Chapter 19 Hua Zheng was flipping through the system in the palace, planning his future development direction.
Recently, he has successively achieved the two main mission goals of "the territory's population reaches 10,000" and "the territory's cultivated area reaches 15,000 acres", with system points reaching 1941 points.
At this time, he suddenly received a system message: Temporary mission "Rescue Su Daji", Su Daji and his father are being hunted and are fleeing to the mouth of Yishui River.
Rescue them and escort them safely back to Yousu.
Mission completion reward points 300 Seeing this message, Hua Meng jumped up from the floor, startling the pigeon house steward who was entering the hall.
"Report to the Lord, the pigeon house has received a message from a sentry fort, from the sentry fort at the mouth of the Yishui River."
The pigeon house steward said quickly after calming down.
Hua opened the brocade cloth, looked at it once, and hurried to the military camp.
An hour, or two hours ago.
More than twenty Yousu warriors fought hard, waving their short swords and axes wildly.
They are all the king's personal guards, and they are the bravest and most elite men in the Su Kingdom.
One warrior's intestines were leaking out, and he used his last strength to raise his axe.
The ax fell and hit the back of the head of a Chongguo soldier who was fighting with others, and then fell to the ground together with his master.
Chong Bohu rushed forward with a lunge, raised the bronze sword in his hand and stabbed it into the neck of the last standing Yousu warrior.
He wiped the blood on his face, looked at the two carriages going away, and said with a ferocious expression: "The carriages will catch up first, and the others will follow."
Five carriages sped out and chased him along the Yi River.
At the mouth of the Yi River, inside the outpost of the Xia Kingdom.
Wu Commander Xia Yan had just distributed lunch.
Each person had a bowl of rice porridge, a corn ball, a piece of pickled fish, and a few slices of bacon.
After each soldier received his share, he went to the big pot where the wild vegetables were boiling and picked up a few chopsticks.
Xia Yan himself was a slave.
After being bought by Xia State, he was assigned several acres of land to cultivate in Beicun, and then signed up to join Huben.
He won military honors in the battle of Xia Kingdom's conquest of the Ru River Valley, was promoted to corps commander, received the surname Xia, and managed the entire outpost of 25 people.
At this time, he was immersed in drinking rice porridge, thinking about how much more military merit he could earn to get a wife.
Have a farm of your own.
If you have a wife and children who can drink this white rice porridge from time to time, your life will not be in vain.
Just when he was about to finish eating, the soldier on guard duty on the watchtower suddenly shouted: "There's something going on."
Xia Yan drank the rest of the porridge in one gulp, threw the bowl on the ground, and climbed to the top of the city wall in a few steps.
Two carriages were speeding towards them, not far from the castle.
He looked closely and saw that it was the two Su people who had contacted them this morning and seemed to be of high status, but a large number of their entourage were missing.
Xia Yan cast his gaze further and found that there were five carriages behind him, apparently chasing the people in front.
The two carriages had arrived at the city gate, and he heard the luxurious middle-aged man and a beautiful girl as beautiful as a fairy calling to him.
"Let us in quickly.
There are evil people chasing us.
We are friends of your monarch."
He quickly thought through his mind and made a decision.
"Open the city gate and welcome them in."
He said to the soldiers on the left and right.
When the gate of the sentry fort at the mouth of the Yishui River opened, the carriage behind them had also chased them to the gate.
But they did not dare to act rashly, because Su Daji and his daughter were already protected by ten Xia Kingdom tigers who were leaving the city.
Without any words or deeds, their physique and armor, as well as the three-foot large round shields and the thick bronze swords in their hands were enough to intimidate these dozen Chongguo soldiers and servants.
The Huben soldiers ignored the questions of the Chongguo soldiers.
They just raised their shields and swords, took a defensive posture, protected the two carriages behind them, walked back to the fort step by step, and then closed the city gate tightly.
The soldiers of Chongguo had no choice but to wait patiently.
After a while, a large group of troops and the monarch Chongbohu arrived.
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But none of them noticed that a gray dove rushed into the sky from the castle and flew south.
"It's unreasonable that someone would actually build a city here," Chong Bohu said angrily.
Then he ordered people to shout.
Xia Guohu Ben who was stationed at the outpost remained silent.
This was not their own opinion, but they were acting in accordance with the emergency handling procedures established by Hua.
Seeing that the other party ignored him, Chong Bohu walked around the city twice more to confirm that there could not be many troops in the city.
He gave the order decisively: "Attack the city."
These more than 300 people came out hunting with their master.
They did not bring any siege equipment.
The city wall was not very tall and they could climb up to the top of the city by stacking three layers of ladders.
So they divided into three groups and rushed to the foot of the city wall to start "building human ladders."
"Anyone who climbs our city wall will die," Xia Yan warned.
Everyone paused for a moment, then started climbing again after hearing Chong Bohu sneer and say "continue".
At this time, Xia Yan divided the 20 people into four groups.
Each group had three Huben shield guards and two Huben archers, each guarding a wall.
The other five people serve as the mobile team.
"Kill" Xia Yan gave the order to fight back.
Four Huben archers appeared at the entrance of the crenel, leaned out slightly, and quickly fired an arrow at the three groups of "human piles".
After several screams, the three groups of human ladders fell to the ground.
This attack came suddenly, and by the time the Chongguo archers below the city reacted and fired their arrows at the top of the city, they had already ducked behind the battlements of the city wall.
When the human ladder was "built" again, having learned from the previous lesson, the Chongguo archers pointed their bows at the top of the city and fired arrows as soon as the opponent's head showed up.
But this time, Xia's tiger and sharpshooters never showed up again.
The three heads that had just been exposed on the battlements were pierced by several large bronze swords.
There wasn't even a wailing sound.
With a few pops, the three corpses fell to the ground from a height of more than two battles.
"Don't just attack this side.
There aren't many people on the other side.
If you attack from multiple directions, they won't be able to handle it."
Chong Bohu ordered angrily.
The crowd under the city immediately divided into more than a dozen groups, dispersed to the walls of the outpost, and began to attack together, setting up more than a dozen human ladders.
However, in the end, they could only kill the opponent.
Crouching behind the battlements, the Huben shield guards wandering along the city wall continued to kill the exposed Chongguo soldiers.
"Lord, if this continues, our men will slowly be depleted.
Let's build siege equipment first, and sharpen our swords before chopping wood."
A close aide advised Chong Bohu.
"Well, let's withdraw our troops for now."
Chong Bohu said depressedly.
In this era, the so-called construction of siege equipment was to cut down branches and tie them with hemp rope to make a simple ladder.
Or cut a relatively large log and hang it with a rope to use as a battering ram.
Working until dark, Chongfang finally built more than 20 ladders and a battering ram.
When everything was ready, Chong Bohu gave an order, and the soldiers rushed to the city wall with ladders and began to climb up.
A dozen strong men also rushed to a city gate carrying thick logs with hemp ropes, and began to bang on the gate amidst the sound of chants.
Summary of data so far in this chapter: Points: 1941 System population: including 50 farmers, 10 strong bow hunters, 2 traders, 3 witch doctors, 100 bronze shield guards, 40 halberd warriors, 30 spearmen, 150 compound bow archers, 16 officials, totaling 420 people Population balance: 2620 Building facilities: High-end palaces, military camps, and workshops in the Bronze Age; Intermediate residences in the Bronze Age, pigeon houses, wooden structures, city walls, warehouses, copper mines, and elementary wineries: