Chapter 680: In the war of races, there are no innocents!
The Tang Dynasty had weapons far superior to those of the northern barbarians.
This is why, despite their bravery, the Northern Barbarians could only match the Tang Dynasty's garrison troops to a 50-50 chance. If the Tang Dynasty had a powerful general leading the army, the Northern Barbarians would have been doomed to a crushing defeat.
In the hundred years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, from the initial King Taiping Xu Zhengqi to King Yan and Old Man Xu, the Northern Barbarians have never been able to do anything to the Tang Dynasty. Although they knew that the land of the Tang Dynasty was rich and livable, they just couldn't completely defeat the Tang army. The most successful attacks were just to cause trouble in Longxi Prefecture.
As time went on, even the Northern Barbarians themselves felt that they would never be able to occupy the Tang territory.
Therefore, it is enough to plunder the territory of the Tang Dynasty every time.
But this time, it concerns the life and death of their Northern Barbarian tribe.
Compared to the more brutal savages, they would rather face the Tang people. At least, the Tang people would not eat their corpses.
Before the catapults assembled by the northern barbarians entered the attack range, the stones from Dragon City were already roaring down.
Amidst loud bangs, the northern barbarians' catapults were destroyed one after another.
By the time the catapults from Longcheng stopped attacking, the northern barbarians' catapults had been completely destroyed in the snow outside the city.
Without catapults, the Northern Barbarians will have to face the terrifyingly large number of covering attacks from the Eight-Ox Crossbows on Dragon City.
Under such circumstances, attacking the city is a joke.
"King, shall we continue to attack?"
Without the help of the catapult, they had no idea how to attack Dragon City.
As for the siege ladders, there was no way to get them to the bottom of the city wall.
"Wait a minute!"
Tuoba Aofeng's face was gloomy. Attacking the city now would be tantamount to seeking death.
If it means sending himself to die and using human lives to fill the void, he doesn't mind losing tens of thousands of lives in order to capture Longcheng.
But in the current situation, they don’t know how many people will die, and they don’t know whether they can get close to the city wall.
After witnessing the power of the Tang Dynasty's catapults, Tuoba Aofeng felt as cold as ice.
The Northern Barbarian army camped outside Longcheng, looking for an opportunity to attack the city while gathering the tribesmen who were slowly arriving.
Although winter has arrived in Longxi Mansion, the cold here is not unbearable compared to their home.
But everyone understood that they could not stay in Longxi Mansion and had to continue heading south, because the wildlings in the north would chase them.
Those of their tribesmen who fell on the way south would guide the savages along the way. Similarly, the bodies of their tribesmen would become the savages' food.
It’s not that the northern barbarians don’t want to clean up the bodies of their tribesmen, but that they don’t have the strength to do so.
They had to conserve every bit of their strength and save food.
Because everyone knows that once they arrive at Longxi Mansion, their people will face an unprecedentedly brutal war.
They must preserve enough food for their tribesmen to fight and fight for their chance to survive.
Tuoba Aofeng couldn't sleep all night. He told the high priest about his predicament, hoping that the high priest could help him solve his problem.
However, the high priest did not respond.
The high priest's tent was near the king's tent, but the holy guards guarding outside the tent simply ignored Tuoba Aofeng's orders.
As long as the high priest does not issue an edict, Tuoba Aofeng will never get the chance to meet the high priest.
"Could it be that God wants to destroy our Northern Barbarian tribe?"
Tuoba Aofeng knelt in the snow, his face full of pain.
The day he became the King of the Northern Barbarians, he was at the pinnacle of his life. However, he never dreamed that instead of achieving greater glory, he would begin a downward spiral.
"King, the high priest summons you!"
Just when Tuoba Aofeng was almost in despair, a holy guard who was guarding outside the high priest's tent appeared in front of him and brought good news.
At that moment, Tuoba Aofeng stood up excitedly, but because he had been kneeling in the snow for too long, his legs and feet were frozen stiff and he almost fell to the ground.
It was the Holy Guard who had sharp eyes and supported Tuoba Aofeng in time.
Not long after, Tuoba Aofeng entered the high priest's tent.
In the tent, the high priest was wearing a loose snow-white robe and a golden mask on his face, with only a pair of sharp eyes exposed.
In his hand, he held a scepter made of pure gold.
The high priest just sat there simply, holding the scepter in one hand, without saying a word, looking calmly at Tuoba Aofeng who walked in.
When Tuoba Aofeng saw the high priest, he first bowed respectfully, then turned around and knelt on the ground, waiting for the high priest's instructions.
"Tomorrow, attack the city!"
"Heavy snow!"
The high priest's voice was crisp, but even these words, which didn't sound very intimidating, calmed Tuoba Aofeng's restless heart.
"As you command!"
Tuoba Aofeng didn't ask any more questions.
Because the high priest had made it very clear.
Tomorrow, we will attack the city, and there will be heavy snow.
Tuoba Aofeng didn't know how heavy the snow would be tomorrow, but since the high priest said so, then the snow should be very heavy.
When Tuoba Aofeng walked out of the high priest's tent, he found that the wind and snow seemed to have intensified. His eyes were used to the wind and snow, but now he couldn't see people or objects more than ten steps away.
Although it was night, even during the day, with such heavy snow, it would be enough for them to sneak up on Dragon City.
Once they approach Dragon City, they may be able to break into the city.
As long as we enter the city, the dawn of victory will be just around the corner.
Tuoba Aofeng felt better as he walked in the snow and wind.
He was thinking about tomorrow's siege, but he forgot that his people had already run out of firewood to keep warm. On such a snowy night, the temperature was expected to be very low.
That night, no one knew how many more of the Northern Barbarians would die silently.
Perhaps, Tuoba Aofeng did not forget, but he was simply powerless to do anything.
Although he was a king, he could not conjure up firewood to keep warm out of thin air.
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In Longcheng, Mr. Xu couldn't sleep either.
As the wind and snow grew stronger, Old Man Xu stood on the top of the city wall and looked at the northern barbarian camp from afar.
The camp was large, but where that massive camp was located, there were only a few fires.
This is not because there are few people in the camp, but because the northern barbarians do not have enough firewood to keep warm.
In order to guard against the invasion of the northern barbarians, when he knew that the cold winter was coming early that year, Mr. Xu led the soldiers of Longxi Mansion to cut down all the forests around Longcheng.
Strong walls and clear fields!
But it's not just about relocating the people, Old Man Xu is actually targeting the Northern Barbarians from the root.
Although he knew that there were many elderly, weak, women and children in the Northern Barbarians' camp, Old Master Xu remained as hard as iron. The bloodshed the Northern Barbarians had committed in Longxi Prefecture during the year they invaded was too numerous to list.
Since the Northern Barbarians can kill the elderly, weak, women and children of the Tang Dynasty, then Xu Huaiyi has no psychological pressure to sit back and watch the elderly, weak, women and children of the Northern Barbarians die tragically.
In this war of races, there are no innocents!
(End of this chapter)
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