Chapter 223: Battle 2

Shen Dahu led the remaining bandits to charge toward the city gate, wanting to open it and escape, but when they ran to the gate, they were dumbfounded.

Normal city gates have bolts inside; one only needs to pull the bolt to open the gate, but the city gate Meng Yifan supervised the construction of was cast from concrete and Blue Stone.

The city gate is a single large concrete slab; to open it, one needs people on the gate tower to turn a wheel, which, through a pulley system, allows it to be pulled up.

This concrete city gate is three meters wide, six meters high, half a meter thick, weighs ten thousand catties, and has steel bars inserted in the middle; it is a true reinforced concrete slab, extremely sturdy, and even if bombarded by the Shenwu Great General Cannon, it would be very difficult to blast open.

Meng Yifan's imaginary enemies, besides the Monster Army, were the imperial court's elite troops; this kind of reinforced concrete city gate was specifically to guard against the Shenwu Great General Cannon of the Divine Machine Battalion.

Shen Dahu focused his Qi into his dantian and erupted with all his strength, wanting to lift the concrete city gate; he was so exhausted his face turned red and his neck thick, yet the gate didn't budge, which infuriated him into cursing: "Damn it! Why build a damn city gate so sturdy?"

"Boss, what do we do?" the second-in-command asked anxiously; through the battle just now, they already knew the Luolong County army had strong combat power and was a tough nut to crack; they had to escape now, as it would be too late if they waited any longer.

"Damn it all, follow me up the stairs and kill those bastards."

Shen Dahu was also desperate; he grabbed a concrete slab two meters long, one meter wide, and thirty centimeters thick to use as a large Shield, held it in front of him, and then took the lead to charge up the city wall.

These bandits also knew they had reached a life-or-death critical moment; they quickened their pace, brandishing their weapons and howling as they followed their boss forward.

"Fire!" Xu Le gave the order, and the soldiers on the city wall fired a volley once again.

But Shen Dahu was carrying the concrete slab as a shield in front; the Lead Bullets fired by the Flintlocks hit the concrete slab, sending sparks flying, but they could not penetrate the thirty-centimeter-thick concrete slab at all.

Xu Le had already changed the magazine for his AK47 and pulled the trigger again; 7.62mm bullets sprayed out, shattering the concrete slab and creating bullet craters, but they could not cause much damage to Shen Dahu behind the slab.

Shen Dahu held the concrete slab and strode forward; the bandits behind were all hiding behind Shen Dahu, and although some who didn't hide well were wounded by bullets, most of the fierce bandits were still unscathed and were about to charge onto the city wall.

"Brothers, charge with me, kill these bastards." Shen Dahu shouted loudly, then prepared to lead the bandits into close-quarters combat with the defenders on the city wall.

"Boom!" Just at this moment, Xu Le operated a Shenwu Great General Cannon and fired.

A soccer-ball-sized Explosive Shell shot out, slammed fiercely into the concrete slab Shen Dahu was holding, and then exploded violently.

Shen Dahu was like someone hit head-on by a speeding car; his body was sent flying directly, and the few bandits behind him were also knocked off balance.

After the Explosive Shell exploded, the dense shrapnel that spread out killed four or five more bandits.

"Tat! Tat! Tat!" Without Shen Dahu holding the concrete slab to block the front, Xu Le's AK47 fired continuously again.

7.62mm bullets cannot kill a Third Grade Martial Artist, but hitting these First Grade and Second Grade bandits could easily penetrate their bodies.

"Squish! Squish!" The 7.62mm bullets had strong penetrating power, even passing through the bandits in front to cause damage to the bandits behind.

By the time Xu Le finished firing all the bullets in the AK47, the bandits on the stairs were already corpses strewn everywhere, with only two or three people left standing.

On the stairs leading to the city wall, blood flowed like a river; one bandit had his stomach torn open by flying shrapnel, and his intestines were leaking out; he scrambled to stuff the intestines back in, but as soon as he stuffed them in, they flowed out again mixed with blood; this once cold-blooded, fierce bandit cried like a child in pain.

Other severely wounded bandits were also wailing in pools of blood; the scene was too horrible to look at.

"Pfft!" Shen Dahu landed on the ground, feeling a tightness in his chest; he opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood; looking at the tragic state on the passage, his heart felt like it was being cut by a knife.

These brothers were all good brothers who had followed him for years, and they were his foundation for occupying the mountain as king; he never expected that just by wanting to grab some food on the way, they would all be lost here.

Shen Dahu saw his second-in-command, whose legs had been broken, calling to him for help, but Shen Dahu couldn't care about these people; he endured the discomfort in his chest and used his movement technique to run toward other city gates.

The defenders at this city gate were too powerful; Shen Dahu didn't believe the defenders at other gates were just as powerful.

"That weapon capable of continuously spraying bullets is likely a special Dharma Artifact made by an Immortal Master; I've never even heard of it before, it must be extremely precious; surely there can't be such Dharma Artifacts at the other gates too, right?"

Shen Dahu was very fast, but before he could run far, he saw Meng Yifan leading the Imperial Guard Company charging over.

"Holy crap!" Shen Dahu was dumbfounded; he saw that every person in the Imperial Guard Company was holding that kind of Dharma Artifact capable of firing bullets continuously; this was too exaggerated, right? Could this kind of weapon, which was comparable to a Dharma Artifact, fired continuously, and had immense power, be mass-produced? This was too unbelievable, right? Since when were Dharma Artifacts as common as dirt?

Just now, Shen Dahu had personally experienced the power of the AK47; if it were one AK47, he could barely withstand it by circulating his True Qi, but if one hundred AK47s fired at the same time, with dense bullets coming his way, even if he were a Third Grade Martial Artist, he would be blasted into fragments.

Actually, Shen Dahu was overthinking it; given the current situation, Meng Yifan wouldn't be willing to let the Imperial Guard Company soldiers use AK47s to fire a volley at him; that would be such a waste of bullets, and there was nowhere to replenish them once they were used up.

Shen Dahu was terrified and turned to run, but Meng Yifan had already seen him; how could he let him run away?

"Whoosh!" Meng Yifan executed Lingbo Microsteps, his body accelerated instantly, and he arrived in front of him in a flash.

"Damn it! This guy is too fast; I can't escape at all; I must kill him first before I can escape." Shen Dahu gritted his teeth, his True Qi surged, and he unleashed Falling Rock Fist; his right fist expanded by a circle, and a layer of blue-gray True Qi condensed on his skin; his entire fist looked like a giant rock.

Falling Rock Fist is a Yellow Grade High Rank martial art that can significantly increase the hardness of the fist and also increase strength by fifty percent; it is a martial art with great power.