The earth-shattering noise pierced through the eardrums, and the crimson light on the sky shone through the window, as if to set the house on fire, and the sleeping soldiers of Shilin Town were awakened, and many of them fell asleep and sat on their beds in a daze.

"Red Thunder! Enemy attack! Enemy Attack!! Paladin was the first to react, rolled out of bed, kicked the door open with a slam of his hand, and sped towards the munitions depot.

The soldiers ran out of their bedrooms in a panic, went to the quartermaster storehouse, armed themselves, and rushed to the various defensive points of the city walls.

"Iron bolts! Clumsy thing, plug in the iron bolt of the city gate! Paladin kicked his soldier in the ass and ran to the wall.

Chino was already standing here, looking into the distance.

"Your Excellency!" Paladin subconsciously glanced at the vast night and asked in a deep voice, "You released the Red Thunder?" ”

Chino holds one of his index fingers to his lips.

"Silence!" Paladin conveys orders to the soldiers on the city walls.

The night was as dark as ink, only the sound of the cold evening breeze whistling.

The tiredness of assembling in the middle of the night, the strange appearance of releasing the thunder, the darkness of the night, and the fact that many of these soldiers were recruits who had never seen blood, tension spread through the ranks, as if there was a devil's claw pinching their hearts.

One recruit even threw up because he was so nervous.

Just when everyone was looking at it from afar, the first rays of fire suddenly appeared at the end of the vast night, and then the firelight stretched into a line, and then the line was implicated as a face, like the hand of the god of fire drawing a picture scroll on the vast earth.

"Boom-" The overwhelming torches gathered into a sea, tearing the night apart, the flames illuminated the galloping horses, the undulating sabers reflected the mottled light, and everywhere in sight were a torrent of steel shining with cold light.

"It's the desert horse bandits..."Paladin only felt that his hands and feet were cold, and his voice began to tremble, "There are at least 1,000 people, three times the strength of us!" ”

In siege warfare, the attacker's strength is 3 times greater than that of the defender is not superior, and it can even be said to be a disadvantage.

According to the military theory of this era, the attacker had to have at least five times the strength of the defender in order to have an advantage in the siege.

However, the walls of Xilin Town are not as high as the main city, only a few meters high, not to mention that the quality of the soldiers is generally low, and most of them are recruits who eat and wait for death.

The enemy, on the other hand, is a heavily armed and bloodthirsty desert bandit.

"Why are they coming so many people? Shilin Town is not rich! One soldier cried out in despair, calling out every soldier's question at the same time.

It's not like the town hasn't been attacked by horse bandits before, but it's usually a team of dozens of people who come to attack and harass it, using it as a testing ground for adult boys in the tribe, firing a few rounds of arrows, shooting something casually and leaving.

The town of Shilin wants money or no money, meat or no meat, and the desert horse bandits are not a bunch of idle people, they are more willing to plunder a rich town than to attack a worthless town, even if there are more defenders there.

And like now, thousands of horse bandits swept across the border at the same time, not to mention the small town of Xilin, it is a big deal to put it in Twilight City.

"Baiza centurion." Chino watched the flames in the distance and gave the first order, "Go to the post station and gather the messengers, send the request for reinforcements to all the neighboring towns of Shirin, including Twilight, and have the quartermaster bring all the beak masks." ”

"Beak Mask?" Baixa was stunned.

Isn't that the disease thing? Now that the horse bandits are coming, why these things?

He knew Chino's temper, so he didn't dare to ask more, and went to do things obediently.

"Paladine Centurion." Chino's pupils reflected the light of fire, as if burning, "You go to the quartermaster depot first and put on a beak mask, and then go to the epidemic area." When a second red thunderbolt appears in the sky, you know what to do. ”

Hearing this, Paladin shuddered, swallowed hard, hammered Chino on the chest, and quickly retreated.

"Lugo." Chino's pupils shifted sideways, looking to the side, "It's time for you to die." ”

Lugo grinned and twisted his neck vigorously, his eyes emitting a bloodthirsty chill characteristic of mercenaries: "Let's kill these riding cubs!" ”

Soon, the beak mask arrived, and Chino told everyone to wear it on their waists first, so they didn't have to wear it.

Baiza climbed the wall and reported: "Eleven messengers have departed and are expected to reach the nearest neighbouring town in four hours." The local civil affairs officials discussed tactics, gathered troops, and rushed to the aid of Shirin Town... It can take up to 8 hours at the earliest. The first reinforcements may not arrive until 10 a.m. tomorrow, which is an optimistic estimate. ”

Just as Baiza was reporting, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the first cavalry had rushed to within a hundred paces.

"Shoot the crossbow!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

The tactical commanders of both sides gave the order almost simultaneously.

In an instant, crossbow arrows rushed across the wasteland, arrows rained down on the city walls, and one blood mist after another rose 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 against bows and the cover of city walls, the defenders of Shirintown have the upper hand.

However, these soldiers were poorly trained all year round, and they faced desert horse bandits who lived on bows, and the battle damage ratio was actually inferior, and more than ten people fell on both sides.

Nomadic horse bandits were 4 dead and 11 wounded, and 7 soldiers in Shilin town were killed and 9 wounded.

The two sides fired back and forth, and for a time there were casualties on each side, and there was a stalemate.

"Whew!" In the blood mist filled with the wasteland, a pitch-black horse rushed out in a frenzy, Shan Wule came out of the formation, stretched out his bow and full moon, and the arrows neighed like birds in the air, turning into a raging streamer and attacking the city wall of Shilin Town.

A soldier was filling the crossbow arrows, and between the lightning and flint, the arrows surged in, piercing the skull directly with strong penetrating power, and the remaining strength not only pierced through the back of the head, nailing him to the wall with a ding, and he was not blind.

As soon as the substitute soldier wanted to go up, Shan Wule opened his bow and shot 7 arrows in a row, 7 streamers tore through the sky, splashed 7 blood flowers, and the killers were all arrows in the eyebrows, without any deviation.

The defenders of Xilin Town were suddenly in chaos, everyone was in danger, they shrank down the wall pier with all their strength, they didn't dare to show their heads, and they didn't dare to aim when their crossbow arrows were loaded.

Not only does this put your own shooting at a disadvantage, but it also reduces the number of targets on the city walls, leaving those who are standing to be immediately targeted.

Shan Ulle's eyes were like wolf's eyes, and in an instant he locked on to the shortest one, and he recognized from his clothes that this was the civil magistrate of Shilin Town, and as long as he killed him, the remaining defenders would be crushed!

"Whew!!" Shan Wule stepped forward and rode his horse, wound the arrow, and slightly lowered the arrow to change the amount of advance, and his pupils exuded a fierce glow of nirvana.

Baiza was a master of archery, and he was the only one with a bow among all the soldiers who wielded a crossbow, and had already taken the lives of at least five horse bandits. When he was firing back, he caught a glimpse of the position that Shan Wule was aiming at, and was immediately shocked: "Be careful!! ”

"Whew!" The fire illuminates the wolf's eyes, the arrows shoot out like shooting stars, and the metal arrows reflect the scorching light of the torch, striking the center of Chino's eyebrows at an impeccable angle.

For 0.12 seconds, Chino's body did not move, his little face was slightly sideways, and the arrow brushed against the hair that was swinging on the outermost, but it failed to cut it at all.

Shan Wule's eyes narrowed, his bow was like a full moon, and he shot another arrow.

"Whew!"

In another 0.12 seconds, Chino's right hand flicked in the air, and the tungsten steel dagger struck the arrow like an infinitely precise machine, splashing sparks of metal friction.

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

The amber pupils moved slightly sideways, looking at the sluggish Shan Wule, but he only stopped 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.

This glance enraged Shan Wule, and he raised his arms and shouted in a loud nomadic voice: "Concentrate your fire!" Shoot the shortest one! ”