The sun gradually rises from the east, and almost together with the emerging industrial city of Ellandhill, it is Shakeburn, the easternmost port of the Southern Kingdom.
This port city has tall walls and countless garrisons. It is a famous fortress in the southern kingdom.
However, due to the war, this place was slightly depressed. After being plundered twice by the Eilanhir fleet, a larger fort was built here and more soldiers were deployed.
The demons were busy occupying places that were easy to invade, and did not concentrate their troops to attack here, so more and more people gathered here, and the streets were crowded with refugees who had fled in with barely any clothing.
On the city wall, brightly armored troops stood behind the crenellations, and the flag of the southern kingdom fluttered in the wind.
Compared to the surrounding lands that have been eroded by demons, this place can be said to be a paradise-like place.
However, as the commander of the city guard, and as one of the few nobles left in the southern kingdom, Earl Roissac of Shakeburn City clearly knows that the current situation cannot last for a long time.
After the devil eats up all the people it can eat and those who can easily eat it, it will eventually set its sights on this once prosperous but now crowded city.
So he sent a ship northward, hoping to contact Elanthir, hoping to ask for help from his former enemies and let Elantyr's fleet rescue these refugees.
At the same time, he also sent his own messengers for help to other places, but there were demons everywhere along the way. It is unknown how many of these messengers traveling by land could reach their destinations.
With wrinkled hands, he rubbed the cold and hard stone strips of the city wall. Old Earl Isaac's face was solemn. He didn't know how many more days he could hold on here because there were too many people and his current food reserves had also declined.
reached a very dangerous amount.
According to calculations, even if they only eat one meal a day, the food in the city will only be enough to feed everyone for less than 20 days. However, the city guards cannot only eat one meal a day, because they still have to fight and ensure their physical strength.
"If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place? I have warned Your Majesty that this road of surrendering to the devil will not work...but..." The old earl shook his head slightly, muttered something in a low voice, and looked into the distance worriedly.
Because of his old age, he could no longer see the scenery in the distance, but he could still see the rising wisps of wolf smoke, as well as the dark clouds and lightning covering the sky further away.
"There's something going on!" An officer beside him pressed the hilt of his sword, pointed at the city wall and shouted to his commander: "Tan Ma is back!"
The small city gate dedicated to recovering Tanma was opened. In order to resist the increasing number of refugees and the demonic troops that may appear at any time, the city's gate has been completely blocked.
The heavy small city gate was pushed open from the inside, and a war horse rushed into the city. The man riding on it turned over and dismounted, panting, climbed up the steep stairs next to him, and climbed to the top of the city.
"Sir! Your Majesty! Suna, not far from us... was attacked by a demon! Before I got there, I saw fire and smoke." The scout Tanma knelt down on one knee and said to the slightly hunched old man.
Earl Isaac reports.
"Are you the only one who came back?" Earl Isaac asked nervously: "Where are the others?"
"We were scattered by a demon dog, and I don't know where the remaining people are." The spy seemed to have recalled something terrible, and his voice trembled slightly: "The demon is too scary, too scary.
"
"Okay, you go down and rest!" Isaac Luo waved his hand, indicating that the scout could go down.
Then he looked outside the city and saw the refugees who had gathered together, unwilling to be accepted and unwilling to leave. He didn't know what to choose.
If these refugees are allowed to flow into the city, he may not be able to sustain food for even ten days. But if he is not allowed to enter the city, the demonic troops following him will slaughter these unarmed people.
"General! What we want are young and strong soldiers who can fight... The old people and women outside the city can only..." The officer under his command saw Luo Isaac's hesitation and advised him: "At this time
Kindness will make the people in the city die together."
"I'm just thinking that even if we abandon these people, we won't be able to last for ten days." Luo Isaac said with a bitter smile: "No one knows that we are still persisting, no one comes to save us, and no one cares about our life or death.
…”
His words were depressing. Now their southern kingdom is still nominally an accomplice of the devil. Even if they know that they are still alive, there are only a handful of people who are willing to take risks to save them.
In fact, they are now hated to the core by people. Many people hate traitors who associate with demons. It happens that the Southern Kingdom is one of these sinners who betrayed mankind.
"We don't rely on anyone, we just rely on ourselves!" The officer standing next to Earl Roissac gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words from between his teeth.
This is just his tough talk. In fact, even he himself knows very well that, not to mention the devil's fierce and irresistible fighting power, the food stored in the city alone is not enough to support their long-term persistence.
Hundreds of thousands of people need to eat! That's hundreds of thousands of mouths! Once famine occurs in the city, order will collapse and chaos will occur. It will be difficult to maintain basic life, let alone continue to fight.
In the forest in the distance, a group of birds suddenly started to frighten, and some animals began to rush out of the bushes at the edge of the forest in a panic.
The refugees outside the city got out of the simple fences and tents, stood up and frowned at the eerie forest, not knowing what was going on inside.
After a few seconds, some small trees began to shake, and everyone knew that something was approaching.
The thin men grabbed the hoes or farm tools around them, and some of them also carried some homemade weapons such as spears.
It's just that these farmers and beggars, who have not received professional training, do not know how to form a formation to meet the enemy. Their vigilance is only spontaneous, and there is no organization or discipline at all.
After all, those who have fought in battles, are physically strong, and have some ability have been put into the city and incorporated into the city guard.
The rest of those who stayed outside the city, except for a few young men who were unwilling to leave their families and give up entering the city, most were old, weak, sick and disabled, and they had no fighting ability.
"What, what's coming?" A boy holding a hoe nervously asked his father beside him. His father stared at the swaying trees, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and replied intently: "Demon... Boy, those are those?"
demon!"
Following his answer, the first demon dog rushed out of the forest and pounced on the nearby humans. The ferocious bloody mouth and disgusting eyes suddenly caused the dense crowd of human refugees to collapse.
.
The devil dog leapt forward, ignoring the farm tools in the target's hands, and threw down an old man who had long been frightened out of his mind, and began to bite him non-stop.
Blood suddenly splattered everywhere, and the old man just called for help and then there was no more sound. The area was quiet for a few seconds, leaving only the clicking sound of bones being chopped by teeth, which made people's hair stand on end and was frightened.
"Ah!" A woman's scream instantly woke up all the people who were stunned. The men and women in the front row began to retreat, and the people behind did not know what happened and also retreated. The area covered by the refugees under the city was compared to
If you make a ball, a huge depression will soon appear where the devil dog appears.
"Oh my god! The devil! The devil is coming!" For a moment, chaos spread among the crowd. People pushed, fell, and trampled each other. Many more people were killed than the devil.
At this time, the second devil dog rushed out of the bushes, bit the shoulder of a refugee who had no time to escape, pushed the refugee to the ground and kept twisting his neck.
A whole piece of flesh and blood, including the bones, was torn off by it. The bitten refugee lay on the ground, his mutilated body still twisting.
"Run! Son! Run to the city wall!" The farmer grabbed his son's hand and ran back desperately. He pushed away a thin old man who was standing in front of him and paid no attention to everything that happened behind him.
Without even looking back.
The child, who had been frightened by the scene of cannibalism for a long time, was grabbed by his father's arm and ran staggeringly towards the crowd. He was swayed left and right by the people running sideways, and he couldn't care less.
Care about what happens behind you.
Count Roissac, who was standing on the top of the city, and the city guards stationed behind the crenellations could see clearly at this moment.
They watched the demon dogs rush out of the forest, and watched the crowd boil and collapse. More and more demon dogs rushed into the open space occupied by the refugees, and more and more people were bitten and dismembered by the demon dogs.
Now, Isaac Luo knew why the two hundred thousand elite troops on the border of the southern kingdom were defeated in one day.
At this moment, he also knew why the kingdom's cavalry and the royal family's imperial army were all annihilated without even struggling.
Those demons were not humans at all, and their fighting power was definitely not something humans could contend with. Thinking of this, he vaguely felt that something was wrong. If these demons were not something humans could contend with, then the demons had been driven to the southern kingdom of Eiland Hill.
, what is it?
Just when he thought of Eiland Hill, there were more and more demon dogs outside the city. They wolfed into the sheep, driving away and biting the refugees who had already become a mess, slaughtering them by the hundreds.
I only know people who cry.
There were screams everywhere, blood everywhere, broken limbs and corpses everywhere. Finally, a city guard soldier standing on the top of the city couldn't help it anymore and vomited with a loud sound.