"Avi, look over there!" Carrie pointed behind them, and a large army of sword and shield troops appeared behind them, blocking the main passage in the city of Dry Sand.

"The target of those mercenaries is the soldiers of the Kosai Kingdom!" Fan immediately released the hemp rope in his hand in front of the fat man, but the fat man was too late to be surprised, and his eyes were now only those menacing sword and shield mercenaries.

Avi looked at the team in front of him, and the more than 1,000 Kingdom infantry were all in a panic. The troops at the front of them were already under the heavy rain of arrows from the archers, and a large group of sword and shield mercenaries were slowly approaching behind.

"Let's get out of here," Avi broke free of the rope and kicked open the wooden window of a house, "Let's get out of the street first!" He was the first to get through the window into the house, and Carrie followed.

The big-nosed Fan pulled out an iron gun, trying to kill the fat man who had bullied him before. But the cowardly fat man had already fallen down at this time, covering his head with both hands, trembling all over, and still chanting words in his mouth: "Why is this happening, I don't want to die yet!"

When Fan saw this, he sighed and didn't make a move. Anyway, he will die under the mercenary's sword later, so let him live a little longer! Fan thought to himself as he followed Avi and Carrie into the house.

Outside the city, Jack and Ampvo were approaching the rear gate of Dry Sand City, and the sudden sound of battle from inside the city made all the soldiers outside the city know that something had happened in the city.

"Uncle, divide the troops into two groups and attack the front and rear gates!" Jack sat on his horse, directing his troops to calm them down while he planned to let Ampvo join forces to besiege Dry Sands.

"Haven't you figured out the situation yet!" replied Ampwer loudly, "We have fallen into the trap of the Republic! This large-scale sneak attack has long been known to the enemy, and this is a trap!!"

"Then shall we let Colin and the MONOCULUS mercenary group die inside?" Jack became a commander at a young age, mainly because of his identity rather than experience or strength, he was indeed a rare warrior, but intrigue was still too foreign to him.

"That's right," replied Impwer coldly, "yes, we should give up the three thousand men in it at once, turn around and withdraw," he looked up at the towering and fortified walls and in the direction of the City of Honor, the capital of the Republic of Marveil, where there was still yellow sand and nothing, "If we are lucky, we will still be able to save the lives of most of the people here." ”

"How can it be...!" Jack ignored the Marquis's suggestion, and he asked the soldiers to immediately form a ladder on the spot, hoping to attack the city on this side of the city wall and rescue the soldiers who were surrounded inside.

But at this time, a large number of crossbowmen appeared on the city wall, all of them were holding archer-type moon shields, and the people hiding behind the moon shields all aimed their crossbows at the soldiers under the city. The man in charge of the crossbowmen was Eddie, who introduced James and Colin into the castle and then left with the rest of the cavalry squadron through another exit in the castle. The fifty squadrons of cavalry were responsible for liaising with the troops and keeping watch inside the city, and he and Cherry came to the city walls to guard the army outside the city.

"Sure enough, the city is still going to be attacked!" said Eddie, standing at the city wall, looking out. The soldiers of those kingdoms are already assembling siege equipment, and they plan to abandon the attack on the city gate and form a ladder on the spot, and cross the city wall from the side of the dry sand city to attack the city, "But Alain's men are all elite, and I will definitely not let you enter easily." Eddie looked at the five hundred crossbowmen that Alan had allocated to him, all of them were soldiers who had followed Alan for many years, and they had a certain ability in both archery and hand-to-hand combat, although it was impossible to hold the offensive of nearly 100,000 people, but if he could delay as much as possible...

Eddie's heart only hoped that he could delay the arrival of the main forces of the Republic.

A few days ago, the First Senate Tyre had announced in the Senate that the Kingdom of Cosey was going to attack, and it was nearly ten days before they had told Tyr the news, and the leaders of the Lunar Shield Mercenary Regiment all agreed that Tyre was deliberately delaying the release of the information - for the simple reason, he wanted to weaken the other two consuls.

Sure enough, Barnes, the consul who represented the interests of the nobility, said that he should send someone to negotiate peace with the people of the Kosai Kingdom, or even cede territory to seek peace. This plan was initially opposed by most of the councilors in the Senate, and the consul Manle advocated facing the enemy, but the time was short, even if all the mercenary groups in the city of Honor were gathered, there would be no more than 50,000 troops at most, and there was not enough time to recruit troops from other cities.

When the head-on plan was questioned, Thiel came up with a plan.

The two consuls at the same time led the troops that could be called up to ambush near the city, and then evacuated the civilians of the city back to the capital first, and then sent an elite force to station in the city, and then carried out a flanking attack at the same time to destroy the opponent's living forces- The best-case scenario is that the opponent knows that the sneak attack has failed and retreats, then we can minimize the losses, the medium case is to establish an advantage in the battle of Drysand, repel the opponent, and be able to save the city, and the worst-case scenario is that the two archons are defeated, but the city of Honor has some respite, perhaps waiting for the mayors of other cities to help, and the city has gathered more soldiers to defend the city.

The premise of this plan proposed by the first patriarch was that they had recalled and controlled Gordon, and Gordon also made his plan to surrender the city and make it the first wall of the front.

After hearing this proposal, many senators began to consider the proposal of the consul Barnes - to cede land and sue for peace. After all, Tyre claimed that he had received information that the other nations were neutral about the invasion of the Republic, that the Republic without foreign aid was powerless to resist the menacing raid, and that the ambiguous attitude of the Republic's cities meant that the independent municipalities were also a source of concern for internal aid.

But the archon Manle insisted on fighting.

"This time the attack of the Kingdom of Kosai must be acting in secret, they would not have thought that we had obtained such important information, and they would not necessarily be prepared for us. Manle said aloud in the council.

Also attending this meeting of the elders were the main leaders of the Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment, who were qualified to attend the council because they were informants. After hearing Manle's firm main battle views, Andre and Alan both nodded in agreement.

But the Senate didn't think that any mercenary group would be willing to use it as bait in Dry Sands - mercenary groups were meant to put their interests first, even in the Mercenary Republic of Marvier. If the battle outside the city is a failure, then wouldn't the mercenaries who were ambushed in the city of Dry Sands have to wait for death?

"We, the Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment, are willing to be the guardians of Dry Sand City!" Andre's eyes swept over all the old men and elders in the council, and from their eyes, he saw that he was calculating more of his own interests. "You don't need other forces, just one regiment of our Moon Shield Mercenary Regiment, and if you're lucky, you can trick the enemy's commander into the city and kill it directly!"

Eddie, who was standing on the city wall, recalled Andre's words and felt that Russell was not wrong, and Andre did have such courage. But an arrow suddenly shot from below immediately reminded him that our luck was not so good, and that the city of Dry Sand was surrounded by the enemy's 100,000-strong army, and had to wait for the help of the consul of the Republic.

The main thoroughfare of the castle and town was where Julian's spearmen unit was responsible for guarding. At first, he agreed to mix with the sword and shield troops of Bizluvis, with shields in front and guns in the back, to flank the enemy in the middle, but when the troops were finally placed, he changed his mind again.

"My pikemen don't need to be blocked in front of them, if the sword and shield squadron is in front, then my spearmen will shrink back and will not be able to exert their power at all, and we also have a spearman-type moon shield. "Julian had nearly 800 pikemen behind him, and they were actually ineffective in the narrow terrain, and the streets were not wide, so only the front row of the array spearmen could be effective. However, Julian thought that when the enemy knew that he was surrounded, he would definitely flee in the direction of the city gate, so his spearmen could stay in front of the castle - the castle behind him had Andrei, and the enemy on the street should be handed over to Alain's squadron of archers and the squadron of swords and shields of Bisluvis!

Julian's wishful thinking worked well, but the Enchanted Helmet of the MONOCULUS Mercenary Regiment was out of his calculations.

"Captain Julian, our brother is about to be unstoppable!" the mercenaries of the Shield Mercenary Regiment reported to Julian in a hurry, and the blood on his face proved that he was not lying.

Squadron leader Julian stood on a certain high place in front of the castle and looked down, and found that the attacks of his spearmen had little effect on the MONOCULUS mercenaries, while the opponent was up and down with a swing of the sword, and the mercenaries with spears could not defend at all, and a large area fell in an instant. The MONOCULUS mercenaries are also approaching the castle gates, and their goal is clearly to rescue their leader, James.

The sight in front of him made Julian want to escape, and he was not in favor of coming to Gansha City for an ambush in the first place. And now the two thousand MONOCULUS mercenaries on the streets are not at all beaten like the infantry of the kingdom, they are like bandits who have entered the city, and they will cut down anyone they see, and those spearmen who are supposed to exert their might on the vast battlefield are no match for the MONOCULUS mercenaries who can predict the attack. The situation that had surrounded the other party soon changed, and those MONOCULUS mercenaries, wearing plate armor and holding sharp weapons, scattered from the streets to all parts of the city of Gansha City, as if they had been bitten by the fangs of poisonous snakes, and the deadly venom was spreading from the blood vessels connected to the heart in all directions, and no one could stop it.

On the other hand, the 1,000 Kingdom infantry were in a panic and crushed under the attack of Alain's squadron of archers and Bisluvis's squadron of swords and shields. The regular army that has lost its command is simply lambs to the slaughter, and the MONOCULUS mercenaries who are born for their own interests are like heinous criminals released from prison and reborn again!