Chapter Thirty-Nine: Old Tricks Revisited

  The bandits in the distance were on standby, and Lain, who was on the defensive wall, began to feel uneasy. He wasn't worried about the bandits' continued attack, but rather that they would retreat again and hide in the Luo Feng Mountains, which would make the task of eliminating them even more difficult and prolonged.

  Luofeng Mountain is a thousand miles around, with treacherous terrain and a stronghold of bandits. The city walls are as solid as gold, easy to defend but hard to attack. If the task can't be completed, one will have to stay in Luofeng Mountain for life.

  "Somat, I have no grudge against you, why must you treat me like this?" At this moment, Rain's fists were clenched tightly, and he was furious when he thought of the secret letter.

  "Captain, y... what's wrong?" Lades, who was on duty as a 'guard', asked cautiously, looking at Captain Rain with an expression that wasn't quite right.

  "Alas... nothing... nothing. Rades, you and Xiaopang go find Rus, let him count the casualties of the soldiers and villagers, hurry up!" Rayn sighed and instructed.

  "Alright!" Lades said after finishing speaking, beckoning the little fatty beside him, and the two of them hastily left.

  The robbers in the distance were still on standby, with a dozen or so people surrounding Traein, seemingly discussing something.

  At this time, the sun was setting in the west, and the colors of the sunset in the sky were also gradually fading away. The sky began to darken, and flames rose up, accompanied by crackling sounds and painful wails, like a chorus of ghosts and wolves howling together, the sound was terrifyingly extreme.

  The robbers were too cruel, and for those who still had a breath of life, they were thrown into the pile of corpses that were being cremated, a long row of sea of fire reflected in the night sky was particularly bright, the moon in the sky was scared to hide, and only half of its body was exposed after half a day.

  "Beast!" The soldiers and villagers all cursed.

  Suddenly, more than 50 robbers holding shields formed a circular defensive formation and quietly advanced forward. Immediately afterwards, dozens of similar circular formations appeared, and the attack began.

  These circular formations stopped at a distance of hundreds of meters from the defensive wall, then quickly dispersed and reassembled into a dense defense line.

  "Huh? What are they doing?" Reyn thought, scratching his head in puzzlement.

  "Something's wrong? Are they going to..." Suddenly, Rain frowned and shouted, but before he could finish his sentence, a barrage of fire arrows came flying over.

  "Fall back!" Rain immediately barked out the order.

  The defensive fortifications built with great difficulty for half a day were suddenly set on fire and soon turned to ashes. The bandit army was closing in step by step, and at this time, Rain and the others were on the last defensive wall, behind which was a vast open space. Simple catapults had already been prepared, waiting for the arrival of the bandit army.

  The bandits, who had been so successful in the past, did not have it easy this time. The massive boulders that came crashing down from above scattered their formation, and the merciless hail of arrows followed immediately after. Those archers who hadn't even had a chance to light their torches were left with no place to hide, and their anguished cries filled the air before they turned tail and fled in panic. Waiting for them was another wave of arrow fire, and with eyes wide with shock, despair, and terror, they slowly fell to the ground, their bodies still twitching spasmodically as they died with their eyes frozen open.

  At this time, the momentum of the thieves was violent and thunderous, with a team of 6,000 to 7,000 people now losing more than half, and the remaining 3,000 or so robbers had lost their previous momentum, trembling with fear, and each one had no spirit.

  After redeployment, the robbers were divided into groups of five or six people, all scattered and mobile, dodging the arrows of soldiers and villagers, although the wooden fence had been watered with mud, it was still impossible to avoid the fate of burning.

  "Charge!"

  “……”

  The bandit army finally broke through the last defensive line of Luoxia Village, trampling on the bodies of their brothers and rushing forward frantically. Countless bonfires covered with green grass formed thick black smoke that spread throughout the entire battlefield, making it difficult to see the silhouettes of soldiers and villagers in the distance. The bandits halted their offensive, not daring to advance recklessly.

  "Charge! All of you, charge forward!" Trajan swung his curved blade wildly and roared hysterically. Several nearby bandits crashed to the ground, their necks spurting blood as they stared crazily at Trajan, their hands clutching their throats, their bodies convulsing repeatedly, their legs kicking wildly before finally closing their eyes in despair.

  Several cowardly robbers were put to death, the rest of the robbers began to rush forward frantically, however, Trajan and Layla were surrounded by five or six hundred people, these were his 'direct troops', in addition to performing defensive duties, they also had to deal with those who fled in fear.

  Wave after wave of smoke and fog caused the robbers to lose their direction, and under the pushing and shoving from behind by the brothers, they could only charge forward aimlessly.

  "Boom, boom, boom... Boom... Boom, boom, boom..." The rhythmic war drums had begun to sound, followed by the uniform footsteps and then the shouting. Shields glinted in the moonlight and faint firelight, forming row after row of defensive zones.

  When the sudden sound of bugle horn sounded, the fierce war drum sounded hastily, when the torch was re-ignited, these bandits only then realized they had fallen into an ambush.

  More than 2,000 bandits were surprisingly surrounded by more than 800 soldiers and villagers, forming small encirclement circles.

  Most of the soldiers and militiamen emerged from under the grass near the bonfire, holding shields and weapons.

  At this time, Rayn led more than 100 people to form an infantry defensive phalanx, facing the five hundred or so strong bandit army led by Treyn, splitting their troops in half again and forming a standoff.

  Fierce fighting has begun, the outer periphery of each small encirclement is a remodeled shield, and the soldiers and villagers behind use long weapons and steel spears to attack from a distance, and the encirclement is also gradually shrinking.

  More than 50 soldiers and villagers dealt with more than 100 bandits, looking very relaxed. The encirclement was shrinking, those bandits in the middle were just decorations, finally they had to be on the defensive, being beaten all over.

  Raines held a small shield in his left hand and a black lacquered military sword in his right hand. Rus, Dako, and about ten others were dressed similarly to him. The other soldiers all had long spears or similar weapons, and the shields they held were rectangular five-foot-high shields with iron fittings on the outside.

  At this moment, a rapid footsteps came from afar, and a figure rushed towards here frantically.