Chapter 958 The Battle is Fierce

Chapter 958 The battle is very fierce

"I wonder who this girl is..."

"Oh, Grandpa Zhou, this is Qiao Ran, my fiancée. Ran Ran, this is Grandpa Zhou, the father of Butler Zhou, and also the butler of our Northern Frontier Palace."

"Hello, Grandpa Zhou!"

Qiao Ran was the first to say hello.

Butler Zhou smiled with great satisfaction:

"You are General Zheng's granddaughter? I have seen the future Crown Prince's wife!"

As he said this, he was about to salute her.

Qiao Ran quickly supported the man:

"Grandpa Zhou, you don't have to be so polite. Just call me Qiao Ran or Ran girl!"

"How did this happen?"

"It's nothing. If you are too polite to me, you are treating me as an outsider."

"Okay! Then, I'll call you Miss Qiao Ran!"

Butler Zhou was very pleased, and the look he gave her was so kind and gentle that Qiao Ran thought that the extremely sharp look she saw at the beginning was not from this old man.

While Qiao Ran was feeding the old prince medicine, she was listening to Mo Beihan introducing the identity and origin of Butler Zhou.

It turned out that Butler Zhou was once the chief secretary under the old prince. He was seriously injured in an extremely brutal breakout battle and almost died at the hands of the enemy. It was the old prince who risked his own injury to help him block the knife and saved his life.

After coming back from the battlefield, he was injured in many places and was no longer fit to go out to fight, so he sold himself and entered the palace to be a housekeeper in order to repay the old prince for saving his life.

Later, he got the old princess's permission and married a first-class maidservant beside the old princess. She gave birth to Zhou Butong, who is now the housekeeper Zhou of Dingbei Palace in the capital.

Qiao Ran finally understood. No wonder Butler Zhou had reacted so quickly and had such a sharp look in his eyes. It turned out that he was once a hero on the battlefield!

Qiao Ran, who had great respect for Butler Zhou, decided that after defeating the barbarians and detoxifying the old prince, she would check Butler Zhou's physical condition and try her best to heal him.

After feeding the old prince the medicine, the two said goodbye to Butler Zhou and immediately rushed to the north gate to find out the situation.

At this moment, the battle at the North Gate was extremely fierce.

The Northern Desert Barbarians dispatched 200,000 troops this time, almost all of them.

The Dingbei Army had only 150,000 soldiers defending the city, and together with the civilians in the city, there were only more than 200,000, less than 300,000.

Fortunately, they were the side defending the city, so there were not so many casualties.

At this moment, several large siege ladders of Beimo had been set up against the city wall, and soldiers holding spears rushed up to the city wall desperately under the rain of stones and arrows from the Dingbei Army.

The Dingbei Army prepared boiling water, hot oil, stones and even excrement to pour down.

Qiao Ran, who jumped onto the city wall with Mo Beihan, saw this scene. On one side were the fearless Beimo barbarians, and on the other side were the Dingbei Army soldiers who fought bravely.

For the first time, Qiao Ran realized that the real ancient siege ladder was not just a long ladder like the ones on TV that could be pushed down by people on the city wall.

In fact, the siege ladder should be called a siege vehicle. It is in the shape of a vehicle with wheels underneath for propulsion. The ladder is placed on the city wall and is very sturdy and cannot be pushed at all.

The soldiers on the ladders didn't even need to hold the ladders, they just needed to hold their weapons and rush up the ladders.

It was also the first time that Qiao Ran knew that in ancient wars, dirty feces could be used as weapons.

Due to the poor medical conditions in ancient times, any wound that became infected would cause inflammation and high fever. Some people needed amputation, while others could not be saved at all and died from a small wound.

Therefore, some soldiers would soak their weapons in sewage when going to the battlefield. As long as they could injure their opponent slightly, they might be able to eliminate an enemy.

Looking at the sewage pouring down, Qiao Ran simply couldn't bear to look at it.