Chapter 159: Bronze Plague Biochemical Warfare (2)
It's a good idea to use a toilet instead of a manure pit. m.
The next day, Wei Chijin sent Xie Tian and Xie Di to lead more than 1,000 guards to nearby villages and counties to buy toilets used by the villagers, and allocated a lot of silver taels to Er Xie, hoping that they could buy a large number of toilets.
At the same time, Wei Chijin ordered Li Cunzhang to go to Yizhou to buy alum; Li Kexiu was ordered to lead his troops to build ladders, catapults, siege rings and other equipment.
For half a month, Wei Chijin has insisted on leading people to scold the formation, so as to confuse the other party's attention.
July 13 is a good day.
There is a wind blowing south, and it is the best time to use Li Kexiu's strategy.
Wei Chi Jin led the palace guards, carrying ladders, pushing catapults, and attacking the city, slowly approaching the copper city, and made a posture of storming the city.
As soon as he arrived at Tongcheng, Wei Chijin ordered Li Cunzhang and Li Jun to lead 3,000 guards to feint an attack on Dongcheng; He Gongya and An Jinjun led 3,000 guards to feint and attack Xicheng.
Without exception, all of these guards carried ladders, catapults, siege rams, and thousands of toilets.
On the copper city, Zhang Yan and Peng Ju had already reacted, the three city walls were all full of Zhaoyi guards, and even the prepared and substitute guards were waiting under the city.
In the field, they did not have the confidence to defeat the Shatuo people, but if they defended the city, they would be almost two or three times the enemy's strength, and the Shatuo people wanted to attack the city with this little force, in their opinion, this was simply a joke.
It is not unreasonable for them to have this self-confidence, in the era of cold weapons, in any conventional siege battle, the casualty ratio can at least reach a three-to-one battle loss ratio, that is, the besieging side must use the lives of at least three soldiers to kill a soldier defending the city.
After everything was ready, Wei Chi Jin rushed out of the formation on horseback, came to the bottom of the copper city, and said loudly: "Zhang Yan, Peng Zhu, this general will give you a chance now to surrender the city, otherwise once the city is broken, it will be ruthless." ”
It's just that before her words fell, Zhang Yan's rampant laughter sounded on the city wall: "Hahaha, the kid surnamed Han, are you joking?" Do you think we don't know, you only have how many troops, you dare to speak wildly about taking the city, and you are not afraid of the wind and flashing your tongue. ”
"I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, in this copper city, my Zhaoyi army has nearly 30,000 guards, you are a little person, you want to capture the strong city, it's really an old birthday star hanging to death, if you want to fight, you don't need to say more nonsense." Zhang Yan responded unceremoniously.
"Okay, I hope you wait, don't regret it." Wei Chi Jin had a cold face, and immediately hit his horse and galloped back to his own position, since there are people who don't believe in evil, then let him suffer a little.
When Wei Chi Jin came to the front of the formation, he immediately cleaned up the 3,500 Yue cavalry guard, and at the same time waved his big sword and shouted: "The Zhaoyi Army is so ignorant, let them see the new discovery of our General Li." ”
The officers and men of the three armies of "Nuo" roared in unison, angry and angry, and moved the four fields.
With a roaring promise, dozens of catapults were immediately loaded with "stones", Li Kexiu's expression was flying, and he pulled out his long knife with a "cangchang", raised his knife to the sky, and shouted: "Release."
The creaking catapult, a roar, with the catapult, pulled the handle,
I saw countless toilets flying into the sky, and below the white clouds, they crossed a graceful arc and fell straight towards the copper city wall.
The guards of the Zhaoyi Army stationed on the city wall all looked at the sky with curiosity, and the imaginary stones did not fly in, but instead there were countless old wooden barrels, and there were guards with better eyesight, and they could even find that there seemed to be shriveled gray solids in the cracks of the barrels.
What is this, is it the sharp weapon of the Hedong Army's battle against the city, it doesn't feel like anything, even if it is full of water, it is not as lethal as the stone.
Strange speculations sprouted in the hearts of the Zhaoyi military guards, and even Zhang Yan and Peng Zhang were puzzled, the catapult did not shoot stones, but actually shot wooden barrels, what does this mean.
But when they were puzzled, the first toilet bowl smashed down on the city road, only to hear a "bang", the wooden barrel touched the stone ground, exploded, and countless commotion and foul smell came to the nose.
Those guards who were closer to the toilet were even splashed with feces and urine, which was even more pungent and eye-catching in this hot weather.
This scene completely stunned countless Zhaoyi Mansion Guards, and even Zhang Yan and Peng Ju looked demented, but this state had just been maintained for a moment, and they had to be forced to wake up.
This is the hors d'oeuvres, with the explosion of the first wooden barrel, followed by dozens of wooden barrels smashed down, yellow filth, unkempt, countless Zhaoyi army guards, were splashed with feces and urine.
That's not all, the pungent stench, the smell of urine, almost suffocating, and even some people vomited on the spot, even vomited out the overnight supper, and the intestines were about to be empty, but still couldn't stop the nausea, as well as the ubiquitous stench and urine smell everywhere.
This is only the first wave, a wave has not settled, and another wave has come, and it is endless.
The two brothers, Xie Tian and Xie Di, although they are usually rude and reckless, have always done their best for Wei Chijin's orders, spent almost all the silver taels, bought one or twenty thousand toilets, and even pulled back the "stock" in it without wasting a drop.
In half a month, Li Kexiu can produce how many catapults, and there are less than 200 in the sky, and if you roughly calculate, at least dozens of waves can be projected.
All of a sudden, under the copper city, countless toilets rose in the air and rushed straight towards the copper city.
On the copper city, as well as around the copper city, the smell is stinking and commotiony, and the pungent smell is getting stronger and stronger, with the smashing of the toilet bowl and the burst of feces and urine, this smell is getting worse and worse.
Even the people in the city couldn't stand it anymore, so they ran home one after another, sealed the doors and windows, and for a while, the streets and alleys were cleaner than the curfew.
The Zhaoyi guards stationed in Tongcheng vomited one after another, their bodies collapsed so much that they couldn't even hold the spear, Zhang Yan and Peng Zheng were also green, gritting their teeth and holding on, and from time to time they would stretch out a hand and cover their mouths and nostrils, so they couldn't hold it back, so they reluctantly let go of their hands, and then frowned with bitterness.
These two iron-clad men didn't block the smell, before and after, they vomited three or four times, and on the entire city wall, all the palace guards,
Including the generals, everyone has a bitter face and is dying, and the situation is like a small fish leaving the water, hovering between "drunk life and dream death".
Li Kexiu did not slack off, and continued to project for more than half an hour, until he could smell the rich smell against the wind, and then he ordered him to stop.
Then he immediately waved his knife and shouted: "Sons, cover your mouth and nose with a wet cloth, the time has come to break the city and kill the enemy, everyone lift the ladder and rush with me." ”
With Li Kexiu's loud shout, countless Hedong Mansion guards couldn't wait to take out the wet cloth, tie their mouths and noses, and then carry them up the ladder and rush towards the copper city.
As soon as they saw that the enemy had finally stopped projecting, the guards of the Zhaoyi Army wanted to get up and prepare to resist the enemy's attack, but as soon as they got up, they saw the yellow and green filth around them, so their knees weakened and they fell down again.
This is not the case for more than one or two people, almost everyone is like this, and in addition, the pervasive stench and urine smell around them frantically poured into their noses and mouths, and they who could stand it without special training and preparation.
If you look down from the air, you can find that on three sides of the copper city, countless ants, lined up neatly towards a city in the middle, and the siege of the city one by one, also under the impetus of the guards, went straight to the city gate.
And on the city wall, countless ants rise and fall, but they can't stand up, even if the two strong ants threaten and persecute, they still can't get up, at this time, almost all the Zhaoyi Mansion guards have only one idea.
That is, it is better to simply surrender, or to leave this stinking place as soon as possible, and there is nothing else to think about.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Yan and Peng Zhu's faces became even greener, they were in a good situation, but they had to admit that they were defeated, they were not defeated in terms of combat strength, numbers, or even courage, but they were defeated by a bunch of and urine.
Look at the city wall again, dozens of cloud ladders are erected on the city wall, the Zhaoyi Army's guards finally have sporadic people to get up, at this time, there are already Ma Li's Hedong Mansion guards rushed to the city, Li Cunxin, Li Cunzhang, He Gongya, Li Jun, An Jinjun and others, personally operated, took the lead in climbing the cloud ladder, as soon as they saw someone stand up, these rushed to the city, covered with white cloth of the generals, the guards, unceremoniously, the head is a knife, and immediately turned out to be the people who want to struggle.
In the whole siege battle, the Zhaoyi Mansion Guard, not even sporadic resistance, occasionally someone rose up, and even no one was killed, so he collapsed, and was faced with the Hedong Mansion Guard who climbed the city wall head-on, and ended his life with a knife.
Wei Chi Jin was also masked with a wet cloth, led 3,500 Yue cavalry, and after the siege of the city opened the city gate, he immediately raised his horse and raised his sword and killed into the city, of course, there are Xie Tian and Xie Di, the two generals who will not leave.
At this time, Zhang Yan and Peng Ji wanted to escape again, it was too late, and the moment they saw Yu Chijin rushing into the city from a distance, they accepted their fate.
In the battle, the Hedong Army broke through the Tongcheng garrison of 30,000 guards with 10,000 guards, captured the copper guards Zhang Yan, Peng Zhu, Xu Jian, Zhu Shi, Liu Tang and other generals, and surrendered Zhaoyi to a full 30,000 soldiers.
After some calculations, the Hedong Army almost did not lose a single soldier, only a few people ran too fast because they were too eager to compete for merit, and they broke their feet; Even the Zhaoyi army, with less than 100 dead and wounded, was a magnificent battle, and finally lost to excrement.