned to the marching ranks, and began to march in the direction of the Mars Imperial City with the 1st Echelon of the Sunset.

Not far from the 1st Echelon Column, on a path hidden in the dense forest, a smuggling team was also slowly moving in the direction of Mars City.

"Knock, knock........."

"Hey! What are you doing? This is an inactive Secret Room Guard! Can you afford to pay for the damage? After seeing a brass-colored carved ball fall from the back of the ox cart to the ground, a man on the roof of the carriage who was only about 1.1 meters tall and left a bearded body like a round ball jumped to the ground and complained.

"Forget it! Just pick it up and put it back, anyway, these secret room guards are just here to make up the numbers, and the parts in the carriages in front of them are nothing compared to them, and it's important to hurry now! Before the human servant who arrived could say a word, a voice from the ox cart behind him calmed down the matter instantly.

The dwarf melon-like man returned again, on the roof of the carriage, and the human servants who had arrived had returned the ball to the carriage, and then retreated. The procession moved forward again, and what had just happened was quickly dispersed by the sound of ox carts............