Chapter Twenty-Five: Xiao's Offensive
The city gate seems to be really a gate that separates the two worlds, although the city gate is chaotic, but people are always in chaos, and on the other side of the city gate, although the first sound is not seen, but you can hear those piercing screams endlessly, not people's screams, that kind of cry is extremely poignant, piercing, like the sound of an eagle has widened a little, very penetrating. In addition to the uncomfortable scream, there was also the sound of heavy objects colliding.
Looking up from the bottom to the outside of the city at a height of dozens of meters, the whole sky was already illuminated by the firelight, and the whole sky turned dark red.
As he listened, his heart was already filled with fear of this unseen creature, what kind of terrifying creature was on the other side of the door! However, before they could get close enough to the city gate, they were stopped by another red-robed sergeant.
The red-robed sergeant had his hair scattered, unable to see his face clearly, and could only hear his tiredness and eagerness in his hoarse voice: "Where are you going?"
The sergeant who led the first Ming and the others replied, "My lord, we are transporting wood and stone to the city. ”
The red-robed sergeant said: "No, there are many trees and stones in front of you to block the road, and now there is a shortage of people to transport things up, you immediately send people over to move things!"
The sergeant clenched his fists and took the first Ming and others to the bottom of the city tower.
The new task is to transport heavy loads to the city walls. However, the wall is dozens of meters high, and the front and back are about six meters wide, and when you go to the wall, you will turn more than a dozen times just by stepping up, and it is naturally unrealistic to transport manpower.
Fortunately, there is something inside the city wall. The main building of the city wall is hollow, open to the outside between three meters below, there is a flat plate in the space, just put the materials on the giant wooden slab, after the things are placed, pull the switch in the dark compartment under the main building, the slab will rise, and the materials will be slowly lifted up, similar to the elevator.
First Ming and more than a dozen others covered the tablet in a short time. When the sergeant saw this, he went under the tower and opened a wooden compartment and pulled down the rope in it.
The tablet gave the command a dull creak, and then slowly moved.
After the plank was put up, everyone got busy again, and they all moved the heavy objects in this direction. However, after a while, when the plank came down, everyone was dumbfounded.
The supplies are still on the planks!
Seeing that the materials on the tablet had not changed, the sergeant thought for a while, looked up, looked around at the chaos in the city, gritted his teeth, and said to everyone: "Wait with me to go up to the city to see!"
When everyone heard this, they were stunned at the city gate. Go up to the city to die? You don't see the fire above, you don't hear the shouts from above? They all think the sergeant is crazy.
The sergeant looked at the appearance of everyone, knew that everyone was afraid in their hearts, if they didn't use some means, they were afraid that it would be difficult to succeed, so he immediately drew his knife out with his right hand, looked around at everyone with sharp eyes, and said, "Is it up or not?"
The first Ming was in front of the sergeant, but he wasn't thinking about the sergeant's words, he was weighing the pros and cons. It is true that if you go up to the city wall, you will have to face the beast rays, which is extremely dangerous, and maybe you will really explain it when you go up. However, is it really feasible to kill the sergeant in front of him and then run away? He unconsciously glanced at Heiwa, and found that Heiwa was looking at the sergeant with a vigilant face, seeing this, he pressed Heiwa, and then vetoed the idea.
What good will it be to go up? It seems that there is no harm but no benefit, but it is not really no advantage! That is, you can know in advance what the beast is like! Only by knowing oneself and knowing the other can one win a hundred battles, and now if you go up now, you will have a city wall as a cover, and if you meet it in the wilderness in the future, there will be nothing! Then go up now, die early, and live early!
After thinking about it, I did it, and the first Ming hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I am willing to go!"
The sergeant was the first to say yes when he saw that the first Ming was thin and the first one agreed, and his eyes were a little surprised, and then he nodded slightly and moved the knife towards the others.
First Ming's advance also led Heiwa to take a step forward, and the soul became hesitant at this time, and did not follow closely. The first Ming looked at it in his eyes, and did not say that for the soul life, maybe it would be better to stay below.
Under the sergeant's fingers, the remaining few people also joined the team one after another. Only the soul was born, and he was pointed at by the sergeant, but he did not see any movement.
When the sergeant saw the appearance of the soul, his body tensed, and he was ready to let the soul die here now. First Ming looked at the sergeant's appearance, knowing that this was somewhat similar to the small action before the black baby attacked people, and instantly woke up to the fear that the soul would not react and would be bloodstained with blood for the next three steps, and hurriedly said: "The military master is slow, my brother is wooden by nature and can't speak, I am here to answer for him." ”
When the sergeant heard this, he stopped moving, and after snorting, he pointed his knife at the plank and shouted, "Come with me!"
The sergeant led the group up to the plank, pulled down the rope, waited for the plank to rise, and jumped on the plank.
I don't know what kind of wood the plank is, the quality is really excellent, more than ten people stand on the material, slowly rising, but there is no trace of deformation, can not help but be amazed.
However, this group of people did not have the energy to pay attention to this detail, they had their own thoughts, and they did not show anything during the whole ascent.
The distance of a few tens of meters did not rise for long, but it felt like a long time, and as the planks moved, the closer people got to the walls, the more information they could reach.
The violent sound of hitting the wall became louder and louder, and the shouts of killing became louder and louder, and everyone's hearts were raised higher and higher.
Bang! There was a bang, and everyone finally came to the top of the castle tower!
As soon as I went up to the city tower, I was greeted by a tragic scene in the eyes of everyone.
The cold wind on the city wall was in full swing at this time, although the wind was huge, it could not blow away the smell of blood that permeated the field, and the stumps and broken arms and plasma all over the ground gave people great visual stimulation, accompanied by huge shouts and screams.
This exciting scene was seen by this group of people, except for the first Ming and Heiwa and the sergeant, the rest of the people didn't know how to vomit out of the clouds. And the first Ming and the sergeant were also pale, obviously very uncomfortable with this exciting scene. Only Heiwa, seeing such a scene, arched her body and scanned her surroundings, ready to attack at any time.
When the sergeant saw this, he ignored the crowd and drew his sword and rushed to the wall.
First Ming looked around and saw hundreds of people frantically throwing things down the city wall, and not far from the city tower, a few people were besieging a black creature.
Consistent with the description of the soul life, the black creature was nearly two feet tall, covered with black hair, with an ape-like face, and a scimitar-like bone blade stretched out from its left arm, cutting off the bodies of the two men with a wave of his hand. At this time, a group of armor soldiers were fighting around the creature, and behind the group of armor soldiers, there was a group of soldiers who kept firing cold arrows outside.
"That...... Is it a beast?" First Ming couldn't help but gasp when he saw the creature, how could this creature run away?
Soul Sheng was also in the vomiting team, but Xu was experienced, he retched for a while and then regained his appearance, looked at the first Ming's field of vision, was instantly stunned, and muttered: "That... That... That's not, no, that's what!"
"What? Isn't that a beast?" First Ming frowned, and the reaction of the soul life made him feel very uncertain.
"No, that's... That's a beast. Merely... I've never seen anything this big!"
After hearing this, the first Ming wondered: "The beast is still divided into sizes?"
Soul Sheng shook his head and said, "I don't know, but what we met last time was only one zhang at the highest!"
First Ming listened, stopped talking, and focused on observing the battle between man and beast in the distance.
In the distance, in the face of the two-foot-tall creature, although the armor only reached his thigh, they relied on their numbers and agility to fight with it, and the three formed a formation, one attacked, and the other two immediately attacked the other place, so that the monster could not take care of the other.
But the black creature, though surrounded by men, had the upper hand, swinging its left arm wide open and closed, waving up and down, and its right arm struck from time to time, blocking and blocking on the left, and most of the knives that swung at him were bounced away by it. However, the cold arrow obviously made it very unhappy, and I saw it roar angrily, and then its right hand was stretched out violently, grabbing the half arm of a soldier. The armor soldier was instantly caught by him and flew away, letting out a violent scream.
Although the monster was being attacked by everyone, after catching the armor, it screamed intermittently, as if mocking everyone, and with a sharp wave of its left arm, it jumped behind while everyone was dodging.
The monster jumped behind him, and everyone hurriedly pursued and ran to the wall, but there was no longer the figure of the thing, and instead of the figure of many beasts crawling upward, everyone no longer hesitated, and hurriedly picked up the thing behind them and threw it down.
Seeing this, First Ming and the others were stunned, but they were awakened by a shout. "Wait for the move!"
When First Ming and the others saw the cold face of the sergeant, they suddenly reacted to the urgency of the war at this time, and hurriedly participated in the delivery of materials.
The number of people on the city wall is not small, but there are not many people scattered on the 100-meter-long city wall, and the participation of the first Ming and others only played a small role, and did not fundamentally solve the emergency.
The people were only responsible for transporting supplies, and the heavy objects were mainly lifted and thrown down, mainly by the armor and red-robed soldiers, and most of the black-armored soldiers behind them were holding bows and arrows and throwing them down. Such a defense, although chaotic, did not allow many beasts to climb the city wall.
In order to see the general appearance of the beast Xiao clearly, under the cover of the black baby, the first Ming had the courage to stick his head out of the battlement, and he learned what the situation of the city was at this time.
Outside the city, there was a raging fire burning at this time, and it can be guessed from the oil trails under the castle that it was a fire lit by the defenders of the city.
The fire did not cover the walls, so some of the beasts were able to climb up the areas where there was no fire. The Xiao people do not use ladders and many siege equipment to attack the city like people, they all use to climb the city, with the sharp weapons in their hands, it is not difficult to climb the city tower, but under the attack of heavy objects, they can only fall unwillingly to the city wall.
There are not many Xiao tribes under the city, definitely no more than two thousand, they are of different heights, and as the soul said, most of them are less than a zhang in height. The kind of Erzhang Xiao just now was already considered tall among the Xiao clan, but at this time, there were not many taller ones in the dark night.
However, Rao is like this, and Jian Xiao City is also about to fall into a crisis.
Because the flames under the city are slowly decreasing!