Lord of the Desert

Chapter 145 Stock Saint
But Hong Fan sang a different tune.

"I think Mr. He has planned this for a long time."

he laughed.

"I once read a sentence in a book, it was said by an ancient sage, and I think it makes sense."

"Be greedy when others are fearful, fearful when others are greedy."

"If you can do amazing things, you can get amazing benefits!"

However, Li Xing found that he obviously didn't see any "amazing benefits" now.

"What ancient sage said this? I think it's the buttocks!"

He patted the armrest and smiled wryly.

"My dear Young Master Hong, I'm so worried, you're still making fun of it..."

The word "Stock Master" made everyone smile, toasted and went for another round.

Half an hour later, the four of them left the venue after they were full of wine and food.

The meal expenses naturally fall on Gao Da Shao's head.

Hong Fan went home and took a nap, and got up to practice martial arts as usual.

It wasn't until the sun was about to set that he took a bath and changed his clothes, and went out wearing a veiled hat.

He had expected the Li family to move out a long time ago.

And this can also be used as a sign that Fantian Club has completed the preliminary preparations and is about to start an uprising.

The so-called half-ninety of a hundred miles, the closer to success, the easier it is to show flaws.

As long as he finds a solid physical evidence, Hong Fan can turn the situation around.

This matter is difficult to say, easy to say.

Since ancient times, the ways to break through a strong city have long been exhausted, and there is nothing new.

Besiege and attack, earn money inside, burn logistics, destroy ordnance, dig tunnels, damage city walls...

In response to the above methods, Hong Fan did the elimination method one by one.

With Hong Jian's warning, the ordnance of the garrison in the city is currently under strict supervision, and nothing serious will happen.

In terms of logistics, as an important military town on the frontier, Jinhai has enough grain to feed the entire city for more than a year.

The water source depends on the wells (Karez) drawn from Taishan.

Spring is the season for melting snow, and the amount of water in the culvert is so large that it cannot be poisoned at all.

As for internal support, the Li family has to leave by themselves, where can they find a large number of people to work for the alien race?
Based on this, what can be arranged in advance and play a decisive role is nothing more than city walls and tunnels.

And Hong Fan, as the Xingjun in charge of the barren sand, is a first-class professional counterpart in exploring underground fortifications.

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Jinhai City is not counted as a county under the rule, with a total population of over [-]. It is not considered a big city in Liangzhou, let alone the world.

However, due to the guarding of the frontier arteries, its city walls were built solid and magnificent.

It has a circumference of eighteen miles, the wall is four feet high, and the top is two or three feet wide, enough for several horses to gallop side by side.

Under the cover of night, Hong Fan found a deserted place and easily climbed up the city wall.

Pressing against the parapet and taking advantage of the moonlight, he looked down.

Given the climate of Jinhai City, it is naturally not worthy of a moat, and there is only a trench more than ten meters wide at the base of the wall.

At the bottom of the ditch, wooden thorns and iron rods stood upright, and there were mostly dried ocher on them, and it was hard to tell whether it was rust or blood.

Hong Fan looked left and right, supported himself, and jumped off the city wall.

The sand flow turned into insoles under his feet, allowing him to walk on wooden thorns against the wall.

The real essence of the sand world spread out, helping Juggernaut to sense everything in the stratum within a radius of more than [-] meters.

The walls are of excellent quality.

The foundation is two meters deep, with long wooden piles penetrating into the ground as the skeleton, and then tamped with soil layer by layer, and green bricks are built outside.

Key points such as city gates and watchtowers were even built purely with stone strips, and the gaps were solidified with rice slurry.

In a blind spot where the guards could not notice, Hong Fan flew silently to the east along the northern section of the city wall.

After driving for three or four miles, he approached the northeast corner of the city and became more focused on sensing.

The Li family's mansion is at this location in Jinhai City.

The result was not what Hong Fan expected.

Across the wall from Li's Mansion, a straight underground cavity appeared in Sand World's induction.

Hong Fan stopped and focused all his attention on his feet.

[The depth is six to eight meters, and the width is only enough for two people to sit side by side. 】

[It's a bit cramped for humans, but it doesn't matter for snake people. 】

In the tunnel with no one and no light, scattered dust floated up from the ground, slowly filling the entire space.

It's like Hong Fan's temporary body.

As the sand and dust danced and collided, he roughly had an authentic three-dimensional model in his mind.

[The ground is tamped, and the top and sides are all reinforced with wooden columns. 】

After the sentinels on the city tower patrolled elsewhere, Hong Fan walked north along the tunnel.

Finally, the end was sensed at a grassy slope 800 meters away.

The tunnel entrance was at the bottom of the slope facing away from the city wall, and it was backfilled with sand for two meters, and the surface was covered with weeds.

If there is no sand world, even if someone steps on it, they will not notice anything unusual.

Hong Fan let out a sigh of relief, returned to the city wall, and continued to search along the wall.

Later, in the eastern section of the city wall, he sensed a foreign object buried under the foundation, which should be an explosive or something.

After walking around the city for a week, Hong Fan climbed over the wall and hurried back to Hong Mansion.

The lights in Xiongguang courtyard were lit up.

A quarter of an hour later, Hong Jian, Hong Wu, and Hong Fan secretly left and rushed to the north city wall.

The matter is not over yet.

At the beginning of Zishi, the two Hong family members who had confirmed the existence of the tunnel left again.

Half an hour later, they brought four more people back.

They are Zheng Zhun, Gongsun Shi, Wen Zhongguan, and Liao Zhenghao.

The last of them, Hong Fan, was not familiar with him.

This person is the garrison of the city defense department, and he is a man of heaven and man, ranking in the fifth rank.

The reason why these people are invited is because they are full-time officials of various systems in the imperial court, and it is their bounden duty to guard the land.

If Jinhai City is destroyed, they will be implicated and punished for the loss of defending the land, so it is unlikely that they will be implicated in Fantian Society.

Along the entrance of the cave that Hong Fanqing came out of, Hong Jian led the way with torches in hand, and the six of them entered in turn.

The tunnel is long and straight, and the excavation marks are obvious everywhere.

In particular, the wall mud at the end of this section has not yet dried out, indicating that the construction is likely to have just been completed in the past two days.

Authentic no one.

The six people walked forward silently, and walked for about two miles before reaching the end.

Under the wide locked cellar door, an open space with a diameter of more than ten meters was deliberately dug.

"This is to make it easier for the attacking party to gather their troops and go to the ground in one go."

Liao Zhenghao said in a low voice, his face livid.

Gongsun Shi nodded silently.

The cultivation bases of several warriors present are not low, and they have a sense of direction far beyond ordinary people.

They didn't need to go up to the ground, they knew they were right under the Li Mansion.

"The Li family started to renovate the back garden last year, I know that."

Zheng Zhun murmured.

"I didn't expect that it was actually covering up the authentic earthwork..."

His face was ugly.

As the guard of the city, if Jinhai City is broken, Zheng Zhun will either die with the city, or be executed for the crime.

After watching the tunnel, I returned the same way.

Hong Fan cleaned up the footprints along the way and restored the earthwork and turf at the end of the passage.

Then everyone went to the eastern section of the city wall and dug out the foreign objects buried in the ground.

It was a wooden box the size of a desk, painted white with thundermarks on the outside.

"This thing is called the White Thunder God!"

Wen Zhongguan recognized it at a glance.

"It's the second-grade mechanism made in our prison. It is made with chalcedony full of fire and thunder-type innate aura as the core, and it is made with explosives."

"Once detonated, with this pre-dug underground cavity, it is enough to blow down the three-foot-wide city wall."

So far, everyone no longer has any doubts about the collusion and planning between the Li family and Fantian Society.

"If it wasn't for the careful nephew, Jin Hai would be doomed this time."

Gongsun Shi watched Hong Fan manipulating sand to backfill and compact the gap, and sighed in a low voice.

"Sell your property, move your family to the south..."

He sneered again.

"Li Heming really has a good plan!"

PS: The official position system in this book is a mashup of multiple dynasties.

Don't get too into it.

(End of this chapter)