Chapter 6: The Lonely City
As night fell, in the southwest of the Yanbang Plateau, a huge lone city stood impressively, surrounded by boundless enemy companies and camps. The fire in the barracks flickered, like stars in the sky, shining on the broken body of the city, and now only itself was left in the nine-sided city of the Sang clan. At this time, it is like a stubborn and tenacious old man in the twilight, looking at the devastated Yanbang Plateau, the land that it has guarded for thousands of years, lonely and lonely.
The soldiers in the enemy camp were leisurely patrolling, chatting, and from time to time they looked at the huge lonely city in the firelight, with a trace of deep incomprehension and jealousy.
Their comrades-in-arms, their brothers, fell under the city wall in sight, and the huge trench outside the city, five meters deep and ten meters wide, was filled with the corpses of their brothers.
Chu Ning, the commander of the coalition forces and the commander of the Eighth Legion, was also standing in front of his tent at this moment, also looking at the Ice Dragon City in front of him, with a complicated expression.
In three months, they successively invested 100,000 people to attack the city, but under the stubborn resistance of the other side, they suffered heavy losses.
This Ice Dragon City, which took fifteen years to build, is made of layers of black soil rammed, which is very strong, and the surface is also covered with a layer of thick green bricks, which is extremely solid. It is also the only city among the nine border cities that is all covered with bricks. The tall and strong city walls, the abundant reserves of ordnance, food and grass, and the 150,000 inhabitants of the city have allowed it to hold on to this day.
Moreover, the structure of the urn city of the ice dragon city is also very ingenious, the city wall has been built into a huge S-shape, if the urn city is not completely destroyed, it is necessary to pass through this S-shaped passage, but before reaching the main city of the ice dragon city, the Sang warriors on the wall of the urn city will use the fiercest attack to meet the soldiers of the coalition army.
Chu Ning didn't intend to let his soldiers die in vain, so he specially mobilized the 13th Army Corps to deal with the strong walls of Ice Dragon City. But no one expected that Ice Dragon City actually had trebuchets, a full five hundred trebuchets, and they were caught off guard when they came up, and many people were killed by the coalition army.
However, under the indiscriminate bombardment of the trebuchets of the 13th Legion, Ice Dragon City also suffered heavy losses, and even the walls of the urn city were smashed into ruins.
The conceivable victory did not come quickly, and the Sang turned the ruins of the urn city into a battlefield of repeated rivalry between the two sides.
The terrain of the ruins greatly limited the numerical advantage of the coalition forces, but if they lost the numerical advantage, how could they be the elite opponents of the San tribe.
Even their own Eighth Legion, the Blue Steel Regiment, is inferior to the other side in terms of attack power.
There was no way, he could only let the entire army press forward, and at the same time let the trebuchet troops of the 13th Legion get close to the urn city, directly attack the main city of Ice Dragon City, and use the crowd tactics to fight against the Sang clan.
But after a full month, he suddenly realized that he had underestimated the determination and courage of the Sang people.
When the boulder ran out, the other party actually demolished all the houses, and everything that was hard and could kill people was thrown out by them as stones.
When the trebuchet in the city resounded with a loud roar, what was projected were water tanks, beams, grinding discs, and flower pots......
Or even the corpses of your own siege soldiers!
This is a bit inhumane by the other side, but it is a heavy blow to their own morale.
On the other hand, among the nine tigers of the Sang clan, the seven tigers are all in the Ice Dragon City, the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city is high, very united, every critical moment, they will sing the ballad about the palace guard, and the counterattack will become extremely tenacious, the song that was sung in Binglan City has been deeply imprinted in the minds of every Blue Steel Regiment soldier, as if it is a nightmare, constantly interfering with their minds.
What made Chu Ning speechless the most was that Sang Baihua, the "Wise Tiger" who was the head of the Nine Tigers, in the defensive battle, various means emerged one after another, such as laxatives, drugs, chili noodles, and hot fish oil mixed with feces, which was poisonous and spicy.
In the end, even Chu Ning, a standard soldier like Chu Ning, was so angry that his nose was smoking, and he couldn't help but scold.
I don't know what the old fox Song Haiyuan is okay on weekdays, what is he doing with so much fish oil in the city? Unless he was prepared for the day.
Will those well-known Beifu Sangwei only use these indiscriminate methods?
"Zhihu" Sang Baihua is also a gutsless person!!
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But no matter how you scold, the San people just can't avoid the battle, so that the coalition forces have no way.
However, the day after tomorrow, they will launch a final general attack on this lonely city, once the gates of Ice Dragon City collapse, the two sides will fall into a handover, and when the time comes, the 250,000 troops will be pressed down, and everything will be over.
"In these three months, your life has also been difficult!" Chu Ning looked at the peeling bricks and stones of Ice Dragon City, the swasting city walls, and the half-collapsed city gate tower, and said secretly: "Enjoy this last time!" ”
Life in Ice Dragon City is indeed not easy.
Although Sang Nan had insight into the conspiracy of the Three Kingdoms at the beginning, so that Ice Dragon City was prepared in advance, but the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, they have survived until now, 20,000 of the 70,000 soldiers remained, and only 800 of the 2,000 guards remained, fortunately, almost everyone in the Sang family, young and old, practiced martial arts, plus the Seven Tigers participated in the alliance this time, each of them brought more than 1,000 elite soldiers with them, adding up to tens of thousands of people, which was able to stabilize the situation.
Most of the houses in the city have been demolished, and the people can only live in tents in the square in the center of the city, which is very safe compared to the trebuchet attack, but some boulders can be seen flying into the city at any time, which is definitely a huge mental pressure for ordinary people.
Few people complained about this, because the houses of the San people were the first to be demolished, and for most of the people, they did not expect a rich and noble life, but they needed to be treated fairly and justly.
Among the people in the city, many people have lived here for generations, and they have deep feelings for the Sang people, and they have also experienced a lot together. Now that I heard that it was the West Island, Assyria, and the Free Federation that had come to quell the rebellion, my heart was clearer than a mirror.
Because in the history of Kasha, the West Island and Assyria are the two countries with the worst reputation, and they are also the two countries with the most frequent rebellions, in a thousand years, they launched a total of six rebellions, causing hundreds of people to be separated from their wives and families, and the hatred accumulated in this generation cannot be resolved by two slogans, even if they are now under the banner of justice, it is difficult to change the deep-rooted hatred in the hearts of the people.
At the beginning, some people spread rumors in the city, saying that the Sang people were going to rebel and rebel, and the coalition army came here to quell the rebellion, and told the people not to accompany the Sang people to die in vain, but they were beaten by several old men who were playing chess, and then directly twisted to the city lord's mansion. It turned out that several old men who played chess were all veterans of the Sang tribe who had been disarmed and returned to the field, in their words, with the strength of the Sang family, if they wanted to rebel, they would have swept away the Free Federation long ago, and they still had to wait for your soldiers to press the border and bully people!
Knowing that the Sang people were framed, the people in the city stood up one after another to fight against the grievances, and even when the houses were gone, they didn't complain.
They also knew in their hearts that if the Sang clan was defeated, they would not have a good life in the future, so they simply fought to the death with the other party!
Some young people are casual and full of apprehension, while some old people are shouting and fighting spirit.
Because the old saying passed down from the ancestors: the battle of the Sang tribe has never stopped! (To be continued.) )