Chapter 72: Defending the City (1)

Liren was not angry, sat there steadily, took the tea handed by the guard, took a sip and said, "Good tea, really good tea." After tasting the tea, Li Ren raised his head and looked at Liao Kai and said, "Mr. keeps saying that we are anti-thieves, okay~!" I'll ask you~~~"

This question immediately made Liao Kai speechless. It took me a long time before I whispered: "But there is a holy decree to rely on, and the above wants us to exterminate you." "The anti-thief words that I kept saying just now never came out of Mr. Liao's mouth again, and it was you who took your place.

Hearing this, Liren said to Liao Kai with a smile: "Mr. Liao, you also want to make some achievements in the court, return to your hometown with good clothes, and glorify your ancestors." But do you think that Shi Miyuan issued a holy decree without authorization, which was originally a crime of defrauding the king, but the current emperor is not a member of the old Zhao family at all, so he can only compromise with Shi Miyuan. But you are a rare person of insight in our Great Song Dynasty, can't Mr. figure out this layer in between? ”

Liao Kai thought for a while and immediately asked: "Master Hou, can you really prove that Shi Miyuan colluded with the marshal of my family and others to endanger the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

"If you give me time, I'll let them tell you personally." Rihito suddenly put on a majestic appearance.

After Liao Kai thought for a long time and gritted his teeth ruthlessly, he said to Liren: "As long as the Hou Ye can spare the life of my marshal in the future, today I will be in the name of a traitor, and I will also tell the Hou Ye what I know." ”

Zhang Lei next to him didn't like what Liao Kai said, and immediately interjected: "The surname Liao, what qualifications do you have to talk to my lord now, and if you know each other, tell it quickly~!" ”

Liren waved his hand to stop what Zhang Lei said, looked at Liao Kai's unyielding eyes and opened his mouth and said, "Okay, as long as what you Mr. Liao said is true, I promise you." ”

Zhang Lei heard that Liren had agreed to Liao Kai's request, and immediately said to Liren anxiously: "Master Hou, you~~~~"

"It doesn't matter, he is a little Li Zhixiao, even if he flies into the sky, I will catch him and chop him into meat puree." Rihito didn't take those eagle dogs under Shi Miyuan seriously at all.

When Liao Kai heard this, he knew that he had done his best for the marshal, and suddenly the light in his eyes was no longer there, and he lowered his head and said to Liren: "Okay~!" Hou Ye is a cheerful person, so I Liao will not shirk it, and I will talk to him today. Speaking of this, he looked at Zhang Lei and said, "Say it, what do you want to ask?" ”

Zhang Lei hurriedly found two notekeepers and asked, "First tell me what you are digging the pit for?" ”

"It's simple, we just want to attack you from below. So first find out where the groundwater level is. Liao Kai honestly answered what he knew.

Rihito interjected with a smile at this time, "Haha, you want to make a hole under the City of Hope?" How about blowing up our city? Is it Mr. Liao? Liao Kai nodded and admitted, and Li Ren said at this time: "Your hand, I have already considered it at the beginning of the construction of the city, don't say that you dig the next zhang, even if you dig another zhang, it will not touch the base of our city." Moreover, the building materials used in our city are not available anywhere in the Great Song Dynasty at all, but the secret building materials we have developed single-handedly. You turn around and look at the wall behind you, which is different from what you're used to. Speaking of this, Liren instructed Zhang Lei: "Let Mr. Liao come down and let him take a good look." ”

After a while, Liao Kai was liberated, he hurriedly turned around and walked to the wall, picked up a bamboo stick on the ground, hung up the lime layer on the wall, and was dumbfounded. I saw that the lime was not very thick on it, just a thin layer, and under the lime was something I had never seen before, a blue-gray thing. Holding the bamboo stick and hanging it vigorously, he couldn't leave a single mark on it, so he only turned around and looked at Rihito with an inquiring look.

At this time, Rihito said, "This kind of thing is the city of hope, the thing that is the main material of the city wall. I'm not afraid to tell you that this kind of thing is called cement, and it is stronger than lime, tung oil, hemp and other things wrapped together as long as it is added in the right proportion. ”

"You mean your entire wall was built with something called cement?" Mr. Liao suddenly felt like he was going to faint.

"Yes, not only with cement, but also with steel that is stronger than 100 steels in the walls of the City of Hope. Don't say that your laughing trebuchet won't work on him, even the Huihui cannon used by the Northern Yuan people now won't be of much use to this city wall. With pride, Liren told Mr. Liao.

Liao Kai was dumbfounded for a moment, thinking that his marshal would attack the city with more than 200,000 people, and the enemy's city wall would not collapse no matter how he and others did it. In the end, he could only watch the soldiers fall one by one, piling up piles of corpses by the city walls.

"Oh! By the way, I forgot to tell you that even if you are surrounded by three sides, you should never try to surround one side. With that, he stood up and prepared to go up the city wall to see what the officers and soldiers were doing.

At this time, a personal guard hurriedly ran into the torture room, saluted and reported to Liren: "The enemy is ready to attack the city on a large scale~!" ”

Rihito just nodded lightly and said, "Hmm! Got it, come with me to the wall. ”

"No~!" The pro-soldier immediately straightened up and saluted again.

Liao Kai was amazed to look at the back, and after Liren left, he asked Zhang Lei: "This general, I don't know what to call it?" ”

"My surname is Zhang, and you can call me Captain Zhang." Zhang Lei was a little impatient.

"Oh! Xiao Sheng has seen Captain Zhang. Liao Kaiwen Zou Zou is salute to Zhang Lei, Zhang Lei suddenly felt goosebumps on his body and hurriedly said to him: "Okay~Okay~!" You don't want to use this set here, it's better to sit down quickly and explain your problems, and when the Hou Ye is satisfied, you can go out and see how your officers and troops were defeated. ”

Liao Kai was now very curious about this place called the Minister of Hope, and immediately wanted to go out to see how many secrets there were in this city, and whether he could make himself fascinated by him. Now Zhang Lei asked what he answered, and after answering, he would ask who invented this thing called cement. Knowing that it was created by Chaozhou Hou, he immediately scoffed a little and said, "It's just some strange and obscene skills." ”

The people in this torture room were all cronies of Liren's cronies, and when they heard Liao Kai trampling the lord in his mind, everyone immediately shouted equally: "Tut! You rotten, do you know what science is? Do you know why Kong Ming lanterns can go to the sky? Do you know why our cement is so hard? ~~~" These people, including Zhang Lei, took turns asking Liao Kai with what they knew, until Liao Kai was really speechless, and he only had to ask. Many people couldn't answer themselves, so they just said to him: "Oh! You want to know, okay, you go and ask our Hou Ye. ”

"Oh~! Why, you ask? Hey, because I don't know either. A small soldier who was doing chores on the side touched his head and said a shocking answer.

The officers and soldiers were finally ready to start a large-scale attack, Liren stood on the high city tower, and at a glance, he saw that the people under the city were all the size of a finger, and these people who seemed to be only the size of a finger pressed a sea of people, or they were in a very neat line and stopped at a position of five hundred steps from the city.

At this time, Liren hurriedly turned around and asked Zhang Hu, "Are you ready?" Are there enough people? ”

"Early this morning, according to the arrangement of the lord, we have divided all the brothers into three echelons, and when the official army begins to attack the city, we will follow the three teams to take turns to defend the wall." Zhang Lei meticulously answered Liren's inquiry in the back.

"Hmmm! Very well, I told you not to take out our top-secret weapons first, did you do so? "Rihito's main concern right now is not to expose his stuff too soon.

When Zhang Lei heard this, he immediately said straightly: "Lord Qiqi, I have already let people hide all the weapons in our dungeon, if necessary, we will quickly take out those weapons." ”

Liren nodded to Zhang Hu very happily and said, "Okay! Worthy of being my right-hand man, go and let the soldiers guard our city of hope according to the pre-arrangement. ”

"No!"

"Kill~~! Rush~~! "The officers and troops rushed towards the three walls of the City of Hope from three directions. The wall facing the east was the direction of the main attack of the officers and troops, and this line had at least half of the total number of officers and troops. The commander in charge of guarding the front city wall was Li Ren himself, he calmly watched the officers and soldiers rushing over from the direction of five hundred steps, and when the officers and soldiers reached three hundred steps, he suddenly waved his hand and shouted: "Longbowman, put ~~!" ”

The heralds passed on Liren's message one after another, "The target is three hundred steps, longbowmen, put ~~!" ”

Swish~! The arrow feathers that covered the sky flew out towards the sky in black. The longbowman's long arrows really deserved his reputation, and Rihito watched the officers and soldiers below him fall down in one piece. However, there were many officers and soldiers, and this first wave of arrows did not hurt the muscles and bones of the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers behind immediately raised their shields and shouted to kill Zhentian and rushed over again.

Rihito immediately ordered: "Longbowmen, free attack, within three hundred paces." ”

"Within three hundred steps, the longbowmen are free to attack, put ~!"

With the voice of the herald, clusters of arrows were shot into the sky by the archers.

The officers and soldiers below did not remember the death of the soldiers at all, and waves of people fell, and waves of people rushed over. Seeing that the base of the city wall is approaching, the longbowmen have fulfilled their responsibilities. Li Ren frowned and ordered loudly: "Crossbowmen are ready, within two hundred steps, three consecutive shots." ”

"Within two hundred steps, three consecutive shots, crossbowman, shoot~!"

"Teng~Teng~Teng~~~~" The sound of a crossbow string suddenly sounded on the city wall, and the thick crossbow arrows shot out of the crossbow machine. The tide of officers and soldiers under the city wall was suddenly stopped. The distance of two hundred steps suddenly became a line of death, and the officers and soldiers who rushed up were immediately set to the ground with less than a hundred paces, and many officers and soldiers who were complacent at the beginning with shields now suddenly knew that they were powerful, and they saw the crossbow arrows on the city wall, like splashing water on them, poured down on themselves and others, and the wooden shield wrapped in iron in their hands was instantly pierced by the bows and arrows shot down from the city wall, and many officers and soldiers were immediately shot to the ground with shields.