Xueman City is not lively this year. Although several blacksmith shops are working overtime day and night, there are few adventurers in the shops, and there are no stall merchants on the streets. The residents who are walking in a hurry looked sad. Even in Xueman Mall in the plain area, more than half of the shops have closed signs.?

But compared to the snowy outer city, the atmosphere inside the city wall can only be considered as low and sad.

In the outer city, all the shops were closed, and the merchants fled to the south with their most valuable goods. The chamber of commerce, which was originally full of trucks, seemed empty, and even the tiger caravan did not dare to come here to do business.

Compared with the merchants who had long disappeared, the civilians living in the outer city were even more dismal. They had no wealth, and their biggest property was just a valuable cottage in the outer city. Now that war was about to begin, they did not have a tall city wall to protect them, and the silver and copper coins in their hands were not enough to let them escape to the safe Fresleys. They could only hide in the unstable house to pray. The rich despair was like the clouds before the storm, pressing tightly over the outer city.

As the clouds of war approached, some people in the outer city gave up their houses and fled to Ximu Town, where there were fewer robbers. The rest organized themselves. They dug out inferior weapons from abandoned weapons shops and asked for training methods from relatives serving in the army. The men formed the Self-Defense Forces to train day and night, and the women woven the thickest cloth armor possible with linen, hoping to protect their men on the battlefield.

Xueman's lord did not ignore these low-combat militias. Balgoff transferred the 800 city guards responsible for the security of the city to the outer city to be responsible for the training of the militias. Keyus, who was idle at home, was activated again to be responsible for the defense of the outer city.

Balgoff did not expect Keyus to command a group of city guards and militias to repel the invading robbers. He only hoped that when the robbers attacked, these city guards could stop them for a while and gain time to allow civilians from the outer city to retreat into the city wall.

As for the militia?

Balgoff said that he did not expect these militias to fight robbers at all. He only hoped to spend these days cultivating the discipline of these civilians so that they would not cause riots when they evacuate.

Of course, Balgoff also considered the worst plan that was almost impossible to have. If the city wall was broken and Shigru wanted to massacre the city, this group of civilians would also have the ability to protect themselves, at least, gain a glimmer of vitality.

However, what makes Balgoff even more headache now is the group of soldiers in the Meat Hall. After asking for help many times, Clark's answer is still the same as usual. Not to mention the ring, even ordinary comrade-in-arms soldiers will not take action. Of course, if Xueman pays for hiring, it will be calculated.

In fact, Balgoff was not worried about being broken into the city wall. According to the tips, only 10,000 robbers outside the city had made more than 10,000 siege equipment. Just based on the "toys" they had logged everywhere in the past few days, even with more than a thousand elite combat power, it was impossible to attack the inner city, and even the urn city might not be able to take it down. So what he was most worried about was the civilians in the outer city.

In addition, Balgoff's understanding of Shiglu is the biggest source of his uneasiness. The "Crow Blade" Shiglu, who can take down the Gray Swamp Fortress, naturally cannot be an idiot, nor is it a guy who was blinded by greed, or a vengeance, he will definitely understand that Xueman City is difficult to break, but he still led more than 10,000 people to camp in the west of Xueman. What exactly did he want to do?

Is it a powerful spellcaster team? This is impossible. The palace mage of Xueman City, Farenjia, and the spellcaster troops he led, are enough to protect the city walls even if they lose to the robber coalition.

Or is it similar to the battle of the Western Post Tower, luring the giants to fight? This is impossible. The distance between Xueman and Yinfeng Basin is much further than that of the Western Post Tower, and the giants with camps are not idiots. Even if they have too small brain capacity and are deceived again, they will not be attracted to attack Xueman City with the city walls.

What exactly did Shigru do? Balgoff couldn't guess thoroughly, so he was always anxious and always had a bad premonition, so he turned to the comrades.

At Heddle Manor, Silica also received news from the robber coalition that gathered Xueman. Her intelligence system was stronger than those in Xueman City, and the information system was not only reliant on messengers and ravens, so even if the manor was still surrounded, she could receive news from the outside world in a timely manner.

When Celika received the news, it spread the news. In the evening, everyone was ready for battle. Even the old man and the children put on armor. Just by waiting for Celika to give the order, they would become the bravest warriors and tear all the robbers outside the city to pieces.

Even if there are five thousand enemies outside the city, three times their enemies.

That's right, five thousand people, just after the robber coalition led by Shiglu ransacked all the castles in Xueman's territory, the robber groups that were originally still inactive in other territories finally couldn't sit still, as if they smelled the fishy smell, sharks entered Xueman's territory and joined Shiglu's robber coalition.

Now it is not just Heddle Manor. According to Xueman's information, there are as many as 12,000 robbers outside Xueman City, and it is estimated that the elite number is also close to 2,000.

Celika no longer calmed down. If there were only 3,000 robbers outside, with the strength of Heddle Manor, they could be taken down with just a small price. But now there are more than 5,000 robbers outside. Not to mention annihilation, even if they are beaten to the point of escaping, they will have to pay a heavy price!

Moreover, she was originally planning to rush to help Xueman City and cooperate with Xueman City to completely defeat the robber coalition. But now it seems that Xueman can only be considered as having more than enough defense in the city. As long as she goes out to attack, she will be swallowed up by the robber coalition.

Of course, it is not only Balgoff and Silica who are anxious. In the temporary command post of the robber coalition, the deputy commander Bingxiong was also circling in anxiety:

"Siglu, our subordinates have only 15,000 people in total. Even if there are still 2,300 elite troops, they can't get snowmancheng at all! What are you planning? Don't tell me that you are planning to loot in an outer city without much fuel and leave?"

"Don't worry, I've said I have an arrangement, you'll know then."

Shiglu was as calm as ever, looking at Bingxiong and asking again, and had to explain more: "I can guarantee that Xuemancheng must be ours, and the things that were arranged before should be used."

That night, Shiglu sent out all the "cannon fodder troops" of more than 5,000 people under his command, and a team of thousands of people guarded the main road for Xueman to escape to other directions. That night, he captured many civilians with his family. Whether it was gold coins or women brought back by these "cannon fodders", they boosted the morale of the entire robber coalition.

The next day, Shiglu continued to send people out to collect wood and prepare siege equipment, while his elite army was still guarding the gate of Xueman City, preventing Xueman's army from sending troops to defeat them one by one when he was dividing his troops.

At noon, some new robbers entered Xueman from other territories, and brought the "trophy" they caught along the way, the escaped Xueman nobles, as well as their equipment, wealth and women.

The living nobles were pushed to Xueman City and slashed one by one in front of the defenders. The dead nobles were cut off their heads. In the afternoon, the robbers rushed to build a simple stone thrower and threw the heads of these nobles into Xueman City.

At the same time, some robbers brought out the nobles' wives and daughters, and carried out inhumane atrocities against these women and even girls in places that could be seen by the army guarding the city but were far beyond the range, humiliating the soldiers on the city.

The soldiers who saw this scene on the top of the city all turned red. They roared and shot out all the arrows and spears in their hands as if they were thrown out. However, these arrows and spears were as powerless as their anger. They hung down weakly after half of the flight, and even a robber could not be injured.

However, after the robbers finished their work, many robbers rushed forward and continued to commit atrocities on these poor women. In their eyes, no matter how ugly the noble women were, they were countless times more noble than the peasant women they had used before.

Unbearable, Cayus went out of the city with blood-red soldiers, rushed out of the city for a while, but after losing nearly half of the soldiers, he returned empty-handedly. He could only watch silently on the city wall, watching these poor women screaming and wailing from helpless screaming and wailing to numbness on their faces, and even having no breathing can be achieved.

However, this behavior was just like Viscount Jorie's previous behavior of killing prisoners. Under Balgoff's timely and effective publicity, it not only did not hurt the morale of the soldiers in Xueman City, but was instead aroused by the atrocities of the robbers' aggression, and also made those guys with weak wills stop escaping.

In the evening, almost all the adult men in the city stood up and joined the reserve. The weapons merchants opened the warehouse, sent their armor and weapons into the military camp, and armed the soldiers of Xueman City.

The potion merchants also opened the warehouse and sent the healing potion into the military camp, becoming the life-saving talisman for the soldiers. The mana potion was unlimitedly supplied to the caster troops, making them the real patron saint of Xueman.

Hunters and farmers brought out all the frozen meat and grain in stock, giving priority to soldiers, mercenaries and spellcasters participating in the battle.

Ordinary women flocked to the military camp to take on the task of maintaining equipment. They also contributed the oil and fat from their homes to make it a powerful tool to defend the city.
Chapter completed!