Lord of the Desert

Chapter 169 Unbreakable
When Hong Fan left the Martial Arts Academy, it was still early.

There are not many pedestrians on the long street.

Since yesterday, Jinhai City has been running rumblingly like a clockwork machine.

The rangers scattered to the surrounding countryside, spreading the message of the beacon fire to every corner.

Many farmers and hunters gathered in the city and turned into a force.

From north to south, every household is strengthening the walls of their houses and courtyards.

The old people sharpen their knives, and the adults take out the swords wrapped in hay under the bed and give them to half-children.

Passing through the alley, with Hong Fan's ears, he could still hear the sound of instructions from the partition wall.

"Picking the mouth and the eyes is the best."

"The second is to cut the armpits."

"If it doesn't work, go to the belly, where the scales are soft and thin."

"Father is going to the city, you stay at home to protect your mother..."

The ignorant and childish response made Hong Fan quicken his pace.

The Hong residence was also deserted.

In Asahi Courtyard, Aunt Liu was packing things with peaches, reds, willows and greens.

According to the usual practice, these female relatives will move to the ancestral hall to live together during the war-snake people are good at climbing walls, and there are often scattered people who sneak in during the siege.

As for the invisible big man Tang, as the clan's reserve team, they are gathering at the martial arts arena.

Hong Fan went back to the room, washed himself with water, and changed into a set of clean clothes.

He sat cross-legged on the head of the bed, trying to meditate and press the acupoints, but he couldn't calm down anyway.

As soon as the eyes are closed, the densely packed snake people like earthworms in the oasis always appear in front of them.

After going back and forth for half an hour, Hong Fan got out of bed and wanted to talk to the people in the courtyard.

However, when he entered the courtyard and saw the two young ladies adapting to the handle of the hatchet under the guidance of Aunt Liu, he felt that the few instructions in his throat were too light to be said.

So Hong Fan simply went out and went straight to Beicheng.

There are seven boarding paths on the inner side of the city wall of Jinhai City.

The slope is [-] degrees and the width is six meters. Its height is at the same level as the sea wall on the top of the city, which is convenient for cavalry to ride on the city and sweep the enemy in wartime.

At this time, the road was full of people.

They are assembling bows and crossbows under the guidance of craftsmen.

There are no chemical composite materials in this world, and only natural materials can be used to make bows.

Generally speaking, the bow string is silk, and the bow arm is wood, horn, bovine tendon (tendon) and so on.

These kinds of things are very valuable, and keeping them tight in the cold winter will damage their lifespan; therefore, in late autumn, the Qizuojian will separate them and store them in storage.

Now it is natural to work overtime to recover.

Hong Fan set foot on the horse path, and went to the city amidst the greetings of the soldiers one after another.

The city is even more busy.

The braziers set up every ten meters have been set up.

Under the parapet facing north, a pair of hatchets with horizontal blades, similar to rakes, are laid down at intervals.

Hong Fan recognized this thing—it was called a rasp axe, and it was specially used to cut off the attached hand (claw).

More auxiliary soldiers are oiling spare weapons such as swords, axes and spears, and concentrated them on the back of the sea wall.

The snake's scales are like armor, even after several times of slashing with the Hundred Pieces Blade, there will be gaps.

According to Hong Cheng, it is not uncommon for a fierce general to switch to six or seven weapons in a single battle.

But whether it's a file, an axe, or other arrangements, they can only be regarded as gadgets in this city.

From tens of meters away, Hong Fan saw Qian Hong with his back turned to him.

He is instructing his subordinates to connect the Yasha and Spike to the chain hinge, and test the retraction.

On the tower farther away, Wen Zhongguan bent down to check the bed crossbow, and then fiddled with another unknown device with a larger size.

The sky is high and far away.

The fields are wide open, and the city walls are even more small.

However, Hong Fan looked at the people in the city and listened to the enthusiastic chant, but he felt that the rammed earth and bricks under his feet were more indestructible than mountains.

He stood there in a daze for a moment, and suddenly felt at ease.

Then he rolled up his sleeves, picked up his weapons, and joined the flow of people.

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On March [-]th, Shen time (three o'clock in the afternoon) passed not long ago.

The clear sky is as blue as washing, and you can see through thousands of miles at a glance.

The four gates of Jinhai City were closed tightly, like a giant beast lying on the ground.

The city wall is armor, and the flags that are waving are upside-down manes.

And the spears and spears of thousands of soldiers on the sea wall are its minions.

The enemy is two miles away.

Six thousand snake people lined up in a dense array, forming a dark color among the blue sky and yellow ground.

Hong Fan stood on a tower.

Beside him is a stringed bed crossbow, and behind him is a Kongwu powerful flag bearer.

With a drop of five or six meters, more soldiers are in groups of three, holding heavy shields, strong bows, or spears and axes.

Snake people do not have the exquisiteness of equipment, but their individual strength is really amazing.

Snake people without blood sacrifices generally weigh four hundred catties. Even if they fight with tigers and leopards with bare hands, it is difficult to say whether they will win or lose.

Human soldiers need to be three-on-one and cooperate tacitly to have a considerable winning rate.

Otherwise, it would be a three-time one-on-one match, and the snake man would surely win.

The sun is tilting slightly to the west.

The group of snake people fluctuated like flowing water, and two giant snakes at least seven or eight feet long swam out of it.

The two giant snakes supported the two snake masters on their heads, then jumped up and lifted them into the air.

In this way, the already slender Red Scale and Broken Fang easily gained a height comparable to that of a city tower, allowing them to see the layout on the top of the city.

Hong Fan could tell that they were observing and talking.

For travelers, this is a very special experience.

In the cognition of human beings in another world, I am the only and only spirit of all things.

Therefore, they are naturally qualified to be pretentious, and they can take whatever they want from nature with peace of mind, and even say that "only man who created the universe can observe himself".

Hong Fan pressed against the city wall, feeling a little displeasure and subtle panic in his heart.

Gein's wisdom is no longer something exclusive to "people".

At this moment, Chilin issued an order.

A chirping sound that was so sharp that it surpassed the upper limit of mortal hearing spread out from it.

The snake people untied their shields, turned into rhythmic tides from the two wings, and moved towards the south.

Their formation changes gradually as they move.

After a few hundred meters, a mile-wide unfolded surface was formed, with only a hundred snake people in each row.

Compared to Terran infantry, this is extremely sparse.

According to the infantry strategy that Hong Fan learned from Zhu Yiqi, the phalanx of 50 people is only 15 meters long after being unfolded-the same width, and the snake people only deploy three people.

Terribly confident.

On the roof of the main city, Hong Cheng watched the enemy's forward step into the 700-meter range and gave an order to the herald.

No radio, no information link, no fire control.

But information still flows on the high walls in a way unique to this era.

First came the orders from the heralds, and then the red pennant flags were hoisted high on each tower and waved left and right, starting from the tower itself.

In the end, each team member of the bed crossbow team "pulled" the trigger with a sledgehammer.

More than a dozen bed crossbows were released one after another, shooting towards the coverage area 700 meters away at a preset elevation angle.

The giant arrow is more than a meter long, and the iron leaves are feathers.

After one breath, he reached the snake tide, smashed the shield, and impaled the three-headed snake man on the ground.

But that's all.

PS: The last section of the first volume.

The description of the battlefield will be as detailed as possible to increase the sense of reality.

(End of this chapter)