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Chapter 516 Hanging Building
Zhang Nai is really annoying, the city walls of Kaifeng are already solid, the soldiers and civilians defending the city of Jia, after yesterday's drill of filling the trenches, are now cooperating in an orderly manner, not as flustered as yesterday.

Seeing that the excavation progress was slow but the losses were heavy, and a large number of wounded soldiers were transported back from the base of the city wall, his heart was full of anger and had nowhere to vent.

Suddenly it was reported: "Officers and soldiers descended from the city, and are fighting bloody battles at the root of the city with the soldiers and civilians who dug the city."

Zhang Nai bared his teeth and scolded: "His grandma, it's just these bastards with shrunken heads who dare to come down to the city to fight!"

He shouted angrily: "Call the brothers, all of them will be killed, and don't tell any of them to go back to the city."

The thieves here even saved the entire team, and they followed behind Zhang Nai like a flock of crows vying for food and rushed under the west wall of Kaifeng.

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Zhu Zhicang cut down several hungry people one after another, and then he saw a bandit soldier rushing towards him with left shield and right sword. The bandit left foot.

The bandit soldier's reaction was also very quick, he squatted down with a short body, stretched out the shield with his left hand to block Zhu Zhicang's waist knife, and cut the waist knife with his right hand towards his waist.

Before Zhu Zhicang could dodge in time, he was stabbed firmly in the waist by the bandit soldier. Fortunately, the cotton armor on his body was fine enough, and the knife didn't hurt him, but under such a heavy blow, he was almost suffocated .

Zhu Zhicang resisted the blood churning in his viscera, and kicked the thief's right ankle hard with his right foot, and only heard a crisp "click", and the thief fell to the ground and howled.

Zhu Zhicang didn't get up first, and took advantage of the bandit's pain, he kicked and kicked the shield held by the bandit's left hand continuously until the bandit screamed and finally threw the shield away.

Zhu Zhicang turned around and approached, the moment the thief threw off the shield, the waist knife in his right hand changed from slashing to stabbing, and the tip of the knife inserted itself between the thief's neck.

As the blood continued to pour out, the bandit soldier stopped struggling and howling, but Zhu Zhicang didn't dare to rest. He crawled up a few steps and picked up the shield that the bandit had discarded before standing up.

Those who are still alive among the Kaifeng guards who have come down from the city, all of them are rushing down the mountain like hungry tigers. Those hungry people have never seen such a battle before, and they have lost their souls long ago. Flee to the ditch.

As the hungry people fled, Zhu Zhicang and his side immediately gained the upper hand, and the remaining dozen or so people forced six or seven bandit soldiers into one place. arms.

The bandit soldiers who were digging the city were helpless under Zhu Zhicang's siege. Just when they were feeling desperate, more than a dozen bandit soldiers rushed from the north, and the leader was carrying a mace.

"Brothers, don't be afraid, someone is here to save you!"

He rushed over screaming, two Sheyong hurried up to stop him, but he was thrown into the air by the mace in his hand, and the other was stunned by the bandit soldiers rushing behind him He fell to the ground with one kick, and a bandit soldier came up behind him, holding a big city brick in his hand, and smashed She Yong's head to pieces with a single blow.

Seeing this posture, Zhu Zhicang was also afraid. He blocked the waist knife with his left hand shield, and slashed the knife with his right hand in an arc between the thief's neck. The moment the blood splashed, he dodged and ran to the south. rise.

"boom!"

There was a loud explosion, and smoke rose among the dozen or so rushing bandits, and the huge air wave knocked them all to the ground. The leader of the bandits, with his broad shoulders and round waist, knelt on one knee He was on the ground, looking around with his big eyes wide open, and shaking his big head vigorously from time to time.

Although Zhu Zhicang was far away, his ears were numb from the shock. Seeing that the team of bandits suffered heavy casualties and the rest were also shaken to a mess, he hurriedly stabilized himself, turned around and greeted the group of warriors He rushed to kill the bandits.

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Zhang Nai had less than 500 bandit soldiers on his side. Apart from the archers and those who forced the hungry people to dig the city bricks in front, there were still [-] people gathered around him. When he gave an order, he brought these People rushed to the root of the city wall.

He had just cut down the two defenders who had come down from the city, but was grabbed by a small leader and said loudly to him: "Master Zhang, the young general Shuangxi came to look for you, and the king of Chuang urgently ordered to stop the siege of the cave city. The whole army retreats."

"What?"

"King Chuang hastened to withdraw the troops to form a formation."

Zhang Nai confirmed that King Chuang personally gave the order, but he couldn't understand that with his own troops, he could completely annihilate the hundreds of defenders who had descended from the city under the city wall, so why did they suddenly withdraw their troops!
But he had to obey King Chuang's military order, so he yelled: "Quick, bring the injured brother back, and ask the archers to cover the big guy."

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"The thieves have retreated... my lord...the thieves have retreated..." Cao Kun, the servant of the Zhou Palace, shouted happily.

Gao Mingheng stood at the crenel and looked down, only to see the bandit soldiers who were running in the distance suddenly stopped, and he leaned over to observe carefully. Where the root of the city wall could be seen, the bandits who already had the upper hand actually supported the wounded The soldiers, dragging the bodies of some dead, retreated slowly.

However, the warriors who went down the city to stop the thieves from digging the city could no longer see a few of them. Although it seemed strange that the thieves retreated, Gao Mingheng was still very excited. After all, no one could tell when the thieves outside the city would leave will really back off,
But today it was the first time to recruit warriors to drive out thieves from the city, and it was a success. Such a joyful event should be publicized to encourage others to follow suit.

He was so excited that he trembled and said loudly: "Please credit. I want to request credit for the warriors in the lower city. I will reward you, and I will reward you greatly."

"Congratulations, my lord, congratulations to my lord, Kaifeng is worry-free!"

Huang Shu also walked up the city wall with an excited face, holding a pile of manuscripts in his hand.

Gao Mingheng thought he had got some news, and asked eagerly: "But the rescuers came from the north?"

Huang Shu took a few breaths before saying, "It's not a rescue."

As he spoke, he presented the manuscript in his hand to Gao Mingheng, and said: "My lord, it is Zhang Jian, a student from the city. He drew such a strange object, which can prevent thieves from digging the city."

Although the thieves retreated temporarily, who could say whether the battle in the afternoon would be more intense? He took the manuscript with the excitement of killing the thieves, walked back to the gatehouse, and began to read it carefully.

Huang Shu, the Kaifeng pusher, followed him into the gatehouse, and also came to the case and explained: "It is to bind the raft with thick wood, and make a wooden wall on the outer side, and only make guardrails on the inner side and the left and right sides.

Its span can be as wide as three or five crenels, and it protrudes more than four or five feet outside the wall, and it can accommodate more than ten people inside. There is nowhere to hide, and it can release arrows from thieves outside the city. "

The drawings were not complicated at all, but the student Zhang Jian drew them very carefully, and with Huang Shu's explanation, Gao Mingheng quickly understood the key points.

He asked in a deep voice, "Does this have a name?"

Huang Shu said softly: "My lord, this thing is temporarily called 'Hanging Building'."

"Hanging building? A building hanging outside the city!"

Gao Mingheng nodded, he had no objection to the name, and immediately said: "I read the drawing in the manuscript, and it is not complicated to make this hanging building. You can go to the city to find craftsmen, and hurry up to find a few. It's time to try it in the city."

He went on to say: "If this 'hanging building' is really useful, and then rush to work overnight, we must build more."

Looking at the manuscript on the case table, Gao Mingheng said again: "If this 'hanging tower' is really effective, Zhang Jian must be rewarded generously. Now that the city guards are in full swing and there is an urgent need to gather the hearts of the people, we must not lose our trust in the people!"

(End of this chapter)