March 27 of the 5th year of the Magic Calendar. Flower Language Plain South Xinjiang, Bancheng Town.

In the boundless prairie of southern Xinjiang, Bancheng is a typical human settlement. The town has two horizontal and one vertical three avenues, the longitudinal avenue is connected to the auxiliary road of the mainland highway through a small dirt road, nearly 200 houses are neatly built on both sides of the avenue, and the houses are surrounded by residents' gardens, which are full of flowers. On the periphery of the town, there is a circle of three-meter-high short walls, which are usually used to prevent the attacks of small dragons, wild wolves and other wild beasts, in case of encountering the steppe horse thieves, behind the low wall is a 2-meter-high female wall, standing on it can effectively kill and injure the enemy. The average gang of thieves would not dare to fight the idea of such a small town.

Quietly, not only a very poetic word, but also the name of a D-class mercenary group. In the southern Xinjiang of the Holy See, the mercenary group of about 400 people already has considerable strength. Bancheng Town is the headquarters of the Quiet Mercenary Group, although the town is not large, the population is also nearly 1000 people, although there are some scattered mercenaries who come here to pick up work, but the local customers will generally designate a large list to Quietly, and it is not enough to feed the high-level mercenary group of 400 people, which is more than enough for the D-class mercenary group that is still crawling in the middle level like Quietly.

According to the garrison agreement between Quietly and the Holy See, 200 permanent troops must be retained in the town.

In fact, the Silent Mercenary Group has always done this. This is not to say that the mercenary captain cares about his credibility, but the point is that in such a small town, most of the inhabitants depend on grazing and handicrafts for their livelihood, and these two main means of livelihood do not require young strong laborers to do, and certainly cannot tie the hearts of 17 or 8-year-old boys. Rather than making trouble in idleness, it is better to ask the quiet mercenary group to control their hearts, and there is basically no danger in the local village - this is probably the mind of all the residents, including the mayor. Therefore, among the more than 400 people who quietly merceit, about 150 are children of local residents.

The inhabitants of the grassland generally have excellent eyesight, although not as good as the elves, but much stronger than the humans in other places.

The mercenaries standing on the arrow tower on the low wall of the town saw a large cloud of dust suddenly kicked up in the distance, and the faces of several people changed, unless it was a herd of horses, it was impossible for such an effect to occur, and in this season of winter, the herdsmen's horses of the town were raising winter fat on the edge of the berth in the distance......

The three arrow towers to the west sounded the alarm at the same time, and the town was in chaos. When the two deputy commanders of the quietly headquarters quickly rushed to the west wall with more than 100 mercenaries, the flying dust in the distant sky had already stained half of the sky......

In order to ensure the suddenness of the bloody night in the imperial capital, the news of the hostility between the two countries had just been notified to the big city at this time - His Majesty the Pope ignored the speed of His Excellency Chi Aotian. A small town like Bancheng has not received any news at all. The two deputy commanders thought it was a large-scale horse thief infestation, and the faces of the two people were already extremely difficult to see, how could more than 200 mercenaries compete with thousands of horse thieves?

There was a sudden sound of the air being torn in the sky, and the mercenaries only found out at this time that hundreds of oversized vultures were flying in the air, and on the back of the vulture sat a white knight, and below the vulture, there were four phantom beast knights, the largest phantom beast - the earth dragon descended violently, and the phantom beast knight wearing a large black plate armor slowly pulled down the mask - it turned out to be a pitch-black skeleton mask, and a crisp shout came from behind the mask: " Chi Aotian, the deputy head of the small mercenary regiment of the Tongyun Guan family, drove the Black Dragon Knights to expedition to the Holy See here, the town ahead, and surrender within 20 minutes, otherwise there will be no forgiveness!"

Of course, the two middle-aged deputy heads had heard of this name that resounded all over the world, the deputy leaders of the five A-level mercenary groups, such a name was absolutely shocking to say in the mercenary world. But...... The relationship between the empire and the Holy See has always been quite harmonious, how did the war get here?

"Your Excellency, the Holy See has lived in harmony with your country for hundreds of years, why is it ......" The middle-aged mercenary wanted to continue asking, but unfortunately, the four phantom beast knights in front of him did not have any desire to listen to it at all, and led the black overpressed vulture knights to quickly return to the distant array.

The look on the faces of the two deputy regiment commanders was more ugly than crying, the regiment commander went out on a mission, and thought that he could have a good rest at home, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thing. Knights of the Black Dragon...... This name can even be preceded by words similar to the number one combat force in the southern frontier of the Eminole Continent. Little Mercenary Group...... Although it has only risen for less than a few years, its prestige has far surpassed the other four A-level mercenary groups, known as the closest S-level mercenary group, and it is not at the same level as Quietly, to be honest, even if you quietly want to merge into a small mercenary group, it is estimated that people will have to pick out all the mercenaries who are not good-looking and old. This is not an exaggeration, it is rumored that in the process of recruiting new recruits in the recent small mercenary group, several children of big noble families luckily became members of the mercenary group, and the original words of the head of the noble family were: "Even if the Redstone Emperor chooses a son-in-law, it is nothing more than that." ”

Cough...... Where did you go......

The two deputy commanders had just returned, and the 5,000 knight troops had already formed a formation outside Bancheng Town.

The masked knight landed with hundreds of his men roaring, and the huge body of the earth-walking dragon trampled the tender green grass to shreds, and the red soil scattered everywhere in the air.

"I'll count to five! Come out and surrender!" the Earth Dragon Knight raised his right hand, and five white fingers appeared in the air.

“5！”

"Your Excellency, can you tell us why?" the deputy head of the regiment blushed!

“4！”

"You have to be reasonable!" the middle-aged mercenary cried in his throat!

“3！”

For the Black Dragon Knights, in fact, there is no difference between saying and not saying, according to the general land defense treaty signed between the mercenary group and the empires, no matter what the reason, it must be defended for ten days. As a garrison mercenary group, no matter what banner the enemy on the opposite side is under and for what reason, surrender means betrayal, not only betrayal of the treaty country, but also betrayal of the mercenary's responsibility! Therefore, under the pressure of the soldiers, there are only two choices, either surrender or resist, without asking for any reason.

In fact, the officers of the Black Dragon Knights did not expect the other party to surrender. The 5,000 army swept across the grassland, only the number of war horses and earth dragons has exceeded 10,000, and the war horse has 20 catties of forage a day, which is just forage, if you just eat grass, the war horse has no endurance to carry the knight to gallop long distances, one day, a war horse has at least 3 catties of black beans. What about the earthly dragons? What about the vultures? These are all meat-eating things, and they are almost eaten by them, not to mention that hungry dragons and vultures will eat people in a war. In the steppe elf kingdom, some grain has been replenished, and it seems that the bottom is about to be seen in the past few days...... Everyone didn't expect that the plain of flowers, which is known as the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, is actually hundreds of miles away from the place where birds. The town in front of me has long been used as a natural forage field by the officers. It's good to surrender, but it's not a bad thing not to surrender!

“2！”

“1！”

As the Skull Masked Knight whispered the number out of his throat, the two vice-captains behind him almost shouted the same word: "Shoot-"

The Earthwalker Dragon Knights violently picked up the powerful crossbows that were mounted on the drake.

A row of mercenaries standing on the female wall saw the crossbow, and their souls flew!

The standard configuration of the strong crossbow in the army, about 1.5 meters long, the inside of the crossbow arm is the hardest tree species - ironwood, the outside is wrapped with an iron tire, ironwood is used to restore the flexibility of the crossbow body and then borrow the iron tire, generally 200 forces, no one can directly pull the bowstring of the strong crossbow with his hand, the crossbow arrow is 1.6 meters long, the iron blade part is 40 cm long, and the thinnest part of the arrow shaft is 3 cm. Not to mention this kind of thing is used to shoot people, even the dragon has to take a detour. Grandma, haven't the Black Dragon Knights always claimed to be real knights, how the fuck did they use this kind of thing that only appears when dealing with earth-walking dragons or lions!

The quiet mercenaries didn't reflect at all, and when a lot of things were still floating in their minds, black shadows instantly swallowed up a hundred meters of space, a distance of 100 meters, for a strong crossbow, it didn't even need a second, the mercenaries on the female wall didn't even see the shadow of the crossbow arrow breaking through the air, they felt that the abdomen was hammered hard, and the whole body flew diagonally to the sky, until the moment it landed, I heard the popping bowstring sound when the raindrops fell into the gray ground.

There is no suspense about the result of the 5 cm thick crossbow arrow penetrating the human body, all the internal organs are squeezed into a ball in an instant, after the crossbow arrow enters the body, the arrow shaft immediately rotates rapidly, and the tail made of giant eagle flying feathers at the back end of the crossbow arrow rotates and beats all the organs in the human body into meat filling, and the mercenaries who were lifted to the ground were deprived of the right to make the last sound.

Not all of them became unfortunate, the first deputy commander of the quiet was fortunate that he was not shot in the torso, seeing that the Earth Dragon Knight did not pay attention to the casualties at all, he took off another crossbow arrow from his back, pulled the joystick and pushed the arrow into the groove, and immediately prepared to send out a new round of shooting!

"You! executioner!" The middle-aged mercenary's tears poured out, and more than half of the nearly 100 mercenaries around him disappeared in an instant, and the enemy did not give any reason at all! It was only at this time that the middle-aged mercenary felt a burst of pain in his left arm, and when he looked down, he found that a rapidly passing crossbow arrow shot his forearm completely, and the blood in the arteries spurted outward - this was already the last moment of the middle-aged mercenary's consciousness, and more than a dozen crossbow arrows tore the middle-aged mercenary's strong body at the same moment!

After two rounds of powerful crossbow fire, there was not a single living human on the low wall, and the low wall made of adobe was also shot about a meter short by the powerful crossbow arrows.

The vulture knights in the distant sky followed, and the rain of arrows pierced through all the arrow towers in the west, and the mercenaries in charge of the lookout were shot into hedgehogs and nailed to the planks.

It's not that the Black Dragon Knights are hot, mercenaries and soldiers are two completely different groups, soldiers are like sharp weapons, once they are unsheathed, they must bleed five steps, and quietly the deputy head of the mercenary group is still using an attitude towards mercenaries and thieves in the face of soldiers, hoping to delay negotiations, and this approach is already doomed.

More than 200 wild vultures swayed down with a dash of starlight, and all the inhabitants of the town were frightened by the corpses that had fallen in front of them, and all but a few children and the elderly let out low cries, and all of them hid behind the buildings. After the Vulture Knight confirmed that there was no threat, five or six knights leapt from the vulture's back, pulled the iron latch, and the steel plate of the Earth Dragon Knight rumbled in, the powerful crossbow in his hand that emitted a death rage and pointed it at any place where an enemy might appear.

Several light knights galloped in along the gate, and the middle-aged knight on horseback circled in the small square, and the deep voice almost enveloped the entire town: "Everyone listen, immediately come out of the house, put your hands on your head, quickly!

The middle-aged knight and several guards led their mounts along the main street of the town and shouted orders, and the black horses trampled on the stone pavement.

In the face of death, no one can suppress the instinctive fear in the hearts of human beings, not to mention just ordinary residents, trembling, one by one residents walked out of their homes, a considerable number of people were weak under their feet, and barely walked out with their hands on the wall.

"Quick, quick, quick!" ordered the light knight on horseback, impatiently!

More and more residents walked out of their homes, and it was only then that they realized that at some point, the sky full of vulture knights had landed on the roof of the house, and the horned bows were drawn full, blocking all the roads. Some brave people looked into the distance out of the corner of their eyes, and the sky around the town was still soaring with countless wild vultures, and there were countless knights on them.

"Who's Mayor Mare?" the skull-masked knight in the center swept his sharp gaze over the crowd.

The old man in his 50s walked out of the crowd tremblingly, not daring to raise his head at all, the thick lower limbs and sharp claws of the earth dragon pierced the old man's eyes from below, and he could even feel the thick fishy breath spewing from the mouth of the dragon beast, and the old man himself couldn't hear his own voice: "Yes...... I ......"

A piece of black paper fell at the old man's feet.

With trembling hands, he picked up the paper from the ground and read it tremblingly, the old man's wrinkled face was more ugly than crying. Truly, when a man sits at home, woe comes from heaven!

There were only a few words on the paper: "The Holy See has vilely attacked the capital of the Amy Empire, and the two countries have officially started a war! Surrender to avoid death, resist the slaughter of the city!"

"How many households are there in this town?" the knight ignored the mayor's expression.

"My lord, there are 240 households in total. Seeing the words slaughtering the city, the mayor's face turned pale.

"In the small town, 200 strong laborers between the ages of 18 and 35 were sent to accompany the army, each with two horses! For each household, 500 catties of grain or equivalent jerky are produced, and 500 catties of soybean feed are produced. The knight in the skull mask thought for a moment, pulled out a horned bow and arrow feather and a strong crossbow arrow from the two knights behind him, and threw it in front of the mayor's eyes: "We will leave in three days, and when the time comes, each household will pay 100 horned bows and arrows, and the whole town will pay 1,000 strong crossbows." No one is allowed to leave the town, otherwise, the neighbors will be killed together! Those who fail to complete the task, or those who deal with the problem in a shoddy manner, will kill the whole family!"

"My lord!" the old mayor burst into tears, "we can provide food, but there is so much iron in the town that can be used for bows and arrows." "This is the truth, on the grassland, the most lacking is iron, a high-quality standard saber can even be exchanged for a big girl and a well-trained shepherd dog to the local residents, the horn bow and arrow need at least half a tael of iron, and the iron required for each strong crossbow arrow even reaches a catty.

"Are you sure you can't do it?"

"My lord, this is too difficult, we-" The mayor's cry instantly turned into a dying scream, and a powerful crossbow bolt the thickness of an arm nailed the old man to the ground, and several people behind the mayor stayed for a moment, crying loudly!

"You!, as the temporary mayor, can you complete the mission!" the black knight's whip pointed at the other old man.

The old man was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, and the yellow liquid skewered out against his pants, soaking the bluestone pavement wet, and the old man replied subconsciously with a crying voice: "Yes!

"Okay! Not today, three days later at 7 a.m., all the belongings are gathered here. The knight's cold voice was like ten thousand years of ice, without any fluctuations.

With that, the knights of the brigade roared away along the town's avenue, and the warriors on the eaves stepped on the vultures and rose into the sky.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a corpse lying on the ground, the town would be almost the same as usual...... At this time, all the residents were convinced that if the equipment assigned by the other party could not be handed over on time after three days, the town would be completely reduced to history.