Chapter Seventy-Four: The Great War
At the foot of Tianbei Mountain, although the snow has stopped, the heavy snow still causes a lot of trouble to the people on the way.
In the face of millions of zombies, Nagisa Xi was still a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, there were less than 20,000 troops left in his hands, and it was impossible for all of them to enter the battle.
Although Cui Yu said that millions of zombies are not enough to see in front of the awakened. But as the Dark Pope, Nagisa Xi understands how weak some Awakened are in the early stages.
Out of an army of 20,000 people, there are only 500 awakened ones. If the zombies swarmed up, Nagisa Xi didn't dare to guarantee whether he could resist it.
But now that the matter has come to this, there is no way back. In addition to putting women and children in the rear, and at the same time sending young talents from the civilian sector to the front line to assist in the battle, Nagisa Xi couldn't find any other solution.
The time for the general assault was set for eight o'clock in the evening. The reason why it was set at eight o'clock in the evening was because the troops would not reach the foot of the Heavenly Monument Mountain until six o'clock, and they had already stayed here for a day and a night. If they can't make a quick decision, then they definitely won't be able to reach Star City within half a month!
The cold wind in the afternoon was still biting, and everyone at Lincheng University walked forward against the cold wind. The wind was blowing so much that I couldn't even open my eyes, and I could only determine the direction by lowering my head and silently following the footprints of the classmates in front of me. When you can't hold on anymore, grab a handful of snow from the ground and put it in your mouth to calm yourself down.
Among the people, the number of casualties on the second day out of the city exceeded 100. More than 100 people froze to death last night. Without supplies, they could only sleep in the ice and snow, desperately facing death in the snow.
Finally, at six o'clock in the evening, the weather finally warmed up a little, and Cui Yu and the others also came to the foot of Tianbei Mountain as they wished.
Looking at the towering Tianbei Mountain, Cui Yu was a little scared, the high leather boots on her feet had already been wet in the snow, the thick socks on her feet were sticking to the delicate skin, and when the cold wind blew, she felt that her feet were unconscious.
She shivered a little coldly, leaned on Cui Yu's shoulder and said:
"Is this Tianbei Mountain? I remember I came here once, how can it be so high? ”
Cui Yu felt her sister's trembling, and hurriedly squatted down to change her sister's shoes and socks. But my sister shook her head and said:
"Don't change it, it's going to get wet again soon, and I don't have any extra shoes and socks."
"Then my sister will wear mine first."
After speaking, regardless of my sister's objections, I took out a pair of hiking shoes and gray warm socks from my backpack, raised my head and said to my sister:
"Sister, did you give it to me on my birthday? Do you remember? “
"Have I ever bought you such ugly shoes?"
Cui Yu smiled after hearing this, did not speak, but quickly took off her sister's soaked shoes, followed by slimy socks.
Cui Yu blushed a little, in her impression, no man squatted down for her and helped her put on shoes and socks. Thinking of this, her face turned red again, and at the same time, her eyes were a little misty.
Cui Yu didn't notice this, he carefully put his gray socks on his sister's feet, and then gently stuffed his sister's small feet into his big shoes, and then helped his sister pull the shoelaces.
"My sister's feet are too small, let's wait until I get to Star City to change my sister with a pair of suitable shoes."
As she spoke, Cui Yu put her sister's soaked shoes and socks into a plastic bag and stuffed them into her backpack.
"Okay, let's go, sister."
After saying that, he took his sister's hand and continued to move forward, not noticing that his sister's face was buried in a thick down jacket, and tears flowed down his cheeks.
Gu Long behind him looked at such a scene, couldn't help but be a little envious, and sighed:
"The relationship between your sister and brother is really good, but it's a pity that I don't have more shoes, otherwise I can lend them to Sister Cui to wear."
Cui Yu only felt that his feet were particularly comfortable and warm in Cui Yu's hands, just like burying his feet in his father's belly when he was a child. Although the shoes were not in harmony with her feet, they made her feel very warm in her heart.
If she could, how she wished her brother would have been holding her hand like this. But the first gunshot from the front broke the silence.
"What's going on?" Cui Yu put down his sister's hand and said to Gu Long behind him.
"I'll take a look." As he spoke, he summoned Postiga and left without looking back, and his sister Cui Yu felt the residual warmth of her palm, looked at Cui Yu who was leaving, and said loudly:
"Be careful!"
Just watched Cui Yufei disappear into the dark clouds in the sky.
As Cui Yu looked down at the entire Tianbei Mountain from the sky, he saw dense and scalp-numbing black spots coming out of the mountain, desperately attacking the forward troops.
Fortunately, the troops also set up a positional defense line that stretched for a hundred meters, and in the dark, fierce gunfire and fire filled the entire battlefield, Cui Yu did not dare to hold it up in the sky, he let Postiga accelerate and dive down, and arrived at the command camp where Nagisa Xi was.
"Has the Great War begun? How is the defense line doing? ”
Nagisa Xi used a night vision device to look at the skyrocketing fire on the front line, and only after a long time did he say:
"The situation is not optimistic, and the loss of millions is still too much for us to bear now. I have prepared three lines of defense, the first of which is made up of ordinary soldiers with light weapons, in order to buy time for the awakened in the second line! When the Awakened are ready, I will voluntarily abandon the first line of defense and let the soldiers retreat to the third line of defense, which I am equipped with heavy weapons, bazookas, grenades, etc., which is already the best effort I can make. ”
Although he was a little nervous, Nagisaki, as the commander, calmed down and explained his defense to Cui Yu.
"Okay, I see, you're here in the center, and I'll go to the second line of defense to organize the Awoken."
After speaking, Cui Yu did not delay, and summoned Postiga again, and with a long roar, disappeared into the night sky.
Zhu Xi looked at Cui Yu's departing back and whispered to be careful, and continued to look at the defense line with the night vision goggles.
The soldiers of the first line of defense held their positions with light rifles, but as the number of zombies increased, they gradually got closer and closer to the defensive position.
The school officer on the side looked at the zombies who were getting better and better away from him, and with an order, all the soldiers began to retreat in unison.
However, the zombie still rushed towards the second line of defense like an outlaw. Let the bullets pierce your body.
Most of the Awakened on the second line of defense were also soldiers, but there were also some trembling people, but most of them were still full of fighting spirit in their eyes.
"It's just a zombie, just try my iron fist with you!"
A bald man with a metallic sheen kissed his fist and said disdainfully as he stared at the zombies in the distance.
"Let's do everything according to the orders of Your Excellency the Commander."
The long-haired man on the side seemed to be very uncomfortable with the metal man's words, and reminded him loudly.
"Got it, got it, old Wu, you're still so cowardly when you awaken your abilities, it's the same as when you were a soldier."
"You! I'm too lazy to quarrel with you...... Look, they're coming up. ”
The man called Lao Wu looked at the dense zombies in front of him in horror, they were a group of dried corpses in the real sense, none of the corpses were clean and complete, some of them were only half of their bodies and were desperately crawling forward, but more of them were zombies with missing arms or legs, these were soldiers who died in the war! Now they are not afraid of death and rush towards the Awakened.
"Ranged mages and archers prepare!" A soldier in a military uniform looked solemnly at the zombies rushing towards him and shouted loudly.
This soldier is a sonic warrior, and his awakened superpower is a huge sonic wave, so this time he was chosen as the herald of this operation.
"Put!" With a loud shout from the soldiers, a small but huge amount of energy fluctuations flashed from the rear of the second line of defense, and then, one by one, magic and spells poured out from behind the officers!
One by one, the fireballs, ice bombs, gorgeous water dragons and energy light waves instantly destroyed the zombies who were about to arrive at the position to slag, and one of the water awakened people condensed the water spray they emitted into blades and exploded in the zombie group, and the sharp fragments turned the zombies into meat foam! A light awakened person gathered all the energy in his body together, and then threw it into the sky, and suddenly a huge explosion sounded in the corpse, no less powerful than a grenade......
There are also flame mages and frost mages, the two of them work together to squeeze the power of fire and ice in their bodies together, and the two energies repel each other and cause a huge shockwave that knocks all the zombies around them to the ground.
What's even more powerful is an ice archer, she poured the ice power in her body into the bow and arrow, and shot a huge crystal arrow, continuously piercing all the zombies within a radius of more than ten meters.
The sky-high firelight and smoke spread at the foot of Tianbei Mountain. Just as the ranged Awoken were pinching the spell and preparing for the next round of bombardment, those melee Awoken also jumped out of the trenches!
Some people commanded flying swords to cut off the heads of zombies from a distance, some people directly pulled out trees more than ten meters high from the soil, sweeping a group of zombies, and some berserkers rushed into the zombie group with battle axes and completely ignored the bite of the zombies......
The battle lasted for about thirty minutes, and the magicians behind the position and some awakened people with long-range output methods consumed all their magic power, only scattered small fireballs were still being thrown from behind the warriors, and zombies were still coming down from the Tianbei Mountain, besieging the second line of defense trapped in the encirclement.
"Lao Wu! Why are there more and more zombies? Are all the mages in the back row dead? ”
"I don't know? In this case, we have to retreat. ”
While hammering the zombies that wanted to get close to him, the strong man turned his head to Lao Wu, who had transformed into a giant bear, and said:
"This zombie is coming, I'm running out of strength, old Wu, find a way to break out."
However, a flare shattered the hope in their hearts.
I saw that the position behind had long been occupied by zombies, and the awakened people who had lost their magic power could only use the guns in their hands to suppress the zombies, but the number of zombies was too many! It is impossible for the small arms in their hands to stop the progress of the zombies.
And the strong man and Lao Wu Ke were still fighting bloodily on the front line of the position, and the black blood was constantly flowing out of the zombie's mouth, so that Lao Wu's entire body was dyed black and red.
"Lao Wu, it seems that there is no way out for the two of us, but it doesn't matter, I am very satisfied to live until now......."
"Yes, think about Ajuan, think about the children in our respective families, I really didn't expect that our damn ones didn't die, but the ones who didn't deserve to die died."
After speaking, Lao Wu bit off the neck of a zombie and said with some panting.
"I hope the third line of defense can be held, and the second line is lost."
The strong man twisted off the head of a zombie and said with some despair.
But just when the two of them were desperate, or when the entire second line of defense was desperate, a black purple light suddenly appeared in the sky, corroding all the zombies that shone into the light to slag!
"Holy! Could this force be Commander Nagisa? ”
The two said in unison, and then looked at each other, both of them saw the incredulity in each other's eyes.