Chapter 17 second quarter

Beidaying, where the Chu Wei Army is stationed. All the commanders of the armies of the six nations were present, and everyone's faces were dark and ugly. What greeted them was a corpse.When they stepped into this barracks, they saw Bai Yi'an sitting beside a simple bamboo bed covered with a white cloth, under which there was no doubt a corpse, an old foreman and a pale-faced Chu Wei veteran He bowed his head and stood aside.Bai Yi asked the generals to sit down on the chairs beside the corpse. After everyone arrived, Bai Yi stood up and uncovered the white cloth.It really was a corpse under the white cloth. It seemed that it had been dead for a long time, but it was not rotting badly.There was a huge wound on the chest of the corpse. It seemed that it was one of the zombies that night, and the heart was severely injured by the sergeant.

"I invite you all here today to see this corpse." Bai Yi said, "Maybe you can explain to us why there is such a mess of corpses." He gestured to the pale-faced veteran, and the veteran stood up in fear. "We met last time." Gu Yueyi said suddenly. "Yes, General Gu, last time he did something bad and was discovered by all the generals, this time the villain is going to make up for his mistakes." The old soldier was trembling. "Don't be afraid, speak loudly." Xi Yan said. "Yes!" The veteran was encouraged, and straightened his bony chest, "The villain has been handling corpses in the camp. This line of work is a dirty job, not even a job. But the villain has been dealing with corpses for a long time. Listen There have been some rumors that corpses were messed up, and it happened in the camp, but the corpses were stimulated on thunderstorm nights, stood up and walked a few steps, although it looked scary, but took a stick up to the middle and knocked over, nothing happened No. We deal with the dead every day, and such a thing rarely happens once in decades. If there are hundreds or thousands of corpse changes, and it can hurt people, it is only the technique of corpse voodoo."

"The technique of corpse voodoo?" Gang Wuwei asked. "Yes, the villain can demonstrate." The veteran looked at Bai Yi, who nodded. "Third Brigade and One Guard Battalion of the Chuwei State Mountain Formation Army, Xue Dayi!" The veteran gave a powerful military salute. "It's an old soldier!" Xi Yan smiled slightly, praising him for his neat military etiquette, a demeanor only a veteran has. Xue Dayi nodded vigorously, then pulled out his small saber, and carefully plunged into the corpse.The knife pierced through with a "pounce", like piercing through rotten wood, but no blood came out.He took out a small paper bag from his waist and opened it to reveal some yellow powder.

"The villain's paper bag contains sulfur. Corpse Gu uses the spirit of worms to refine it. Worms are afraid of sulfur, and sulfur is also effective for corpse voodoo." Xue Dayi explained. Fei An frowned: "Does General Bai really believe in this kind of sorcery in the countryside?" Bai Yi didn't answer.At this time, Xue Dayi had already sprinkled sulfur into the knife wound, Wu Zuo stood aside holding a scythe, Xue Dayi cut his finger with a knife, and dripped a drop of blood on the zombie's nose.Everyone's eyes were drawn away, Gu Yueyi saw that the zombie's fingers seemed to move, he was so startled that he wanted to stand up, when the zombie suddenly opened its eyes!

This time the generals couldn't help it anymore, Cheng Kui jumped up and drew his knife, wishing he could chop the corpse in half with one knife on the spot. "General Cheng, don't worry!" Wu Zuo hurriedly shouted, "It's absolutely fine, this thing has been fixed with an iron ring, so it won't hurt anyone." Cheng Kui was stunned for a moment, and saw that the corpse's neck, waist and legs were all bound with iron rings, and they were firmly fixed on the ground under the bed.The corpse was indeed seriously injured, and it was only struggling for the last time. It seemed to be attracted by the smell of blood, and it writhed weakly.With a swipe of the fire sickle, a spark fell on the sulfur, and the flames burned into the chest of the corpse.

"You generals are optimistic!" Xue Dayi shouted. As his voice fell, something poked out from the wound!The generals felt cold all over and got up at the same time.That thing seemed to be afraid of the flames of sulfur, and it swung its body desperately to get out. It was a kind of blue-gray long-tailed insect that no one had seen before, and it was covered with feet.It crawled extremely fast, rolled down from the corpse, and immediately crawled to a dark corner where there was no light. Gu Yueyi reacted very quickly, he waved his hand and threw the sleeve knife.The Hidden Knife accurately pinned the bug to the ground.

The bug wagged its tail desperately and struggled.But its color became lighter and lighter, and its entire shape became blurred, like a congealed blue-gray smoke that was dissipating very quickly.Gu Yueyi pulled out his waist knife and took a step. Before he could get close to the worm, he saw its entire body collapsed, only a little reddish-brown powder falling down. His Hidden Knife stabbed quietly on the ground, as if it didn't hit anything at all.Gu Yueyi stayed there, her fingertips trembling slightly. "General Gu, you can feel it, it's Gu, it's been killed, even though it wasn't alive in the first place." Wu Zuo said, "There is no danger at this time."

Gu Yueyi tried to pick up some powder with his hands, and rubbed it: "It looks like powder with blood scabs broken." Wu Zuo nodded: "Yes, it looks like it, but no one knows what it is." "Actually, that insect is also a dead insect, without a body. It is said that the person it sees is just an illusion." Xue Dayi added. "But we all saw it." Gu Yueyi looked around at the crowd, and they all nodded. "That's it. Someone set a trap for us with corpse voodoo." Bai Yi said, "I have collected all kinds of information these days and shared it with you. There is no doubt that Li Jun returned suddenly on the night when the incident happened. It was related to them. At that time, there were a total of 6,152 zombies in Shangyang Pass, about half of which were tricked into opening the city gate through the Fire Gate, and half of them were wounded from the supply camp. It will affect the wounded, and seriously injured people will be sucked into their souls by Gu insects, no different from zombies. They have no organization at all, they just kill by instinct."

"But the zombies are still being manipulated. The person who shot me can't possibly be a zombie, with such sharp bow skills." Gu Yueyi said, "Also, the other party can use deception twice at the fire gate and the ground gate guarded by our army." It’s not something that zombies can do.” "Yes." Bai Yi said, "But a corpse is a slowly decaying thing after all, no matter what kind of secret technique can't last for too long. I invite you here to tell everyone that we should stick to it for now. Xie Xuan If he dares not attack the city at this time, he will step into the crowd of zombies. With our remaining troops, Xie Xuan may not be able to gain the upper hand. He only has 10,000 red brigades. We just need to wait until the zombies can no longer move. The victory of the battle is still ours.”

"When will they fall by themselves?" Gang Wuwei whispered, "We have no food and no medicine. Zombies don't need food." "Victory?" Cheng Kui also shook his head, "There are only 1,200 soldiers left in our army, and there are still a large number of wounded. With such a loss of 5,000 elites, can it be considered a victory?" "Approximately how many troops do we have left?" Xi Yan interrupted the topic. "Take the wounded," Bai Yi remained silent, "There are only 26,000 people left, and there are more than 7,000 horses left."

"Then General Bai, speaking of the most critical part, how much food do we have left?" Xi Yan said in a deep voice. Bai Yi nodded: "Yes, you guessed it right. In order to eliminate the zombies in the Jinbei camp, the Jinbei army used the technique of burning fire. The result was that the oats we could barely use as military rations were destroyed. We have already There is no horse food left, and as for the food for people, it can only last for seven days!" Everyone's complexion became even darker. Bai Yi looked around: "What I want to say is that we may die here. There may be reinforcements from the imperial capital, Xiatang Kingdom and our Chuwei Kingdom, but we also have to save ourselves. Everyone who still has cavalry , ready to start killing war horses and use them as army rations." Cheng Kui stood up abruptly, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was furious: "Our country is all cavalry. A horse is raised from a young age, and goes in and out of battle, like a brother. General Bai, if you want to kill a war horse, why don't you kill your own?" War horse?" Bai Yi looked at him quietly with calm eyes.He lowered his head and untied the saber from his waist, and threw it at Cheng Kui.Cheng Kui took Bai Yi's sword blankly. Bai Yi walked to the door of the barracks, pushed open the door, and outside the door was Bai Yi's famous horse Bai Qiulian.Bai Yi pointed to his horse: "Our country is strong in the mountains with long spears, and there are very few horses. Even if they are killed, it is not enough to enrich the army. But I do have a horse, which has been with me for many years. When I first saw it , is still a pony. If General Cheng wants to kill it today to show my determination to live and die with you, then please use my sword." Cheng Kui looked at him fiercely, but Bai Yi did not avoid it.Cheng Kui finally couldn't bear it anymore, threw off the scabbard and strode out, before coming to the tethering post.He looked up at the extremely tall white steed, and knew that it was an extremely rare steed. He was a horse lover, and he couldn't bear it, but he had been forced to such a point by Bai Yi, and he finally gritted his teeth and raised his heart. The sword thrust out. The horse neighed, its long mane fluttered, and Cheng Kui's sword stopped before Bai Qiulian's chest, and missed by half a foot.At that moment, he looked up at the white horse with human nature, his eyes were full of horror and grief, but he didn't look at him, but looked in another direction.Cheng Kui looked in the direction the white horse was looking at, and it was Bai Yi standing at the door of the barracks. Bai Yi faced his beloved horse from a distance, with a blank expression on his face. Cheng Kui looked at Bai Yi, then at the white horse, and the hand holding the sword trembled.He slapped his right hand holding the sword fiercely with his left hand, threw the sword on the ground, and strode away.Bai Yi looked at his back and remained silent. Xi Yan walked out of the barracks with his hands behind his back, went up and patted Bai Qiulian's neck, calming down the horse.He turned around and looked at Bai Yi: "Let's start from the moment I get off the horse of the Tang cavalry. I hope you don't kill my Mo Xue, so you can think of a way out of trouble." The generals all walked out, leaving only Bai Yi standing silently at the door of the barracks.After a long time, Bai Yi took a few steps forward and took the reins of Bai Qiulian. He stroked the long mane of his beloved horse and shook his head slightly: "If you need to choose a horse between you and Mo Xue to kill, Xi Yan will kill you again." Which to choose?" He sighed: "If I knew earlier, I wouldn't have saved you when you were sick."