"The beacon tower needs to be strictly guarded!" He thought about it and asked a magician to add a barrier.
Longmaw Hill itself is guarded by a talisman array, which is not turned on at ordinary times. There are several magicians stationed in the army. Isn't it very easy to do this job?
But when he spent money to add a barrier to the beacon tower, the warden didn't have time to report it - and even if he did, it wasn't approved so quickly. He had to wait at least ten days and a half - so he had to pay for it out of his own pocket.
The next night was uneventful.
Every minute the barrier is opened consumes energy. No matter how economical the defensive barrier the magician builds, at least half of the Xuan Crystal will be used up if it is opened for ten hours every day.
Two days is a whole piece!
He was able to be sent to Longhou Post in the mountains to guard the gate. He had no money and no connections. Who didn't know that the task of guarding the gate was heavy and the salary was small? After two days of doing this, he couldn't do it anymore.
He also asked for help from the top, but his immediate superior scolded him. What a valuable strategic material Xuan Jing is. Are you going to use it to deal with an invisible threat?
The most important thing is that there is no end to this kind of defense. Do you want to defend for one or two days, ten days and a half, or one or two years?
Thousands of dollars were spent without even a sound being heard. If his boss dared to approve it, his boss's boss might think he was lining his own pockets.
So the barrier will soon be unable to hold up.
On the third night, the beacon tower was lit again, this time three beacon stoves were lit.
But there was no war on the Western Front, and the mountains and forests were very quiet.
Looking up, the beacon fire at Longji Pass quickly rose up. The guard's vision went dark, and he couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar:
Brother on the high platform over there, can't you wait a moment?
But this time, the soldiers guarding the beacon tower finally caught the real culprit:
Wild monkeys in the mountains.
These monkeys will steal torches in the camp, or use tree branches to make fire in the camp, and then throw them into the beacon tower.
The guard was very angry: "This is unreasonable. How can a monkey light a beacon fire for no reason?"
Of course, all the soldiers were speechless, and no one dared to say a word.
Only in the middle of the night did a confidant quietly tell the guard that there were many wild monkeys in the mountains. They came to steal the dry food of the soldiers a few days ago, and the latter burned several of them to death and shared the meat. Maybe the monkeys had a grudge.
Hence this move.
Is this okay? The guard immediately sent people up the mountain to catch the monkeys.
But the mountains are the home of monkeys. How can soldiers be flexible here? After all their efforts, they only caught three or four. As a result, the monkeys became even more angry and threw stones directly into the checkpoints and camps. The guards were stunned.
He was accidentally hit and his face was covered in blood.
The worst thing was that there was another false alarm in the capital overnight. The prince was so angry that he changed the guard without saying a word.
…
The same night, Panlong City.
Just as the thin man was about to leave home, gongs suddenly sounded outside, and someone shouted, "Jie-kou-preach-preach!"
Panlong City's large-scale pre-war mobilization propaganda has finally begun.
Crowds gathered one after another to listen to the man on the street interpreting the announcement in a broken gong voice.
First of all, the heroic and majestic King Xiluo has issued a relocation order, and the citizens of Panlong Wasteland immediately returned eastward to their homeland.
Secondly, the Jinxi Corridor is controlled by the Baling people, and the terrain is difficult and difficult for ordinary people to pass. Panlongcheng decided to open an alternative route from Nantongguan-Hebi-Changhe to return to Xiluo.
Once again, Panlong City declared full-scale war on the Xixi Kingdom:
It is intolerable for Xilan to disturb my border defense, kill my people, and cut off my merchant goods.
Anyone who blocks my way back to my country will die!
The first time the preacher read the proclamation, there was a commotion.
Through the door, the thin man could hear the sounds of running and exclamations coming from outside, as well as the sounds of neighbors opening doors.
"We're going to fight pizzeria! We're going to fight pizzeria!" Countless people cheered.
The sound waves were noisy, one wave after another.
In his memory, no street preaching has caused such a big response.
When the preacher read for the sixth time, there were already crowds of people outside the door. More and more residents began to chant after him, and finally turned into a heroic statement that soared into the sky:
"Anyone who blocks my way back to my country will die!"
In this way, the crowd was excited.
The thin man stood at the door and looked at the huge crowd. The little nephew clenched his fists beside him and shouted in the same milky voice: "Anyone who blocks my way back to my country will die!"
The thin man was so funny that he slapped his forehead: "Life, death, do you know what P is?"
The little nephew looked sideways at him with bright eyes: "Why don't you understand? We are going to fight, and then we can go home!"
The thin man took a deep breath:
"Yes! We are going to beat up the psylvia and step on it to find a way home!"
Like all cheerers, his heart is full of desire and heroism.
Just as the Broken Knife Squad expected, there was no need for war mobilization or morale boosting. As long as an announcement was made, the fierce war between the soldiers and civilians in the city would naturally reach its peak.
If someone were to look at Panlong City from a distance at this moment, they would find a huge dragon-shaped shadow faintly appearing above the city. It looks like light and shadow, but also like flowing clouds. In fact, it is a concrete representation of the prosperity of luck and energy.
The name "Pailing Dragon" is true.
…
The life and death of his predecessor was uncertain, and the newly appointed Longthroat Gate guard was very nervous. He first went to see the beacon tower, and then looked at the monkey hiding on the mountain peak, making faces at him, and decided to poison him.
They hid poison in food and threw it to the monkeys, and sure enough, dozens of them were killed by the poison.
However, the remaining monkeys were even angrier. Even the monkeys from other mountains came over and threw stones at them. They also chose to make noise in the dead of night to disturb the officers and soldiers' dreams. They even repeated the same trick and tried to enter the beacon tower many times.
Throw burning branches.
Fortunately, the sentries took strict precautions and prevented the monkey from succeeding again.
But as a result, everyone is nervous, can't sleep well at night, and has no energy during the day. Regardless of the casualties in this human-monkey battle, the monkey still has the upper hand. After all, you can only be a thief for a thousand days, and there is no reason to guard against a thief for a thousand days.
Moreover, the prince also said that if the beacon fire is accidentally ignited again, all the officers and soldiers in the whole level will lose their heads.
The leader just gives orders and says that this is not possible and that is necessary. The people below have to do it even if they can't do it. The top only wants results.
So what to do?
The guard was also forced into a panic and made a decision that would hinder his descendants——
Cover the beacon tower!
The specific method is to get large pieces of tarpaulin from passed merchants and sew them together, cover the beacon stove on the beacon tower, then paint a layer of plaster, and then sprinkle a thick layer of sand.
Of course, they had tested it on flat ground, and the guard personally threw a few torches there.
Very good, non-flammable.
There was plenty of time for them to put out the torches calmly.
The most important thing is to save money, which is a hundred times cheaper than opening a barrier.
Of course this is not allowed according to the rules, but with the threat of beheading now, who can still control the usual rules?
This is called threats from above and countermeasures from below.
Anyway, you have to pass the above level first.
So the big canvas cover was placed on the beacon tower.
The envoy sent by the palace to supervise them suddenly came to see them doing this and was very angry: "How can this be done? Get out of here!"
The guard asked him to stay and watch for half the night.
Sure enough, in the middle of the night, the monkeys came in groups to set fires.
The burning branches were thrown onto the sand cover and extinguished, unable to light.
The monkeys screamed in anger, and the officers and soldiers below laughed, finally venting their anger and taking revenge.
"If there is an enemy from outside the pass, we won't have time to close the lid again." The guard begged the palace envoy, "Otherwise, if we remove the lid now and the war breaks out again, our lives will be in danger."
The palace envoy nodded repeatedly: "What you said makes sense. Remove the lid."
"Father-in-law!"
"The king has asked us to supervise the beacon tower, and we have to make sure that everything is normal here!" The palace envoy snorted, "Is it normal that your lid is blocking the beacon tower? I will let you pass now.
If the king blames you later, we can't escape the blame. Okay, don't talk nonsense and withdraw quickly."
The guard general said that he had no choice but to order people to remove the sand cover. He cursed the dead eunuch a hundred times in his heart.
No one noticed that there was someone hiding in the night on the mountain peak, taking in all of this, and then handed a handful of dates to the monkeys that were flying towards them.
The dates were big and sweet, and the monkeys ate them happily.
This man is Lao Yu, a temporary new member of He Lingchuan's team. He gestures and says "Uh huh" and can actually communicate with the monkeys.
Even if the guards below heard it, they would only think it was a monkey calling.
Two more days pass.
Longhou Gang was peaceful and peaceful, but the monkey was frustrated and seemed to stop coming. So the palace envoy finished his supervision and hurried back to the palace to give orders.
As soon as he left, the guard of Longmiao Pass breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said to his subordinates: "Cover the beacon stove!"
"Sir?" Didn't the palace envoy refuse to give in?
"He can return to the palace after his mission, but we have to keep guarding here. If something happens again, it has nothing to do with him, but we will lose our heads." The guard sneered, "If it were you, how would you choose?"
So everyone worked together to cover the beacon stove. Everyone knew that the day after tomorrow would be the coronation ceremony of the new king, and nothing should happen again at such a critical moment.
…
Panlong City South Gate.
A large number of people are gathering, and countless torches illuminate the place like daylight.
Zhong Shengguang stood up, drew his sword toward the sky with a clang, and began to speak passionately.
There is no doubt that Zhong Shengguang is far more appealing and infectious than General Nanke.
His mobilization was interrupted several times by cheers from the audience.
The whole place was in a frenzy. Everyone listening below felt their blood boiling and wanted to rush out and kill eight hundred enemies.
"Spiritual rain is coming quickly!"
It started to rain lightly in the sky.
Sun Fuping also showed this skill when he mobilized the soldiers of Heishui City to go to the desert, but the rain was not so wide.
Each of the more than 30,000 Panlong City troops who went on the expedition received the spiritual rain empowerment. They felt lighter, stronger, breathing more freely, and their fighting spirit was even higher.
This is how the Red General used the power of Panlong City to ensure that the soldiers were evenly exposed to rain and dew.
"In half a month, you will have a whole-sheep feast and drink Fengquan wine in the capital of the Xixi Kingdom to celebrate our victory!" Zhong Shengguang's voice resounded throughout the audience, "Now, let's go!"
Fengquan wine is a special product of Xiqiao. The price when sold to Panlong City is not low, so not everyone can afford it.
All the soldiers shouted, turned collectively, and headed out of the city gate.
The onlookers cheered and threw flowers to the soldiers.