"Five thousand years ago we faced the flood like the Egyptians,

Four thousand years ago we played with bronzes like the ancient Babylonians,

Three thousand years ago we thought about philosophy like the Greeks,

Two thousand years ago, we fought everywhere like the Romans and established the largest unified dynasty in the world.

A thousand years ago we were as rich as the Arabs,

And now we are competing with the Americans.

We have been on the world's poker table for five thousand years, but our opponents have been changing for several rounds."

"The First Lesson of the School"

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The camp of the outer city of Dantu City.

The largest soil trunk is surrounded by mountains of corpses, layered and heavy barriers. The surface of most rammed earth has been soaked in blood and has been shaved into brown of varying degrees. The layers of horse-repellent and blocking have been cut off, chopped and removed, but the newly piled corpses have become their natural shelter and cover.

"I'm so sorry. I knew I had found a woman when I was working in the army. Even if I was older, it would be better. It would be a waste of my life."

Before he returned from injury, Wang Qiu, the deputy and flag leader of the team, was shot through his double strands by a wandering arrow again. He could only sit sideways on the dead body and lean against the edge of the hand-piece full of feathers, and he tried hard to pull the bow and shoot arrows to bring down an official army who was rolling down and standing up again, and muttering to himself.

Most of these corpses were from the government army, and some were from the Taiping army. However, they were shaken and calm in the critical situation and were executed by military law in front of the formation. One of them was that he threw a knife from behind, and then he was also lost in the helmet and cloth, and a large piece of it was swollen from the forehead to the root of his ears.

After letting go of this arrow, his hand twitched again, and he couldn't hold the lever of the crossbow skeleton tightly. At this time, he reached out and took the crossbow skeleton, put it on his leg and knocked it. He immediately loosened the ratchet teeth stuck by blood and mud, and dropped the arrow box that had been shot empty slanted.

Then the visitor pressed a box of sixteen tailless short arrows again on the string groove of the iron-packed crossbow; then he handed it back to Wang Qiu and took out a half-full iron flat can, and gently swayed the sound of liquid.

"Or, the team deputy will talk first..."

But it was Wang Qiu's family with the same surname. In the not-so-long but quite frequent military career, Wang Jian, who had lost the shy fire-horse of the new soldiers, but he also had a broken arrow cut off by a connecting rod on his waist, making his body look like he couldn't stand straight...

"By the way, how many people can breathe on our side..."

Wang Qiu leaned against the ball card without any pretentiousness, slightly raised his head and took a sip of the slightly spicy wine in the can, and said hard in the heat flow that penetrated his ears and nose.

"I just calculated that in addition to being carried away and unable to find it, there are still about twenty people in the two teams, including you and me, who can breathe..."

However, Wang Jian raised a crossbow again neatly, pressed it tightly and leaned against the edge of the ball card.

Wang Qiu couldn't help feeling a little sad, which means that in this direction, there were only less than one-third of the six teams (one of which is ten people per fire).

The battle was a bit miserable. His team alone had already re-compiled it and had been combined three times; the two teams were the deputy and the flag heads, and Wang Qiu was the only one left. As for the twelve fire chiefs and five heads, there was only the one who could stand in front of him, breathing and talking.

Although there may have been some preparations for this situation earlier, a large number of internally-outward fortifications were laid on the edge of the earthen platform, and water-eating equipment, rotation and garrisoning personnel were stockpiled; under the attack of these prominent official troops in the city, they were still continuously reduced and contracted due to the casualties and injuries.

Many soldiers had fallen into this battle that seemed isolated and helpless and had an enemy on all sides before they could wait until the expected result or insisted on turning around; while the official army still showed no sign of letting go or retreating in a difficult situation.

"However, spare parts for arrows and crossbows can still be enough."

However, Wang Jian seemed to see his thoughts and comforted him easily. He reached out and patted the ball of cards, and the many tail feathers nailed to it were trembling with the wind.

"What's more, there are some outside officials who are giving us..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the slight sound of wind, and in an instant, many arrows flew through, and then passed through the gaps in the ball of cards and pierced Wang Jian to the ground. Then, amid the fierce whistle, there were also shouting one after another.

"The government army is attacking again..."

The officers and soldiers holding the newly-made wooden signs and baffles were also slowly forcing the soil again as they held the prying shovel and kept digging the soil one by one, clearing out the temporary stairs one by one, and slowly pressing onto the soil again.

On another slightly smaller platform, the official army climbed up with a temporary long ladder, like an ant attached to honey, was once again covered with the edge and the small half of the door.

Amid the growing sound of fighting, in the core position of the inner circle, the inner circle was guarded by the temporary wounded place, and in the several material tents surrounded by the temporary wounded resettlement area. Around a few upside down large jars, more than a dozen fire-striking soldiers wearing full clothes were a little restless, and some people stood up again and asked for their resignation.

"Captain, can you get on board?"

"It's not enough, I must hold it back."

As the only senior vice-captain Zhang Dong, who has the highest position in his career, said with a solemn expression.

"If I haven't received the order, even if all the people in the outside world die, even if I die in front of you, I will not be allowed to move at all."

Then, he personally led the bow and rushed out with the last two guards, and then led the way into the official army that had already established a foothold on the high platform soil. He was like a catfish breaking into the dead water, wielding the blood-colored vortex brought out with his sword to stir up the vanguard of the official army who wanted to form a formation together.

On the largest earth platform, Wang Qiu, who was pressed under his body by a corpse, also looked at Wang Jian, who was shot through his shoulders and fell to the ground and was bleeding and unconscious; and he tried hard to cut a broken knife on the leg of the rushing army;

After he even knocked down the three people, he was also poked by the officers and soldiers who were found to have stabbed them with swords and guns. The splashed blood flowed together along the gaps of the corpse and seeped into the increasingly bright soil.

Wang Jian, who seemed dead, suddenly started to move at this moment, shouted his name loudly, and poked the officers and soldiers who had not yet been pulled out with force, pulled the bend of their legs and fell to the ground, and poked them wildly on their chest and throat with a broken arrow, and then settled the account.

Then, another stumbled official army fell down and pressed him tightly, and struck him to bite his head and face. After a while, a sharp and sharp sound suddenly sounded in the sky, and a few vague fireworks rose up; in the clear blue sky, the sound of the bangs exploded into several bright clouds of smoke.

It's like opening up some sign and beginning.

Looking down from above, outside the Dantu City, the government troops poured in like tides, were gradually stained and soaked in the siege camp with mottled and strange colors. As the rockets and burning objects that were suddenly shot out densely were immediately shrouded and covered in the blazing fireworks in a short time;

There were many bursts of thunder and bursts. As balls rose one after another around those high platforms, the gray-black smoke and clouds in the official army were swirling around them, and they were like mushroom communities growing on the ground like mushrooms after rain. The formations and queues that gathered together like ants and were scattered and panicked further, shaking them apart, and tore them apart.

.........

"The earth dragon turns over!"

"The mountain collapsed!"

"It's a tide..."

On the other side of the battlefield, there were also people around Dong Chang screaming one after another, because in the distance of their vision, the battlefield was in full swing.

The entire building was filled with lush and vastness, mixed with layered fortifications, and was boiling and leaping as if it had come alive in an instant. In an instant, it was shrouded in countless smoke and layers of fire.

It was a firearm position pre-arranged on the hillside to obtain the maximum firing boundary from top to bottom and cross-killing covered by cross-killing. After removing the temporary cover of turf and bushes, it suddenly began to break through many peripheral fronts and continued to attack the densely packed troops of Sandu Hangzhou, which were successively exerted its might.

In the midst of many panic, shocked and shocked, it only took a while for a while. Dong Chang's central army, who was standing at the foot of the mountain, had already seen the soldiers of Fuchundu fled all over the mountains; then the defeated soldiers of Longquandu, who were responsible for the feint attack on the flanks; finally, even the banner of Shi Jingdu, which he had high hopes, appeared among the crowd of people competing to escape.

Although he quickly reacted and made a quick decision, he led his personal soldiers and the shooting team responsible for cover, and tried to curb the wave of defeat that broke into the sudden wave of defeat with his shiny sword light and a hard bow. However, it was like in the tide of the sea, he had no choice but to hold a handful of waves;

The roars and scoldings in front of the formation, coupled with the splatters of falling blood and corpses, were paved with temporary retreat lines. They only made this tide of frightened collapse, which was barely paused and automatically avoided and spread, and became increasingly sparse.

Then, groups of pursuers holding green flags also appeared behind the defeated army with the bright continuous armored soldiers, and the smoke and dust drowned in the green onion rolls.

Then, a few more smoke and dust gathered together hurriedly around Dong Chang, and the waiting team burst into pieces; in an instant, people screamed and neighed; recently, a stream of stirring sand and dust swept backwards, and Dong Chang and his slam were shaking around him; in an instant, everything became hazy.

Dong Chang, who was covered in the choking dust, could only see the figures of those who were vaguely struggling to hiss in the choking dust. Then his mount suddenly raised his hooves and threw him down and knocked him down several times on the ground, then he got up dizzy with support from left and right.

Only then did he realize that his mount was injured by a splashing gravel at some point, and he was thrusting and stomping around and stomping around.

"Don't worry about the horse, raise my big banner and flag quickly... and gather it again."

Dong Chang shouted to the left and right without hesitation.
Chapter completed!