Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

The army stamped their feet, beat the ground with their weapons, and roared: "Desolate! Desolate! Desolate!"

The mad king stepped on the battlements with one foot, pointed at the sand scorpion below, and said, "You greedy mouse, ten thousand gold mountains can't buy your loyalty! Back then, the Heworth family should have leveled the Western Regions! "

Sand Scorpion laughed and said, "O mad king! Lonely mad king, stupid mad king, you are to blame for everything today. This is God's will! The Lord of Seven Colors, the God of Light, the God of Wind and Sea, the God of Forest and The gods of the mountains, the gods of the thousand islands and the crypts...the gods have determined that I will take your life!"

"Come and get it, Sand Scorpion! Countless traitors have fallen under Eagle Head City, and you are no exception. In the end, you, and you!" He pointed at Bone Kahn, "You despicable villains, will become the nourishment of the soil, and the next March will be sunny, and grass and flowers will sprout on you."

Having said this, the king turned and walked down the wall.In his place a great banner was raised, with the eagle of the North painted on it.

The officer guarding the city shouted,

Sand Scorpion and Bugu Kahn rode back into the formation.Sand Scorpion said in a loud voice: "Pray to the highest heavens!"

The priests slowly withdrew from the totem of the highest sky, and the priest with the six-color feather crown shouted loudly: "The Son of God has come!" Then he set the majestic statue on fire.

The fire soared into the sky, one hundred thousand soldiers prostrated and saluted together, the nobles kowtowed three times, and the civilians kowtowed seven times.The priests of the Lord of Seven Colors chanted hymns, and a white-clothed saint rushed to the burning supreme sky, burned himself, and sacrificed to the gods.

Immediately, the sound of horns came from inside the city wall, the archers set up their bows and arrows, and the catapults went to the cannons to fill up the pills.The mad king screamed from the castle: "Soldiers, we have no way out, the winner lives, the loser dies! Eagle Head City is your last homeland, and the walls are the enemy's cemetery!"

The Sand Scorpion Sword pointed at Eagle Head City, and the lieutenants also raised their swords one after another, pointing at the castle.

"attack!"

"attack!"

"attack--!"

……

The army flocked to Eagle Head City...

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The Mad King let out a piercing laugh. Holding up the King's Sword, he said loudly, "Fire, fire, fire!"

The cannon fired right next to him, and the noise knocked his brains out.But the Mad King was very happy because he could no longer hear the screams in his head.

Cannonballs fell in the crowd, smashing the soldiers to pieces; the boulders of the catapult destroyed a ladder, and the soldiers fell, breaking their bodies in half.Shirtless soldiers rushed up the city wall with flying ladders on their backs, and hot oil was poured down on them, making their skins sizzling and fragrant.

Stones, asphalt, dung...all were thrown down, seeing the enemies die one by one, the Mad King laughed excitedly. "Kill! Kill!" He swung his sword, "Kill them all!"

kill.

The Mad King remembered the first person he killed.

He was the first person to kill with his own hands.

This man is a baby.

He didn't know the child's name, he didn't know his parents, let alone when he was born, he only knew when the child died.

The baby screamed in his head again.

However, although the baby's screams were terrifying, they couldn't compare to the madness on the battlefield.

The battlefield is a hell created by humans. The madness of hell can make people forget all crimes and punishments.

Fight poison with poison, stop pain with pain, stop bleeding with blood!

The Mad King wants to kill, kills with his own hands.A warrior with a golden sword happened to climb up the wall, so the mad king rushed to the battlements and stabbed him to death with his sword. "Ha!" He laughed loudly, pierced the sword into the man's face, turned and poked repeatedly...

The soldiers cheered, and the mad king raised his blood-stained sword and laughed loudly—killing people is not a crime, he said to himself, killing people is kindness, killing people is justice, people with a conscience will kill people, and people who don’t kill people are all hypocrites traitor.

At this time, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body, as if a mouse was being targeted by a cat, or a sheep was being attacked by a wolf.

He looked to the source of the fear and saw a pair of demonic eyes.

Buckle Kahn was watching him.

The eternal spring breeze, three

The eternal spring breeze, three

I will kill him, thought the Mad King, and I will plunge the King's Sword into his heart.

"Bedbow!" he shouted. "Aim for Bone Kahn!"

The officer immediately ordered to aim. The heavy bed crossbow can kill the dragon, and humans cannot stop it.Seeing the bed crossbow, the Overlord of the Gulf immediately turned his horse and fled.

"He's scared, he's scared, he's scared!" The mad king danced, "Have you seen it? The little trident is scared, the overlord of the Gulflands, he is also a mortal! He will bleed, he will die!"

The Mad King's blood repeated his words, and many soldiers took heart and feared no more the Overlord of the Baylands.

At this time, he suddenly felt the city wall tremble, and it turned out that the enemy's chariot was coming.

"Get the hook team ready!"

A group of soldiers threw a barbed fishhook over the city wall, and the fishhook caught the rushing car.

The scooters of the Western Regions have a solid shell, which cannot be smashed by stones or poured with oil, and anything that is thrown down will have little effect.But the force of the upward pull can destroy it.

Fishing hooks to remove turtle shells is a clever plan of the mad king. In order to protect his comfortable home, he has been immersed in the art of defending the city for a long time, and many tools for defending the city were invented by him.

The fishermen counted three, two, one, and as soon as they exerted force, the rivets of the giant shell of the car were pulled out.The designers of the scooters didn't consider pulling it up, so this thing is very loose, and after two more rounds, the turtle shell will be destroyed by the fishhook.The mad king laughed and ordered people to pour hot oil on it, and the car was destroyed, and the soldiers screamed and died.

Come on, sand scorpion!Come on, little trident!I still have toys for you.Let me see what you can do!Come and tickle me!

"Your Majesty, be careful!" someone shouted.

The mad king heard the whirring of the wind immediately, but he didn't react. The next moment, a boulder fell beside him.He was so shocked that he fell down and got mud and sand all over his face.He coughed a few times, stood up immediately, and said, "Catapult, fight back! Move the tower out!"

The car tower is a lookout.It is 20 meters high, and above it is a small room that can be raised and lowered, which can accommodate soldiers for observation; the sliding wheels below, the track with wheels on the city wall, and the car tower can slide quickly left and right on the city wall.

This is a mobile tower, without attack power, but it can be used to occupy the commanding heights and detect the enemy's position.

The highest point on the battlefield is very important. Whoever can occupy the commanding heights will have clairvoyance.

The soldiers boarded the turret and immediately locked the position of the enemy's siege engine.Then they reported the distance and angle, and the mad king's catapult threw stones accurately and hit the target.

The catapult was also improved by the Mad King. This catapult is heavier than ordinary catapults, but it has a longer range and higher accuracy. The catapult soldiers have learned mathematics for ten years. One person is in charge of calculation and four are in charge of operation.Precise coordination, no missed shots.

After a round of bombing, seeing the enemy's siege equipment shattered, the Mad King jumped up and down excitedly, "Ha! Trash! Trash! You also want to capture Eagle Head City? Chauvin III, King of Southern Border, King of Western Regions, any Stronger than you!"

What else can the enemy do?

Fierce Warrior?Desert Wizard?

I am not afraid of these, I am prepared!

The mad king was full of spirits, and he thought to himself: A bunch of idiots, after all, war is not based on strength, courage, money or people...

It's the mind!

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This time, Ba Gu didn't want to be Sand Scorpion's pawn.

He figured it out, the last time he attacked Castle Sword and Shield, it wasn't that Sand Scorpion was passive and sabotage, but that this guy wanted to go into battle and fight for him.In the end, Bagu's brothers were all dead, and he himself was injured, but he didn't get anything.

This time, Emperor Sand Scorpion, you can do it yourself!I'll wait for Kilps and the reinforcements from the Gulf to arrive before going to ask for this castle.

Ba Gu sat at the back, quietly acting as a bystander for the time being.

Occasionally he would look at the battlefield, and occasionally he would look at the soul stone to confirm its color.

On the first day, the Sand Scorpion's army suffered a disastrous defeat.

Seeing Sand Scorpion's momentum, it seems that they intend to use their high morale to take down Eagle Head City in one go.

However, the mad king's tricks were beyond imagination.

He took out at least ten things that I had never seen before, such as: a log with a fire wheel, a soldier holding a fishing rod to smash a car, a cannon that can flexibly change angles, and a telescopic hammer on the city wall...

Ba Gu thought in his heart: If I go to attack the city, I'm afraid I won't be able to attack it.

Although Eagle Head City in history was difficult to attack, it was definitely not that difficult—or in other words, it was not a difficult method.

The reason why Yingtou City was difficult in history was because of the high city, abundant food, and strong soldiers.In other words, if you can't attack, it's because you don't have enough people, food, and ammunition.If you can't attack for a year, you have to withdraw your troops in winter.

But the current Eagle Head City is not only difficult, but also very strange.

Strange, demonic, evil, and treacherous, this city contains all kinds of unimaginable ideas of a mad king. If you attack the city rashly, you will definitely suffer.

The sand scorpion proved this by defying the law.

Ba Gu is very calm when he should be calm - he must win if he wants to fight, and he will never fight if he can't win.

But Sand Scorpion is obviously stubborn, he attacked the city as usual the next day, and he still has a lot of troops, and the reinforcements from the Western Regions are rapidly moving here using Fort Sword and Shield as a springboard.It is a great honor to capture Eagle Head City, presumably the nobles of the Western Regions will not miss this opportunity.

However, the mad king's ability is obviously not exhausted.

This time, he only took out a new thing and defeated the Sand Scorpion.

This is a trap.

He first set off a large army of sand scorpions to attack the city, but when the ladders, chariots and soldiers approached the city wall, he heard a loud noise from the ground, and the ground under the city wall suddenly collapsed.

A gully appeared out of thin air.The gully was deep enough to bury a hundred thousand troops, and the bottom was covered with needles and thistles, and those who fell were immediately pierced with holes.

Moreover, this gully that suddenly appeared blocked the sand scorpion's attack, and he didn't have the tools to get through the gully at all.Many soldiers were intercepted at the other end, and the support behind could not keep up, and the soldiers in front could only be slaughtered.

In this round alone, Sand Scorpion lost.

"Stop the siege." Said the King of the Western Regions.

That afternoon, the army withdrew five miles from Yingtou City, set up camp, and regrouped.

In the evening, the Sand Scorpion held a military meeting.Just after the defeat, the staff officers, generals and nobles all quarreled.Some said they should continue to attack the city, some said they had to wait for reinforcements, and some said they should do divination and ask Lord Seven Colors for guidance.There are also some rational people who are analyzing the siege equipment of Eagle Head City, but the conclusions are generally pessimistic - with their current strength and equipment, it is almost impossible to break through Eagle Head City.

Obviously this is not what Sand Scorpion wants.

"King of the Baylands, do you have any opinion?" he asked Bagu.

Ba Gu sneered, and said: "I thought you did a good job in attacking this city, very good, continue!"

The eternal spring breeze, four

The eternal spring breeze, four

Sand Scorpion would not fail to hear the taunting meaning in his words, but the king of the Western Regions would not beg him in a low voice.

"Okay, it seems that the king of the Bayland can't think of any good ideas."

"The king of the bay will not tell you if he has a good idea." Ba Gu was not fooled this time, and the overlord was as calm as water.

In fact, Lan Zuo said a long time ago: Your Majesty, the strong do not need to prove themselves urgently, only the weak have sensitive self-esteem, and they are fooled by the law.

It's just that Ba Gu has a grumpy temper and has been unable to listen to these words.Now he gradually understood.

Seeing that he wasn't fooled anymore, Shaxie didn't talk nonsense with him.He ordered to his soldiers: "Continue to attack the city tomorrow."

The Mad King had no way out, and so did the Sand Scorpion.Looking at the [-] troops outside, Ba Gu thought to himself: The army of Sand Scorpions is the elite of the Western Regions, and all the nobles have contributed their efforts. They must be waiting for the king of the Western Regions to make great achievements and plant the flag in Yingtou City.

When Ba Gu was about to leave, Lan Que once said the contract he signed with the people of the Western Regions: Lan Que allocated all the mountains west of Yingtou City to Sand Scorpion, and only then did he get his support.Eagle Head City clearly stated in the contract that it belonged to the King of the Bayland, Bone Kahn.After the war is over, Lan Zuo will send people to help Sand Scorpion wipe out the remaining power of the mountain people, and help him take care of the nobles in the mine, Green Snake Mountain and Crow Mountain.Otherwise, with the appetite of people from the Western Regions, I'm afraid they won't be able to eat this piece of land, and even if they eat it, they will suffer from indigestion.

But can this contract be fulfilled?

Can Sand Scorpions take down the castle?

If he could take the castle, would he give up Eaglehead?

Bagu doesn't believe in contracts, he only believes in his fists.

Let him try it first, and I'll take over the mess when my troops arrive.When the time comes, I will climb the city wall and kill the king with my own hands, and I will be a king in name and name.

The next day, Sand Scorpion continued to attack the city, but still made no progress.The third day, the fourth day, the fifth day...the attack lasted for ten days without damaging a single brick or tile of Yingtou City.

The defensive strength of Eagle Head City was obviously beyond Sand Scorpion's imagination, not to mention him, even Ba Gu never thought that this city would be so difficult to attack.For a long time, the little king was a foolish king, a tyrant, a bastard king who was reviled by thousands of people.Later, he started killing people like crazy, so he gained the title of Mad King.

People look down on him.Before attacking Eagle Head City, the morale of Sand Scorpion's army was high. Many generals boasted about the bravery of the army from the Western Regions and belittled the little king and Eagle Head City. Without it, the northern border will be abolished.As for the little king?What is that?

The morale of the army was so high that it was arrogant, as if singing and dancing could destroy Eagle Head City.

Everyone has forgotten that Eagle Head City is a century-old city, and that countless heroes have fallen under the city walls.

On the tenth day, Sand Scorpion stopped attacking again and sent someone to negotiate with Eagle Head City—he asked the little king to surrender, hand over Eagle Head City and the king's seat, otherwise the attack would continue forever.He said that he still has many soldiers and horses, as well as wizards, heavy crossbows and other killers.If the little king surrenders now, he can sign a contract and make the little king the Duke of Sword and Shield Castle. If the little king is obsessed with his obsession, he will torture the little king to death by cruel stoning when the city is broken.

The result of the negotiation was as expected - the Mad King didn't want to talk about it at all, he directly killed Sand Scorpion's messenger.

After hearing this, Bagu laughed. He hoped that both Sand Scorpion and Mad King would suffer. In this way, after his army arrived, he could easily take down the castle.