Outside Shiyi City, Zhao Hong was tired from sleeping in the open on the road. Although Zhao Hong has suffered a lot since the crossing, this is the first time that he has encountered this kind of wind and food. On the third day, the team set off very early, Zhao Hong just drove the ox cart with a whip, and Zhao Hong had not seen the city of this era since the crossing. Thinking that he would be able to enter the city soon, Zhao Hong seemed a little excited, and the fatigue of the journey was slightly relieved under the effect of adrenaline.

When it was close to noon, a city surrounded by earthy yellow walls appeared in everyone's sight like a dragon coiled on the ground. As the distance shortens, the city grows larger and clearer in the eyes of all. There are only crops within kilometers of the city, and there are almost no woods in the bare land. The grain conscription team turned right along the official road, and could already see the east gate of Shiyi in the distance.

The common sense of this era is very different from the cities of later generations. In Zhao Hong's previous life, most of the city's walls were preserved as so-called cultural heritage. Most cities do not have clear boundaries with neighbouring villages, and cities are free to expand. But in the Eastern Han Dynasty, every city was enclosed by high walls. For a large number of commercial activities outside the city walls due to the development of the city, the city walls will be expanded after these commercial activities have reached a certain scale. The walls around these new commercial areas will be rebuilt, known as Guo. The feudal dynasties had strict regulations on the height, length, width, and thickness of the walls of different cities. This in itself was also a manifestation of the feudal hierarchical system in the city.

The ancient Shiyi, also known as the Stone City, has a very long history, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period and before the Warring States Period. Although Shiyi, which is located next to the river, was not a county government, it was originally an important town in Huanshan County in the Qin Dynasty. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the war led to a large loss of Shiyi's population, which made the importance of Shiyi's status seriously decline during the Western Han Dynasty and became an ordinary county seat.

The height of the city wall of Shiyi is naturally not the first of Baoji Village, about less than three zhang high, and the city tower built is not very grand, but it gives people a kind of deterrence and shock from afar. For the first time, Zhao Hong discovered that the walls of the Han Dynasty were very different from those left behind in later generations, and most of those walls were the product of the Ming Dynasty's policy of "building high walls". The walls of the Han Dynasty were not as smooth as those of the Ming Dynasty, and the walls had a prominent horse face at intervals. There is also an arrow tower built on the horse face. Such crossfire effectively counteracts the dead end of the wall defense, so that the defense function of the city wall is greatly enhanced.

Although the function of the relatively square horse face is inferior to that of the bastions with prominent sharp corners in later generations, there are shortcomings that the protrusion is relatively too short, and there is only a convex outer wall without concave inside.

This makes its defensive capability and compared with the fortress not be able to give full play to the advantages of crossfire, and there is also the problem that it cannot completely offset the blind spots of shooting, but even so, it shows the wisdom and wisdom of our working people.

Hundreds of years ago, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were zigzag horse noodles, and it may not take long to develop them, and they may evolve into a fortress. The bastions of this primitive structure predate those of Europe, and where is the wisdom of our people worse than those white-haired baboons?

As for why many of the walls were built straight later and there were few horse faces. Zhao Hong felt that the problem was caused by China's long-term reunification. In the absence of the threat of a powerful enemy, the ruling circles lived in great comfort, which led to a long period of stagnation in military technology and a one-sided pursuit of beauty. After all, the jagged walls are far less imposing than the flat walls.

The history of Europeans has always been similar to that of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, and the ununified Europe has always kept these white-haired baboons in fierce competition, so they attach great importance to practicality. For them, the principle of interest has always been pursued, rather than focusing on face engineering, which also shows the importance of looking at problems dialectically from the historical background. Zhao Hong felt that if Europe was unified into one country for a long time, then they might love face more than the Chinese. What ancient peoples yearn for reunification has always been the nonsense of the ruling class!

The grain convoy was only more than 400 meters away from the city gate. Since people have spare money after the autumn harvest, business activities are particularly active under the influence of strong purchasing power. In Zhao Hong's sight, pedestrians coming and going were entering and exiting the city gate against the scorching sun overhead.

Although the height of summer has passed at this time, the cool autumn breeze has not arrived at noon. At noon, Shiyi City was roasted by the scorching sun, as if it was about to be sunburned. There were many pedestrians entering and leaving the city, but the soldiers guarding the city gate seemed a little slack. After all, no one wants to check meticulously under the scorching sun. So the soldiers hid in the hole in the city gate, hurriedly estimated the price of the goods, and began to charge.

This is very similar to the bridge in Zhao Hong's previous life, and the toll booth on the highway. For example, the Yellow River Bridge in Huakouyuan, Zhao Hong's hometown of Zhengzhou. The cost of the one-year fee has been recovered, but it has only been withdrawn after more than 20 years. According to the official explanation, the reason is that the toll of the Yellow River Bridge will also be used to support the construction of other roads and bridges. Emotional taxes, debts, and expenses have all been throttled for a reason. A casual reason can collect N times more profits, so what if it is such a great cause as planting red flags all over the world? Isn't it the imperial grain of ten thousand years?

It was just over 100 meters away from the drawbridge, but the crowd slowed down the speed of the food convoy. Zhao Hong's grain collection team was forced to slowly squeeze towards the suspension bridge with the crowded crowd.

At this moment, a puff of smoke and dust suddenly rose several kilometers to the north. In the distance, hundreds of horses were seen galloping in the direction of the city gate. Some of the rangers were not too far away, and these rangers leaned on their horses, and their bodies swayed autonomously to the undulating rhythm of the horses, as if they were dancing in a gentle dance on the horse's back, which appeared extremely harmonious. The rhythm of the man and the war horse did not lag in the slightest, and seemed to have completely merged. This kind of equestrianism seems to be something that only people who live on horseback all year round. The cavalry of the Han Dynasty can be described as rare to reach this level.

"Xianbei people!" Duber, who had been in the army for many years, suddenly turned pale, and then he shouted at the grain transport team in a fierce and frightened voice.

"Come into town!" After hearing the order, the soldiers of the county rushed to help, and the morning glory of the oxen, the cart of the cart, and the heavy grain cart were still slowly advancing.

The Xianbei people were closer, the distance of the brigade was less than three miles, and some of the rangers were only about seven or eight hundred meters away from the city gate. In Zhao Hong's sight, he saw them carrying heavy maces stained with blood speeding past the fleeing Han people, and after they passed, the corpses of the Han people who had been crushed to the ground after they had been smashed and ran forward a few steps before falling heavily to the ground. Seeing this, the frightened people came to their senses and rushed to the city gate from all directions in a panic. And the crowd that was leaving the city also turned and ran towards the city gate. Immediately, the city gate was blocked by the crowd, which led to a significant reduction in the flow of people, which in turn increased the congestion. Just like the traffic jams that often occurred in the "north, Shanghai, and Guangzhou" in later generations.

The Xianbei people were getting closer and closer, and their brigade was less than two miles away. The fierce faces of a small number of rangers could already be seen clearly by Zhao Hong, but at this time, the crowd that panicked into the city completely blocked the narrow city gate. These knights on horseback were dressed completely differently from those of the Central Plains, they wore braided hair, wore rough leather coats with leather coats, leather jacket collars and small sleeves, some wore pointed fur hats, each carrying a bow and arrow on his back, and holding a variety of blades in his hand. They had large, basin-shaped faces like loaves, and they were covered with flesh on a round floor. The small eyes squinted into a slender slit. The head is large, with a short stature, a sparse beard, and a large bony earring in the left ear.

The whole person's figure looks like a ball. This kind of costume and appearance is exactly the costume of the Xianbei people on the grassland. In later generations, many Koreans who had not undergone plastic surgery were the characteristics of this typical appearance - the Tunguska race.

When the Xianbei rangers saw the crowd at the city gate, they did not rush directly but roamed around, driving the scattered people to the city gate. The Xianbei rangers cut down the rearmost men with axes or maces, and from time to time they shot a feathered arrow or two with their riding bows. This behavior of the Xianbei cavalry exacerbated the congestion of the city gate, and the city gate was almost completely blocked. Some of the panicked people were unfortunately pushed to the ground, but there was no one to help them. Driven by the instinct to survive, people just trampled them into a pulp with a pair of big feet.

The congestion made it almost impossible for the food convoy to move.

And the Xianbei cavalry of the brigade of men and horses is getting closer and closer, and the Xianbei brigade that is galloping quickly will chop down the scattered and fleeing people in the distance, just like the steamrollers of later generations, and there are no more living people left in the places they pass. The drawbridge at the gate of the city had begun to lift slightly upwards under the help of the roulette wheel. Seeing this, Dubo, who looked anxious, no longer hesitated and pulled out the long sword at his waist.

"Kill me!"

With an order, the county soldiers holding halberds struggled to dance one by one with halberds under the desire to survive. Without hesitation, they slashed at the women, children, and children who stood in their way. The side slash of the tip of the "ten" shaped halberd suddenly opened a bloody hole in the congested people in front of them.

Under the action of the impulse, these hard-hit human bodies fell into the moat like dumplings, "plopping" and "plopping", and they dyed blood flowers in the moat, and then these blood flowers scattered and disappeared from then on.

The soldiers of the county who were armed with swords and shields followed, and they raised their heavy swords in the air. With the swing of a skull-swordsman, the unarmed women and children were suddenly cut to pieces.

The county soldiers are like the violent demolition teams of later generations, like bulldozers. It can be said that people block and kill, Buddha files kill Buddha, and clean up all obstacles in front of him.

Seeing this, the rest of the people shouted, "The officers and soldiers have killed people, the officials and soldiers have killed people!" "Scattered near the city gates, some women, children, old and weak who stood in front of the grain convoy but had no way out, jumped into the moat without hesitation.

Many of the people who jumped into the moat did not know how to swim, and they raised their arms and shouted "help", "help". They kept flapping in the water, but no one had the leisure to help others at this time. For the vast majority of people, helping others is premised on not being seriously threatened. These people who fell into the moat have been fluttering, drinking water, all the time. Until their bellies are filled with water and sink into the water like a weighing stone.

Under the indiscriminate slashing of the county soldiers, the crowd that filled the road soon disappeared. They cleared a way through which the grain trucks could pass quickly. Zhao Hong's team of laborers drove the grain cart and was able to enter the city gate with the help of the county soldiers.

Before Zhao Hong and their grain cart completely walked through the gate of the city behind them, they only heard a "poof" sound not far behind them. The crowd was startled by the loud and loud noise. Looking back, they were stunned, and their faces turned pale at the same time.