Chapter Forty-Eight: The Sacred Fire Cult's Visit
Night falls.
With the establishment of the new city, people also began to live a decent life, with stone houses to keep out the cold, new stoves for cooking, and even seasonings, sea salt!
Every citizen who passed by Yefu bowed respectfully to the gate, and the guards at the gate of Yefu were also accustomed to it and fulfilled their duties.
Yefu is very simple, in addition to covering a large area, the inner yard is planted with several unknown fruit trees, there are only some simple furniture in the house, due to conditions and technical problems, the house is clearly visible from the inside to the outside of the stone bricks, even the simple decoration of the rough house is not as good, such a house, the whole city is there.
"Ready to eat!" Ye Gucheng walked quickly to the table with the last wooden plate containing the grilled fish, and said softly to Xuanyuan Xiu, who had been salivating for a long time: "Eat!
Xuanyuan Xiu didn't understand what the little gluttonous cat meant, and she wouldn't care, compared to these, grilled fish was the focus, and immediately, she was not polite, and enjoyed it.
Living conditions improved, and candles naturally appeared, but the cutlery was still maintained as a wooden product, after all, iron tools were very scarce and important, and almost all of them were used for military purposes.
Of course, Ye Gucheng doesn't care, what he likes is the atmosphere at the moment, under the candlelight, the beautiful face is gobbling up grilled fish, without a lady's demeanor, but without destroying a trace of beauty!
He felt very happy to watch his sweetheart enjoy the fruits of his labor.
Xuanyuan Xiu noticed that Ye Gucheng didn't eat fish, especially when he saw the tenderness in his eyes, a trace of strangeness suddenly rose in his heart, and he slowed down his eating speed a little shyly, and asked curiously: "Gucheng, why don't you eat?"
"I can't help it! If I eat up Xiu'er's grilled fish, what will happen to my Xiu'er's stomach!" Ye Gucheng liked Xuanyuan Xiu's shy appearance more and more.
Xuanyuan Xiu faced the joke, her pretty face turned red, thought about it, put the grilled fish on the wooden plate, and said in a playful voice: "If you don't eat it, I won't eat it either." ”
"Fool! I'm lying to you, eat it quickly!" Ye Gucheng's heart warmed, and he took the lead in eating the grilled fish in front of him.
Xuanyuan Xiu saw that Ye Gucheng was also eating, happily picked up the grilled fish and continued to fight, ate a few bites, as if remembering something, and said slowly: "That's right! Gucheng, I met Brother Wuji today, Brother Wuji asked me to tell you something." ”
"What's the matter?" Ye Gucheng looked careless.
"Brother Wuji said, tell you to train your own personal guards as soon as possible, the more the better, and you must obey the orders of only you. Xuanyuan Xiu conveyed it word for word.
Isn't there already a personal guard?
Ye Gucheng didn't know why, but he didn't take it to heart, after all, now everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and there are more than 100,000 soldiers of the two clans guarding the city, so there is basically no need to worry about it! Take 10,000 steps back and say, if something goes wrong in the city, no matter how many guards there are, it will be useless! "Well! I know, let's eat it! Grilled fish is not delicious when it is cold!"
"Hmm!"
The two of them, who were concentrating on eating, did not realize that fate had once again pushed them to the forefront, and the peaceful days were about to be gone! Ye Gucheng did not realize that the human nature of the people of this era was even more sinister, and not everyone was as eager for peace as he was! The unknown danger began to attack gradually.
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Happy times, always fly by, in the blink of an eye, a month passed, in this month, Xuanyuan Zhuo on the grounds of strengthening the city lord's personal guards, vigorously develop new soldiers, in addition to the gradually growing teenagers in the clan to join the training, some of the unsatisfactory subsidiary tribes of the barbarian tribe were also absorbed, the power of the Xuanyuan clan soon increased exponentially, strangely, Zhang Tao seemed to be unimpressed, and tried his best to cooperate with all needs.
Ye Gucheng's city rules were also officially released.
On this day, soldiers and civilians of all ethnic groups crowded the streets to watch the city rules, only to see the bulletin board read.
1. Open the bazaar, the city citizens and soldiers can exchange their needs with each other in the bazaar according to their needs, and they are not allowed to bully the market, and the violators are expelled from the city.
2. Do not steal, maliciously beat and insult the people of the city, and those who violate it will be expelled from the city.
3. Officially open farming, every household has land for farming, but it is necessary to pay taxes to the city government treasury for military supplies according to the regulations, and violators will be expelled from the city.
4. Do not rape and kidnap women, do not kill people at will, strictly prohibit gathering people to fight, if there is a grievance, you can report to the guards, violators, kill without forgiveness.
The above city rules can take effect.
The rules of the city are very simple, there are only 4 articles, but for the people of the city, it is undoubtedly a blessing, especially the affiliated tribes that have been oppressed all the year round, and they are even more overjoyed, so that their living conditions are greatly guaranteed, and for a while, the words of praise for the city lord are endless.
In fact, these city rules were still won by Ye Gucheng with great effort, and according to the original intention of the two clans, it must be added that the affiliated tribes do not enjoy the above treaties.
On this day, the guards of the sentry tower on the high part of the city wall saw the yellow smoke billowing from the south and a cavalry appeared, and hurriedly blew the horn and put the whole city on alert.
Because the city had been completed, there was a strong barrier, and the condescending position could be seen at the foot of the hill at a glance, and the guard towers and defensive equipment that had been set up on the main road had long been dismantled, and the cavalry regiment easily reached the foot of the city.
There are not many cavalry, only thousands of horsemen, led by a dark and sturdy middle-aged man, seeing the 18-foot-high city wall archers lined up, he can't help but be shocked, there have already been clansmen who have reported that the strange stone forest has become a city, although surprised, far less than the shock that he saw with his own eyes!
With such a city, why not be afraid of enemy tribes!
"Who is under the city? Do not enter again, or you will be killed." ”
"The Holy Fire Sect Leader Wan Yan Lie has been invited to come to discuss the alliance, and please report it. The middle-aged man looked solemn and responded loudly.
The Holy Fire Sect Leader actually came in person!
Xuanyuan Bu looked solemn and whispered a few words to the soldiers on the side, who returned the salute in a hurry, and then slowly stared at the city and said, "Wait." ”
Wan Yanlie was not in a hurry, and ordered his entourage to stand by, and slowly looked at the city that fell from the sky. The outer wall is basically a clay mixture brush body, at the foot of the wall except for the direction of the city gate unimpeded, the rest are rows of fixed sharp wooden obstacles, the area of the obstacles is very extensive, about 9 feet wide, so defensive, I am afraid it is not easy to attack!
Time passed minute by minute, and the wait of several hours was long and torturous! Although Wan Yan Lie was still calm, the generals on the side began to lose their breath!
"Sect Master, I see that Nanban has no intention of forming an alliance, this time I am afraid that it will be more than lucky, that person, this time I am afraid that I will miscalculate!"
"No, that person has a rare scheme in the world, in the past, I asked my sect to give up the pursuit of the barbarian tribe and reroute to attack the territory of the Montenegrin tribe, as a result, we easily won several territories in a row, and then, after his guidance many times, he easily took the territory of many affiliated tribes of the Montenegrin clan, and now my sect is big, he has made great contributions, and he will never deceive us for no reason. Now that I think about it, it was really correct that I didn't pursue it at the beginning, and I don't believe that they are still dissatisfied with my teaching when such a big favor is given to them. "Wan Yanlie doesn't look simple-minded like he looks, and this time he came after careful consideration.
After speaking, the city gate finally opened, and it was naturally Ye Gucheng who came out to greet him! Of course, the eyes of the people of the Holy Fire Sect were more focused on the beautiful heroic posture on the other side.
According to the regulations, Wan Yanlie stationed most of the cavalry outside the city, and only led dozens of his own soldiers into the city.
Wind!
Wind!
Gale!
On both sides of the city, there were columns of heavily armored soldiers, spears undulating, and slogans endlessly, not so much to greet each other as to deter!
Ye Gucheng was very satisfied to see the panic of the people of the Holy Fire Sect, attacking the enemy, attacking the heart! The purpose of his military demonstration to the Holy Fire Sect was to tell them that the alliance should be sincere, if there is any small calculation, I am afraid that there will be no good fruit to eat!
On the one hand, because these soldiers had strict military discipline and high fighting spirit; on the other hand, because of the scenery along the way, the buildings made of stone houses, and how harsh the climate of the Northern Barbarian Land was, only the locals knew best, every year when the cold winter came, someone would always die of the cold, and the stone house was the most effective means to keep out the cold. But to build a stone house, only the Nansheng Continent has this condition, and the Northern Wasteland cannot complete such a project at all, and now it is not only seen here, but also seen everywhere! What does this mean? It means that the people in this city have mastered the method of building stone houses. Unable to help it, he looked sideways to the side, and managed to see the same eagerness in the eyes of another young man.
The patriarch was still like this, and the accompanying escort group was even more shocked.
The city soldiers who were escorting on the side suddenly stood on their toes, and the people who came to watch from a distance were also triumphant.
No matter how powerful the Holy Fire Sect is, it is not just a tent and thatched hut and a life of fear.
However, the sharp-eyed people still found that there was no Zhang Yueli in the army.
Although the road is long, there is always an end, and after a few hours of riding horses, the conference hall is far away.