Chapter 43: Molotov cocktails
Zhuge Jin is not a famous general, but after fighting for so many years in troubled times, he still knows the reason why he can't attack immediately without understanding the enemy's situation.
On a dark and windy night, he sent cavalry to reconnoiter the city defense of Xiakou City, and at the same time asked the soldiers to hurry up and rest, preparing for the battle of Dengcheng early tomorrow morning.
After dinner, he personally inspected the army, and when he saw that most of the soldiers were lazy, he could not help but feel a little unhappy.
Zhang Ba noticed that Zhuge Jin was dissatisfied with the soldier's attitude, and coughed a little facelessly, and said:
"It's about to be a big battle, give me some energy, lazy and lazy, what do you look like."
Several soldiers laughed and said: "The thief army has its back to Hanshui, and it will leave as soon as it is said, how can it be desperately defended, there is a big battle to fight, and the general is too worried." ”
Zhang Ba actually thought the same way, he laughed and scolded with a horsewhip to make a gesture to beat, and the soldier ran away with his head in an exaggerated manner, which caused a burst of laughter in the army. Zhuge Jin's face was blue and white, and he shook his head helplessly.
"The thief army broke through the summer pass, but it was just a plunder, seeing that your army has arrived, general, it is estimated that we will run away at night, presumably we will be able to enter the city safely tomorrow morning."
Zhuge Jin snorted and sighed:
"The people of Xiakou City are also the people of Dongwu, how can I let the thieves wreak havoc, I will not say this kind of thing in the future. Go, raise the banner of my general Suinan, and we will enter Xiakou tomorrow in a dignified manner. ”
In the middle of the night, Zhuge Jin tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
The cold wind of winter made him a little restless, and the smell of smoke from a few charcoal basins made his head dizzy, and he almost suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, so he simply wrapped himself in a sheepskin shirt and put on a fox fur to go to the army to inspect.
He held his torch and yawned in the bone-chilling wind, and when he saw many sergeants shivering in the cold wind, and even the sentries shivered from the cold, he suddenly had a sense of foreboding in his heart.
He grabbed one of the generals and asked:
"Why don't you make more braziers, it's so cold tonight, are you going to freeze to death to our generals?"
The general was in his thirties, and the scars on his face made his face look quite hideous, and he was reprimanded by Zhuge Jin, but he was not too frightened, and replied seriously:
"General Hui, after landing today, General Mo has already sent people to collect firewood around, but there are very few people who have returned, and it is said that they were attacked by the thieves and scouts."
"Don't you get firewood when you're attacked by scouts?" Zhuge Jin said angrily, "What is the reason for this? I don't care, I just look at the results.
You're a general, why don't you go yourself? What do you want? ”
That Pi was scolded by Zhuge Jin inexplicably, his heart was unclear, and he was ambushed by enemy scouts, of course, he should go to collect firewood tomorrow morning, why go out in the middle of the night to die.
Although he didn't confront him face to face, the look of doubt was already overflowing, Zhuge Jin saw that he was uneasy, and sneered: "What's your name?" ”
"The Last General Ding ......"
Before he finished speaking, a neat horn suddenly sounded without warning, and the long horn sound was mixed with a mournful beard flute, like a cry and a complaint, which made the hearts of everyone who were already shivering with cold feel cold.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground came from far and near, and Zhuge Jin immediately realized that someone was coming to rob the village, and hurriedly shouted hello.
"Cheer me up, the thief army is coming to rob the village, kill him without leaving a piece of armor!"
The sentinels, who had been freezing for half the night, were very happy to see someone robbing the village—after all, the night was not frozen in vain.
They immediately shouted loudly, gongs and drums were loud in the camp, and one by one the soldiers of the Wu army dragged their tired bodies to get up in a hurry, jumping into the cold wind with weapons without even wearing all their clothes and armor, and lined up in a hula under the command of Zhuge Jin, ready to rely on the camp to defend and counterattack.
The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, but the next scene made Zhuge Jin stunned.
"Why are there only a few of them?"
In the faint light of the torches, they could clearly see that there were really only a few people who had come to rob the village, and not even as many as the scouts they had seen this afternoon.
Even, these cavalrymen did not carry any combat weapons, and each of them held all kinds of Qiang pipes, beard flutes, and military horns in their hands, and it didn't look like they were here to fight.
"It's ...... Got the propaganda team? ”
Several cavalry saw that the Wu army had come over in the dark, and quickly turned the horse's head, and slipped away again very ungracefully, Zhuge Jin and Zhang Ba were still in a daze, and they didn't understand what was going on, but the general just now was thoughtful, and said: "General, I think they may come again tonight." ”
"Why?"
"Our army is tired from afar, and tonight is surprisingly cold, obviously they don't want our army to sleep......"
Rao is Zhuge Jin's cultivation is good, this will still be a face that is distorted and deformed by Zhao Hao's yin strategy, and the face that was already as long as a donkey has now become long and green like a loofah.
"Zhang Ba, take your men and horses, and if you dare to come, you will attack my whole army and kill these dog thieves."
Zhang Ba was also enraged by this group of yin scouts, and said loudly:
"Don't worry, general, I will keep the cavalry ready at any time, if they dare to come again, we will rush out as soon as possible, and we will kill him without leaving a piece of armor."
"Do we have to wait for them to come, and our soldiers can't sleep?"
Zhuge Jin hated iron and said loudly: "Tell the soldiers to lie down with their clothes together, and the horse team will take turns to rest, just make sure they don't come in tonight." Maintain your spirits and fight tomorrow during the day, the key is to fight. ”
Zhuge Jin never expected that this long night would be so difficult.
While his sentries were waiting for the enemy attack in the cold wind, Zhao Hao's army had already begun to rotate.
The cavalry who had returned from the attack were eating hot soup cakes that had just come out of the pot in the warm house with the stove lit, and then went to the back room to wake up the soldiers who were ready to attack the next round, and these energetic knights stretched their waists and mounted their horses in good spirits, each carrying a wine-scented clay bottle in his hand.
"Yo, what kind of wine is this, why is it so fragrant?"
"Damn, why did you send you such a good wine, the general is not fair."
"Go, go, who told you that this is wine, this is a secret weapon carefully prepared by the general."
The cavalry captain said as he drooled and glanced at the clay vase in his hand unwillingly.
He saw Zhao Hao pour strong wine into this bottle, add a lot of precious vegetable oil to it, and use this mixed liquid to soak the expensive silk and plug the bottle.
Listening to General Zhao, this is an epoch-making powerful weapon,
And Zhao Hao, the inventor of this weapon, is now sleeping.
On such a cold day, the opponent is Zhuge Jin's invincible myth, Zhao Hao is not interested at all, Pang De was still a little interested, but seeing that Zhuge Jin's troops have no common sense, and they don't even sprinkle the iron thistle terrestris to guard against the cavalry, he is not interested, so he simply goes back to the house to sleep.
Only Ma Jun, a technical nerd, and Yan Dian, the commander of the military observation group, have not yet slept, and the two of them are waiting for the return of the second wave of cavalry.
Looking at the earthy ránshāopíng on the hands of these excited knights, the corners of Yan Dian's mouth twitched slightly.
The cavalry of the first sneak attack made a lot of noise, but the second wave of cavalry did the opposite, they wrapped the hooves of the horses, and marched very slowly, and only when they gradually approached, did the knights take out their fire sickles and fire folds, and began to fire.
In this era, the fire fold has not yet been invented, and when Zhao Hao was engaged in huǒyào, he accidentally used saltpeter and phosphorus to get it out in advance, and it was particularly convenient to use it with a fire sickle for fire attack.
These cavalrymen in charge of bombing were like bear children who smashed people's windows with stones, threw the clay bottles burning with raging fire into Zhuge Jin's camp, and then ran away.
Before the cavalry who was chasing them in the camp opened the gate, they saw one by one burning bottles smashed on the gate, and the flames rose from the ground, and the fire dragons and devils covered the entire army and the village!
Zhuge Jin was woken up from his sleep, he ran outside barefoot, and was immediately stunned by the scene outside.
What a fire! It's a doomsday fire!
Ránshāopíng set fire to the wooden fence of the gate, and the wind soon turned the camp into a sea of fire, and the fire, cheered on by the cold wind, drifted to the tent and set the top of the camp on fire.
Those war horses who were ready to go were frightened by the high temperature of the fire, and they could no longer be controlled, they roared desperately and screamed, Zhuge Jin shouted at the top of his voice to calm down, but the fire was burning more and more, where did he calm down.
"Extinguish the fire! Extinguish the fire! ”
Zhuge Jin roared with a crying voice, Zhang Ba was more anxious than him, it was a long distance from the river, and the far water did not save the fire, so he gritted his teeth and sent people to take out all the drinking water, and splashed buckets on the fire.
The fire that could be mixed with vegetable oil was so easy to extinguish, seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Ba cried and pulled Zhuge Jin's cuffs and begged:
"General, run, the fire is too big."
"Run! You run for me! Grain and grass baggage...... It's all on! Where are you going? ”
"If you don't run, all of us will die, and we can grab as many as we can!"
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