Chapter 154: The Ultimate
"The enemy is coming!"
A soldier shouted, and Liu Ji felt his head buzzing. He stared blankly at the black shadows that were getting closer and closer, not knowing how to react.
The neighing of horses was heard. Another grain transport team at the end had just encountered an enemy attack in the morning and again in the evening. The psychological defenses of the civilians who had just escaped from death collapsed directly, and they ran almost instinctively.
The whole group was in chaos as they ran away. The sounds of shouting and screaming mixed together. Even the leader, whose arm was injured, pointed the long knife in his hand at the civilians under him.
Anyone who tried to escape was pursued on horseback and killed with swords.
There were about thirty or forty enemies rushing out. Each of them was very tall, and their dress and hairstyle were completely different from those of the Sheng people. They rode tall horses, rushed over in a wave, and then turned around and continued to rush forward.
Liu Ji only felt his eyes suddenly reflected by a silver light, and he subconsciously raised his hand to block it. With a "puff" sound of a knife rolling on flesh, his companion beside him fell to the ground with a roar, and blood splattered on his face, smelling like hot rust.
In the midst of the shock, Shangguan Lie's roar came over:
"Draw your weapons and defend the grain carts! No one is allowed to move!"
"They are just thirty or forty barbarians. There are hundreds of you, six against one. Do you still need to be afraid of such villains?!"
After hearing this, the fear brought by the first wave of enemy attacks suddenly faded a little.
Among them, there were young and strong civilians who immediately responded loudly: "Let's fight these barbarians!"
The masculine spirit was aroused, and they raised their machetes one by one, shouting loudly: "Let's fight!"
Liu Ji couldn't shout slogans because he found that the enemy's shock cavalry had come back again, and this time they were no longer targeting the other grain transport team at the end, but were rushing straight towards them.
The other party was riding a horse at a very fast speed. Liu Ji didn't think twice, he raised his machete and squatted under the carriage.
All I heard was the rumbling sound of horse hooves whizzing past my head, followed by the sound of angry curses and cries of pain from people and horses falling off their horses.
It turned out that the enemy soldiers who were charging were injured by the machetes that suddenly shot out from the grain cart, and they were caught off guard and fell down.
Before the enemy soldier could stand up, Shangguan Lie stabbed him with the spear, killing him.
Liu Ji wiped the blood off his face and when he looked up, he was met with a pair of sneering eyes. Damn, the mocking expression of this team leader was exactly the same as that of his wife at home.
Even a clay man still had some temper. Liu Ji was so stimulated by that look that he quickly crawled out from under the carriage and grabbed a handful of his companion who had just fallen beside him.
He thought he was killed by the enemy with a knife, but he didn't expect that he was so lucky and only had a cut on his arm.
There was just too much blood flying out, and it got all over his face.
Liu Ji didn't have time to think about it. He observed the enemy's movements and took advantage of the gap when the group launched the third wave of attack to quickly tear off a piece of his clothes and bandage the wound on the man's arm.
Wang Wu gasped in pain, but the pain made him forget his fear. He spat a mouthful of blood foam on the ground, immediately pulled out the machete from the car, and gave Liu Ji an angry look that said, "Brother, let's fight them!"
Who hasn't fought with others when they were a child? Who is afraid of who?
Liu Ji took a moment to glance at the other party's shining sword, and reminded him with a dark face: "Xiao Wu, let's take it easy and just protect the grain cart."
Wang Wu frowned. No one knew if there would be another wave after this one. It was not a good idea to keep going like this, right?
Liu Ji saw his worry and his heart was beating fast.
If the enemy uses arrows, these ordinary people without armor will be doomed.
But what's the use of him thinking about these things?
He is not Qin Yao, he can't beat these tall and strong barbarians!
Wait, if Qin Yao encounters this group of enemies, what will she do?
Liu Ji smiled bitterly. If it were her, she would not need to think about this problem at all. She could just rush forward and be done with it. Those enemy troops were not enough to whet her appetite.
Wait a minute!
Being reckless has its own rules, she is not a mindless reckless person.
When horse bandits attacked on New Year's Eve last year, how did she drive them away?
"Catch the leader first!" Liu Ji suddenly shouted, then excitedly looked for Shangguan Lie and shouted to him, "Sir! Catch the leader first!"
Everyone was on high alert, nervously defending against the Mobei cavalry who were about to charge again.
Shangguan Lie heard Liu Ji's sudden roar, frowned slightly, but did not look back at him.
So Liu Ji didn't know whether he heard it or not, and could only shout again and again, "Catch the leader first to catch the thief", which attracted the attention of his companions such as Wang Wu. "Brother,
can you please stop being crazy? What if you anger the master?
He is a centurion, and he still needs your reminder for such a small matter?"
Liu Ji didn't care. He just wanted to stay alive. If he didn't quickly repel the Mobei cavalry, they, the civilians, would sooner or later be used as cannon fodder and die on this vast grassland.
It was already dark, and neither side could see each other clearly. They could only make out vague silhouettes.
This situation was not advantageous to anyone. But if the other party's goal was to burn their food supplies, that could be accomplished without any light.
Liu Ji hated himself for having such a sharp brain that he could predict what the other party was going to do in advance.
Sure enough, just as he finished thinking about this, clusters of orange flames suddenly appeared in the night, making Liu Ji's scalp numb.
Oh, God! Are you going to let us live?
Once the food and grass are burned, these civilians will have no choice but to die!
So, the voices of "Sir, capture the leader first" echoed in the night sky for a long time.
Until a roar of rage and shame was heard - "Shut the fuck up! Do I need you to teach me?!"
If he could tell who the leader was, he would have taken action long ago!
Another point is that he didn't have a bow and arrow in his hand, so how could it be easy to kill the enemy leader?
All we can do now is put out the fire.
Seeing that the flames were about to shoot out, Shangguan Lie immediately ordered everyone to take off their outer clothes, wet them with water, and cover the grain carts with them.
Liu Ji silently followed everyone to complete the instructions, lamenting in his heart, Shangguan Lie, you are not good enough.
He couldn't even kill the enemy's leader, let alone the evil woman in his family.
A melee broke out.
Shangguan Lie led his soldiers to charge forward, but there were only eleven of them. No one knew what the leader of the other team was doing. He just refused to come out, which was very infuriating.
While Liu Ji was cursing in his heart, a man from Mobei raised a long knife and swept towards them like cutting leeks.
The unextinguished flames became illumination, allowing the other party to see them clearly, but they could not see each other.
The bloody knife whizzed towards him. Under the shocked gazes of Wang Wu and others, Liu Ji dodged left and right five times but was not hit by the opponent's long knife.
Liu Ji was not confident in other things, but he had mastered the art of dodging.
If the long sword of the Mobei barbarian can even sweep a hair of his, he loses!