Chapter Twenty-Nine: Raising Fire to Attack the City
Especially all of a sudden, the wind blowing towards Beiping turned into a southeast wind, which fueled the fire, and the flames rushed over as if a wave had rolled up in the sea, and as the wind became stronger, it seemed as if a giant python was blowing flames with its thousand mouths. The main entrance of Rei was in flames, as if it had turned into a trembling, shaky, erupting active volcano.
Li Jinglong was very blindly confident, and concentrated his forces to attack only one Li Zhengmen, so the attack on Li Zhengmen was unprecedentedly fierce. And this time, Li Jinglong used fire to attack, with the help of heaven, the fire borrowed the power of the wind, and the wind helped the fire, making it extremely difficult for the guards of the main gate of Li.
"Quick," Zhang Zhaohua led the palace people to carry buckets up, and buckets of water were poured on the city wall: "Extinguish the fire, extinguish the fire-"
There were also sporadic arrows with fire flying in the air, and the sleeve of Ju Sheng behind Zhang Zhaohua was shot, and she fell to the ground with her, and the fire seemed to have eyes, and suddenly rose a foot high. Xiangguan poured half a bucket of water, but before it was even extinguished, Zhang Zhaohua took off his jacket and threw himself towards the flames, which was extinguished. In just a few moments, Ju Sheng's left arm was severely burned, and the purple-black skin adhered to the rotten clothes, causing her to moan and roll in pain.
"The old and young army-" Zhang Zhaohua shouted loudly: "Quickly take people down for treatment!"
As she spoke, she saw that there was actually a southern army in front of her who climbed up, this person drew his knife, and went straight to the lower abdomen of a Yan soldier, Zhang Zhaohua shouted, grabbed an empty bucket and smashed it on his head. After all, the wooden barrel was empty, and it broke into four or five pieces, and the southern army was just dizzy for a while, but he still didn't forget to pull the long knife out of Yan Bing's body.
Zhang Zhaohua didn't think about anything, pounced on this southern army, grabbed his thigh only to find that he was defenseless, the closest to her was the bayonet in the hand of the Yan soldier who fell just now, she quickly gouged at his eyes before the southern army raised the knife, let her cut off one eye alive, a blood flower flew out, the color was more dazzling than the firelight.
Zhang Zhaohua felt blood dripping from her hands, and she was even more powerful than the howling of the Southern Army who had lost his eyes.
The Yan soldiers behind him came up and stabbed the southern army to death.
Zhang Zhaohua was vague, felt that someone lifted her collar, she looked up, and saw that it was Princess Xu who came with a group of people, they were carrying water bags and water bladders on their shoulders, the water bags were made of horse and cow skin, which could hold three or four hundred catties of water, and the mouth of the bag was tied up, and a bamboo was inserted into the joint, and with the help of the bag, water was poured into the fire, and the water could flow out through this bamboo. The water bladder is made of the bladder of a pig or cow, which is filled with water, and the water bladder is thrown to the ignition point, and the water bladder is burned, and the water inside can flow out to extinguish the fire.
Zhang Zhaohua saw Princess Xu say something to her with her mouth wide open, but she couldn't hear anything clearly, lowered her head and spurted black and red blood from her mouth and nose, she saw this disgusting thing, and suddenly realized what was going on with her- Generally, people who die due to fire accidents, in addition to the causes of death due to fire or hot air flow damage to a large area of skin and various complications, there is also the inhalation of a large amount of toxic and high-temperature gases, resulting in coma and suffocation, because people will open their mouths to breathe when they are close to suffocation, so a large amount of pasty ashes will accumulate in the mouth and lungs of the burned person.
Now she didn't suffocate, but she kept her mouth open to breathe, and her mouth and nose were all burned, and she tried to speak, but sure enough, she could only make a hoarse sound.
Princess Xu lifted her up and threw her behind, Zhang Zhaohua threw herself in the bucket and drank nearly a liter of water, feeling much more comfortable in her throat, she looked up and saw that Princess Xu was directing the sergeant to pump water, the pump is a water gun-type sleeve, which looks like a water gun, can be telescopic up and down, put it in the water tank, lift the sleeve, the water will be sucked into its cavity, and then press down the sleeve, and the water will shoot out from the nozzle.
The citizens of the city rushed back and forth, spontaneously carrying buckets of water into the vat, this kind of pump has a range of more than 20 meters, and can shoot water to the gap and the cornice of the corner tower to extinguish the fire. Sure enough, with this thing, the fire is much smaller.
The main gate of Lizheng became a hell on earth, with stumps and broken arms flying in all directions amid the roaring artillery fire and arrows, and with the arrival of more and more southern troops climbing the city walls, the defenders' defensive lines retreated completely, but before that, there was still a powerful attack.
Gu Cheng took twelve sergeants with firearms to lie on the women's wall, saw the right time, each aimed at one person, and the bullets and stones flew together, completely hitting seven enemies, and after a few rounds of shooting, the southern army was scurrying around, looking for a place to hide, but the retreating Yan army only left a bare open space.
In the second half of the night, the wind direction suddenly reversed, the northwest wind blew over, and the raging fire suddenly rushed to the southern army, the Yan army couldn't help but feel shocked when he saw it, and took advantage of the situation to kill back.
"Kill, kill, kill!" There was a scorching heat in front of him, mixed with the sound of the night wind whistling, and the suffocating sound of the fire licking the wood, just like the lotus lantern in front of the Buddha emitting thousands of flowers, and it seemed that the heavens and the earth were also shocked by this gushing outburst.
I don't know when, a short and pleasant sound of gold was heard in the camp of the Southern Army, and this siege battle finally ended.
Zhang Zhaohua was still trembling with the knife, what she saw and heard were all far and near, but she suddenly heard another scream, and when she looked back, she saw Yongan standing there with a pale face, and a pool of blood flowed from under her.
She ran towards Yong'an, but she didn't know who hit her. And at her feet are two corpses clinging to each other, and she slowly realizes that the wounds caused by war can never be healed and repaired. Even if Yongan has countless children in the future, they are not this one.
Yong'an was carried into the official treasury, Liu Yizheng shook his head when he saw it, grabbed the herbs and went out, Yong'an didn't seem to realize what he had lost, until Yongping's mouth opened wide and the howl sounded: "You're pregnant, and you have to go forward! Who asked you to come? Don't you feel well, don't you know it, can't you be missing here! My mother just saw that your face was not good, so she assigned you from the strong women's army to the old and weak army, isn't the old and weak army just cooking? Cooking can not keep the child's ......?"
Yongan vaguely remembered that she was a little uncomfortable these days, her whole body was not very comfortable, nausea and dizziness, pain in her lower abdomen, hot flashes in her front and back - so her mother stopped asking her to carry bricks and stones, and sent her to the old and weak army to help cook. It's just that Li Jinglong's army arrived, there were not enough people guarding the city, and the old and weak army also began to rush forward, especially when she saw the princess rushing forward desperately, she also rushed into the sea of fire, until she was knocked down by a Yan army-
She didn't remember the face of the soldier who knocked her into the city, but she remembered the look that the princess looked at her, a short, momentary look, just a flash, but the contempt in it made her see it clearly, so that she didn't sleep well for several days and nights......
Yes, Zhang, she didn't believe that she was really unwell, she must have felt that she was pretending to be and escaping hard labor, she didn't say a word, but it was difficult for Yong'an to be in her bones, she refused to explain anymore, and then she gritted her teeth and didn't show her weakness again-
If she knew that her child had met unexpectedly, why would she fight for it! She could donate all the money from the county lord's mansion, but she would stay in the mansion and not step out for a single step!
Yongan raised his head to look, and saw Princess Xu pulling Zhang Zhaohua and asking in a low voice if Brother Chun'er was okay, her eyes met Zhang's, but Zhang's eyes were wandering and dodging, Zhang's heart must be ashamed - yes, Brother Chun'er is fine, but her child is gone!
Zhang Zhaohua felt a trace of guilt, she had found that Yongping's face was pale before, but she thought in her heart that she was weak and couldn't lift her shoulders and hands, but she just said a perfunctory word to let her go back, but she didn't persuade her, if she sent Yong'an back at that time, Yong'an, a child, would definitely be able to be saved.