The city wall of Hulao Pass is towering, about fifteen feet high. Compared with the city wall of Cangzhou City, it is not inferior.
Thick city gate, covering and living.
The crescent moon hung high in the sky, casting a dark yellow light.
Zhuge Dali was the commander of tonight's vigil. He led hundreds of soldiers to guard the city wall, looking at the vast plains outside the city.
It has been four years since he came to Hulao Pass with the army. When he first came to Hulao Pass, he was very homesick and thought about his wife, children and elderly parents at home all the time.
He was recruited, and with him were a dozen brothers from the same village.
However, as the war started, on the cruel battlefield, his brothers fell one after another and were buried in the loess forever, turning into withered bones.
But now, he is the only one left. He has been promoted to the rank of associate counselor, intermediate level three.
But he was not happy. There was a long scar on his chest, which was left after he exchanged his life for his life.
It's not that he was unhappy because of this, but because he fought hard to survive, while a dozen of his brothers from the same village died.
He had been promoted, but it was only at the cost of his brothers' lives that he gained his current military position.
He hoped that the war would end soon, but after charging into battle in the past few days, he knew that the war should end in this short time. After all, both sides had already used incredible power.
It is said that the immortal's methods are mysterious and unpredictable, with the ability to destroy heaven and earth, and the power to summon ghosts and gods.
But he had never seen these methods before, but the invisibility spell used by the general a few days ago was an eye-opener for him.
However, what followed was that his heart began to waver and he began to speculate about what happened before.
And those speculations are all about the general's stealth methods.
Although everyone didn't say it explicitly, they all knew it.
That was a discussion about the general. Although it was not what he said, everyone felt that since the general had these magical powers, why didn't he use them early? He obviously had to wait until the enemy troops invaded the city and killed so many people before he started using them.
Although this is a tactic used on the battlefield, it cannot be used after so many people have been sacrificed.
He didn't understand tactics, so he worked hard for four years to get this official position, but he didn't care about it. No matter how big the official position was, it couldn't exchange for the life of his dead brother.
But the general loves his army as much as his life. Apart from concealing his stealth method, Zhuge Dali could hardly find any flaws in him or find any reason to accuse him.
Not only him, even if there are brothers who are dissatisfied, they will not look for trouble or stir up trouble at critical moments.
However, something made him angry and unhappy today, because the general ordered the burning of the corpses of his brothers on the hilltop of Dongcheng.
It is great for the deceased to be buried in peace.
These eight words have long been deeply rooted in everyone's hearts, but at this moment, burning the bodies of brothers who died in battle directly chilled people's hearts.
Although we are just asking for everyone's opinions, naturally everyone will not agree, but it is inevitable that the military order is like a mountain, and when it is time to burn, it will still be burned.
"Hey, if the bones of my brothers are really burned, the worst I can do is to be dismissed from office after the war and not be the co-council leader." Zhuge Dali thought to himself.
"Commander, the brothers' complaints should be passed on to the general."
"It's passed." Zhuge Dali said: "The general is still asking for everyone's opinions, and he still won't burn the bones of our brothers for a while."
"That's good." The top soldier nodded and said: "We die on the battlefield, and we don't ask for anything. We just want to return to our roots. If this doesn't satisfy us, then it's okay to be a soldier."
"Keep your voice down." Zhuge Dali glared at him and said, "The national crisis is facing us. Only by sacrificing our lives for the country and spreading our blood can we protect the old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant women in our little family. If we all shrink back, this country will not be the same. country."
"Sir, I understand this. If it weren't for you, how would we have a small family?"
"As long as you understand." Zhuge Dali patted him on the shoulder and said, "At worst, after the war, we will retire and return home. From now on, we will not care about the military affairs. We will raise some chickens and ducks at home and get together as a family and have fun together. Rongrong.”
"Very good." The big-headed soldier nodded in response.
"Associate Counselor, come here and see if that's a human being?"
At this time, a soldier standing at the front rubbed his eyes and pointed at Pingye in front of him.
"Human? Who? It's midnight, and you can't see the road clearly. So the Song army won't..."
Zhuge Dali's voice suddenly stopped, because a figure did appear in his eyes, oh no, it seems to be two, three, no, no, it seems to be five, six, no, seven, eight? None of them are right. Hey, why are there more and more?
The people who were counting with him took a breath. The entire plain was densely packed with people, at least tens of thousands of them.
"Why didn't they light a torch? Didn't they ride a horse? Did they all come on foot?" Zhuge Dali frowned and looked at the strange scene on the plain outside the city gate.
What a weird picture is that? Perhaps it was because they were far away, but they felt that their walking was extremely strange, unbalanced and irregular.
Zhuge Dali felt strange, but he did not dare to be careless. He quickly asked the people around him to ring the gong and shouted loudly: "Prepare for war, prepare for war, gather quickly."
"Dong dong dong!"
Bursts of gongs rang in the city, breaking the quiet night and spreading to the streets and alleys. At the same time, countless houses lit up with firelights, and there were bursts of rustling sounds of clothing.
General Yue Long and several guards were walking on the stone stairs of the city wall, and he shouted loudly to Zhuge above: "What happened? The enemy attack shouldn't be so quiet?"
"General, please go up to the city wall before we talk."
With suspicion, Yue Long and several guards went up to the high wall. When they looked up and looked outside the city, they all gasped.
A densely packed Song army of about 10,000 people approached the city gate.
This time they were closer, and Zhuge Dali and others saw clearly that they were a group of soldiers with disheveled hair, blood all over their bodies, and tattered clothes.
"Then, isn't that the co-counselor of Zuo Dascar whom I hacked to death?"
"Well, there's that regular corps commander. Didn't we work together to kill him?"
"Then, how come there are so many half-headed ones?"
"How did they survive?"
"They are not human." Yue Long said in a deep voice. He was now worried about whether a corpse transformation would also occur on the hills above Dongcheng.
"Not a human?" Zhuge Dali looked at Yue Long in confusion.
"Yes, they are not humans. They evolved from dead corpses. To put it simply, they became rigor mortis, which is also the walking zombie according to folklore."
"Walking corpses?" The soldiers took a breath of cold air. No wonder these Song Dynasty soldiers did not look like living people. They turned out to be walking corpses. This rumor among the people turned out to be true.
"General, what should we do now?" Zhuge Dali and others looked at Yue Long.
"They are afraid of fire." Yue Long said, "Be prepared to use kerosene or flammable objects to trap them."
"General, we have all moved to the top of Dongcheng Hill. How about..." The man had not finished speaking, with a look of surprise on his face: "Will the corpses on the top of the hill also become walking corpses?"
Everyone looked at each other in shock, finally encountering something difficult and strange.
"Yes." Yue Long said, "I didn't tell you before because I didn't believe that the demon from Song State could control so many corpses. Now it seems that he does have this ability."
"What should we do now?"
"Yue Xin, take people to prepare flammable materials, wood, tables, benches, quilts, all flammable materials are brought together." Yue Long said: "We have to build a wall of fire under the city to prevent them from entering. .”
"yes."
A bearded officer and soldier behind Yue Long got the order, quickly retreated from the city wall, and led people to search for flammable materials to make a fire.
He hadn't walked long before a large fire suddenly surged up from the top of the hill in Dongcheng, illuminating half of Dongcheng.
"It's over in Dongcheng. Those corpses have also been transformed." Yue Long said solemnly: "What should happen will happen."
Zhuge Dali and others looked sad, they all lowered their heads slightly, and they were all embarrassed to look at Yue Long.
Yue Long had previously suggested that the bodies of those killed in battle should be burned, but everyone disagreed. Now, he had ignited an internal trouble within his own formation.
Yue Long saw their expressions and said: "I don't blame you. You can stop me from burning the corpses of my brothers, which proves that you are all loyal, flesh and blood, and unyielding soldiers of the Chu State. However, inside and outside, If we fight together, we will definitely be defeated, so we must burn all the transformed corpses to prevent this enemy sneak attack."
"We will strictly follow the general's instructions."
"What we are worried about now is not these walking corpses, but the sudden sneak attack by the Song Army."
"What to do now?"
"We can only defend the city gate and wait for reinforcements to arrive." Yue Long said helplessly.
"General, the enemy is still twenty feet away from us."
"Bring me a bow and arrows."
"yes."
Someone held up a long bow, Yue Long took it in his hand and shot towards a walking corpse in the middle.
"Peng!"
There was a loud sound that broke through the air, and the sharp long arrow penetrated into the head of the walking corpse. The powerful stamina took him flying out, hitting several people behind him, and then he stopped retreating.
However, there was only a trace of black blood on the zombie's head, and he did not die from the arrow.
Although he had been prepared in his heart, Yue Long also felt his scalp numb. Ordinary swords could not hurt these walking corpses.
He suddenly thought of the walking corpses on the top of Dongcheng Mountain, and his expression changed drastically. Before, he had just asked them to light a fire to trap the walking corpses. Without his own orders, they naturally did not dare to directly light the gunpowder and blow up all the corpses, but those layers of fire rings, There is no way to trap more than 10,000 zombies rushing down from the mountain.
"Lieutenant General Lu, you take the people to guard the city gate, and I will take the people to the east city to have a look." After Yue Long finished speaking, he put down his bow and arrows, and hurried away with several soldiers.
Several people got on their horses and reached the top of Dongcheng Mountain in half a cup of tea.
There was chaos at the foot of the mountain. Hundreds of zombies broke away from the ring of fire and rushed into the crowd, roaring and screaming.
There were less than a thousand people left at the foot of the mountain, and suddenly the zombies broke away from the fire circle and broke into the crowd.
They had never seen such a strange situation before. The team was suddenly scattered and became chaotic.
