During the first three blasts, Baron Jacques had a clear idea of how to deal with it, he sent his cronies and troops to the blast to block it, on the one hand, to prevent the Elise from taking advantage of the gap to attack, and on the other hand, to prevent the soldiers and ordinary citizens in the city from harassing them.

Xiaoyang City, which was constantly disturbed by the sound of huge explosions, was boiling like a pot of boiling oil at this moment.

Most of them had already linked the unusual sound to the persuasion of the Elise during the day. According to the conventional understanding of warfare in this era, a city without the protection of its walls is like a knight without armor. Many began to instinctively flee in the direction of the walls and the breached gaps, but soon they were confronted by the baron's forces to maintain military order.

"Everybody's home! If you go out without permission, you will be hanged! ”

Most of them obediently hid back, huddled together in unfamiliar rooms, listening in horror to the movement outside. The streets echoed with the footsteps of the army walking and patrolling, the urging and shouting of the soldiers, and the occasional begging and screaming of ordinary people. The baron's decisive move succeeded in maintaining order, and the entire city of Xiaoyang gradually quieted down again.

The situation seems to have been reversed, and the Elise did not lead the attack after casting the Thunderbolt as they had done in the previous two sieges, probably because they were far inferior to Xiaoyang City.

However, in the second half of the night, when the Ilis people's heavenly thunder cast was released for the fifth time, this calm under strong control gradually cracked.

The inhabitants of the city were keenly aware that the density of soldiers in the streets had thinned out, and more blasts had diluted the baron's already abundant force.

Because it was night, the baron had no way of predicting from which openings the Illis would rush into, and he had to devote enough troops to each of them to block the attack, just in case.

There were more than fifteen hundred Elise outside the city, and the journey from inside the city to the city walls took ten minutes, and counting the round trip, that was twenty minutes—the baron may not have calculated this time accurately, but the vague tactical thinking still existed. The troops defending the gap must be able to hold out at the gap for more than twenty minutes, then the number of each force must be in the hundreds, and the morale and the thunder of the Elise people need to be doubled, that is, each baron needs to prepare nearly a thousand men and a group of reliable officers to defend.

When the number of mouths was still relatively small, the troops of more than 6,000 people in the city were completely able to deal with it, and they could still leave enough spare strength to control the order in the city. But when the number of openings increased to five, the baron discovered the awkward reality that if this strategy was maintained, he would be completely out of force if he waited for the Elise to blast twice.

The baron had to constantly draw out the troops in the city to maintain the curfew and form a reserve to deal with the possible sixth and seventh thunderstorms.

After the departure of the troops, the already skeptical residents quickly realized that this was a godsend.

Small, scattered families quickly begin to coalesce, and several families who know each other often combine into a larger group.

While the men retrieved sticks and kitchen knives from the house, they used them as a deterrent to anyone who might invade them, whether it was the Baron's soldiers or the Elisians, and they began to pass messages to each other in a small area to confirm the current situation in Xiaoyang City.

Before, everyone had only heard a loud noise, and most of the people living in the center of the city didn't know how damaged the city wall was, and they didn't know if the Elise had entered, or even if they had been hit.

Moreover, none of this was really of concern to the inhabitants, most of them were only concerned about where their husbands, sons, fathers, or brothers had been sent by the baron, and whether they were in danger - they had all heard rumors of thunder, horrific descriptions of Bishop Bart being killed on the spot, and hundreds of people buried at the same time, with no bones left.

When the inhabitants began to secretly send people to find their relatives who had been recruited, the baron's army fell into the swamp like a giant made of mud and sand, and began to disintegrate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It is difficult for soldiers in this era to have the courage to look at the terrifying gap split by the thunder in the darkness, and be ready to start hand-to-hand combat with the terrifying enemy who can create the thunder. Gold coins may be able to generate this courage for a while, but it is only for a short time, as long as a comrade-in-arms or boss inadvertently says a few words about the thunder, these courage will immediately disappear.

……

When the second and third children followed the team to the city wall, dozens of people had already run out of the city along the gaps in the city wall. After the officers ordered them to seal off the blasting point, the hundreds of residents in front of them seemed unwilling to give up the close escape, and came up to them and begged them: "For God's sake, let us get out." ”

"Leave us alone, give us a way!"

"Xiaoyang City is already dead!"

"The thunder of the Elis will turn the whole city into ruins."

"Queue, draw your sword!" The officer leading the team resolutely gave a loud order, and the sound of the sword unsheathed immediately caused the residents who were already crowded and pushed with the soldiers to subconsciously take a few steps back.

"You will also be captured by the Elisians when you go out! The whole city is surrounded by them! The situation eased slightly, and the officer immediately changed to a much more relaxed tone, and persuaded the crowd, "Stay in the city, we can still fight the enemy to the death, and when we go out, you will only become prisoners of the Elis!" You've all heard of the Mad King of Elis! ”

"Maybe King Elise is indeed a madman, or maybe the god they believe in is the real devil," said an aunt in her forties from the crowd, shouting at the officer, "but we'd rather believe in madmen and devils than hear half a word from you pious warriors!" The bishop of my god instigated my son to listen to him, only to be killed by a thunderbolt! Our allegiance lord took my husband and son and lied to us all over the world - I ask you! How many times can the Elise Celestial Thunder be cast! ”

"Definitely no more than six times!" The officer replied stubbornly.

"Haha, that's ridiculous!" The crowd in front of him suddenly became uproaring, "It's the seventh time now, my lord!" The Seventh Heavenly Thunder! This is where you stand now. ”

Because of the nervous mood and frequent dispatches, coupled with the chaos and robbery in the dark along the way, many officers and soldiers did not have a very accurate memory of the number of thunderstorms.

In fact, needless to say, the officers, even the ordinary residents, have different opinions about the number of thunderbolts in different places now, and it is normal for them not to match each other - the baron's predetermined explanation logic at the beginning is naturally unusually bad in the face of this confusion.

At first, there were two or three mistakes, and everyone was okay with the error, but after the seventh explosion appeared, everyone realized that the so-called "prediction of the number of spells" in the mouths of these soldiers was simply nonsense.

At this time, a soldier next to the second child suddenly recognized an elder in the crowd, he walked out of the queue uncertainly, and asked in surprise: "Grandpa!" Is that you, grandpa? I'm Saleen! ”

"It's me, it's me."

"Why did you come out alone? Didn't I say that you should all stay at home and wait for me to go back? What about mom and brother? They're not with you? ”

"After you left, your brother was also drafted into the army, and I heard that you went to the south gate, your mother ...... She ......"

The officer was keenly aware of the situation, and with a wave of his hand, a small group of soldiers rushed out at once, dragging the soldier back into the array, interrupting the old man's speech.

The crowd was in an uproar.

"Stand back!" The officer shouted sharply, and at the same time shouted to the archers who had already climbed the wall: "Archer! Get ready! ”

"I'll give you one last chance! I only count three! ”

"Three!"

As soon as the officer shouted the first number, the second child clearly saw that behind him, two people were walking forward from the back of the line.

The two soldiers had the impression that on the way here, they robbed the most money, and they had so many gold coins on their bodies that they could even hear the sound when walking.

The two soldiers drew their swords from their scabbards as they walked.

Of course, it was not only the second child who saw such an obvious movement, but almost all the soldiers who passed by the two saw it, but strangely, all of them did not say anything to stop it—even if the officer who was walking towards them was said to be the baron's own uncle.

"Two!"

The officer raised a hand, and just as everyone was frightened by his attitude and was about to retreat, two bloody swords suddenly appeared on the officer's chest.

He twisted his neck in surprise and saw the two strange soldiers who had killed him, and without hesitation, they drew their swords and stabbed through the gap in the officer's armor again. After the officers were completely paralyzed, they raised their swords and shouted to everyone in front of them: "Xiaoyang City is not saved, everyone go out of the city and run for their lives!" ”

Then things got completely out of control, and the second and third children almost subconsciously followed the crowd out of the city wall and came to the dark world outside the city.

They groped their way around the terrain outside the city in their memory, and after only a few minutes of walking, they saw several bright pillars of light suddenly shoot out from the black night, and then the Elis shouted: "Put down your weapons and raise your hands!" ”

No one dared to resist, and most did so quietly, waiting for the Elis to tie them up one by one with ropes and escort them further into the darkness. At this moment, there were still two familiar voices in the crowd, shouting loudly: "Run for your life!" They can't catch us! ”

But this time no one followed them, and the two men ran out a few paces, and were easily chased by the cavalry, and knocked back with a stick. All the gold coins they collected in this war were also picked up by the Elisians, and the second child clearly heard that the Elise people were laughing at them while counting the gold coins: "Too naïve, you want to run away when you are targeted by the divine envoy?" ”

Only then did the second child remember the divine envoy they had seen under Shuangchahe City, and the mysterious divine eye he wore.

The oracle had looked at them.

From beginning to end, God watched their every move.