Tingguan is located in the center of the three major cities of Tongcang City, Zhengcang City and Xingcheng. It is a rare military town in the core area of central and northern Yongchang County.
The military town is built on a gentle slope. On a sunny day, you can see dozens of miles of scenery from a high altitude. To the north of the gentle slope is a small river that is not very spacious. This military town can barely be regarded as being surrounded by mountains and rivers.
The weather was gloomy that day, and just a few days after the coldest day of the year, it was still freezing.
But the atmosphere inside and outside Tingguan was in full swing. I saw groups of soldiers carrying wooden buckets to fetch water from the cold and biting river, and then laboriously transported it to the city wall of the gentle slope military town, and then poured it outside. !
The cold river water flows down the already thick ice layer inside and outside the city wall, and then extends down the gentle slope for a long distance, completely freezing the pavilion into a real ice city!
The soldiers were all very cheerful. Whenever someone accidentally slipped and fell in the water, it would cause a burst of laughter and joy inside and outside the city.
The general on the city wall did not reprimand, but stood there with his hands folded on his chest like an iron tower, staring at the southeast, motionless, as if he had been frozen into an ice sculpture by the ice water.
A big man with a beard climbed up the city wall and laughed and scolded a few generals and soldiers at the city gate who quietly looked up, "Why, do you want your second grandpa to fall for you little bastards? Get out of here." Get out!"
Several soldiers were not afraid of him, they just laughed and ran out of the city with their buckets.
The bearded man ignored it and just smiled and climbed up the city wall to the general who was as majestic as an iron tower. He stood on tiptoe and looked southeast, and then said, "Didn't the scout say that the old man from Yongchang County is marching?" It's not fast, why are you staring here, otherwise I'd be here to keep an eye on you, go back and have a rest, and you'll suffer a lot when the fight starts."
The tower-like general was naturally Zhao Wuji’s favorite general, the life-fighting general Chen Shaoxiong. When he heard the bearded man’s words, he just shook his head slightly, “I’m not tired,” he turned his head slightly and looked at the bearded man and said, “Second brother, this This battle...is not easy.”
The bearded man hummed heavily without changing his smile. He looked back at Chen Shaoxiong and said, "Didn't you already know this when you came out of General Zhao's tent?" He pointed to the smooth and thick city wall in front of him and said, " Look at this city wall. If the walls on the other side of Baitong and Taiming can be like this, the grandsons of Guanbao Nanyi won't be able to get through, but it's a pity that it's too hot over there." After he finished speaking, he said fiercely as if he was remembering something. He let out a sigh and said, "Zhai Sui, they are from the Nanyi side. You see, even those Nanyi bastards would have a hard time climbing such a city wall!"
Chen Shaoxiong nodded, "Yes, it's difficult." He stood side by side with the bearded man and looked at it in silence for a long time, and then suddenly said, "Second brother, if I die here in this battle, I will wait until the prefect regains the pavilion." When the time comes, bury me under this city wall."
The bearded man didn't look at him, but still gave a heavy hum and said, "Well, that's okay! You kid is good at choosing a place. This place is great, with mountains and water. Although the mountain is not high and the water is not It's deep, but the best thing is that it has a wide field of vision. Gee, this plain area is great. You can see so far away at a glance. Damn it, in the future, when the land of Micang is stabilized, we still have to pick up the children and go on this plain. Earn a piece of land so that future generations can have a better way of living, right, Shaoxiong."
Chen Shaoxiong nodded, and the two of them remained silent until it was getting dark, and there was an appearance of an incoming army on the plain in the distance.
That night, the enemy launched a fierce attack on Tingguan.
There was no test, no foreshadowing, and not even enough siege equipment prepared!
With only the flying swords slashing like rain falling from the sky, the enemy troops without holding torches in the darkness came closer. They faced the rain of arrows thrown from the city and frantically chopped at the ground. The solid ice used human lives to carve out roads directly to the city in a very short time!
Then came the brutal siege!
The city wall of Tingguan is not very high. Even with a thick layer of ice, it is only more than two feet. Some cultivators in the enemy formation who are wearing regular soldier armor and are well hidden only need to rush forward in a few steps. Sweeping to the top of the city in one fell swoop and quickly opening a gap!
The masters of the city defense had to make up for it at any time. If one was not in time, several lives would be lost!
The attack and defense speed of both sides was extremely fast. It didn't take long for many corpses to be piled up and down the city wall, and this battle lasted all night! !
The enemy camp retreated early in the morning the next day. When the first ray of sunlight from the east shone on the east wall of Tingguan, the broken yet shining city wall glowed with blood... ....
There was silence in Tingguan City. Soldiers kept walking up the city wall, carrying the injured or simply frozen corpse down the city wall. After a hard night of fighting, even the youngest soldiers felt deeply tired, but they could not stop. In the enemy camp outside the city, there are many flags standing like countless knives fluttering in the wind. But there is not a single flag on the city wall of Pavilion. But as long as the figure that always stands at the front of the city wall like an iron tower does not fall, every defender of the city will The flag in the hearts of the soldiers never fell.
After only repairing for a long time, when the sun set in the west, the enemy launched a second round of fierce attack.
This time, several times the catapults were assembled. In addition to the flying swords that fell from time to time in the sky, even the flying stones fell like rain. The pressure on the defenders on the city wall suddenly increased greatly. And on this night, the heavy armored infantry that was wrapped in iron knots entered the battlefield. They were scattered and integrated into the siege army. Their thick armor allowed them to ignore most arrows, except for a few. Heavy weapons such as city guard crossbows often cannot cause fatal damage even if they are hit by stones thrown by soldiers from the city wall!
The defensive pressure of the defenders and the number of casualties increased greatly. For a time, the top of the Tingguan City seemed to have become a hell on earth. The broken city walls were raised again one after another by the bloody corpses of the defenders who were too late to collect them. The robes stepped on their brothers. Their corpses fought to the death, and the anger and despair in their hearts filled the entire winter...
On this day, the enemy troops still did not capture the small town of Tingguan, and they had to withdraw from the battlefield in the middle of the night...
On the third day, the enemy army formed a breakthrough team of elite cultivators and rushed into the city. Chen Shaoxiong and a group of officers fought with their lives. The defenders took Paoze's body and rubble and watered it with water, and then built a high tower on top of the gap. wall!
That day, General Chen Shaoxiong, covered in blood, left the place where he once stood, and since then he has only stood on the gap!
Never wavered! !
On the fourth and fifth days, it was not until the early morning of the sixth day that the attack outside the city was completely terminated. The enemy troops who attacked the city broke camp and retreated south. When it was close to noon, Chen Shaoxiong, who was already in a trance, suddenly heard the sound coming from the wall above his head. The cheers of the soldiers came, followed by the thundering sound of horse hooves coming from a distance...
I don't know how much time passed, but by the time his limbs were so stiff and numb that he lost consciousness...
He saw a young man walking in front of him, wearing blood-colored armor and a resolute face. Without saying a word, he turned around and picked himself up...
He struggled to open his lips that had been glued together by blood for a long time and murmured, "Young Master... you have grown up..."
The man carrying him burst into tears for a moment...
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