Chapter 44: Huang's War (4)
The stone city is divided into two layers inside and outside, the outer layer is the city wall of five zhang high and one zhang thick, which completely encloses the inner city, and there are four gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Outside the city wall, there is a protective ditch that is more than 50 zhang wide and 25 miles long, and there are four wooden bridges of one zhang wide that can be walked on on the ditch, which is divided into south, south, south, and northwest.
The inner layer is the city, which is divided into four small cities, 64 tribes, a total of 12,800 households, each household accommodates 10 people, and there are two main roads, which run through the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and there are 128 avenues, and there are countless small roads.
In the center of the city is a large warehouse used to store the grain of the whole city, and each small city has a medium-sized warehouse, which is used to hoard the grain of several tribes, and there is a small warehouse in the middle of each tribe, and it is used to hoard the grain of one tribe, and the large warehouse sends grain to the middle warehouse, and the middle warehouse is distributing grain to the small warehouse, and the small warehouse is distributing grain to each household.
Huang named the city Stone Town, which is also worthy of its name.
After the stone city was repaired, Huang left all the villains and the giant phoenix to return to Wanhuo Cave alone to pick up the villains who stayed behind and returned to the city.
After the villains settled in Stone Town, they unanimously elected Huang as the leader to lead them to resist the monsters and live safely.
Huang did not refuse, and became the leader of the villains, and the first thing he did was to select a hundred brave young men in battle, and let each of them lead two hundred strong men to practice with weapons every day, and also selected another hundred knowledgeable elders to educate all the children in the city. The second thing Huang did was to select dozens of elderly people to handle daily affairs and compile etiquette and laws.
Everyone else went to the surrounding areas of Stone Town to cultivate fields and grow food.
A ten-mile-long and wide flat land outside Stone City is reserved for a practice ground for adults and children to practice every day. Other flat hills were used to grow crops, and they cultivated more and more varieties of crops, some for food and some for clothing.
The sun rises and the day is the day and rests, every day passes, the little people draw a horizontal line on the stone wall, indicating that the day has passed, and then write down the things done in the day; the days pass too fast like a white horse, ten days and a hundred days are still easy to remember, thousands are not easy to remember, many stone walls are painted with dense horizontal bars, black and black dotted small characters, easy to confuse, inconvenient to calculate;
In order to make it easier for the little people to keep track of what they did each day, Huang and ten old people consulted to create "years" and "months" to remember, and they divided the month into 30 days, and the year into 12 months, a total of 360 days.
The day Huang officially settled in Stone Town counted the first day of the year.
On this day, Huang Du went to Qingtian to invite the Xuantian Goddess, the Sun God Jun, and Cangjie to come down to Stone City, and he gathered the villains to the empty field outside the city, let them sing and dance, and held several simple ceremonies, one is to celebrate the residence of a safe life, and the other is to thank the gods for saving their lives.
In order to thank the gods for their life, the villains changed the name of the place where they lived to "the world", and the blue sky where the goddess of Xuantian and others lived was called "Heavenly Court" as a sign of respect.
Demon time is like flowing water, six years and three months after Huang created the word "year and month", the Three Demon Kings led tens of thousands of monsters to launch a second attack on Stone City.
The first time they were defeated in the western land, the demon soldiers and demons were all annihilated by Huang and his team, and the three demon kings fled back to the lair of the western land alone, and they plundered tens of thousands of birds and beasts in the eastern land from the new to demonize.
This time, it took ten years of hard work for the three demon kings to demonize.
The Three Demon Kings were busy demonizing the spirits of all beings, so Huang and his villains were able to take a breath and recuperate in Stone City and preserve their strength.
Eager for revenge, the domesticated monsters of the Three Demon Kings had not yet raised 100,000, and they hurriedly launched an attack on Huang and the villains.
Unbeknownst to Huang and the villains, the Three Demon Kings sent hundreds of Flying Demons to the eastern lands to search for them, and it took them months to find Stone City.
The first time they suffered a loss, the three demon kings deepened the strength of the demon flowers on the monsters, so that their appearance changed significantly, such as the two-headed bird became a three-headed bird, and the long-nosed monsters all had two noses, and one of the noses had a ten-zhang long, six-foot-sized log on it, which was used to spread it on the deep pit.
Defeated once, the three demon kings lost their arrogance last time, and they led the monsters to walk very carefully along the way, no longer shouting and rushing forward.
After arriving ten miles away from Stone Town, the Three Demon Kings ordered a large army to be stationed in the same place, they were afraid of being ambushed by the villains, so they sent a flying demon to Stone Town to inquire about the news.
After a while, several flying demons flew to Stone Town and flew back to the monster station, saying that the villains were neatly arranged on the city wall, and they were ready to defend in advance;
The sneak attack was impossible, and the three demon kings simply marched towards Stone City with all the monsters with great fanfare.
When the Three Demon Kings arrived at Stone Town less than half a mile away, they were completely dumbfounded, and they saw dozens of zhang of Hucheng ditch, and the ten-zhang long log brought by the long-nosed monster turned into a burning stick, saying that it was not long, and it was not short to say that it was not short, and it was completely useless.
A few screams, several flying demons sent to the east by the Three Demon Kings to inquire died, they died before they killed the enemy, but they died unjustly, who told them to rush to grab the merit, and went back to report the news without careful observation of Stone City.
The beasts couldn't enter Stone City, and there was no figure outside the city, so the Three Demon Kings were unwilling to return home without seeing an inch, and they commanded the Flying Demon to attack Stone City.
Several flying demons who explored the path were executed by the three demon kings because they did not complete the task, and the remaining ones dared not listen to the greetings and rushed forward with their lives; they still led the battle with three-headed birds; they were almost wiped out.
When the Three Demon Kings were more than ten miles away from Stone City with the demons, Huang and the villains got their news through the secret sentinel, and they were already fully armed in Stone City, and sent people to move rescue troops.
Not seeing the fire dragon, the flying demons were really relieved, and flew to the sky above Stone City in a hurry, wanting to quickly clean up the villain guarding the city wall in a short time, so that they could go back to their lives.
Waiting for the Flying Demons were thousands of sharp iron rods, taking them by surprise with the sound of the wind.
Most of the flying demons expected the villains to have sharp iron rods? they still thought they were using weapons made of wood a few years ago, and they paid the price for their carelessness, most of them were hit by the sharp iron rods, and almost all of them were wiped out, and the few lucky ones were so frightened that they flew out of the sky over Stone City, coming and going as fast as they could.
The flying demons who escaped death flew back halfway, thinking of the three demon kings, they all stopped in mid-air, and they flew back like this, and the end was worse than the iron rod piercing their bodies.
Unable to advance or retreat, the flying demons reflexively flew towards Stone City, they flew very slowly and carefully this time, and they were on the iron rod at any time, so their nerves were very tense.
The flying demons flew to a distance of fifty zhang from the stone city, flew up fifty zhang, and then flew forward, flew above the city wall, and spit out flames down.
Although the flying demons flew a little high, and most of the flames they spit out had been extinguished by the city wall, there was still a little unextinguished fire that fell on the villains' bodies, burning their bodies.
The burned villains were furious, and threw dozens of sharp iron rods at the flying demon.
Because the height was too high, none of the iron rods thrown by the injured villains hit the monster, they fell back to the ground, but also injured their own family, and the villain couldn't dodge, and his arm was pierced through the arm by a sharp iron rod, and the blood flowed like a torrent of blood.
The villains were too frightened to throw sharp iron rods at the flying demons.
Seeing that the villains were helpless to take them, the flying demons became arrogant, hovering and flying down while spitting fire.
More of the little people on the city wall were burned by the flames, most of them were not seriously injured, they were only grinning in pain, and a few were seriously injured and were carried by their companions to the stone house for treatment.
A few iron rods flew towards them, so fast that they couldn't dodge, it was Huang's gift to them, and he was very surprised to see that the monster could still spit fire.
Several careless flying demons won the bid and fell to the ground, and the other flying demons didn't care about the hustle and bustle, turned around, and flew straight into the air for dozens of feet before stopping.
The flying demons flew too high, and the advantage was that they could avoid Huang's attack, but the disadvantage was that the flames they spit out were no threat to the villains, and they were extinguished before they fell on the city wall; they were afraid of being pierced by the iron rod thrown by Huang, so they didn't dare to fly back, hovering in mid-air and making a show for the Three Demon Kings.
After a few rounds of competition, the flying demons suffered heavy losses, from thousands to about 20, Huang's loss was not big, and the villain only had a few more wounded;
The flying demon escaped to death, flying back faster than the sharp stick Huang tossed.
There was no bridge to cross the moat, and there was no way to enter the stone city, the three demon kings led the monsters to begin to retreat to the west, and in a short period of time, the monsters disappeared from the stone city cleanly.
Afraid that the three demon kings and monsters would kill each other, the villains in Stone City did not dare to relax, and they were still vigilant and guarded on the city wall.
It wasn't until the dark sentry in the distance sent a message to Stone Town, saying that the Three Demon Kings had taken the demons to the west for more than 50 miles and really retreated, and the villains in Stone Town let down their guard and plunged into a normal life.
For the first time, the Three Demon Kings retreated without a fight, and the villains did not cheer, but looked worried, because they expected that the monsters would attack Stone City again.
As the little ones feared, although the Three Demon Kings led the monsters walking on the ground to retreat to the western land, they left a hand in the east: leaving the remnants of the flying demons to harass Huang and his villains, so that they could not live peacefully.
The flying demons suffered from the sharp iron rods, and they didn't dare to get too close to Stone City, and flew around to make a disguise, anyway, the three demon kings couldn't control them when they demonized creatures in the west.
Huang and the villains don't take the initiative to provoke the flying demons, they just carefully guard against their sneak attacks, and their main task is to build more and better weapons to deal with the next attack of the Three Demon Kings.