Chapter 209: Breakthrough
Although the sea water that poured into the camp did not set off turbulent waves, it continued to advance layer by layer, and it would not be long before the entire barracks would be covered by seawater. God knows how high the sea will rise in the barracks, and I don't dare to bet on whether I will be wiped out while in the barracks: "Quick, run to the mountains!"
Dong Dahai was already confused: "Brother, where do we go up the mountain? ”
"Go up the hill from the direction of the battery. ”
When I pulled Dong Dahai to run in the direction of the fort, Dong Dahai suddenly shouted: "Do you see if there are steps over there?"
When I looked in the direction of Dong Dahai's finger, I vaguely saw a few steps that meandered up the mountain but were intermittent.
If the stone steps had not been destroyed, they should have led from the foot of the mountain to the stone cliff, but now this stone step has been cut off several times by the artillery fire of the Qing army, and at first glance it looks like a giant python that has been cut into several pieces, scattered on the hillside.
"Let's talk about it!" I glanced back at the surging seawater, and quickly rushed up the stone steps with Dong Dahai. I stepped over a section of broken stone steps, instinctively walked to the next stone steps, and when I looked further, the scene in front of me changed to a silent barracks: "When did I turn around? Dong Dahai, Dong Dahai......"
Dong Dahai, who had been following me all the time, was now standing on another section of stone steps, separated from me by more than ten meters, and said with a cry: "Are you a human or a ghost, why did you fly out all of a sudden?"
I remember walking a few steps, how could I fly out?
"I'm human. Why have we walked together for so long, can't you still see that I'm human?" I turned around and ran in the direction of Dong Dahai, who was so frightened that he ran away: "Don't come here, you wait for a while." ”
I only ran two steps before I stopped, staring at Dong Dahai's back.
When people are running for their lives, they usually use the fastest speed to escape in a straight line, and they will not turn until they are blocked by something in front of them. After Dong Dahai stepped out of the stone steps, he went all the way to the left and ran to another flight of stairs, until he stepped on the stone steps, and then inexplicably turned around and ran towards me.
I just moved my body and blocked in front of Dong Dahai. Dong Dahai, who rushed over, saw me at first glance, and knelt down with a "poof": "Old fairy, old fairy, I, Dong Dahai, have never done anything lacking in virtue in my life, you are always gracious...... You have spared me, I have ......"
"Shut up!" I raised my leg and kicked Dong Dahai to the ground, "You take a good look at whether I am a human or a ghost." ”
"You ......" Dong Dahai said a few words "you" in a row, "Your old mana is strong and powerful, don't play tricks on me." Otherwise, how could I run ahead of you?"
I pulled Dong Dahai up: "You are watching with wide eyes now, watching me move forward." ”
"I don't dare, I don't dare to ......" Dong Dahai was so frightened that he didn't even dare to raise his head.
"If you dare not look, I will pick out your eyeballs. I grabbed Dong Dahai and pressed him on the stone steps, and I ran over to the top of the stone steps.
This time, instead of looking up at the road, I kept staring at my toes. According to the route he had taken, after about ten steps, he would be able to stop at the level of the next stone step, but his toes were on the edge of the next step.
Next, it's time for him to turn around?
I deliberately sank my toes, stomped the edge of the stone steps with my front foot, and straightened my back foot suddenly, sinking my whole body to my toes. According to common sense, this posture should not move without external force, but when I looked up, I saw Dong Dahai, who was supposed to be standing behind me.
My first reaction was: the mountain, it must not be able to go up, it is a maze here. If Ye Xun is here, we may still have the possibility of going up the mountain, but I can only choose to escape to other places.
At the beginning, the Ninghai battalion shelled the stone steps, perhaps because they couldn't rush to the top of the mountain, so they wanted to use artillery fire to forcibly open the way. However, the battalion was still stopped under the mountainside, and he and Dong Dahai had no time to study how to go up the mountain.
I rushed to Dong Dahai's side: "Go back and see if you can go down the mountain over there." ”
"Go back, there is a ghost ......" Dong Dahai sat on the ground in fright as soon as he turned around.
The barracks, which had sunk into darkness, did not know when a lampstand made of wooden roots was erected, and the brass fire plate supported by three wooden sticks was blazing, illuminating the entire barracks.
The sea water surging on the ground was at least more than half a meter, and a large number of red-capped military hats floated on the water, slowly coming towards the depths of the barracks, and at first glance it looked like soldiers returning to the barracks.
"Get up!" I dragged Dong Dahai, but the latter couldn't stand up: "Don't...... I can't get up......"
"Then you will die!" I put the scabbard behind my back, jumped into the water with my long knife in one hand, and rushed to the back of the barracks through knee-deep water.
The sea water poured into the barracks from the camp gate in the direction of the cliff, and the hillside on the left could not move forward, although there was no danger on the right side of the barracks, but there were two batteries there, which meant that the Ninghai camp had also been strictly guarded in that direction. I didn't dare to bet on whether I could get out of trouble, so I could only rush to the relative safety of the back camp.
After I ran more than ten meters, Dong Dahai cried and chased after me from behind: "Brother, you wait for me, don't leave me ......"
I just wanted to scare Dong Dahai, and I didn't mean to throw him down, and when I heard him chasing him from behind, I immediately stopped.
The moment I turned around to pick up Dong Dahai, I saw four military hats dyed red by the firelight like sharks seeing blood, dragging herringbone waves, and quietly attacking behind Dong Dahai.
"Be careful!" I rushed to Dong Dahai in a few steps, reached out and grabbed the other party's collar and walked it behind me, and the long knife in my right hand also slashed down towards a military hat. The flash of the knife light penetrated through the water, and the military hat floating on the water split in two and sank into the water, and the other three hats also flipped to the bottom under the splash brought by the blade.
No one under the hat?
I was stunned for a moment before I realized something was wrong. Why didn't Dong Dahai, who was dragged behind me behind, have no sound?
When I turned around to look, there were ripples on the water, and there was still the shadow of Dong Dahai.
I immediately took a step forward, put my hand in the center of the ripple and felt it to the bottom. As soon as my fingers touched the zippered placket of my shirt, I immediately turned my palm into a claw and grabbed the collar of the other party and lifted it up sharply.
But this time Dong Dahai looked extremely heavy, until I pulled the person out of the water, I found that someone strangled Dong Dahai's neck from behind, and the short knife in the opponent's hand was just pressed on the edge of Dong Dahai's neck, as long as the slightest movement could make people blood splash on the spot.
Not only did I not let go, but I dragged Dong Dahai up with all my might, and I looked at the person behind him through Dong Dahai's head.
Half of the other party's head was shaved brightly, and a long braid of the Qing Dynasty was dragged behind his head, and the ends of the braid were wrapped around his neck several times. His face turned out to be the same as the general soldier on the round platform, and it was also a pale golden dried corpse.
Without waiting for the two of them to stand firmly, I let go of the left hand that was holding Dong Dahai's shirt, and the palm of my hand went up along Dong Dahai's neckline, directly clasped Qing Bing's wrist, pulled it outward, and I also took a step back.
Dong Dahai, who was already about to suffocate, knelt in the water, but after pulling away the palm of the Qing soldier, I suddenly took a step forward, raised my head and slammed it on the top of the Qing soldier's head.
I am 1.85 meters tall, which is already a lot taller than the Qing soldiers, and with the strength of the forward rush, a loud sound like a stone crash suddenly broke out on the foreheads of the two people. The blood above my head fell, and the Qing soldiers on the other side couldn't help but retreat two steps back.
"Kill-" Without waiting for the other party to stand firm, I raised the long knife high above the top and slashed straight above the head of the Qing soldier. Although the Qing soldiers who were still retreating escaped the disaster of severed heads, they were cut into the center of their eyebrows by the tip of the knife. The hideous knife edge instantly pulled from the top of his head to his jaw, and the other party also fell into the water on his back.
When the sea water pushed away by the corpse gathered again, a layer of black stains like kerosene suddenly floated on the surface of the water.
I didn't have time to think about whether it was the blood gushing out of the other party's body, so I quickly dragged the frightened Dong Dahai and ran all the way to the back of the barracks. The two of us hadn't gone far before the hats that came down the river surrounded us from all sides.
Dong Dahai turned back while running: "Brother, run, run...... The ghost soldiers are catching up!"
I was actually looking back, and I didn't dare to run too fast because there was still a military general sitting in the depths of the barracks. The Qing soldiers who have become dry corpses can go out of the water to kill people, can't that military general lead the army to fight again?
However, the Qing soldiers who came down the river had blocked our retreat, and even if the two of us wanted to turn back, we would not be able to break through the encirclement.
When I suddenly accelerated, Dong Dahai stepped on the saber that was sinking in the water. The long knife was originally stuck in the crack of the stone, and the blade just turned upward, and as soon as Dong Dahai's feet slipped, the soles of his feet slid along the blade. The blade instantly cut the sole of Dong Dahai's shoe and cut directly into his toes, and Dong Dahai fell into the water screaming.
The corpses of the four Qing soldiers jumped out of the water at the same time, raised their guns and stabbed Dong Dahai's body. Hearing Dong Dahai's screams, I had already turned around and slashed the opponent's steel gun with a backhand.
The four guns were cut off by the long knife one after another, and Dong Dahai, who fell into the water, also crawled out of the water behind me. Strangely, the Qing soldiers, who were cut off by me, did not continue the pursuit, but squatted down and dived back into the water.
The four military hats floating on the water immediately split into two sides and bypassed me in the direction of his back, and a large number of Qing military hats swarmed in with the water waves.
After I turned around, I suddenly lowered my head and got under Dong Dahai's armpit, wrapped my arms around the other party's legs with one hand, and carried the person sideways on my body and continued to run away. The cliff behind the barracks was our only way out, but I didn't know what was waiting for me over there.