183 A different kind of war
18 different wars
Yue Cangli squatted in the shadow of the eaves, and looked over, and the street below was the main battlefield.
If the sand scorpion that was eliminated on the side of the "north" flag just now was the waves in the stream, this side was the waves in the big river.
Dense sand scorpions stretched from this side of the street to the west gate, half a man's height, and they struggled between the walls of the heavy shields of the city guards, fluttering their teeth and claws, and occasionally pierced by spears piercing through the gaps in the heavy shields.
In order to prevent the sand scorpion from breaking out of its control, the city guards stood between the main road and the attached street, building defensive walls with blood and lives to resist the sand scorpion's onslaught again and again.
At intervals, there would be an adjutant who supervised the battle, commanding loudly and encouraging the soldiers at the same time.
“...... Hold on, get them all out, hold on...... Behind you are our city, our home, our parents, our wives and our children...... If you are crushed, our loved ones will be eaten alive...... You guys, what are we going to do?"
"Fight, fight, fight!" The powerful momentum mixed with the boundless fighting spirit echoed through the streets.
The sand scorpion was driven in the direction of the west gate, countless arthropods scraped across the shield, intertwined into a piercing sound, occasionally forming a tidal surge, setting off a high tide of insects, once the height overflowed the height of the defensive heavy shield, a pop and puff sound was heard, and the sand scorpion frantically poured out of the defense and rushed to the nearest person.
The attacked city defenders could have retreated, they could have dodged, but no, no one needed to remind them, since they used all their strength to hold the heavy shield, the soldiers who stabbed out their spears sped up and exchanged their lives for more death for the enemy, as for the sand scorpions that crawled on them and gnawed on their flesh, they didn't care, and they didn't want to take care of themselves, they believed that someone would avenge them.
So in the midst of a miserable howl, the heavy shield wall still held on and refused to breach.
"There is danger on 64th Street, attack the team!"
With the adjutant's order, a team of twelve people appeared on the eaves of the gap, and the warriors wearing soft chain mail all over their bodies, with a round shield in one hand, a scimitar in the other, and a whistle, jumped directly at the same time with tacit understanding, and instantly cut into the sand scorpion group and the heavy shield wall.
The city defense army formed a new defensive wall behind the street, and with the pace of unification, the heavy shield advanced step by step, and finally forcibly blocked the gap that the sand scorpion rushed out.
As for the city defense army that was blocked here before, only a few blood-stained heavy shields were left in place.
Another whistle, the strong attack team of twelve people just now, after leaving four corpses, withdrew from the battlefield with one wound, but they did not rest and bandage their wounds, but followed the order, rushed into another gap that was about to collapse, and used their flesh and blood to hold on until the heavy shield formed a new defensive wall.
When the defensive wall was erected again, this time there were less than six people retreating, and the injuries were even more serious, but they rushed into the next gap waiting for rescue without hesitation.
Someone had an arm injury and couldn't hold the round shield, so he simply threw the round shield and rushed into the sand scorpion swarm with only a scimitar, while being chewed by the sand scorpion and eating flesh, he quickly slashed with the scimitar to provide protection for his companions, and as for his own life and death, he obviously gave up.
When the new defensive wall was erected, the last two surviving attackers, looking at the scars on their bodies, laughed at each other, turned around and rushed into the sand scorpion swarm, bringing a bloody storm and rain, and returned to calm in an instant, leaving not even a whole corpse.