The sound of artillery fire that echoed throughout the capital woke the generals and people from their sleep. After five days, the fear of war once again filled everyone's heart.

Regarding the war outside the city, the people in the royal capital were divided into two groups.

The more devout believers prayed from the bottom of their hearts that the messengers of the great Lord would be able to drive out evil and allow the Kingdom of Hadratha to return to the Lord's embrace. The rest of the people fell into panic and confusion.

At the same time, in a courtyard of the royal palace, Lin En and others who were discussing the counterattack plan also received an urgent report from their servants - the punitive army of the Holy See outside the city suddenly launched a large-scale attack. Judging from the posture, all the elite troops, even the priests have been dispatched. Sanchez, who was stationed there, urgently asked them to send more manpower to support, otherwise the city gate would most likely fall.

"They came so quickly. It seems they are getting impatient before we even take any action!" Raphael said with a sneer.

"But it's only been five days. Since Edelweir dared to take action, he must have something to rely on!" Adela frowned and guessed with a worried look.

The previous punitive army suffered a crushing defeat and retreated, leaving behind more than 20,000 corpses. He thought that the enemy would need at least ten days or half a month to rest before launching the second wave of offensive, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

"I received news earlier that a support army of about 40,000 people has arrived at the capital and joined the expeditionary army. I think they are planning to launch a general offensive under the cover of night," Lin En murmured.

"In this way, the advantages of our new weapons are weakened..." Everyone present immediately realized the problem.

The range and power of muskets and artillery have always been their basis for easily defeating the imperial army and inflicting an excess casualty ratio. Now that their field of vision is restricted, the musketeers and artillerymen cannot effectively attack the enemy at a long distance.

Once hand-to-hand combat broke out, these temporary signs would show that the musketeers, who had only undergone a few months of training, would have no chance of being a match for the elite troops of the Holy See, and there was even the possibility of them being directly defeated.

Thinking of this, Raphael spoke anxiously. "That means the number of enemies outside the city may exceed 100,000. We must send reinforcements to Sanchez and his men immediately!"

Since Sanchez took the initiative to ask for support, it means that the situation is extremely urgent, and the contingency plans they made are far from enough to deal with the powerful offensive of the Vatican's expeditionary force.

Lynn nodded, looked around the conference hall, and then asked five great wizards including Anthony and Adela to lead two hundred official wizards to go to the city gate for support immediately.

In addition, another 5,000 musketeers and 10,000 guardsmen will be dispatched...

"Isn't this a little too little? I remember there are at least 7,000 musketeers in the royal capital." Adela asked in confusion.

They trained about 30,000 musketeers, of which 18,000 were responsible for defending the city. They were rotated three times a day to ensure that their combat effectiveness could be fully deployed on the battlefield when necessary.

The remaining 5,000 people serve as reserve forces, ready to provide support at any time. These are the personnel that Lin En is now dispatching.

The number of enemies may be beyond imagination. Now any strength is very important, and these people can be fully utilized.

"No, we can't mobilize the troops guarding the capital anymore. They need to maintain the stability of the city!" Lin En said firmly. "Also notify Alex and the others to launch the airship to eliminate those arsonist griffin knights and then support the battle on the front line. That should be enough!"

Compared to Raphael and others who were experiencing such a large-scale war for the first time, Lin En remained extremely calm in the face of such a crisis.

Although the Vatican's punitive army was coming fiercely, he knew that it would not be so easy to capture the royal city from the front! The wall of the royal capital was 18 meters high and was reinforced by magic. There were also hundreds of wizards to assist in the defense. Even if Edelweir put in a lot of strength, he would definitely be beaten to a pulp.

On the contrary, it is necessary to reserve some fresh troops inside the capital no matter what. Otherwise, once there is chaos inside, it is easy to cause a chain reaction, leading to a complete defeat! "Okay, since you insist." Adela shook her head and said nothing more. She immediately stood up with Anthony and summoned a group of wizards to rush to support, not daring to delay for a moment.

Raphael, who stayed behind, was a little worried about whether air combat in the dark would affect the performance of the airship. Although laser transmitters were installed on each airship, how to aim was a problem.

"It doesn't matter. Day and night are the same for them!" Lin En said, but he didn't intend to explain in detail. He then called Alok and asked him to turn on the power equipment in the Alchemy Research Institute.

Of course he had considered the possibility of a night battle, so during the two months since they captured the capital, they had not been idle. In fact, he had ordered people to create a power circulation system covering the entire city, and installed the crude electric lights developed a few months ago in various places on the streets of the capital.

However, since the reserved electricity is not sufficient and it has to be supplied to power-intensive devices such as electromagnetic guns, it has never been turned on. Now that Edelweir is planning to launch a decisive battle, there is no need to save electricity anymore!

Lin En was thinking carefully about whether there was anything he had missed, and suddenly he remembered something. "By the way, where are the speakers? It's been a few days, and they haven't arrived yet?"

He remembered that before leaving the wizard land, Harof had promised him that they would rush to Hadhrat after they finished dealing with the affairs of the council.

After all, after the Holy See learned that the fall of the kingdom was related to the land of wizards, it is very likely to dispatch legendary forces. Unless these great wizards attack together, it will be difficult to compete with them.

"I heard that two Speakers have left the Wizarding Land, but I don't know why they haven't arrived yet!" Raphael said hesitantly.

Was it delayed? Or was it delayed by something? Lin En thought to himself, could it be that the Church sent another army to attack the wizard's land at the same time?

Even so, they should have received some news...

But since Harov and the others haven't arrived yet, they can only rely on themselves tonight! (End of this chapter)