In Chaoyang City,

After walking down from the city wall with a body full of fireworks and blood, Zhao Yinggong, who was re-disarming, couldn't help but touch the wound on his shoulder that had not yet healed, and couldn't help but throb his face. Immediately, someone came to help, and immediately saw a black blood clot coagulated on the surface of the vest armor, and quickly wiped it with a cloth, and quickly took the wound medicine to reapply it to him.

"Can the team stand up?"

But he was a lobbyist who persuaded him to come back before, and he was also Zhao Yinggong's former subordinate Zhao Gongfan, a petty officer who liked the chatter of gods and gods, and had a natural fear of Shangguan. Since then, he has been under his command even more nagging.

"You know, you can't blame me for these things. They forced it down."

"Do you know which one of the masters who escaped from Zhao's village, Zhao Daguan."

"Now he is also in this city, and has become the guest of honor of the town general. The right to train the deputy envoy of the regiment. ”

"I'm afraid your trouble is the end of this one."

"You have to be careful in the future."

I heard a sudden bang, and suddenly the gatehouse on the city wall was smashed and splashed open, and in an instant the other half fell down in a scream, and there were many dancing human bodies together, and in a cloud of smoke and dust, the people and the earth groups gathered under the city covered a large area for the crying father and mother.

Then, in the midst of the tearing and earth-shattering, even more terrible shouts rang out,

"The grass thief is in the city again."

"Someone stop it."

Zhao Yingong didn't care about the wound medicine on his body that had not yet dried, so he ran towards the city while wearing armor with a horizontal knife.

However, when he got out of the city ladder, he saw a burning ball flying in front of him, which burst into the city road with a bang, and scattered a lot of sparks and fire rain, and immediately knocked down a piece of the defenders, and a burst of ghosts and wolves howled to escape.

"It's a poisonous fireball."

"Help, I can't see."

"Water. Water.. Water,,Come on water.。。 ”

Then there were people who couldn't escape and panicked, and just jumped off the city wall, turning into a second scream one after another. And even if Zhao Yingong hurriedly stepped forward to pounce and drag, he only had time to save a few people in the fireworks all over the ground;

And in the midst of this delay, I saw that a number of armored grass thieves with wet cloth and masked masks had climbed up on the wall not far away, and they were leaning against the battlements and holding their swords and cards to make an arc-shaped formation that covered each other and was firmly guarded; Then a succession of figures appeared outside the battlement.

At this time, from the aisle on the other side of the city wall, which was not blocked by fireworks, finally reacted and rushed over a dozen defenders with spears or hooks and forks; Then, after seeing the unhurried shields of the grass thieves blocked, several smoking clay pots smashed into the defenders head-on.

But after being dodged, a few loud clangs were heard and burst open under the feet of the defenders, and the charcoal and flowing grease that splattered on the ground ignited their legs and feet, and in a panicked scream, the burning defenders once again dropped their spears, hooks, and forks, and fled.

But the buffer of this moment also made Zhao Yinggong make up his mind, and picked up a discarded wooden card and threw it in the fire as a stepping foot, and suddenly jumped up and jumped over the barrier of the fireworks, and hit the edge of the battlement with a heavy bang.

"Kill."

Suddenly, with the combined attack of the grass thieves at the head of the city who reacted, several swords also slashed and stabbed at Zhao Yin's bow together.

。。。。。

Outside Chaoyang City, there is still an orderly atmosphere in the huge camp; It was only with the figures that had already reached the top of the city in the distance that several towering catapults (return cannons) had gradually stopped, and they had entered a situation of hurrying to repair and maintain.

Barrels of cold, vinegared water were poured onto the visibly hot cast-iron elements, and puffs of air vaporized, while the thick arms and ropes were re-oiled, and the loosely wrinkled leather pockets and sheaths were replaced with new, stronger objects.

And on the edge of the tall shelves, some stonemason-born rebels are carefully polishing the prepared stone bullet rough blanks; Others poured oil on the well-weighed clay and pebble bullets; Others fill poisonous fireballs made from hay with flammable substances such as grease, sulfur and realgar.

"Eat the balls."

With the loud voice of the firehead army, a large bucket of soup and water on the board cart was scattered between the camps with the aroma that quickly dispersed and the figures that gathered.

Even Zhou Huai'an, who was on the side of the newly established appearance team (heavy weapons team) to observe and check the actual combat effect nearby, was also given a large bowl of big balls in soup.

This is a local custom born from the influence of Fujian along the Lingnan coast, that is, every household will eat balls on the winter solstice; Of course, depending on the family situation and the amount of soil, the material of the round is also very different.

Even the local poor families will think of going up the mountain and down to the sea to get some miscellaneous meat, and then use a little coarse rice noodles saved from the gap between their mouths and mix them into puree to make a bowl of white rice balls for the whole family to eat; The solid family or the big family will be ingenious, and try their best to change the tricks in the materials; Such as mushrooms, lamb loins, venison, and pheasants in mountain delicacies; scallops, scallops, shrimp, crab meat, minced fish, etc. in seafood; The worst thing is also a whole leg, a live bird, and a fresh fish;

Then it developed the sweet taste of peanuts, sesame seeds, osmanthus, walnuts, and dried plums.

Among the rebels who followed the local customs, the balls made had only one feature - the materials were real, the pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese meat that were killed were freshly killed, with a large amount of dried dried wind wax that was stored, chopped and cracked and mixed with rice noodles to form dumplings, and then rolled round and scalded in hot soup, ensuring at least one-third of the meat flavor ratio; Therefore, one bite into it is extraordinarily firm and firm;

Of course, the difference between ordinary soldiers and leaders is that there is more fresh meat killed or more dry and salty curd; It is a seavegetable soup with fish sauce, or a fresh soup with shrimp, crab and fish. And the people only have three or five heads of people, small dumplings with oil residue and bran mixed noodles, and white soup with a little salt and wild onions.

The one in Zhou Huai'an's bowl is the product of secondary feeding on his own small stove, which is mixed with fish floss, goose breast, mussel meat, mushrooms, beef tendon and dried polado, and peach kernels, so the inconspicuous balls taste quite rich.

Therefore, after eating this big bowl warmly, suddenly even the energy bar that had been ignored in the field of vision and had not moved for a long time suddenly increased by a line; You must know that the last time there was any movement, I was still in the Huwei Village where I was beaten by the sea, and I ate a meal of dace maw, mackerel gelatin, squid paste and sturgeon, as well as shrimp head red and scallops boiled together into a three-simmered pot.

When he ate three bowls of different flavors in one go, a line of prompts suddenly popped up, "The auxiliary appendage is activating. Then there was a "lack of minimum starting energy" and it went down again; But Zhou Huai'an then noticed that behind the three-dimensional model of the human body, there were a few more invisible lines.

Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but have some kind of expectation in his heart, after all, he had seen the system on his body, and after he lost consciousness and unintentionally went violent, he walked the whole street and caused a miserable situation. Even if it is only a temporary effect, it means that there is one more talisman and life-saving means at the critical moment.

At this moment, the rebels who attacked the city also seemed to have a firm foothold, and planted the cyan angry banner on the city tower and swayed in the wind. The rebels on and off the city couldn't help but boost their morale and roared loudly.

However, a sudden change occurred, and the city gate that had been blocked was suddenly opened from the inside out, and the black pressed a group of defenders in helmets and armor, roaring and roaring, rushing out, crashing into the ranks that were intensifying the siege but had become scattered because of the use of the city walls, and suddenly scattered them all over the ground and scattered on both sides.

Then, in this way, they went on a rampage and killed through many lanes, an array of baffles, brand cars, and whirlwind cannons, and along the same road that the rebels had opened up before, they were unstoppable and went straight to the rear where the catapult was.

But Zhou Huaian was not much surprised and nervous, but sighed at the side.

"It's time to come, too."

Immediately, behind the wooden fence standing on the edge of the stone cannon, the crossbowman who suddenly stood up and made a dense turn, led by Cheng Da biting his loud voice and shouting deafeningly:

"Good thief, what you are waiting for is what you are waiting for."

"Ten o'clock three quarters, the first three columns are laid flat one by one."

"The last four columns are diagonally up for five quarters, and then placed in turn."

Suddenly, the short arrows that burst out of the crossbowman array, like an overwhelming dense flying locust, went straight into the defenders who rushed forward and dared to stand in the line, and suddenly pierced and overturned them layer by layer, and the momentum of the fierce attack was also suddenly suffocated, as if it had slapped the oncoming wave over and fighting, and let the momentum of the impact of the rainbow become scattered on the spot.

Then, after a little slower, the archers of the rear battalion, who were sitting in the camps on both sides and waiting, also began to bow and throw at them at the sound of the command; Suddenly, the rear team of this strange soldier was also shrouded in it, and in the midst of the dead and wounded on their horses, they spontaneously dispersed to dodge.

At this time, I remembered a few snail horns again, and the two well-draped swordsmen, who looked more elite at first glance, had already bypassed the trench and the wooden fence in a roundabout way and formed a flanking trend of left and right pincer strikes against this protruding lone army.

"What..."

This is a not-so-good news, which made Zhou Huaian stunned.

"Liao Yuan was beaten with his head covered outside the camp, stripped naked and thrown in the wilderness?"

"Hurry up and show me there."

Regarding the title of the adult in the Tang Dynasty, although it is usually used to describe the father's generation, in fact, it is not uncommon to call the elder in the history books, especially when it is used to meet the oral title of a third party who is a superior, similar to the meaning of the parent official and the old parent of the state and county pro-people officials in later generations.

Or simply recognize the identity of the nephew in his later life and the godfather in disguise, to get closer to the relationship in disguise or the need to pull the tiger's skin.

For example, when writing an article to worship the heavens and gods, I will also call it, Lord Huang Tian is on the clouds; "The Analects of Ji" has a cloud that "a gentleman has three fears: fear of the destiny of heaven, fear of adults, and fear of the words of saints." "This lord means honorable elder. In "Zhenguan Political Dignitaries", Taizong said that Fang Xuanling said: "For adults, you must learn." This is the meaning of the superior person, not to be a father.

In the late Tang Dynasty, famous weapons began to proliferate, and those who pretended to be "Taiwei" and "Shizhong" abounded, and the generic names of adults were really nothing; Therefore, as long as it is not called out in front of the other party, this is not a more outrageous title.

(End of chapter)