Two city gates, two teams of people.
The situation on Zhang Yuanyan's side was roughly the same. The roadblocks set up outside were exactly the same, and the guards operating the heavy crossbow carts were from the fortress.
The corpses on the ground piled up like mountains, the chevaux de frise were retreated again and again, and the zombies seemed endless to be killed, and continued to pour out.
Suddenly, there was a sound from the official road behind me.
Zhang Yuanyan looked back and saw that it was Chang Ying who had gone to transport grain and had returned with his troops, and Wei Lang was beside him.
He was slightly surprised, "Commander Chang, this trip was really fast."
The round trip took only six days.
"The granary here is only sixty miles away, and the zombies along the way have been cleared out, so it's indeed much faster." Chang Ying knew that the girl was going to clear Ling County, and he was always worried about her. After arriving at the granary, everyone did not rest, but loaded the food and immediately set off to return.
Sure enough, when he reached the fork in the road, he heard movement coming from the direction of the county town. The men were pushing food back to the fort first, so he rushed to support them with his guards.
Chang Ying hurriedly inquired about the situation.
Gong Liulang, standing by, said calmly, "It's still under control. Miss Wei's idea is to clean it up over three days and seal the gap in the sheep and horse wall with stakes and rocks before dark."
Ling County is not very big, with a permanent population of about 50,000.
But given their number, it is impossible to clear all the zombies within one day.
The zombies at night are too dangerous, and everyone needs to rest after fighting all day.
As for whether zombies would crawl out of the gap at night, Wei Xiyin's initial attitude was that it didn't matter.
Her exact words were, "Just run away. Block the gap so most of it can't get out. And even if it all comes out, so what? The worst that can happen is that it'll be a little more troublesome to clean up."
Gong Liulang felt that what she said made sense.
The cleanup work is now being carried out step by step. The Wei family has a fort for defense and is not afraid of the zombies wandering outside.
At worst, we can wait until the area is cleaned up and then people can come out to build the city wall. It won’t take more than a few days.
Wei Lang stared with his clear eyes and thought for a long time but still couldn't realize that Miss Wei was referring to his elder sister.
He looked around and asked hurriedly, "Where's my sister?"
"Don't worry, Erlangjun. The girl is at the other gate."
Chang Ying glanced at the tragic scene at the door, worried about the girl's situation, and said to the two of them, "Thank you for your hard work, Master Zhang and Mr. Liu. I will leave fifty guards here to help."
Zhang Yuanyan said politely twice.
Chang Ying took Wei Lang and another fifty guards and went to another city gate to support the girl.
The situation on both sides was extremely terrifying. Countless arrows were stuck on the sheep and horse wall that blocked the city gate. There were too many corpses, so the area of the enclosure had to be continuously expanded, and one chevaux de frise after another was carried over to block the zombies.
When Chang Ying came over, he happened to bump into Wei Ting.
There were originally only 3,000 consumables such as armor-piercing arrows, and the blacksmith shop was speeding up the production of arrows to prevent them from being used up.
Wei Ting brought his men to deliver the first batch of supplies. He had not left the fort since the disaster, so he took this opportunity to come out and take a look.
There were four transport vehicles, carrying not only bundles of quivers but also many tightly sealed bamboo tubes.
Chang Ying hurriedly saluted him and pointed at the bamboo tube curiously and asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Ting, what is this?"
Wei Ting was silent for a moment, then replied with a complicated look in his eyes: "The legendary true fire of the sun."
Chang Ying: “???”
What happened in the dock after they left?
Wei Lang didn't understand, so he searched everywhere for his sister. When he saw Wei Xiyin standing behind a barricade and killing the enemy, he immediately ran forward happily, "Sister!"
Wei Xiyin was too lazy to look back, and her hands did not stop moving.
Seeing this, Wei Lang immediately ran to help and joined the ranks of killing monsters.
Chang Ying also hurriedly took his guards to kill the enemy.
Wei Ting stood outside and watched for a while, but did not dare to delay too long. He took his men to transport the remaining two trucks of supplies to another city gate.
The U-shaped defense line outside the city gate became longer and longer, and there were countless corpses on the ground.
Chu Yu ran to the supply truck at some point and picked up the bamboo tube to study it with great interest.
The bamboo tubes were thick, each one inexplicably engraved with a sun pattern. A gentle shake gave it a fluid flow. He lifted one and immediately felt something slippery on his hands. He picked it up and sniffed it; it was oil, with a hint of alcohol.
"Why does the girl carry so much oil?" Chu Yu frowned slightly.
Wei Xiyin replied without hesitation: "Make the Sun's True Fire."
Oil is refined vegetable oil. There was no kerosene in that era. In her opinion, using cooking oil to assist combustion is a waste.
But there was no other way. She didn't know where the oil was underground, so she could only make do with what she had.
Chu Yu was very interested. He took the bamboo tube and examined it repeatedly, but he didn't find anything special after looking at it for a long time.
He sighed and said, "That girl didn't think about it. The people are not stupid. Burning with oil will be discovered quickly."
Wei Xiyin raised an eyebrow, "Sir, please take another look at what's at the bottom of the bamboo tube."
Only then did Chu Yu discover that there was a layer of white powder crystals attached to the bottom, which looked a bit like salt.
"This is called sodium chloride. It turns flames yellow, close to the color of the sun. Of course, you can't use a bamboo tube filled with oil in front of the people. You must use some kind of sleight of hand. Isn't it too late to use sleight of hand when attacking a city? Sir, just bear with it."
It's just a flame color reaction. Not to mention the true fire of the sun, she can also produce the holy fire of the moon.
It's really tiring to talk while killing monsters.
Wei Xiyin simply stopped and let her brother take her place.
Chu Yu became more interested after hearing this. He observed carefully and concluded that this was salt.
I don’t know where this girl gets so many clever ideas.
The prisoners and guards around them listened to the conversation between the two in silence.
Wang Tie wanted to cover his ears. It was over. He actually heard such a big secret. After killing the zombies, they would be silenced.
As time passed, there were more and more corpses in front of the gate, and the chevaux de frise kept retreating. Seeing that they were getting farther and farther away from the city gate, Wei Xiyin thought that it was almost time.
She ordered the bamboo tubes to be set on fire and fired into the pile of corpses using crossbow carts.
Soon, with the help of combustibles, the corpses piled on the ground caught fire. The flames met salt and alcohol, and turned yellow with the help of combustibles.
Because it is far away, it has little impact on the city gate.
Everyone was shocked by the scene before them. It turned out that this was really possible.
Only Wei Xiyin felt a little pained, because that was salt. There were only a few supplies in the dock now, and if it was used up, it would be gone.
It seems we have to find a salt mine as soon as possible.
It's getting dark.
Wei Xiyin ordered, "First, use wooden stakes and stones to block the gap in the sheep and horse wall."
Go back and rest for a while, and come back tomorrow. It's impossible to complete the cleaning work in one go.
The guards quickly obeyed, bringing in wooden stakes to lay the wall across, and then pushing in rocks to block it off.
After all the work was done and it was confirmed that the zombies could not squeeze out, Wei Xiyin waved her hand and led everyone back to the dock.
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