"(Hu) kill ——!"

"(Hu) Chong, ——!"

Legions of hundreds of thousands of Qiang slaves, screaming with all their might, scrambled their bare legs as fast as they could towards the city in the distance.

These horned slaves were yellow-skinned and thin, or ragged and dirty, or unclothed, bare-chested, without a single piece of armor, and the only thing they could call weapons was the crude spears in their hands.

If the kind of thing that ties a short sword or even just a severed blade to a wooden stick can be called a spear.

However, this is not the worst weapon of these slave armies.

The worse and inferior so-called "spear" is really just a wooden stick with one end sharpened.

"That's what you want to do...... No, do you want to die?'

Wu Ji, the general of the Shangshui Army who stood on the west city wall to command the war instead of Zhao Hongrun, gradually condensed the two sword eyebrows on his handsome face.

I have to say that since the surrender of Zhao Hongrun and the surrender of Wei, after understanding the troops and soldiers in Wei, the soldiers of the Shangshui Army have strongly felt that the soldiers of the army are not consumables on the battlefield.

Yes, compared with the generals of their homeland (Chu State) who do not treat their soldiers as human beings, the generals of Wei are qualified to be called commanders, and they are qualified to be called generals, because the generals of Wei never use the lives of their soldiers to pile up victories.

It was precisely because of the comparison that the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army had a strong resistance and hatred for the generals of the Chu State who had commanded them, whether they were dead or not dead.

And now, the slave legions of the Corn Horn Army who came to die one after another—in the eyes of the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army—the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army were inevitably reminded of the bad memories in their hearts.

"Is it not just our old country that exists? This is an ugly way of warfare that is purely based on human lives......

Many of the Shangshui soldiers who stood on the city wall and were ready to attack couldn't help but clench their weapons in their hands.

Because looking at the slaves swarming outside the city, they seem to have the illusion of seeing their former selves.

No!

The situation of the slaves outside the city was even worse than they were at the beginning.

At least when they were under the command of Xiong Tuo, the Monarch of Xuancheng, and Xiong Hu, the Monarch of Pingyu, although the generals of the Chu State who led them at that time did not treat them as human beings, at least they got decent weapons and leather armor.

Although the blade of the weapon was rusty, it could at least cut off the mind of the soldiers of the Wei State who were enemies at that time.

Although most of the leather armor used as armor felt like it was about to fall apart, and it was not enough to stop Wei's crossbows, it at least gave them some peace of mind.

But the slaves in the distance, they have nothing.

"(Chu Chinese) Damn the Qiang people!"

On the city wall, a merchant soldier couldn't help but curse in a low voice in the dialect of his hometown, and viciously spat at the city wall at his feet to express his hatred for the Qian people in his heart at the moment.

Nearby, the rest of the soldiers of the merchant army also showed expressions of disgust.

For they saw in the form of the Raiders, as they may be called, the Raiders who forced their slaves to charge with their swords and whips, the Overseers who had forced them to charge to the death on the battlefield.

The supervising team, this is the characteristic of the Chu army, they are generally led by the confidant generals trusted by the main general, and they have the right to execute any deserter on the battlefield, and they are the most hated people by the low-level soldiers of the Chu State.

And from the cavalry of the Qiang tribe who were responsible for supervising the slaves, the soldiers of the Shang Shui saw the shadow of the overseer in the army of their homeland.

And this ugly scene made the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army feel deeply glad that they are now identified: now, they are the army of the Wei State, and this country will not use the way of piling up the lives of its soldiers to win the war like the Chu State and the Qian people.

『…… There is no wind.'

Wu Ji glanced up at the clouds in the sky, and then at the banner of their merchant army.

The flag hangs and falls, proving that there is no wind today.

"God bless the water!"

Out of the Chu people's custom of praying before the war, Wu Ji prayed silently in his heart, and then, he raised his hand and gave the first general order with an expressionless face.

"Archers obey orders, rockets are ready!"

Hearing this, the archers of the merchant army on the city wall bent their bows and arrows, and aimed an arrow with cashmere thread wrapped around the arrow at the outskirts of the city.

At the same time, Tong Ze, who was beside him, quickly used a torch to ignite the cashmere at the position of the arrow.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"The general has an order, release the arrow!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

With Wu Ji's order, the soldiers in charge of the order on the city wall repeated this general order one after another, conveying Wu Ji's order to the Shangshui generals who were far away.

"Whoosh-"

"Whoosh-"

An untidy wave of fire arrows went from the west wall of the city.

There are not many of them, just a few hundred arrows.

In the face of these hundreds of oncoming fire arrows, the Qiang slaves who were swarming to the city wall in the western suburbs of the land did not slow down at all.

Because the people of the Qiang people stipulate that those who retreat, retreat, or deliberately slow down even if they have the strength to run on the battlefield are regarded as fugitives and are shot on the spot.

Therefore, the slaves of the Qi nationality did not dare to slow down the momentum of the charge, maybe in their opinion, these slaves, there are more than 100,000, all over the mountains and fields, all over the sight, what effect can hundreds of fire arrows in the Wei Military Region have?

Unfortunately, they guessed wrong.

The soldiers of the merchant army on the other side, the purpose of their fire arrows was not to shoot them at all, but only to ignite the viscous, black water that was scattered all over the large and small puddles under their feet.

"Whoosh."

A flaming arrow pierced through the gap between the two Karma slaves and was nailed to the black puddle at their feet.

Suddenly, only the sound of the bear was heard, and the puddle ignited a fire, and in an instant, the flames spread rapidly to the surroundings while running up, and a sea of fire was formed in a blink of an eye.

Many of the Karma slaves who had stepped into those black puddles of water swished and burned and fell to the ground with a miserable wail.

The howls were short, for the 1,600-degree heat from the burning of the black stone had burned them to char in an instant.

At the same time, the heat released by the violent combustion raised wave after wave of heat, roasting the nearby slaves to death.

The scorching heatwave, even if it was a long distance, made the soldiers of the merchant and naval army on the city wall uncomfortable for a while, and they were sweating hotly.

"It's a fierce fire oil, what a powerful power!"

Wu Ji secretly praised in his heart, and immediately, his eyes looked gloomily at the dead bodies that were faintly visible in the sea of fire.

"General!"

A call came from behind Wu Ji.

He turned his head and saw a soldier handing him a wet cloth.

"Well, thank you." Wu Ji nodded and covered his mouth and nose with this wet cloth.

And looking at the city wall at this moment, those merchant soldiers and soldiers covered their mouths and noses with all kinds of water-soaked cloths, some of which were torn from the clothes in their armor, and some of which were directly obtained from the inside of the city.

The reason is very simple, because those black "fierce fire oil", that is, the original liquid of oil, will not only produce billowing black smoke when burned, but also release a large amount of highly toxic gas, although it will not kill you when you smell it, but it will destroy people's nasal cavity, throat and other organs, and if you sniff it for a long time, it will also lead to death.

Of course, Zhao Hongrun didn't explain in such detail, he just ordered Wu Ji to let his soldiers cover their mouths and noses with wet cloths to protect the human respiratory system.

There is no way, unlike the last time the catapult was loaded with barrel bombs to "bombard" the city, separated by a distance of about one and a half miles, this time the distance is too close, close to the end of the sea of fire on the city wall, only less than a mile away from the city wall.

What's worse is that due to the habit of air flow, because the outskirts outside the city are empty and unobstructed, and there is a city wall on this side of the city, therefore, even if there is no wind today, the billowing smoke produced by the violent combustion of the oil, carrying highly toxic gases, is faintly drifting towards the side of the city.

And this is one of the drawbacks that Zhao Hongrun can't eradicate in this tactic.

However, in comparison, Shang Shuijun did not feel much discomfort due to his full preparation, but his eyes were a little dry and swollen.

It is not smoked by the billowing smoke, after all, the wooden wall built by the merchant army has effectively blocked most of it, and the key is that there is a colorless, rotten egg-like poisonous smell in the smoke, that is, the real killer that damages the human respiratory organs.

As for the smoke, it is just black dust particles, if it is collected, it is a good material for making "ink", which is much more black and pure than the ink that Wei is using now.

In contrast, the unprepared Karma slaves outside the city suffered heavy casualties.

Or burned to death by fire, or roasted to death by high temperature, or suffocated by thick black smoke, or because of inhaling too much of that highly toxic gas, his head was dizzy, and he fell to the ground, waiting helplessly with his eyes open.

In this alone, the slave army of Karma died four or five thousand people, far exceeding Wu Ji's estimate in advance.

The reason for this was that the slaves of the Horns were so dense with each other that when the fire broke out, there were people all around, and there was no possibility of escape.

This is the disadvantage of crowd tactics: the distance between the soldiers is too tight, so there is little possibility of evasion.

"According to the tactics of His Royal Highness King Su, the slaves of the Qiang tribe were separated by that sea of fire......

On the city wall, although Wu Ji couldn't bear the miserable situation of those horn slaves under the city, his consciousness as a general of the merchant army made him stare intently at the changes on the battlefield.

As predicted before the war began, the sea of fire created by his merchant army succeeded in dividing the absolutely more than 100,000 slaves into two parts: about 20,000 or 30,000 slaves were sandwiched between the sea of fire and the city, while the remaining about 100,000 slaves were all blocked from the sea of fire and did not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool.

"Give the order to go down and prepare to open the city gates!"

Wu Ji ordered calmly. (To be continued.) )