Daqin: I, Fusu, can summon the undead

Chapter 162: Ambush of the Undead

"Grand Duke, the devil's artillery fire outside the city has not stopped. The casualties in the trenches on the eastern front are too great! More than one-third of the casualties have been lost! The defense line has killed a large number of escapees! Count Liuli requests to withdraw to the city for defense."

In the center of Lunduo City, a foreign soldier covered in blood staggered into Grand Duke Williams' headquarters and reported sadly.

"Have they launched a charge?" Looking at the soldier with disheveled clothes and blood on his body, Grand Duke Williams just asked indifferently.

The soldier was stunned for a moment, then answered truthfully: "No, no! They just kept firing!"

"Go back and tell Count Gauss that the outer defense line cannot be lost and must continue to hold on! I will send him reinforcements." Archduke Williams waved his hand, signaling the soldiers to retreat.

"Yes!" Upon hearing this, the soldier who came to report had no choice but to retreat.

After the soldiers withdrew, Grand Duke Williams did not arrange for reinforcements. Instead, he ordered another messenger, "Let Viscount Lailak organize soldiers and civilians to reinforce the city's defenses and organize resistance 500 meters into the city. In addition, transform the buildings within this distance into bunkers and arrange for an ambush."

"Yes!" The messenger responded and left immediately.

"Report!" Just as the messenger left, another soldier with blood on his body came in and reported: "Grand Duke, the casualties on the Western Front are huge, and there are a lot of deserters. Count Cole has led his soldiers back to the city to reorganize the defense line and collect the deserters."

"I understand. Tell him that if he dares to take another step back, I will kill him!" Archduke Williams waved his hand.

"Report!" Another soldier covered in blood ran in and reported loudly: "Grand Duke, Earl Chris was killed in the battle, the outer front in the south has collapsed, and now Viscount Eric is gathering the retreating troops and organizing a new defense!"

Grand Duke Williams said without hesitation: "Go tell Viscount Eric that if he can stop the enemy in this battle, I will report his bravery to Her Majesty the Queen and promote him to earl. If he can stand firm, I will make him marquis."

"Yes!"

Messengers kept coming in, then leaving after receiving orders.

After the last soldier who came to report left, Duke Williams could not help but clench his fists.

He knew very well that there was a huge gap in the strength of the two sides, and only a few people guarding the periphery could survive. What he had to do was not how to defeat the enemy, but how to delay time until reinforcements arrived. He would not hesitate to push the soldiers and civilians into the fire pit, as long as he and the queen were safe.

If anyone is truly capable of leading the soldiers and civilians to hold out until reinforcements arrive, then it would be worth it for him to fulfill his promise.
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"Hurry up, hurry up!"

"Push the cannon harder!"

At the edge of the woods in Lunduodong, it was raining heavily and the road was muddy. A large number of soldiers and civilians from the pirate country who had come to support were trotting forward in the mud.

Those carrying ammunition boxes and machine guns were already running out of breath. The few horses in the team were struggling to pull the artillery, and there were a dozen strong men behind them shouting slogans and pushing hard.

After a day and a night of forced march of seventy miles with almost no rest, everyone was already out of breath, even the cattle and horses were panting heavily.

"Count Arik, the road is muddy and the cannons keep getting stuck in the mud. They can't keep up with the marching speed at all. The horses are also very tired and some have even collapsed."

A viscount rode up to the earl and spoke anxiously.

After hearing this, Earl Arik thought for a moment and said, "We are still 15 kilometers away from Lunduo City. Viscount Poker, you must bring 10,000 infantrymen to support us immediately. We must disrupt the attack rhythm of those demons."

"Yes!" Viscount Poker responded immediately and rode away on horseback.

"Roar!" However, the next second, a roar suddenly sounded from the woods next to them.

In the woods, black skeletons suddenly stood up from under the dead branches and leaves, holding various farm tools and weapons, and rushed towards the already miserable marching team with roars. It was impossible to see how many there were, and the distance between them was less than 30 meters.

"Xilulu!"

The warhorse neighed and ran away with Earl Eric, who was about to give orders. "Enemy attack!"

"Shoot!"

Looking at the black skeletons rushing towards them in the heavy rain, the soldiers and civilians in the team shouted in panic.

The brave ones raised their guns and shot at the rushing undead, while the timid ones dropped their things and ran in the opposite direction.

There was constant gunfire for a while, but the small bullets were not enough to cause much damage to these skeletons whose bones were as hard as iron.

In just a few seconds, the skeletons rushed into the marching team, waving the farm tools in their hands and smashing them at the soldiers with guns.

The two sides immediately engaged in a melee.

Screams suddenly echoed in the heavy rain.

Although these black bone skeleton soldiers only had some farm tools and had no combat experience as real death warriors, their bones were as strong as iron blocks, their strength was much greater than that of ordinary people, and they were not afraid of pain when stabbing. In close combat, farm tools in their hands were much more useful than guns that could only stab. For a while, they killed the soldiers and civilians of the pirate country one-sidedly.

If you want to deal with skeleton soldiers in close combat, you still have to use cold weapons to swing and slash.

In just a few moments, the marching team of the pirate soldiers and civilians was divided into more than a dozen sections, and corpses were everywhere.

The one-sided battle made the timid ones just drop their weapons and run away, but they could not outrun the undead who knew nothing of fatigue.

"Stop, stop! Stop now!"

As the warhorse was running, Earl Eric kept shouting at it to stop, but the panicked horse did not listen to his commands at all and just kept running desperately in the heavy rain.
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On the other side, a train with more than 30 carriages was heading towards Lunduo City in the heavy rain. However, when it was still 20 miles away from Lunduo City, the train overturned in the mud. The pirate soldiers and civilians packed in the train were squeezed together like canned meat. The unfortunate ones were even squeezed to the point of vomiting blood and rolling their eyes on the spot.

It turned out that one side of the railroad track was moved away by 20 centimeters. It looked fine from a distance, but this 20 centimeters caused the train to overturn.

"Roar!"

After the train overturned, before the people in the carriage could climb out of the train, there were bursts of roars around. Then, more than ten meters away on both sides of the track, the undead hiding underground climbed up one after another, holding iron forks and hoes and rushed towards the overturned train.

After a large number of skeletons climbed onto the carriage, they opened the doors and windows, and stabbed the pirate soldiers and civilians squeezed inside with steel forks, wooden spears and other objects. For a while, blood continued to seep out of the train.

Not long after, another train following closely saw the scene ahead and immediately applied emergency brakes.

"It's an ambush, prepare to fight!"

In the locomotive, a soldier quickly shouted to the soldiers in the first carriage at the back.

Hearing the shouts, the soldiers picked up their weapons one after another, and some soldiers quickly reported to the carriage behind.

As the second train stopped, the soldiers in the carriage jumped out and rushed forward with guns in hand.

However, just as most people jumped out of the carriage, countless undead crawled out from the mud on both sides in the pouring rain. Some of them kept picking up stones and smashed them at the soldiers who jumped off the train. For a time, these soldiers were beaten to a bloody mess, and many of them were killed directly.

Some of them rushed towards them with various weapons and farm tools, and they were in front of them in just two or three seconds.

If the pirate soldiers and civilians did not jump off the train, they could still rely on the carriages for defense, but now that they have jumped off the train, they have lost the most advantageous condition.

This ambush has taken into account all their reactions and actions.

(End of this chapter)