Chapter 433 Over and Over Again

"The beacon tower must be strictly guarded!" He thought about it and asked a magician to install a barrier.

Longhougang was already protected by a talisman array and was not usually opened. There were several magicians stationed in the army. Wouldn't it be easy to do this job?

But the guards would not have time to report the money to add a barrier to the beacon tower - even if they reported it, it would not be approved so quickly, at least ten days or half a month - so he could only pay for it out of his own pocket.

The next night, everything was peaceful.

Every minute this barrier was opened consumed energy. No matter how economical the defense barrier made by the magician was, it would take at least half a piece of black crystal to open it for ten hours every day.

Two days is a whole piece!

He was sent to Longhougang in the mountains to guard the pass because he had no money and no connections. Who doesn't know that guarding the pass is a heavy task and low salary? After two days of doing this, he couldn't do it anymore.

He also asked for help from his superiors, but his boss scolded him. Black crystal is such a precious strategic material, you want to use it to deal with invisible threats?

The most important thing is that there is no end to the defense. Do you want to defend for one or two days, ten days, half a month, or one or two years?

Thousands of silver were spent without hearing a sound of water. If the boss dared to approve it, the boss's boss might think that he was embezzling.

So the barrier soon couldn't hold on.

On the third night, the beacon tower was lit again, and this time three beacons were lit.

But there was no war on the western front, and the mountains and forests were very quiet.

Looking up, the beacon fire at Longji Pass quickly rose. The guard's eyes went dark and he couldn't help but screaming to the sky:

Brothers on the high platform over there, can't you wait a while?

But this time, the soldiers guarding the beacon tower finally caught the real culprit:

Wild monkeys on the mountain.

These monkeys would steal torches in the camp, or use branches to start a fire in the camp, and then throw them into the beacon tower.

The guard was very annoyed: "How can this be unreasonable? How can monkeys light beacons for no reason?"

Of course, the soldiers were speechless and no one dared to say a word.

In the second half of the night, a confidant whispered to the garrison commander that there were many wild monkeys in the mountains. A few days ago, they came to steal the soldiers' dry food. The latter burned several of them to death and shared the meat. Maybe the monkeys were resentful, so they did this.

How could this be tolerated? The garrison commander immediately sent people to the mountains to catch monkeys.

But the mountains are the home of monkeys, and how could the soldiers here be as flexible as the others? They tried their best but only caught three or four. As a result, the monkeys became even more angry and threw stones directly at the checkpoints and camps. The guards were hit and bloody on the face.

The worst thing was that there was another false alarm in the capital city. The crown prince was furious and replaced the garrison commander without saying a word.

...

On the same night, Panlong City.

Just as the thin man was about to leave home, there was a burst of gongs outside, and someone shouted "Street-gate-proclaim-talk!"

The large-scale pre-war mobilization propaganda in Panlong City finally began.

Crowds gathered, listening to the man on the street interpreting the announcement in a hoarse voice.

First, the heroic and upright Xiluo King had issued an order to relocate, and the people of Panlong Desert immediately returned to their homeland.

Second, the Jinxi Corridor was controlled by the Baling people, and the terrain was difficult to pass, which was not conducive to the passage of the people. Panlong City decided to open up another route from Nantongguan to Hebi Changhe to return to Xiluo.

Thirdly, Panlong City declared a full-scale war on Xijue:

Xijue disturbed our border defense, killed our people, and intercepted our merchants. Who can tolerate it?

Anyone who blocks my way back to my country will die!

When the speaker read the announcement for the first time, it caused a commotion.

Through the door, the thin man could hear the running and exclamations from outside, as well as the sound of neighbors opening their doors.

"We are going to fight Xijue! We are going to fight Xijue!" Countless people cheered.

The sound waves were noisy, one wave higher than the other.

In his memory, no street preaching has caused such a big response.

When the preacher read it for the sixth time, there were already crowds outside the door, and more and more residents followed him to recite, and finally turned into a bold statement:

"Whoever blocks my way back home will die!"

In this way, the crowd was excited.

The thin man stood at the door and looked at the huge crowd. The little nephew clenched his fists beside him and shouted in the same baby voice: "Whoever blocks my way back home will die!"

The thin man was amused and tapped his forehead: "Life and death, what do you know?"

The little nephew looked at him sideways, his eyes sparkling: "Why don't you understand, we are going to fight, and then we can go home!"

The thin man took a deep breath:

"Yes! We are going to beat the water chestnuts and step on them to make a way home!"

Like all the cheerers, his heart was full of desire and heroism.

Just as the Broken Blade Squad expected, there was no need to mobilize for war or boost morale. As long as a notice was issued, the excitement and bellicosity of the soldiers and civilians in the city would naturally reach their peak.

If someone looked at Panlong City from a distance at this moment, they would find a huge dragon-shaped shadow looming above the city, which looked like light and clouds, but was actually a manifestation of both prosperity of luck and Yuanli.

The name "Panlong" was just right.

…

The new commander of Longhou Pass was trembling with fear as the predecessor's life and death were uncertain. He first went to see the beacon tower, then looked at the monkeys hiding on the mountain and making faces at him, and decided to poison them.

They hid the poison in the food and threw it to the monkeys, and indeed killed more than a dozen of them.

However, the remaining monkeys were even more angry, and even the monkeys from other hills came over, peed and threw stones at them from a high position, and made noises in the dead of night to disturb the soldiers' dreams, and even repeated the old tricks and repeatedly tried to throw burning branches into the beacon tower.

Fortunately, the sentries took strict precautions and prevented the monkey from succeeding again.

But as a result, everyone is nervous, has trouble sleeping at night, and lacks energy during the day. Regardless of the casualties in this human-monkey war, the monkeys still have the upper hand. After all, you can only be a thief for a thousand days, and there is no reason to guard against a thief for a thousand days.

Moreover, the prince also said that if the beacon fire was accidentally ignited again, all the officers and soldiers in the whole level would lose their heads.

The leader just gives orders and says that this is not possible and that is necessary. Even if the people below can't do it, they have to do it. The top only wants results.

So what to do?

The guard was also forced into a panic and made a decision that would hinder his descendants——

Add a cap to the beacon tower!

The specific method is to find large pieces of tarpaulin sewn together by passing merchants, cover the beacon stove on the beacon tower, then paint a layer of plaster, and then sprinkle a thick layer of sand.

Of course, they had tested it on flat ground, and the guard personally threw a few torches there.

Very good and non-flammable.

There was plenty of time left for them to calmly put out the torches.

The most important thing is to save money. It saves a hundred times more than opening a barrier.

Of course this is not allowed according to the rules, but with the threat of beheading, who can still control the usual rules?

This is called threats from above and countermeasures from below.

Anyway, you have to pass the above level first.

So the big canvas cover was put on the beacon tower.

The envoy sent by the palace to supervise them suddenly came to see them doing this and was very angry: "How can this be done? Get out of here!"

The guard asked him to stay and watch for half a night.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, the monkeys came in groups to set fire.

The burning branches were thrown onto the sand cover and extinguished, unable to light.

The monkeys screamed in anger, and the officers and soldiers below laughed, finally venting their anger and taking revenge.

"If there is an enemy coming from outside the pass, we won't have time to close the lid again." The guard begged the palace envoy, "Otherwise, if we remove the lid now and the war breaks out again, our lives will be in danger."

The palace envoy nodded repeatedly: "What you said makes sense. Remove the lid."

"Father-in-law!"

"The king has asked us to supervise the beacon tower, and we have to make sure that everything is normal here!" The palace envoy snorted, "Is it normal that your lid is blocking the beacon tower? I will let you pass now. If the king blames you later, we can't get rid of it. Okay, don't talk nonsense and leave quickly."

The guard general said that he had no choice but to order people to remove the sand cover. He cursed the dead eunuch a hundred times in his heart.

No one noticed that there was someone hiding in the night on the mountain peak, who had a panoramic view of all this, and then handed a large handful of dates to the monkeys that were flying towards them.

The dates were big and sweet, and the monkeys ate them happily.

This person is Lao Yu, the temporary new member of He Lingchuan's team. He gestures and says "Uh huh" and can actually communicate with the monkeys.

Even if the guards below heard it, they would only think it was a monkey calling.

Two more days passed.

Longhou Gang was peaceful and peaceful, but the monkey was frustrated and seemed to stop coming. So the palace envoy finished his supervision and hurried back to the palace to answer his orders.

As soon as he left, the guard at Longthroat Gate breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said to his subordinates: "Cover the beacon stove!"

"Sir?" Didn't the palace envoy refuse to give in?

"He can return to the palace after his mission, but we have to keep guard here. If something happens again, it has nothing to do with him, but we will lose our heads." The guard sneered, "If it were you, how would you choose?"

So everyone worked together to cover the beacon stove. Everyone knew that the day after tomorrow would be the coronation ceremony of the new king, and nothing should happen again at such a critical moment.

…

Panlong City South Gate.

A large number of people are gathering, and countless torches illuminate the place like daylight.

Zhong Shengguang stood up, drew his sword to the sky with a clang, and began a passionate speech.

There is no doubt that Zhong Shengguang is far more appealing and infectious than General Nanke.

His mobilization was interrupted several times by cheers from the audience.

The whole place was in a frenzy. Everyone listening below felt their blood boiling and wanted to rush out and kill eight hundred enemies.

"Spirit Rain is coming quickly!"

It started to rain lightly in the sky.

This skill was also exposed by Sun Fuping when he mobilized Blackwater City soldiers to go to the desert, but the rain was not so widespread.

Each of the more than 30,000 Panlong City troops who went on the expedition received spiritual rain empowerment. They felt lighter, stronger, breathing easier, and their fighting spirit was higher.

This is how the Red General used Panlong City's Yuan Power to ensure that the soldiers were evenly exposed to rain and dew.

"In half a month, you will have a whole-sheep feast and drink Fengquan wine in the capital of the Xixi Kingdom to celebrate our victory!" Zhong Shengguang's voice resounded throughout the audience, "Now, let's go!"

Fengquan wine is a special product of Xiqiao. The price when sold to Panlong City is not low, so not everyone can afford it.

All the soldiers shouted, turned collectively, and headed out of the city gate.

The civilians onlookers cheered and threw flowers to the soldiers.