radicalducati Chapter 129 The city gate was breached
Chapter 129 The city gate was breached
A day ago, Old Man Nie entered Hengzhou Prefecture.
Yang Qing’s words that day made Old Man Nie think for a long time. He wanted to try to face his inner demons before he died, and even in the underworld, he would have the dignity to face his old friend.
Roar!
An evil spirit dodged the thrown boulder and bit the neck of the civilian who threw the stone. Then it shook his neck, and the civilian let out a scream and was thrown off the city wall.
The people who had just climbed onto the city walls were all shocked, because what was on the city walls was even more terrifying than they had imagined.
As Old Man Nie looked at the evil spirit with bared fangs and claws, bad memories flooded into his mind again.
The ferocious giant snake and the tragic deaths of his teammates flashed through his mind like pictures, and Old Man Nie's legs involuntarily went limp.
This is my inner demon coming back again.
This happens every time he faces an evil spirit, even if the evil spirit is extremely weak.
In the world before Yang Qing traveled through time, Old Man Nie's inner demon had another name: PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, a very terrifying mental illness.
At this time, a cultivator rushed out from one side, stabbed and poked the evil spirit with the soul spear in his hand, and threw it off the city wall.
Then he turned around and glanced at Old Man Nie who was paralyzed on the ground and said, "Old man, you are so old, don't come up to join in the fun, get off quickly.
What does the city defense officer mean by calling people up? He lets such an old man come up.
If this is the case, we might as well call the top performer from the Red Wave Club over. Even if I don’t have to do any work, I might be more motivated just by watching.”
As soon as these words were spoken, there was an immediate burst of laughter from all around, which relieved a little pressure in the tense city defense battle.
When Old Man Nie heard this, he gave a bitter smile, as if he had become even inferior to those flesh and blood women.
The siege was still going on. The gun-wielding monk cooperated with a group of city defense troops and ordinary people to guard a long section of the city wall.
Old man Nie stood up slowly. From his perspective, the figure of the monk with a gun was somewhat similar to the figure of Captain Jiang Su back then.
"In life, there is nothing more important than life and death. If you are not afraid of death, then all the troubles in this world will be nothing but drizzles and breezes to you."
Old Man Nie couldn't help but think of the bold words Captain Jiang Su said while holding his wine bowl when they were drinking together in the past.
"Haha, nothing matters except life and death. I am not afraid of death, but this damn inner demon, I know it but I just can't control it."
Nie Wujiu only felt bitterness in his throat at this moment.
The dying wails of evil spirits, the screams of the soldiers defending the city, rolling stones, logs, kerosene bombs, and the crossbow arrows that sounded like they were breaking through the air.
Every sound was tingling on his nerves at this moment.
Blood was flowing on the ground, and a thick layer of blood stains like glue had solidified on the city wall. People and evil spirits would slip if they stepped on it carelessly.
Old Man Nie buried himself in the angle between the watchtower and the parapet, watching the fight between the city defenders and the evil spirits. He really wanted to help, but at this moment he could only suppress his inner fear, not think about the scenes in his mind, and stay standing without collapsing.
Suddenly, a second-level evil licking beast climbed up the city wall, and its tongue shot out, hitting the gun-wielding monk in the chest, knocking the gun-wielding monk several meters away and rolling off a large piece of flesh.
Then the licking beast took advantage of the victory and pounced on the opponent in a leap of several meters.
"careful!"
In a trance, the tense old man Nie had already regarded the gun-wielding monk as his Captain Jiang Su. At that moment, the shadows of the two overlapped in old man Nie's memory.
"The fist and the energy are here, and I will lead the way. Thunder will penetrate your body and cleanse you of all evil. Thunder is coming!"
In a hurry, Old Man Nie took a step forward and stood in the path of the licking beast. He clenched his right fist and formed a seal, and at the same time, a faint light of thunder appeared.
Thunder fist seal!
boom!
This punch hit the licker's body, and the licker's body seemed to be illuminated by light. It let out a brief whine, and then slid to the ground like mud.
At this time, Old Man Nie looked at his right hand and couldn't believe that he had done it.
The gun-wielding monk at the side struggled to get up, took out a flesh-growing pill from his arms and swallowed it, and at the same time stuck a sword talisman on his wound.
"careful!"
A few more evil spirits climbed up to the top of the city wall, and one of them was about to launch a sneak attack on Old Man Nie, but at this time Old Man Nie was still in a daze.
The monk with the gun stepped forward and shot the sneak attacking evil spirit away: "Old man, what are you talking about?"
Mo Yiming didn't understand. The old man who saved him just used thunder magic, which was not something that ordinary cultivators could master. Before that, he was just an ordinary old man whose legs and feet became weak when he saw evil spirits.
But at this moment, Mo Yiming no longer had time to think about this. At this moment, he only felt the city wall under his feet suddenly shake, and then a terrifying scream rang out: "The city gate is broken!"
Then the sound stopped abruptly.
!!! How could the city gate be broken!
Mo Yiming couldn't understand. As a member of the government army, he knew too well the arrangements of the government army at the city gate. Even during the day, the city gate was sealed with huge stones, for fear that some evil spirits would become intelligent and ram into the city gate desperately.
Mo Yiming flipped over and jumped down the stairs, and landed at the city gate in a few steps. What caught his eyes at this moment was a huge hole at the city gate. Even the huge rocks piled behind the city gate had disappeared, and countless evil spirits were scrambling to get in through the hole.
Even Mo Yiming could see that their eyes were red.
The next moment, Mo Yiming's body was trampled by countless evil spirits that rushed in, and bloodstains were on the soles of their feet, extending into the city.
At the same time, countless bright red fireworks pointed directly at the west gate, which was a signal for help that the gate had been breached.
Inside the Liu family compound, Liu Fusheng stood on the top of the tallest tree in the yard, looking at the fiery red sky in the distance, a smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.
"It's done. Humph, Hengzhou Prefecture, ah Hengzhou Prefecture, you don't have Long Jixiao who is willing to sacrifice himself to block the city gate."
When the blood moon appeared in the sky over Xunyang Prefecture that year, Liu Fusheng also participated as a retainer of the Yin family. He also saw with his own eyes how the ancestor of the Long family turned into thunder and blocked the evil spirit that had already broken through the city gate for more than ten breaths.
During the day today, Liu Fusheng sent several men who were good at stealth, carrying nearly a hundred fire thunder talismans, to sneak outside the west city gate.
According to the plan, these people took advantage of the evil spirits' attack on the city to sneak into the west gate, and then used a fire thunder talisman formation to directly blow up the west gate.
Even if there are huge rocks piled behind the gate, as long as there is a tiny gap, the evil spirits gathered at the city gate will swarm in.
Those so-called obstructing boulders will naturally be cleared away by the charging evil spirits.
By then, no one near the city wall would be able to escape. As for how the city gate was broken, no one was alive, so who would know how it was broken?
Once the city gate was broken, the government soldiers could only sacrifice their lives in order to drive the evil spirits out of the city.
After the government troops and the Night Patrol have almost finished fighting the evil spirits, I will bring people to rescue them. There are a total of 7749 wards in Hengzhou Prefecture, and I must rescue at least half of them.
After the night of the blood moon, the entire Hengzhou Prefecture will be rebuilt. I will then spend a lot of money to provide assistance and work hard to improve my reputation. I don't believe that the survivors of Hengzhou Prefecture will not be grateful to me.
There are two ways to be the head of a prefecture in the Great Chu State. One is to be directly appointed by the capital, which is considered a decentralization of imperial power. However, in this era, because evil spirits hindered communications, it became inconvenient. Only cities near the capital could be appointed like this.
The other system was elected by local voting, with the noble families in the city participating in the election and each district voting. The one with the most votes would become the prefect, but the annual taxes had to be turned over to the national treasury in full.
This is how Zhang Huaizheng, the current prefect of Hengzhou Prefecture, got his title. The Zhang family was also one of the big families in the Chu State.
What Liu Fusheng wants to fight for is the second option, which requires the votes of all the neighborhoods.
But before that, there is one thing that must be done. Zhang Huaizheng, the prefect of Hengzhou Prefecture, and Guo Huaiyi, the commander of the Night Patrol, must both die.
Thinking of this, Liu Fusheng looked back at the altar that had been built in the courtyard.
At the same time, Old Man Nie stared in a daze at Mo Yiming's body, which was almost bare. He seemed to have just found a little of the feeling when he fought side by side with Captain Jiang Su. But after a while, this comrade was gone again.
At this moment, a rage that turned from hope to despair burned fiercely in his heart.