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Chapter 367: Roaring City-Breaking Spear

Xiaoqiu County, infected war zone, night raid.

"Bagpipe! The next round of artillery support will arrive in one minute and thirty seconds. Gather the soldiers and use the bunkers to shrink the battle line!"

"Got it!" Vaifan retreated from the fierce battle. Cello roared and rushed forward. Bagpipe replaced the special ammunition for the city-breaking spear. "Alright!"

Mandolin fired a heavy crossbow arrow to hit the bloody monsters. The huge impact force made them stop moving. Cello swung an axe to tear their flesh. Bagpipe charged up and fired a flare. The bright light illuminated the night like day. Following a shout, Victoria's soldiers began to retreat, leaving behind broken corpses on the front line. The bloody monsters roared up, and the situation took a turn for the worse. Fires lit up behind the position. The artillery fire that crossed the Victorian front like a meteor shattered the surging tide of blood. The impact of the explosion once again baptized the battlefield.

"It's still moving! Get up and fix the scales that slipped through the net!"

Rupert's roar was like a floating duckweed amid the explosions, but someone could hear it after all. Those who didn't hear it saw someone getting up and continued to fight. In the heat and thick smoke, people kept rushing out from the trenches and bunkers, fighting again with the enemies who staggered out with red eyes, but the subsequent fire support cut off the bloody monster's advance route. As long as this round of artillery attacks in Xiaoqiu County lasted long enough, this night raid seemed to end with the failure of the bloody monster.

The Storm Commandos, centered around Rupert, tore through the blood-red monsters' counterattack attempts in the fierce battle, but amid the craters and raging fires, there were still continuous monsters rushing out to try to break through their defenses, and the artillery support from the Hill County garrison gradually died down. On the one hand, the barrels were overheating, and on the other hand, Hill County had not received any military support from the Duke of Victoria, and its munitions reserves were almost exhausted. Before the decisive battle, Colonel Hamilton would not provide much help to the infected front.

After all, in his opinion, this was just a group of retired old guys who had not received formal military training and whose physical strength varied.

The artillery support was only because he also believed that it was of strategic significance to separate the infected front line into a buffer zone to gain some breathing time. Otherwise, he would disobey even a sealed order from the Duke.

The second squad of Storm Commandos, sent from Londinium to support Hill County, disagreed with his views and, with his indifferent approval, joined the Infected front to provide tactical support to these "soldiers." Coincidentally, they reunited with Bagpipe, who had arrived with the Infected, during the second battle. After a long time, the Storm Commandos, separated by fate in times of crisis, were reunited once again in times of danger.

It's just a pity that the triangle is missing.

But today, the blood-colored monsters seemed to be particularly enthusiastic in their attack. Even though they suffered serious casualties, they still rushed out from the high temperature and thick smoke without knowing any pain. This made Horn feel strange, and he could not help but suspend the order to retake the position.

"Retreat! Use the terrain to defend! They can't break through our lines in one fell swoop, not today!"

However, the newly established battle line was too scattered due to lack of command, and the retreating people found it difficult to confirm their positions in the smoke. The people who were still fighting were effectively pushed into the fire pit, resulting in heavy casualties.

"No!" Horn fired all the remaining bullets in the grenade launcher in one breath, breaking the deadlock for his comrades in front. Then he quickly reloaded the ammunition and charged up the mountain, smashing away the two blood-red monsters that tried to surround him with a shield. "Cello!"

The tall team member who knew clearly what the captain wanted to do wielded his heavy axe to clear the way for the retreating wounded and soldiers. With the roar of grenades, the horn emptied his last batch of ammunition.

Rupert remained silent. Through the smoke, she could still see the enemies rushing towards her like a tide. The moment she saw the distance clearly, she drew the big sword at her waist and with a roar, she cut open the sternums of several bloody monsters in the front.

A tall blood-red monster standing in the distance above the battlefield roared, observing the situation. The other blood-red monsters instinctively avoided it, muttering to themselves in its throat:

"The right wing... is in retreat, the left wing... is being torn apart, the stealth team... is unharmed..."

"Lieutenant." A voice sounded in its ear. It didn't look away, but instead focused its attention on it: "Speak."

"Is the progress going smoothly..."

"There were obstacles... but they could be cleared... with time, but a lot of people died."

"The 'Brutal Blood Beast'... has been attracted here. You can use it."

"Got it, I will. Tear them apart."

After the strange call ended, this special blood-colored monster opened its arms, and the blood-red lines opened like a mouth, microwave signals were emitted from it, and the blood tide roared and moved, and the pressure on the front line changed subtly.

The pressure suddenly subsided. Horn, whose hair had begun to gray, suddenly noticed that the enemy had dwindled. The smoke thinned a bit, and an unsettling vibration came from the ground, approaching from far away. Her bright red eyes suddenly narrowed.

"retreat!!"

The familiar feeling of pressure came over her again. Horn reacted and smashed her shield heavily on the heavy blood claws that jumped out from the darkness. Her movements and strength were almost perfect, but the blow still knocked her out, and the intense pain pierced most of her body.

Horn immediately turned over and stood up. The blood-red monster that appeared in the burning firelight made her feel familiar. That afternoon, the blood-red monster they fought against in the natural disaster...the shape was so similar.

But the power of the blood-colored monster in front of her overwhelmed her. She knew that the power enhanced by her bloodline was about to disappear, and the subsequent weakness would cost her life on the battlefield.

But now she couldn't let this monster charge, the infected front line couldn't withstand its impact at all... Horn's pupils shrank again, the bloody monster didn't give her much time to breathe, and now it pounced in front of her, and its speed was faster than her who was wearing armor!

A terrible roar sounded where the two were. Horn's calves sank into the ground in an instant, and he almost lost consciousness. The shield he had been holding up also cracked into several cracks. The big sword pierced into the chest of the bloody monster, but could not go deeper.

She could no longer hold the sword, so she let go and held the shield with both hands, trying her best to resist the pressure of the bloody monster.

The bloody monster roared with a ferocious face and threw her shield away. Horn's wrist was dislocated. At this moment, there was no longer any obstacle between her and the bloody monster. She saw the bloody monster's ecstatic expression.

dead.

It's not that she hadn't thought about the consequences, but everything happened so fast that her mind went blank.

"team leader!!"

The explosive sound of breaking through the air, accompanied by missile-like weapons, tore through the threat of death. The heavy city-breaking spear crossed the battlefield from the side and accurately hit the powerful enemy. The bloody monster was painfully shattered by half of its body by the city-breaking spear. The spear tore through its raised arm the moment it touched it, lifted it off the ground, and tore it into two halves in the air by the powerful kinetic energy.

"Bagpipe!" But it also meant that Vaifan had lost his weapon on the battlefield surrounded by enemies! Horn broke free from his body, picked up the broken shield and ran madly towards the unarmed Vaifan.

The bright orange-red color immersed in gun smoke smiled at her. There were no wounded people or other infected soldiers around her. Facing the bloody monster that immediately surrounded her, she picked up a broken arm of the bloody monster. She had no intention of giving up.

Exploding arrows and Originium skills came from afar at all costs to support her. The roars of the mandolin, snare drum and oboe were almost drowned out by the roar of the bloody monster, but a part of the safe area around Bagpipe was indeed cleared, and she could hold on until the support of the horn came!

The explosion sounded again, and everyone was stunned. Could it be the second round of artillery support from Xiaoqiu County? However, the bright flames distinguished themselves from the artillery fire. The flames once again cut in from the side of the battlefield, accompanied by the soldiers' charge roars. The unknown external support reduced the pressure on the front line sharply.

However, another roar sounded, and a second brutal blood-red monster rushed out from the tide of blood. Its charge even dismembered its own kind that blocked its path, and its target was the struggling Bagpipe.

Horn roared and pounced forward, but she was no faster than the monster, and no matter how strong Bagpipe's physique was, she could not withstand the monster's heavy blow.

Am I going to lose my teammates again?

Obviously, I didn't protect her the first time.

Another shadow swept past her head with the sound of breaking wind, as if it was a replay. The city-breaking spear returned, but this time it fell from the sky with a ferocious posture, crossing death and hope, nailing the bloody monster into the ground, and its flesh and blood shattered.

Bagpipe was stunned.

The requirements for the user of the siege-breaking spear are very high. There is no one else on this battlefield who can use the siege-breaking spear. She can't remember.

In a flash of sword light, she saw a figure that she was very familiar with, cutting through the tide of blood, carrying scars all over his body and holding a horn-shaped sword to fight against death.

He was badly wounded, but still able to wield his sword.

Then Ling Dengxian would not have fallen halfway in finding the important person. No matter it was an ideal or another disguise, Fengdi was bound to find him.

He waved his hand, not knowing whether she saw it or not, but the sword in his hand was surprisingly handy. It happened that the white sword was lent to Lappland. He sheathed the Sin-devouring Sword, roared, found the special enemy he had locked onto before, and leaped forward to slash!