Chapter 7 (1/2)

On this day, the veteran with surnae of the city defence He had wasted half of his life here in Yanhui Town He liked to drink on his downti fib whenever he had had a little too much He would always say that in the past, he used to follow the Old Marquis to go on the Northern Expedition

No one could find out whether that was true or not, but it was not impossible The Old Marquis was still human He still needed to eat, of course, he would require a servant to take care of hiswould never dare to drink on the day of the return of the Giant Kite Each of the officersembarrassed

Unfortunately, what you fear hat you get

Old wang looked up at the alar to the sky and roared hysterically: “Which little bastard’s piss does not look at the date and deet crazily drunk to molest your wife? Who released the whistle? Do you think this old man is just for show?”

At the end of the dark river, there was a big pool surrounded by an iron net waiting to welco Giant Kite The iron net had already been opened halfway The little soldier as in charge of pulling the latch was scared by this sudden alar on, he did not dare to be careless and fastened the latch again

In the end, the big iron gate was half-opened and half-closed, just like a big on decoration on the Giant Kite’s head

The soldiers ere all lined up readily waiting to unload Ziliujin from the shi+p had started to look back and forth in confusion The Mayor as responsible for receivinghou, directed it at the soldiers who are awaiting at the iron gate and yelled out: “Are you all half asleep?! The Giant Kite is stuck, can’t you see it?!”

He has not even finished talking yet when a burst of burning fire suddenly flashed on the deck of the Giant Kite Thick white s a thick steel arrow the size of an ar into the sky It accurately shot down the loud warning alarm whistle in the midst of a surprised noise of the crowd

The alarm whistle shut its mouth and died out in the blink of an eye It stopped in the air for a second and fell straight down Silence hang in the air for a briefchaos

“Baihong Arrow!”

”What happened?! Who shot the Arrow? Is the person on board crazy?!”

”What are they planning to do?”

‘Baihong‘(1) is a type of iant bow After the whole bow had been fully extended, it would be seven feet long It could only be equipped onto a large-scale shi+p such as the Giant Kite Such a terrifying weapon certainly could not be driven by huth alone A mechanism powered by Ziliujin was equipped under the bow An arrow that had been shot froh a few feet wide city gate

It was said that when the Giant Kite slid across the sky, the Baihong arrows that would rain down froround below that even Heavy Are carabbed a “Qian Li Yan“(2), stretched out his neck like an old turtle and ood Hurry! Go call Master Guo and Tudor Lu, go!”

He was still speaking when the Giant Kite’s flauished suddenly illuether The lack of Ziliujin caused the Kite to let out a ru sound, like a beast that had been woken up

Old wang’s eyes widened as he watched the deck of the Giant Kite turn over A row of strong soldiers donning heavy arli onto the river’s surface Even across the distance, one could still feel the heavy pressure

Their leader pushed up the protectivea face covered with scars

Old wang was shocked – this was a strange face, how did he get on board the Giant Kite?

Scarred Man suddenly smiled, then he turned his head towards the sky and howled His hoas loud enough to pierce through the roar ofthe howl of a wolf All the other warriors behind him had started to mimic his action Howl after howl followed the other like a pack of wolves that had been hungry throughout winter, greedily revealing their deadly fangs

A the crowd of people that came to watch the Giant Kite, someone shouted: “The Barbarians!”

These words had poked a hole into the hornet’s nest

The people of the dozens of villages and neighbouring cities have all gathered here Men and wo and fleeing in fright, pushi+ng and shoving, stepping over each other

Even the horses of the guarding officers were continuously whining as thestepped onto the watchtower, took out a long spear at his waist, and raised his hand to break open the “golden box” at the top of the tower He knows that the golden box contains the Ziliujin used for lighting If he had enough good luck and the fire could be properly ignited, the top of the watchtower could be used as an alar into the sky

The veteran who had been telling fib for an entire lifetiolden box, streanition tool As the howling of wolves rang through the sky, a few sparks of fire broke out and was stuffed into the golden box by his old hands

Half of the Ziliujin in the golden box has leaked out, the re the flahthouse was blocked Only a few stea like it was about to explode

In the nextarrow blasted into the air and nailed through the chest of Old wang His flesh and blood were split apart in an instant The htest, dragging what remained of the old veteran towards the watchtower

The tower exploded then collapsed fro officers and the commoners started to scatter and hurriedly fled in all directions

At the sa at the top of the tower finally surged into the sky, the oe firework inup half of Yanhui town

Only now did the co hou started to react, and he shouted with all his ht: “The enemy attacked! – the barbarians attacked! -“

The Giant Kite that got taken over and controlled by the barbarians slowly rose fro arrows rained down to claim lives

The people scattered like flies that had lost their head, and the city cavalry guards quickly ran past through the bluestone path that was not completely closed

All the artillery on the tower raised their heads together, ai off –

The entire city was engulfed in smoke and fire

It appeared that the co Ziliujin on the Giant Kite ide open, and countless Northern Barbarian soldiers descended fro of wolves

The wolves roared; the streets were covered in blood Everything had been turned upside down

The man with scars on the Kite leapt and ju out violently His entire body bounced up to h He landed onto a ht of the heavy ars were broken iot his neck bitten by the savage man before he could react

The barbarian raised his head and took a bite out of the soldier’s throat Blood spurted out like oil, ending the soldier’s life before he could even cry out

Scarred Man laughed loudly, rese demon, then sed the bitten human flesh He suddenly whistled, four or five other barbarians donning heavy ar closely at his side They flew quickly across the street and went straight to the direction of Xu Baihu’s house

The ht” and “heavy” The light armor orn by the cavalries and could only carry with it a s on ht