Monster, come to my bowl

Surprisingly, the expected monster attack on the city did not occur until dusk.

The fields outside Qinghe City were completely silent.

However, this eerie silence shrouded in blood makes people even more uneasy.

Everyone had a premonition that a storm was brewing!

Inside the Demon Suppression Office, seventy or eighty Demon Suppression Guards were on standby.

As the sun was about to set, City Lord Yao Teng made a decisive decision: "Captain Xue, you lead a team to the South Gate! I'll lead a team to the North Gate! The rest of you go up the east and west walls first! If anything special happens, we can communicate by ringing the bell and act accordingly! Let's go!"

The reason why nearly half of the Demon Suppression Guards are still staying in the Demon Suppression Bureau and have not deployed defenses on the city walls early is mainly because each time the monsters attack the city, the direction in which they appear is not fixed.

Most of the time, the monsters would charge from the plains in the south or north, concentrating their forces on attacking one city gate.

Occasionally, monsters would appear from the east and west, stepping on the muddy paddy fields to attack the city walls on both sides.

Therefore, half of the Demon Suppression Guards were left on standby at the Demon Suppression Bureau so that they could quickly go up to meet the enemy no matter which direction the monster attacked from.

Qinghe City is very small, less than two miles long and wide.

In addition, the Demon Suppression Office is located in the center of the city, only a hundred feet away from the four city walls. With the speed of the Demon Suppression Guards, they can arrive there in an instant.

But today the monster was slow to launch an attack, which instead disrupted the rhythm of the demon-suppressing guards.

"Order!"

Upon hearing Yao Teng's order, the demon-suppressing guards immediately rushed to their respective posts.

Xue Yi and his men arrived at the South Gate Tower in a short while.

On the city wall, dozens of demon-suppressing guards and an even larger number of civilian warriors were already on full alert.

Among them are people from the Xue family.

Master Xue personally brought more than twenty servants to guard the house, as well as his confidant Xue Mao, who used to be a knight-errant, to guard a section of the city wall on the west side of the city gate.

The warriors and rangers sent by other families and caravans also have their own responsibilities.

Everyone looked a little nervous, but not panicked.

Resisting monster attacks on the city happens once a year.

Many have fought several battles, even dozens of them.

For example, Mr. Xue Xiong has been fighting in defense of cities for most of his life.

……

Time passes minute by minute.

The setting sun finally took away the last ray of sunlight.

In the sky, there was only a scarlet full moon.

The whole world was shrouded in a thicker blood color.

But there was still no movement in the fields around Qinghe City.

"What's going on? The sun has already set, why hasn't the monster appeared yet?"

"Yeah! Even if it's not August 15th, there should be a few monsters appearing on the full moon night."

"Didn't we kill several waves of monsters a few days ago? The rest may not dare to come."

"Are we worrying too much?"

"That shouldn't be the case. This round of red haze has arrived a few days earlier than expected. It must be unusual!"

There were some discussions among the people in various places on the city wall.

The sound was very small, but it could not escape the sensitive ears of the demon-suppressing guards.

"Silence!" Xue Yi stood on the tower of the South Gate and issued a direct warning: "If you have anything to say, wait until tomorrow! If anyone dares to gossip again, don't blame me for being rude!"

After the words were spoken, silence returned to the surroundings.

Everyone shut their mouths and continued to be alert.

Time continued to pass slowly.

It was not until midnight when the red moon was in the sky and many people could not help but begin to doze off that the strange change finally happened!

call!

The air that had been stagnant all day suddenly began to flow.

got windy!

"Master Xue, something's happening!"

A demon-suppressing guard who was in charge of monitoring the movements stood on the watchtower and called out in a low voice.

When the people around heard the sound, their sleepiness immediately disappeared.

Xue Yi cheered up and asked, "Which direction?"

"It seems..." The observer hesitated for a moment and replied, "In all directions!"

In every direction?!

Xue Yi was shocked. After a brief thought, he decisively ordered, "Quick! Light the bonfires! Light all the fires in all directions!"

After the order was given, the archers on the city wall immediately lit the rockets and fired them at the firewood pile placed outside the city in advance.

Whoosh whoosh!

As the rockets continued to fall, piles of firewood soaked in kerosene were ignited one after another a few dozen feet away from the city wall.

at the same time.

The demon-suppressing guards at the north gate and on the east and west city walls also discovered the situation.

Seeing the fire appearing in the south, people from three directions began to do the same thing.

In less than a moment, dozens of giant bonfires surrounding Qinghe City were all set on fire.

The blazing fire illuminated the countryside outside the city walls.

At the same time, the attacking monsters were also revealed!

"There is a group of monkey demons approaching from the south! There are nearly a hundred of them!"

"To the west, there are more than a dozen adult pig demons!"

"There's something in the river, it looks like an armored crocodile!"

"Northeast, a large group of iron-backed centipedes are coming!"

"To the northwest, there is a group of red-eyed mountain cats..."

"..."

Dangdang Dangdang!

With the continuous reports from the lookouts, all the alarm bells were sounded.

Contrary to most people's expectations, during this full moon, monsters attacked from all directions.

This situation has never been seen before!

"What's going on? There are monsters everywhere?"

"We definitely don't have enough manpower!"

"This is how to do?"

"What else can we do? Let's fight!"

The discussion that had just been suppressed started up again.

"Why are you panicking?" Xue Yi noticed that everyone was a little flustered, so he stepped forward decisively to stabilize the morale of the troops and said loudly: "Although the monsters are attacking from all sides, the total number is no more than in previous years! If we work together, it won't be a problem to repel them!"

"What Lord Xue said... makes sense!"

"Although the monsters come from all directions, their numbers have indeed not increased."

"There are only so many monsters in Qinghe. They attack the city every year. There is no way they will increase out of thin air."

"Since it hasn't increased, I feel relieved."

"Go, go, go! Go after them!"

After hearing Xue Yi's reminder, everyone immediately calmed down.

The news spread quickly and soon spread throughout the wall.

The military morale, which had been somewhat shaken just now, immediately stabilized.

"Fire arrows!"

Following an order, the defenders at the South Gate took the lead in fighting the monsters.

hum! !

With the sound of bowstrings vibrating, hundreds of arrows shot into the sky and flew towards the group of monkeys rushing towards the city gate.

Among the arrows shot, a small number are burning rockets.

Most of them are ordinary armor-piercing arrows.

Among them were seven or eight feathered spears shot from crossbows!

When the monkeys saw a volley of rockets being shot at them, they dodged with their nimble hands and feet.

But they dodged the conspicuous rockets but ignored the armor-piercing arrows mixed in with them.

Puff puff!

With a muffled sound, more than twenty demon monkeys were shot by arrows on the spot.

There were a few unlucky ones who were hit by spears shot from the crossbows, and some either lost their arms and legs or were killed directly.

Unfortunately, most of the monkeys that were hit by the armor-piercing arrows did not die.

They howled as they broke the arrow shafts and continued to rush towards the city gate while bleeding.

Under the influence of the red moon, the monsters went crazy.