[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

In the light of the fire, the sound of hooves shook the ground.Thousands of bulls with their tails on fire rushed towards Uruk like crazy.

Yi Nan directly withdrew the archers on the top of the city and ordered the closure of three city gates.

More than 1000 civilians from the upper reaches of the Euphrates River were crying for their parents and crowding into the city gate. The guards in charge of the winch obeyed the order of the king's "friend" and tried their best to lift the suspension bridge. People get into town as quickly as possible.

The reason Yi Nan ordered the withdrawal of the archers was: the archers are useless.

The bull with its tail on fire, like a mad bull with red eyes, rushed forward recklessly, and in an instant rushed to the rear guard of the Uruk warriors.

No matter how the archers shot these bulls with arrows with bronze arrow clusters, they couldn't stop in the extreme excitement and high-speed dash.

It was not until recently that people noticed that these bulls had sharp knives bound to their horns.Originally, these bulls were used to horning people when they were provoked, and this is even more so now.Wherever they went, once the warriors of Uruk avoided them, they were immediately picked up by the horns of the bulls-on the premise that the horns of the bulls were bound with sharp knives, such attacks were often fatal.

Yi Nan stood at the head of Uruk like this, watching the people who had been with her day and night fell down like stubble in the field.

And in the distance, in the distance is the back of Gilgamesh fighting alone.

Her heart was like being stabbed by a knife.

Seeing a Uruk warrior next to him holding a large spear in his hand, gritting his teeth, with an expression of extreme pain on his face, Yi Nan suddenly took the dozens of spears from his hand and jumped from the city wall. And down.

The Uruk warrior beside her was so frightened that she lost her soul, but saw that Inan had rolled all the way, landed at the foot of the city wall, bypassed the incompletely built ditch, and ran towards Gilgamesh go--

Shouts resounded outside the city, and the city gate was still in chaos.

The suspension bridge has been raised. Although dozens of civilians unfortunately fell into the ditch, the city gate was temporarily saved. The crying people abandoned all their belongings and belongings and rushed into the city gate.

Most of the Uruk fighters who went out of the city gate to meet these civilians earlier stayed outside the city gate. Some of them were stabbed to the vitals and died when the first wave of the "Fire Bull" hit, some tried their best to avoid it, and some of them died. Some simply jumped into the trenches dug in advance outside the city gate, trying to avoid the thunderous impact of those mad cows.

In the trenches, the soldiers still couldn't escape the fate of being trampled and stabbed.

After the fire ox, what was even more terrifying were the Akkadian warriors who were ready to attack the walls of Uruk.They are like a gust of fiery wind, following closely behind the fire ox. When they see a wounded Uruk warrior who is still alive, they will directly help each other, so that the other party can completely get rid of this painful world.

It was getting late, and a fiery red sunset gradually sank from the distant horizon.

But beyond the three gates of Uruk, there is already Shura Purgatory.There were flames and shouts everywhere, and the mad bulls desperately hit all obstacles in front of them with their horns, and some even directly pushed Uruk's warriors against the city wall.Those smooth, solid walls that Uruk was so proud of were now like chopping blocks.

Every inch of the ground is soaked in blood, and every Uruk warrior left outside the city is sinking into despair - including Gilgamesh himself.

Just then, help came.

The rope was hanging from the top of the city, and the anxious companions shouted the names of their comrades in arms from the top of the city.The people below the city hurriedly grabbed the end of the rope, and the people on the city waited for them to hold on tightly, and immediately pulled the rope towards the city wall with all their strength, bringing them to the top of the city.

But there were not enough ropes, and not everyone could reach the wall and grab the rope that would save their lives.

All the people in the city are heartbroken.They all understood that Wang's friend had to make that decision.After all, the Akkadians followed the group of mad cows closely. If the city gate could not be closed in time, the city of Uruk would be in danger at this time.

But outside the city was their closest comrade-in-arms and their king.

The king is fighting alone—

In the most critical situation, Gilgamesh still kept his calm as much as possible.

He deftly avoided all the bulls that passed by, and by the way, he sent the weapon in his hand directly into the mad bull's chest cavity-he knew exactly where to put the knife between the ribs to kill him in one blow.After the bulls passed him, most of them could run a few steps.

But there are only a few steps, and after a few steps, these irrational bulls will run, and they will crash to the ground——

They have already been pierced by Gilgamesh with a spear.

Gradually, the spear in Gilgamesh's hand began to dull, and he had to rely more and more on agility and dexterity to avoid the bull that rushed in front of him.After this wave of bulls' offensive, there are Akkadians with painted faces and eager to try.

The Akkadians had spotted Gilgamesh a long time ago, knowing that he was brave, they had long waited for this wave of mad bull attacks to pass, and attacked Gilgamesh who was alone.

Gilgamesh had already ordered his soldiers to return to the city as soon as possible, waiting for the rescue of their companions.

Right now he only has a spear that is almost bald, and he is facing a large group of densely packed Akkadians riding on the backs of oxen.

Seeing this situation, Gilgamesh felt a chill in his heart, and the only thought in his mind was that the gods might have given up their protection for Gilgamesh.

If he surrendered his life here today, it would only show that he is nothing more than an ordinary, ordinary person.

However, the former king Lugabanda had calculated thousands of times, and he did not calculate that his son was so bloody that he was willing to risk his life to save those ordinary people from Uruk or from other places. He did not hesitate to sacrifice His "two-thirds gods and one-third human" life.

But at this moment, a brand new, sharp spear was suddenly handed into his hand.

This speed and this posture are precisely what he is most familiar with and most comfortable with.

Gilgamesh suddenly let out a long laugh, full of heroic spirit and swaying freely.

——No one in this world has a more loyal friendship than him, and no one can stand beside him with the most trustworthy woman like him.

The almost bald spear in the king's hand was thrown out like a shooting star chasing the moon, hitting an Akkadian mount.The bull jumped up like crazy in pain, and ruthlessly threw the knight on the bull's back to the ground.Under trampling, the poor Akkadian didn't even utter a wail, so he confessed directly.

Before Gilgamesh stopped, he threw the spears one after another, and each one was aimed at the bull seated by the leader of the Akkadians.When the row of spears in his hand was thrown, the Akkadians were in a mess, and none of the leaders could continue to give orders while sitting on the back of the bull.

In front of Gilgamesh, no one can withstand his thunderous blow.

Gilgamesh attacked until he got excited, and then stretched out his hand back, trying to take the spear, but was suddenly grabbed by a soft little hand.

Not allowing him to hesitate, Yinan took his hand and quickly retreated towards the city wall of Uruk.The bundle of spears she carried had been given to Gilgamesh to be thrown.

Before the Akkadians could react, no one thought of attacking the king of Uruk and preventing him from returning to the safety of the walls.

Under the city walls were still smoldering angry bulls criss-crossing - most of Uruk's warriors had been rescued by their companions, and one by one they were roped up to the city walls.

In the end it was just the two of them.

A long thick rope hung down quickly from the city.Inan's eyes were sharp and his hands were quick. Once he grasped it, he quickly wrapped it around his left hand twice, and the other hand grabbed Gilgamesh tightly.

The guards on the city struggled to pull the rope upwards—the weight of the two men made the warrior a little bit strenuous. Immediately, five or six people swarmed up to help their king get out of danger.

And Gilgamesh was in mid-air, and the only thing he could rely on was Inan's hand, which could only be passive, rising slowly as Inan rose.

Suddenly, he felt that although he was in mid-air, he was gently swinging.

"Duo!"

Gilgamesh guessed what his friend was going to do, and roared angrily.

How can she sacrifice herself to save the king's life?

But Inan held the rope with one hand and firmly held Gilgamesh's body with the other, making him swing in the air like a pendulum.When Gilgamesh's swing was enough, she suddenly used her wrist to send Gilgamesh upwards, and the young king of Uruk had already been sent to the top of the city.

Almost at the same time, the Akkadian counterattack has also arrived.

Gilgamesh used his spears to embarrass them, and now the Akkadians are using spears to retaliate. Several spears were thrown from a distance with a sharp sound of wind, and there were several "clank" sounds. Stabbed on the smooth city wall of Uruk, the entire spear tip can go deep into the wall. It can be seen that the man who threw the spear has the same strength as Gilgamesh.

If Gilgamesh was still in mid-air at this time, he would not be spared, but he is now standing firmly on the city wall.

Gilgamesh bent down and stretched out his hand to Inan who was still in the air: "Duo, come to the king!"

Earlier he saw several spears coming towards Yi Nan at the same time, it seemed that she was absolutely impossible to escape.But for some reason, Yi Nan stepped on the handles of those spears with ease, as if stepping on one step after another, and steadily returned to the top of Uruk, and returned to the city in one jump. Standing beside Gilgamesh.

Even the Akkadians who were watching from a distance couldn't bear it when they saw this scene, and shouted hello to Yi Nan.

I am afraid that no one in this world can resolve such a crisis so easily.Some people even vaguely saw the spears stabbing the young man's body on the city wall, but he returned to the city of Uruk smoothly as if nothing happened, and stood firmly on the side of the tall king of Uruk. beside.

In this battle, the Akkadians shamelessly attacked with a battle of fire bulls while the Uruk people were taking in refugees from afar.

Although the people of Uruk suffered heavy losses, they were unflappable at the most critical time, and they did not lose completely.

The sun finally sank below the horizon.Bright Venus still hangs in the western sky, as usual.

Outside the city of Uruk, the flames on the tails of the mad bulls gradually extinguished, and the bulls gradually "calmed down", listening to their master's call, and slowly returning to the Akkadian camp.

The cattle that were stabbed to death by Gilgamesh naturally became the food of the Akkadians.That night, the smell of roast beef wafted from the Akkadian camp all the way to Uruk.

The city of Uruk suffered the worst defeat since the beginning of the war.The soldiers sacrificed heroically for the civilians who came from afar, and even those who returned to the city were mostly lost.

This was the case with Gilgamesh, who also suffered several wounds, and had to be treated like everyone else by the gods of the temple.According to the ancient method, the saints cleaned the king's wound with boiled and cooled water, and then smeared a layer of honey on his wound.

Gilgamesh couldn't bear this sweet but sticky treatment, and just after the wound was wrapped, he found an excuse to sneak to Inan.Yi Nan accompanied him, walking around the city of Uruk, observing how the people reacted to Uruk, who was defeated for the first time.

There were cries all over the city.People seem to realize the tragedy of war for the first time.

The foreigners who came to the city after all kinds of difficulties and dangers now seem to have done something wrong. They don't know whether to go forward to comfort the family members who have lost their loved ones, or to apologize.

Gilgamesh pulled Inan, and the two passed through the mourning crowd at the same time, feeling very heavy.

Unexpectedly, they were stopped by a group of soldiers.It was to thank the king and his friend that these young warriors of Uruk dared to stop.

"Wang, if it weren't for you today, we would have died long ago. The underworld is such a terrible place, it's best not to go if you can."

"That's right, if a few people from the top of the city didn't let down the rope today, we might not be able to come back alive."

Yi Nan was a little excited, and she couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "But... but I was the king who gave the order to close the drawbridge and close the city gate, and not let you enter the city... Don't you blame me?"

These soldiers shook their heads vigorously when they heard Yinan's words.One of them said loudly: "Our responsibility is to protect the city of Uruk. Uruk will be in danger if you don't close the city gate. You protected the old and young in the city. We, we can only thank you."

Inan breathed a sigh of relief.

Gilgamesh, who was beside her, exhaled softly and said, "The king also thanks you for your sacrifice and dedication."

"But this account, the king will definitely take you back to get it back from the Akkadians!"

Gilgamesh said emphatically.

In the following days, the Uruk and Akkadians once again experienced several fierce confrontations.

The Akkadians tried their best to break through the walls of Uruk.They captured a large number of civilians from the villages in the upper reaches of the Euphrates River and forced them to bring tools to the city of Uruk, trying to fill in trenches and dig tunnels.

This is because the Akkadians have learned from some small city-states and villages that there are some problems with the city walls of Uruk. If tunnels are dug to loosen their foundations, the walls of Uruk will naturally collapse.

So, the Akkadians escorted the looted peasants and used their tools to the city of Uruk.

They were not outstanding engineers, so they dug several tunnels, and finally the tunnels collapsed, crushing Akkad's own people in the tunnel.

But after a while, the Akkadians got the hang of it. Instead of doing it themselves, they ordered the local civilians to dig tunnels. Finally, some of the civilians offered a plan for their own safety: dig tunnels, and then dig tunnels in the tunnels. In the center, wooden beams and columns were used as supports to avoid landslides, and at the same time, they approached Uruk's city walls underground without anyone noticing.

The Akkadians gladly adopted this ploy and forced the commoners to dig tunnels - which was soon discovered by the Uruk.

The people of Uruk place pottery cups with uniform specifications on the edge of the city wall every day, and the pottery cups are filled with water.The king's guards did not quench their thirst with this water when they patrolled the walls, but checked the water in the cup.If the surface of the clear water in the pottery cup has lines inexplicably, then there may be a problem underground in this direction.

At this time, as long as the Uruk people sent civilians out of the city to find the site where the tunnel was dug, and then tapped the ground a few times with a shovel, the surface would often sink and the gray-faced civilians would emerge from the pit.

If you don't drop at this time, when will you wait? ——These civilians who were looted by the Akkadians immediately surrendered to the Uruk people, easily got rid of the control of the Akkadians, and entered the city of Uruk.

The Akkadians could not break through the walls of Uruk over there, and Gilgamesh could not break through the siege of the Akkadians here. blood debt.

Gilgamesh often took his "friends" to patrol the city of Uruk.Gilgamesh walked in the city of Uruk, raising his hands to the people and soldiers, with a happy face.Yi Nan could notice that he was actually preoccupied——

The siege must not last long.

Now it seems that the city of Uruk accommodates farmers and herdsmen from all directions, has waterways to communicate with the outside world, and can buy food from nearby cities with the financial resources of the royal family.But how long does everyone have to live in Uruk?How many months, a year?

--Will not work.If farmers were unable to go out of the city to trim their fields in winter, those fields would be abandoned as soon as spring came.

If the large tracts of fertile land around Uruk are completely abandoned, what awaits people next year will be food shortages, hunger and disease.

Inan understood Gilgamesh's mind and knew that he was worrying about it.But she was also a little helpless——

After all, the Akkadians were too tough. They fought on bulls, coming and going like the wind, no less than the cavalry of later generations.

As soon as the Akkadians saw a large group of Uruk troops leaving the city, they would select some "crazy" bulls, tie knives to their horns and set fire to their tails, making them "fire bulls".

When encountering the "Fire Bull Formation", the people of Uruk really had no other way but to retreat to the city and pull up the suspension bridge.

So, Inan followed Gilgamesh to patrol the city of Uruk while thinking about whether there was a solution.

She followed Gilgamesh to the granary in Uruk, and happened to see that the granary had specially prepared bait and traps to solve the rat problem, and caught a big bag full of fat voles at once.

"Wang, what should we do with them?"

The official in charge of the granary kicked the sack full of voles and asked Gilgamesh.

Inan followed behind Gilgamesh, seeing the sack that was still wriggling even though its mouth was tied tightly, he felt his scalp numb.

"What else can I do? Throw the whole bag into the Euphrates River." Gilgamesh ordered lightly.He had heard from Yi Nan that these creatures were likely to spread diseases in the city, and eradicating them was the best solution.

"No, wait a minute!" Yi Nan hurriedly stopped.

She asked the official, "How many... small animals like this can be caught in Uruk?"

The official wondered: Could it be that Wang's friends think they are not effective in catching mice?Still think these voles are fluffy and cute?

But in front of the king, the official replied honestly: "Probably dozens of bags can be caught... But these bags must be checked in advance, otherwise the mice will bite the bags by themselves and escape."

Yi Nan clapped his hands together: "It's even better if you can escape."

The official in charge of the granary: ... huh? !

Inan turned around and looked at Gilgamesh.

As soon as Gilgamesh saw the bright look in her eyes, he knew that she had thought of a way to deal with the Akkadians.

So the young king of Uruk didn't move his expression, he just stretched out his finger leisurely and pointed at his ear: "Let's hear it!"

Yi Nan: "This method must have a good effect, but the process may be a bit troublesome."

"First of all, we need the granary to try our best to catch voles. The more we catch, the better..."

Catching voles is not a particularly difficult task. With the efforts of the Uruk people, they caught a lot of them in the food storage places in the city, and put them in sacks.There are as many as hundreds of bags.

In order to prevent a layer of sack from being bitten by these small rodents, they put a layer on the outside of the sack.

When these sacks were carried to the wharf of Uruk, Gilgamesh and the twenty or so warriors he carefully selected could not help swallowing as they watched the "moving" sacks. , I feel a little hairy.

Inan still asked Gilgamesh seriously: "Does the king really not want me to accompany you?"

Gilgamesh shook his head: He would never let a girl accompany him out of the city, risking a huge risk to go deep into the enemy's camp, let alone someone so important to him.

So he just said: "If the king can't come back in time, you need to control everything in the city." Before he left, he had already handed over the control of the guards in Uruk to Yi Nan.

But when it was time to leave, Gilgamesh felt a little bit reluctant again, so he called Inan to him, reached out and stroked her long, black and shiny hair, sighed, and said, "You cunning man!" little guy..."

Yi Nan couldn't help laughing, and said slyly: "The king should take all these cunning little things with him!"

She pointed to the sacks that had been picked up by the peasants and sent to the boat: "If everything goes well, these little things will help us a lot."

But Gilgamesh was already pissed off by the "little guy" in front of him, and he said goodbye to her with a sigh of relief.When the ship was getting farther and farther away from the pier, Gilgamesh held his chest, feeling that sooner or later he would bleed out.

When will this girl realize that Wang already knows that she is a girl?