The support army sent by the Great Southern Barbarians to support the King of Jiaozhou came to attack Qingde County. The puppet Niang Gao led the troops out of the city to face the battle, but was beaten by a large number of elephant soldiers on the other side.

After Gao was defeated and returned to the city, Xiao Ding summoned the generals to discuss the method of cracking the barbarian elephant soldiers.

When he was discussing with everyone, he thought of the section that Zhuge Liang had seen before the crossing, in which Zhuge Liang broke Meng and won the vine armor soldiers

So, there was the idea of attacking with fire. Not only rattan armor and rattan shield are afraid of fire, but even elephants are also afraid of fire, after all, elephants are also a kind of animals.

As for how to burn with fire, this still needs to be thought about. Xiao Ding now does not have Zhuge Liang's conditions at that time. He didn't have a black oil tanker or a lot of gunpowder, nor did he have a snake valley where he could set up an ambush.

Therefore, if you want to imitate Zhuge Liang's strategy, there is no condition to do it at present.

However, for Xiao Ding, who is good at flexibility, he immediately thought of the scene when Song Yinpan's camp was burned not long ago.

At that time, he simply ordered the soldiers to soak the crossbow bars fired by the catheros in tung oil, and then tie torches to light them, and when they are fired, they can ignite the target as long as it hits it.

At the same time, there was not no gunpowder in his army.

In peacetime, it is used to launch letter cannons and rockets, and a small amount of gunpowder is also required. The rockets of this era were tied to a thin bamboo barrel on the shaft of the arrow, which was filled with gunpowder, with a fuse, and then ignited and launched, which was a bit similar to the fireworks monkeys of later generations.

Rockets are usually used when the enemy is going to burn the enemy's food and grass.

It's just that ordinary crossbow arrows can still play a role in carrying this small amount of gunpowder, and if a small bamboo tube of such a small size is tied to the spear and crossbow that is so long, the gunpowder will not have much effect.

Therefore, it is better to soak the spear shaft directly in tung oil, then tie a torch, light it and launch it. Torches are usually made of short wooden sticks dipped in flammable materials such as pine resin, which are not easy to extinguish after ignition, not to mention, the spear shaft has been soaked in oil, and after being launched, even if the torch is extinguished, as long as there is still a little spark, it can quickly ignite the tung oil on the spear shaft again.

So, Xiao Ding wanted to repeat the old trick and use this method again, but this method is a bit oil-intensive!

Last time, all the tung oil they carried was used, but then it was not enough, so they went to the leader of the gang to get lard for stir-frying, and smeared it on the shaft of the spear.

Tung oil is a vegetable oil made by pressing and refining the fruits of the tung tree. In this era, tung oil is widely used, most of which are brushed on the surface of wooden furniture or ironware, which can play a role in preventing moisture, corrosion and rust, and at the same time increase luster.

However, despite the large amounts, tung oil is not a rare thing. Whether it is official or private, there will be a certain amount of tung oil. Because of its wide range of uses, people can use it for money after squeezing it out.

There is a large amount of tung oil in the army, which is mainly used to maintain ordnance and avoid moisture and rust.

Since Xiao Ding came up with this method, he immediately spoke out and discussed with the new county magistrate of Qingde County to issue a notice to purchase private tung oil.

This new county magistrate of Qingde County is the main book of the former county office. Because when Xiaoding's army came, the guards and county commanders of Qingde County all fled, but these low-level officials did not have time to escape, so they all stayed in the city.

Therefore, the first thing Xiao Ding's army did after entering the city was that Song Yinzi appointed the chief bookkeeper to take over the position of the new county commander, and immediately issued the list of Anmin.

The new county commander is also very cooperative, anyway, whoever is an official is to do it, and being the official of the emperor of the Great Song State is more justifiable.

This time, Xiao Ding asked the new county order to come forward to buy tung oil, and the new county order was naturally happy to cooperate, at least after defeating the king of Jiaozhou in the future, he would also have his own credit.

With the notice of the prefectural ordinance, the purchase of tung oil naturally proceeded smoothly.

Next, it was time to order the soldiers to make fire crossbows. Each military commander commands a large number of soldiers to operate. After an afternoon of tossing and turning, I finally prepared enough fire spear crossbow to ignite.

At this time, Xiao Ding was thinking, it would be good if there were cannons in the future, no matter what elephant you are or not, the cannon will blow you up, and you will be crushed.

It's a pity that at the moment it does not have the ability to make its own cannons. In the future, if you have time, you can also find time to study and research.

The day passed like this, and the next morning, still only halfway through breakfast, the guards at the head of the city came to the county hall to report that the barbarian army was again in front of the city to fight the enemy and curse the enemy.

Xiao Ding and the generals had no choice, so they had to put down their chopsticks for the time being and prepare to fight.

Everyone still came to the city to watch first, and saw that the Manchu army was the same as yesterday, but it was more proud, and today it was no longer hidden, and rows of elephant soldiers lined up behind the infantry, and the scene was very spectacular.

Today, Xiao Ding decided to personally lead the troops out of the battle, because yesterday, he saw that the opponent's brute force was powerful and powerful, and his martial arts were outstanding. Many of the generals on his side are not the opponents of the barbarian generals, and it seems that only his own strength can fight with those barbarian generals.

Today's Gao Jinnei is no longer scrambling to go out of the city to face the battle. The battle of the previous day had frightened him, and his horsemanship was a little poor, and when he fled back, he was left behind by the army, and was almost overtaken by the elephants of the barbarian army.

At that time, he was so frightened that his pants were soaked with urine, but he finally escaped back with crooked armor, and where did he dare to go out today.

Leaving Gao Jiannei to lead the Yue brothers to defend the city, Xiao Ding led the other generals and led an army of 40,000 out of the city to meet the enemy.

Because Tanma has already found out, the other side has a total of 70,000 troops, and in yesterday's battle, the other side only lost more than 1,000 people, but yesterday his side lost more than 5,000 people.

There are less than 60,000 troops on his side, and he always has to keep some soldiers to defend the city. So Xiao Ding is not as stupid as Gao Xuannei yesterday, and only led 20,000 people to fight, which is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Today, he led 40,000 people to meet the enemy, although the number is still not as large as the number of the opponent's barbarians, but Xiao Ding has the bottom of his heart today, and he has prepared enough fire spears and crossbows. As long as the two sides start to scuffle, this sharp weapon will definitely deal a major blow to the other side.

The two armies lined up, and the barbarian commander Vultuya sent a new general, the bronze ring four knots.

The brass ringed four-knot was dressed in much the same way as the other brute generals. It's just that around his nose and ears, he is wearing many copper rings, a bearded stubble on his face, a pair of big ring eyes, and a pair of iron tire double whips, which are also hung with several copper rings.

Xiao Ding heard him shouting in front of the battle: "Which of you dares to come and fight with me in the four knots?" Come forward and die! In my heart, I felt that this man's name was as worthy as he was. Looking at the brass rings on his body and weapons, you can see that his name is not wrong.

Xiao Ding was just about to ask who was going to meet the enemy, but Yang Yueling was the first to speak: "Cockroach crawling deputy marshal, let me go and meet this brute general!" "She didn't play yesterday and she had a bit of an itchy hand today.

Xiao Ding nodded and said, "Okay, you be more careful!" ”

Yang Yueling agreed and urged the horse to come out of battle.

If you want to know who wins or loses, and see the breakdown below!

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