Xiaguang city.


    The tall east gate was locked, and a group of refugees, thin and shabby, gathered outside. There were thousands of them. They looked eagerly at the soldiers standing on the high wall, hoping to open the gate and let them enter the city.


    In the vast territory of the Empire, apart from the ten main cities, there is no place for these ordinary people to settle down.


    The orcs will come at any time. The defense of small towns is too weak, and the garrison is unreliable. These refugees are all escaped from chuyang city and other nearby towns. They have been running around in the wild, separated from their relatives and friends many times, and met the ferocious and terrible Warcraft. All the way, they can be said to be a life of death.


    These days, some of them have eaten grass roots, some have eaten bark, and some have eaten mud. They have survived stubbornly, but the oil lamp has dried up and is going to die.


    There were no professionals among them, because the professionals either died or captured in the battle with the orcs, or fled to the main city first.


    No matter where, the main city will not refuse professionals to join.


    Kent is a 20-year-old blacksmith. He is a civilian in Haiyun town of chuyang city. He learned how to forge iron from his father when he was young. However, his ordinary life did not take long. When the orcs invaded Haiyun town a few months ago, his parents were killed under the axe of orcs in order to give him a chance to escape.


    Later, Kent fled to the city of Chu Yang, where he was taken in by a blacksmith.


    However, chuyang city did not survive a few days ago. It was also captured by the orcs and became the first main city of the Maka Empire to be occupied.


    He took the blacksmith''s daughter and ran all the way through many small towns and places where free people gathered, but they did not stop until they came to Xiaguang city.


    Kent, who has experienced two Orc invasions, knows that the defense capabilities of the main city and the town are quite different. Haiyun town was occupied by the orcs when there was no resistance, while Chuyang City persisted for a long time. Even when the city was broken, the orcs had no time to capture all the people in the city, and a large number of civilians took the opportunity to escape.


    So, only when he reaches the main city can he relax.


    Kent sat cross legged on the dirt and looked at the girl who was asleep and said, "if only I were a professional, my parents would not die because of me, and Tris would not go hungry."


    On the wall, several soldiers on patrol were chatting.


    "Captain, there are so many refugees. Shall we not let them in?" A young soldier looked at the refugees gathered outside the wall and said with some impatience.


    "Hum! Do you think I don''t want to? " The leader of the young soldier squinted at him and said, "if the city had not been attacked by the orcs and suffered heavy casualties, the city master would not have ordered the city to be closed."


    "But it has nothing to do with these refugees." The young soldier pleaded.


    "Hard to say! What if there were Orc spies inside? Why can the orcs attack our main city at night? I suspect that there is a traitor. In case something goes wrong, I can''t bear the responsibility! " The young captain yelled, "put away your ridiculous pity. This is a war. If you die or I die, there are hundreds of millions of civilians in the city. We can''t ignore their safety because of these refugees."


    "So far from us? Why do they break through one town after another, and we can only be passively attacked here. " The young soldier said angrily, "I don''t know what the top officials of the Empire think. We need to fight back and expel these damned invaders. The blood debt must be paid with blood."


    "The individual strength of orcs is much stronger than that of human beings. Professionals of the same rank can fight three or five at a time. In the past, they could only hide in the northeast corner of the western continent because they were not united. Thousands of tribes did not interfere with each other, and sometimes they fought with each other for land and food."


    The young captain looked at the distance and said, "but now they have united and formed an alliance. Naturally, we are not rivals. We were caught off guard for a while.


    You haven''t fought with orcs before. When I was a new recruit, I was stationed in Chenxi town and was harassed by the orc tribe on a small scale. One of my comrades in arms who joined the army in the same year was directly torn into several pieces by the orcs. At that time, I was there, and I was scared to be silly. The orc also chewed his thigh on the spot.


    Fortunately, an experienced veteran killed his opponent with a bow and arrow. The brutality and horror of orcs are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.


    but we have more than tens of times of human beings. Under the leadership of the wise princess, I believe we can overcome these barbarian orcs! "


    "I heard that the royal highness of the princess had launched a coup, killing her eldest brother by herself, and the emperor''s Royal Highness." The young soldier murmured, "moreover, there seems to be a factor in the struggle for the throne in this Orc invasion."


    "Shut up! If you live enough, don''t let me down! " The young captain slapped the young soldier on the back of the head and said, "is this something you and I can discuss?""Hehe, I''m going to die anyway, whether it''s in the hands of orcs or our own people." The young soldier said discontentedly, "then I will be the first to rush to kill the orcs and kill them!"


    "As long as you can, just talk more, you''ll have to stand one more whistle at night!"


    The sun was setting, the sunset was picturesque, and the weather was cool.


    Under the city wall, Kent was so hungry that he took out half a piece of black bread from his arms. After hesitation, he put the hard and stone like bread back into his arms.


    He was not sure how long he had to stay outside the city, so the only food he could save was a meal. What''s more, he looked at the girl next to him. He was already thin and small. After several days of struggling, he was like a withered grass, which might wither at any time.


    "Tris, Tris --" Kent whispered his partner''s name. Seeing that she didn''t respond, he pushed him gently, but still didn''t wake up.


    Trembling a little, he put his finger on the tip of Therese''s nose. After feeling the faint breath, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he took out the black bread from his arms and prepared to feed it to her.


    Tris must be starving.


    At this moment, however, the crowd suddenly stirred up, and Kent, attracted by the sudden movement, stood up with the wall and looked into the distance.


    What did he see?


    On the horizon, black as a locust, countless orcs rushed from afar.


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