The young man standing in front of these attackers was naturally Lei Xiao.
Surrounding Lei Xiao were Huzhang, Hongye, Lian, Yecang, Ariel, Chaoyan and Lina, as well as 24 earth guardians, 20 divine arm shooters and 18 ice knights.
Further behind, there are two squadrons of elite swordsmen under Lei Xiao who are ready to attack.
As for Ju Bai, Bert, Nan Xing, Nan Yue, Fang Hai, Lin and Guan Zhong, they have already reinforced the other three garrison captains to defend the other three walls.
With the reinforcements headed by five fourth-level experts, the other three relatively weak city walls are naturally impregnable.
"Two...two fifth-level powerhouses?"
Looking at the knotweed and red night surrounding Lei Xiao, Birdwin, who was the first to bear the brunt, suddenly turned pale, even though the energy flow in the battlefield was extremely disordered.
But as a fourth-level powerhouse, he still felt an extreme sense of oppression at the first moment.
The feeling was like a giant hand exuding strong cold energy clamping down on the neck, bringing a suffocating and bone-chilling coldness.
"Wha...what?! This terrible sense of oppression, is it really a fifth-level powerhouse?! Or two of them?!"
Anzem, whose perception was slightly weaker, looked at Baldwin's stunned look, his legs weakened, and he almost collapsed to the ground.
In addition to being horrified, Anzem, who knew he was doomed, gritted his teeth and looked at Ariel, who was standing next to Lei Xiao. On his fat and greasy face, there was a hint of coldness, and he planned softly: "Earl.
Your Excellency, at this point, we can only fight to the death to capture the fifth princess..."
However, before Anzem could finish his words, he felt a chill on his back and a mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out. The eyes on his fat face suddenly bulged, and he fell forward with disbelief.
Amid the dust, a giant blood-red slash mark with deep bones visible was clearly visible on the back of the lifeless corpse.
Behind the corpse, Birdwin, who was holding a bloody long-handled ax, glanced coldly at Anzem, who was still in battlefield robes just now, and then quickly smiled at Ariel and said: "Your Highness, it's all
This guy with ulterior motives encouraged me to attack the city, and now I have killed him. I would like to ask Your Highness, Princess, to show mercy and forgive me for my crime of disrespect!"
"Are you the Lord of Velen City, Baldwin?"
Looking at the bloody scene in the nest, Ariel asked calmly without any waves on her fair face.
"That's right, Your Highness the Princess, I am none other than your most loyal servant Birdwin! I was lucky enough to meet Your Highness the Princess during her coming-of-age ceremony!"
The murderous intent on Baldwin's face had long since been wiped away, replaced by a look full of flattery and flattery.
I saw him bowing and saluting, while saying eagerly: "The reason why I attacked here is because I was coerced by the eldest prince's faction, and it was definitely not my intention! I am willing to serve Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
After finishing speaking, Baldwin, who was lowering his head, had a sinister smile on his lips.
Naturally, he didn't really intend to surrender, he was just looking for an opportunity to escape.
Since there is no hope of attacking the city, it would be a great achievement if we could seize Ariel and wait for an opportunity to escape.
He clearly understood the situation just now.
If you don't kill that idiot Anzem first, and once you let him stir up trouble, the first person to die will definitely be you who poses the greatest threat!
"Bodwin, since you have seen me before, you should be able to tell that I am no longer the innocent little princess Leng Yan that I was."
Ariel's delicate face remained expressionless as she said solemnly: "A cruel guy who doesn't hesitate to attack the robe next to him just to survive has no right to stand by my side!"
"Your Highness, what do you mean by this? Why can't you understand me?"
Baldwin rolled his sly eyes, and while he was evaluating in his mind how he should escape, he quickly defended himself.
"I have already experienced the bustling and bustling city of Velen, as well as the smelly and dilapidated villages outside the city."
Ignoring Baldwin's words, Ariel pointed the staff in her hand directly at Baldwin's aquiline nose and said: "Degenerate nobles like you who ignore the cold flame law and let the free peasants become slaves again are basically useless.
There is no qualification to become a cold flame noble!"
"Since the beginning of the era of the great Hero King, my cold flame nobles guarding the four corners of the kingdom have always been a shield to protect the common people, not a sword to pierce them!"
As she spoke, Ariel's expression became more and more excited, as if she was pouring out all the unhappiness and grief left in her heart by the miserable conditions she had seen in many villages and free farmers during this period.
Ariel took a deep breath, calming down her excitement, and continued: "If I remember correctly, according to the records of the Lengyan Nobles, your ancestors were once serfs, and served as assault troops under the King of Heroes.
As a lieutenant, he was sworn in and granted the title of Earl of Cold Flame, right?"
"Although your ancestors obtained fiefs and became the first batch of nobles of the Cold Flame Kingdom, they still lost their lives a few years later because they were protecting the people from the rampaging monsters. It is a pity."
Having said this, Ariel shook her head, and then her eyes became sharp again: "And six hundred years later, not only did you abandon the glory of your ancestors and the oaths made by your ancestors, you also made my people of Leng Yan mourn.
The whole country has become a stepping stone for you to become a drunkard. As the fifth princess of Lengyan, I can’t wait to cut you into pieces with a thousand knives!”
After finishing speaking, Ariel's starry eyes looked directly into Baldwin's cunning and slightly astonished eyes, and said slowly: "Besides, weren't you so murderous just now that you said that you would bring death and fire to the sky?"
Qingzhen? How come you are now the one being coerced?"
The reason why Ariel was able to clearly understand what Baldwin just said was because Nanxing Nanyue, who was wearing an invisibility cloak, was at the scene at the time.
Originally, under Lei Xiao's order, the twin sisters, who were good at sneaking, did not discover the cunning Birdwin and Anzem hiding in the huge army of soldiers at the first time.
It wasn't until Anzem, who had been investigating for a while, returned to Birdwin's side that he successfully locked the two.
After careful consideration, Lei Xiao did not order the two men to be beheaded. After all, his target was the entire vanguard army, not these two insignificant commanders.
"Hey...he's just a whimsical and pampered innocent guy. He really takes himself seriously."
After being exposed, a strong murderous aura surged onto Baldwin's cheeks again.
He simply waved his hand and shouted to the elite soldiers beside him: "Soldiers, they will never let us go. We might as well fight to the death and capture Ariel, and there will be a glimmer of hope."
!kill!"
When the elite soldiers surrounding him heard this, although they were frightened, they still gritted their teeth, showed their sharp blades, and were ready to attack.
These soldiers, who are new citizens, clearly understand this.
Once those despicable free farmers are allowed to rise, they who usually dominate and think they are superior to others will be overwhelmed by endless anger!
This is something they will not allow to happen under any circumstances, so both that bastard guest and Princess Ariel must die!
For a time, murderous intent filled the city wall.
The first echelon of siege soldiers, numbering at least a thousand people, immediately surged up like a tide under the command of Baldwin.
"Okay, let's end this farce."
Lei Xiao waved his hand casually, and then, surrounded by Lian and Ariel, he retreated slightly. The rest of the subordinates, as well as more than 60 golem puppets, went straight forward.
On the front half of the city wall, siege soldiers with scarlet eyes were attacking with sharp blades in their hands, causing the murderous intent in the air to spread crazily.
The two teams soon began to clash, followed by the crisp sound of weapons breaking.
Under the brunt of the knotweed and Hongye, the knotweed holding a two-handed giant sword was swung rapidly like a rotating windmill, causing the weapons and armor of the siege soldiers, including their owners, to be severed by the sharp sword.
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Hongye jumped directly into the middle of the hostile soldiers, and burst out in circles of blazing flames. The air was evaporated wherever he went, and no soldier was left standing.
Under the command of Lei Xiao, more than 60 tall golem puppets, the guardians of the earth and the dismounted ice knights were slightly forward, and the divine arm shooters were slightly behind. They were almost lined up and kept moving forward.
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At present, the strength of the 24 Earth Guardians has reached the third level of seven stars, and the remaining ice knights and divine arm shooters have the third level of nine stars. It is naturally easy to deal with these ordinary soldiers of the first and second levels.
The giant stone shields and giant swords of the Earth Guardian, the sharp ice swords of the Ice Knights, and the light arrows of the Divine Arm Archers converged into a deadly net, wiping out all the soldiers who tried to break through the defense line.
In addition, Lei Xiao and Ariel in the back row could easily throw out a lightning strike or light curtain, so that the squadron of great swordsmen guarding the two important crossings on the left and right of the city wall had almost nothing to do.
At the same time, Baldwin, who was rubbing oil on the soles of his feet, was about to slip away.
However, he was restrained by a sudden solid bone network. Before he could break free in frustration, a thick arm with bulging veins had already tightly strangled his neck.
Needless to say, those who dealt with him were Lina and Ye Cang, who were necromancers.
Seeing this scene, Lei Xiao nodded with satisfaction.
This cunning guy, as the commander of the vanguard army, naturally cannot be easily eliminated, but must be interrogated by Ye Cang.
On the city wall, flames and sharp blades are entangled, just like a soul sonoration of fire and iron.
It didn't take long, under Lei Xiao's luxurious lineup with most of the main force.
These first wave of soldiers who climbed onto the city wall, and were also the most elite siege soldiers, were all wiped out, leaving only the spreading scarlet in the cracks of the bricks, still flowing freely.
Under the towering city walls, thick black smoke is still filling the air.
These smokes were originally intended to blind the eyes of the defenders, but now they covered the eyes of other echelons of siege soldiers.
Listening to the constant shouts of killing coming from the city wall, the soldiers who were ordered to stand by looked murderous at first, scratching their heads and scratching their heads, wishing they could go up and fight right away.
But in the blink of an eye, all that came from the city wall were screams and rolling heat waves.
Along with the heartbreaking sounds on the city wall, which continued to rattle the eardrums of the soldiers below the city, a vague uneasiness began to quietly spread among the siege teams on standby.
However, this vague uneasiness did not last long, and was immediately overtaken by the greedy thoughts of robbing the city's treasures.
With such a momentum, Lord Birdwin must be leading the elite soldiers to kill everyone! And Lord Anzem is a master of fire magic!
Thinking of this in their minds, the murderous intent on the faces of the ordinary soldiers under the city began to become more and more intense. They were all ready to move and clenched the sharp blades in their hands, as if the city gate would open in the next second.
However, as the screams suddenly stopped, what greeted these soldiers was not an open city gate, but dense arrow feathers.
The dull sound of a bowstring vibrating the air was heard.
Since most of the soldiers were unprepared, they were hit by arrows one after another and fell to the ground in shock.
One sharp arrow after another easily pierced their light armor, bringing out a flash of bright red from their backs.
Until the last moment, these siege soldiers who were preparing to go on a killing spree never figured out why they, who were supposed to be the killers, ended up being the ones being slaughtered.
"Lord, if you weren't here, I'm afraid these soldiers could easily turn a city of the same size into a living hell, right?"
In the archery tower, Ariel looked at the large number of archers from our garrison who had remounted the city wall, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
"If you want to blame them, blame them for choosing the wrong opponent."
Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows and said calmly: "Of course, blind arrogance and greed for success are also the catalysts for their doomed failure."
Looking at the thick smoke that had begun to dissipate under the city, Lei Xiao still had that calm expression and continued: "As for these little clevernesses, they are naturally not worth mentioning in the face of our absolute power."
"As expected of your lord, this is really reassuring."
Ariel couldn't help but cast a respectful look at Lei Xiao and murmured to herself.
At this moment, under the heavy rain of arrows from our archers, the remaining enemy soldiers began to disperse in a panic over a large area.
"It's far from the time to feel at ease. This is just the beginning. What awaits us later will only be attacks like a violent storm, and if we are not careful, we will be annihilated in it."
Lei Xiao shook his head helplessly, then smiled again and said: "However, this is our first victory in this battle after all, so let us enjoy the time of victory first."
After Lei Xiao finished speaking, the roar of magic cannons sounded, as if they were celebrating this victory, passionate and loud.
