015. The Salt City of Natural Danger
"This is not the time to say good morning, is it?" General Ding, what's going on?"
Xingyan was a little anxious, and immediately asked after being put down by Tao Zhaide.
Ding Dangxiang had a smile on his face and waved his hand under the city wall.
Tao Zhaide looked up and couldn't help frowning.
Outside the south gate of Yancheng is a narrow hill that can only be walked by about ten people, and the towering mountains on both sides are like two blades sandwiching the only entrance and exit. At this moment, the entrance to the mountain road was crowded with soldiers, and it continued down the hill slope. There were about 10,000 or 20,000 people just to be seen, and probably not including the soldiers behind the winding mountain road.
"That's a lot of people...... Can Yancheng hold it?"
Tao Zhaide asked with some concern.
Ding Dangxiang smiled and opened his hand to gestify.
"Fifty thousand?"
"Five thousand at most. ”
Tao Zhaide was taken aback: "It's only five thousand?!Is this okay?!"
Ding Dangxiang continued to laugh and said, "Don't worry, Brother Tao. Oh, do you think I called you here in the hope that you could help me resist the attack of the Xu Yan Kingdom?
Xingyan next to him stopped talking, and Xiao Debt was lying on the city wall, looking at the siege battle that was going on below.
"It seems that Yancheng doesn't need our Guanghan Palace to help at all~~~"
Xingli also went up to the city wall together, but now, she had put away the sword in her hands and smiled sweetly.
"Why? Surely Yancheng will not be lost?"
Tao Zhaide asked. Xingli didn't feel bothered, pointed to the soldiers who were besieging the city below, and said-
"The terrain of Yancheng is precipitous. Although there is only one road into the city in total, it is about ten people wide. If you want to rely on such a steep road to attack a city, then if you want to break through the city in a short time, you need at least twenty times as many troops. In other words, it would take 100,000 troops to take Yancheng. After all, want to defend such a city. It couldn't be easier. ”
As he spoke, a group of soldiers on the side had already put some huge wooden poles on the city wall, accompanied by an order. They threw the logs straight down the city.
The huge log smashed into the dense soldiers below, screaming and wailing, and the flesh and blood blurred. Not only that, but there is a narrow downhill road in front of the south gate. So these logs roll down the ramp very smoothly. Crush all the soldiers who pass along the way. Even when they reached the corner ahead, the rolling log hit the cliff wall, and they continued to roll, and the wails were endless.
Ding Dangxiang pointed to the disabled soldiers of the Xuyan Kingdom below, and said with a smile: "Therefore, it is not difficult for me to defend Yancheng. Moreover, in addition to the south gate, the east, west, and north gates are all leading to the territory of the Houtu Country, and various material resources are continuously transported. We weren't afraid of being besieged to death. ”
Ding Dangxiang's words are indeed true, as a barrier to the south of the Houtu Country, it is indeed extraordinary. If it weren't for the continuous assault with more than ten times the force and the fatigue battle against the sparsely numbered Yancheng, I am afraid it would be impossible to capture this city at all.
Today's one-day war is indeed the best interpretation of Yancheng's defensive strength. A large number of soldiers of the Xuyan Kingdom continued to attack towards the south gate one after another, and the siege ladders were constantly transported from back to front, desperately trying to erect them.
However, the poor terrain has always been an insurmountable factor, so that none of the ladders that want to be erected can be erected successfully. Even some ladders that were about to approach were shot down by the soldiers of the Thick Earth Country with an arrow, and they returned in vain.
This huge siege battle lasted from dawn to dark, and the corpses of the soldiers of the Xuyan Kingdom under the city were also piling up more and more, and the blood was about to gather into a stream and flow down.
Even so, the morale of these soldiers is still like a rainbow, and they constantly want to attack. But with the last rays of the sun in the west disappearing on the other side of the mountain, with the sound of the golden gong, the surviving siege soldiers finally began to retreat, holding their shields, and retreated little by little down the mountain road, far away, turning a foot of the mountain, leaving the range of the Yancheng archers.
The battlefield is treacherous, but the horror of today's battle is truly revealed at this moment.
Under the south gate, the corpses of Xu Yanguo were piled up, and a thick layer of dead corpses even covered up half of the south gate.
Looking down, there was no ground in sight, only the corpses crisscrossed each other, stacked and squeezed on top of each other. The narrow mountain path was like a terrible compressed can, piled with corpses of all kinds.
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"Brother Tao, this cup is my toast to you. Come on, we've drunk it!"
At the celebration banquet that night, a feast was held on the general's mansion of Ding Dangxiang. It is not just Tao Zhaide's Guanghan Palace that has been invited, all the generals and adjutants who have fought bloodily today have been invited, and there are more than 100 people sitting in the General's Mansion of Nuoda, all of whom are enjoying this carnival of victory!
Tao Zhaide picked up his glass and took a sip...... No, it still feels so spicy.
Ding Dangxiang was not reluctant, he drank all the liquor in the cup, and said with a smile: "Today we can say that we have won a complete victory! Xu Yanguo has probably lost more than 10,000 people, and on our side, even with the injured brothers, the loss is only 80, which can be said to be a complete victory! Brother Tao, I said that you don't need to go out in this war, I will do what I say, it is estimated that if I fight a few more times, and lose tens of thousands, those guys in Xu Yanguo will all retreat." ”
Tao Zhaide looked at the sergeants in the general's mansion who were toasting and drinking with each other, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Indeed." I'm not very good at fighting, but you look like you're pretty good. ”
Ding Dangxiang laughed again, and began to drink and eat meat more happily, completely looking like a winner.
Tao Zhaide turned his head and looked at the feast.
True, everyone was immersed in the joy of victory.
But that's something to be happy about, isn't it?
Over there, the somewhat drunk sergeants began to walk towards Xingyan and Xingli, and these soldiers, who had begun to be a little less sober, began to talk nonsense and tease the two girls.
Xingyan looked a little shy and shrunk her neck, but Xingli looked very generous, while protecting Xingyan, she talked and laughed with these sergeants with a wine glass, and coped with it freely. It's really hard to imagine that she comes from a family of ancestors who are completely different from the world.
It's safe, at least, it's safe today.
With the danger of the sky, Yancheng seems to be enough to deter any enemy who wants to attack.
Tao Zhaide also seemed very relaxed now, but he also remembered that he hadn't practiced the fourth form for a day today, so he couldn't help but spread his hands, and a snowball appeared in an instant.
"Come, Xiaoxue, can you try this?"
With Tao Zhaide's mind changing, Snowball gradually turned into a chubby chick. The "little chicken" lowered its head, and the so-called two eyes looked directly at the glass of rice wine in Tao Zhaide's palm.
Then, Tao Zhaide asked the chick to open its mouth, and at the same time poured out the rice wine in the cup, condensed it into ice, and made it look like a small yellow worm.
"Come on, eat, Xiaoxue, this is the little worm that I spent a long time digging up for you today. That's a lot of money...... Valuable ...... Well...... Nine turns of the soul worm, eating it is a great supplement, can you taste it, does it taste good?"
The snow chick turned left and right around the Xiaoice ice worm, and finally, suddenly opened its mouth, picked up the ice worm, and swallowed it three or two times.
Tao Zhaide then manipulated the ice worm to melt, and the rice wine inside was directly mixed into the chicken's body.
"Is it delicious?"
The chick immediately spread its two round and flat wings and flapped it twice. In order to cooperate with this chicken, Tao Zhaide also barked twice to dub Xiaoxue Chick.
"Brother Tao, what are you doing?"
Ding Dangxiang, who was next to him, saw Tao Zhaide's movements, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled and asked.
When Tao Zhaide heard the call, he simply spread out his palm, let the little snow chick jump into his palm, and showed it to Ding Dangxiang.
"Brother Ding, you see, my little snow is cute, right? I feed it, and it will react. It's very happy to eat small insects~~~" (To be continued......)