Ying Qi led a group of elite soldiers to rampant in Yancheng, and the doors of more than a dozen rich families were kicked open, and chickens and dogs jumped.

By the afternoon, all 26 wealthy gentry on the list had been arrested.

Among these guys, more than seventy percent of them were white and chubby, and some of them looked gentle and elegant, and they all lowered their heads, not daring to collide with Ye Feng's eyes.

"There are so many people who want to put Ben Shuai to death, you are not small!" Ye Feng said coldly.

No one spoke, because no one dared to look up.

Ye Feng said sharply: "What, do you dare to do it? Ben Shuai gave you the opportunity to speak, because he could afford to look at you, don't say yes, then pull it all down and cut it down!"

The soldiers next to him responded, showing their waist knives one after another.

At this time, a gentry with a goatee raised his head and said, "Ye Shuai, why we are doing this, you should know it well! The old man admits that after you took over Yancheng, you have done a lot of things that are beneficial to the people, but it is also because of your appearance that you have brought ruin to the residents of the city, if you don't die, none of us will have a way to live!"

Lu Zishuo pointed at him and scolded: "You are talking nonsense! What are the catastrophes we have brought to you, the human race and the orcs should be incompatible, are you willing to be slaves to them? ”

The old man laughed softly: "What this general said is really impassioned, your fight against the orcs is your business, why do you want to drag the people of the whole city to die together? What's wrong with being a slave, it's better than losing your life! Besides, who dares to guarantee that the orcs will definitely treat us badly, even the emperor chooses to cooperate with them, not to mention us grass people, do we have a choice?"

Speaking of this, he paused, turned his head and continued to look at Ye Feng, and said, "Ye Shuai, we just want to live, is there anything wrong with this?" You are the enemies of the orcs, we don't want to be involved in disputes, but you insist on going your own way, causing the orcs to spread their anger on our heads, shouldn't we kill you for the sake of our lives?"

Ye Feng frowned, in a sense, the old man's words made sense.

Seeing that his father was moved by compassion, Ye Yunyang opened his mouth and said: "The Ghost Face Legion takes it as its mission to defeat the orcs and help the human race, since you are on the side of the orcs, that is, you choose to stand on the opposite side of us, then what are we polite to you? General Lu, pull them all out and behead them to show the public, and whoever dares to have the idea of surrendering in the future will be sentenced to death." ”

Ye Yunyang was very prestigious in the Ghost Face Legion, and Lu Zishuo had no doubt about his order, and said with his fists in his fists: "Obey! Soldiers, according to the order of the young marshal, pull them all out and cut them down." ”

The gentry were all a bunch of cowardly and dreaded fellows, and when they saw that they were about to die, they quickly begged for mercy.

Ye Feng was just about to speak, Ye Yunyang took a step forward and said: "Father, in troubled times, you need to use heavy codes! These people must be killed, not only will they not be grateful for mercy, but more people will follow suit, and at that time, there will be internal and external troubles, how can Yancheng be guarded?"

Ying Qi echoed: "Yun Yang is right, we can't let them do anything wrong, and it will be the soldiers and the innocent people in the city who will suffer when the time comes!"

Ye Feng took a deep breath: "Your point of view is not unreasonable, then let's make the canonical punishment." ”

A few minutes later, twenty-six heads rose into the sky, and Lu Zishuo loudly declared to the onlookers that any rebellion during the war would be punished with a third-degree increase and no forgiveness.

The situation in the city has stabilized, and everyone with bad intentions is at risk.

On the morning of the third day, the southern city wall sounded with a rapid trumpet.

"The enemy is about to attack the city!" Ying Qi put down his rice bowl, got up from his chair and ran out.

Ye Feng, Ying Luoyue, and Ye Yunyang also stood up and walked outside.

The atmosphere on the southern city wall was tense, many soldiers were pale, and five miles ahead, orcs and demon beasts were gathering and forming a long line.

Ye Yunyang said: "The morale of the army and the people in the city is stable, and their discord plan has failed, so they will attack the city immediately." ”

Ye Feng nodded: "It should be like this! 10,000 demon beasts plus more than 3,000 orcs, the southern city wall will suffer a lot of attack pressure, because I don't know if they will suddenly change the direction of attack, they can't transfer troops from the other three city walls to reinforce, the orcs are very ghostly." ”

Orcs and monsters have a strong ability to move, and if the defenses of a certain wall are diverted, they may immediately change direction and attack the weak points of the guards.

Boom!

Knock knock!

The dull sound of drums came as minotaurs beating war drums, swinging their heavy drumsticks and smashing them against the surface of the drums made of animal skins.

"So fast?" Ying Qi was a little unacceptable, according to the usual practice, the besieging side had to confront the defender for a while, and carried out a series of activities such as persuasion to surrender.

Confrontation can cause strong psychological pressure on the defenders of the city, and it is a very effective method.

However, it was clear that the orcs were not prepared to do this, and they were already a little impatient, eager to rush over in a matter of minutes.

Ye Feng ordered loudly: "All soldiers obey the order and resist the enemy!"

The archers removed their longbows, the bed crossbowmen quickly loaded their boxes, and all the equipment for defending the city was ready.

At this time, a minotaur walked to the front of the formation with a huge bullhorn and sounded the horn.

Woo......

As the trumpet sounded, the orcs were the first to roar, and they raised their weapons and shields, and then the demon beasts, and the roar rose higher and higher.

When the minotaur blew his horn for the third time, the monster rushed forward first, followed by the orc.

Then there are the elephant men pushing the siege engines and walking in the middle of the procession.

The soldiers defending the city were all nervous, and Ye Yunyang said: "Obviously, this is the enemy's tentative move, the purpose is to consume our city defense materials, General Lu, you go to appease the soldiers, be sure to wait for the enemy to enter the firing range before attacking." ”

Among the various urban defense equipment, the longest-range is the Lian-Bed Crossbow, which reaches three miles, but after more than two miles, the accuracy will be much lower, and the best range is between 500 and 900 meters.

Then there are the large catapults with a range of 800 meters, the medium catapults with a range of 500 meters, and finally the strong crossbows and bows and arrows, with effective ranges of 400 meters and 260 meters respectively.

The orcs deliberately made the appearance of a large soldier pressing the realm, on the one hand, to increase the pressure on the defenders, and on the other hand, to induce the defenders to launch in advance to achieve the purpose of consuming arrows, stone bullets and other objects.

Lu Zishuo ordered loudly, asking everyone to calm down and not fall for the enemy.

Sure enough, when the demon beast rushed to a distance of three miles from the city wall, it stopped, and the orcs also stopped, and they all looked back to see the siege engine that was still slowly moving.

Ying Qi turned back and waved the flag at the large catapult position, informing them of the direction of the attack.

Each large catapult is operated by twelve people, four for loading, four for the winch, two for direction control, one for firing, and the last person for command.

Thirty-two stone throwers turned direction at the same time, four people turned the winch, and the other four people carried the stone projectiles to the projectile position, ready to load at any time.

Ying Qi held the binoculars in his hand and said while observing: "Steady, there are still three hundred meters left...... Steady, two hundred meters...... One hundred meters, each stone thrower turned three degrees to the right and began to reload!"

The person in charge of direction control turns as required, then quickly reloads, and the person in charge of firing raises the mallet and aims it at the firing button.

"Launch!" Ying Qi gave the order, and thirty-two mallets fell at the same time.

Boom!

Squeak!

Boom!

Squeak!

The projectile arm moves in a circular motion and throws a 400-pound stone projectile.

Stone projectiles cut graceful parabolas in the air and smashed into moving siege vehicles.

Thirty-two stone bullets completely covered a radius of several tens of meters.

Boom......

The first stone bullet landed on the ground and bounced off two elephant men, their bodies torn apart, their severed arms flying in the air, and two other wooden poles shattered.

Bang bang bang!

More stone bullets were smashed down, a total of six directly hit the siege vehicle, and more than a dozen indirect hits, dozens of elephant men were killed and wounded, and the siege vehicle was almost destroyed, and the shield in front could not block the powerful force of the stone bullets at all, and one-third of the wheels were smashed.

The tigermen at the head roared, and the minotaurs ran towards the siege engine, helping the elephant men to push together.

With the addition of the Minotaurs, the speed of the siege vehicle has increased a lot.

On the city wall, Ying Qi ordered in a hurried tone: "The shooting angle remains the same, the elevation angle is increased by six degrees, the firing range is reduced by one hundred and twenty meters, and it is fired!"

This time it was obviously not as neat as the last time, and the stone bullets flew out one after another.

But the lethality was still strong, more than a dozen minotaurs were killed, and the siege vehicle was completely paralyzed.

The siege vehicle was destroyed, and the tiger man let out a second roar, and tens of thousands of demon beasts responded, and at the same time rushed forward, aiming directly at the city wall.

Ying Qi ordered again: "Between thirty and sixty degrees, between four hundred and eight hundred meters, each stone thrower is free to fire, the faster the better." ”

Ye Feng then ordered: "Launch the bed crossbow array, focus on attacking the demon beasts and orcs who can jump up the city wall, and the crossbowmen prepare, the goal is the same!"

First the ballista guns were fired, and then ten thousand arrows were fired.

More than a dozen medium-sized wings appeared in the sky, constantly throwing incendiary bombs downward, focusing on the area two hundred meters away from the city wall, so as to exert the maximum lethality of the incendiary bombs, which the enemy must cross if they want to attack the city wall.

Behind Ye Feng, a fanatical gaze appeared in Old Pu's eyes, and he proposed, "Young Marshal, are you interested in going down with the old man to kill the enemy?"

Ye Yunyang smiled and said, "I can't ask for it." ”

The two of them flew down to the city at the same time, and Ye Feng shook his head helplessly.

There is no way, this old man and young man are the strongest people in the defenders, even if they are besieged, they can retreat with their whole body, and they will play a greater role in killing the enemy than staying in the city.

Pu Lao was like entering a no-man's land, and instantly tore a hole in the enemy's formation.

Ye Yunyang was even more ruthless, he took the seven gods to form a small sagittal formation, tore a bigger hole in the enemy formation, and in just a few minutes, the enemy formation was divided into two sections.

But with no follow-up personnel to continue the division, the enemy was soon reunited.

On the battlefield, arrows are like flying locusts, and wherever the stone bullets thrown by the two kinds of stone throwers pass, a straight line of no man's land will be created, and the battle situation will become more and more intense.

The baggage soldiers who carried the arrows were the busiest, placing bundles of feathered arrows behind the crossbowmen, piling them up more than a meter high, but before they were used up in a few moments, and then continued to pile them up.

Several tiger men managed to jump onto the city wall, but before they could gain a foothold, they were all culled by the group of experts who were waiting for them.

A team of toothed beasts came to the city wall, and was just about to start digging holes, when they were hit by dozens of incendiary bombs falling from the sky, and immediately the flames soared into the sky, completely engulfing them.

Ye Feng's face showed joy, until now, the initiative in the war was firmly in his own hands, and the enemy had not been able to take advantage.

Whining!

The minotaurs blew their horns, and the orcs began to change formations.

"What's the situation?" Ye Feng became nervous.