sovbooks Chapter 47 The zombie scourge leads to everyone knowing how to finish off their enemies.
Chapter 47 The zombie scourge leads to everyone knowing how to finish off their enemies.
"Kill them all! Leave no one alive!"
"These bandits must pay for their crimes in blood! They will have to pay the price for what they've done!"
Surrounded by several soldiers, Rock followed Lu Xiong to the front.
He had just run over when he shouted loudly at the young guards who were still killing the enemy.
Upon hearing this, the young guards cheered, while the other militiamen were moved to tears, for they had never imagined that Rock would still remember the promise he made to them when he set out on the campaign.
Although these militiamen were not the ones whose village was massacred by the bandits, the few who were actually the ones whose village was massacred by the bandits were also mixed in with them, carrying a weapon, and were hacking and slashing at the bandits like madmen.
Seeing the frenzied state of these people, the other militiamen could naturally empathize, because they had also experienced the feeling of their own villages being harassed by bandits.
The thought that if they let these bandits go, they might suffer the same tragedy later made the militiamen harden their hearts. No one of them showed any signs of being a saint at this moment.
On the bandit side, when some of the bandits heard that the group in front of them really wasn't going to give them a way out, their eyes immediately turned red.
"You bastard surnamed Luo, you're utterly unethical!"
"Luo Gou, you'll die a horrible death! Just wait to be hunted down by the entire bandit gang!"
Hearing bandits cursing him over there, Rock couldn't help but laugh.
He's not part of the bandit circle, so why should he talk about morality with these bandits?
As for being hunted down by the entire bandit group?
Oh dear, he's so scared!
No need for much. Once he has 3000 elite soldiers, he'll see which bandits in the entire Northeast dare to talk back to him.
By then, these bandits will be too busy hiding to even think about it. How could anyone possibly be so reckless as to try and break through their own defenses?
Although many bandits wanted to risk their lives to save others at this time, which caused some losses to Rock, they couldn't even do so under the continuous attacks of the Young Guards.
Faced with a row of bayonets in front of them, even if they tried to charge forward, they would be pierced into meat skewers by the bayonets first.
As soon as they stop, the riflemen behind them will open fire immediately, shooting them through the air!
In other words, two militiamen charged too far ahead and ended up in the midst of the bandits, where they were hacked to death by the bandits.
But the remaining militiamen, seeing this, quickly retreated behind the Young Guards, and then followed suit, firing their muskets continuously, instantly routing the bandits.
Another group of bandits who tried to escape were stopped by rat-man grenadiers on the other side.
These giant rats stood on the hillside, constantly throwing dimensional stone bombs down, and in this narrow terrain, the bandits simply couldn't break through the continuous blockade of these bombs!
In particular, many of them have already proven to their companions through their own experiences that the bomb was poisonous!
Anyone hit by those bomb shrapnel would suffer excruciating pain before dying; the bomb was definitely poisoned!
Not long after, as the last bandit was stabbed to the ground with a bayonet, his blood stained the ground red, and the ravine suddenly fell silent.
The young guards were fine; after the battle, they quickly cleaned up the battlefield, sorting out usable muskets from the bandits and using them to finish off the remaining bandits one by one.
Some bandits, who lay on the ground hoping to escape by feigning death, ultimately failed to get away.
When the gun was pressed against his forehead and the soldier pulled the trigger without hesitation, he realized that he had underestimated the brutality of the Luo family army.
To be honest, Rock initially only wanted these young soldiers to finish off the enemy with bayonets, since gunpowder is a very expensive substance.
Putting aside the costs of fighting, the daily training alone meant that Rock had to exchange for a batch of ammunition for these soldiers almost every three days.
He also asked the soldiers if they really had to keep training.
Unfortunately, all the soldiers said that they really need to keep training, otherwise their combat skills will become rusty, which will lead to a slower firing rate.
To be honest, Rock originally thought that they were already firing very fast, and that it wouldn't be a problem if they were a little slower.
However, when he saw that his system soldiers could gain extra experience points during training and could gradually level up by accumulating experience in this way, he decided to let these soldiers train properly.
Once he has advanced troops, he might not need to lead these soldiers out to fight every day; he can make them level up automatically.
Especially compared to the cost of recruitment, leveling up through experience points is free, which saves Rock a lot of money, so he is willing to spend money on training.
He initially considered finishing off the enemy with his bayonet, but then it suddenly occurred to him that the corpses in this world would soon become living corpses after death, unless he could destroy their heads in advance.
To ensure that the bandits' skulls could be smashed, he ordered that they should just be shot in the head.
As for smashing their heads with the butts of guns?
Putting aside the possibility that smashing heads all the way down might damage the rifle, Rock felt that this approach wasn't very psychologically friendly to the soldiers.
His soldiers didn't seem to be that ruthless, capable of smashing dozens of heads like opening coconuts without batting an eye.
The other militiamen didn't care about such things. When they learned that they were to finish off the bandit's corpse, they didn't hesitate to pick up large stones from the side and smash them on the corpse's head.
When Rock saw this, he was stunned.
At first, he thought it was because the villagers hated the bandits so much that they used such brutal methods to finish off the bandits' corpses.
But he later learned that the villagers did this because they had long been accustomed to dealing with zombies.
For these villagers, no matter where the corpse came from, they would choose to destroy the head in this simple and brutal way, or if they had the means, they would simply cremate the corpse.
If they don't do this, they'll be the ones who suffer when the zombies overrun the area. As for shooting heads with muskets, they don't care that much, and they don't have that much gunpowder to waste on such things. Gunpowder is quite precious.
After observing the scene before him for a while, Rock found a relatively clean place to sit down, away from the bloody killing field.
To be honest, he didn't think much of it during the battle, but after it was over, seeing the devastation of corpses scattered all over the mountains and fields, he felt a wave of nausea.
However, Rock was merely disgusted and had no sympathy whatsoever.
After learning the extent of the atrocities committed by the bandits against Xiaoshi Village, he could no longer feel any sympathy for them, because deep down, he didn't even consider them human.
He was merely slaughtering a group of beasts; how could he possibly sympathize with them?
If compassion were so rampant, then Rock felt he wouldn't need to time travel; he could just run over, kick the Leshan Giant Buddha aside, and sit there in its place.
"By the way... how's the battle going with the cavalry?"
"That band of bandits' cavalry seems to have also run towards our cavalry. If nothing unexpected happens, they should have already encountered each other, right?"
After sitting down, Rock glanced at his system and found that the battle results had not yet appeared.
He immediately realized that this was because his cavalry had not finished fighting, which was why the settlement had not been triggered.
Who knows what standards this system uses to settle battles? But it seems that, according to his system's judgment, the cavalry's battle should also be included in this battle. His plan to kill two birds with one stone is not going to work.
Even so, Rock didn't feel like he had lost out in any way.
The two battles are combined into one settlement, and the rewards he receives will be even greater, plus he can unlock higher-level units.
For him now, ordinary level 2 and level 3 troops are not very meaningful anymore, so compared to those messy, low-quality troops, he would prefer to get more high-level troops in the battle settlement.
Just as Rock was thinking this, on the other side, the bandits' cavalry had already clashed with the fully armed Queen's dragoons.
"Damn it, Third Boss, this won't do, we can't beat them!"
"Let's run! As long as we're alive, we can always rebuild!"
The remaining less than 30 bandit cavalrymen looked at the Queen's dragon riders opposite them with terrified eyes, feeling as if they had seen a ghost in this battle.
Both sides were cavalry, and after fighting for so long, they had only managed to kill two of the enemy's men, while the enemy had cut down more than half of their own men!
From the very beginning, the Queen's Dragoons did not charge directly at the bandits, but instead used their carbines to fire at them from the outside.
During this process, although the bandits successfully used their homemade guns to retaliate and kill two dragoons, compared to the carbines of the elite French cavalry, their homemade guns had a low firing rate, short range, and terrible accuracy, so they could not outshoot the enemy no matter what.
There was no other way; since they couldn't win in a direct firefight, the bandits had no choice but to launch an attack.
But when it came to the actual charge, they realized that the Luo family army's cavalry were not really good at shooting; their charging spirit was much stronger than their shooting skills!
Just as the bandits were preparing to create some distance and then turn around and charge, they discovered that the Queen's Dragon Riders had taken the initiative to retreat.
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry quickly formed a very dense formation, and then, like a wall, they drew their swords and charged towards them!