It was more like Farrah, who extremely rejected Undying Pills, was the odd one out.
However, seeing that the other party's spirits were indeed still quite good, Qiuda didn't think about it any further—it's hard enough to protect oneself on the battlefield, let alone worry about others.
The battle has been going on for eight days.
Eight days ago, their defense line was still outside the Gale Fortress, and the crossfire of machine guns and artillery made it difficult for the demons to advance. But as time went by, traces of the enemy appeared in all directions of the position. Huge skeletons began to pierce directly between the Gale Fortress and the Goldstone Ridge, turning weakly defended areas into red mist zones. Sky Knights tried to stop them, but to little effect.
When the demons, relying on these "fortress-type aberrant beasts," launched an encirclement from both flanks, the artillery attacks were dispersed. To avoid being surrounded, they retreated to subsequent positions while fighting back.
The next step was to repeat this process.
The enemy's offensive was relentless, and everyone felt immense pressure. Rest time was reduced from normal shifts to four or five hours. Although there were several reinforcements from the rear, the difference in numbers was obvious. The frontline soldiers numbered no more than two thousand, while the demons launched assaults of at least twenty thousand. Terror Beasts even bypassed the defense line and went straight for the Cage Mountain area. Although the situation there was unknown, it was clear that the rear was not a safe place either.
And just three days ago, the frontline troops received orders to withdraw entirely into the city.
At the same time, the demons' offensive on the west side suddenly intensified, which was undoubtedly a signal: the Goldstone Ridge, located west of the First Army, had probably fallen, and now it was their turn.
Then, a day later, the enemy broke through the firing line for the first time and engaged the soldiers in close combat.
At this point, the battle had become entirely a contest of wills between the two sides.
Qiuda turned his gaze to the dilapidated low wall several hundred meters away. Now, the outer city wall of the Gale Fortress was riddled with holes, covered with the corpses of demons, and the blood that flowed out dyed the wall with a layer of strange, ghostly blue.
And the distance from the low wall to the front of the defense line was like purgatory. Soldiers and Berserk Demons were mixed together in disarray, half buried by snow, half stiff in the cold wind, like naturally formed sculptures. Because the enemy's offensive was continuous, they didn't even have time to collect the fallen.
The streets on both sides were filled with bone spears and stone needles, like barbs growing out of the earth—since not everyone could hide in solid fortifications, each time the needle rain fell from the sky, it was like a lottery for the soldiers hiding in the houses and trenches. One of them penetrated the wall of the room and landed less than a meter away from him. If it had been a little more off, he would have gone to serve the Three Gods.
"Tch," Qiuda shook his head, throwing these unlucky thoughts out of his mind. When the clan was in crisis, no matter how many times he prayed to the Three Gods, he received no response. This time, it was naturally not from the Three Gods' protection either.
Perhaps he would eventually die in this foreign city, but before that, he would definitely make the enemy pay a heavy price.
The Chieftain had promised that he would never mistreat any clan that had fought for the fate of mankind.
This was also the purpose of his coming here!
"They're coming!" Farrah reminded.
No artillery fire... The artillery positions had been completely silenced last night. Some said they were attacked by Terror Beasts, others said the artillerymen had transferred in advance, but regardless, they now had to resist the enemy on their own.
The figures of the demons finally appeared on the city wall!
The machine gun squads were still the first to open fire—apart from the fortress guns, the high-pitched and continuous鳴響 of the machine guns was the most beautiful sound in the soldiers' hearts. The flying bullets caused the accumulated snow beside the walls to splash in all directions. The first demon to climb over the wall was instantly knocked down, and the skull of its kind following closely behind was also overturned by the barrage.
Gunfire also rang out on the east and west sides of the city, which was clearly another fierce siege. Qiuda didn't pay attention to the demons directly冲击 the firing line, but focused his attention on the streets and alleys near a hundred meters away. After three days of city defense, he had realized one thing: the most dangerous places were often not the focal points of fire, but those seemingly quiet street corners.
At this moment, the First Army no longer had a fixed defense line. The troops were scattered around the bunkers in units of squads.
Their most important task was to prevent the demons from sneaking close to the permanent fortifications. Even if he wanted to attack the enemies hundreds of meters away, it would be difficult to accurately hit the target.
Suddenly, five or six Berserk Demons appeared above the roof of a two-story earthen building. They seemed to be planning to use the house to bypass the most densely火力密集 area, and this behavior completely exposed them to Qiuda's枪口。
He held his breath and pulled the trigger, aiming at the demon walking at the end.
The target fell in response.
Farrah and two other teammates also opened fire. The fragile wooden roof couldn't withstand the large movements of the Berserk Demons at all. Their slow crawling made them the most conspicuous targets.
"Four o'clock direction, four o'clock direction, a large number of demons have been discovered!" Before they could solve this small wave of stragglers, a Sandman behind them exclaimed, "They're coming this way!"
"Leave this to me!" Farrah shouted, "You guys go deal with the other side!"
Qiuda immediately turned his枪头 and ran to another window—if you want to talk about the most accurate shooter among the teammates, it was undoubtedly Farrah. If he said he could solve the remaining demons, then there was definitely no problem.
However, seeing hundreds of demons rushing towards their hiding place, Qiuda's heart sank slightly.
"Damn it, were those guys just probing?" Someone realized.
"I'm afraid so." He immediately made a judgment, "Everyone, don't save ammunition, transfer to the six o'clock direction after killing this wave of enemies!"
Dense gunfire rang out from the window in an instant, including the burst weapons newly issued by the troops—compared to the roar of the Mark I, the new weapon called the Universal Machine Gun had a clearer sound, but it was not weaker than those behemoths in terms of rate of fire. The only drawback was that its magazine only held thirty rounds, making it inferior to the former in terms of suppression capability.
However, the enemies obviously didn't expect that such amazing firepower could erupt from the top of a small bell tower. Under the head-on blow of the Universal Machine Gun and rocket弹, more than half of the hundred or so demons were immediately 折损, and the remaining enemies raised their bone spears one after another.
"Watch out for the javelins!" Qiuda warned loudly while suddenly lowering himself.
Dozens of bone spears, like arrows离弦,窜 into the top of the bell tower in the blink of an eye!
"Clang——————!"
The copper bell that was struck emitted bursts of嗡鸣.
If it were on flat ground, this attack would be a catastrophe, but the terrain difference formed a natural shielding area. Even if the bone spears projected from below filled the window, it would be difficult to hit the prone soldiers. The gunfire only stopped for a moment before resuming again, and the remaining Berserk Demons fell into a dilemma.
They were almost certain to eat up this enemy squad.
Qiuda couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and he also felt a little regret. He heard that the Universal Machine Gun was expensive to manufacture, and it had to be supplied to the Sky Knights first. If the frontline troops could have one in hand, even without relying on掩体, the demons would not be their opponents.
However, at this moment, Farrah suddenly shouted shrilly, "Not good, get out of here!"
He was stunned for a moment and subconsciously turned his head to look—
He saw a breach in the distant city wall. A huge Spider Demon crossed the wall and crouched down, opening the armor on its back, and dark stone pillars faintly bloomed with light.
Wait, were they being targeted?
Qiuda raised his head, and the copper bell hanging on the roof beam was still trembling slightly.
Damn it, it was the钟鸣 just now!
He picked up his gun and ran downstairs.
And a soft鳴 came from the distance in a timely manner.
"蓬——"
Before he had time to run down to the first floor, a black stone pillar that was thicker than a person drew a high抛物线 and砸 squarely on the腰部 of the bell tower.
With a deafening roar, the entire tower坍塌!