Chapter 18 Soldiers on the Front
The Luoyang Legion was one of the second regiments to reach Sleepy Tiger Mountain.
In addition to the 20 million people of the Western Legion of Great Chu, who were stationed in the battlefield of Sleepy Tiger Mountain. The first to arrive was the 9-city corps that were rotated this year, including Kaifeng, Changsha, Hangzhou, etc.
These nine major cities have been conscripted since early autumn and have been guarding the five passes and seven roads for two months instead of the Western Army.
At the beginning, the Corpse Demon Tide had not officially begun, and it was usually hundreds of millions of wandering groups that came.
These groups are basically level 8 skeleton soldiers, level 10 zombies, and level 20 jumping corpses, with a small number of mid-level troops.
It was the easiest month for the 9-city warriors and a good opportunity to hone their team.
But after the first snow began to fall in 2016, the forward of the corpse demon continued to surging towards Sleepy Tiger Mountain.
Although it is only a striker, the number is still more than 1 billion. In addition to a large number of cannon fodder, mid- and high-level troops, such as level 30 necromantic warriors, level 40 skeleton knights, have also appeared, and even level 50 corpse witches have begun to appear.
The 9 City Legion suddenly doubled the pressure, and could only rely on the defense of Guan Pass Jiancheng. Over the course of a month, the battle losses have exceeded 10%.
The Luoyang Legion and the second batch of more than a dozen Dacheng Corps arrived, just in time to replace the 9-City Corps, which had been exhausted from the long battle. This wave of legions will be held for a month, and they will be killed by the Chinese army of corpse demons.
It is then replaced by all the legions that arrive in the third group. Until the final frenzy of corpse demons arrives near the Spring Festival.
At that time, the Bone Demon of level 60 and above was full of mountains, the level 70 skeleton dragon was flying all over the sky, and the level 80 Knight of Destruction and the level 90 Lich Commander also appeared.
On the Terran side, the Western Legion and the elite soldiers of the major cities will be the leader, and the 81st City Corps will rush up, plus the alien races who are now posing on the side of the road. The sea of people against the sea of corpses, carrying the last madness of the tide of corpses and demons.
Every decade or so, a similar big scene is staged.
The subjects of the Great Chu State had developed aesthetic fatigue. In addition to the routine send-off party, everyone should eat and drink, and it is useless to worry. When it is time to worship the ancestors on the third day of the Lunar New Year, just write the names of the dead on the family tree and worship them together.
This year, the Luoyang Legion drew lots to the Hot Spring Pass, which is the most dangerous pass among the five passes.
According to Xu Wenruo, chief of staff of the corps, "Although it is not as good as defending the mountain area where it is difficult for birds to cross, it can be regarded as a winning lottery." ”
So everyone set off with a happy mood that was more than the upper and more than the lower.
When Gu Wen heard the name Hot Spring Pass, the whole person was a little Spartan.
It's good to count the number of warriors around you, far more than 300 warriors, and they have been defending for hundreds of years, so it won't be their turn to repeat history so unlucky, right?
The east side of the Sleepy Tiger Mountain Range is gentle, but the west side is like a knife and axe. For the Terrans, the terrain is definitely favorable.
The hot springs are closed in a bowl-shaped depression with almost straight cliffs on both sides.
The first wall facing the Desert of Death is 200 meters high, 200 meters thick, and almost 5 kilometers wide.
The entire city wall is made of black basalt steelstone, and each boulder weighing 10,000 tons is engraved with various runes, including 'strong', 'self-healing', 'insulating', 'demon resistance', 'corrosion resistance' and so on.
In the hundreds of years of war, new tactical spells have been introduced, and all the lessons learned have been turned into runes, constantly engraved on the city walls. The final result is a sentence: "indestructible".
There are three gates under the city wall, each gate is 100 meters high and wide, the three gates are made of five meters thick black steel, each door weighs 10 million tons, and it takes thousands of people to operate the mechanism to open to both sides through the slide rail.
A kilometer behind, there are two walls that rise with the mountain.
This is Onsen Seki.
When Gu Wen arrived with the Luoyang Legion, the front army had already completed the handover with the Hangzhou Corps originally stationed, and 30,000 Luoyang pro-troops and two small city legions were deployed on the first line of the city wall.
The advancing Luoyang Corps and the evacuated Hangzhou Corps passed left and right.
Gu Wen looked at the soldiers of the Hangzhou Corps who were leaving from the right side. After two months of war, every soldier was filthy and tired. Their armor was visibly torn and scratched, and their knives were missing and their quivers were blunt.
Many of the fighters were covered in bandages on their faces, arms, and bodies, and were stained with blood. There were also some seriously wounded who were missing arms and legs and were pulled forward by the wagon.
But there was a calmness added to everyone's eyes, and the calmness that is characteristic of seeing death.
Their expressions were not detached from the ease of war, because in two months, they would return to the battlefield with an endless army of corpses.
There are no bodies of fallen soldiers, and those who died in battle must be cremated. The corpse is eroded by a thick black fog, and it can turn into a zombie after seven days. If it is buried underground, it will turn into a skeleton and break through the ground ten years later.
Gu Wen's heart was even heavier.
Although the soldiers of the Luoyang Legion who walked with him had bright armor and neat military appearance. But after a month, if they are lucky, they will leave in the same embarrassment, and if they are unlucky, they will be turned into small jars of ashes, which will be carried by relatives and friends from the same village to their doors.
This is war.
The defensive surface of the Luoyang Army was about twenty kilometers, including the high mountains on both sides of the Hot Spring Pass.
Due to the characteristics of the terrain, the tide of corpses will naturally rush along the foot of the mountain to the bottom of the bowl and begin to attack the pass endlessly.
The peaks on both sides do not need a strong defensive force, only need to guard against a very small number of corpse demon air forces, but they can attack the corpse demon in the bowl. Therefore, a small city corps was deployed on the peaks on both sides, as well as 20,000 ranged troops of the Luoyang City legion.
As the head chef of the canteen of the senior generals who followed the headquarters of the Luoyang Army, Gu Wen stayed in the Chinese army camp at least 50 miles away from the front line.
From such a distance, you can see trebuchets that resemble dense forests on the peaks on both sides of the hot spring pass. They kept smashing thunder stones and canisters of fire oil at the army of corpses in front of the pass.
Thunderstone is a special ore in the Qingyun Continent, as long as it collides violently, it will explode with a thunderous sound, blasting everything around it to pieces. For the corpses who have little to no vital damage, this TNT-like explosive and fire oil is a good thing for flake wounds.
The explosion of the thunder stone came from afar, and it was already like the sound of firecrackers that can only be set off outside the city during the Spring Festival. And the fire of the burning oil was only dyed with a faint brightness under the dense black clouds in the sky.
War, so imminent, yet so far away.
On the first night on the front line, Gu Wen tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep.
Gu Wen remembered her mother Xu Xiaofeng, with 20 acres of middle fields, she found a tenant to help plant, now she doesn't need to be so busy every day, right?
Although he has been in Qingyun Continent for fifteen years, it is less than half of the time in his previous life, and his living environment is also very different. Gu Wen has completely integrated into the environment.
He remembered Guan Dazhuang in the Qingshan Regiment, this brother is just a digger army, he should be safe here, right?
I thought of Zhu Guangding again, although this classmate who was a bit of a stinky fart pulled him into the national war, but now that I think about it, I don't have any hatred in my heart. He's in the grain delivery team, so he shouldn't be in danger, right?
After all, his warrior level has reached level 29. If you squat in Duntou Village, without Ximenxi, the captain of the experience team, you can slowly kill monsters by relying on the chef level for 15 minutes, and you don't know how long it will take to get promoted.
The really more dangerous ones should be Shi Wu's father, Shi Xiong, after all, they are going to be on the front line.
Don't forget to hide behind the cavalry and heavy infantry, and don't rush forward when your mind is hot. However, as soon as he thought of Shi Xiong's temper, Gu Wen felt that he was not safe, very unsafe.
Gu Wen even remembered that "X" Men Sang Tuo. Although this guy hates ghosts, after all, he is a fellow villager in the same village. As long as he doesn't think about his mother in the future, I hope he can go back alive. If you have the opportunity to cook for him next time, you won't deduct his military rations.
When Gu Wen got up the next day, he suddenly became calm. The cuisine has suddenly changed from the super popular Sichuan and Hunan cuisines to the exquisite and beautiful Huaiyang cuisine.
The guards had a lot of money and little money, as well as a group of generals who were fed by Chef Gu and couldn't stop breathing a sigh of relief.
But on the third day, more money and less money came to give advice again: "Chef Gu's diners suddenly found that although it was painful, it was less spicy and spicy that made people blush and sweat, and the food didn't taste good enough." ”
Chef Gu couldn't help but roll his eyes: "A bunch of sluts." ”
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