Chapter 34: Encounters
Snowfield City is very well-known, not only because the city is the country of the Hami Empire, but more importantly, there are three most difficult cities in the world to conquer, and Snow City is one of them.
The walls are 23 meters high, and the towers from 10 meters below the ground to 30 meters high are all built with huge stones from Longya Mountain, and the width of the city is 10 meters, and 15 snow wolves can be used in parallel.
Within 10 kilometers of the city, there are a few small lakes and only two or three months of the year that are not frozen.
Ten kilometers away is the forest, an endless coniferous forest, which is frozen and snowy all year round.
Snow Plains City is difficult to conquer because the four natural advantages of heavy snow, forests, plains, and city walls constitute its unique and insurmountable barriers.
Able to smoothly pass through heavy snow and forests, only snow wolves or infantry, to the plains, no infantry can withstand the impact of snow wolves, after a double blow, the 20-meter-high city wall constitutes an insurmountable obstacle.
If someone wants to besiege the city, only three months of the year in the Frozen Continent are non-freezing periods, that is, there are only three months at most to besiege the city, what does this count as Snow Plains City?
- "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Dangerous Land"
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The night sè grew thicker and thicker, and the moon sè sprinkled pink moonlight on the silver snow through the rolling clouds.
The envoy's four sleds quickly shuttled through the dense forest, although they had walked out of the ice and snow forest, the towering taiga along the way was still densely packed one by one, each sled was equipped with 12 snow dogs, under the leadership of the head dog, running very quickly, and from time to time whirring and panting.
On the sleigh in the front are 2 emperor ** people with a guide, followed by Amy and Da Qingshan, followed by an imperial soldier and two girls, and three imperial soldiers in the back.
On a sleigh in the middle, there is a faint conversation between two girls.
"Yushang, why are you so bold, dare to believe that Da Qingshan and Amy?" Sha Ruo asked in a whisper in his companion's ear.
"Hey, the doll is not big, and I am worried a lot. Lin Yushang laughed sneeringly: "Don't underestimate them, I dare to choose them, there are several main reasons." First of all, their strength is extraordinary, you see the boy named Amy, after shouting, everyone fell down, and before and after they took the task, although many people were hot-eyed, but no one dared to rise up to challenge, what does it mean? Secondly, I understand their background, do you know? That Amy alone has three genera: Swordsman, Neutral Second-level Magician, Demon swordsman, a boy of his age, if he is still studying in a swordsman or magic academy, he often can't even do a good job in a single school, and he alone has three genera, isn't it simple? He has an apprentice of Rege, I suspect that he is still a descendant of an imperial noble, you look at his expression, as for Daqingshan, it is even more amazing, do you know? He is a dragon knight, you look at the heavenly ......"
"Heh, what's that?" Sha Ruo exclaimed.
"I think that's the dragon of Daqingshan. Lin Yushang said affirmatively: "Last point, in fact, I quite appreciate their clear eyes, without any impurities, this trip is so dangerous, if there are wicked people...... I don't think they're going to be that kind of people. ”
"Hehe, Sister Xiang, are you just worried......" Sha Ruo suddenly smiled inexplicably: "When I first saw you, so many young people circled around you." Hehe, that's why you always think badly of others. ”
"Ha, you dare to laugh at me, aren't you like that?"
"Hehe, Sister Xiang, please spare me. Sha Ruo smiled and stretched out his hand to stop: "I grew up in the Holy See, and all the people around me when I was a child were from the Holy See, and our Holy See is very clear, the area where I live is almost all women, and the men I have seen when I come out this time are more than the total number of people I have known in the past 16 years." ”
"Little girl, are you excited? Yushang smiled narrowly.
On the snow, there was the laughter of two girls like silver bells......
"Daqingshan, what are those two girls laughing at?" Amy couldn't understand: "It's so annoying, it's so late, and you can't let people sleep, I'm going to ask them for sleep loss money tomorrow!"
Unlike what he expected, the road was very safe, there was no unusual sound to indicate that someone was going to attack the envoys, and the green child often flew high into the air to search, but found nothing, and in the process, there was only the occasional barking of the head dog, and then there was only the business of sleds rowing through the snow.
There were still three days to go before the city of Snowfield, and when all the Imperial soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, Amy's face became more and more solemn, and after dinner, he beckoned everyone to gather around the campfire, and spoke his thoughts very solemnly.
"We're in very much danger right now!" Amy said in surprise.
Yushang frowned: "Why do you say that?"
An Imperial soldier next to him whispered: "I want to charge more mercenary fees, blackmail." ”
As if she hadn't heard anything, Amy said to herself, "Why didn't the enemy come after us?" If it is really as you say, then the enemy knows your route very well, and is very organized, and will definitely track it down along the way, I guess they all probably know about the mercenaries, for them, it should be very clear that we did not take the Longya Mountain Road, if they chase along the way, it will be very unfavorable to them, and the cavalry is very little useful in the forest and snow. So what will they do?"
A few words immediately attracted everyone, and everyone was thinking.
"If it were me, I wouldn't chase along the way, now that I know the final destination of the envoys, it's easy to do, I'll ride directly to the outside of the snowfield city and wait for you. In the most likely place, put some mobile posts, and the brigade will concentrate on the periphery, and once the signal is received, immediately rush to the raid. At that time, how did the envoys defend?"
All of them gasped.
"That'...... That...... What are we going to do?"
"yes, what's the matter? I've been having a headache. Daqingshan, what do you think?" Amy frowned.
"Well, is it possible to divide the troops into several ways? so that they don't know who to chase. Da Qingshan also frowned.
"That's right!" Amy clapped her hands: "They all know you, in this way, you rush all the way out, and after they surround you, I and Daqingshan will go to move the rescuers, they will definitely not intercept us, I estimate that the rescuers will come back in about an hour, and we will ...... at that time"
"Collect the corpses for us—" Yushang interrupted Amy's words with a cold face, "If that's the case, what do we want the mercenaries to do? Isn't it safer for you to go to Snow City by yourself?"
"Hehe...... "Amy stuck out her tongue: "I'm just talking about an idea, why are you in a hurry, you don't necessarily want to do this, although the success rate is 100."
"There is another approach, the success rate is also higher, but the risk is the same. Daqingshan, you take one of the rain clothes or sand to hide behind, use the green child to monitor, see where there are few enemies, where to go, we attract enemies in front, and they are all attracted to the dense forest. I reckon they'll have mobile troops, but they shouldn't be many, and the longer we hold them back, the safer you will be. After arriving at Snow Moon City, he immediately asked the city defenders to help. ”
"No, I'll draw them in, and you take them to the city. Daqingshan refused.
"There's water in the brain!" Amy slapped Da Qingshan on the back of the head: "Who can successfully break through without Lu'er?" Don't ...... Don't tell me to let me take Lu'er away, that little grandfather, I can't wait, to be honest, even if you fight with 100 black knights, it's much safer than with Lu'er. Amy's black face shattered Daqingshan's dream.
"Sha Ruo, what Amy said makes sense, I order you and Da Qingshan to enter Snow Plains City alone in the name of the acting head of the envoy, first submit the credentials to the other party, and then come back to save us, if something goes wrong, you can lead the phantom beast young son back to Dìdū alone, remember to be in a hurry, otherwise this opportunity this year will be wasted." Lin Yushang stood up and said coldly to Sha Ruo.
"No!" Sha Ruo turned her head stubbornly, her long hair fluttering in the air.
"Good sister, you are a priest, I am a magician, who is more effective in the war? And you are an envoy representing two countries, what about me? Can I represent the Holy See? Do my sister a favor, okay? Sister, please, otherwise we will all ......" Look at the hard one, Lin Yushang hugged Sha Ruo's thin shoulders, persuaded softly, and tears fell.
"Okay, sister, don't do this, I can't go. Seeing Lin Yusheng crying, Sha Ruo immediately panicked and hurriedly agreed, but thinking of the danger she might encounter, tears also welled up all of a sudden.
"Okay, two young ladies, and our mercenaries, don't be so parting with life and death, it's okay. Tomorrow morning we will go our separate ways. Daqingshan walked to the left after we left for 1 hour, remembering to make sure to let Lu'er keep an eye on everything at all times. Okay, it's getting late, go to bed. With a sneer on her lips, Amy stood up and walked to her plow.
Early the next morning, Amy, Lin Yusheng and the six soldiers left with three sleds, Da Qingshan and Sha Ruo watched them disappear out of sight, sighed heavily, and then drove the sled, under the guidance of the magic pointer, slightly corrected the angle, and began to move in the direction of due north.
According to Amy's estimation, after heading due north for a while, and then moving forward, the road would be more than 20 kilometers away, and it should be an hour slower than Amy's before they left the forest.
Maybe it's because he was an orphan since he was a child, Da Qingshan is a silent person, even when he is with Amy, he listens a lot, thinks a lot, does a lot, and when he can, Da Qingshan will never say a word. The first time I went out with a girl, it was even more so.
He threw his shield to Sha Ruo, and then silently did it at the front of the sleigh, a crossbow arrow had been pressed into the steel crossbow bow, and threw it at his feet, the long sword was already half unsheathed, and even the golden dragon spear sent by the dragon god was taken out of the magic enchantment bag, and he sat under his buttocks, holding a long branch in his hand, and knocked the head dog on the head from time to time to guide the direction of the head dog. After a while, Lu'er flew into the air, inspecting the surrounding situation.
Sha Ruo didn't speak, the fierce cold wind whistled, and it was difficult to speak, and Sha Ruo didn't know what to say, it was different from Daqingshan, and it was the first time she was alone with a different person.
Time flies by in the snow and the forest.
In the forest, night soon came.
Seeing that Daqingshan had a hard day during the day, Sha Ruo was still quite unhappy, jumped off the sleigh, moved her almost numb legs, and she was ready to go to clean up the wood and then raise the fire to barbecue.
Just when she moved her legs, when she turned around again, she found that Daqingshan had already done it, and she was just about to say hello to do it herself, but the strange scene in front of her stunned her.
Daqingshan found an old tree that had decayed and fallen to the ground, pulled out the long sword in his waist, and was about to cut down the tree with a swing of the sword.
"This is a fool, isn't it?" Sha Ruo smiled secretly, how can this cut down trees, even the best long sword in the world can't be used to cut down trees, otherwise not only will the blade be damaged, but the sword will soon break - the slender and long sword body can't withstand such a huge shear force, and now it's still a taiga, and it takes half a day to cut these trees with an axe. In fact, each sleigh is equipped with two axes, which are specially used to cut trees in the forest overnight.
Sha Ruo was just about to go to get the axe, only to see that the huge tree trunk had been broken in two under the long sword of Daqing Mountain, and then the long sword was swung again, and a 40-centimeter standard wood-cutting stake had been cut. Daqingshan put the stump on the ground and waved his long sword high, ka, ka, ka, ka...... With each sword, a standard piece of firewood jumped out of the stump.
What kind of person is this? This can also chop wood? This phenomenon almost overturns all the common sense of Sha Ruo, which is really strange. Sha Ruo really couldn't figure it out in his heart.
Da Qingshan didn't pay attention to what other people thought of him at all, in fact, he didn't dare to come out to see what Sha Ruo looked like, if a person wearing similar clothes to Sha Ruo appeared right now, he would immediately get confused. When the wood was chopped, he quickly piled it into a campfire stack, sprinkled it with pine oil, and boom - the flames leaped high.
Soon, the strong aroma of barbecue wafted over the campfire.
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