The bright light illuminated the entire hall, and also fell on Ye Haotian's handsome face, he stood up, paced back and forth on the smooth stone brick surface a few times, and said: "Judging from the situation of the demon army attacking the city today, all the cavalry who came came, they did not bring heavy siege equipment, that is to say, these four thousand people are rushing all the way, wanting to take us by surprise." ”

Xu Heihu nodded: "Makes sense." ”

Ye Haotian continued: "A few days ago, there was news from a hunting team that the Blood Skull Legion had just captured a mountain city three hundred miles away, and it was likely that Ying Jiu's cavalry would come from there. Three hundred miles, in one day, the reinforcements that can be arrived must also be cavalry and lightly armed soldiers, and it is impossible to transport siege equipment. And the desert is already short of trees, and it is impossible for them to build it temporarily, so heavy equipment such as trebuchets, siege towers, and ramming vehicles should not be worried. ”

"So what to worry about?"

"Siege Behemoths, I'm most worried about Siege Behemoths. Ye Haotian's face showed a solemnity that he had never seen before.

Hearing the words 'siege beast', Xu Heihu's face also became ugly.

In the history of the war between humans and demons, there will be siege monsters in every large-scale city battle. Xu Heihu had never seen this kind of huge beast with a single horn on its head and a body harder than a rock, but he was already afraid just by reading the description in the book.

According to the records in the history books of mankind, this giant beast has extremely strong defense, and even the full force of the peak cultivator of the Four Realms cannot break through the demonic fossil skin on its body, and if it is given a long enough distance to charge, it can easily crash through the two-meter-thick city wall when its speed is at its limit.

The walls of Quicksand City are more than eight meters thick in the narrow place and twelve meters wide in the wide place, and Xu Heihu is not worried about the possibility of breaking the wall, he is worried about the city gate.

There are many accounts in the book about human cities being smashed open by besieged beasts at one time, and those gates are several times stronger than those of Quicksand City.

"Then, what should I do?" Xu Heihu felt that his throat was a little dry, and said with a bitter face: "If the demon army really uses the siege beast, the city gate of Quicksand City will definitely not be able to stop it, it is said that the impact force of the siege beast running with all its strength can even collapse a hill, no matter how strong the city gate is, it is useless." ”

"Our greatest strength is the city. Ye Haotian said with a solemn expression: "Once the city is broken, it will be all over." Therefore, no matter what means are used, the city must be defended. ”

"Nonsense, do you still need to say this?" Xu Heihu said angrily: "I just want to know, how to defend it! If the siege beast really comes, how to break it!"

Ye Haotian thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "How high and wide is the gate of Quicksand City?"

Xu Heihu was stunned and said, "Six meters two high, seven meters three wide, what are you asking for?"

"Six meters two, seven meters three......" Ye Haotian muttered a few times and said, "Fortunately, it seems that you can only bet once." ”

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In the spring of 2547 in the Taichu calendar, several major events occurred in a small border city called quicksand in the territory of King Wu of the Great Xia Kingdom.

First of all, the secret book of Tianjimen's top imperial costume production, "Luohe Book", appeared in the city, which shocked the major family forces in the city and all the mercenary cultivators of the hunting group.

Immediately afterwards, "Luohe Books" fell into the hands of Zhao Laoxi, the largest underworld leader in the north of the city, and the Zhao Mansion was eradicated overnight, and the identity of Zhao Laoxi's wolf demon was made public, but the secret book of Tianjimen was not recovered, and there has been no news since.

Just when the people in the city were celebrating the elimination of Zhao Laoxi, an undercover demon clan, the demon army suddenly came to the city, and Quicksand City fell into a desperate situation that it had never seen before.

At the time of crisis, the young man named Ye Haotian, who had assisted the city lord in destroying the Zhao Mansion, stepped forward again, commanded the defenders to fight against the demon army, and won the first battle of defending the city with an absolute disadvantage of six hundred to four thousand.

It was also on that day that Ye Hao's identity as the son of the Heavenly Demon God was revealed, and the people of the city fell into fear and struggle that almost collapsed.

That night, the annual senator's meeting in the city was held in advance in the city lord's mansion, and the great elder of the Zheng family was killed on the spot because of the fornication with the demon army, and the entire Zheng family was wiped out under the joint attack of the other five major families.

These news did not spread because of the siege of the demon army, and it was a long time before it became the talk of the human kings and nobles after dinner.

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In the council chamber of the City Lord of Quicksand City.

Ye Haotian sat on Xu Heihu's wide city lord chair and carefully looked at the thick stack of copywriting on the table.

The contents of these documents are complicated and confusing, including the history of Quicksand City, the statistics of the city's population, the weapons and armor records of the armory, the list of medicinal materials in stock in the Rejuvenation Hall, the rare treasures available in the auction house, and the number of horses of the Yan family.

After flipping through a few pages, Ye Haotian made a few strokes on a pale yellow piece of paper, and the herald waiting next to him took a few steps forward, picked up the yellow paper and looked at it twice, then quickly walked out of the hall and disappeared into the vast night.

With the yellow notes coming out of the city lord's mansion, the quicksand city at night suddenly came alive like a giant beast awakened, under the light of the dim street lamps at the entrance of the streets and alleys, a soldier and ordinary people quickly shuttled, they sometimes gathered together, sometimes quickly dispersed, seemingly chaotic but orderly, if you look from the air, like a group of silent ants are silently busy.

In a rush of horses' hooves, three carriages entered the Zhao Mansion under the escort of twenty city defense soldiers, and when they came out, each carriage was loaded with more than a dozen tall wooden barrels, and under the order of the leading general, they quickly drove towards the north gate.

Outside the wall of a tall compound with blue bricks and green tiles in the east of the city, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe stood under the wall and glanced at the wall more than three meters high, waved his big hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Demolish!"

Dozens of strong men with hammers and pickaxes climbed up the high wall at the sound of the sound, and with the swing of the pickaxe hammer in their hands, the heavy wall bricks fell to the ground with a muffled bang, and were soon loaded onto horse-drawn carts and transported to the city wall.

Less than 100 meters away from the city gate on the quicksand avenue, hundreds of city residents under the leadership of Xu Heihu are silently busy, each of them is holding a shovel in their hands, with the wave of their arms, an eight-meter square pit in the middle of the avenue is constantly deepening, and the raised soil is soon piled up into a hill around.

Similar scenes have happened in many places in Quicksand City, this night, I don't know how many courtyard walls were demolished into gravel and moved to the city wall, I don't know how many house beams were cut into planks and assembled into temporary catapults, when the moon was in the middle of the sky, until midnight, Quicksand City was like a vegetable field arched by wild boars, everywhere was broken walls, a depressed and dilapidated scene.

Yellow notes flew out of the council chamber of the City Lord's Mansion one after another, and the seven young and strong heralds oozed fine beads of sweat from their foreheads because they had worked too hard, but the respect in the eyes of the young man behind the table was even stronger.

The night is getting darker.

For the next day's battle, the soldiers and people in the city sweated like rain and silently built fortifications.

In the camp of the demon army outside the city, a gluttonous feast has also begun.

A wall of fire nearly 100 meters long surrounded thousands of demon soldiers.

They used their war spears and spears to build a stand, making a sneering sound, in the pungent smell of burning, the blood skeleton warriors fell to the ground one after another, chanting unknown incantations, as the chanting became higher and higher, the blood skeleton warriors on the ground suddenly took out a sharp beast tooth more than ten centimeters long from their bodies, howled and threw themselves at the corpse on the wall of fire, they didn't care about the flames burning under their feet, and they were crazy to pierce the beast teeth in their hands deep into the corpse on the shelf.