Ten days later, Fang Zilan and his army stood at the foot of the Gilded City. Shangguan Min frowned beside her, with obvious concern in his eyes, "General Fang, you..."
"I'm fine." Fang Zilan knew what he wanted to say and interrupted him first, but he was still chattering in her ear, "But the military doctor said that you should not use force these days..."
"I know." She interrupted him again, "Shangguan Min, when did you become so verbose? Didn't I say before that this time I won't use force, but you will use force. Are you ready with the iron arrows I want you to prepare? "
"It's been prepared a long time ago." Shangguan Min said, patting the quiver on the horse's back, "It's all here."
"This is made of black iron. It is much heavier than ordinary feather arrows. Can you still shoot it accurately?" Fang Zilan saw Shangguan Min's confident look and couldn't help but ask one more question. After all, success or failure depends on this.
Seeing that Fang Zilan was worried, Shangguan Min patted his chest and assured, "Of course, I am the master archer of the Shangguan family, let alone the black iron arrow, even if it is..."
"Stop!" Fang Zilan interrupted him abruptly. She didn't want to hear Shangguan Min talk about his glorious history of shooting an arrow at the age of six and piercing the Yangtze River at the age of nine. Since she went to Shangguan Min two days ago and told him what he had to do, From time to time, he would take the opportunity to show off to her, which she really couldn't bear.
"Miss Fang, is your method really feasible?" Li Qiyou glanced around at the soldiers who were confirming that there was no problem with the kerosene on the trebuchet. His expression was still a little doubtful.
Until now, Fang Zilan has not told them what exactly she is going to do. She just ordered the soldiers to replace the stones on the trebuchet with barrels of kerosene, and put a row of water tanks in the back. It is not known what they are used for. Shangguan Min was even more mysterious, following Fang Zilan all the time, and had no idea what the two were plotting.
"Whether it's feasible or not, I have to give it a try." Fang Zilan said and turned to look at Zhuge Yu next to him, "Did Young Master Zhuge guess what I was going to do?"
"I guessed it somewhat." Zhuge Yu answered lightly, while Li Qiyou looked curious, but Zhuge Yu did not continue.
It's a good habit not to spoil anything. Fang Zilan nodded with satisfaction. When all the reports from the rear deputy general were ready, she gave an order and buckets of kerosene were poured onto the black stone wall of Gilt City. The expressions of the golden men on the city were uniformly strange, not knowing what they were going to do. .
When the fire oil was almost poured, Fang Zilan ordered the archers to release arrows.
Only then did Li Qiyou realize that their archers had been equipped with rockets when the soldiers poured kerosene on them. Thousands of arrows were fired. The moment the rockets touched the wall, they quickly burned. For a moment, the fire shot into the sky and the fire spread endlessly. Absolutely.
The Jin people inside the city wall were stunned and confused at first, and then they all laughed. Fang Zilan didn't know what they were talking about. Zhuge Yu gently shook his head beside him, "The Jin people don't believe that fire can burn stones, let alone It’s the black stone wall of the Gilded City several feet thick.”
"It is precisely because the Jin people are proud that the black stone city wall is indestructible, so they will only laugh at us and not send people to put out the fire." Fang Zilan smiled slightly, "In this way, doesn't it just satisfy our wishes?"
The fire burned for a long time, but the black stone walls of the Gilded City remained motionless. The golden men on the city became more and more arrogant, dancing and shouting, but Fang Zilan was very calm, and no one dared to move without her order.
"Has it been burning for half an hour?" Fang Zilan asked as if talking to himself, while Li Qiyou nodded, "Exactly half an hour."
"That's almost it." Fang Zilan raised her hand, "Splash water!"
The oil drums on the trebuchet had long been replaced by water tanks. As soon as Fang Zilan finished speaking, they sprayed towards the city wall again, suppressing the fire. Again and again until the fire goes out.
"Are we setting the fire ourselves and then extinguishing it?" Li Qiyou looked puzzled, but Zhuge Yu raised his lips and said, "Your Majesty is right."
"But why do you do this?" Li Qiyou became more and more puzzled, but Zhuge Yu still just smiled, "Your Highness, you will know after reading it, and the fun will begin soon."
Li Qiyou looked towards the Gilded City and saw that the black stone wall had been burned by the fire, leaving behind a series of dark marks, criss-crossing the walls, but no cracks could be seen, and there was no sign of any loosening.
The golden men in the city watched them setting fires and putting out fires. They stood on the city wall and pointed at them with weapons raised, with expressions of disdain and disdain, and some even hissed.
Li Qiyou patiently continued to watch, and saw Shangguan Min standing on the horse, with one foot on the horse's head and one foot on the horse's back. He held a bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right hand, and shot an arrow at the black stone of the Gilded City. On top of the city wall.
With a sharp sound of breaking through the air, the black iron arrow penetrated directly into the black stone on the upper left side of the city gate, and the city wall cracked in response.
Shangguan Min quickly took out another arrow from his quiver. This time he aimed at the upper right side of the city gate, and stabbed another arrow steadily into the wall.
He fired three arrows in a row, and the last arrow was directed at the Jin man on the wall who had made the loudest noise just now. The Jin man hid behind the battlements, and the third arrow was inserted into the battlements. Seeing this, whether it was the Jin man or the soldiers from the capital, Everyone looked shocked.
"Even if it is a black iron arrow, this is a black stone city wall several feet thick. How could it be..." Li Qiyou muttered to himself in confusion, but suddenly stopped in the middle of the sentence. It was the fire and water just now. offensive! Only then did he realize his intention of setting the fire and putting out the fire, and he couldn't help but look at Fang Zilan with a little more admiration.
Fang Zilan was teasing Shangguan Min with a smile, "Look at you, you can't even shoot down a shouting golden man, but you still have the nerve to say that you are a magic archer."
Shangguan Min retorted a few words unconvinced, and the two chatted and laughed happily, without any sense of tension like a critical moment on the battlefield.
"Stones will become brittle and prone to cracking when exposed to sudden cold and heat. The ancestors of the Ouyang family used this method when they built mountains and controlled floods." Zhuge Yu's voice rang in Li Qiyou's ears, and he turned around to face Zhuge. Yu said with smiling eyes, "Master Zhuge has already guessed it?"
"Before today, I didn't know. But when I saw Miss Fang's formation today, I guessed about it." Zhuge Yu's lips curled up into a faint smile, "I didn't expect that this was really the method."
Over there, Fang Zilan heard the conversation between the two and couldn't help but interject, "What do you think of this method?"
"It's very good." Zhuge Yu said bluntly, which made Fang Zilan stunned for a moment, "Master Zhuge can praise others, I'm really not used to it."
"I'm just telling the truth." Zhuge Yu said with a smile: "General Fang should do business first, we will talk about the other things later."
Li Qiyou on the side also clasped his fists and begged for orders: "General Fang should not use force. I am willing to be the vanguard."
General Fang? This title made Fang Zilan almost unable to believe her ears.
She once told Zhuge Yu and Li Qiyou that there was no need to call her General Fang if she didn't really mean it. Among them, only Shangguan Min would call her this name. However, now they both call her the same name. General Fang.
The excitement in her heart was like a raging tide, the waves were so high that it was difficult to describe. She was finally recognized by them!
Suppressing the emotions in her heart, Fang Zilan's face remained as calm as ever, "I am bound to win this battle, and I must personally take Chakel's head. You don't have to worry, I know it well."
"You know what?" Zhuge Yu repeated these four words and couldn't help but laugh. What she meant was that she wanted to go into battle in person. Just now Shangguan Min had said that the military doctor had said that she should not use force, but she insisted on going her own way. How could she be aware of this?
"The timing is just right." Ignoring the reactions of several people, Fang Zilan waved his hand to blow the horn to fight, then took the lead and ran towards the direction of Gilded City. Shangguan Min followed closely behind, riding his horse to follow.
Li Qiyou couldn't help but grit his teeth as he looked at the figure that was leaving the dust, and said helplessly and angrily: "Is she not willing to die?"
"Everyone will have one or two desperate times, and the prince will do the same one day." Zhuge Yu restored his usual clear smile and said calmly: "All we can do is try our best to prevent her from losing her. Life is good."
Hearing this, Li Qiyou nodded in agreement, patted his horse and hurried up. Zhuge Yu still stayed in the rear and took charge as usual.
With the water and fire offensive and three black iron arrows, the black stone wall of the Gilded City fell apart amidst the sound of the charge, ending the legend of indestructibility.
In this world, nothing is indestructible. The city wall is like this, and so are the people. How many so-called legendary figures died under her sword in the end. The Seven Wolves of Beiyuan are like this, and the current Chaker will be the same.
With this thought in mind, Fang Zilan led his army into the gilded city. The black stone city wall was broken and the Jin people were defenseless. The army was overwhelming and fought all the way to the outside of the Jin people's palace. The palace guards were quickly killed by the army and all the maids and servants in the palace surrendered.
Fang Zilan sent people to search the palace, digging three feet inside and outside, but could not find a single hair on Zakir.
"It seems that Chakel has escaped." Shangguan Min stomped his feet angrily, "How cunning!"
Li Qiyou frowned. If Chakel was allowed to escape, he would be afraid of endless troubles. He made a decision immediately: "I will send someone to interrogate everyone in the palace to see if there is anyone who knows anything about it."
"While there was time for the review, Chakel would have run away long ago." Fang Zilan said with a cold expression, "Your Majesty, you and Shangguan Min will each lead a team and search the gilded city carefully. I will go out to look for him."
"Leave the city?" Shangguan Min suddenly changed his expression, "Beyond Gilded City is the desert of Northern Xinjiang. General Fang, you..." Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Fang Zilan, "This is a military order." She finished. So he walked out of the palace alone, rode out of the city, and headed straight outside the city.
If her guess was correct, Chuckle must have escaped to that place, the place where they made the covenant.
However, if she guessed correctly, I'm afraid he would be there too.
What was supposed to come would eventually come, and she couldn't hide or escape.
