Chapter 938 If you are willing to gamble, you have to admit defeat.
When Shexiang took Liu Shuzhu to find the King of Chu, he was working as a supervisor in the temporary arsenal, watching his guards and local soldiers from Shuixi build weapons to defend the city.
The most powerful weapon is defense warfare. For the defender, the more fully prepared the defense weapons are and the greater their power, the greater the damage to the attacker, and the greater the chance of victory.
In the long years of defending the city, the Chinese nation has invented countless powerful weapons for defending the city. However, it is limited to the conditions. Forget about thermal weapons such as flying mines and landmines.
He and Mu Yingyi also calculated that in view of the low combat quality of the native soldiers, precision weapons such as bows, crossbows, and flying hooks were not needed, and they mainly used striking instruments that did not require precision.
The first is wood, which is to insert sharp thorns into a log. This process requires the least. Just cut holes in the log and insert sharpened wooden wedges with their pointed ends pointing outwards.
Moreover, there are tens of thousands of houses in Puding Fort, and the wooden beams in each house are the best wood materials. For a city defense battle of this scale, it is almost inexhaustible.
So these days, Zhu Zhen has been leading people to demolish the house, lift the roof, remove the wooden beams, and transport them to the threshing floor for processing.
The second is the forked pole. It is a long bamboo pole with a horizontal blade tied to the top. It can be used to prevent enemies from using ladders to climb the city, and can also be used to kill enemies who climb the city.
When the enemy's ladder is close to the city wall, the defenders can use the cross blade at the front of the fork pole to resist the ladder and overthrow it. They can also wait for the enemy to climb closer, use the fork pole to push down the ladder with force, and chop the horizontal blade in front of the pole.
You can wipe out all the enemies on the ladder with a single blade. Even if the enemies below cannot survive the blow, they will be hit by your own people falling above.
As for the rolling stones and the iron pot for boiling dung water, there is no need to produce them in particular. They can just use local materials and transport them directly to the city.
Zhu Zhen came to be the supervisor, mainly because he was afraid that if they were lazy, the enemy would arrive soon. At this time, if he built an extra piece of wood, he would have a better chance of winning.
But the most lacking thing is people. These two thousand people are divided to defend the four sides, and a reserve team must be left. Each fort wall cannot support three to four hundred people, so it is difficult to make it watertight. The most important thing for defending the city is to have tight defenses.
Once there is a loophole in the defense line and someone takes the opportunity to rush into the city, the advantage of having a commanding position is gone. When the morale of the army is shaken, it is easy to cause a rout. This is how city defense battles have been lost throughout the ages. Therefore, the manpower must be sufficient.
OK.
So Zhu Zhen was very happy to see Liu Shuzhu coming so early, and asked immediately: "How many people did you bring?"
"Return to Your Highness." Liu Shouzhu saluted hurriedly and replied: "One thousand eight hundred people."
"Okay, very good." Zhu Zhen nodded happily and said, "This is barely enough."
"Other troops from the east and west of Shui are also rushing here. It is estimated that they will arrive one after another today and tomorrow." Liu Shuzhu added: "There must be 20,000 people."
"Good guys, are we really all out?" Zhu Zhen was even happier now. "Come on, come on, the more the merrier, anyway, there is plenty of food in the fort."
At that time, the people in the Puding tribe were running in a hurry, and almost all of them fled empty-handed. The autumn harvest had just begun, so there was no shortage of food either in the public warehouses or in the rice vats at ordinary people's homes. At least they had open doors for the 20,000 people who came.
There is no problem if you eat it on your belly for a few months.
"By the way, I haven't thanked His Highness for your great kindness." After Zhu Zhen finished speaking about the business, Liu Shuzhu bowed again and whispered softly: "The redemption beads are tied with grass in their rings. There is no way to repay them.
I will serve His Highness like a dog and a horse forever."
"You're welcome," Zhu Zhen looked at the petite little widow and said in his heart that Guizhou, with its beautiful mountains and clear waters, really nurtures people. But he said with a serious smile on his face: "Guarding Puding Fort is the best reward for me."
"Sister Shexiang has already told me that this is what we should do." Liu Shuzhu straightened her slender waist and said loudly: "What's more, Shi'er is just a puppet being manipulated, and the real murderer is still in Qujing Xiaoyao.
!How can it be considered revenge if we don’t kill Dalima?!”
"You really understand righteousness and are far better than men!" Zhu Zhen couldn't help but his eyes lit up and he praised: "Unexpectedly, apart from Shexiang and Liu Shuzhu, the heroines of the Southwest are also Liu Shuzhu! I support these two people. It's really great.
Couldn’t be more correct.”
Hearing His Highness praise herself so much, Liu Shuzhu's face turned red and the corners of her mouth could not help but turn up slightly.
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The next day, Amang Mukui and others also arrived with their troops one after another.
When they saw the two Noha dressed in military uniforms, standing side by side at the top of the city to greet the army, they were all shocked and couldn't open their mouths from ear to ear.
"What happened?" The suspension bridge slowly lowered, and all the Mukui looked at each other. "Did they let the two of them knock down Puding Fort?"
"Just the two of them? How is it possible?" Many Mu Kui had come to attack Puding Fort once before. That time they attacked with hatred. The whole army shared the same hatred of the enemy and did not care about their own lives. However, they still suffered a bloody blow and returned home defeated.
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It is precisely because they know how difficult Puding Fort is to defeat that they are so afraid of the difficulty. In fact, the reason for rushing here is mainly to rescue the two Noha and prevent them from being killed by the people of Puding Division.
The pot is boiling.
As for attacking Puding Fort, they didn't even bring the most basic ladder, so they didn't even have the idea, you know?
They thought about all the possibilities after arriving, but they didn't expect the scene in front of them. Puding Fort, which they regarded as a natural danger, was actually defeated by two Noha... It was really unbelievable.
However, they had no reason to believe it. As the suspension bridge fell on the ditch, the soldiers of Ju Mu's army from the east and west divided into two groups and walked out of Puding Fort. They lined up on both sides of the gate to welcome the arrival of Mu Kui and the army.
"His grandma is really evil!" Zong Mukui now believed it even if he didn't believe it. They all urged their Yunnan horses to enter the fort with complicated expressions.
Then he came to the city gate tower and met the two Noha.
"Everyone," after they saluted, Shexiang said with a winner's smile: "Who won our bet?"
"This..." Zhong Mukui was confused for a while. This was the problem they were least willing to face.
Seeing that these guys were mumbling and refusing to answer, Liu Shuzhu sneered and said: "This is the gate of ghosts. We swore a poisonous oath to the ghost kings of all generations. Do you dare to refuse to admit it at the gate of ghosts?"
"Don't dare, don't dare." All the Mukui quickly shook their heads in denial. The older Mukui smiled and said, "We are just curious, how did the two Noha do what we men can't do?"
"You guys are willing to admit defeat first, call my sister and me twice before saying anything else." Liu Shuzhu said forcefully.
Naturally, Zhongmu Kui was unwilling to do so, but they had already sworn a poisonous oath to the Ghost King, and in front of so many people, with His Highness the King of Chu as a witness, they could not help but go back on their word.
