Volume 1, The Rumors of the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 21, Divination

After arranging everyone, Lin Beichuan walked up to the city tower, and after seeing that the northern barbarians were sure to retreat, one person walked down the city tower and went towards the study. With a creak, he gently pushed open the door of the library pavilion, and Hu Xianming sat at the table in the door, holding a stove in his arms, and there was a stove on the side, Hu Xianming put down the book in his hand and looked at Lin Beichuan who walked in, "What's the matter? Brother Lin, the situation on the battlefield is not going well?"

"Brother Hu, do you still remember when we first entered the northern border, that old way?" Lin Beichuan pulled a stool, sat down, and deliberately stayed away from the stove, the fire in the stove was burning very strongly, and Lin Beichuan felt steaming and uncomfortable when he stood aside.

"Isn't Brother Lin unconvinced about divination? Why, why did you suddenly talk about this today?"

"I don't believe in divination, but on the battlefield today, the giants of the Northland and the red-clothed barbarians have all appeared. "There is some haze in Linbeichuan's eyes, when Linbeichuan was sealed to the north, it was high-spirited, but when I came, I saw a dilapidated city tower, as well as the ice and snow all over the city, the whole north was too cold, so cold that no one lived, let alone eat and drink, was sealed in the north, not so much a reward, but a kind of checks and balances, control, that is, on that day, there was an old Taoist who found Linbeichuan's residence before he said a paragraph to Linbeichuan:" The north is noble, enters the capital and turns into a vegetarian, the red clothes fall to the north, the giant beast breaks the Quartet, the general saddles go, and the soldiers end up in the west. Lin Beichuan was very angry after hearing this, only felt that he had just entered the north today, and he was like being degraded, a Taoist, although he didn't understand what he said, but every good word, he was going to kill the Taoist on the spot, and was finally stopped by the princess, so he gave up, and the old Tao disappeared in an instant.

"I haven't studied divination, but the teacher has studied it, it's just a mediocrity, I'm a mortal, why do I know the future, besides, my life may not be up to the sky, Brother Lin, why bother, not to mention that the red clothes are really the red barbarians? I don't know, Brother Lin doesn't keep thinking about it, it's just that the legend says that the red-clothed barbarians have lived thousands of years old, and the red-clothed barbarians are rare wise people among the barbarians, but in order to live longer, the red-clothed barbarians are all hidden under the ice of the Northland, and never appear, and the Northland giants are also in the depths of the Northland, there is no shortage of food and no natural enemies, and it is said in the literature that the Northland giants sleep all year round, have no territorial consciousness, and like to be quiet but not like to move, how can they come to the northern city?

"I've sent Song Tianming to investigate, but I don't know when the results will be. ”

"The red-clothed barbarian and the Northland giant have all appeared on the battlefield, and the characters in the book have appeared in front of them, have you ever seen Brother Lin, is it fake?"

"No one has ever seen it in red, and I don't know if it's true or not, but the Northland Giant once fought against Xiang Yao, it's true, the giant is undoubted. ”

"The Red Man, the Giant of the North. If it is all real, then attacking my northern city today, I am afraid that it is inevitable, the barbarians themselves have extraordinary combat power, and there are red-clothed barbarian commands, but I am afraid that the battle behind will be extremely difficult. I, Hu, can't hide in this comfortable place, just read books. The next siege, I will go with you. ”

"Mr. Hu, next time I will let people pass on the battlefield situation to you at any time, but you must not go up to the city tower, you are suffering from a vicious disease, you must not bear the wind and cold, above the city tower, the wind is extremely strong, I am afraid that Mr. Hu's body will be difficult to support. ”

"Yes, I didn't expect that there were such characters in the Fengdu Dynasty at the beginning, just a word, and I was born a waste in the second half of my life. Hu Xianming was also high-spirited when he was a teenager, as a military advisor in Linbeichuan, he could not only talk and laugh, scold Fang Xuan, but also go to the battlefield in person, lead the troops to charge, both a military advisor and a Confucian general, but Hu Xianming's last battle, into the Fengdu Palace, with the method of flooding, breaking the city, flooding 50,000 Fengdu soldiers, 70,000 Fengdu subjects, after that was cursed by Fengdu's Qin Tianjian with his life, cursing Hu Xianming into the ice cave for life, after that, Hu Xianming every night is inevitable, only feel cold, only after smoking five stones can he sleep, within two years, Hu Xianming can not stand any wind cold, day and night holding the stove。

"Mr. Hu thinks too much, I still have to rely on you in the north, if I go up to the city tower, Mr. Hu is sick, and I don't have the ability to find a replacement for Mr. in Beichuan, so how can I guard the northern border?" After speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled, Hu Xianming shook his head, "General Lin's sycophants are still as bad as before." ”

Linyue Mountain went to the cave more diligently every day after being rejected by his father, in the past, he would spend three hours a day practicing martial arts, but now it has become five, every day is early in the morning, and he returns at night, although he has practiced and practiced, it is still that sword, but Linyue Mountain has never said that he does not want to practice again, but he keeps practicing, and the wooden swords are broken by the dance. And Lin Beichuan also met with Song Tian every day, there were already fifty teams of people entering the barbarian forest, but the dense forest was like a bottomless cave, only people went in, but no one came out, the days passed day by day, no one knew what the next attack of the barbarians would be, but everyone knew that the next attack would be extremely difficult.

In the twenty-first year of the Great Qi calendar, on the first day of January, in the early morning, the horn of the barbarians sounded throughout the north, and after the twelfth day, the barbarian attack began, on the first day of the twenty-first year of the Great Qi calendar, this battle was the most serious attack suffered by the Great Qi State so far, and it was also the most difficult war after the battle of the Black Dragon City in the northern Linjia army, the barbarians sent out the soldiers and horses to change the color of the snow in front of them, and the barbarians all over the mountains kept charging against the city wall, because there were too many people, the snow on the ground slowly began to melt,

"Rush. With the roar of the barbarian general, the battle began, just like the first siege battle, the barbarians still took measures to climb the wall, the archers in the north hurriedly took position, shooting a round of bows and arrows, at this moment, the barbarians walked out of a group of barbarians with strange arms, just like the old barbarians a few days ago, holding spears. Seeing the change of archers, the spears in their hands were thrown, some were thrown on the towers, some crashed into the city walls, but even so, this was the first time that the barbarians used spearmen to resist the bows and arrows, and some archers could not dodge, or pierced the body or the head than the spear, and for a while, the bows and arrows on the city walls were broken. In a moment's gap between the faults, another horn sounded, and countless barbarians rushed towards the city wall, and more barbarians climbed the city wall.

"Salamaki prepares. Six soldiers carried a thick log to the edge of the tower, aimed at the place where the most people climbed, let go of their hands, the wood rolled down the city wall, the person who was hit followed the wood fell, knowing that someone hit the wood with his body, the wood was bounced up slightly, only to save one or two barbarians, after the tree landed, because the city wall was higher, the wood continued to roll down, many barbarians who ran were also hit by the barbarian, either fell to the ground on the spot and died, or were trampled to death by the barbarians behind them, the barbarians kept dying, but there was no pause, and then the barbarians also had a way, although they could not stop the fall of the barbarians, but they would shoot some strong barbarians, holding stone shields, blocking the direction of the wood when it is about to roll down, and sticking the stone shield into the ground, thus preventing more barbarian casualties.

Boom a boulder smashed into the city tower, a northern giant in the distance stood high, Lin Beichuan hurriedly commanded the city tower, instantly ten giant crossbows aimed at the giant, ten crossbow arrows shot at the giant, some deviations into the crowd, rows of barbarians were torn apart by the crossbow tip, the crossbow arrow has been shot into the giant's right hand, the giant shouted, the crossbow arrow pierced deep into the giant's arm, the giant did not dare to stand up, hurriedly lay down, the crossbow arrow above the city tower is ready to attack at any time.

The barbarians are endless, the soldiers on the city tower keep changing, whenever they want to change, the side doors on the left and right sides of the city tower will be opened, and the wind and electric cavalry will kill from both sides, and the barbarians' charging formation will be scattered, and the two cavalry do not seek to kill the enemy, only to disrupt the pace of the attack. Every time the cavalry returned, their faces were covered with blood, and even the scattered hair and beards were frozen in ice and snow, mixed with blood, but even so, the barbarians' attacks were still fierce. The wind rider and the electric rider kept attacking, and gradually began to have casualties.

"With fire oil. Looking at the consumption of the physical strength of the soldiers around him, the damage of the wind riding electric horse increased, Lin Beichuan ordered the use of fire oil, only to see the hot oil poured down on the city tower, and the climbing barbarians were poured on the hot fire oil, and only saw the skin falling off on the spot, and the eyes were instantly invisible, falling down one after another, for a while, the screams were endless, but even so it still did not stop the charge of the barbarians. "Shoot the arrows. "A rocket shot at the oil of fire, the open flame stained the oil on the oil, the oil burned instantly, the corpses piled up under the city became the nutrients of the flame, in an instant, the fire was blazing, touched the surrounding snow, suddenly rose bursts of heat, the hot water vapor was enough to burn people's skin, with a horn, the barbarians began to retreat, the northern soldiers above the city tower also retreated to avoid the water vapor, the water vapor was sandwiched with a trace of blood, the whole air was the breath of blood, the retreat of the barbarians, finally in exchange for a moment of rest, above the city tower, almost all the soldiers collapsed to the ground, even so, there were medical soldiers who came forward to check, The injured were rescued, the dead left some of their body things, and threw them down the city tower, freeing up the space for the defenders to stand, as the corpses continued to fall, the fire rose again, and the rest time was a little more, and the steps of saving people and changing guards were carried out on the city tower.