Chapter Forty-Nine: Garlic Becomes a Soldier
Midnight stared at everyone in front of him, and his gaze finally fell on a short, thin child, he looked really small, really thin, so thin that Midnight was really worried, if this child ran around the barracks three times, he would fall to the ground. Of course, a child like this lacks strength will not be given a real weapon, and his only tool for self-defense is a stone that he holds tightly in his hand.
Midnight stretched out his hand and gently stroked the child's messy hair, if it weren't for the troubled times, such a child should still be a coquettish baby hiding in the arms of his parents, right?
Midnight asked, "Are you afraid?" ”
The child looked at Midnight, he couldn't believe that this man who was more like an outlaw than an outlaw, this man who could make most of the soldiers in the military camp unable to sleep well at night with a thunder pattern knife, still had such a gentle side.
After a moment's hesitation, the kid nodded.
"You must survive today!" Midnight stuffed a dagger into the child's hand and said softly: "So that your generation can see the rising sun tomorrow!" ”
The child nodded vigorously, he only felt a sour nose, tears crossed his face, tears washed away the black ash on his face, and slid out one white mark after another, the contrast between white and black, it looked extremely eye-catching. He looked at the midnight and said in a low voice: "Big brother, you also want to live through today, let's go to see tomorrow's sunrise together!" ”
The child's voice was as light and brittle as a lark, and there was something indescribably good.
Chao yang?
Tomorrow?
Hearing these two words, Midnight smiled. He took a deep breath, looked at Captain Bai Ning, and hissed: "I beg you to order, all children under the age of sixteen and the elderly over the age of forty-five stay in the barracks!" We are a group of big men, we have no strength, but we can't protect our relatives and homes, so let's keep the last bit of dignity of a man in this war! If we can really survive, at least let our children live a little more like normal people after they are away from the battlefield!! ”
Seeing Bai Ning nodding vigorously, Midnight laughed wildly. He shouldered his Eyethunder Pattern Knife and strode towards the zombie horde. At this time, in the face of hundreds of thousands, swarming zombie hordes, in the face of these terrible torrents that no one has a surname to speak of, only the instinct of biological hunting, the only choice is to fight with all your strength!
Kill them all, or be killed by them, there's no other choice!
Bai Ning hissed, "Archers prepare, release the arrows!" ”
1,200 rockets wrapped in oilcloths pulled out a red cloud in the air, smashing their heads and faces at the zombies who were crowded together without the slightest gap in the middle.
Hundreds of zombies were brutally beaten, and they continued to huddle among their accomplices and continued to struggle forward, and soon a burst of stench of burnt flesh came from their bodies, and the unique neck wind of the grassland blew on their faces, blowing this smell into everyone's nose. The faces of all the soldiers turned pale in the air, and as they watched their Adam's apples surging up and down, they shouted in the middle of the night: "Don't vomit!" If you don't want to die, open your eyes wide and straighten your back! ”
Bai Ning glared at the archers who were staying in place, and roared violently: "What are you sons of you who are stunned, hurry up and shoot me again!" Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! I don't believe they're really invulnerable! I don't believe that if we burn them all to ashes, they will be able to get up and bite us again! No need to aim, there are zombies in front of you, and you don't need to care about the rhythm and coordination, use your mixed skills and use the fastest way to dump the arrows on your body, which is your greatest success! ”
The trembling of the bowstring continued to sound, and the sky was marked with a mixture of red and black, and the scorching stench emanating from the zombie horde became stronger and stronger. The thunder knife on Midnight's shoulder quickly bounced up, and a zombie who walked towards him didn't hear the sharp sound of the weapon breaking the wind until his body was split in half by him, and the knife that Midnight slashed out was faster than the sound!
Screams and roars rose into the sky, and thousands of Shang Dynasty troops finally began to confront the zombie horde.
A series of angry thunder explosions sounded in the sky, dozens of thick electric snakes fell fiercely from the dense clouds, hundreds of zombies could not avoid it, and they were split into dried corpses without a trace of water on the spot, and their bones were broken into countless pieces when they were slightly squeezed by other zombies.
Midnight picked up the Eyethunder Pattern Knife in his hand and slashed wildly, while roaring: "Jiang Shang, aren't you the most proficient in the immortal art of sprinkling beans into soldiers?" If you can scatter more than 100,000 beans, why don't we just hide and watch your bean soldiers and zombies come to a big battle?! ”
Jiang Shang held the peachwood sword, pointed at the sky obliquely, and didn't know if he was gathering the mana of the next lightning strike, he heard the sound of midnight, straightened his neck and shouted: "You carry a granary on my back, my soybeans have long been used up......"
Jiang Shang was only halfway through his words when he was interrupted by Bai Ning, who glared and shouted, "You want soybeans, right?" No problem, we have to be! Come on, bring out all the soybeans in our grain and grass reserves to Mr. Jiang Shang! Move fast!! ”
More than a dozen soldiers, under the command of the quartermaster, flew over, and actually placed more than a dozen sacks of soybeans in front of Jiang Shang, and met Bai Ning's expectant gaze, Jiang Shang shouted with a wry smile: "You really can become soldiers by themselves when I grab the beans and throw them on the ground?" I have to infuse my own mana into every bean, you send me a dozen sacks of soybeans, even if you smoke me Chengren, I can't make so many bean soldiers in a short time! If sprinkling beans into soldiers can really be used unrestricted like this, then what does the country want your soldiers to do, just prepare a few more Taoist priests who can use the bean-sprinkling into soldiers immortal method! ”
"yes, he's going to consume mana!" Midnight shouted loudly: "There are no ginseng, deer leaves, and lingzhi in our army, so prepare five or six hundred ginseng and seven or eight hundred pieces of lingzhi for Jiang Shang, these herbs can help him quickly recover his mana!" ”
The quartermaster jumped to his feet and shouted: "Our entire army can't even eat enough, how can we carry this precious medicinal herb with us, even if we turn over the largest pharmacy in Chaoge, it is impossible to have five or six hundred ginseng and seven or eight hundred pieces of Ganoderma lucidum, right?" Also, aren't you afraid that this old guy will be impensated by you and drank?! ”
"It doesn't matter if there is no ginseng Ganoderma lucidum, is there any meat in our barracks? It doesn't matter if it's a barbecue, a stew, or a braised pork, as long as it's meat! He himself once said that eating meat can also help restore mana! That's right...... Evil, you immediately tie Jiang Shang to me, and tie him to that flagpole in our barracks!" ”
Jiang Shang's eyes widened and he shouted, "Ao Ziye, you kid is crazy? ”
"You are an immortal, you will fly to the sky!" Midnight laughed wildly: "If you see that the situation is not good, come and make a move to control the clouds, what will we do with the poor worms of the ** mortal womb?" I'm just going to drag you here, and if you don't do your best and the zombies storm the barracks, you're just waiting to be their rations! Commander Wan, please send a few soldiers to stare at Jiang Shang, as long as he dares to make any rash moves, don't be polite, just raise the knife in your hand and slash at him! He can rejuvenate, as long as you don't hack him to death, there will be no problem! If he wants to escape, he will always have enough mana left, right?! ”
Bai Ning nodded, and actually sent a few soldiers from the pro-soldier team, and at the same time drew his weapons to surround Jiang Shang, Jiang Shang looked at several men in front of him, a full hundred and twenty or thirty pounds of bacon that could kill him at least ten times, he couldn't help rolling his eyes, and shouted wildly: "Ao Ziye, you bastard, I fucking misjudged you!" ”
"No more nonsense! If you don't want to be torn to pieces by hundreds of zombies and become a delicacy in their mouths, just do it for me and take out all the work you did to press the bottom of the box! Who are you, you are Jiang Taigong Jiang Ziya, your master is an omnipotent primordial Tianzun, isn't it just hundreds of thousands of zombies, I have confidence in you! ”
Jiang Shang is really going to cry, there are more than 100,000 zombies outside, even if he can sprinkle beans into a soldier's spell, but a handful of soybeans are sprinkled on it, judging from the size of his palm, he can scatter more than a hundred soldiers to die, in other words, he must sprinkle at least a hundred soybeans in order to scatter a soybean army that can barely match the zombies.
Use the Bean Scattering Spell 100 times in a row...... Khan, I'm afraid that if I invite his master Primordial Tianzun over, he may not be able to do it, right?
Suddenly there was another rain of stones in the sky, fist-sized stones roared down, and a "bang" sound sounded in the zombie group, and Midnight quickly turned around, only to see the children and old people who had been placed in the barracks by Bai Ning and did not need to attack, were smashing stones at the zombies.
The young man who was talking to Midnight had not yet wiped away the tears in his eyes, but he raised a hint of wisdom and naughtiness, and he shouted: "We can't always hide in the rear, watching you protect us in front, we can also fight!" We stoned them to make them dizzy, and it would be much easier to hack them to death! ”
Midnight laughed and shouted, "Reasonable! By the way, Jiang Shang, you are a true Taoist, isn't what you Taoist priests are best at is to exorcise evil spirits and avoid ghosts? What soybeans have you been throwing there, hurry up and take out the magic weapon you used to deal with zombies! ”
"Damn, I have a special way to deal with zombies, but that's a way to deal with one or two zombies, and there are many ants that bite the elephant to death, when have you ever seen hundreds of thousands of zombies!" Jiang Shang was angry and anxious, and hissed: "The method we use is to forcibly pour the exorcism water we have practiced on zombies, and it will be ineffective if you splash it on the other party, even if you apply the exorcism water to your own weapon and slash it on the opponent's body." You really have the skill to forcibly pour exorcism water on zombies, and you would have hacked five or six zombies to death with that long and heavy enough knife! ”
Midnight struggled to slay the zombies and shouted, "You're an idiot!" Don't you like to go fishing the most, and after fishing for so long, why are you still a lump of elm? Why can't you change your mind and use fishing methods to let those zombies swallow your exorcism water on their own? Look at your feet, there are hares everywhere, let the group of stone-throwers in the barracks help you, fill the hares with exorcism, and then drive them into the zombie horde! I don't believe it's possible to overturn a whole bunch of zombies!! ”
Jiang Shang's eyes lit up, he glared at the guards surrounding him, and roared angrily: "Untie the rope on my body immediately, and, go get me a tank full of water, I want to refine exorcism water!" ”
More than 2,000 hares that were filled with exorcism water were driven into the zombie group by the soldiers in the barracks, and a large number of zombies immediately had a burst of confusion, I don't know how many hands and teeth stretched out to the poor two thousand hares, and all the hares were instantly torn into countless pieces by the zombies and became food in their mouths. Those zombies who ate the meat of the hare with the exorcism water suddenly fell to the ground tremblingly, and in the convulsions and screams of pain, at least seven or eight thousand zombies were hit by the improvised exorcism water made by Jiang Shang, and in a few minutes, their bodies were burned to ashes as if they were thrown into a pool of strong acid.
"The bodies of these zombies are really hard enough!" Midnight rubbed his slightly sour arm, and involuntarily thought in his heart: "It would be great if all the soldiers could take the exorcism water refined by ginger, so that even if they fall into the zombie horde, they can turn their bodies into the most powerful weapons!" ”
It's just these words, Midnight is never afraid to say it at will, seeing several soybean soldiers being thrown to the ground by dozens of zombies together, dozens of big mouths biting the body of the soybean soldiers at the same time, those soldiers who are conjured with soybeans on the ginger struggled hard, but in the end they were beaten back to their original form by zombies with their teeth and claws. The zombies looked bewildered, as if they were surprised by the sudden disappearance of food. Some of the zombies who had bitten the soybean soldiers just now licked their lips unwillingly.
Midnight suddenly felt a move in his heart, he jumped to his feet and roared: "Jiang Shang, put all the soybeans into your exorcism water and soak them again, and then turn them into soldiers!" ”
Jiang Shang's eyes lit up again, and he slapped himself on the head fiercely, exclaiming, "Why didn't I think of this way?" By the way, do we have garlic in the barracks, give all the garlic to the soldiers and let them smear the garlic juice on their weapons, that kind of thing works well against zombies! ”
Midnight opened his voice and shouted, "What will happen to the zombies if they eat garlic?" ”
"What else?" Jiang Shang also opened his throat and replied: "Garlic and glutinous rice are simply the natural enemies of zombies, even a little bit on the skin will cause them burns, if they really go to eat garlic, it is purely the birthday boy hanging, it is too long!" ”
"Hahaha...... Good! Good! Good! ”
Midnight laughed and shouted: "I see that you can scatter beans into soldiers, and when you fight with us in the barracks, you can even sprinkle millet into soldiers, why don't you just turn garlic into soldiers?" In this way, even you will save the effort of soaking in the exorcism! Don't those zombies like to eat it, I'll treat them to a delicious meal of garlic! ”
Jiang Shang couldn't help but widen his eyes, the plan proposed by Midnight was too incredible, but if he thought about it carefully, it was so simple and practical that it made people feel chills in their hearts!
Jiang Shang really struggled to kill his old life, under the guidance of midnight, he began to sprinkle garlic into soldiers, batches of garlic soldiers rushed out of the barracks, with the attitude of a death squad, rushed into the zombie group, they can often hack to death four or five zombies first, only to be swept down by dozens of zombies, before they were bitten to death by zombies, they successfully used their bodies to put over twenty or thirty zombies.
With only about 100 heads of garlic, Jiang Shang successfully eliminated more than 20,000 zombies, seeing that the last few heads of garlic turned into dozens of garlic soldiers rushing towards the zombies with murderous energy, Jiang Shang wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and shouted: "I can't do it anymore, I want to sleep well for a while, don't disturb me!" I've helped you release nearly 30,000 zombies, and if you can't stand it anymore, don't call me. Let me be bitten to death by zombies in my sleep, so at least I can suffer a little less! ”
Without waiting for the several soldiers of the Bai Ning Guards who were in charge of monitoring around him to answer, Jiang Shang fell to the ground with his eyes rolled over, and within ten seconds, his old man began to snore happily, emphasizing his determination to be the shopkeeper with practical actions!
Midnight ran back to the barracks, glanced at Jiang Shang, who was already unconscious due to severe mana overdraft, and finally his attention was attracted by a huge water tank, Midnight pointed to the remaining half of the tank of exorcism water in the water tank, and suddenly asked: "Can anyone tell me, if I mix blood and exorcism water together, what kind of effect will it have?" ”
Everyone looked at each other, and no one knew why Midnight would suddenly ask such a strange question. Midnight gritted his teeth fiercely, pointed to a few war horses in the barracks, and shouted: "No matter, release a little blood from them, mix the blood with the exorcism water, and throw all the remaining soybeans into it and soak them!" ”
"Don't throw any more stones, that thing is too ineffective, I'll give you a new task!"
Midnight pointed to the child who took the lead in throwing stones at the zombies and shouted, "You are responsible for throwing all the soybeans soaked in horse blood and exorcism water on the battlefield, even if the zombies don't like to eat soybeans, they still have some appreciation for horse blood, right?" Go ahead and soak all the soybeans we have left in horse blood and exorcism! This is called a large-scale net, and today I will have a grassland bean! ”
There was a rain of soybeans in the sky, and those zombies stared blankly at the soybeans under their feet, they carefully sniffed their noses, not knowing which zombie led the head, they suddenly grabbed a handful of soybeans from the ground and stuffed them into their mouths. Seeing this scene in the middle of the night, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "What to rob, can't you just take one grain per person?" In this case, I'm afraid that some people won't be able to get a grain in the end! Why don't I try it with rice again?! ”
In less than three minutes, the zombies surrounding the barracks fell another fifty or sixty thousand, looking at the zombies whose number was basically the same as their own, all the soldiers led by Bai Ning let out a long sullen breath, everyone understood that the overall situation was now decided.
Midnight suddenly shouted, "Stop! Don't kill again! Close the gates of our camp and let them wander around, with their current numbers, the chances of breaking through the defensive wooden wall we have set up are already very small, even if they rush in, we will fight one-on-one, we will win more than lose! ”
Bai Ning, Huang Xiang and several captains looked at Midnight together, and Midnight said in a low voice: "Prepare for real battles, last time we fell into a trap, the Qiang cavalry suddenly launched a deadly raid." If I'm not mistaken, when we kill all the zombies, it will be the beginning of the Qiang cavalry's onslaught on our barracks! ”
The faces of everyone present changed drastically, and Bai Ning quickly glanced around, and after making sure that no one else was paying attention, he also lowered his voice and asked, "How many arrows do we have?" ”
The captain of the archer brigade smiled bitterly: "There is no branch, just now we were afraid that zombies would rush into the barracks, there are too many targets, each soldier doesn't even need to aim, just shoot the arrows on the bowstring as fast as possible." We fought with the zombies for more than two hours, not to mention the standard bronze arrows and feather arrows distributed to us above, and even the 20,000 arrows made by our army with bamboo sticks and stone chips during this stationing time were shot completely! ”
The senior officers present were all professional soldiers with rich experience in actual combat, and they looked at each other with deep concern in each other's eyes. In the face of the Dongqiang cavalry, the use of long-range troops to strike can effectively suppress the cavalry's attack on the camp and weaken the enemy's morale.
In cases where soldiers have not yet been systematically trained, and most of them have not even been distributed with weapons, the role of archers is even more important. Now that they have exhausted all their stockpiles of feather arrows, once the Eastern Qiang cavalry really attacks in a big way, with the soldiers and weapons they have, they will probably not be able to successfully resist even their first wave of attacks if they are allowed to engage in close hand-to-hand combat with the Qiang cavalry.
"Everything in heaven and earth has two sides anyway, and now those zombies are our talisman, and we must not destroy this talisman ourselves! I think that no matter how heroic that group of Qiang cavalry is, in the face of more than 10,000 zombies, they will tremble in their hearts! ”
The generals present nodded together, today's battle, if it weren't for the arrogance of the night, I am afraid that the group of recruits in the barracks who have not received formal training will be in a mess before the battle starts, or even lose their fighting spirit, right? Once squeezed into the barracks by zombies, the only fate of the entire army is to fight on their own, and finally be completely wiped out.
(To be continued)