On January 1, while the inhabitants of the New Delhi Peninsula were celebrating the fifth year of the new calendar, the city of Riley, Edinburgh, was silent, with only the wails of the wounded echoing throughout the city.

The streets of the city were filled with wounded soldiers and sleeping soldiers, and corpse trucks came and went in the middle of the road, transporting the corpses of the soldiers who had taken off their armor and changed into sackcloth to the outside of the church on the edge of the square in Riley, ready to be handed over to the priests for the last ride of the fallen soldiers.

Although the city was ravaged by the war, it was at least clean, and there was no disturbance at the beginning of the war, there was a daily cleaning of the groundwater channeled from the city's canals, and the officials in the city were able to distribute the relief food from the rear on time, the residents of Ranster in Riley City had to worry about whether the enemy would break through the city walls every day, but they actually lived well, and there were even many spontaneously organized residents who would deal with logistics for the soldiers who defended the city for free after tea and dinner. In their opinion, these intruders who could save their lives before the war came, and protect them when the war began, would at least be much better than the Mars who burned and looted along the way.

Compared with the quietness inside the city, the outside of the western walls of Riley City can only be expressed in silence. The original wide avenue was only a trace of gravel, the verdant lawn outside the city, and the manor house with the intoxicating smell of rice had been reduced to a black-red scorched earth filled with the smell of scorch and blood, houses and farmhouses had been replaced by carbonized siege engines and the ruins of trebuchets, and the endless forest sea in the distance had become an endless sea of white canvas, which was the barracks of Mars's army.

As expressed in the current situation, the Mars Empire once again declared war on the Sunset Empire, but unlike the last time, this time the Mars Empire's attack was more fierce, and the equipment they brought was more than double the previous one, and the wounded soldiers in the city who were treated by field doctors were the best witnesses, and the steel arrows that were poor on the wounded soldiers were the most effective evidence.

That's right, it's the steel arrowhead, because the Mars Empire, with the technical support and resource donation of its new backer, the Sandik Empire, has completed the military breakthrough of replacing the professional army with steel weapons. The Mars heavy infantry scattered on and outside the walls of Riley City, the iron sword and leather shield in their hands have been replaced by steel swords and steel round shields, and the armor on their bodies has also been replaced by steel plate armor and even half-body plate armor.

Although because of the planning of the Sunset Spies, these Mars people were finally unable to make their own Sunset Throwing Bow in the end, and their remaining nearly 100 Throwing Tank Bows were also turned into a pile of firewood under the actions of the Sunset Spies, and their preserved asphalt clay pots even became a good helper for the Sunset Fleet to break its troops, but the Mars Empire learned to make wooden siege towers and medium-sized torsion catapults with the technical support of the Dick Empire, which was also the second battle of Sunset Mars, One of the main reasons why the number of dead and wounded soldiers is almost twice as high as last time.

Although the spy who never set the sun spread the news of the start of the war to General Bobby and the reappointed General Andert when the Mars Empire sent troops, and the sun did not fall on the border between the two countries and there was no less than 250,000 soldiers composed of more than 250,000 soldiers of 9 heavy infantry regiments, 2 cavalry regiments, 5 long-range regiments and 4 light infantry and auxiliary regiments, but in the face of the Mars soldiers who had swelled to more than 300,000 with the full support of the Dick Empire, it was still a little powerless, like the situation here in Edinburgh Led Riley, Cities in other territories bordering the territory of the Mars Empire, such as the Twin Cities of Nightbank, the two fortresses of Belle Sandona, and Ecuador City, also existed, but because Riley City was the closest to the Imperial City of Mars, and it held the fate of the logistics in Warsaw, the battlefield in Riley City would look more tragic than in other areas. Of course, there is another reason that is not a reason: this is the command center of the Northwest Continent Outer Theater where the sun never sets, and it is also the front-line battlefield command center of General Andert among the two major army generals of the Sun Never Setting Empire.

"The Mars are attacking again! Longbowmen and crossbowmen on the ramparts! As the sun began to shine on the snowflakes and ice crystals that had been frozen on the battlefield from the previous night's canister bow covering, the alarm bells of Riley City rang out again, and a group of Yoman longbowmen and giant shield crossbowmen dragged their slightly tired bodies up the walls again, while outside the city, the Mars hoplites and compound archers launched another attack on Riley City under the cover of catapults, pushing siege engines and siege towers.

"The Defending Giant Crossbow prioritizes taking out those siege towers! Giant shield crossbowmen and other enemies are shooting when they get closer, and all the Yoman longbowmen are fired! Burn all those siege engines and Mars hoplites to charcoal! "The familiar command came to the ears of the soldiers under the roar of the centurions who never set the sun, like a replay but the process was more and more difficult again The battle of Riley City began again, although this battle was the first time in the 5th year of the new calendar, but yesterday's one was indeed the 21st time in the 4th year of the new calendar.

That is to say, in late October of the 4th year of the new calendar, Sun Lin received the news that the Mars Empire was preparing to declare war, and in mid-November, after the Mars Empire officially declared war and sent its domestic troops to the Sunset Empire one after another, the western wall of the city closest to the Imperial City of the Mars Empire among all the cities controlled by the Sunset Empire has been besieged by the army of the Mars Empire for at least 22 days.

The inner city of Riley, the sun never sets inside the temporary headquarters............

"General, the right section of the wall has been punched a gap by the Mars soldiers! The 7th Squad of the 11th Heavy Infantry Regiment requests immediate reinforcements! ”

"Tell them to hold on! The 6th Squad of the 4th Heavy Infantry Regiment was already on its way, and told the 11th Squad Commander that they must crucify the enemy to that section of the wall, and that not a single Mars soldier should break through to the wall, but there were nearly a hundred wounded soldiers behind them who had not yet been transferred to the rear! ”

"Yes!"

"Andert! There are still more than 200 longbowmen trapped in Lao Tzu's 2nd Regiment, you quickly let me lead people to rescue them! ”

"Commander of the 2nd Regiment, the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of Longbow have someone to save them, so don't make trouble for me! The commander of the 2nd Longbow Regiment has already changed 2 this week, and if you go up again, I will have no one to change! ”

"It's really lively here!" In the noisy headquarters, a young voice made the atmosphere of the scene suddenly freeze: "Crown, crown, crown .........."