In the years of famine, the knife in my mother's hand is not bad either

A loud command was delivered.

In front of the Yunshan County Pass, Lin Hu's eyes widened after receiving the order.

He turned around in disbelief and looked at the soldier who delivered the message.

A faint bitter smile appeared on the soldier's face.

"I understand." Lin Hu didn't trust his master from the bottom of his heart.

The enemy used people to stack the battlefield and level the slope. How could he artificially and quickly stack the city wall to make it higher?

This is a huge project that will take a very long time. Not only is it time-consuming, but those barbarians are not fools. How could they just let them build the city wall?

Three days passed in a flash.

In front of the pass, because the slope was no longer an obstacle, the siege equipment was transported over by the barbarians.

They attacked the city using ladders and fought fiercely with the soldiers defending the city.

Lin Hu always felt that he was about to lose the pass.

However, the sufficient reserve troops allowed him to kill the barbarians who climbed up the city wall every time.

Corpses were scattered all over the ground, and even in the middle of winter nights one could smell the bloody smell blowing in from outside the pass.

"Lin... General Lin!"

"One hundred thousand people came from outside, and each of them brought a large bluestone brick with them. They said they were ordered to increase the height of the pass."

"And... they said there will be follow-up." A soldier who delivered the message ran up to Lin Hu breathlessly and told him everything he saw.

Lin Hu listened, his eyes full of shock.

Large bluestone bricks?

How big? The kind of bluestone bricks used to make city walls? Each one is half a meter long and twenty inches wide. Where can I get such bluestone bricks in large quantities?

And in this season, the soil is frozen.

What method did the Lord use?

Lin Hu's mind was full of doubts, but when he arrived at the scene, he was completely shocked.

There was a look of disbelief on his face.

Then he reacted and shouted:

"The barbarians didn't attack the city tonight. Half of the torches on the city walls were extinguished, and everyone was fully committed to helping the villagers strengthen the pass!"

As Lin Hu's order was issued.

Everyone is busy.

In the spare time.

Lin Hu asked a villager in confusion:

"Where do these bricks of yours come from?"

"With just three days, it would be difficult to transport the materials, let alone cast bricks."

Facing Lin Hu's question, the villagers did not hide anything and said frankly:

"These blue bricks of ours are not cast."

“It was taken down from the city wall.”

"In order to dismantle these, even our twelve or thirteen-year-old children helped to do it."

"After all, the king promised that as long as the pass is not lost, no one will ever steal our land."

When Lin Hu heard that the bricks were taken from demolished buildings in the city, his eyes showed a deep disbelief.

No wonder I couldn’t think of it.

If I had wanted it myself, I probably wouldn't have submitted to the Lord in the first place.

Overnight, the blue bricks will not stick together very firmly.

But it can't be knocked down with just a push.

Day two.

The barbarians attacked as usual.

When their siege equipment reached the bottom of the city wall, they were obviously stunned.

The siege ladder was set up, but it was still more than one meter away from the top of the city wall.

If you want to climb the wall, you have to press the wall with both hands and flip inward!

"kill!"

"It's not like we can't climb the city wall. We will definitely break the wall of the Daliang people today. After we break through the pass, we will massacre people inside the pass for five days!" The barbarian general immediately gave orders to boost morale.

All of a sudden, the barbarians who were originally hesitant began to take action.

He moved so fast that he was afraid that if he was too slow he would not be able to climb up the city wall.

Not like before.

Today, the soldiers guarding the city gate only need to prepare their swords and slash forward with all their strength, or stab forward with their spears.

The other party appeared from the ladder, with only his upper body exposed. He was holding a knife in his hand and was nearly one meter shorter than a normal person.

'Jingle-ding-ding-ding'

The sound of metal colliding continued.

A few barbarians could hold on and touch the blue bricks of the city wall, but... they would soon be stabbed by others with spears, piercing their faces or necks without armor.

Fall from the city wall.

Half an hour's work.

Thousands of barbarians attacked the pass, but no one achieved the honor of being the first to reach it.

Low morale and listlessness.

Seeing this, the general attacking the city had no choice but to give the order:

"Retreat! Retreat!"

As the barbarians retreated, part of their ladders were left directly under the city wall.

Only a small number were carried back.

Seeing this, the villagers continued to increase the height of the pass regardless of day or night.

In the distance... General Manzi looked at the city wall that had been raised once again, a look of deep anger on his face:

"asshole!"

"These Daliang people actually thought of a way to raise the city wall!"

"How cunning!"

"Build a ladder. Increase the height of the ladder by five meters! I want to see if they can increase the height of the pass by five meters after the ladder is completed!"

The words fell.

The army began to build ladders again.

Three days of effort.

A new batch of ladders are ready.

The barbarian army is at the gates of the city again.

Morale is also quite valuable and rises a lot during a defeat.

But when the ladder was put up, it was more than two meters lower.

For a moment, despair was written all over the soldiers' faces.

Such a huge pass was raised more than six meters in three days?

What kind of monstrous construction speed is this?

It's too exaggerated.

Moreover, after they arrived at the bottom of the city wall, large pieces of blue bricks were thrown down from above.

At least hundreds of people were killed.

lost heavily.

The barbarian generals who returned to the camp had ashen faces and looked at each other in bewilderment.

No one dared to speak first.

"Ten meters!"

"Extend the ladder by ten meters!"

"If they extend the city wall by seven meters in three days, then we will extend it by ten meters in three days!" When the commander-in-chief attacking Wushan County spoke, all the generals immediately obeyed the order.

Before, if we built five meters more, it would have been difficult enough to build enough siege equipment in three days.

It will take three days to build an extra ten meters now. If we don’t speed up the work, a lot of people will lose their heads.

"promise!"

Looking at colleagues dispersing.

The general who attacked Wushan County did not look any better.

Only when the entire North is conquered will their king be liberated.

Because their attack was blocked, which delayed their Wang **'s time, someone over there might come and urge them.

Especially when you know that you haven’t even secured the pass.

They will certainly be severely punished.

Time flies, and it’s three days again.

The ten-meter increase in height made the ladder very shaky.

When the ladder arrived at the foot of the city, it was just placed under the city wall.

A part of it was too high and was directly erected and hit against the city wall, causing cracks.

This time we were able to drive to the city wall.

However, the blue bricks falling from above, coupled with the problems with the ladder itself due to its height, caused countless barbarian soldiers to fall again.

Great victory at Yunshan County Pass!

Passed on again and again.

This greatly boosted the morale of the residents of Wushan County within the pass.

Everyone worked harder to carry the bluestone bricks.

......

at the same time.

Inside Shen Qian's camp.

Because of the heavy snow for several days, the temperature dropped sharply.

Some people have started to feel sick with the flu.

Wang Miaomiao has been suffering from a high fever for more than ten days since the onset of the disease. The fever has recurred and now it has risen again. Her mind is a little blurred due to the fever.

Wang Tianci and his father-in-law's family were shivering with cold while guarding the luxurious gold and silver.

"My dear son-in-law, look at the weather, we really can't hold on any longer." Father Liu walked up to Wang Tianci and said to him:

"Should you go to the merchants, or your mother, and buy some charcoal?"

"And the cotton clothes. In this situation... I'm afraid we can't hold on any longer."

"Especially since your sister-in-law is about to give birth, she can't catch a cold at this time!"