Chapter 50: Martyr!

At this time, the human defenders of Aiya encountered unprecedented pressure, although these soldiers were amused by their city lord is now high-spirited, enjoying the freehand combat career of wielding knives and killing the enemy while talking and laughing, but the tiger people are tiger people after all, and the tiger people who entered the state after rectifying showed their terrible combat effectiveness, often after climbing to the head of the city, without waiting for the human soldiers to cut down on their weapons, they jumped up and rushed down to the human soldiers from the air, although the result of these tiger people was stabbed in the air by several knives and guns, and then they were thrown off the city, but they created opportunities and conditions for the tiger people behind to occupy the city, The tiger man behind quickly climbed up to the city head from the siege ladder, and raised the ghost head knife is a sweep, under a knife, the human soldiers are often three or four waist cross-cutting, the lower body fell to the ground and twitched, the upper body stood up in a pool of blood, and the hopeless hands grabbed something in vain, and after waving for a while, it slowly softened, and then the neck was beaten, and the whole head was drooping on the chest, swaying like a gourd. The city fell into a bloody battle of life and death, human beings slowly lost their advantage, every moment a large number of lives were harvested by the snow bright ghost head knife, blood drifted to the ground, gathered, and gradually the city head seemed to have just had a rainstorm, everywhere [***] sticky plasma, mixed with broken limbs, broken internal organs, under the feet of the warring parties, constantly splashed on people's bodies and faces.

Just here for a while, both the offensive and defensive sides have suffered huge losses, the original 100,000 soldiers of the human race, now the loss of more than 30 percent, except for the more than 10,000 archers who do not have much melee ability, the real melee soldiers of the human race are only half, that is, only 50,000 people. After the Tiger Man lost nearly 50,000 people in the first stage, after such a while, the loss exceeded 30,000 people, and the remaining strength is less than 70,000 people. The balance of this war was originally tilted, imagine 150,000 tiger people against 100,000 human soldiers, although it is said that one besieges and one defends the city, but with the ratio of tiger people and human single soldiers to five in combat power, then it is 750,000 to 100,000. The defense facilities are not very complete in the city, it should be about three to one, that is to say, considering various factors, after conversion, the combat power of the tiger people is more than twice the combat power of humans, and the loss was rectified by Lord Zhao to greatly weaken the balance of power between the two sides, but as the tiger people gradually entered the state, the comprehensive combat power was still slightly better than the tiger people, so the balance of the war was still not based on the will of the people, and gradually tilted to the side of the tiger people. Especially a few tiger generals in the tiger people, basically have the strength of the Great Sword Sect, the dazzling white brilliance flashes, originally they were targeted by the elite barracks of Aiya City as soon as they appeared, but unfortunately the strength of the two sides is not at the same level at all, a group of ten people in the elite barracks, people will reimburse you all three or four times, these tiger generals almost more than a dozen human soldiers died every time they shot, under their rampage, the tiger people's position at the head of the city is constantly expanding, almost all the tiger people are now rushing to the head of the city, the head of the tiger people is surging in black, the head of the city is slowly falling into a crisis, and the defense line may collapse at any time。

At this time, I saw that Lord Zhao's eyes were as red as blood, the expression on his face changed several times, he gritted his teeth, raised his right hand, and slashed down.

Ji Ping didn't understand what Lord Zhao's gesture meant, but Ji Ping saw the deputy city lord Shao Shan, who was commanding the battle, after seeing Lord Zhao's action, his body trembled obviously, obviously Lord Zhao's gesture represented a certain meaning, maybe they had deduced it in the usual military exercises, but it was obviously not an ordinary formation, otherwise Shao Shan's calmness would not have been so obvious a reflection, and then looked at Shao Shan, after his body trembled, he glanced at Lord Zhao, and the two of them looked at each other, and then Shao Shan's hand bit his lip violently, and coldly ordered: "The first team of spears and the second team, resist the enemy, the third team of spears covers all the retreat, all of them have it, implement the plan of the city head to defend the Vulcan, and the death squad is ready!"

Ji Ping didn't know what the Vulcan plan was, but Ji Ping's heart couldn't help but be heavy, because he saw that after the human soldiers heard Shao Shan's loud words about this plan, all the soldiers were obviously stiff, and the standard-bearer was also stunned, but then he still played the command flag, and then two lines of tears slid down.

After the human soldiers stiffened their bodies, they still acted quickly, only to see nearly 20,000 pikemen forming three horizontal teams, two people only left a position, two meters of spears, the tip of the spear pointed forward, resisting the attack of the tigermen, and the other swordsmen retreated from the position left by the pikemen to five meters behind, some of the tigermen wanted to chase and kill, but were stabbed to death by the third row of pikemen at the head of the city, and after a while, behind the three pikemen, there was a vacuum area about five meters wide, there was no soldier there, only broken limbs and flesh all over the ground and slowly flowing purple and black plasma。 And retreat to the back of the swordsmen and swordsmen stood in several horizontal formations, the same they only saw that every two people also left a position, behind them, there were more than 10,000 archers, no matter what, the archers could not be directly exposed to the enemy's attack, so this formation was impeccable, but at this moment, these swordsmen and swordsmen were full of tears in their eyes at the moment, and they all looked solemn, standing there straight, and the hands holding the swords were clenched out of the green tendons.

The two rows of pikemen at the top of the top also fell into a catastrophe at this moment, although the pikemen have a distance advantage, but they can't withstand the impact of the tigerman's strong power, I saw the tiger man see the spear stabbing in, some take the ghost head knife and directly open it, and the figure is bullied into the pikeman's side, a big hand chokes the pikeman's neck and twists it violently, with a soft click, a life disappears with the wind.

Some tiger people are more direct, seeing the spear stabbing over, the side of the body, grabbing the spear with one hand, and staggering the human soldier to the ground, the tiger head knife chopped off, half of the shoulder and the head were chopped off, the blood gushed out, splashing the tiger man's body and face, the tiger man reached out and wiped the blood stains on his face, stretched out his wide tongue to lick the blood at the corner of his mouth, and snorted, pounced on the next target.

Seeing that the pikemen had loosened their formation, they could not hold on, and at this moment, the death squad, which was full of five hundred soldiers, rushed out of the positions left by the swordsmen and swordsmen, and pounced on the back of the pikemen, and at the same time, more than 10,000 archers at the back put down their bows and arrows, and each took out something like a torch and lit it. Look at the death squad in their hands is not a weapon, but each person is carrying a jar of something, and the other hand is holding a spoon, the distance between the five hundred people is about three meters, five hundred people, one thousand five hundred meters, that is the width of the entire city battle line, to reach the pikemen, the spoon in each person's hand, scoop out a spoonful of liquid from the jar, and throw it on the head of the tiger soldier, the tiger man wondered, and said what is this for, does it look at the tiredness of our fighting, water us cool and cool. However, the liquid spilled on the body did not fall, it was so sticky to the body, the thick pungent smell shattered their illusions, not only the tiger people, but also the human daredevils and pikemen were more or less drenched with some of this pungent liquid, and a tiger soldier suddenly shouted: "Ah, this is the oil of fire!" The tiger people suddenly understood, but it was too late, the torches of the human archers had already flown down on them, tens of thousands of torches drew a fiery red parabola, dragging thick or light smoke, falling on the tiger people, but also on the human pikemen, "boom", the whole city became the dance ground of the god of fire, the god of fire danced a sea of fire here, the hair on the tiger people decided that they could not escape this nightmare, a full fifty or sixty thousand tiger soldiers danced with the god of fire in the flames, one by one with teeth and claws, Crazy hissing, many tiger people jumped directly to the city, only to see one by one tiger people dancing in a ball of fire, hissing, falling from the city, often before falling to the ground, the screaming stopped abruptly. Those pikemen let the tiger people slash themselves when the fire oil fell on them, but even if they were dying, they all held hands, let the raging fire begin to burn on them, but no one moved again, the three horizontal teams were like three chains, dead between the tiger men and the human soldiers, and those burning tiger people also tried to frantically break the three death locks laid by these human pikemen, but no matter how they impacted, they were finally stopped in these three death locks, and the five hundred death squads were also in flames, standing behind the pikemen, where the tiger people rushed away, they rushed up and pounced on the tiger peopleto fill in the gaps.

Above and below the city, inside and outside the city, everyone stopped fighting, including the offensive and defensive battles at the city gate, including the Sword Saint Luo Da and Xiao Hei, all of them unconsciously stopped fighting, silently watching the tragic scene in the fire at the head of the city.

Lord Zhao, the city lord, clenched his fists, looked at the burning and upright bodies of the human soldiers in the sea of fire, tears were falling on his face, and he sang a song leisurely:

"In my heart,

There was a dream,

Let all human beings be free from pain;

Aiya City Head,

Who are the real heroes,

Who is burning life in the raging fire?

In order to be able to wipe out the invaders,

For the sake of the millions of fathers and brothers in Aiya,

Here we go,

Take care!"

The low singing gradually spread in the city, Shao Shan sang along, the guards sang, the archers sang, all the human soldiers in the city sang, every human soldier at the head of the city looked at the burning sea of fire, looked at the tiger man dancing wildly in the sea of fire, looked at the burning fire in the sea of fire, The heroes who are burning their lives burst into tears one by one, and the singing gradually resounded in the head of Aiya City, and the people in Aiya City also joined the chorus, and they also saw everything that happened in the city, and the passionate and majestic singing gradually resounded in the entire sky of Aiya City, reaching into the sky. Suddenly, all the human soldiers in the fire seemed to hear the majestic song that rose to the sky, and turned their heads to look at the city, this moment was frozen by the flames, through the golden dancing flames, everyone in Aiya City seemed to see the expressions on the faces of the heroes in the flames, the severe pain of the fire did not distort their faces due to the pain, and there was no regret and tears on the resolute face, only deep reluctance, A smile from the bottom of my heart and a strong blessing to my father, my fellow villagers, brothers and sisters, yes, they are leaving, the fire has dried their eyes, steamed their blood, and burned their flesh and bones. They are proud, they have killed several times their number of enemies, and they are relieved that they have exchanged their lives for the lives and dignity of millions of people in Aiya.

Until the fire gradually went out, this group of pikemen, the fresh life finally turned into a twisted charcoal, but they still maintained the posture of holding their hands, standing on the head of the city, proudly staring at the charred corpses lying on the ground with twisted bodies, proud of the clumps of flesh and blood under the city, the corpses of the tigermen who were lying down, the tigermen who were stupidly open with their mouths open, and the tigermen who were already sluggish, and the tigermen sword saint Luo Da who looked pale and trembling at all this.

Since then, every year today, all the soldiers and civilians of Aiya City will hold a grand festival called ----- "Fire Festival", at the head of Aiya City, two rows of about a kilometer long raging fire dragon are burned, and the middle is about ten meters wide, where people sing and dance, while worshiping the heroes and martyrs who once bathed in fire. A great sculptor made a special trip to the head of Aiya City, painstakingly spent a year, with a huge volcanic rock about 100 meters long to create a carving, the theme picture is a human pikeman hand in hand, standing in the golden flames, turning his head to look back, the expression on his face is nostalgia, reluctance, smile, blessing, pride, gratification, the expression is vivid and lifelike, as if the scene is reproduced as realistic. It is said that after the sculptor completed this carving, he never carved a single piece of work again, because during the year of carving, he wept while carving, and within half a month after completing this carving, the great sculptor went blind. And this carving was later placed at the head of the cliff city, and a large number of people came to worship like this every day, and after the worship, everyone couldn't help but shed tears, stretched out their trembling hands to rub the resolute faces of the heroes, did they want to feel the pain of the heroes at that time?