Old days in the box

Chapter 312 Thank you Jade World for sending me the rocket

Yuan Wuyou stopped where he was, looking at Vidal's leaving back with an expression on his face.

These days, she has been following Vidal's rebels and has indeed seen many scenes and images that she could not imagine along the way.

When she really faced the war from close range, she suddenly realized that it was completely different from the brightly dressed and angry horses she heard in the stories when she was a child.

In stories, war is always passionate and impassioned.

The sergeants rode on superior horses and were fully armed, rushing towards their evenly matched opponents. The two sides fought and fought. In the end, one side won, and the other side shed blood to the end of the world, dying on the battlefield with no regrets.

But here, the war she saw was tragedy, life and death, and a despicable method of using all means to destroy the opponent.

Since Constantinople was captured by Tyne, it was as if a mouse hole had been opened. At least three rebel forces inside dispersed and headed towards different military districts.

Among them, Vidal's team was relatively rational and did not have too many conflicts with the Byzantine army. Instead, it focused on capturing the city and expanding its base, constantly moving towards the south.

But the two rebels who came out of the slums were like living meat grinders. They fought almost all the way south along the Eastern Military Region. Everywhere they passed along the way, they either completely wiped out the enemy troops or were captured in large numbers by the enemy troops. , buried alive and died.

Yuan Wuyou had seen the battlefields they left behind several times. Ordinary civilians were littered with corpses on the streets. Many of them had self-destruction runes that would detonate elements on their bodies. They rushed into the enemy and fought with those The Byzantine army perished together.

A large number of rivers and underground waterways were poisoned, and houses and warehouses were bombed. Not even a thing was left. Soldiers on both sides did everything they could to win, even if they had only the last trace of strength left in their bodies. To tear apart the opponent's flesh and blood.

She once tried to break into a Byzantine factory that manufactured weapons, but found that all the people working there were child laborers from the lowest level of Byzantium.

These children didn't even know who they were working for. They just put their hands on their heads and looked at the girl who broke in with a sword in horror.

All these things are constantly refreshing Yuan Wuyou's impression of the war, and gradually making her no longer as happy and excited as when she first went to war.

Because she realizes that real war is pure killing, without any honor at all.

She took a deep breath, finally caught up again, and said to Vidal in a stubborn tone: "Don't be proud of yourself. If the clever device I used to send messages hadn't broken, I would have gone back to the Jade Realm to lead the army back. Then I don’t have to run around here with you.”

"Even if you don't have the tools to send messages, it shouldn't be difficult to go back and send messages with your swordsmanship, right?" Vidal glanced at her sideways.

"That's too troublesome... I'd better wait for the artifacts created by Lord Bingrong to come back to me." Yuan Wuyou replied with some guilt.

In fact, it is not difficult for her to cross the Spine of the World and return to Zixiao Pass to deliver a message, but the problem is that she escaped secretly this time. Few people in the Jade World knew about her escape, let alone any investigation. Byzantine Empire.

If she suddenly appears in Zixiao Pass and is discovered by her brother, then the conspiracy between her and the Emperor will be directly exposed. At that time, she will not only break the confidentiality promise with the Emperor, but may even face serious consequences for leaving the prison without permission. sin.

After weighing the situation, it was best for her to stay in the Vidal Army and wait for the Necron to come back to pick her up.

The two of them crossed the path and saw corpses lying everywhere in the square that had been bombed into ruins. A fishy smell wafted along the night wind.

At the last moment before they entered the city, the Byzantine army responsible for defending the city frantically set fire to the arsenal in the city in order to prevent them from taking advantage, causing a series of explosions that destroyed a quarter of the town.

Most of the people lying here died in that unthinkable explosion.

Yuan Wuyou raised his head and looked forward. It was late at night, and Vidal's rebels had ordered a curfew in the city. They wanted to restore the chaotic order in the city, so there should be no one to be seen.

But from the perspective of the square, she could clearly see several uneasy figures walking around secretly, trying to drag away the bodies there.

"What are they doing?" Yuan Wuyou asked.

"Reserve rations." Vidal replied calmly, "Have you ever been without food for five days and five nights? These refugees who followed us all escaped from the ruins, and most of them have been hungry for several days. , I guess I’m scared of hunger.”

Yuan Wuyou secretly suppressed the shock in her heart and stopped answering. She had probably never heard of such a taboo survival behavior in her life, let alone happened before her eyes.

But at this moment, a ray of fire rose from the city gate in the distance, illuminating the dark night sky.

Yuan Wuyou and Vidal raised their heads at the same time and looked at the discordant glow. It had been less than two hours since they took over control of the town tonight. How could such a fire suddenly rise from the direction of the city gate?

However, the fire suddenly changed speed and spread into the city along the direction of the city gate. At the same time, there was a huge explosion!

That turned out to be an enemy attack!

"Let's go!" Before he had time to think about the reason, Vidal immediately pulled Yuan Wuyou back towards the rebel stronghold and started running wildly.

The roaring noise grew louder and louder behind them, and in the blink of an eye it seemed that they had entered the city.

In front of them, the large number of rebels who were still surrounding the ruins of the church were also frightened by this unknown attack, and they all turned towards the location of the fire.

"We have clearly confirmed that there are no Byzantine troops nearby, how could there be an enemy attack?" Yuan Wuyou was a little flustered and asked loudly as he ran.

When she arrived here, she heard the soldiers report to Vidal that one of the reasons they chose this place was that there were not many Byzantine troops stationed nearby, making it an ideal training ground.

But now, they were attacked so suddenly. "I can't care about that much anymore. Let's go back to the stronghold first!" Vidal knew the importance very well and did not focus on those meaningless issues at this time.

It is not uncommon for people who are in war to face various attacks and ambushes every day when they open their eyes.

"The leaders are those who were sent to detect other rebels! They were caught and forced to leave our location! Now they are bombing towards us!"

A rebel soldier ran over with the same unit, covering Vidal's retreat while reporting the current situation to him.

"The people who attacked us are other rebels? Aren't we on the same front? Even if each has its own master, we won't kill each other at this time, right?" Yuan Wuyou asked in shock.

"They captured several of our sentries. They must have obtained a lot of information about us under severe torture. We have to retreat quickly... Send a few more teams to cover the leader! Make sure our side retreats first!"

These soldiers shouted loudly, and the originally silent city was awakened again by the sudden fire of war. A large number of rebels returned to fighting mode, and the whole city was on alert.

However, as soon as they started taking action, the huge fire spread to the ruins of the church where they were, and roaring artillery fire fell from above their heads, intensively washing the ground.

Sure enough, as the soldier just said, the other party clearly knew the exact location of the Vidal rebels. At this time, they had already driven a huge artillery carriage into the city and led the black army on a killing spree.

"careful!"

A cannon fire fell right in the middle of their heads. Yuan Wuyou shook the Chi Hua in his hand, suddenly unsheathed it and slashed upward, detonating the terrifying cannonball in advance.

The fire exploded from above their heads, knocking everyone to the ground. The impact was not small.

With this huge light, several artillery carriages have locked their position, and they are rushing toward them with a carriage full of black-clad troops.

Among such chaotic troops, they were able to accurately identify Yuan Wuyou and Vidal. This was clearly a well-prepared attack.

"All fire, protect the leader!" The rebel soldiers who came to protect Vidal all opened fire, shooting at the artillery carriages at the same time.

But the opponent's car was moving very fast, and in a blink of an eye, they were in front of them, and a large number of black-clad troops armed with sharp blades poured out from the car!

These people are all holding exquisite steel blades and wearing high-end armors. They are clearly the equipment and materials brought by Taiyin to support the slums!

The tall figure who got out of the car was naked and covered with various blasphemous tattoos. Sure enough, he was the evil boss who negotiated with Tai Yin in the slums!

"Stand back!" Yuan Wuyou's sword shot out like lightning, and he rushed forward first to stop the group of black-clad troops holding steel blades.

The soldiers around Vidal also followed closely, each of them taking out their muskets and daggers at the same time, ready for a deadly fight at any distance.

"What are you waiting for? It's time to fire!" The evil boss on the artillery carriage laughed loudly and ordered to the adjutant beside him.

"Now? But firing directly like this will hurt our own people..." The adjutant looked hesitantly at the brothers rushing forward.

"Idiot, if they hadn't rushed over, how could that Eastern princess take the bait so easily and fire immediately!"

The evil boss slapped the adjutant in the face, snatched the cannon control console from him, aimed forward, and fired suddenly.

There were sudden vibrations on the artillery carriage, and a large number of artillery shells rushed forward, passing over the ground like meteors and falling into the crowd.

These cannonballs are mixed with embedded fragments like Byzantine weapons. When they explode, these fragments will be scattered in pieces. At this moment, they are blown apart by the high temperature and impact generated by the explosion, and they quickly pierce everyone around them. Leaving hot wounds.

Fire and blood mixed together and exploded around Yuan Wuyou.

She quickly escaped from it with incredible reflexes and jumped back before the explosion affected her. However, those who were still inside were not so lucky. They seemed to be in a hell of a thousand knives, and had been stabbed in an instant. Covered with blood holes.

The blood mist covered in the smell of blood suddenly rushed toward her face. The artillery carriage's firing did not stop, but continued to chase Yuan Wuyou's direction.

The opponent's target was not Vidal's rebels, but her, the oriental princess.

Yuan Wuyou watched the group of people die in front of him, leaving only infinite shock in his heart.

She was about to raise her sword to counterattack when the Chihua in her hand suddenly broke away from her control. The pearl in the center of the sword's hilt emitted a strong light and floated up to form an indestructible light barrier, wrapping her and Vidal behind her in it.

"Is this?" Vidal was stunned, and suddenly heard a terrifying loud noise coming from the east behind him.

Yuan Wuyou looked confused. The intense light emitting from Chihua was clearly a beacon device from the Jade Realm, but when was this device placed on her sword?

She suddenly looked back and saw that the clouds in the sky were illuminated red for some unknown reason, like burning clouds stretching thousands of miles in the dark night.

From the direction coming from the east, countless meteor fires were falling from the sky and rushing towards her location.

(End of this chapter)