Chapter 264: Sacrifice the Heroic Soul with Fire
Thinking of Ward's woman's plump and fair body, Tush subconsciously grabbed a few handfuls underneath.
Although he prefers the red-skinned, petite and soft prairie women, all the prairie warriors see riding on the Ward women as a symbol of honor.
But his armor is so good, even the scimitar that Daxun gave him can't cut through it at once.
Now that this suit of armor had become his trophy, he could imagine the envious and jealous gazes in his eyes when he appeared in front of the other captains in that suit of armor.
How could he not guard against the fire attack of his opponent, there were already several firebreaks in the camp, and besides, there was no wind today, these Wards were really stupid.
Just as he was immersed in lewdness, fantasizing about choosing a few mixed-race women after conquering the camp in front of him, he heard a commotion in his ears, and the sound was getting louder and louder.
"What's the matter?"
"Captain Wan, the enemy set fire to the mountain, and now it is out of control. ”
"What?
"Lord Bobo has been burned to death. ”
"Bastard, isn't there a firebreak?"
"Back to my lord, I was a little tired from running around for days, so I only cut a five-meter-wide firebreak.
But now the fire is too big, and the flames are jumping up so hard that they can't stop it at all.
And I don't know what was added to those oil oils, not only the smoke was very large, but also poisonous. ”
Tush's face changed suddenly, and he whipped his subordinates a few times to vent the anger in his heart.
"All retreat!" he commanded.
His subordinates also had a deep whip mark on their faces, and said with a bitter face: "Captain Wan, the fire was lit from the entrance, and now the whole mountain is burning, and we are blocked inside.
The only exit was the camp, which was large enough, and the flammability of those four-colored birches was very poor, which was a natural fire barrier. ”
Tush whipped him again in hatred, and scolded: "Then what do you need, all attack, and the first one to attack takes Bobo's place, and rewards a hundred milk camels." ”
"Yes, Captain. ”
Tush was not at ease, and personally came to the door of the camp, but the ten-meter-high wall not far away blocked them for more than three hours.
At this time, the air was already full of smoky mush, and there was even a strong smell of meat, which made his throat involuntarily squirm a few times, and he almost vomited.
The bottom of the mountain was already red, and the huge fire field was like a winding fire dragon, blocking them on this mountain forest.
At present, there are only two ways out, one is to cut down the colorful birch forest bordering the fire, and the other is the camp in front of it.
It's a pity that with their weapons, it is not impossible to cut down the four-colored birch forest, but it will take a full day to cut out the passage of three people in parallel.
Don't wait for then, according to the current speed of the spread of the fire, I am afraid that they will all become a pile of black coke before dawn.
So the only feasible direction is this camp.
There is a limit to how big the thirty people can set fire, let alone such a large area, if they choose to concentrate their forces and rush out at this time, I believe that even if they suffer heavy losses, there will be at least six or seven percent left.
But unfortunately, they chose Murphy's camp, the only passage on the surface, and closed the last escape door with their own hands.
The trumpet of the charge resounded through the mountains, and thousands of steppe people, who had been chased by the fire and smoke, ran to the gate with the howl of Ula Ulla, not even caring for their own mounts.
For the ferrets had been frightened by the fire, and they were desperately burrowing into the ground, and did not obey their orders at all.
For a while, the entire wall was crawling with steppe people, and from a distance, it seemed that the trunk of the tree was crawling with red maggots.
It's just that Tush felt that something was wrong, why the defense on the walled wall had weakened so much, and there was hardly a figure in sight in the blink of an eye.
"Not good!"
As soon as he realized something, he saw a dazzling red light rise from the entire wall.
The moment the oil is ignited, it is mixed with the oil and gas that evaporates into the air, and it ignites and rapidly expands into a huge air mass.
All the steppe people who climbed on the wall were blown out and burned in the air.
The open area was far more suitable for the spread of this force than the dense woods, and a powerful wave of air tossed all the steppe people within fifty meters and rolled them to the ground.
What Tush saw was a hellish scene, with countless burning men rolling all over the ground in screams, and even some running around, desperately clinging to everything they could hold on to, hoping to be saved by their companions.
But they got nothing but to ignite more people and spread the flame farther.
At this point, half of the mountain was lit, and it looked like a huge torch from a distance, and a clear fire could be seen even from a distance of dozens of kilometers.
The burning walls blocked their way of escape, and the fire dragon that spread upwards was like a noose around their necks, slowly pulling tight.
The temperature around him rose rapidly, so hot that it seemed as if the air had been ignited, and every breath felt like the airways were badly burned.
"Charge, charge outward! If you don't charge, it's too late. Thush commanded loudly.
Unfortunately, this order came a little late.
The subordinates just now have died under the wall, and now they have become a pile of stinky barbecue.
He searched for the Centurion and the Centurion among the steppe people who were making random pictures, trying to get them to carry out his orders.
It wasn't until he used the bravery of his identity to cut down a few people that he gathered less than a thousand people.
They huddled together and rushed towards the only mountain road, only here there were fewer trees, hoping for a chance of life.
There were no mounts and only a charge on foot, and with each step forward, a dozen men fell, and then shrunk into a ball under the scorching heat.
By the time they passed through the fire, which was already more than 60 meters wide, all of them had flames on their bodies and no hair.
More than half of the original team of more than 800 people were frightened back by the scorching heat, and less than 80 people finally managed to escape outside, all of whom were leaders who were protected by their men in the middle.
But they could only go here, and before Tush could extinguish the flames on his body, they saw a silver light flying in front of them.
Then his head flew high into the air and fell back into the fire.
The others also ended up in the same way, in just a few dozen breaths, all of them were in different places, or they were pierced into hedgehogs.
Philip: They have been waiting here for a long time, and the whole plan has been successfully completed.
He starts here and ends here.
From here, it is to completely encircle the whole mountain, and from here it is to avenge the brother.
Philip looked at the group of headless corpses, took off his helmet, stood there solemnly, and said loudly, "Brothers, go all the way. ”
All the warriors took off their helmets and observed a moment of silence for the sacrificed Rubin and Jom, and then set out in silence on the way on.
They finally found Rubin's body outside the fire, with the corpses of a dozen steppe people lying beside them.
There was nothing to be seen on the young face, as if he had gone peacefully and without the slightest pain.
Gerald cried like a tearful man, and together with Duke and the others, he hastily buried his brother's remains, which Philip had personally sorted out for him.
The forest would burn for at least a whole day, enough to attract all the prairie people around it, and they had to get out before they could close the siege.
When the fire was completely extinguished two days later, when the steppe people went up to check on it, they all ran down vomiting.
The vast majority of people were not burned to death at all, but choked to death by smoke or suffocated by the fact that the fire had exhausted oxygen.
They were all leaning close to the edge of the colorful birch forest, huddled together in layers, people, trees, land, and even the sky were black, and the oil on their bodies was completely dried and soaked in leather armor, like an abstract and perverted oil painting.
At this time, Philip had already joined Murphy and the others and headed west.
Although this fire was planted by his own hands, it also allowed him to witness the ruthless cruelty of water and fire, but fortunately, the trees have not dried up and have not caused a chain reaction.
In the days to come, this mountain will become drier and drier, and if he is not forced to do so, he does not plan to continue to use fire attacks, the fire of destruction that wiped out billions of living beings in his previous life has left him too impressed.
"Which direction shall we go?" asked Philip.
Murphy pondered for a moment and said, "The road to the north is completely blocked, so we can only continue westward and look for other stockades to take refuge.
And you can also return to Kannai from there, all the way to the west, but you can't do it but to the south. ”
Now Murphy has a wonderful impression of Philip, and every time he looks at that young and handsome little face, he even unconsciously averts his gaze.
That's a whole ten thousand people, and even if he kills two or three thousand, there are still six or seven thousand left.
As a result, he was burned to death by this sunny-looking little ghost without blinking his eyes, but he looked like he was still doing nothing, as if he didn't pay attention to it at all.
"Isn't that getting farther and farther away?"
"To the south is the territory of the Alpine Wards, who alone know how to cross the western vein of the Maryland Mountains and find the source of the Harlem River, where they can sail north to the border.
But it's not the military fortress you entered, nor the Tieyan Pass, but the checkpoint further west. ”
"So what do you think, follow me, or stay here. Philip asked, looking into Murphy's eyes.
Murphy looked at the mountain that still had greenery and hesitated.
Beyond the mountains east of Gaokan City, the steppe people's attack was so stealthy and swift that it cut off the way for most of the scout brigades to return west in the first place.
In the face of the encirclement and interception of the grassland people, some of them united and relied on their strong combat power to break through the blockade line, while others broke into pieces and escaped into the mountains to find a possible way back.
Some of them succeeded, such as Captain Neville of the Giant Bear Division, who managed to bring 161 soldiers home.
Some have failed, buried their bones here, and guarded this long border with their souls, just like their countless martyrs.
More of them were chased and intercepted by the grassland people, fleeing in embarrassment in this wide area, and lingering for a long time.
And Bruce is one of those people.
After graduating last year, he was almost an adult, so he could only intern in various wings, and deal with all kinds of trivial chores as the lieutenant of the wing leader, which made Bruce, who didn't like literary affairs, depressed.
This year, it was not easy for Yang Mo to arrange for his grandfather Brad to enter the front-line scout wing and become a new squadron leader, but he was unexpectedly attacked by the steppes.
Thanks to the reminder of the third-level awakening guard Milady beside him, his squadron avoided the first wave of ambushes from the steppe people, and successfully merged with the captain of his brigade, Ange, taking advantage of the golden opportunity when the steppe people's soldier peak was not too thick, broke through two blockade lines in a row and escaped into the mountains.
At this time, including his escort team, there were still 129 people left in the entire brigade, including one third-level awakened, ten second-level awakened, and 21 first-level awakened, of which eighty percent were from Bruce's squadron, which was not unstrong.
As long as they want, they have every strength to break through the blockade line and return to the defense line of the Wild Lion Division.
But the conundrum before them was that there were too many wounded.
Of the 129 people, at least a third were lightly or seriously wounded, which caused the team to never be fast.
In particular, the 19 seriously wounded were impossible to charge with them, which made the captain Ange extremely difficult.
"Bruce, I'll cover you, you rush over with the fifth squadron. He advised.
You have to take good care of this master, and you must not make a mistake.
When Bruce was first assigned to their brigade, he was happy to treat a few of his colleagues to a drink, which now seems to be a hot potato.
But how could Bruce agree, ignoring Anger's order at all, and instead bandaging the wound of a wounded man.
Stimulated by the previous two years, he worked out like crazy, and although he unfortunately did not fulfill his long-cherished wish before graduation, he finally successfully woke up three months ago, which is one of the reasons why Brad was able to agree to him coming to the front line.
He is also the fifth person to awaken among the eight teenagers on the Green Vine Championship Team, after Wesley and Chuck.
In addition to the strong walls that he had cultivated hard, his innate ability was neither ordinary strength and speed, nor was it the hallmark madness of the family, but a very rare but practical ability.
"Lion's roar", this is the name that Philip gave to this ability when he proudly showed off to his cousin, and the eyes that looked at him were very strange.
Philip stubbornly believes that his abilities have been honed by years of perseverance.
But Bruce felt that the name was not strong enough, and insisted on changing it to "Roaring Lion".
The way he exerts his ability is to roar loudly, sounding like a lion, and everyone within a few tens of meters of the 50-degree fan in front of him will be directly affected by the shock of the sound wave, temporarily losing control of the body, and gradually decreasing in power as the distance increases.
For people in this world who have not experienced the baptism of thunder, this kind of explosive loud sound is like a life-threatening note, not only will they stay there at that time, but in severe cases, they may even pass out on the spot.
Everyone knows what a terrible outcome it can be to lose hearing or balance on the battlefield, even if it's just for a few minutes.
At least Philip was hit at a distance of ten meters, his ears buzzed for five minutes, and although he did not completely lose his hearing, he was unable to distinguish the sounds around him at all, and his head was faintly dizzy.
This shows that it is not only a sonic attack, but also contains a little spiritual power.
This is still the premise that he has opened his awakening.
In a sense, this extremely rare crowd control skill is well suited to becoming a frontline commander.
But it's also very weak, which means that if he wants to use this ability, Bruce must always be at the front of the line, not hide in the middle of the group.
After all, the ability of sound waves is indiscriminate, and it is impossible to distinguish between Ward and Prairie people.
And so far Bruce has not mastered the proportions of it, and he can only use it four times at most in an hour's awakening time.
However, Philip gave him the idea to customize a horn to carry with him at all times, which could at least double the power and reduce the possibility of accidentally injuring his companions.
Despite Bruce's approval, he didn't put the horn on because it was too shameful.
But now, Bruce picked up a piece of armor and silently bent it into a barrel that was thick at the front and thin at the back, preparing for the battle that might come at any time.
Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, the captain Ange no longer insisted, if he could go back, who wouldn't want to let his hope of survival be greater.
Suddenly, the fighter in charge of the reconnaissance returned and reported a very important discovery.
"How big is the beast?" asked Bruce.
"It's hard to describe, but it's at least twenty meters high, like a hill. It's like a beast earth dragon that has been magnified tenfold, the skin on its body is rough, and the nose is long.
The two fangs in front were five or six meters long, but they didn't look very sharp, and they moved very slowly, advancing only five kilometers in a quarter of an hour. The warrior replied.
Bruce and Aang gasped, no worse than the biggest known beast, the Bear Beast.
"How many have you seen?" asked Anger.
"One every 200 meters, sixteen by the time I left. ”
Oh no, Bruce and Aang looked at each other, both soldiers, and they both realized how devastating this monster could be if it was equipped with heavy armor and charged the walls of the military wall.
The most powerful known bed crossbow on the military wall may be able to kill and injure opponents, but the reloading speed is slow, and who knows how fast this monster will run, allowing them to shoot a few times.
"There's no need to report it, it's too late. This kind of monster can't be hidden at all, it can be seen from a long distance, and it can't make a special weapon a few days in advance.
Our mission now is not only to find a way home, but also to kill and damage this monster as much as possible.
No one can stop it in the plains, but not necessarily in the mountains. Bruce said.
This time, Ange did not persistently persuade him to save his life first, but lowered his head and pondered a feasible plan.
"Yes, I know a place where you might be able to take the unexpected. Anger's eyes lit up.
So several people got together and discussed the next course of action, the most important of which was how to prevent those pesky eyes in the sky.