Chapter 135 Impregnable! (1/2)

A dark cloud coming from nowhere hovers above the building, as if the night has fallen.

Gao Ge looks at Qin Yan, who is poker-faced with his eyes as profound as having contained everything.

“Mr. Gao, please take a look at how the world treats me!”

Right after that, Gao Ge sees great changes take place in front of him.

Qin Yan disappears.

The desk and chairs are also gone.

The surroundings are no longer the room of the tube-shaped apartment building.

Instead, the wind whistles along with the sand. Gao Ge takes two steps forward, leaving some footprints behind him and the sand is everywhere.

When the wind that stirs up the sand blows across his face, he feels like being cut by knives.

Gao Ge struggles to walk ahead and when he stops, he raises his head only to see a grand gate tower.

With grey wall and red iron gate, it looks so high and awe-inspiring.

Although Gao Ge doesn’t like traveling, he has been to some ancient cities and seen gate towers. However, none of the gate towers he has seen can impress him like this.

After, the current gate tower of the ancient cities has become a place of interest or a scenic spot, where a lot of tourists will gather every day. However, this gate tower in front of him just stands here with grey wall extending endlessly beyond the limits of his view. In the billowing yellow sand, the tower appears even chillier and bleaker.

As the gate is slowly opened, Gao Ge walks inside and sees no soldiers.

Is this an empty city?

Gao Ge has no idea what kind of environment he is in at the moment.

Qin Yan said he was going to tell him a story and then he arrives in this place out of no reason. He thinks everything is illusion but it just feels so real.

He walks up the wall along the stairs, watching the drums on both sides and feeling so encouraged.

When he looks afar, it is spacious outside the wall.

Suddenly, there comes the sound of footsteps.

It is organized in order.

He turns around to look behind only to see a group of armored soldiers.

There are probably more than 3,000 of them.

Outside the wall, another group of soldiers are running towards the tower, with a row of them pushing forward the chariots ahead and another row of them carrying with ladders and iron shields.

“Are they trying to siege the tower?” Gao Ge feels a bit nervous.

He can recognize the soldiers above the wall, whose armor he just saw last night. Not for a while, Qin Yan, surrounded by a lot of people, also strides towards him. However, he and his soldiers regard Gao Ge as air. Obviously, as an outsider, Gao Ge cannot be seen by them.

“General Qin, we only have 3,000 soldiers left and yet we are facing 20,000 enemies. Moreover, we are running out of food supply. There are three more days before the reinforcements arrive.” A deputy general walks to Qin Yan’s front and says with one leg kneeling down.

A glimmer of undisguised despair passes over Qin Yan’s face.

However, very soon he takes a breath and again, becomes spirited.

Actually, Gao Ge can understand Qin Yan’s thinking now.

Confronted with the enemies, even if they cannot win, they must go for it anyway. It is impossible for them to abandon the city and flee.

“Defense!” Qin Yan roars.

The drums are beaten again.

The soldiers start to put on arrows along the wall, waiting for the enemies to enter the fire range. At the same time, big rocks are also dragged over.

Every soldier looks firm and persistent.

It seems that they don’t know this has become a desperate fight.

Maybe they do know, but they don’t even care. So what if they die in this place?

During the vicissitudes of dynasties in Huaxia, Gao Ge admires the Ming Dynasty most.

The Ming Dynasty is not as heroic as the Han Dynasty.

Nor has it created an era of blossoming culture and prosperous economy like the Tang Dynasty.

It is also not a dynasty as abundant and peaceful as the Song Dynasty.

Nevertheless, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty always adhere to one code.

When the kingdom is built, the emperor must guard the country; when the kingdom perishes, he would rather die for the country than surrender.

The Shanhai Pass was on outer fringes of civilization, which didn’t belong to the Central Plains. Outside the Pass were the ethnic groups led by the Manchus. Back in the Ming Dynasty, the northern region was often harassed and threatened by the nomadic tribes as well as attacked by the Mongolians. At that time, the current capital was set as the national capital in the Ming Dynasty in order to defend against the forces outside the Pass. This was how the emperor guarded the country.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng led his army into the capital and the army of Jin State was still blocked outside the Shanhai Pass. The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty chose to hang himself on the Coal Hill rather than surrender. This is the so-called emperor dying for the country.

This is a dynasty of integrity.

It is probably because that is what the dynasty is like. Therefore, the soldiers in this dynasty would rather die than give in when faced with formidable enemies.

“Release the arrows!”

As Qin Yan shouts, thousands of arrows are shot towards the enemies.