Chapter Thirty-Nine: Attack on the top of the cliff
Wei Cheng has had the idea of brewing wine for a long time, whether before or after time travel.
There is nothing that can be done about this. When Wei Cheng prepares medicinal materials, he often encounters situations where he needs alcohol to help evaporate, or soak the medicinal materials to stimulate the effect.
There are generally a large number of additives in high-strength wine circulating on the market. Although they are all food-grade additives, drinking them will not have any adverse effects on the human body.
However, the medicinal materials are no better than others. There seems to be some kind of influence somewhere. In the early years, the medicinal materials soaked in grain and wine were obviously stronger than the current ones in terms of efficacy and potency.
At that time, Wei Cheng discussed this issue with his father, and the answer he got was yes. With the development and evolution of science and technology, many of the foods we eat now no longer have the same nutritional content as in the past.
Just like the same chicken, why are there grades of 3, 6 and 9? The breed of chicken is one aspect, but the more important thing is the raising process. The price of free-range and captive raising can often be more than double.
Hearing that Wei Cheng wanted to make his own wine, Li Guotao suddenly became interested. He was already good at wine, otherwise he wouldn't have become a sommelier.
Li Guotao also makes wine himself, and he has more or less contact with various types of wine.
"Okay, I'll give you a set of distillation equipment later. You can try brewing some first. If you don't understand anything, you can always ask me."
Wei Cheng was grateful and shook his head and said: "Uncle Li, I don't want modern distillation equipment. I want to learn ancient brewing techniques. Try to use large vats and bamboo tubes. Don't have too many industrial equipment, or don't use modern equipment at all.
most."
"Traditional craftsmanship?" Li Guotao was startled at first, then he looked at the memory and said half-thoughtfully: "I do have relevant information. I met an old cellar in Xia County in the 1980s. The recorder who accompanied him at the time took photos of it.
I have a lot of photos, I’ll look for them later.”
When Wei Cheng heard this, he hurriedly said: "Uncle Li, you must pay attention to it for me. I have recently obtained some good medicine. If I can make a prescription for it, I will give you a bottle later. It is definitely a good thing."
Li Guotao rolled his eyes: "Is it that exaggerated? What good thing?"
Wei Cheng chuckled, showing an expression that everyone understood.
When Li Guotao saw this, he patted his chest and promised, "Okay, leave this matter to me."
The two walked into the banquet room talking and laughing.
The moment Wei Qing stepped in, there was a sound of glass breaking, attracting everyone's attention.
Wei Cheng turned around and saw a waiter cleaning up the mess on the ground. A man dressed as a manager next to him scolded: "Why are you so careless? Do you know how much this set of flower porcelain costs?"
The waiter who was kneeling on the ground to pick up the pieces turned pale and kept apologizing, his voice gradually choked with sobs.
Wei Cheng looked at the debris on the ground. For some reason, his left eyelid suddenly jumped, and his chest suddenly felt very tight.
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Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
"Shoot, let me burn that shelf first."
Fan Zhiqing smiled and shouted with a slightly ferocious expression: "Brothers from Zhoutun can climb to the top. Don't worry, those mud-legged people will never dare to show up, haha."
The tall and strong Captain Zhou was impatient for a long time. His wooden fish brain didn't even know why he had to wait until night to climb to the top. At this time, he heard Fan Zhiqing's voice and immediately summoned his men.
"Tie Li, Eagle Claw, check again if you want to survive." Hu Biao reminded angrily from the side.
Captain Zhou and his party were just about to run out when they heard this and stopped in a hurry. Not to mention, a few people's equipment got jammed, especially the folding iron hats. If they got stuck and couldn't be unfolded when they climbed to the top, just shoot an arrow.
A single arrow can kill them.
Seeing this, Hu Biao sighed helplessly. It was definitely too late for Xiu now, so he asked them to find someone to replace the equipment and climb to the top immediately, so as not to put out the fire on the mountain and miss the good opportunity to climb to the top.
At this time, Fan Zhiqing came over and said: "Brother, send another twenty people to try to climb to the top from other places in the dark. If Captain Zhou and the others fail, we have a backup plan."
When Hu Biao heard this, his eyes lit up, but at the same time he was a little unhappy. This Fan Zhiqing did have some abilities, but it was a pity that he was too disobedient.
Although he thought so, he still nodded: "That's Zhiqing's clever plan."
Fan Zhiqing smiled proudly. He could have stayed out of it, but after thinking about it carefully, maybe he could make up for it. Even if he wanted to run away later, he wouldn't have to worry about Hu Biao making things too difficult for him.
Action has begun here, and Hao Dadao and the others on the top of the mountain are not idle either.
To extinguish fires and to move rocks, defensive means must be indispensable. The first-class people have already put on the equipment they captured previously.
Daniel and his party were stunned when they saw these leather armors and weapons.
At this time, it was no longer easy to hide the title. He pointed to the two thatched houses not far away and said: "Brother Daniel, please forgive me. We didn't mean to hide it from you. It's just a matter of great importance. You can go over and see for yourself and you will know what to do."
It’s over.”
Daniel was not stupid, and he vaguely knew what was going on. He came to one of the thatched houses, opened the door, and heard a foul smell.
By the faint light of the fire, a familiar face rushed over, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."
"Hu Er is in charge!" Daniel obviously also knows Hutong, after all, they are from all over the country.
Seeing that he was not from Haojia Village, Hutong thought he had been saved and hurriedly arched towards the door. Unfortunately, he was tied into a rice dumpling. After several arches, he couldn't even get a meter away, so he could only 'Uh-huh' again.
Upon seeing this, Daniel closed the door, looked back at Zhengtou, and said, "You are really brave. No wonder Hu Biao took action himself."
Zhengtou sneered nonchalantly and said: "What if he went out personally? It's a good thing that the young master is not here, otherwise he would have captured them long ago."
Daniel thought he was bragging to each other, looked at the lift platform that was burning with raging fire, frowned and said: "Let's think about how to deal with the next situation first. As expected, someone should have already started to climb up, and they were fighting hand to hand.
We are not necessarily their match."
Hearing this, Zhengtou's face darkened. There were many men in Haojia Village who could fight, but their strength was only one against two against ordinary people. Compared with those regular soldiers, they were definitely not as good as them.
Daniel sighed and said: "If you still have leather armor, give us a few of them. I'm not good at anything else. I can kill a lot of people without any problem. My brothers are not cowards."
Several people behind Daniel looked at each other and then nodded: "Brother Daniel is right. If you don't have leather armor, you can just give me a spear."
They had bows and arrows, but arrows made of bones could not penetrate leather armor. If they wanted to resist, they could only use iron tools.
At this moment, Hao Dadao's voice came from ahead.
"Quick, throw the stone, someone is climbing up..."
After a period of commotion, there were villagers shouting and hysterically asking for help.
"ah!"
"Uncle, my brother, my brother, please save my brother..."
"Shuanzi, don't die, Shuanzi...ah, save me, my eyes hurt, they hurt..."
The plan could not keep up with the changes. Facing Hujiabao's organized and large-scale attack, even if they occupied the high ground, the villagers of Haojia Village began to lose their position. People were constantly shot by rockets, causing casualties and casualties. The scene once fell into despair.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Captain Zhou led his men and was about to reach the top of the mountain. He could already predict the frightened pale faces of the mud-legged people on the mountain when they saw him.
In contrast, the villagers were puzzled and frightened.
The villagers of Haojia Village couldn't understand why they could easily defeat the Hujiabao people the first two times, but this time it was so difficult. Especially Hao Dadao, he thought he could easily defeat them.
To hold the line of defense.
Little did I know.
Facing the wretched man and his group for the first time, Wei Cheng was able to easily defeat them because, firstly, the wretched man himself was careless and underestimated the enemy, and secondly, Wei Cheng's anesthetic worked wonders.
The second time he faced Hutong, Wei Cheng cleverly grasped Hutong's timid nature and used the intimidation power of Hutong's opponents to capture the thieves first and capture the king easily.
In the opinion of the villagers, this was just because the people in Hujiabao were too weak. They were so weak that they easily captured fifty or sixty people of the opponent without using a single soldier, and also captured a large amount of supplies.
This gave the villagers a sense of luck that I could do whatever they wanted. That is, when we encountered soldiers and bandits before, it was because we did not resist. If we resisted, the soldiers and bandits could easily be killed.
This is also the main reason why everyone was able to calmly deal with the attack from Hujiapu people before.
However, the facts told them how pitiful they were when faced with the real regular army, with Hu Biao's caution, Fan Zhiqing's strategy, and Commander Zhou's bravery, under the triple attack.
The fire on the ground along the side of the cliff was raging, and the flames burned by fire oil were not easy to extinguish even if they encountered water.
The lift platform has also been burned out, and the watchtower built against the cliff is even more raging. The villagers who were on top ready to throw stones below are dying and injured. The enemy's arrows will not deliberately avoid them.
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Seeing that the enemy was about to climb up, the scorching fire gradually caused the villagers to lose enough foothold to launch an effective defensive counterattack, and they could only retreat to the entrance of the village.
The only plan for now is to put on leather armor and form a human wall. When enemies come up, kill one by one, or two by two.
The first-class people helped pull the injured villagers behind the crowd, then raised their weapons and drew their bowstrings. When the invading enemies appeared, they had to accept their arrow rain attack like a storm.
But Captain Zhou was not stupid either. A person who didn't know what to do before the world was so sophisticated, could calmly deal with various emergencies on the battlefield. He knew clearly that if he took the lead, he would be regarded as a living target, and of course he would not take the lead easily.
At this moment, the group of them had climbed to the top of the cliff.
Captain Zhou shouted: "Everyone took off their iron hats and tested them for the first three rounds. In the fourth round, the five people from the east came first to form a defensive shield formation."
"Yes!" The subordinate responded immediately, sonorously and forcefully, and then quickly took off the iron hat on his head, everything seemed so skillful.
Chief Zhou shouted: "Lift it up."
The next moment, a total of twenty-one iron hats were attached to him, and he slowly poked his head out... In an instant, a whistling sound came from above their heads, and various arrows flew over their heads, and some were shot on the iron hat.
On Kashang, more were flying around.
Captain Zhou smiled with satisfaction and shouted: "Take it, the second round of testing will be done in ten breaths."
Contrary to his pride, everyone in Haojia Village who had been deceived looked at each other, unaware that what they had just shot was not a human being, but iron hats that had been taken off one after another.
Only Cai Yan, who was behind the crowd, vaguely noticed something was wrong, but she had never been on the battlefield after all, and she didn't know what to do at this time.
Just as they were in a trance, another row of 'heads' poked out from the cliff.
Through the firelight, they could only clearly see the shape of a human head. So, they weighed the head and shouted: "Shoot."
However, the results are already predictable.
It wasn't until the opponent took out the iron hat for the third time to attract them to shoot. Someone in the crowd shouted: "No, I obviously hit it, why didn't anyone fall?"
There was only the whirring sound of fire burning in the air. The two armies faced each other. Everyone was holding their breath and concentrating, not daring to take a breath. Logically speaking, if you fall from such a high place, even if you don't scream in panic, you should be able to fall to the ground.
What sound is right?
However, after they fired three rounds, the arrows were almost empty. They only heard a clanking sound, and there was no sound of anyone falling to the ground and screaming. This was enough to explain the problem.
The leader said with an ugly face: "Oh no, we were deceived. They had no intention of coming here just to consume our arrows."
"Then, what should we do?" someone asked.
Cheng looked at Hao Dadao aside. Hao Dadao didn't know what to do. He was just a blacksmith. At this time, he was confused. After thinking about it, he said: "There are not many arrows left. Let's take a look at the situation first."
At this moment, Daniel shouted: "Someone pokes his head in again, do you want to shoot?"
Hao Dadao frowned and hesitated for a moment.
But just this time, after hesitation, there was a shield formation consisting of five people on the cliff, then six people, seven people, eight people... The area of the shield formation was getting larger and larger. By the time they reacted, the last Zhou Tun
The chief has also climbed up.
They could hear someone laughing loudly from the cliff, but it was too late.
At the foot of the mountain.
Seeing that Captain Zhou had successfully climbed to the top, Hu Biao waved his hand and told everyone to start climbing to the top.
After staying up so late, all the murderous men showed evil smiles. Some people had already begun to discuss how to allocate the quota after getting up, especially Hao Dadao's daughter. Although she had scars on her face, she had a good figure and was a fool for everyone.
Don't care.
Fan Zhiqing looked thoughtful, and a poisonous plan came to his mind. Now is an excellent opportunity. The more violent the brothers make, the better. The villagers on the mountain might get angry and kill Hutong directly. Then...
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Thinking of this, Fan Zhiqing suddenly shouted: "Brothers, rush forward. After we go up, kill all the men and keep all the women. First come, first served. Whoever sees you will have a share, hahaha."
With his tacit approval, a group of men who had already suppressed their emotions started to scream. Hu Biao on the side vaguely felt that there was a trick, but he was too late to stop it. Jumping out to stop everyone at this time would only lower his reputation in everyone's mind.
leadership position.
It has to be said that he was severely defeated by Fan Zhiqing.