The mandrill's combat power is estimated to be able to pick up twenty ordinary soldiers, of course, the combat power of the soldiers after the formation is doubled, and it should not be a big problem to deal with one mandrill, he thought.

The fire oil has been exhausted, and the stones have been thrown.

The few stones that were sparsely pulled were deftly avoided by the mandrills, and the dense bows and arrows did not do much damage. The mandrill dances wildly with its claws, clanging and flying most of the arrows.

The rest of the arrows were shot from a slightly farther point, and the arrows could not be inserted if they slipped and could not be inserted, and at most a few points were inserted when they were closer, and there was no major problem at all. In addition to paying attention to the three-elephant crossbow with a slow firing speed, the mandrill learned to be much more obedient, and at first he would try to block with his hands, but the three-elephant crossbow with thick arms could not be blocked by manpower.

The demon beast is as powerful as a mandrill, and the one lying on the ground is the best proof.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty's three-elephant crossbow, which means a giant crossbow that can only be pulled apart by the strength of a three-headed elephant, it is forty times larger than an ordinary bow crossbow, and the pulley principle is used to save effort, and two giant crossbows can be shot at a time, and it takes twenty people to operate before it can be launched.

It's a pity that it can only be fired every few minutes, and there are not a few on the walls. Whenever the three-elephant crossbow shot through the air, the mandrill made a difficult move to dodge.

At a distance of 500 meters, with the running speed of mandrills as fast as cheetahs, the three three-elephant crossbows could only be fired once, and the six giant crossbows took away a little of the fur of the two mandrills, causing no serious damage.

"Whew" an arrow in the right eye of a mandrill rolled down the slope.

Zi Dinglin put on his bow again and continued to aim, but the mandrill moved too fast, and it was extremely difficult to shoot the vital point of the eye.

"Whew" a fireball hit a mandrill, its thick and long hair became an excellent flammable material, and it was burned in pain, jumping around, roaring and falling off the cliff.

Shi Keqi blew the remnants of the fireworks in his right hand, and in the blink of an eye, three ball-sized fireballs floated above his palm.

Xiaolan screamed excitedly, eager to jump down and fight with the mandrill, but was grabbed by Shi Keqi with his left hand and couldn't move. It rolled its eyes and spat out a bubble of saliva in boredom.

There are four mandrills that climb the city wall with the help of their strength at one time, and the eight heads climb the air, and it is much more difficult to jump from the slope than from the flat ground.

The two ends of the upper wall were stabbed by five or six spears, and it fell with a scream, and as it fell, it grabbed the spears and threw them hard, and the four soldiers who did not let go in time flew out of the city wall.

The other two were much more damning as they nimbly dodged the spearmen's attacks and leaped into the crowd.

Screams erupted, warm liquid splashed onto the walls, and parts of the human body flew wildly.

An arrow was sent out in the Zidinglin rebellion, and the arrow method was like a god shooting one head, and it also pulled two cushions on its back before dying. The other end was forced by more than a dozen soldiers with iron shields and hacked to death with knives.

Shi Keqi was afraid that he would not be able to shoot fireballs at the crowd by mistake, and slammed them down at the eight mandrills under the wall.

The eight-headed mandrill was afraid of the fireball with a very high temperature, so it dodged as if it was flying, and fled with its legs, and the top one saw that the situation was not good, and jumped down to chase them to escape, and was sent to the hell by three fireballs.

The skirmish ended very quickly, but the casualties were not small, four soldiers were killed in dirt planes, five were disemboweled, seven had their necks cut, fifteen were seriously wounded and incapacitated, and eighteen were lightly wounded.

A total of 49 people were killed or wounded.

If it weren't for Shi Zi and the others, this number would be estimated to double.

Xu Chong saw the two of them clearly, explained the handling of post-war matters to his deputy, thanked the two many times, and said that there were still many demon beasts in the basin below, and persuaded the two not to go.

Shi Keqi measured it in his heart: There shouldn't be many demon beasts, if there are a lot of them, what are you waiting for, in case you run into more, Wang Yuming said that Xiaolan will not live for a year or two, although there is no problem now, but it will be too late when something goes wrong.

He was determined to find the Frozen Spring.

"Purple Maiden, it's too dangerous in the forest right now, I suggest you go back. Shi Keqi said.

"If you don't go back, you have to go back yourself. Zi Dinglin cut the railway, and after speaking, he asked for permission to open the floodgates.

There is a proverb in the Northern Zhou Dynasty that ten cows can't pull back stubborn people.

Xu Chong thought to himself, these two people combined, not to mention twenty cows, a hundred can't pull back.

But for some reason, a strange feeling lingered in his heart, and it wasn't until the two of them walked along the slope without a trace after the gate was opened, that he remembered that it should be a sentence: knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, he prefers to go to the tiger mountains.

Soon after the two left, reinforcements from Liangcheng arrived, and Xu rushed to the general who led the team and proposed to increase the height of the outpost wall by three meters, which was quickly approved and built as quickly as possible.

Dozens of soldiers died, and the news of the appearance of the demon beast could not be hidden, so the adults of Liangcheng had to report it.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty shook, the house leak was rained overnight, and the pot was broken to boil soup to drink. It doesn't matter if there are only a dozen demon beasts, but if a wave of demon beasts pops up, can the Northern Zhou army, which is attacked on three sides, still be able to hold Liangcheng?

Back then, the battle with the demon beast was held by the strength of the country. The court unanimously agreed that if nothing was done, the destruction of the country would be imminent.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty, a behemoth that had been sleeping soundly for many years, finally started to operate efficiently and continuously.

Many riders with the highest orders of the imperial court galloped out of the imperial capital.

The orders issued by the imperial court are roughly as follows: 1. All the Northern Zhou armies should conduct the highest standard of training for one small practice a day and one major training for three days.

2. All militia groups, reserve forces, and other paramilitary forces shall be immediately converted into regular armies and will be reorganized and trained in the nearest area.

3. All official weapons manufacturing departments will make every effort to build all kinds of war equipment from now on. Private ironsmith workshops need to increase their production and participate in official manufacturing.

4. All magic sects in the Northern Zhou Dynasty shall send no less than half of the forces in the sect to accept the dispatch of military formations, and all injuries shall be compensated or paid by the military standard.

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The eventful years, the wind and clouds, the rivers flowing, the sea roaring, asking who is the hero in the world.

The fog is not very thick and can be seen two or three meters away.

Shi Zi and the two led the horses cautiously to pay attention to the movement in front, the slope was very steep and could not be ridden.

All the way down to the slope and into the basin for several hundred meters, there were no mandrills in sight.

The two of them relaxed a little and looked around.

There was an irregular path in the basin, and the road was so long that it was barely enough for two horsemen to walk slowly, and I don't know if it was a hunter or a large beast.

The road is lined with tall trees with some low grass in between. Passing through the basin is the official entry into the Ghost Forest, a place rarely visited by hunters.

The two of them rode side by side in silence, thinking about their own thoughts while guarding against the monsters that might jump out at any time, and the atmosphere was tense and depressing.

Shi Keqi couldn't stand being a saw-mouthed gourd, and said loudly: "Purple girl, if it's convenient, can you tell me what you are looking for in the Ghost Shadow Forest?"

"You start by saying that if you look for something different, let's go our separate ways when we get out of the basin. Zi Dinglin stared at the front and said intently.

Shi Keqi pointed to Xiao Lan, who was dozing off on his shoulder, and said, "For this little living treasure, there is an archmage who said that he can't find the Eternal Frozen Spring, and it can live for two years at most." Although he said this with a smile, the smile was quite far-fetched, and it was almost like crying.

"Oh. After listening to Zi Dinglin's faint response, she hesitated for a moment, pursed her lips and said: "My father had a strange disease a year ago, he was very thin, but his stomach was swollen and tall. ”

"The last time I went back from Xiangzhou to see him, my stomach was swollen and high by two points, I couldn't walk, and I lay on the bed every day and cried out in pain. Zi Dinglin's eyes were slightly red.

He told me that this disease is rare in the world, and he doesn't know what its name is, and he only has eight points of confidence to guess that the source of the disease is shrunk in the internal organs, and ordinary medicine cannot work. ”

He said that there is a home remedy to try, to find a kind of water called the eternal spring to drink, so that the disease grows, and the general disease is either suppressed or killed, but this will grow. ”

"It won't hurt my internal organs. Shi Keqi asked with concern.

"No, the doctor said that the source of the disease is software. ”

"Hey"

"Hey"

The two sighed in unison.

Shi Keqi smiled slightly, "How do you know that the Eternal Immortal Spring is in the Ghost Shadow Forest?"

"Emperor Wang Zhou has the largest Tianshu Pavilion in the country, which contains all kinds of vast books, and I often go there to read books when I have nothing to do. The Imperial Physician only knew that there was an eternal unfrozen spring, but he didn't know where to find it. ”

"I thought of the Heavenly Book Pavilion, so I stayed there for seven days, and finally found the answer in a yellowed ancient book, which also recorded something not very friendly. ”

"This book is so good, did you bring it?" asked Scoke.

"No, but part of it is in my head. ”

"Did you say how to find it?"

"No, there is only a record, it is written that the eternal frozen spring is in the Dragon Temple of the Ghost Shadow Forest, and you can only rely on yourself to find it. ”

"Since we want the same thing, can we go together? Two people together are better than one. ”

Zi Dinglin hummed for a moment, and it was a promise.

"By the way, can you tell us about life in the palace?"

"It's okay if it's not very important, you can't ask about palace secrets, the number of guards, etc., I'll tell you the rest as appropriate. Zi Dinglin frowned slightly.

"Is your princess full of all kinds of jewels on her head, and the crown she wears is a few catties of gold alone, and the silk thread of her clothes is made of gold, and the corners of her skirt are hung with jade, and the upper of her shoes is shining with gold, and the whole person is wrapped in gold and jade?"

"If you dress like that, you won't be crushed to death by gold? Except for the ceremony, you have to wear formal clothes, and you usually wear civilian clothes, and the formal clothes are not as outrageous as you say, didn't you see the princess last time?" Zi Dinglin replied.

"Last time, everyone was running for their lives, and there was time to look at people. Shi Keqi said, thought for a while, and asked, "What kind of clothes does the princess wear in her casual clothes?"

"Clothes made of soft silk or other fine fabrics, covered with translucent tulle in summer, light and warm in winter, wearing pearls and hairpins, and so on. ”

"I have a question, everyone says that bats in civilian clothes all day long, and pulling pee on your clothes is civilian clothes?" Shi Keqi laughed, his eyes shining with a naughty light.

"Then the home-cooked meal you eat is the same, what do you say, or do you want to pour rice?" Zi Dinglin chuckled, his slightly frowning brow stretched.