In the small garden, Helen and Shelley sat side by side on a long wooden chair, smiling as they watched Nan Zheng, who was practicing excitement ten steps away.
"Look at how serious he is, with his little mouth so tightly pursed, he really looks like his father," said Helen.
"Yes." Shelley nodded. "Nan Zheng imitated his father in every aspect. He learned to write, read, and practice martial arts. He didn't even have time to play. Don't underestimate him because he is young. He has a strong will."
"How enviable." Helen smiled and shook her head, her eyes reluctant to leave Nan Zheng's small figure, "Thank you for coming to see me today. You always come to see me, but I can't see you."
"Actually, you can come. If you are afraid of the ban, then come quietly. I will pick you up and we will leave by car. Archbishop Mikoyan will not say anything. The Green Building is still the same as before. You can just take it as a way to relax." Shelley said with a smile.
A hint of expectation suddenly rose in Helen's eyes, but it soon turned into a hint of regret: "Alas... I'd better not leave this temple, otherwise it might cause trouble for him." The "he" she mentioned was naturally Wu Lai.
"No way." Shelley smiled. "No matter what he says, he is Assyrian...Okay, let's not talk about this."
Helen naturally understood Shelley's thoughts and knew that she was afraid that she would be sad. After all, Wu Lai's rise was due to his resistance to Tianjuan. But in fact, it didn't matter what Shelley said. After staying in the temple for so long, she slowly figured out many things. Wu Lai's actions were not wrong from beginning to end, including now.
"Where's Loli? Is she busy recently? The last time I saw her and Beizhan was a month and a half ago." Helen changed the subject.
"She is very busy. When the master is not around, she helps to take care of many things. Many members of the parliament come to her for help, even Wei Huo." Shelley replied.
"Wei Huo? Loli also knows defense?" Helen couldn't help but become curious.
"The matter of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau originally had nothing to do with us, but the master was fighting in your Tianjuan, and Loli was afraid that the master would lack ordnance and ammunition, so she went to urge him every now and then. As a result, the people in the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau started to listen to her, and even Wei Huo gave her some points." Shelley chuckled.
"So that's how it is." Helen smiled bitterly and shook her head. "She is quite capable, but I have to say one more thing. If Loli interferes too much, it will affect your master's reputation and outsiders will gossip about it."
"I thought so too, and I tried to persuade Loli." Shelley nodded, "But she wouldn't listen. She said that the master was a stubborn man, and he would do whatever he wanted to do, even in a war. The more ammunition he had, the safer he would be, because the master would not back down even if he was unarmed."
Helen listened quietly and couldn't help but sighed: "I wonder how he is now..."
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"Go and inform everyone to hold our positions and not retreat!" Banlang gave the signalman a loud order and grabbed the last four crossbow arrows from the crossbow box.
"Yes!" The signalman answered loudly, then couldn't help but glance down at the empty box. He was startled, "Captain..."
"Don't worry about me, go quickly." Spotted Wolf frowned and waved his hand, looking around, "Attention, shotgunners and crossbowmen, bring the enemy closer before shooting."
As everyone responded, Spotted Wolf loaded a crossbow arrow onto the Hunter.
"Captain, we're running out of ammunition," a shotgunner shouted.
"The arrows are almost gone..." several archers also reported loudly.
"Is the sword still there?" asked the spotted wolf.
"Understood! Captain!" Everyone agreed again. Banlang's meaning was very clear. If they had run out of ammunition, they would just have to take up swords.
"Who are we?!" Spotted Wolf asked while aiming.
"We are the soldiers of Assyria!" The response was as loud as thunder.
"What is our mission?!" Spotted Wolf raised his voice.
"Defend the border and the country! Punish evil and promote good!" This time even the nearby soldiers joined in the response.
"What should we do if we encounter the enemy?!" the spotted wolf shouted.
"Kill!" the reply rang out.
"Then... let's kill them." Spotted Wolf smiled slightly, and the hunter moved. "Bang", the crossbow arrows flew rapidly towards the rows of Tianjuan shieldmen who were rushing over a hundred steps away. He knew that behind these shieldmen, there were more enemies hiding. They had bows, arrows, swords and guns in their hands. They tried to get close...
In the smoke and dust raised by the explosion, more than a dozen shieldmen fell...
With a flip and a push of his hand, the spotted wolf loaded the second crossbow arrow, and subconsciously glanced around, only to see that many areas had already fallen into melee, with arrows flying, explosions everywhere, and wailing screams and shouts of killing mixed together.
The spotted wolf had no time to take a closer look because the shield bearers had already rushed up through the smoke and dust.
"Captain, there are enemies coming around from behind!" A soldier hurriedly warned. After the enemy troops from the East Camp Gate poured in, the camp soon fell into chaos. The defense in the direction of the West Camp Gate was immediately weakened. After the enemies in that direction pushed wood and stones into the trench with their shields, the passage to the West Camp Gate was opened...
"Defense in two directions!" Spotted Wolf shouted coldly, and with a flick of his finger, the second bomb crossbow arrow flew out rapidly, whizzing towards the shield bearer who was running towards him. He had to kill these annoying guys, because as long as they were there, the power of his bows and shotguns would be greatly reduced.
With a muffled "puff" sound, the wolf's right leg broke at the knee. The moment the severe pain came, his body involuntarily fell to the right.
"Captain!" a soldier shouted.
"I'm fine!" Spotted Wolf stretched out his hand to stop his fall, and subconsciously looked down. He was shocked to see that there was a copper crossbow arrow twice as thick as his thumb stuck in his knee. This crossbow arrow, which was nearly seven cubits long, was a new crossbow created by Tianjuan after he obtained the large crossbow machine. It was specially designed for shooting horses and, like the chevaux de frise, was the nightmare of all cavalrymen.
"Fortunately, it wasn't ejaculated on my body..." Banlang comforted himself as he took out the bandage bag from behind his waist and bandaged it with great pain.
"Captain, do you need help?" A shotgun soldier raised his hand and fired a shot, then crouched down and ran to the side of the spotted wolf.
"No big deal, no need for that!" As soon as the spotted wolf finished speaking, he grimaced in pain, and beads of sweat immediately seeped out of his forehead. He raised his eyes and saw the shotgun soldier with a look of reluctance on his face, as if he wanted to say something else, so he quickly waved his hand at him fiercely.
"We're fighting now! Go defend!" the spotted wolf roared.
"Yes!" The shotgunner just nodded and turned around, and another copper crossbow arrow flew through the air, went straight through the shotgunner's chest and nailed him to the ground.
The shotgunner looked up in horror at the copper crossbow arrow that was still trembling on his chest. After his chest rose and fell violently several times, his left hand loosened and the shotgun rolled down.
The spotted wolf was stunned for a moment, then he threw himself forward with all his strength, grabbed the shotgun, and stood up with a fierce roar like a ferocious beast: "Kill!"
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"Look!" A sentry's panicked voice suddenly sounded above the main gate. The busy soldiers around heard it and subconsciously looked in the direction of his finger, and then they were stunned.
I saw a large group of chaotic figures appearing at the intersection seven or eight hundred steps ahead. They were running in panic, with their flags askew...
"What are they doing?" a soldier asked in a daze. Those with better eyesight had already recognized the crooked flags - the two thousand-man teams running over were guarding the intersection.
"It feels like someone is chasing them..." someone said uncertainly.
"Oh no! There must be more enemy troops coming!" someone shouted immediately, and the wall became chaotic.
The two teams of a thousand men guarding the intersection were running towards the main gate. In terms of combat effectiveness, they were not much stronger than the guys in the two small camps that Wu Lai had encountered before. In terms of courage, they were even inferior. After all, the previous group had more or less put on a show of strength, but this group saw Wu Lai's army coming from afar and withdrew and fled back.
Actually, it was not their fault for being timid. There had been a lot of fighting outside the main gate for quite some time. The wounded soldiers transported out of the camps were already overcrowded and the doctors were overwhelmed. Then they sent a lot of wounded soldiers to the small camps guarding the intersections for treatment. What did this mean? It meant that the battle was fierce and that the camps outside the gates were badly beaten by the enemy!
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When such discussions, accompanied by uneasiness, spread throughout the camp at the intersection, Wu Lai and his big flag appeared in their sight. However, even Wu Lai did not expect that these guys would turn around and run away, showing their coquettish escape to the fullest.
There was obviously nothing to say in the face of such an enemy. Besides, this was not the time to be polite and talk about style, so after Wu Lai confirmed that the enemy was escaping on his own initiative and not feigning escape, he waved his hand and said one word: "Kill!"
As soon as the two thousand-man teams approached the gate, Wu Lai's army had already caught up to them, two hundred steps away.
These soldiers immediately fell into despair and anger, because the bridge had already closed and even the bridge planks had been pulled back. Many soldiers fell into the trench full of spikes during the shoveling and became broken corpses. But what made them even more terrified was that the Wu Lai army had already killed them...
It's not that no one has thought about stopping Wu Lai's army. Even a cornered rabbit will bite. However, after trying once, they found that the enemy was not a human but a ferocious eagle. In fact, they were the rabbits. The ones rushing in front of Wu Lai's army were naturally the shotgunners. At a distance of fifty steps, every shot fired by the shotgunners could hit a large area, and there was no need to aim at all.
So, when these shotgun riders came galloping, the soldiers who were crowded in front of the closed gate and prayed loudly for it to be opened quickly left there and fled in all directions...
"Drive them to the left!" Wu Lai ordered loudly. The raging fire, smoke, shouts and explosions on the left indicated that the battle was in full swing. Driving these cowards who were only concerned with escaping to that side would not only confuse the enemy, but also provide some cover for their own pincer attack...
"Yes!" The shotgun cavalry responded loudly upon hearing the order. He repeated the order loudly to inform the rest of the people, and then dispersed to drive away the deserters.
Wu Lai reined in his horse and stopped a hundred and fifty steps before the gate. He raised his telescope and scanned the area, then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"I'll leave this to you two. Three companies are enough. Use mortars and hunters to suppress the situation so that the people behind the gates dare not look up. Then build a temporary bridge and pile the belongings your division commander has accumulated over there." Wu Lai said to the two battalion commanders who had been following him closely as a guard. The "belongings" he mentioned were naturally the explosives that Pu Dong had accumulated.
"Yes, sir!" The two battalion commanders nodded, patted their horses, turned around and went to order their men.
When another cannon shot was heard, Wu Lai's gaze passed through the thin smoke and fell on the gun position.
"You're really something." Wu Lai raised his lips and took off the gun case on his back...
At the same time, Les, who was fleeing in panic, dismounted, stabbed the horse's buttocks with a sword, then led a lieutenant and several followers into the woods beside the road, and climbed to the middle of the mountain desperately, because he knew there was a hidden cave there where they could hide, and this cave was also the garrison of the flag signal soldiers in this area.
"Hurry up and follow me, we will be safe once we get there." Les shouted to his followers while climbing.
"General Les! It seemed that there were no enemies chasing us just now?" an attendant couldn't help but ask.
"You know shit! The Assyrian army has their own tactics for fighting. They usually use artillery first to scatter our people, and then they defeat us one by one. We ran fast, so we didn't see those chasing us. But didn't you see the tragic scenes of our brothers being blown up?" Les stopped, turned around and asked.
The lieutenant general and his followers thought about it and nodded quickly. What Les said was indeed true. The artillery fire from the Assyrian Hump was so fierce and dense. Fortunately, Les made a prompt decision and stopped. If he had continued to rush forward, the consequences would have been disastrous.
"Stop talking. Save some energy and talk when we get to the cave first." After Les said that, he turned around and started climbing up using his hands and feet. Several followers quickly followed.
After climbing for a while, the deputy general suddenly caught up with Les: "General Les, something is wrong."
"What's wrong? We're almost there." Les frowned and stopped. Just a hundred steps up would be the hidden cave.
"General Les, look, there's something wrong with the flag signals sent by those two flag signal soldiers." The deputy general said in a low voice.
"Is there a problem?" Les frowned and took out a telescope to look. He saw two flag signal soldiers waving small flags at the front a hundred steps above.
After patiently reading it twice, Les turned his head and said angrily, "They want reinforcements from the Eighth Battalion. What's wrong with that? It's normal."
"General Les, look over there, there...right there, the flag signal point here should be relaying the flag signal point over there. Whatever flag signal the flag signal point over there sends, the same flag signal should be sent over here. But there is no one over there now. Since there is no one, how did they get the order for reinforcement?" asked the deputy general with a frown.
After Les looked in the direction of the general's finger, his heart skipped a beat, and panic suddenly appeared in his eyes: "You mean... we were fooled?"
The deputy general sighed heavily: "General Les, is there any other explanation?"
"Then the Eighth Battalion is..." Les just screamed, and a cold voice came from behind him, "Don't move!"
Les turned around in horror, only to see more than ten figures appearing more than ten steps away from him. Startled, he subconsciously looked around.
"Don't even think about running away! Your retreat has been blocked by us!" When that cold voice sounded again, several figures suddenly appeared behind Les and others, some holding bows and arrows or swords and shields in their hands, and their fierce gazes made people shudder.
"Surrender! We are the first platoon of the third company of the fifth battalion of the second regiment of the sixth division of the Assyrian army! As long as you surrender voluntarily, we will not kill prisoners!"
Les gave the deputy general a questioning look.
"Surrender, General Les. The Assyrian army has already entered the canyon from the other side. We... can't do anything." The deputy general smiled bitterly, took off the sword at his waist and threw it on the ground...