Although the Southwestern Province Governor's Office had reacted quickly enough, organizing reinforcements for Mero City as soon as it received word of the enemy, the limitations of communication and transportation meant that the reinforcements only arrived outside the city four days after the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps had taken it.
These reinforcements were drawn from three imperial legions permanently stationed in Southwestern Province, with a total strength of over fifty thousand, showing just how seriously the Southwestern Province Governor's Office took this invasion.
The force of fifty thousand had managed to reach Mero City from the provincial capital, more than three hundred kilometers away, only because the Governor's Office had issued strict orders to retake the city from the enemy at the earliest opportunity.
After all, for several hundred years, no foreign enemy other than the Malo Empire had invaded the Candel Empire, much less captured one of its cities. Now that such a serious incident had occurred in Southwestern Province, the Southwestern Province Governor's Office was under tremendous pressure.
Yet when the reinforcements arrived outside Mero City, they could not even approach its walls. An incredibly dense barrage forced them to remain more than three kilometers away, unable to advance another inch.
"What the hell kind of battle is this?!" Marquis Dinatalai, the reinforcements' commander-in-chief, stared at the enormous craters covering the ground ahead, then glanced at Mero City, barely visible in the distance, and angrily hurled his sword to the ground.
Since leading the reinforcements here, he had already launched four attacks on Mero City.
Yet every time they moved out, they were met with an overwhelming, ferocious barrage from the Mana Cannons in Mero City. Even after suffering heavy casualties, they still could not break through that tight blockade and reach the city walls.
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