Chapter 5 Two Arrows Killing the Beastmaster
Accompanied by the earth-shaking roar, the huge underground tunnel was blown up by black gunpowder, and thousands of Taotie beast soldiers were buried alive. Seeing the pit that was about to penetrate ten kilometers south of the Great Wall, Zuo Xiaoyou and the soldiers were sweating coldly.
"This time it's thanks to the quickness of the palace coach, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable." The other generals of the three armies were completely convinced. If Zuo Xiaoyou had not discovered early that Taotie might have dug tunnels to break through the Great Wall, so that they could find the tunnels that Taotie was digging in time, I'm afraid that these Taotie had already broken through the Great Wall and advanced towards Bianliang.
Once hundreds of thousands of Taotie poured into Bianliang, the creatures would be ruined. Zuo Xiaoyou's move can be said to have saved countless people in the world.
Zuo Xiaoyou was also a little scared. He didn't expect that Taotie was so smart that he knew how to dig tunnels to break through the Great Wall's defense line. Although the Great Wall was majestic, it could not block the underground passage at all. What scared him even more was Taotie's ability to dig holes. Thousands of Taotie actually dug out a tunnel worth more than ten kilometers in just ten days, which was much faster than human power.
"It's not the time to relax." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "There are many Taotie, and it may be possible to dig other tunnels. The soldiers need to step up inspections outside the Great Wall. Do not let Taotie's conspiracy succeed."
"Yes, the Palace Commander!"
With this move, Zuo Xiaoyou established his prestige in the army in one fell swoop, and the position of the hall commander became more stable. The Taotie Beast King found that his strategy had been discovered and he had lost thousands of beast soldiers. He was furious and led hundreds of thousands of beast soldiers to attack the city at any cost. However, this time the Shadowless Imperial Guard used hot air balloons and continued to bomb at high altitudes in the Taotie camp, causing a large number of deaths of Taotie Beast King. The Taotie Beast King had nowhere to hide. If he had not relied on the guards to protect him, he would have been bombed to death long ago.
In this palace for more than two hours, the Taotie Beast King was afraid that he would accidentally die, so he immediately ordered a retreat. Although Taotie's casualties were not as good as the first time, nearly 100,000 casualties still seriously injured Taotie's vitality. Since the battle, Taotie's beast soldiers have died of more than 200,000, which is almost half of them. If this continues, humans will achieve unprecedented glorious victory, but both humans and Taotie understand that the outcome is unknown if the battle is not final.
But the situation has already stood on the side of humans, and the way of digging tunnels has been discovered by humans. Even if the Taotie Beast King wants to do this, it will be difficult for him to make such a move. If he attacks strongly, the Great Wall is too majestic, and human black gunpowder seems to be endless, which is also the main reason why Taotie suffered a large number of casualties. The most fatal thing is that humans have invented hot air balloons. Although Taotie has extremely strong jumping power, it can only jump to three or five meters high at most, while the hot air balloons can fly at a height of dozens of meters or even hundreds of meters. Standing in the air to throw explosive bags, killing Taotie is simply too simple.
During these days, Zuo Xiaoyou has been sending hot air balloon bombing troops to outside the city wall to observe Taotie's dynamics, and by the way, he will send Taotie a package of explosives to let them enjoy the human "passion" for them.
After four or five days, the Taotie Beast King was almost crazy. These humans were so hateful that they invented such a terrible black gunpowder technology in just sixty years. If they were given another sixty years, wouldn’t they be even more terrifying?
Thinking of his mission to come to Earth, the Taotie Beast King felt that he should do something. So on the sixth day, when the hot air balloon troops left the city to explore Taotie's movements like the previous few days ago, they found that Taotie had disappeared.
"Why is Taotie missing?" The general of the Eagle Army standing on the hot air balloon was full of confusion, and then used a thousand-mile mirror to look at the footprints left by Taotie, and found that they seemed to be heading to the Khitans.
“…”
The general of the Eagle Army immediately returned and informed Zuo Xiaoyou of the news as soon as possible.
"Are you saying that Taotie went to the Khitan Liao Kingdom?" Zuo Xiaoyou was very surprised, because according to historical records, Taotie only attacked the orthodox dynasty residents of China and did not violate the northern alien races. But this time Taotie stopped attacking the Song Dynasty, but instead attacked the Liao Kingdom?
Everyone present looked at each other, wondering what crazy this Taotie was going?
but……
"Hehehehe..." The general of the Tiger Army smiled sinisterly: "Okay! The Liao Kingdom is in a dilemma with our Song Dynasty everywhere. This time, let Taotie teach them a lesson. If there is no Liao Kingdom in the future, the territory of our Song Dynasty will be expanded a lot."
Zuo Xiaoyou shook his head: "The Liao Kingdom has no Great Wall. Even if it is occupied by us, how should we face Taotie in sixty years?"
This is true. The generals of the Tiger Army can't laugh. In comparison, the Khitans are much easier to deal with than Taotie. At least everyone is human. At that time, everyone will rely on their abilities. Whoever wins will be the leader, and they may not die. But Taotie can eat people, and no one can survive in front of Taotie. If the Khitans are extinct, the Song Dynasty will occupy a vast territory, but how can they protect them in the face of Taotie's attack?
There is no way to protect it! So there is nothing to be happy about, but you should worry about it.
"Dians Commander, what should we do? Go out of the city to help the Khitans kill Taotie?" Lin Mei asked.
Zuo Xiaoyou did not answer immediately, and lowered his head to ponder.
"We should still destroy the Beast King." Military Commander Wang went out and said, "The Palace Commander has five pairs of arrows. You can take a hot air balloon, prepare enough fuel, and go to the Taotie formation. Band the Beast King with bows and arrows to tie black gunpowder to kill the Beast King. This way, the power of Taotie can be eliminated."
Hearing this, Zuo Xiaoyou shook his head and said, "The Taotie Beast King is protected by the beast soldiers. Those beast soldiers protect the beast king so tightly. Even if the arrows are shot accurately, they will be blocked by the beast soldiers."
"What the Palace Commander said is not bad." Wang Junshi nodded, then smiled and said, "But the Palace Commander forgot something."
"oh?"
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One hour later, Zuo Xiaoyou and Lin Mei took off in a hot air balloon and headed straight for the Liao Kingdom. Taking advantage of the rare south wind, the hot air balloon speed was faster than usual, and they caught up with the Taotie army that was hunting the Khitans before it was about to dark.
Through the Qianli Mirror, Zuo Xiaoyou saw the Beast King who was being fed by Taotie Beast Soldiers in the center of Taotie. This scene is very similar to the bird feeding his own children, but when the food turns from insects to humans, it feels completely changed.
Lin Mei's eyes were a little red, not sadness, but angry.
Zuo Xiaoyou calmly tied the magnet to the arrow, then tied the black gunpowder to another arrow, and said lightly: "The history of Taotie will end today!"
Lin Mei turned her head and looked at Zuo Xiaoyou, and said with some concern: "The arrow is too small, it will be more accurate to tie the magnet to my gun."
Zuo Xiaoyou glanced at her and smiled slightly: "The speed of the gun is not as fast as the arrow. At this time, the airflow is unstable, and the gun is likely to be affected. The possibility of deviation is higher than that of the arrow. So I'll do it! I have confidence in myself!"
Seeing Zuo Xiaoyou say this, his eyes were very sharp, and Lin Mei kept silent. As a childhood sweetheart who grew up with her, she knows Zuo Xiaoyou more than anyone else. When Zuo Xiaoyou said very seriously that he could do it, he would definitely do it and never fail. At this time, the only thing she could do was believe him. Trust is the benchmark rule for the robe!
Zuo Xiaoyou narrowed his eyes and looked at Taotie Beast King from afar. At this time, it was about 130 meters away from Taotie Beast King, with the south wind level three to four, with a height of 50 meters. The possibility of the arrow shooting was less than 30%, so Zuo Xiaoyou chose to shoot.
The longbow was pulled open, and the arrow tied with a magnet was placed on the string. The left and right calculated the direction, wind direction, and strength. A flash of light in his eyes flashed and shot the arrow out. Then he instantly grabbed another arrow tied with black gunpowder and shot it out like lightning. The difference between the front and back was less than 0.5 seconds.
In fact, the Taotie Beast King had long noticed the hot air balloon in the sky. Unfortunately, because there was no object to leverage, it could only watch and was being fed at this time and could not stop easily. So he asked the guard to look at it tighter, and at the same time urged the beast soldiers to speed up the feeding speed so that it could meet the needs of reproduction early.
But at this moment, the arrow shot from Zuo Xiaoyou arrived. Although these Taotie guards saw the arrows, because the arrow speed was too fast, they could only open the protective film at the fastest speed to protect the Beast King. However, before the protective film was fully opened, the arrows tied with magnets arrived.
Due to the interference of magnets, all the Taotie guards stopped moving. Only the Beast King could move. When he saw the arrows shot in, he was startled. But before he could react, the second arrow tied with black gunpowder shot in through the protective film. The Beast King was extremely frightened and hurried forward to bite the black gunpowder lead, trying to extinguish the black gunpowder before it exploded.
But Zuo Xiaoyou would not give it this opportunity. In order to make this action foolproof, Zuo Xiaoyou and Wang Junshi took out only a very small number of black gunpowder in the immortal lead. Unless the immortal lead was cut off in the middle, it would not be extinguished even if the wind and water were poured. The beast king did not know the reality of the black gunpowder, so he paid the price.
A huge roar sounded, and the strong airflow even the hot air balloons at a height of 50 meters were affected, and they almost crashed. Fortunately, Zuo Xiaoyou and Lin Mei controlled the balance of the hot air balloons in time, and the other two female generals of the He Jun who were responsible for the hot air balloon flight also added fire to allow the hot air balloon to rise smoothly.
The airflow shock wave ended. Zuo Xiaoyou and Lin Mei looked at the Taotie army below and found that all Taotie were still. When the wind blew, they fell down in pieces.
Lin Mei's eyes flashed with ecstasy light: "Dians coach! Success! You killed the Beast King!"
Zuo Xiaoyou breathed a long sigh of relief. Although he was full of confidence, he was still a little nervous when the arrow shot out, fearing that he would not hit the Beast King and lose the magnet again. From then on, there would be no such good opportunity to eliminate Taotie. Fortunately, he succeeded.
What made Zuo Xiaoyou even more fortunate was that the Khitans here had been eaten up by Taotie, and the next city in Khitan was 200 miles away, which gave him plenty of time to clean up the mess.
"Land towards the position of Taotie Beast King!"
"yes!"
The two female soldiers of the Crane Army were so excited that they could not help themselves. Taotie! The disaster that had plagued mankind for two thousand years was destroyed by their palace commander. At this time, their eyes were full of illusions when they looked at Zuo Xiaoyou, which made Lin Mei a little jealous.
Fortunately, the hot air balloon quickly landed at the position of the Taotie Beast King's explosion, and then Zuo Xiaoyou jumped off the hot air balloon and walked quickly towards the center of the explosion.
At this time, a circle of Taotie guards died in the center of the explosion, while the Taotie Beast King at the center was blown up and bloody and covered with flesh. It seems that although the Taotie Beast King is huge, its protective power is no different from that of ordinary crocodiles, and it cannot stop the explosion of black gunpowder, not to mention that the black gunpowder exploded in its mouth, which is even more demanding death.
Zuo Xiaoyou didn't care about these casual things and immediately began to use a dagger to find the signal release device in the casual things of Taotie Beast King's head. Lin Mei was curious and asked, "Dianshou, what are you looking for?"
"The beast king controls the beast soldiers." Zuo Xiaoyou remembered that the beast king controlled the beast soldiers through the "meat puppet" above the head, but at this time the meat puppet was blown to pieces, and it took a lot of time to find it. It was almost dark at this time, and it was even more troublesome to find it. Fortunately, he brought a torch when he came out. Through the torch, Zuo Xiaoyou finally found a circular chip in the minced meat that was slightly larger than the chip in the beast soldiers' brain.
Is this the secret of the beast king controlling the beast soldiers? Zuo Xiaoyou wiped the chip clean like a treasure, picked it up with a piece of silk cloth, and put it in his arms.
"Are you okay?" Although he was a soldier on the battlefield and was used to seeing dead bodies, it was the first time he had found something in minced meat like Zuo Xiaoyou. At this time, Lin Mei had some scope and her face was not very good.
"Okay." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded, finally smiled, and said, "The Beast King is dead, and humans will finally no longer have to suffer from Taotie disaster in the future."
This sentence made Lin Mei and the other two female soldiers very excited. But there was another big problem at this time, which was the corpses of Taotie everywhere. These corpses of Taotie were actually not considered corpses, but they fell into a dormant state because they lost the control of the Beast King. Once the Beast King's chips emitted signals again, they would be resurrected. In order to prevent this phenomenon, these tangled ones must not be kept.
"You two." Zuo Xiaoyou said to the two female soldiers: "Immediately take a hot air balloon to return to the Great Wall, inform the Shadowless Imperial Guard, and ordered him to send cavalry troops, bringing enough fire-driven objects to arrive here overnight and burn Taotie!"
"Yes, the Palace Commander!" The two female soldiers knew that the matter was important, and they also knew that Zuo Xiaoyou and Lin Mei were not leaving, because they wanted to reduce the burden on the hot air balloons and allow them to return to the Great Wall faster, so that the cavalry could arrive here overnight and burn out Taotie before the Khitans discovered it.
These Taotie are so terrible. Although the Khitans have no brains in scientific research, there are not only Khitans in the Liao Kingdom. A large number of Han people live in the Liao Kingdom. Once the Han people from the Liao Kingdom study these Taotie corpses, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not study biochemical weapons that threaten the Song Dynasty in the future. To prevent this possibility, they need to race against time.
Looking at the hot air balloon that took off overnight and disappeared into the distance, Zuo Xiaoyou turned his head to look at Lin Mei and smiled slightly: "We are all alive."
Chapter completed!