System: Build My Own Territory Chapter 1296 - 342: Defend the City and Slay the Enemy with Me (10,000) _3

Even though they looked invigorated, ready to face death.

But...

The number was truly too few compared to the army summoned by Marquis Polk!

From Godfrey’s experience and knowledge, the number of cavalry charging towards Spirit Reef Port was at least four or five thousand!

With Spirit Reef Port’s city walls being over ten meters high.

If Marquis Polk only dispatched four or five thousand cavalry, Godfrey would not be afraid at all.

However.

Behind the cavalry were a large number of armored infantry and siege troops pushing siege engines!

The rapid charge of the cavalry, once they reached the wall and dismounted, could equally become infantry for the siege!

They were clad in heavy armor, holding shields, effectively resisting arrows shot from the walls, and even rolling wood and stones.

Moreover, they attracted fire for the leather and cloth armored soldiers and the large siege engines coming from the rear!

Apart from charging into battle with enemy cavalry face-to-face.

This is what makes heavy cavalry so despairing!

Retracting his gaze from the Sword and Shield Corps soldiers, Godfrey looked once more beyond Spirit Reef Port.

Even though the Sword and Shield Corps soldiers had already made the quickest response in the shortest time.

If there was no assistance from other military units.

The Sword and Shield Corps soldiers stationed in Spirit Reef Port would find it difficult to hold out through the night!

Spirit Reef Port would surely fall!

Godfrey opened his somewhat cracked lips, sucking in a breath of cool air, and spoke solemnly to the Sword and Shield Corps soldiers.

"Everyone!"

Loud yet tinged with a bit of desolation, the shout rang out from Godfrey’s mouth.

The Sword and Shield Corps soldiers, who had been grave, ready, and tightly gripping their weapons, all turned their gazes, searching.

When their gaze fell on the middle-aged man in leather armor, their brows couldn’t help but furrow.

They naturally knew that the middle-aged man was Godfrey Love.

The former Knight Commander of the Sword and Shield Corps, and now the highest commander of Spirit Reef Port!

Feeling everyone’s gaze, Godfrey turned his body, sweeping his eyes over them.

"Everyone, if there are no accidents, today will be our last battle in Spirit Reef Port."

"Perhaps, many people already know what situation this battle will face."

"I can tell you in advance—fight to the death!"

"That’s right! It’s a fight to the death!"

"From the very beginning, when the thirty thousand Sword and Shield Corps soldiers quickly occupied Spirit Reef Port with almost no significant loss."

"Then Marquis Polk led his grand army to conduct two fierce sieges, the Sword and Shield Corps soldiers have paid a painful price."

"So much so that now, in Spirit Reef Port, the number of Sword and Shield Corps soldiers who can continue to participate in the defense battle is only eleven thousand eight hundred..."

Danke and the Sword and Shield Corps soldiers had no words, their eyes all widened, staring straight at Godfrey.

The tone in Godfrey’s voice changed as he continued.

"However..."

"Even faced with a third of severe casualties, the Sword and Shield Corps soldiers still did not choose to retreat!"

"So far, I’ve yet to receive any report from a captain of any Sword and Shield Corps soldier choosing to flee."

"As the Knight Commander, as the highest commander of Spirit Reef Port, I am proud of you!"

Upon hearing this.

The Sword and Shield Corps soldiers, who had been filled with fear, instantly stood taller, and their eyes were full of pride.

The speech from Godfrey continued.

"However!"

"What I need to tell you in advance is..."

"Next, we will likely face Marquis Polk’s army that outnumbers us several times over!"

"The number of Marquis Polk’s army could be twenty thousand, thirty thousand, or even forty thousand..."

"But still, I hope... no, I am yearning!"

"Yearning for us to successfully defend Spirit Reef Port, to win this siege defense battle once more!"

"Because only then can we survive!"

"Because only then can we return to the Marquisate of Dukas and see our families!"

"Do you have the confidence?"

As Godfrey’s final sentence fell.

Shouts followed one after the other, rising on the walls.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"..."

The somewhat chaotic shouting responses began to converge.

Until a few sounds later, all the responses converged together.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

The sound resounded sharply, echoing above Spirit Reef Port.

Godfrey suddenly extended his right hand, and the echoes of the shouts abruptly ceased.

Godfrey’s right hand moved, tightly grasping the hilt of the commander’s longsword at his waist.

Screech~

The sound of the sword blade scraping rang instantly, and the commander’s longsword was drawn by Godfrey, pointing forward diagonally.

"Then now... follow me to defend the city and kill the enemy!"

Shouts resounded once more.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Following Godfrey’s gaze forward.

A large number of cavalry holding torches had already arrived under the walls.

Through the light of the torch flames

Just as Godfrey had imagined.

The cavalry held torches in their left hands for illumination, and tightly gripped the reins of warhorses with their right hands.

Clad in a solid and heavy set of standard plate armor, a one-handed longsword at their waists.

On their backs hung over a meter long shield to fend off arrows and rolling wood and stones!

The number of cavalry even surpassed Godfrey’s expectations.

There were at least five or six thousand!

And behind the cavalry were large-scale infantry!

They either gripped long spears, or held round shields in their left hands and long swords or scimitars in their right hands.

Moreover, groups of over a dozen carried siege cloud ladders together!