Chapter 47 Section 20

"what is that?" A soldier of the Wude Battalion suddenly screamed.A dark object was moving over in the air five or six feet ahead.Too big and black, lost in the twilight, it looked like nothing more than a shadow. "Is it a cloud?" A team officer picked up the binoculars and looked at it.In fact, this telescope can't see clearly, and it's useless at night.It looks a bit like a cloud, but if it is a cloud, it is too low.He looked at it for a while, and suddenly changed his color: "Fire the arrow! Quickly shoot the arrow! It's an airship!" This team officer is a veteran who has experienced the defeat of the local army at the time, and has lingering fears about the airship.The soldiers of the Wude Camp who were resting by the city wall heard this, jumped up one after another, bent their bows and set arrows, and shot at the black shadow.The arrows were everywhere, but only the sound of "Pu Pu" could be heard, the arrow seemed to have pierced into something extremely soft, and the black shadow still moved over very quickly.

At this moment, Cao Wendao rushed out and shouted, "What? Is that bastard Bi Wei attacking?" The team officer was nodding his arrow, and without looking back, he shouted, "General Cao, it's an airship! It's an airship!" Cao Wendao's heart sank suddenly.Xingchu's command was very effective, and she could see through the enemy's every step of the plan, so Cao Wendao also trusted Xingchu's vision. Hearing from Xingchu that the airship could not fly in Langyue Province, it must not be able to fly.But the situation in front of him stunned him. In an instant, he seemed to have returned to the scene of the great defeat.He shouted: "Hurry up, call Chu Shuai and Chen Zhong out quickly, hurry up!"

In the Wude camp, Chen Zhong was originally ranked higher than him, but when the Wude camp retreated here, Chen Zhong knew that his generals were not as good as Cao Wendao, and he was willing to listen to Cao Wendao's command, so Cao Wendao always called Chen Zhong by his first name.But at this time, Cao Wendao also felt at a loss. Xingchu would also miscalculate, he only felt a throbbing pain in his heart.When the Wude Camp experienced the disaster, he and Chen Zhong, the two remaining commanders, also knew that the myth that they were victorious in all battles in the minds of the soldiers had been broken, so he came up with this idea and gave up the position of commander. I gave it to Xingchu, hoping to make Xingchu the second handsome Chu.

However, although Xingchu's general talent and martial arts are very good, she is not the former Chushuai after all. The airship flew very fast, and the distance of five or six zhang was reached in an instant, and it had already reached the top of the city.When it was far away, nothing could be seen, but it was only when it got closer that the real size of the airship was discovered.After mustering enough air, the airship almost covered half of the top of Tianluguan.The soldiers of the Wude Battalion were still shooting arrows, and the airship had already been stabbed densely, but the airship would not fall down for a while.Suddenly there was a flash of fire under the airship, Cao Wendao felt a chill in his heart, and shouted: "Fall down!" Seeing this, he already knew that the airship was about to throw thunder.

As soon as he shouted, a fireball fell straight down, and there was a loud "boom", and the soldiers of the Wude Camp were blown to the ground one after another, and those who hadn't escaped in time were covered in blood.Cao Wendao was also so shocked that his ears were buzzing, and he thought: "It's over, the Wude Camp is over!" The original Land Legion was defeated by the bombardment of the airship, and now it seems to have returned to that time.Rao is Cao Wendao, who has a strong heart, and is still trembling at this moment.I was panicking when I heard Xingchu's voice suddenly: "They won't have many thunderstorms, don't panic!"

Several black shadows suddenly fell from the airship.These black shadows were hung by ropes, Cao Wendao was taken aback, and thought to himself: "Is this the new type of thunder bombing by the Fire Legion?" Before he could react, Xing Chu had already shouted: "Block them, that's the enemy army!" !" Few people got off the airship, and as soon as they reached the top of the city, they rushed to the cannon on the left.Cao Wendao's heart was clear, and he suddenly realized.Although he panicked for a moment, he recovered immediately, drew out his waist knife, and shouted: "Quickly hold the cannon and kill these people!" As he spoke, he ran forward.

Cao Wendao was surprised that the Fire Corps would send such a death squad to rush forward.At this time, those few people were already engaged in battle with the gunners, all of them were highly skilled, but the gunners who closed the sky furnace were not good at fighting skills, even a dozen or so people couldn't stop these people, and they had already killed three of them. Four, the rest are still fighting to the death, but one enemy has rushed to the gun and is putting something in the muzzle.Cao Wendao was very anxious, and shouted: "Come on, don't let anyone go!" If the cannon is blown up, the Republican Army will definitely attack with the whole army.Cao Wendao was very annoyed, he rushed to the front, and a soldier from the Republican Army came up to block him. With something stuffed in his mouth, he was taking out the scythe to start a fire. He couldn't help it anymore and shouted: "Kill me!" But he shouted so loudly, although there were many soldiers in the Wude Camp, the enemy still fought to the death. Can't rush through.

"Boom!" With a loud noise, a wave of heat rushed in, and Cao Wendao was thrown to the ground. When he got up, he saw that the barrel of the giant cannon on the left had been exploded, and several people beside him The soldiers were so shocked that their mouths and noses were bleeding, but the Republican soldier stuffed with gunpowder was blown up to nothing. The enemy is desperate.Cao Wendao was horrified.Although there were only five members in this death squad, they all put life and death aside. In comparison, the soldiers of Wude Battalion lacked the courage to go to death.Unexpectedly, there would be such dead soldiers under Bi Wei, Cao Wendao couldn't help shivering, and he didn't want to fight any more, seeing the remaining four rushing to the right, he hissed, "Hold the right! "

The left gun has been blown up, and there must be no more lost one.But the soldiers of the Republican Army reacted faster than the Wude Battalion and were rushing to the right.They were originally determined to die, and they didn't care about the enemy's interception at all. The Wude Battalion was caught off guard and was blocked by two Republican troops, but two of them broke through the encirclement. Seeing that the two men were about to rush to the cannon, a long spear suddenly stabbed out from the darkness, and with one shot, the Republican army who rushed in the front was knocked down.This man was extremely brave, he was stabbed in the left shoulder with a gun, but he didn't block it, and stretched out his right hand to grab the gun head.The tip of the spear suddenly retracted, stabbed out again, and hit his chest again, who would have thought that the man would not retreat but advance, and took a heavy step, the spear pierced his body, he grabbed the barrel of the spear and shouted to the man next to him : "Come on!"

More than a dozen soldiers had been blocked in front of the cannon on the right. Although the Republican army was fighting to the death, the other one still couldn't get through.Seeing that he couldn't break through the encirclement, he untied a small bag from his back, lit it, carried it under his ribs and rushed. Cao Wendao had already led the army to cut down the two Republicans who were holding back. Seeing this situation, his face turned pale with fright.He could see clearly that it was Xingchu who stabbed the Republican army with his gun, but that person was fighting for his life, even though he might not be able to blow up the cannon, even Xingchu would be injured.He was about to cry out, when suddenly two people appeared from behind Xingchu, first one held a long sword, leaped high, and cut off the Republican soldier's right arm shoulder-to-shoulder, the other held a long sword, It was Chen Zhong, who slapped the knife sideways from below, and with a "snap", the gunpowder bag in the Republican Army's hand flew high along with a severed arm, and exploded in mid-air with a loud noise.Cao Wendao's heart was relieved just now, but he felt that his eyes went dark, and he couldn't see anything.

Chen Zhong was extremely powerful, the gunpowder bag flew up more than ten feet before it exploded, it couldn't hurt anyone.But there was another airship in the air, tremblingly falling, when the gunpowder exploded, the airship was blown out a big hole, and the airship fell completely, covering all the people who closed the sky furnace inside.Cao Wendao was startled, stretched out his waist knife and cut a hole, got out, and shouted: "Chu Shuai, Chu Shuai!" Xing Chu was covered by the airship, and she had already cut through it and got out. Hearing Cao Wendao's voice, she shouted: "General Cao, please don't panic, the enemy is about to attack!" Cao Wendao's heart trembled.Just now there was a loud noise from the top of the city, and his ears couldn't stop ringing from the shock, now he collected himself, and sure enough, he could hear the sound of killing from under the city.He shouted: "Come out, everyone, and prepare for battle!" One of the giant cannons was destroyed, but fortunately there was another one.He has experienced hundreds of battles, and even though the Republican Army's attack was unexpected, he still recovered his mind in a very short time.At this time, there were thousands of soldiers on the top of the city, and only a few hundred were covered by the airship. Others were helping to let the people inside come out. Hearing Cao Wendao's order, many soldiers rushed to the edge of the city immediately, preparing equipment for defending the city. . At this time, both Xing Chu and Chen Zhong had come out.Cao Wendao was instructing the soldiers to prepare the rolling wood cannon stone, and a giant cannon was also being cleared out, ready to be fired.Originally, the two giant cannons bombarded in turn, and they were extremely powerful, but now that one is missing, the power has been reduced by half, and we have to rely on it even more.Cao Wendao saw Xingchu walk to the edge of the city, stood up straight and saluted, and said, "Commander Chu, the last general made a mistake and was captured by the enemy. I hope Commander Chu will punish him." Xingchu sighed, and said, "Uncle Cao, it's not your fault, it's because I didn't think of it." She calculated that the Republican Army's airship was just a tool to lure her side into battle, but she never expected that the Republican Army would actually use it. She was shocked and regretful, her face was completely pale.Cao Wendao slapped the battlements hard, and said: "Don't worry, even if a giant cannon is missing, with my surname Cao, that kid Bi Wei can't come in with absolute attack!" Xingchu was not as confident as him.Bi Wei's methods have made her more and more afraid. Although Bi Wei is not exhaustive, sometimes he misses calculations, and he himself was almost captured by the raiders, but Bi Wei always has unexpected tricks from time to time. After using it, she really didn't dare to say that Bi Wei was really planning on this. However, what she is most afraid of is not Bi Wei's tricks.Compared with odd tricks, the Republican Army's frontal attack regardless of casualties is the most terrifying.Now the strength of the Republican Army is far higher than that of the Wude Battalion. Without any tactics, as long as they attack by force, Tianluguan will definitely not be able to hold it.But now, the Republican Army seems to be using this most stupid and effective strategy. Those unexpected strategies are probably all ostentatious, and the real purpose is to blow up the two giant cannons and attack. I was led away by the nose by Bi Wei.Xing Chu was annoyed for a while, although he had been worrying about this all the time, but just now he was still complacent that he had the upper hand in the battle of wits with Bi Wei.Now that the Republican Army's strongest offensive has come, she also knows very well that with the strength of the Wude Battalion, this battle will undoubtedly be defeated, and the best way is to flee away and abandon Tianlu Pass.The Wude Battalion is familiar with the terrain. As long as there is still the strength to fight, the Republican Army will definitely not be able to win a decisive victory. However, Cao Wendao would never agree to this plan, and most likely Chen Zhong would not agree to it, and most of the generals and soldiers of the Wude Camp would not agree either. What on earth should we do now? At this time a soldier rushed up suddenly and shouted: "Chu Shuai! Chu Shuai!" The soldier was extremely panicked, ran up staggeringly, and fell in front of Xing Chu.Chen Zhong helped him up and said, "What happened?" "The rear... There are enemies coming out from the rear!"