In eighteen days, under the attack of the Xianbei people, relying on the unity of the city, the soldiers and civilians of Xiangping City have ensured that the city still belongs to the land of the Han Dynasty in eighteen days, and has not encountered the poison of the enemy.

Although the city wall has changed hands repeatedly in these eighteen days, although several sections of the city wall have been breached and have to be made into a new city wall with human lives, although the city gate has been smashed as early as the seventh day, and now the city gate hole has been filled with large and small rubble and rubble, although the warriors who defended the city have changed batch after batch, and the soldiers who originally defended the city can now be said to be one in a thousand.

However, Xiangping City still has the banner of the Han people.

But everyone knows very well that this is already the limit of Xiangping City.

"Shengji, would you think that you can have such a day?"

"You'an, are you qualified to speak of me? Didn't you always want to be a hermit, how could you die on such a battlefield? ”

"Humph! I just hate you disgusting careerists, not fighting to protect innocent people. ”

"Haha, no matter how disgusting you think a person like me is, this time the two of us are afraid that we will die in the same hole."

"Hmph, you're a big man, maybe you'll be passed on to the head by those Hu people."

"You are also not qualified to talk about me in this matter, don't you know how famous the song you wrote, even those barbarians on the other side demand that their subordinates must capture you alive, look, I haven't enjoyed your treatment."

"It's just a pity, even if you try so hard, you still haven't been able to repel these 'puppets' who are not popular no matter how you look at them, it's a pity."

"Manpower will eventually be poor, and who will make our opponents a bunch of non-human monsters."

"Newspaper~~~!! Checkmate! The enemy army began to gather troops again, and this time it was all four. I'm afraid I'm going to launch a general attack! ”

"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore, I hope that in the next life I can catch up with an era of peace and tranquility, so that I can stay at home quietly and read books, learn words, and learn music. When you are at leisure, you can enjoy a drink with three or five friends. ”

"O time of peace and tranquility...... It's okay, it's calmer, but it's not bad for me. This place in Liaodong ...... Although he can be called a king, how can he compare to the prosperity of Luodu, and miss the luxurious palace of Luodu......"

"Don't be so anxious to miss it yet, if you can repel this wave of attacks, there is still a lot of time."

"I know it without you saying it, don't worry, in front of everyone. My grandson Shengji is still the master of this city! ”

Although his mouth was hard, Gongsun Du's heart was far from being as calm and brave as he appeared on the surface.

In fact, Guan Ning is also very aware of this, so maybe it's an encouragement, maybe it's a mockery, all in all, this hermit who is used to living in seclusion in the mountains and forests on weekdays and is unwilling to participate in the world has kept using his brains in this situation to keep Gongsun Du persisting until now.

Is this a miracle?

Perhaps.

In the face of the group of monsters outside the city, a group of human beings with only flesh and blood were able to do this point, Gongsun Du felt a little incredible when he thought about it. He didn't even know that his potential was so great.

The group of monsters outside is really a bunch of monsters, and it's very troublesome to fight, not to mention. Let's not talk about the abnormalities that appear after death, even if it costs a huge price to kill the enemy, after two or three days, they actually meet again, and after death, they directly turn into flying ashes and look even more weird, and then those familiar faces will be like × treasures in the next five or six days, how to break every day, those monsters outside are completely not giving ordinary people in the city a way to live, bastard!

Therefore, under such an enemy attack, please do not be surprised that the battle loss ratio of the attacking and defending sides is more than 1:10. Anyway, Gongsun Du is now completely numb to the paper full of battle damage results.

If it weren't for Gongsun Du's discovery on the first day that the situation was not good, and the troops defending the city changed from all the elite to the mixed forces of the elite and the militia and even ordinary people, maybe this would have caused a significant increase in battle losses, and even because the garrison was filled with a large number of militia and civilians, not only did the cooperation between each other be insufficient, and sometimes there would be chaos in some places, but it was also by this method. This allows the entire city to maintain a certain level of garrison strength.

And those militia and civilians who are lucky enough to survive in two or three days will quickly grow into "veterans" who can be called good at least in the defense of the city, and although these "veterans" are not many, they can at least slow down the consumption rate of elite soldiers.

But now, even if the delivery of the soldiers has been carefully controlled, the strain of troops is still very obvious.

There may still be some soldiers left in the city who can fight, but the defense of the four gates is already a little tight, not to mention the three gaps in the city wall that are more like meat grinders - without the height advantage, it can be said that each gap has become a "tool" for the Xianbei army outside the city to continuously consume the limited forces in the city.

Yes, compared to the Xianbei army outside the city, even if there are more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, it can still only be called "limited", and the corresponding is naturally the Xianbei army outside the city, which can be called "unlimited".

To be honest, Gongsun Du didn't know if the army outside the city should be called the army of the Xianbei people, or if the army from the underground undead was more suitable for the group of invaders, because just three days ago, Gongsun Du had killed his own clan brother Gongsun Yun with his own hands - but at that time, Gongsun Yun was quite sober...... Undead.

In fact, just five days ago, Gongsun Du also saw his own brave brother consume an extremely brave Xianbei army general in the same way, and successfully saved the precarious battle situation.

As a result, two days later, the two people who should have been separated by yin and yang met again, and more importantly, the two people also became enemies who wanted to separate life and death, if it weren't for the fact that Gongsun Yun, who had just been called the deceased, still had a little memory of the living, Gongsun Du didn't believe that he could personally kill this new general in the original Liaodong Army who made the morale of the city head drop as soon as he appeared.

Even so, after another day, Gongsun Yun, who appeared again, had turned into a beast that only knew how to kill. The original memory and reason have been completely lost, although this has reduced his combat effectiveness a lot, but from another point of view, his threat to the Liaodong Army has really increased a lot.

Is there any chance of winning such a battle?

The valiant robe around you will most likely be called the enemy who wielded the sword against you the next day, and even if you are shackled by the memory and knocked down by you, it will still completely forget the memory of the past and fight you to the death the next day.

If it weren't for the flight, it would have been doomed. The Xianbei army made it clear that they wanted to turn the entire Xiangping City into a country of the dead, and if it weren't for Guan Ning leading his "disciples" to sing battle songs and constantly inspire everyone, the battlefield would have collapsed long ago.

In fact, the light of day has not appeared.

As the battle progressed, the soldiers and civilians in Xiangping gradually discovered that the enemy was not completely invincible, or that the resurrected dead could also be sent back to their proper cycle - as long as they had a certain belief, or focused on the attack when killing the enemy, the slain enemy would not reappear.

Unfortunately, the light of dawn only flickered and fell silent again.

Although this discovery briefly inspired the soldiers and civilians in Xiangping City, an even more cruel truth was in front of them-what kind of faith is the belief that can restrain that kind of monster. And how to infuse faith into one's own attack, and most importantly, how to make sure that such a method is really a feasible method, rather than the enemy just using some kind of rotation method, so that the original thought that the vanished Cun Zài will reappear in the attack and defense of Xiangping City a few days later.

Although it was only a short eighteen days, for the soldiers and civilians in Xiangping City, the experience of these eighteen days may be more than the sum of the ten or even decades of their entire lives.

Yes, they would never have thought that there would be such a monster beyond common sense in this world.

All right. Since there is already such an unscientific existence as the Four Holy Beasts, there are also wooden puppets summoned by Zhang Jiao. Nowadays, it is nothing to have such a group of equally unscientific "undead", not to mention that the most famous "scientist" couple of our time, Li Shushi and Su Xiaololi, have made a scientific explanation for this kind of undead that is very consistent with the situation of this plane.

Isn't it just some kind of aggregate of negative performance energy?

Compared with the Xiangping people, the state army and these opponents did not know that they had fought once or twice.

Well, as you can tell from the letter from a certain black-skinned dwarf, it seems that he also met a similar opponent on the battlefield last time.

It's a pity that the princes who are busy fighting for hegemony understand the horror of this strange enemy in addition to the influence of a few holy beasts and a certain Lori, as well as many personal experiences. The remaining princes either did not know enough about it, or simply did not feel anything, but thought that the other party was an Austrian aid that could be sent, and instead provided them with a lot of resources for development and growth.

Maybe this is why there is an old saying that "in troubled times, there will be demons".

"Master, under your guidance, I have gained a new understanding of what kind of beliefs to use and how to infuse them into attacks. I don't know if I can stop those terrible 'monsters', but it seems to be a lot easier to kill the enemy today. ”

If there is a group of people in the entire Xiangping City who firmly believe in the so-called "faith to defeat the enemy", it must belong to Guan Ning and his "disciples".

In fact, this method was originally proposed by these people, when faced with the low morale in the city, Guan You'an led the singing, and his "disciples" echoed the song, and the idea of fighting to the death soared into the sky, this belief not only saved the entire Xiangping City, but also the fact that most people may ignore is that in the eighteen-day Xiangping offensive and defensive battle, although the process of the battle was extremely tragic, the battle loss ratio suffered by Guan Ning's "disciples" can be called the lowest among all the forces in Xiangping City.

Of course, even if the battle loss ratio is the lowest, the absolute number of battle losses is still very high, so that such a fact is actually covered up in the great sorrow of the research and development of the family member who died in battle, and only in the next few days, when all the forces began to have a shortage of troops, the situation of Guan Ning's "disciples" gradually showed a little stronger stamina because of the battle loss rate, which made everyone gradually realize this.

Guan Ning is a hermit. His own character is naturally impeccable, but his temperament is somewhat cold, and he does not care about such things, if it were not for those "disciples" of his "disciples" who informed him of their doubts about this matter, maybe he would still sing a tragic song like before. Take those who trust him and go to the battlefield where there may be no hope.

Instead of constantly starting research in this area as it does now.

Therefore, scientists should not only be smart, but also have eyes that are good at spotting subtle differences.

Guan Ning's group of "disciples" is a group of people who have great trust in Guan Ning, although they can't be said to be completely thanks to Guan Ning, but Guan Ning does use his words, deeds and prestige to let those who have left their homeland have a place to live and work in a foreign land where they are not familiar with life, and those who are native to Guan Ning can also get a stable life that they can't get elsewhere, so it has become their consensus to trust Guan Ning and follow the rules set by Guan Ning to have a good life.

So even if the ethereal "dawn" did not come from Guan Ning, these people are more willing to believe that this glimmer of vitality is completely brought by Guan Ning. We will conduct in-depth research based on this.

Not to mention that after research, this qiē is indeed extremely closely related to Guan Ning's singing voice that cheers everyone up, and this fact is enough to make those Guan Ning's "believers" excited and proud to the point of forgetting themselves.

Zhang Shun is one of these fanatical "believers".

Zhang Shun was born in a family of craftsmen in Xigaima, Xuansu County, and his parents were plundered by Goguryeo's "hunting" troops and disappeared, while he escaped because his parents hid them in the miscellaneous items of a small cellar at home, and later defected to his father's blacksmith friend who lived in Xiangping City, as the blacksmith's apprentice, he finally had the capital to survive in this troubled world.

Zhang Shun is good at running. The body is also far better than its peers, and even better than the speed and endurance of some ordinary pack horses. Therefore, on weekdays, I can occasionally get a windfall by sending supplies to the blacksmith or something.

The blacksmith even gave Zhang Shun the nickname "Wangcai" because of this, on the one hand, because he was such a diligent and quick clerk, which made the business of the store prosperous a lot, and secondly, to describe his endurance that made people sigh.

It's just that this kind of life doesn't make him feel satisfied, on the contrary, he knows that he must get ahead in order to find out the whereabouts of his parents and even avenge his parents, and he understands that with his current life, it will be difficult to achieve his expectations in this life.

I want to keep climbing up. Either join the army and work your way up from the lowest level of soldiers, or study and be called a person with status.

But Zhang Shun heard the blacksmith say in the casual chat that in this era, civil officials are the most important, even if they want to take the road of military merit to make a fortune. If you don't have a certain amount of knowledge, it is difficult to climb to a high place, and the starting point of a civilian official in the army is also higher than that of a simple martial artist.

It's just that what makes Zhang Shun feel a little desperate is that although Liaodong is big, how can there be any outstanding scholars in a place on the border? Even if there are occasionally one or two old gentlemen who are very well educated for the people of Liaodong, and their subordinates are also some children of prominent families in Liaodong, the cost of admission is obviously not something that a blacksmith apprentice in Zhang Shun can afford.

So when he heard that Guan Ning, a "great Confucian" from the heyday of literature in the Central Plains, came to settle in Liaodong and opened a museum for free to teach apprentices, his attraction to Zhang Shun was fatal.

Even if it is just a rumor in the market, for his own future, for the sake of his parents who are nowhere to be found, Zhang Shun will have no hesitation.

In this way, Zhang Shun, who said goodbye to the kind-hearted blacksmith old shopkeeper, became one of the "disciples" who followed Guan Ning's side, and he taught himself a lot of herbal knowledge in his spare time, and he became a well-known doctor in Xiangping City today.

Of course, these are not as good as being a fanatical believer in Guan Ning, Zhang Shun found that he could initially comprehend and use the power of that belief to bring about ecstasy, especially in the previous battle, he not only took the lead and lost the lives of twenty-six "monsters" with his body far beyond ordinary people, but also finally joined forces with the rest of Wu Ming's "disciples" to kill a character who looked like a "monster general" in the Xianbei army, and most importantly, the last knife belonged to him.

Such good news naturally has to be told to Guan Ning, the mentor of his life.

Looking at the excited young man in front of him, even Guan Ning, who had always been indifferent on weekdays, couldn't help but show a gentle smile now, and there was an encouragement for the young man in front of him in that smile, and there was also a hint of a different taste.

Guan Ning actually has a deep impression of Zhang Shun.

It's not just because Zhang Shun in front of him is not much different from Guan Ning in terms of grade. Even because of the hardships of life, Zhang Shun looks a little older than Guan Ning.

More importantly, Guan Ning saw the heartfelt love and thirst for knowledge in Zhang Shun, maybe Zhang Shun's desire to become famous and promoted is somewhat inconsistent with Guan Ning's personal moral standards, but even Guan Ning has to admit that when a child does his best for his parents who are missing. So what does that little bit of so-called utilitarian or radical gain?

Even if Zhang Shun didn't know it, Guan Ning still paid a lot of attention to this young man, who could be regarded as a special teenager among tens of thousands of people in more than a dozen villages in the entire nameless valley, and the results of the attention often made Guan Ning feel emotional.

Maybe Zhang Shun is not a noble person like Guan Ning himself, but in today's era of moral decline, it is quite rare.

After more than ten days of observation, Guan Ning finally made up his mind in his heart!

"Now that you have new experiences, hurry up and seize the time to consolidate them. Maybe that's a bit inappropriate or even strange for me. But Shun, as the person you call 'Master'. I now hope that you will remember every sentence I have said next: the war has now reached its most critical moment -- and this does not refer to the gains or losses of this Xiangping city, but to the country, and even the wider world. You, and others who have realized and understood that this unique power can influence this confrontation, will be the key to changing this confrontation! So, in order to be able to finally win this confrontation, you, and those like you. There will be even greater responsibilities on your shoulders. So, this will be the only order I have given you. I command you with the majesty of being a Master! ”

seems to feel Guan Ning's unprecedented strictness, the irrepressible excitement on Zhang Shun's face has quietly turned into solemnity, he was born in a businessman in the market, he has a very good ability to observe words and colors, and he has already felt that Guan Ning, as the leader of these "disciples", is explaining what last "last words" he is.

Maybe you are so reluctant that you even want to escape from it.

Unfortunately, after years of experience, Zhang Shun is no longer an ignorant child, and he knows very well that his escape will not change the facts that will happen. Instead, they will disappoint the people they respect most.

He didn't want to disappoint Guan Ning, so even if tears had already appeared in the corners of his eyes at this time, even if his nose had begun to sour and began to sob, he still stood straight in front of Guan Ning. There was a look of determination in his eyes.

If his parents gave him the life that came into the world, if the old blacksmith gave him a shelter from the wind and rain, then Guan Ning is the man who shaped his soul, a man who is enough to be called his "father".

For the sake of his father's wishes, he is willing to go to the soup and fire, even if it damages his reputation, he must fulfill that entrustment.

The entrustment to be passed on with life!

"You, and you, must pass on this key key, unless the war has been won, or you are the only one left in this world, you must find a way to pass it on......"

From Zhang Shun's eyes, Guan Ning read his decision as a very special student.

Very relieved, but a little sad.

Maybe there was indeed a little bit of a problem with his temper, and he almost missed such an amazing and excellent person for some small problems, and maybe there were more people who were missed by him, and more scenery was not appreciated.

If I get out of here alive, maybe I'll have to make some changes.

If...... If you can get out alive, do it.

“…… This is the command, and it is my agreement with you. ”

"I won't let Master down!"

As the young man's face was completely covered with tears and snot roared with all his strength, small shouts began to appear in the city, and as time passed, such voices became louder and louder, and seemed to spread to the entire Xiangping City in a short period of time. (To be continued......)