I'm a lord in the wasteland

Chapter 23 Blazing Fortress
公元2340年8月6日凌晨2点半，距离炽渊岩洞外500米。

Among the mountains, a stream that is not wide but half waist deep flows turbulently into the distance.Although it is still hot summer, the wind in the canyon still feels like a knife-like pain on the body.A dozen armed vehicles were parked behind sheltered bushes, hastily covered with rushes.

"Hurry up, everyone. Hide all the vehicles...all on foot."

After an hour of rapid march, Zhong Tian and his party finally arrived at the entrance of Chiyuan.

"Here is Chiyuan? Why does it feel like a ghost cave? I can't see anything, and it doesn't look like a fortress at all."

Through the telescope, Ling Ling expressed his confusion about this strange place.He magnified the binoculars a little, and saw a group of guards with lanterns coming out from the other side of a dark river. As the light got closer, a wooden fence came into view.The dense barbed wire on the fence hangs incomplete corpses of slaves. In the middle of the fence is a wooden door about 4 meters high and 2.5 meters wide. The bed crossbow aimed at the entrance of the gate, but now there was no crossbowman.Zhong Tian pricked up his ears and could vaguely hear the chatter among the guards.

"It seems that they don't know that the big gold tooth is dead."

Zhong Tian said to himself, he looked back at the people he had brought with him, and he already had a bottom line in his heart.

"Boss, look... This is the entrance to the cave, I am willing to open the door for you as the insider... After I successfully enter, we should cooperate inside and outside to take down the fortress in one fell swoop!"

Ma Yong volunteered to get the first credit. It is not difficult to enter the fortress as a slave. The difficulty is how he can justify the death of Da Jinya.

"Forget it, it will save trouble for us to rush in directly. Don't make unnecessary moves to startle the snake."

"What Ah Fei said makes sense, this wooden fence can't stop us."

Xin Fei didn't trust this dry old man very much, and Ling Ling also thought it would be better to attack directly, after all, the strength of slave traders as a common bandit on the mainland cannot be compared with Hei Yu's.But Zhong Tian didn't think so, he shook his head at the two, and then said to Mayong.

"We are old wine with new wine now. I think we don't need to take it if we can outsmart it." Ling Ling wanted to continue to persuade, but he saw that Zhong Tian had already started a new arrangement, so he didn't say anything.Mayong chose a few recruits to go with him.

Taking advantage of the darkness, several people quickly crossed the river.He raised his hands and walked straight towards the guard with plausible words, and then the guard punched and kicked several people.Zhong Tian and the others watched the whole process with their hearts in their throats.

"Let's rush over, I don't think this old man is very good."

Xin Fei began to reload the Xiujian, and the silver blasting arrow reflected a cold light under the moonlight.

"Wait a second..."

Zhong Tian stared at him with binoculars, and Ma Yong and the half-dead soldiers were dragged into the fence by the guards.After a long silence, Ling Ling finally couldn't help asking.

"Zhong Tian... don't wait. If these people confess us loosely, we will be in a very dangerous situation."

While everyone was waiting anxiously, a flashing signal flare shot straight into the sky from inside the fence, and the pale yellow light instantly illuminated the earth.The people hiding in the bushes were shocked by this scene.This is what Zhong Tian gave to Mayong just now, and he and Mayong agreed that if the infiltration is successful, they will use fire as a sign.

The wooden door was lowered slowly, and Mayong stood on the sentry tower and waved his arms frantically towards the other side of the river.

"Everyone, give me... attack the fortress!"

Zhong Tian gave an order, and the soldiers rushed out like wild horses that had run wild.Ling Ling and Fan Jun rushed to the front of the team, shouting "Kill Zhentian" instantly.

【Whizzing--】

Just when Lingling Fan Jun had just landed on the shore.Suddenly, a half-man-high cage made of repelling horse fishing nets was erected in the river, besieging Zhong Tian and many soldiers in the middle of the stream like a bowl.Everyone was in a mess, many people were washed up by the river and couldn't stand firmly, and the crowd started to trample on each other and wailed.

"Damn... I fell into the trap! How could I believe you, a traitor!"

Ling Ling and Fan Jun were already surrounded by the guards rushing out of the fortress, and the two could only confront the enemy back to back.

Zhong Tian tried to break free from Jumali, but the palms of his hands were bloody from being scratched by the densely packed thorns on the fishing net.

"Hahahahaha... A simple boy. He thought he would win if he killed a self-righteous piece of trash. It is not without reason that Chi Yuan has been in a corner for decades. I have been a loser in the cave all my life. On the day when I become a dealer, I have to thank you all, the legend of the future master, let's start with you..."

【Whoosh——】

Ma Yong unskillfully operated the bed crossbow, aiming at Ling Ling and Fan Jun.A cluster of black crossbow arrows about half a meter long flew towards Ling Ling's head, and Ling Ling, with his superb agility, held Fan Jun in his arms and dodged a fatal blow.

"Wow..." But Fan Jun's shoulder was still scratched by the stone crossbow, and the blood flowed profusely instantly, and her two-handed ax also fell to the ground.

"Huh?...The movement is quite flexible, and you can hide quite quickly...Let me see if you hide one more."

At this time, the bed crossbow on the other side also fired. This time, the two of them were already prepared, so the attack missed again.

"You bastard...see if I don't tear you to pieces!"

Hearing Zhong Tian anxiously roaring in the cage made Ma Yong laugh even louder. In his opinion, the incompetent fury of these lambs to be slaughtered made him feel better.Slaughtering human life is also the cruelest of many unscrupulous hobbies of slave traders.

"It's not fun, it's not fun...Let me think of something interesting."

Mayong rolled his eyes... Then he shouted to the guards in an unintelligible language, and several guards quickly ran into the fence.Not long after, a group of people came out slowly through the wooden door.Their clothes were ragged, their hair was disheveled, and they exuded a disgusting stench. Their neck chains and ankle shackles were all connected together. From time to time, some people fell suddenly when they couldn't stand still, in exchange for more severe whippings by the guards.

These people stood in front of the cage in several rows, looking blankly at the soldiers imprisoned in the cage.Some were sobbing softly while others had weird smiles on their faces.

"You bastards, take a good look at me... This is the fate of opponents! Whoever thinks about opposing Lao Tzu will go and be buried with them!"

Ma Yong spit and raised his machete and waved it in the air, and the crossbow aimed at the people in the cage.

At this time, the air was full of killing atmosphere, and the smell of blood was everywhere.

Fear spread among the crowd, mixed with the cold, many soldiers hugged involuntarily.Zhong Tian stood at the front of the line. If death was inevitable, he definitely didn't want to die like a beast.

On the other side, the two surrounded by guards must not only be careful of the enemy's siege, but also beware of the bed crossbow's sneak attack.

"For a while...then..."

"Can you do it? It's too much."

"Are you stupid... If we don't try, we will all die in vain. It's all up to you..."

"All right…"

Fan Jun whispered to Ling Ling, she observed that many parts of the fence were dilapidated due to years of disrepair, and those with better agility could jump directly to the sentry tower from the damaged part of the fence.Fan Jun wanted to use his body to make a meat shield for Ling Ling to resist the crossbow, and then make a ladder to directly step on the fence and take the enemy's head.

"One...two..."

Fan Jun read the numbers silently, while Ling Ling slowly laid the blade across his chest.

Mayong on the sentry tower is still talking nonsense, ignorant of the approaching danger.

"…three!!"

Fan Jun shouted loudly, and saw the Valkyrie beheaded three people instantly with an ax in her left arm, and the slave guard was chopped into two pieces from the waist together with the weapon. fall back.Fan Jun made a bloody path directly towards the weak point of the fence, Ling Ling was unambiguous, kicked Fan Jun's back and jumped up, stepped on the raised part of the fence with a flip, and lay on the edge of the city wall with his right hand Pulling hard, the whole person jumped on the bed crossbow.

"Bastards that are not as good as pigs and dogs..."

Ling Ling cut off the head of the bed crossbow loader with one sword, and then slashed towards Ma Yong with the second sword. Ma Yong, who was already frightened, stepped on the ground in a panic, and fell directly from the city wall to the ground.

"vomit…"

Mayong spurted out a mouthful of dirty blood, but he still stood up weakly.

"Your mother... I will die with you. Kill everyone for me, and leave no one alive!"

He roared and ordered the bed crossbow to shoot towards the cage.

【Whizzing--】

The two crossbows shot directly at Zhong Tian.

Zhong Tian didn't dodge, but opened his arms as if welcoming the approach of death.

"You don't want to die! Get out of here!"

Fan Jun roared hoarsely.

【boom--】

At this moment, accompanied by the deafening sound of the engine, a huge black figure rushed out from behind the cage, blocking Zhong Tian's front.

The crossbow shot straight at the huge monster, but it broke like two broken branches.

"Old... Lao Jin?!"

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