Chapter 300: The Enemy at the Gates (Please vote and subscribe)
Just before Luo Chong led the team to set off, Bazuka had sent back the reply overnight. Ying Rui, Rat Witch, and the three elders who were stationed in the city also received Luo Chong's order and immediately ordered to close the four gates and let all the male tribesmen who stayed in the city gather and stand by, ready to organize a defensive counterattack at any time.
On the other hand, the more than 200 survivors of the Snake Tribe who came to seek refuge were also properly settled. After discussion by the three elders, they temporarily let all these people live in the warehouse used as a military camp. There are more than 100 bunk beds in the warehouse, and adults and children can barely live there if they squeeze together. If it doesn't work, the desks in the other half of the warehouse can also be put together as beds.
As for food, it is now a wartime alert state. Every household has stopped cooking and now eats a unified big pot meal. Moreover, the Han tribe, which has always treated people equally, can only give priority to adult men, followed by women, and finally children. Women and children now only have two meals a day.
This was not because the Han tribe lacked food, but because no one could predict when the enemy would retreat. In this unknown situation, food should be saved as much as possible. Saving more food could help them survive for another day.
Just when Hanyang City had just prepared for war and Luo Chong was starting to return with his men, a cannibal army of more than a thousand people finally arrived at the foot of Hanyang City before dawn.
These people were all shirtless, wearing animal skin skirts or green leaf suits around their waists, with strange white totems painted all over their bodies, and a circle of vines of unknown origin wrapped around their foreheads to fix their hair so that they would not be used as eyes.
Although they were not lined up neatly, they were not completely unorganized. Many teams could be vaguely seen, about 40 people in a team, led by a captain with a palm-sized skull necklace hanging on his chest, dressed the same as the cannibals that Luo Chong and his men met for the first time. There
were not only people in the team, but also red-haired man-eating giant apes. This time there were more than 40 of them, and they were still conspicuous even in a team of more than a thousand people.
The captives captured from the Snake Tribe and the Sharp Horn Tribe were also in the team. They were tied together with ropes, and the ropes were tied to their heads. They were half dead, and they were lined up in several teams with ropes around their necks. There were about 30 people in total, and they were guarded by several man-eating apes. One end of the rope was held in the hands of the giant apes, and they were led like dogs.
The 200 antelopes captured yesterday were also among them, but there were fewer of them. It was estimated that they had been eaten. The remaining less than 100 were also tied into several strings and led in the team.
They went around in the mountains and forests for a long time, and finally came from the southwest. That was where the tribe used to live. These people must have followed the footprints and wheel tracks.
The group got out of the dense forest and suddenly saw an open area of more than 3,000 acres in front of them. The open area was nothing special, just a plain in the mountains, but what shocked them was that there was a tall building with four corners in the center of the open area, slightly east of it.
When they got closer, they saw that the building was surrounded by water on all sides, and the walls were so high that they were impossible to climb. The surface was made of blue bricks similar to rocks, smooth and without gaps, and without any support points, just like a naturally formed steep mountain wall. Only in the middle of the four walls was there a huge wooden board covering the outside of the wall.
A group of people came to the west gate curiously. The wheel tracks and horse hoof prints on the ground extended all the way to the moat outside the west gate, and then disappeared. Looking at the huge wooden board facing the tracks, these people seemed to understand something.
At this time, the noise below the city also attracted the attention of the defenders of the city wall. It was just dawn and the vision was not very clear. Dozens of people leaned out from the towers or the arrow slits on the city wall to look down. At a glance, they saw countless white totem warriors appearing below the city, as well as giant apes that were twice as tall as humans. The tribesmen who saw the giant apes for the first time were shocked.
"It's the enemy, the enemy has come to the city, quickly, quickly beat the drums."
I don't know who shouted first, and then the big drums on both sides of the west tower started to beat. This earth-shaking drum sound not only woke up the tribesmen who were still sleeping in Hanyang City, but also scared the cannibal army and giant apes under the city wall.
The enemies below the city looked at the top of the city wall where the sound came from. They saw countless figures running and shaking at the neat gap at the top of the city wall, and people kept sticking their heads out of the gap. Those people all had their hair tied up and seemed to have weapons in their hands. A closer look showed that they were either sharp bronze spears or long bows and arrows.
This look immediately attracted the attention of the enemy troops below the city. The hairstyle was not the key point. The key point was that the people on the city wall were holding bows and arrows. You know, they came to find the tribe that used bows and arrows this time. Isn't this a perfect match? They must have run away.
The red-haired giant ape outside the west gate also found the people on the city wall. He roared angrily, took a short and fast run, and then jumped high, crossed the four-meter-wide moat, and lay directly on the smooth city wall.
Unfortunately, the giant ape only flew to a height of five meters, and then it had no more strength to sprint upwards. The smooth wall had no place to put its strength. In the end, it could only helplessly scratch the wall a few times, and then heard a plop, and fell straight into the moat. The huge water splashed on the wall and the land on the other side, soaking the surrounding giant apes and totem warriors.
There was a sudden curse all around, and the angry roar of the giant ape. The giant ape that fell into the water also struggled to climb out of the moat and onto the shore, and then shook off the water on its body like a dog shaking its fur, and then continued to roar at the humans on the top of the city wall.
Ying Rui, who was standing on the tower, patted his chest in fear, and kept muttering, "It was a close call, it was almost climbed up by that monster, fortunately the city wall is high enough and the moat is wide enough."
This is really no joke. The moat was still very useful when facing the giant ape. Although the moat could not do anything to the giant ape, it limited the distance of the giant ape's jump. This beast was huge and had a super jumping ability. If there was no moat, it would have jumped from a closer distance and might have really reached the gap in the raft.
But now the appearance of the moat limited its jumping distance, so that the giant ape was just two meters away from climbing the city wall, which also made the tribesmen in the city feel relieved.
As for the totem warriors, let alone climbing up the city wall, even if they were asked to run for several hundred meters, they might not be able to cross the four-meter-wide moat, and it would be a problem whether they could touch the wall.
(End of this chapter)
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