Chapter 1473.
“Kill!” Hisses, screams, the clashing of weapons, and the tearing sound of blades slicing through flesh and blood stirred back and forth on the walls of Qing’an County, stimulating everyone’s ears.
Whether it was the roving bandits who rushed up the walls or the soldiers guarding the walls, all of them were caught in a frenzy of killing.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Accompanied by a series of muffled sounds, several roving bandits flew out like kites with broken strings, blood spurting wildly from their mouths.
The one who sent them flying was none other than Ye Xiangming, the county minister was holding a Hyper Dragon Mace as thick as a child’s arm, his body was covered in blood, and he had long been unable to distinguish whether it was the enemy’s or his own.
Suddenly a robust figure noiselessly scurried to the back of Ye Xiangming, holding a dagger in his hand lightning stabbed at his back waist vitals.
At this moment Ye Xiangming should be a long time of fierce battle, physical strength and internal energy are seriously depleted, reaction inevitably become slow, surprised to realize the danger is too late to dodge.
Swoosh!
In the nick of time, a feather arrow broke through the air and hit the sneak attacker right in the right eye.
It penetrated his head!
Ye Xiangming, who had escaped death, turned around and nodded at Wang Chen, who had saved him.
He didn’t express his gratitude or anything either, as he was already numb.
The siege of Qing’an County City by the roving bandit army had lasted for five whole days, with wave after wave of roving bandits pounding the city walls over and over again as if it was never-ending.
Nowadays, under the city wall, a large number of corpses were densely piled up.
Because of the corruption caused by the high temperature and the large amount of gold juice dumped by the defenders, the odor was extremely unpleasant.
Many of the stray thieves rushed over against the scorching sun, and when they were hit by the smell, they vomited bile on the spot!
The corpses of the roving thieves actually consolidated the defense of Qing’an County, which was a hell of a joke.
However, even though Qing’an County remained solid, the defenders also paid a rather heavy price, with nearly 2,000 casualties.
The siege strategy adopted by the roving bandit army is actually very simple, using cannon fodder to consume the defending city’s materials, such as arrows and vectors, logs, logs, and gold juice in the early stage.
Then they kept driving the cannon fodder to consume the physical strength and endurance of the soldiers defending the city.
When the time is ripe, they will deploy their elite forces to carry out a strong attack, and establish a victory in one fell swoop.
Relying on this set of tactics, the roving bandit army had already captured three county towns, which could be said to be very effective.
A few days down, Qing’an county city’s defense force was weakened quite a lot, defending the city supplies are plummeting, and the city is on edge, there are signs of instability.
However, county magistrate Yu Heqian was responsible for recruiting supplies and personnel in the city while stabilizing the situation, while county minister Ye Xiangming defended the city walls and led the garrison to repel the endless stream of bandits.
The roving bandit army has returned in defeat many times over the past few days, and the two sides have actually formed a stalemate.
Woo~
The horn sounded, and the roving bandits who had failed once again retreated in haste.
Surprisingly, the bandits didn’t send any more troops to continue to attack the city defense, and even the camp retreated a mile back, which seems to be a sign of laying down the flag.
But Ye Xiangming did not take it lightly, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to organize personnel to repair the city defense, treatment of the wounded transfer of supplies, ready to continue to fight with the flow of bandits.
As a result, when it came down, a roving bandit with a white flag came out from the camp and walked all the way to the bottom of the city wall.
Ye Xiangming signaled the infantry archers not to shoot, to see what the other side’s gourd was selling!
Only to hear this roving bandit shout loudly, “My king has a letter for Magistrate Yu!”
He shouted three times in a row, his voice extremely loud spreading in all directions, so that everyone inside and outside the city walls could hear clearly.
Ye Xiangming slightly pondered and signaled a soldier to put down the bamboo basket, allowing the other party to place the letter in the basket.
After this letter was hoisted up, Ye Xiangming held it in his hand but did not open it, and ordered in a deep voice: “Quickly invite the county magistrate to come over to discuss important matters!”
He guessed that it was the roving bandit army that wanted to negotiate peace with his side because they couldn’t gnaw on the bones of Qing An County.
This is a big matter, and Ye Xiangming did not dare to exceed his authority.
Yu Heqian after receiving the news hurriedly rushed to, and from the hands of Ye Xiangming received the letter open in public.
The magistrate after reading the content of the letter, could not help but sneer, and then handed back to Ye Xiangming read.
Ye Xiangming was speechless and gave it to Wang Duan.
Because the content of this letter was related to Wang Duan!
This army of roving bandits named themselves “Pingtian army”, its leader is “Pingtian king” Li Zili, in his letter to Yu Heqian put forward a peace condition.
In his letter, he proposed a condition to Yu Heqian to negotiate peace, that is, as long as Qing’an County sends the head of Wang Duan, then the Pingtian Army will immediately withdraw from Qing’an County, and guarantees that there will be no more raids in the future.
Wang Duan’s head was the condition for retreat!
Yu Heqian laughed coldly: “This kind of clumsy trick of killing with a borrowed knife, only a three year old child would fall for it, this Pingtian bandits really treat this official as a fool!”
Five days of fierce battle, the roving bandit army failed to take down the city wall, in addition to the desperate resistance of the guard soldiers, Wang Duan played an important role in it, his credit is obvious to all.
With a strong bow, Wang Chuan killed hundreds of roving bandits’ elites, and he specialized in dealing with the leaders and masters in those roving bandits, and the results of the battle were outstanding.
As long as Wang Chuan and Ye Xiangming stood on the city wall, no matter how many bandits rushed up, they would all be beaten down!
That “Ping Tian Wang” Li Zili obviously hates Wang Duan, so he made this kind of stratagem to sow discord.
Yu Heqian said to Wang Dust: “Mr. Wang, you can rest assured that the bandits will not succeed, as long as the hold Qing An County, then you are the first credit!”
This county magistrate used honorifics to Wang Duan.
Wang Dust smiled and nodded.
And without saying a word, Ye Xiangming snatched a longbow from the bowman next to him, strung an arrow and aimed it at the stray thief waiting at the bottom of the city, and loosened the bowstring without hesitation.
“Ah!”
A miserable scream suddenly rang out.
The roving bandit covered his ears and held his head – his left ear had been shot through by Ye Xiangming!
This was the best and most direct response.
As a result, the next morning, the enraged roving bandit army launched an unprecedented attack, many sections of the city wall were frequently in emergency, relying on Ye Xiangming and Wang Duan to come to the rescue, only to withstand the enemy’s offensive.
On this day, the casualties on the side of Qing’an County exceeded one thousand!
However, the Pingtian Army, which suffered even heavier losses, did not show the slightest sign of retreating, instead, they pushed their camp forward by two miles, and took the stance that they would break the city at any cost.
The most troublesome thing is that the defending army’s supplies are basically at the bottom, especially the arrows, even if the craftsmen in the government workshops work overtime, they can’t catch up with the rate of depletion.
The population of the county is only in the tens of thousands, and the casualties have already exceeded 3,000, and all of them are soldiers and strong men.
Although it did not reach the point of onyx in every house, the atmosphere in the city became increasingly depressing.
People’s hearts were more on edge!