Chapter 14: The Tide of Beasts

The next day, Ye Qingmei Meidi slept well, felt refreshed, remembered yesterday's victory, and ate breakfast in a good mood, but his good mood did not last long before being interrupted.

"Young master, it's not good, the beast tide is coming!" Li Fu on Fu Bo's body was a little messy, full of nervousness.

"What, so fast!" As soon as Ye Qing heard that the beast tide was coming, he immediately didn't care about eating breakfast, and got up and ran towards the city wall.

Beast tide will often occur in Dongjiang Town or around the Qingshan Mountains, usually in autumn, as for the specific reason no one knows, according to some old hunters said that it is about to spend winter, lack of food, the beasts will drive their adult children out at this time to survive independently, in order to survive they will snatch each other for territory, the failed beasts will be driven out of the mountains and forests, forming a beast tide

On this morning, the wolf smoke ignited fifty miles away, and the wolf smoke soon ignited thirty miles, the time interval between the two was only an hour, this wolf smoke was set off by the signal station stationed outside in Dongjiang Town, and only when the beast tide came would the wolf smoke be burned to warn.

According to the previous law, basically the beast tide is about once every three years, although I don't know why this beast tide is much later, but their attack speed is much faster than in the past few years, and it can be seen from the time difference between the two wolf smokes.

What's even more strange is that this year, the wolf smoke rose in large quantities, as if all the wolf smoke was ignited in an instant, and the sky on that side was completely blackened by the smoke, which was very terrifying.

The atmosphere in the territory today was a little depressing, and when the wolf smoke was lit for thirty miles, all the people in the city saw it, and although the people in the town were prepared, they were extremely panicked, whether it was a woman buying vegetables or a merchant selling things, they all hurriedly left what they were doing and went home to hide.

The bustling streets were empty in almost a quarter of an hour, except for the wailing of the north, which rolled up a few leaves and flew in the air.

The only two gates in Dongjiang Town were also slammed shut just now, and many large sharpened wooden stakes were placed in front of them.

The residents who worked on the outskirts of the city also returned to the city, but fortunately, due to the harassment of fierce beasts in the territory, all the residents of Dongjiang Town lived in the town, and there were no casualties so far.

Soon, the heavy footsteps of the city guards sounded from the streets, these were the soldiers of the garrison who had rushed back last night, and they were passing through the city as fast as they could, supporting the walls of the South Gate, because there was only one direction for each attack of the beast tide, and that was the South Gate.

By the time Ye Qing came to the South City Gate, Li Xin and other officers were already in full array, and the soldiers entered their posts one after another and began to check their weapons.

"How is it, how serious is the situation?" Ye Qing asked.

"My lord, the situation is not clear now, but the speed of the beast tide this year is very fast, and the beast tide will reach the city in half an hour at the earliest. "Li Xin is the first commander other than Ye Qing, and he learned the information of the beast tide for the first time.

"Go and prepare to defend the city, and leave me alone. “

"Yes!" all the officers immediately began to check the defense of their area of responsibility.

Ye Qing simply inspected the city wall, Dongjiang Town was originally a small city, although it had been reinforced several times due to the need to defend against the beast tide, and now it was only seven or eight meters high.

The banner hunted and fluttered, and the spear and steel sword glowing with cold light showed a sense of slaughter. The garrison of Dongjiang Town is not elite until now, and there is still a certain gap compared with the border army guarding the border pass, and even before yesterday, most of them have not been on the battlefield, just a group of recruits.

But in today's situation, they show a kind of momentum that only a battle-hardened iron-blooded army can have, and they regard death as home.

Because it's a battle for survival, the city behind them, lives their parents, their children.

Behind these armies, there are thousands of sturdy people busy, who are the inhabitants of the territory who have volunteered to support the army, and who will also help the garrison throw boulders and release cold arrows when the war begins. Don't believe it, most of them are hunters who have been in the mountains all year round, skilled in archery, familiar with the weaknesses of fierce beasts, and better at facing lone beasts than the army.

Ye Qing stood on the city wall, the suit of armor, still the white cloak, in the face of the upcoming life-and-death battle, he said that he was completely unwavering, it was a lie, but his nervousness could not be expressed, he was the supreme commander of the territory, and he was their spiritual pillar, if he was timid before he frightened, then you could still expect other people to work hard.

Ye Qing was thinking about it, some faint black shadows appeared in the sky, the black shadows were only the size of flying insects at first, but after only a few dozen breaths, they covered the sky and the earth, and the beast tide finally officially came!

At the beginning, it was naturally the fastest flying beast, and judging by the number, there were probably hundreds.

"Archer prepare!"

With Li Xin's shout, the archers of the garrison and the hunters who came to help in the battle bent their bows and arrows, ready to shoot arrows.

In fact, archers are not the best means to deal with birds, bows and arrows are too light, and the damage to birds in the air is limited, but Dongjiang Town originally lacked air defense means.

Although Ye Qing has the production method of air defense weapons, he has only taken over the territory for more than three months, and he has not had time to arrange defense means against the air force, and due to technical reasons, many things are not something that Dongjiang Town can build independently now.

When the beast entered the firing range, the herald commanded the flag and thousands of people shot together.

"Whoosh!"

With the sound of the whistling blade breaking through the air, the arrows shot out like a storm, even if the bow and arrow are not strong to the birds in the air, but they can't stand the large number, the fierce beasts in the air have been hit by arrows, and they are seriously injured in many places, and they directly tumble and fall from the air.

At a height of tens of meters, falling down is a death, and there is no need to mend the knife at all.

Hundreds of fierce beasts were killed dozens in an instant, but all the dead were ordinary fierce beasts, and more than a dozen of them were unharmed.

Moreover, after this round of salvos, the group of fierce beasts had already rushed to the front of the city wall, and a dive of several fierce beasts similar to eagles in the front directly hooked up several soldiers and brought a rain of blood.

"Dog,, give me down!"

When the beasts were about to rise into the sky, several hunters with excellent archery skills shot their bows and arrows one after another, directly hitting half of the beast's wings.

They were seasoned hunters who knew how to play to their advantage, and instead of firing their arrows with the first wave of attacks, they waited for them to shoot.

"Huh-"

The beast let out a scream, and its body fell into the guns of the army on the city wall, and was stabbed to death by random shots.

"Well done!"

"Awesome!"

"Brothers, what are you waiting for, kill!"

The soldiers cheered and thundered, and for a while, throwing spears, bows and arrows, and spears, they all greeted the fierce beasts.

The death of several beasts provoked the ferocity of the other beasts and began to attack at close range.

"Pikeman, up. The herald began to give orders.

The archers retreated, and the pikemen filled the gap, a simple change that didn't disrupt the formation due to the usual training in place.

"Onward-stab!"

The sound .......of the spear entering the body continued, and the screams of the fierce beasts gushing with blood continued continuously.

Seeing that most of the fierce beasts died, a fierce beast that was obviously several times larger than the others roared past, directly tearing open a hole in the neat pikemen, killing several pikemen in an instant.

"Rank Fierce Beast !!," several experienced hunters couldn't help but exclaim when they saw this fierce beast.

"Beasts are looking for death!

When the soldier-level fierce beast was about to rise into the sky, Li Xin jumped up, and the spear in his hand quickly stabbed forward, directly cutting off the body of the soldier-level fierce beast and stabbing through it.

With the death of the Parallel Beast, other ordinary Beasts also died on the city wall, and the whole process from the Fierce Beast to the death was only a matter of a moment.