C2 Fengcheng

On the eighth day of defending the city.

Kong Sheng struggled to retrieve his own jade flute from his chest armor, and blew on it beside his mouth. He liked to play a tune at this time, and also liked this tune.

After a short while, a voice came from not too far away, "Lord Kong is bragging as if he was a funeral! "Who are you sending to be buried here?"

Someone beside him echoed, "That's right. I wonder why Mister Sun chose such a successor!" Disappointed! "

Kong Sheng laughed bitterly and kept Yu Xiao, he raised his head to look at the corpse of Master Sun on the top of the city gate tower, he was still holding onto the broken flag even at death's door. Kong Sheng had once formed three death squads and tried to snatch his corpse, but the troops of Devil Kingdom had secretly set up at least a dozen crossbows, and with a wave, they were repelled. A few brothers tried their best to snatch his corpse back, but other than a hedgehog, none of them succeeded, as they had also shot an arm off Master Sun's corpse.

Kong Sheng ordered helplessly that they were not to snatch more corpses. There were only less than a third of the Phoenix City left, he did not dare let anyone die.

"Ignore those bastards, they really do have bad mouths. If Devil Kingdom brats were to come up, they would all still be good men when raising their blades!" With one eye covered, Zhao Handong sat down beside Kong Sheng. He was a fierce man. He had taken off his breastplate long ago, and a slanted wound on his chest was very eye-catching.

Kong Sheng nodded his head, "I know, brothers are doing well. But do you feel that the performance of your Devil Kingdom is very strange this time? "

Zhao Handong took off the tobacco pouch on his belt, filled a pot of tobacco and smoked before saying, "They are so brave that they don't want to live anymore, they don't even look like the Devil Kingdom brats that I know."

Kong Sheng turned around, carefully peeking at the hole on the city wall, he peeked and peeked at the outside.

In the distant forest, silhouettes could be seen constantly flashing about. Those were the Devil Kingdom scouts. Facing these people who could be called arrogant, Kong Sheng did not dare to even send out a team to kill them, because there were still an unknown number of crossbows hidden in the dense forest. Their invincible crossbows could penetrate the breastplate of any single soldier within a hundred steps, and he could not allow his remaining comrades to exchange for those metal arrows.

While Kong Sheng was watching, he suddenly realized that there was a piece of tree in the dense forest that was shaking incessantly, gradually approaching closer, and then he heard a rumbling sound. Kong Sheng's pupils contracted, and he fiercely turned his head and shouted. Prepare to fight! "

In the next moment, the horn hidden within the walls began to sound as well. The muffled sound was like a hammer striking at the hearts of everyone present, causing their blood to flow from their chests to their entire bodies.

"Get ready! Get ready! "Get ready!" Kong Sheng could not help but laugh bitterly. After defending the city for eight days, the majority of the army only had two or three soldiers left, and even if the captain had ten soldiers under his command, it would be considered good. Although he was currently the commander in name, in reality, he did not have as many soldiers as he normally had under his command.

The Phoenix City had already turned into a meat grinder from a piece of land close to the border.

In the blink of an eye, the Devil Kingdom soldiers had arrived as the black breastplate of the heavy infantry at the front row seemed to have absorbed all of the light. A large group of army poured out of the dense forest like a huge black stream, and rushed towards the city wall in one breath. Kong Sheng could almost hear the gasps coming from all over the city walls. This time round, there were probably over ten thousand people, it seemed that their opponents had lost their patience.

"Master, are we letting go of the stone thrower?" A messenger wearing leather armor asked.

Kong Sheng stared at the enemy troops beneath the city, and answered without even turning his head, "Not letting go! Keep the stones to deal with their siege vehicles! Fire the enemy over here, prepare for a close range bow decked with horn of an animal attack! "

"Yes sir!" The messenger shouted a reply. He held the banner in one hand and trotted down the wall …

"Prepare the bow decked with horn of an animal! Prepare the bow decked with horn of an animal! Prepare the bow decked with horn of an animal! " Orders began to ring through the city walls.

The bloodied soldiers had long stood their sabers by the city walls, taking the bow decked with horn of an animal s from their waists, holding arrows in their hands, expressionlessly sweeping the Devil Kingdom Soldier in the distance, estimating the distance between the two sides.

Without the attacks of the stone thrower, the soldiers of Devil Kingdom started to jog fearlessly, the sabers in their hands gleaming in the sunlight. Kong Sheng looked outside the crater, and when the enemy was about a hundred steps away from the city walls, he suddenly shouted, "Release the arrows!"

Before the last syllable of the word arrow could be heard, the walls of the Phoenix City began to rain down like rain. Countless black arrows first slanted upwards, then turned downwards after reaching the peak, and with the sound of rushing wind, they flew towards Devil Kingdom Soldier's body.

bow decked with horn of an animal s were the cheapest kind of bow, they only had a range of a hundred steps, and the arrows they used were extremely simple. Even so, these simple and crude arrows were enough to be used as killing weapons in the hands of the soldiers. Especially when they were used to shoot arrows, their power would be increased by more than twofold!

Arrows flew into the dense crowd of Devil Kingdom Soldier s. In the front row, heavy infantry who was dressed in iron armor could be said to be fine, but when his iron chopsticks hit the half-finger-thick armor, they made a noise. However, those light infantry soldiers in leather and cloth armor behind them weren't so lucky. Iron arrows pierced into their bodies, tearing off their armor and skin, and taking away their lives.

After the three rounds of arrows were shot, the most forward hoplite had already rushed to the bottom of the city walls. Every single one of them took down a metal frame from their back and the ten of them quickly assembled together. Ten hoplite s gripped the ladder tightly, and the light infantry soldiers swarmed over, and roared as they climbed up the ladder, climbing towards the top of the city.

"Steady!" Steady! "Steady!" Zhao Handong continuously roared. Beside him were three soldiers, two of them were holding onto a black jar that was half the height of a person with a wooden stick while the other one was squatting behind the jar with a thick wooden stick. There was an indescribable smell coming from the jar. It was like the stench of excrement, and also the stench of rotting corpses. However, the few of them didn't seem to have smelled anything at all. They just quietly squatted down by the city walls like statues.

Kong Sheng scolded himself in his heart. He had no future, and had not gotten used to smelling for three days already.

The thing in the jar was called purified feces.

The purified feces s were essential tools for defending the border areas. Normally, they would place the feces of the young children in the city into the altar, mix them with well water, and then add a thin layer of gauze to filter it. After filtering it two or three times, they would seal the fecal water that had been removed and bury it underground for at least a year or two before taking it out. The way to use it was very simple. It was to heat it up. The purified feces was thick, and after boiling and heating it up, it was hotter than oil. If one drop of the purified feces fell, the Devil Kingdom Soldier's leather armour would immediately be burnt through and its meat would be corroded. If she was sprinkled with a spoonful of water, her entire body would immediately burn until she was burnt to a crisp.

Although purified feces s were good, their numbers were limited. When Devil Kingdom attacked, Sir Sun had already ordered for the remaining five hundred pots of purified feces s above five years to be used as backup. But Master Sun miscalculated the scale of this Devil Kingdom attack. In just three days, all five hundred pots of purified feces had been used up. Helpless, he took out another three hundred pots of third year purified feces s. However, these purified feces s only lasted two days.

Only half of the ten days of guarding the ground had passed, the purified feces s and slabs were almost all used up, and the stone thrower s had less than a fifth of their stones remaining.

The Devil Kingdom army seized the opportunity to attack the city crazily, and one team even directly rushed to the top of the city walls to snatch the flag. Mister Sun himself led a group of people to rush to the city gate tower and engage in a chaotic battle with Devil Kingdom. In the midst of the chaos, a Devil Kingdom Soldier cut off the flagpole with one strike. Before he could retract her blade, Mister Sun had already held onto the flagpole with his left hand, while his right hand ruthlessly stabbed into the neck of the Devil Kingdom Soldier. This hand of his was extremely efficient and the soldiers of the Phoenix Army at the foot of the city gate tower cried out in admiration.

However, before Lord Sun could pull out his blade, three bolt s had already pierced through the air. One of them accurately pierced through the flagpole and nailed it together with Lord Sun. Sir Sun seemed to have been hit directly by a heavy hammer. He flew up into the air and landed heavily on the city gate tower. In the silence of the city wall, he used his right hand to firmly grasp the crenellated entrance and stood up once more.

He leaned on the city wall, not caring about the two finger thick bolt s in his chest and the blood that was already soaked through from his lower body, he slowly extended his right hand and pointed towards Kong Sheng. His voice was not loud, but it reached everyone's ears, "Life, Phoenix City Border Army Fire Phoenix will bring Kong Sheng, so he can temporarily assume the post of Phoenix City Border Army's wartime commander!"

Right after he finished, the bolt attacked again. This time, the crossbowmen had a target. The six bolt all hit the target, nailing Mister Sun and the flagpole firmly onto the city wall.

The commander of Phoenix City Border Army, Sun Xiaochuan, had died in the hands of his country.

Kong Sheng raised his head to look at the body of Master Sun that was still nailed to the top of the city wall, and gritted his teeth as he fell!

Just like that, an entire jar of purified feces was splashed down, and from outside the city walls came a series of wails and howls, followed by the smell of burnt flesh. Although these purified feces could not compare to the aged ones, they were still enough to deal with the cloth armor.

Immediately after, the half-naked soldiers stood up abruptly and used their sticks and spears to push away the ladder on the city wall. Devil Kingdom Soldier on the ladder all fell down and another round of miserable cries came.

At the same time, the Devil Kingdom Warriors below the city started to shoot. Most of them were using bolt s, so shooting from such a distance would usually penetrate the body of the Phoenix Army soldiers.

The defensive line at the top of the city wall had a hole opened up in it. The Devil Kingdom Soldier seized the opportunity and rushed forward, with their unique scimitars in hand, they began to wildly chop at the city wall. The soldiers of the Phoenix Army who were already prepared all raised their waists, blades, and spears to stab towards their opponents. In an instant, the walls of the Phoenix City were once again drenched in blood, and severed limbs flew everywhere.

Kong Sheng kicked the corpse of one of the Devil Kingdom warriors away from his spear. Borrowing the momentum from pulling the spear, he smashed the pure steel spear onto Devil Kingdom Soldier's stomach which was already raising the curved blade behind him. While he was in pain, Kong Sheng turned around and knocked him away with his knees.

With one slash, Zhao Handong chopped down a Devil Kingdom Soldier. With a few steps, he moved next to Kong Sheng and roared, "This group of Devil Kingdom brats are pretty fierce! Have new recruits come up? "

Kong Sheng gasped for breath while leaning on the spear, then answered: "It's been eight days, these people's energy consumption is much greater than ours."

Zhao Handong threw out a kick to kick a Devil Kingdom Soldier who had just climbed onto the city wall down, then turned and continued to speak, "Old Kong, do you think we can still hold on for another ten days?"

Kong Sheng laughed, "How would I know? "What, you, Old Zhao, want to be a deserter?"

"Bah!" Zhao Handong spat, throwing aside his own blade that had a cut on it, he picked up his own blade and waved it around: "Even if I die here, I will not take a step back! "But then again, if I die, you have to help me take care of that cigarette holder. That's my family heirloom!"

Kong Sheng scolded him with a smile: "Even if you die, you won't forget to smoke. If you don't let this brat from Devil Kingdom chop you to death, you'll still die from smoking!"

"Ha ha-ha ha, who the hell isn't dead yet!" "Why bother so much with it?" Zhao Handong laughed, he dodged and dodged a curved blade that was coming at him, then turned his body, the steel blade in his hand had already pierced into the blade master's neck. He did not try to dodge, and let the blood spurt out from Devil Kingdom Soldier's neck all over his body. From afar, he looked like a demon god.

The long spear in his hand was violently swung, instantly sweeping away the curved blades in the hands of the three Devil Kingdom Soldier s in front of him. After that, the spears circled around his body, and left three bloody wounds on the throats of the three soldiers. Kong Sheng turned his body according to the force of the spear, and withdrew his spear towards the three Devil Kingdom Soldier s, bowing to the surrounding Phoenix Army soldiers. Only now, did the corpses of the three Devil Kingdom Soldier s slowly fall to the ground.

In just a short period of time, the thunderous cheers from above the city walls boosted the morale.

"Good spear art!" Zhao Handong laughed out loud. "Old Kong, the inherited spear techniques of Peacock Ridge are not just for show!"

Hearing the three words "Peacock Ridge", Kong Sheng's gaze dimmed for a moment, then he adjusted his expression and smiled lightly. "You flatter me, Manager Zhao."

The cheers on the city wall could not stop the tsunami of enemies below the city wall. At the same time as a ladder was pushed down, five more were erected, and the gray walls were covered with black leather and grey cloth. From afar, it looked like a cube of sugar that had been taken over by ants.

Zhao Handong waved his blade and cut down a Devil Kingdom Soldier, he turned and shouted at Kong Sheng: "Old Kong, you can't hold on anymore, use that move!"

Kong Sheng stared at the more and more Devil Kingdom Soldier on the wall, he frowned and asked: "I'm going down, will you be okay?"

"Don't f * cking think that your Fire Phoenix Army is a soldier! Your father's Border Army is also a soldier! " Zhao Handong roared, he waved his blade and rushed towards another Devil Kingdom Soldier.

Kong Sheng cupped his fists at Zhao Handong: "Zhao Guan brought you along, it's been hard on you!" Finishing his words, he put away his spear and turned around. Like a wisp of smoke, he ran down the city wall and headed straight for the small city gate on the east side.

There were already more than a hundred red armored riders waiting at the entrance of this small city, which only allowed two riders to ride side by side. They were all fully armored and sitting cross-legged on the ground. Aside from the few cries of the slightly impatient horses, there wasn't even a single person in this group who let out a sound.

Seeing that Kong Sheng had arrived, all the Knights stood up and bowed to him. Without waiting for Kong Sheng to return the gesture, all the Knights once again moved at the same time. They grabbed onto the saddles and jumped onto the horses, taking down their pikes with their right hands and pulling off their helmets to cover their faces, they looked like a single person.

Kong Sheng laughed bitterly as he looked at his subordinates. Although none of them said a word, their actions showed that they were full of fighting spirit and dissatisfaction. As the elite army of the empire, they had actually failed to kill even one enemy within eight days of the invasion, even though their allies had suffered heavy losses. This was the ultimate humiliation! Right now, outside the city, the drums were rumbling and the sounds of fighting could be heard. The city was on the verge of destruction, so if they didn't come now, what was the time?

Kong Sheng did not say much, holding onto the saddle bridge, he jumped onto his horse and patted on his horse's neck, then took out his spear and turned to face the Knights behind him and roared: "You have waited eight days for nothing. It's not that he wasn't going to take the field and kill the enemy, but that the time wasn't right yet. Right now, the enemies are attacking the city desperately, and the Phoenix City Pass is going to die here! Everyone, please die with me! "

"We are willing to die with the general!" More than a hundred heavy-armored knight s roared until their voices were hoarse

Kong Sheng smiled, pointed at the City Gate Officer, and shouted: "Open!"

Following the opening of this small city gate, over a hundred Fire Phoenix Army Riding heavy-armored knight s poured out like a stream of fire, attacking the black mass of enemies outside.