Text Chapter 75, the capital city of Guang'an
There is a horizontal street between the north of the city and the city wall of Miyagi, and there are five gates on the other three sides: three gates in the south, the Suzaku Gate in the middle, the Anmen Gate and the Hanguang Gate on both sides, and one each on the east and west sides, which are Jingfeng Gate and Shunyi Gate respectively.
The Suzaku Gate in the middle of the south is the main gate, which is connected to the Myeongtoku Gate of Wai Guo Castle through Suzaku Street to the south, and to the north opposite the Seiten Gate of Miyagi, forming the north-south axis of the whole city. There are 7 east-west streets and 5 north-south streets in the city, and there are sacrificial buildings such as the central government office and the Taimiao and Sheji temples distributed between the roads.
From the perspective of the layout of the city, the planners strictly emphasize the symmetry of the left and right. The whole city is connected by the Chengtianmen Gate of the Miyagi, the Suzaku Gate of the Imperial City, and the Mingdemona Gate of the Outer Guocheng, that is, the Chengtianmen Street (also known as the Heavenly Street) and the Suzaku Street as the north-south central axis, and it spreads out to the left and right from this center.
In order to highlight the status of the central palace city in the north, a group of tall and majestic buildings such as Chengtianmen, Taiji Palace, Liangyi Palace, Ganlu Palace, Yanjia Hall and Xuanwu Gate are pressed at the north end of the central axis, showing the majesty of imperial power with its majestic momentum. Later, with the addition of new halls, this pattern changed.
Guang'an City is the royal capital of the former Qin Kingdom, and it is also the only largest, most prosperous and prosperous center. Officially, there are more than 87 million permanent residents, but if you count all the "black households", it is widely speculated that it should be at least a little over 100 million.
The central government of the kingdom has a permanent garrison of 1 million. Among them, the lowest-level big head soldier must reach the senior division level, the squad leader must reach the holy level, the squadron leader must reach the third or even intermediate level of the holy level, and the captain must be at least the middle and high level of the holy level.
Every 10 brigades reached 10,000 people, and several generals (chief and deputy) were appointed to lead them, and the 1 million garrison troops were under the unified command of the generals. The generals are all at the beginning of the god level, and the generals are at the top of the god level. Below the generals, above the staff generals, there are more than a dozen adjutant generals, who are responsible for managing 100,000 people, and the adjutant generals must reach the middle level of the god level.
Therefore, the army is also full of cultivators, and their strength is stronger than other cultivators of the same level and rank.
The defenders are mainly to guard against small-scale beast tides once every three or five years and once every few decades in the future. Commonly known as also known as "monster siege". The cultivation realm is truly vast and sparsely populated, with far fewer towns and cities, and compared to the boundless wilderness, forests, mountains and rivers, it is equivalent to a handful of islands and reefs in the vast ocean.
In the vast wilderness, there are herbs and materials of all grades, opportunities are everywhere, and there are many dangers.
The strongest weapon in the army to defend the city is the spirit stone cannon, which is the one that "burns" the spirit stone, which is extremely powerful; it is said that the leader of the god-level demonic beasts, if he loses his mind and dares to resist, he can't afford to bombard a few cannons. If you can't put a cannon out, you will consume a thousand spirit stones, and you won't use it easily.
So, are god-level demonic beasts not conscious? Can't they turn into human form? The answer is no. Their strength is usually stronger than that of ordinary cultivators of the same rank and level, and their wisdom is extremely high, not inferior to any cultivator at all. They are pushing the beast tide on the basis of intent to take advantage of the opportunity to make huge profits.
From god-level demonic beasts to human form, many high-level beasts have good intelligence. The wilderness is another world, and they (they) are naturally hostile to everyone in the city. The desire to destroy has never been low, and the beast tide is a godsend opportunity to vent and kill.
In addition, there are five types of common defensive equipment.
1. Yaksha
The Yaksha is also known as "staying in a guest's house". This weapon is made of wet elm wood about 3 meters long and half a meter in diameter as a roller, and the surrounding is densely nailed "reverse whisker nail", the nail head is very long exposed to the wooden surface, tied to an iron cable, connected to the winch, when the enemy soldiers gather at the foot of the city wall, throw themselves into the enemy group, and the winch can crush the enemy to death.
Like the wolf's tooth beater, the Yaksha is a weapon installed on the city wall to take down enemy soldiers.
2. Wolf tooth beat
The wolf's tooth paddle is a kind of composite board made of elm wood with a length of 2 and a half meters, a width of nearly 2 and a half meters, and a thickness of less than half a meter, installed with more than 5,000 wolf-tooth-shaped iron nails with a length of about half a meter, with iron rings before and after, and tied with thick hemp rope. Drop from the walls and kill and wound the enemy soldiers who climb on the walls.
The wolf's tooth slap has a large strike area, and it is very effective to slap the siege personnel. But in fact, if you want to increase the striking power of the wolf tooth slapper, the wood used to make the wolf tooth slap is thick and bulky, and there are a lot of "wolf tooth nails" on it, each weighing less than half a kilogram, so the total weight of the wolf tooth slap is considerable.
It is sometimes quite difficult to retract and release by hand alone, so it can also be towed by a winch.
3. Fierce fire oil tank
The Fierce Fire Oil Tank is the most terrifying weapon to defend the city, and it is the earliest flamethrower in the Xiuzhen Realm. Fierce fire oil is oil, as early as tens of thousands of years ago, the Xiuzhen world discovered and used oil, the earliest crude oil called "stone paint", later renamed "stone grease water", then called "fierce fire oil", and finally named "oil".
4. Bed crossbow
The bed crossbow, also known as the bed crossbow, is also said to have appeared tens of thousands of years ago and is very powerful. It places one or several bows on a bed frame, twists the axle behind it to open the bow and loads the arrow, and waits to fire.
The bed crossbow fires a giant arrow, to put it bluntly, a javelin, about one and a half meters long, and the tail feathers are three pieces of iron feathers, just like three long swords, also known as "one gun and three sword arrows".
This kind of arrow is not to shoot people, but to attack (defend) the city. Huge arrows were fired in rows, and after a loud bang, the enemy's towers were nailed to the city walls, even if they did not fall, so that the soldiers could use them to climb to the siege.
5. Semen stone knife
Saimen knife car, a powerful weapon to defend the city in ancient times. Some are cast in pig iron, some are made of wood, and the front wall of the car is equipped with three or four layers, and each layer is fixed with a number of steel knives, which are extremely sharp, and the body is equal in width and height to the city gate.
Once the city gate was breached by the enemy, the defenders struggled to push the Hanmen knife cart to the city gate and blocked the city gate with the knife cart.
Because there were blades on the knife cart, the enemy soldiers could not get close. At the same time, the knife cart can also resist the enemy's arrows, and the defenders use the knife cart as a barrier to shoot arrows at the enemy. When the enemy breaks through the city gate, they will generally swarm in, and the knife carts suddenly collide, and the enemy will immediately be killed and wounded, which is very tragic.
The above are all ordinary equipment, it is okay to deal with weaker beasts, but it is not very useful to deal with god-level fierce beasts, not to mention that when there is a large-scale beast tide, there will be a god-level small beast king, or even a god-level big beast king.
Therefore, the more advantageous consumables are bows and arrows, as well as various low-level pills, low-level talismans, low-level armor, and even low-level defensive formations. As long as it is the four major types of auxiliaries below the god level, they are all considered low-level, and they are also particularly sought-after.
Strictly speaking, those that are suitable for the division level should be low-level, those that are suitable for the holy level should be intermediate, and those that are suitable for the god level should be high-level. However, Guang'an City is different from the large and medium-sized cities in other places, among which there are not a few god-level cultivators, there are always hundreds, and there are more than a dozen god-level big people.
In fact, those auxiliary products that are applicable to cultivators have gone beyond the mortal level, and they should have a separate title, it is inappropriate to call them high-level, and it is even more inappropriate to call them special-level.
The current ruler of the kingdom is the lion king Sanchez Douglas, who has just ascended to the throne for more than 20 years from the first rank of the god level, and is more than 390 years old at the time.
He worked hard to break through to the god level, and many royal people (god cultivators) celebrated it. The former Tiger King, who had only been promoted to the second rank of the god level, couldn't wait to pass on to him, and impatiently begged for a marshal to take a vacant position and escaped the bitterness of the kingdom's government affairs.
He was very helpless, he couldn't always press, and he didn't break through to the god level? He could only wait, waiting for when there would be another rising star to replace him.
After breaking through and becoming a cultivator, his lifespan suddenly increased to 2,000 years old, which was four times as much. It is rumored that if you are lucky enough to break through all the way and advance to the god level, the lifespan will reach 6,000 years old, the lifespan will reach 15,000 years if you are promoted to the god level, the lifespan will reach 30,000 years old if you are promoted to the ancestral god level, the lifespan will reach 50,000 years old if you are promoted to the secondary god level, and the lifespan will reach the main god level, the highest in the god cultivation realm, it is said that the lifespan will be 80,000 to 100,000 years old.
Of course, under ordinary circumstances, it is rare for people to see god-level masters, and the next three levels are also legends.
Above the realm of cultivating gods, there are ancient legends and ethereal fairy realms, and even this word is rarely heard of.
Could it be that people in the realm of cultivating gods don't like the luxurious pleasures of wine, wealth, sound, dogs, and horses? No, people naturally like pleasures.
It's just that most people are not particularly strong-willed, and it is easy to drown, but it is difficult to control yourself. This is a huge obstacle that hinders many people from continuing to advance. Only when a cultivator reaches the god level can he be called a great figure in the world, and glory and wealth are within reach.
In the small sect, you can be an elder and a hall master, and in the big sect, you can at least mix a deacon, worship or something. It's just as easy to get into the official mansion, and it's easy to get an official and a half-job. The more this is the case, the less stressful life is, the easier it is to relax self-cultivation, and the easier it is to unconsciously slow down the progress of cultivation.
That is a typical loss of a big because of a small one! After enjoying comfort for one or two hundred years, it is very likely that he will regret it for the rest of his life, lose the opportunity to advance, and lose at least 1,500 years of enjoying the heavenly favor of God! Such tragedies abound, and the lion king Douglas has seen too many of them, and it is not strange to see them for a long time.
The most ridiculous thing is that many god-level high-level old guys who have passed the age of four hundred in a daze usually find themselves lost and go crazy and try to cultivate again. Playing with his life to amass wealth, once he hears that there is a life-prolonging pill auction, he will fight for his life with red eyes.
Once the four hundred have passed, God will not be able to save them. Although it is said that the lifespan of a god-level cultivator is as high as five hundred years old, no one dares to guarantee that he will definitely be able to live to a full five hundred years old.
Even a cultivator who had already cultivated to the peak of the god level would be extremely afraid of crossing the four-hundred-year-old mark.
The lion king was very fortunate that he finally caught up with the "Ghost Gate" a lot, and he was successfully promoted to become a god cultivator. After the breakthrough was successful, he succeeded to the throne as the new king, although it was a little annoying, but compared to the boundless fear of being unable to advance day and night, the weight difference was like a world of difference.