Chapter 44: Roving Bandits Pave the Way, Corpses as Ladders 《Please send flowers!!!》

"Short Crossbowmen, prepare..."

"Fire!"

The distance of less than a hundred meters had already reached the optimal attack range for the Short Crossbowmen.

Within this distance, both the damage and accuracy of the Short Crossbowmen were superior to the Elite Longbowmen.

When Bai Hao's order was issued again, the Short Crossbowmen had already begun their first volley.

*Chi chi!*

Accompanied by the crisp sound of piercing the air, sharp crossbow bolts were fired, crossing the distance of less than one hundred meters in a very short time and striking body after body!

If struck by the arrows of the longbowmen, unless it was a vital part, these enemies might still be able to stay standing and continue charging.

But at this distance of less than a hundred meters, after being hit by the bolts of the Short Crossbowmen, even if they didn't die on the spot, they would be severely injured and unable to continue fighting.

The alternating fire of the Elite Longbowmen continued.

The attacks of the rapid-fire Short Crossbowmen had also begun.

Under the dual consumption of these two types of ranged troops,

the number of enemies was decreasing at a terrifying speed!

Almost every second, more than ten enemies were struck and died, or lost their combat effectiveness and fell to the ground.

Before even reaching the city wall, the number of enemy troops had plummeted to less than two-thirds.

But even so,

the enemy's charge continued.

And they were getting closer and closer to the city wall.

Facing such powerful firepower from Baiyun Town, the ordinary roving bandits and elite roving bandits had low morale and wished they could turn and flee immediately.

Even the roving bandit leaders directing the battle were panicking, not knowing how to fight.

But the fierce bandits responsible for supervising the battle on the sides and the highwaymen bringing up the rear were not like that.

As long as any roving bandit dared to flee, the first thing they would face was a blade from the fierce bandits or highwaymen!

Charge.

Charge up the city wall, kill their way into Baiyun Town, and they still had a chance to survive.

Fleeing... was definitely a dead end!

It was precisely under this pressure that the remaining roving bandits were approaching the city wall at an even faster speed, even under the seamless rain of arrows and rapid-fire crossbow bolts.

They paid the price of most of their men dying, but they ultimately achieved their goal.

The city wall of Baiyun Town... ===== CHAPTER 103 =====

was already right before their eyes!

When nearly half of the ordinary roving bandits were wiped out, and the number of elite roving bandits was reduced to only two or three hundred, they finally rushed to the vicinity of the Baiyun Town city wall, only ten meters away from reaching the base of the wall.

"Charge!"

"Rush up!"

"Break through this town, and it will belong to us from now on!"

Looking at the city wall within reach, a highwayman roared wildly, waving the large blade in his hand and cutting a timid, retreating roving bandit in two.

To these highwaymen, the ordinary roving bandits they brought were just shields and stepping stones.

When charging, these roving bandits rushed to the front to attract ranged attacks; when they reached the base of the city wall, these roving bandits would become their stepping stones!

That's right, from the very beginning, they never thought about attacking the city gate.

Even if it was just the wooden city gate of a Level 1 town, without siege equipment, even a powerhouse like Su Li, who was infinitely close to a martial general, would find it difficult to blast it open in a short time.

From the beginning, the highwaymen's goal was to rush up the city wall!

For a Level 1 town, the city wall was at most three or four meters high.

For ordinary people, this height might be difficult to cross, but for elite troops, or even leader-level figures like the highwaymen, this was not an insurmountable height!

Jumping up in one go, they couldn't do it.

But what if there were stepping stones?

Those bottom-tier roving bandits were shields when charging, and when they reached the base of the city wall, they were the stepping stones for them to rush up the wall!

The ten-meter distance vanished in the blink of an eye.

The roving bandits kept charging at the city wall.

But they were quickly beaten back down.

The corpses at the base of the city wall piled up in layers, soon reaching over a meter high.

Enemies had already begun trying to climb the wall by stepping on the corpses.

At this time,

Su Li finally realized their intention.

They were clearly trying to use the corpses of the roving bandits to pile up a ladder and climb onto the city wall by force.

Although this sounded outrageous, for the city wall of a Level 1 small town that had just been upgraded, it was entirely possible to achieve this with the number of dead enemies.

As long as a corpse ladder was piled up, and some roving bandits continued to act as stepping stones, reaching more than half the distance, it would be easy to jump up and launch a surprise attack.

This was a very simple and crude way of sieging a city.

Even if Su Li guessed their plan, he could hardly stop it.

After all, this was a path the enemy army made with their own corpses; could he stop killing?

The answer, of course, was negative.

All Su Li could do now was slowly walk to the front edge of the city wall and silently wait for the enemies to climb up for a decisive battle.

Soon...

When less than one-third of the remaining roving bandits were left,

two fierce bandits, who were elite troops supervising the battle, suddenly roared wildly and, with extreme speed, stepped on the corpse path made of the bodies of the roving bandits, leaped into the air, and flew toward the city wall.

As they fell from exhaustion, each of them stepped on the head of a roving bandit, their bodies leaped into the air again, and they jumped directly toward the city wall!

Before they even arrived,

the long blades in their hands were already raised high, slashing toward the shield-bearers standing at the very front of the city wall.

High-tier troops?

A three or four-meter-high city wall?

All a joke!

For these fierce bandits, who were elite troops with a martial strength value of over 20, it was all a joke.

As long as they were allowed to climb the city wall, kill their way into the crowd, and break through the enemy's formation, allowing more and more roving bandits, fierce bandits, and the few highwaymen leaders to rush up the wall...

Then it would be a massacre without suspense.

By then, everything in this town, whether it was women or food, would become their spoils of war!

New book setting sail, please send flowers, please rate!!! ===== CHAPTER 104 =====