Chapter Forty-Six: Urgency
In the five days under the city, there were countless attacks by monster temptations.
They rushed to a distance of twenty or thirty paces below Qubai City as if they were tireless, and let the rain of wood, stones, and arrows pour down on them again and again.
The people of Qu Baicheng knew that this was a temptation and consumption, but they were helpless about it.
The scouts who went out to ask for help in the night went away wave after wave, and there was still no news.
Li Jingyu's goshawk, which traveled thousands of miles every day, did not return
The four-phase army of the wind commander did not come to the aid either.
Qu Baicheng seemed to have been exiled here overnight, unable to receive all the information from the outside world.
The people of the city became more and more frightened, and everyone seemed to be tied up in a closed cage, trying to breathe with their chests held out.
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The border army began to march around the city one by one, helping the defenders to build fortifications and carry stones. Most of the grain stocks of each family were also collected by Changdu County, and a little bit was routinely distributed every day.
One early morning, four or five young men who seemed to be soldiers and not soldiers knocked on the door of Nian An's house. They couldn't help but take away most of Nian'an and Qiuqiu's grain stocks. The leading little flag officer was not happy, and snatched a piece of broken silver that Nian An hid in the closet.
One of the sergeants was still coveting the iron sword that An's leaning against the corner.
The boy smiled and held his sword to his chest, and was kicked to the ground by several soldiers.
Someone reached out to grab it, and Nian An pressed the sword to the ground with his whole body. Those people cursed and roared, saying that this young man dared to disobey the military orders of the capital and wanted to take military law against him.
They picked up their feet and kicked the boy in the chest and face. Kicked the crown off his head and stomped his face into the dirt.
The young man, smiling, clutching his sword, sat there with his hair disheveled.
A few people seemed to be tired of kicking at last, and the little flag officer spat in the face of Chao Nian'an in disgust, glanced at the room with malicious eyes, and left with people in a show of power.
Nian An, who was sitting on the ground with his fists clenched, was a little dazed, he wiped the filth off his face with his hands, and swallowed blood with difficulty.
"Nian'an?"
He turned his head.
Qiuqiu didn't know when she woke up, she was wearing a cloth robe, leaning against the door frame, looking at herself with a pale face.
"I'm fine, you go to bed and rest. The boy propped himself up and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his shoulder.
"Is there a big change in the city?"
"Nian'an?"
"Okay. ”
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Just after Shen, the monster took advantage of the north wind to attack the city again
This is the fourth time of the day, and it looks a little smaller than the previous ones.
The two monster phalanxes on duty today were so lazy that they lined up in the middle of the military column, led by a leader, and rushed towards the head of Qu Baicheng unhurriedly.
Even the most ordinary soldiers in Qu Bai City could catch the exhaustion from the yellow eyes of these monsters at this moment. Being tossed like this every day by the Red Flower Lord, even these energetic monsters are still lacking after all.
The monsters are almost at their limit, and the soldiers at the head of the city have been sleeping on the cold walls for five days.
With the low sound of the bull's horn, many of them, although their bodies were sour and weak, struggled to stand up, and habitually prepared to meet the enemy, after five days of attrition and countless battle formations, the soldiers had become numb.
It's the strange snake-like face of the monster, and it doesn't seem so intimidating at this time.
The archers open their bows, and the shield axes hold stones.
They all have experience. According to Changdu County, it is necessary to wait for these monsters to come close to hand, and the defensive objects can be killed thoroughly.
The flag dances, the monsters arrive, the arrows rain, and the boulders fall.
As usual, the monsters carried the corpses of their companions to their shoulders twenty or thirty paces from the city wall and retreated. With that shrill low roar from the crest of the Red Flower Monster again, the back team turned into the front team and withdrew.
The soldiers of the city breathed a sigh of relief again.
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There are no three steps.
The north wind is raging.
The Red Flower Lord suddenly straightened up on the siege vehicle in the distance, and let out three strange roars, one more urgent than the other, and one faster than the other.
Chang Weirongben was sitting cross-legged on a wooden table and was deducing, and when he saw that something had changed, he stood up suddenly.
Seven or eight heralds hurried up to him.
The nine formations of monsters in the wind and sand started at the same time, and the two arrays that had obviously withdrawn just now turned around at a very fast speed and counterattacked.
In the monster army, forty or fifty petite monsters broke away from the large army with their guns and followed the two vanguard phalanxes to kill the city wall.
"They're going to the city!" Li Jingyu grabbed the red tassel gun he had pulled from Du Rui's hand and grabbed it in front of him.
The city was busy, countless figures were running, and feathered arrows and rolling stones poured down like rain.
The vanguard Voldecloud crashed into the castle tower, and the monsters at the front stood tall as if they were unconscious, and smashed their bodies against the bluestone wall.
I don't know if it's an illusion, Nian An felt the floor under him jump.
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The petite and fast-running monsters behind the formation were passing through the gaps in the formation, and the defenders on the tower had seen such monsters coming to the city for the first time, and Changdujun had to order people to keep an eye on them.
Seven or eight flag officers shuttled through the military formation, and Changdu County himself carried a long steel knife to the front of the city.
The impact of the black clouds and the bluestone wall under the castle tower continued. The flesh exploded and scattered with a muffled sound.
Even if the monsters that hit the castle tower in the first row survived, there was no room to turn back, and the monsters behind them stepped one after another, completely crushing them under their feet like a tidal wave.
Then there is the second row, the third row, and the fourth row.
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Wood and stone poured down, and the people behind the city tower kept sending the city defense equipment up.
In just a few moments, the monster's corpse and wood and stone accumulated a thick layer under the corners of the city walls.
The monsters in the back stepped on the corpses and stones of their companions in front of them, and they desperately seemed to climb up the almost straight city wall, which had already been poured with clear oil beforehand, so that these monsters were agile and their feet would still slip. Often, if you climb three or four steps, you will be smashed down by the stones on the top of the city.
But even so, they still won't flinch, their hands are bent, their chests are smashed, and they are still desperately trying to go to the city.
By this time, a petite and nimble monster had climbed to the east of the city. Stepping on the shoulders of its companions on the third or fourth floor below, it was nimble enough to avoid the stone and wood, jumped extremely high, and jumped directly onto the castle tower.
This is the garrison area of the Dongcheng camp, and the garrison commander Pershing was preparing to pour hot oil under the wall with his soldiers, and when he saw this, he took a few of his subordinates to raise their long knives and chase the monster to slash and kill everywhere.
Li Jingyu glanced over there, and saw that the garrison area of the Dongcheng camp was a little chaotic for a while because of this extremely flexible monster going to the city, and two soldiers who were carrying knives to stop were stabbed to death by the monster in the face. The people who carried the stones on the walls of the city kept retreating. As soon as the stone rain was small, the monster below suddenly raised its head and climbed even more crazily.
Dongchengtou is in crisis, but the pressure on the middle city where Changdu County is located is even greater, and the monsters have almost concentrated their main forces here. Even the tall leader monster who led the charging phalanx today climbed here with the other monsters, it was extremely powerful and skillful in using the shield, and by cover, it had smashed through countless arrows that had been fired at it, and had pulled down four or five of the human soldiers in the city who had stabbed him with guns. If it hadn't been for Changdujun wielding a knife to press it, this monster would have already climbed to the top of the city.
The south section of the city wall is in charge of the sword and axe soldiers of the Xiuzi battalion, and the monsters under this section of the city are also fiercely impacting upward, Chen Chong is pulling his two siege heavy axes, sweeping cross-sweep under the battlements, and each axe will definitely be able to fly into the air with some stumps and broken arms.
"Will ...... General, it's really coming. ”
Li Jingyu heard that someone behind him was shaking his teeth and shaking at an inopportune time, he was a little annoyed, and looked back.
A young man with fluff on his mouth was carrying a stone, his feet stunned and looking into the distance. The monsters behind the charging phalanx did not run, they approached step by step, and pressed over like black waves.
"Deyang, I'm here, they can't kill the city. Li Jingyu rubbed the broken hair of this young man from the baggage camp and helped him straighten his helmet a little.
The young man nodded silently, trying to control his hands so that his hands would not tremble.
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A dozen men from Pershing's side finally surrounded and stabbed the petite monster to death.
The people in the Dongcheng camp on the city wall seemed to have finally overcome their fear, and one by one, under the leadership of Pershing, they roared towards the monsters below them.
They were responded to by the monster's equally high-pitched scream.
The jar of hot oil on the city wall was pushed down by the soldiers of the eastern city, followed by a torch falling from the sky.
In the black pupils of the monsters' yellow eyes, a flickering fire lit up.
......The petite monster crawling in front was covered with hot oil, and it was directly burned into seven or eight fireballs that rolled under the city, falling into the military formation under him, causing a riot.
Pershing laughed, and so did the people in the East City camp.
Chang Dujun glanced at Pershing, who was usually calm and calm, but today he was on the head, and the steel long knife in his hand was wielding faster.
The Red Flower Lord also saw the fire at the head of the city to the east.
A trace of strange excitement flashed in its eyes, and it stirred up the red flower on its neck again, so in an instant, the marching speed of all the monster phalanxes increased.
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The saffron was put away, and it personally jumped onto the tall siege vehicle. Round your arms and hit hard.
"Knock, knock, knock. Knock! knock ......"
The speed of the tapping became faster and faster, and the giant black umbrella in front of the siege vehicle raised an upward angle. The sound of the drum seemed to be fermenting in a smoldering furnace, and the sound that came out was low and oppressive.
The sound wave hits.
The people at the head of Qu Baicheng felt that someone was beating their chests with drumsticks, and they were almost out of breath.
The monsters heard the sound of the drums, but they were like fairy music, one by one they were very excited, and their momentum was like a rainbow.
The drums beat high and flew to the top.
Honghua divided the Chinese army in front of him for a while, stepped on the thunderous drums, and galloped to the head of the city where the Dongcheng camp was located. They are significantly better equipped than normal phalanxes, and all monsters are armored and carry knives, and along the way, the phalanx in front of them will turn to make way for them.
"Pershing!" Chang Dujun shouted, and two petite monsters in front of him tried to climb up to the city, but he stabbed them away and fell into the monster tide below.
There was hissing and roaring everywhere.
Pershing couldn't hear Changdujun clearly, and there were more and more monsters on the city walls here. He gathered all the brothers who could fight to form a phalanx, and stabbed the monsters that howled under the city with all his might.
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The four remaining heralds rushed behind the city walls with the orders of Changdujun. The government soldiers and the guards of the major clans who were originally on standby here all drew their weapons together and headed towards the east city entrance to support.
"Lord Jun, there are not enough stones. The white wolf swept through the array and whispered to Changdu County's side.
Chang Wei Rongyang slashed a few monsters that had climbed up to the city again, and glanced around the entire city wall.
There was fighting everywhere on the city walls, and the first two monster vanguard phalanxes under the city had been exhausted, but the Red Flower Lord General didn't seem to care, it was still beating the drums, and it wanted to suppress all its troops.
The sound is urgent, the sound is shocked!
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A burst of elites in its Chinese army has been pressed to the east city, and Pershing's pressure has suddenly risen sharply, and these well-equipped Chinese monsters obviously know how to cooperate better than the previous monsters in advance and retreat, rather than blindly taking their lives to fill in.
Because of the weak strength of the stone rain, the defense of the Dongcheng camp had begun to be stretched under the simultaneous impact of two or three monster phalanxes.
Pershing turned around and asked him to continue pouring hot oil.
A black shadow stepped on a thick pile of broken corpses under the city, with iron shields facing up with both hands, and jumped up to the city wall under the cover of seven or eight monsters.
It was a leader-like monster with muscles spurting all around it, and with a flick of its tail, it swept away the defending soldiers in front of it.
Pershing lowered his body and, from the side, drew his knife and slashed at its abdomen.
As if calculating, the monster bent to dodge Pershing's quick knife, and it clenched its fists with both hands and pressed it at the same time, smashing General Pan to the ground.
The deflected Pu knife sparked a spark on the monster's scale armor.
Another leader-looking monster rushed up the walls. It slammed into the Dongcheng Army in front of it and kicked Pershing in the chest, sending him straight up and towards the boiler with hot oil.
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Pershing turned into a charred man with blurred flesh and blood.
For some reason, the light shining on the eastern city suddenly darkened.
The soldiers of the Dongcheng battalion glanced at their commander in disbelief, and they didn't know who shouted.
"General Pan is dead!"
The Dongcheng battalion was on duty at the wall section and collapsed.
Monsters poured up from the walls like a tidal wave.
The soldiers and guards sent by Changdu County to support had just arrived at this time, and they collided with the wave of monsters coming up on top of them.
The Chinese army and the Xiuzi battalion also sent three or four teams to rescue.
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Nian An had just finished decocting a pot of medicine and was about to take it back to the house and feed it to Qiuqiu.
There was a dull explosion in Qubai City.
Nian An felt the ground on the soles of his feet shake again.
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The last section of the trunk of the ancient sycamore finally fell to the ground.
The red-robed monk stood up and glared angrily at the bottom of the well, drops of burning golden blood oozing from his white pupils.
His face was resolute, his lips were slightly apart, and he opened his mouth for the first time in one hundred and thirty-two years.