Chapter 118: Feel the power of the Heavenly Fire
Princess Taiping's handwriting, tied to the arrow by Wu Chengxun's own hands, shot out of the city wall in the night.
Completely defying the wind, with the density of guards on the city wall, the probability of not being detected is almost the same as hitting five million.
Such precious news is naturally very important.
In a word, Wu Zetian is critically ill!
A generation of empresses, about to die in the palace with grievances?
It is difficult for Li Ran to accept this fact, but the news of Princess Taiping will most likely not be adulterated.
In other words, Wu Sansi will definitely get the formalities for his legal enthronement before his aunt dies, such as Chan Rang official documents, and even force Wu Zetian to personally pass the throne to him in front of hundreds of officials.
Gotta give that old lady a shot in the arm!
At least let her know that as long as she lasts a few more days, Li Xian will be able to break through the city, lest she die blindly, but her reputation will not be guaranteed.
Siege the city ruthlessly.
All of them were armed with flintlock pistols and large wooden shields, and their steps were steady and powerful, like a sophisticated machine, gradually approaching the walls.
At the moment when the horn sounded, Li Ran took off in a hot air balloon, the old rule, the tower commanded.
The dreary images overwhelmed the wall guards.
This group of besiegers, this group of people is afraid that they are not here to send them to death.
There are no ladders, no climbing vehicles, and they take their heads to climb the ten-meter-high wall of Luoyang City?
Confused, the garrison mounted the arrows on the bed crossbows, frantically urged by the Overseers.
However, before they could clear the monsters in waves, the flintlock pistol was the first to sound the gunshot.
The bullet accurately hit the defenders on the city wall, and they were caught off guard by the new weapon, and dozens of people instantly confessed their lives.
A golden banner appeared.
Wu Sansi is here...... This guy personally oversees the battle.
He apparently learned the lesson of being bombarded by artillery in the castle tower, and he didn't show his head at all, and he couldn't behead the capital if he wanted to.
However, the efficiency of command has improved considerably, and the speed of the garrison's counterattack has almost doubled.
The rain of arrows poured down, and the solid wood shield was instantly shot into a hedgehog, but fortunately, the quality of the products made by the advanced automatic processing workshop was excellent, and the cracks were full of cracks and kept falling in half.
Of course, resistance is only temporary, and the most important thing in the city is arrows.
Li Ran on the hot air balloon sighed slightly and shook the flag.
The sound of Jin Ming immediately sounded, and the siege army quickly retreated.
"Shoot fast, shoot them!"
Wu Sansi finally climbed the city wall surrounded by guards, shouting frantically, and was ecstatic.
Although he didn't get any substantive results, he was able to defeat Li Ran in a dignified manner, and his confidence immediately exploded.
A dignified immortal master, that's it......
The expression of disdain lasted less than ten seconds, and strange things appeared in his field of vision.
That is, trebuchet?
While the siege army retreated, a squad of less than 100 people was retrograde, and they operated ten wooden tools that were less than a person high, and from the perspective of structure, they were indeed trebuchets, the kind of pocket version.
The corners of Wu Sansi's mouth twitched suddenly.
Who is this looking down on, doesn't he have a little bit of a range for trebuchets, and besides, what kind of heavy objects can this little guy who came out to work before he was a minor throw?
The answer is, a small lump of transparent ...... Bottle?
It seems to be a fairy thing that Li Ran made up before, a thing called 'glass'.
This little thing can also be used as a weapon?
Wu Sansi looked confused, until he saw that the siege army had lit a fire at the front of the bottle, and the fire could still burn, then he faintly felt that something was wrong.
How can the things of the immortal family be inferred by common sense?
"Change the target, stop shooting, shoot the trebuchet!"
His reaction was quite fast, but unfortunately Li Ran's speed was faster, and as soon as the words fell, the trebuchet threw the burning bottle out.
"In the future, when I have the opportunity, I will learn what knowledge is power."
On the hot air balloon, Li Ran raised his middle finger towards Wu Sansi.
That's right, the projectile ability of this pocket trebuchet is indeed weak, but who said that you have to throw stones to be lethal?
Brother threw the burning bottle, which was just as cool as a spiral.
The sky of Luoyang City was suddenly dyed a touch of crimson...... The sudden fire covered the entire wall in an instant, and the soldiers of the defenders were engulfed in flames without any reaction.
"See, this is the punishment of the heavenly fire!"
With the help of a loudspeaker, Li Ran's voice clearly reached the ears of every garrison on the city wall.
They panicked...... The power of mortals can really fight against the heavenly fire?
"Don't listen to his nonsense!"
Wu Sansi retreated to a safe tunnel obscenely, and forced himself to cheer up his subordinates, afraid that even he didn't believe this.
However, he inadvertently revealed the truth.
That's right, Li Ran is indeed bluffing...... Burning fire bottles need raw materials, and in this piece of land outside Luoyang City, there are no raw materials to develop.
Li Ran used the inventory of the Tiandi Bank, and like the artillery shells, the stock was very small, which was not enough to support a battle, otherwise why would he let the siege army charge first, and directly use the hot air balloon to drop incendiary flasks to open the way and advance the city all the way.
The purpose of this siege was not to kill or injure many garrisons at all.
Rather, destroy the bed crossbow!
This kind of mass killing weapon is an absolute nightmare experience for the besieging side, and it is very necessary to scrap them.
In fact, today's tactics were successful, and there were dozens of bed crossbows on the side of the main gate, accounting for about half of the total, and they were caught in the fire by incendiary flasks.
A few minutes later, Wu Sansi also discovered his trick.
Annoyed and angry, he organized the soldiers to put out the fire, but unfortunately he was still one step slower, and after the fire was controlled, not only the bed crossbow, but even the wall of the main gate collapsed.
The crazy revenge made him lose his mind, and he sent five thousand forest guards out of the city to fight.
And such a good thing?
Li Ran really wanted to hit 666 thanks to the rocket sent by Lao Tie, is it really a vegetarian for the flintlock pistol.
"Bang bang bang!"
The continuous gunshots, after Yu Linwei left the city, the two sides were not touched, and they were beaten to the ground by a round of bullets, and they wanted to return fire with bows and arrows, but the range was not enough!
Can this be played?
Yu Linwei, whose morale was already low, collapsed after being shot twice, and retreated to the city in a chaotic manner, and Wu Sansi was so angry that he almost fainted.
Li Ran accepted it when he saw it, gathered the army, and sang the battle song of victory.
"Thank you King Liang for the head."
"Thank you King Liang for the head."
The shouts of thousands of people shook the heavens and the earth, how could the people in the city not hear it, and Li Ran did not cover the means of killing people and punishing the heart.
After the two heart-to-heart battles, Wu Sansi completely lost his temper and ordered the garrison to defend the city, no matter what Li Ran did, he would shoot back with a bed crossbow, and he was not allowed to go out of the city to face the battle!
The shrunken turtle is really hard to bite.
This most coping strategy is the last thing Li Ran wants to see, which is far more uncomfortable than making a commotion.
Fortunately, his goal of giving Wu Zetian a shot in the arm has been achieved, and after the two sieges of the city, the people in the city will never doubt that the crown prince Li Xian has the strength to clear the monarch's side, at most it is only a matter of time.
And the next meeting will be decisive.
Calculate the time, the elite soldiers brought by the eldest brother should also rush over.