Chapter 14: The Burden Rests on Your Shoulders
All of Zhong Liyi's hatred stemmed from the fat man in front of him. My aunt's betrayal and my own humiliation were all caused by this man.
So when Duke. When Barry appeared in front of the camp gate, Zhong Liyi pounced desperately.
Whether it was for his own hatred or for the hundreds of soldiers of the escort regiment behind him, Zhong Liyi had to defeat the ugly man in front of him.
Zhong Liyi waved his long tentacles and slammed them towards Duke.
Before the tentacles landed on Duke, the two golden-armored Heavenly Punishment Knights took the initiative to step forward and quickly slashed at Zhong Liyi's tentacles with both swords.
Zhong Liyi's tentacles, which were originally pumping straight down, suddenly stopped in the air, dodged the slashing sword, and then quickly went down again, and rolled around the necks of the two Heavenly Punishment Knights, throwing the two out before the Heavenly Punishment Knights' big sword slashed back.
The other two tentacles continued to draw quickly towards Duke. There were two crisp sounds, and the two tentacles slammed into Duke's body one after another, shattering Duke's bishop's robe.
Duke shook his body but didn't take a step back, reached out and grabbed Zhong Liyi's tentacle like electricity, and grabbed one tentacle tightly in his hand with a handful of it.
"Little slut, I accidentally let you run away last time, and you definitely won't be able to run this time." Duke chuckled lewdly.
You Yong, who was beside Zhong Liyi, couldn't bear it anymore, and jumped forward and raised his big knife to slash at Duke's face.
Duke grabbed Zhong Liyi's tentacles with one hand, leaned forward and progressed, then quickly got up, and his shoulder went up to block You Yong's head-on slash. The other hand was like lightning, and a heavy punch hit You Yong's abdomen, and Duke's fist almost grew larger in an instant.
You Yong was knocked away by a punch, and his entire lower abdomen was almost blown out. This punch was not dead on someone else, but it hit You Yong like a light blow on a pile of cotton, and You Yong got up again unscathed in Duke's surprised gaze.
Zhong Liyi was caught with one tentacle, and when Duke attacked You Yong and couldn't let go, the other two tentacles pierced Duke in the eyes like two javelins.
Duke had no choice but to let go of Zhong Liyi's tentacles and retreat, and You Yong had already pounced in front of Duke again and slashed with a knife.
Duke was furious in his heart, and directly punched the falling blade, and the fist that had expanded in a circle flashed with a dark luster and collided with the blade head-on.
You Yong only felt a huge force come from his arm, and the big knife in his hand flew out of his hand. Before You Yong could react from the shock of the big knife coming out, Duke's lightning-fast second punch had already arrived, and the punch knocked You Yong's head in half.
Zhong Liyi had attacked again, and Duke kicked You Yong's corpse away, turned around and grabbed Zhong Liyi's tentacles again. Just when Duke forced Zhong Liyi to retreat in a hurry, You Yong, who Duke thought was going to die, pounced again like gummy.
Relying on You Yong's ability to fight undead, he and Zhong Liyi barely entangled Duke. But on the other side, the escort regiment fell into a crisis again, and the combat power of the ten gold-armored Heavenly Punishment Knights who were Duke's personal guards far exceeded that of ordinary Heavenly Punishment Knights, and there was a golden defense line in front of the camp gate, and hundreds of people in the escort regiment could not rush through. Even Li Deming, these evolutionaries in the guard regiment, couldn't hold out in front of the Golden Armor Heavenly Punishment Knight, and Li Deming was cut off most of his chest by a sword, and he was already lying on the ground and couldn't get up.
More and more Heavenly Gate cultists surrounded them from behind, and the two teams of evolutionaries separated from the special operations squadron could no longer stop them, and the soldiers of the escort regiment had already turned around and engaged the pursuing cultists.
After there were chasing soldiers, there was interception in front of them, and the destruction of the Phoenix City Guard Regiment was in an instant!
Zhong Liyi and You Yong roared angrily and killed again and again, but in the face of the huge difference in strength, even if the two of them tried their best, they couldn't beat Duke in front of them. You Yong was knocked away again and again, and Zhong Liyi's tentacles were also broken in two.
"Ah Yi, it's worth it to die with you today!" You Yong suddenly hugged Duke's body with Duke's fist, and even Duke's iron fist rained down.
"Ouyang Minglang, even if the old lady dies, she won't let you go!" Zhong Liyi didn't look at You Yong, but scolded in the air.
With a soft sigh, a spear suddenly stabbed down from the air, heading straight for Duke's eyebrows.
Duke felt a pain in his eyebrows, and a little cold light was already close in front of him, so frightened that Duke hurriedly dodged backwards with You Yong, who was still wrapped around his body, and jumped out five or six meters at once. As soon as Duke landed, he felt a pain in his heart, knowing that he was locked by the killing machine again, and got up and jumped to the side again.
Just as Duke jumped up, a huge roar rang out at the same time, shaking the entire battlefield. Duke was thrown away by a single shot, and even You Yong, who was wrapped around him, was shaken down.
At the same time as the gunshots rang out, more than twenty soldiers in the same golden armor were killed from the night, led by a man with long golden hair and a huge nine-eared and eight-ring gold-wire machete in his hand, which jingled with the running, it was Duan Jiangpeng, the "Crazy Lion of the Earth".
Duan Jiangpeng rushed to the front and slashed the big knife, and the "slanted shoulder strap back slash" slashed a golden-armored Heavenly Punishment Knight with a single sword, and the twenty special combat team members behind him also rushed to the front, breaking through the defense line of the Heavenly Punishment Knight in an instant.
"Rush out! Hurry up and get out! Zhong Liyi's heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly beckoned the soldiers to rush out.
Duan Jiangpeng alone faced the two Heavenly Punishment Knights at the same time, and Song Yu's hand cannon also rang out like a cannon, causing the Heavenly Punishment Knights to retreat again and again.
The sudden appearance of the two completely turned the tide of the battlefield, and the soldiers of the escort regiment took the opportunity to rush out of the camp with their wounded comrades around them. Ma Qingqiu's special operations squadron also gave up the entanglement with the Heavenly Punishment Knights, and joined forces with Duan Jiangpeng's special operations squadron, dragging them to the end of the team to block the pursuit of the Heavenly Gate Sect.
Duke. Barry had already turned over from the ground and stood up, and a huge wound appeared on his right shoulder, and the blood was still flowing, even the steel and iron bones could not block Song Yu's shot at close range, not to mention Duke. Barry.
"Chase! Give me chase! I can't let any of them go! Duke pressed the wound on his shoulder with one hand as he directed the Knights of Heavenly Punishment and the cultists in pursuit.
Zhong Liyi, who was also dragging at the end of the line, rushed forward two more steps, and opened his mouth at Duke to find a large cloud of black liquid.
"Little slut, here you go again!" Duke roared loudly in the black fog.
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In the spring of the third year of the apocalypse, the competition and slaughter between the various human forces in the northwest region suddenly became fierce.
First, the Gate of Heaven captured the City of Light, killing more than 100,000 people in the city. Doomsday Phoenix followed closely after seizing the Chosen City, and then the remnants of the Bright Alliance designed an ambush for Doomsday Phoenix, but they didn't expect to be killed by Phoenix and took the opportunity to swallow the remnants of the Bright Alliance. The war between the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Hercynian regime has not stopped since the beginning of spring, and countless ordinary people, soldiers, and evolutionaries have died because of the war.
Drowning in this series of wars, the Chosen City Breakout is even less remarkable.
In this battle, because of the timely appearance of Song Yu and Duan Jiangpeng, Zhong Liyi's escort regiment and Ma Qingqiu's special operations squadron broke out of the encirclement, but Phoenix City still suffered huge losses. In the final count, less than 400 soldiers rushed out of the escort regiment alive, the whole regiment was reduced by more than two-thirds, more than 10 evolutionaries at the battalion and company level were killed in battle, and Ma Qingqiu's special operations squadron also killed five special combat members.
Heaven's Gate was also unsuccessful in this battle, not only was Bishop Duke injured, but more than 2,000 communicators were killed in the camp under the Chosen City and Phoenix City, and the number of preachers and Celestial Punishment Knights was twice as many as in Doomsday Phoenix. The strength of the Heavenly Gate, which had already been damaged in the Battle of Bright City, further declined.
If this battle is still worth remembering in the annals of history, it is more significant that the Qinghai region has once again resumed the situation of four-party competition, but it is the Doomsday Phoenix City that has replaced the position of the Bright Alliance and officially stood on the stage of hegemony.
Although Doomsday Phoenix has received a large amount of inheritance from people to territory after the disintegration of the Light Alliance, it has become the biggest beneficiary, but because the Chosen City Breakout Battle has also broken the legend of invincibility since its birth.
Doomsday Phoenix not only lost the Chosen City, but also did not regain it for a long time.
After Zhong Liyi and the others broke through, Doomsday Phoenix City did not immediately organize troops to attack the Chosen City as expected by the outside world, but chose to endure it as if this war had never happened at all.
For this reason, Zhong Liyi couldn't forgive Chi Hua for a long time, and he never gave Chi Hua a good face.
Zhong Liyi naturally couldn't understand Chi Hua's distress, just like the Gate of Heaven wanted to choose a suitable opportunity to recapture the Chosen City at the lowest cost, Chi Hua was also waiting for a suitable opportunity. Even if the Chosen City can be successfully captured now, it will inevitably suffer huge losses if the opponent is fully prepared.
In the situation of the four-way hegemony, once the strength is seriously damaged, it may be attacked by the other two super forces, and even some big forces may not be as peaceful as they are now, and they may not be able to make any crazy moves.
Moreover, compared to using troops against the Chosen City, digesting and absorbing the remnants of the Bright Alliance as soon as possible and transforming them into its own strength is the top priority of Phoenix City at present. Rushing to use troops against the Gates of Heaven before fully absorbing these forces can even become a hidden danger when the rear is empty.
The Battle of Fort Bluestone, the end of Phoenix City, captured a total of twenty-six remnants of the Bright Alliance, more than a hundred evolutionaries, although no one stood up on the spot to resist the annexation of Phoenix, but the process of actually merging these forces was far more complicated than imagined.
The leaders of seven of the twenty-six factions did not attend the meeting at all, but only sent representatives, so even the evolutionaries who captured the camps could not make the camp surrender. The leaders of the four forces were killed directly in the melee, and without the leader taking the lead, it was even more difficult to bring the entire camp into obedience. Even if the fifteen leaders were still in power, it was unknown whether they would be able to persuade the entire camp to submit with their prestige.
And at this critical moment, Yi Fengleng was gone again, and the burden he used was all on Chi Hua......