Chapter 071: The Darkness Before Dawn
"Shh "The ball of cloth was torn into pieces. Fully soaked in blood, tender and juicy, with a smooth taste, the monsters eat it so sourly.
Huang Yunqing saw a chill, but after seeing Su Qijingli's demon body and Zhang Jiabao's secret methods, he didn't dare to dwell on the matter of changing swords.
The four-headed monster was still hungry after eating, roaring and jumping to eat the people on the tree. But Zhang Jiabao and they were at least a foot and a half off the ground, where could they get it? So two monsters tried to climb the tree.
Their front paws are no longer like human hands, their knuckles have become unusually thick, they have been walking on all fours like tigers and leopards for a long time, and their metacarpoplar joints have become reversed, so their grip function has deteriorated.
Claws alone hook on the bark of trees, and they can't bear their weight. The two-headed monster had barely climbed two steps before falling, leaving some bark crumbs on its paws. They try several times, but they never get up.
"Come on, bite me!" Zhang Jiabao grimaced proudly, stepped on the branches, and twisted around with his half-squatting butt holding on to the trunk. Then they rode on the branches of the trees, dangling their two feet above their heads.
The monsters had long forgotten the humiliating meaning of those movements, and instead salivated over their feet. However, their bounce power is not very good, and when they see that they can't eat, they are so anxious that they scream.
"I don't want to give you food? Forget it, I'll do it. Zhang Jiabao picked up a side of bread with a spear and put it down to seduce them. A monster jumped up first, and it was about to reach it.
"Eh!" Zhang Jiabao quickly took the gun back, shook it a few times, put it down, and took it back again. It was so amusing that the monster jumped up and down hard, and it was very happy.
"Why don't you fall?" Huang Yunqing scolded in her heart. If the monsters are anxious and determined to spend time with them, a group of people will wait to make a nest in the tree! This villain's appearance of triumph makes people itch, and they are eager to cut off the branch of the tree on which he sits and let him be the monster's rations.
Realizing that they were being teased, the monsters gave up jumping and gnawed on the trunk in anger. Even if they had good teeth, they would never be able to bite off the old locust tree, and only peel off pieces of bark. Maybe you're really hungry, chew it, chew it, and swallow it in your stomach.
One of the monsters suddenly raised its head, let out a few rapid and powerful howls, and ran towards the farmland. The other monsters immediately followed it.
"Why did you slip away?" Zhang Jiabao said blankly, he hadn't had fun yet.
At this time, Su Qi's wolf head had changed back to a human form, and said, "Because there is a strong smell of blood wafting over there, it is estimated that the fight is fierce." In less than an hour the day will be dawn, so go to sleep. ”
After that, Su Qijingli jumped off the tree, because there was no place for them to lie on the tree. Anyway, there isn't much time to rest, and they plan to keep their teammates on the lookout.
"Ahh Her face was pale, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared, and she squatted with her waist, and Su Qi had to squat down with her.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Jiabao asked with concern.
"Belly...... It hurts!"
Zhang Jiabao rolled his eyes and thought, "Could it be that the chicken soup is poisonous?" No, Su Qi and I are fine after drinking it. "Could it be that you are holding and jumping from a high place...... He'd had this experience, but was too embarrassed to ask.
Su Qi said: "Since two years ago, she has been bleeding every month, and sometimes the pain is very bad. I saw Jing Li's brows furrowed, her eyes closed, her eyelids trembling, and her hands pressed her abdomen stiffly.
Zhang Jiabao thought to herself, I'm afraid things are not so simple, she may have fallen into something similar to Heartless Gu. Because Yamei has also bled like her, she will cover her chest when Gu poison attacks. He jumped down and helped them sit against the tree, not knowing how to alleviate Jingli's pain except to comfort them.
Huang Yunqing was angry and funny when she saw that they were worried and anxious, "Two fools." ”
"Hey, if you promise to exchange swords with me, I'll tell you what to do. She took the opportunity to bring it up again.
Jing Li kept shaking her head, she wouldn't change it anyway. Zhang Jiabao took off the armor blade and shook it towards the tree, "I'll give you this, I don't want you to give anything." ”
Huang Yunqing thought for a while, "Yes." ”
"Do you really understand?"
"Understood. ”
"Trick me into being a puppy?"
"Liar...... You're a puppy. ”
Zhang Jiabao threw the armor blade on it. Huang Yunqing saw that it was an elongated leather armor wristband. The workmanship is exquisite, and the color and texture show its sense of age, and I like it very much.
"What is the origin of this thing?"
"My grandfather was a general of the court, and he killed the top samurai of Sakurasu Island. Zhang Jiabao said nonsense, "There is a bracket on it, be careful when pressing, don't pierce your palm." ”
"Thank you. Huang Yunqing nodded, and put the armor blade on her forearm, "You find a way to warm her stomach, and she will naturally not be so painful." ”
Zhang Jiabao was stunned for a moment, it's as simple as that? I feel cheated, but how can I get the things I sent back. He thought for a moment, rubbed his palm hot, and put it on Jingli's lower abdomen.
"What is this?"
"It's a disease that girls get. Huang Yunqin said casually while playing with what she had just gotten.
"Do you have that too?"
Huang Yunqing's expression froze instantly, "Why do you ask so many little kids?"
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The brigade led by Fuyaozi set off more than half an hour earlier than them. Fuyaozi asked the team to walk in the back, and from the front of the flight, he informed the more than 300 "scavengers" led by Luo Chan Zhenren to prepare for the battle, and asked them to cut down many branches of equal length and short arms for the "arm wrapping tactic".
The "wrapping arm tactic" was proposed by Luo Chan Zhenren, who has been responsible for the safety of the grain road all year round and has the most experience in fighting monsters. This tactic is also known as "naked clothing", in which a hard object is tied to the forearm and the upper body is taken off to wrap it whole.
When dealing with monsters, use the thick protected arm to hit its mouth and teeth, and then raise a sharp weapon to kill it as soon as possible, which can greatly increase the chance of survival.
And their weapon is a long soldier made of silk wood and broken swords. At that time, in addition to the monks who could customize their own swords after reaching a certain age, there were still hundreds of ordinary white iron swords in the library. This is obviously not enough for a large number of people, and ordinary people who have not practiced martial arts are not suitable for this kind of short soldiers.
So the body of each sword was cut into three sections, the one where the tip of the sword was left untreated, and the other two pieces sharpened one end into a sharp edge, shaped like a thin chisel with blades on both sides, and then each inserted into the end of the sawn silk stick. The weapons made in this way can be called guns with sharp blades, and the flat-edged ones can be called "shoveling and cutting throats".
With weapons and tactics, it's a reorganization of personnel. The initial consideration of the more than 1,800 strong men was to try to separate the "locals" and "outsiders" from each other to avoid disputes. But later, they were mixed in half and three teams were formed, so that they could slowly integrate in the day and night.
Each food brigade consisted of about 600 people, and was commanded by five True Realm monks. There are 100 commanders for every 100 people, and the centurion and his deputies are all served by the monks of the Dragon Seeking Realm, and there is a captain for every 20 people, and a captain for every 5 people, so as to form an organization.
More than 800 people from Fuyaozi and more than 300 people from Luo Chan were together. When I was about to arrive at the farmland in Shao County, the road was getting wider, and it was planned to take hundreds of people in a row, and a thousand people would form a phalanx, and the monsters would be defeated in one go.
However, problems arose, and the brigade began to riot and stopped. They had learned that there were hundreds of monsters in front of them, and the disciples of the sect felt that outsiders should lead the charge, and of course outsiders were unwilling to accept this death.
"Go up, we have raised you in Wuliang Mountain for so many years, and the time has come to repay the kindness!"
"Fart! How much we have contributed over the years, how much we have suffered, how many sins we have suffered, who dares to say that we are inferior?"
"Yes, if you want to go up, you can go together, or if you don't go to everyone, it's a big deal to starve to death together!"
"Phew! ungrateful stuff. If it weren't for the mercy of the sect back then, the mountain gate opened the mountain gate and let you in, and you would still be alive today, not to mention how much effort did it take for us to save your lives when the plague was raging!"
"Then who contributed the most to build Fangcheng? In the first two years, every time I went to search for grain, who was not afraid of death to open the road? Who worked the hardest when cultivating the fields? Who got the least food and clothing for each family? You still have the face to show kindness!"
"We don't owe anyone anything! In today's battle, the king of Hades will draw lots, and life and death will depend on fate! But if we want to be at the mercy of others, we will not do it!"
"Yes, no, no!"
"Hmph, a pack of white-eyed wolves. After so many years of grain and rice, it is better to feed the dogs!"
"What are you, villains and cowards!"
"Don't make any noise! But he has no authority at all in this life-and-death decision, and he can't control the mutual abuse of his subordinates.
"You monks are so good at martial arts, you can't deal with just a few monsters, why don't you go forward?" I don't know who said. It's not loud, but a lot of people hear it. The quarrel stopped suddenly, and one by one his eyes secretly looked at those Dragon Seeking Realm and True Transformation Realm cultivators, and what he thought in his heart was self-evident.
"What a joke. Fuyaozi thought to himself. The monks of the Dragon Seeking Realm and the Transformation Realm were the cornerstones of his rule over the Boundless Mountain, and with their current numbers, they could barely defend his authority. If you send them to fight in the front, you won't be able to show even if you have an elegant body under the coercion of people. When the time comes, how many percent will be lost by the monsters, and the Fang City, which has thousands of people, will not be a mess of porridge?
"Order," the shaper in the center of the formation calmly instructed to the left and right, "the first row will reward one young woman and ten chickens and ducks, the second row will reward five chickens and ducks and fifty catties of grain, and those in the third row will enjoy thirty catties of grain." Whoever beheads a monster will be protected by the immeasurable mountain from the risk of freezing and starvation in the future. ”
As soon as the reward order was issued, the crowd fell silent instantly. The terms "woman" and "chicken and duck" reached the ears of the strong men, and their eyes lit up.
"Damn, people die and birds rise to the sky, and if you don't die, you will enjoy a few more years of happiness. This man has done a trade in his life, and all my brothers who are not afraid of death will come with me!" shouted one of the chiefs.
Someone took the lead, and brave men appeared in piles. Especially those young singles with strong blood and vigor, they rushed to the first row. In this isolated world, gold and silver are not as good as dung, and food is harvested together, and although it is scarce, it will not starve to death. If you want to talk about what is the most precious, of course, it is to have your own mother-in-law!
The second is that meat is the most attractive, and those who have families but can't eat meat go to the second row. Most of the men in the third row are middle-aged men, who just want to finish the battle quickly and bring back dozens of catties of rice to give a full meal to the "partner" who has been drinking gruel.
But there are also those who retreat, preferring to live a little harder, just wanting to save their lives. So the team made some adjustments, and the brave men formed three new hundred-man teams in front.
Fuyaozi rose into the air, and a full of angry voice spread: "Everyone listen to me. There were a few Westerners in Shao County who were besieged, and they promised to help us get out of Yingzhou. But the ugly words are in front, whoever dares to escape from the battle, I will kill him, and he will become a ghost and a ghost, and he will not be able to raise his head in front of the king of Hades!"
"Array, sortie!"
More than 1,000 bareback strongmen with arms and arms finally had some fighting spirit and drove majestically to the farmland.
The night was like ink, and only the faint light of the torches was dancing, just like Fuyaozi's uncertain mood. The reward he promised may not be really received by many people, and many people are destined to die in this battle, and those who are lucky enough to be injured but do not die must also die.
This is the terrible thing about monsters, no matter what creature is bitten by it, it will be assimilated and fall into the devil's path, which is more difficult to solve than the plague.
Along the way, the frequent appearance of monsters killed five people and injured nineteen. Eight of them were bitten and wounded, and their front feet were exiled, and their hind feet were secretly sent to kill by Fuyaozi, because leaving them would be more troublesome.
Fuyaozi has decided that if this battle is irreparable, he will leave Yingzhou alone.