The Trick of Longevity, Paper-cutting Becomes a Spirit

Chapter 453 A river of blood

Outside Bianliang City.

Night enveloped the earth. On this starless and moonless night, outside the capital of the Great Li Kingdom, the largest and most brutal battle since the founding of the Great Li Kingdom was about to break out.

Within a radius of twenty miles, the ground was filled with blazing fire.

Some fires have begun to extinguish. In the large gaps between the fire, there are still a large number of zombies gathered.

Inside and outside the four walls of Bianliang City, members of the Moon Worship Sect dressed in black have begun to wander around, organizing zombie armies to start a counterattack.

On the river, more than half of the fleet has been lost, and the remaining warships have stopped advancing. It seems that they are waiting for the army on land to prepare for simultaneous advancement.

On the ground, the army with bright armor was so continuous that it was almost endless as far as the eye could see. They were advancing steadily forward like walls with a total length of nearly a hundred miles on all sides.

Its leading position is already less than three miles away from the outermost zombies.

Some zombies did not wait for the order and began to rely on instinct to attack the army.

The army suddenly stopped.

After the battleships regrouped, they began to move forward slowly.

At this time, another order was issued from the army, and countless people shouted in unison: "Raise your shields and form an array!"

At this time, the army began to push away the mountains of corpses in front of them and continued to advance.

Overall, the court still made money.

"Hold on - hold on -"

Then, the zombie following it crashed directly into its companion in front.

The fleet attacked alone and was annihilated by two-thirds of the zombies that jumped ship.

From the gaps between the shields, countless spears were raised, their sharp spear points standing upright.

However, despite this, the zombies behind still charged forward without fear of death.

However, the fleet's bombardment landed in a dense group of zombies, causing great damage to the zombies. Even many disciples of the Moon Worship Sect who were mixed among the zombies were perished in the sea of ​​​​fire.

Quietly.

The front row of the army is a giant rectangular shield nearly one person tall.

The width of the shield formation reached more than fifty feet, and the entire army immediately turned into an iron shell wrapped in shields.

They have no emotion at all, and they have no fear. The zombies running in the front row even directly hit the tip of the gun with their chests.

At this time, someone in the army gave a command. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers raised their swords and knocked on their shields, making a roar that shook the earth.

The strength of these zombies varies. Weaker zombies can jump forward ten feet, and powerful zombies can even jump forward forty or fifty feet. In the blink of an eye, the wall of the shield array is covered with two or three layers of zombies. .

The army at this time was like a porcupine on the eve of a battle, with barbs all over its body.

At this time, the zombie army has also rushed.

Although they did not break the shield array, and although more than half of the zombies were pierced by spears, under the huge pressure, the shield array began to shake again. The shield arrays in many places began to be broken from above, and the remaining zombies immediately followed. He jumped into the shield formation through the breach and began to kill the soldiers inside wantonly.

As the zombies stopped attacking, the battleships on the river finally stopped and began to regroup.

Countless zombies began a formal charge.

The zombies launched a crazy attack, but without any success. In a moment, the corpses in front of the shield array were piled up as high as one person.

After the giant shield, countless small shields were raised and connected to form a shield formation above.

The zombies all over the sky stopped charging and began to shuttle back and forth between the piles of flames. It was unclear what they were doing.

These zombies run much faster than normal human soldiers, covering distances of several miles in a blink of an eye.

At this time, the Yue Worshiping Cult disciples finally restrained the zombies.

Almost every spear held in front of the formation had two to five zombies skewered on it.

The zombies in the front row were directly penetrated by the gun, and it hit the giant shield heavily.

After a while, the army advanced another five miles and began to pass the warships on the river.

With a "boom", a huge force hit the "shield wall", and the entire army immediately shook.

The zombies from behind were still attacking. They stepped on the corpses of the people in front of them, jumped up, and rushed towards the shield formation from above.

suddenly.

If it were an ordinary army, soldiers would probably start to run away at this time.

Under the command of the general, the shield array barely maintained its formation. However, they were ultimately defeated by the power of the zombies and began to retreat.

At the forefront of the army was a row of giant shields nearly as tall as a man. Between the giant shields are a series of cold spears. The spear extended out of the giant shield. When the zombies rushed over, there was a burst of stabs. The crazy zombies were immediately stabbed into a sieve and fell in front of the shield.

The spear penetrated the first row of zombies, and then hit the second and third rows...

They ran like crazy and rushed towards the army.

The army moved forward by land and water, and fireballs began to be fired from the battleships again and thrown into the zombies.

Just now.

The cry of killing went straight into the sky. Even though it was twenty miles away, it was especially deafening when it reached Lu Qian's side.

Once someone escapes, the shield array will immediately begin to collapse.

But this army was obviously the elite of the Dali Kingdom. Even in the chaotic fighting, no one retreated.

The gap that was opened was quickly closed again.

However, as more zombies rushed in, more and more holes were opened, and eventually, they began to break open everywhere.

In fact, sections of the shield formation could no longer hold up and collapsed.

"The general has an order not to retreat -"

"The general has an order not to retreat -"

On the verge of collapse of the shield formation, a general passed down, completely blocking their retreat.

Lu Qian saw that behind this vanguard army, about three miles away, there was another almost identical army.

At a distance of three miles, the range of bows and arrows is not enough; and if a strong crossbow is used, the enemy and ourselves will be mixed together, which will injure one's own people.

Therefore, the army at the back formed a shield formation and just watched the fighting in front of them with cold eyes.

At this time, the shield array in front was completely broken, and the soldiers were completely mixed together, turning into a melee.

At the beginning, the Dali Army still had the upper hand against several times the number of enemy troops, but soon, as one of its own soldiers began to transform into corpses, turned around and began to attack their own robes, the situation immediately began to reverse.

Every time a Dali soldier dies, one more zombie will appear on the opposite side.

The number of soldiers on the side was decreasing faster and faster.

At this time, some people finally began to be unable to hold on any longer. No matter how much the general scolded them, they could no longer care about anything else. They began to turn around and run back in embarrassment, trying to rush into the camp behind.

At first, only a sparse number of soldiers fled, but as someone took the lead, more soldiers immediately joined the fleeing team.

Relying on the resistance of their companions, they ran two miles away and finally broke away from the zombies.

In front of them, their own camp was already in sight.

When these deserters saw this, their faces showed the ecstasy of surviving the disaster.

However, at this moment——

"shoot--"

Following an order, a portal suddenly opened in the shield array at the rear.

Arrows shot out like locusts.

Ordinary bows and arrows are almost useless when shot on zombies. They can't even restrict their movements, let alone kill zombies.

These arrows were all aimed at those deserters.

In an instant, all these deserters were shot into hedgehogs and fell to the ground. And behind, the deserters who were out of the range of the arrows saw them, and they all stopped in their tracks, looking at the scene in front of them with stunned and dazed expressions.

"Go back and kill the enemy——"

"Go back and kill the enemy——"

Listening to the overwhelming shouts in front, the faces of these deserters showed a look of despair.

They cried and cursed, and had to turn around again and rush towards the battlefield again.

Among them, many soldiers who were bitten or scratched by zombies began to transform into corpses as soon as they were halfway.

They then began to attack nearby companions.

The battlefield that stretched for more than two miles was in chaos.

The battleships on the river continued to fire fireballs towards the hinterland. Since they still have their own people here, the warships cannot bombard this side, let alone provide them with support.

The former army commander, a general covered in blood, saw a look of despair on his face when he saw this scene in front of him.

He took out a black iron ball as big as the palm of his hand and roared in despair: "Brothers, we are not going to survive anymore, blow up these sons of bitches to death!"

As he spoke, he resolutely took out the fire and lit a stick extending from the black iron ball in his hand.

After hearing the general's order and seeing his actions, many soldiers began to follow suit.

Some soldiers had just taken out the "Shocking Thunder" and were knocked down by zombies before they could light it.

Some lit up the medicine and fell down together with the burning thunder in their hands.

The remaining soldiers began to gather together spontaneously, helping each other to light the medicine.

At this moment, a red line of fire suddenly appeared in the distant sky.

The line of fire originated from the city wall of Bianliang City and began to extend and unfold toward them like an open curtain.

Then, everyone saw that it was a curtain of flames composed of huge flaming red butterflies.

After the butterfly with red flames all over its body flew out, dense rain of fire began to rain down.

Fiery red "raindrops" fell on the top of the zombie's head, immediately burning through the zombie from top to bottom.

As they burned, the fiery red color inside these zombies gradually began to seep out from the inside out, dyeing the zombies' cyan skin red.

Soon, red flames began to pop out of the zombie's ears, eyes, and mouth.

The skin all over its body was quickly burned from the inside out, and countless flames quickly emerged from its body. In the blink of an eye, the flames completely engulfed the entire zombie.

The same scene was playing out almost simultaneously on this land that was nearly twenty miles wide.

The flame butterflies in the sky flew in front, red raindrops watered the earth, and the zombies behind them all turned into burning torches.

Seeing the flame butterflies advancing rapidly toward them, the remaining soldiers in the former army were shocked, and their faces all showed joy and a desire for life.

"Great, it's saved!"

At this time, the "Shocking Thunder" in their hands was about to be burned out.

With the desire to live, they no longer want to die with the zombies. Seeing this, they all threw out the thunderbolts in their hands and began to retreat.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

A series of explosions sounded in the front battlefield nearly two miles deep.

The frontal battlefield, which was two miles deep and more than twenty miles wide, immediately exploded into a line of fire.

Then, the remaining sergeants, desperate for life, began to rise up against the zombies.

At this time, the flame butterfly in the sky finally approached.

Seeing the fiery red rain curtain advancing towards them, the joy on the faces of the remaining soldiers gradually turned into horror.

They suddenly thought that the rain of fire could easily burn the zombies to death, but if it fell on them, it would also burn them to death.

"run--"

"do not run--"

Two completely opposite voices sounded on the battlefield.

Some of the remaining soldiers remained where they were, while others began to run towards the rear army formation.

However, this time, before they could reach the rear army formation, they were already caught up by the rain of fire in the air.

The zombies, together with these lucky soldiers, were likely to be buried in the rain of fire.

……

Up and down the city wall, countless black-clad Moon Worshipers raised their heads and glared at the white tiger hovering in the air.

They all knew that this person was the culprit who sent out the flame butterflies and wiped out the zombies.

"what are you doing?"

"Which side are you on?"

"Kill him, he is a gap in the imperial court!"

"Bastard thing!"

……

Listening to the noise and curses below, Lu Qian's expression did not change at all, he just hovered quietly in the air.

The flame butterflies in the sky are naturally the red flame flying flowers thrown by Lu Qian.

In normal times, he would have taken action long ago and started killing zombies.

But today, he happened to be in a group with the "zombie".

If there hadn't been that "Earthly Immortal Killing Order", even if Lu Qian had taken the gift from the Moon Worshiping Sect, he would have felt no psychological pressure at all to turn against them.

However, Lu Qian understood that even if he helped the court, he would not receive their goodwill.

The imperial court would rather the capital be forced to do so, and even if it was in danger of being destroyed, it would still give priority to killing Lu Qian.

It is impossible for him to reconcile with the court.

Lu Qian didn't hold out any hope for this.

Therefore, at the beginning, although he witnessed the fierce battle ahead, he did not take action.

It wasn't until both of them were fighting hard that they both suffered losses and more than half of the casualties were lost, that he took action decisively.

At this time, Lu Qian raised his eyes and looked at the battleships on the river.

At this moment, there were still sparse fireballs shooting towards the shore, but they quickly stopped.

Except for the moon worshipers on the edge of the city, there were no enemies on the shore at this time. All the zombies have been burned to ashes.

Everyone on the battleship was obviously a little confused at this time.

They saw Lu Qian take action, but they didn't understand why this person from the other camp would take action to help them.

Just when everyone looked up at Lu Qian suspended in the air with puzzled faces, a white light suddenly shot out at the target they were looking at.

A strong white light shot straight from the distant sky and burned through a battleship in one blow.

Then, like a roll call, the white light burned all the warships on the river one by one.

The wooden warships burned one by one, and the flames shot into the sky, illuminating the entire river.

On the river, the originally cool water had almost completely turned red.

On the ground on both sides of the river, the overwhelming flame butterflies in the sky did not stop after burning almost all the zombies, but continued to move forward.

They flew over the rear army, and as countless soldiers looked up in confusion, the rain of fire continued to fall.

(End of this chapter)