Chapter 596 Nahlan (Part 2)
Although the winter in Wuxi is not as bitterly cold as that in the north, it has its own bone-chilling chill.
At noon that day, the originally warm sun had shrunk into some corner, and the whirlwind in the mountains was like a small knife, tormenting people and making them feel depressed.
Several Nahlan guards who were guarding the village gate hunched their necks, hugged their shoulders, and endured the rumbling of hunger in their stomachs, but they still dared not leave their posts. They could only look back from time to time and curse the cooks in unison.
In fact, the cooks were helpless. The village, which originally had more than 800 people, suddenly had 300 more people, but there was no one to cook. Naturally, there was a chaos of too many people and too little porridge.
Especially those who are new here, all of them are the confidants of Chief Kuilun, and they have the support of Hassam, the first warrior of Wuxi. If there are any good wine and food, shouldn’t they enjoy them first?
As for the few unlucky guys guarding the gate of the village, it was considered good enough that they could share some leftovers in the end.
Just as the guards at the gate were eagerly waiting and calling for food, it was almost past noon when a cook finally brought two baskets of food.
The guards on the watchtowers on both sides hurriedly sent one person down to get the food, but when faced with the cold and hard mixed flour buns, they could not help cursing and complaining that the cook was unwilling to bring the food earlier.
The cook was not happy to hear that. He threw his carrying pole to the ground in disgust and pointed at the several big pots of food not far away and said, "You smell it yourself. If I send this to you first, how can I send food to others? For this, I have to get some incense to fumigate before I can go to work in the kitchen!"
It turned out that what was simmering slowly in the pot was the golden juice used to guard the village gate.
Although the guards in the arrow tower had been fumigated to the point that they didn't know the smell of the food, they couldn't help but feel a little nauseous when they held the food in their hands and heard him mention the golden juice in the pot. They even lost the energy to argue with him.
That's all~
It’s time to change shifts around evening, so let’s get another beating.
Thinking of this, the two guards each hung a rattan basket on the hanging rope.
Someone on top had already looked out and saw that the basket was tied down below. He immediately used his hands and feet to pull the rope up.
The two guards were about to climb back up the arrow tower and barely fill their stomachs with their companions.
Who would have thought that at this moment, someone above us suddenly shouted, "It's the government troops, the Han government troops are coming!"
The Han government troops actually came to attack? !
The two guards below, along with the cook, found it a little unbelievable.
Although the news that Waleng Village and Wuer Village were attacked and massacred by government troops had already spread among the Wuxi barbarians.
However, Tongxi has always been the weakest among the five tribes. It only relied on some business skills learned from the Han people to barely be on par with the other tribes.
And where is Nahran?
The ancestral palace of the five clans!
It is guarded by nearly a thousand warriors selected from various ethnic groups, and has been continuously reinforced and expanded over hundreds of years!
If you want to capture such an indestructible fortress, let alone there are only more than a thousand soldiers, even if there are two or three times more, I am afraid they will be unable to do anything.
What's more, Nahlan now has Hassam, the first warrior of the Wuxi Barbarians, in charge - he is a fierce general who can tear tigers and leopards apart alive!
With all these things, how dare the Han government troops attack us? !
Are you tired of living?
They despised the intelligence of the government troops in their hearts, but they did not dare to be negligent in the slightest - even if the government troops could not break into Nahlan, there would inevitably be losses on both sides in the fight, and they did not want to be careless and become victims of the battle between the two armies.
So the two of them hurriedly called the cook and worked together to completely seal the commonly used corner door.
At the same time, the guards on the arrow tower blew the warning horn.
The entire Nahlan was suddenly in an uproar. Countless warriors poured out from all directions, raised their weapons to the sky, and their strange cries echoed through the mountains.
Among them, there were also many Kangxi barbarian guards wearing standard armor. The armor plates coated with butter made a rustling sound as they moved, making them look particularly majestic.
That is to say, there are no lowly women in Nahlan, otherwise she would have attracted a lot of admiration.
Well……
It seems that even if there are only men, there are still a few who are fresh and intoxicated - there is no way, after staying in a place full of men for a long time, the sexual orientation of a few people will inevitably be distorted.
Among them, there was one barbarian who was particularly eye-catching.
He had no standard armor on him, just a coat of fur. However, his sturdy body, as strong as a mountain, was far more eye-catching than any armor.
He was holding a thick copper stick in his hand and striding towards the village gate. The barbarians in front of him, no matter they were wearing armor or furs and cloth, all retreated hurriedly.
But when he saw the village gate, he suddenly stopped, covered his nose and looked at the big pots in front of the village gate, with a look of disgust and helplessness on his face, and muttered vaguely: "The king is good in other aspects, but he is too cautious - with me, Hassam, here, why do you need these dirty tricks?"
This person is Hassam, the first warrior of the Wuxi Barbarians.
As for the king he mentioned, it was naturally Kuilun, the leader of the Kangxi barbarians.
After leading the people in rebellion several months ago and turning the Wuxi Prefecture upside down, no matter how steady Kuilun was, he couldn't help but feel a little proud.
Now within the Kangxi barbarians, he has long regarded himself as the King of the Five Rivers Barbarians, but he has not yet gained recognition from the other four barbarian tribes.
But Hassam finally overcame the stench, and jumped onto the earthen platform behind the village wall with a frown. He poked his head out and looked out for a few times, only to see that the more than a hundred stone steps in front of the village gate were empty, while the Han army was still lined up calmly on the open space two arrows away.
"These Han dogs are really brave!"
Seeing that the government troops had no more than three to five hundred people, which were obviously much fewer than the barbarians in the village, Hassam became a little restless and wanted to lead his team out to fight.
But thinking of what Kui Lun said before he left, he had to suppress the impulse in his heart.
But just waiting like this is not in line with Uncle Hassam's usual style.
Therefore, after most of the warriors behind him gathered, Hassam pointed outside and laughed, "It's just a few hundred Han dogs, and they dare to come to Nahlan to cause trouble. Let these Han dogs taste the power of this fortress first, and then I, Hassam, will lead people to kill them..."
“Here!”
Just when Hassam was boosting morale, a loud shout suddenly came from the steps in front of the village gate, and then a sharp arrow was seen, like a meteor chasing the moon, crossing a distance of dozens of steps in the blink of an eye and arriving in front of Hassam!
If it were an ordinary person, he would probably have been killed on the spot.
But Hassam was not only of great build, but also had an extraordinary reaction. He raised the copper stick in his hand in the nick of time.
Ding~~~
There was the sound of metal clashing and sparks flying, and the hidden arrow was knocked away by the copper stick!
Hassam escaped this disaster, and felt a chill down his spine. He could not help but get angry and pointed at the Han man who attacked him with a copper stick, cursing: "You shameless Han dogs, you are only good at attacking people from behind. If you have the guts, fight your uncle Hassam with real swords and guns!"
Before he could finish his words, he saw the attacker running wildly down the mountain.
Hassam became even more enraged and shouted to his men to shoot arrows at him. Unfortunately, it was too late and he could only watch the man escape into the government army's formation.
"Fuck it!"
The man stumbled and fell into the army, immediately fell to the ground, and cursed like a cannon: "It's all because I don't use this new bow well, otherwise the barbarian would have died a long time ago - Inspector Zhang, what the hell are you doing standing there ? Why don't you get me some water to wash off this mud!"
The guy who was cursing was naturally Han Bang, the best archer in the patrol battalion.
He seemed aggressive, but in fact, it was all to cover up the embarrassment and panic in his heart.
Because Sun Shaozong had predicted that Hassam would definitely spy on the movements of the government troops, so before the army arrived, he first covered the Han gang with plaster, let him secretly climb up the stone steps, and then wait for an opportunity to attack with a hidden arrow and get rid of Hassam.
The Han gang boasted loudly at the time, saying that if Hassam dared to show his head, he would be shot to death.
Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, this guy got confused and blurted out "hit" before shooting the arrow. Otherwise, with a distance of dozens of steps and his deliberate action, Hassam would have no chance to react.
This was mainly because, although he was a leader in the patrol camp, he had never been on the battlefield, let alone experienced a life-and-death fight, so when it came to the battle, he was inevitably a little flustered.
When Sun Shaozong saw that he had missed this great opportunity, he wished he could kill the guy, but he was alone in taking the risk, so even if he failed, he couldn't be too harsh on him.
So he could only keep this guy in mind secretly and prepare to settle the score with him after the war.
At this moment, there was a commotion near the village gate. Countless barbarians laughed in unison. Hassam laughed even louder, waving an iron rod like a wheel.
What is going on this again?
Sun Shaozong turned his head to look at Ba Ke who was standing beside him, and heard the barbarian stammering, "Hasam said that the Han... said that the government troops were all cowards who only dared to use conspiracies and tricks. In a head-on fight, they were no match for the Wuxi warriors."
Looking at the way he hesitated and pondered over and over again, you can tell that Hassam’s original words must have been ten times more harsh than this.
No one in the government army could understand the barbarians' shouting, but they were not afraid that it would affect their morale.
But allowing the barbarians to provoke him like this is not Sun Shaozong's style.
He walked out of the crowd, glanced around, and then came to a camphor tree as thick as a bowl.
Sun Shaozong was too lazy to take off his armor. He just wrapped his arms around the tree trunk, one above and one below. Then, he thrust his strong back upwards. The sound of roots breaking could be heard. The tree, which was more than two meters tall, was pulled out of the ground by him!
That’s not all, he then selected three more trees that were similar in appearance and followed the same method one by one!
By the time he dragged the four camphor trees back to the battle formation and ordered his men to turn them into siege weapons, the mountain stronghold had become as quiet as a den of ghosts, without a single sound.
