Chapter 52: The Witch Strikes

The Evil Witch has only recently appeared in the territory of Twenty-Nine Village, so the black and white witch costume is a very unfamiliar costume for the villagers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

When the first team of Witches appeared near the village with torches, there was little reaction from the outermost outposts. Because the sky is completely dark, in the case of poor lighting, the black and white witch costume is no different from other colors of the shrine maiden costume, and the ghost mask is not very obvious. After they attacked the sentinels, the sentries hurriedly lit beacons, informed Nami Castle of the attack on the village, and sounded the alarm to call the militia to meet the enemy.

Although the beacon can convey the news of the attack, it cannot indicate the identity of the attacker. When the nearby villages saw the beacon fire, they thought it was a bandit or robber attack, so they organized a militia to kill it. As soon as the militia team that was the first to support arrived, they saw someone fighting with the witch from a distance, thinking that it was a bandit, so they hurried to help, and helped the evil witch cut down many of her own people.

When the militia in the attacked village was defeated, the witch immediately attacked the other militia, and the militia team was caught off guard and many people were killed, and the slain did not understand why the witch suddenly killed them. When the scattered militia fled, they met reinforcements, some said that the bandits were coming, and some said that the witch was killing people inexplicably, which made the second monk of the reinforcements confused, and he didn't know who was the enemy and who was the ally.

Some militia units, after encountering each other, thought they had met the enemy, and fought without saying a word. When the nearby militia heard the commotion, they thought that there was an Allied army there to meet the enemy, and immediately went to support. After they arrived, they couldn't tell who was the enemy and who was the ally, so they could only report their homes loudly, and the two sides of the fight were afraid of accidentally injuring their allies, so they also hurriedly reported their homes, and then everyone knew that it was the water that washed the Dragon King Temple, and their own families were fighting their own families.

This kind of chaos was so great in the attacked areas that most of the militia units suffered more than half of the casualties before they could engage the enemy, and some were even directly routed by their own men.

The Shrine Maiden who had made the attack plan never dreamed that her first wave of attacks would bring chaos to the Twenty-Nine Village so easily.

After defeating the militia forces, the witch did not rush to loot supplies, but set fire to haystacks and some dilapidated looking houses, and the fire illuminated the attacked area, and the fire could be clearly seen in Nami Castle.

After this, the witches began to march towards the hinterland of the 29th Village, killing people they saw along the way, burning haystacks and broken houses when they saw them, and in this way, the fire spread from the eastern border of the 29th Village to the hinterland. According to the predetermined plan, these witches could retreat near Nami Castle, but the attack was so smooth that the witches felt that there should be no problem in continuing the march, so they launched an attack on the villages near Nami Castle.

At this time, the private army of the Yu family had already assembled in the Yu family's mansion and went to Nami Castle under the leadership of Yu Mingli. However, Yu Meili did not know who the attacker was, and not long after she led her troops, she encountered a group of evil witches, and only realized that they were the enemies who attacked the 29th Village.

Fortunately, there were only a dozen evil witches in that group, and they saw that Yu Mingli's troops were numerous, and there were many cavalry among them, but they only symbolically resisted for a while and fled. Yu Mingli sent a team of cavalry to chase after him, but the cavalry left and never returned.

Before leaving, Yu Mingli had already sent someone to contact the temporary commander of Nami Castle, asking him to gather his troops as quickly as possible and meet her outside the east gate of Nami Castle. After sending cavalry in pursuit, Yu Mingli led his troops to continue to Nanyi Castle, and by the time she arrived, the twenty-nine villages were already in chaos.

Zhu Shrine Maiden, who had made the plan to attack, admired the burning night from a distance on a high slope outside the Twenty-Nine Village, and a contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of her mouth under her mask.

The same is true in Twenty-Nine Villages.

If you give me enough people, let alone a twenty-nine village, I can take it down even if it is Liangyue City!

She was pleased with the witches' performance, but her smile quickly froze on her face.

No, no, it's going too well, it's going too well.

If the Twenty-Nine Village loses the ability to resist because of this, won't I have to fight those bandits myself?

Not cost-effective! It's not worth it!

Her plan was to let a small number of witches attack the Twenty-Nine Village, using the fire as a bait to attract the bandits to attack the Twenty-Nine Village. When the bandits made a move, she asked the witches to retreat, so that the twenty-nine villages could concentrate on dealing with the bandits.

When the two groups were exhausted, she let the witches come out of the nest and reap the benefits of the fisherman. However, the evil witches are now about to collapse the Twenty-Nine Village, and if the bandits attack at this time, the Twenty-Nine Village may not be able to withstand it for long before it falls.

Never mind...... If it's not cost-effective, it's not cost-effective, as long as you can take the twenty-nine villages.

I wish the witch chief witch made a military order in front of the great witch, if she can't beat the twenty-nine villages, with the temper of the great witch, she will definitely fall to the ground. Compared to their own lives, the lives of those evil witches are not worth mentioning.

What if half of the people died?

As long as I take the twenty-nine villages, I will be able to gain the appreciation of the Great Witch and kick that little girl down from the position of the apprentice Great Witch! Become the new apprentice Grand Shrine Maiden!

As long as the Great Witch dies, I will be the new Great Witch! Everything at the Black Shrine will be mine! Those sluts who oppose me have to die!

The real Ira Shrine does not have the word "apprentice Great Shrine Maiden", and this position was naturally invented by the Great Shrine of the Black Shrine, which is equivalent to the heir of the Great Shrine Maiden.

In fact, there are still some things that the witch maid didn't dare to say, even if she said these words in her heart and herself, she still didn't dare to say it. She plans to kill the Great Witch after obtaining the position of the Trainee Great Witch, and then blame the original Trainee Great Witch and a few other Shrine Maidens for the murder of the Great Witch, and take the opportunity to cleanse all the forces of the Black Shrine and turn it into her real private property.

Of course, she is still planning this matter, and she will not make a decision until she captures the twenty-nine villages.

After the beacon fire and alarm bells appeared, Mel and his party quickened their pace and entered Nami Castle. Before they could take a breath, Yu Mingli's men came to Nami Castle and asked the temporary commander of Nami Castle to gather troops. The temporary chief of this Nami Castle is an officer under Yan He, not from the Yu family, but from other clans.

As the saying goes, the Yu family is powerful in the twenty-nine villages, so it will naturally be hated by other big clans. The temporary chief of Nami Castle hated the Yu family very much, and his boss was at odds with Yu Mingli, so he didn't pay attention to Yu Mingli's orders at all. He casually gathered a troop according to the procedure set by the Nanyi monks, and without waiting to meet Yu Mingli, he went directly from the south gate, divided into several teams and rushed towards the attacked village.

Due to the lack of intelligence, these units also accidentally wounded friendly troops without knowing who the enemy was, and many people died on both sides. When they encountered the evil witch, they also mistook each other for the witch of the Rimi Shrine, thinking that the other party was here to support, but they were killed by the evil witches, crying for their father and mother, and in the end there were not even a few alive.

Actually, the shrine maidens stationed at the shrines in each village did participate in the battle, but because of this, the situation became even more chaotic. Some of the troops who received the rout heard that the shrine maiden had attacked their village, and they became wary of the shrine maiden costumes. As soon as they saw the shrine maiden of the shrine of Riya Shrine, they thought that the other party was the attacker, and when the shrine maiden of the shrine saw that someone took the initiative to attack them, they thought that the other party was a bandit, and the two sides fought together and did not die.

But it's not just about fighting. Some witches are ineffective, such as some witches who specialize in wedding and funeral officiating work and ability healing work, their physical strength is often very poor, and they need the protection of war witches and witches in battle, once all the witches and witches are killed, they become lambs to be slaughtered, and they have no power to resist.

The militia and the garrison of Nami Castle were all men, and they were superior in numbers, and the shrine maidens sent by the shrine to the twenty-nine village were not for garrison, they were very few in number, and most of them were not combatants. As a result, the shrine maidens at the shrine were often the ones who were defeated, and the militia and garrison soldiers thought that the other party was a fake shrine maiden, so they became ill-intentioned and violently inflicted violence on the surviving shrine maidens, defiling their bodies.

The precepts of the shrine maiden are not to ask about the cause, but only to look at the consequences. The shrine maidens who were abused committed committed suicide after being forced to break the precepts, and cursed them in the name of the god of the apocalypse. Only then did the militia and the soldiers of the garrison realize that they had made a big mistake. They were afraid of being punished by the great god of enlightenment, and their morale plummeted, and they lost their combat effectiveness in an instant.

When the witches arrived, they thought that the witches in ghost masks had come to avenge themselves. They either knelt on the ground and pleaded, or they simply raised their weapons to commit suicide, but none of them rose up to resist.

Euris stood by the window in the corridor of Nami Castle with Maier, Yishan, and their respective retinues, looking out at the burning village of the Twenty Bureaus in the eastern half. They couldn't see what was going on outside, but they could clearly sense that the situation was getting worse and worse, as more and more vague figures were fleeing in the direction of Nami Castle.

"Nonsense, nonsense."

Euris folded her arms and frowned.

"I bet they still haven't figured out who the enemy is, how many there are, and what their purpose is. It would be stupid to rush troops in such a situation. I knew that the people here were so bad, even if I tried my best to stop you before leaving, I wouldn't let you come to this kind of ghost place. ”

"Dealing with night raids should have been the focus of security." Yishan also commented calmly, "Because the chaos and losses caused by the night attack are the greatest. In fact, the last time I visited, I found out that their castle guards didn't even have a night password. The absence of a night password means that there are no identification measures, and in the event of a night attack, the troops scattered in different areas cannot quickly identify friend or foe, and it is easy to cause their own people to fight their own people. ”

Maier took note of their words and nodded thoughtfully.

"Who, in your opinion, is the enemy? How many of them are there? What was their purpose in attacking Twenty-Nine Villages? ”

"There is not enough intelligence to judge." Euris shrugged, "But I don't think the attacker should be an Ilibi, maybe a bandit, a bandit or something." ”

"Shouldn't it?" Yishan frowned slightly, "I don't think the strength of the bandits or bandit group is enough to pose such a big threat to the twenty-nine villages, so I think it's more likely that Yili will attack." ”

"No, Yishan, it can't be an Ilibi." Maier shook his head slightly, "After the Great Reform, the military discipline of the Ilibi army is very strict, and soldiers are not allowed to burn, kill, and loot. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the fire outside was set by the Ilibis, with their offensive efficiency, they would have hit Nami Castle long ago. ”

"Also, if the Ilibians attack at night, they will definitely use cavalry, even if they don't use muskets. But until now we have not heard any gunfire, nor have we seen the cavalry of the Ilibis. "More importantly, Twenty-Nine Village is not an ideal target for attack. ”

Twenty-nine villages are surrounded by the Egus Kingdom, the Xiaohu family, and Shangjin County, and do not border with the Ilibi allies, which means that attacking Twenty-Nine villages will have to travel long distances to the enemy's hinterland, and it is very likely that they will be intercepted or even ambushed by the Ira people on the way. There was little to be gained from the Ilibi army's raid on the twenty-nine villages, and at most they could only loot here, and when they finished looting and walked back with their supplies, they were more likely to be targeted by the Ira.

"But I also think that the bandits and bandits will not be able to fight the twenty-nine villages like this." "Even if a few bandit gangs come together, there's a limit to the chaos they can cause. What's more, there are shrine maidens from Riya Shrine stationed in each village, and if they are around, as long as the attackers are Ira, they won't dare to do anything too excessive. ”

"Maybe the attacker isn't Ira?" Yishan asked, tilting her head.

"Maybe."

Euris shrugged, then spread her hands.

"God knows why there are so many outlaws of the Ira people in the realm."

Just as the three of them were talking, the situation changed again.