Chapter 543: Mantis Trying to Stop a Chariot

This troop, under Jimmy's arrangement, had been waiting outside the city during the day, and entered the castle directly from the castle gate after dark and settled directly in the castle.

Of course, this could not completely conceal the news. In theory, the troops could still be seen by others when they were marching and stationed.

All along, the most lacking point of Xu Lai was insufficient manpower.

Although his soldiers were strong, they were too few in number. After guarding the city gates, teleportation arrays and other important facilities, they basically had no power to do anything else.

It was precisely because of seeing this weakness of Xu Lai that the leaders of these mercenary guilds had the confidence to fight Xu Lai.

They did not really want to fight Xu Lai head-on, but wanted to take this opportunity to unite the strength of all mercenaries and break through Xu Lai's blockade.

They did have a way to get out of the city, but this method could only allow a small number of people to leave.

Just like the invisibility spell, just because a person can't be seen, it doesn't mean that the person has disappeared.

In the limited passage after the blockade, if you squeeze in one or two invisible targets, you may be able to get through. If you squeeze in more than ten or twenty people, the guards will be fools.

So unless they can abandon their relatives and friends, abandon the family business they have accumulated over the years, or even abandon other people in the mercenary group and escape alone.

Anyone who has experience in fighting in the mercenary guild knows that in such a completely closed environment, no matter how many people there are, they can never be Xu Lai's opponent.

But if the battle environment is expanded to the whole city, with the help of the city's unique street fighting environment, a situation of attacking the minority with more people can be formed locally.

Mercenaries are best at this kind of scene, using their own skills and skilled cooperation, integrating the advantages of multiple professions, hunting enemies and prey.

In addition, if they choose to stay and resist, they still have a group of powerful allies.

Several mercenary groups have secretly met with the leaders of the Dark Alliance and the Thieves Guild.

They promised to wait for an opportunity to assassinate Xu Lai and the officers of Xu Lai's troops when the mercenaries involved Xu Lai's attention and manpower.

Compared with the mercenaries, these guys in the underground alliance are more afraid.

Because from the existing intelligence, Xu Lai will not specifically target ordinary mercenaries. Until 12 o'clock on the third night, the lights of the Mercenary Guild are bright.

Before this time, any mercenary who comes to handle the withdrawal procedures will be approved by the Mercenary Guild immediately, and even no signature of any leader is required.

From this point, it can be seen that Xu Lai does not want to target those ordinary mercenaries, but just wants to use the name of bounty to attack Aini's supporters.

However, because he took over the intelligence system of the Mercenary Guild and received reports from countless ordinary mercenaries, Xu Lai arrested a total of 36 members of the Thieves Guild in these three days.

Although the number is not large, it is because Xu Lai still needs to obtain intelligence from these people, so he saved a life.

In fact, during the arrest operation, anyone who dared to resist was killed on the spot, and no nonsense was said to you.

Therefore, although only 36 people were arrested, the number of Thieves Guild members killed was as high as more than 300, nearly ten times the number of people arrested.

Some of the mercenaries accepted the bounty missions to show their loyalty to Aini, while others were just trying to get something for nothing.

But basically, they were unlikely to take the initiative to attack Xu Lai. It was not because they were not greedy for the bounty, but because the gains did not outweigh the losses.

On the other hand, most of the underground killers who accepted the bounty were thinking about how to kill Xu Lai.

If Xu Lai showed mercy to such a person, he really did not take his life seriously.

Xu Lai had just felt the beauty of life and had no intention of dying, so he could only kill these people.

The next morning, Jimmy, who was dressed neatly early, led the army from the castle to the mercenary camps of various families.

Jilong brought the helpers of the Mercenary Guild, as well as several major mercenary groups that had joined Xu Lai in the past two days, and the city guards who were reorganized into the security team to maintain order in Conaston City.

Notices and notices had been posted long ago, requiring all shops and civilians to close all day today.

The city gates will not be opened today. Xu Lai wants to take advantage of this opportunity to do a thorough cleaning of the whole city, and it is not just the five mercenary groups that are in a group.

There are a total of 13 mercenary groups of different sizes registered in Conaston. In addition to the seven that accepted the mission in the name of mercenary groups, the remaining six brought the rent for the whole year to Xu Lai.

Because this year is already the end, Xu Lai only took one month's rent, and the rest is the same as before.

Xu Lai did not have any clear requirements for them, but some people were optimistic about Xu Lai and took the initiative to ask to join Xu Lai's camp.

Among them, the Eternal Night Mercenary Group, which is currently ranked first.

That night, the second-ranked Rainbow Mercenary Group announced its dissolution, and nearly one-third of the high-quality mercenaries were accepted by the Eternal Night Mercenary Group.

Xu Lai didn't know how Lin Qiu persuaded him, but since the Rainbow Mercenary Group announced its dissolution, the team name was cancelled on the spot, and all mercenaries were dismissed before nightfall.

Xu Lai also kept his promise and did not kill them all. He even took the leader of the mercenary group and Lin Qiu into his pocket.

This couple will be responsible for leading the small mercenary groups that have joined Xu Lai tonight, and cooperate with Yongye and the mercenary guild to go to the slums to clear out the thieves guild.

This area is very complicated, and he will definitely not allow such a place to exist for a long time.

But it is not advisable to ban it directly. We must first find a way for the people living here to make a living.

It happened that today, he and those heroes killed a lot of people in the town and village, and also took all the land into their own hands.

Xu Lai's first policy for demolishing the slums is to distribute land to all those who report members of the Thieves Guild and their resident areas, and those who have made contributions will be rewarded with more land, money and houses.

Unfortunately, time was too rushed, and the policy was only hastily publicized, and it was not even known how far it spread.

Because the several propaganda teams Jimmy sent into the slums were almost wiped out, and more than a hundred people only stayed for more than an hour.

Today is destined not to be a peaceful day.

Xu Lai did not stay in the relatively safer castle, but took a chair and sat on the tower under Roland's protection.

As the saying goes, standing high, looking far, sitting on the tower, Xu Lai can overlook the battle situation of the entire city and can send out the Angel Legion for support at any time.

Moreover, putting oneself in the most conspicuous position can also attract the attention of the enemy, especially those underground assassins who are good at assassination.

This will greatly reduce the pressure on Jimmy and others. Otherwise, if the enemy really targets Jimmy and others, Xu Lai will have a headache.

Of course, he also put himself in danger.

Fortunately, he has Roland and the Paladin Guards led by him.

Hundreds of Holy Light Knights, each of whom can release more than one minute of holy armor under the blessing of Roland, just ask who else can kill him.

In the city, there are flames everywhere. The people of the Thieves Guild are used to stealing and it is impossible for them to fight head-on.

Even if they are forced to the point of no choice, they will try their best to confuse the audience first.

Fortunately, Xu Lai was prepared in advance. He hired all the mercenaries who could not go to the battlefield through the Mercenary Guild.

What they have to do is also very simple, that is, to assist the security team, while maintaining good order, and deal with various possible situations in a timely manner.

This includes intentional arson, creating chaos, and so on.

Xu Lai even specially greeted the mages of the Mage Guild and asked them to help deal with some emergencies.

With the mages, a water spell can easily put out a large area of ​​fire.

However, doing so will also put these mages in danger.

Relying only on ordinary guards and some low-level mercenaries for protection, the safety factor is really low.

Xu Lai has no control over the mages.

However, after occupying this city, these mages will no longer be able to receive salaries from Aini.

If they don't help Xu Lai, let alone want to get money again, it is not certain whether these people can continue to stay in the magic guild.

Although the mages of the empire are far from comparable to those of the tower, there are still many of them, otherwise Nofa would not be able to help Xu Lai find so many mages so quickly.

And the attraction of Conaston Castle to mages is much greater than that of Qingfeng City.

Otherwise, how could the former president, who was a magician after all, agree so easily to go to Qingfeng City to set up a teleportation array?

As expected, the flames burning everywhere could not be sustained at all, just as Xu Lai expected.

Most of the thieves and killers used alchemical bombs or incendiary bombs and other alchemical props.

This kind of props is easy to set fire, burn quickly, and start fire quickly.

But if there is magic intervention, it is also very easy to extinguish.

Mages are always more dazzling, and they are not surprising. They have become the target of thieves and killers.

However, there is one thing, Xu Lai set the time for the clearance in the daytime.

He is aboveboard and does not need to do any sneaky tricks.

This is extremely beneficial to Xu Lai. The thieves can use the stealth skill to quietly set fire, but their actions must be seen by the angels in the sky.

Once or twice, these thieves may escape.

But if they dare to show their bodies again, they will definitely be targeted by the angels.

Under the control of Elvy, with the bonus of Xu Lai, and under the holy light of the ultimate prayer, the speed of the angels was exaggerated to an astonishing degree.

Any target that they stared at would be dead unless they could become invisible many times.

Of course, the thieves would definitely not want to do that, and they would do everything they could to resist.

However, the poisonous daggers that were always successful could not even penetrate the wings of the angels.

The ultimate defense technique, the morale after the battle flag was raised, the attributes brought by the tactics and the blessing of the ultimate prayer made the defense of these angels far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Thieves are not a profession known for their strength, and their attacks all rely on the stealth-breaking blow brought by stealth, the club from behind, the daggers coated with poison, etc.

However, no matter how poisonous the dagger is, it needs to penetrate the defense and pierce the flesh and blood.

Now they don’t even have the ability to break the defense, and no matter how good the magic equipment they wear, they can hardly withstand the random swords of the angels.

It was extremely difficult for a small dagger to block. Even if a dagger-like short weapon was trained to the master level, it was impossible to fight against a big sword head-on.

What discouraged these thieves the most was that the speed they were proud of in the past became vulnerable in front of these angels.

Especially those thieves who attacked the mages, even if they still had the ability to be invisible, they often could not escape death.

These mages knew very well who wanted to kill them, so before casting spells to put out the fire, they would often cast spells of true vision.

Those who really didn't know this kind of spell would also sprinkle a handful of invisible dust.

Once there was an invisible unit nearby, it would become invisible under the effect of the invisible dust.

Such a good item, unfortunately only mages can make it.

Although Xu Lai also bought some for self-defense, the number was not large, and it was impossible for him to sprinkle a few for fun.

His true vision gems were with Giselle, and special spells such as the eye of true vision were not available to everyone.

There was really no ability to show invisibility around Xu Lai.

However, Roland had long asked the paladins to use their bodies to stick to the various entrances on the tower, leaving only the holy light knights to protect Xu Lai.

This seemingly seamless protection was still full of flaws in the eyes of those killers.

Xu Lai couldn't sit still any longer. He stood up and held onto the parapet to observe the situation in the city.

The battle between the mercenaries and Jimmy was almost over.

In front of the powerful regular army, the mercenaries had no ability to resist.

They couldn't even get close to release their proud skills. Thousands of elite archers and crossbowmen took turns to release arrows.

Arrows rained down on the group of mercenaries. Even if they approached slowly with the shield warriors as cover, they couldn't penetrate the front row of spearmen.

In the rain of arrows, the personal combat effectiveness of the mercenaries was almost useless.

However, although they couldn't win in the frontal battle, as long as they were willing to abandon their base, they could easily escape.

The surrounding buildings restricted the performance of the sharpshooters. The mercenaries' agile posture and various skills allowed them to easily disperse to every corner.

At this time, the cooperation of the Mercenary Guild and the Evernight Mercenary Group was needed.

Otherwise, even knights can only overtake them when they are going straight, and cannot catch up with these mercenaries in street fighting.

Watching the once famous mercenaries fall like grass in the rain of crossbow arrows.

Lin Qiu, who led a group of idle mercenaries and hundreds of elite guards, said to the man who had just disbanded his mercenary group:

"What do you think? I didn't lie to you.

Don't say that they only have one or two thousand masters, even if there are ten or twenty thousand, there is no organization, no records, and no queues.

In front of such a regular army, they are just a mantis trying to stop a chariot." (End of this chapter)