At dawn, he no longer had the same self-confidence as before. Before the swarms of demons came in, he jumped out of the back window of the shop, avoided the main road, took a small alley, and continued running towards the place where the black smoke was rising.
However, there were too many zombies, and they were as pervasive as the tide. He encountered small groups of corpses from time to time, trying to avoid fights, fighting when he could, and walking when he could.
Along the way, he encountered hundreds or dozens of people who were being chased by zombies. He hardened his heart and pretended not to see them.
At dawn, he almost stepped on the bloody and white corpses. After about a stick of incense, he finally arrived near the black smoke.
He stuck to the entrance of the alley, smelling the thick smell of smoke and blood, and listening to the whizzing of arrows and the roar of the swarms outside. It seemed that the army and the army were still fighting, which made him feel a little more at ease.
He took a deep breath and looked around. Just this glance made him feel suffocated.
What he saw was a sea of corpse demons. Countless corpse demons surrounded a tall manor, rising and falling like waves. The sky above the manor was filled with black smoke, seeming to summon soldiers and horses for reinforcements, but it seemed that only one Li Xiao was summoned.
Is this where the state government is located?
At dawn, I remembered that I had seen a similar manor in the dreamland of innocent memories. Only famous families with prominent status and wealth could build it. The family had the trust of the court, and the patriarch was appointed as the local parent official, and it could be passed down hereditary. This relied on A government office was built in his own manor.
This kind of manor with a front office and a back garden is equivalent to a city within a city. The courtyard wall is the city wall, which is five or six feet high and two or three feet wide. It can be used for horse racing and troop transportation. There is a moat below, a female wall at the top of the city, a watchtower, and a turret. It is fully equipped with an arrow stack for three steps and a crossbow platform for ten steps. It can be called a copper wall and an iron wall, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
This tall manor seemed not to have been severely damaged by earthquakes and meteor showers, but it was like a rootless duckweed, floating in the ocean of countless corpses, withstanding the impact of waves of waves.
At dawn, he calmly observed the battle situation, but saw that the houses around the manor had been razed to the ground, and the city was densely covered with armored soldiers. Arrows were flying across the city, forming a dense network of crisscrossed arrows. A large number of zombies were killed and wounded outside the moat, leaving behind Countless corpses.
Even if a small number of them jumped over the moat, they could not climb up the wall like arhats and were shot by arrows from close range.
This shows that the Yangzhou officers and soldiers are not only well-trained, but also have sufficient arrows and stones, which increases Li Xiao's confidence a lot.
There are at least tens of thousands of zombies around the manor, but they have not yet formed an effective zombie storm, because the arrows are raining down, disrupting the rhythm of the group of zombies.
Looking carefully at dawn, it turned out that the open area around the manor was still full of rebel horses, which also restricted the movement of the swarms. However, farther away from the manor, there were still swarms that had completed their assembly, forming a whirlpool shape.
He saw an even more shocking scene. He saw a sharp whistling sound coming from the top of the city. It was like a black cloud falling in the whirlpool of the group of demons. It turned out to be huge arrows. One arrow could penetrate several demons, and the whirlpool was swept away. Break up.
Even if Li Xiao doesn't understand the art of war, he can still see that the commander-in-chief of the army has good command and clever tactics to stop the enemy in the bud.
He seemed to be on an unprecedented battlefield. On this battlefield, the strength of individuals was so small, and the competition was between the collective strength of both sides.
The human race, with its weak individual body, has become the master of this world because of its wisdom and unity.
It is said that an elite army of mortals, using reasonable tactics, can cause damage to immortal cultivators.
Li Xiao looked at the scene in front of him and became a little convinced.
However, with his understanding of corpse violence, he could also see the hidden worries.
No matter how well-trained the officers and soldiers are, and how abundant the arrows and stones are, the group of demons marches forward one after another without knowing how to retreat. They cover the enemy horses with absolute numbers and fill up the moat. At that time, it is the decisive moment of close combat and bloody battles. What is competing is the strength of both sides. Will and fighting spirit.
Dawn didn't know how many officers and soldiers there were in the manor, but facing the nearly endless zombies, it was easy to lose fighting spirit, and a small defeat could turn into a big collapse.
Of course, if the army can hold on until dark, the zombies will naturally retreat and gain a night's breathing time.
As for the beast-beast offensive at night, they had encountered a group of rat-beasts at dawn, but they had not engaged in battle, so I don't know how powerful they were.
The most urgent task is to enter the manor and join the fighting group in order to maximize your value.
I didn't dare to spend any more time at dawn. I took a deep breath, moved my body, and turned into the street facing the manor. I clung to the ruins on the street, with the spring feeling on the outside. I bowed and moved forward. There was a sea of corpses around me. They seemed to They were all attracted by the strong human flavor in the manor and ignored his insignificant prey.
The ground was covered with blood, and it was unclear whether it belonged to the corpse or the common people. It was precisely because of the presence of human blood that it confused the corpse's sense of smell and covered the dawn.
It's not that Li Xiao didn't think about it, he just forced out Dragon Step and ran all the way to the top of the city, but that was too arrogant and exposed one of his trump cards.
After all, he still doesn't understand the internal situation of the manor, and doesn't know the temperament and personality of the person in charge. If he encounters someone who is jealous of his talents, wouldn't he be asking for trouble if he stands out like this?
As a person, you should keep a low profile, pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger, you can advance or retreat.
Li Xiao walked no more than ten steps, and two dark bare feet blocked his eyes. Li Xiao didn't even raise his head, and drew the tip of his knife upwards. A corpse-like head fell to the ground, and the headless body followed him and fell in front of him. , not much blood was shed, after all, it was a demon transformed from a corpse.
At dawn, he had a flash of thought, but he didn't mind being dirty, so he put the headless corpse on his backpack and continued walking.
The zombies rushing past him didn't even notice that there was a person hiding under this headless companion.
Facts proved Li Xiao's wise decision. After a moment, he only heard a few "puff" sounds, and the corpse shook a few times, blocking a few random arrows for him.
If it were a huge arrow with astonishing lethality, he would have no choice but to hide.
Under the protection of the human shield, he passed through the rain of arrows at dawn and gradually entered the manor's suspension bridge, stopping outside the moat. There were corpses everywhere around him, and there were only a few living corpses.
In years of severe drought, water is more valuable than life, so the moat naturally becomes dry and becomes a trench.
At dawn, I thought that the ditch was filled with sharp objects such as bamboo sticks and thorns, but I never thought that it was actually a layer of black oil. I immediately admired it secretly. If the swarm of demons spread here, they could be stopped for a long time if lit by a fire.
He admired the commander a little more in his heart and felt that he should have a future as a pioneer under him.
But for now, let's try to get into the manor first. In fact, if Li Xiao shows up and calls the door, the defenders at the top of the city will pick him up with ropes. It's still easy to distinguish between human and corpse demons.
After thinking about it for a while at dawn, he decided to sneak into the manor and secretly observe its internal situation out of wariness of unfamiliar environments and strangers before making any calculations.
With his current skills, this suspension bridge is not a problem for him. What is difficult is how to sneak in without being discovered?
