Chapter 188
Chapter 188 – Liu Biao at the West Gate
The left finger pointed at the archers and javelin throwers’ location . Another hot oil flash flood struck the lines of soldiers .
A soldier, who was the last person climbing Tong’s target bamboo ladder, looked back to see what had happened behind him . Once he realized that an enemy general was stranded alone below the wall, he had an inspiration .
Instead of continuing climbing, the Imperial soldier drew his sword from the back and slashed at the bamboo ladder, cutting it in half . His friends who were on top of the ladder also fell to death as a consequence of his action, yet the soldier thought it was worth it if he sacrificed his friends to cut off an escape route of the enemy general .
With this, their death would not be in vain!
Tong also saw the soldier’s action . He put a bullet into his head to vent his anger .
*BANG*
"Son of a $%@&!"
With the nearest ladder broken, Tong had no place to go as Zhu Jun’s n surrounded him .
He already used his regen skill, so every injury he sustained would last until the end of the day . It was possible that Tong might get killed today .
He was angry, yet he was calm . On the contrary to the crisis, Tong’s face was tranquil . The sight of the invading troops of Zhu Jun in front of Tong sohow soothed his mind .
’I must be crazy . Why am I find it relaxing from seeing so many enemies?’
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’Oh, you’re the eight-question-mark . Wasn’t you 11 . 19% before?’
’Maybe, because I admit I’m insane? Are you perhaps my [Insanity]?’
Tong laughed to himself . He thought he probably had gone crazy .
’I’m already fOOked anyway . What’s the point of for deceiving myself? I’m a lunatic! I’m a chunnibyou policeman! I’m an idiot mofo crazy bastard that enjoys killing humans like Ping! I’m a war junkie! I’m an avenging-craving-psychopath who kills Ping for millions of tis to kill my boredom! As a matter of fact, I enjoy killing these fools, too!’
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’Are you serious?’
’Just because I admit it wholeheartedly, it has gone down!?’
Because Tong embraced his craziness, the [Sin] revealed itself to Tong without Lilith’s interference . Besides, the percentage dropped in an instant .
While Tong was baffled by the system ssages, Zhu Jun’s soldiers attempted to charge at Tong again .
Seeing the incoming soldiers that ignored the hot swamp of oil on the ground, Tong cackled again .
"Well, if you like it when I admit I’m crazy, then let’s go wild!"
Instead of turning back to climb the wall or looking for a nearby ladder, Tong took out another glaive onto his left hand . His right hand which still held the pistol pointed toward the dense pack of the crowd .
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
Tong felt like he was shooting down charging zombies instead of humans . The reckless charging soldiers were shot down one by one, a bullet to the head for each soldier .
At this mont, most of the ground in the radius of 500 ters around Tong turned into a hot pan surface . The ground temperature was over a hundred degrees Celsius by the consecutive hot oil flooding .
The ground was still wet, and the soft soil turned into a swamp . Vapor and white smoke ca out from the field, indicating that the muddy, murky ground could cook anyone who stepped on it .
The charging soldiers were not aware of this fact . They stepped on the burning ground with their iron boots . The iron carried the temperature upward to the flesh of the soldiers’ feet, and the fu of 100 degrees Celsius stead them alive .
The sudden burning pain from their feet made the charging soldiers shouted and scread .
"Wait! Go back!"
"Don’t push! Retreat!"
"There’s a trap on the ground!"
"Stop!"
The front soldiers who stepped onto the burning ground tried to tell their comrades on the back to withdraw, but the ignorant n from the back shoved and pushed the front soldiers forward . The front troops had two destinies, falling onto the ground by their friends, or getting shot by Tong’s bullets .
The chaotic charged turned into a chain reaction . The pushing soldiers were burnt by the hot steam and shouted the sa words to the troops behind . The forces from the back also pushed the soldiers on the front forward, killing them indirectly .
Tong did not pay attention to the commotion . He was absentminded as he only paid attention to the closest incoming soldiers .
Several cooked or stead soldiers ignored the burning pain and reached Tong . By the ti they reached him, their bodies and their skins revealed either black skins or red skins with blood vessels underneath the outer skins . They looked more like zombies than humans .
’They are really zombies . ’ Tong thought as he swung his glaive and severe their torsos .
It took Zhu Jun’s soldiers ten minutes to beco aware of the hot swamp . By the ti they realized it, over 2,000 n were killed by the hot steam or from Tong’s hands .
Tong also did not fare very well because he also felt the heat from the air and the environnt . His skins had already reddened by the steam .
"General! Take the rope!"
The voice from his n on top of the wall snapped Tong from his trance . He looked back and saw a makeshift rope made of tied clothes .
’They improvised well . ’
Tong grabbed the cloth-rope and climbed, leaving the vexing Zhu Jun’s soldiers behind as none of them had stopped pursuing him .
He managed to get up on top of the wall in peace this ti . As soon as Tong crossed over the battlents, three ssengers knelt .
"Urgent report! The west wall has been breached! Lord Xu Huang with 5,000 n has already rushed over to the west wall to assist . "
"Report! The east gate has repelled the invaders! Lord Xu Huang has sent 5,000 n to support the south gate!"
"Report! Our south gate has destroyed all of their siege weapons!"
The pressing news of the west wall shocked Tong . Just a few minutes when Tong was stranded below the wall, many things happened .
"How bad is the west wall?" Tong asked .
"We’ve lost half of our troops from the siege . We’ve noticed that the commanders of the sieging force are currently on the frontline with his n . He shot down most of our thousand-man commanders with their arrows!"
Tong took a deep breath to calm down and think . He was not the only one with a trump card . Zhu Jun appeared to hide talented personals in his force, and he revealed it in the critical mont .
’Generals with good bow skills ... I have a bad feeling about this . ’
"Give wet clothes . I’ll head to the west wall!"
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West army of Zhu Jun .
Flags with the surna "Liu" fluttered in the wind . Twenty thousand n stood in a square formation at the backline of the sieging soldiers . They were the reserve force of the west army .
Twenty of sieging ladders had latched onto the wall, and thirty of the arrow towers got to their position . In addition, two of the arrow towers carried their elite generals with the archers . They were in charge of overseeing the entire battle .
Liu Biao, a noble of the Liu Clan, the Viceroy of Jing Province, and a relative of the previous Emperor Ling, stood on the watchtower in his main battalion .
Because of his bloodline and his surna, he was forced to join the political side with Liu Ping, the current Emperor . After Liu Ping issued the deploynt edict, Liu Biao was chosen as a sub-commander under Huangfu Song Army .
Though unwilling, Liu Biao took part in this campaign since he did not have to bring his private troops along . He took two of his best officers under his influence along in this battle, hoping to score a free achievent for his future career .
When Huangfu Song died, Liu Biao took over the role of the previous grand commander and followed Zhu Jun around . Unfortunately, Zhu Jun did not trust the Liu Clan . He did not assign Liu Biao with an important role up until now .
After Zhu Jun was carried away because of his sickness, Liu Biao stole the commanding role of the western army from Zhu Jun’s n and sent the officers back to their main army instead .
Also, Liu Biao had keen eyes about the sickness of the soldiers . He transferred all sick soldiers to be the first wave battalion while the healthy soldiers followed after them . As a result, the defenders wasted their arrows and energies on the dying n while the healthy n got onto the wall later to deal with the tired garrison soldiers .
Liu Biao’s generals also play a vital role in this battle . They sniped down Tong’s officers and disrupted the chain of command, putting the garrison force in a chaotic state .
Seeing the progress of the wall capturing, he nodded .
"I’ve made the right decision . It seems like we don’t have to move after all . "
Liu Biao muttered as he smiled toward one of the archer towers where his elite general was present .
"That old man is still useful as always . "
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Half an hour after Tong returned to the top of the wall, he and 3,000 n arrived at the west wall to reinforce his n .
The situation was not in Tong’s favor . The enemies took over half of the wall . Their arrow towers parked 100 ters away from the wall and continued raining their arrows at his soldiers without stopping . At the sa ti, more of Imperial soldiers erged from the siege ladders .
At this rate, the entire west wall would be overtaken, and the city would be breached .
Tong looked around to see if any catapult was still in a usable condition . It did not take long for him to find one . However, all the crews seed to have been shot down by the enemy’s arrows, so it had stopped firing .
"Have our n operate the catapult . Start shooting rocks at those archer towers! Hurry!" Ordered Tong . "The rest of you, charge with ! Get rid of these scums! Kill!"
"SHAAAAA!!" The n behind Tong roared a warcry and rushed at the enemies on the wall .
Because of the narrow wall and the density of his n and his enemies, Tong switched his weapon back to his gun .
*BANG*
The pistol in Tong’s hand did not stop firing . He emptied his clips after clips to clear the wall as soon as possible .
*WHOOSH*
A catapult that Tong reclaid operated once again . The crews launched a large boulder at one of the arrow towers .
*BOOM*
An arrow tower collapsed and killed all archers on top of it .
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"Hmm?"
A middle-aged general on top of an archer tower noticed the change . He darted his eyes toward the wall where the catapult operated .
This siege weapon crews were shot down by him . He rembered that it should have been taken over by his n, yet it shot at one of his towers again .
"It doesn’t matter how many crews you have . I’ll kill all of you again!"
The general nocked an arrow and pulled his longbow into a full moon shape . He was about to fire at one of the crews . Then he noticed another anomaly .
He saw a young enemy general with an odd black object on his hand . It was shooting sothing that killed the Imperial soldiers on the wall in rapid succession .
"That general is a threat! He dies first!"
The archer general switched his target and aid at the young general .
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