Chapter 32: Rockets
After lunch, when he heard the horn of attack coming from the auxiliary building, Cheng Pu turned his head and said loudly to the herald: "Tell Han Tun Chang and Huang Jun to wait for the time to grasp it not too early." ”
Then he said to Shi Changhuan Xuan, who was standing beside him: "Tell the troops to prepare to prevent the enemy from attacking." Once the enemy on the hill of the annex captures the annex, Uyan may take the opportunity to immediately launch a siege operation. ”
Han Dang stood behind thirty crossbow machines, which could shoot at three or four hundred paces, and were generally only equipped with large fortresses like Lu Longsai. However, this type of bow and crossbow machine has many flaws, resulting in a very low utilization rate, requiring three soldiers to operate at the same time, and the hit rate is extremely low. But now lying on the ground were a hundred great arrows neatly stacked beside each of the bow machines, each of which was covered with a thick tarpaulin, and thirty braziers were placed behind the bow machines.
"Hansheng, look at today's Beishi Waida, even God is willing to help." Han Dang said to Huang Zhong with a smile.
"The strong north wind does help the fire, and the fire still starts from behind the enemy to burn the mountain, the enemy will definitely be wiped out, but the fire will also burn down the annex building?" Huang Zhong was slightly worried.
"Yes. But have you ever thought about it, if the enemy occupies the annex, we will suffer. No one can imagine that a fire will burn it, and no one will suffer. When the battle is won, we will repair it again, and it will not be the same use. ”
At this time, Liu He dragged a wounded soldier with one hand, and while waving his sword to resist the enemy's attack, he was retreating, and there was no longer a single Han soldier on the city wall from the annex building to the enemy's attack point.
"Kill... Kill..."Liu He handed over the wounded soldier to his companion behind him, holding a knife in both hands and slashing an enemy to death, he was already a little unable to support his multiple injuries.
Zhang Fei and he led the last 80 or so soldiers to resist bravely and swore not to retreat, hundreds of people crowded on the narrow city wall, one by one, like a red-eyed butcher, mercilessly chopping flesh and blood.
The enemy commander Su Li was already standing under the city wall, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the follow-up troops also moved forward and approached the annex building.
He trembled excitedly and shouted: "Raise the battle flag, put up the battle flag, raise the battle flag......"
More soldiers poured onto the walls, and the hundred archers who followed the assault force had already occupied the annex, and they shouted with shouts and climbed to the top of the building, cut down the Han military flag, and raised the battle flag of their own tribe.
Uyan waved his hand vigorously, and more than a dozen giant horns sounded behind him at the same time, and the enemy army began to attack the main wall of Lulongse. The earth-shattering shouts of killing were accompanied by a tidal flow of people, and encouraged by the victorious capture of the annex by the left-wing friendly forces, the Wuhuan Xianbei people rushed to the battlefield like a herd of wild cattle out of control on the grassland.
The drums above Lu Longsai thundered, and the soldiers shouted loudly, and with Huang Zhong's order, the first wave of arrows roared and flew out.
The soldiers next to the crossbow were all sweating on their faces, not roasted by the brazier beside them, but in a hurry. Han Dang's black face was expressionless, his eyes were motionless as he looked at the bloody killing battlefield on the auxiliary wall, and he saw the Hu clan battle flag erected on the auxiliary building.
Han Dang was suddenly angry, and the land of the Han Dynasty could not allow the Hu people to run rampant, and roared wildly: "Light the fire." ”
The soldiers who had been waiting for a long time were pardoned, and hurriedly picked up arrows and lit them in the brazier.
"Upper Arrow..."
"Release..."Thirty giant rockets let out a thrilling roar and flew out with a "boom".
"Put... Continuous..."Han Dang yelled at the crossbowmen almost hysterically.
In early autumn, the north wind blows over the mountain. The whole mountain was bare trees, large areas of fallen leaves and dry shrubs and weeds, plus the fire oil that the Han army had quietly sprinkled on the bushes last night, the nitrate powder on the weeds, and the fire burned in an instant.
The continuous fire dragon in the sky above Lu Longsai roared angrily, whistling and flying to all corners of Meishan. In the mountain forest, which was 500 paces away from Suli's army, the Han army, who had secretly ambushed here last night, saw that the mountain forest in front of them was already on fire, and immediately lit the bushes behind the first wall of fire and established a second wall of fire. In this way, even if the enemy escapes the first wall of fire, he will not escape the second, more fierce wall of fire.
Su Li was stunned, he didn't know how things could suddenly turn out like this. Victory has been firmly held in the palm of his hand, how could he suddenly fly again.
After the first batch of rockets went into the sky, Huang Zhong rang the golden gong in his hand and signaled Liu He to retreat, and Liu He brandished his sword to stay at the end and fight and retreat.
The follow-up troops of Suli's army were the first to panic, and they scattered in panic and fled for their lives down the mountain. After the road down the mountain had been blocked by the fire, everyone ran up the hill and to the wall of the annex building with a cry. Su Li went to the city wall as soon as the fire started, and more than 1,000 follow-up soldiers fled to the city wall along ten ladders, and in a short time the entire auxiliary wall was already crowded with soldiers, and they had no way to escape from the fire area, so they had to watch the fire sweep over.
After receiving a burst of heavy fire from the Han army, the Hu coalition army was about to counterattack when they heard the horn of retreat. Then they saw a fire that had begun to burn. By the time they retreated beyond the range of the Han army's bows and arrows, the entire Vice-Lou Mountain was already a huge fireball.
One by one, the Hu coalition army looked at the burning Vice-Lou Mountain, and at the looming soldiers on the mountain, as if their screams were in their ears, and the excitement and excitement just now turned into fear and pain in a blink of an eye.
The fire burned more and more with the help of the wind, and the temperature on the entire auxiliary wall became higher and higher, like a steamer, and it was no longer able to treat people. The annex finally couldn't stand the scorching heat of the fire, and began to spontaneously combust, black smoke mixed with more and more flames rose into the air.
The soldiers who were squeezed by the side of the auxiliary building couldn't bear it at first, and the fear of being burned alive was really unbearable. First one soldier jumped down the valley, and then many more jumped without hesitation. The auxiliary wall is a dead end, and the people on it either feel dead or wait for death to come.
The Han army on the main city wall was stunned, they didn't expect that this fire could burn to such a scale in the blink of an eye.
On the other side of the stone gate of the annex building, there were sounds of banging on the door, scolding, begging for mercy, crying, and screaming, and all kinds of sounds were endless, which was really unbearable, and some soldiers couldn't bear to go further quietly.
Han Dang stood next to the bow machine and said coldly: "Don't have any compassion! Once these vicious brutes are caught, we never leave us alive. When they kidnapped our innocent Han people and brutalized our defenseless border people, did they ever have compassion? Have it? If we don't kill all these barbarians, there will be no peace in our country. ”
"Kill," one soldier shouted.
"Kill," more soldiers shouted with their arms raised.
Liu He sat alone on the root of the city wall, not knowing whether what he was doing was right or wrong, thinking of his comrades who had been brutally killed, he felt that he was not wrong to do so. Hearing the miserable cries outside the stone gate, he felt that he was too cruel, and that it was a great sin to burn 12,300 people to death.
The three of Uyan watched as Suli and his troops were engulfed in flames.
They could not accept this harsh truth. The blow that the Han army gave to the coalition forces was too great, especially the blow to morale! Seeing the soldiers struggling and dying in the flames, no one is not afraid, no one is not afraid. The impregnable Luronse has given his soldiers not only unbreakable myths, but also brutal and terrifying means of destroying the enemy.
The demise of Suli's forces caused the coalition forces to lose their numerical superiority, and the siege of the city seemed to be out of reach. Wuyan's troops seemed to be so frightened that they retreated the camp three miles, they stopped attacking, they were waiting for the return of reinforcements from the Xiong clan.
The fire continued until noon the next day, and if it weren't for the walls that prevented the fire, it was unknown where and how long it would have burned.
On the third day, when the Han army opened the stone gate, they were surprised that there were still people who did not die! Several Xianbei soldiers who were crushed by a large number of corpses and leaned against the edge of the stone gate were still alive, including the leader Su Li.
The battle of Luronze was victorious, and the entire fortress was immersed in a joyous atmosphere.