Chapter 438

I lay on the ruined city head and looked out, except for some crows pecking at the carrion of the dead on the battlefield, I could no longer see any living creatures, I retreated from the city, the corner of the city wall, Ma Lao Er was roasting an unknown piece of meat on a stone slab with great interest, Zhang Chong squatted next to him and watched intently, twitching his nostrils from time to time to smell the aroma of raw meat.

Seeing me come down, Ma Lao Er pulled out the short knife on his waist and cut off a piece of meat and inserted it into me, and said with a smile, "Brother Wu, taste it, see what it tastes like?"

I reached out and pulled the meat slices and stuffed them into my mouth, frowned and chewed a few times, wiped the oil stains on my fingers on the placket, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "The meat is quite chewy, but there is no salt, and it can't hide the fishy smell." ”

Ma Lao Er laughed twice, "When is it, Brother Wu, you are still so particular, just make do with what you can eat, this is also due to the battle with the demon clan, you can bake and eat it if you kill one, if you change it to a celestial, we will have to starve to death." ”

I nodded, what the second brother said is right, since the city was broken, we have been separated from the large army for a month, and the supplies we carry with us have long been exhausted, and along the way, it is all about hunting the demon clan, otherwise we will really starve to death.

Ma Lao Er cut the roasted meat, Zhang Chong picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth to chew, and said coldly, "It's not that heaven and man can't eat, how can they run out of food?"

Ma Lao's second hand stopped moving, and showed a stunned face with me, but Zhang Xiaosan didn't realize it, still stuffed meat into his mouth one by one, I looked at Ma Lao Er, and then smiled bitterly, this little three, easy not to speak, when he speaks, it must be terrifying, it is really not shocking to die.

Everyone chatted while eating without saying a word, Ma Lao Er put the cut meat slices aside, put a piece of raw meat and roasted it, and asked me casually, "Brother Wu, you just went up to take a look, how is the situation outside?"

"It's not good," I picked up a piece of cooked meat and rubbed it on the long knife, using the oil in the meat to maintain the blade to prevent it from becoming dull, "Judging from the degree of decay on the corpse outside, at least half a month has to die, if there is no accident, I guess the demon clan may have hit Yong'an City." ”

"Yong'an City?" the second child was stunned, "Then aren't we running after the ass of the demon clan?"

"Almost," I threw away the slices of meat and took a rag to wipe the meat oil off the long knife, "The last order of the Northern Resistance Command is to let us go to Xia You City to assemble and prepare after the defeat, Yong'an City is the only way to go to Xia You, and we can't get around." ”

"Grass," Ma Lao Er scolded in a low voice, and did not continue to say anything, he also understood in his heart that except for Xia Youcheng, we actually have no other place to go, the northern resistance army has existed in name only, and in the battle of Weiyu City, the main force of the eight legions was all annihilated by the demon clan, and only us and another part of the reconnaissance eagle guards survived, adding up to not even a thousand people, except for the final order of the command to assemble in Xia Youcheng, the important town of the southern resistance army, I am afraid that it is a dead end.

After eating, I let the second and third rest below, and I climbed to the head of the city to be on duty for the first shift, where we are now, said to be a city, in fact, it is just a small sentry fort of two hundred square meters, judging from the scale, the usual garrison is estimated to be no more than twenty people, for the total number of more than 100,000 demon army, the garrison of this sentry fort is not even a dime, but what is admirable is that although there are only twenty people, they still bravely chose to go out of the city to fight.

When we came to this sentry fort, there were only messy debris in the fort, and there was no corpse, all the corpses were mixed with the corpses of the demon clan outside the city, according to the configuration of the sentry fort, among these dead soldiers, there must be at least two medical soldiers, medical soldiers do not belong to the combat establishment, they have immunity on the battlefield, if they surrender, they can live, but they did not, but chose to live and die with their comrades, it is this kind of blood bravery, which supports the determination of the human race to fight against the demon race, so that the demon clan, who originally wanted to fight quickly, fell into a long and protracted war。

With the passage of time, the shadow of the bamboo pole standing on the northeast corner of the city wall as a timekeeper pointed to the beginning of the time, I twisted my somewhat stiff body, ready to go down to call the second child up to change shifts, the sun is hot at noon, we generally choose to set off at the beginning of the Shen time, to avoid consuming too much physical strength, the three hours vacated at noon, just enough for each of us to sleep for an hour, to relieve the fatigue caused by the overnight march.

I climbed down the city wall and kicked Ma Lao Er, he woke up in a daze, touched his battle helmet belt, and said inarticulately, "Is it my turn? Brother Wu, why are you kicking me so hard today, kicking me all over my body." ”

Not only was Ma Lao Er numb, but I also felt a trembling sensation from the ground, and then I reacted to what was going on, and hurriedly crawled towards the city wall again, shouting in a low voice as I climbed, "Wake up Xiao San and prepare for war!"

Climbing up the city wall, I quietly poked out half of my head to look outside, and I saw that from the direction of our north, there was a cavalry unit rushing here, the mount of the demon clan is different from the human race, the mount of the human race is a war horse of a water, and the types of the demon clan are more, cattle, horses, sheep, deer, tigers, leopards, jackals, and the most outrageous thing is that there is also the earth dragon, the earth dragon is unique to the earth, similar to the crocodile but five or six times larger than the crocodile, the attack is extremely strong, often a ground line dragoon can slaughter a hundred people, can be described as a battlefield killer like the existence。

I squinted my eyes and tried to observe this cavalry unit, because the loess dust and fog raised were too thick, I couldn't see the number and main combat power of the other party, I could only barely identify the leader was a few wolf cavalry, which made me feel a lot more settled, the wolf cavalry is fast, but the combat effectiveness is not very strong, in the demon team is mostly as a scout, not the main force of the legion, the size of the squad is often about fifty people, if we rely on the sentry fort defense, we can resist for a while, otherwise, if they encounter the ground dragoons, they can directly bulldoze the sentry fort and bury the three of us alive in it。

As the cavalry unit approached, the overall situation was displayed in front of us, similar to what I guessed, this is a scout team of more than forty people, but I don't understand why they suddenly appeared here, the main army of the demon clan should have arrived in Yong'an City, as the scout responsible for opening the way, it should be further forward than the main army, how could they be behind such a long distance, is it possible, are they the front-line scouts of another army?

This speculation made me seriously uneasy, the main offensive against the human race was the six legions led by the demon Venerable Yejingguang, the total number was about 120,000, although the number was not as good as the human race, but the single combat power of the demon clan far exceeded that of the human race, at the beginning, the entire northern resistance army had thirteen legions, 270,000 people, of which five legions were stationed in Shangling Pass on the front line, and the remaining eight legions were gathered in Weiyu City, because there was Shangling Pass in front to block the demon legions, so the troops in Weiyu City were not very vigilant, and the numerical advantage paralyzed their nerves, so that when the demon army was in Weiyu City, the ballistas on the city walls have not even been hung up.

The defeat of the city was too miserable, 170,000 against 120,000, it should have been an evenly matched fight, but it turned out to be a one-sided slaughter, before the defenders on the city wall organized a decent defense, the demon clan's earthly dragoons broke through the city gate and poured into the rainy city, nearly 300,000 troops launched a street battle in the streets of the rainy city, which was a nightmare for the Terran troops, without the cooperation of the formation and the troops, a single soldier in the face of the demon soldiers, almost no different from the lamb to be slaughtered, often just a face, the Terran soldiers were cut in half by the demon soldiers and the weapons with the block。

The physical fitness of the demon clan is too good, their rough fur ordinary bows and arrows can't shoot through at all, and the huge force brought by their weight of two or three hundred kilograms completely ignores the defense of the human soldiers, coupled with the magic support of the demon masters in the rear, the war started for only an hour, and the defenders of the rainy city entered the rout stage, the demon clans did not understand what the tactical arrangement of encircling three and missing one, they launched an attack from the city gates in four directions, and killed all the soldiers and civilians in the entire rainy city, and the rainy city is an important city in the north, and there are 800,000 civilians living in it, plus 170,000 soldiers of the northern resistance army, Nearly a million people died in the fire of Rainy City, and the demon clan, as the creator of this tragedy, only had less than 20,000 casualties.

This is a fiasco that can no longer be aggrieved, and by the time we, the Eagle Guards, who were scattered dozens of miles away in the rainy city, rushed back, the army of the night view had already gone straight south, and we had no choice but to start retreating to Xia Youcheng to assemble according to the plan predetermined by the headquarters.

I will probably never forget the tragic scene in the rainy city, the demon clan has no habit of staying behind in the war, every time it passes, the city must be slaughtered, and then burned after looting the required materials, after we enter the city, what we see is the tragic scene like purgatory on earth, the entire rainy city was burned by the fire, mixed with the ruins and broken tiles, is a corpse that was burned to charcoal, those corpses, there are larger men, thin women, and the most hateful, there are small children, all of which show the bloodthirstiness and cruelty of the demon race, but also warn that this war will not end well。

The fiasco of the defenders of Weiyu City was because of the sneak attack of the demon clan, no one knew how the army of Yejingguang bypassed Shangling Pass and suddenly appeared under Weiyu City, so there were two different opinions among the Eagle Guards, some of the Eagle Guards were ready to retreat south to Xia Youcheng according to the previous order of the headquarters, and some of the Eagle Guards were ready to go north to Shangling Pass to find out what happened to Shangling Pass, neither of them could convince each other, so they simply split into two and acted separately.

I chose to go south, for me, the duty of a soldier is to obey orders, what happened to Shangling Pass, in fact, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the northern resistance army has been completely wiped out, the enemy's soldier peak is directed at Xia Youcheng, and then tangled in the matter of Shangling Pass will only delay the defense of the south, I can also understand the mood of the Eagle Guard in the north, Eagle Guard as a sentinel scattered outside the rainy city, but did not fulfill his duty to warn the city, of course, this demon army bizarre through the Eagle Guard's warning circle has something to do with it, but in the end, the Eagle Guard is still derelict in his duties, they want to go to Shangling Pass, just to find out the reason for the sudden appearance of the demon army, so as to save the face of the Eagle Guard's dereliction of duty。