hotmtlnovel Chapter 127: Evil Besieges the City
Chapter 127: Evil Besieges the City
A day and a night passed quickly.
At dusk on the second day, the sun slowly fell like a huge meteorite, weighing on everyone's heart.
On the city wall of Hengzhou Prefecture, countless people looked at the fiery red sun. Some of them showed reluctance and uneasiness in their eyes, hoping that the sun would never set. Others showed fear in their eyes, a deep-seated fear of the impending danger.
As the last ray of red glow was swallowed up by the mountains, the blood-red moon gradually appeared in everyone's eyes.
Hengzhou Prefecture is so big that the inside and outside of the city are like two different worlds.
On the top of the city wall, there were shadowy figures, and the devices on the city defense wall that were illuminated by the Filthy Pearls were lit up. Except for the sound of armor and weapons rubbing against each other, everyone held their breath, waiting for a certain moment to come.
Outside the city wall, as night fell, countless roars and screams began to rise one after another.
Countless black shadows emerged from hiding places such as caves, ravine walls, and cracks, and slowly gathered amid the noise. Their numbers were so large that they gradually surrounded the entire Hengzhou Prefecture.
"ignition!"
Following an order from the city defense officer at the west gate, several rockets were fired and landed dozens of meters outside the city wall. Where the rockets landed, a mechanism made of wooden stakes covered with grease was instantly ignited, and then extended into a series of fire walls.
As soon as the wall of fire appeared, the speed of the evil team that had already surrounded them slowed down significantly.
For low-level evil spirits, they are not only afraid of sunlight, but even large areas of fire can scare them.
Although the light of the flames would not cause harm to them like sunlight, the scorching light was a fear engraved in their bones, enough to stop a large number of evil spirits in their tracks.
"Is this all right?"
On the city wall, a young man who was obviously dressed as a civilian murmured.
In order to deal with the evil spirits' siege, Hengzhou Prefecture mobilized a large number of young and strong people to the city walls to participate in defending the city. After all, Hengzhou Prefecture was just a small city, and the number of prefectural troops and city defense troops was always limited.
In this world where monks are the main fighting force, the number of troops composed of ordinary people has been greatly reduced. The regular soldiers of the entire Hengzhou Prefecture, including rural militia, are less than 5,000 people.
"How is that possible? You see, this wall of fire will be destroyed in less than an incense stick of time." said a soldier nearby who was obviously dressed as a city defense force.
"It's only an incense stick of time, what's the use?" The young man exclaimed when he heard it.
"Heh, it's good enough if we can scare them for an incense stick of time. Maybe a second-level evil spirit will come and break through the fire wall soon. Anyway, we have to delay as much time as possible. Our goal is to hold on for this night."
As if to verify the words of the soldiers guarding the city, a sturdy figure stood out from the group of evil spirits, waving four arms and hitting them wildly, breaking down a section of the fire wall.
This evil spirit is none other than the second-level evil four-armed rock bear.
After breaking through the wall of fire, the four-armed rock bear slammed its arms on the ground and roared towards the direction of the city wall.
Under the shining of the blood moon, the eyes of all the evil spirits were red, and it was obvious that they were in a state of rage.
As the first evil spirit broke through, countless evil spirits began to rush towards the wall of fire, either directly ramming it with their bodies or using their forelimbs to break it up.
In just a moment, the fire wall that originally stretched in a straight line was broken into pieces.
Countless black shadows roared and began to charge towards the city wall.
Such scenes were also being played out on other city walls.
"Enemy attack! Everyone on alert!"
"Enemy attack! Everyone on alert!
Crossbow, start indiscriminate shooting!"
Several warning commands were sounded, and at the same time, the crossbows placed on the city wall began to emit whistling sounds.
This crossbow is quite powerful. It can create a huge hole when hitting an ordinary person. Combined with the special spiral-head arrows, ordinary evil spirits will be finished if hit by one arrow.
But at the moment, there are only a dozen of these crossbows at the west gate. If it weren't for the extremely complicated craftsmanship and high cost of these crossbows, the government soldiers would have wanted to cover the city walls with them at this moment.
Sporadic attacks could not stop the tidal wave of evil spirits, and soon the enemy's large army rushed to the city wall.
Many young people had never seen how evil spirits attacked the city. Some of them looked down out of curiosity, and then they were frightened by the scene in front of them.
I saw all kinds of evil spirits like ants, using all four limbs to grab the tiny cracks between the bricks of the city wall and began to climb up. Some of the small evil spirits were even quite fast.
Hengzhou Prefecture is just a small city, and the height of the city wall is only about ten meters, and the highest point does not exceed fifteen meters. It will not take long for the evil spirits to attack the city gate.
"Attention! Grease and oil."
An order came from the city defense officer's mouth.
According to the previous drill, the conscripted laborers began to carry barrels of clay jars filled with grease to the city wall, while the city defense soldiers skillfully found the location where the evil ants were attached and poured the lubricating oil.
As the grease seeped into the city wall, the wall immediately became slippery, and many evil spirits slipped and fell halfway up.
However, since the oil is difficult to collect and cannot be collected in large quantities like logs or boulders, the city defense forces can only dump it on the wall sections where evil spirits are present.
But this can only hinder the evil spirits temporarily, and a large number of evil spirits can still crawl up through other places that are not contaminated by grease.
"Rolling stones and logs are ready!"
As the evil spirit got closer and closer to the wall, another order was issued.
"put!"
boom!
Countless logs and boulders were thrown down by the city defense forces, smashing down a large number of evil spirits that were attached to the city walls.
But at this moment, there were too many evil spirits climbing up the city wall. Except for those parts of the wall that were doused with grease and were really impossible to climb, the rest of the wall was densely covered with all kinds of evil spirits.
From a distance, it looked as if a strange shell was embedded on the city wall.
The soldiers and civilians on the city wall picked up stones or logs and threw them down randomly, even with their eyes closed, and they would hit the evil spirits that were climbing up.
But heavy objects such as stones have limited killing power after all, especially those that are strong. Even if they are hit, at most they will cause the insect to roar, but a mere stone or log cannot stop its upward steps at all.
"No, some of them are too tough to hit!"
A civilian just hit a scaly-clawed beast on the head with a stone, and the stone was shattered, but the scaly-clawed beast just shook its head and continued to climb up.
"Fire oil bombs!"
Following the order from the city defense officer, the city defense soldiers in the rear immediately dragged over boxes full of pottery jars. A city defense soldier picked up a pottery jar, took off the lid of the pottery jar, revealing the cotton core inside, and lit it with a torch, then threw it at a nearby evil spirit.
boom!
The clay pot hit the evil spirit's back and broke, and the kerosene in the pot splashed all over the evil spirit, and then flames broke out.
The kerosene seemed to be specially made. The flame turned silvery white after burning, which made the evil spirit scream miserably. It lasted less than half a second before falling heavily off the city wall.
When the civilian nearby saw that the kerosene bomb was so useful, he immediately picked up one from the box, but was slapped in the face by the city defense soldier, who then snatched the pottery jar and carefully put it back in the box.
"Do you think you can take this stuff? We only have a few boxes of this section of the wall, we have to use them sparingly. Go and continue moving stones."