Chapter 5: Make mistakes

In the darkness before dawn, both sides were on the alert, waiting for the moment of decisive battle to come.

The situation is clear and distinct.

On the edge of the second-floor platform, a defense line built with furniture and sundries was erected to prevent enemies from climbing from the left and right using tools such as hooks or ladders.

On the ramp from the ground floor to the second platform, there are two wooden rolling formations soaked with kerosene, covered with thick cloth to prevent the smell of kerosene from leaking out and alerting the enemy. Behind the wooden rolling formation, out of sight of the enemy, there is another

The most ingenious thing is to select more than ten houses within the range of arrows, and arrange them inside to make them particularly easy to catch fire, which can easily spread to surrounding houses. Sealed earthen pots are placed on the tile roofs to contain fire.

Oil has holes in the roof. As long as the cans are broken with arrows, the kerosene can be poured into the house. But before this happens, the enemy cannot smell the smell of kerosene at all.

Half an hour ago, the enemy had broken into the houses one by one and searched more than 2,000 houses to prevent ambushes from hiding inside. They also brought in dozens of crash cars to storm the ramps. At the same time, they occupied the inner and outer city walls and hid troops in the houses.

On the north side, everything is ready, waiting for the first ray of dawn.

Long Ying, Feng Guoting and Wan Renyu were sitting on the edge of the third-floor platform, with their six feet dangling in the air, staring at the bungalow market at the bottom, secretly talking.

Wan Renyu said: "How can you calculate the year, month and day of Yueling's birth? Even if Meiyue entrusts you with a dream, she has become a Yueling and cannot entrust her dream."

Feng Guoting said: "I risked my life, but it was inferred from Genjie Yingye's experience of coming back from the dead. If you want to retain the memory of your previous life, you must return to the world before the three souls and seven souls are dissipated.

Like Yue Ling's current situation, she had the ability to channel spirits as soon as she came into the world, so she was selected as the successor by the current Great Ghost Lord of Meng Shezhao. Therefore, Yue Ling's birth year, month and day should be the year of Mei Yue's death.

Month Day."

Long Ying said: "If this is indeed the case, then Yue Ling should know that she is the reincarnation of Mei Yue, but it seems that she has forgotten her relationship with you, and the memory of her previous life is at best a vague shadow."

Feng Guoting's expression changed: "Did I think wrong, or maybe Yue Ling is not Mei Yue at all?"

Long Ying said: "She is definitely Meiyue. Now even her age has been solved. No wonder Piroge told me that his sister should be eighteen or nineteen years old. His tone was not sure, because even

He kept it all hidden. If she were willing to take off her veil, she would be as young and delicate as a little witch or a human being. She can no longer pretend to be mature, ha! She must be a beauty."

Wan Renyu said: "Although I don't have Master Ying's psychic ability, I still think she is Mei Yue, otherwise it would be totally unreasonable."

Feng Guoting said: "Where did I go wrong?"

Long Ying analyzed: "You made the mistake of simplifying the process of reincarnation and leaving out part of the pregnancy. Mei Yue was indeed reincarnated on the night of his death. At the moment when the yin and yang of the great chief Meng Shezhao and his beloved concubine were interacting,

After conception, most of the memories could not be preserved. The past life was like a dream that gradually became blurry, but the wisdom and magic power were still not separated from her. Otherwise, how could there be such a powerful little girl and such a touching pair of people?

Mysterious eyes?”

Feng Guoting said painfully: "But the bet is a foregone conclusion, and I can't take back what I said."

Long Ying smiled and said: "The situation between you and Yue Ling is a bit like that of my younger brother and Fairy Duanmu. They can't get rid of the wind and rain. Ha! If there is no premature birth or late birth, years and months will not be a problem, but there will be three days.

One in 10 chance of hitting the mark."

Wan Renyu scolded: "Thanks to you for being able to laugh, are we still considered brothers?"

Long Ying said: "This is called making mistakes, but they are so wrong. Master, learn from me! You can say that you have never enjoyed the touching process of catching up with the love in your heart, nor have you pursued Meiyue. Now Meiyue

I am giving you this rare opportunity to pursue her. Even if you said the wrong date, she insists that you are right. She will not tell you the real date until the night of the wedding. Look! How cool it is!"

Wan Renyu nodded and said: "This is indeed the only way out of all options."

Feng Guoting looked up at the sky, his eyes sparkling, and he said with great joy: "It's dawn!"

The crash car is also called a crash car. The top is made of solid wood and covered with cowhide. The front of the car is made of iron plates to form a sharp slope. Twenty people can be hidden in the car. It is driven by human power. It is not afraid of ordinary arrows and can directly hit the city wall.

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When the sky was dark and only visible objects were visible, there was a sound of drums from the enemy formation, and arrows immediately rained down. Thousands of arrows rained down towards the second floor. They were all rockets, creating countless beautiful fireworks trails in the sky. It was really beautiful to watch.

, but full of devastating threats.

Like three giant beasts crashing into each other, with a rumbling sound and the sharp squeak of wheels rubbing against the ground, they slowly moved to the lower end of the ramp, and then moved up the slope in a zigzag shape to attack the defenders' position.

Come.

Since the platform on the second floor is nearly seven feet higher than the ground floor, and the enemy was afraid of the arrows fired from above, they did not dare to get close. Therefore, the rockets had not yet reached the houses on the second floor and had already fallen into the open space in front of the houses.

become a fire.

Dragon Eagle and others all hid behind the obstacles, lit torches, and ignited the specially made wooden rolling array.

This batch of wood was divided into two batches, with a total of more than 400 pieces. First, the moisture in the wood was dried with fire, then soaked with strong fire oil, and then wrapped in flammable cotton cloth. After being carefully prepared, it immediately burst into flames when it caught fire, and a large amount of black liquid appeared.

The thick smoke rolled forward with the northwest wind. Although it failed to affect the enemies at the lower level for a while, it already created a terrifying power.

The people on both wings were busy pouring kerosene on the obstacles, ignoring the opponent's rockets as if they were nothing.

Long Ying watched the enemy's incoming force and gave an order to cut off the ropes. The wooden board holding the hammer could not withstand the huge pressure at first and flew forward. More than two hundred "fire trees" jumped like a flood.

It was bouncing with a lot of fire flakes and thick smoke, rolling down the ramp like a wild horse, and in the blink of an eye, it had hit three crashed cars head-on.

Various strange crashing sounds resounded throughout the sky. Under the violent impact, the rolling logs bounced into the air. Some of them continued to rotate forward, some of them were thrown sideways, and some of them were stopped by the crashing car that had been knocked around.

In either case, the rolling logs spattered fire shards, and the fire became more intense. The thick smoke swept across the vast ground floor with the wind, and the whole house was engulfed in smoke.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Like water splashing when water is blocked, the rolling logs, which had turned into pillars of fire, were thrown around and hit the houses on both sides of the chute. For a while, the sound of houses collapsing could not be stopped.

Continuous and intensive collisions one after another, and being plunged into thick smoke, the people in the car couldn't stand it at first, and they abandoned the car and fled. The car without people was attached to the rolling logs, turned over backwards, and rolled straight to the bottom of the ramp.

At this time, the second wave of rolling log formations was already engulfed in flames, and the thick smoke that was rising made the defenders unable to eat. Seeing that the first batch of rolling logs had a magical effect, Long Ying quickly issued an order.

Amidst the terrifying loud noises of the grinding logs and impact on the chute, the whole mountain city seemed to be shaking in fear. The last batch of logs rolled straight to the bottom of the chute like crazy without any obstruction, and the remaining momentum still lingered.

, nearly halfway to the city gate, it stopped, completely sealing the only exit of the mountain city.

The defenders cheered in unison.

After another command, the obstacles were lit with torches, then lifted up with long poles and thrown downwards. The obstacles fell like fireballs from the sky towards the houses and streets on the ground floor.

At this time, the ground floor was already trapped in thick smoke, and the enemy was choking and coughing loudly. They could no longer launch arrow attacks like before. Dragon Eagle and others took advantage of the fact that things were still visible to shoot through the kerosene scattered on the tile roofs of key buildings.

The cans were then fed with rockets, and the fire became more intense.

The enemy suddenly sounded the drums and issued an order to attack. With the city gate sealed by fire and wood, the only way out was to attack upwards. There was no need for orders to urge them. Thousands of enemies held up shields in one hand to block arrows and spears in the other.

The swordsman stepped onto the ramp and attacked from above. The cry of killing covered up the sound of the flames. The situation was extremely tragic.

Long Ying shouted wildly: "Let go of the rocks!"

Before he could finish his words, mountains of boulders rolled down the ramp and mercilessly hit the enemies who were charging up. The situation was unbearable to watch. The enemies who were charging up with great momentum had their heads and legs smashed as they rolled with the rocks.

Long Ying gave the order, and rockets rose into the sky, scattering towards the enemies gathered on both sides of the chute, preparing to attack.

The fire that swept through more than 2,000 houses and markets on the ground floor was out of control.

Six thousand enemy troops entered the city, and only 425 of them died. All were captured, and were forced to take on the hard work of cleaning up the disaster site under the arrows. However, because Long Ying promised when to complete the work and when to release, the prisoners

They worked very hard. The reason why they were able to save their lives was because they hid in rivers, streams and pools to avoid fire and arrows.

Piroge initially disagreed with the decision to release the prisoners, but after Long Ying's lobbying, he was finally willing to give in and execute eight of the generals.

Long Ying and the other three remembered Ze Gang's behavior of not leaving anyone alive, and thought that no matter how ruthless they were, they were far inferior to these Nanzhao tribes.

Longying's most powerful argument for persuading Piro Pavilion was that he could kill two birds with one stone, because nearly 6,000 charred corpses were sent to the enemy's formation outside the stone bridge, where they were piled up into a "human mountain" that stretched for more than 30 feet, which could chill the enemy.

They are brave and can shock the enemy, and they must take time to clean up and delay the enemy's second full-scale attack. If the prisoner knew that he would die, he would definitely take a risk and run away regardless of the arrows when he arrived at the stone bridge. Therefore,

The people who brought the corpses were all from the enemy, so the enemy had no choice but to hold their bows and watch helplessly.

A rabbit dies and a fox grieves, just because things fall into the same category. Not to mention the enemies who were once comrades-in-arms and guarding the front line. Many of them suffered from emotional breakdown and burst into tears on the spot.

Looking at the piles of charred corpses, Long Ying and others felt uncomfortable, but thinking about the same situation in Erxi Ji but only half the size before, there was nothing to say. War has always been like this, and it has not changed since the beginning.

It wasn't until dusk that all the scorched corpses were cleared away. Dragon Eagle Ennuo released the prisoners and led the team back to the city.

During the cleanup of the disaster site, a group of enemies tried to climb the mountain from one side to make a surprise attack. They were discovered by the patrolling condor and hurriedly evacuated. Who else can have such an ability to climb mountains and ridges? I don’t know if they are sects.

Mi Zhi, filled with grief and anger, personally leads the team?

In this battle within the city, there was no head-on confrontation between the two sides, and there was no opportunity for a close and bloody battle. It became a one-sided massacre. The defenders only injured seven or eight people, all of whom were hit by stray arrows, but none of them were in danger of their lives. So far,

Four of the defenders were killed and 31 were killed. In such a large-scale battle, it can be said to be insignificant, but it had a certain impact on the defenders.

They knew that if the enemy attacked the city again, they would definitely not be able to defend the second level, so they retreated their defense line and retreated to the third level platform.

Long Ying used another trick to attack the enemy's heart and simply opened two gates. However, there were piles of firewood and coke between Wengcheng and the main city, so that the enemy did not dare to enter lightly before formulating a strategy.

Long Ying, Feng Guoting, Wan Renyu, Minan Tian, ​​Ye Qiye and Piroge, the six city defense army leaders, came to the platform where Ding Na and the four girls lived, and sat at the table, overlooking the city.

Scenes outside.

Under the setting sun, puffs of smoke still rose from the disaster site from time to time, reminding them that the tragic war had happened not long ago.

The joy brought by victory is short-lived. Witnessing a large number of deaths is both numb and unbearable. Both the offensive and defensive sides are under pressure and torture. Knowing that there is no other choice, they can only grit their teeth and persevere until one side is defeated.

Completely defeated.

Piroge said: "In fact, we have lost the key stone bridge because we cannot afford more casualties."

Minantian said in a deep voice: "The enemy will never make the same mistake again. He will first tear down the two city walls and then build solid defense facilities at the lower base before launching another attack."

Wan Renyu said: "In this way, we can survive for ten to fifteen days, but the enemy has become a revenge army. Although the number of people has dropped sharply from 50,000 to more than 40,000, it still has enough strength to launch a tidal wave on the third floor.

We are advancing fiercely day and night, and our conditions are worse than those of defending the enemy at Shiqiao. What we did this morning is no longer feasible."
To be continued...