Chapter 439: Smoke Valley
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Yu Ming listened, but said with a wry smile: "General Luo, this king has already thought about this matter, and asked General Niu to send one of his personal soldiers into the village to persuade him to surrender, but within two days, he saw that the head of this personal soldier was thrown in front of the valley by Li Mi. It seems that he is determined to fight us to the death! ”
When the generals heard this, their faces were a little ugly. If this secret duke swears not to surrender, he will only blindly attack, and in this way, the Zhou army may suffer heavy casualties. After the great loss of vitality, it will be detrimental to the future battle for world domination.
But if you want to give up temporarily and fight again next year, everyone is reluctant. The battle of Wagang Mountain has reached the final moment, and Li Mi's destruction is imminent, and he must not fall short.
At this time, Luo Cheng bowed to Yu Ming and said, "His Royal Highness King Zhou, there will be a plan in the end, which can pass through this valley, but some details may have to be weighed by King Zhou!" ”
"Oh? General Luo, please just speak up! If it really works, you might as well use it! When Yu Ming heard this, he immediately became interested.
Luo Cheng said eloquently: "The last general remembers that he once heard Hu Junshi say that when the king of Zhou attacked several cities and Xiongguan that were difficult to conquer, he used a black fire oil to attack its city walls. Once ignited, this kind of oil is difficult to extinguish, even if it is poured with water, it cannot be extinguished. The last general thought that if he used this kind of fire oil to attack this valley, he would be able to annihilate the Wei army in one fell swoop! ”
"Fire attack?" After Niu Jinda heard this, he was a little puzzled and said, "General Luo, can this oil really have this effect?" You must know that the trees in this valley are relatively wet, but I am afraid that they are not easy to catch fire! ”
"It doesn't matter! Although it was difficult for the tree to catch fire, when it was burned by the fire, it flammed into thick smoke, and when the smoke was gone, the enemy could not stay in the woods. "Cheng Yanjin has used crude oil for fire attack, so he naturally knows how powerful it is.
After Yu Ming heard this, he was overjoyed, and even clapped the decision: "Okay! This king sees that this strategy of General Niu is feasible. It's just a bit of crude oil anyway. I remember that a batch of crude oil was stored in the Huaxian government office. You can immediately send a message to Hu Sizheng and ask him to send someone to transport this crude oil up the mountain as soon as possible! ”
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Eight days later, Zhou's army was ready. Yuming sent heavy troops to attack Wagangzhai again, and this time the strength reached more than 50,000 people. If it weren't for the narrowness of the mountain road, the troops could not be deployed, and he could have sent 100,000 people.
Early in the morning, the elite of the 50,000 Zhou army marched out of the Black Wind Village, and drove to the front of the mountain peak where the Wagang Village was located, surrounded it and blocked all possible roads down the mountain. The commanders of the various units have conveyed orders to ensure that not a single enemy escapes the net.
As the vanguard, Niu Jinda led 10,000 troops and put on a posture of large-scale attack at the mouth of the narrow valley.
After Li Mi learned that the Zhou army was attacking again, he also dispatched troops and stationed them in various passes, putting on a posture of defending the enemy outside the valley.
It didn't take long for the Zhou army, led by Niu Jinda, to launch an offensive and start a fierce battle with the Wei army.
This time, due to the well-prepared Zhou army, the troops were abundant. The Wei army was unable to withstand the confrontation with the Zhou army at the mouth of the valley for only half an hour, and under the leadership of Wang Bodang, they repeated the old tricks and retreated into the valley, relying on the terrain advantages on both sides of the valley to defend it.
After the Zhou army entered the valley, the Wei army fired with strong bows and crossbows. All of a sudden, ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and the arrows rained down like raindrops.
"Raise your shield to block arrows!"
After Niu Jinda gave an order, the Zhou army defended with heavy shields and blocked all the enemy's arrows.
When the Wei army saw that the bow and arrow did not work, they switched to throwing boulders, and the Zhou army was suddenly defeated and had to retreat again.
Just as the Wei army was about to take the opportunity to cover up and win a big victory, they saw an ultra-small trebuchet pushed up by the Zhou army in a small cart.
This trebuchet has no wheels and is made of wooden frames, so that soldiers can carry them to the mountains and use them. Originally a catapult used on a naval battleship, Hu Sizheng found a craftsman to re-modify it so that it could be used on land, but the range was much closer than the large trebuchet used by the Zhou army to attack the city, and it could not throw heavy stones.
"Back to the top of the valley!" When Wang Bodang saw this kind of equipment similar to a catapult for siege, he was immediately vigilant. He also guessed that due to the rugged mountains, the large siege equipment of the Zhou army could not be transported, so he had to use this improved trebuchet to throw stones to open up the situation.
He secretly thought in his heart: This Wagang Mountain is full of trees, and looking at the style of those trebuchets, I am afraid that the larger stones will not be able to launch. Those crockpot-sized stones, even if they were thrown up, would be blocked by the trees in the forest, and they could not hurt the Wei soldiers hiding in the forest at all.
It's just that what Wang Bodang didn't expect was that what Zhou Jun threw was not a stone, but a black skin. When the skins fell into the forest, they were punctured by the branches, and a black, oily liquid flowed out, soaking the skin of the trees in the forest.
"What is this?" Wang Bodang dipped some of this liquid with his hands, and then smelled it, and it felt sticky, pungent, and not easy to wipe off.
Neither he, nor Xu Shiji, nor Li Mi had experienced the Battle of Jindi Pass, so they didn't expect that this was a very powerful fire oil for a while.
"Everyone be careful: Zhou Jun is cunning, if you can't get it right, it's poison! Don't touch this liquid, everyone! Wang Bodang's first reaction was to suspect that this was a powerful poison.
When the Wei soldiers heard this, they were startled and hid in the depths of the jungle, not daring to touch this black liquid anymore.
"Poof, poof, poof, poof!"
At this time, the skins continued to shoot in, and from the trees in the forest, almost every big tree, several bags of skins were dropped, and the forest was dripping with these black liquids.
Just when the Wei army was a little frightened, Xu Shiji was sharp-eyed and found that the Zhou army had stopped using this trebuchet to throw, but changed to archers. These archers aimed their arrows at their own side.
Surprisingly, their arrows were loaded with rockets instead of ordinary wolf-tooth arrows.
All of a sudden, the valley was full of Mars, which was dazzling.
"Could it be that the Zhou army wants to attack with fire? This is wishful thinking. It is autumn now, and it often rains in the autumn on Wagang Mountain, and it only rained heavily a few days ago, and the rain on the branches of the trees is afraid that it has not dried out. The forest is full of damp leaves and weeds, how can it burn? Although this Yuming is famous, it seems that it will only be whimsical. said that he could still beat Zhang Xutuo in commanding the battle, but he was afraid that he would be more partial. Xu Shiji said secretly. He did not directly fight with Yuming like Wang Bodang and Li Mi, so he was not convinced by this young famous general, who was known as one of the two walls of the Sui army.
However, at this moment, Yuming gave the order to "release the arrow".
A moment later, the Wei officers and soldiers saw countless sparks, flying towards the valleytop trees on both sides of the valley with fast speed......
Immediately, only the muffled sound of "boom" was heard, and a large fire immediately rose in the dense forest, and the bright red flames quickly spread to the surroundings with the landing point of the rocket as the center, and the raging fire immediately burned the entire valley into a sea of fire.
"Oh my God! What kind of fire is this? Can it burn on damp leaves and grass? Could it be that Yuming invited some demon to cast a demon spell? Seeing the soldiers under his command fighting the flames on their bodies and fleeing with their faces crying, Uncle Wang's heart suddenly felt like a knife.
It wasn't long before the whole valley, from the tops of the trees to the ground, from the grass to the trees, to the trees, to the flames, and the fire was blazing with smoke from the damp grass and leaves.
The Wei soldiers were choked by the smoke and coughed, their eyes could not be opened, and everyone burst into tears. They had to drop their weapons and sit on the ground, wailing and wailing.
Some of the soldiers, unable to bear the pungent and choking smoke, ran to the woods on the slope of the valley and rushed into the valley.
The Zhou army, which had been waiting for a long time, immediately picked up the Lianzhu crossbow and fired angrily, instantly shooting the fleeing Wei soldiers into hedgehogs.
This time, the Wei army did not dare to rush out, so they had to stay in the trees on the top of the mountain, looking around for a place where the fire was smaller and the smoke was less.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yu Ming led the Zhou army to drive straight in, passed through the valley at a fast speed, and swooped straight towards Wagangzhai.
Now Wagangzhai has been strong and strong, and the main force of the Wei army has long been attracted out, distributed in various key passes, and that valley is the most important, Wang Bodang and Xu Shiji, the two No. 2 people of the Wagang army, are guarded here. Although Li Mi is still in charge of the village, there are only a thousand old and weak soldiers around him, and there are few people who can really fight the Zhou army head-on.
Moreover, what is even worse: due to the rapid loss of the valley, Wang Bodang and Xu Shiji did not have time to send someone to inform the defenders of Wagangzhai. The Wei army in the city, including Li Mi, thought that the Zhou army was still blocked in the valley ahead.
When the Zhou army attacked the front of Wagang Village, it was exactly noon, and the Wei army and his surname in the village were having lunch. In the chimneys of many houses in the city, puffs of blue smoke still rose, and because there was no warning news from outside the wall, the soldiers defending the city were also unvigilant.
When they found that the situation was not right, Zhou Jun had already carried the ladder to the gate of the wall, and set up the ladder on the wall and began to climb up.
Wei Jun was startled at this time, and hurriedly rang the alarm bell and picked up all kinds of weapons to meet the enemy. While organizing the battle, the officer guarding the gate sent someone to inform Li Mi.
The Zhou army rushed to the front, that is, Yuming's guard pro-army Yu Linwei, although their number is small, only a thousand, but everyone is from hundreds of thousands of Zhou army, carefully selected martial arts masters. And everyone wears black bright light armor and holds a Damascus black steel knife, which can be described as the elite of the elite.
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