Chapter Ninety-Seven: Spirits

Yuwen Haotian stood at the head of the city and watched the Tufan giant start to smash the boulder into the city wall round by round, and now almost one-third of the wall has been destroyed, and if it goes on like this, it will not take two days for the city wall to be completely destroyed, Yuwen Haotian showed a little anxious look on his face.

The soldiers defending the city have exhausted all kinds of weapons and methods, and they can't help these giant warriors, but they can't watch them destroy the city walls with impunity. In the end, Yuwen Haotian decided to take the risk of opening the city gate and sent a force to rush out, avoiding the giant warriors in front and directly attacking the Tufan siege troops and stone-carrying vehicles behind.

By mobilization, an assault force was formed from several thousand soldiers. At noon, the gate of the city suddenly opened, and the assault troops rushed out with lightning speed, and they bypassed the unsuspecting giant warriors, and dealt a heavy blow to the Tufan troops who were carrying stones behind, destroying the stone carriers and rolling the full loads of stones down the slope.

Although the assault force was frantically blocked by the giant warriors in front of the steep slope when they withdrew, suffering heavy casualties, and each time they had to leave hundreds of corpses of soldiers to successfully return to the city, after several harassments, it did greatly slow down the pace of the Tufan troops' attack.

However, as the Tufan troops strengthened their defenses, the surprise attack was no longer effective, and coupled with the heavy casualties, Yuwen Haotian decided to stop sending surprise troops further.

In recognition of the bravery of the assault soldiers, King Yuwen personally came to the city wall to comfort the soldiers of the assault force. He was very moved to see that although the casualties of the assault troops were heavy, the soldiers were still full of enthusiasm and wanted to fight the enemy to the end.

Some civilians also took the initiative to come to the fighters, sending food and herbs and other things. A well-dressed old man was directing a few men to remove the wine jar from a large cart and deliver it to the soldiers, who immediately opened the wine jar and drank it bitterly.

The strong smell of wine penetrated into King Yuwen's nostrils, and he could smell that this was a fine spirit. He stepped forward to express his gratitude to the old man and asked, "Old man, what kind of wine is this, it is so fragrant and rich, and it smells intoxicating." ”

When the old man saw that a man who looked like a general asked him, he hurriedly replied: "This official must be a foreigner." This wine is our local specialty, and the winter here is very cold, and everyone likes to drink a few sips of spirits to ward off the cold. That's why many people make this spirit, and it's called Fron. ”

"Fulong wine?" King Yuwen felt as if he had heard it, he thought about it for a while, and suddenly remembered the Fulong jar that Chen Gengsheng brought back to him.

"Yes, there is a legend when it comes to this name, not far from the west of Xiama Guancheng, there is a big lake, called Xiyue Sea, it is said that a long time ago, there was an evil dragon in this lake, which often came out to make trouble, attacked fishermen, bit livestock, and made the local people miserable. Later, in order to subdue the evil dragon, someone came out to organize the people of the village to pour their home-brewed liquor into the lake infested by the evil dragon, and after a while, the evil dragon was drunk and overturned, and floated on the surface of the lake with a white belly. The fishermen then rowed a small boat and dragged the evil dragon ashore to kill it, and since then the place has been peaceful, so everyone later called this wine 'Fulong wine'. ”

Listening to the old man's narration, the words "Fulong, spirits" were circling in Yuwen Haotian's mind, why did Zhang Tianci send a jar of spirits that were only abundant in Xiamaguan, what was the significance, and what was the implication? Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and in an instant, he suddenly realized, and he immediately shouted loudly: "Okay! Okay!"

When the old man saw him suddenly applauding loudly, he thought he was praising the wine, and he replied repeatedly: "Yes, it's good wine." Yuwen Haotian stepped forward and shook the old man's hand and asked, "Old man, how much of this wine do you have in your store, bring it all at once, we all want it." ”

"Ha, ha, I still have hundreds of jars of this wine in my store, and I've given them to you, and you can't finish drinking them all at once. The old man said with a smile.

"No, not to drink, I'm going to use it against the giants of Tufan and burn them with your liquor. With that, Yuwen Haotian took a jar of wine from the car and threw it towards the city wall, the wine jar broke in response, and the wine immediately soaked a piece of the city wall. Yuwen Haotian asked the soldier to hand over a bow and arrow, and after setting the arrow on fire, he shot it towards the city wall soaked in alcohol, and the city wall soaked in liquor immediately burst into flames.

Only then did the old man suddenly come to his senses, and echoed loudly: "Yes, burn them, burn them!"

"So now you have to bring all the liquor you have in store, and you have to go to the people's houses to help us collect more. Also, before transporting it, the lid of the wine jar must be sealed with clay, understand?" Yuwen Haotian explained to the old man, and then he ordered a lieutenant to take fifty soldiers to follow the old man to run errands.

Just as the old man was sent away, a herald rushed to report that the king of Zhenxi had asked King Yuwen to go to the palace as soon as possible.

Yuwen Haotian thought that the King of Zhenxi must be anxious about the city defense, and he just went to report to him the countermeasures he had just thought of, so that he could calm down immediately. Thinking of this, he immediately went to the palace with a guard.

After Yuwen Haotian rushed to the palace, the king of Zhenxi took Wang Junshi to greet him in front of the Yin'an Palace, and after the guests and hosts in the hall were seated, without waiting for Yuwen Haotian to speak, the king of Zhenxi pointed to the wine and food on the table and said: "Brother Yuwen has worked hard, fighting for days, sleeping and eating restlessly, there is really a brother Lao, please come today, don't say anything else, I must comfort you first." ”

Yuwen Haotian looked at the wine and food on the table, only to realize that he hadn't eaten for a long time, and he was indeed a little hungry. He pointed to the wine on the table and asked, "Is this the local Fulong wine?"

"That's right, brother has good eyesight, this is the finest Fulong wine, come on, fill the wine. The maids on both sides hurriedly filled the wine bottles of several people.

"This wine is good, it has helped me find a good way to deal with the enemy army, and I am about to report this to the king. Yuwen Haotian said after holding the wine glass.

"I'm not going to talk about business today, I'm going to drink three glasses with my brother first. King Zhenxi picked up his wine glass, raised his head, and drank it all.

Seeing this, King Yuwen had no choice but to drink the wine in his hand, and then drank the second glass, and when he picked up the third glass of wine, Yuwen Haotian felt that the wine tasted a little wrong, and it was not as good as he imagined to drink into his throat.