Chapter 215: Fire Bull Array
After Zhang Wushu heard the news, he suddenly chuckled in his heart, and then thought that his own people were now 70,000 people, and if he directly took 70,000 people against other people's 150,000 people, he was afraid that he would hit a stone with an egg. Now, Zhang Wushu has two things to do, one is to send scouts to investigate the military situation, but to repair the gate of Zhongshan City, as long as the cannonballs are in place, Zhang Wuxian of the 150,000 army will not take it to heart.
Clinker, the 150,000 troops sent by Daliang are all elite knights, presumably the new dynasty blew up the five cities, which really angered Liu Tong, and Liu Tong decided to give it a go and take out all his family resources. On the contrary, Zhang Wuxian immediately mobilized to repair the fortifications of Zhongshan City, and the speed of the 150,000 soldiers attacking was also amazingly fast, not long after getting the news, the 150,000 army was already in the city after half a day.
Zhang Wuxian and Wang Ba stood on the city wall, looking down at the black pressure below, and then looking at the black pressure piece, the siege equipment with them was also very complete, what siege vehicles, trebuchets were also readily available, except for the vajra thunderbolt cannon, I am afraid that all the weapons were brought a little.
Zhang Wuxian frowned slightly, and then said to Wang Ba: "Pass the order, five thousand people will come up to defend the city." The old rule is that oil flows through the entire city wall, and then a fire passes, and the entire periphery of the city wall is a raging fire, so that it is like a shipwreck, although the fire can only support more than two hours, but in these two hours, the enemy army is helpless and cannot attack. And in more than two hours, the shells should be almost in place. After the fire is lit, it is the old rule to retreat from the enemy with rolling wood and stones. ”
After a pause, Zhang Wuxian continued: "Wang Ba, you quickly ordered someone to catch the cattle in the entire Zhongshan City, I have an urgent need. ”
Wang Ba frowned, thinking to himself, what does Your Majesty want the cow to do at this time? Is it possible to eat beef? But Wang Ba knew in his heart that His Majesty must have his own reason for saying this, so he immediately did not ask much but did it. Soon, Wang Ba surrounded all the cattle in the city to the street below the city wall. About fifty heads.
Zhang Wuxian swept the cows, nodded, and said to himself, "Enough." ”
"What is enough, Your Majesty?" Wang Ba really couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, so he blurted out a question.
Zhang Wuxian smiled leisurely and said, "General Wang, have you ever heard of the Fire Bull Formation?" ”
Wang Ba shook his head, indicating that he didn't know, Zhang Wuxian paused, and said: "Our ancients are very smart, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was the appearance of the Fire Ox Array. This formation is a tactic invented by Tian Dan, the general of the Warring States Period, when Yan Zhao was king, Yan General Le Yi broke Qi, and Tian Dan adhered to Jimo. In 279 BC, King Yanhui ascended the throne. Tian Dan surrendered to the Yan army, paralyzed it, and at night with more than 1,000 head of oxen, the horns of the ox were tied with blades, and the tail was tied with reeds to fill with oil, ignited with fire, and rushed to the Yan army, and then rushed to kill with 5,000 warriors, defeated the Yan army, and killed the cavalry. Tiandan won more than 70 cities. Let's also have a fire bull formation today, so that these big Liang grandsons can see the power of the old cow. Hey, hey, hey! ”
After Wang Ba heard this, his face showed a burst of rare energy: "Wonderful, wonderful!" This cow is already very fierce, if they are using fire to ignite their tails, they will definitely be bumping around, and when the fire ox is released, we will close the gate tightly, and leave the fire ox to make trouble with these grandchildren, hahaha! ”
After Zhang Wuxian heard this, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, this is what he wanted, he paused, and then said: "Mo Poor mouth, quickly go and tie the blade to both sides of the fire ox, and tie the reeds on the tail to fill the oil, when the time comes, let's just light the fire, wouldn't it be troublesome?" ”
"Hey!" Wang Ba shouted, and then went majestically, but said that this Wang Ba liked this fire bull tactic very much. In Zhang Wuxian's view, the most charming advantage of this Wang Ba is bravery. But a qualified general does not need exactly the courage of a horseman, he must be well versed in the art of war. Zhang Wuxin secretly decided in his heart that when the limelight passed, he would definitely ask Wang Ba to learn the art of war.
Then, Zhang Wushu climbed the high platform again, and as soon as he stood still, Zhang Wushu found that an arrow flew from the black pressure below. Zhang Wuxian frowned, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he intercepted the flying arrow, took the note in his hand and took it down, and after reading it carefully, it was summed up as Sima Gang's provocation, asking our army to open the city gate to face the battle, which can also be described as a tactic.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Zhang Wuxian's mouth, and then with amazing insight, he quickly found Sima Gang's location, and then, Zhang Wuxian hit the horse directly under Sima Gang's crotch ~ with sixty percent of his internal force. Zhang Wushu knew that this Sima Gang must be wearing something like treasure armor on his body, and it was better to beat him than to fight a horse, and without a horse on the battlefield was disabled.
I saw that Zhang Wuxian flicked his fingers and the wind urged by his divine skills, like an arrow off the string, rushed directly down. Originally, if the distance was appropriate, let alone six successes, even if it was one success, the horses would definitely not be able to stand it. But helplessly, this Sima Gangta is cunning, and the army is stationed nearly a thousand meters away from the city gate.
What's more, the city wall of Zhongshan City is more than thirty meters high, so carefully calculated, this is a right-angled triangle, Zhang Wuxian attacked Sima Gang from the city wall, and took the hypotenuse trajectory, which was the longest path. Despite this, after sixty percent of the strength hit the horse, he still knocked the horse to the ground alive and could not stand up again. On the contrary, Sima Gang on horseback was also thrown into a, and even if anger came from the side of the gall, his face turned red all of a swoop.
Sima Gang hurriedly stood up again, looking at his beloved horse, but he was already disabled. Sima Gang was furious, and when he snatched a general horse beside him, sat on the horse, his heart was churning, and he wanted to immediately attack and break Zhang Wu's body into pieces. After half an hour, seeing that there was still no news, the corner of Sima Gang's mouth showed a sneer, and then he said loudly: "Siege the city, the ladder is in front, the siege chariot is behind, 10,000 people assist, kill!" ”
As soon as Sima shouted, the soldiers behind him suddenly carried the ladder, pushed the chariot, and rode fast horses to the city gate. But he said that these 150,000 people really looked like trained soldiers, not to mention anything else, just this siege ladder, each team took no conflict, and soon the front wall was plastered with ladders, and some soldiers began to climb the city wall.
At the same time, the soldiers on the city wall saw the ladder retreat from the ladder, but after a while, when they saw that there were many people on the ladder, Zhang Wuxian said coldly: "Ignite the fire." At this time, the periphery of the city wall was already full of oil, and I saw Wang Ba holding a torch and casually placing it at the edge of a city wall, and suddenly a raging fire ignited, and in an instant, the entire periphery of the city wall was already burning with a raging fire.
At this time, the soldiers on the top of the ladder of the city wall were burned to death, and those who couldn't bear it jumped down and fell to their deaths. The scene was so miserable that the ladders that had been erected on the city wall were suddenly burned to ashes. Besides, the soldiers who were attacking the city with siege engines below were turned away by the barbaric barrier of fire before they arrived. The fire was so fierce that it was impossible for everyone to get close. Don't say it's a siege.
At this time, the soldiers had begun to roll wood and stones to the city wall. Rolling wood and stones, continuously, I saw the stones fall below like stars, and if you hit people slightly, your head will break and bleed. When the rolling log rolled on the city wall, it was already infected with raging fire, and the two kept attacking, and the soldiers of the Great Liang not only could not get close to the city gate, but even suffered heavy casualties.
When Sima Gang saw this, he was immediately shocked: "Soldiers, don't mess up your formation, the remaining soldiers retreat quickly!" After that, I saw that the 10,000 men who had been sent out to assist in the siege of the city had retreated. However, the number of people who came back was not only not 10,000, but much worse, and only 3,000 remained. Faced with 7,000 casualties, Sima Gang was very angry.
Sima Gang stared coldly at the corpses everywhere, and then looked at the raging fire on the city wall, and then said to a partial general next to him: "Go, bring the emperor's secret weapon, this general doesn't believe that the city that belongs to us can be taken back." The general sighed, and then went majestically.
After a while, the general came with someone pushing the cart, and the top of the cart was covered by a red cloth, and even Zhang Wuxian on the city wall could only see a little red. I saw that those people pushed the red cart to the front of the army, and then lifted the red cloth on it, but it was a vajra thunderbolt undoubtedly, Zhang Wuxian on the city wall gasped, and couldn't help muttering in his heart.
Immediately, I saw the soldier slowly shake the knob and aim the angle at the city gate, which was also the farthest attack distance. At this moment, I saw that a torch suddenly appeared in Zhang Wuxian's sight. Immediately, Zhang Wuxin secretly screamed in his heart, and shouted in a loud voice: "All the soldiers listen to the order, stay away from the city gate, stay away from the city gate!" ”
After that, Zhang Wuxian took a torch in his hand, and came to the side of the fire bull pile with a vertical jump, waiting for the moment when the city gate was breached, and activated the fire ox array.
said that Zhang Wuxian shouted like this, and suddenly all the soldiers hid far away from the city gate.
"Tong!" A loud bang broke the anxiety in everyone's hearts, and as the sound fell, the gate of the city was blown open, and the smoke was everywhere, and nothing could be seen clearly. Seeing this, Zhang Wushu hurriedly took the torch and lit the fire ox one after another. The ox with its tail pointed at it, like a wild horse on the loose, had red eyes, and saw the red ox slam towards the outside of the city gate like an arrow off the string.
Different from what Zhang Wuxian expected before, Zhang Wushu originally planned to quickly close the city gate to prevent accidental injury after starting the fire ox, but now there is no city gate, Zhang Wushu had to shout loudly: "Come on, quickly close the door, quickly close the door!" ”
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