"Bring me my big gun." Ren Baqian gestured to the side. Immediately, someone brought the 2.15-meter anti-aircraft machine gun over, and Ren Baqian grabbed it.
"Bring the ammo box too." Ren Baqian called out again. Then, he stepped forward and walked toward the entrance of the village. Shi Hu hurriedly followed behind him.
"Wake up the one who's still sleeping," Ren Baqian said without turning his head.
At critical moments, Lin Qiaole was still more reliable.
It was not that Shi Hu and the others were unreliable, but their strength was slightly too low.
In any case, Lin Qiaole was the bodyguard that the empress found for Ren Baqian. The empress should have a good understanding of her strength.
When they arrived at the entrance of the stronghold, the main gate of the stronghold was being pulled shut. It was a little chaotic here. Some people were blocking the gate while others were looking for weapons. It was a mess.
"Who are you? How many are there? "Shi Hu caught a person and asked.
"It's the Great Xia army. There are at least a few thousand of them," the person who was caught said anxiously.
Ren Baqian went up to the corner tower of the stronghold and looked out. He saw a long line of soldiers advancing toward the stronghold from afar. The frontline was at least a few kilometers away from the stronghold, and a lot of dust was kicked up behind them like a yellow dragon.
"Can you tell how many there are?" Ren Baqian asked Shi Hu. Following which, he said to the people behind him, "Bring me all the ammunition boxes and my bag."
Then, he opened the two boxes and connected the ammunition chains together.
"Judging from the amount of dust they kicked up, there are at least three to four thousand people," Shi Hu said after a long time of silent calculation.
Ren Baqian nodded and waited there.
There were more than three hundred old and weak people in the stockade village, and close to two hundred young and strong people. In fact, aboriginals in their fifties could be considered young and strong. At the very least, their combat power wasn't bad.
Furthermore, these people were barely able to defend against 1,000 Great Xia soldiers, let alone a few thousand enemy soldiers. After all, even though these people weren't weak, they were only a bunch of slightly stronger villagers compared to the elite Great Xia soldiers who lacked swords and sabers. Even if they had the strength of a Man Wheel expert, they were just a bunch of slightly stronger villagers.
"Milord, should we retreat? Even if we bring the people from the stronghold with us, as long as they don't have any cavalry, they won't be able to catch up to us, "Shi Hu said in a low voice.
"Retreat? Great luck, and we'll be eating chicken later. "Ren Baqian glanced at him. Today, my great spear is finally going to be used, and you're telling me to retreat?
After thinking for a while, Ren Baqian said, "Let the old and weak in the stronghold evacuate first. Don't bring anything with you. If we really can't hold on any longer, we'll retreat. "
While they were talking, Ren Baqian's backpack and 20 ammunition belts were sent to the corner tower. The other wooden boxes were also piled up below.
Ren Baqian took out a pair of binoculars from his bag. Through the binoculars, he was able to see more clearly and could even see the faces of the people in front.
Four people in a row were advancing in this direction with spears in their hands. It was impossible to tell how long it was.
However, Ren Baqian saw the shadows of horses. Fortunately, there weren't many of them.
"Let the old and the weak retreat. If they stay here, it will be troublesome if they really have to escape," Ren Baqian urged Shi Hu.
Shi Hu glanced at the spear that Ren Baqian had set up. Even though he had seen the power of this thing that day, he wasn't sure if it could stop the Great Xia army.
There were too many of them.
If things didn't turn out well, they would let that girl take Sir Ren away first. No matter what, they would be able to hold them back for a while.
At the thought of this, he went to make arrangements. Not long after, the old and the weak in the village, accompanied by dozens of strong young men, left the back of the village and headed straight for Xiaojiang City, which was half a day's journey away.
The frontline of the Great Xia army arrived at a place 500 meters away from the village and stopped, waiting for the people behind them to arrive.
"Do you really want to stop them here?" Lin Qiaole finally came to her senses at this moment. She leaned against the wall of the corner tower and spoke unhurriedly.
"I will fight to the death and not retreat!" Ren Baqian grinned, revealing a set of ghastly white teeth.
Lin Qiaole looked at him suspiciously. When did he become so strong-willed?
"How is it? Am I strong-willed? "Ren Baqian laughed mischievously.
"Strong-Willed! Just don't shout for help later! " Lin Qiaole threw a piece of White Rabbit Creamy Candy into her mouth and carefully counted the amount of White Rabbit Creamy Candy in her sachet.
Every time she ate a piece, she would count it again. It might have something to do with her math teacher's early death, and she was afraid that she would lose the sweets.
Ren Baqian turned his head and shouted, "Leave two people behind to help me reload the ammunition belts. The rest of you, stay in your respective positions. Each guard will be assigned to three able-bodied young men."
At this moment, there were three assembled ammunition belts on the ground. Each belt consisted of five ordinary ammunition belts connected together and contained 300 bullets. At the same time, there were also 300 bullets loaded into the gun.
The Great Xia army outside didn't wait for everyone to arrive. When the first 1,000 soldiers arrived, they formed a battle formation and pressed toward the village.
Even though the footsteps of 1,000 soldiers weren't uniform, Ren Baqian, who was on the corner tower, felt the ground tremble slightly.
"Let them come closer, closer so that they won't run away later!" Ren Baqian used his eyes to aim through the scope, aimed the muzzle at the front of the battle formation, and muttered softly.
To be honest, it would be a lie to say that he wasn't nervous at all.
In front of him was a battle formation of 1,000 soldiers.
Even though Ren Baqian had a gun in his hand, he was still somewhat nervous.
He wasn't the only one who was nervous. The others were nervous as well. Needless to say, the able-bodied young men were facing thousands of elite Great Xia soldiers even though they had tough temperaments. Under such circumstances, staying here was practically a dead end.
It was already extremely courageous for them to stay here at this time.
Among them, there was a reluctance to leave their homeland and the thought of stopping the old and weak from leaving first. They would leave when they really couldn't stop the Great Xia army anymore. This was what most of them were thinking.
Their faces were tense as they stared at the Great Xia army in the distance and clenched the weapons in their hands.
"Huzi, don't be lenient later," someone said to the young man beside him.
"Watch me. I will smash their brains in a while," the young man said with a thick wooden stick in his hand. Not long after, he asked again, "Can we stop them?"
"Why should we? There are thousands of them! We will try to delay them until they are far away and we can't stop them anymore. Then, we will retreat, "the strong man said.
As for the other guards, they were already prepared to fight to the death and let Ren Baqian escape. However, they still had some expectations in their hearts. They hoped that Ren Baqian's weapon would really be able to stop the Great Xia army outside the village.
They watched as the other party's long spears pointed diagonally forward and approached the village step by step.
Whoosh! Four to five arrows were shot into the Great Xia battle formation.
Both sides hadn't communicated with each other since the beginning. Both the elite soldiers of Great Xia and the aboriginals in the village were silent.
In the eyes of both sides, the other party wasn't only an enemy nation but also a foreign race. Only one side could survive.
A few Great Xia soldiers were shot and immediately fell to the ground in silence. There was only a slight commotion in the battle formation before they stepped over the bodies of the few people on the ground.
This kind of silence and the intensive footsteps made Ren Baqian feel even more depressed.
However, a smile appeared on his face. It was the same smile that he had when he was the Honglu Deputy and asked Xiong Pi to hang that guard from the Lian family. It was a very kind smile, but it concealed everything in his heart, making it impossible for others to know what he was thinking.
Bang, bang, bang …! Ren Baqian pressed the trigger and the muzzle immediately spat out a half-meter long flame.
At this moment, the Great Xia battle formation was finally no longer silent. The moment the flame was spat out, it set off a wave of blood. Broken limbs flew everywhere, and many people fell to the ground without making a sound. However, there were still many people who had broken arms or legs and were screaming on the ground.
A 12.7mm bullet could almost break a person's waist when it hit the body. If it hit other parts of the body, broken limbs would fly everywhere.
Furthermore, from Ren Baqian's angle, if the first shot hit the chest of the person in front, the bullet would make a big hole in his chest and even break the legs of the person behind him.
From the scope, he could clearly see that the flesh and blood of the Great Xia soldiers were splattered everywhere. Like wheat being reaped, they fell in rows with miserable screams.
Fragments of internal organs spurted out from the wounds and scattered everywhere.
Most people didn't know what had happened before they realized that a piece of their body was missing.
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