37 Living corpses

Seeing that Master Lu was shot on the spot, Xian Jingyue didn't have time to be surprised, and took advantage of this gap to reach out and grab the belt behind Li Liu's back, pick her up, and throw her towards the stone stairs of the city wall. Li Liu spread his body in mid-air, then jumped forward, and finally stepped on the stone staircase of the city wall. Seeing that Li Liu's escape, the surrounding sick sergeants were suddenly furious, and at the same time rushed towards Xian Jingyue, who was unwilling to kill, and immediately raised the glaive knife in his hand, and used all his strength to "split Huashan alone", but it fell on the ground in front of him.

It turned out that Xian Jingyue was seriously injured in Huguang that day, and by chance, he was sealed by the Mo family's "Rose Thorn" and "Heavenly Needle Lock" Bingtai, so he no longer had to worry about the backlash of murderous energy. Therefore, the knife he slashed out at the moment was actually aimed at the earth under his feet, pouring murderous energy into the earth without reservation. For a while, when he saw the dust and dust rising from all sides, the nearby sergeants only felt that the ground under their feet shook slightly, as if it was a sudden movement, and twenty or thirty people fell on the spot. And Xian Jingyue had already taken the opportunity to mobilize the explosive power of his body, and used light skills to break out of the encirclement of the soldiers, and also stepped on the stone staircase leading to the city.

Although Master Lu had been killed, the team of archers he brought with him was dutiful, and hurriedly fired arrows at the infected sergeants who were chasing Xian Jingyue and Li Liu, covering the two of them to come along the stone stairs to the city wall. However, these sick soldiers under the city wall are now a dead end, and since they have mutinied, they simply do not stop doing it, completely risking their lives, and actually desperately stepped on the stone ladder in the face of the downed feather arrows, and rushed to the city wall after Xian Jingyue and Li Liu. In an instant, the sergeants who rushed in front fell one after another, but the sergeants behind did not retreat, and continued to walk up the stone stairs by stepping on the corpse of the sergeant in front.

You must know that the stone staircase leading to the top of the city wall, wide and narrow enough to accommodate three or four people walking side by side, is made up of two inclined stone stairs spliced together, forming a turnback platform in the middle, and it is at this turnback platform that the archers shoot their arrows down at this time. When Xian Jingyue and Li Liu went up to the platform in the middle of the stone staircase, those infected sergeants also swarmed up, only seven or eight stone steps away from the platform, so close that only the feather arrows shot by the archers could not stop them.

Fortunately, a group of heavily armored sergeants came down from the city wall in time, each armed with spears more than a foot long, and lined up at the platform, thus protecting the archers behind them. In the face of these heavily armored sergeants holding spears, the sick sergeants who rushed up ignored them and continued to attack with their knives. For a while, seeing the blood splashing randomly, the spears in the hands of this group of heavily armored sergeants were like a wall full of spikes, blocking all these infected sergeants on the stone staircase in front of the platform, and were squeezed by the crowd that surged up from behind, and they were squeezed out of the stone stairs one after another, and fell straight under the city wall.

Unexpectedly, these infected sergeants had already lost their minds when they were murderous, and when they saw that they could not break the spear of the heavily armored sergeant, they simply used their bodies to directly crash into the spear that stabbed them. One of the sick sergeants was stabbed by two spears at the same time, but still struggled forward, allowing the spears to penetrate his chest and abdomen, and pounced straight in front of the heavily armored sergeant, and then opened his mouth and spewed out the blood of several heavily-armored sergeants.

It is said that the reason why General Lu wanted to stop these infected soldiers under the city wall was that he was worried about being infected by the plague on them, and the soldiers on the city wall naturally understood this truth. At this time, the heavy armored sergeants were sprayed with the blood of the infected sergeant, and even a few drops were accidentally stained in their mouths, and they immediately panicked, and the heavy armored sergeants next to them also dodged back one after another when they saw this. As a result, the ranks of the heavily armored sergeants were in disarray, and they could no longer resist the sick sergeants on the stone staircase, and they finally broke through the defensive line, and together with the group of archers behind them, they were pushed out of the platform and fell under the city wall.

At this time, Xian Jingyue and Li Liu had returned to the city wall along the stone stairs, but they did not see General Lu. And all the soldiers on the city wall, fearing that they would be infected by the plague, gathered at the entrance of the stone staircase, saying that they would stop the sick soldiers under the city wall. Xian Jingyue was sad and angry in his heart, if a foreign enemy came to attack, he would definitely end up fighting, even if he couldn't win, he could kill dozens of people desperately, but the "enemy" he was facing at the moment was caused by these infected sergeants who mutinied, although these sergeants were completely out of control, but in the end they were also Han soldiers stationed in this Yumen Pass, how could he kill them?

At that moment, Xian Jingyue beckoned Li Liu to go north along the city wall, intending to discuss countermeasures with General Lu. Who knew that after walking more than a dozen steps, he found that on the inside of the north city wall five hundred steps away, there was clearly a slope leading to the top of the city wall, which was the passage for transporting all kinds of city defense equipment to the city wall, and at this time, there were also thousands of sick soldiers along the slope to attack the city wall, fighting to be cut down twice, stabbed with a few spears, and also to sprinkle their own blood on the soldiers defending the city.

You must know that the garrison of this Yumen Pass claims to be 100,000 to the outside world, but in fact there are only 30,000 or 40,000 people, excluding those who died of disease and fled without permission, and now there are only 15,000 or 6 sergeants left, and most of them have been infected by the plague. At this moment, the number of sick soldiers who attacked the city wall was about seven or eight thousand, and the other two or three thousand chose to stay in the tents and wait for death. In comparison, the total number of these uninfected sergeants who were taken to the city wall by General Lu to take refuge was less than 3,000 in total, and in the face of these seven or eight thousand infected sergeants desperately rushing to the city wall, it was like defending against the enemy army besieging the city. The difference is that these "enemy troops" are actually attacking from the inside of the Yumen Pass city wall, not only can they rely on the stone ladders and slopes leading to the city wall, but they are not afraid of death.

In just a few moments, these sick soldiers had broken through the defenses of the defending soldiers, and stepped on the city wall one after another to kill, and the entire city wall of Yumen Pass was suddenly reduced to purgatory. Roars, wails, and screams were mixed together, as well as the sound of spears piercing into the body, slashing bones with knives, and corpses falling to the walls, and the blood of the soldiers almost stained the inside of the walls around the Yumen Gate. Seeing that these sick sergeants all had haggard faces, but their eyes were full of fierce light, their eyes were like wolves in the desert, and like poisonous snakes in the swamp, many of them were covered with wounds, and the blood from the wounds was still gurgling out, but they still stepped forward to fight hard, and finally they didn't even bother to use their blades, and rushed straight to these soldiers on the city wall, slamming their heads and biting with their teeth, their appearance and demeanor were very similar to those living corpses that appeared in Yumen Pass before, the same irrational, the same bloodthirsty and easy to kill.

Recalling General Lu's words at the time, he said that living corpses are not terrible, and plagues are nothing, but what is really terrible is actually the human heart. Now, whether it is the sick sergeant under the city wall or the uninfected sergeant on the city wall, they have been forced into a desperate situation. After the two sides were killed, they could no longer tell which was the side besieging the city and which was defending the city, and all the sergeants were wearing exactly the same Han army armor, which was printed with the emblem of the Yumen Pass garrison, and no one could tell who was who, so they could only kill people when they saw them, without mercy.