Chapter 1531
The Final Battle, Dong Xin's Assassination Attempt
Chapter 1531 The Final Battle, Dong Xin's Assassination Attempt
The enemy commander Rong added, "If the Wei bastards in the city can make a cure for the plague, then the King of Beida Erna should lead the plague-infected heroes to storm the city, slaughter people, seize the medicine, and save their own lives!"
Tsk tsk, this thing is very good at stirring people's hearts. Hearing these words, the death squad and the war supervisors were all fired up and couldn't wait to rush into the capital city, kill people and seize the plague-eradicating medicine.
"Yes!" The three-man suicide squad immediately accepted the order, raised the banner of the supervising envoy, and rushed towards the front of the attacking army in the west of the city.
The area within a radius of fifteen miles in the western suburbs has become a battlefield for the enemy troops infected with the disease.
The enemy's bone-decorated flags stood tall, enemy small formations were scattered across the fields, supply trains crisscrossed, and siege supplies stretched like mountains and towers, covering a length of five miles, constantly pushing forward and bombarding the western city wall of the capital.
Clang, clang, clang—the sound of stone carts rolling echoed as waves of enemy troops transported supplies and stones from the east city to the west battlefield.
However, the stones were transported to smaller and smaller sizes. Some of the stone-carrying carts were no longer filled with standard siege stones, but with artificial siege stones made by breaking up blue bricks from Wei people's houses and then casting them with molten iron.
Well, to put it simply, they're doing the enemy's dirty work! They're using our Great Wei's resources as weapons to attack our Great Wei cities!
Thump thump thump thump!
The enemy's strange, heart-wrenching drumbeats echoed across the siege battlefield, while Beida Erna sat atop his chariot, directing the entire operation.
But he gave no real command. The city couldn't be breached in a short time, and the Wei people didn't come out to fight. They could only exhaust their own forces and fight to the death.
The attack began on the 23rd, and today, the 25th, the capital city has not yet been breached. Meanwhile, the 300,000 enemy troops infected with the disease are suffering from worsening symptoms, with at least a thousand men exhausted every hour and unable to continue the attack.
Fortunately, everyone had only been infected for the first three days, and there hadn't been a large-scale death toll among the infected troops attacking the city.
However, a large-scale death toll among the infected soldiers is inevitable, so they must capture the capital city as soon as possible. If they delay any longer, their strength will be exhausted, and it will be difficult to capture the capital city.
Thump thump thump thump!
"Your Majesty, I command you to exert all your strength and capture the capital city as soon as possible. Before you die, you can still go into the city and sleep with the beautiful men and women of Liangwei!"
They then went on to extoll the beauty of the Wei men and women, driving the enemy army into a frenzy. Ignoring the long range of the Wei army's gunpowder, the vanguard of the Eastern Desert soldiers, risking their lives to push catapults and escort the ladder-dragging elites, advanced towards the west gate in several directions like beasts emerging from the mountains.
"Roar! Push forward! Push it a few more meters before unleashing the flints. Maybe we can blast down the Liangwei city walls and destroy their cannons. Then those Liangwei bastards won't be able to use their heavenly thunder weapons against us anymore!"
"Push forward, push forward! Divine protection for the Eastern Desert! All heroes of the Eastern Desert are protected by the gods, fearless against the sharp weapons of the Wei army!"
This is the last battle for the infected enemy forces, so the enemy's siege is progressing. The vanguard of catapult troops, together with the ladder-climbing suicide squads, are getting closer and closer to the moat.
"Your Majesty!" the supervising soldier shouted, raising his flag. He waited for a while before being allowed to pass the sentry post and come to the chariot of Beida Erna.
Fearing that the military operation would be delayed, the supervising soldiers immediately repeated what the enemy had said.
"Is this really true?!" Beida Erna was extremely excited. Although he had not yet shown any symptoms, he was constantly surrounded by infected people, and he would eventually develop symptoms; there was no escaping it.
But if there is medicine to cure the plague in the city, this siege will not be a fight to the death, but a fight for survival!
The leader of the group of soldiers who died in battle said, "The words of the God of War who supervised the battle are naturally true, and they carry a hint of divine will."
If you talk about God too often, even your nonsense will seem divine.
However, Di Junrong was a discerning man and had not misjudged Beida Erna. He immediately understood Di Junrong's meaning: "You all just watch, I, the Great King, will now issue an order to inspire the heroes' will to survive and greatly increase our army's ability to attack cities!"
The group of soldiers who had been supervising the battle and died could not return; they nodded and watched from the sidelines.
"Come here, issue this king's decree..."
Thump thump thump thump!
"The King and the Supervising Envoy have issued a double order: the lowly Liangwei people within the city have produced a plague-curing medicine. The divine will commands the heroes to immediately storm the capital city, seize the medicine, and save their lives!!" Upon hearing this, the plague-infected enemy soldiers seemed to experience a sudden surge of energy, their previously exhausted strength suddenly replaced by a burst of wild laughter and howls, shouting, "The plague-curing medicine is in Liangwei City! We're saved! Kill! Slaughter the people, seize the medicine, and save our lives!"
"It's ours, everything in Liangwei belongs to us, we are heroes protected by God!"
"Hahaha, Liang Wei bastards are indeed powerful. They are the best slave laborers in the world. They can make all sorts of amazing things. Not only have they made heavenly thunder weapons, but now they have also made plague-killing medicine. We are saved! Charge into the city, seize the plague-killing medicine, slaughter all the ugly men and women of Liang Wei, and keep the beautiful men and women to be slave laborers!"
"Rush into the city, seize medicine...leave behind beautiful men and women to be slave laborers!"
The enemy troops roared with glee, like wild beasts out of control.
The joyous sounds reached Dongxin... leaving behind beautiful men and women as slave laborers? And that rumor about the people of the East being a branch of the ancestors of the Wei people.
Dong Xin's hands, gripping the broadsword and command flag, trembled uncontrollably: "Kill! Charge into the city, seize the medicine, and live!"
Dongxin shouted the same thing, but he had already developed a desire for revenge.
He turned around and glanced at Beida'erna's chariot: to kill the enemy, you must first kill the general. He had to find a way to kill Beida'erna in the chaos of battle and avenge the people of the East!
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
"Reporting to Jiang Qianshi, the enemy's offensive has suddenly become more intense, and the range of their catapults has increased significantly. Now, 30% of their flints can directly hit our city walls!"
The loud noise just now was the sound of a batch of flints hitting the city wall and then shattering upon impact.
"Sentry, scout out the enemy's vanguard... Gunners, aim at the foremost catapults and bombard them!"
"Once we blast away the enemy soldiers at the front who are launching catapults, our defensive crisis will be alleviated!"
"The enemy is also human. Their strength will run out, and their siege supplies will be depleted. They can't keep attacking indefinitely. So let's hold on and make sure we get through today so that our fellow villagers can have a proper reunion dinner!"
"Understood!" The Wei soldiers defending the city responded in unison. Led by their commanders, they steadied themselves and, through the eyes of the sentry tower soldiers, determined the position of the enemy's foremost ranged attack force...
"Fire! Boom!"
"Fire! Boom!"
"Fire! Boom!"
Sounds came from more than a dozen gun positions, and more than a dozen guns fired simultaneously.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!
After a series of explosions comparable to a thunderstorm, the enemy's five leading catapult siege teams were hit. After a cloud of smoke cleared, the sentry on watch reported with joy: "Enemy troops hit! At least two catapults have been completely destroyed!"
"Alright! Let these bastards charge forward without fear of death! Whichever enemy unit is at the forefront will be slaughtered by our artillery!"
"Yes, let's offer sacrifices to the enemy! It just so happens that people in the city are having a reunion dinner today, and every household is offering sacrifices to their ancestors. Let's also send a few batches of enemy sacrifices to our ancestors."
Ancestors of the Great Wei: Bah, there's no need for that!
"Jiang Qianshi, General Chu, Deputy General Lang, and the King of Ye have all sent people to ask if we can still hold out. Tell you to stay calm, the Wei army, who have just finished their first reunion dinner, will soon come to help!"
The enemy's offensive intensified, and General Chu and his men, worried about the situation, sent messengers to inquire about it.
"Reassure them, with guns and cannons, I, Vice Commander Jiang, can defend this west gate tower!"