Chapter 200: Go Ahead, Do As You Please (3)
The situation above the gate was resolved in an instant. No one came through the smoke anymore.
The defenders were relieved and waited for visibility to clear.
It didn’t take that long.
After half an hour has passed. As the black smoke cleared, a situation beneath the gate that had never been seen before unfolded.
The defenders could not keep their mouths shut at the sight reflected in their eyes.
“Do, what the hell happened?”
“Why did these guys die in droves?”
Underneath the gate, countless soldiers lay as cold corpses. Including those who were seriously injured and rolling around, the number was easily ten thousand.
Sisanhyeolhae . These were the words that came to the minds of the defenders.
There were many soldiers who fell from ladders and died, but that was only a small portion. It was a devastation caused by most people cutting each other down.
At that time, someone extended their index finger toward somewhere and shouted.
“Hey, look over there!”
It was the headquarters of the enemy army. There was a 670,000-year-old army waiting, and it was very noisy.
Somewhere in the center of the base. This was because someone was fighting alone in what appeared to be the command center.
“The general is fighting alone!”
“W-what?”
“Is that true?”
The defenders above the gate were in an uproar. I turned on the light in my eyes and looked at him.
Black armor and red blood-like clothing were visible moment by moment. The general was certain.
He was moving so fast that he couldn’t see his movements, but he could clearly see that the enemies surrounding him were falling like reeds.
He was fighting alone in the middle of enemy territory. The defenders, encouraged by that sight, trembled.
“Wow!!!”
“Waaaaaa!!!”
The loud and hot shouted extended ten miles away. The defenders cheered for the general by beating the drums installed above the gate.
Incredible scenes continued to unfold.
One corner. Before even a fraction of the time had passed, the Crimson Guard that had surrounded him were annihilated.
In the center of those who died so cruelly, So-mu was catching his breath. Other soldiers surrounded him in layers, forming a thick siege net.
Baekyak, who was watching, spoke to the soldier playing the drum.
“Hurry and ask the general to recall the army.”
It was because I was worried about So-mu. No matter how great he was, he couldn’t kill tens of thousands of soldiers alone.
Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!
The sound of drums calling for the army to return rang in So-mu”s ears.
Even if that wasn’t the case, I was going to go back. Dark Blood had already hid somewhere, and there was no longer any reason to stay behind enemy lines and take risks.
So-mu was just looking at the retreat route.
Kuk-kung-! Kuk-kung-! Kuk-kung-!
Suddenly the sound of the drums began to speed up.
It was a signal announcing a surprise attack by the enemy.
The defender on top of the gate ran to the other side to check the situation.
About three hundred red warriors were approaching.
The thing I was worried about inevitably happened, but I didn’t panic. Since they were already prepared, their surprise attack was a futile struggle.
“Stop getting excited and get ready!”
Moderation Il-gwang. He was leading the operation inside the gateway.
Five hundred shield soldiers guarded the line, and more than three thousand soldiers lined up behind them.
It was understandable to be embarrassed to see them waiting in advance, but the enemy soldiers did not hesitate at all.
They don’t have any emotions. Even if it means going into a pit of fire, it just followed ordered.
“Defense wall!!!”
As Il-gwang’s shout rang out from somewhere, the leading soldiers stretched out their shields to the front.
Chuck-! Cheechochochuk-!!!
The soldiers’ movements that coincided momentarily represented the intensity of the training they had received.
As more than 500 shields formed a dense formation, the garrison’s line was transformed into an iron wall.
If it had been a normal raid, they would have definitely been embarrassed and hesitated. However, the enemy soldiers actually accelerated their sprint.
The fifty red warriors running at the front radiated sharp sword energy.
The distance between the garrison and the enemy soldiers was about 30 chang. The distance continued to narrow.
“Down battle!!!”
At the signal of Il-gwang, the soldiers in the front line knelt down and placed their shields on the ground.
Thud-! Kukukukung-!!!
At that moment, trigger crossbow’s unit, which had been waiting behind the shield soldiers, appeared.
The power of the trigger crossbow was powerful enough to pierce Hwagyeong”s self-defense strength. It was a weapon so powerful that it was impossible to even load it unless a soldier was training in internal strength.
About a thousand veteran soldiers who had waited and taken aim in advance waited for this moment.
“firing!!!”
Bang-!! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-!!!
Trigger crossbow let out a loud roar and rained down arrows without hesitation.
Because it was fired from a very close distance, its power was beyond imagination.
The enemy soldiers who were running rushed to block the arrows, but there were too many of them and they were too fast to completely block them.
Deep! Puppuppuk-!!!
Kang Lu’s arrow not only pierced the armor of the enemy soldier, but was also enough to threaten the soldiers in the rear.
In the blink of an eye, half of the enemy soldiers were wiped out. At this point, it would have been normal to retreat or run away, but they had no fear.
It was a moment when the distance between them became closer to a dozen. The final command came from the commander.
“Cheon Gwol !!!”
The old soldiers bowed down, and the kneeling soldiers raised their shields high in the sky.
Chuck-! Cheocheocheok-!!
Suddenly, a strong storm of energy broke out behind the garrison.
From behind, someone was running at incredible speed towards the front, giving off breathtaking momentum.
Despite his huge size like a brown bear, his movements were as fast as lightning. It was Il-gwang, the adjutant of General So-mu and the man who commanded the soldiers here.
The huge body stepped on the shield in front and soared as if it would pierce the sky.
Kwaang-!
His spirit of jumping into a group of enemy soldiers alone made everyone’s tongues wag.
And a flock of about a hundred black wolves were running behind him.
Kwakwang-! Kwa-kwa-kwang-!
Wolf Fang Squad leaps on top of a shield. Sword energy spurted out from their swords at the same time.
The Wolf Fang members flew over the headed of the enemy soldiers and began to clash while searching for their respective opponents.
The sight of Il-gwang swinging around like an angry lion in the center of the enemies was by far the most overwhelming.
The fight between the Wolf Fang Squad and the Red Guards. With a similar number of people, the result was already predictable.
As the battle began in earnest, the remaining soldiers lined up left and right, drawing a giant circle in layers.
They had no plans to participate in battle from the beginning. The mission was to establish a siege network to prevent any enemy soldiers from escaping.
At that time, someone’s voice was heard from the side of the defenders.
“It looks like you haven”t neglected your training.”
The nearby soldiers turned their headed in surprise at the sound that came without any sign of presence.
“Jang, how could the general be here”.”
It was So-mu who broke through the enemy’s siege, crossed the gate, and ran all the way here.
It looked completely intact without a single wound. It was just that the pitch-black armor had changed into blood armor.
One officer shouted to the soldiers around him.
“M-move aside! The general has arrived!”
The soldiers hastily lifted the siege and created a path for the general to pass through.
So-mu nodded and passed between them.
“great job.”
So-mu, with his left hand behind his back, lowered his sword diagonally and trudged along. It looked like a tiger approaching a fox den.
Seeing his back, the defenders felt stable and relaxed.
Changan”s palace. This place was suddenly in an uproar.
“It”s over there!”
“Hold it!”
Guards clutching weapons were running around in groups and frantically running around.
Yang Xiao, the commander of the Shulan army, had a thoughtful face.
“They are the ones who stole the Hoeryongpo blueprint! We must catch them!”
He was holding the iron gun and running like crazy.
They were spies of the State of Hui. As if they had decided to resume their activities, they attacked a military facility and stole the production drawings for a new catapult.
Although it was stolen by So-mu from Luoyang, it was an item that should never be returned.
He succeeded in capturing and killing nine of the twelve. But the other three were not ordinary.
In the process of tracking down just the three, more than fifty officials died.
“Get out of the way!”
Yang So was running for his life, even pushing away Sun Gwan who was ahead of him.
I missed one right in front of my nose. Blood was flowing from my forehead, but I didn’t have the energy to care.
Yang So bypassed Ssangryongjeon and squeezed through the gap between the pavilions. In his field of vision, he saw Soon-gwan, who had come here before him.
“What happened?”
“I think I missed it. It has disappeared from here.”
Yang So, whose face turned red, threw the iron gun he was holding to the floor.
Kwaang-!
“Mr. Lee”.”
The management of public security within the palace was under his jurisdiction. Rather than being punished, I couldn’t bear the shame of not being able to do my part. As the youngest member of the renowned Yang family, it was an indelible shame.
“It is not too late, Captain. Soldiers have already flocked from the military camp and are surrounding the palace. We have also requested cooperation from the military patrol, so you will not be able to escape through the castle gate.”
“after””.”
The situation was not as easy as it sounds. I knew it well because I had already clashed with it once. It was not at a level where it could be caught unless it was at the level of Wolf Fang Squad.
It was when he was sighing.
“Are you looking for this guy?”
It was the voice of a beautiful woman, as if jade beads were rolling around.
The headed of the guarded turned to the right at the same time. I couldn’t even sense when it was approaching.
And her slender right hand. It was grabbing someone by the throat.
Hanging in the air, he seemed to have already lost consciousness.
“Boo, how could you be here”.”
She was the wife of General So-mu. Despite her beautiful appearance, she was also well-known for being a martial arts expert with an eccentric temperament.
She said, throwing the spy she was holding on the floor.
“Just for today.”
“Yes… thank you very much for your help.”
Yeon Sung-hwa was silently looking around. Her earlobes, like white flower petals, twitched slightly. I sensed a flow of energy somewhere.
“One over there. And one over there.”
“yes””?”
“Choose. I can”t chase them both by myself.”
After looking around for a moment, he picked up the iron gun he had thrown away a moment ago and said.
“Well, we”re going to the left.”
Before he finished speaking, Seolhwa was soaring above the roof of the Ssangryongjeon Hall.
After taking a breath, Yang Xiao led the guarded and ran in the direction she indicated.
Now, if we catch just one guy, the situation was over. About a hundred martyrs followed behind him, desperate to die.
After moving forward about 50 chapters, I sensed someone running not far away. As expected, it was just as she said.
“You go this way, and the rest follow me! Come on!”
The guarded continued to narrow the siege. Hope gradually bloomed on Yang Xiao”s face. That was, until the opponent’s location was confirmed.
By any chance, the place he ended up at was Seolwhawon. The spy who was running away was already jumping over the fence.
“That cowardly bastard!”
Yang So, who was following from the lead, also kicked off the ground and looked at the situation in the air.
Coincidentally, three children were playing in the flower garden in front of the Seolhwawon pavilion.
“You come here!”
The spy approached the nearest child and grabbed him by the collar.
He was a boy with a pretty head and a ponytail. The child asked with her eyes wide open, as if it was unfair to be questioned.
“Why? I didn”t do anything wrong today.”
He was a middle-aged man with a kind-looking appearance, but his words and actions were extremely rough.
He ignored the child’s words and shouted at Yang Xiao.
“If you come near me, I will kill you little bitch!”