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Chapter four hundred and fourteen: source material

Jiang Shangyan sat on a small stool, humming a little song from his hometown, holding a stick in his hand, and a white steamed bun poked on the top of the stick. At this moment, the outside was already burnt yellow, and a fragrance spread throughout the house. He clearly heard the sound of several other people in the house swallowing and salivating.

He laughed out loud and raised the steamed buns in his hand, "I told you that it would be delicious if you don't believe it. Now, let's watch me taste it." He stretched out two fingers proudly and gently tore off the burnt skin. As soon as the shell was torn open, a heat came out from the inside, and the fragrance was even more intense.

He threw the browned shell into his mouth, chewing it clattered, and everyone in the room looked sideways.

Jiang Shangyan is a tooth general of the Chu army. He led a thousand soldiers to station in Mentougou. This is the only way to Shangqinglin to Baoqing Port. Mentougou's terrain is very distinctive, with a large open area ahead. After arriving here, it slowly narrows and eventually becomes a narrow passage between the two peaks, with the narrowest point being only more than a hundred meters wide. After passing through Mentougou, which stretches for more than ten miles, it officially entered the territory of Baoqing Port, but the terrain began to slowly unfold, like a gourd, and Mentougou was exactly the point in the middle.

As the first barrier to Baoqing Port, the Chu army built a checkpoint here. At the narrowest point, a city wall of more than 100 meters divided the gourd terrain into two distinct halves.

The city wall was built with huge wood and frozen soil. It was about a hundred meters long and more than five meters wide. Anyway, when this level was built, the Chu army was also laborers and did not have to pay wages. As long as two meals a day, countless local people joined it.

A thousand elite soldiers are enough to block thousands of troops here. Jiang Shangyan doesn't care much about the dark clouds shrouded in Baoqing. He knows the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Shuntian Army, because he was also one of the officers sent to help train the soldiers of the Shuntian Army.

Such an army fought for some reason, like a soulless walking corpse, without tenacity and combat effectiveness, and is not worthy of taking it to heart.

What's more, behind him, there were two large camps on the open ground, one left and one right, each stationed with one thousand soldiers, and there were also one thousand soldiers in Baoqing Port. Such a ladder defense was enough to make the Shuntian Army lose its severance.

If they don't want to die, they won't hit this nail.

"General Jiang, there is something wrong." A lieutenant ran in from outside and pushed open the door with a slam. The cold air rushed in with the wide open door, sweeping the warm breath in the room.

"What's the situation? Could it be that the Shuntian Army has come?" Jiang Shanyan said jokingly. In his heart, the Shuntian Army should not dare to come because they knew the deployment here.

"I'm afraid yes." The captain nodded seriously.

"!" Jiang Shangyan swears, holding steamed buns in her hand, and the man is already walking out.

As he climbed the high tower, the open land of the gourd was clear at a glance. Jiang Shangyan stared at the situation in the distance wide, a little confused, turned to look at the officers on both sides: "What's the situation?"

All the officers were just as confused as him.

On the large open land outside, countless people were slowly gathering, but they were not soldiers of the Shuntian Army, but those young and strong at the bottom of the Shuntian Army. These withered and ragged people were like walking skeletons, slowly but firmly beginning to gather.

He did not see the Shuntian Army's army, but saw countless refugees. This made Jiang Shangyan unable to understand. Could it be that Moro would let these refugees attack them?

"General, what should I do?" asked a captain.

"Do you still need to ask this?" Jiang Shangyan tore off a steamed bun, stuffed it into her mouth and chewed it hard, and said fiercely: "Prepare for battle. No matter who you dare to approach us, you will be killed without mercy!"

Above the city wall, a shrill sound of war trumpets, and the rumbling war drums sounded. The soldiers ran towards their positions with a slightly nervous expression. The crossbow machine and stone cannon removed the covered felt clothes. The soldiers were busy changing into bowstrings, nooses, and began to debug. Rows of crossbowmen took out cow tendons from their arms and carefully installed them on the big bow. A pot of feather arrows were placed in front of them. The spearmen and swords and shields walked to the edge of the city wall in silence and put the spears on the city wall.

Jiang Shangyan swallowed the steamed bun that had not been chewed yet, grabbed a handful of snow from the wall and stuffed it into her mouth. Kaba Kaba chewed it, and cursed a few words in a blurry manner.

Moro is really not a thing. He actually drove these refugees to attack the city with flesh and blood. It would be really strange for such a person to not go to hell.

"Send someone to report to General Jiang immediately, the Shuntian Army is about to start attacking." He stuffed half of the steamed buns that had not been eaten into his arms, and he issued an order loudly.

The Chu army on the city wall was like a sophisticated machine. With the command of Jiang Shangyan, each gear began to move, like a beast opening its bloody mouth, quietly waiting for the enemy opposite to come to the door.

Jiang Shangyan leaned on the wall and stared at the other party silently. At this time, he had calmed down and abandoned all the distractions he shouldn't have in his mind. This is war, without mercy.

He clearly saw a tall man waving a spear in his hand and saying something loudly. The distance was too far and he couldn't hear it clearly, but he could see that every time the man raised the spear in his hand, the people in the distance burst out with a cry.

The roars were hoarse and they didn't have the strength no matter how they heard it, but slowly, the sound became louder, not because they suddenly had the strength, but because they were more and more people.

Jiang Shangyan's expression gradually became solemn from the previous relaxation. As time went by, as more and more people outside gathered, he became a little nervous.

He is a veteran, who has been on the battlefield countless times, killed countless enemies, and has seen countless companions fall beside him. He has also escaped from death many times. He has formed his own unique feeling about the atmosphere on the battlefield.

The combat effectiveness of people outside is indeed not worth mentioning, but now, there is something slowly emerging among them, that is anger and resentment.

This inexplicable feeling made Jiang Shangyan feel like her hair was standing upside down.

The crowd slowly gave up a passage, and rolled out large balls from the passage. What is this? Jiang Shangyan hesitated for a moment and then reacted, and suddenly screamed in her heart. It was not good!

They were snowballs one by one.

The snowballs that started to roll were two people high at first, but as he kept rolling, they gradually became thicker and taller. Dozens of such snowballs were pushed forward by the refugees, and each time they rolled, they would be thicker.

When Jiang Shangyan saw these snowballs, he looked at the terrain of the level and couldn't help but sweat. These refugees came up with a wonderful idea to attack the city wall. They wanted to use snow to fill in the height difference between the level and them.

"Bound machine, launch!" He gave the order loudly.

A crossbow machine shot out thick crossbow arrows with a sharp roar. Jiang Shangyan stared at these guys flying in the air with her eyes fixed on them. The muffled sound continued to sound. Some snowballs shattered into the ground when they were hit. The crossbow arrows remained unchanged and continued to move forward, stringing the refugees who pushed the snowball forward into a string of candied haws, but some only pierced the snowball through and shot the refugees behind them to death, but the snowballs were still rolling forward.

"The crossbow machine and stone cannon continue to fire, smashing all these snowballs!" Jiang Shangyan roared.

The snowballs were rolling, the crossbows were screaming, and the muffled sound of the stone cannons seemed particularly powerful under this special terrain. The snow balls were shattered one by one, but behind them, more snow balls were re-formed, and the broken snow balls would not be wasted. They were immediately stirred together by the subsequent snow balls.

A huge roar came from above his head, and Yan Shangyan looked up in horror. On the tops of the mountains on both sides of the level, snow balls were getting bigger and bigger in his eyes, roaring down the steep hillside.

The mountain edges on both sides were steep and it was impossible to attack from it, but the refugees came up with a way to select people who were good at climbing and climbed up. They didn't need anything else, and the snow was their weapons. They wanted to use snow to flood the level alive.

Jiang Shangyan flashed back in a panic, and a piece of snow that was comparable to a small house hit the place where he had just stood. The entire city wall shattered, and the snow fell to the ground. A section of the city wall that was more than ten meters was almost filled with snow.

"Come, come, climb up and kill the bastards on the mountain!" Jiang Shangyan roared angrily.

The refugees pushed the snow ball forward silently. From time to time, some people fell under crossbows shot from the front, under stone cannons falling in the air, and among the feather arrows falling like rain, but they still walked forward silently without shouting, because they were hungry and lost their strength to shout. Some people fell to the ground without any attack, and there was no movement. They had exhausted their last bit of strength and were starved to death.

If you set up Baoqing Port, you will get food and have a full meal. Everyone who is walking forward has only such a thought in your mind, so as not to starve to death.

Jiang Shangyan looked at the snow piles gradually rising in front of him, a long slope was forming in front of him, and more snow balls were pushed up, then fell from the broken corner, constantly narrowing the gap with the city wall, and looked up at the peaks on both sides. The refugees on the mountain should have been killed by the military masters at this moment, but next, they must have fought with these refugees holding sticks in close combat.

This damn Xue! Jiang Shangyan scolded in his heart. He was from the south. He really didn't expect that Xue could be used like this.
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