Long Ying, Wan Ren Yu, Feng Guoting, Minan Tian and Ye Qiye sat with their backs against the protective wall at the edge of the second platform, watching the boulders flying in the sky, whizzing past their heads, destroying a building. Building after building, the sound of trebuchets is like a life-threatening charm.
They are not without threat to the enemy. Whenever they jump up to fight back, the enemy will always fall under their arrows, so that the enemy does not dare to use ladders to climb the platform to attack. However, the stone bullets fired by the trebuchet are enough to destroy the enemy. Everything on the second floor terrace and the protective wall have mostly collapsed and will not last long.
Wan Renyu shouted: "They are rushing to build large wooden frames of different heights, which should be used to support the new ramp. If they are allowed to build a new ramp and push the trebuchet up, the current situation on the second floor will be , will be a reflection of the future of the third level. Attacking them layer by layer will eventually lead to the same fate for the King's Castle."
Ye Qiye said painfully: "We can't stop it now."
Long Ying said easily: "The mountain man has his own clever plan, brothers, please rest assured. Oh! Move!"
Suddenly it moved sideways for more than ten feet, and the four people followed it hurriedly.
"boom!"
A huge boulder hit the place where their backs had been leaning. The boulder bounced back and fell back to the bottom platform. Mud and rocks flew everywhere where it hit, leaving a gap.
Minantian shouted: "What's the use of picking up stones by someone else? We don't have a trebuchet."
Long Ying said: "There are many kinds of trebuchets. Ours is called the 'human trebuchet'. It is guaranteed to be more accurate and more powerful. Tomorrow at the latest, I can demonstrate its power to the big brothers. Ha! It's so cool!"
Behind the house, the Eagle Clan warriors were constantly selecting stone bullets that fell from the sky. The selection criteria were that they could lift the stones with the strength of one person's arms and put them into the shelf, and then the Meng Shezhao brothers on the third floor would pull them. Go up. They have sharp eyes and ears, and are agile. They can move freely in the rain of stones and bullets, and work hard.
Wan Renyu said: "How long will it last?"
Longying closed his eyes and shouted: "Send the arrow!"
The five men jumped up, each looking for a target, and fired arrows downwards.
More than a thousand steps away from the foot of the second floor, a shield formation more than thirty feet long was erected. The shield was a large wooden shield, taller than a human body. Behind the shield formation were more than fifty trebuchets. The enemy could not help but control the city. The stone bullets transported from outside are placed on the launching bowl, and then bounced up. The range covers the entire second level of the platform. They are fast, ruthless, heavy, powerful, and invincible.
Some of the arrows passed through the shield array and killed seven or eight people on the opponent's side.
After launching, the five people lowered themselves and hid behind the protective wall.
Feng Guoting shouted: "My mother! It's so efficient. The entire main wall has almost been demolished."
Wan Renyu said: "How long will it last?"
Long Ying looked at the few houses left. The others were all reduced to rubble and broken pieces of furniture. He said, "There are still eighteen houses. Oh! There are only seventeen left."
Ye Qiye looked at his brother who was picking up stones in the distance, made a reporting gesture to him, and shouted: "Commander Qi! We have picked up a total of 350 stones, is it enough?"
Long Ying smiled and said: "Report to the coach? Ha! That's really interesting. Let them go up first."
Ye Qiye hurriedly issued an order to evacuate. As if they had been pardoned by the emperor, all the soldiers climbed the ropes back to the third floor. Without the shelter of the house, it became increasingly dangerous to pick up stones.
"Crack!"
Minan Tian smiled and said: "Another trebuchet has been scrapped."
Long Ying nudged Feng Guoting beside him with his elbow, and whispered: "It's time to say the year correctly. As for the month, day, and hour, I have an idea."
Feng Guoting forgot about the endless bullets passing by, and said happily: "Can you even do this?"
Long Ying said: "Mei Yue is most likely the first psychic beauty who can teach you the autonomy of reincarnation. Since she promised you that she will not embarrass you in the next life, the only way is to choose the month, day and time of her birth.
, is exactly the same as the month, day, and hour when she left, so her brother Ting has a clue. Oh! My mother! Shit!"
The five people ran forward, and four or five boulders hit their hiding place at the same time, causing the entire wall to collapse.
There were no complete houses on the second level of the platform. The five people lost their shelter and rushed to the end, climbing ropes to the upper level of the platform.
After dark, the inner and outer city walls no longer existed. The ground floor was brightly lit, and the enemy's fortification soldiers were rushing to build a ramp to climb to the second slaughterhouse.
The second floor has been razed to the ground, and because it is outside the glare of the lights, it is as quiet as a ghostland.
Following Long Ying's instructions, Piluo Pavilion tightened the stones one by one with thick ropes. After completion, he sent people to take turns monitoring the movements below, then ate and rested, waiting for tomorrow to come.
The three of Long Ying and Piro Pavilion went to the edge of the platform outside the Four Girls' Xiang Residence to have dinner at night, where they could overlook the entire ground floor and discuss tomorrow's strategic plan.
As long as they see Long Ying eating and drinking, everyone will know that he has the pearl of wisdom, and they can't help but relax.
Piroge said: "Should we use throwing methods to deal with the enemy?"
Long Ying said: "Have you ever played with a top?"
Piroge shook his head blankly.
Long Ying said: "I tried all kinds of things when I was young. This is the advantage of being alone and boring. Ha! Just grab the rope with both hands and turn your body, and the stone will rotate with you one by one until it reaches a normal angle. Let go and release it.
Stones, stones will turn into stone bullets, more violent and powerful than the stones fired by the trebuchet."
Wan Renyu said: "One stone bullet cannot kill many people."
Long Ying said: "If you want to kill people, you can just use arrows. What we want to destroy is the opponent's trebuchet. When the opponent is stupid enough to form a trebuchet array on the second floor base and the stones are sent up one after another, we can do it.
Let’s compete to see who can destroy the most trebuchets. Ha! The more trebuchets come, the more we will smash. Our war goal is to drive the enemy down to the second level.”
Mi Nantian said: "What a plan! It makes my hands itch after hearing it."
Dragon Eagle asked Piro Pavilion: "When we were born and died in the lower level earlier, did the princess come to watch?"
Piroge said: "He has been hiding in the royal castle, but he came to talk to me before the enemy launched the trebuchet."
The five people were very interested and listened attentively.
Piroge smiled and said: "In the past few days, she has said more to you than she has ever said to my brother before. What kind of truth is this?"
Long Ying took the opportunity and asked: "You said she should be eighteen or nineteen years old. Is she eighteen or nineteen?"
Piroge said: "Due to the taboos of my clan, this is something that should not be discussed. Your concern for my sister-in-law also puzzles me, but I feel the goodwill of the three of you, but I don't
Understand! My sister-in-law came to tell me this morning that you may be the ones in the world who can destroy Zongmi Zongzhi physically and spiritually, and I will follow you until Zongmi Zongzhi is consecrated. Hey! I'm far off track. I actually
I don’t know the age of my roommate sister. I never knew about the existence of this girl until I turned eighteen. She was already the only descendant of the previous Great Ghost Lord at that time, so I rarely saw her. I only knew that Wang Fu
I dote on her very much and obey her every word, and I love her very much. Although she is weird, she is also very cute. Right?"
Wan Renyu said: "That's right! You should have seen her true face, maybe eighteen or nineteen years old?"
Piroge sighed: "Like you, I have never seen her true face. Speaking of which, I feel weird."
Mi Nantian asked: "What weird behavior does she have?"
Piroge said: "Yue Ling's ghost name was changed by herself. She said that she was the ghost of the moon, and every full moon night, she would sing and dance barefoot on the grassland. I have seen her sing and dance on the grassland.
Both times, her singing and dancing were really beautiful."
Long Ying said: "She is the great ghost master. She has autonomy and does not allow others to interfere. Why did the prince act like he was ordered to go out to find her when he first met you?"
Piroge said: "This is the first time she left the land of her family. I was afraid that she might be lost, so I couldn't help but chase her. The strangest thing is that she seems to keep leaving clues, so that we can pursue her directly.
Come to Fengcheng. I am lucky to meet you all here and guard the empty city together. Now I have nothing to fear from the secret wisdom of the sect."
Wan Renyu said: "Does Princess Yueling have any other special or difficult words?"
Piroge smiled bitterly and said: "This is a really good question. She said you will try every possible means to ask me about her. Ha!"
The three of them felt embarrassed and had nothing to say for a while.
Minantian sympathized with them and said, "The prince should not say this."
Piroge said: "This is the weird thing. My sister-in-law, I must not blame you. Just say whatever you want, because she is playing a very exciting and interesting game with Brother Ting, and the final result of this game is
, is most likely the key to eliminating the secret wisdom of the sect. I am willing to tell the three of you everything I know in my heart because I hope to know what kind of game this is."
The three of them looked at each other in shock, not expecting Yue Ling to have such an opinion.
Imagine her barefoot on the green grassland, singing songs that seem to be full of mystery, and dancing in the moonlit night. No matter how weird her words are, they have a reasonable basis.
Yeqi Yedao, who has been unable to interrupt, said: "The duty of the Great Ghost Master is to communicate with the gods, so how can he play games leisurely? How can games have anything to do with the secret knowledge of the Killing Sect?"
Mi Nantian said: "I dare not say that this is a game. It is just the princess setting out conditions to Brother Ting that she is willing to commit herself to marrying. However, these conditions are impossible to meet."
Piroge looked at Xiang Feng Guoting in surprise and said, "Is this happening?"
Feng Guoting smiled bitterly and said: "Exciting and interesting? For me, it was as if she rejected me outright."
Ye Qiye had a strange look in his eyes, looking at the wind passing through the court, but hesitated to speak.
Feng Guoting said: "What do you want to say, Brother Ye?"
Ye Qiye said: "Is there a mysterious connection between Princess Yueling and the Great Ghost Lord Danran?"
The three of them were in great spirits.
Wan Renyu asked: "Why did Brother Ye say this?"
Ye Qiye showed an expression of recollection and said slowly: "After the death of the great ghost master Danran, before dawn, the shaman of my clan ordered me to accompany him to the Erxi Plain. At that time, I still didn't know what he was doing.
, until they arrived at the tent of the Great Ghost Lord Danran, they found out that the Great Ghost Lord Danran had passed away the night before. At that time, only the chief of the Bai tribe and a few elders were present. The death of the Great Ghost Lord Danran seemed to have a profound meaning, and he pressed the button with one hand.
He looked at his chest with his other hand exploring the compass, with a calm and natural expression. It left a deep impression on me, and I still remember it clearly to this day."
Long Ying said happily: "Do you still remember what month and day it is?"
Ye Qiye said: "We are not like you Han people, who use calendars to record years, months, and days. We only distinguish days by the position of the stars and the waxing and waning of the moon. I just remember that when I arrived at the Great Ghost Lord's tent,
It’s the first day after the full moon.”
Piroge said: "The south could refer to Meng Xizhao, or our Meng Shezhao. Can Brother Yeqi conclude based on this that the Great Ghost Lord Danran and Yueling are connected?"
Ye Qiye said: "I don't know, but when I saw Princess Yue Ling for the first time, my mind uncontrollably flashed the scene of Lord Dan Ran exploring the south, and now I see Brother Ting is going to marry Princess Yue Ling.
As a wife, Princess Yueling also loves to sing and dance barefoot under the full moon, so she couldn't help but ask this question."
Piroge was shocked and said: "No wonder you care so much about Yue Ling's age. Is there any possibility?"
At this time, one of Piroge's men hurried over and said: "Shan Mang is back!"
Shan Mang is the subordinate sent by Piroge to meet Zegang. He is eloquent and is the most suitable person to take on the important task of exchanges between the two countries.
Piroge forgot about Yue Ling and said with great joy: "Come see him immediately."
It was still bright in the morning, and the sound of uniform marching shocked the silence of the mountain city. Everyone reluctantly got out of their beds and crowded to the protective wall at the edge of the third floor, which was also the last line of defense for the city defenders.
Looking down.
A large number of shield bearers climbed up to the lower platform from the wooden ramp that had been completed many hours ago. They were holding special large wooden shields, which required two people to hold one. They were equipped with sharp wooden shields that could be inserted deep into the soil.
Strengthen the resistance of wooden shields that are higher than a human body. The enemy shield hand reaches the middle position of the lower level amidst the sound of drums.
One thousand two hundred steps away from the edge of the rear platform and the foot of the third floor in front, far beyond the range of ordinary archers, they were lined up horizontally, with their shields erected in front of them and inserted into the ground, forming a shield that was dozens of feet long.
wall.
Then a large number of swordsmen and archers rushed up and ran behind the shield wall, half-kneeling on the ground. Of course they were afraid of the arrows shot from the Dragon Eagle folding bow.
As long as the shield formation advances a thousand steps, it can shoot arrows upward, full of deterrent power.
Long Ying smiled and said: "What is the use of this shield formation? It seems that we don't know that we have the advantage of being at a commanding height."
Wan Renyu said: "How do they know we have human slingshots? They are just afraid that we will attack them suddenly while their position is not stable."
Minantian worriedly said: "The stone is so heavy. I'm afraid that after a few weeks of spinning, the stone is not thrown out, but a person is thrown in. Then it is not a human slingshot, but a human bomb."
His words made Long Ying and the people around laugh loudly.
Feng Guoting said cheerfully: "Fortunately, there is a protective wall. No matter how bad it is, I shouldn't have fallen to the lower floor."
Wan Renyu said: "Trust our Brother Ying! What he is most capable of is weird things. You can learn the tricks by watching how he operates."
With a rumbling sound, the trebuchets came out from the chute one after another, separated to the left and right, and were arranged about ten steps away from the edge of the platform. If the space for the enemy operating the trebuchets to move is included, this is the farthest position from the upper level.
Nearly two thousand five hundred steps away.
Long Ying's eyes shone brightly and he shouted: "My mother! She is willing to take advantage of us so much."
Ye Qiye said: "Are you sure you can knock the trebuchet down?"
Long Ying said: "As long as we can hit the main shaft of the trebuchet, which has four wheels, Bao Bao will retreat straight to the edge of the platform and fall to pieces like his grandmother. Remember! We only need to fight for ten more days, Ze Gang's
Reinforcements will arrive. Ha! You can sleep peacefully for the next few days!"
Wan Renyu shouted: "There are forty-nine trebuchets in total, starting to transport stones. Master Long, it's time for you to demonstrate it to your disciples!"
Everyone stood behind Long Ying, watching him hold one end of the thick rope and pull the stone with dignity to test its weight.
Long Ying smiled and said, "Is the princess here?"
Yue Ling appeared behind her, and everyone moved out of the way so that she could reach the front row, where she naturally stood beside Feng Guoting.
Wan Renyu shouted: "Don't be distracted!"
Long Ying smiled and said: "Master Wan knows one thing but not the other. Being distracted is my special skill. Look at me!"
Turn quickly.
Pulled by the rope and driven by the dragon eagle, the boulder rotated off the ground. The dragon eagle suddenly accelerated, and the stones quickly revolved around it and gradually moved upward. The man and the stone turned into a living big top, and moved above the head.
, Dragon Eagle exhaled and raised its voice, took off the stone and crossed the stone wall.
Everyone was so nervous that their hearts almost jumped out of their mouths. They rushed to the stone wall and looked down.
The enemies at the shield formation and the fortification soldiers who were preparing for the trebuchets all raised their heads and looked at the boulders flying through the air like meteors. For a moment, they had no idea what they were seeing.
"boom!"
The boulder, as fast as a meteor, hit the main bearing shaft of the trebuchet on the right side of the chute. The main shaft immediately turned into pieces of wood. The boulder did not stop, and hit the wrist of the trebuchet arm hard, driving the entire trebuchet backwards.
Knocking down seven or eight fortification soldiers, trebuchets, people and stones, they all fell off the platform and disappeared from sight, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground from the lower level, the sound of trebuchets shattering bones, and the screams of people.
I don’t know if someone happened to be passing by, and disaster fell from the sky, and he was hit.
The defenders of the city burst into crazy shouts and shouts, and their emotions and morale reached their peak.