Even emperors have it tough, so don't be too picky about the entries.

"What a wonderful thing!" Brother Helian was startled.

He turned his horse around and snatched a heavy iron shield from his personal guard.

He raised it above his head and roared at the soldiers behind him:

"All of you, get him!"

"Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"

The Northern Barbarians launched a counterattack, sending three volleys of mounted archers to suppress the enemy's firepower on the city walls.

The ladder was re-erected, and soldiers with scimitars in their mouths climbed it.

Helian Xiong personally drew his bow and stood guard below the city. With a single arrow, he could take down a Dayan garrison soldier.

With the Empress's most trusted general personally overseeing the operation, morale is high and speed is even faster.

They charged forward one after another, fearless and undaunted.

They climbed upwards like madmen.

These fiercest warriors of the grasslands unleashed a chilling display of courage.

On a cloud ladder, a Northern Mang soldier had already climbed to the top.

He glanced back.

He couldn't help but raise his scimitar and burst into laughter.

"I'm going to be the first to climb! I'm going to be the first to climb! Mother! Your son has made something of himself!"

Before he could finish speaking, it seemed as if rain was falling from the sky.

He looked up and saw the rain pelting down on him.

It instantly soaked my head.

The burly man paused for a moment, then subconsciously considered what he was doing.

Then his whole face contorted like a blooming chrysanthemum.

"what!"

A heart-wrenching scream rang out, and he flailed his arms wildly in the air.

Then he fell straight down the ladder.

It knocked over several people beneath it.

Yu Qi'an stood behind the arrow sack and coldly waved his hand:

"Keep playing!"

What is the most powerful defense for a city?

Golden sauce.

It combines physical killing, biological infection, and psychological destruction.

Its importance is no less than that of a powerful bow and crossbow.

Not only is it highly lethal, but it is also readily available.

Even the most powerful bows and crossbows have their limits.

But the golden sauce is much simpler.

Where there are people, there is excrement.

A wide variety of things, encompassing everything.

Collect all the excrement together and boil it.

The boiling broth will splash everywhere.

Especially its tangy and pungent aroma that travels for miles; often, a single ladleful can instantly render an entire squad of soldiers on a siege ladder incapable of fighting, causing them to fall with screams of agony.

One basin after another of scalding hot molten gold was poured down from the city wall!

Forget about the burns, the smell alone was enough to terrify the Northern Mang soldiers...

Such disgusting methods are not uncommon.

Many Northern Mang soldiers boasted in their daily lives, but we didn't take it seriously.

It's just some dung, what's there to be afraid of?

I kill people without blinking an eye, and things like that.

But when that stench really hits, when that scalding heat seeps into the helmet...

They panicked completely.

The fighting spirit that had just been rekindled was gradually extinguished by the golden liquid.

The casualties on the ladder were heavy.

The remaining soldiers have begun to retreat.

Of course, this is not their fault. Historically, Jinzhi has shone brightly in siege warfare on many occasions.

The Mongol Great Khan Möngke personally led a large army to besiege Diaoyu City in Sichuan.

The Song army relied on the natural defenses of the mountain city and used gold ink to defend it, holding out for several months.

The Ming Dynasty war manuals such as "Essentials of City Defense" explicitly record the use of "golden juice" and "dung cannons".

Even in the classic novel *Water Margin*, when the Liangshan heroes attacked Daming Prefecture, the defending troops set up large cooking pots...

Seeing his soldiers retreating in disarray, Helian Xiong was instantly enraged.

The campaign failed before it even began, leaving heroes to weep bitterly. This kind of regret did not apply to Helian Xiong.

Helian Xiong put away his bow and arrows and beheaded a retreating soldier with a single stroke.

"Stop right there! All of you, stop right there!"

"Charge! Charge!"

He roared with all his might, spurred his horse backward, and killed anyone he saw.

Such ferocity did indeed intimidate the fleeing soldiers.

However... the morale of the army had collapsed. Under the oppressive power, the soldiers were only afraid and had no will to fight anymore.

If you won't let me back down, I'll just stand here and not move, okay?

Upon seeing this, Helian Xiong changed his approach from cutting to drawing blood.

He lashed the soldier hard with the back of his knife.

"Get the hell out of here!"

"It's just a simple 'golden juice'! You're all heroes of Northern Mang, how can you be so cowardly!"

"Our families, and His Majesty, are watching us!"

The soldiers remained unmoved.

But one man suddenly mustered his courage and shouted at Helian Xiong:

"General! It's not that we're afraid to fight!"

"The molten metal is simply too potent; even though we are determined to kill the enemy, we are powerless to scale the city walls!"

"What's so domineering about Golden Juice?" Helian Xiong wished he could devour this little brat.

There's no such thing as boosting someone else's morale while diminishing your own.

The soldier continued to argue his case.

"Having the 'golden juice' poured into your mouth is like eating excrement; if it burns into your flesh, it's worse than death!"

"General, you haven't tasted it yourself, so don't try to persuade us to endure it! May I ask you, General, if you were in your shoes, would you dare?"

Helian Xiong's square face, covered in fat, turned red and then pale from being shoved.

He saw that the soldiers were all staring at him expectantly.

A sense of pride welled up within him.

He declared with boundless bravado, "What if I dare?"

The other soldiers clearly didn't expect him to give that answer.

After a moment of stunned silence.

They immediately looked on with admiration.

"If the general dares, we will be his second parents! Bah! The general is our second parents! If the general points east, we will never go west! We're nothing but worthless lives!"

"We will follow you to the death as long as the general dares to go."

That's how it is on the battlefield.

You think a general can hide in the back and shoot arrows from the shadows, making the soldiers fearless and willing to die? There's no such thing as a free lunch.

When the general leads the charge and sets an example, the soldiers will follow suit and fight bravely to the death.

"Open your eyes wide and watch carefully, you all!"

Helian Xiong turned his horse around and rode towards the cloud ladder.

His title as the number one warrior of Northern Mang was by no means undeserved.

Arrows rained down from the city walls in an instant.

But he easily knocked them all down.

They treated rolling logs and boulders as nothing.

Helian Xiong, like the most magnificent wild bull, grabbed the ladder and quickly climbed up.

They advanced with unstoppable momentum, maintaining their speed in the slightest.

Halfway up, he suddenly turned his head and glanced back at the Empress, who was eagerly awaiting his arrival in the army.

He laughed triumphantly to himself.

It's time to show the real skills.

Your Majesty, take a good look.

The next general opened his mouth wide, swallowed forcefully, climbed quickly, and killed at precise angles.

Six bowls in one go is definitely not my limit.

That was my attitude of loyalty to Her Majesty the Empress.

He dropped his shield and looked up at the city wall, shouting wildly.

"Is that all you've got?"

"Let me see what you've got!"

This kind of provocation is far too arrogant.

Chen Shao personally scooped up a ladleful and poured it over his head.

Can...

To his shock, Helian Xiong didn't seem to care at all.

Instead, he licked the corner of his mouth.

"Not enough! Still not enough! What kind of trick is this? Is this some kind of face wash? More!"

"Give me the tastiest one!"

Holy crap!

Chen Shao, a hot-blooded young man, was not about to accept this.

He rolled up his sleeves.

"Brothers, feed him until he's full!"

...

Chen Shao ultimately miscalculated.

Helian Xiong is simply inhuman.

He neither dodged nor evaded, absorbing all the firepower by himself.

Not only did he not get hurt at all, but he became even more courageous the more he drank.

The Northern Barbarian soldiers were amazed by their general's extraordinary bravery.

One by one, they were moved to tears, truly risking their lives, and launched a fearless charge.

Although Helian Xiong was big and burly, he was surprisingly agile.

He climbed the city wall like an old ape climbing a tree, and with a few leaps, he was almost at the top of the city wall.

Looking at Chen Shao, who had fair skin and tender flesh, on the city wall.

He remembered the Empress's promise.

I've heard that there's a Five-Stone Powder in the Central Plains. If I used some, wouldn't it be incredibly refreshing?

The more he thought about it, the more pleased he became.

He couldn't help but let out a strange laugh at Chen Shao:

"Hehehe, little brother, you'll find out what happens to you soon enough."

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