When Dashi City was still called Dashibao, the six ministries Wei had besieged the city for eight months. At that time, the power of the Turks had weakened. Their brothers Uighurs were rising. The heroes competed for hegemony on the grassland. The six ministries Wei relied on their strong troops to dominate. They asked Dashibao to open the door and offer fine wine, food and population, otherwise it would be a disaster. Dashibao naturally refused to agree to this naked robbery behavior. W     wW.

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The war broke out. Ten thousand Wei people besieged Dashi Fort for eight months, half of the soldiers were lost. The castle failed to surround him, but instead dragged him down. The powerful six-member Wei team defeated this grassland from then on, disappeared from this grassland. Their vitality was severely damaged, and their village was captured by the Shatu people. The wine, food and population became the trophy of the Shatu people, and they were completely expelled from this grassland and went to the cold north to endure the years.

After this battle, Dashi Fort was renamed Tucheng, and its area expanded ten times, and Tucheng Wall replaced the Stone City Wall.

The increasingly prosperous trade attracted the attention of the Uighur Khan, who was in power. The Khan asked the Tucheng people to be loyal to him and to include their homeland in their direct territory. The merciful Khan solemnly promised that as long as they submit sincerely, the nobles and residents of Tucheng would have a good ending. The nobles would be awarded titles, and those with both moral integrity and ability could come to the royal court to be an official. The original property would be protected by the royal court. As for residents, in addition to paying taxes directly to the royal court, their lives and property would be guaranteed.

"The cunning Shatu people and the arrogant Khitans dare not bully you anymore. As my people, you enjoy the privilege of trade with the Tang Dynasty. There is a country like heaven, with people rich and rich resources, and each of you will have wealth."

Despite such a wonderful promise, the Tucheng people still flatly refused. Instead of being slaves, how could they be their master? The result of resisting the grassland king means war. The emerging grassland king cannot tolerate a small Tucheng damaging its majesty. So the second siege began. The Tianlang Army dispatched 40,000 people to siege Tucheng, cut off water and food, and siege for a month. The outer city was declared lost, and the defenders were forced to retreat to Dashi Fort. At that time, the Tianlang Army not only had almost no damage to the original 40,000 people, but also recruited thousands of new servants.

These servants were as humble as dust in the eyes of the King of Grassland. They were indeed regarded as dust. The commander of the Tianlang Army drove them to attack the city and built a "meat wall" with their flesh and blood, a "wall" as high as the stone wall of the Dashi Fort. The powerful and arrogant Tianlang Army continued to attack the Dashi Fort day and night. For more than ten days, the corpses under the Dashi Fort were piled up like mountains. The wall was built up, but the son of Tianlang could not climb up. The feather arrows flying out of the castle were terrifying, and they would always penetrate the enemy who was trying to approach.

The rugged terrain wrapped around the hooves of the war horses, and the narrow area was not conducive to the development of the brigade. The brave soldiers of the Tianlang Army could only line up in neat rows to die one by one, which was really frustrating. The warriors died in a tragic battle, and the meaning was to raise the "meat wall" that was nearly half above the city wall.

In this way, Tianlang's descendants were helplessly dragged into a protracted war and a war of attrition. The high walls and deep trenches of the Dashi Fort made the Uighurs unable to move forward, while the huge trenches dug by the Uighurs around the Dashi Fort made the defenders unable to step beyond the line. The two sides were in a stalemate to see who would die first.

This terrible war of attrition ranged from autumn to spring, and from spring to autumn. The piles of corpses brought terrible diseases. In and outside the city, the dead accumulated like mountains. After four springs and autumns, the Dashi Fortress still stood tall. The reckless actions of the Uighurs exhausted the national treasury, and the arrogant son of the Tianlang was questioned by the tribes in all directions. He had to send envoys into the city and demanded that the defenders issue a surrender letter, so that the Great Khan would have light and steps, and then end the protracted war.

The Uighurs gave a considerable reward: Tucheng was autonomous from then on, and in addition to tribute some specialties to the royal court every year and maintaining a superficial subordinate relationship, the royal court did not interfere with it. In addition, the benevolent Han Dynasty also allowed the people of Tucheng to enjoy the privileges of trade with the Tang Dynasty that only the Uighur nobles could enjoy.

Since then, the nobles and residents of Dashi City have not believed that their city would fall into enemies, and Dashi City has become a myth that will never fall on the grassland.

With the trade privileges with the Tang Dynasty, Tucheng rose rapidly and expanded its area twice. Three layers of city walls were surrounded with Dashi Fort as the center. At first it was a earth wall, but soon it was changed to an expensive brick wall, and finally it was an extremely expensive stone wall. This move was said to have exhausted the treasury of Tucheng, so that for a period of time when the stone wall was repaired, the nobles often quarreled or even clashed due to tight financial difficulties, but the tall city walls defended peace and fought for more than a hundred years of stable life for the residents in the city.

Over the past century, the Uighurs have been renamed Uighurs and still dominate the grasslands. However, their swords are no longer as sharp as before, and their horses are not as fast as before. The nobles and rich people are addicted to pleasure, and the civilians are no longer hardworking and simple. The once energetic Tianlang has entered his old age. And the country like heaven in the south has become declining and conservative after civil strife. Her officials are conservative, rigid, and incompetent. The people are dissatisfied with reality, willing to sink, poor and sick, and it seems that they are declining.

Dashicheng - in the year when the Uighurs changed their name, they also changed their name to - seemed to be on a downhill road, but their downhill pace was a little slower than that of the Uighurs or the Tang people in the south. They became increasingly conservative due to the harassed of the emerging Khitans and the unscrupulous Shatu people.

Psychological lack of confidence prompted them to do their best to increase the thickened walls. After decades of hard work, the stone walls of the outer city of Dashi City are now about a hundred feet high and the inner city walls are 120 feet high. The city walls are not only high, but also thick, with a base thickness of 100 feet. Six horses can be parallel at the top of the outer wall, and eight horses can be parallel at the top of the inner wall. A watchtower is set up every hundred feet on the city wall, and an arrow fortress is set up every two hundred feet. The arrow fortress looks like an upside-down bowl, the dome on all four sides is arc-shaped, and the top is a circular platform. A flowering cannon is placed on each platform. The farthest range of the cannon can reach two miles, which is devastating to the army that is intensively marching. There are many mechanisms in the arrow fort, which can hide 500 soldiers. It uses a lift made by a big cannibal to connect the city. The elevator is controlled by a huge winch and can transport twenty people up and down at a time.

In addition to the cannons on the top of the tower, each tower is equipped with three huge crossbows. The huge crossbows can shoot six to eight crossbow arrows at a time, and the crossbow arrows are so big that they can penetrate the head and tail of a war horse.

Yang Hao stroked the huge crossbows and looked out from the lookout hole of the bowl tower. His vision was very good and his design was clever. Even when people stood in front of the lookout hole, they didn't have to worry about the arrows outside shooting themselves. Dongfang Lan, who was accompanying him, looked so gloomy that he could twist out water. When he was sixteen years old, he served in a military service in the Hebei vassal states and experienced siege and defending the city.

The Hebei Military Town is known as the hero of the world. It has a high city and a deep pool. It is arrogant and fierce. If you put down the morale of the soldiers, just about equipment, the soldiers of the "heroes of the world" are far less than those of the defenders of Dashi City. The ordinary soldiers here are all wearing thick armor, equipped with strong bows and crossbows, and have three self-defense weapons, long swords, short swords, and daggers on the legs. They are all forged with fine steel, and their sharpness is even better than the standard swords of the deputy generals of Hebei towns. As for the equipment of the generals here, Dongfang Lan even doubts what can be used to kill them when fighting head-on.

The armor they were wearing was too thick. There was almost no place to start except for two eyes. Even if they were covered with a layer of iron gauze, the casual sword could not hurt them at all.

Yang Hao climbed the Bowl Tower as a double identity as a salt merchant and a VIP in Yin Yichu. His sudden arrival made Yin Yichu panic and helpless. He said to Yang Hao: "You must be an envoy sent by God, otherwise how could you have the courage to come to the city?" Yang Hao smiled and said: "The city of Dashi City is too high, and I am afraid that the children can't climb up, so I come to explore the way first. My friend, you won't welcome me."

Yin Yichu said, "To be honest, I really don't want you to come here, but since you are here, what else can I say? I can only sacrifice my life to protect you, my friend."

Yang Hao proposed to go to the top of the city to take a look, which made Yin Yichu think a lot. Perhaps Kraje had ordered the grouping of private soldiers in the mix, so that you and I have you, monitor each other and restrain each other. Now there is no city gate that is completely in his hands. Yin Yichu lamented: "Now, I, as the prime minister, have no soldiers in my hands. Dear friend, if you insist on going to the top of the city to take a look, I will accompany you." These words were quite meaningful to sacrifice your life to accompany a gentleman.

Yang Hao sneered in his heart. Before the war, he reorganized the troops for monitoring. Krager did this to show that he was still clear-headed, but saying that he had no soldiers in his hands was a lie that he didn't believe in. When he talked about a prime minister who accompanied a curious friend to go to the city to see what dangers would happen, he was even more ignorant and regarded people as fools.

Although he could expose such a hypocritical person to a temporary speed, he seemed a little reckless at this moment. Yang Hao was very patient with him until Yin Yichu agreed to accompany him into the bowl tower.

After walking around the top of the tower, and walking along the wide road on the top of the city wall, Yang Hao suddenly asked Yin Yichuo: "Where is the people in the city to drink?"

Yin Yichu replied calmly: "There is a large lake in the northwest of the inner city, which is endless all year round, and people and horses drink it all rely on this water."

Yang Hao said: "As far as I know, this water is very turbid. Do the nobles in the city also drink this water?"

Yin Yichu laughed and said, "Captain must poison the water wells of each house." He shook his hand and said, "This method is not working. There are twenty-seven water wells in Dashi City, which are under the jurisdiction of the Water Office. Houses are built on each well and soldiers are guarded by the door. No one except the water lifting workers in the water office are allowed to enter without permission. The water lifting workers are responsible for lifting the water from the well, pouring it into the water tank, and the water flows to the large stone trough outside for citizens to use.

"The water lifters are all hereditary. They come from the far north and speak a strange forest language. They worship big trees with tree tumors and regard them as their guardian gods. The bigger the tree tumor, the more they respect them. They live next to those big trees, and they are very keen on, and they don't bother with foreign tribes, and do not let others get close, because their gods are not in the same way, and almost no one in the city interacts with them. Threats and bribes are not feasible."

After Yin Yichuo said this, the response he received was:

"You are thinking too much, my friend. The unethical thing about poisoning in the well is not done by us Khitans, maybe the Shatuo people can do it." Yang Hao blinked at him, looking very relaxed, as if the words just said were just casually asking.

"Maybe there are Tang people, that is, Han people from the south." Yin Yichu added, thinking that he was very funny.

"The Han people would never do that kind of thing." Dongfang Lan couldn't help but defend herself.

"His new wife is Tangren. He is loving her crazy love, you have to pay attention." Yang Hao easily defended Dongfang Lan's reckless behavior. Yin Yichu looked at him and saluted, "I'm sorry for my friend, I'm sorry for my offense."

Dongfang Lan immediately said: "Please forgive me for being inappropriate."

Getting off the city wall, Yang Hao said to Yin Yichuo: "Goodbye, my friend, I hope we can raise our glasses to drink the victorious wine together next time we meet."

Yin Yichu put his chest in one hand and said sincerely: "Don't you need me to do something for you? I sincerely want to help you. The glory of Yin Yichu's family is bound together with you."

Yang Hao said: "You are in danger now, and I will not let our friends take risks for me." Then he pointed at the two young people: "They stay in the city, like diligent birds, what you need to say to me, they can convey. But I advise you, my friends, we should not contact you unless it is urgent."

Yin Yichu bowed again and said, "At the time of parting, do you have anything to warn me, my noble friend?"

"Close the door and live a peaceful and stable life."

After saying that, Yang Hao rode on his horse, and in the twilight, he passed through the blood-red city gate reflected by the setting sun, and ran towards the vast grassland.
Chapter completed!