The square Yingzhu City on Qianxing Lake; in the middle of the city walls on the east, west, south, north and north, there is a water gate, and there are two slightly smaller city gates on the left and right.
The lake water flows back into the city along these water gates, gathering into a trickle of streams, running through the houses in the city along the streets paved with cobblestones. This city street with dense buildings is slightly narrow.
At the same time, it also forms a beautiful view of streams wading through the streets and alleys, water flowing around the houses, small bridges and flowing water, and every household is open to the smooth road.
Green bamboo, white walls and black tiles, bluestone flowered windows full of vicissitudes, and the ancient gatehouse with carved beams and painted buildings, under the cold moonlight in the night, there is a peaceful beauty.
In the middle of the city, there is a courtyard house surrounded by bamboo forests. All the rafters and wooden beams are enclosed on the hard mountain roofs inside the gables, which appear and disappear in the bamboo forests.
Under the cool night breeze, the green bamboos sway in the wind, and rustle sounds, making this quiet courtyard even more beautiful and charming.
The carvings and paintings on the beams and pillars in the courtyard are neither bats that symbolize "both good and longevity" and the pattern composed of the word "longevity", nor are they inscribed in the world or chanting the ambitions of swans, but rather depicting strange toads.
They are all three legs, with two in the front, strong and agile, while the one in the back is grown behind the buttocks, called the Golden Toad. They are diverse in shape and rich and self-sufficient. However, they can be seen everywhere in the same shape, and they look a little more single.
This unique and peaceful courtyard has always been the residence of the head of the Shuihu clan; but after Julong came, the Shuihu clan deliberately put this very clean courtyard in order to flatter the prince, and inside and out.
After cleaning more than ten times, I made a living for Julong.
After Julong came down from the city tower, he headed straight for this place.
After being admitted to the hospital, he went straight to the backyard, entered the bedroom and lay down on the bed, pulled the quilt and covered his stomach, and fell asleep without much time.
After a few days, he was too tired, and his nerves were tense all over and almost didn't sleep much. At this moment, he suddenly relaxed, and Julong fell asleep in a while; snoring sounds came from the room.
I don’t know how long I slept, but Julong was still sleeping well. He was awakened by a sudden loud noise in his sleep. In a daze, he suddenly felt a headache and felt the earth tremble.
As he trembled, Ju Long's body swayed slightly with the trembling of the earth. He thought it was an earthquake, and his sleepiness disappeared immediately and sat up suddenly from the bed. He heard the noise outside the house, one after another, and the sounds came one after another.
He felt nervous when he heard it.
Amid the noise, there was a loud noise like spring thunder. Whenever it sounded, the earth and beams would tremble. There was immediately a layer of dust on the beam, which was shaken off.
Ju Long was stunned again, and in shock, he quickly jumped out of the bed and walked barefoot to the door; he wanted to see what was wrong outside?
But just now, he was unable to ask the soldiers guarding outside the door, and saw a soldier with panic looking look, rushing into the yard, running towards him, running while running
He shouted loudly: "Crown Prince, it's not good, it's not good, Prince, the enemy's attack is coming at night." Even his words were a little incoherent.
Ju Long looked around with a startled eyes, and saw that the city outside the courtyard wall was filled with fire, and bursts of choking smoke rose from all corners of the city. Then he looked at the sky and saw what should have been dark.
The night sky was illuminated as blood by the fire on the ground.
With the fire, you can vaguely see countless black shadows flashing quickly in the sky. Every time you pass by the city, these black shadows will drop some objects into the city. It is these objects that once they land, they do not burst into dazzling.
The hot fire wall ignited the streets and houses, which made the gatehouses and courtyards in the city turn into ruins drowned in dust in a blink of an eye.
"Where did the enemy army come from?" Crying and scolding, screaming louder and louder; Julong tried hard to suppress the shock in his heart, why did he ask the soldiers who came to report the message: "Is it the Xiao family army?"
While he was speaking, he looked up again at the black shadows that flashed quickly in the air. A sudden enlightenment flashed in his mind, and the words "Flying Head Force" flashed through his mind.
I have heard that the Xiao family army had a flying force composed of feathered people, who used all kinds of firearms. The last time they floated on the Minghai was because they suffered the losses of this army.
With loud noises one after another, the earth continued to shock. The soldier who reported the news quickly raised his hand and pointed his head, saying, "Heaven, heaven!", which also confirmed Ju Long's guess.
"Follow me." After figuring out the whole story, he was shocked to Julong's face fading away, and gradually turned into a confident look. He waved to the nervous guards around him and said, "I'll inform my tribe quickly,
It started to rain." As he said that, he walked out of the courtyard with great strides.
Three days ago, he received a report from the Tang Dynasty, which was written by Fuyou, which reported that the Xiao family army attacked the army commanded by Fuyou at night. In the end, it was because of the rainfall of the Gonggong clan that the Xiao family army was proud of, and it was forced to retreat.
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Floating and Whirlwind also wrote in the pond newspaper that he guessed that the feathers had wings on their backs, so once the feathers were exposed to water, the feathers would stick together and could not be stretched out and it was difficult to fly. Therefore, rainfall was the most effective way to deal with this flying force.
Little did he know that the floating and hilarious Ju Long also decided to use this method to deal with the flying troops that dared to attack him at night.
He was surrounded by 30,000 Gonggong tribes, and the heavy rain that could be brought was greater and more violent than the hundreds of Gonggong tribes around him. It would definitely make the feathered people in the air come and go without a return.
"Tell the defenders on the city wall and immediately find the traces of enemy infantry." Then he thought again that since the Xiao family's flying troops are here, it means that the opponent's infantry and Zhurong army are also near Yingzhu City, so he immediately said with a decisive way:
"In addition, the arrows were fired quickly to inform the infantry in Meiziling that they could start attacking from front to back." Although they spoke faster, their faces remained calm.
But when he stood outside the gate, he realized that he had thought the problem a little simpler before.
Outside the courtyard, the vision is much wider than when it was surrounded by bamboo forests; it can be seen that five or six houses around the city have collapsed, and most of the pavilions have caught fire. In the sky, fire can be seen everywhere. The entire city is air.
Exuding a pungent smell of gunpowder, and under the destruction of the Xiao family's flying troops, Yingzhu City was riddled with holes in an instant.
The streets were filled with screams and scolding from soldiers; in the alleys, the crying and howling of the people continued. There were many roars of elephants, probably because the elephant mounts were also exploding and flames.
In the middle, he became frightened.
"Let the elephant army not panic and exit the city in order to avoid panic and stampede incidents." After a while of shock, Ju Long, who had recovered from his senses, saw that the Xiao family army seemed to be just bombing the city, immediately thought about countermeasures and ordered
: "The infantry brought out all the crossbows and put them on the ruins to aim at the air, with maximum density of shooting."
"Order the navy to approach the lake shore immediately and find the traces of the Xiao family army and Zhurong army. Once discovered, launch a fierce attack immediately." It is rare to be able to calm down and quickly think about countermeasures in addition to this fear;
It has to be said that his talent in military command is indeed much better than Changqin, who is his generation. As the Saint of the Communist Youth Kingdom said, he can be a commander by acting cautiously.
But his luck was too bad, so the commander of the first battle encountered Xiao Shizhu, a little ghost with irregular fighting. Since the night attack, Xiao Shizhu's targets were his elephant army and his navy.
Xiao Shizhu on the distant shore was worried that his Elephant Army would hide in various remote places in the city, and the firearms he brought in his army were not enough to razed the entire city to the ground, so that the Elephant Army would escape.
What a disaster.
But he even had the demon souls like the elephant who were majestic and were afraid of artillery fire. Therefore, he asked the flying troops to do their best to bomb the city irregularly and create momentum, in order to force Julong's elephant army out. Or let them
Panic and trampled on each other.
But unexpectedly, Ju Long himself sent the Xiang army out in advance. This made Qin Yuan and the Yumin and the Juntoumin soldiers led by him clearly understand the main target.
Qin Yuan, who was sharp-eyed in the air, looked down at everything in the city. As the demon soul with night-eyed eyes, they soon discovered that the elephant army was retreating outside the city. He immediately formulated a new tactic and ordered all his subordinates to leave the city in the battle elephant army.
Afterwards, half of the soldiers continued to bomb the city, and although the rest flew out of the city, he began to attack the Elephant Army.
"No!" On the ground, as soon as Ju Long finished speaking, several soldiers turned around and rushed out in all directions without stopping, sending orders.
The other guards wanted to escort him to a hidden and safe place, but Julong refused; he braved the fire around him and stood there, looking up at the black shadows who were freely coming and going in the air, gritting their teeth, and a fire of anger burst out from his eyes.
The guards had no choice but to surround him.
Xiao Shizhu's tactics are unprecedented and unheard of; at least in the underworld. His flying troops did not carry crossbows, but held some strange weapons, and burned jars when they landed on the ground. Fire dragons like bamboo poles came out of the water.
There are also burning military weapons as big as winter melons and packed in wooden frames filled with straw gunpowder quilts.
Once it lands, the firepower will be released and the eight sides will be rotated. In an instant, a small building can be turned into ruins.
If it weren't for the densely packed houses in this city, the Communist Party of China would have a dodge, and I'm afraid the casualties would be even more severe than today.
While this opened Ju Long's eyes, he put away his contempt for Xiao Shizhu in his heart and sighed secretly: "I was a little too arrogant before."
The city still exploded continuously, dust and smoke rose everywhere, and the flames spread wildly along the beams and pillars of the house. The air offensive did not weaken at all.
What made him most suspicious was that the rain had not yet fallen.