This year's Warrior's Festival in Xueman City is not lively, although several blacksmith shops are working overtime day and night, but there are fewer adventurers in the shops, there are no stalls on the street, and the residents who come and go are in a hurry with a sad face, and even in the Xueman Mall in the plain area, more than half of the shops have hung signs that are closed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But compared to the snowy outer city, the atmosphere inside the city walls can only be regarded as low, and the clouds are not spreading.

In the outer city, all the shops have been closed, the merchants have fled to the south with their families with their most valuable goods, and the chamber of commerce, which was originally full of trucks, seems to be empty, and even the tiger caravans dare not come here to do business.

Compared with the merchants who have long since disappeared, the civilians living in the outer city are even more bleak, they have not much property, the largest property is only a worthless hut in the outer city, now that the war is about to break out, they have no high walls to protect them, and the silver and copper coins in their hands are not enough for them to flee to the safety of the Phocles Territory, so they can only huddle in the imsolid houses and pray, the deep despair is like a cloud before a storm, dead in the sky above the outer city.

As the clouds of war drew nearer, some of the people in the outer city abandoned their houses and fled with little money to the town of Creek, where there were fewer robbers, while the rest of the people spontaneously organized themselves to dig out inferior weapons from abandoned weapons shops and ask for training methods from relatives who served in the army, the men formed the Self-Defense Forces to train day and night, and the women woven linen cloth into the thickest cloth armor possible, hoping to protect their men on the battlefield.

The lord of Xueman did not ignore these militias with low combat strength, and Barguf transferred 800 city guards who were in charge of the security of the city to the outer city to be responsible for the training of the militia, while Caius, who was idle at home, was once again activated to be responsible for the defense of the outer city.

Barguf did not expect Caius to command a group of city guards and militia to repel the invading bandits, he only hoped that when the bandits attacked, the city guards would be able to stop them for a while, buying time for the civilians of the outer city to retreat within the walls.

As for the militia?

Mr. Barguf said he did not expect the militias to fight the bandits, and that he only hoped that he would spend the next few days cultivating the discipline of the civilians so that they would not riot when they evacuated.

Of course, Barguf also considered the worst-case scenario, if the walls were breached and Sigru wanted to slaughter the city, this group of civilians would also have the ability to protect themselves, at least, they could fight for a chance to survive.

But now it is the group of fighters in the mead hall that makes Barguf even more troublesome, after asking for help many times, Clark's answer is still the same as usual, not to mention the ring, even ordinary comrades will not make a move, of course, if Xue Man pays for hiring, it will be counted.

In fact, Barguf is not worried about being breached, according to the report, the robbers outside the city are only more than 10,000 people, and there are no sophisticated siege equipment, just with the 'toys' they have made by cutting wood everywhere in the past few days, even if there are more than 1,000 elite combat forces, it is impossible to attack the inner city, and even the urn city may not be able to be taken, so he is most worried about the civilians in the outer city.

In addition, Barguf's understanding of Sigru is the biggest source of unease in his heart, and the 'Crow Blade' Higru who can take down the Ash Swamp Fortress is naturally not an idiot, nor is he a guy blinded by greed, lust, or revenge and anger, he will definitely understand that Xueman City is difficult to attack, but he still camps on the west side of Xueman with more than 10,000 people with great fanfare, what does he want to do?

Is it a strong team of spellcasters? This is impossible, the court mage of Snow City, Farenga, and the spellcaster army he leads, even if they are defeated by the bandit coalition, are enough to protect the city walls.

Or is it something like the Battle of the Western Watchtower, luring giants into battle? It's also impossible, the distance between Xueman and the Yin Wind Basin is much farther than the western sentry tower, and the giants with the camp are not idiots, even if they are too small in brain capacity and fooled again, they will not be attracted to attack the walled Xueman City.

What exactly is Higlo going to do? Barguv couldn't guess, so he was always anxious, and he always had a bad premonition, so he turned to his comrades-in-arms for help.

And in Hurdle Manor, Sirika also received the news that the bandit coalition army had gathered Xueman, her intelligence system was stronger than that of Xueman City, and the information system did not rely only on messengers and ravens, so even if the manor was still under siege, she could receive news from the outside world in time.

When Sirika received the news, she spread the word, and by evening everyone was ready for battle, even the old man and the children were armoured, and when Sirika gave the order, they would become the bravest warriors and tear all the bandits outside the city to pieces.

Even if there were five thousand enemies outside the city, three times as many as theirs.

That's right, five thousand people, just after the bandit coalition led by Sigru ransacked all the castles in Xueman, in other territories, the bandit group that was originally immobile finally couldn't sit still, as if they smelled a fishy smell sharks entered Xueman's territory one after another and joined Sigru's bandit alliance.

Now it's not just Hedel Manor, according to the intelligence of Xueman, there are as many as 12,000 bandits outside Xueman City, and it is estimated that the elite of them is close to 2,000.

Sirika is no longer calm, if there are only 3,000 bandits outside, with the strength of Huder Manor, then it can be taken at a small price, but now there are more than 5,000 bandits outside, not to mention annihilation, even if they are beaten to the point of rout, they will pay a heavy price!

And she was originally going to rush to the aid of Xueman City, cooperate with Xueman City, and completely defeat the bandit coalition army inside and outside, but now it seems that Xueman can only be regarded as more than enough to defend the city, as long as she goes out of the city to attack, she will be properly swallowed by the bandit coalition.

Of course, it's not just Barguf and Sirika who are anxious, in the temporary command post of the bandit coalition, the deputy commander Bing Xiong is also spinning in the same place of anxiety:

"Sigru, our men together are only fifteen thousand, and even if there are two thousand three hundred elites, they won't be able to take the snow city at all! What exactly are you going to do? Don't tell me you're going to ransack the outer city with no oil and water and leave?! ”

"Don't worry, I said that I have an arrangement, and you will know when the time comes."

Sigru was as calm as ever, looking at the ice bear and asking again, he had to explain more: "I can guarantee that Snow City must be ours, and the things that were arranged before should almost be used." ”

That night, Sigru sent out all the 'cannon fodder troops' of more than 5,000 men, and guarded the main road for Xue Man's escape to other directions, and captured a lot of civilians with their families that night.

The next day, Sigru continued to send out to collect timber and prepare siege equipment, while his elite army remained at the gate of the city to prevent the Xueman army from sending troops to break them one by one while he was dividing.

By noon, some new robbers had entered the snowman from other realms, bringing with them the 'booty' they had caught along the way, the fugitive snowman nobles, their equipment, wealth, and women.

The living nobles were pushed under the city and beheaded in front of the defenders, while the dead nobles were beheaded, and in the afternoon the robbers made a simple stone thrower and threw the heads of these nobles into the city.

At the same time, some of the robber leaders also brought out the wives and daughters of the nobles, and carried out inhumane atrocities against these women and even girls in places where the defending army could see but was far away, humiliating the soldiers at the head of the city.

The soldiers at the head of the city who saw this scene had red eyes, and they roared, and shot out all the arrows and spears in their hands, but these arrows and spears were as weak as their anger, and they fell weakly after flying half the way, and could not hurt even a robber.

However, after the robber leaders were done, many robbers rushed up and continued to commit violence against these poor women, who in their eyes, even if they were ugly, were countless times more noble than the peasant women they had "used" before.

Unable to bear it, Caius led the blood-red soldiers out of the city and rushed out to kill for a while, but after losing nearly half of the soldiers, he returned in vain, and could only watch silently from the city walls, watching these poor women go from helpless screams and wails to numbness, and even breathless.

However, this act was just like the previous act of killing prisoners by Viscount Jory, under the timely and effective propaganda of Barguf, not only did it not hit the morale of the soldiers in Snow Man, but the brutality of the bandits aroused the hatred of everyone in the inner and outer cities, and also made those who were not strong-willed put an end to the idea of escaping.

By evening, almost all the adult men in the city had stepped forward and joined the reserves, and the arms merchants had opened their warehouses, sent their armor and weapons into the barracks, and armed the warriors of the city.

The apothecary merchants also opened warehouses and sent healing potions into the barracks to become life charms for the warriors, while mana potions were supplied to the caster's troops without limit, making them the true patrons of the snowman.

Hunters and farmers brought out their stockpiles of frozen meat and grain, and gave priority to soldiers, mercenaries, and spellcasters who participated in the battle.

Ordinary women poured into the barracks to take on the task of maintaining equipment, and they also contributed the oil and grease in their homes to make sharp weapons to defend the city.

At this moment, the entire snow man turned into a huge and sophisticated machine, and everyone turned into a part and stood in the right and most efficient position, just waiting for the decisive battle to come and defeat the bandit coalition outside in one fell swoop.