Chapter 62: The Rabble

When the rebels wantonly attacked the castle of the Great Clan, Yu Mingli could only wait for news in Nami Castle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

She had already sent a messenger to Shangjin County to truthfully explain what had happened in the 29th Village to Nanyi Jushi, hoping that she would quickly bring the main force back for reinforcements. However, it would take several days for the messengers to reach Kamijin Prefecture alone, and the troops of the Nami Laymen marched even more slowly, so that it might take half a month for reinforcements to return.

The rebels' siege was very fast, and it only took one day to capture all the castles of the great clans except for the Yu family's mansion. Yu Mingli knew that after this, most of the rebels would attack the Yu family's mansion. However, she still had some hope for the rebels, and she felt that with the popularity of the Nami laymen, the rebels might not attack Nami Castle.

Nami Layman's popularity is indeed very high, and before she suffered a large-scale attack, the village of Twenty-Nine held her in high esteem. But as Yan He said, this respect is meaningless. It is only natural that the people of Village 29 respect Nam Yi, because she protects everyone in Village 29. If the people in the Twenty-Nine Village still didn't respect her, Yan He would definitely use all kinds of means to wipe these people out of the world.

Moreover, the respect that the people of Twenty-Nine Village have for the Nami monks is just a habit passed down from their ancestors. Everyone has heard the story of Nami Layman, and they have a deep longing for this great Ira-youkai. It's like a blind man who dreams of colorful colors, but when he really sees the light again, the joy brought by colors will not last long, and it won't be long before he will take color as a natural part of his life.

This is the case with the people in Twenty-Nine Village. They were accustomed to the protection of Nami and had taken it for granted. If it weren't for that, they wouldn't have secretly resented Nami for not protecting them after a massive attack. Their respect for Nami disappeared, and they began to feel uneasy, distrustful of the Ira, and wanted to elect a new leader to protect themselves—in fact, they wanted to protect themselves.

But Yu Mingli couldn't think of any of this. When the rebels appear near Nami Castle, anger begins to burn in her chest. She couldn't understand why these people, who enjoyed the blessings of Nami Monk every day, would come to attack Nami Layman's castle.

This group of ungrateful people is not worthy to be the people of Nami Laymen!

Yu Mingli's silver teeth clenched, and blood oozed from his gums.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Kill them all! ”

Before the rebels could get into range, Yu Mingli shouted out of the city walls as if he had gone crazy. The defenders looked at Yu Mingli with complicated faces, and then at the rebels outside the city, not knowing what to do.

If the comer is a foreign enemy, they will not hesitate to carry out the orders of Yu Mingli, even if it will be a waste of arrows. But not this time, because the defenders of Nami Castle were recruited from various villages, and there were their acquaintances and even relatives in the siege team, and they could not raise their bows and crossbows, let alone aim at the people under the walls.

But the defenders of the Yu family mansion didn't need to make such a choice, because in front of them were all strangers, and they were all enemies. Before the rebels outside Nami Castle attacked, the Yu Mansion had already withstood the first wave of the rebels' onslaught. The dense rain of arrows caused heavy casualties to the rebels, several ladders were destroyed, and one battering ram was destroyed.

The Yu family's private soldiers also suffered casualties, but the losses were not significant compared to the rebels. The scouts of the Yu family had already scouted the breached castle yesterday, and after the scouts explained the tragic situation of the castle to the others in the mansion of the Yu family, everyone had no intention of surrendering or making peace, and was ready to fight the rebels with the determination to die.

Siege warfare is not something that ordinary people can control, and those who participate in the siege will face a lot of pressure, and they may die at any time under the rain of arrows from the defenders. If the city wall is breached at one time, it is fine, but if it is not breached, the next wave of siegers will face greater psychological pressure, and they are likely to cringe.

The rebels were in such an awkward situation. The high walls of the Yu family and the ferocious rain of arrows made the villagers who had not received any military training retreat, and they began to find reasons for their cowardice, such as the big clan castle had already robbed enough, and the Yu family's mansion was not bad, just accept it when it was good.

However, many villagers' families are still in the hands of the rebel leaders, and for the safety of their families, they can only launch a second wave of attacks. The attack was depleted by the reduction of siege engines, and the losses were even more severe. However, the Yu family also suffered greater losses, and in the end, the Yu family used a life-for-life style to kill all the rebels who dared to climb the city wall, thwarting the rebels' second attack.

After that, almost all the private soldiers of the Yu family on the city wall became bloody. In order to make up for the lack of combat power, all the men of the Yu family climbed the city wall, including the old man and underage children. When the rebel leader saw the old man and the child on the city wall, he felt that if he attacked again, the Yu family's mansion would be defeated.

But the rebel soldiers under his command no longer had the courage to attack, and even the chief's cronies felt that if they forced the villagers to attack again, they would definitely aim their weapons at themselves.

And at this moment, Yu Changnian suddenly led the Yu family cavalry to kill from behind the rebels. How could the leader of the rebel army have such a strange army in ambush behind him? I was at a loss for a while.

In fact, Yu Changnian didn't want to wait until the defenders took out the last hole cards before attacking, but he only had 300 cavalry on hand, and it was likely that the rebels would be killed by the rebels if he attacked early. To be on the safe side, he had to sacrifice a part of his defenders, wait for the right moment, and then crush the rebels in one fell swoop.

At this time, the morale of the rebels had hit rock bottom, and if one of them dropped their weapons and fled, the rest would flee with them. Yu Changnian's 300 cavalry killed nearly 20,000 rebels with just a charge, and they scattered and fled. The Yu family on the city wall recognized Yu Changnian and his own cavalry at a glance, and they sent a team of men and horses to chase down the rebels' rout, despite their exhaustion. The group killed the defeated soldiers when they saw them, so that in the end their weapons were shattered.

But even so, they stopped the pursuit only after exhaustion. After the battle, corpses lay outside the Yu family's mansion, and the grass was stained reddish-brown with blood.

Yu Changnian and his cavalry pursued for a longer time, and even they themselves could not remember how many people they had killed. In the end, they just mechanically push their horses forward, catch up with a man who looks like a rebel, kill him, and then go on to find the next target, and so on.

At the same time, Nami Castle was on the verge of falling.

The reason why Yu Changnian came to support the Yu family mansion first was because he felt that Nami Castle could hold out longer. It's a pity that this is just his wishful thinking, although the walls of Nami Castle are higher than the Yu family's mansion and the defense system is more perfect, the defenders inside are not as reliable as the Yu family's private soldiers.

As mentioned earlier, the defenders of Nami Castle were unable to strike at the rebels. Although they had shot the villagers near the city walls, it was in the dark of night, and they could not see the people under the walls clearly, and they were at ease when they shot. But now it was daylight, and the defenders could clearly see their target, so they couldn't do anything.

The people of the Yu family did not care about this, they did not follow Yu Mingli's order to shoot immediately, but only shot after the rebels entered the firing range. The rebels besieging the city were shot and killed, and unfortunately, among them were relatives or friends of the defenders.

Now the castle defenders are fried. They felt that the people of the Yu family were too ruthless, so they actually turned to the rebels and launched an attack on the Yu family. Caught off guard, the Yu family killed and injured many people, and even Yu Mingli was hit by an arrow in the shoulder. The Yu family wanted to fight with them after being backstabbed by their allies, but at this time, Yu Mingli was injured, and they could only desperately escort Yu Mingli to a safe place first.

The rebellious defenders shouted while killing the people of the Yu family, the Yu family betrayed the twenty-nine villages, and if you want to live, join us! As a result, most of the defenders of Nami Castle rebelled, and those who did not defect quickly fled to the station of the Xiaohu family's private soldiers, so as not to be killed by their former comrades.

Dan Yoon-ha and his cronies were among them, and this young man who thought he had masterminded everything never dreamed that he would be reduced to the point where he is now.

News of the civil unrest in the castle soon reached Mel's ears, and Yishan and Euris had to know about it earlier, as they had sent someone to inform Maier. Before the walls fell, they informed their guards that they would accept anyone who would lay down their arms and enter the garrison, and if anyone attacked the garrison, the Xiaohu family and the Egus kingdom would have a reason to join the war, and they could send troops to attack the rebels.

The castle defenders actually turned back?!

Meir frowned, he knew that this news meant that the city walls had fallen, and that once a small rebel army attacked the garrison of the Xiaohu family's private soldiers or the Egus Kingdom's personal guard maids, the two of them would join the battle.

Since the walls have been lost, fierce street fighting awaits them. Mel did not know how many crossbowmen there were in the rebels, and if there were enough crossbowmen in the rebels and sufficient ammunition, they would be able to stand on the walls and take advantage of their height to shoot their enemies.

So once Yishan and Euris join the battle, they must retake the city wall as quickly as possible!

Mel's eyes lit up, and he stood up and said to the three maids standing in front of him, clutching their weapons.

"You stay in the room and wait for me, and when I come back, I will knock on the door three times, one heavy and one heavy, and you shall not open the door to anyone but me. If someone breaks in, you have to do everything you can to protect yourself, you know? ”

"Got it! Master! ”

The three maids nodded their heads firmly and tightened their grip on the weapons in their hands.

After receiving an answer from the three maids, Maier left the room and went to the parlor as Yishan and Euris had requested. The girls sitting in the living room had a lot of guards beside them, and their expressions were very solemn.

"We are seriously underarmed."

As soon as Mel entered the house, Euris got straight to the point.

"If the walls hadn't been lost, my team of maids and this guy's guards would have been able to defend the castle. But now that the walls have been lost, we have to engage in street fighting with the rebels in Village 29. In street battles, the enemy has an absolute superiority in numbers, and in order to lose this advantage, we must close the city gates and retake the city walls. ”

"This man's maid team is not good at close combat, and it is okay to rely on fortifications to defend, but once the enemy is close, they will have to pay great losses. My guards are good at melee combat, but if I let them protect this man's team of maids, I won't have the men to retake the walls. Yishan said.

"You don't have to worry about these two things."

Maier took a deep breath and exhaled it firmly.

"Lend me some men, and I will take back the gates and walls."

Although the two girls knew that Maier was a Leiding magician, they did not know how Meier performed in actual combat. When dealing with the evil witch, Maier did not directly participate in the battle, but kept giving orders and constantly firing magic flares into the air.

Mel seems confident enough, but after all, he is the beloved of the girls, and the two don't want him to have any accidents. So they each sent fifty men from their own troops to Mel, and then gave him the task of retaking the walls.

After this, Euris took Mel's hand and spoke to him in a slightly uneasy tone.

"Well, Mel, though I have absolute confidence in you! But...... But what! You must not force yourself, if you encounter any danger, you must give priority to your own safety, you know? ”

Yishan was too embarrassed to touch Myer's hand, so she could only cough twice before saying to him.

"Fighting a war is a dangerous thing, so you must protect yourself! If anything goes wrong, I can't explain it to my father and uncle! ”

"Ah, got it, I'll be careful."

Maier smiled calmly, but his heart was beating. In fact, he just took on this task with enthusiasm, and he didn't know if he could complete it.

I'm a Letting mage after all, so even if I can't take back the walls, I can save my life, right?

Mel comforted himself with these words, lest he start to retreat before he could strike. And it turns out that Maier underestimated his own strength, and at the same time overestimated the strength of the rebels.