Chapter 202: Tagu Ghost Array (Medium)
The road was blocked, and the three jumped out of the carriage and saw hell. What was once a lush wheat field beside the road has now turned into a bloody and muddy Shura field, where the wheat stalks are trampled into the dirt and soaked with blood. Layers of corpses were piled up in the fertile field, these armies that had been completely wiped out, a broken flag waving in the wind, Asai glanced at the black background blue heraldic military flag, and said, "This is the Cool Breeze Cavalry Regiment we just talked about. At least there are thousands of people, and the whole system has been wiped out, and the time of death is ...... a day ago. ”
"Did Hou Qin's Jinge cavalry do it?" Jonah asked with a deep frown.
"It wasn't the military. The Oriental fiddled with a corpse on the ground, "You see, the iron helmet and sword on the corpse are all safe and sound, and the war chess is still in the field, if it is the Jin Ge cavalry, it will definitely take away the armament and break the battle flag." It is strange that there are no enemy bodies other than the corpses of the Liang Sui soldiers......"
The dead soldier was dressed in black half-body iron armor, and there was a hideous and terrible wound on his neck and shoulder, and I don't know what kind of weapon caused such a wound, completely ripping off a large piece of flesh from his neck along with the iron armor, and the wound revealed white broken bones and dark purple coagulated blood. Asai lifted the soldier's helmet, and it was a dead, frightened face, as if he had seen the most terrible thing before he died.
"If it's a cavalry regiment, why can't you see a single mount?" Jonah asked.
"The Cool Breeze Cavalry Regiment is a black-maned horse from the north, this riding beast has a strong temperament, and is most attached to its master, and will not stay away even if the master dies. The Oriental said, "Dead or alive horses are not seen, which only means that this cavalry team did not ride horses at all...... They came here on foot. ”
Long Shenlan suddenly pointed to the side and shouted: "Look there, Lord Long Chang, Senior Yona!"
Several people walked to the side and found a body that was in a terrible state of death. The tall cavalryman had countless wounds on his body, knife wounds, arrow wounds, gunshot wounds, burns, each wound enough to be fatal, almost turning his body into a hornet's nest. There was no bruising from the wound, indicating that the blood on his body had long since dried up, "his mouth ......" Xiaolong's voice trembled a little.
The corpse's head was cut in half, his eyes were wide open, his mandibles were staggeringly open, his lips were grinning to the base of his ears, and his sharp teeth were stained with black-brown blood and flesh scraps, and he no longer looked less like a human, closer to a python that had just finished hunting.
Jonah held back his disgust and looked at the creepy male corpse, then looked back at the wound of the previous corpse, raised his head and looked at Asai in horror: "Could it be ......?"
"That would explain it. Asai straightened up and scanned the bloody battlefield, "There are no enemies at all, they are killing each other. - Someone killed a soldier and then resurrected his body as a weapon, no matter how strong a warrior would hesitate to face a resurrected companion...... Death infects an entire legion like a plague. ”
"Could it be the undead summoner?I've only seen necromancers summon the Yagu undead to fight, they're ghosts dressed in black, they can't be completely killed, they look completely different from humans......" The astrologer broke into a cold sweat on his forehead.
"The soul of man belongs to a different world, it is the territory of the god of death, how can it be free for people to come and go?" the Oriental man hesitated, "All the legends related to the immortality of ghosts on this continent are more or less related to the Yagu Mountains. However, this evil method of killing people and resurrecting them immediately has never been heard of. ”
Long Shen said: "The Heavenly Master Sect in the East has a method of refining living corpses, and the five-faced corpse is made by using this Taoist technique to imprison the soul in the body. Could it be that the Heavenly Master taught him to do it?"
Asai shook his head: "It's completely different, the five-faced corpse is the same principle as the Punjab beast spirit in the southern continent, as long as the soul does not leave the body, it is not considered complete death." Once the soul leaves the body, it enters the realm controlled by the gods, and these resurrected people in front of him...... his eyes swept over the battlefield, "about two or three hundred dead have been resurrected, and after killing all the Liang Sui soldiers, they all fell down and died completely. This kind of resurrection spell has never appeared in the history of the entire continent. ”
"That's right! The Yagu Mountains in the Western Continent are controlled by the Zavi Empire, and now the Zavi Empire and the Holy Episcopal Association are vassals of the Brotherhood, could it be that the priest of the Holy Episcopal Church has found the secret of controlling the undead there and developed a new evil spell? This place is not far from Pingyin City, if it is not for the army of the Later Qin State, then the possibility of the Holy Episcopal Church is quite large. Jonah guessed.
"If it's true, that's a big deal. Asai said.
"Under the guise of sacredness, the Episcopal Church has been completely corrupted. Is this the doctrine preached by Metatron, the angel of fire with thirty-six wings......" Jonah muttered.
“...... Who?" The Oriental glanced at him.
“...... What?" Jonah himself was stunned, wondering why an unfamiliar name could pop out of his mouth.
The post road was blocked by seven or eight corpses, and three people moved the corpses back onto the road. "Ah Sai, can you summon a beast that devours corpses and dispose of these corpses, just like you did in Mulberry City, it's too pitiful to expose the corpses in the wilderness, and it will cause a plague. The astrologer asked.
The wheels rumbled, and the Oriental looked into the distance and replied, "Like Dakui, there is only one ghoul beast, and once it has come to the world, it can no longer be summoned." I'm sorry, Brother Jonah. ”
Jonah hung his head gloomily and turned the winch vigorously to vent his frustration. Long Shenlu held the sword beside him and chanted words, as if he was praying to the heavens for his grandmother.
The car drove to the south side of Pingyin, the "black city", climbed a small hill, and the famous capital of the Liang Sui Kingdom stood quietly in front of it. With black walls, black palaces, black spires, and black gates, this city looks majestic and cold, with an awe-inspiring spirit that stands for thousands of years without fear of wind and frost. "Stop, Brother Jonah!" shouted Arsay, who grabbed the winch with both hands, the gears rattling and the wheels rubbing against the post road. "Click!" the rotten axle finally snapped, the car slowly toppled over the side of the road, and the three men jumped out of the carriage and stood shoulder to shoulder on the top of the hill looking down.
On the left side of the battlefield there are four fairly large phalanxes of black soldiers, in the center is the cool breeze cavalry regiment with black armor and black horses, on the two wings are two mixed formations of blue-armored swordsmen and pikemen, the phalanx in the rear is the longbow regiment, and the heavy cavalry in the center of the engineer regiment guards the mobile command tower and the spellcasting regiment. Jonah estimated that each phalanx had about 5,000 troops, four phalanxes, and 20,000 soldiers, which was a complete and formidable legion.
Facing off against the army of the Liang Sui State across the plain was a much smaller force, two thousand red-armored cavalry formed a diamond-shaped formation, and the core of the team was a dozen priests in white robes. Under the crotch of these cavalrymen rode tall and mighty liger beasts, dressed in red bronze heavy armor, holding golden long ge, and vermilion helmet cherry blossoms fluttering neatly in the evening breeze. ......Weighing up to 1,500 pounds, the 1,500-pound liger growls with red and yellow fur, sharp claws, and sharp teeth as it grinds at the ground in place and growls impatiently. Separated by two thousand yards of space, the war horses of the cavalry of the Liang Sui Kingdom sensed the natural deterrent power of the carnivorous beasts, and moved their hooves uneasily.
Jonah originally thought that the war would revolve around the black city of Pingyin, but at this time, Pingyin City was just a silent background of war, and neither side had the desire to attack or defend the capital.
"We were right. After the Qin State invaded the Liang Sui Dynasty, the Episcopal Church seized power from the Brotherhood, and things were getting worse and worse. Heicheng is so quiet, it must have been controlled by the Anglican Church, the Lu family's royal family is more auspicious, and I don't know who is commanding these remnants of the Liang Sui troops?" Ah Sai said in a deep voice, "It looks like a plastic surgery, there should be a qualified general giving orders, but you don't have to think about it! The enemy doesn't bother to enter the city to avoid the attack, and confronts you head-on with a disadvantageous number of people fifteen times the difference, which shows that there must be something to rely on...... This battle is lost before it even starts!"
Long Shen jumped onto a large stone next to him, and looked into the distance, from here he could see the broken tower Tianxuan, but he couldn't see the outline of the Long family's mansion clearly. "I can't see clearly...... The Long family did not send troops, and they must have been besieged by enemy soldiers!" he said nervously.
"Now what are we going to do, Arsai?" said Jonah had seen a war so close for the first time. Standing on the top of the hill and looking down, the soldiers looked no bigger than ants, but he knew that every little black dot represented a fresh life, a precious life full of joys and sorrows with wives and children.
"It's too late to do anything. The Oriental replied, "The war has begun." ”
......The low sound of war drums spread throughout the land, and the red diamond-shaped cavalry formation suddenly began to move, increasing to a rather astonishing speed in just a few seconds, the four claws of the liger beast dug up the dirt and dust, like red lightning shooting through the plain, the Jin Ge cavalry shook their hands horizontally, and the snow-bright blades reflected the twilight.
Several colorful flags were raised in the camp of the Liang Sui Kingdom, the phalanx changed rapidly, the Cool Breeze Cavalry Regiment retreated a few hundred yards, the spear regiment on the left flank moved to fill the position, and the giant spears carried by the two soldiers spread out the fixed claws at the tail of the guns and firmly rooted into the ground, forming a cold forest of guns in an instant. "Bang bang!" The longbowmen in the rear drew their war bows, the bowstrings rattled, and a dense rain of arrows rose into the sky.
"Know that manpower is sometimes poor, Brother Jonah. Asai said softly.
The clouds of war loom over the fertile fields.