Fifty-eight on the road
In contrast, Huang Chang's idea of trying his best to organize the warriors of the rivers and lakes and make them obey discipline and obey the command in Huanyang County, Linquan County and other places was a little naïve, but it was not as simple and clear as Chong's.
The lieutenants of the Chong clan have been promulgating harassment missions - to let the Jianghu warriors use their high skills to break into the dragon city of the Murong clan to wreak havoc, kill, set fire, and poison...... Both. Working around the clock can be regarded as giving full play to the advantages of manpower, so that the opponent can be tired.
There is another task that has existed for a long time - that is, the bounty task of attacking the direct descendants of the Murong family and receiving rewards with their heads or tokens. Huang Chang unsurprisingly saw Murong Ying's portrait on the bounty list, ranking only below the patriarch of the Murong clan, and the bounty given was far higher than the others.
However, there were not many "heroes" in the camp who wanted to trouble him, because the reward notice also honestly stated Murong Ying's identity and strength: a true disciple of the Kunlun Sect, a sword cultivator, close to the late stage of Qi refining, and possessing a psychic flying sword.
- This piece of information made Murong Ying a "leader monster" that everyone in the hero camp avoided and feared, and everyone in the camp often talked about him when communicating with each other: What kind of bad luck did so-and-so, when he met that guy, he was beheaded by a flying sword without even seeing it...... Or maybe Lao Tzu turned around and ran away when he saw that little white face today, and he ran three streets and couldn't catch up with Lao Tzu Yunyun - this is mostly bragging, and nine times out of ten it is a turtle who has never even seen a flying sword, no matter how fast your legs are, you can outrun the leek leaf Qingshuang?
Jin Rong was originally going to Dragon City after a whistle in the hero camp, and the reason was also easy to find, just say that he would go to investigate the enemy's situation. At most, the sentries at the gate only briefly inquired, and sometimes they didn't even bother to ask their names, and many of them never came back after they went out.
——On the side of Yanshan County, the life of the swordsman is worthless, whether it is the officers and soldiers of the Chong clan or the people of the rivers and lakes themselves, they all think so.
However, Huang Chang walked around the camp very patiently for most of the day, and listened to those people in the rivers and lakes blowing cattle for a while, until the sky was dark, and after nightfall, he went out of the camp with Jin Rong in a hurry, mixed in the middle of a group of Jianghu men who also held the idea of "the moon is dark and the wind is high and the wind is good to work", and walked towards the ruins of Longcheng.
Dragon City was once a tall and majestic capital many years ago, but it is now in a dilapidated state. When the ancient Yan Kingdom fell, Longcheng was severely damaged, and many gaps were punched in the once tall rammed earth walls, which have never been repaired. Coupled with years of weathering, it has basically broken into an independent earthen platform that has no defensive effect at all.
However, there are still many well-preserved earthen houses and caves left in the city, and the location of Longcheng is good, with a fixed water source, and it is often used as a place for herdsmen to settle down. In spring and autumn every year, there are grassland tribes who come here to open a field and exchange materials with each other. Gradually, the grassland settlements were once again formed, and the dilapidated houses left over from ancient times were repopulated by settled people.
As a descendant of the Ancient Yan Kingdom, the Murong clan was once the master of this ancient city. But now they don't have the power to control the whole old city. If it was peacetime, no one would care if they called themselves the lords of Dragon City. However, as this war unfolded, there were no defenses on the periphery of Dragon City, and their strength was not enough to defend such a large city, so they could only shrink back to the core of the city, that is, the location of the ancient king city back then.
- That place was originally the palace of the ancient city, but it was also destroyed in the Great War. Later, after the return of the descendants of the Murong clan, they lived with it, and gradually rebuilt it into a family fortress, which was the core target of the Chong clan to attack this time.
If it was before, with the strength of Yan Beihou, it would be effortless to attack a fortress of the wealthy clan in the rivers and lakes. However, now it is different - with Murong Ying here, even few in the Chong clan dare to be right with him in person. In addition, the fortress is in the ruins of the ancient city on the hillside, and the most powerful ironclad cavalry of the Chong family cannot exert their power, and if they want to attack, they can only rely on infantry warriors to rush in and slowly fill it, which is difficult for the Chong family to accept.
Therefore, the Chong clan adopted a tactic of advancing layer by layer and slowly trying to figure it out: using the iron cavalry army stationed in the open space outside the city as a deterrent, and at the same time cutting off the possibility of the Murong clan fleeing. As for Dragon City itself, only the recruited Jianghu swordsmen and scattered cultivators were allowed to enter in batches, and they continued to harass all parts of the city, forcing the Murong family to divide their manpower to deal with it, thus consuming their vital strength.
Especially Murong Ying, who is the chief combat force of the Murong family, had to attack many times in this situation, although he was able to win easily every time, but the hard work and exhaustion accumulated for a long time. The consumed mana and true qi have no time to replenish, and it is difficult to even sleep peacefully.
If he continues to wear down like this, no matter how high his mana is and how strong his realm is, he will inevitably run out of oil one day.
——Although Huang Chang has never been in contact with the high-level members of the Chong clan, he can see this trick from the conversations of those Jianghu people and the tasks issued by the lieutenants of the Chong clan. In all fairness, this is indeed a clever trick - if there is only one strong man on the side of the Murong Clan.
But it's a pity that with him and Jin Rong here, Chong's plan will not be realized.
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In the dim night, this group of more than a dozen people arrived at the outskirts of Dragon City, beside the tall mound platform formed by the broken city wall. The swordsman at the head waved his hand and said in a low voice:
"Alright, let's go our separate ways. Be careful, don't run into that evil star. ”
"Indeed, it's time for you to hit the road. ”
A voice suddenly sounded in the crowd, and the big man was stunned for a moment, and then immediately became furious. The Saibei man has always been irritable, and he doesn't care where this is at the moment, so he yelled:
"Who? don't want to fucking live!
In the crowd, Shi Shiran really stood up for two people, and the big man took a look, and vaguely recognized that it seemed to be the two new Dings who had just joined today, one surnamed Jin and the other surnamed Huang, looking at their appearance of fine skin and tender meat, it was obvious that they had just stepped into the rivers and lakes, and they didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick.
That man can become the leader of a group of swordsmen in the rivers and lakes, and he is naturally a ruthless person, even if he is determined to kill these two boys. He saw that the one surnamed Huang among the two was quite thin, and even if he won the war, he would not be able to win the battle, and it would not be a deterrent. And the one surnamed Jin was fierce, and he had a long knife on his waist and a shield on his shoulder, and he did look like a swordsman and warrior, so he immediately raised his knife and pointed at him:
"Draw your knife and see whose knife is bright!"