The enemy would not be able to enter for a while if they were blocked outside the strong walls, and even if they wanted to enter, the cavalry alone would not be able to cross the terrible phalanx of super-long spears, so the one-eyed Salou, although very unwilling, was helpless.

"Stand back! Stand back, fools! Salou angrily waved his weapons and retreated with his cavalry to a distance of 100 meters from the city of Pullen, where he joined up with the infantry who arrived and camped on the spot.

Soon, a number of tents were set up 100 meters opposite the city, and the bandit was obviously very familiar with the war, and not only set up a sentry, but even sent a patrol cavalry to reconnoiter around the city. According to the first article of the law of war, to judge the behavior of the opponent by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, it should be to look for the weak point of the attack before the siege at the beginning.

Han Tianxiang was not worried that any weaknesses in Pulun City would be discovered, after all, he had already considered the possibility of being besieged at the beginning of the construction of the city wall. Therefore, he not only unified the walls of each place according to the proportions into a strong wall of 3 meters high and half a meter thick, but he also led a group of farmers to dig a trench 2 meters deep and 1 meter wide within three meters along the city wall, and at the same time sprinkled straw around the trench and inserted wooden fences.

The wooden fence is small and not high, and it stretches for hundreds of meters along the city wall and is used to prevent accidents when children in the town approach this area out of curiosity.

In order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, Tianxiang also ordered all residents near the city gate to remember that it was strictly forbidden to approach within two meters behind the city wall, and that if they accidentally fell into the trap filled with sharp wood at the bottom of the pit, they would surely die. At the same time, flowers and plants have been planted in every place where you can safely climb the city wall, and you will be safe and sound along the path paved with flowers and plants.

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At night, the town is lit up both inside and outside the city walls.

More than a dozen bandits took advantage of the darkness to sneak up on the walls of Pulen City, but they were spotted by patrolling Pulen soldiers and hurriedly sounded the alarm.

Jingle Bell——!!

Hurried alarm bells rang in the town.

"Night Raid! Night Raid! Fast! The enemy wants to climb the walls! ”

"The first team of the City Guard set up their spears! The second team defends the walls! The third team of reserves is ready! Archers, shoot arrows at those rats and force them to get back! ”

The archers on the watchtower bent down and aimed their arrows at 120 degrees to the night sky, and with the captain's order, "Poof! ”

"Poof!" More than a dozen arrows made a sound of breaking through the air, dragging a long tail of fire through the night sky, and crashed headlong into the pile of more than a dozen bandits who tried to climb the wall and steal the city. Hearing only the sound of "poof", three or four of the dozen or so bandits were hit by rockets, and they screamed and covered their thighs or arms, and kept rolling on the ground with screams of pain.

"Ready! Put ——!! The squad leader held the Rose of Glory flag aloft, then slammed it down towards the empty front.

"Whew!" The sharp sound of breaking the air sounded again, and the second round of rockets entered the enemy formation at the same speed, but at this time, the bandits had already reacted and quickly raised their shields, and after a clanging sound of metal collision, the lethality of the arrows was greatly reduced this time, and even a single person was not injured.

A bandit with an iron helmet angrily cut off the arrows stuck in his shield with his axe, and angrily yelled at the soldiers standing on the edge of the wall, "Fuck the Pulons! You useless cowards! There's a kind of fight with us! ”

In response to the bandits, the city of Pullen was eerily quiet, almost eeriely quiet.

Seeing that the enemy didn't even pay attention to himself, the bandit with the iron helmet suddenly became even more bold, standing not far in front of the city gate and began to curse, his scolding was as sharp as a woman, and it spread to the ears through the air, which particularly irritated the eardrums.

Some of the younger Pullen soldiers could not endure such insults, and they opened their mouths angrily to greet each other's families with a series of cordial greetings. However, this reproach was soon interrupted by the whip of the magistrate, according to the first of the third precept of the Commander of the Princely Guard: "All soldiers who speak at will, walk around, use a nickname, and talk to outsiders or even civilians without the permission of the commander shall be punished with ten lashes as a warning, eight times for the second time and thirty-six times for the third time." If the offender dies during the execution, he shall be beaten until the number of sentences is full, and his body may be buried in the territory of Puren. ”

At first, the bandits in iron helmets and the soldiers of Pullen greeted each other happily. But I only heard two screams and the sound of whips waving through the air from the opposite city wall, and the captain and deputy captain shouted angrily!

Suddenly, the entire city of Pullen fell into silence again.

Now, no matter how the helmet-wearing bandit scolded and provoked, he didn't see any reaction from the other party. Even the bandit felt as if he heard the echo of his own scolding several times...... It can be seen that the code of military law of the Puron Guards is playing its role.

After scolding for a long time, the thief seemed to feel bored, and finally scolded a few greetings to Han Tianxiang's family, then turned his head and walked in the shadows behind him.

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"My lord, shall we just let him go!" One of the squad leaders of the city guards stared at the departed bandit with red eyes, hating his disappearing back with eyes that almost wished to eat the other party alive.

Ni, who stood on the city wall and watched the night, sighed and shook his head helplessly.

"This is the king's command... If the opponent still refuses to retreat after two rounds of shooting, let the archers retreat and defend the enemy with spears, as much as possible to retain as much strength as possible before the enemy's large army attacks the city. ”

"And no one is allowed to speak up in response to the other side, and it is necessary to be completely silent in front of the enemy, both before and after the war, and only then will the enemy fear and doubt us." The king said that now the enemy is strong and I am weak, and the enemy has a hundred battle-hardened men, who fight fiercely and bloodthirstily, and there are dozens of cavalry. If we had fought on the plains, I am afraid that our troops would have been completely routed before they could hold out for ten minutes. ”

Hearing Ni's words, the Pullen squad leader Holland was a little unhappy. He frowned, his crooked eyebrows twisted together, and the muscles on his face twitched.

"My lord, you are a little too complimentary. In any case, the predecessor of our city guard was a hunting team, and it is also a veteran of dealing with tigers, black bears and death in the deep mountains and old forests every day, plus it is impossible to be so vulnerable after several months of hard training every day. ”

Holland's slightly immature face looked at Ni with an unconvinced expression, but Ni didn't take Horan's dissatisfaction to heart. He just shook his head at him and patted him on the shoulder: "Guard the gates, the king's order is that he will be able to come up with a strategy to destroy the enemy before the sun rises, and no one is allowed to enter or leave the city of Pulun until then, and no one is allowed to hear even the sound of a rat from this town." ”

"But...... What should we do in the event of a return of the enemy? Continue to intimidate with rockets? Holland asked.

Ni turned around for a slight pause, and then said: "Don't worry, the king said that the enemy is an arrogant army, and it is a group of arrogant bandits who are not really a regular army. They have no heavy weapons to siege the city, but we have no weapons to defend ourselves, and the fact that the enemy is more than twice as numerous as we are gives them great confidence, so that they will inevitably regard our silence as a sign of weakness and lack of confidence after the temptation of this night. So in the face of a herd of lambs waiting to be fed and quite fat, it is self-evident what those wolves who are already hungry and crazy will do, right? They can't wait to sharpen their knives. ”

Ni's eyes looked at the fire-lit enemy area under the night, and the cold wind of the night blew his body cold, and there was a sense of uneasiness that was about to come all over his body. Moreover, listening to the cheers of the enemy in the air, it can be judged that they have regarded the Puron people as cowards who only dare to hide behind the city walls, and tomorrow those bandits will surely raise a ladder under the city gate and climb the city wall with high morale, in a phalanx of charge, braving the rain of arrows that are not dense in the city of Puron.

Those bandits know better than anyone that the city wall is the last bulwark of the Puron people, the foundation of morale, and the courage to resist. Once they have captured the walls, the remaining Pullons will be slaughtered and captured like pigs and cattle.

So while the siege will kill people, they will gain far more than they lose. With a strategic location, well-fortified buildings, and food, women, and slaves, those bandits will not let go of the civilians who live in the city of Pullen. The moment they conquer the city, they will ravage all the women in the city without mercy, and they will wield butcher knives without any humanity until their hands and feet are numb.

"O king, it seems that everything is exactly what you guessed. The enemies have already treated us like fish on a dinner plate......"

For Ni s sigh if han tianxiang is here, it should be extremely calm, after all, if it were him, i am afraid that more than a dozen countermeasures would have popped up in his mind, although most of them could not be realized due to factors such as realistic conditions, but ...... If you just want to defend and minimize casualties, this thing is not difficult for Han Tianxiang.

How could a person like Han Tianxiang, who takes one step and thinks three steps, really be unprepared for the current situation? It's just that he is not in a hurry to take out his secret weapon so quickly, because there are still some things that he must find out before he can make a final decision.

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