Margaret couldn't laugh or cry when she saw this, so she didn't mention letting Eugen leave, helped him to the sofa next to her, and went back to the bedroom to sleep.

Eugen was still snoring on the sofa, but a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

And just like that, the sun rose, and the next day crept in, and Eugen stayed in Margaret's room and slept comfortably through the night.

On this night, the Saxon archers came four times, attacking once more than yesterday.

However, under the command of Captain Allen, except for the first attack, the last three attacks were successfully avoided by them, causing no casualties.

During the day, the attack of the Saxon soldiers came as usual, as it had been yesterday, just around the walls, but without a charge.

They are like a flock of scavenging ravens watching the city of Leiber, and as soon as the city's defenses show signs of slackening due to fatigue, they will rush up and launch a frenzied attack.

Compared to yesterday, the soldiers of the city guard were in significantly worse condition today, and some of them had not had a good night's sleep for two days in a row.

However, Alan has nothing to do about this, he can only try to stabilize and preserve his strength as Eugen said.

Time passed quietly in the entanglement of offense and defense between the two sides, and on the third and fourth days, the exact same script was staged every day.

The Saxon soldiers pressed their way during the day, the guards did their best to resist, and at night their archers fired while the guards hid in time.

There were casualties every day in the past two days, but the total number did not exceed fifty, which can only be regarded as a small fight.

Compared with the dead and wounded, the energy consumption of the soldiers of the city guard is a greater problem.

The constant harassment was irritating, and on the third day the Saxon archers made ten attacks in one night, and the walls were full of arrows, which the guards cleared for nearly an hour.

On the fourth day, the situation was even worse, when a group of Saxon infantry, taking advantage of the shooting of their own archers, secretly climbed up to the city wall with a ladder and tried to break the locks of the gate.

Fortunately, they were discovered by the city guards in time, and they were all killed, and the locking device was saved.

Otherwise, once this locking device is broken and the city gate cannot be closed, the consequences will be unimaginable.

This attack startled Captain Allen into a cold sweat, and he would have removed most of the defenses on the walls during the archers' attacks, reducing casualties.

Now they dare not do it again, who knows what those crazy Saxons will do, if it is not a small army but a legion that sets foot on the walls, then the city of Lyber will have fallen by now.

In fact, Allen's worries were a bit too much, the movement of large-scale troop movements was extremely difficult to hide, and besides, they were not completely defenseless, this time it was just an oversight.

It's just that Alan didn't dare to take this risk, and early in the morning of the fifth day, he arranged to add several defense squads, and equip them with heavy armor and steel shields.

When the rain of arrows came, these squads could not dodge, but had to stay where they were, keeping an eye on the situation on the city wall.

Even if the defense is thorough, there will inevitably be casualties, but there is no way to do it, and sometimes some necessary sacrifices are inevitable.

For this reason, Allen also deliberately named these soldiers an independent formation, named the Reef Brigade, comparing them to reefs, even in the rain of arrows and waves, they will stick to their place.

The Reef Brigade's salary is slightly higher than that of the Longxiang Legion, and it is already the team with the highest level of treatment in the entire city protection team, and Allen promises that at the end of this battle, every member of the Reef Squad will receive the Medal of Valor of Leyber City, which is a very high honor.

With these favorable conditions, the soldiers in the teacher's squad had no complaints and accepted the matter naturally.

Old Peter is one of the members of the reef team, joining the reef team is completely his voluntary decision, when he is old, the honor brought by the medal can no longer arouse his passion, but the rich salary is a big temptation.

With a dozen mouths to eat at home, and a few cotton clothes for his parents and children when it was cold, Old Peter put on the whole body armor that showed only a pair of eyes, and carried a huge kite-shaped shield as thick as the door panel.

"With such a defense draped over the body, there is nothing to be afraid of the rain of arrows." Old Peter whispered to himself, and then walked resolutely to the wall.

Despite his age, Old Peter's eyes were as bright as they had been when he was younger, and he could see and hear many things even in the dark.

The grinding of iron armor, the reflection of swords, the whistling of arrows, these were all things that needed his attention.

After a whole day of shivering, night finally came inevitably, and more than thirty soldiers like old Peter stood on the city walls, keeping an eye on the movement around them.

With the experience of the previous four days, Old Peter was not completely ignorant of the attacks of those archers, in fact, if he was careful enough, he could still find some signs of attack.

The creaking of the soles of your shoes on the snow, the faint reflection of arrows in the moonlight, and the screeching of arrows across the air are all important signs, and if you are careful, there will be no big problems.

Looking up at the night sky, half a bright moon hung in the air, the clear moonlight sprinkled on the ground like water waves, such night attacks are often not very violent, the moonlight is easy to reveal their whereabouts, and those Saxon soldiers are not really careless.

Old Peter stood on the ramparts, waiting for an attack that might come at any time, and in the silence of the watch, time seemed to be gradually extended.

The Reef Squad did not participate in the battle during the day, could rest at home, and could not go home at night, and had to stay on the city wall at all times, and their armor was wrapped in thick cotton clothes to protect them from the cold of the night.

An hour, two hours, three hours, little by little, in the midst of this watch, it seems as if even time has stopped flowing.

Old Peter remembered many things that he had never thought about before, memories of his childhood, recent troubles, beatings and scolding from his father, and scolding children after becoming a father.

All sorts of thoughts rose and fell in his mind, and old Peter had a vague feeling of trance, and he wondered if the enemy would not attack tonight, and the night would pass in such peace.

Thinking about it, old Peter's head began to sink gradually, sleepiness hit like a tide, and his body wrapped in armor and cotton clothes was very warm, and it seemed quite good to sleep in this warmth.