Chapter 36—Boosting Morale
Since the main force of the Dark Legion surrounded and began to harass day and night under the leadership of the two adjutant of the Dark Evil God, although the Xuancheng Qi army has suffered losses, the current defense measures of Huicheng for the Demon Bat Riders have basically been perfected, and the heavy bed crossbow can be used to target these Demon Bat Riders who will suddenly appear at some point, and use the soldiers holding giant shields to protect these soldiers who control the heavy crossbows. This approach and coping strategy have killed and repelled many attacks of the Demon Bat Riders to a certain extent, but this is an invisible attrition after all, although the Demon Bat Riders have lost dozens of them, their purpose has also been achieved, and the soldiers at the head of the city have always been in a state of high mental tension. In such an attack campaign, the two messengers not only sent the Demon Bat Riders to harass, but also sent underground troops who could infiltrate the city to launch a harassing attack, although the city was also prepared, and at least more than 10,000 troops were deployed in the city to defend and patrol day and night, and the dark army could not take any advantage from beginning to end. Unlike Xuancheng, when such harassment was carried out, it was possible to easily destroy the bed crossbow left on the city tower and kill and injure the soldiers of the Qi State, and now when attacking Huicheng, facing such a tight defense, the dark army has no advantage at all.
However, the original intention of the two Mingyi envoys was not to inflict any blow or damage to Huicheng in this way, their original intention was to keep Huicheng in a state of high tension through this kind of non-stop harassment by a small army, this state was not only imposed on all the Qi soldiers stationed in Huicheng, but also on the two defenders of Huicheng, Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing. This kind of non-stop harassment day and night also made the two of them mentally stressed, if it weren't for the fact that the two of them were soul cultivators who didn't usually need so much rest time, they would probably have fallen long ago.
The Dark Legion has been harassing the city for more than ten days, and hundreds of soldiers have fallen because of their mental stress, although it is not in danger of any life, but it has opened a very bad omen in the city, this kind of feeling of falling because of mental tension has begun to spread invisibly in the city, and some of the soldiers' mood has also been affected, disgusted with this battle for the defense of the city that has not yet begun to develop.
And in this case, Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing are now facing only one choice path, that is, to try to improve the morale of their Qi army by boosting morale, and get rid of the war-weariness that some of their soldiers are already surging in their hearts, and the best existence to boost morale is actually not the two of them, but Yun Guifei, who is still recuperating and recuperating in confinement, that is, their sister Xia Yun. Xia Yun has not recovered since giving birth to Xuan Lejun's posthumous son, and when she heard the news of Xuan Lejun's death in the last time she was about to give birth, she was depressed and depressed, and even had the will to live and die, which was a huge test for her body and the health of her children.
At present, Xia Yun's own body is still recuperating, but how can she come to comfort the emotions of the soldiers when she is pale and weak from beginning to end? And that Xuan Lejun's widow, although it carries Xuan Lejun's will and the expectations of all the Qi people now, he is now just an infant baby, once the city is lost, the fate they will face will be the same, that is, broken bones. The Dark Legion will never leave any hidden danger for themselves, and will definitely cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. So, how to keep Xia Yun and this Xuan Lejun's widow and keep their last hope for Qi Kingdom, this has become the heart of the two couples.
Thinking about it, since it is unrealistic and quite difficult to ask Xia Yun to personally appease the army's morale now, it is better for them to go into battle in person and stabilize the army's morale through special methods. And the most crucial way to do this idea is what they plan to do tonight.
The Dark Legion harassed day and night, both the Demon Bat Riders and the Gopher Troop had greatly harassed the city, and all the soldiers in the city could do was to fight back, such as using the bed crossbow to inflict targeted heavy damage strikes before the Demon Bat Riders approached the city, and the gopher troops immediately filled the pit and set traps to ambush the gopher troops that might continue to appear from here when they got out of the hole.
But in fact, this coping strategy seems to be flawless, but Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing are like mirrors in their hearts, this coping strategy only treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and in the long run, every harassing attack of the dark army will lay a foreshadowing in the city of Huicheng, and this foreshadowing is aimed at the most fatal weakness of the city, that is, the soil quality.
The castle itself was built on a low ground because of its proximity to the sea. The soil in and around the city is relatively moist and naturally slightly loose, and the geographical distribution in the south of the Yangtze River has added to the city's increasingly strong water town characteristics and atmosphere, the most obvious is that in order to cope with the rain that may accumulate at any time or the sudden rise of the sea, dozens of channels have been built in the city for drainage, most of which lead to the outside of the city and flow directly into the sea. However, most of these passages have been inadvertently destroyed by the Gopher Force of the Dark Legion at this time, which is quite a blow to the city. At present, it is late autumn, it is the season of rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is impossible for them to transfer their forces to rebuild these channels to dredge the stagnant water, so once there are two or three majestic rains in a row, then the city will be in a dangerous situation of being self-defeating.
It was precisely because of such concerns that Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing had to choose to take risks tonight, not only to boost the morale of the soldiers, but more importantly, they needed to buy time to repair these drainage channels, otherwise once the heavy rain came, the dark army would not have to attack at all, and the city would be self-defeating.
Although the Dark Legion's special gopher unit kept the city busy, and there might even be a situation where it was too late to defend, Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing seized such an opportunity. These gopher units dug tunnels directly from the vicinity of the Dark Legion's barracks outside the city and harassed them at an astonishing speed, and the strategy of the soldiers in the city was not to fill in the entire tunnel, but to simply refill the tunnels inside the city, and set traps to ambush the gopher troops that might still emerge from the same path. This move was unexpected by the Dark Legion, and when the gopher troops appeared in the city from the tunnels that had been buried, they would fall into a trap and be shot mercilessly. But today, Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing had to use the tunnel provided by the gopher army to venture out of the city to attack the camp of the Dark Legion, which might delay for a few days.
Under the strict protection of the 3,000 army, Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing successfully entered a tunnel in the city that had been abandoned by the gopher troops, from here they could set off directly, and with the superb light skills of the two of them, they could easily reach their destination, the military camp of the dark army outside the city.
Of course, tonight's adventure was the most uncertain of the two of them in their lives, and they had no idea what kind of opponent they would face this time, and how strong the opponent would be. But they had no choice but to give it a go, otherwise the gossip would spread throughout the city in the next few days, and the morale of the army would be irreversible once it was shaken.
Walking along this narrow and long tunnel, although the two of them could not walk side by side, with their own light skills, even if they were one after the other, the speed of the two of them was quite fast, but in a quarter of an hour, they had quietly appeared outside the city, which is the current camp of the Dark Legion. In the wilderness, twenty miles from the city. And quietly looking around, he found that the camp of the Dark Legion was similar to them, and the tents in the camp seemed to be similar, which also surprised Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing.
For safety reasons, they did not go to the main gate of the Dark Legion camp, but decided to go to the side gate from the other side to check the situation, and if the Dark Legion was heavily defended, they immediately returned to the city and continued to wait for the right time to come back.
So, the two of them took refuge for a while next to a small bush, and just as they were hesitating whether to move on, they suddenly heard a sharp shout, "Catch them, don't let them run!" Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing looked at the source of the sound and found that hundreds of Dark Legion soldiers were sweeping out, and they knew by looking at their appearance that this was the most ordinary humanoid soldier of the Dark Legion, which was not much different from what they looked like from the outside. But it is the lowest status in the dark army, and it has no right to speak, and is only used to work as coolies and "death squads". And as the hundreds of Dark Legion humanoid soldiers were looking in the direction they were pursuing, the eyes of Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing were immediately shocked in place.
The two men in front of them were dressed exactly like ordinary Dark Legionnaires, and they even wore a helmet like this on their heads in order to hide their identities, but it was precisely this helmet that directly exposed the identities of the two of them, and the ordinary Dark Legionnaires behind them were not wearing helmets, and the two of them were immediately recognized. It was natural to be hunted down and killed now, but Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing were not only surprised by this, but because these two fleeing figures were quite familiar to them. "It's Deng'er and Rambo, let's go and save them quickly!" Xia Qingyi pulled her husband's arm, and the two of them performed light skills and rushed towards the location of Lu Deng and Shi Lanbo.