"Shoot the arrow!"

As the heads of the Ishihara and other county government offices issued loud orders, about 300 county crossbowmen shot arrows outside the city in unison.

In just a few blinks, these arrows landed on the heads of the pseudo-thieves outside the city, shooting the puppet troops to run away with their heads. In order to avoid the arrows, some even threw away the long ladders on their shoulders.

In fact, the casualties caused by those arrows to the pseudo-thieves outside the city were extremely limited. After all, there were only more than 300 crossbowmen in the county army on the city, and these people only had a short training. At least by Ishihara's standards, the crossbowmen on their side should continue to strengthen their training.

Fortunately, although the county army is still weak at present, the pseudo-thief who are sieging the city is even weaker at this moment.

Under the long-range shot of more than 300 crossbowmen, the more than 2,000 puppet troops were in chaos, which made Zhang Jin, the leader of the Green Forest leader Zhang Tai, burst into flames.

He raised his whip and whipped a pseudo thief nearby, and cursed angrily: "Such a few arrows will scare you to run away with your heads? A bunch of waste!... Attack! Attack me! Otherwise, kill on the spot!"

As the leader of Zhang Tai, Xu Jin has been powerful for a long time. After hearing his scolding, most of the pseudo-thieves gritted their teeth and carried the long ladder to continue charging towards the city wall.

As for a small number of people, they wanted to escape in the chaos, but there were Chao Bao and Liu Lai, two leaders of small green forest thieves, who led their core brothers to supervise the battle in the rear. As long as they saw someone running away, they would immediately kill them regardless of the reason.

In fact, there were dozens of green forest thieves riding horses in this group of "supervisors", moving back and forth on the side of the battlefield, specifically to deter the pseudo-thieves who were trying to escape.

With no hope of escaping, these pseudo-thieves could only carry a long ladder to continue siege according to the Green Forest thieves' wishes.

At this time, the second round of arrows had been shot on the Kunyang city wall.

This is also the limit. After all, the pseudo-thieves who were rushing to the front have now rushed to the bottom of the city wall and placed the long ladder on their shoulders next to the wall.

The city walls of Kunyang are generally between two and a half meters and more than three meters. They are not low or high. They can only be said to be ordinary county-level city walls, which are not as good as those cities with city walls several meters high. This means that the Kunyang County Army cannot relax for a moment, otherwise it will be a catastrophe.

"Spikeman, take the enemy!"

On the city wall, Magai shouted loudly with a solemn expression.

Under his command, five hundred county soldiers who were already ready all stood at the forefront of the city wall with spears.

At this time, behind them were more than a hundred elite black tiger thieves holding sharp swords and shields, as well as the three hundred crossbowmen, the defense line on the southern wall of Kunyang, which is currently composed of less than a thousand people.

Five hundred county spearmen are the main defensive force, more than a hundred elite black tiger thieves are responsible for repairing defense and killing enemy soldiers who break up the city wall, while the three hundred crossbowmen are responsible for shooting at the city and shooting at the enemy under them with all their might until they lose the shooting angle. They will be replaced immediately and replaced with reserve melee county or black tiger thieves.

The three have clear division of labor and do not interfere with each other.

"Pongpong."

The siege ladders were successively laid under the city wall. Immediately, the pseudo-thieves with panic faces stepped on the ladder and tried to climb up.

The county stroke guarding the city was anxious and tried to push these long ladders with both hands, trying to overthrow them, so that the pseudo-thieves who were climbing up fell. However, before they could overturn the heavy ladder, the pseudo-thieves had already climbed up and attacked the hands of the county soldiers with their weapons.

I have to say that these anxious county soldiers do lack experience in the battlefield. They are at least a long ladder with a few people on the crossbar. Where can the county soldiers on the city wall overturn them with just two hands?

Seeing that this stupid behavior led to the appearance of several wounded people, Ishihara immediately stopped and said, "No one is allowed to push the long ladder with his bare hands! The spearman is only concerned with killing the enemy!"

Under the command of Ishihara and other captains, most of the prefectural soldiers who had no battlefield experience finally stopped this stupid behavior and focused on killing the enemy.

It is actually very advantageous for the soldiers guarding the city to use a spear to resist the enemy soldiers trying to climb up the long ladder, because the county soldiers can just stab the spear in their hands in the direction of the ladder. Even if they are sometimes blocked by the shield in the other party's hands or avoided by the other party, as long as they stab a few more times, they will definitely stab it.

For those siege soldiers who tried to climb up the city wall, this was very deadly and it was very likely to take their lives.

This is also the reason why the casualties of the siege far exceeded those of the defending city in previous battles.

Just now, under the defense of 500 spear county troops, the two thousand pseudo-thieves responsible for the first round of attack could not be attacked at all. Before they could climb up the city wall, they were stabbed through the bodies of the county troops above with spears.

Poor these pseudo-thieves who were purely treated as victims by the Green Forest Thief, they had almost no armor on their bodies. Not to mention that the spear in the hands of the county army could easily pierce their thin coats and bodies, even the crossbowmen on the city wall could take their lives with a small crossbow arrow.

Although this was a siege battle of "who is weaker than that", the lack of armor caused these two thousand pseudo-thieves to suffer heavy losses during the first attack, and in the blink of an eye, four or five hundred corpses piled under the city wall.

"Very good! Very good! Just kill the enemy like this!"

Ishihara's loud voices inspire the morale of the nearby prefectures.

In fact, he was not satisfied with these county soldiers. In his opinion, those county soldiers were like stabbing randomly with their eyes closed. Any experienced old soldiers would never waste their energy like this.

But considering that most of these prefecture soldiers were farmers carrying hoes, they only had a brief training and had never had any experience in the battlefield, this performance has already made Ishihara feel very pleased.

Of course, I have to thank the fake thieves and the Green Forest thieves outside the city for being so weak, and also thank the Green Forest thieves for not using weapons and armor to arm the fake thieves.

Of course, not all the county soldiers on the city wall at this moment were so unbearable, because there were some of them ‘old soldiers’.

These "old soldiers" are all county soldiers who fled to Kunyang after being captured by the rebel army. Although their qualities and combat effectiveness may not be as good as those of the regular army, due to their experience of fierce battles, these people's performance is naturally much better than those of pure new soldiers.

Under Zhao Yu's instruction, these old soldiers from other counties basically served as sergeants or even chiefs in the county army. While killing the enemy, they also have the responsibility to tell the new soldiers about their experiences - of course, they are willing to do so. After all, Kunyang is now prosperous and loses both. Only when the new soldiers who account for the majority gradually become stronger can Kunyang County be invincible.

Even the elites of the Black Tiger Thieves would raise some of the new soldiers.

"ah!"

With the screams of a young county soldier, a pseudo-thief turned over and jumped onto the city wall, raised the knife in his hand with a look of horror, and slashed at the young county soldier.

Seeing that the knife was about to fall on him, the young county soldier was so scared that he could not move.

And just when he subconsciously closed his eyes and was about to die, he heard a thud in front of him.

Thinking again, huh, I'm fine?

He opened his eyes in surprise, and then he saw an old man wrapped in black scarf blocking the knife for him with a shield.

Black scarf...is a black tiger thief...

The young county soldier swallowed his saliva and watched the old soldier with his own eyes kill the fake thief to the ground in just a few strokes. Then he turned around and looked at him.

"Boy!"

With a look of displeasure on his face, the black tiger thief, Wang Pin frowned and shouted, "A sword is coming, but you are so scared that you close your eyes. Then aren't you waiting to die in vain?"

"……yes."

The young county soldiers didn't know how to communicate with these black tiger thieves who were "old enemies" and "comrades today". Considering that the other party saved his life, he still thanked him with gratitude: "Thank you for help."

“…”

Wang Pinwei's frown slightly stretched, and he reached out to push the young county lord's shoulder and asked him to face the city wall. Then, he said in a deep voice: "Look ahead, don't be distracted. Even if there are fake thieves jumping onto the city wall, don't panic. Behind you, I, the Black Tigers!"

“Yes…yes!”

The young county soldiers cheered up and answered repeatedly.

Is they black tiger thief behind me?

From the side, the nearby county soldiers also heard Wang Pin's words and looked at each other with a strange look on their faces.

Although most of them were not locals, they lived in the city for a while and heard about the past of the Black Tiger Thieves and knew that this bandit was once a confidant of the Kunyang County Office and the Kunyang County Army.

But now, as a member of the Kunyang County Army, they have to hand over the black tiger thieves behind them?

Just as these people were distracted, two fake thieves suddenly took the opportunity to jump onto the city wall, but before the two fake thieves could gain a foothold, they were instantly killed by Wang Pin and another black tiger thief.

"What the hell are you doing?!"

Wang Pin cursed angrily.

Several distracted county soldiers shrank their necks and did not dare to distract themselves. They quickly focused on resisting the pseudo-thief who were still climbing up the mountain.

Although they dared not be distracted, Wang Pin and the other elite black tiger thief had just killed two fake thieves in just a few seconds, which made them firmly remembered in their hearts.

What a group of powerful fierce bandits. No wonder Kunyang County has failed to win the repeated encirclement and suppression...

They thought to themselves.

When they thought of these black tiger thieves responding, somehow, their nervous mood slightly relieved.

In fact, it was not only the county soldiers here who thought so, because on this section of the city wall, more or less the elite black tiger thieves had joined the battle.

For example, Liu Tu, the Black Tiger thief, did not care about the orders that the Black Tigers were responsible for responding to the side. Because he couldn't stand the county soldiers near him and stabbed him randomly with panic, he simply snatched the spear from a county soldiers. While personally resisting the fake thief below, he taught the county soldiers from the side: "What a fucking thing, one by one?... The fake thief on the ladder wants to hurt you, they have to look up first, and they can only wave weapons with one hand. You are condescending and stab him to death before the other party. What's there to be afraid of?... The fake thief below doesn't even have a piece of leather armor. You are still wearing leather armor. You are scared to see you all..."

Then there was a lot of cursing, and the soldiers in the county nearby did not dare to look up.

Under Liu Tu's forced order, these county soldiers could only follow his instructions and wait for the pseudo-thief who had climbed up from the ladder to enter the attack range, and then stab a spear hard, trying to pierce the other party's body.

After they plucked up their courage to try it out, they suddenly realized that the leader of the black tiger thief wrapped in black scarf was correct. As long as they were not panicked, the fake thief below could hardly hurt them.

"Sure enough, they can't hurt me..."

"Haha, this fool, he dared to attack me with both hands on the ladder, but he fell down by himself..."

Gradually, the nearby county soldiers began to become calm and calm.

Seeing this, Liu Tu nodded with satisfaction and gave his position to a county soldier, while he commanded: "Very good, very good, just like that, be bold, the fake thieves below cannot hurt you. The only thing you need to guard against is the arrows shot by the enemy, but I have just seen it carefully. These fake thieves basically have no crossbows. Just wait for boldness. If there is any change, I will remind you!... If there are any fake thieves who are lucky enough to jump onto the city wall, don't panic. I will kill them. If you have my black tigers, you must look firmly below..."

At this time, He Feng, the captain in charge of the defense of this section of the city wall, returned from a distance and immediately saw Liu Tu, who was wrapped in a black scarf, commanding the county army here on his behalf.

With a brow raised, the Captain He pretended not to see it and continued to patrol forward.

Yes, as the small leader of the Black Tiger Thieves, Liu Tu enjoyed the treatment of the big leader of the Black Tiger Thieves and was given a wanted order from Kunyang County. It can be seen that this is a very fierce and fierce bandit with rich experience in killing enemies and much better than him. Since that is the case, letting Liu Tu command on his behalf is nothing.

What? The honor of being a headmaster in the county government?

Please, the command of the whole county was handed over to Zhou Hu, the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves. What is this level?

Even when he left, He Feng was still muttering to himself whether he had to establish a "brotherhood" identity. After all, Zhou Hu's entry into Kunyang was a foregone conclusion. If he wanted to continue to be the captain, he had to establish a good relationship with Zhou Hu and the Black Tiger Thieves. Although he was not easy to join the Black Tiger Thieves, he could join the Brotherhood.

There is actually not much difference between the two.

Not long after He Feng left, three county troops carried a thick pry pole and ran up the stairs inside the city wall, then ran and shouted: "Give it, let it go."

"Why did you come?" Liu Tu cursed.

"Well……"
To be continued...