Chapter 12 The barbarians retreated from the burning camp
Suddenly, the weevils moved!, and in the front row were ten war elephants, and they rushed towards the city walls, faster and faster!
THERE WAS A LOUD BANG, XIANG YU STOOD ON THE CITY WALL AND ACTUALLY FELT A SHAKING, AND HE WAS SECRETLY SURPRISED IN HIS HEART, THIS ELEPHANT IS REALLY A BATTLEFIELD WEAPON, AND ONLY TEN WAR ELEPHANTS CAN MAKE SUCH A BIG MOVE.
The follow-up troops of the barbarians also attacked, and all the barbarians, with torches in their left hands and short knives in their right hands, threw torches like on the walls of the city near them.
Xiang Yu was taken aback, you know, the city wall is full of fire oil now, and it is not a joke to light it! But fortunately, the barbarians' arm strength is not enough, and it is not enough to put all the fires on the city wall, even if a few torches are thrown on the city wall, they can quickly extinguish the torches.
The barbarians came up like a tidal wave, and they actually used elephants as stepping stones to get to the city. Each barbarian stuck his dagger into the city wall, so that it became an improvised ladder.
Xiang Yu was secretly surprised, he really underestimated the people of the world, these barbarians can actually have such wisdom, but unfortunately, this method is too inefficient, and the barbarians were swept down before they reached the top of the city, and they fell to death.
But the barbarians still did not stop attacking the city, and Xiang Yu suddenly understood that the barbarians were going to use corpses to build a human ladder!
Xiang Sheng next to him was also dumbfounded: "Don't these barbarians want to die?"
"It's not that they don't want to die, among the barbarians, I'm afraid there are also overseers, once they are passive and slack off, these overseers will kill them on the spot! Moreover, the barbarians are short of food, but they are overpopulated, and such a war is also good for them to reduce their population. Lin Fu on the side replied
I have to say that although the barbarians are really hated, the various systems and environments of the barbarians have trained the barbarians into cold-blooded soldiers who are not afraid of death.
"King, we, let's use fire oil, right?", Lu Peng on the side said to Xiang Yu.
Lin Fu hurriedly grabbed the words: "The king can't, now the barbarians have not all come out, and now the siege is only the vanguard, if we put fire oil now, then it is undoubtedly exposing our hole cards, the barbarians can cut off the offensive line, and then preserve the vitality, if we don't hit the barbarians hard today, then there will be endless troubles, the king thinks twice!"
Lu Peng, who was on the side, argued and said: "Lin Fu, don't stand and talk without backache, now the barbarians are attacking the city so fiercely, and the soldiers are all suffering heavy injuries! If we don't use the oil now, then the soldiers will die more, you are making the soldiers feel cold!"
Lin Fu said: "What do you know? If we use fire oil now, it is impossible for the barbarians to fall in the same place twice? Then we will definitely lose this war, and the king must consider the overall situation!"
At this time, Xiang Yu's heart was also struggling, looking at the fallen soldiers in front of him, his heart hurt like a needle prick, he once swore to protect the soldiers and the people, but now watching them fall in front of him, he couldn't do anything, but Xiang Yu thought that if he used the fire oil first, then it was very likely that the consequence would be the defeat of this war, Xiang Yu couldn't help but fall into doubt.
Lin Fu on the side persuaded Xiang Yu and said: "Great, the king must not lead the troops with the kindness of a woman, and he is not in charge of the soldiers!
Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and said to Lu Peng: "Wait, wait." ”
Lu Peng glared at Lin Fu fiercely, snorted, and stopped talking
At this time, the siege battle has entered the white-hot stage, the soldiers on the entire city wall have been replaced, and the corpses of the barbarians under the city wall have gradually piled up, and even the rudiments of the human ladder have been seen.
King Zuo shouted, "They can't hold it anymore, sons, hurry up!"
With the order of the king of Zuodu, the barbarians began a full-scale attack, only to see the barbarians surging like a tide on the wall of Lu County.
They stepped on the corpses of their companions one after another, and climbed vigorously towards the city wall, at this time the soldiers blocking the city wall became more and more difficult, and began to appear the phenomenon of taking care of one thing and losing the other, and even from time to time a few barbarians were able to break through the blocking net, but before they could break through the follow-up defense line, they were killed on the spot.
But this is enough to prove the intensity of the siege now.
At this time, Lu Peng was already impatient: "King, use fire oil quickly! If we don't use fire oil, we will suffer heavy damage." ”
Lin Fu Dahe said: "No, the king, the war elephants of the barbarians have not been dispatched yet, we must wait until the war elephants of the barbarians appear, and we can use the fire oil!"
Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and popped out a word from between his teeth: "Wait!"
The piles of corpses under the city are getting higher and higher.
Even when it is about to approach the head of the city wall, it is more convenient for the barbarian gate to climb the city wall. At this time, the soldiers of the second line of defense were already needed to assist the first line of defense to stop the barbarians.
Suddenly, there was a buzz from under the city walls! It was all the weevils of the barbarians.
Xiang Yu was overjoyed, he finally waited for this moment, she shouted at Lu Peng: "Use the oil quickly, use the oil quickly!"
Lu Peng walked excitedly to the outside of the city tower, like an arrow shot in the sky!
The !! snapped !! exploded with the sound of the arrow. All the soldiers on the walls saw the signal.
They shouted and forced the barbarians back for a while, and then they took a bamboo tube from their waists and threw it at the barbarians one after another!
The bamboo tube smashed into the barbarian's head and body, and all of them burst open. Out of it came black oil oil.
The fire oil flowed down the barbarian's body and gradually flowed to the bottom of the city wall, and at this time, the third line of defense opened their bows and arrows, and the arrows were tied with bamboo tubes full of fire oil.
Whoosh, pieces filled with fire oil shot at the elephants!
One by one, the bamboo arrows hit the elephant's rattan armor and did not cause any damage, but the bamboo tubes attached to the sword burst one after another, and the fire oil on them sprinkled on the elephant's body!
A greasy smell filled the air.
The greasy smell drifted to the barbarian's camp little by little, and Yuan Heng snorted sensitively and wondered, "What kind of smell is this?"
A barbarian next to him also sniffed suspiciously and said, "This seems to be the smell of fire oil." ”
"The smell of fire oil. ”
Yuan Heng suddenly thought of something, his face changed greatly, and he said to the barbarians who were besieging the city: "Stop the siege, stop the siege, retreat, retreat!"