Planetary Museum

During the first three blasts, Baron Jacques had a clear idea of ​​how to deal with it. He sent his cronies and troops to the blast hole to block it. Soldiers and ordinary citizens were harassed.

Xiaoyang City, which was constantly disturbed by the sound of huge explosions, boiled like a pot of boiling oil at this moment.

Most people have already connected this unusual sound with the Yilis people's persuasion to surrender during the day.According to the conventional understanding of warfare in this era, a city without the protection of its walls is like a knight without his armor.Many people began to flee instinctively towards the city wall and the blasted gaps, but soon they encountered the baron's troops maintaining military discipline.

"Everyone must go home! Anyone who goes out without authorization must be hanged!"

Most of the people hid back obediently. They huddled together in a strange room, listening to the movement outside in horror.The streets echoed with the footsteps of the army walking and inspecting, as well as the urging and shouting of the soldiers, and occasionally the begging and screaming of ordinary people.The Baron's decisive actions successfully maintained order, and the entire Xiaoyang City gradually became quiet again.

The situation seemed to be reversed, and the Yilis people did not lead the attack after releasing the sky thunder as they did in the previous two sieges—probably because their strength was far inferior to Xiaoyang City.

However, in the second half of the night, when the Elis people cast the sky thunder for the fifth time, cracks gradually appeared in the calm under strong control.

Residents in the city keenly noticed that the density of soldiers on the streets had become thinner, and more blast holes had diluted the Baron's already relatively abundant troops.

Because it was dark night, the baron had no way of predicting which opening the Elisians would rush in from. Just in case, he had to invest enough troops to block the attack at each opening.

There are more than 500 people in Elis outside the city. It takes 10 minutes to walk from the city to the city wall. Counting the round trip, that is 10 minutes. The baron may not have calculated this time accurately, but the vague tactics Thoughts still exist.The troops defending the gap must be able to persist in the gap for more than 10 minutes, so the number of each troop must reach hundreds of people. Considering the morale and the thunder of the Elis, it needs to be doubled. Baron Kouzi needs to prepare nearly 1000 troops and a group of reliable officers for defense.

When the number of openings was still relatively small, the troops of more than 6000 people in the city were fully able to handle it, and they could leave enough spare power to control the order in the city.But when the number of openings increased to five, the baron discovered an extremely embarrassing reality - if he continued to maintain this strategy, he would have no troops at all when the Elis exploded twice more.

The baron had to continuously draw out the troops who maintained the curfew in the city to form a reserve team to deal with the possible sixth and seventh thunderstorms.

After the troops left, the already skeptical residents soon realized that this was a godsend opportunity.

Small families scattered across the houses soon began to gather, and residents of several families who knew each other often joined together into a larger group.

While these people took out wooden sticks and kitchen knives from the house, they used them to guard against anyone who might invade them—whether it was the baron's soldiers or the Elis people. The situation in Xiaoyang City.

Before, everyone just heard a loud noise. Many people living in the center of the city didn't know how damaged the city wall was, and they didn't know whether the Elisians had invaded or not.

Moreover, these are actually not what the residents care about. The vast majority of people only care about where their husbands, sons, fathers or brothers have been sent by the baron, and whether they are in danger-they have all heard rumors about Tianlei , a horrific description about Bishop Bart being killed on the spot, and hundreds of people buried with him at the same time, leaving no bones left.

When these residents began to secretly send people to find their relatives who had been drafted into the army, the baron's army fell into a swamp like a giant made of sand, and began to disintegrate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It is very difficult for soldiers in this era to have the courage to stand in the darkness, look at the terrifying gap opened by the sky thunder, and be ready to fight hand-to-hand with the terrifying enemy who can make the sky thunder at any time.Gold coins may be able to generate this kind of courage for a while, but it is only for a short period of time. As long as comrades or superiors inadvertently say a few words about Tianlei, the courage will disappear immediately.

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When the second child and the third child followed the team to the city wall, dozens of people had already ran out of the city along the cracks in the city wall.After the officer ordered them to seal off the blast site, the hundreds of residents in front of them seemed unwilling to give up the close escape, and they all came up and begged them: "For God's sake, let us go out."

"Let us go, give us a way!"

"Xiaoyang City is already dead!"

"A thunder from the Irisians will turn the whole city into ruins."

"Line up, draw your swords!" The officer leading the team gave an order decisively and loudly. The sound of the swords being unsheathed immediately made the residents who had already crowded up and shoved with the soldiers subconsciously back a few steps.

"You will be captured by the Iris when you go out! The whole city is surrounded by them!" The situation eased a little, and the officer immediately changed into a much more relaxed tone, persuading everyone, "Stay in the city, we still If you can fight the enemy to the death and go out, you will only become captives of the Elis people! You must have heard the name of the mad king of Elis!"

"Maybe King Elis is indeed a lunatic, and maybe the god they believe in is the real devil," a woman in her 40s came out of the crowd and shouted at the officer, "but we would rather believe in lunatics and devils now, I don’t want to hear a word from you pious warriors! The bishop of the god I believe in urged my son to listen to his speech, but he was killed by a thunderstorm! Our loyal lord took my husband and son away, and then And lied to us all over the sky—I ask you! How many times can the Elisian's sky thunder be cast!"

"Absolutely not more than six times!" The officer answered bravely.

"Haha, it's ridiculous!" The crowd in front of us suddenly became noisy, "It's the seventh time, my lord! The seventh thunderstorm! It's where you are standing now."

Because of nervousness and frequent scheduling, coupled with the robbery in the dark along the way, many officers and soldiers have inaccurate memories of the number of thunderstorms.

In fact, let alone military officers, even ordinary residents have different opinions about the number of thunderstorms in different places. When this kind of chaos, the performance is naturally extremely bad.

In the first two or three times, the judgment was wrong, and everyone could accept it, but after the seventh explosion, everyone realized that the so-called "prediction of the number of spells cast" that these soldiers said was nothing but nonsense.

At this time, a soldier next to the second child suddenly recognized an elder in the crowd, he stepped out of the queue uncertainly, and asked in surprise: "Grandpa! Is that you, Grandpa? I'm Salin! "

"It's me! It's me."

"Why did you come out alone? Didn't I tell you to stay at home and wait for me to go back? Where are your mother and brother? They weren't with you?"

"After you left, your younger brother was also drafted into the army. I heard that he went to the South Gate. Your mother...she..."

The officer keenly noticed the situation here, he waved his hand, and a small group of soldiers rushed out immediately, dragged the soldier back to the formation, and interrupted the old man's speech.

The crowd roared.

"Back!" the officer snapped, and at the same time shouted to the archers who had climbed the wall: "Archers! Get ready!"

"I'll give you one last chance! I only count to three!"

"three!"

As soon as the officer called out the first number, the second child clearly saw two people walking forward from the back row behind him.

The second child of the two soldiers had some impressions that they had robbed the most money on the way here, and they had so many gold coins that they could even hear their voices when they walked.

The two soldiers drew their swords from their scabbards as they walked.

Of course, not only the second child saw such an obvious movement, but almost all the soldiers passing by saw it, but strangely, none of them spoke out to stop it—even if the officer they were walking towards was said to be The Baron's uncle.

"two!"

The officer raised a hand, and just as everyone was startled by his attitude and was about to retreat, two bloody swords suddenly appeared on the officer's chest.

He turned his neck in surprise and saw the two strange soldiers who killed him. They drew their swords without hesitation, and stabbed through the gap in the officer's armor again.After the officers were completely paralyzed, they raised their swords high and shouted to everyone in front of them: "Xiaoyang City is hopeless, everyone go out of the city and run for your lives!"

Then things got completely out of control, the second and third child followed the crowd out of the city wall almost subconsciously, and came to the dark world outside the city.

They groped and moved according to the general terrain outside the city in their memory, and after only a few minutes of walking, they saw several bright beams of light suddenly shot out in the black night, and then the people of Elis shouted loudly: "Put it down!" Your weapons, raise your hands!"

No one dared to resist, and most of the people did so quietly, waiting for the Elisians to tie them up with ropes one by one and escort them into the darkness farther away.At this moment, those two familiar voices in the crowd shouted again: "Run for your life! They can't catch us!"

But this time, no one followed them, and the two ran out a few steps before being easily chased by the cavalry, knocked unconscious with a stick and brought them back.All the gold coins they collected in this war were also picked up by the Elis people. The second child clearly heard that while the Elis people were counting these gold coins, they were still laughing at them: "Too naive!" You want to run away after being targeted by the envoy?"

Only then did the second child remember the envoy they saw at the city of Shuangcha River, and the mysterious eyes he wore.

The envoy once looked at them.

From beginning to end, God is watching their every move.