Chapter 63: Closing the City Gate
There are many good hunters among the Ira, but there are very few hunters in the twenty-nine villages. This is because www.biquge.info the village was built on a plain, and because of the fertile land, most of the villagers made a living from farming, and the meat came from captive poultry and livestock. The surrounding mountains are inhabited by bandits and small groups of outlaws, making hunting a high-risk, low-reward job that few people are willing to do.
The lack of hunters means that there are fewer people in the village who can use bows and arrows, and it is more difficult to replenish ranged troops. For this reason, Yan He thought of a way, which was to regularly select strong men from the village for bow and crossbow training, so that even if a war broke out suddenly, the twenty-nine villages could pull out a long-range army in a very short time.
Due to the outbreak of war, the villages contributed most of their reserve crossbowmen during the first call-up. The second conscription presided over by Yu Changnian directly emptied the families of the villages and requisitioned all the reserve crossbowmen. In this way, the long-range troops in the twenty-nine villages are only the garrison of Nami Castle and the private soldiers in the castles of the major clans.
After the rebels sacked all the big clan castles except for the Yu family's mansion, they absorbed a lot of private soldiers of the big clan, so that they could be regarded as having crossbowmen, but the size was only a few hundred. After the renegade of the defenders of Nami Castle, the rebels had more crossbowmen, and after taking the walls, the ruffians sent all the crossbowmen to the walls and asked them to shoot anyone in the castle who tried to resist.
The ruffian had no education, let alone commanded troops. He thought that all he needed to do was send the crossbowmen to the walls, and he didn't even think about putting them in a guard. He was afraid that the defenders would take back the city gates, so he placed a large number of men at the city gates, so that those who entered the castle would not be cut off.
This time, the ruffian did not enter the castle first, as usual, but watched from a distance outside the castle. Although he had never entered the castle, he also knew that Nami Castle was not so easy to capture, and he was likely to be injured or even killed if he ventured into the castle. The ruffian has always taken advantage of the situation and hid when there is danger, how can he go into the city to take risks?
Since the city gate had been breached and the city walls had been occupied, the rebels simply threw aside the siege equipment and screamed through the city gate. The ruffian watched his men rush into the city one by one, and his heart began to itch, not wanting to waste time outside. But he didn't dare venture into the city, so he thought of what he thought was the best of both worlds.
He divided his troops into two parts, one part continued to attack the city, and the other part followed him to sack the downtown area. After the mass attack, civilians and merchants who had taken refuge in the castle returned to the downtown area. After the rebellion, the merchants from other places fled, and the local merchants were reluctant to give up their shops, some fled into the castle, and some stayed in the downtown area.
At first, the rebels had no idea of the downtown area, much to the luck of the remaining merchants. They began to laugh at their comrades who had taken refuge in the castle, and after the city was destroyed, they gloated even more, and before the rebellion subsided, they began to fantasize about how to devour the inheritance of their dead comrades.
Then the ruffian slapped them hard with practical actions. The rebels led by the ruffians began to smash the doors of the downtown area from house to house, regardless of whether there were people in the house or not, whether the door was locked or not, the rebels broke down the door without even saying hello.
All the valuable things are snatched away, the women are also carried away, all the men who resist will be killed, and those who do not resist will be beaten by the fat, and then dragged to Nami Castle to be cannon fodder. There was a wail in the downtown area, and even the innkeeper who threw herself into the arms of the ruffian was not spared.
When the rebel soldiers stormed the tavern, the woman pointed at the rebels' nose with her plump breasts and scolded her, saying that she was a good friend of the ruffian, and if the rebels moved her, the ruffian would not let them go. The rebel soldiers were a little frightened when they heard this, but they did not give up, and sent someone to find the ruffian to find out if what the woman said was true or false.
When the man found the ruffian, the ruffian was enjoying the fine skin and tender flesh of a rich merchant's little girl, how could he care about his concubine's affairs? Besides, he has no shortage of women at all now, and he has long forgotten about that woman. The man, seeing that the ruffian had paid no attention to the innkeeper, ran back in a hurry, and with his companions pushed the woman to the ground, skilfully tearing her clothes.
Besides, after the ruffian led the army away, the siege force was reduced by half, but the pressure on the defenders did not decrease in the slightest. The number of the Yu family is too small, and the number of rebels is too large, and the former can only be chased by the latter.
The Yu family protected the wounded Yu Mingli and retreated while fighting, and soon withdrew to the vicinity of the Xiaohu family's private soldiers. The private soldiers of the Xiaohu family have fought with the Yu family, and they have a little affection for each other, but Yishan's order is there, and if you want to enter the place, you can't carry weapons. In order to let the Yu family get rid of the pursuit as soon as possible, as soon as they appeared in the sight of the private soldiers of the Xiaohu family, the private soldiers shouted at them.
"Drop your weapons! Come here! Drop the weapon! ”
The Yu family didn't understand the meaning of the Xiaohu family's private soldiers at first, but the situation was urgent, and in order to take refuge, they had to drop their weapons and run into the station as fast as they could. After all the Yu family members came in, the private soldiers of the Xiaohu family stood in a row and aimed their weapons at the rebels who followed.
How do the rebels understand politics? They saw that the private soldiers of the Xiaohu family were blocking their way, so they killed them without saying a word. These rebels were originally villagers and had no formal military training, while Yishan's guards were carefully selected fighters, and there was no comparison between the two.
The guards scattered the pursuing rebels with just a counter-charge, and they were not in a hurry to slash and kill the enemy, but quickly withdrew to the garrison after dispersing the enemy, sent a few people to report the rebels' attack on them to Yishan, and then treated the wounded of the Yu family. Soon after these people set off, Yishan's herald arrived.
He conveyed Yishan's order to the guards to select fifty men to follow him. Meanwhile, Ulris's team of maids had already selected fifty men and left the garrison under the herald's leadership. Shortly after the departure of these fifty maids, rebels attacked the station. The maids relied on the fortifications to repel the rebels' attack, after which they also sent someone to report the rebel attack to Urris.
Before Yishan and Euris received the news, Maier had already left the parlor and went outside to receive the hundred people they had lent him. Yishan and Euris each assigned three additional guards to Maier, and after Maier left the castle's annex with these six guards, he was confronted by a group of rebels who wanted to enter the annex and steal things.
Without saying a word, Maier raised his hand and threw out five magic arrows. Due to the dense formation of the rebels, all five magic arrows hit their targets, killing two of them on the spot and three of them falling to the ground injured.
"Scatter them!"
Mel threw out five more magic arrows and knocked down five more people. The three Ogus maids immediately unleashed their pocket crossbows and fired at the rebels, and after a round of firing from them, the three Xiaohu guards drew their swords and charged, followed by Mel.
In fact, after seeing Myr's magic arrow, the rebels have lost the will to fight. This method of suddenly conjuring several awls to kill people is too weird, and what is even more terrifying is that this method can be used twice in a row! They inexplicably lost ten men before they could touch the enemy, and then three more were killed by crossbow arrows. Although there are only four enemies rushing up, one of them is a "youkai" that can conjure an awl to kill people, how dare they meet it?
The first stopped and began to retreat, then the second, then the third, and before they could reach the enemy, the rebel army was dispersed. This made Mel and the others stunned, and for a moment they forgot to join the others.
"Youkai!!
The scattered rebels let out screams as they ran, and Maier realized that they had mistaken themselves for Ira. Such misunderstandings often arise among the Ira and the Letin people, because the magic of the Ira Yokai and the magic of the Letin magicians are so similar in appearance that even they themselves can be mistaken if they only see them.
The people of Ira are very afraid of Ira's yokai. In the eyes of the Ira Yokai, the meat of other creatures is edible, except for the meat of the same kind, which is not allowed to be eaten, including the meat of the Ira. The relationship between the two is like that of a wolf and a sheep, but the difference is that the sheep can still struggle in front of the wolf, but the Ira people don't even have a chance to struggle when they encounter the Iraa youkai. That's why Yan He said something like "If it were two thousand years ago, the people of Ira would be the food for you and me."
Most of the Iraa youkai are hostile to the Ira, not so much as they see the Iraa as a reserve. However, the appearance of the shrine maiden made it impossible for the Ira yokai to hunt the Ira people at will as before, and the strength of the first shrine maiden was very strong, so strong that the Ira yokai in the world together could not defeat her at that time.
After that, the Ira Yokai made a covenant with the Ira people in front of the god of the apocalypse. As long as the Ira people do not enter the territory of the Ira Yokai, the Ira Yokai will not hunt the Ira. But even so, the people of Ira are still afraid of the Irakai youkai.
Although the people of the Twenty-Nine Village are willing to respect Nanyi Jushi, the Ira youkai, as their leader, they are still afraid of youkai other than Nanyi Jushi, and Yanhe is one of them. Therefore, Yan He was able to use the means of force deterrence to make his soldiers obedient, and even reluctantly formed a death squad.
After figuring this out, Maier immediately had an idea. He didn't bother to join the others, so he sent a guard of the Xiaohu family and an Egus maid to contact the others, while he himself drove the fleeing rebels with the remaining four men in the direction of the city gate.
As soon as the rebels along the way heard that there were monsters in the castle, their hearts suddenly cooled. Some of them were lucky, thinking that it would be good to grab something and leave before the monster found them, but most of them began to subconsciously retreat in the direction of the city gate, ready to run away at any time.
Mel dispels the scattered rebels and shoots them at them with magic arrows, convincing them that what they say is true. As a result, the scale of the rout army grew, but only five men drove them.
Due to her limited dominance, Maier did not dare to use the magic arrow frequently, lest she would not be able to use magic in real combat. Some of the clever rebels, seeing that Mel was slow to attack, bypassed him and continued to loot in the castle. Mel noticed the men, but let them go, concentrating on driving the rout.
By the time the army was about to reach the gates of the city, the size of the army had exceeded a thousand. Mel followed them with four escorts, and it was not so much that they were driving the rout forward, but that the rout was desperately fleeing the castle.
The rebels guarding the gates had already been ordered to kill anyone who fled. But the number of the routs was too great for the rebels guarding the gates to cope with. They slashed and killed the first few men, but those behind rushed forward desperately, and some even swung their weapons at the rebels guarding the city gates.
The behavior of these routs is well understood, which is simpler to kill a person or kill a youkai? The answer, of course, is the former. The pursuers behind are monsters, but it is people who are intercepted in front of them, according to the thinking logic of normal people, of course, it is necessary to kill the intercepted person and continue to flee, because this has the highest probability of survival.
In this way, the defeated army and the rebels guarding the city gates were crushed. At this time, Meir's reinforcements also arrived, and more than fifty Ogus maids lined up in two columns and began to fire indiscriminately at the enemy troops at the city gates. The guards of the Xiaohu family were on standby by Meier's side, ready to charge at any time.
Due to the increasing pressure from behind, the offensive of the rout army became more and more ferocious. The rebels guarding the gates soon became unable to resist and threw down their weapons and fled for their lives. Seeing that the road ahead was open, the routers hurriedly quickened their pace of escape, and in just a few minutes, only Maier and the hundred or so guards were left near the city gatehouse.
"Close the gates!"
The gates of Nami Castle are all open to the left and right, and the work of opening and closing the gates can only be carried out in the city gate hole. At this time, there were many corpses in the cave of the city gate, which made it more difficult to close the city gate.
Fortunately, the rebels outside the city were having a headache about the rout at this time, and they didn't notice what was happening at the city gate. Mel and his guards cleaned the corpses from the gate as fast as they could, closed the gate, and bolted it.
After this, Mel left twenty Xiaohu guards and twenty Ogus maids to guard near the gate hole, and led the rest of the men to rush to the city gate, preparing to kill all the enemies on the city wall.