Chapter 1516
The Final Battle: Everything in Nature Has a Use [1]
Chapter 1516 The Final Battle: Everything in Nature Has a Use [1]
The two assistant commanders from Pingjiang inevitably contracted the virus, but they were in good spirits and were happy to fight this battle against the infected enemy.
They said they rediscovered the fighting spirit of their youth.
Both men were fierce warriors in their youth, but after being placed under the command of Gu Chengyong, their fighting spirit was corrupted by various forms of self-interest.
The infection has actually restored their fighting spirit, making them only want to be loyal to this land!
Uh oh no, I can no longer look at the words "loyalty" the same way.
"Report!" Wei Jun reported the military intelligence layer by layer to the gate of Mushan. Only after hearing it did everyone feel relieved... With such a commotion, they thought half of the west city wall had collapsed.
"Everyone, let's bow towards the east side of the city and send Elder Xun off on his journey!" Grandpa Qin shouted. He and Grandma Qin set up a long table of offerings, two loads of incense, candles, paper money, white cloth strips, and other items.
The thousands of people inside and outside the main gate of Mushan all faced east. Some held incense, some burned paper money, while Qiong Lao, Si Pei, Xiao Mutong, and their few apprentices, the mountain people who had worked with the old man to develop various prescriptions, and the young masters and students wore white cloths, knelt down, and performed the three bows and nine kowtows ceremony.
"Master, may you rest in peace. Your disciple will continue to carry out the will you taught, in order to help the world turn towards righteousness."
"Waaah, Grandmaster, may you rest in peace. Your grand-disciple will always remember your teachings and be a protector of the world. Rest in peace, Grandmaster!"
"Waaah, Grandmaster..." The other students also cried out.
Lord Yan's ears were ringing and his throat was itching from their noise; he wanted to curse them...
"Enough, stop crying! The west city wall is shaking violently; it might fall at any moment. Instead of devising strategies to defend the city, you nobles waste your time mourning an old man. That old man's family has a criminal record; what makes him worthy of your tears?!"
Lord Yan was so frightened he almost broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly denied it: "I didn't say that!"
We know it's not you.
"Halt! This is a crucial manufacturing site for weapons. Unauthorized personnel are not permitted to approach. Otherwise, you will be executed!" Commander Chu and Commander Wei led the Wei army into formation, warning the large group of Wei soldiers who were advancing in this direction.
The Wei people stretched as far as the eye could see, numbering at least tens of thousands. Among them were wealthy gentlemen in fur coats, ordinary commoners, and servants dressed as martial arts masters.
In short, the commotion caused by the collapse of the city wall was so great that the Wei people, who had been terrified by the attack of 300,000 enemy troops for a day and a night, couldn't help but break through the sentry posts in their neighborhoods and alleys and rush to the west of the city to check on the battle situation.
"Fellow countrymen, stop immediately! Don't go any further! This is the Twilight Mountain Weapon Workshop! If you get any closer, you'll be killed!" The voice belonged to Wen Tao.
This guy led a team of Wen family assassins, martial artists, and servants, trying to stop and persuade the enraged Wei people.
Wen Tao and his group had disheveled hair and clothes, and their faces and hands were bruised; they must have been beaten up when they tried to stop the people.
"Pah! Wen Tao, you bastard, get out of my way! If you keep blocking my way, we'll beat you up!"
"Wen Tao, weren't you following Master Zheng in making trouble for the Prince of Ye? How come you've suddenly switched sides to side with the Prince of Ye and the Qin family? You're more of a weathervane than a fence-sitter!"
"Nonsense, this is a fabrication. I only had two meals with the main culprit, Zheng, and I never helped him cause trouble. I am innocent..."
"Get out of here! If you were innocent, even prostitutes would be getting their first time every night!"
With the city on the verge of collapse and everyone on the verge of death, they disregarded everything and fought with formidable strength. One of them pushed Wen Tao to the ground, and if it weren't for the Wen family's elite warriors quickly dragging him away, he would have been trampled to death by the group.
"Stop! If you don't stop, we'll shoot you dead!" Commanders Chu and Wei threatened them.
Qin Xiaomi was serious, and directly ordered, "Ye Xifen, throw in the gunpowder pack and explode!"
"No!" Prince Ye exclaimed anxiously, turning to his grandmother, "Quickly, stop her!" But Madam Guan replied, "Fire one cannon, it won't hurt."
As they spoke, with a whoosh and a boom, three gunpowder packs were thrown, exploding five meters in front of the Wei people's advancing column.
The gunpowder pack was small, nail-free, and far away, so it didn't hurt anyone, but it brought out all the grievances of the Wei people.
"Waaaah! Why are you doing this to us? We've been living honest and law-abiding lives, yet we have to suffer the calamity of the city's fall and the plague. I can't take it anymore, my whole family can't take it anymore! Please, have mercy and just shoot us dead with arrows!"
After shouting, the man immediately knelt down, and his entire family of four knelt down as well, kowtowing repeatedly, pleading, "Sir, please shoot us with arrows! We won't blame you, we thank you!"
Bang, bang, bang, he kept kowtowing.
Xue Mingyi recognized the man and exclaimed in disbelief, "Fifteenth Uncle, it's you?!"
He rushed forward a few more meters, searching through the crowd for a while. When he didn't see any familiar relatives, a chill ran down his spine, and he choked out, "Where are the others?"
What about the rest of your family?
How come there are only four people left? Doesn't your family have twelve people?
Upon hearing this, Xue Shiwu's tears flowed even more freely, and after a long while, he finally burst into sobs: "Gone, all gone, they left even earlier than Master Xun!"
Speaking of Master Xun, many people curse him: "Didn't Master Xun, that charlatan, say that his fungal medicine could kill the rat plague? He's been working on fungal medicine for so long, but he hasn't even seen a trace of it, and he himself died of the plague!"
"Hahaha, the one who made the cure for the plague died of the plague himself, absurd, absurd! Heaven is going to destroy Great Wei! Heaven's way has been lost, Heaven's way is already over in the Eastern Desert, we are doomed!"
The sounds of the siege continued relentlessly, impacting everyone inside the city.
"Listen to this commotion, the capital city is about to fall!"
"Rather than have my whole family suffer and die at the hands of the enemy after the city falls, I'd rather die now!" After saying this, the man moved his hand, and with a hissing sound, he committed suicide in front of everyone.
"Ahhh!" Screams erupted. The Wei people nearby hurriedly scattered to both sides. His family members stood there stunned for a while until the man stopped moving, then they reacted and rushed towards him, crying, "My husband! My husband!"
"My son, you..." The man's parents knelt beside his body, their hands trembling as they wept, completely at a loss for what to do.
"Brother Su, how could you abandon your family and leave like this!" The man's friend knelt down and wept bitterly over the corpse. Fearing that his friend's reputation would be tarnished, he hurriedly explained, "Brother Su Baiqing is from this prefecture. He is not anyone's assassin. We came out this time to investigate the situation of the defense in the west of the city. We did not intend to cause trouble by dying. We beg the Prince of Ye and the government troops to investigate thoroughly!"
The King of Ye, Lord Yan, and Qin Jiang could all see that these tens of thousands of Wei people and Su Baiqing were not there to cause trouble, but simply could no longer bear the fear of the enemy attacking the city, so they chose to commit suicide.
"Don't blame him, he's innocent. If you dare to accuse him of causing trouble by committing suicide, we'll die with him to prove his innocence!"
"Yes, you cannot punish him, otherwise we will all die together to seek justice for him and to prove our innocence!"
The sound spread in waves, and more and more Wei people repeated these words, with some even wanting to go with Su Baiqing.
"Let's go together, so we can have each other on the road to the underworld, and maybe even be fellow villagers in the next life..."
"Let's go together, let's leave now, and we won't have to suffer the calamity of the city's fall!"
No, you guys really think that committing suicide is a good thing right now?
dong dong dong, dong dong dong!
The drums blared, and everyone looked toward the source of the sound. They saw Qin Xiaomi leap onto the high platform in front of the Mushan Gate: "Go die with that guy? You guys are really brave! If you're so brave, why don't you pick up your weapons and go out to fight those enemy beasts?!"