Chapter 904: Chapter 878:
"Let’s go, come with me and take a look!" The Great Leader hurriedly dragged the Second Leader outside. When the Second Leader climbed onto the city wall, his face turned pale; those three huge cannons, with their long barrels, looked like dark black holes. The Second Leader stammered, "How could this be, how could this happen!"
"Damn it, even if these cannons are destroyed, they must never be left for the enemy!" The Great Leader roared in anger.
"I-I clearly saw with my own eyes that the enemy had destroyed the cannons, how did this happen!" The Second Leader’s face turned ashen with fright. With these three rifles, the Wa State Tribe is almost impossible to defend; just a few shots from them and this fragile city wall would collapse immediately.
"Say no more, today we must fight to the death!" The Great Leader said seriously. He knew that the city wall would soon be battered by those three cannons.
At this moment, Ye Chen threw the cigarette butt from his mouth onto the ground and shouted into a loudspeaker, "People of the Wa State Tribe, you have one minute to consider surrendering. If you refuse to surrender, then these three cannons will send you to the Western Paradise!"
After Ye Chen finished speaking, there was silence on the city wall, and everyone’s eyes turned to the Great Leader and the Second Leader. The two were the spiritual leaders of the Wa State Tribe. Naturally, the soldiers felt that preserving their lives was important. Of course, if the Great Leader and the Second Leader decided to fight to the end, they would do the same.
"Big Brother, if you ask me, we should run!" The Second Leader glanced at the Great Leader, then said, "The other side has over two thousand men, and we only have over six hundred. Initially, we could resist with this city wall, but now they have cannons. I know all too well the power of those things; a single shot can blast through a one-centimeter-thick steel plate!"
"Alright, Lao Er, I didn’t expect you to become more cowardly as you lived!" The Great Leader glared angrily at Lao Er and shouted, "How could you even come up with such an idea!"
"Do you want to send our brothers to their deaths?" The Second Leader retorted, "This isn’t running away, it’s a wise retreat. Fleeing is so we can seek revenge. If we have our brothers die here now, I’m afraid we’ll never have a chance to avenge them!"
"Shut up!" The Great Leader gritted his teeth as he looked at Lao Er, his once handsome face now twisted with fierceness.
"Fine, if you want to die, go die alone. I’m not going!" Lao Er gave a cold laugh and said, "Brothers, anyone who wants to leave with me, step forward!"
Clattering noises...
Immediately, over a hundred people stood on the Second Leader’s side atop the city wall. Despite the Bearded man’s unremarkable appearance, he had quite a skill for leading troops, and the soldiers felt more aligned with him. As for the Great Leader, he was respected in their hearts but now...
"Alright, Lao Er, I didn’t expect you to rebel at a time like this?!" Leader Ma’s face turned blue, but what could he do at this moment? He could only morally and conscientiously condemn his second brother. Lao Er hastily raised his hands, "Big Brother, please don’t say that. I just don’t want our brothers to die in vain. If you come with us, I promise you’ll still be our Big Brother!"
"If you want to go, then go quickly, take your people and leave!" Leader Ma said furiously.
"Farewell, Big Brother!" The Second Leader huffed, then turned to go downstairs, taking over four hundred individuals quietly through the back mountain, leaving only over two hundred frail, elderly, sick, and disabled people in the Wa State Tribe. Among them were cooks, servants, and various supporting craftsmen, numbering less than three hundred in total.
"Are you willing to stay with me and make a last stand?" Leader Ma asked the crowd gravely.
The place was silent. The minute had long passed, yet Ye Chen still gave them ample time to consider. Because the movement on the city wall was apparent, Ye Chen had no idea that the Wa State City even had a back door for slipping away. Leader Ma looked at the people of Wa State City, showing a bitter smile. "You know a horse’s strength over long distances, and a person’s heart over long periods." These people, superficially loyal, betrayed him at the most critical moment.
"If you want to leave, then go. I won’t stop you!" Leader Ma said through gritted teeth.
Soon, several workers and servants began to leave, their pockets filled with gold and silver jewelry, which they had looted from within Wa State City, intending to disappear amid the chaos of war. Unexpectedly, the Great Leader was so magnanimous to let them go at this point. However, before these people could reach the main gate, the Great Leader waved his hand, and the machine guns set up on the city wall immediately began to fire frantically. The bullets poured out like meteoric rain in the dark.
The craftsmen and servants attempting to leave were swiftly shot, blood splattering as bullets pierced through their backs and into their bodies.
"Hmph, those seeking death!" The Great Leader snorted coldly.
Outside the city wall, Ye Chen and the others remained on high alert, the gunfire raising the vigilance among the soldiers of Luoyang Prefecture. They quickly set up machine guns, and Ye Chen motioned, "Don’t rush; they must be having internal strife. Let’s sit back and watch the tigers fight."
"Mr. Ye, it’s bad, Wa State City has a back door; they ran away through it!" Deputy Liu hurriedly rushed out.
"What?!" Ye Chen was shocked, immediately sensing something was wrong. He quickly started running, following Deputy Liu to the location with haste. Ten minutes later, Ye Chen and more than ten others arrived at the scene, where the place was indeed open, and some corpses lay on the ground. Ye Chen exclaimed, "Damn it, they actually got away!"
At that moment, Ye Chen was furious and ordered Liu Bingbiao to guard the back door, insisting that not even a mosquito should escape.
Ye Chen returned to the main gate, furious, he gritted his teeth and roared, "People of the Wa State, listen to me, the final moment has arrived. I will count down from three, and you must open the city gates and surrender immediately, or else there will be no mercy in killing!"
In the blink of an eye, the three seconds were over, and Ye Chen waved his hand, "Blood Sacrifice Flag!"
"Yes!" The soldiers nodded one after another, more than two hundred prisoners were pushed onto the Platform. Each person was tied up, cries for help and wailing resounded, and the scene was filled with cries. Such sounds once again shook the morale of the soldiers defending the city wall; they sneaked a glance and saw those more than two hundred people lined up, kneeling at the foot of the city wall, more than two hundred soldiers holding large knives walked over from behind and then stood beside those prisoners.
"Kill!" Ye Chen roared.
"Kill!" The soldiers shouted with raised arms.
"Kill!" The executioners gripped their large knives, then raised them high and chopped down hard. This one cut immediately beheaded them. Blood splattered three feet, and more than two hundred heads fell, the scene was bloody, leaving people extremely shocked.
"Oh my God, they... they actually killed so many people!" The soldiers on the city wall felt the bloodshed and shock.
"Stop looking, what’s so good to watch, haven’t killed people before? Or never seen someone being killed?" The Chief beside them gave them a glare, and the soldiers quickly withdrew their gaze from the foot of the city wall, still feeling uneasy in their hearts. That feeling was like once bitten by a snake, one fears a coiled rope for ten years.
Just like that, more than two hundred prisoners were killed by Ye Chen, and Ye Chen’s reputation thoroughly spread in the Golden Triangle, known as the ’Bloody Demon’. From then on, Ye Chen also became a fearsome figure, feared by everyone, to the point where everywhere Ye Chen went, his reputation preceded him.
And it was from this moment that Ye Chen’s Blood Sacrifice Flag shook the world.
"Brothers, kill for me!" Ye Chen waved his hand, then more than eight hundred people started to charge, the grenades on them were directly thrown onto the five-meter-high city wall. The sudden explosion instantly threw the soldiers on the city wall into chaos.
Soon, the city gate was breached, and more than eight hundred people swarmed in. The more than two hundred old, weak, sick, and disabled inside the city were scared out of their wits. The Chief saw this and showed a calm smile, then said, "Heaven wants to destroy me, heaven wants to destroy me!"
Clap...
A crisp sound, the Chief’s gun was pointed at his own temple and fired a shot, the guard beside him was stunned, his face turned pale with fright and shouted excitedly, "Chief, Chief!"
"The Chief is dead, everyone run!" The other guards saw this and scattered in all directions.
Like the mourning of a rabbit, the fall of a fox, the Wa State City instantly fell. When everyone invaded the city, they found that it was basically empty inside, leaving behind some who couldn’t escape, and as for the Chief’s dozens of guards, they all rushed toward the back gate in a frenzy.
Liu Bingbiao, with more than a thousand people, was stationed in the back, those guys had just shown their heads and were immediately riddled with bullets.
The once mighty Wa State Tribe had turned to ashes in an instant, with the Chief dying by his own hand, the Second Leader’s whereabouts unknown, soldiers dead or wounded, no one willing to count. Ye Chen took a glance, then said, "Take all the weapons, equipment, and food! Burn everything else with one fire!"
"Yes!" Deputy Liu nodded immediately.
Soon, batches of high-quality US gear were carried out from the warehouse. Although some were discards from American soldiers, for the hellish place that is the Golden Triangle, these equipments were extremely advanced and exceptionally fine. This battle was a great victory for Ye Chen.
They carried equipment load after equipment load, and several trucks full of food. Even the trucks were driven out from the Wa State Tribe, a few trucks loaded with trophies returning in triumph. For the soldiers of Luoyang Prefecture, this was exciting and joyful.
In Wa State City, a massive blaze was set, the entire city ignited in flames, all the soldiers were killed, and as for the women, like the food, they became spoils of war loaded onto trucks. The children had long been taken away by the Second Leader, who deeply understood that children were the future of Wa State City, so he simply took all these people away.
The blazing fire burned everything, turning Wa State City into a sea of flames.
The Second Leader, who fled into the deep mountains, stood on a summit not far away, using binoculars to look at the direction of Wa State City, the raging flames clearly etched into his eyes, he looked at the tribe he had lived in for decades, today turned into nothing by a single blaze.
"Sigh, it’s all over!" The Second Leader let out a sigh.
"No, it’s not over yet!"