Chapter 203: Even if I have no clothes, I will share my clothes with you!

The first cannon shot in the morning light blew open the gate of the Crimson Dawn base.

Gravel flew everywhere and smoke filled the air.

"Mother of Mercy, all sinners who blaspheme the Divine power will be destroyed!"

"Eliminate all evil and leave no one behind!"

The temple awakeners, all wearing white vests, led a large number of believers and warriors and rushed in like a torrent.

"Hold on! Retreat to the secondary wall, hold on! Hold on!"

Xiao's team led the troops to retreat into the second line of defense of the base.

"Don't save your ammunition, fire them all out! Suppressive fire! Hit those awakened enemies with all your might!"

"Long-range attacking psychics, keep unleashing your attacks. There are plenty of crystal cores, don't hold back! Don't leave any room for retreat! We have no room for retreat!"

"War preparedness team, keep an eye on the generators. We can't let the power to the protective grid be interrupted!"

"Defend to the death! Fight to the death! Everyone fight to the death!"

There were no tactics and no need for strategy. The battle had lasted for a day and a night, and in the end, only the simplest and most straightforward offense and defense remained.

At this time, there were only ten awakened people left in the base, more than a hundred soldiers who could shoot, and about seven or eight hundred other combatants armed with sticks and bricks.

Including some combat forces that came to support from the alliance, there are more than 1,300 people in total.

On the enemy side, there are nearly a hundred awakened ones and more than two thousand believer warriors, or even more.

In comparison, the base was at a clear disadvantage. Whether in terms of high-end combat power or the number of combatants, it was no match for the enemy.

During this day and night of fighting the enemy, the base killed almost one enemy for every five casualties, a tragic exchange of lives.

How much longer can they hold out? Even though the secondary wall has a protective electric fence to prevent the enemy from climbing over it, no one feels safe.

boom!

Da da da!

Crash!

Another round of chaotic and fierce battle.

During a brief pause, Xiao's detachment received reports that their ammunition supply would only last ten minutes. Three more Awakened members of the base had been seriously injured and withdrawn from the battle line. Furthermore, two large breaches in the secondary wall had been sustained under enemy fire, leaving the base in imminent danger. Furthermore, two smaller, smaller forces within the alliance that had come to support them had been annihilated.

"Maybe the enemy will be able to break through the wall in the next attack." A combat team leader predicted based on the actual situation.

Panic is spreading.

"We'll be finished then. Listen to the slogans of those believers. They want to kill everyone in the base!"

"Where's Captain Ye? Captain Ye...is he still injured? Didn't he recover quickly in the past? Why hasn't he shown up this time?"

"Why did you chase Miss Qiao away? She could have helped!"

In despair, the members who participated in the war missed Ye Qi and even Qiao Lan.

Suddenly someone in the crowd said, "How about we sue for peace?"

"Raise the white flag, open the defenses and welcome them in. Wouldn't it be good for us to become allies with the Temple?"

"It's better than continuing the fight and having many people die on both sides!"

There was a commotion among the crowd.

"Peace talk, peace talk, peace talk, peace talk..." The low murmurs gradually gathered together and became a louder and louder shout.

Pairs of bright eyes looked towards Captain Xiao.

Bang!

Captain Xiao raised his gun and shot the first person who proposed peace.

He shouted, "Anyone who retreats in the face of battle and shakes the morale of the troops will be killed! This is Captain Ye's order!"

"But where is Captain Ye? We want to see Captain Ye. You don't have the final say on the base!"

"Yeah, maybe Captain Ye agrees to make peace."

"Everyone, we joined the base for a better life, not to die in obscure circumstances. This war cannot continue!"

The ruthlessness of Team Xiao's detachment provoked even more shouts. They seemed completely unafraid of being shot. The bodies of those shot dead by Team Xiao were still warm, but they failed to deter the crowd at all.

Captain Xiao raised his gun and fired three times into the air, "No more shouting!"

But the crowd rushed towards him, shouting "peace talks" with great enthusiasm. It seemed as if they wanted to arrest Xiao's detachment for blocking the peace talks and throw them over the wall.

Old Song stood up and held down Captain Xiao's hand holding the gun.

Picking up the megaphone, Lao Song said, "Let's get started."

Bang, bang, bang...gunshots rang out among the crowd.

Accompanied by screams, more than twenty people fell in a pool of blood.

Old Song put on his headphones and listened for a moment, then nodded and ordered people to carry all the bodies to the front and place them in front of everyone.

The frantically agitated crowd was slightly shocked by the sound of gunfire and the blood, and stood still in a daze.

Then, gradually, the mania in people's eyes receded.

Old Song spoke up, "Captain Ye is seriously injured and unconscious, so he won't be able to show up. The Temple wants to kill us all, and negotiating peace is a dead end. I can tell you that there are also Temple organizations in neighboring H City and two cities in the neighboring province. The official base tried to negotiate peace with the Temple, but in the end, they were completely slaughtered. As a lesson from the past, we have no other choice but to fight to the death."

"Those unwilling to fight to the death may leave the base now. I'll send someone to escort you out the back door. If you don't leave after five minutes, you will be deemed willing to live and die with the base and must participate in the subsequent battle. Five minutes, the countdown begins."

Lao Song's words were also broadcast through the radio inside the base and reached the place where other members who did not participate in the war gathered.

After a brief thought, everyone made their choice.

Over a hundred people, along with support personnel from a dozen or so factions, left the defense front. Inside the base, six to seven hundred people chose to leave.

Old Song kept his promise and sent three combat teams to lead these people out of the back door of the base, which was farthest from the front line of the battle, and escorted them out of a block.

The back door closed again.

"Comrades, please allow me to call you comrades, because from now on, we will fight side by side until we die."

Old Song's voice once again echoed throughout the base.

"We still have 3,000 men, plus over 500 allies, which makes less than 4,000 men. This is our last bit of strength."

"How many enemies are there? Over 2,000 outside the wall. Scouts ahead report that another 5,000 believers are on their way, of which at least 200 are Awakened."

"Comrades, if you are willing to stay, you may be choosing death."

"Thank you, thank you all for being willing to fight alongside me! I'm a rough guy, so I don't say many nice things. Anyway, thank you!"

"I propose that even if we die, we must die heroically and with purpose. Kill as many enemies as possible! When we reach the afterlife, let's compare who killed the most enemies in their lifetime!"

Old Song threw away the loudspeaker.

"Okay, let's see who kills the most people!"

"Let's go, let's go to the front line! Hammers, stones, bricks, sandbags... Bring anything that can be used as a weapon!"

"Who says I have to die? Maybe I can win, hahaha!"

"Yeah, let's go!"

"I've sent my wife and the elderly out of the base. I have nothing to worry about, so I'm staying here to fight! To earn a better future!"

"I'm betting on myself and my family. Such a good base cannot be destroyed!"

The sound of the tide came from everywhere.

Members of the base who were not participating in the battle quickly rushed to the front line. Without standard weapons, they just picked up whatever they could find.

There was a huge crowd of people, and the number of people on the front line quickly expanded to several thousand.

"What... is going on?"

Captain Xiao couldn't believe his eyes.

Why? He had been mobilizing a thousand men to the front lines these past two days, working tirelessly to get them to join the war, but Old Song summoned everyone with just a few words?

This base, which always made Captain Xiao sigh about the coldness of people's hearts, suddenly changed its nature!

Old Song loaded the magazine into his gun with a click, chuckling softly.

He quietly told Team Xiao, "Those twenty or so people killed in the crowd just now were all enemy spies, psychic awakeners who hid out to stir up trouble. They've been causing trouble for a long time. Before the decisive battle, they didn't hesitate to expose themselves and gathered here, unleashing their supernatural powers to stir up 'peace talks'. This is the perfect time to catch them all in one fell swoop. I've been waiting for this moment! The people who will execute them have been ambushed for a long time!"

What the hell?! Captain Xiao was shocked.

It turns out that in addition to the open battles, there are also secret attacks and counterattacks?

"How do you know who the spy is?"

"Brother Xiao, what did I do before? I'm a senior investigator. It's not easy for me to investigate such a small matter." Old Song was a little proud.

Captain Xiao looked at the crowd full of fighting spirit, his nose felt sore, and he couldn't help wiping his eyes.

"Damn it, if you didn't tell me earlier, I would have thought these base members were ungrateful! We fought tooth and nail to defend the base, but they refused to join the battle. Even after joining, they wanted to negotiate peace, giving the enemy their heads. I was nearly pissed off to death..."

"Hey, that's all due to spiritual motivation." Lao Song explained.

These spies have been constantly trying to mislead people recently.

Before today's decisive battle, those on the front lines were timid, and some even considered seeking peace, but these were feeble thoughts, not enough to drive them mad. It was the enemy's covert instigation that ignited the sparks of fear and fanaticism. Once those psychopathic enemies were executed, everyone gradually regained consciousness from their frenzy.

"But then again, our soldiers are determined, hehe!" Captain Xiao looked at the core soldiers on the front line.

There were the soldiers he brought with him, as well as the military and police that Ye Qi had first organized.

They were the most stable during the peace talks and turmoil just now.

Their faces were exhausted, their bodies covered in scars, but they didn't say much. While the others were frantic, they simply rested on the spot, cleaned their weapons, checked their ammunition, and silently prepared for the next round of attack. Clearly, their fighting instincts had become a habit of thought, and they were basically unaffected by the spiritual temptation.

"Hey, stop bragging." Old Song laughed. "I'm also a soldier. My willpower isn't very strong, but I have no choice! Those crazy motherfuckers have always had a policy of killing everyone. They leave no one alive who blasphemes. Damn it, I don't want to fight, but they won't let me live!"

Captain Xiao laughed loudly: "Then let's kill them!"

"Kill them!"

“Done!”

"We'll take action first this time!"

"Get on the wall, shoot, brothers!"

The soldiers stood up one after another, and followed Lao Song and Captain Xiao, laughing and cursing, and climbed up the wall in combat groups.

Outside the electric fence, more than a hundred meters away, the enemy was still resting under the first wall.

Boom! Whoosh! Woo—

The last two hand-held rocket launchers in the base whizzed towards the enemy camp.

Accompanied by the greetings of the artillery soldiers: "How are you, my friends over there on the mountain? Have two big peanuts, hey——"

boom!

Two balls of fire exploded on the enemy's side, and figures were blown up and down.

"Hahaha! Shoot!"

The soldiers at the base opened fire from behind cover, sending bullets flying towards the enemy who had just reacted.

The enemy obviously didn't expect that the base, which was already doomed to be defeated, would have the courage to take the initiative to attack. They were resting and eating there when they were caught off guard and lost a wave of lives.

But they soon organized a counterattack.

They also had guns and ammunition, and they quickly approached while returning fire. More than a thousand believers held their shields in front, clearing the way for the awakened ones.

When the awakened ones of the temple reached thirty or forty meters away from the wall, they all released their special powers.

At this time, the base's ammunition was basically exhausted.

There are only five awakened people in the base who can participate in the battle, and including the friendly forces of the alliance, there are only more than 20 people.

The existing crack in the secondary wall was blown into a large hole.

"Ready—throw! Team two, throw! Team three, throw!"

On the wall, Lao Song gave an order through a loudspeaker, and countless bricks and sandbags flew towards the enemy.

Those were the members of the base, three hundred people in a row, three rows in front and back, all of them became throwers, throwing bricks out of the wall desperately at a frequency of two seconds.

If you don’t have enough bullets, use bricks!

The rest of the base members ran around carrying bricks, stones and sandbags to continuously replenish weapons for the hundreds of throwers.

When the temple troops finally approached the wall with great difficulty, more than 500 of the more than 2,000 people were killed!

This was the attack that caused the most losses in this day and night!

On the other hand, the casualties at the base were even greater, nearly a thousand people...

There was no reason to cheer or rejoice. The enemy's artillery fire was increasing, widening the gaps in the wall. The Awakened's supernatural powers pounded against the wall, leaving several gaps in the electric fence. In the distant streets, the shadows of more enemy reinforcements were already faintly visible.

Several awakened ones rushed out of the wall and tried to destroy the enemy's main artillery, but they were surrounded by five times the number of enemy awakened ones and the operation failed.

Old Song was penetrated by the enemy's supernatural power and fell down seriously injured. The command was handed over to several combat team leaders.

"Old Song! Where is Ye Qi? If he doesn't come back, the base will be destroyed!"

The wounded Xiao Detachment rushed over and shouted. He was the only one in the audience who knew that Ye Qi was not seriously injured and could not participate in the battle, but was absent.

"Hey." Old Song laughed while spitting out blood. "He, he won't be coming back... There are more important things that need him..."

"More important than defending the base?!"

"Um."

Captain Xiao was stunned for a moment. And what was more important than protecting the base?

"So are we really going to fight to the death today?"

I am not afraid of death, but I am unwilling to accept it!

Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and the irritable detachment, whose brain was racing, suddenly remembered something.

"Where is Qiao Lan! If everyone's restlessness is due to being bewitched, wasn't it the same that day?!" Was the crowd that fanatically drove Qiao Lan away also the result of being bewitched by a spy?

So is Qiao Lan's departure a temporary solution? Will she suddenly appear at the critical moment?

With her powerful team, she turns the situation around!

"Ha, brother, are you dreaming?" Old Song spat out another mouthful of blood, stood up shakily, and drew out his sword.

"There's no savior in the world. Captain Ye isn't one, and neither is Miss Qiao. If you're not dreaming, you might as well kill a few more enemies, brother."

Through the already huge gap in the wall, wave after wave of temple believers rushed in, each holding a sharp weapon, their swords flashing.

The throwers were already engaging in close combat, fighting with bricks and sticks.

Old Song ran forward with a knife and joined the battle.

A chaotic fight, the enemy troops kept advancing, and the base members' defense line was broken up and reunited, broken up and reunited again.

Blood, death, bodies falling one after another, our side and the enemy's, mixed together, still maintaining a fighting posture until death.

There were shouts of killing from all directions.

The sound of gunfire gradually weakened and stopped, because close-range fighting had begun on a large scale.

The enemy was numerous, their weapons were superior, and there were many Awakened. Many at the base died, and some fled in fear. Some managed to escape, while others were pursued and killed by the enemy. But many more fought, fighting to the death, refusing to retreat.

"Come on! Kill one and you'll break even, kill two and you'll make a profit!"

"We worked so hard to build this base, we can't give it to a psychopath!"

"Kill them!"

"Kill him, kill him, kill him!"

Without the spies' instigation, the members who normally worked tirelessly to build their home, treating the base as a precious refuge, defended this pure land with their lives. They were men and women, those in their fifties and teenagers. After the dead, the departed, and the wavering, they were the last remaining, the most steadfast warriors.

No one is naive enough to think that they can be saved by escaping. Not to mention that a lunatic will chase them all the way. Even if they escape by chance, they will lose the protection of the base and wander around, and they will die sooner or later.

No one was willing to surrender and join the temple. Between becoming a psychopath and being a human being, they chose to be human.

Captain Xiao laughed heartily and rushed to Old Song, pushing the sharp blade away from his chest.

"Alright, let's fight to the death. No one's coming to rescue us, so we'll fight to the death! Fight until we die!"

"Okay, brother, come along."

The enemy's reinforcements arrived, and a team of several thousand people rushed into the gap in the wall fiercely.

More deaths, more blood, but the base members persisted in fighting hard and no one retreated.

The morning light breaks through the clouds in the sky, and dawn breaks on the earth.

The dawn had ended, but under the sunlight, the Bloody Dawn Base was not yet completely dead.

"As long as one of us is still alive, the base will not be destroyed, and it will never die!"

A soldier shouted before dying.

His chest was completely pierced by the enemy's supernatural power, but his gradually cooling body still maintained the posture of charging forward.

"When the king raises his army, I will sharpen my spear and sword, sharing your hatred..."

"I have no clothes, but I will share my robe with you..."

A desolate and distant singing voice suddenly rang out.

It was sometimes far away, sometimes near, and it was erratic. No one knew where it came from.

But the singing became stronger and louder, and the sorrow penetrated the sky and struck everyone's heart.

"I have no clothes, so I will share my clothes with you... I will prepare my armor and weapons, and go with you..."

Boom, boom, boom.

The war drums are beating.

I also don't know where the sound comes from.

Boom, boom, every sound is so shocking and powerful.

It was like a giant beast that had been sleeping since ancient times, and was slowly waking up. Boom, boom, that was its heartbeat getting stronger and stronger.

Thousands of temple believers, fanatical, fierce, fearless, seriously injured but numb to pain, gradually, gradually, surrounded by the interweaving of singing and drums, slowed down their movements, their eyes dull and stupid, like puppets.

"How can I say I have no clothes? I share the same hatred with you!"

"I will mend my spear and halberd, and work with you!"

The singing suddenly became passionate, and the drums immediately became more intense. Boom, boom, boom! Boom, boom, boom!

The dense drumbeats almost made the earth tremble.

One after another, the Temple Awakeners who had wantonly harvested lives clutched their heads, doubled over in agony, and some even rolled on the ground, screaming in agony. Only a few higher-level ones were less affected, but they were also terrified by the bizarre scene before them.

But at the base, no one was affected, whether it was the ordinary soldiers or the few remaining awakened ones.

On the contrary, inspired by the singing and drumming, even their scarred and shaky bodies were suddenly filled with strength.

"Who said there is no savior? Look——"

Captain Xiao, whose body was half twisted and trampled on the ground by the enemy, had blood all over his face. He struggled to stand up, knocked down the enemy who was stepping on him, and looked up at the sky.

"Our savior is back, stepping on a big bird!"

In the air.

A huge black mechanical bird flapped its wings and landed quickly.

The figure holding a large animal-skin drum on the bird's back made all the base members on the ground cry with joy.

"Quick, quick, seize the opportunity, kill these psychopaths while they're going crazy!"

I don't know who was the first to react and shouted.

Thus, the base launched a devastating counterattack in an instant!