Chapter 301: Heavy Snow
"It's snowing?" Coming out of the wounded barracks, Bao Geng suddenly felt a chill on his face, and subconsciously touched it, but it was a handful of water stains, and when he looked up, he saw thin snowflakes beginning to float in the sky.
"Well, there's been a lot of snow this year." General Lu Longzhai nodded and said, "It is estimated that it will not be too big, but I am afraid that next year will be a dry year." ”
It's okay if it's not big.
Bao Geng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and said, "Send someone to summon the news and mobilize the required medicinal materials as soon as possible." ”
The eight hundred defenders of Lulongzhai were three times more infected with the wind cold than those who died in battle, and I am afraid that the remnants of the Yuan family will use this method in the future, so what Lulongzhai lacks now is not military rations, but medicinal materials for the treatment of wind and cold.
"Whoa!"
There was nothing to say all night, early the next morning, when Bao Geng came out of the barracks, the world was quiet, as far as the eye could see, there was a white expanse everywhere, the snow danced between the heaven and the earth, and the goose-featherlike snow fell down one after another, and one foot stepped into the snow, and the snow could not reach the ankles.
"What's still going on?" Bao Geng's face became not very good-looking, and he hurriedly ordered his guards to gather the guards in the city.
"You have been fighting with the Yuan army for a long time, do you know how many men and horses the Yuan army has?" Bao Geng looked at the guard of Lu Longzhai and asked.
"There were nearly 10,000 people, and then I didn't know if there were any more troops, and many people from Jizhou and Hebei spontaneously went to the White Wolf Mountain area to join the Yuan family, and when the Yuan family retreated, they also brought a lot of defeated soldiers." The guards also sensed that something was wrong, if the snow continued and the snow closed the mountain, Lulongzhai's foster care would not be so lucky.
This is actually not a big deal in previous years, Lulongzhai is located in the north of the Han Dynasty, and it snows all year round, so in order to avoid this happening, there is a lot of grain in Lulongzhai, enough to guard the soldiers to survive this cold winter, but now it is the medicinal materials that are fatal, if they can't be sent in time, these soldiers who are infected with the wind and cold can only rely on themselves to carry it!
Even if the same method is used here, but there are many people and few families, and the hard consumption is definitely not consumed.
Bao Geng frowned and looked at everyone: "Taking advantage of the fact that the heavy snow has not completely blocked the road, immediately send someone to urge, don't worry about the rest, and pull the medicine over to me as soon as possible." ”
"Whoa!"
"Newspaper~"
At this moment, a soldier rushed to the door and shouted, "Generals, the thief army has attacked the city. ”
"Go for it!" Bao Geng stood up and shouted in a deep voice: "Others, follow me to the city to fight the enemy!" ”
"Whoa!"
Bao Geng did not bring the whole army with him, he divided his two men and horses and the 300 people who could still fight in Lulongzhai into three batches, and took turns to go to the city to defeat the enemy, and the remaining 200 people were replenished at any time, which could reduce unnecessary losses and allow the soldiers to get full rest.
Yesterday, I got Bao Geng's order, and the oil pot that was originally used to boil oil in the city has now been replaced with water, just in time for the heavy snowfall, you don't have to go to get ice, just use snow to boil water.
A pot of water has been boiled, Bao Geng led people to inspect the city wall, the enemy on the opposite side has already set up a military formation, eight catapults are around, and the jars are piled up into a mountain.
It doesn't seem to be as powerful as a stone bullet, but these days, the defenders of Lulongzhai have seen the viciousness of this thing.
The siege ladder began to push down the dirt slope where the corpses had been piled up, and began to push towards the city walls.
Bao Geng was not used to the weather in the north, and when he was patrolling the city, he slipped on the ice buried under the snow and fell to the ground.
"General, are you okay?" The two guards hurriedly pulled Bao Geng up.
"What can it do?" Bao Geng was a little embarrassed, then looked at the ice on the ground, and then looked at the gentle slope that had been covered with snow, and thought about it and said to the person beside him: "Throw the water jar on the slope." ”
"Whoa!"
Several generals nodded, and asked people to pour water into the water jar, and threw it towards the slope below the city, one by one, the water jar shattered, and the hot water quickly melted the snow around it.
"Don't throw it away! Bow and arrow, release arrows! Just threw a round, seeing that almost the snow in front of the city wall was covered, Bao Geng asked people not to throw it, and ordered the archers to start releasing arrows.
Clusters of arrows from both sides staggered in the air, and one by one the canisters were smashed by the other side with catapults.
Bang bang bang~
In the shattered jar, the ice ballast mixed with the cold cold water splashed in all directions, the problem is not big, this thing is not a poison that seals the throat with blood, it will die if it is stained with a little, in fact, it is not directly splashed on the body, but some places are splashed by water, basically nothing, the worst thing is that the opponent's water altar keeps smashing [fo] over, and it is really fatal to accumulate.
Eight catapults!
Bao Geng walked on the city wall, looking at the other party's eight catapults, his heart was itching with hatred, the city wall of Lulongzhai was not too thick, and the catapults could not be placed, and the bow and arrows were basically meaningless on the catapults.
It's a pity that Youzhou has just been decided, many of the Guanzhong army have no weapons, and there are many less suppression methods, if there are a few broken army crossbows here, can An make these people so arrogant?
The siege ladder was erected on the city wall, and soldiers began to climb the city wall, and the boiling water continued to pour down the ladder, and the temperature of the boiling water alone made these Yuan troops directly wasted.
What's worse is that the water altar that Bao Geng threw down before has re-frozen at the moment, and if Yuan Jun who rushed up accidentally slipped and fell, it would be a large piece.
"Hahaha~" The pressure on the city head was relaxed, and the laughter from time to time made the soldiers of the Yuan army under the city angry.
"Smash me!" In the rear, the general in charge of directing the projection of the water altar shouted loudly.
The momentum of the siege slowed down, but the battle did not stop, the boiling water was too late to boil, Bao Geng ordered the soldiers, as long as the snow was melted, it would fall.
It feels like a water fight, and the role that water can play can not be slowly exerted until after the war, but on the battlefield, it is a sword, and the ice made by Bao Geng was quickly piled up by corpses, and the soldiers of the reinforcements rushed up again.
The fighting lasted from morning to evening, and when the sky darkened, the reinforcements were withdrawn.
"Huh~" finally breathed a sigh of relief, Bao Geng looked around, the city wall was a little messy, the snow was still falling one after another, many corpses had been frozen on the city wall, someone took boiling water to melt the ice, pulled out the corpses, the enemy threw them directly from the city, and the corpses of their own soldiers were brought back for burial.
"General, more than thirty dead." The guard came to Bao Geng and bowed.
"Let people change their guards, and if you have water on your body, go back and dry it quickly, don't get caught in the cold!" Bao Geng nodded, only a few people died in the battle, but how many people will be infected with wind chill today? Nobody knows.
"General, let's go and rest." The guard looked at the water stains on Bao Geng's body and said worriedly.
At this time, if Bao Geng was also infected with the wind chill, it would be a fatal blow to the military morale of the defenders of Lulongzhai.
"Don't worry, General Ben's body doesn't collapse so easily." Bao Geng waved his hand absently and smiled.
"Let's go back." The guard persuaded bitterly.
"That's fine." Bao Geng nodded, just looked at the snow on the city wall that had begun to pile up again, and then looked at the sky, and his heart was even more dull.
Looking at this posture, the snow can't stop for a while.