Chapter 228: WAR 2

"Boom! Boom!" The earth was shaking, and clusters of sparks erupted from underground; some wild wolves near the gunpowder barrels were blown directly into powder.

Other wild wolves were shaken by the violent shockwaves until blood flowed from their seven orifices, and even those far from the center of the explosion were not spared.

The fragments of iron and small iron balls mixed into the gunpowder barrels buried by Meng Yifan and his men flew outward following the explosions, shrouding a thirty-meter area around the blast centers.

A large number of wild wolves had their bodies pierced by the iron fragments and small iron balls, falling into pools of blood and howling in agony.

"Ding! Team hunt of one Level 1 low-grade wild wolf successful, gained 4 Experience Value."

"Ding! Team hunt of one unranked wild wolf successful, gained 0.1 Experience Value."

"Ding! Team hunt of one Level 1 high-grade Eagle Monster Beast successful, gained 13 Experience Value."

As the war began and the Monster Army died in large numbers, the prompt sounds of the Game Panel rang out incessantly, and the Experience Value was rising rapidly.

Looking at the Experience Value on the Game Panel, Meng Yifan felt very happy inside.

Meng Dayong had now learned the Forty-eight Forms of Taiji Fist, and he only needed Experience Value to rapidly improve his cultivation.

There were a full ten or twenty thousand monsters in the Monster Army outside the city; if they were all wiped out, the accumulated Experience Value would be enough to raise Meng Dayong to a Third Grade Martial Artist.

The great battle continued, and Meng Yifan detonated the gunpowder barrels four more times, killing over a thousand wild wolves in total.

But the wild wolf army was simply too numerous; after over a thousand wolves died, the other wild wolves stepped on the bones of their companions, wave after wave, continuing to charge forward, and soon reached the base of the city wall.

The wild wolves were strong and sturdy with sharp claws and teeth; after arriving at the city wall, they leaped, springing up more than two meters, and then their sharp claws hooked into the gaps between the Blue Stones, using them for a slight boost before their bodies continued to charge upward.

"Release the Rolling Logs!" Meng Dayong roared, and more than twenty Rolling Logs studded with iron nails were released from the top of the city wall, directly smashing the climbing wild wolves into meat patties.

The wild wolves behind continued to charge up, and on the city wall, Meng Dayong roared: "Pour the Golden Juice!"

A large vat of boiling feces and urine was poured down; the wild wolves below the city had their skin and flesh scalded and were beaten back down once again.

At the same time, on the city wall, the soldiers raised their Flintlocks and fired continuously at the base of the city, killing wild wolves one by one.

Seeing that both the eagles and wild wolves were being blocked in their siege, Lang Jiao on the carriage was somewhat surprised; she had not expected the tiny Luolong County city to resist so fiercely.

Lang Jiao waved her Wolf Claw again, and soon, the Monster Army underwent a strange change; some wild wolves lay on the ground, letting toads climb onto their backs, and then the wild wolves carried the toads as they charged toward the city wall.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!" Once the toads reached the city wall, they extended their large, meter-long tongues, wrapped them around the pustules on their backs, and then with a violent flick of their tongues, large globs of pus were shot outward.

On the city wall, a soldier was aiming his Flintlock to fire when he suddenly saw a pitch-black object fly toward his face; he subconsciously used his Flintlock to block it.

"Splat!" That pitch-black object exploded violently, and foul-smelling, thick liquid spread out, plastering onto the soldier's face.

"Ah! My eyes!" The soldier let out a miserable scream; it was as if a large basin of sulfuric acid had been splashed in his face, his entire face was corroded, his eyes were burned into hollow pits, and the skin and flesh on his face were burned into a twisted mess.

The soldier was in such pain that he couldn't help but scratch with his hands, wanting to tear that thick liquid off, but he ended up tearing off a large chunk of his own facial muscle, revealing the white bone underneath; the scene was terrifying and hair-raising.

The toad's pus attack killed or injured over a dozen soldiers on the city wall in an instant.

The soldiers on the city wall used Flintlocks to shoot at the monsters below, while the toads used pus to counterattack the soldiers on the wall from a distance; both sides fought back and forth, suffering casualties.

"The monsters have long-range attacks too." Meng Yifan was stunned for a moment; as these toads joined the battle, the soldiers began to die in large numbers, which made Meng Yifan's heart ache. Although he knew that there was no war without death, if one wanted to survive in this cruel apocalypse, one had to fight and people had to die.

But these soldiers were flesh-and-blood people; they were the pillars of their families, the sons, fathers, and husbands of their loved ones. If they died, a family would be devastated with grief. Therefore, as their commander, Meng Yifan had to do everything in his power to avoid their mass death.

"Imperial Guard Company, move out! Suppress the toads below the city!" At Meng Yifan's command, Zhang Shagen and the others, who had been waiting impatiently, rushed to the edge of the city wall and raised their AK47s, firing a barrage at the toads.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The firepower of the AK47s was extremely fierce, and the accuracy was also very high. Zhang Shagen and the others were all excellent marksmen selected from the entire army; basically, they could hit their targets without fail within one hundred meters, one shot for one toad.

Toads, this type of Demon Beast, had evolved to be able to attack from a distance, but their speed was very slow, so they needed to lie on the backs of wild wolves to achieve high-speed mobility.

However, their overall defensive power was much worse; the pustules on their backs were just a layer of skin, and 7.62mm bullets could easily blow them apart.

"Squish! Squish!" One toad after another was blown apart, and the pustules on their backs exploded along with them, causing the surrounding wild wolves to suffer as well, being splashed with pus. Many wild wolves were not killed by the soldiers' bullets, but were instead corroded into holes by the pus of the toads beside them.

"Eh! What powerful firearms, they can actually fire continuously, and the power is so great! Since when did humans have such powerful firearms? I haven't seen them anywhere else."

Seeing this scene, Lang Jiao stood up in surprise. She had commanded this route of the Monster Army and swept through eight cities, yet she had never encountered a human army with such tenacious combat power.

Lang Jiao had also participated in the battle to annihilate the two thousand Divine Machine Battalion soldiers, and she felt that the Divine Machine Battalion's firearms were nothing special; although the power was great, the rate of fire was very slow, and by relying on the massive numbers of the Monster Army, they had easily killed all two thousand Divine Machine Battalion soldiers without leaving a single one alive.

"Strange, wasn't it said that the Divine Machine Battalion was the most elite human army in Dongchuan Prefecture? How are the soldiers of Luolong County even harder to fight than the soldiers of the Divine Machine Battalion?" Lang Jiao was puzzled.

Lang Jiao saw it very clearly; the bullets fired by those newly appeared firearms had immense power, and even the skin of a Level 1 wild wolf could not withstand the penetration of such bullets, which made her feel very worried.

If human soldiers were all equipped with such firearms capable of continuous fire, then the Demon Race's Level 1 Demon Beasts would be nothing but lambs waiting to be slaughtered in front of humans.

The Monster Army commanded by Lang Jiao consisted mostly of ordinary Wild Beasts; Level 1 Demon Beasts were the elite backbone, Level 2 Demon Beasts were the mid-level leaders in the army, and Level 3 Demon Beasts were very rare, with only three: the leader of the Eagle Monster Beasts, the leader of the Toad Demon Beasts, and Lang Jiao's captain of the Mantis Guard.

Within the Demon Race, strength was respected. Lang Jiao was able to command the army on an expedition not only because her background was very extraordinary, but also because her own strength was very high; she was already a Level 4 Lower-Tier Demon Beast.