1768: Winter Thunder
One after another, grease-soaked torches were thrown out of the fortress and landed on the snow. Even if the wind and snow were blowing, they were still burning, illuminating the surroundings of Panlong Village. As soon as the secretary's figure rushed out, he was exposed to the illumination of these firelights, and the deadly feather arrows immediately followed.
Obviously, the opponent had an archery master. Feather arrows, with tear-like roars, just as the secretary left, they inserted their back foot into the place where he had just left, making the Ming army recruits dazzled.
After counting arrows in succession, Qi Jun on the city tower seemed to feel unable to shoot the secretary, so he immediately changed into a crossbow machine. The crossbow machine roared and shot him like a feather arrow splashing water. This time the secretary finally did not feel so relaxed. The sword in his hand was like a windmill, blocking the arrows, while approaching the city gate.
Min Qi stood up and began to approach with two hundred new recruits. The shouts of the new recruits completely suppressed Fengxue's roar.
The Qi army on the city tower was indeed attracted by them. Compared with the secretary's assault alone, it seemed that the large troops behind him could more threaten the safety of Panlong Village.
Min Qi knew the range limit of the crossbow machine. When he barely advanced to the range, the entire team paused and kept clamoring.
On the city tower, the logistics officer had already fallen into a hard battle. A Qi army officer entangled him tightly. The officer was much weaker than the logistics officer, but if he was given some soldiers to fight together, it would naturally not be said to him. Among the new Qi army recruits who fled here two days ago, there were many sect children. These people may not be very strong in fighting now, but fighting alone like now is their specialty.
The secretary rolled and crawled, finally approaching the cave in the city gate, and he was gasping heavily on the wall. The distance was not long, but he tried his best. But even so, a crossbow arrow was still rubbed across his arm, bringing out a blood groove. The blood soaked the clothes. The heart-wrenching pain made him suck the cold air constantly.
A sound came from above the city. Looking up, a huge thing came towards him. His body shrank, and his whole person was stuck in the narrow gap between the city gate and the wall that could barely be hidden by one person. With a scream, a few huge wooden songs fell down against his nose, and then he was pulled back with a scream.
The secretary wiped the cold sweat from his face, and it was thanks to his thin figure. If he had changed to the burly figure of the logistics officer, he would be afraid that this rapier would have killed half his life.
No longer hesitated, he took out two grenades from his arms, hung them on the two door knockers of the city gate behind him, reached out and pulled out an iron ring, took out a piece of rope, and pulled it hard. After hearing the chirping sound, he shortened, and rolled quickly to the side against the ground.
Just as he had just left the narrow gap, another pounding tree fell down. Unlike the previous one, this one was nailed with sharp blades everywhere. When it fell, the gap that could be used for hiding people just now could not be hidden, let alone a human, even a dog could not hide it. If the secretary was still here just now, several holes would have been pierced.
The clerk's body kept rolling, and the feather arrows tracked his figure. At this time, the area where he was moving was tightened. From time to time, he felt a burst of heart-wrenching pain. It was obvious that he had been several times, but at this moment he didn't care about checking where he was injured. Fortunately, the armor on his body was of good quality and should not be fatal. Otherwise, he wouldn't have the strength to roll. He tried his best to curl up into a ball, reduce his size, and constantly make his speed faster and faster.
An angry roar came from the city wall. When the study officer was busy looking up, a huge black shadow fell from the city wall. It was the logistics officer. He was finally forced down from the city. The man was still in the air, and the feather arrows were already chasing him.
The archery master changed his target and aimed at the falling logistics officer. The secretary's pressure was lighter and he jumped up immediately, but he saw the logistics officer in the air and was already hit by two arrows, falling down like a stone. In shock, he pounced on his tiger and grabbed the falling logistics officer in the air with both hands. His waist twisted his strength. The moment he landed on the ground, he had already rolled on the ground with his logistics officer several times.
"Is it okay?" he shouted.
"I'm not dead." The logistics officer said in a muffled voice.
The two of them cooperated tacitly. At the moment of rolling, they even reached out and pulled out the crossbow arrows inserted on their bodies for the other party and went to the side. They were lucky and did not hit the point. Although the crossbow arrows were fast, they only had the arrival of armor and only had a few points of flesh. Looking at the blood mark, the foundation did not affect the combat effectiveness.
The two of them were just about to get up when a loud noise suddenly sounded at the city gate. The two of them, not far from the city gate, suddenly buzzed in their ears and sat back one after another.
The grenade exploded.
The two looked at each other and jumped up again. They rushed straight towards the city gate. At this time, Min Qi also rushed over from a distance like a tiger, and the targets were all the city gates.
The city was obviously confused by the sudden loud noise. The entire city wall seemed to be trembling, bursts of smoke rose, and the strong smell of nitrification dissipated with the wind.
The clerk and the logistics officer rushed to the front of the door. The originally thick wooden door had been blown open at this moment. One of the two doors was twisted and turned into pieces, spread all over the place.
The gate of Panlong Village was already opened in front of the Ming army. The grenade could not withstand the reinforced concrete city wall, but the wooden door could not withstand such a powerful explosion.
The Qi army had never encountered such a thing before. When the loud noise occurred, everyone looked up at the sky in a daze. Did it thunder? But this winter! Only a very small number of people could still stay awake and watch the thick smoke coming out of the city gate.
The Ming army actually had such a short period of loss of consciousness, but some of them knew very clearly what was going on. Just after the explosion, these people immediately woke up the stunned recruits and then urged them to charge.
Both the logistics officer and the secretary had become bloody men, but the two still rushed into the fortress first. At the sight, they saw that the Qi general who had finally reacted was rushing down from the city wall with Qi soldiers.
Looking at Qi Jun rushing towards him in a turbulent manner, the secretary gritted his teeth and took out another grenade, pulled out the pin, pulled the lead, and then stayed in his hand for a few breaths, and then threw it out.
The grenade landed among the Qi soldiers who were coming. The next moment, a violent explosion sounded again.
The crowd that was still dark just now became in a flash. Some were blown away by the strong air waves, some were killed immediately, some were covered in blood, and some were sluggishly turning around in circles.
The logistics officer roared and rushed forward with a knife. The Qi army officer who had previously forced him down the city wall and almost died, was staggering in front of him like drunkenness, and stood unsteadily.
The logistics officer rushed over and the sword flashed, slashing towards the head of the Qi army general. The Qi army general raised his head a little dull. At this moment, there was no other emotion in his eyes except confusion.
With just one knife, the head flew up in the wind, and the blood on the neck rushed out of the neck like a fountain.
"Kill!" The logistics officer rushed into the remaining Qi army with a bloody knife.
"Kill!" The clerk also rushed forward with his sword.
More shouts of killing came from behind, and nearly two hundred new recruits led by Min Qi rushed in from the broken door.
In the entire fortress, the sound of killing sounds filled the sky. The strong bloody smell was still so strong that it made people feel nauseous even in such a windy and snowy weather.
When it was dawn, everything calmed down.
Min Qi stood on the Panlong Fortress in the wind, staring at the vast mountains. The clerk directed the soldiers to clear the bloody village. In this battle, no one survived the Qi army. Even the injured and undead Qi soldiers were killed mercilessly by Min Qi. At this moment, the bodies were being carried by the soldiers and threw them out of the fortress.
The seriously injured logistics officers could not be idle either. At this moment, they were carrying a group of soldiers to repair the gate. Next, they were about to face the enemy's attack.
It was already dawn, and Min Qi was still standing on the top of the city like a sculpture. At some point, the clerk and the logistics officer also stood beside him.
"It's okay to be hurt, right?" Min Qi asked in a low voice.
"It's not a problem." The two of them shook their heads at the same time: "It's just a minor injury."
Min Qi smiled: "Now I know why I have to take everyone to Panlong Village?"
The logistics officer remained silent, and the secretary smiled: "Look for a way out of death?"
"Yes. For us, this mission is a dead end. As soldiers, we must obey orders and the overall situation, but as ourselves, we must also find a way to find a gap in life under the premise of completing the mission. If it is in the jungle and in the wilderness, we do not have even a trace of life, but here we still have a little hope of living." Min Qi looked at the two: "Brother, take care of yourself next!"
"I'm going to have a good sleep." The clerk turned around and left.
"I thought about it, but the door was still not strong. I will take people to block it with things." The logistics officer said and rushed away.
Min Qi smiled, turned around, and looked at the undulating white mountains. There were wolf howlings in the distance, one after another, but not approaching, but away.
The strong bloody smell here cannot attract them to get closer to this place. It only means one thing: more guys who fear them are gathering here.
Chapter completed!