Chapter 12 Chosen Attack and Defense
Javelins and stones flew in the sky, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
The battlefield was littered with bloody corpses, and countless white-robed men stepped on the corpses on the ground, launching wave after wave of charges towards the city wall with javelins and stones on their heads.
"Hold on, give me a hard beating!" Zhong Liyi's voice was already hoarse, and she couldn't remember that this was the first wave of attacks launched by the Heavenly Gate today.
These people seemed to appear out of thin air, bypassing Ouyang Minglang's intelligence network, and directly appeared under the Chosen City to launch a surprise attack on the Chosen City. Fortunately, in the previous defense against the retaliation of the Heavenly Gate, the vigilance of the city defense has not been relaxed, and a comprehensive counterattack was made within a few minutes of the sudden attack of the Heavenly Gate.
Faced with a storm of javelins, the first wave of raiders was met head-on. The first wave of attacks on the Heaven's Gate Church left two or three hundred corpses behind.
The failure of the raid did not make the Gates of Heaven retreat, and they went directly from the surprise attack to a frontal assault, attacking from three sides of the Chosen City at the same time.
It had long been expected that this day would be in Phoenix, and a large number of javelins and polished stones had been prepared in advance at the head of the city. Because of Chi Hua's existence, the javelin has become the standard configuration of the Phoenix Army, and each soldier of the Escort Regiment has undergone a lot of javelin throwing training when he is a recruit, and the javelin thrown must be able to hit a moving target 70 meters away, so that the recruit can be considered qualified and have the opportunity to become a soldier of the Escort Regiment.
The attack on Heaven's Gate continued from morning to afternoon, and under the baptism of javelin rain in Phoenix City, Heaven's Gate had already left nearly a thousand corpses outside the Chosen City.
Looking at the javelins on the city wall that were about to run out, Zhong Liyi couldn't help frowning. The attack of the Gate of Heaven has not stopped at all, is the life of the Gate of Heaven really so worthless? Even Zhong Liyi, who came out of the Heaven's Gate Church, couldn't understand it himself.
Some of the soldiers who had run out of javelins had already begun to attack with stones, which were apparently not as far as javelins could be thrown. And the distance of the Heaven Gate Spreaders attacking the city wall is getting closer and closer, and some of the spreaders in the last wave of attacks have already rushed to the city wall, and it was Zhong Liyi who personally took action to drive all the spreaders who rushed up to the city wall. It was also during this attack that the soldiers of the Escort Regiment suffered their first casualties, and eleven soldiers were killed in a melee with the Gates of Heaven.
As if sensing that the Phoenix soldiers' javelins were about to run out, the ensuing wave of attacks became even more violent. The cultists of the Gates of Heaven attacked the city wall again, this time with more than a dozen preachers hiding in it, and these preachers suddenly attacked after climbing the wall, causing a large number of casualties to the soldiers of Phoenix City in an instant.
Zhong Liyi had to strike again, waving six tentacles and rushing into the crowd of communicators. Six long tentacles slashed through the attack range and covered a large section of the wall, and the Communicator was whipped under the wall one by one by the whip-like tentacles. Even the transformation evolutionary could not rush in front of Zhong Liyi, once he was entangled by Zhong Liyi's tentacles, he was thrown under the city wall, and he was seriously injured if he didn't die.
Zhong Liyi attacked the city wall in front of her in a round of fierce attacks, and the soldiers of the escort regiment behind her swarmed up to take advantage of the situation to recapture the city wall again. In this round of attacks, two evolutionaries from the convoy were killed, and sixty or seventy soldiers were killed.
This is only the city wall that Zhong Liyi guarded, and the losses of the other two city walls are definitely not less than his own side. If there were two or three more waves of such attacks, without the men of Heaven's Gate, all the soldiers of the Guardian Regiment would have died on the city walls.
"Where did Ma Qingqiu die? Why isn't his special operations squadron on yet? Zhong Liyi cursed loudly on the city wall.
"Captain Ma said that his special operations squadron should be ready to deal with the attack of the Heavenly Punishment Knights at any time." It was Li Deming, the commander of the first battalion, who replied.
Li Deming was originally a villager in Xishan Village, and he also joined the Gate of Heaven at first, and let the old village chief Zhang Zhanyuan clean up and then change his evil ways and defect to Duan Jiangpeng in Xiaoqingshan. Because of the courage to fight and fight the last days, it has grown very rapidly for more than a year, and when the escort teams of each camp were broken up and rebuilt as the escort regiment, Duan Jiangpeng recommended him to serve as the company commander. When the Fourth Regiment was newly formed, he was promoted to the battalion commander under Zhong Liyi, and some time ago he was rewarded with crystal nuclei and became an evolutionary. Because of the same experience of the Gate of Heaven, he won Zhong Liyi's trust.
"Fuck it! Before the Heavenly Punishment Knight appears, my people will die! You go and tell Ma Qingqiu that if his person doesn't show up in the next round of defense, I'll castrate him! ”
Since becoming the head of the regiment, Zhong Liyi has become less and less of a woman's appearance, and from time to time, she transforms at any time regardless of her image, and there is no longer a trace of the brutal and willful priestess who hid under the protection of Zhong Li Yuhua's wings.
But Zhong Liyi's subordinates, from ordinary soldiers to officers to deputy regiment commanders, You Yong all like Zhong Liyi like this, as long as the regiment commander says a word, the sword mountain and the sea of fire will also rush in.
Taking advantage of the pause in the attack of the Gate of Heaven, Li Deming smiled and went to Ma Qingqiu to convey the words of the head of Zhongli, and added fuel and vinegar in the middle.
The interval between this attack was a bit extraordinarily long, after all, the loss of Heaven's Gate in the previous wave of attack was not small, and Britney alone fell to her death and injured three evangelists.
A white-robed woman suddenly walked out of the position of the Gate of Heaven and slowly walked towards the city wall, the hat of the high priest's robe had been removed, revealing a slightly pale but soft face of the woman.
Zhong Liyi bit his lip tightly and stared at the woman in the city, full of complicated emotions in the heart of this former relative and current enemy.
Zhongli Yuhua got closer and closer, and an evolutionary behind Zhong Liyi suddenly picked up a stone on the city wall and smashed it towards Zhongli Yuhua like a cannonball.
I didn't see any movement from Zhongli Yuhua, and he still walked with a constant stride, but the stone seemed to pass through his body and landed behind Zhongli Yuhua.
Zhong Liyi turned around and glared fiercely at the evolutionary who had attacked without an order, and Zhong Liyuhua also stopped.
"Yi'er, come back when you've had enough trouble outside, your aunt won't blame you."
Zhong Liyi's nose was sore, and tears almost flowed down. Zhongli Yuhua's voice was still as soft as before, and even the tone was the same, every time she made a mistake outside, Zhongli Yuhua would comfort her like this.
Zhong Liyi held back her emotions and did not speak, in front of the soldiers below, she would never allow herself to show her weak side.
"Yi'er, you misunderstood Bishop Duke last time, and he is willing to apologize to you for that. Let people open the city gates, the church and my aunt, this will always be your home, and we will still be a family when the city gates are opened. Zhongli Yuhua was like persuading a wayward child, gently persuading.
For a moment, Zhong Liyi really wanted to jump out of the city desperately and throw himself into his aunt's arms like he did when he was a child. But in the end, reason told me that there was no going back.
"Auntie, don't say it again, I won't believe in any church anymore, if you want the Chosen City, let Duke come in." Zhong Liyi held back his emotions and shouted at Zhongli Yuhua under the city.
"Yi'er, I'm so glad that you still recognize me as an aunt, then listen to my aunt again, don't play with the child's temper, Phoenix will never be able to fight the gate of heaven, and following them will eventually hurt you."
Zhong Liyi was in a trance, did he really misunderstand his aunt?
"What a good aunt, she uses abilities to talk to her niece." Ma Qingqiu's mocking words suddenly sounded in his ears.
Zhong Liyi's mind instantly sobered up, it turned out that Zhong Liyuhua used the ability of charm when talking to him, and he was completely defenseless because of his family affection.
"Attack!" Zhong Liyi gave the order to attack, closed his eyes and stopped looking at Zhong Liyuhua under the city.
Several stones smashed down at Zhongli Yuhua from the top of the city at the same time.
Zhongli Yuhua let out a long sigh and slowly retreated.
"You're too tender, and a few words will make people swoon you!"
It seems that Li Deming's words just now were in place, and Ma Qingqiu's words implied sarcasm, obviously to retaliate.
Zhong Liyi was angry and had nowhere to vent, so he slashed his head and covered his face at Ma Qingqiu, "My soldiers are fighting to the death in the city, you are hiding in the back, do you still have the face to come over and say cool words?" Also, what about your foresight? You can't foresee such a big event as the Heaven's Gate raid in advance, what do you want to do? Zhong Liyi was still angry as he spoke, and stretched out his finger to point at Ma Qingqiu's forehead.
Ma Qingqiu replied while hiding, "I'm not a god, can I foresee everything?" If you have that ability, first foresee which unlucky man will marry you! ”
The argument between the two did not continue, and a new wave of attacks from the Gates of Heaven began.
The attack was particularly violent, and the preacher no longer hid in it, but led his men to spread and lead the charge.
The walls of the Chosen City are far less tall than those of Phoenix, and only a ladder is needed on the wall, and the preacher can climb the wall with a little bit of strength on the ladder. Once the preacher gained a foothold on the wall, a large number of preachers followed.
As if they had received a death order, the cultists of the Gate of Heaven fought to the death once they climbed the city wall, and the two sides formed a melee on the city wall. The soldiers of Phoenix City used broadswords and spears to kill wave after wave of enemies at the head of the city, but the cultists of the Gate of Heaven continued to climb the city walls.
The fighting at the head of the city lasted from the afternoon until it was dark, and the corpses on the city were no longer piled up, and the disciples of the Heavenly Gate who were besieging the city needed to push the dead bodies under the city before they could find a foothold on the city walls.
Zhong Liyi's reserve battalion had already pulled up to the city, and the battle losses of the whole regiment had already exceeded half, and Ma Qingqiu's special operations squadron could no longer care about keeping the knights on guard, so they had already rushed to the city. If it weren't for the special operations squadron, the city walls would have fallen long ago.
Zhong Liyi's phoenix battle armor was covered with flesh and blood, and he couldn't see his original color for a long time. Her tentacles waved more and more slowly, Zhong Liyi was already in despair, the sect members of the Gate of Heaven were still climbing the city wall in a steady stream, if there were no more reinforcements, she could only abandon the city wall and fight in the streets.
Zhong Liyi suddenly felt the wind sound above his head, and Ouyang Minglang, who was carrying wings, suddenly appeared on the battlefield. Ouyang held a spear horizontally in his hand and swooped down in the air, and one dive pushed five or six people off the city wall at the same time, and after several swoops back and forth, the city head was empty.
"Reinforcements have arrived! Our reinforcements have arrived! Ma Qingqiu suddenly shouted.
Many people saw Ouyang Minglang flying in the air, and they also shouted.
The soldiers of Phoenix City were suddenly shocked, and they rushed towards the sect members of the Heavenly Gate as if they were crazy.
Heaven's Gate also thought that the reinforcements from Phoenix City had arrived, and they withdrew in embarrassment.