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Chapter One: Besieged City

  "Boom......" The huge impact sound kept coming, shaking the eardrum with a dull pain.

  Those damned guys are attacking the city again, dont they need to rest? Xu Haifeng cursed those savage Westerners fiercely.

  "Captain, weve run out of arrows and stones, the Golden Dog is coming again." A loud, hoarse voice sounded in Xu Haifengs ear.

  Turning his head to look at his deputy, Xu Haifeng said weakly: "Tell the brothers to take them all down."

  "Its...!" Qin Yong let out a thunderous roar, excitedly licked his thick lips, and turned to run towards the city wall. From the look of it, he seemed to be going not to a battlefield of life and death, but rather to meet his first love.

  "What a cruel fate! I dont know how many of our brothers will be left after this siege is over." Xu Haifeng leaned against the corner of the wall, muttering to himself: "I didnt want it to be like this either... Heaven, why did it have to turn out like this? Im not ready to die yet..."

  Xu Haifeng is a new recruit, yes, hes just a rookie who has been out of the training camp for less than a year, but now he has become the commander-in-chief of this barracks with only over 200 people left.

  Since five years ago, the Western Caesar Empires expansionist footsteps arrived in the East and inevitably encountered the ruthless counterattack of the Great Han Empire. The passionate collision between the two great empires has unfolded countless stories that are worth singing and crying about. Two giants have been vying with each other for years, clashing on the jagged border line countless times, but neither can gain a decisive victory.

  The continuation of the war means the consumption of troops, and the consumption of troops means that a large number of new recruits must be replenished. Xu Haifeng was recruited in this situation, hastily trained for three months, and then rushed to the front line like a duck being pushed onto a shelf.

  The small town he was in was actually a purely military camp, the first line of the war front, where there were only soldiers and no ordinary civilians. The five thousand people here formed the Great Han Empires first line of defense against the Romans, twenty days ago, those damned Romans suddenly provoked a war and launched a crazy siege.

  On the first day of the siege, the commander was killed in battle, the deputy commander died, and the entire camp lost half its men. Everyone knew they couldnt withstand another days attack. In desperation, Xu Haifeng had no choice but to use the forbidden power on his body.

  Xu Haifeng was a commoner, from an ordinary family, with no remarkable appearance, outstanding skills or illustrious ancestry. However, he had one thing that set him apart. When he was seven years old, while chopping firewood on the mountain, he was bitten by a strange snake with a seven-colored crown on its head. In his panic, Xu Haifeng opened his mouth wide and bit back at the snake, unexpectedly biting into the snakes seventh vertebra and killing it. He then sucked out all of the snakes blood. After that, he had a high fever for seven days and seven nights before recovering normally.

  After a narrow escape from death, everything seemed to be back to normal. However, when Xi Hai Feng was 14 years old, he discovered a secret about himself - his blood had undergone a strange transformation. One time, he stole his fathers old Huangjiu wine and drank half of it, accidentally cutting his finger in the process, causing blood to flow into the wine. He got up to bandage his wound, only to discover that the remaining wine in the jar had been drunk by the familys old yellow dog. An hour later, when the drunken old yellow dog woke up, Xi Hai Feng found that it had become much stronger, and its original frail appearance was gone.

  After that, Xu Haifeng secretly conducted several experiments and found that his blood would mutate as soon as it mixed with alcohol. Any animal that had drunk it would become exceptionally strong after an hour of sleep. Whats more, this blood wine had a magical effect on injuries. Of course, all the experimental subjects were small animals; he didnt have the guts to give humans blood wine yet.

  However, a battle in the military camp forced him to change his stance. At that critical moment of life and death, no matter what means were used, being able to preserve ones life was the most important thing.

  As he was a new recruit, fortunately, on the first day of defending the city, he was shot by an arrow but not killed, and was carried down from the city wall for treatment. That night, he endured the severe pain of his wound, moved out several jars of old wine from the logistics department, mixed them with his own blood, and sent a bowl to each of his team members.

  Perhaps it was because the main and secondary generals had died unexpectedly, everyone realized that they were facing a desperate situation, and no one came to stop him. As a result, those who drank fell into a deep sleep quickly, an hour later, when they woke up, they were refreshed and energetic, more importantly, all their injuries were healed, even the deep wounds that could be seen to the bone were cured without medicine.

  Xu Haifeng was overjoyed, gritted his teeth and spat out a bowl of blood, mixed it with five jars of wine, each person had a small cup, more than 200 people drank the blood wine.

  He was very worried that the diluted blood wine would not have such a miraculous effect, but the final result proved that his idea was unnecessary, and more than 200 strong men stood up again.

  On the second day, the Caesarians launched a massive assault and unexpectedly found that the direction they were attacking encountered unprecedented resistance.

  On the city wall, there were more than 200 Han Chinese standing with their chests out.

  Same crumbling city walls, same damaged weapons, but different are the soldiers defending the city. These more than 200 people stared with blood-red eyes, exuding a fierce killing aura, and fearlessly confronted Caesars elite troops. This time, the attacking soldiers encountered their worst nightmare in history.

  The soldiers of the Great Han Empire were possessed by demons, each with boundless strength, agile movements, and a fearless attitude towards death. More importantly, they seemed to be impervious to pain and fatigue, not even flinching when blades pierced their bodies.

  Under the lead of these more than 200 people, the rest of the soldiers also aroused their blood nature and bravely attacked, without any timid color.

  The low walls turned into a ruthless meat grinder, sending the endless waves of Caesarians to hell. On this day, the Caesarians finally got serious and sent one thousand-man team after another. Due to the limited range of the city wall, only teams with a thousand men could exert their maximum efficiency, which was also the biggest factor that the Han side could hold on to.

  When the Caesarians stopped, it was already the second day. At this time, the Caesarians had been attacking for a whole day and night without rest. The Han side was wounded all over, but in this day and night, one of Caesars legions was thoroughly defeated, with a casualty rate as high as 70%, and was forced to cancel its number.

  That night, Xu Haifeng ruthlessly spilled a bowl of blood again, but this time he mixed it with twenty jars of wine.

  It turns out that even such a thin blood wine can have the same effect.

  When the third day of the battle ended and Xu Haifeng released his third bowl of blood, all the remaining soldiers in the city had become Blood Wine Warriors.

  Xu Haifeng naturally became the leader of this group, and in their eyes, Xu Haifeng discovered a hint of dark red, a mysterious and sinister dark red color. As long as there was this dark red eye, they would unconditionally execute his commands. Moreover, he himself would also believe them without any reason. This inexplicable feeling gave him an extreme thrill. However, their shortcomings were equally obvious - they seemed to have become a pack of bloodthirsty wolves who only knew how to fight, and no one could give him even a word of advice.

  Fortunately, their innate talent for being soldiers was fully unleashed under the leadership of the veterans, and they performed at 200% capacity. The growth of the new recruits was also rapid. Three days later, except for Xu Haifeng, no one else showed any signs of childish behavior.

  Although they repelled the enemys attack, most of the Han army was severely injured and unable to move. Under helpless circumstances, Xu Haifeng once again used his blood to save people, unexpectedly achieving an even more astonishing effect. The next morning, all the soldiers of the Han army not only fully recovered but also became even more powerful and fierce. In this way, relying on Xu Haifengs daily bowl of blood wine, they finally managed to hold on until today.

  Xu Haifengs body was extremely strange. If an ordinary person bled a bowl of blood every day, they would have to report to the King of Hell in a few days. Xu Haifeng was tired, but no matter how you looked at him, he didnt seem like someone who was about to step into his grave.

  For the orders that Xu Haifeng insisted on, they were executed very thoroughly. All the battles of attack and defense were carried out on the city wall. The Caesars were able to deploy freely outside the city, but from start to finish, the Caesars never gained control of the city wall for even a minute.

  For the first few days, Xu Haifeng still held on to the hope of waiting for reinforcements, but twenty days had passed and not even a shadow of rescue troops appeared. By now, he had guessed that perhaps due to strategic factors, the Great Han Empire had abandoned its own camp, and the shadow of despair was constantly expanding in his heart.

  Fortunately, this is his word, and these madmen who have drunk blood will not have any problems with morale. And Hai Feng also deeply knows that after this period of fighting with the Caesars, both sides have already formed an irreconcilable deep hatred, if he gives up resistance, then the only outcome waiting for him is death. So he can only harden his scalp and die in support.

  Yesterday, all the grain was completely consumed. In fact, the grain in the camp could have lasted for three months, but because of Xu Haifeng, this incompetent commander-in-chief, he made a decision to abandon the outer wall and concentrate all personnel inside the city wall for defense ten days ago.

  This strategy was absolutely correct in general, but he forgot that all the grain was stored in the logistics department before ordering the retreat, and the logistics department was set up outside the inner city. By the time he reacted, it was already too late.

  Without food, there is no physical strength, how can this battle be fought? Moreover, after the consumption of this period, more than 2,000 soldiers have died, and now only over 200 people are left. However, compared to the situation where half of the troops were lost on the first day, it is indeed a miracle that the Great Han army could hold out for 20 days with just half of its military strength.

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