Tingguan is located in the center of the three major cities of Tongcang City, Zhengcang City and Xingcheng. It is a rare military town in the core area of central and northern Yongchang County.
The military town is built on a gentle slope. On a clear day, you can see dozens of miles of scenery from the top. To the north of the gentle slope is a small river that is not very spacious. This military town can barely be regarded as being surrounded by mountains and rivers.
The weather was gloomy that day. Just a few days after the coldest day of the year, it was still freezing cold.
But the atmosphere inside and outside Tingguan was in full swing. I saw groups of soldiers carrying wooden buckets to fetch water from the cold and biting river, and then laboriously transported it to the city wall of the gentle slope military town, and then poured it outside.
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The cold river water flows down the extremely thick ice layer inside and outside the city wall, and then extends down the gentle slope for a long distance, completely freezing the pavilion into a real ice city!
The soldiers were all very cheerful. Whenever someone accidentally slipped and fell in the water, it would cause a burst of laughter and joy inside and outside the city.
The general on the city wall did not reprimand, but stood there with his hands folded on his chest like an iron tower, staring at the southeast, motionless, as if he had been frozen into an ice sculpture by the ice water.
A big man with a beard climbed up the city wall and smiled and cursed at a few generals and soldiers at the city gate who quietly looked up, "Why, you want your second grandpa to fall for you little bastards? Get out of here?"
Get lost!"
The few soldiers were not afraid of him, they just laughed and ran out of the city with their buckets.
The bearded man ignored it and just smiled and climbed up the city wall to the general who was as majestic as an iron tower. He stood on tiptoe and looked southeast, and then said, "Didn't the scout say that the old man from Yongchang County is marching?"
It's not fast, why are you staring here, otherwise I'd be here to keep an eye on you, go back and have a rest, and you'll suffer a lot when the fight starts."
The iron tower-like general was naturally Zhao Wuji’s confidant and life-fighting general Chen Shaoxiong. When he heard the bearded man’s words, he just shook his head slightly, “I’m not tired,” he turned his head slightly and looked at the bearded man and said, “Second brother, this
This battle...is not easy."
The bearded man gave a deep hum without changing his smile, looked back at Chen Shaoxiong and said, "Didn't you already know this when you came out of General Zhao's tent?" He pointed to the smooth and thick city wall in front of him and said, "
Look at this city wall, if the walls on the other side of Baitong and Taiming can be like this, even those grandsons of Guanbao Nanyi can't get through, but it's a pity that it's too hot over there." After he finished speaking, he said fiercely as if he was remembering something.
He let out a sigh and said, "Zhai Sui, they are from the Nanyi side. You see, even those Nanyi zongzai would have a hard time climbing such a city wall!"
Chen Shaoxiong nodded, "Yes, it's difficult." He stood side by side with the bearded man and looked at it in silence for a long time, and then suddenly said, "Second brother, if I die here in this battle, I will wait until the prefect regains the pavilion."
When the time comes, bury me under this city wall."
The bearded man didn't look at him, but still gave a heavy hum and said, "Well, that's fine! You kid is good at choosing a place. This place is great, with mountains and water. Although the mountains are not high, the water is not.
It's deep, but it's better because it has a wider field of vision. Gee, this plain area is great. You can see so far away at a glance. Damn it, in the future, when the Micang land is stabilized, we still have to pick up the children and go on this plain.
Earn a piece of land so that future generations can have a better way of living, right, Shaoxiong."
Chen Shaoxiong nodded, and the two of them remained silent until it was getting dark, and there was an appearance of an incoming army on the plain in the distance.
That night, the enemy launched a fierce attack on Tingguan.
There was no test, no foreshadowing, and not even enough siege equipment prepared!
With only the flying swords slashing like rain falling from the sky, the enemy troops without holding torches in the darkness came closer. They faced the rain of arrows thrown from the city and frantically chopped at the ground.
The solid ice used human life to carve out roads directly to the city in a very short time!
Then came the brutal siege!
The city wall of Tingguan is not high. Even with a thick layer of ice, it is only more than two feet. Some cultivators in the enemy formation who are wearing regular soldier armor and are well hidden only need to rush forward in a few steps.
Rush to the top of the city in one fell swoop and quickly open a gap!
The masters of the city defense had to make up for it at any time. If one was not in time, several lives would be lost!
Both sides attacked and defended at extremely fast speeds. It didn’t take long for a lot of corpses to be piled up and down the city wall, and this battle lasted all night!!
The enemy camp retreated early in the morning the next day. When the first ray of sunshine from the east shone on the east wall of Tingguan, the broken yet shining city wall glowed with blood.
....
There was silence in Tingguan City. Soldiers kept walking up the city wall, carrying the injured or simply frozen corpse down the city wall. After a hard night of fighting, even the youngest soldiers felt deeply tired, but they could not
Stop. In the enemy camp outside the city, there are many flags standing like countless knives fluttering in the wind. But there is not a single flag on the pavilion city wall. But as long as the figure that always stands at the front of the city wall like an iron tower does not fall, every one of them will
The flag in the hearts of the city guards never fell.
After only repairing for a long time, when the sun set in the west, the enemy launched a second round of fierce attack.
This time, several times the catapults were assembled. In addition to the flying swords that fell from time to time in the sky, even the flying stones fell like rain. The pressure on the defenders on the city wall suddenly increased greatly.
And on this night, the heavy armored infantry that was wrapped in iron lumps entered the battlefield. They were scattered and integrated into the siege army. Their thick armor allowed them to ignore most arrows, except for a few.
Heavy weapons such as city guard crossbows often cannot cause fatal damage even if they are hit by stones thrown from the city wall by soldiers!
The defensive pressure of the defenders and the number of casualties increased greatly. For a time, the top of the Tingguan City seemed to have become a hell on earth. The broken city walls were raised again one after another by the bloody corpses of the defenders who were too late to collect them. The robes stepped on their brothers.
Their corpses fought to the death, and the anger and despair in their hearts filled the entire winter...
On this day, the enemy troops still did not capture the small town of Tingguan, and they had to withdraw from the battlefield in the middle of the night...
On the third day, the enemy army formed a breakthrough team of elite cultivators and rushed into the city. Chen Shaoxiong and a group of officers fought with their lives. The defenders took Paoze's body and rubble, watered it with water, and rebuilt a high tower on top of the gap.
wall!
On that day, General Chen Shaoxiong, who was covered in blood, left the place where he once stood, and from then on he only stood on the gap!
Never wavered!!
On the fourth and fifth days, it was not until the early morning of the sixth day that the attack outside the city was completely terminated. The enemy troops who attacked the city broke camp and retreated south. When it was close to noon, Chen Shaoxiong, who was already in a trance, suddenly heard the sound coming from the wall above his head.
The cheers of the soldiers came, followed by the thundering sound of horse hooves coming from a distance...
I don't know how much time passed, until his limbs were so stiff and numb that he lost consciousness...
He saw a young man walking in front of him, wearing blood-colored armor and a resolute face. Without saying a word, he turned around and picked himself up...
He struggled to open his lips that had been glued together by blood for a long time and murmured, "Young Master... you have grown up..."
The man carrying him burst into tears for a moment...