Xuanmen Xiaoguo Shi is divination again

Chapter 645 Consumption of life and death (two thousand five, slightly longer)

Drum horns accompanied by the sound of horseshoes treading snow from far to near, when the sky broke, more than [-] troops of the Western Merchants had already arrived outside Hanze Imperial Capital.

The Western Merchant general on the horse looked up at the ice-covered city wall, and couldn't help raising his brows with great interest.

He originally wanted to sneak attack at dawn when Hanze Emperor changed his defense, but he didn't want that Hanze man not only stayed up all night, but also made all these preparations in advance.

The ice wall... Xueqiu, it seems that the kings of Hanze still have some brains. Such a big snowstorm is rare in the desert. Fighting in snowy weather seems to be their weakness.

But, so what if they made so much preparation in advance?
Under the absolute strength, all clever tricks are just futile.

Don't forget, what he brought today is an army of more than [-] people, and they have fought all the way here from the Hanze West Territory for several days. This is the moment when the morale of the army is the most vigorous——

The leading Western Merchant General was full of ambition. He looked at the figures on the tower hundreds of feet away, raised his jaw quite relaxedly and waved the barbed machete in his hand: "Get the car and the ladder ready. Archers, shoot your arrows!"

After he finished speaking, the blade drew a line of snow-colored silver light in the air, and thousands of arrows pierced through the wind and snow in response. Ye Zhifeng stared at the sharp weapons approaching him, and calmly shouted: "Shou!"

The soldiers standing on the city wall quickly raised the shields beside them. The shields had been soaked in water several times before, and three inches of solid ice had frozen on the shields.

The feathered arrow that flew hundreds of feet couldn't pierce the three-inch ice shell on the shield at all; even if it pierced through, it couldn't pierce the solid iron shield behind it.

Seeing that the attack was unsuccessful, the Western Merchant general immediately ordered people to launch the charging car and prepare artillery fire. Seeing this, Ye Zhifeng slowed down his rhythm, and waved his hands to call for the bed crossbows and catapults that everyone had prepared.

The wooden wheels of the rushing cart stepped on the ice, and immediately slipped. The Xishangzheng who pushed and pulled the rushing cart lost a lot of strength, and Fang tremblingly stood firm on the ice slope.

At that time, they hadn't realized that the ice surface they were stepping on was a small slope. They only stepped on the snow like this when the wind and snow in northern Xinjiang were too heavy, and people in the cold lake walked back and forth during the day. .

Seeing this, the girl's eyes were slightly cold, and she immediately ordered someone to fetch a few ice picks that were not yet solidified and still drenched in water, and put them on the crossbow of the second bow bed to act as arrows.

The ice pick left the string, and hit the rushing car that was just standing still in an instant. The heavy ice mass cracked the wooden frame, the ice shell shattered, and the flowing cold water made the soldiers' feet slippery again.

A soldier of the Western Merchant accidentally stepped on the slippery water, tilted his foot, and immediately fell three feet away. This fall was like a mountain collapsed. A circle of soldiers were immediately taken away.

At the same time, the archers defending the city also successfully destroyed two enemy ladders with their bows and crossbows covered in stones and snowballs.

The Western Merchant General, who had failed in successive sieges, was furious. He was so angry that he ordered someone to move out the cannon carriage.

However, the catapult on the side of Hanze had been prepared earlier, and the flag was waved, and the snowball immediately pierced through the morning glow.

The flammable medicine letter was half-soaked when it encountered snow, and some scattered snow blocks even got into the front|bore|gun|barrel.

The soldier who lit the fire was anxious and wanted to wipe off the snow on the medicine letter with his hands, but the snow turned into water when it was heated, and now the half-moist medicine letter was completely wet to the bottom.

"Damn it, get on the flying claw rope, take the flying ladder - give me a quick attack to take down this city wall!" The general gritted his teeth, turned his scimitar, and Zhimen'er dispatched thousands of capable infantrymen on the march, "The archers also Don't stop, call me, call while walking!"

Countless iron flying claws were thrown towards the ice wall, and countless flying claws flew down from the ice wall.

Occasionally, one or two flying claws hanging on the edge of the ice, or in the battlements that were not frozen to death, were all cut off the ropes behind them neatly in a few breaths.

The densely packed arrows kept hitting the ice-covered shield, and the ice layer on the shield surface was gradually cracked like a spider's web.

Everyone in the Western Merchants thought they had finally seen the hope of breaking through Hanze's defenses, but they didn't expect Hanze's soldiers to pass the shield without the ice cover to the back, leaned over and built a new shield wall.

——They prepared more than one shield, and inside the city walls, there were also countless people in the city who helped pour water on the shield without ice, and lit fires to burn the snow.

This time they exhausted all the military equipment in the Hanze treasury, and the people also took out all the food stored at home.

Hanze's life and death are only between these two days. They would rather use their strength as a country to stabilize the backbone of their northern Xinjiang people——

Even though the Western Merchant archers shot all the arrows in their quiver, they never broke through the ice shield three inches behind that side, and the Western Merchant generals, who had never been defeated even once and a half, couldn't help showing a little bit of confusion in their eyes. .

Seeing this situation, the Western Merchant General nearly gritted his back molars to pieces. He angrily called in a thousand extra soldiers, trying to let the soldiers use their bodies as ladders to build a human ladder that can be used for climbing.

Unexpectedly, the people of Hanze had already prepared for it. As long as that person stepped over half of the city wall, someone would immediately pour a whole basin of hot water down.

The boiling water just scalded the skin of the Western Merchant soldiers, and melted a thin layer of water from the ice wall. This water soaked through the clothes of the wall climber, and in the blink of an eye, it was frozen and stuck to the ice surface.

The soldiers climbing the wall struggled and screamed and pulled their limbs. The skin on their hands was cracked and bled, and their clothes were torn into pieces.

Whenever the number of people stuck to the ice wall reaches a certain level, Ye Zhifeng will order the soldiers to put down the mace covered with steel cones.

When the wooden clapper fell, the hot color immediately covered the slightly turbid ice; when it was lifted again, the steel cone was covered with countless slightly twisted red.

Ye Zhifeng couldn't bear to turn his head away, but the instructions in his mouth didn't dare to stop for a moment.

Seeing that the west gate could not be broken for a long time, the general of the Western Merchants finally lost his patience, so he made up his mind and sent more than [-] people to encircle both sides, intending to trap tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Hanze Imperial Capital.

That day, the fireworks implying a signal collapsed on the imperial capital. The people of the Western Merchants thought they could find a weak spot to rush in and capture the city, but what greeted them was still the endless ice wall, with countless All the stone snow bombs.

This kind of endless attack and defense lasted for two full days and two nights, and in the end the ice wall had completely turned pale red.

The soldiers guarding the city wall were so tired that they couldn't stand it any longer, so some stronger civilians stepped forward spontaneously and replaced them to snatch a short rest.

The water on the ice surface was frozen and covered, and the hands of everyone holding the water basin were covered with frostbite from the wind and snow. The slightest touch turned into a ball of erosion, and the next touch turned into a bloody mouth.

They no longer remember how many basins of water they have poured out. They only know that once their resistance stops, what will greet them is the most painful loss of the country and family.

So the common people would rather stick to the city wall with red eyes. Even seven or eight-year-old children who are still ignorant will break free from their mother's arms, climb up the battlements, and throw an ice ball the size of a bowl.

Ye Zhifeng's voice became hoarse early on, and her eye sockets were red as if stained with blood. The ice wall under her hands was cornered by her, and the sharp frost blade cut through her palms that were white and rotten.

The gun in Xu Fengshuo's hand could no longer tell its original color, and he didn't know how many enemies he had killed. He only knew that his arm was as heavy as lead, but there were still enemies climbing up the wall continuously. Come.

The ice wall covered with cloth and corpses was finally no longer slippery, and the Western Merchant general who spent two days here with Ye Zhifeng finally found the node that could break through the city wall.

The general who had kept his strength all the time roared and led the remaining two thousand soldiers of the Western Shang Dynasty to charge towards the city wall. Ye Zhifeng looked at the large army of soldiers and horses charging from a hundred feet away, and suddenly felt full of despair.

They have no usable defense equipment.

After two consecutive days of desperately defending the city, Hanze was already on the verge of running out of ammunition and food, and a few flat soldiers and horses never arrived...

Did she fail to protect her country, did she fail to protect her people?
The girl opened her eyes wide in a daze, and the amber pupils clearly reflected the attacking blade.

She was about to quietly wait for her death, but unexpectedly, the blade froze in mid-air before flying to the top of the city, the snowy light flashed, and the crimson color bloomed in front of her eyes, the little girl's cool voice suddenly froze. It resounded in Ye Zhifeng's ears:

"Sister Ye, why are you still in a daze at this time?"

　There is no price increase, there is no price increase, I can’t stop the car. This chapter is 2579, so it should be 12 book coins.

　　Mainly I don't want to delay the plot and want to write quickly. .

　　Not next month, I will take a day off at the beginning of the month to give myself a big stick to fall asleep and adjust my schedule to eighth.
　　I feel like I can't finish writing the rest of the month.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)