Dusk is approaching, and the sun is setting in the west.
Before it gets completely dark.
Zhao Chongyuan and his party finally arrived slowly and leisurely outside Youzhou City in a carriage.
Don't tell me yet.
This is all the way down.
That's really quite comfortable.
Not only did it not feel bumpy, but the originally one-day journey was completed in half a day.
"Your Majesty, we have arrived."
Zhao Chongyuan hasn't finished digesting the beef skewers in his stomach.
Wang Lishi's voice suddenly sounded from outside the carriage.
"What's all the fuss about."
Zhao Chongyuan snorted in displeasure, and then opened the car curtain, when he saw the end of the sky in the distance, the huge city standing under the afterglow of the setting sun.
Zhao Chongyuan was shocked.
He stared at the city in the distance with his mouth open.
Is this the original Youzhou City?
Or the dilapidated Youzhou City with low walls?
This is simply more glorious and magnificent than Luoyang, the capital of their Daqian Empire.
Under dusk.
The green square bricks of the city wall reflect the faint glow.
It's twenty meters up and down.
Such a tall city wall, let alone a small border town, even the walls of their palace are not so high.
And judging from the iron-gray luster in the cracks of the bricks, after the wall was built, iron juice and rice slurry was poured to make the wall stronger.
Is this Youzhou City?
Wang Lishi's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide enough to hold a fist.
I thought that the endless bluestone road was the limit of what Zhao Ding could do, but now it seems that it is just drizzle.
There is such a strong city.
Coupled with the kind of continuous crossbow arrows that only exist in that army, with a range of 500 meters.
Even if an army of 100,000 besieged the city, it would not be able to capture it.
And as the carriage moved forward.
From time to time, you can see watchtowers along the way that are no lower than the height of the city wall. They are all masonry structures. In order to prevent climbing or iron cables from being hooked on the watchtowers, all the brick joints have been smeared with palm oil and lime. A slight gap was left, and then look at the soldiers patrolling back and forth on the watchtower, as well as a vaguely visible giant crossbow.
Not to mention a hundred thousand people, even an army of two hundred thousand people couldn't attack this special thing.
Even in the middle of the attack, the giant crossbows on the watchtowers would be fired into plugs.
And the arrangement of these towers is also very particular.
Echoing each other, there are almost no dead ends in the linkage.
This means that if you want to get close to the Youzhou City Tower, you must knock down these towers first, and the locations of these towers are almost within the range of the Lianzhu Crossbow and the giant crossbow.
"Your Majesty, this is Jinshan."
Looking at the almost impeccable defenses, Wang Lishi looked at Zhao Chongyuan with a trembling voice.
As Zhao Chongyuan's personal eunuch, he had never been to the military camp in his early years.
It is because I have been to the military camp that I can understand how much manpower and material resources it takes to build such a fortification.
And if you want to build an enemy country, the enemy will let you build it.
It can be said that it is almost impossible to build such a fortification in a place like Youzhou that was involved in the Three War.
But now Zhao Ding has done it.
And compare it with these official matters.
The amount of money spent on building the bluestone road was simply a drop of money.
It doesn’t even count.
Not only Wang Lishi was stunned.
Even Erwazi, the palace guards who had followed Zhao Chongyuan, stayed where they were at this moment.
Everyone looked at everything in front of them with their mouths open.
For them soldiers, this is simply...
It can be called an impregnable fortification.
Stay inside.
Anyone who has received some training can be said to be invincible.
It's simply terrifying.
Under this solid defense, there must be a larger underground transportation network, which complements the city.
As long as there is enough food and grass in the city.
Then consume it.
It is absolutely impossible to capture Youzhou City without paying hundreds of thousands of casualties.
"Did this guy empty out my treasury?"
Zhao Chongyuan said with a trembling voice.
"Your Majesty, our treasury doesn't have that much money."
Wang Lishi replied with the same trembling voice.
"Shut up."
Zhao Chongyuan glared.
Are you the one who exposes me like this?
"Enter the city."
After swallowing hard, Zhao Chongyuan came to his senses and said immediately.
Outside the carriage, Wang Lishi did not dare to hesitate and whipped his horse whip.
There was a snap.
The carriage quickly headed towards Youzhou City.
And at the same time.
In Youzhou City, the people on the watchtower were also shouting loudly to the people below.
"Fat...ah, a distinguished guest is here!"
As this man's words fell.
A loud bang!
Two red banners hung down from the tower.
The one on the left is: Shopping paradise, Youzhou on earth!
The one on the right is: Children and old men are not deceived, and you will pay ten thousand for a fake one!
The largest banner was hung in the middle, pulled by two people, with the words: Royal Endorsement, Quality Guaranteed.
Several large gilt characters.
Even Wang Lishi and the others were still several hundred meters away from Youzhou City, but they could see it clearly.
"Your Majesty, you see that Youzhou City is really hospitable. The welcome banner has been hung up before we even arrived."
Wang Lishi shouted excitedly.
Zhao Chongyuan also laughed loudly: "After all, it's my seed, that's why I have such an idea."
The group of people soon arrived under the city gate.
Several officials who were responsible for guarding the city gate immediately came up: "The following are the guards of Youzhou City. I already know that these few are my businessmen from the mainland, but it is a routine matter. Please bring me out." Da Gan Wen Dian.”
Wang Lishi didn't waste any time. He reached into his sleeve and took out a stamped document and handed it to the officer guarding the door.
The officer took the document, checked its authenticity, nodded, looked at the sabers on Erwazi and others, and said, "Please take off your sabers."
"What does this mean?"
Wang Lishi looked at several officials in confusion.
In other places in Daqian, you can bring weapons into the city, but why can't you do it in Youzhou?
Upon hearing Wang Lishi's words, the chief officer's originally stern face suddenly changed to a warm one, and he said with a smile: "This is your first time here, so you don't know anything. Our Youzhou environment is complex, and there are many things happening every day. For those who are passing by, if everyone enters the city with weapons, it will be difficult for us to deal with it if a fight breaks out, so for the sake of the shopping experience of other merchants in the city, I also ask all distinguished guests to remove their weapons here."
Hearing what the officer said, Wang Lishi immediately smiled and said, "Your idea is quite thoughtful."
"Actually, it's not what we thought of, but what King Yan of our family told us. There is no way that there is no explanation from above, so we can only follow it."
The official still smiled enthusiastically.
Hearing the officer's words, Zhao Chongyuan nodded slightly in the carriage.
Wang Lishi understood instantly.
With one glance, he signaled Erwazi and others to take off their sabers and hand them to the officers guarding the city.
Then the group entered Youzhou City in a mighty manner.
And after Wang Lishi and others entered Youzhou City.
On the top of the city tower, an officer in charge of the guard suddenly shouted to the person behind him in a low voice: "The fat pig has been disarmed. Please inform me, don't worry and slaughter it!"
