Chapter 1463
The Siege, All That Was Done
Chapter 1463 The Siege, All That Was Done
"Fire! If we fail again, our families will all die!" The divine messenger's squad leader and the officers of the Second Prince's army roared.
"Charge! Fight to the death with that bastard Liang Wei! Otherwise, even if our families are wiped out, the divine connection will be severed, and we will be banished by the gods even if we reach the divine realm!"
Tsk, superstition really works.
The people of Dongmo don't care about losing one, two, or three sons, but they care a lot about the extinction of their entire family. This is because the Dongmo Emperor has tied this to the gods, making them believe that once their entire family is wiped out, they will be abandoned by the gods. Therefore, they are willing to risk their lives for this.
"Fire arrows!"
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Arrows rained down on the assassins and eunuchs.
Two assassin eunuchs wielding long spears rushed to the front of the small formation, twirling their spears with their wrists...
Whoosh, whoosh, a strong wind suddenly arose.
Clang, clang, clang, the wind screen created by the spinning spears blocked the incoming rain of arrows, with only occasional stray arrows striking the chainmail fish-scale armor of the assassin eunuchs.
This special armor is lightweight and highly defensive. The interlocking mechanism can also deflect the force of long-range arrows, preventing them from penetrating the armor and injuring the wearer, even if they do penetrate the interlocking fish-scale armor.
So each of the assassin eunuchs had several arrows stuck in their bodies, yet none of them were injured.
"Push forward, faster! Be on guard against the enemy using dirty tricks!" shouted the leader of the assassin eunuchs. "Dirty tricks" was a code word, mainly referring to the enemy using poison.
"rush!"
"Slaughter!" The squad leader spurred his horse to the front, trying to break through the attack and defense formation of the assassin eunuchs, but the assassin eunuchs threw three white lights at him.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
With three sharp sounds, a weapon capable of breaking bones severed the enemy horse's leg, and with a loud thud, the warhorse fell to the ground.
The squad leader, thrown from his horse, scrambled to the side, rolling several times to dodge. But as he struck the ground with his palm and leaped into the air, he suddenly felt a gust of wind. Looking up, he saw a spear tip flashing white light, aimed straight at him…
flutter--!
The gun tip pierced his eye, reaching deep into his skull. His mind went blank. He tried to fight back, but his body fell backward with a thud.
"The divine messenger's squad leader is dead! Quickly, protect the squad leader's body! Don't let his body be destroyed by that bastard Liang Wei! He must be given a proper divine burial!"
The person is dead, and you still have so much to say.
"Charge! Push forward!" the leader of the assassin eunuchs continued to shout, their formation now changed to a front-and-back formation.
The first formation kills the enemy, while the second formation retains the ability to fire cannons to bombard enemy catapults and sources of poison, thus cutting off the enemy's poisoning efforts.
however……
Whoosh whoosh whoosh bang bang bang!
The soldiers of the generals and officers, along with the dead soldiers led by Ah Lie, had already charged forward on horseback. In the blink of an eye, the enemy army of several hundred cavalrymen scattered the first line of dead soldiers and eunuchs.
Those eunuchs who weren't trampled into mincemeat rolled into the enemy ranks, moving and weaving like water, drawing their short blades, and focusing only on the enemy's neck or eyes...
Hiss!
Pull the enemy soldier by the neck.
Puff puff!
Give the enemy soldiers two stabs in the eye sockets.
He quickly crouched down to avoid the encirclement of the surrounding enemy troops, and with a swift twist of his short blade, he thrust it fiercely into the enemy's shoe, piercing through the mud.
He then drew his short blade again, and from bottom to top, with a thud, pierced the chin of the enemy soldier who was looking down to find him. With another flick of his wrist, the short blade twisted inside the enemy soldier's mouth before being pulled down hard.
Sizzle—!
The short blade sliced open the enemy's neck from the inside...
The assassin eunuch never stopped, moving like a ghost through the enemy ranks, using all his skills to kill, kill, kill, until…
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Enraged, the enemy finally caught a loyal eunuch and hacked at him with dozens of curved swords.
When the enemy troops stopped firing, the eunuch, a suicide soldier, was already a bloody mess, his face unrecognizable, with only blood continuously gushing from his chainmail fish-scale armor and seeping into the soil. But he died with a smile on his face.
He held off nearly a hundred enemy soldiers, wasting their time to annihilate the other assassins and eunuchs.
There were also more than a dozen other assassins and eunuchs like him who could transform into ghosts and move through enemy ranks, constantly and cleverly killing enemy soldiers.
Therefore, thirteen places within the enemy force were disrupted.
Even more impressive is...
Rumble rumble rumble rumble!
Several of the eunuchs, on their deathbeds, pressed the flint and steel mechanism, igniting the gunpowder packs and blowing up the enemy troops surrounding them.
After the series of explosions, the poisoning site was eerily silent...
"Ahhh, those bastards from Wei! Chop them up, eat them, and even in death they will be under our control!" The officers and soldiers under the Second Prince roared, already beginning to doubt whether the great cause of destroying Wei could succeed.
It was only twenty-two slender Liang Wei who were able to cause such a huge mess for the heroes of the Eastern Desert.
What if the Wei people fight to the death?
The soldiers and officers trembled...
Whoosh!
Heh heh, keep trembling, a hidden arrow is coming straight at you.
The arrow was also attached to a firearm ball. With a loud bang, it injured half of his face, deafened one ear, and burned both eyes, making him unable to see for a moment!
"The general is seriously injured! Quickly save the general!" the eunuch shouted in the enemy language, deliberately lowering his voice to reduce the high-pitched quality of his voice.
Upon hearing this, the enemy troops were indeed thrown into disarray for a moment.
"Forget about the officers, we are dead soldiers, our only purpose is to fulfill the divine command to poison!" Guard General Ah Lie shouted, pointing to the catapult: "No need for chunks of flesh and blood, just put the bags of fireflies into the catapult and poison them!"
The enemy soldiers then remembered their initial military duties and hurriedly returned to defend the catapults.
...After the second formation of the assassin eunuchs was scattered by the enemy, they took turns, one or two at a time, protecting the guns and cannons, and using the cover of the infected enemy soldiers and the chaos of the enemy army, they approached the catapults and the source of the poison.
Seeing hundreds of enemy soldiers rushing towards the catapult, they knew they couldn't take any more risks and hurriedly stopped to aim... Although the range of the cannon was not as far as that of the iron cannon cart, it was the best light weapon, so as long as they had two or three breaths to aim, they could destroy at least one of the enemy's poisoning sites.
The only fear was that the enemy would use their bodies to block the artillery fire; the only fear was that only one shot could be fired, and it wouldn't be enough to destroy all the sources of poison.
Boom!
Boom!
Haha, I fired two shots.
"The enemy has attacked! That bastard Wei has infiltrated our front lines!"
"The Divine Protector Catapult is about to fall!"
With a loud bang, the enemy catapult shook twice and then collapsed to the ground.
"The divinely bestowed fireflies have been roasted!"
"Run! Run! A whole box of fireflies has jumped out!"
"No chaos allowed! Collect the fireflies and throw them into the capital city of Liangwei to complete the divine decree!"
The poisoning site was filled with a cacophony of sounds.
"Dead soldiers of the Western King, stand with me and protect the catapult with your bodies, protect the flames and poison! Get up, protect the things of the Eastern Desert with your bodies, or all our families will perish!" Ah Lie rallied the dead soldiers around him and rushed towards the catapult.
It then leaped towards a box of overturned fireflies, shoved the fleas carrying the plague bacteria into the box, and used its own body as a lid to protect the firefly poison.
"Hahaha! Poisoning, even if it kills us, we must succeed! Follow me to the catapult and we will complete the divine order to the death!" After contacting the infected fleas, Ah Lie knew he was doomed, so he went all out. He grabbed the box and, protected by more than a hundred dead soldiers, charged toward the catapult, the ballista, and the location of the poison sacs.