A shocking loud noise penetrated the eardrums, and the bright red light from the sky shone in through the windows, as if it was going to set the house on fire. The sleeping soldiers in Xilin Town were awakened, and many of them fell into a daze and sat sluggishly on their beds.

"Red Roaring Thunder! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!!" Paladin was the first to react, got out of bed, kicked the door open, and rushed to the ammunition depot.

The soldiers ran out of their bedrooms in panic, went to the munitions depot, armed themselves, and rushed to various defense points on the city wall.

"Iron bolt! You clumsy thing, insert the iron bolt of the city gate!" Paladin kicked his soldier on the butt and ran to the top of the wall.

Kino was already standing here, looking into the distance.

"Sir!" Paladin subconsciously glanced at the vast night and asked in a deep voice, "Did you release the red roaring thunder?"

Kino put an index finger in front of his lips.

"Silence!" Paladin conveyed the order to the soldiers on the wall.

The vast night was as dark as ink, with only the sound of the cold evening wind whistling.

The fatigue of gathering in the middle of the night, the abnormal situation of releasing Xiao Tianlei, the darkness of the night, and the fact that many of these soldiers were new recruits who had never seen blood, tension spread in the team, as if there was a devil's claw squeezing their necks.

heart.

One recruit even vomited because he was so nervous.

Just as everyone was looking in the distance, the first ray of fire suddenly appeared at the end of the vast night. Then the fire light extended into a line, and then the lines were connected into faces, just like the hand of the God of Fire drawing a picture scroll on the vast land.

"Rumble--" The overwhelming torches gathered into a sea and tore the night into pieces. The flames illuminated the galloping horses. The undulating sabers reflected the mottled light. Everywhere you looked, there was a torrent of steel shining with cold light.

"They are desert horse bandits..." Paladin felt his hands and feet were cold, and his voice began to tremble, "There are at least 1,000 people, and their strength is three times that of ours!"

In a siege battle, the attacker has three times more troops than the defender. It is not an advantage, it can even be said to be a disadvantage.

According to the military theory of this era, the offensive force must be at least 5 times larger than the defensive force in order to gain an advantage in the siege.

However, the city wall of Xilin Town is not tens of meters like the main city, but only a few meters high. Not to mention that the quality of the soldiers is generally low, and most of them are recruits who are waiting to die.

But the enemy is a desert horse bandit who is heavily armed and bloodthirsty.

"Why do they come in so many people? Xilin Town is not rich!" A soldier shouted desperately, and also shouted out the questions of every soldier.

It is not that Xilin Town has not been attacked by horse bandits before, but usually a team of dozens of people came to harass them. They used this place as a training ground for the adult boys of the tribe, fired a few rounds of arrows, shot something casually, and left.

Xilin Town wants money but not money, and meat but not meat. The Desert Horse Bandits are not a group of idle people. Rather than attacking a worthless town, they are more willing to plunder a rich town, even if there are more defenders there.

And like now, thousands of horse bandits are sweeping across the border at the same time. Let alone the small Xilin Town, it is considered a big event in Twilight City.

"Baisa Centurion." Kino stared at the long beacon fire in the distance and issued the first order, "Go to the inn to summon the messengers and send the request for military reinforcements to all neighboring towns in Xilin Town, including Dusk City, and then send military supplies

The officials brought all the beak masks over."

"Beak mask?" Baisa was stunned.

Isn’t that something to prevent epidemics? Now that the horse bandits are attacking, why do we need these things?

He knew Kino's temper, so he didn't dare to ask any more questions and went about his business obediently.

"Paladin Centurion." Kino's eyes reflected the light of fire, as if they were burning. "You first go to the munitions depot and put on the bird's beak mask, and then go to the epidemic area. When the second red thunder thunder appears in the sky, you know what to do.

do what."

Hearing the sound, Paladin trembled all over. He swallowed hard, faced Kino, hammered his chest, and retreated quickly.

"Lugo." Kino's eyes moved sideways and he looked to the side, "It's time for you to die."

Lugo grinned, twisted his neck hard, and his eyes exuded the unique bloodthirsty coldness of mercenaries: "Let us kill these bastards on horseback!"

Soon, the beak masks arrived, and Kino asked everyone to wear them around their waists without wearing them.

Baisa climbed onto the city wall and reported: "11 messengers have already set off and are expected to arrive at the nearest neighboring town in 4 hours. The local civil affairs officials discussed tactics, gathered troops, and rushed to rescue Xilin Town... It will take 8 hours at the fastest

.The first batch of reinforcements may not arrive until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. This is an optimistic estimate."

Just when Baisa was reporting, the sound of horse hooves was like thunder, and the first batch of cavalry had already rushed within a hundred paces.

"Shoot the crossbow!"

"Fire the arrow!"

The tactical commanders of both sides issued the orders almost simultaneously.

In an instant, crossbows and arrows were flying across the wasteland, arrows were falling like rain on the city walls, and blood mist rose one after another along with the screams of people and the neighing of horses, dyeing the battlefield with the color of death.

It stands to reason that with crossbows and bows and the protection of the city wall, the Xilin garrison would have the upper hand.

However, these soldiers had not been well trained all year round, and they faced desert horse bandits who relied on bows for a living. The battle loss ratio was actually slightly inferior, with more than ten people on both sides losing their lives.

4 nomadic horse bandits died and 11 were injured, and 7 Xilin Town soldiers died and 9 were injured.

The two sides fired at each other back and forth, and for a while each suffered casualties. There was a stalemate.

"Hoo!" In the blood mist of the wasteland, a pitch-black horse rushed out wildly. Shan Ule came out of the battle, bow stretched out over the moon, and the arrows neighed like a wild bird in the air, turning into a raging stream of light and hitting the wall of Xilin Town.

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A soldier was loading crossbow arrows. In the midst of lightning and flint, the arrows struck fiercely, directly penetrating his head with powerful penetrating power. The remaining force not only penetrated through the back of his head, but also nailed him to the wall with a clang. He died with his eyes closed.

Just as the substitute soldier was about to attack, Shan Wule opened his bow and shot seven arrows in succession. Seven streaks of light tore through the sky, splashing seven flowers of blood. All the victims were killed by the arrows between their eyebrows, without any deviation.

The Xilin garrison was suddenly in chaos, and everyone was in danger. They kept shrinking down the wall pier, not daring to expose their heads. Even after loading the crossbows, they didn't dare to aim. They just shot randomly with their hands, and the hit rate dropped significantly.

This not only puts one's own shooting at a disadvantage, but also reduces the number of shootable targets on the city wall, and those remaining standing immediately become targets of concentrated fire.

Shan Wule's eyes were like wolf eyes, and he instantly locked onto the shortest one. From his clothes, he recognized that this was the civil affairs officer of Xilin Town. As long as he was killed, the remaining defenders would be defeated!

"Hoo!!!" Shan Wu Le stood up and rode his horse, cocked the arrow, lowered the arrow slightly to change the advance, and his eyes radiated a killing glare.

Baisa is an expert in archery. Among the many crossbow-wielding soldiers, he is the only one holding a bow, and has already taken the lives of at least five horse bandits. When he was fighting back, he caught a glimpse of Shan Wule's aiming position from the corner of his eye, and he was immediately shocked.

Shocked: "Sir, be careful!!!"

"Whoops!" The fire illuminated the wolf's eyes, and the arrow shot out like a shooting star. The metal arrow reflected the burning light of the torch and hit Kino's eyebrows at an impeccable angle.

At 0.12 seconds, Kino's body did not move, his little face turned slightly sideways, and the arrow brushed against the outermost hair, but failed to cut it at all.

Shan Wu Le narrowed his eyes, opened his bow like a full moon, and shot another arrow.

"call out!"

Another 0.12 seconds later, Kino raised his right hand in the air, and the tungsten steel dagger hit the arrow like an infinitely precise machine, causing sparks of metal friction.

"Ding!" The intercepted arrow flew in the air and fell to the ground helplessly.

The amber eyes moved slightly to the side, looking at the dull Shan Wule, but only stayed for a moment before looking elsewhere, as if he was just an ordinary member of the thousands of desert horse bandits, and there was no need to pay special attention.
Chapter completed!