Chapter 280: Starting the War 3

"Don't move, or I'll beat you to death if you move again." After Zhao Jincai spat out a mouthful of poisonous blood, he felt his mouth go somewhat numb, and he guessed that he had been poisoned himself.

However, Zhao Jincai could not worry about that now. He was a First Grade Martial Artist with True Qi protecting his body, so his resistance to toxins was stronger; even if poisoned, he could still live for a while longer.

If Zhao Jincai did not suck the poison out for Zhang Kuiyong, it would not be long before Zhang Kuiyong died from the poison.

Zhang Kuiyong was Zhao Jincai's soldier, a good seedling for a sharpshooter, and he had been bitten by the venomous snake only to save him. No matter what, Zhao Jincai could not watch Zhang Kuiyong die just like that.

"Squad Leader..." Zhang Kuiyong was moved to tears. Not long ago, he was just a destitute refugee; his relatives had all died on the road while fleeing, and he had thought that there were no relatives left for him in this world.

But at this very moment, Zhao Jincai was disregarding his own safety to suck out the venom for him. In his heart, Zhang Kuiyong had already come to regard Zhao Jincai as his own older brother.

"A real man sheds blood but not tears, stop crying!" Zhao Jincai scolded with a laugh and continued to suck the poison for Zhang Kuiyong until no more black poisonous blood could be sucked from his back, at which point he stopped.

After sucking over a dozen mouthfuls of poisonous blood, although Zhao Jincai spat it out in time, it was inevitable that some poisonous blood remained in his mouth. This snake venom was extremely fierce. Zhao Jincai mobilized his True Qi, doing his utmost to suppress the spread of the toxin, but the effect was not very ideal.

The toxin spread toward Zhao Jincai's head, causing a layer of black Qi to shroud his head, and his eyeballs were covered in bloodshot veins, looking somewhat terrifying.

"Quick! Stretcher team, hurry and take our Squad Leader and Zhang Kuiyong down." Nearby soldiers roared.

The soldiers were fighting to the death, and the stretcher team composed of able-bodied men also shuttled through every corner of the city wall, transporting the injured soldiers to the hospital in time.

After Liu Zhongyong discovered that a large number of soldiers had been bitten by venomous snakes, he hurriedly had his doctors send a batch of Antidote Pills to the front line.

Just at this moment, a doctor wearing white clothing arrived near Zhao Jincai and the others.

"Here, take the red pill orally, and crush the white pill to apply it to the wound," said this doctor.

Zhao Jincai and Zhang Kuiyong hurriedly followed the doctor's instructions to take the antidote.

Zhao Jincai had previously felt his mouth go numb and his head dizzy, as if his head were about to turn black-purple, but after eating a red pill, the black-purple on his head quickly dissipated. Zhao Jincai felt very comfortable, and the numbness in his mouth also vanished instantly.

On the other side, although the wound on Zhao Jincai's back had been sucked for poison by Zhao Jincai, there was still a dark black color remaining around the wound, which was a sign that the toxin had not been sucked clean.

Zhao Jincai took the red pill orally, and then Zhang Kuiyong helped him apply the white pill to the wound on his back.

A miraculous scene occurred: the toxin on Zhang Kuiyong's back gathered onto the white pill at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The originally flawless white pill turned black-red, while the toxin on Zhang Kuiyong's back was completely drawn out. This was much more effective than what Zhao Jincai had done by sucking with his mouth just now.

"Haha, good pill, truly a Spirit Pill, the medicine works immediately! With these pills, we won't be afraid of those venomous snakes anymore." Zhao Jincai laughed loudly, then grabbed his Stabbing Blade to continue fighting.

The batch of Antidote Pills that Liu Zhongyong had sent over arrived very timely. With the help of this batch of pills, the soldiers were no longer afraid of snake venom and fought desperately against the snake-type Demon Beasts, blocking their advance. The soldiers behind took the opportunity to pour Fire Oil outside the city wall and then lit it with a fire; the entire front of the city wall was burning.

A large number of snake-type Demon Beasts were swallowed by the sea of fire. The fire burned fiercely, and the Demon Beasts behind did not dare to charge into the sea of fire. The advance of the Monster Army was temporarily repelled.

Unknowingly, the war had already begun for twenty minutes. The garrison of Luolong County hid within the dense fortifications, constantly killing the enemy through shooting ports. In many cases, human soldiers could attack the Demon Beasts, while the Demon Beasts could not attack the human soldiers.

Since the start of the war, Hu Dameng had roughly estimated the casualty ratio and discovered that it took an average of fifty-five Demon Beasts killed to take down one human soldier.

This left Fourth Grade Beasts like Zhu Ganglie stunned. They had led the Demon Race army to roam across Dongchuan Prefecture and engage in battle with human armies; under normal circumstances, one Demon Beast could eliminate ten human soldiers.

Even when fighting against elite troops like the Divine Machine Battalion, the casualty ratio was about one to two; one Demon Beast could take down two Divine Machine Battalion soldiers.

Unexpectedly, here under Luolong City, the casualty ratio was actually fifty to one. This was too exaggerated. If they kept fighting like this, all one hundred thousand-plus troops of the Demon Race would be wiped out before they could necessarily break into Luolong County.

"Boss Hu, can't we fight like this? The city walls of Luolong County are built too solidly; the city walls are practically like individual Concrete Blockhouses, and coupled with the firepower of Luolong County being too fierce, it's too disadvantageous for us of the Demon Race to attack like this," said She Qingqing.

Zhu Ganglie said: "How about we go up? Let the four of us act together to capture Meng Yifan. As long as he is captured, the morale of the defenders in the city will definitely waver, and perhaps they will surrender directly."

Hu Dameng pondered for a moment and said: "Capture the bandits by capturing their leader first; this is indeed a method."

"However, this fellow Meng Yifan has strong strength and is not easy to deal with. Moreover, he controls Lang Jiao. If we let Lang Jiao fight us to the death, we wouldn't dare to kill Lang Jiao, and being tied up like that, we would be at a disadvantage instead."

"Fighting to this point is enough to give an account to Lord Lang Batian. According to Lord Lang Batian's speed, he can arrive in at most one more day. Let's retreat first, and wait for Lang Batian to come before attacking Luolong City again."

Zhu Ganglie and She Qingqing nodded one after another, feeling that what Hu Dameng said made a lot of sense, and they all agreed to a temporary truce.

Although Zhu Meimei had the heart to continue the attack, she could not support it alone. Letting her lead the spider Demon Beasts to attack alone would be seeking death. In any case, it was only one day; wait for Lang Batian to come before fighting.

"Roar! Roar!" Following the deafening roar emitted by Hu Dameng, the Monster Army retreated rapidly like a receding tide, setting up camp two kilometers away from Luolong County.

"The Demon Beasts have retreated, we have won."

"We won, that's great, we won."

The soldiers on the city wall cheered and celebrated the victory, but Meng Yifan frowned, his expression grave.

The Demon Beasts above the Third Grade in the Demon Race army basically had not been committed to the battle, and those four Fourth Grade Beasts had not participated in the fighting either. The great battle between the two sides only lasted for twenty-plus minutes before they retreated, appearing somewhat anticlimactic; this was clearly very abnormal.