"It's more likely to be tomorrow morning …"
"Brother Salin, aren't you worried about the people behind these bandits?"
"What's there to worry about? In ten days, Rex's cavalry will arrive. In a month at most, this city will become a part of the Bitter Water Prefecture," Salin answered very naturally. Salin answered very naturally. He was really not afraid. He had even seen someone like Faka. It would be difficult for anyone in this plane to scare him.
If the people behind these bandits were really too powerful to fight against, they could directly go to Metatlin City like Faka and negotiate with Salin or Rex. They would either obey or kill them.
The forces behind the bandits were clearly not that powerful now. They still had to use such underhanded methods to take advantage of the emptiness in the north of Phoenix to eat away at the land here.
The people in Star Sider City still didn't know that the reinforcements outside had no intention of saving them. For three consecutive days, the bandits attacked the city crazily. It didn't need to be like this, but Salin disappeared after stabbing the bandits in the back. This made the bandits panic, so they could only take down Star Sider City as soon as possible.
Moreover, the bandits had too little supplies. They could only last for a week at most. They would only have food after entering the city. There was a huge granary in Star Sider City. It had been built by the Phoenix Grand Duke's Magicians. The food in the granary could feed the people in the city for decades without starving.
The bandits didn't dare to not fight. There were very few people restraining Martian City. In two to three days at most, Martian City could send troops to rescue them.
Without the catapults, the bandits could only build ladders and attack by force.
The bandits weren't good at fighting like this, but there were only about a hundred regular soldiers in Star Sider City. Including the trained peasant soldiers, there were only about a thousand. If they wanted a chance to rest, these thousand people could only guard one side of the city wall at most. The remaining gaps would be filled by the young men in the city.
The buildings in the north of Phoenix were basically all made of stone. The guards in the city tore down half of the houses and moved the stones to the top of the city walls to use as defensive weapons. There were enough other weapons in the city, but there were too few arrows. The bandits attacked the city fiercely, but they didn't use bows and arrows to suppress the top of the city walls.
There was no way to replenish the arrows in Siding Star City. They were all shot out on the first day.
The Magicians among the bandits did not take action. Phoenix was still an affiliated duchy of Qin Yin in name. If the Magicians were to participate in the attack, the Alchemy City Magicians would destroy them.
Under normal circumstances, without siege weapons, it would be very difficult to break through a fortress like the Lateral Star City, which had walls that were around 15 meters tall, even if the people in the city weren't elite troops.
However, there were too few guards in the city. More than ten thousand bandits were divided into four groups and repeatedly attacked day and night. The defenders found it hard to rest. On the third day, over a hundred Thieves climbed the city walls. Even though they were quickly taken down, it was clear that Sidestar City wouldn't be able to hold out much longer.
The defenders were exhausted to the extreme. For three days and three nights, no one could rest. The bandits surrounded three sides of the city wall and didn't attack the southern gate. However, the people in the city knew that there were more than a thousand bandits outside the city. If they ran out of the city, they would be quickly caught, and they would die even faster than staying in the city.
When Salin's team arrived outside Sidestar City, it just so happened that the bandits broke through the northern wall and opened the gate from inside. The bandits, who were still pretending to attack on the east and west sides, immediately rushed to the northern gate. The defenders collapsed, and the bandits swarmed in.
With Ainphent's fifty riders as the core, the guards and servants of the merchant group followed behind the bandits and rushed into Sidestar City.
The bandits were organized but undisciplined. No one realized that this team of nearly a thousand people wasn't their own allies. Baroness Guya and Ainphent transported not only the goods on the carts, but also the magic cores that were transported in spatial equipment. Only the guards had reached this scale. Most merchant groups had about a hundred guards, which was just enough to fight against the bandits.
Before arriving at Sidestar City, Salin had already reorganized the team. According to the military structure, the servants were the support soldiers to help the bodyguards fight. The bodyguards all wore metal full-body light armor, while the servants wore high-quality leather armor. They looked a bit like bandits.
Side Star City was a square, with a length of one and a half miles from north to south. Once the north gate was broken, the viscount of Side Star City couldn't care less about the dignity of a noble anymore. He took more than twenty bodyguards and more than thirty servants and rode out of the south gate.
There were only so many warhorses in Sidestar City. The people in the city didn't know that they were escaping, and the battle continued.
It was evening when the city was broken. The setting sun was like blood, and the wind was biting cold. The bandits didn't have horns or war drums. They communicated with each other through a metal whistle. The sounds of fighting were low, and the sharp sound of the whistle tore through the air and traveled far. When Salin and the others arrived, half of the bandits had already entered Sidestar City.
The sound of swords hacking on armor was incomparably ear-piercing. The bandits' crossbows began to show their power. In urban warfare, the crossbows, which had a killing range of more than ten meters, suppressed the stubborn defenders in the city with the advantage of their firing speed. The layout of Sidestar City was like most Qinin cities. The streets were wide, and the bandits' advantage in numbers was immediately apparent.
Usually, three to five bandits would surround a peasant soldier and kill him. The poor peasant soldier had less than two months of training in a year. Although he wore metal armor, it wasn't even as good as the leather armor he wore during training. Leather armor was at least light and flexible. The armor issued by the city lord could only be worn by beginner swordsmen.
Because they weren't used to the weight of the armor and the angle of the joints, the peasant soldier's movements were a bit unbalanced. When the swords hacked at them, the only way to deal with it was to use the armor and try to kill an enemy with the spear in their hand.
No matter how good the armor was, it couldn't withstand the bandits' crazy hacking. Often, the peasant soldier's weapon would be broken first, and then the bandits' long swords would tear the armor apart at the joints.
The more courageous bandits would use their triangular swords to break the armor. Most of the time, two bandits would hold down a peasant soldier while the third would stab his short sword into the peasant soldier's throat.
Occasionally, there would be bandits who charged too fast and were surrounded by the peasant soldiers, resulting in their own deaths.
When Su entered the city, the scene he saw was incomparably bitter. The thieves had already sealed off the south gate from another direction. After letting the viscount go, the city was already in chaos. The peasant soldiers without anyone to command them were like dogs without claws and teeth. These bandits didn't want prisoners. Regardless of whether the peasant soldiers put down their weapons or surrendered, the bandits would shoot from afar with crossbows and then rush up to kill them.
The peasant soldiers without armor were directly shot to death by the crossbows. The remaining peasant soldiers were weak and would be dismembered by the bandits in the blink of an eye.
Su was born in a noble family and valued the peasants very much. The bandits' wanton killing had angered him, a silver sword saint. However, Salin had asked him to keep an eye on the Magician. At this moment, the Magician hadn't appeared. Su didn't know where he was hiding, so he didn't dare to put out the fire.
Trish had already changed into a full-body armor. His armor was reforged by Salin, but it still looked ferocious and terrifying. There were sharp spikes on the black and gray armor. These spikes were also weapons. Even if Trish were to crash into them, he would still create a few holes in his enemies.
Demons were good at guessing people's minds. Seeing Su's angry expression, Trish knew that it was time to win people's hearts for Salin.
"Su, keep an eye on the Magician. Give me twenty people. I'll go kill those idiots for you." Trish urged his horse to Su's side. Su nodded and gave Trish twenty cavalrymen with his fingers.
Trish didn't use his long whip. Instead, he carried a huge zhanmadao and rushed towards the place where the bandits were most concentrated. The twenty cavalrymen behind him were holding scimitars that Salin had specially given to them. These scimitars were replicas of the scimitars seized from the inquisitors. Every one of them was a magic equipment that could break through heavy armor.
Trish himself was riding a skeleton warhorse covered in heavy armor. The huge zhanmadao probably weighed more than a hundred kilograms. With a swing of the three-meter-long sword and the momentum of the skeleton warhorse, Trish directly killed a bloody path on the street. The twenty cavalrymen behind him only needed to keep an eye on the sides for Trish.
Trish was so excited that he released a mental shock. His mental shock was not as powerful as Dorothy's, but the enemies were just ordinary bandits. Most of them were low-level swordsmen, and their mental power was not enough to resist a powerful demon.
The bandits who were hit by the mental shock staggered. The weaker ones bled from their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, and died instantly. Those who practiced sword aura could not stand still either. Trish excitedly stomped on the bandits with the skeleton warhorse. Only a skeleton warhorse could attack like this.
Including the warhorse and the heavy armor, Trish weighed more than a thousand kilograms. The hooves of the skeleton warhorse were wrapped in metal. When it stepped on the bandits' bodies, they immediately turned into a bloody mess. Trish was not satisfied, so he simply aimed at the bandits' heads and stomped on them. Puchi, puchi, puchi. Blood mixed with white brain juice. Together with the huge zhanmadao, broken limbs flew everywhere on the street. For a moment, it seemed like they had come to hell.
The twenty cavalrymen behind Trish felt cold all over. They were not used to Trish's craziness. Moreover, this woman was too valiant. That three-meter-long humongous Zhanmadao was originally just for show. Under normal circumstances, when a weapon shop produced this kind of equipment, it was only to show that they had a good blacksmith, and not really for people to use.
Only Su enjoyed watching from afar. Nobles would never have any sympathy for bandits. Under normal circumstances, when bandits were caught, the nobles would think of many ways to torture and kill the bandits.
Su felt great. He led the team to occupy the tall buildings near the city gate and arranged for the servants to take the high ground with the steel crossbows. Su did not take action himself. He took off the longbow on his back, ready to fight the level-six mage at any time.
The bandits were still pouring into the city. The servants on the high ground were shooting down from above. The bandits thought that it was just some scattered resistance from the city. The accuracy of the servants was not good, but the shooting distance was too close. The bandits that rushed into the city suffered heavy casualties.
After fighting for more than half an hour, the bandits realized that something was wrong. There were people sneaking into the city!
Two hundred cavalrymen came from the side road and rushed towards the north gate. The servants shot down from above, but the effect was much weaker this time. These two hundred cavalrymen were the core strength of the bandits. Although they were wearing leaf armor, they wore two layers with animal skins in the middle. Moreover, the bandits' helmets were made from one piece and were extremely sturdy. The steel crossbows basically slid off.
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