Chapter 45: The North Wind and a Cloud (Part II)
Closer, the soldiers trying to control the surprise on their faces.
Five strangely shaped siege engines followed the nine phalanxes out of the mist.
The monsters began to change formations, and the three phalanxes near the center gathered together and stopped. Thirty or forty giant monsters with shields and more than ten feet tall stepped out of the group, forming a circle and seemed to defend something in the middle.
Everyone looked at it in unison.
In the center of the ring, a particularly athletic monster in a green robe stood up from a seat underneath him.
The blood-red folds around its neck showed a breathtaking beauty in the faint light of the morning.
The monster shook its body, and the red folds suddenly bloomed, like a deadly red flower in full bloom.
"Buzz...... Buzz......" The red flower trembled at an extremely high speed, and as the piercing roar dispersed, all the low-level monsters in the group who had been noisy fell silent, as if they were listening.
The Red Flower Monster suddenly howled, and a siege vehicle as tall as the Qubai Tower was pushed in front of it, and an iron umbrella opened as if it were alive to protect it.
The Red Flower Monster stepped onto a high platform in the siege engine and waved a green banner.
A door suddenly opened under the two siege engines near the front of the team, and the monsters actually pulled out thirty-seven or eight half-dead human soldiers from inside.
The leading monsters of the two phalanxes at the front came over and tore apart a few people at random, throwing the corpses high into the phalanx behind them.
The low-level monsters were so excited that they picked up the fragments of corpses and tore them in their mouths, making cooing and screaming of excitement.
One of the leading monsters straightened his arms and raised them diagonally to the sky, giving a salute.
The monsters of the two phalanxes behind him performed the same ritual with a fiery and fanatical expression.
......
The leading monster charged towards the white wall.
The monster behind it began to run at high speed in the howl.
The black clouds scattered as a sharp arrow, swept towards Qu Baicheng with the momentum of wind and thunder.
Chang Dujun turned around and glanced at the stunned sergeants on the city wall.
He roared like thunder.
"Prepare for the onslaught!"
Everyone woke up from a dream.
"All the men are ready to make woods and heavy stones. The giant Chen Chong opened the two battering rams and stood at the front of the Muxiu camp.
......
Chang Dujun grabbed a spare steel long knife and dragged it on the ground, rubbing a piercing scream and sparks.
"White wolf! Yes, those who escape, will be beheaded by military law. ”
The white wolf and the improvised camp of governors gathered at the largest exit from the castle tower.
At this time, the black cloud of the charge was only about one hundred and twenty or thirty steps away from the city wall, and it had already entered the range of the bow and arrow.
"Mu Xiuying, the archers open their bows and hold the arrows in your hands. ”
Two hundred bows were aimed at the black clouds beneath the city.
One hundred steps
Eighty steps
Li Jingyu waved his hand, and Du Rui shot a fiery red arrow on his behalf.
A rain of arrows flew into the sky.
Changdu County's steel knife was suddenly thrown by him, and it was pointed at the leading monster that rushed to the front from a distance of dozens of steps.
"Buzz...... Airplanes...... Airplanes. On the siege vehicle of the monster army, the safflower monster that looked like the main general shook the crown on his neck again, and the monsters in the charging phalanx raised the simple log shield in their hands and headed towards the rain of arrows.
Sharp arrows slashed through the air.
There was a muffled thud of impact on the wooden shield.
Long knives come.
The leading monster glanced at the black shadow flying towards him with resentment, and wanted to take a step to the right, but he didn't know that the long knife actually adjusted the direction of flight as if it had eyes.
Seeing that it couldn't dodge, the monster simply grabbed two human soldiers who were surrounded by them and charged together.
The long knife easily slashed through the bodies of the two of them, and the force decreased slightly, and they were knocked away by the leading monster with the wooden shield in his hand.
Except for this boss, the other low-level monsters looked extremely rusty in their shield-using postures. Sharp arrows passed through the gaps on both sides of the shield, and in a few shots, twenty or thirty monsters were shot to the ground.
On the city wall, the archers were still shaking when they released their arrows. The accuracy may not be half of the normal, but once these monsters run, they are really not good at military formation, and as long as the bow and arrow fall into the black clouds, they will definitely hit the target.
The archers unconsciously quickened the speed at which they could release their arrows.
Seeing that the black cloud was only thirty or forty steps away from the city wall, everyone could even smell the rotten stench that spread in the air through the city wall.
The monster in the Chinese army suddenly shook again.
The previous leading monster looked at Changdu County who flew out of the long knife towards him with resentment, and let out a strange roar.
The low-level monsters suddenly slowed down and stopped, and the monsters in the rear of the military formation crashed into the bodies in front of them, causing a wave of chaos. But they didn't seem to care, and they all began to turn around, grabbed their dead or wounded companions on the ground, and scattered without looking back.
The situation was urgent, and the speed was faster, and before everyone could react, the black clouds that were charging dispersed by themselves and retreated into the shelter of the Chinese army.
A cry of victory rang out from the middle section of the wall.
Regardless of the pain, Li Jingyu propped himself up on the battlement and glanced at the open space outside the city wall.
Aside from the green blood on the ground, not a single monster corpse was left here.
The only thing that could still be seen was the dead bodies of the thirty or so soldiers who had been pulled out of the siege engine.
They were swept up by monsters, and when they retreated, they were deliberately knocked down, and most of them had already turned into a mess of unsightly flesh and blood in the run.
Besides them, there are feathered arrows of a land.
Li Jingyu frowned deeply.
If he hadn't miscalculated, the unreserved rain of arrows just now should have consumed one-third of Qu Baicheng's arrows. These monsters actually know how to bluff the temptation, and the next battle will undoubtedly be even more difficult.
In this array, except for a few city defense troops who escaped from the battle and were beheaded by the governor's camp, there were almost no casualties among the humans on Qubai City.
The sergeants gasped for breath, snot and tears running across their faces, enjoying the inexplicable joy of victory.
Five strangely shaped siege vehicles opened their giant umbrellas at the same time to protect the rear of the monster army array, and with the "buzzing" roar of the red flower monster, their army formation began to change formation and withdraw in an orderly manner.
"For the sake of the Great Xia Kingdom. “
"For the Great Xia Kingdom!"
"For Emperor Yan. ”
"For Emperor Yan!"
The flag officer who gave the order and the soldiers of the city defense army began to shout the clichéd slogan that was about to wear out the ears of the people.
Li Jingyu glanced at the Honghua general who was guarded by a group of tall guards in the Chinese army, and looked in the direction of the sunset Xiongguan in the north with some anxiety.