Osius was hesitating, wondering whether to order the second arrow to be shot, or even to order Wu Lai to be shot dead directly, because he felt that this guy was the most arrogant person he had ever seen, which undoubtedly made him very disgusted.

In Osius's view of life, it's okay for him to be arrogant, but if others are arrogant in front of him, it's just a provocation. And this Wuleglindo in front of him is constantly provoking. For example, he didn't panic when he saw thousands of troops approaching, and he blocked Bartley's arrow with a casual gesture...

Bartley was also hesitating whether to shoot the second arrow. He really wanted to do so. Even if Osus did not give the order, he had the urge to shoot another arrow, because Woleglindo actually blocked his arrow. Only Bartley himself knew how powerful and how fast that arrow would be. Of course, the dead souls killed by his arrows would also know it at the moment before they died.

But Bartley was no longer sure. Although he could feel the questioning, teasing, or surprised looks from his "colleagues" around him, and although these looks annoyed him, what if the second arrow also...

Bartley didn't dare to think about it anymore...

They hesitated, but Wu Lai did not. Revenge was his attitude towards all enemies. Take this moment for example, if you shoot me an arrow, I will shoot you back with an arrow. This is undoubtedly the best counterattack.

"Click" - when the last rotating pin was in place, a "big guy" more than half a person's height and covered in black appeared in front of Lauren, with lines as ferocious as a ferocious beast.

"Lord Wu Lai, what is this?" Lauren asked curiously.

"I named this large crossbow 'Hunter', what do you think?" Wu Lai asked with a smile. This "Hunter" is another weapon of war built by Baishilou Arsenal based on Wu Lai's drawings. It is an upgraded version of the one sold to the Fourth Legion. Not only is the range increased by 20%, but the operation is also more convenient. Installation and shooting can be done entirely by one person. However, it is no longer supported by a combination of two wheels and a traction wheel, but a tripod with a rotating spindle. With it, the operator can easily adjust the direction and angle of the crossbow shooting.

The most important thing is that this "Hunter" can not only shoot large crossbows, but also shoot specially made cluster crossbows, with terrifying lethality.

Now, Wu Lai planned to let these ignorant guys in front have a taste of cluster crossbows. This was his first time to operate this thing. Although Vulture and the Armory had already debugged it for him, he was too busy in the past two days and had no time to get started. But this did not affect anything. In Wu Lai's words, the "Hunter" was a "fool-type attack weapon" - after loading the cluster crossbow, just aim at crowded places and pull the trigger.

"Boss, what is that man holding?" a small leader asked, pointing in the direction of Wu Lai.

Osus narrowed his eyes and did not answer, because he himself did not know. At such a distance, it was good enough that he could see it basically clearly. Anyway, he only knew that it was a black thing, and Wu Lai's two hands were clasped on both sides.

"Boss, it looks like a weapon, like a large crossbow or something." Bartley had just finished speaking when a sharp and piercing sound of breaking through the air was heard. With his rich experience on the battlefield, he naturally knew what this sound meant. Without hesitation, he turned around and threw himself back, then lay down very cleanly.

Osius and the other small leaders around him did not react as quickly as Bartley. When they subconsciously frowned and looked towards the source of the sound, the row of crossbow arrows were already approaching. However, they were lucky enough. After subconsciously shrinking their necks, they found that the crossbow arrows were not aimed at them, but were shot directly at their backs...

The screams and wails of people and horses were heard immediately, the bandits' formation was suddenly in chaos, and the cries for help were deafening.

"Lord Wu Lai! The Hunter is so powerful!" Lauren said in surprise.

"Of course. Let's go and retreat." Wu Lai crouched down and put the "Hunter" down on the corridor of the wooden bridge. He waved to Lauren and went into the arrow tower in a flash. He had just knocked down a wave of enemies, and naturally succeeded in arousing the anger of the bandits. If he didn't guard against them, he would suffer the consequences.

"Bastard!" When Osus saw Wu Lai and the other man running away, he knew what this guy was thinking. He thought to himself, I have seen shameless people, but I have never seen anyone as shameless as this. How could he just run away after getting a little bit of sweetness?

Soon, Osius realized that this was more than just a little bit of sweetness -

"Boss, it's a crossbow arrow. Seven of us were killed and twenty-nine were injured. Six of them were seriously injured. We probably can't go back..." A small leader who was checking the situation ran back to Osus and reported, and handed a slightly deformed crossbow arrow to Osus.

"I won't look! I'm going to kill this bastard!" Osus gritted his teeth. He had never encountered so many casualties in a head-on encounter before today, so he was naturally furious.

"But why didn't he shoot at us?" The little leader threw the crossbow on the ground and asked curiously.

Yes, why didn't he shoot at me? Osius frowned.

In the arrow tower, Wu Lai explained the reason to Lauren: "Alas, if I had aimed a little lower just now, those leaders would have... Tsk tsk, what a waste of a good opportunity."

"Lord Wu Lai, they are still there. Shall we go out and shoot him again?" Lauren asked, looking in the direction of Osus through the observation hole.

"Do you think I don't want to? There are no such crossbows anymore." Wu Lai smiled bitterly and shook his head. The "Hunter" in his hand was a sample, and the cluster crossbow was also a sample. He did have six large crossbows, but that thing was not meant to be used here.

"Boss, what should we do now?" another small leader asked Osus.

"Don't be anxious, wait a moment, now! Everyone retreat another thirty steps!" After Osus gave the order, hundreds of bandits began to move. The protective gear and weapons were taken off the dead bodies and thrown on the roadside. The seriously injured and dying were treated the same way. The lightly injured retreated to the end of the team to be bandaged. Although it was a bit messy, it could be seen that the Fox Wolf Bandit Group still had some battlefield skills.

"Report, Chief!" Two scouts came running, and the leading one reported loudly, "We have circled the town. Except for the three city gates, there is no place to enter. There are archery observation posts hidden on the roofs of some houses. The South Gate is blocked, and a yellow handkerchief was seen at the West Gate!"

"Okay!" Osius was delighted. The yellow handkerchief was a token of agreement, indicating that the insider was ready. "Brothers! Run!"

After a few mixed responses, 70% of the Fox and Wolf Bandits immediately left the town entrance and headed towards the west end of the town...

"Lauren, pay attention to the signal from the rooftop of the residence and report at any time." Wu Lai frowned and said urgently.

"Yes." Lauren nodded in agreement, turned around, and raised the telescope...

After a while, the clatter of horse hooves sounded again. After taking a look through the observation hole, El uttered a sigh and couldn't help asking Wu Lai, "Master, why did they come back from that direction again?"

Wu Lai smiled and shook his head: "El, take a closer look, are the number of people coming back about the same as the number of people who ran out just now?"

El was startled and quickly put his eyes close to the observation hole.

"Lord Wu Lai! Report from the South Gate, the bandits did not stay at the South Gate!" Lauren reported loudly.

"Got it." Wu Lai frowned, "Keep paying attention."

"yes!"

"Master, master, it seems that half of the people who ran back are missing." El said.

"That's right." Wu Lai nodded slightly.

…

Looking at the more than 200 bandits ready to strike a hundred steps outside the city gate, Bill could not help but clench his fists again. To be honest, he was very reluctant to play his current role - not the tribune, but the insider, the insider of the Fox and Wolf bandit gang.

At this moment, the bandit leader outside the city gate has given a secret signal - raising a piece of yellow cloth.

After hesitating for a moment, Bill suddenly raised his voice and shouted, "Release the arrow immediately!"

Sales frowned, because Bill's order was obviously problematic. The bandits were now a hundred steps away. Although the archers in the arrow tower could kill them by projectiles, the attack effect would not be very good. It would be far better to wait for the enemy to get closer before shooting.

But from Bill's point of view, this order was not wrong at all, because it was actually a secret signal to notify the people behind the city gate to prepare - the six were the guard slaves that Tours secretly brought with him, all of them were gladiators, but at this moment they were wearing the uniforms of the militia.

The first wave of arrows was fired from the arrow tower. Although the defending archers knew that the arrows would not be able to exert their power at such a distance, the one who gave the order was Bill. How could they disobey him? When the arrows were fired, the six guard slaves moved. They quickly took out the sharp blades hidden in their clothes and rushed towards the dozen or so militiamen around them. How could these dozen civilians who had just been trained not long ago be their opponents? Suddenly, the sound of sharp blades entering flesh and screams of agony filled the air...

"Sir! There's a traitor!" A civilian soldier was suddenly attacked but he didn't forget to shout a warning, but then a sharp dagger pierced his neck...

"Keep shooting arrows!" Bill shouted again. This was still a secret signal - notifying the bandits outside the city gate that they could rush in.

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Before he finished speaking, the bandits outside the city shouted in unison, whipped their horses, and rushed to the city gate. At the same time, the six guard slaves had worked together to move the huge bolt, and the city gate was wide open...

At this moment, Bill suddenly felt the sound of wind and bright light coming from the right. As a military man, he reacted quickly and realized that someone was attacking him. He immediately dodged and rushed to the left. Even so, the sound of wind and bright light still caught up with him.

"Swish, swish, swish..." After four consecutive light sounds that almost became one, Bill felt a sudden pain in his right leg and arm. His body swayed and his center of gravity shifted, and he fell to the ground. Then he looked carefully and saw Sales taking a step forward and shaking the sword, and the tip of the sword was close to his throat.

"Knight Sareth!" Bill screamed.

"Hmph." Sales glanced at Bill with a frosty face, and thrust the sword in his hand forward fiercely. With a "swish" sound, the tip of the sword instantly pierced Bill's left shoulder.

"You are colluding with bandits and bringing shame to the citizens and soldiers!" Sares sheathed his sword, bent down, grabbed Bill's breastplate and lifted him up.

"You..." A trace of surprise flashed across Bill's eyes, and he thought, how could Sales see that?

"You are curious about why I know this, right? Lord Wulai told me. By the way, let me tell you one thing. The six gladiator slaves you brought will soon become corpses." Sareth's hand slid and strangled Bill's throat. "By the way, these gladiator slaves killed Tours' servants. They were just 'invited' by Baker from Tours's house this morning. You must not know this."

"Now, open your eyes and see how they died!" Sales shook his hand and pressed Bill down on the inner wooden beam of the wooden bridge. He reached behind his waist with his left hand and found a dagger one and a half elbows long in his hand. After the sound of "puff" entering the flesh, Bill's left arm was nailed directly to the wooden beam.

Bill screamed and blood continued to flow from the wounds on his body, but this did not arouse Sareth's sympathy at all.

I'm done... Bill felt a deep despair in his heart. Not to mention what would happen to him in the end, the four swords that Sareth had stabbed at the beginning were extremely ruthless. Even if Bill could live to see his wounds healed, he would definitely be disabled.

The city gate was opened, and the archers on the tower shot arrows desperately, but they could not stop the bandit cavalry from galloping in. The bandits who rushed into the city gate first slowed down their horses. On the one hand, they needed to dismount and split their forces, rush up to the arrow tower and kill the archers. On the other hand, there was a short but spacious straight road inside the city gate, with three or five stone-based wooden houses on each side. It was undoubtedly a good idea to use this place as the first point for setting fire.

When more than a dozen bandits took the oil bags beside the saddles and prepared to set fire, and other bandits had already jumped off their horses and were ready to rush up the stairs leading to the arrow tower, something unexpected happened - more than a dozen figures suddenly flashed at the end of the straight road.

"Attention!" The bandit leader discovered these figures at the first moment. As soon as he gave a warning, he was shocked because these people who just appeared were actually carrying a huge wooden board, no, a wooden square shield.

"Tongtongtong" - more than ten square shields fell to the ground at the same time, and a barrier instantly appeared on the straight road. Following a powerful shout from behind the square shields, more than ten figures jumped out of a wooden house, ran quickly behind the wooden shields, stopped suddenly, and the single-soldier crossbow machine that had been prepared in their right hands was immediately placed on top of the wooden shields...

“Shoot!” The shouting started again…

"Lord Wu Lai, there is an attack from the west gate!" Lauren reported urgently.

"It would be strange if they didn't take action." Wu Lai shrugged and said, "I guess our side is just a cover for the confrontation. The main battlefield is over there."

"Master, Brother Malone and the others are in the direction of the west gate, right?" El asked with a turn of his eyes.

Wu Lai smiled and nodded. Pompey not only brought craftsmen for him, but also brought most of his Seneca's guard slave team. Anyway, no one in Seneca dared to provoke Baishilou anymore. Moreover, transferring these guard slaves here would make them more useful. It would also be convenient to reward them according to their merits and grant them the status of free citizens.

…

When Osus received the news of the defeat at the west gate, he almost bit his teeth. If the scout had not explained it clearly, he would have thought that he was cheated by the person who issued the mission.

"Push all the people out of the quarry!" Osus roared in anger, and the bandits immediately made way for them. More than 20 large carts covered with black canopies were pushed in front of the bandits.

"Look, sir, they have captured a lot of townspeople!" El exclaimed.

Wu Lai frowned and immediately moved to the observation hole. He glanced around and saw that there were many more townspeople in front of the more than 20 large carts, all of whom were tied up tightly...

A bit tricky, Woolley thought to himself.

"Listen up, everyone inside! Open the door and let us in! Otherwise, I will kill them!" Osus shouted, but he was secretly regretting why he didn't do this at the beginning, which resulted in the death of many brothers in vain.

"Lord Wu Lai, he is indeed our man. What should we do now?" an archer asked in a lost voice.

"Don't worry." Wu Lai paused after comforting her, then smiled and asked El, "Do you want to see me, the young master, standing on my horse with my sword in hand?"