Chapter 236: Into the Urn 2
Most of the squires on the upper floors of the city are rich landlords in Ma Chengwang's mouth, occupying acres of land, hiring customers to farm, and collecting rents as their main business, and most of the industries in the city are only some grain shops, but it does not hinder their vision. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
What's more, there are a large number of people who have some caravans or fleets engaged in border trade, and they are naturally no strangers to the neighbors around the country. They know very well that Bagan does not border the Great Song Dynasty, but threatens the Dali hometown of the Yuan people all the time, and now they actually come to Jingjiang Mansion on a large scale, what kind of concept is this?
A hundred is not a lot, but the problem is not a foot soldier, nor a cavalry, but a war elephant, the Bagan people regard it as a treasure and never take it lightly, and it is obvious that it is their own people who sit on top of their heads and control them, looking very typical of Indochina, thin, short, dark-skinned, and muttering incomprehensible words.
"Anyway, this ...... How is it good? "A civil official could not even speak, and those behemoths flaunted their might right under the noses of the people, stomped the ground and shook their ears, and their ears were swelled with roars, but there was no response to his words.
Ma Ji's gaze was not on these elephants at all, but farther away, the huge smoke and dust were gradually dissipating, and the sound of the footsteps that followed gave him a familiar feeling, the feeling of being on the battlefield. === Legend of the Dragon King /msf617/===.
Although he had not seen what the army of the Bagan people looked like, but when he was in Yongzhou, he still heard of the country that was separated from the Great Song Dynasty by a Dali, and its belligerence was not inferior to that of the Yuan people, and even did not buy the accounts of the Yuan people at all, of course, they also did not disdain the Song people, who was the person behind him, not only him, all the officials and squires on the city tower, the foot soldiers and cavalry under the city, they all wanted to know.
When the smoke and dust cleared like a mist, when everything was clearly displayed in front of him, Ma Ji, like these people around him, was only stunned!
The boundless red covered the four fields like a tide, and the neat and uniform military array resounded through the earth, like a huge wave surging to the sky, this time, even those well-informed businessmen were unconsciously trembling in two strands, and had the idea of seizing the door and fleeing, because it was neither a foreign army invasion, nor the army of the Yuan people, in the center of the military array, on the bright red flag flying high in the air, was a huge "Liu" character.
Stirred up by the wind, on the white banners on both sides, there was a long list of official names written on them: "Fuwen Pavilion Straight Bachelor, Bingbu Shilang, Jinghu Strategy, Zhulu Recruitment, Guannei Yingtian, Dedicated to Reporting and Distributing Imperial Front Military Horse Writing, Guangnan West Road Jinglu Slightly Pacification Envoy, Zhijingjiang Mansion and Commander of the Mabu Army".
The reason why it is so eye-catching is not only because of how big the flag is, how wide and long the sides are, but because it is not among ordinary flag bearers, nor is it carried by a certain horse army, but it is erected on the body of a war elephant as high as a hill, the armor on the elephant's body covers most of the body, even the top of the head is no exception, and the huge hood hangs down along the ear to the bridge of the nose, revealing only a pair of small eyes, which looks like the mount of the Bodhisattva in the Buddhist scriptures.
It was carrying a palace-like small house on its back, and the curtain with the curtain was blown up by the wind, faintly showing a human figure sitting in the middle, without any tools, everyone knew that Liu Yu was coming! This day of Guangxi is coming!
Speaking of which, more than half of these people on the city tower have seen each other's faces, but this time they still can't help but take advantage of that kind of power, and the military array in front of them seems to be boundless, even old soldiers such as Ma Ji can't estimate an approximate value for a while, and what they have obtained so far is more than tens of thousands, as for what this 'number' is, it is unknown.
The problem is that he knows very well that all the soldiers and horses in the road have been scattered to the state capitals, and it has only been five or six days since the mutiny has occurred, so it is impossible to gather together and march to Jingjiang Mansion again, if not, then where did these people come from? At least the sergeant in the front row could see at a glance that it was a genuine and fake Tiger Ben soldier.
He is not Yang Xingqian, he will turn a corner to speculate when he encounters something incomprehensible, but this time the experience is always so unusual, looking at the faces of these self-righteous people on the left and right, now he has become terrified, and he suddenly has a chill for no reason, which makes people feel that there is a layer of fog in front of them, and they can't tear it apart.
In the midst of such a contradictory psychology, the huge military formation slowly stopped outside the city, the footsteps gradually stopped, and the war elephants that had run to the moat before also quieted down, and only the sound of the fierce wind sounded in their ears, and on a red water surface, the red tassels on the top of those helmets were blown up, like layers of waves, gently brushing by.
Such a scene reminded Ma Ji of the first meeting with Liu Yu, at that time in the city of Yongzhou, it was also such a neat military formation, so that he felt the concept of strength for the first time in his life, no matter how thrilling the situation, the latter can always give people confidence, just like how huge energy is hidden under his not majestic body.
Thinking about the worries of the previous day, he suddenly felt how ridiculous they were, and a word came to his mind...... Mantis arm as a car! This mantis arm may contain more than just these people around him, this power is enough to crush anything that stands in its way, whether it is a person or something else.
After a while, there was a ripple in the calm water, and the soldiers in front of the army began to shrink to both sides, and they leaned against each other, and a wide passage appeared in the middle, and the giant elephant in the center of the formation slowly moved forward through this passage, and the palace that was almost as high as the head of the city was getting closer and closer.
Under the castle tower is a drawbridge pulled up by two thick iron chains, the giant elephant has been in front of the drawbridge, only to stop under the command of the elephant slave on its back, hundreds of war elephants on both sides have turned to the side, the stars look at it like the moon, the giant elephant raised its head violently, threw its long nose high, and let out a king-like roar: "Moo! ā
The elephants responded with loud voices, and one after another low roars rang out like muffled thunder, and it took a long time for them to subside, and the people on the towers were so close to them that it seemed that even the thick walls could not stop the fear from coming, and they still felt their hearts beat when the roar gradually stopped.
The giant elephant at the head was obviously the leader of the remnant, both in height and size, and the body of more than a foot tall and the palace-like car gave people an indescribable pressure, and at this moment, the curtain that stopped around the temple was opened.
The first to appear were two sergeants, one on the left and one on the right, who tied the veils with hooks, and then took a wooden sign and divided them on both sides, and out of them came a civil official in a winged hat, dressed in a vermilion regular uniform cut very well, and under his young face was a pair of piercing eyes, he stood up straight on the back of the giant elephant, grasped the guardrail in front of him with both hands, and looked at the people on the tower with a calm face.
"That's it...... Liu Ziqing? ā
An old voice sounded in Ma Ji's ears, sighing and muttering to himself, he didn't have to look back to know who it was, before he saw the real person, the few words of description in those newspapers were not enough to make you have too much impression, only in this way, the other party would inadvertently, let everyone remember, what he wanted to know was that if there was such a profundity early in the morning, would they still take the risk.
No one gave him an answer, and with the appearance of the main master, on the backs of the war elephants on both sides, one after another Song army soldiers got out of the car, and all they held in their hands were a huge black and heavy crossbow machine, even if they were not soldiers, the eyes of everyone on the city tower also showed a more frightened look than before.
Because that is the most boastful weapon of the Great Song Dynasty...... Divine Arm Bow!
Its maximum range is more than 100 paces, and the effective range is 50 steps, but from one end of the moat to the head of the city, at most it is only more than 30 steps, the other party only needs to have a little bit of accuracy, can take the enemy's life invisibly, those squires who were swept by the eyes like watching the play first couldn't hold back, one by one quietly retreated, and then the civil officials, but they were still a little reserved, so as not to go down the city tower like the former and go inside.
When there were only a few people left on the city tower, Ma Ji found that the young man not far away had a smile on his face, it was still a little far away, and he couldn't see whether it was sarcasm or something else, he turned his head to look at the empty city towers on both sides, only the old man behind him was still standing hard, and he couldn't help but sigh.
"Open the gates."
Deng Deyu didn't seem to hear his words, staring ahead with demented eyes, the kind of tens of thousands of people gathered together, lined up in a neat military formation, and the majesty that could not be seen at a glance gave people the impression that it was quite shocking, otherwise why would later generations like to hold military parades? For him, that dazzling color is the national color that he has fought for all his life and finally did not hesitate to die, which has never been so clearly presented in front of him, which makes people fascinated.
At this moment, in addition to excitement, there was also a trace of indignation in his heart, since he had such a huge power, why did he want to let the people leave their homes, instead of being outside the city?
"Liu Ziqing!"
Suddenly, the old man leaned forward beyond the city wall with his hands on the battlement, and hissed with all his might, and the young man on the back of the giant elephant turned his gaze and stared at this side without saying a word.
"Mistaken country!"