Chapter 1472.

Accompanied by Ye Xiangming, Wang Duan climbed the city wall of Qing’an County. The county minister looked several years older, with a lot of white hair on his head, and a haggard look and tired eyes.

Before the bandits attacked, he had already begun to recruit soldiers to organize the city defense, working day and night to exhaustion.

Although Ye Xiangming’s own martial arts is very high, but after all, the years are not forgiving.

Looking at the boundless camps of roving bandits outside the city, he couldn’t help but sigh, “You should have left.”

Earlier, Ye Xiangming had discussed with Wang Dust, asking the latter to leave Qing’an County with his family and go to the south to escape in the calamity.

However, he was politely refused by Wang Dust.

The natural disaster and drought that had appeared in the Southern Li Country was clearly the effect of the Heaven and Earth Cataclysm in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Even if they ran to other places, could they escape the great calamity?

The answer was obviously no!

Wang Chen shook his head, “Dai’er doesn’t want to go either.”

Ye Xiangming smiled bitterly, “Then we can only stay here and fight for our lives.”

He knew that this son-in-law of his was not an ordinary scholar, and his strength cultivation was likely not weaker than his own.

Woo~

Ye Xiangming’s words had just fallen, when a low horn sound suddenly came from outside the city.

The roving bandit army moved!

Tens of thousands of roving bandits who did not do anything to produce all relied on looting to make a living, and it was impossible for them to besiege the county for a long period of time, so this attack was bound to happen.

Only to see tens of thousands of stragglers carrying simple wooden ladders, black press toward the city wall direction.

Most of them were poorly clothed, and most of the weapons in their hands were wooden spears and bamboo guns, without any siege equipment.

But it is these beggar-like roving bandits, one by one, with scarlet eyes, firm footsteps and ferocious looks!

“Ready, release!”

When the vanguard of the stragglers approached to a hundred paces away from the city wall, the foot archers stationed at the city wall raised their longbows in unison, and in an instant shot out a wave of neat arrows.

A sharp arrow swept through the sky and shot down in the middle of the roving bandits.

Due to the sheer number of roving bandits, almost none of them fell short, and the sharp arrows mercilessly pierced through these people’s thin and weak bodies, nailing them alive to the ground.

Hordes of roving thieves fell to the ground in unison.

Screams and wails rose and fell.

However, the drenching blood and gruesome casualties of their companions did not scare the other roving bandits around them.

Instead, they let out beast-like howls and increased their speed towards the city wall!

Each and every one of them braved the rain of arrows.

Despite the best efforts of the archers on the city wall, their numbers were still too small to stop the thousands of ant bandits.

When a large number of bandits rushed under the city wall and started to set up ladders, along with Ye Xiangming’s order, countless rolling logs came down.

The roving bandits under the city were instantly killed and injured, and many of them were smashed into meat paste!

Some of the rogue thieves suddenly came to their senses, dropping their weapons and running away under the trend of fear.

However, what greeted them were the blades of the rogue army’s supervisors.

The way these bandits were dressed was significantly different from the ordinary bandits, their equipment was much better, and they were extremely ruthless.

So under the drive of the supervisors, another large number of roving bandits rushed below the city wall.

Their purpose was obvious, to use human lives to consume the defenders’ resources – the number of arrows, rolling stones and logs were always limited.

And the human lives of the roving bandits were not worth anything at all, consuming a large number of them would instead save food!

A protracted and grueling war of offense and defense had begun.

Although Wang Dust was not a member of the garrison, but he came to the city wall, there was no reason to stand idly by.

Moreover, Wang Dust had brought a strong bow with him.

This five-stone bow was specially customized by him, choosing the finest materials and costing nearly a hundred taels of silver.

In the past, Wang Chuan used this bow for hunting for fun, but now it was used to protect his family.

What he was aiming at was the elites hidden in the roving bandits.

Huge army of roving bandits are organized, there has never been a lack of reckless python, once there is a time to ride the wind and rise, change the dynasty abounds.

And the leader of the roving bandits must also have a group of loyal and elite men, to help themselves to fight the world.

Although these elites deliberately dressed up as ordinary stragglers and mixed in the crowd to boost their morale, their presence simply could not escape Wang Dust’s eyes.

One shot after another!

Feathered arrow after feathered arrow was shot into the roving bandits, mercilessly taking away one life after another.

Even though the elites of these roving bandits were basically armed and vigilant, as long as they were targeted by Wang Chuan, there was no chance of them being spared.

The most frightening thing was that ordinary archers were considered strong if they could shoot ten or twenty arrows in a row.

But Wang Dust not only shot no arrows, his arms seemed to know no fatigue, shooting a pot for a pot, in a very short period of time, he shot more than thirty of the roving bandits’ elites to death!

Such killing efficiency was too horrifying, and it also created a great shock to the other roving bandits’ elites.

Suddenly, a figure leapt up from the middle of the roving bandits, and in an instant, it stepped on a ladder and rushed up to the three feet high city wall.

A snowy blade slashed at Wang Chen’s throat with lightning speed!

“Watch out!”

Ye Xiangming, who was near Wang Chen, was alarmed by the danger and roared out while pouncing on the sneak attacker.

However, without waiting for the blade light to hit Wang Duan, this expert from the roving bandits flew backwards like a kite with broken strings, and landed heavily in the crowd under the city wall.

His chest was dented with a large hole, and he was already dead!

The strength of this roving bandit expert was actually very strong, but he ran into Wang Duan.

Even if Wang Dust had sealed all of his cultivation, his martial arts strength was still at the Grand Master level.

In fact, even if Qing’an County was overrun by an army of roving bandits, Wang Chuan would have no problem at all trying to break out with his wife and concubines.

This was the important reason why he stayed.

Seeing Wang Duan safe and sound, Ye Xiangming was greatly relieved.

His eyes towards Wang Duan also became complicated.

This was because this county minister realized that he still knew too little and too little about Wang Dust.

Woo! Woo! Woo~

The horn sounded again, traveling from the roving bandits’ camp to inside and outside the city walls.

The roving bandits who were frantically attacking the city were instantly amnestied and turned around to flee in all directions, oblivious to the arrows coming from behind them.

Many of them even trampled on each other in the process of escaping, causing more deaths and injuries.

Seeing such a scene, the soldiers stationed at the city wall let out a cheer.

Although the first attack of the roving bandits had come with great force, it had not caused much casualties to the defenders other than consuming a lot of supplies.

If the enemy was always of this caliber, then Qing’an County Castle was completely defensible!

Everyone naturally felt happy.

However, the heads of Qing An County were not so optimistic, as they knew that this was only the beginning.