Everyone was no longer afraid of exposing their whereabouts. General Zuo and his deputy shouted, "Everyone, rush in and fight quickly."
Everyone obeyed the order and shouted to kill, and the soldiers rushed over with axes and axes raised.
Ye Feng said in surprise: "Baga, Lusmida, you idiot, why don't you play according to the routine?"
Then he shouted: "Hurry up and pull the rope to close the gate. Others will go up to the palace wall to defend themselves."
The soldiers on both sides who were responsible for pulling the rope immediately pulled the rope to close the door and lowered the bolt.
The guard team leader shouted: "Everyone go to the palace wall to defend." The palace wall is somewhat similar to a city wall, but not as wide as a city wall. Outside is an outer wall that is as high as half a person, and inside there is a corridor that can only accommodate two people walking side by side.
The corps commander in charge of the inner guard shouted: "Go up to the archery tower and defend."
In the courtyards behind the palace, orders of "defense" and "defense" were shouted one after another. Then there were noisy footsteps, and the soldiers rushed to their respective garrison posts.
After the arrangements were made, Ye Feng breathed a long sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and thought to himself: "Thankfully I designed the door-closing mechanism, otherwise I would have become a sleeping dragon and a phoenix, and my reputation would have been ruined here.
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Adili patted Ye Feng on the shoulder and said: "It's okay, it's just a momentary misstep, don't take it to heart. And we have nothing to lose."
When Zhamuhe saw that the palace door was closed, he ordered his people to bring tree trunks to hit the palace door. Adili ordered his people to bring more wooden stakes to block the palace door.
People outside brought long ladders and prepared to climb over the wall. The soldiers on the palace wall threw stones at the people on the ladder to prevent or slow them down. Some soldiers used long axes to lift the ladder away from the palace wall and let the ladder move toward the palace wall.
Then fell down.
The archers of Zhamuhe shot arrows when they saw the defending soldiers outcropping, injuring several soldiers. The archery tower in the palace also continued to shoot arrows outside, and many of the attacking soldiers outside were also injured by arrows.
The two sides go back and forth, consuming each other's vitality. But the side with obviously fewer troops is even more unable to withstand such consumption.
The fierce battle between the two sides continued intermittently until nightfall. There were no modern clocks at this time. People here expressed time based on sunrise, morning eclipse, noon, sunset, evening eclipse, nightfall and wakefulness.
These times are not fixed and may vary from a few minutes to an hour because the sunrise and sunset times change.
Moreover, the intervals between each other are not equal. For example, the intervals between sunset, twilight eclipse and nightfall are very short, only one to two hours.
Relatively stable time divisions did not exist until more than ten centuries in the Far West. Before that, time was divided into six to eight time points.
Because the ancient Wa people had writing very early and were relatively advanced in astronomy, they began to use the twelve earthly branches in the Han Dynasty to express their time, with midnight to one o'clock as the child hour, one to three o'clock as the chou hour, and so on.
Nightfall here is the time to go to bed at night, which is around 9 to 10 pm.
At this time, the palace door could not withstand the impact and was smashed into pieces. The attacking soldiers began to use weapons to pry open the palace door fragments, and there were already several attacking soldiers climbing on the palace wall. Seeing that the situation was critical, the perimeter was already very dangerous.
Difficult to hold on to.
Ye Feng found Adili and said: "Brother Adili, the perimeter has been lost. Quickly lead the people to evacuate inside and evacuate to the palace."
Originally, the main entrance was the strongest layer of defense, and the second courtyard was a banquet hall, so there were no solid defense measures. Only the king's palace in the third courtyard had a solid door that could be used as a defense.
At this time, Adili hesitated. Retreating to the palace would make them more passive and lose any possibility of breaking out.
Ye Feng saw Adili's hesitation and advised: "You can persist longer if you maintain your strength."
Adili looked at Ye Feng and said, "Okay, retreat quickly. But don't leave anyone behind."
Ye Feng immediately asked the messenger next to him to give the order to retreat.
Everyone fought and retreated in an orderly manner, taking turns to cover and retreat into the palace.
The first time Ye Feng entered the Daoqie Mo Kingdom's palace, he thought it would be a splendid house, but in fact it was like a landlord's house. It didn't even have any carved beams and beams, it was just a large wooden house.
Ye Feng thought to himself: "It seems that King Qiemo is not doing well. But think about it, this city with more than a thousand people is a village, and this is a village chief-level house." Thinking about it this way, this is also a village.
Not surprising.
The courtyard gate of the dormitory was much smaller than the main entrance, so it was relatively stronger. But after retreating here, Ye Feng felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere. It was obvious that these soldiers were more nervous than before, and even Adili looked a little less confident.
Ye Feng thought for a moment that it was time to cheer up the soldiers and let them see his treasure. Ye Feng picked up a backpack containing a homemade clay pot grenade, picked up a torch, and climbed to a relatively safe palace wall.
Ye Feng shouted to the outside world: "People outside, listen, you have been surrounded." Ye Feng patted his head and said: "Baga, Lusmida, that's all right."
But what I didn't expect was that the soldiers outside suddenly became quiet. Some even glanced at the surrounding palace walls and the gate behind them in panic, as if they thought they were really surrounded.
Ye Feng shouted again: "People outside, listen, you have been punished by heaven for rebelling. I am now ordered by the God of Kunlun Mountain to punish you with the art of drawing thunder."
As he spoke, he lit a grenade and threw it outside the wall. Because it was dark, people outside could not see what he was throwing, but when it was thrown out, it made a huge noise, like the sound of a lightning strike.
This made the people outside the palace wall panic, but the people inside the palace wall were greatly encouraged and cheered: "God's punishment, God's punishment, God's punishment."
During this period, people were very superstitious because they were unknown about many things. Some of the soldiers attacking outside even began to slowly retreat.
Upon seeing this, Zhamuhe secretly said: "Not good." But he was still a character. He rolled his eyes and immediately shouted: "Don't listen to his nonsense. How could a person from the Zhou Dynasty receive the order from our Kunlun Mountain God?"
"Soldiers, please obey your orders. We are the bravest warriors in Qiemo. Only we are qualified to be protected by the mountain gods. We don't need to be afraid of their sorcery to continue the attack. The first one to break into the palace will be rewarded with 100 acres of fertile land and ten slaves."
The soldiers heard that there was a huge reward, which stimulated their nerves. The huge benefits defeated the fear in their hearts, and the soldiers rushed to the palace with roars.
Ye Feng threw a few more grenades, but some did not explode due to insufficient workmanship, and some were thrown on hard objects such as stones, causing the shells to crack but not causing an explosion.
The explosive power of these clay pot grenades is also different. Most of them only injured a few people and did not cause too many casualties.
The hardness of the grenade shell must reach a perfect match with the explosive inside in order to exert its power. If the shell is not hard enough, the thrust generated by the explosion of the explosive cannot be well transmitted to the shell, allowing the shell to generate enough kinetic energy to kill the enemy.
The clay pots mixed with stones made by Ye Feng have different densities, and the thrust generated by the explosion leaks out prematurely, so the lethality is not ideal. Ye Feng has no way to do this. After all, productivity is low during this period, and metals are still relatively weak.
expensive.
The attacking soldiers were so energetic under the heavy reward that they saw signs that the palace wall and gate were about to be broken through. And more and more palace guards were injured, and almost every guard suffered varying degrees of injuries.
Adili went to Ye Feng and said, "Brother Ye Feng, I have troubled you this time. Find a place to hide first. If they catch the king, they will not search the palace carefully again. You can find an opportunity to escape."
Ye Feng asked: "What about you, brother?"
Adili said decisively: "I will fight to the last drop of blood for our king."
Ye Feng was also a little anxious at this time. He thought for a while and said: "Pull out Zhada and delay it for some time. Maybe things will turn around."
Adili said disappointedly: "My people came back and said that when they arrived, they had already run away. And no matter what, we couldn't delay until dawn. Both sides knew that our reinforcements would arrive at dawn, so even if there was Zhada on us,
At hand, Zhamuhe will not give us this opportunity."
Ye Feng stared outside the palace gate and said calmly: "It doesn't necessarily need to be delayed until dawn. You can delay it as long as you can. Until the last moment, it is still unknown who will win."
While he was talking, an attacking soldier climbed up the palace wall. Ye Feng thrust out a short knife with his right hand and pierced the opponent's heart. He inserted it and pulled it out very quickly. In an instant, Ye Feng skillfully hid behind the palace wall. He had already been ambushed and killed here.
Several people.
Ye Feng discovered that fighting on the battlefield in the cold weapon era was very different from what he imagined. There were not so many fancy moves on the battlefield, only the simplest and fastest way to kill.
If you are fast and powerful, you will have an advantage. Killing your opponents quickly and in a simple way is the most effective means of survival on the battlefield. Yes, it is a means of survival, because only the victorious party can survive to the end on the battlefield.
However, Ye Feng also discovered some problems. General-level people have better armor, which can withstand several injuries for them, and their weapons are also hard bronze weapons.
Soldiers generally have simple armor or even no armor, and their weapons are mainly made of wood.
Therefore, it is easy for generals to cut down soldiers' weapons and armors, but it is difficult for soldiers to effectively kill generals. Moreover, generals usually eat well and are strong, so soldiers are far inferior to generals in terms of strength.
Therefore, they kill like battlefield killing machines, and those who are strong and flexible kill like chopping melons and vegetables. Due to the gap in equipment and physical fitness, several soldiers are often no match for a general.
Ye Feng thought about how difficult it is to make firearms now. Unless it is a big country or has sufficient financial resources, it would be difficult to have enough resources to invest in manufacturing. For individuals, it is more realistic to get some armor and cold weapons.
Ye Feng found Adili and wanted a set of protective gear. He then asked Adili to shout to lure General Zuo out, and he would find an opportunity to rush out and attack General Zuo.
Adili stood at the top of the city and rebuked: "Zhamuhe, you are treasonous. Even if you can steal the throne today, the people of the Mo Kingdom will not obey you."
After a while, Zhamuhe yelled: "Stop talking nonsense, come out and surrender and I will give you a happy life, otherwise I will order to kill all your clan members."