Chapter 41: A Thousand Corpses March
At first, there were only three or two hundred walking corpses, then six or seven hundred, and finally thousands of walking corpses swarmed out of the burial valley.
These walking corpses vary in decay, some have only some flesh and skin hanging from the skeleton, some are maggots emerging from their facial features, in addition to civilian costumes, there is also no shortage of defeated dead soldiers wearing rusty armor and hand-held weapons, and even various wild dogs and wild horses with bare skulls.
The billowing cloudy evil qi poured out from afar, causing the newly emerging early spring grass seedlings on the ground outside the valley to quickly wither and ashes.
Zhao Xiao's expression was very solemn, he watched a skeleton wearing tattered armor climb up the horse corpse, holding a long lance embroidered with spots, like a general, and the thousands of walking corpses under his command were displayed and buried outside Di Gu, and the Yimu people who were dragging dead trees were also among them.
"With such a military march and a strict line-up, it's no longer a matter of waiting for idle demons to do evil." Zhao Xiao secretly scolded in his heart: "The evil art of evoking corpses is impossible to control so many walking corpses!" ”
"This is beyond the reach of idle magic." Ling Xiao said: "The defeated army and the dead generals gathered into a party, which is enough to say that the unhealthy qi between heaven and earth is composed of essence. The five elements are out of order, and people and ghosts are confused, which will create such a situation. ”
Zhao Xiao didn't bother to care about anything wrong now, seeing that the skeleton ghost pointed at the long lance, thousands of walking corpse skeletons and festering wolfdogs charged towards the camp, and the people of the same eye also took heavy steps and slowly approached.
"Taibai is a soldier, and the blade is not hurt!"
Zhao Huang twisted the armor piece in his hand and recited the mantra, and the white mangs and golden light behind the car base flowed, and hundreds of soldiers immediately received the blessing of the golden armor technique.
Seeing the corpses rushing to within a hundred paces, the archers released their arrows at the sound of the order. A round of arrows rained out, mostly hit. However, except for a few walking corpses that fell, the rest of the arrow-hit walking corpses also staggered, and then resumed their pace, roaring and rushing towards the barricade.
"Ordinary arrows can't hurt them!" A centurion immediately said, "Draw your sword and raise your shield!" Don't let them rush in! ”
The soldiers assigned to Zhao Huang by General Wei were all brave people, even if they had never fought against such corpses in the past, but when they saw that the results of the bow and arrow shooting were not good, they immediately changed their strategy:
"Palladium boring hands come up to me! The players cover left and right, and the spearmen push the corpses down! ”
The soldiers moved quickly and immediately changed formations. The corpses rushed to the front of the barricade in the blink of an eye, like a tide crashing hard against the plank. Fortunately, the planks were all thickened and tamped, so they were not damaged on the spot.
A fierce battle broke out in an instant, most of the walking corpses had no weapons, and the first group of walking corpses who tried to climb the barrier were directly stabbed by sharp blades and fell one after another. Several festering wolfhound carcasses attempted to slip through the cracks beneath the barricade and were crucified to the ground by the soldiers.
However, there were a large number of walking corpses, and they did not cower from fear of death, the former broke their torso limbs and fell to the ground, and the latter simply stepped on them and hit the car barrier.
The soldiers fought desperately, spears like a forest, alternately stabbing out with the sound of orders, piercing and pushing down the walking corpses that tried to turn over the barrier. There are also several brave soldiers armed with fire charm knives, like sharp blades cutting tofu, severing the heads and limbs of the walking corpses, killing freely.
For a time, the foul-smelling pus splashed everywhere, the white maggots of minced meat flew sideways, and the boundary between life and death was clear.
But I saw the tall Yimu people in the distance leaning over, grabbing a few walking corpses, throwing them towards the camp, and blowing up a large cloud of yellow-green pus directly on the ground, which was extremely foul and smoked the mouth, nose and eyes. Some of the soldiers got a little closer, and immediately became dizzy and vomited, which greatly damaged their strength.
Seeing this, Zhao Huang pointed out together, and fired several golden arrows at Yimu people. However, the other party's layered and stitched flesh was extremely tough, and the golden arrow could only leave shallow scars.
Sensing that the power of the spell was insufficient, Zhao Huang did not hesitate to sacrifice the true form of the Divine Tiger, and saw a white-fronted tiger leap out of the car base, rushing left and right among the corpses, and the Great Blessing of Controlling Evil swept past the walking corpses, as if pouring hot oil, expelling and suppressing its yin and evil turbidity.
The true form of the Divine Tiger was unstoppable, tearing a gap in the corpse group and attacking the people of Ichimoku.
The eyes of the people are filthy and evil, it looks like a number of corpses stitched together, although it is a little slow, inconvenient hands and feet, but the strength is still amazing, picking up a dead tree and sweeping it heavily, the true form of the god tiger was shot into the dust, it is difficult to approach.
The Divine Tiger True Form was unfavorable in melee combat, and immediately opened his mouth to spit out a spell, and the white bright sharp light shot at the body of Yimu Min, leaving mottled scratches, and a little yellow and green pus flowed out inside, and the wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"That's not going to work." Zhao Xiao was about to sacrifice the magic crow fire crow, when he suddenly touched the iron true talisman in his arms, and said secretly: "Why did you forget this?" ”
Zhao Huang immediately made a decision, holding the talisman in one hand, thinking about the true form of the iron gong, and lifting the Qingxuan pen with the other hand, drawing the true qi in the air. The soul seems to be chiseled through a layer of invisible barriers, and the rich charm is attached to the bet, and Zhao Xiaoyun points to the open space outside.
Suddenly, the earth was in turmoil, the earth and stones were tumbling, accompanied by a dull sound, the earth and stone blocks gathered and assembled by themselves, and a huge clay puppet shaped like an iron man stood in front of the car base.
Zhao Huang successfully summoned the image, and naturally understood in his mind that this clay puppet was in the shape of an iron centimeter spirit, and there was no need for complex and advanced methods of manipulation.
Tie Gong is not like those magic soldiers and horses with complete limbs and facial features, it pounced on the spot and was run over by giant rolling stones, and countless walking corpses were directly crushed and crushed, blowing up clumps of foul-smelling pus.
On the other hand, in the distance, the one eyed people turned three times and four times to repel the attack of the divine tiger's true form, and when they saw the earth puppet rolling over, it had no intention of retreating, and picked up the dead tree and pumped it directly towards the earth puppet.
With a bang, large pieces of wood chips exploded. The clay puppet staggered, the dead tree broke, and the people of Ichimoku took a half step back, taking the opportunity to open their mouths and spew out dark purple filth, trying to erode the charm of the clay puppet.
If you are an ordinary law general, if you are sprayed in the face by such a mouthful of filthy gas, I am afraid that you will be scattered immediately. But this iron male puppet seemed to be completely fine, and smashed his backhand into the head and face of the people.
Comparable to the momentum of the boulder mudstone collapse, Ichimoku was directly smashed by a stone fist and burst in one eye, red, white, yellow and green pus splattered everywhere, and the head stitched with thick threads folded back, almost falling off his torso.
At this time, the true form of the Divine Tiger flew into the air, and with a tiger roar, it bit directly on the neck of Ichimoku and ripped off his head. The iron male puppet stepped forward and raised his foot, directly crushing this head.
This shocked everyone present, and the soldiers behind the base shouted one after another.
Even Zhao Huang breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Tie Gong's form of a spirit manifestation had such strength, which showed that its past accumulation was quite profound, even if Zhao Huang summoned the fire crow on his own Zhu Wenbai ribbon, he might not be able to hit that one eye of people at once.
But at this moment of relaxation, the headless people suddenly moved, and their two thick arms firmly hugged the clay puppet, and they rushed towards the base formation like a mad hair, and their originally bloated bodies continued to expand.
"Stand out!" Zhao Xiao was taken aback when he saw this, he didn't care that the spell was too much and his eyebrows hurt, and the fingertips in his hand changed: "Zhu Wu Lingtian, Danxia Hechong, quickly summon the fire crow!" ”
On the white ribbon on his waist, Zhu Wen's bird seal moved and jumped, and dozens of fire crows flew out, and at the same time went straight to the people.
The fire crows bombarded one after another, and the people were scorched by the flames, and the already swollen body was no longer able to bear it, and it burst and shattered when it hit the car base, and in an instant, the rotten flesh mixed with filthy pus and blood splashed sideways, and a large area of foul-smelling fog blew into the formation.
No matter how strong the soldiers were, they were drenched in pus and blood and smoked by the stinking mist, and almost no one could resist, and they vomited and fainted one after another, and the scene was extremely ugly.
Zhao Xiao hid behind the wooden board in time, but he was also doused with pus and blood falling from the sky, and the green shirt and wide sleeves were dirty and sticky, not much different from jumping into a dung pit.
"I can still do this without a head, and I am also convinced." Zhao Xiao exhaled a breath of turbid air and smiled helplessly. Originally, these words were said to Ling Xiao, maybe she didn't want to look at the filthy pus and blood all over the place, so she was completely silent and did not respond.
Zhao Huang stood up, after a glance of the people, there were not even a few corpses left outside the car base array, some walking corpses barely leaned on the upper body to crawl forward, Zhao Huang saw this and waved the green pen, the talisman pen was poured with filth, it was difficult to collect the gas machine, the spell did not work, and the remaining walking corpses could only be trampled to death one by one by the true form of the divine tiger that had not yet been affected.
As for the clay puppet turned into an iron centimeter spirit, it could withstand most of the power of the self-explosion of the Ichimoku people head-on, and the torso of the clay puppet was also torn apart at this moment. Fortunately, it resisted, otherwise Ichimoku would have been large enough to crash into the base formation and explode himself in the formation. If that were the case, I am afraid that few of the soldiers present would have survived.
The soldiers vomited intermittently, and no one was willing to speak. Suddenly, a trumpet was heard in the distance, and a cavalry galloped up, smoke and dust billowed out, and the other party saw a mess inside and outside the barricade, and held the horses more than a dozen feet away.
"What the hell?!"
Luo Xixian was wearing armor and riding a horse at this moment, and shouted anxiously: "Zhao Xiao! Grand Master Zhao! Dead or alive! ”
Zhao Xiao came out of the car base pheasant moat and waved his hand forcefully: "Not dead yet." ”
Luo Xixian opened his mouth, thinking of the dispute between the two before, he felt a little ashamed at this time, and he didn't know how to answer.
Zhao Xiao didn't think much about it, raised his hand and pointed to the distance: "There is also a skeleton and ghost general driven by demons and demons, you can deal with it." ”
Luo Xixian turned his horse's head and saw that the skeleton ghost would ride across the corpse horse, lifting its lance diagonally, motionless in the barren field. Luo Xixian whispered a few words to the deputy general behind him, and then rushed out alone, pulled out his bright long sword, and held it high to the sky, accumulating sword qi along the way, like a torch in the night, shining in all directions.
The skeleton ghost had never participated in the offensive base formation from beginning to end, and Zhao Xiao couldn't manage much before. And now that Luo Xixian's horse was approaching, it seemed to have reacted, the lance slowly lifted, and the corpse horse under its crotch gradually accelerated, rushing towards Luo Xixian.
The two horses intersected, and the rusty lance collided with the sword qi like a huge wave of the tide, and the armor was immediately broken, and the skeleton ghost and the corpse horse were slashed by Luo Xixian's sword.
"I can't compare, I really can't compare."
Zhao Xiao looked at Luo Xixian, who was wandering around the ghost general Le Ma, and was both emotional and impressed in his heart. He could see that Luo Xixian had been fighting bandits and fighting these days, and his swordsmanship had improved again, but if he was himself, he might not be able to kill the skeleton ghost general so neatly.
The ghost will be beheaded, and the soldiers in the rear all shouted in unison, and Zhao Xiao could see that these soldiers admired Luo Xixian very much. On the battlefield, their own generals are brave and good at fighting, and most of the soldiers will also have high fighting spirits. Maybe this kind of occasion is more suitable for Luo Xixian, Zhao Xiao knows that he can't do this no matter what, it would be good to be able to hold his ground and save everyone's lives.
Luo Xixian returned to the side of the base formation, shook his hand and threw something to Zhao Xiao, it was a Xuanhei Tiger Talisman with a wrong golden ancient seal on it, which was difficult to identify for a while.
"The ghost will turn the whole body into ashes, and this thing is yours left." Luo Xi said wisely.
"Thank you." Zhao Xiao held the tiger talisman with a complicated expression, and he didn't know if it was because he obtained this tiger talisman or if the other party personally led troops to the rescue.
Luo Xixian pointed to the Burial Valley and asked, "Where is the demon that evokes the walking corpse?" ”
"Not bad." Zhao Xiao nodded, and hurriedly said: "The filth inside is strong, and ordinary spells are difficult to cast, so don't take the enemy lightly." ”
"Got it!" Luo Xixian didn't say much, and then talked to the other soldiers alone, arranged a team of people to guard the chariot base formation, and hundreds of cavalry and follow-up foot soldiers went to the burial valley.
Obviously, there were no ambushes or traps this time, and the smoke of fire soon rose from the direction of the Burial Valley, and Luo Xixian and his soldiers were out of the valley safely before dusk.
"That demon has long since fled and is nowhere to be seen!"
Luo Xixian still seems to be angry, when he was in Sanniukeng, he had fought with this demon who drove the walking corpse, and he hated this fang, and he was not happy to fight in the hollow this time. Listen to him say, "We went around half a circle inside, and found that the demon had set up an altar in the valley, and most of the corpses of the people in it were mutilated. I have smashed the altar and set fire to the corpses. ”
Zhao Huang was cleaning the filth by the stream, looked up and asked, "What does the altar look like?" ”
"There are piles of skeletons on the left and right, and a wooden sculpture with a wolf's head and a human body stands in the middle." Luo Xixian made no secret of his disdain: "Anyway, it is an obscene evil god who is not in the stream, I split the wood carving of the altar with one sword, and there is no retribution!" ”
Zhao Xiao instinctively wanted to open his mouth to accuse, after all, such things as killing evil gods and breaking obscenity seem arrogant on the surface, but in fact, there are many taboos to pay attention to. Unless you have the ability to directly kill the evil god, you may cause unnecessary trouble by destroying the idol and burning the altar casually.
"Ghosts and gods report against each other, and they may not be fighting in person." Zhao Xiao said in a soothing tone and cautiously.
Luo Xixian waved his hand: "If there is really any evil god who wants to retaliate, then let it come, I just don't think the battle merits are enough!" ”
Zhao Xiao didn't dare to say more, just bowed his head silently.
"I'm done taking care of things here, I'll take the troops back to Yuyang County first, and you can do it yourself." Luo Xixian turned his horse's head and led his soldiers to leave.
Looking at the smoke and dust in the distance, a soldier asked Zhao Xiao, "Zhao Fu, when are we leaving?" ”
Zhao Xiao looked at the sky and sighed softly: "Don't worry." When the fire in the burial valley is extinguished, I will go in and investigate. Then we have to go back to the mine to worship Tiegong, and this time thanks to it, we can save our lives. ”
The soldier asked, "That big clay figure just now, could it be that the iron grandfather appeared?" ”
Zhao Xiao was about to explain, but thinking that the other party was just an ordinary soldier, he had to nod with a wry smile: "Almost." ”