Since the enemy was all at the doorstep, the foreign affairs department was abolished, and the personnel were scattered into government affairs and logistics, and they were actually divided into two sets of people, the monarch and the national teacher. A series of requests for appointments turned out to be like mud cows into the sea, and they were nowhere to be found. I don't know if I can't go through the procedure for such trivial things as invitations handed over by foreign envoys, or if they are simply lost on the way to the report.

Until Feng Miaojun arrived in Yinggong City, he did not receive an official reply from the official Xiguo. This would be unthinkable for any other country.

This also shows from the side that Xi Guokong has a country's shelf, but the internal affairs are already extremely chaotic, and even normal uploading and distribution cannot be done. Just this little thing, Feng Miaojun smelled the breath of decay.

The official channels couldn't get through, so she could only sneak in and find Yu in her own way.

They first passed by an empty town.

The town was not small, at least four or five thousand inhabitants, but the roads were deserted, all the doors were closed, and the worn-out signs of a few shops were creaked by the wind.

When you go to this town, you can only feel the cold and dilapidation.

How could a town built just behind the main city be so depressed?

For Yinggong City, the intelligence has already been described, but just now Feng Miaojun looked down with his own eyes in the sky, and still had to marvel at the magnificence of the scenery below.

This is a large rift valley, and the ground is not only full of thousands of ravines, but also countless stone platforms of different sizes and heights, which together build a strange and steep terrain.

Cliffs, dangerous peaks, and strange rocks are the most common landform characteristics here. The top of the stone platform is as smooth as a knife cut, which is very different from the common peaks.

The Yinggong City is built on the widest two-level stone platform.

Yes, these two stone platforms are like stairs, but the drop is nearly 40 zhang (130 meters), and the section is as smooth as a knife, which is difficult for apes to climb. With the section as the boundary, the part of Yinggong City built on the lower stone platform is called the lower city, and the part above 100 meters is naturally the upper city.

The city in the mountains was originally very small, but King Yan withdrew here to expand it and build military facilities.

Affected by the terrain, if the Yan army wanted to capture the palace, it had to start from the lower city of Yinggong City, and the Xi-Wei coalition army swore to resist according to such a natural danger.

Siege warfare has always been difficult to fight, and it is even more difficult to fight a city with this terrain. Feng Miaojun finally understood why he had spent so much time on the journey, and the Yan army had not defeated Xiguo yet.

In the mountains with such strange terrain, the Yan army is probably really struggling. Although King Xi is afraid of death, he has to say that the new capital city he chose is still very suitable for defense, and it has advantages over the pass that is not opened by one man.

At present, the Yan army has not even broken through the lower city, let alone the upper city. Xi Guo must have placed the most elite troops in Xiacheng and withstood the enemy's footsteps. But Feng Miaojun had only glanced at it a few times, and caught a glimpse of red light and black smoke below, and there was an earth-shattering sound, obviously the siege battle was still going on.

It's almost evening, and Yan Jun has no plans to stop.

Just looking at the intensity of the artillery fire, I knew that she came at the right time, and caught up with a round of rapid attacks by the Yan army.

Yan Guo is really wealthy, and after three months of attacking, the artillery shells are still so abundant. If you think about it, you can also understand that this kind of positional battle is extremely costly for the opposing sides, and the attacking side suffers even more. On the other hand, the Yan army, all supplies had to be transported from outside, and now the weather was freezing cold, and they had been in a stalemate here for three months, fighting from autumn to winter, and clothing and bedding were not necessarily enough.

Lack of food and clothing is the most damaging to morale.

Therefore, King Yan must grit his teeth and win the final victory, otherwise the Yan army may have to spend the New Year in this poor and remote country.

Feng Miaojun didn't know how long the Xi army could hold out, those city walls were full of holes, and they were even more crumbling when viewed from a high place. It is already a miracle that the Xi army has been able to hold out so far under the attack of the Yan people, despite the help of the Wei army.

Having said that, the town behind Yinggong City should be very safe, after all, there is no one to go up here except for birds. Strategically, such a town should be a good place to stock up on troops and food.

Feng Miaojun said in a low voice: "There are people in the house. ”

There are not only people, but also a lot of people, even to the point of being a little crowded.

Despite the house, her mind expanded, and she could immediately feel the crowded souls in the town.

Further to the back of town, the original fields are now full of small bulges, densely packed.

Graves!

Feng Miaojun and Chen Dachang glanced at each other and subconsciously held their breath.

They have realized what this place is.

"Wang ...... Miss, this is Plaguetown. ”

Feng Miaojun nodded, although the cultivator should not be afraid of the epidemic, but for the sake of safety, she still quickly took two pills of anti-miasma pills and took one for herself and Chen Dachang.

It was well known that the plague was mainly transmitted through the air, so those infected were sent to the suburbs to be isolated from the crowd. It's very close to Yinggong City, and it seems that the town is where infected patients are discarded and disposed of.

"It seems that the plague has not been completely suppressed. Feng Miaojun said in a low voice, "There should be several such towns near Yinggong City. ”

The reason why I say "incomplete" is because there are 60,000 residents in the upper and lower cities of Yinggong, but counting the soldiers, the total number exceeds 300,000. If the epidemic continues to rage as before, there will not be enough villages and towns nearby.

Chen Dachang said: "Even if an antidote is researched, there are too many people in the city, and the antidote may be in short supply. ”

While he was talking, a bell suddenly rang at the end of the mountain road.

Ding, ding.

In the lonely mountains, this crisp sound sounds strange.

The two looked at the place where the sound came from, and after a few dozen breaths, a dark carriage drove out of the wind and snow and headed for the town.

Before long, the car stopped, and the two coachmen, also dressed in black, jumped down, dragged out two heavy sacks from the carriage, threw them into the open space in front of the town, and shouted:

"Drag it in, bury it!"

After shouting, they jumped into the carriage and hurriedly turned around and returned the way they came.

How can a normal person dare to stay in this place?

The town was quiet.

It took a while for the two doors to open, and several men came out with shovels and pickaxes in hand, and dragged the sacks to the back hill.

Their faces were pale, but they were wearing soldiers' tunics. Feng Miaojun saw that the pus on their bodies was black and swollen, and one of them had pus on the back of the neck, which was broken and leaked out of light black liquid.

This is no ordinary disease.

It turns out that this is how the grave in the open space behind the town came from. Although the sick people in the town had to wait for death, they were willing to let their companions who went first to be buried in the ground, because they would soon have to walk on this road as well. They don't want to be exposed to the wilderness when it's their turn.