Chapter 298: Tanabata - Raid on the City 5

Looking at the black crowd in front of him, they almost shouted the doctrine in unison, and the sound was like a tsunami of mountains and mountains, as if even the heavens and the earth were shaken, with a powerful momentum that could not be matched.

In this environment, those Manichaean sect members seemed to be blessed with all kinds of aura, and at this moment, they all turned into fearless berserkers, raising the weapons in their hands, and viciously rushed towards the officers and soldiers in front of them.

And those officers and soldiers, in the face of the Manichaeans who rushed over, their faces were not as fearful as the ordinary team, and there was no look of fear on their faces, after more than a year of strict requirements, they also gradually developed such a kind of calm collapse in front of them and silently looked, even in the face of such a vicious enemy, after receiving the order to retreat, they continued to fight with the Manichaeans in front of them, while retreating in an orderly manner, Make room for the crossbowmen behind them.

As for the crossbowmen who had already lined up behind the officers and soldiers, they had already raised the crossbow machine in their hands at this time, the pitch-black crossbow arrows had been installed in it, and the arrows flashed with a dark black light, and those crossbowmen were just standing there, holding the crossbows, aiming at their front, with a solemn look on their faces, without any expression.

"Put!"

A man who appeared to be the leader of a crossbowman, sitting upright on a horse, stood at the side of the group. Seeing that the officers and soldiers in front of him had already left a gap for themselves, he immediately turned to the soldiers under him. The order was given to attack.

After hearing the commander's order, the crossbowmen who wielded the crossbow machine. Almost at the same time, the trigger on the crossbow machine was pulled, and after a sound of ropes, the black crossbow arrows originally installed in the crossbow machine were bounced out in an instant, and the sound of swishing breaking through the air was endless.

As soon as a box of crossbow bolts was fired, the first two rows of crossbowmen immediately retreated, ran to the back of the line, and pulled out a new box of crossbow arrows from their trouser pockets. Began to load the crossbow machine.

The crossbowmen who were originally standing behind them took a few steps forward and filled in their positions, and then the crossbowmen in the first row were half-crouching, and the crossbowmen in the second row stood there, holding the crossbows, and when the commander gave the order to fire, they also immediately pulled the trigger, until all the crossbow arrows in the box were fired in one go. Then he hurried to the back of the line.

In this way, the officers and soldiers will shoot out the crossbow arrows in the crossbow machine in a continuous manner, only to see that under this night sky, there are flying crossbow arrows everywhere. Like locusts flying in the sky, it swept towards the Manichaean congregation in front of it in an instant.

Although the voices of those Manichaeans shouting doctrines were very loud, at this time. The sound of the crossbow arrows breaking through the air was even more piercing. With this burst of breaking sounds, the Manichaeans who were hit. Suddenly let out a scream, and then fell down behind him layer by layer like cutting wheat.

Seeing that the crossbowmen had already attacked, and those officers and soldiers who were fighting and retreating, they accelerated the pace of retreat, leaving more and more gaps, and also creating more space for the crossbowmen to shoot.

The first round of shooting was over quickly, and under this dense blow, the disciples who had rushed to the front were able to stand there very few, and most of them were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, either wailing with their wounds, or they had passed out in pain, in short, they had basically lost the ability to fight.

Even if they recite the doctrine in their mouths no matter how loud they are, but in the final analysis, they are still just mortal wombs, and after paying a large number of sacrifices, the voice of the doctrine in their mouths is no longer as pious as before, and their eyes are no longer as firm as before, and even more people's eyes, after looking at the hellish scene in front of them, they can't help but feel a little more timid and afraid.

They are not afraid of death, but what they are afraid of is this senseless death.

Therefore, there is no need for the officers and soldiers to step forward, under this wave of intensive blows, the faith and confidence that the Manichaeans have just regained have almost completely collapsed at this time, and they have long lost the momentum that they almost crushed before, or rather, at this time, they can still stand there with a panicked look on their faces, instead of immediately fleeing in all directions, which is already a very remarkable thing.

Things have developed to the present, the situation suddenly became a little weird, those Manichaean believers, one by one stunned standing in place, looking at the lying on the ground in front of them and constantly wailing, with a little panicked look on their faces, at this time, they did not make the slightest movement, just stood there, confronting the officials and soldiers from a distance, or rather, they endured the fear in their hearts, and tried to maintain the confrontation situation in front of them.

The scene became extremely quiet for a while, and it seemed that only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard, but the silence in front of him could only increase the panic in the hearts of those Manichaean sects, and the crossbowmen of those officers and soldiers, from beginning to end, did not change the expression on their faces at all, and they still stood there with a calm face, holding their crossbow machines in their hands.

Just when the two sides didn't move for a while, among the crowd who were originally lying on the ground, Gao Keli, Yao Yi and Xue Dounan got up from the ground in the surprised eyes of everyone, and they didn't seem to be injured much.

The three people who had just realized that it was not good and gradually retreated to the team, because most of the sect members around them had already killed their eyes, so they did not notice the small movements of the three people.

However, although they had retreated into the crowd, they did not expect that the speed of the attack launched by the crossbowmen on the side of the official army was too fast, and before they could retreat to the place, they had already attacked, and seeing the disciples who acted as meat shields in front of them fell in pieces like cutting wheat, Gao Keli and the three of them glanced at each other, and then immediately pretended to be hit, and lay on the ground, but they were lucky enough to avoid the attack of the officers and soldiers.

"God bless the Holy Sect, God bless General!"

Seeing that Gao Keli and the others actually stood up like this, and they still looked safe and sound, those Manichaean members first glanced at each other, and then, a smile of great joy suddenly appeared on their faces, and then they suddenly shouted in unison, for a while, the panic in their hearts seemed to be vented out with these shouts, and the body that had become paralyzed seemed to be full of strength again.

"Shoot the arrows!"

And seeing this, just when those Manichaean believers were cheering loudly, the commander of the crossbowmen on the side of the official army suddenly re-issued the order with a cold face, and with his order, those crossbowmen pulled the trigger in their hands without hesitation, and suddenly there was a shadow of arrows in the sky, covering the past in the direction of those Manichaeans, and bursts of screams resounded in front of the city gate again.

At this time, Gao Keli and the three of them had no obstacle in front of them, and when they reacted from the sudden cheers of the sect members, they suddenly heard the cold voice of the official army, and the three of them were suddenly horrified, and hurriedly picked up the weapons in their hands, and danced in front of them.

However, as the sectarians around them fell to the ground one after another, the pressure they faced became greater and greater, and the longer the time, the more scarce their bodies became, after all, the string in their hearts had always been tight since the beginning, and they knew that here, if there was the slightest mistake, they might lose their lives.

When they gradually felt that their hands wielding weapons were as heavy as a thousand pounds, the attacks of the officers and soldiers were still endless, forcing them to slowly retreat.

"Forward!"

Just when the crossbowmen continued to suppress the thieves with the crossbow arrows in their hands, the Sun Commander next to him glanced at Bai Qing, and then according to Bai Qing's instructions, he ordered the pikemen who had originally retreated to assemble and move forward again.

The Manichaean cultists who were blocking in front of them had already lost the ability to resist at this time, not only were they suppressed by the crossbowmen of the official army and could not raise their heads at all, but in the face of the approaching officers and soldiers, they had no way to stop them, so they could only let them approach them step by step, and as the parishioners around them continued to fall, the ranks of those Manichaeans had to retreat.

Although there are reinforcements coming in from outside the city from time to time, these reinforcements have no ability to change the current situation, or rather, their reinforcements, compared with the powerful lethality of the official army, are simply a drop in the bucket, and for a while, the momentum of the Manichaeans fell back to the bottom.

Bai Qing and Tantai Longwu were just standing at the back of the team with Commander Sun from a distance, looking at the fierce battle just now, but their expressions did not change, or rather, although the surprise attack of these Manichaean thieves brought some trouble to Bai Qing, it was far from reaching the point where Bai Qing felt sad.

At the same time, the rumors outside the city of Hangzhou, hearing the sound of the doctrine that suddenly disappeared in the city, and the screams that sounded from time to time, his heart was suddenly filled with anxious and uneasy looks, and he glanced back at the team behind him, the work of reorganizing the team was only seventy or eighty percent completed, thinking of this, he almost had to gather the strength of the impatient order to reinforce the cultists in the city, but when he just turned around, his big hand was pressed on his shoulder......

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