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Jin Bohan immediately shouted angrily: "Inform everyone to go to the city wall to defend!" Then pull up the drawbridge and close the gates! ”

After the Silla army was busy for half an hour, Kimber Iikata led a group of samurai to the city wall. He wore an iron helmet on top of his head, heavy armor on his body, a sharp sword straddling his waist, and his right hand pressed the hilt of the sword all the time. Patrolling back and forth on the city walls.

Seeing that his soldiers were gradually in place in the defensive position of the city wall, he was shocked and said, "I don't believe that they can still break through our Silla capital!" Gyeongju is impossible to break! ”

There is also a reason why Kimberhan has this self-confidence. Gyeongju, the capital of the Silla Kingdom, is close to the sea and land on the other, and there are several clear springs in the city, and there is no shortage of water. The enemy could not climb the city by ladder from the sea, and at most he could harass him by shooting some bows and arrows from the warship. And the only land is a long downhill, large siege vehicles and trebuchets can hardly be dragged up, can only set up ladders to attack the city, but this Gyeongju city wall is particularly high, about nearly 20 zhang, not to mention that the general ladder can not reach such a height, even if it is reached, it is difficult to attack the city wall. In the past, when Goryeo and Ji were strong, they also attacked the fortress of Gyeongju, but they all failed.

At this time, the soldiers of the Liaodong Army had already arrived at the bottom of the city, only one mile away from the city wall. And what made those Silla soldiers a little strange was that the soldiers of the Liaodong Army standing in the front row each carried a large black leather bag. I don't know what's inside.

Previously, Qin Qiong had learned from Park Yongzheng about the remaining forces of Silla, and after their main attack on Ji, there were about 10,000 soldiers left behind in the country, of which 25,000 were stationed in Gyeongju, and the other more than 5,000 were scattered in various cities in Silla.

Most of the soldiers stationed in Gyeongju are the younger brothers of Silla nobles, and many of them have served the Silla royal family since the last few generations, and their loyalty and combat effectiveness are strong, and the Silla king treats them well, so they are loyal to them, and they basically don't have to think about luring or something, only a hard attack.

"Come on, everyone! Let's try to capture this Gyeongju as soon as possible! The marshal has promised that if he can successfully conquer Gyeongju, everyone will be rewarded! Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin encouraged their subordinate soldiers. They were giving orders to push some siege engines forward.

And the general of the Ji army who guided them, Kim Minxian, who had been defeated under Yuming before, looked at the tall city wall of Gyeongju in front of him, and said with some disbelief: "General Qin, General Cheng!" I know that the Great Sui is a vast land with a large population, and its military strength is indeed stronger than ours. However, this Gyeongju city is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are more than 20,000 Silla troops in the city. In the past, Goryeo had failed to capture Gyeongju with 100,000 horses. Can you really take it down with 50,000 Sui troops? ”

Cheng Yanjin smiled, but he smiled and said nothing.

He then ordered his soldiers to load the black leather bags on their backs onto the winches of fifty projectiles, and slowly advanced towards the city gates......

These projectiles were originally installed on the Sui Army's naval division battleships, and were originally used to throw ignition materials at the enemy's warships, and the range was much farther than that of ordinary trebuchets. However, because the main force of the Sui army withdrew to the Central Plains with Yang Guang, these warships also stayed in the Liaodong camp.

But the war in Liaodong obviously had no place for the naval division, and these projectiles had been idle on the deck of the naval division's battleship, and for this expedition to Silla, Yuming ordered to bring fifty projectiles. What he fancied was that the range and accuracy of the projectile were much higher than that of ordinary trebuchets.

"General Qin, what are these black skins in?" The brothers Kim Min-hyun and Kim Min-chong asked suspiciously when they saw that Qin Qiong had ordered the soldiers to push these projectiles about fifty zhang away from the gate of Gyeongju.

For this kind of projectile used on the warship, Ji's warship also has it, but the range is short, the workmanship is rough, and there is no winch, so it can only shoot more than 20 zhang away. And this kind of projectile of the Sui army, obviously the level of craftsmanship is a lot higher, and there are four small wheels under the winch, although it is a long downhill from the Gyeongju City Gate, but the soldiers can still easily push it not far from the city gate.

"Two General Jin, you guys are optimistic!" Qin Qiong smiled slightly, and then said to the soldiers beside him: "Pass the order down and start shooting!"

At this time, I saw that the Sui soldiers in front of the projectile turned the winch and tightened the tendons...... Wait until you reach the end. Guan Ling, who was in front of the projectile, waved his hand violently and shouted: "Release!" ”

I saw fifty bags of skins crossing a parabola in the air, and then flying towards the walls of Gyeongju. The soldiers of the Silla army were taken aback, thinking that it was some powerful weapon, but they all carefully dodged it.

After a while, seeing that the thing had no reaction, they approached tremblingly, and watched the skin that had fallen on the wall.

I saw that the mouth of the leather bag was not tightly tied, and when it landed on the city wall, the mouth of the bag was immediately opened by the force of the impact. A large amount of black liquid flowed out of it, and it had a pungent stench.

"Everyone, cover your mouth and nose with gauze dipped in water, this thing may be poisonous!" Kimberhan is worthy of Silla, well-informed, and quickly guesses that this black liquid must be strange.

So, those samurai hurried to the city wall to ask the logistics quartermaster for gauze, and if they couldn't find gauze, they used linen, and some even tore off one of their sleeves and tied it around their mouth and nose.

At this time, more and more skins fell on the city wall, and the black liquid flowed almost all over the city gate. It seems to be extremely slippery, similar to oil. Many soldiers slipped and fell as they walked around the towers.

Kimberhan was a little puzzled, because he found that all the skins thrown by the enemy were concentrated around this section of the city wall on the city gate, but the other walls were not thrown up.

What does this mean? Did they think that they could intimidate the warriors of our Silla army with this liquid that emitted a pungent smell? Kimberhan thought to himself.

"Almost!" Qin Qiong looked at the Gyeongju Castle Tower, which was almost dyed black, then pulled out an arrow from behind his back, and then lit the fire fold on the arrow.

Listening to the sound of "whoosh", the rocket with a beautiful firelight crossed a red trajectory in the air and flew straight towards the Gyeongju Castle Tower......

As soon as the rocket landed on the tower, a raging fire broke out, and the raging flames set the entire section of the city wall at the Gyeongju gate on fire. This majestic tower suddenly became a sea of fire. Smoke and fire were clearly visible for miles.

The Silla soldiers standing on the castle tower were covered in fire, crying and fleeing towards the walls and the city on both sides, even Kimber-han. His trouser legs were also on fire, and he ran to the city wall more than ten feet away from the city gate in one breath to escape from the fire.

At this time, the soldiers beside him hurriedly doused the fire on his feet with water, but were surprised to find that the fire was still burning, and the water could wash away the black oil burning on Kimber's feet, but the black oil was still floating on the surface of the water and burning.

Jin Bofan finally understood that the black liquid contained in these leather bags thrown into the city tower was not some poison, but fuel oil, and it was very powerful fuel oil, which could not be extinguished with water.

He looked at the city tower and saw that the city tower had been burned down, and there were no people standing on the section of the city wall more than 50 zhang long above the city gate. It has long become a raging sea of fire. Thick smoke and flames raged in the skies of Gyeongju.

Jin Bofan relieved his heart a little, and secretly thought that such a big fire was burning on the city wall, and the enemy army did not dare to climb up, this city could still be defended, right?

But at this moment, the general beside him exclaimed: "Your Highness, with such a big fire, I am afraid that the bolt of our city gate will not be protected!" ”

Jin Bofan was shocked, and a lightning thought flashed in his mind, secretly thinking that something was wrong.

For the deadbolts of all the cities were made with a thick log that blocked the two gates, so that no one outside could push them open. But now that there is such a big fire at the city walls and gates, the logs, even if they can't be easily nodds, are now mostly baked into charcoal.

"Quick! Send someone to find some iron and copper rods! As long as it's metal, it won't burn! Delivered to the city gates! Jin Bohan hurriedly shouted.

It's just that just as he was shouting, he saw that dozens of Sui soldiers had already pushed a small siege car and rushed towards the city gate.

Although it is a long downhill slope in front of the Gyeongju City Gate, it is not easy to push up the siege crash. However, this siege crash of the Sui army is very small, and its weight is much lighter than that of ordinary siege vehicles, so it can still be pushed up.

At this moment, Jin Bofan led the Imperial Forest Army to the city gate, but saw that the big log that was used as a door bolt had already become a pile of black charcoal, and there was a big fire, where could it still play the role of a door bolt.

"Quick! Replace this coke and block the gates for me!" Don't let the enemy in! Kimberhan said in surprise and anger.

A few brave soldiers began to hook the charred log with their iron forks, trying to hook it out. But although the log has been burned, it is still so large that it is not so easy to hook it out with a few iron forks. At this moment, the siege vehicles of the Sui army had already arrived in front of the gate of Gyeongju and were ready to storm the gate.

Originally, such a lightweight, poorly protected siege vehicle could have been smashed by throwing a few pieces of rolling stones and logs from the city.

But now, the city wall is on fire, and not a single Silla soldier dares to stand on the section of the city wall near the city gate, how can they attack the siege engine?

"Oh no, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid the city gate will be broken!"

Kimberhan is not stupid, and immediately reacted.

It's just that although he reacted, he was still helpless.

The soldiers of the Silla army on the city wall are now located more than ten zhang away from the city gate, and the bows and arrows of Silla are mainly short bows, and the range is very close, and the bows and arrows of the soldiers cannot shoot the Sui army under the city gate at all. Although several archers with longbows were able to shoot to the city gate, they were blocked by the Sui army's shields, and not even a single hair was injured.

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