Chapter 141 Murderous Aura from the North
Shen Yuexi remembered that in her previous life, she was quite happy sleeping alone.
Before bed, she soaks her feet and flips through a few pages of a book. If she feels sleepy, she throws the book aside. In a large bed, she can sleep sideways, vertically, or in any other position. She has the freedom to do whatever she wants.
Ever since she came through and slept in the same bed with Xiao Zhuo, her mentality has changed.
To sum it up, I have completely gotten rid of the status of being a single dog.
I started sleeping against the wall to make room for Xiao Zhuo. But in the morning, things often went against my wishes.
When getting up at night, he didn't have to turn on all the lights to go to the bathroom. If there was a noise in the house, he would open his eyes and see Xiao Zhuo's reassuring figure.
After getting used to this kind of life and becoming single again, she found that she also suffered from insomnia.
It was the same room as before. She was very sleepy, but she couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard she tried. For her, who always had a good sleep quality, this was a rare occurrence.
She tried various methods until she rolled the quilt into a tube, hugged the quilt and rode on it, and then she fell into a deep sleep.
Holding the quilt, it felt like holding Xiao Zhuo.
Although she didn't want to admit it, she knew she was thinking about him.
I don’t know when Xiao Zhuo will return.
With his abilities, there was no danger. This man was omnipotent. She only needed to follow him and let him protect her. It had always been this way.
When she was imprisoned by Xiao Beiheng, it was Xiao Zhuo who rescued her. When the Western Rong attacked, it was Xiao Zhuo who led the army to repel the enemy.
The only disturbing thing is that Xiao Zhuo is currently weak, with no territory and no decent army. Xiaogang Village is the only place where he can gain support.
Now that Xiao Zhuo is not here, she must guard this place for her husband.
She wasn't like those women of ancient times who could only pin all their hopes on men. Xiao Zhuo's future was also her future. And she couldn't just passively wait for Xiao Zhuo to carve out this future.
Shen Yuexi opened her eyes.
A faint light shone through the east-facing window lattice, and daybreak was about to begin.
In order to recharge Big Bear, she deliberately pulled her bed to the east so that the morning sunlight could reach her in time.
"Big Bear?" she tried to call.
The universal manufacturing machine did not respond. It seemed that building a city had completely exhausted its energy. It had been charging for three days, but it still hadn't started up.
Shen Yuexi felt a little regretful. If she had known this would be the result, she would not have used the universal manufacturing machine in this way.
She got up, washed, dressed, and tidied herself, went to the kitchen to eat something, and then left the yard.
Now she was alone in the courtyard, with Madam Li and Li Wan caring for Mei Pu at Baixiu Mountain. Yang Cong was busy running messages back and forth between Xiaogang Village and Baixiu Mountain.
The soldier guarding the gate saw Shen Yuexi coming out and said to her, "Madam."
Shen Yuexi covered her mouth and yawned, "Has General Qiu already set up camp at Langya Pass?"
"Madam, General Qiu and Captain Zhang have already set up camp at Langya Pass, and the soldiers are now working together to build the city."
Shen Yuexi nodded and left the courtyard. A soldier brought a horse to her. She mounted the mount, whipped it, and headed towards Langya Pass.
She had no experience in city construction. Initially, she assumed that with thousands of civilians working, the task would be easy. However, she discovered that simply transporting a single processed brick took dozens of people an hour, and once it arrived, they still had to figure out how to lift it. They also had to work in three shifts. Excluding women, the elderly, and children, there were only a few hundred men actually working beneath the city walls.
After three days of work, the entire wall had only been raised four stories, and its current height was roughly the height of a two-story ceiling, less than six meters. However, if the Xirong army wanted to attack, they couldn't climb it directly.
She followed the path to the iron mine.
At daybreak, the artisans here were already forging crossbow bolts. The heat of the workshop washed over them, the flames from the furnaces illuminating the sheds with a crimson glow. The artisans swung their hammers, hammering the fiery arrowheads against the anvil. Nearby, someone used long iron clamps to dip the forged crossbow bolts into cold water, creating a sizzling sound and sending up clouds of mist.
When the leading craftsman saw her coming, he pulled off the sweat towel hanging around his neck, wiped his face, and ran over to Shen Yuexi and said:
"Princess, as you instructed, six thousand extended crossbow arrows have been manufactured."
Three days ago, Shen Yuexi had instructed the craftsmen to lengthen the crossbow's arrows. The previous crossbow's range was too short, and she felt that with such a dense rain of arrows, even a random shot would still be enough to hit someone, so the longer the range, the better. She discussed this with Qiu Liming and decided to lengthen the crossbow's arrows.
Qiu Liming thought her suggestion was good and agreed with it very much.
“How’s the effect?”
"General Qiu has already sent his soldiers to test it out, and the range is indeed half as long. However," the craftsman said, putting down his handkerchief, "the accuracy is much worse now, not as accurate as before."
Shen Yuexi said, "It doesn't matter. It's better to hit the enemy first with a crossbow arrow than to have the enemy rush to you. And what about the iron face shield?"
"The Iron Mask was handed over to General Qiu yesterday."
"Okay, thank you all for your hard work." Seeing that everything had been arranged, Shen Yuexi said goodbye to the craftsmen and headed towards the city wall at the foot of the mountain.
Daybreak had arrived. The torches that had been burning all night beneath the city walls had gone out. Amid the scattered rocks, people sat and stood, the clang of chisels piercing the stones. Rollers were placed under the massive stones, carefully moving them toward the city wall.
Shen Yuexi walked through the crowd and found Qiu Liming.
"Madam," Qiu Liming put down his pickaxe and pointed at the dozens of wooden ladders leaning against the city wall. "It's definitely too late for us to build stairs before the enemy arrives. We can only make do with ladders for now."
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Three days ago, when he learned that the gods had opened up a great road overnight, he was shocked beyond words. But he couldn't even suspect Shen Yuexi of this. He could only believe that it was truly divine.
This had never happened before, and it was the first time he had seen it.
Now everyone believes that the gods are protecting Xiaogang Village. Even if the Western Rong army sends an army of 100,000, it cannot shake people's faith.
This is why the 1,500 soldiers dared to garrison here and fight the enemy. They believed that they were an army protected by the gods.
"General Qiu, according to what my husband said, the enemy should arrive in two or three days," Shen Yuexi asked loudly, "How high can the city wall be raised by then?"
"Now that the wall is higher, it's more difficult to transport bricks up there." Qiu Liming pointed at the bricks being lifted higher by the winch. "I guess we can only build one or two more floors at most."
Shen Yuexi looked up at the city wall.
They were still far from a city. If a city were a house, they had only built half of the wall.
Building infrastructure is really troublesome. After the big bear is fully charged, we need to design some tools to speed up the construction of the city.
She was still pondering when someone on the top of the wall suddenly shouted, "North, look north! There's dust rising there!"
"General, there are troops coming from the north!" A soldier leaned down from the city wall and shouted.
"army?"
Shen Yuexi was shocked. Was it Xiao Zhuo who led the cavalry back?
She quickly ran to the bottom of the ladder and climbed up using her hands and feet. Qiu Liming followed closely behind.
Looking up, the northern horizon was covered in dust, and it seemed that many people were heading towards Langya Pass.
"Xirong Army!"
Qiu Liming took one look and came to a conclusion.
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