Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

"Go and call all my guards battalion here. Let my guards battalion patrol the city tonight and send all these drunken brothers to the tents to rest. Otherwise, once they fall asleep, they will probably freeze to death. On the city wall.”

At this time of winter, especially at night, the temperature can reach minus 20 degrees Celsius. If you fall asleep because you are drunk, you may never wake up again.

Ning Fan's Guards were the team with the highest quality and the strongest fighting will among the entire Dragon Scale Army. At this time, the quality of the Guards was revealed.

Ning Fan gave an order, and the 3,000-strong Imperial Guard quickly took action. Not only did they quickly take over the city defense, but they also carried all the drunken soldiers off the city wall.

Ning Fan personally wore armor and patrolled the city wall, stretching his head out from time to time to observe the city. The guards cheered up when they saw Ning Fan being so grand.

In the second half of the night, when everyone was sleepy, Ning Fan also felt sleepy, but he gritted his teeth and held on.

Suddenly there was a rustling sound outside the city. Although the sound was very small, Ning Fan still caught it.

Two balls of fire were thrown off the city wall, and soon Ning Fan saw Wu Yang's figure in the darkness. Seeing this moment, Ning Fan's sleepiness completely disappeared for a moment, and he even broke out in cold sweat.

The dark area was filled with Jurchens, at least 20,000 of them. Looking at the Jurchens who were attacking at night like locusts, Ning Fan wanted to open his mouth, but found that no sound could come out of his throat.

The guards with quick eyes and hands around them quickly rang the alarm bell, and the clear ringing rang through the entire military camp. The drunken soldiers jumped up almost as a conditioned reflex.

The ladder set up by the Jurchens is more than thirty meters high. At this time, the height from the city wall is only a dozen meters. You can quickly climb up the city wall using the rope hook.

Ning Fan couldn't care anymore. He took out the saber from his waist and slashed down a Jurchen who jumped up on the city wall.

The smell of blood stimulated the surrounding guards, and everyone roared and fought desperately with the Jurchens who jumped on the city wall. If they could not resist the first wave of Jurchens at this time, the subsequent Jurchens would be in trouble. Enter the city in batches.

As more and more Jurchens climbed up the city wall, the entire battle became more intense.

Ning Fan no longer knew how many Jurchens he had seen. He only felt that there were endless Jurchens, constantly jumping from outside the city onto the city wall.

The surrounding imperial guards changed one after another. They defended Ning Fan's safety and kept Ning Fan firmly in the middle. However, those Jurchens who were like wolves and tigers seemed to be desperate for their lives. Strangely. He shouted and rushed towards the city defense soldiers.

In less than a stick of incense, Ning Fan lived like a year.

When reinforcements arrived on the city wall, Ning Fan felt as if a century had passed. Chen Yuanqing's roar was like thunder on the city wall.

Wherever this tall young general put the spear in his hand, the soldiers who climbed up the wall fell off the city wall one after another.

More and more reinforcements arrived, and Ning Fan finally felt that the pressure was relieved a lot. In less than a moment, it seemed like a century had passed. Looking at the barracks of Dragon Scale Army soldiers on the city wall, he finally felt a long sigh. He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hurry and pull the winch."

As the sixteen horses pulled desperately, the huge life-harvesting gears on the city wall also began to vibrate slowly.

Those Jurchen soldiers who were originally hanging outside the city had their ropes cut off and fell down the city wall in an instant as the wheel turned. Many fell to death, and some were directly crushed by the winch and fell under the city wall.

The rotation of the roulette wheel completely cut off the Jurchens' hope of scaling the city wall. After seeing the failure of the raid, the Jurchens also began to retreat quickly.

At this time, arrows on the city were like locusts. Every time a wave of arrows fell, the Jurchens would leave corpses on the ground.

The Jurchens left just as quickly as they came, leaving corpses all over the ground as if they were laughing at the carelessness of the Dragon Scale Army.

Ning Fan looked at the corpses on the city wall with a silent expression. Ning Fan's Guards suffered heavy losses in this battle, nearly half of the three thousand Guards were lost.

There was a sound of heavy footsteps approaching, and Ning Fan saw a tall figure approaching. It was Chen Yuanqing.

Chen Yuanqing knelt on the ground with a plop, his face as pale as paper, and his eyes filled with guilt and self-blame.

"Get up, it's not your fault."

Ning Fan didn't want to be too harsh, but the military order was overwhelming and Chen Yuanqing must be punished.

"You just need to pay for the crime with merit."

The war was at its most tense, and Chen Yuanqing was the most powerful general in the Dragon Scale Army. Ning Fan did not want to discourage this young general.

"Your Highness, I really didn't expect that the Jurchens would dare to sneak attack and set up such a high ladder."

Chen Yuanqing's face was full of self-blame, and he knelt on the ground unwilling to get up.

Ning Fan didn't pay attention to Chen Yuanqing, but walked past Chen Yuanqing and walked towards the soldiers who were collecting corpses on the city wall.

Ning Fan pulled his handkerchief from his waist and wiped away the blood stains on the face of a young soldier. The soldier's body was cold and obviously lifeless, but Ning Fan wiped it carefully.

"Let the brothers go away clean."

Ning Fan said in a low voice.

The surrounding soldiers looked solemn. This battle was the biggest blow to the Dragon Scale Army. This battle also woke everyone up.

At dawn, more than a thousand corpses were covered with white cloth and lined up neatly under the city wall. Ning Fan felt extremely heavy when he saw this scene.

People will die in war, but due to carelessness, the enemy's sneak attack almost succeeded. This is the biggest mistake.

Ning Fan had no intention of punishing anyone at this time. From last night to now, he didn't even say a word, let alone take a sip of water. His eyes were just silent. No one could guess what Ning Fan was thinking.

The huge gear hanging outside the city wall became the last line of defense. If this huge gear hadn't started to rotate at the most critical moment, completely shattering the Jurchens' dream of climbing the city wall, I am afraid that the current Jianghaiguan would have been destroyed by the Jurchens. Totally occupied.

Ning Fan was not thinking about how to punish this group of arrogant soldiers led by Chen Yuanqing, but he was thinking about why the female soldiers were able to climb the city wall last night, and why so many people were able to climb the city wall?

The high city wall is not an impassable chasm. The enemy has long ropes and ladders that can be continuously raised. This is the key to the problem.

Amidst the low horns, these lost lives were buried. Near the inside of Jiangguan Pass, Yinfan chose a spacious and flat place as the resting place for these soldiers.