Chapter 202 Soldiers approach the city(1/2)
The engineering regiment of the Yongye Group Army serves as the coordinating commander.
Cutting down trees, transporting them, setting up stakes.
Weave sacks, fill them with sand and soil, soak them in water and freeze in the wind.
Stacked layer by layer, spread with sand and soil twice, splashed with water and frozen in the wind.
Everything is done in an orderly manner, day and night, and the lights are on.
The first designer and commander-in-chief of this project was none other than Ferdinand. When he received the order from the Evernight Army, he jumped three feet high in excitement.
Such a construction method is simply unbelievable, I have never even heard of it.
The challenge is too high, and what he likes most is the challenge.
He directly brought over the surveying and mapping team that was detecting the terrain in the Sandong League. Many basic things had been designed halfway through. Through Shanying, he sent a message to the vanguard of the Yongye Group Army to start preparations.
For example, log materials, sacks containing sand and soil, and frozen bagged sand and soil.
After they arrived, after simple surveying and mapping, construction began.
Good looks and durability are not a consideration. In the spring of next year, without the ice as a binding agent, this sand city will be ruined.
Sturdy efficiency is the most important thing.
They must dare to build a usable war fortress before the Kentana barbarians in the mountains arrive.
The bustling construction site was filled with Ferdinand's roars and urgings. Over the past week, he had not slept more than two hours a day, and his eyes had long been as boiled as a rabbit, which made him have a bad temper.
, became even more irritable, but looking at the city wall that was rising two meters higher every day, my heart was filled with an indescribable sense of accomplishment.
The work has now come to an end, and a large number of defensive equipment are being transported to the city for installation.
In order to increase the strength of the fortress, Ferdinand had a sudden idea. He asked people to water the outer layer from top to bottom along the city wall, drying it layer by layer. One day and one night, an extra layer of three to four centimeters was added.
Thick ice armor, slippery and strong.
This temporary fortress is extremely simple. Apart from the two city gates, the only thing left is two earth and stone walls standing parallel to the mountain. One side is backed by the mountain, and the other side is deep into the bottomless lake.
One is tall and one is short.
The side facing Sishui City is about fifteen meters high.
The side facing the mountain Kentana barbarians is short, only less than twelve meters.
There are two levels of consideration in doing this.
First of all, the Yongye Group Army and the Walled City Alliance are not close enough to hand over their backs to each other defenselessly. It would be a tragedy if they were stabbed in the back by their own allies at a critical moment.
The second is strategic depth. Not only can it form a three-dimensional defense, but if the first city wall cannot be defended, it can also be retreated behind the second city wall to defend it.
The Yongye Group Army never underestimates the combat effectiveness of its opponents.
The height of the city wall is not particularly ideal. According to Ferdinand's idea, if you want to deal with the mountain Kentana barbarians whose average height is more than two meters, the height of the first city wall must be at least fifteen or sixteen meters, and the second city wall must be more than twenty meters tall to be safe.
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Unfortunately, he didn't have that much time. The advancing speed of the mountain Kentana barbarians was neither the fastest nor the slowest expected.
It took nearly two weeks to sweep through the gathering points of the mountain villagers and villages along the Andis Inland Lake. In the later period, there were even divisions of troops, ranging from three to five hundred people to as many as a thousand people.
, like locusts crossing the border, burning, killing and looting.
All wars are cruel. Even wars disguised as justice can easily bring out the evil in people's hearts.
Not to mention these mountain Kentana barbarians, whose clan is supreme and have no moral constraints in their hearts. Other races are just two-legged sheep. Many clans have not yet gotten rid of the custom of cannibalism.
When they met the army sent by the Ban Hebrews for the last stand, the Kentana barbarians in the mountains were suddenly followed by tens of thousands of mountain slave soldiers.
The complexity of human nature is vividly displayed in the face of war.
Before the war, these mountain slaves may have been good fathers, good husbands, good leaders, and good hunters, but in the face of death, they were truly cowards. In order to survive, they gave up their dignity.
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The only way to win the trust of the Kentana barbarians in the mountains and escape from their slaughter knives is to raise the butcher knife against one's own people.
When they were forced to a desperate end and unleashed the evil in human nature, their brutality was not much worse than those of the savages.
Under the wild charge of the Kentana barbarians in the mountainous area, nearly 20,000 soldiers selected by Ban Hebrew relied on the geographical location and carefully organized sniper attacks. They were defeated after not even resisting for a day, and they retreated one after another.
Less than half of them came down, their morale was completely destroyed, and they could no longer be reused in a short period of time.
Seemingly knowing that Sishui City was their biggest target, the barbarian vanguard troops did not attack immediately, but stationed themselves where they were. Waiting for the scattered troops to gather together again, they came over in a mighty manner, preparing to capture the four cities in one go.
Water City.
When they saw an unexpected city blocking their way, these barbarians were a little confused.
Xiong Yale, the supreme commander of the Kentana barbarians in the mountains, carried Gergild like a chicken and roared: "Didn't you say that the road ahead will be smooth and you can go directly to Sishui City? Then tell me, this
What is it?"
Not only were the barbarians confused as they looked at the ice city sparkling in the sun, but even Gergild couldn't help but widen his eyes with a look of disbelief on his face. The mountain god was above, what did he see?
A city!
A city made of ice.
The flags waving above, the voices of people, and the cold light reflected by the arrows all showed that this ice city was not a bluff decoration.
But a month ago, this place was empty and empty.
Could it be that Ben Hebrew had expected that he would join forces with the Kentana barbarians in the mountains and made preparations in advance?
No, no, I should have received the news before this, and Ban Hebrew didn't have that much generosity and courage.
The flag on top of the city is not that of the Hebrews, but the black flag of the Evernight Army.
Could it be that Sishui City has been captured by the Yongye Group Army?
Or is it that Ban Hebrew and the Yongye Army have joined forces?
The latter should be more likely. After all, it is not easy to capture a city with a population of 200,000 or more in such a short period of time, let alone build a fortress here, even if it is
Made of ice, it’s not that simple.
"The other side should be prepared. I have already said that we should raid Sishui City as soon as possible. As long as Sishui City is taken down, we will wait until the snakeheads of the Walled City Alliance are smashed, and then we can capture the others.
It's not too late for the village." Gergild sneered unceremoniously.
Now he is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water. He knows that he is still useful to these barbarians and will not kill him unless it is absolutely necessary.
However, Gergild did not remind the other party of the possibility of the Walled City Alliance and the Yongye Group Army joining forces, or the differences between the Yongye Group Army and the City Walled Army.
He now hopes that these bastards will suffer heavy losses in the confrontation between the Yongye Group Army. It is best to fight to the death, so that he can reap the benefits.
"Haha... a small ice city just wants to stop the soldiers of the Cliff Clan. This is wishful thinking. The brave and fearless warriors of the Cliff Clan will let you know what it means to be unstoppable. We will crush everyone who blocks us."
The human bear Yale laughed wildly, threw Gegild aside, and strode towards the clan warrior leaders to discuss the siege.
The Kentana barbarians in the mountains have small brains, so they are not really brainless, and they do not rush towards a city wall more than ten meters high with bare hands.
Instead, they stayed in place and drove the mountain people to cut trees and build engineering equipment. Except for one main force stationed outside the Ice City, the remaining teams were scattered into teams of hundreds or ten people and went out in all directions to explore the situation around the Ice City.
At the same time, they drove away and gathered the mountain people who were hiding in the surrounding mountains to prepare for the ants to attack the city.
Although the Yongye Group Army knew this, there was nothing they could do about it.
After seeing how tall and powerful the Kentana barbarians were in the mountains, the Yongye Army really did not have the confidence to go out and fight with them in the field.
The racial differences are too obvious.
In front of these tall men with an average height of 2 to 23 meters, the Andis people, whose average height is only 1.67 meters, are just a group of halflings.
In terms of strength and physique, it was completely crushed, and even the equipment could hardly make up for it.
The Kentana barbarians with impure blood in the mountains have such virtues and pure blood. What kind of perversion would they be like for the real barbarians living on the Kentana ice sheet?
Fortunately, those guys have been stuck on the huge ice field, otherwise we don't know what kind of virtue this world would have become.
Gegild was completely blinded by hatred, so he let such a group of people enter the mountain to disrupt the situation.
The soldiers of the Yongye Group Army all secretly praised the wise decision of the top management. Fortunately, they came up with such a clever method, otherwise the Yongye Group Army would definitely be in danger of annihilating the group and destroying the army.
The only thing the Yongye Army can do now is to keep making noises and provocations on the city wall, trying to lure the mountain Kentana barbarians to attack the city in advance.
Not to mention, this trick is really useful against these barbarians with very low anger points.
Many barbarians knew that the other party had done this intentionally, and their eyes were red with anger. They howled and rushed out of the camp single-handedly, trying to charge the ice city.
But as soon as he rushed out, the giant-like Xiong Yale threw them all back one by one.
In front of this powerful clan warrior, those ferocious barbarians had to lower their noble heads to show respect for the strength.
Man Bear Yale is far more restrained and calm than he appears, especially when facing war.
But siege is still inevitable.
Man Xiong Yale's calmness and restraint is to wait for the gathering of strength and attack at the moment when he is most powerful, not because he is afraid of attacking the city.
Just like what he said to Gegild, the warriors of the Cliff Clan are fearless, and no city can stop their progress.
In fact, Renxiong Yale and the others also know that they only need to wait patiently for a few months, and this ice city will collapse on its own.
To be continued...