Chapter 279: War Begins 2

"Whoosh!" A fist-sized spider web flew onto the city wall, then suddenly expanded into a web two meters in diameter, sticking to a soldier named Zhang Kuiyong, and then the web retracted, about to pull Zhang Kuiyong off the city wall.

"Kuiyong." Zhao Jincai was standing right beside Zhang Kuiyong; he was quick-witted and fast-handed, grabbing Zhang Kuiyong's arm to keep him from falling.

However, the Level 1 spider Demon Beast below had immense strength; even though both Zhao Jincai and Zhang Kuiyong were bracing their legs against the city wall, struggling desperately to pull back, they were still being dragged closer to the edge of the wall bit by bit.

Zhao Jincai was a First Grade Lower Stage Martial Artist; he circulated his True Qi and used the Stabbing Blade in his hand to cut at the web, only to find that the sticky web was extremely tough, and it took all his strength to cut through a single strand.

But there were at least twenty strands of silk stuck to Zhang Kuiyong now, and seeing that they were both about to be pulled down, Zhao Jincai had a flash of inspiration; he reached out his right hand, picked up a bottle of Fire Oil, poured it down along the web, and then Zhao Jincai grabbed a Torch and ignited the web.

"Sss... zzz..." The web was very tough and difficult to cut with blades or guns, but it was extremely easy to ignite.

The Fire Oil flowed along the web and straight into the mouth of that Level 1 mid-tier spider Demon Beast, which was equivalent to feeding the spider Demon Beast a belly full of Fire Oil, making the spider Demon Beast feel that something was terribly wrong.

It wanted to cut the web in its mouth, but it was already too late; a tongue of flame spread down along the web, directly igniting the Fire Oil inside the spider Demon Beast's belly.

"Boom!" The Fire Oil burned inside the spider Demon Beast's belly, causing it such pain that it rolled all over the ground; soon, the spider Demon Beast's internal organs were all burned to charcoal, and after struggling a few times, this Level 1 spider Demon Beast died.

Zhao Jincai untangled the web from Zhang Kuiyong's body, slapped him on the head, and scolded: "You blockhead, how did I teach you on normal days? Stand up, fire a shot, and you must immediately squat down; after changing the bullet, stand up again to fire the next shot. Why didn't you squat down just now?"

"Squad Leader, I was too nervous just now and forgot to squat down," Zhang Kuiyong said very shamefully; if Zhao Jincai hadn't risked his life to save him just now, Zhang Kuiyong would definitely have been pulled off by the web, and he would have surely died.

"Blockhead, what the hell are you nervous about? Follow the usual training, hurry up and prepare the Flintlock, and fire hard at the bottom for me!" Zhao Jincai cursed angrily.

These new recruits looked like they knew what they were doing during training, but once they hit real combat, they were all flustered.

If you made a mistake during training, at most you'd get a few lashes from the Instructor, but making a mistake on the battlefield meant losing your life.

"Yes, Squad Leader." Zhang Kuiyong steadied his mind, took the Flintlock reloaded by the able-bodied men behind him, stood up abruptly, extended the Flintlock through the firing port, and aimed at a black wild boar Demon Beast that was 1.5 meters tall, 80 centimeters wide at the shoulders, and fat and sturdy.

This type of wild boar Demon Beast was covered in muscle, thick-skinned and fleshy, and its body was also wrapped in a layer of thick mud, just like wearing a suit of armor, with very formidable defensive power; even if the bullet fired by the Flintlock hit the wild boar Demon Beast's body, it would at most create a small hole and could not cause them much damage at all.

"Bang!" Zhang Kuiyong decisively pulled the trigger, and a Conical Lead Bullet flew out, accurately hitting the wild boar Demon Beast's right eye, then burrowed into the wild boar Demon Beast's head, turning its brain into a paste.

This Level 1 High-Grade wild boar Demon Beast swayed its body a few times and then collapsed to the ground.

"You kid are alright, that shot was damn accurate," Zhao Jincai exclaimed in admiration; taking down a wild boar Demon Beast with one shot was something even he, the Squad Leader, couldn't do.

"If you can keep up this level of shooting, you can join the Imperial Guard Company; good heavens, they use AK47 Assault Rifles, which can fire thirty bullets in a row, da-da-da, just thinking about it feels satisfying."

Zhang Kuiyong fired three more shots, each one accurately hitting a Demon Beast's eyeball, which made Zhao Jincai praise him endlessly, discovering that Zhang Kuiyong really had a talent for being a sharpshooter.

Zhao Jincai decided that after this battle ended, he would let Zhang Kuiyong participate in the sharpshooter selection.

During this Demon Beast siege, there were also a large number of snake-type Demon Beasts in the Monster Army; they varied in size, with the large ones having bodies as thick as water buckets and being over ten meters long, with sharp horns on their heads, having already evolved into flood dragons, while the small snake-type Demon Beasts were only as thick as a thumb and over a meter long.

The snake-type Demon Beasts lay on the ground, crawling forward at a very fast speed, making it very difficult for the Luolong County city wall defenders to shoot and kill them.

Moreover, these snake-type Demon Beasts had evolved dense suction cups under their bellies, allowing them to climb the city wall as if it were flat ground; they soon rushed onto the city wall, crazily biting the city wall defenders.

The fangs of the snake-type Demon Beasts were highly poisonous; as long as one was bitten, the toxin would spread rapidly, and if one could not take an Antidote Pill in time, the poison would soon reach the heart, and they would die.

"Salvation Army, fix Stabbing Blades!"

"Click! Click!" Sharp Stabbing Blades were attached to the Flintlocks, and they stepped forward, heroically and fearlessly engaging in close-quarters combat with the snake-type Demon Beasts.

"Kill!" Zhao Jincai shouted, and with a single thrust, he pierced an arm-thick snake-type Demon Beast into two halves.

Unexpectedly, even with only half its body left, this snake-type Demon Beast did not die; the upper half of its body suddenly sprang up, its mouth opening as wide as a watermelon, and it bit down on Zhao Jincai's thigh.

"Squad Leader!" Seeing this scene, Zhang Kuiyong jumped up and pushed Zhao Jincai away, but his own back was bitten by this snake-type Demon Beast.

Zhao Jincai was shocked and hurriedly rushed over, grabbed the half-section of the snake-type Demon Beast, and smashed it hard against the city wall; the snake's head was smashed directly into meat paste, dead as could be.

"Kuiyong!" Zhao Jincai checked Zhang Kuiyong's back and found two wounds deep enough to see bone; most importantly, streaks of black toxin were spreading on Zhao Jincai's back at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This made Zhao Jincai realize that Zhang Kuiyong's situation was very dire; if the toxin spread, Zhao Jincai would die from the poison.

"You blockhead, what kind of hero are you trying to be?" Zhao Jincai cursed angrily, then lowered his head, pressed his mouth directly against the wound, and used all his strength to suck out the venom.

"Squad Leader, don't do this, you'll get poisoned too." Zhang Kuiyong struggled to push Zhao Jincai away, but he was only an ordinary soldier, while Zhao Jincai was a First Grade Martial Artist; the difference in strength between the two was vast, and Zhang Kuiyong couldn't push Zhao Jincai away at all.