Chapter 1599: Battle of the Ants!
The wolf smoke is billowing and the sound of killing is shocking.
A tragic siege battle, with death, wounded and bloodshed almost every second.
But the besieging side remained steadfast, constantly allowing soldiers to flood to capture the walls.
They even used a more advanced and powerful weapon, the fire bomb.
The trebuchet shot one clay pot after another into the air, and these crockpots were filled with a slimy black liquid, which was excavated from the depths of the Gobi and had a strong smell and burned easily, so everyone said it was black oil.
Woohoo......
The clay pots made black arcs and smashed down on the city walls and inside the city.
The crockpot broke, and the black oil suddenly splashed all around, sticking so thick that it stuck to the soldiers defending the city, on the wall battlements, on the weapons, and so on.
Before they could find a way to wipe it clean, the attacking archers pulled out special rockets from the nest of arrows, and the arrows were all flammable grease cotton balls.
After the fire was lit, with a command, the archers threw their shots diagonally.
One rocket after another, suddenly pulled out thin black lines and fell with a roar of firelight.
Boom! Boom!
Inside and outside the city walls and on the city walls, a raging fire suddenly ignited.
They were in the agricultural feudal civilization, they didn't know that the slimy black liquid was actually crude oil excavated from the ground, and they didn't know how to distill and refine it into gasoline and diesel, only that it could burn, and it could also produce a very strong and choking taste.
So, they put crude oil into crockpots, threw them at the enemy with trebuchets, and then lit a sea of fire with their fiery bows and arrows.
The fire was blazing and the smoke was billowing out.
The thick black smoke was very smoky, so that the defenders on the city wall were suddenly smoked down a lot.
In the midst of the screams, some people turned into burning people, and they let out heart-rending screams all over their bodies, they struggled and rolled on the ground frantically, and some even fell from the city wall and died on the spot.
The siege troops took advantage of the situation to attack with ladders, and the soldiers were all wearing masks to block the smoke as much as possible.
Not to be outdone, some of them rushed into the flames, desperately throwing stones to smash over the enemies, pushing the enemy's ladders away with long rods, and smashing the enemy's siege ladders with small clay pots that also contained crude oil.
At the same time, the defenders cut through bags of river sand and threw large amounts of river sand at the fire spots.
The river sand is non-flammable and can stop the flow of crude oil, so the fire is very effective, and the fire is constantly weakened by a large area, and more and more defenders begin to participate in the defense of the city walls.
Throw stones! Shoot a bow and arrow!
The defenders' strong counterattack ultimately thwarted the besieging team's attempt.
Leaving behind a large body of corpses, the besieging army retreated.
The smoke of gunpowder filled the city, from the base of the wall to the moat, and further on, many corpses fell horizontally, and the blood soaked into the earth, making the battlefield turn dark brown.
A lot of various weapons and siege equipment remained, and the engineering ladder was still burning with blazing fire.
No one screamed in pain, no one roared, and the battlefield was so quiet that the flocks of carnivorous birds roared in, and the merry carcasses of prey were left unattended.
I'm so tired!
After the defenders cleared the walls and restocked their supplies, they began to rest and eat.
After a few men picked up the city wall, the soldiers began to come in an orderly manner to get food, scooped a scoop of gruel with a helmet, took away the two nest heads, sat down against the parapet, and began to gobble it up.
With black hands and black cheeks, no one is too dirty, and some are good to eat.
Compared with those who are seriously injured and can only be simply tied up with strips of cloth, it is also a kind of luck to be alive.
No one knows how many more times the enemy will attack, so replenish your strength as much as possible and rest for a while.
This short break is a great pleasure.
And inside the city, inside an even taller tower.
Several generals were also eating, eating and drinking while discussing around the parchment map.
In the backyard behind the tower, many wounded patients are housed here, because of the lack of medical treatment and medical technology, the military medical officers here do not even have a high concentration of alcohol, and can only wash and bandage their wounds with boiling cold water.
Without anesthetics, the wounded can only bite on sticks or cloth balls and endure being bandaged.
The medical officer was also able to get his hands down, and he was covered in blood, so he directly used a long needle of cotton thread to let people hold down the wounded, forcibly stitched the wound with needle and thread, rinsed it with water, and then applied some medicine powder and tied it up with strips of cloth.
No anesthesia!
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No blood transfusion!
With such a simple wound treatment, some wounded people fainted directly from pain, or even died of excessive blood loss, and even if they endured the pain, whether they could survive or not depended on luck.
Without antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, it is extremely common for wounds to become inflamed and suppurative and cause sepsis.
Therefore, in this backward agrarian feudal civilization, a serious injury basically means death, and whether a minor injury can survive depends on luck.
The screams and wails of the wounded did not affect the rest of the camp farther away.
The defenders who took turns to rest seemed to have long looked down on life and death, they should eat, sleep, and they couldn't continue to fight without raising their spirits.
The backward level of science and technology makes the pace of war not fast.
Siege and defense of the city are repeated battles again and again, especially like this important border military town, although there are not many troops, but there are a lot of perennial material reserves, as long as they work together to defend, they can at least withstand the enemy's army for a few days.
A powerful general can even lead the officers and soldiers to hold on for ten days and half a month or more.
And the longer they hold on, the longer they can hold back the enemy's army, not only will the enemy pay a greater price, but also the rear will be more prepared to meet the battle.
Of course, the battle situation was regularly reported to the rear, so the rear gates opened, and messengers set off on fast horses.
The horse is whipped up, and the messenger gallops.
Not long after the messenger departed, the enemy attack began again, and a new round of fierce offensive and defensive battles began.
The two sides were engaged in a fierce battle, and they didn't know what would be in the sky above them, and they couldn't see the flying saucer.
Qin Tian and Tai Hao were hovering, quiet and invisible flying saucers, and they looked at it for two hours.
Seeing that a new round of siege battles had started again, and the siege troops had not changed their tactics or added new siege equipment, Qin Tian felt that it was not interesting.
Seeing this, Tai Hao asked with a smile: "Hey, in the ancient period of China, you were not less invaded by nomads, and you should be very experienced in this kind of battle for defending the city of the border military town, right?"
Qin Tian pouted and said: "How about experience? The key to defending the city is the strength and materials, this kind of war is a war of attrition, see who can't bear it first, of course, there are many very good records in history, and there are many fierce generals who can defend the city for two or three months." ”
Taihao nodded slightly, flicked the joystick, and let the saucer slowly leave the battlefield, and soon caught up with the messenger.
The messenger carried an arrow bag on his back and had a long feather on the top of his head, and the fiery red one represented the hundred thousand fires.
He kept whipping the war horse, and on the uneven and straight road, he ran a speed of nearly 45 kilometers per hour, which is already a good result.
However, at his speed, it will last for more than an hour at most, and after arriving at the post station, he must replace a new war horse, and the physical strength of a single war horse is limited after all.
According to his speed, it will take at least two days to report the situation on the front line to their emperor.
In order to deliver a front-line battle report, many horses were almost paralyzed, and the messenger almost had to rest for several days after a run, as long as he could send the battle report back, it was certainly worth it.
The backward mode of communication means that it is necessary to use the most primitive means of transmission that combines human and animal power.
Tai Hao piloted the space saucer with great interest, and followed above the messenger's head without hurry.
Looking down, Taihao pointed to the messenger and said, "Sometimes it only takes a small action to change history. Believe it or not, if we fire and kill this messenger and the war horse in an instant, we may change their history!"
Qin Tian shook his head boredly and said, "Are you an idle egg, why do you want to change their history?"
"It's fun!" Tai Hao smiled: "Think about it, if this messenger mysteriously disappeared on the way, and he didn't pass the battle report to their emperor in time, what would be the consequences?"
"The emperor must have felt that the front line had been defeated, that the important pass army had been lost, and that the enemy's army was about to march straight in. Then for a cowardly emperor, he may choose to move the capital, surrender, flee, and so on!"
"And for a strong emperor, maybe the counterattack army has not been assembled and fully prepared, so it is urgent to immediately lead the army to the battle, and suffer a crushing defeat that leads to the destruction of the country!"
"In short, it may seem like a small accident to let this messenger disappear, but it is very likely to change the course of the war, the history of the two countries, and at worst, even the course of civilization on the planet. ”
When Tae-ho said this, he showed a mysterious smile, deep and weird......