Witch Wind

Chapter 198 Crazy and Powerful Enemy (Part )

The Eastern Land of China, the extreme north of the northern border.

Above the vast mountains, a giant iron-gray dragon crawled from west to east, winding on the top of the mountain.

This is the Qin Great Wall.

Many, many years ago, the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, arrived in this world with a group of civil and military officials. He felt that something was missing between heaven and earth. Therefore, the First Emperor mobilized the twelve Taiyi, three hundred and sixty Golden Immortals, and countless celestial immortals, and built this wonder of the Great Wall in the northern mountains of the Eastern Divine Land overnight.

The Qin Great Wall in this world starts from the coast of the East China Sea, winds for hundreds of thousands of miles, is about two miles high and a hundred feet wide. The entire wall is made of magma melted by fairy magic and mixed with elite metals.

The craftsmanship is so exquisite and the materials are so generous that even though this world has been trapped in the Dharma Ending Age for six hundred years, this magnificent and incredible wonder is still so solid that it makes people despair.

Early morning hours.

The eastern end of the Great Wall, 'Shanhai Pass'.

Early in the morning, a few lazy soldiers guarding the Great Yu Dynasty came to the easternmost city wall wrapped in thick cotton-padded jackets, whistling, and discharged the wastewater that had accumulated overnight into the boiling sea below.

Under the city wall, several low-ranking officers, lazily holding their aching waists, walked out of a barracks with a few heavily made-up prostitutes.

An officer rummaged in his pocket for a while and finally took out a few pieces of silver. His face suddenly became extremely ugly and he hurriedly nudged his colleague who had fought with him last night with his elbow.

Several officers were stunned, then reached into their pockets and rummaged around.

They pooled their money together and only managed to collect a little over three taels of silver. The prostitutes who had been smiling suddenly turned hostile, stretched out their long nails coated with balsam juice, and started scratching the officers.

"Gentlemen, this is not right. You cannot deny the money you have earned. Are you still going to follow the rules of the underworld?"

"You are also high-ranking officials, and you are even refusing to pay for our sisters' overnight stay? You must know that our mother and your general have been friends for twenty years!"

"That's right, that's right, hurry up and take out the money, otherwise you will never be able to pass this level today."

"If you really don't have money, you can just get two sets of the best armor and bows and arrows from your warehouse."

The group of people were pulling and shoving each other, shouting and cursing.

In the barracks nearby, many officers and soldiers were yawning, opening the windows, gesticulating and laughing at them.

Finally, when the women began to take off their clothes and roll around on the ground, a lieutenant in the barracks a little further away could not bear to watch any more. He coughed lightly, pushed the door open, and shouted in a cold voice, "Okay, okay, Old Wu, you guys will be on duty today. Go and guard the gate well. If there are any caravans passing by, ask them to take more tribute."

"How big of a deal is it? Is it worth making such a fuss?"

"You women, we are all old friends, can you show some kindness? Are we men the kind of people who rely on you for money? We guard Shanhaiguan, and the caravans that come in and out every day are making a lot of money. Do we still need your money?"

When the deputy general was speaking, his eyes were wandering, and it was obvious that he was extremely guilty.

The common people in Shanhaiguan didn't know, but the officers guarding the pass knew - something big had happened in Fentian City, the current emperor had been killed, and now several incredibly powerful gangs were fighting for territory all over the world.

As for war, the defenders of Shanhaiguan are not afraid!

Shanhaiguan is a very important place. After all, it is the only checkpoint for entering and exiting the Central Plains and many provinces in the Northeast.

But how can you say it is not important? It is a dead pass. Although there are 100,000 troops stationed there according to the military list, they have received 85,000 empty salaries. In fact, there are only 15,000 troops stationed there, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. All the sophisticated military equipment has been sold out. This small amount of troops is nothing compared to the whole world!

Therefore, no matter how turbulent the overall situation in the world is, whenever someone attacks, we should raise the white flag and surrender. We might even be able to claim the credit of following the dragon!
The problem is that the world is in chaos, and the number of caravans has suddenly decreased by more than 90%. In the past few months, the number and quality of caravans coming in and out have been heartbreaking. Brothers are really out of money!

Several officers who owed money hurriedly laughed, "That's right, that's right, Matou is right. Hey, you guys, stop making noise, follow us to guard the pass, and when we collect the money, we will pay you back first, and also treat you to a good banquet, how about that?"

After a round of quarreling, laughing and cursing, a hundred or so ragged, listless soldiers, yawning, and accompanied by a few prostitutes dressed in red and green, slowly arrived at the checkpoint.

"Bang, bang, bang!"
Three cannon shots were fired, and the north and south gates of Shanhaiguan slowly opened. The officers and soldiers took over their shifts in a sluggish manner. The accompanying marching clerk also set up a table and chairs in the city gate, slowly ground ink, moistened his pen, spread out the account books, looked around, and hoped that the first transaction of the day would come in.

The South Gate of Shanhaiguan had just opened, and the officers and soldiers who were standing in the doorway, like farm dogs, raised their heads to look at the bones on their master's dining table, all laughed.

They saw, in the distance, a dozen men on horseback, slowly approaching in the misty morning fog.

This team of more than a dozen people is the most lucrative.

According to the imperial ban of the Dayu Dynasty, the people of the Central Plains were strictly prohibited from entering the Northeast. All along, the caravans that entered and exited Shanhaiguan were all powerful merchants with great resources. These caravans had strong backers and were rich, but the Shanhaiguan defenders could not get much.

These small teams of three or five or a dozen people are mostly desperate gangsters who go in and out and specialize in doing some gray or even black business that is extremely profitable and risking their lives.

They would never dare to conflict with the officers and soldiers!
And these gangsters are used to enjoying themselves, and like to carry a lot of gold and silver. If they catch such a group, the money they can get from them will be enough for the leading officials to spend half a year in the brothels!

Several experienced old soldiers, holding six-foot-long spears with rusty tips, rushed out of the city gate with great enthusiasm, shouting at the dozen men: "Where are you from? Where are you going? What are you doing? You are sneaking around, you must not be good people. You must know the royal ban on the northeast. You have committed the heinous crime of exterminating your entire clan!"

"Hurry up, get off the horse, get off... get off... get off... get off...?"

A dozen men were getting closer and closer.

Several old soldiers watched them slowly approaching with their bodies stiff.

The fog was so thick that they couldn't see these guys clearly. When these men came closer, they were horrified to find that the mounts of these men were huge bulls with natural blue-black shells and flat horns.

These men, with bald heads and bare chests, had faint images of bloody headless giants wielding axes and shields on their chests. They sat on the backs of oxen, which were much higher than a floor. They carried huge axes on their backs, looked down at the old soldiers with a joking look on their faces.

"Gentlemen, I can see that you are law-abiding. Hey, you have come to the right place, Shanhaiguan. Our place connects the north and the south, and has all kinds of general merchandise. Whether you are here to collect furs or old medicines..."

Several junior officers heard the noise and impatiently shook off the prostitutes' hands and rushed out: "Where did these thieves come from? Why are you making such a fuss with them... making such a fuss..."

Several officers had read the military intelligence sent by their superiors. When they suddenly saw the dozen men riding on big bulls, they suddenly remembered the military intelligence documents they had seen a few days ago, which mentioned the force that occupied Fentian City and the provinces around the capital and called itself "Daxia"...

With a few "thumps", several officers knelt on the ground one after another. Two of them pulled out a snow-white towel from somewhere, and waved it over their heads fiercely in a traditional way of Western countries.

"We surrender, we surrender. Gentlemen, we surrender."

"We, the 100,000 brothers in Shanhaiguan, are happy to welcome the royal division and the heavenly soldiers. We have been waiting day and night these days, hoping that you will come quickly to save our brothers from the dire situation!"

Several old soldiers were stunned.

In the fog at the rear, the dull sound of horse hooves rang out like thunder. A mighty cavalry in heavy armor roared through the morning mist and rushed straight to the south gate of Shanhaiguan.

Inside Shanhaiguan, alarm bells roared, war drums shook the sky, and panicked sentinels blew horns with heart-wrenching sounds. When the Dayu Dynasty was first established, the city gates should have been closed urgently, and the twelve-layer gates should have been lowered at full speed to completely lock the enemy out of the city gates. And on the two-mile-high city walls, those strong bows and crossbows should have been fired at full speed. Arrows falling from such a height could smash through even a two-inch thick iron plate.

but.

None of the defenses were useful.

All the officers and soldiers at the south gate of Shanhaiguan, regardless of their rank, knelt on the ground faster than the other when they saw the dozen or so tall brothers of the Xingtian clan in the lead. All kinds of rusty swords, spears, flintlock rifles with barrels blocked by mud and sand, and other military weapons were scattered all over the ground.

The takeover army led by the Xingtian brothers entered the city without firing a single shot.

at the same time.

At the north gate of Shanhaiguan, the officers and soldiers guarding the gate were already staggering and were all killed on the spot.

Blood was all over the ground. A bearded man whose face still had flesh and blood features, but whose skull was covered with a thick layer of matte silver-gray metal shell, whose neck's skin and flesh were replaced, revealed the metalized spine. His right arm still seemed to be flesh and blood, but his entire left arm had become a pure metal creation, crushed a captain's head with one foot.

'Boom'!
The big man's metal foot left a half-foot deep mark on the ground.

Broken bones, flesh and brain matter sprayed far away. The big man took a deep breath with a relaxed mood. In his two eyes, which were shining with a faint red light, flashes of lightning flashed rapidly.

"Brothers, charge in!" the big man shouted at the top of his lungs, "On the orders of Miss Maria, leave no one alive in Shanhaiguan!"

Around the big man, there were dozens of other men who were like him, with their bodies mostly transformed by mechanical structures. They only wore a pair of tight leather shorts under their crotch, and their exposed bodies revealed a large number of modified mechanical creations. They cheered, carrying power hammers that were seven or eight feet long and had hammer heads that were almost as big as small coffins, and roared into Shanhaiguan.

Dozens of officers and soldiers in simple clothes had just rushed out of the barracks behind the city gate when they ran into these dozens of men head-on.

The officers and soldiers' steps suddenly froze. They looked in horror at the burly men with red light flashing in their eyes. They stared with wide eyes, totally at a loss as to what to do at the mechanical structures exposed on their bodies, with strange light flickering on and off.

Finally, with a shout, the officers and soldiers dropped their weapons and fled.

The big men took a few easy steps and caught up with the officers and soldiers. The huge power hammer came over with a dull sound of breaking wind. Amid the dull roar of "dong dong", the electromagnetic light on the hammer head was vibrating, and a terrifying shock wave blasted out from the hammer head, directly shaking dozens of officers and soldiers into a large blood mist.

The leading man swung his hammer casually, and waves of white gas exploded from the hammer. A dozen barracks behind the city gate were blown to pieces with a "bang", and the officers and soldiers who were on duty last night and had just laid down were also blown to pieces.

"kill!"

Outside the north gate, groups of young men wearing iron-gray uniforms of the Saint Ross Empire and holding various guns whistled and rushed into Shanhaiguan like crazy. They were like an iron-gray torrent, and after entering Shanhaiguan, they fired wildly everywhere, killing all the living people they saw along the way, whether officers and soldiers or civilians.

These young men still had normal human bodies, but their scalps were shaved clean off, and there was an obvious flesh-colored scar on the back of their heads. Above the shallow scar, there was a faint metallic cold light, as if someone had buried some strange high-tech creations into their skulls through the scar.

These young and strong men were originally ordinary people from the villages and towns in the northeastern provinces. They had never received formal military training in their lives.

However, they who rushed into Shanhaiguan were well-coordinated, and their every move showed extremely mature military skills and a chilling high degree of coordination - just like before our eyes, hundreds of civilians were fleeing frantically on the streets, dozens of young and strong men opened fire at the same time, accompanied by dense gunfire, and hundreds of civilians were all hit in the back of the head and fell to the ground almost at the same time.

Every civilian was shot in the same spot on the back of the head.

Not a single bullet missed, and not a single civilian was shot even once more - the young and strong men who fired the shots did not have any verbal interaction, but their allocation of targets and shooting accuracy had already reached an inhuman level.

Amid the roar of "buzz buzz", steel behemoths rushed at high speed, crushing the piled corpses on the ground and rushing into Shanhaiguan. As soon as dozens of high-speed artillery vehicles rushed into the gate, they turned their turrets at the same time and fired wildly in all directions.

Thousands of young and strong men have already rushed into Shanhaiguan. The fastest ones, led by dozens of strong men who have undergone mechanical transformation, have even rushed seven or eight miles along the street.

As soon as all the young and strong entered the gate, they quickly dispersed along the streets and alleys in teams of 20 to 30 people, frantically attacking and killing all the people they saw along the way. These high-speed artillery vehicles did not worry about the possibility of accidental injuries. One after another, the 150mm high-explosive stray bullets with a line of fire whizzed towards various places in Shanhaiguan.

'boom'!
'boom'!
'boom'!
The dull sound of explosions continued, flames shot up into the sky, black smoke columns rose slowly, houses were blown to pieces, and broken bricks and tiles were scattered all over the sky.

Not a single shell hit anyone by mistake.

Every shell landed just right near the scattered young and strong men. The shock wave of the explosion at most blew the clothes of the young and strong men who were closer, but did not pose any threat to them.

More and more chariots poured into Shanhaiguan.

More fully armed young men with shaved heads and a clearly visible scar on the back of their heads rushed in with the chariot.

In the vast plains to the north of Shanhaiguan, the roar of engines became one, and gradually turned into a continuous sound like a tsunami. One thousand... ten thousand... tens of thousands... one after another steel behemoths lined up in a very tight team, rushing towards Shanhaiguan in an extremely orderly and high-speed manner.

Near this terrifying torrent of steel, there were a few scattered beast-headed alienated monsters, whistling and charging back and forth. These monsters transformed by the border guards of the northeastern provinces were often hit by high-speed shells and easily blown to pieces when they were still seven or eight miles away from this steel army.

The earth is roaring.

Renov's favorite combat command vehicle, a terrifying steel monster that looked like a Land Cruiser, slowly came over under the protection of countless tanks.

When Renov was still in the city of Altolestai, only three such behemoths were built.

At this moment, Renov returned to the Winter Palace to usurp the throne, and Maria took over the command of the army personally. A total of thirty-six of these terrifying beasts had been built.

In a command vehicle guarded in the center, Maria, who was wearing the uniform of Marshal of Saint Rose, crossed her legs, and wore black-framed glasses. She had a cold and solemn beauty and was playing with a lit cigar. From time to time, she would lean over the cigarette butt and take a deep breath of the rich smoke with her nose.

"Ridiculous carbon-based creatures, this kind of low-level physiological stimulation is really boring." Maria shook her head and imitated Renov, holding the cigar in her mouth and taking a deep breath. She immediately took out half of the cigar, which was more than a foot long.

"Lady Maria, the gate of Shanhaiguan is of limited height, and some of our large vehicles cannot pass through!" Inside the command vehicle's cockpit, a general of the Saint Rose Far East Army stared at Maria's pretty face with fiery eyes. While reporting military intelligence, he swallowed saliva in big gulps, making no effort to hide his urge to swallow Maria in one gulp.

"Then, press the red button number three!" Maria stood up excitedly and said with a smile, "Such a magnificent wall, I can't understand why they built such a wall? What a pity, destroy it!"

Dozens of fire lines burst out from the huge command vehicle and slammed heavily into the top of the two-mile-high city wall.

The high-speed warhead pierced fiercely into the interior of the city wall made of lava and hardware elites. The next moment, a terrible explosion sounded, and dozens of black and red mushroom clouds rose slowly. Large sections of the city wall exploded, and even large sections of the city wall directly melted into boiling magma, splashing down from the sky like fireworks.

The Xingtian brothers, who had just entered Shanhaiguan, suddenly raised their heads and looked in horror towards the direction of the north gate dozens of miles away.

One of the big men turned around suddenly and saw the three thousand or so subordinates who had just entered the city. His pupils suddenly froze.

"Exit the city, form a battle line, and prepare for battle!"

Before he finished speaking, more than ten thousand rockets with a caliber of more than 300 mm were already falling like meteors from the sky, covering the area within a dozen miles of the South Gate.

The earth was shaking and burning, iron and fire swept across the sky and earth, and the dozen soldiers brought by the Xingtian brothers were all covered by large-caliber rockets.

The next moment, more than twenty high-speed fire lines swooped down from the sky, and a unique mushroom cloud bloomed at the South Gate.

(End of this chapter)