Chapter 90: Defending the City
In the main hall of the royal palace, the prince of Sunniza adopted the Ling Zifeng style of "building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowing down the king." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info".
Just listen to him continue: "As for the reconquista, there is no need to put it on hold. I think that the 50,000 people who surrendered can accomplish this, and it happens that this is the place where the state promised to them is established. ”
Hearing this unusually risky decision, Elder Seth opened his mouth to dissuade the prince: "These surrenderers, will they go back on their word. His Highness is afraid that it will be too risky to do this. ”
Ling Zifeng shook his head and smiled: "Let me answer this doubt for the prince." ”
"These surrenderers themselves do not belong to any party, and there is a real possibility that they will rebel. However, I believe that the interests are the key to these people's considerations, and they will definitely join the winner's side. ”
Indeed, if these people were to establish a state, they would have waited and seen the form.
Then, they would choose to go over to the side of the victors, and as long as Babylon could win the Persian Empire in the future, the people of these subjects would naturally not have any more dissent.
When the deliberations were finished, everyone went about their own business.
Ling Zifeng was invited by Mo Sandi to temporarily live in the concierge room of the palace. After a few days of nothing, Ling Zifeng also asked the story of Mo Sandi's golden ball again in his free time.
According to her, the golden orb came from the Babylonian royal lineage. Some even believe that it is the "fruit of wisdom" stolen from the Garden of Eden, but neither Mosandi nor Prince Ganesa share this view.
They felt that this little golden ball was just some kind of creation of the ancient Babylonian ancestors. It can activate the broken hanging garden, or it can release the same shield as the floating stone with a limited release, and that's it.
However, Ling Zifeng firmly believed that there must be other unknown secrets in this golden ball. However, these things were not something he could figure out now, so he left it behind.
In the days that followed, Ling Zifeng soaked in the "library" to study the murals whenever he had time, and he wanted to see if there was any information that he had left out.
The rest of the time, he continued to practice martial arts and mana. Mo Sandi was by his side almost every day, and the two would learn from each other from time to time.
After several battles, Ling Zifeng was surprised to find that Mo Sandi's strength was much higher than he imagined.
Her dexterous and bizarre assassination methods, combined with her incredible speed, have formed an extremely terrifying combat technique. Ling Zifeng didn't even hold the weapon several times, and was bullied by Mo Sandi to put a dagger against his neck.
If he didn't use magic and martial arts, his battle with Mo Sandi would actually be more than one win or loser. However, if he used magic, Mo Sandi's small golden ball could completely block the magic effect.
In short, Mo Sandi is definitely a qualified candidate for the reincarnation team, which also makes Ling Zi more and more determined to "abduct" her.
The two "fought" while "cultivating feelings", and time passed day by day, and months passed in a blink of an eye.
Two months after the recovery of Babylon, the nobles began to leave, and they felt that the Persians could not raise a large number of troops to counterattack for a while, so they returned to their fiefdoms.
The prince of Ganesha also felt that the battle for the throne of Persia would not be certain for a while, so he also divided half of his men to recover the other territories that had not yet been occupied.
Before everyone left, Ling Zifeng couldn't help but think of the problem that his luck value had not yet reached the standard.
There are many reasons for this, the most important of which is that the Babylonian state is not yet stable, and it seems that the Persian counterattack will come sooner or later.
Ling Zifeng didn't want to ruin the good situation because of carelessness, and the matter of reinforcements was careless.
However, in ancient times, it was not easy to transmit information.
Therefore, he suggested that everyone set up a beacon tower in the direction of departure, following the practice of King Wu of the Western Zhou Dynasty in ancient China.
After explaining the benefits of this approach, Prince Ganesa agreed that the beacon tower should be erected along the road when the people left the royal capital.
At the same time, the prince of Ganesa also sent envoys to set up beacons for friendly Greek city-states such as Sparta, so that there was no worries.
The city wall destroyed by Ling Zifeng was naturally repaired in the shortest possible time, Ling Zifeng would not be lucky, he knew that the enemy might counterattack at any time, otherwise this reincarnation mission would be too simple.
The question is, could the Lord God make the task that simple? The answer was self-evident, so Ling Zifeng and Prince Ganesa began to set up defensive measures.
Reinforcing and raising the city wall or something, it seems unrealistic at the moment, because the Persians don't know when they might counterattack, don't strengthen half of the enemy and come, that's funny.
Therefore, at Ling Zifeng's suggestion, they recruited a large number of people and dug a moat like an ancient Chinese city.
Because of the special geographical environment of the city of Babylon, there was a large swamp in the south, and the cliff in the north was unclimbable by man, so the moat only had to be excavated on the east and west sides.
It took less than a month for tens of thousands of people to connect the east, south, and west directions, and a barely existing moat was built.
Then, Ling Zifeng led the Babylonians to set up hundreds of oil pots on the city walls, which were naturally prepared for the Persians.
The Babylonians were shocked to see his endless stream of strange fortifications, for they had never seen such strange things.
This is not surprising, the ancient Europeans fought straight to the war, and the siege of the city was at most a bit of trebuchet, ramming vehicles or something, and defending the city also relied on the honest resistance of people.
Compared with the various offensive and defensive strategies of ancient China, it is too far behind.
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Three months later, the sideline is urgent!
The Persian throne has been inherited by the four princes, who claim to have led an army of 400,000 from the east to the city of Babylon, claiming to put down the rebellious Babylonian army.
Now the defenders in the city are less than 50,000 and it is very critical, and the prince hurriedly asks for help from all sides, thanks to the beacon tower that was set up at the beginning, and everyone immediately set it on fire.
Looking at the raging beacon fire, Ling Zifeng felt that the current form was still very unfavorable to the Babylonians.
Prince Ganesa also said that although the message should have been conveyed earlier than the usual method. But when the horses gathered, the fastest reinforcements would not arrive until ten days later.
Other reinforcements and requests for help from Greek city-states such as Sparta may have to wait for about half a month.
However, because the Babylonian borders were not yet well defended, the Persian army would not be hindered too much, and they would be able to reach the city within ten days.
Reinforcements take at least half a month, while the enemy only needs ten days, and the urgency of time is clear in comparison.
Ling Zifeng couldn't help but be secretly worried: "I didn't expect so many people from Persia to come!" With the strength of Babylon's defenders, how many days can they hold out?
"Even if there are measures such as moats that have been made in advance, it seems that they are not enough, if the Persian army storms at all costs, perhaps, it will not be able to hold out for even three days!"
And when the Persians saw the beacons along the way, they soon understood that the Babylonian reinforcements were coming, and they would inevitably speed up their march, and they would certainly come much faster than expected.
Therefore, the odds of them choosing to attack are very high. "How can this be?。。。。。。 How is it good? ”