Chapter 5: Gas Hell
"Climb down!" Leo, sensing the danger again, immediately warned him, and leaned his body against the earthen wall on the side of the trench according to the severity of the danger perception.
Jason is a man of action, and when he heard the warning, he instinctively followed Leo's movements and leaned against the nearest earthen wall.
Because of the previous precedent, Nelson also did not dare to ignore this warning, stopped what he was doing, and went into hiding.
At the moment when the three of them took cover, thousands of arrows slashed through the air and landed in some places around the battlefield and in the trenches.
The moment the arrow hit the ground, flames emerged from the body of the arrow and flew in all directions, quickly creating a sea of fire around it, and as the flames burned violently, a pungent smell spread through the air.
"Damn! they used imine gas, he wanted to kill everyone!" Nelson immediately exclaimed at the sight of the green smoke coming from the flames.
"Change the doctor's clothes. Although the situation was urgent, Leo's mind was very calm, and he quickly gave a clear instruction, and at the same time quickly rushed to the bunker, ignoring the wounds on his body, and dug up the corpse of the doctor who was covered by wood and dirt.
Jason and Nelson also hurriedly came over to help, and soon the two bodies were dug up.
Leo and Jason took off the body's seals and put them on their bodies. Although the clothes were a little small, their bodies could barely fit in, and the leaks were wrapped up in other clothes, and then all three of them wore bird's beak masks to barely keep the poison gas out.
"Leave now, don't pack your things. Leo quickly instructed the two men to pick up weapons, medicine, food, and other necessities, while he retrieved a set of maps, compasses, and other positioning devices from the body where the repeater was found.
After arranging the shape a little, Leo found a rope, tied a live buckle on the three of them, connected them to each other, and then led the way, plunging headlong into the greenish and yellow smoke of poisonous gas, clinging to the trench, and moving towards the edge of the battlefield.
Although the smoke was so thick that they could barely see their fingers, the three of them were connected by ropes, so there was no danger of getting separated, and the only question was whether Leo, as the leader, could find the right way out of such a dense smoke of poisonous gas, and also needed to be before the protective clothing and mask on his body were corroded by the poisonous gas.
Jason himself is simple-minded, he just thinks that it is okay to follow Leo, and there is no need to think about anything else.
But Nelson thinks more, and while he is glad that he chose to run away with Leo, he is also worried about whether Leo will be able to leave alive with them. It's just that he has no way out now, it is obvious that the French Empire is not prepared to abide by the provisions of the Continental Convention on the use of poison gas, and is ready to kill all the enemies on the battlefield, and the identity of the Velen Medical School cannot save his life, he can only pray that Leo can escape from this death situation with him.
As the leader of the way, Leo was in such a harsh environment, although it was not very relaxed, but he was not too nervous, because every step he took was accurately fed back into the paracerebral system, and in it, he deduced and sketched a three-dimensional walking route map, and then projected back into the retina of his eyeball, forming a three-dimensional illusion.
With this three-dimensional road map as a guide, he was able to easily find the right way out, no more than worrying about getting lost in the poisonous gas fog, and the only thing that needed to be solved was the so-called comrades who stood in their way.
Before the Kingdom of France launched the poison gas attack, many soldiers of the Kingdom of England were already hiding in the trenches.
These soldiers did not die in the same way as those who had not yet had time to hide in the trenches, but they were in just as bad shape, with the gas spreading rapidly and covering the entire battlefield.
In a short period of time, these poisonous gases have caused irreparable damage to their visual nerves, olfactory nerves, and other nervous organs, which has caused these warriors to fall into despair, and any creature that falls into despair tends to become more terrifying and insane.
As Leo leads Jason and Nelson around a gas flame into a flameless corner, he encounters a group of warriors in despair, who are frantically attacking everything around them with their sabers, blocking their path.
Faced with this situation, Leo did not stop, but made a gesture to Nelson and Jason behind him to stop, and then he extended the rope around his waist to a sufficient distance, and then pulled a dagger from his waist, and moved silently towards the nearest berserker like a civet.
I saw that he easily avoided the warrior's indiscriminate swinging sword, and the dagger in his hand slashed casually in the air, taking away a touch of blood, leaving only the warrior's corpse whose neck was cut in half.
With every leap and movement, with every flash of blade, a mad warrior fell to the ground, and in less than four minutes, nearly sixty mad warriors in the entire trench fell to the ground, blood splattering from their necks and staining the dirt on the ground.
If these warriors could still stay awake and cooperate with each other, Leo would have to pay some price if he wanted to kill them, but now Leo solved them with the same difficulty as solving a flock of chickens to the slaughter.
After checking that nothing was missing, Leo tugged on the rope and informed Nelson and Jason on the other end of the trench that they were ready to come.
Sensing a rhythmic pull on the rope, Nelson hesitated slightly, but Jason boldly stepped forward, but the knife in his hand had been drawn and he was on guard ahead.
When Leo killed the first berserker, they could barely see through the gas smoke.
Although Leo killed so easily, neither of them simply thought that these mad warriors were really easy to kill, but as they moved forward, they saw the corpses of berserkers falling to the ground, and all the fighters without exception had their necks cut open and killed with a single sword, which made both of them doubt their thoughts just now, and they couldn't help but have an illusion in their hearts that these warriors rarely killed.
Then the three of them passed through five more similar trenches, and all of them dealt with the fighters who had been completely driven mad by the gas in the same way, and then they did not encounter a similar situation again, not that the soldiers were not gassed, but that the gas had killed all those soldiers.
Although Leo is also a battle-hardened player in the Earth Federation, he fights in small teams most of the time, decapitating and breaking through, and has never experienced similar large-scale battles, let alone seen this kind of poison gas killing enemies on a large scale.
This near-hellish scene also made him feel a little worried, and he quickened his pace.
After walking in the trench for about half an hour, the poisonous gas smoke in front suddenly became a lot thinner, and many soldiers could be seen in the trench who had thrown all kinds of materials when they fled, and the corpses of the soldiers who were poisoned were very rare, and most of them were seriously injured and could not move.
Obviously, judging from this scene, when the French Empire launched a poison gas attack, the people stationed here chose to retreat in time, and left behind all the burdens, including people.
May God punish these sinners and make them suffer forever in the fire of hell until the day the world ends. Nelson, who hadn't spoken since then, suddenly let out a curse full of malice.
From his words, it is not difficult to hear that he is not only cursing the extermination attack of the French Empire, but also cursing those who have the ability to flee with their comrades, but choose to abandon their comrades.
"Aren't we the same?" the simple Jason could also hear the meaning of Nelson's words, muttered disapprerovingly, and then suddenly saw a beautiful pocket watch hanging from the arms of a corpse next to him, and hurriedly squatted down to pick it up and put it in his pocket.
"No, we're not!" Although Jason's muttering was not very loud, the surroundings were so quiet that Nelson could hear them clearly. He turned around and argued for himself, refuting Jason's statement, and just in time to see Jason taking the dead man's belongings, he said in a slightly disdainful tone, "At least I'm not." ”
Although Jason is a little stupid and has a somewhat straight personality, he has been mixed in the army all the year round, and he is not weak at all in terms of bickering. I saw that he deliberately shook the rope that connected each other so as not to get lost, and said with a smile: "We are one." ”
"Wait a minute, I want you to don't make a noise about anything. Just as Nelson was about to refute, Leo interrupted the two, and seemed to be dissatisfied with the bickering between the two, warned them, and then led the two of them forward quickly and walked quickly to a place where the smoke of the poison gas had thinned enough to see an object more than ten meters away, and stopped.
Leo seemed to sense something, stood in place for a while, then motioned for the two to hide behind a cover, then untied the rope on his body, and also took off the Locke Type III repeater and handed it to Nelson, who had no power to protect himself, and instructed the two: "You two stay here now, if you encounter an enemy coming, dodge as much as possible, unless you have to, don't attack, expose your whereabouts, I'll go outside to check the situation." ”
The two nodded in agreement.
After Leo left, Jason looked around restlessly, and then brought in several corpses, covering himself with dead bodies.
Nelson on the side rolled his eyes, not to mention why this dead body less than 1.7 meters tall was covered on a big man who might be more than two meters tall, this big man's ill-fitting doctor's outfit was enough to make anyone who saw it tremble and make suspicions, and there was no camouflage effect at all.
Nelson just wanted to taunt the other party, but he endured it at the thought of Leo's warning just now.
It's just that he didn't sit here and do nothing, but took out four bottles of medicine from the suitcase with all kinds of medicines on his waist, put some of the medicine powder in it in an iron box, and then carefully mixed it together, and then took off the arrows in the crossbow magazine in his hand, let the arrows dip a little of this mixed medicine powder, and then put them back on.
Nelson is not good at fighting, even if he has a sharp weapon in his hand, he does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to accurately shoot at the opponent's vital parts after encountering something, and if he does not shoot at the vital parts, the opponent will have the opportunity to sound a warning and alarm others. So he used a secret poison recipe in his hands to concoct a highly toxic drug, even if the arrow did not hit the target, these drugs could work in a very short time, killing the target.
At the same time, Leo had moved to the edge of the trenches.
At this point, he crawled out of the trench and quickly rolled behind a ruined bunker next to him, then slowly stretched his head out and looked around.
Although, when he faintly heard some French words coming from a distance, he felt that the situation might not be good, but when he saw exactly what was actually happening, he realized that the situation was much worse than he expected.
I saw that right now on the edge of the battlefield as far as Leo could see, there were at least seven teams of the French Empire guarding the trenches behind improvised defensive bunkers. These teams are all made up of two types of soldiers, sword-clad commandos armed with swords and armor, and annihilators armed with small steam devices and steam repeaters.
The sword armor soldiers of the French Empire are the most famous troops in the Vilen Continent, and it can be said that the French Empire can occupy half of the Vilen Continent, and most of it is due to these swordsmen and armor soldiers.
Two-handed wide swords, shields, heavy armor and other equipment have armed the swordsmen into heavy fortresses, in the battlefield of cold weapons, almost no army can withstand the impact of the swordsmen, and the corpses of the enemy have long been their prestige.
However, with the advent of steam machinery, especially the steam repeater, which solved the problem of miniaturization of steam engines, began large-scale equipment, and the sword armor soldiers with insufficient mobility and long-lasting combat power began to gradually withdraw from the stage.
At present, most of the sword armor soldiers of the French Empire appear in various annihilator units as auxiliary troops, resisting close enemies for the annihilators, without the need to wander too much to defend against the enemy, and the battlefield staying power has also increased in disguise.
Although Leo has not seen this kind of cold weapon weapon in the Sword Armor Soldier with his own eyes, a similar class of troops also appeared in the Old Earth Era of the Earth Federation, so it is not unusual.
Leo's gaze stayed on the swordsman, more to find a hole in the swordsman's defense, so that he could kill him in a short time when he encountered it in the future.
Leo focused more on the Annihilators who operated the Steam Repeater than on the Swordsmen. Although in the past, the Annihilator, a common type of military force in various countries, has long been thunderous, but this is the first time that I have actually seen a real person.