Chapter 3: The Beast and the Beast (1)
In the sixth year of the Republic of China, the year of Ding Si in the lunar calendar, December 7, 1917 in the Western calendar, dusk.
In World War I, on the last day of the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front, 300 tanks of the British army advanced like steel beasts with tracks. The first large-scale tank battle in human history, after breaking through the German trenches and barbed wire, was attacked by a blizzard and artillery fire and retreated, and blood soaked the land of France.
On the same day, on the other side of Eurasia, the sun sank in the west eight hours later. Wusongkou, which guards the Yangtze River, is also shrouded in beacon fire. Two steel beasts from the underground of the mausoleum, just coming up from the cold sea, sharpened their knives towards the flesh and blood of the soldiers opposite.
While talking and laughing, Jin Toad hit the city wall with his body, as if the earth was shaking, and bricks were constantly shattering and falling.
The ten-horned seven-headed tomb beast also used sharp horns to break through the city wall until it collapsed dozens of meters, revealing a huge gap.
Whether it is the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Journey to the West or the Romance of the Gods, the imagination of the Chinese has never reached this level - it has a huge body like a rhinoceros, four cheetah legs, and the heads of seven beasts, each head looks like a different species, some are tigers, some are crocodiles, some are jackals, some are takin, three of them are two-horned beasts, and four are unicorns, which together have exactly ten horns. A small golden crown hangs from each corner, as if he has been crowned the king of China. There are also incomprehensible words engraved on the beast's head.
Qin Beiyang had never seen such a thing, but he could smell the scent of the tomb beast, just like the evil dragon on Dharma Mountain, and quickly named this new monster: ten horns and seven heads.
The seven beast heads opened their mouths, revealing seven machine guns, and fired wildly at the walls.
Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan were lying behind sandbags, and the battlements were covered with mutilated corpses. The recruit fled with his head in his hands and was shot dead by his commander.
Countless Anhui soldiers continued to sing military songs, as if they were possessed by the heroes of the Three Kingdoms, charging towards Baoshan City.
The Sixth Division saw that the whole army was about to be annihilated, and the general trend of the "Dragon of the Beiyang" was gone.
The Prime Minister and Minister of War looked up to the sky and sighed: "Xiao Xu, Xiao Xu, you use demons and monsters as a precursor, what kind of Beiyang soldier are you?" ”
Everyone fled with their heads in their hands, leaving only seventeen-year-old Qin Beiyang, standing alone in the ruins of the remnants of the city, leaning on the five-color flag of Beiyang riddled with bullet holes, and in front of him was a pyramid of corpses.
The last touch of the remnant sun shot red golden light. Through the smoke and corpses, Qin Beiyang saw that behind the golden toad and the ten corners and seven heads, there was a man in a craftsman's uniform, with a long knife tied to his back, roaring loudly and making all kinds of strange gestures. It goes without saying that this man is manipulating these two murderous grave beasts.
The man had white hair and wrinkles on his forehead, and looked to be sixty or seventy years old. Only Qin Beiyang knew that he was not that old, but he had come into contact with too many tomb beasts, which greatly consumed his vitality.
His name is Qin Customs, a former Qing royal craftsman, a descendant of the tombsmith clan, the maker of the tomb beast, the chief mechanic of the Nanyuan Arsenal, and Qin Beiyang's biological father.
"Daddy!"
The young man Qin Beiyang opened his throat and shouted to the man behind the two tomb beasts.
Following the sunset, Qin Customs looked at the city wall, and under the broken five-color flag, the last defender of the city was actually the son who thought about it day and night. The father and son were separated for half a year, but they met on the battlefield full of corpses, and they belonged to the camps of the two hostile sides.
The head of the black bear, one of the seven beasts, turned around, aimed at the burning five-color flag, and fired the Gatling machine gun in the bear's mouth.
"Stop ......"
Lao Qin frantically ordered the Tomb Beast to stop shooting, but once the comet rushed towards the moon, it could no longer brake. More than a dozen cone-shaped metal bullets burned with the eyes that flew towards Qin Beiyang.
Time slowed down a hundredfold, and the seventeen-year-old boy saw black-and-white drawings drawing the topography of the mountains and rivers in the Yangtze River estuary and the Jiangnan plain, the offensive and defensive layout of Wusong Fortress and Baoshan County, and also drew various line drawings of the tomb beast of Jinchan Town and the tomb beast of the seven-headed town of Jinjiao from the plane, side to section. Between the countless lines of the grid, the god of death riding on the bullet came with a cruel smile.
Let the bullets fly a little longer......
Night is falling on China.
One beast is a golden toad; The other beast had ten horns and seven heads, and ten horns were crowned with a profane name.
The ten-horned seven-headed grave beast opens the mouth of the black bear in the seven heads and shoots the tongue of fire from the Gatling machine gun.
A barrage of Japanese-made bullets spun out of the hot muzzles and flew with a scream of carnival. They are like a comet striking the moon and the white rainbow piercing the day and the eagle striking the assassin on the temple, holding a dagger blade in their mouths, shooting at the collapsed and burning city wall, the last boy to guard the five-color flag of the North Ocean.
Qin Beiyang.
The bullet was only 0.66 meters away from him, and the Grim Reaper's eyelashes and body odor were clearly visible.
A beast, a golden beast, with snow-white antlers, red mane, and bronze scale armor, like an arrow shot by General Fei, instantly rushed to the young man, blocking dozens of bullets for his master.
The sound of metal colliding with metal sounded in his ears, and Qin Beiyang subconsciously fell down. A furry paw stomped on his shoulder. For the first time, he saw the nine-colored Tomb Beast of the Young Qilin Town from this angle, with a horizontal knife immediately, and the surface of one side of his body was covered with more than a dozen hot and smoking bullet holes.
The two tomb beasts on the opposite side have broken through the city, and the elite fourth division of the Anhui system, singing "The Three Kingdoms will be brave, the first to promote Zhao Zilong" swept into Baoshan County, and the sixth division of the direct army was annihilated in one fell swoop.
It was completely dark, and there was not a trace of moonlight.
The juvenile beast Nine Colors, facing two strange and huge tomb beasts, was so insignificant in size, like a duel between David and Goliath.
But it was just as grinning and undaunted. Qin Beiyang turned over and patted Jiu Se's back.
The antlers on the top of the nine-colored head began to grow, and the endless sharp forks of the second life, the second and the third, and the third life were endlessly sharp and forked, as if there were dozens of swords on the top of the head, which were the Japanese sword, the Malayklux short sword, the Damascus scimitar and the ring-headed broadsword of the Han and Tang dynasties, which were enough to compete with ten horns and seven heads.
A glass-colored fireball erupted from Nine-Color's mouth. The fireball swirls around the battlefield like a summer night's phosphorus fire in the bones of the dead. The soldiers on both sides stopped fighting and looked up at the infernal flames. Qin Beiyang slapped the nine colors again, and a steady stream of breath was injected into the body of this young beast.
The fireball began to erupt, turning into a crimson-gold flame churning. With a loud bang, it spewed arrow-like flames, like a strong bow and crossbow of twelve stones, and ten thousand arrows were fired at once......
The golden toad and the controller of the ten corners and seven heads, Qin Customs, thanked God for saving his son, and looked at the city wall in amazement, seventeen-year-old Qin Beiyang, wearing a Beiyang Army coat, controlling a young Qilin Town Tomb Beast.
Lao Qin asked his two tomb beasts to retreat, but the flames of the nine-colored powerful crossbow arrows were already unstoppable.
The steel shell of the tomb beast of Jin Toad Town was full of holes in the blink of an eye, and it swayed slightly, and golden flames appeared, like a toad hit by a stone, and collapsed on the city wall.