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Leeches, also known as leeches, mostly grow and breed in the freshwater waters in the south of Dongshengzhou, and the climate and environment in the north are quite different from those in the south, and ordinary leeches cannot grow here.

However, ice leeches are an outlier among leeches, and there is no record of this kind of leeches in ancient historical books.

Legend has it that a very powerful shaman doctor of the Grassland Shamanism accidentally found the eggs of this leech and brought them back to the grassland when he was looking for elixir in the 100-million-year-old glacier in the Kunwu Mountains.

Unexpectedly, the eggs of this ice leech were only dormant and did not die under extremely harsh conditions, and in the right environment of the grassland, these eggs immediately woke up, and soon parasitized the shamanic witch doctor, and infected his dogs and sheep.

After these eggs enter the body, they will hatch successfully within one day, and begin to frantically suck the host's blood to grow, and new eggs will be born within seven days, and so on, the host will generally be sucked out of blood and die within half a month.

Even if the dead host is buried underground, the adults and eggs of the ice leech can travel through the blood, underground river water, and soil, and choose the opportunity to enter the body of any other organism, repeating its growth cycle, and they can bring irresistible damage and death to all living things.

The strong vitality caused the ice leeches to quickly flood the grassland, bringing great disasters to the grassland people, and once brought the Mengyuan Empire to the brink of collapse.

In the end, the shamanic master of the shamanism asked the top immortal masters of various countries to intervene in order to jointly destroy this ice leech, and in order to prevent this tragedy from happening again, the shamanism had strictly ordered the people of the Mengyuan Empire not to keep, study and use this terrifying creature.

This creature has disappeared in Dongshengzhou for many years, but I didn't expect it to appear again in the offensive and defensive battles of Dunhuang City, and the Mengyuan people dared to use this terrible creature unscrupulously, and what is even more infuriating is that such a poisonous plan was designed by traitors!

If it weren't for Fan Yunchao's knowledgeable and well-read, he wouldn't have known about the existence of this creature at all.

That's why after Fan Yunchao discovered the ice leech, he immediately ordered to kill the Tang captives who climbed the city wall, and blocked the entire city wall, and he couldn't let the infected Tang captives enter the city.

Just as Fan Yuchao was about to give the order to shoot the Tang people under the city after a painful choice, Li Chengliang appeared, not only preventing him from giving the order, but also taking the initiative to bear the responsibility for slaughtering his compatriots.

How could Fan Yunchao let Li Chengliang take such a responsibility, and hurriedly objected: "City Lord, why did you come up to the city wall, it is very dangerous here, and there are ice leeches, come quickly, send the city lord down to the city." ”

Li Chengliang waved his hand, and the soldiers who surrounded him immediately stood still, although their immediate boss was Fan Yunchao, but Li Chengliang was the city lord of Dunhuang Mansion, and no one dared to resist his order.

Li Chengliang let go of Fan Yunchao's wrist and said: "Yunchao, you don't have to fight with me, I plan to submit a request to the imperial court to resign after defeating the barbarian coalition this time, and recommend you to take over the position of the lord of Dunhuang City, so you can't bear the stigma of killing your compatriots this time." ”

Fan Yunchao had tears in his eyes, City Lord Li had taken care of himself like a brother all these years, so that he had been promoted step by step from the general of Yingqian to the general of the garrison, and now he had to sacrifice himself to complete his career, how could he not be moved.

Li Chengliang said: "It's okay, I will comfort the Tang people in the city, I hope they still have some remnants of Tang blood, don't let me personally order them to be killed." Someone, find me a loudspeaker, I want to shout to the Tang people in the city. ”

Li Chengliang has never practiced martial arts, and he has just recovered from a serious illness and lacks qi, so he really can't shout to the city without a loudspeaker.

Soon, a subordinate sent a big speaker, which was a secret amplification magic weapon made by the Shenji Battalion, powered by spirit stones, and could also be used by ordinary people.

This kind of horn can amplify dozens of times, and it is particularly easy to use during marching, parade or military mobilization, but the spirit stone is expensive, and everyone is reluctant to take it out for use.

Li Chengliang took the horn and tried the volume, and sure enough, it was very loud, he walked to the battlements, and the shield soldiers next to him hurriedly surrounded the guards from both sides.

Li Chengliang stood on the battlements, raised his horn and said loudly: "All the fathers and villagers under the city, I am Li Chengliang, the king of Dunhuang City, I know that everyone must be extremely hungry now, and their hearts are full of hatred for Dunhuang City, and they hate us for not saving us if we die." ”

Most of the Tang people in the city had heard the name Li Chengliang, and they still heard a little about the benevolence of the city lord, and when they saw the city lord come out to speak, everyone raised their heads, their eyes full of expectation.

Li Chengliang met the eager eyes of the people in the city, only to feel a tingling pain in his heart, he took two deep breaths, suppressed the emotions in his heart, and spoke again:

Because you were killed by the traitors of Meng Yuan, you fell into the Gu of ice leeches, which is a hundred times more terrible than the plague, if I let you into the city today, more than 700,000 soldiers and civilians in the city will all die within three months.

Dunhuang City is broken, Suzhou Road, Ganzhou Road will be no danger to defend, tens of millions of people will die under the sword of the alien race, if Jincheng can no longer be defended, the barbarian army can drive straight down, straight into the Guanzhong, Tang State will have the risk of destroying the country.

There are Tang people behind us, and there are Tang people in front of us, how can we give up? This question is like asking us whether it hurts to cut our feet or our hands? I can't answer, I can only say that the wound is on your body, and the pain is in our hearts. ”

Li Chengliang couldn't cry anymore when he said this, and many border soldiers and Tang people in the city also began to cry.

"I gave the order not to let you enter the city today, Cheng Liang is here to kowtow to you, I am willing to go to the eighteen layers of hell after death to atone for my sins today.

I don't ask you to forgive me, nor do I ask you to forgive the soldiers and civilians in Dunhuang City, in your eyes, we are selfish betrayers, we have abandoned you, and annihilated your last hope!

We can't argue with it, but I beg you to say a fair word when you meet the judge in the underworld!

It was Mengyuan's beast army that killed you, a traitor and villain who shamelessly betrayed the country, not the soldiers and civilians in my Dunhuang City.

Hearing a sudden sound from the loudspeaker, Li Chengliang pulled out the sword at his waist, put it across his neck, and exclaimed sadly: "Fellow villagers and elders, if there is an afterlife, I, Li Chengliang, am willing to be a cow and a horse, and make a grass ring to repay you! Today, Chengliang is here to cry blood and say goodbye, go first, I will wait for you to meet under Jiuquan, go all the way!"

"Your Excellency!" "Lord of the Castle!" "......"

There was chaos on the city wall, Fan Yunchao snatched the sword from Li Chengliang's hand with all his might, Changshi and Sima pounced on him, hugging the adult, for fear that he would find another way to commit suicide.

Li Chengliang shouted: "Don't stop me, let me go with them, otherwise I will have no shame to see their relatives! I will not see the people in the city without a word!"

The people in the city were already crying, and then some people fell to the ground, vomiting blood, and there were really small insects that were not afraid of the cold beating inside, and even burrowed into other people's clothes.

Knowing that his life was dying, there were also some bloody men among the Tang people in the city, and one of the tall old men stood up and shouted loudly: "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, we are already mortal people, and we can no longer burden the city lord, nor can we drag down the more than 700,000 soldiers and civilians in the city."

Our people, relatives and friends are protected by a good person like the city lord, and we are blind to death.

What else do we have to complain about? Let these barbarians and traitors see the bloody nature of our Tang people! Death will also die under the arrows of the barbarians! Kill me back!"

The tall old man picked up a scimitar from his side, took the lead and rushed back, and the more than 4,000 Tang people who could still move like skeletons picked up all kinds of weapons that could be used from his side, and those who couldn't pick it up simply ran out with his bare hands.

Soon, the Tang people under the city rushed over the snow slope and rushed towards the main formation of the Mengyuan army in the distance.

Li Chengliang and Fan Yunchao led all the border soldiers at the head of the city to kneel down on one knee to the Tang people outside the city, and Fan Yunchao shouted:

"Beat the drum and cheer! Send me the Tang Dynasty heroes! Sacrifice my Tang people's heroic spirits!"

The angry drums sounded, and the Tang Jun who beat the drum took off his shirt and waved the drumstick in his hand vigorously, as if he wanted to vent the grief in his heart through the drum!

Fan Yunchao burst into tears, and led the soldiers of the border army to hammer the armor on his chest hard, making a thumping sound, and the hammering sound became louder and louder, as loud as the heartbeat of the earth!

A loud roar came out: "God bless the Tang Dynasty, the national fortune will be long, subdue the foreign countries, and defend Dunhuang!"

Then everyone, including the Tang people in the city, roared together!

......

The slaughter in the distance began, and more than 4,000 Tang people were unable to rush to the front of the main formation of the Mengyuan army, they were too weak, and under the accurate arrows of the Mongolian people, they all fell on the snow slope and not far behind the snow slope, and paved a Tang people's unyielding counterattack road with their corpses.

Everyone persuaded City Lord Li to go down to the city to rest, not wanting him to see the tragic fate of the Tang people under the city, but Li Chengliang resolutely refused to go down to the city, and muttered: "I want to see these heroes leave, this is the only thing I can do for them." ”

Finally, the last Tang man fell under the bow and arrow of Meng Yuanjun, Li Chengliang made a gurgling sound in his throat, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell on his back.

General Fan immediately asked Changshi, Sima, and Lu Shi to join the army and the city lord's entourage to carry the city lord down the city and send him back to the city government for treatment and recuperation.

After the city lord and his people left, it was getting late, and the Meng Yuan army began to withdraw.

General Fan demanded that all the border troops who were fighting in the city today not go down the city walls, and then urgently recruited the leaders of the Pyro and the representatives of the city's physicians to come to the city to meet them.

I don't know what General Fan discussed with them, but a quarter of an hour later, General Fan came out and announced:

All the border troops participating in the battle must stand by in place, soak and wash them with the medicine specially prepared by the doctor, change into brand new clothes, and observe for another fifteen days before going down to the city to rest.

All the things on the city wall, including the clothes changed by the border soldiers, must be incinerated in a centralized manner, and the weapons must be sterilized by flames and high temperature before they can be used, and the corner towers can only be used after disinfection with potions and lime.

The steps and roads leading to the urn city behind the city wall must be paved with quicklime every day, and the fixed food delivery personnel in the urn city must not be changed within fifteen days.

The epidemic prevention level in the city was raised to the highest level, and doctors sent people to monitor the water source, urging the people in the city to drink boiled water for three months.

As for the city lord, Changshi, Sima and others who have just come down from the city, they will be placed in the city lord's mansion for disinfection and isolation, and a special group of doctors will be on standby in the city lord's mansion.

At this time, the border troops in the city had already learned the harm of ice leeches after the propaganda of the army's Chinese book, and had a deeper understanding of the wisdom, decisiveness and generosity of the city lord Li, and regretted the behavior of despising the city lord in their hearts just now.

The border army took the initiative to cooperate with the isolation, especially the blood-stained border army immediately consciously stood on the side and took the initiative to take on the work of collecting the corpses in the city, so as not to let those border army brothers who were clean from mixing in.

Soon the quicklime arrived, from the urn city to the city wall, those ice leeches were extremely vigorous, but they were naturally afraid of quicklime, and after sprinkling quicklime, they began to struggle desperately, and soon shrank into a ball and died.

By this time, the Pyro had already sent fire oil and other fire-burning and fire-prevention materials to the city walls, and they were hurrying to set up the incineration grounds, preparing to incinerate the corpses on the spot to prevent them from becoming a new source of disease.

There is no way to deal with the corpses outside the city for the time being, so we can only talk about it later.

After dark, many half-man-high iron vats and herbs were sent to the city, countless fires were lit, and the border troops of the city began to take turns soaking potions in the hot iron buckets, including their hair.

The disinfection work lasted for three days before it was all over, and fortunately no new patients were found.

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