As soon as the sky brightened, as the battle horn of the coalition army sounded, Gongliangwen arranged his troops and marched into Tucheng from the south, north and east.

Although the weapons were simple, Gongliangwen still relied on the more than 2,000 Chaotian crossbows carried by the Zhi army when they went south, and more than 5,000 uneven bows and crossbows that were captured.

At the beginning of the construction of Tusai, the defenders were equipped with more than 20 mechanical bed crossbows with a range of 200 steps, but they were all deployed on the west wall of the city to face the lake.

The wooden shield could not resist the slender triangular crossbow arrows of the sky-facing crossbow, and the crossbow bolts directly pierced the shield, and inserted into the human body together with the wooden poles, and under the three waves of salvos, the Jinxuedi people had suffered nearly a thousand casualties.

While Gongliang Moon launched an offensive from the north with a bow and crossbow array, the two brothers Gongliang Song and Gongliang Xiu mobilized 20,000 men on the east side and began to attack the castle using a hastily built wooden ladder. In the south, Bai He led 10,000 people to attack the south gate of Tucheng, and Su Fangyi commanded Sikong Nan and Su Hong to launch a decisive blow across the ice from the west side, forcing the defenders to flee south.

And Bailiyan led the army to garrison the camp to prevent the Jinxuedi cavalry from sneaking up from behind.

Facts have also proved that after discovering that the coalition army had begun to attack the city, the cavalry of the Jin Xuedi people sent scouts to detect the weak point of Bai He's department on the south flank of Tucheng, and tried to detour to the east flank and detour to the south side to aid the defenders of Tucheng.

Soon after Bai He's attack, Bailiyan moved 10,000 unicorns to the south side, and asked the soldiers to drag the big trees that had already been cut down to the south flank to block the movement of the cavalry. and transferred 5,000 spears to hold shields to form a solid southern wing, which was the barrier behind Bai He.

Under the maneuvering of Bailiyan, the siege of the Gongliang army was extremely smooth, and after Sikong Nan and Su Hong led their troops to the east bank, they jumped down from the ice and rushed into the city first. Gongliang Song, Gongliang Xiu and his brothers have quite proper tactics, although they command a miscellaneous army, and the family endowment of the Gongliang clan can be seen.

It is worth mentioning that this time, the craftsmen of the Central Plains only used extremely simple tools to make hundreds of wooden ladders in just a few days, which is not easy. Among these craftsmen were blacksmiths, carpenters, and even masons and civil carpenters, and they used their wisdom to make a great contribution to the final breakthrough of the city wall.

The battle continued until noon, and the defenders were so tired and discouraged that the Kincherdi, who had been circling the outer woods, were in a hurry, and they found that the forest was full of tripping ropes, and there were crossbowmen in the trees, sharpened wooden stakes and rough horses on the ground, and even herds of unicorns tied to the trees to block their way.

The slightest approach may be immediately besieged by the coalition infantry and the cold arrows of the crossbowmen, and there is no possibility of assaulting the siege army from behind, so you can only watch the siege of the coalition army.

As the so-called defeat is like a mountain falling, the wall is falling and everyone pushes it, and the fierce battle is until the afternoon, the Tusai defenders quickly disintegrate like an avalanche, and are compressed in the south of the city.

Bai He pretended to be invincible, let go of a gap, ordered the defenders to flee, and at the same time continued to attack and harass the fleeing defenders from both wings, Gongliang led his troops out of the south of the city, and also followed all the way to continue the pursuit, Eses fled south in a panic, hit the barricades set up by logs and unicorn horses, and was forced to turn southeast to continue to escape, and this is the retreat left by Bailiyan to the defenders, so that they fled in embarrassment, and were chased and killed by the coalition forces on the one hand.

The most ferocious pursuit was the Gongliang army, and Bai He chased halfway through the chase and immediately withdrew the soldiers and horses into the city to sweep the supplies.

At this time, the battle situation of the city breaking the enemy and escaping has been decided, Bailiyan quickly urged the craftsmen and strong men, and quickly transferred the wounded materials into the city, he has seen in the telescope fifty or sixty miles away, a large group of soldiers and horses on the snowfield is coming, not to mention more than 200,000 horses, and it will arrive tomorrow at the earliest.

When entering the city, Bai He was rushing to transport sulfur and saltpeter from the warehouse left by the Jinxuedi people, in addition, there were nearly 140,000 people stationed in Tusai before, and enough grain and grass for half a year were found in the grain hoard, as well as weapons and other military supplies.

Judging from the situation of the reserves, it is likely that more than 12,000 people in Bailiyan and the valley will not survive the spring, so they are ready to use it for military operations after the beginning of spring, but now it has become the pocket of the coalition army.

"General, we have made a fortune this time, more than 20,000 weapons were found in the warehouse, more than 300,000 arrows, and dozens of stones of pine oil. These people must want to burn us to death with pine oil fire in the mountains and forests! ”

As soon as Bai He finished saying good things, he cursed again in a blink of an eye, it is difficult for ordinary people to know whether he picked up a cheap or bad luck, he always likes to say something contradictory. Bailiyan has long been accustomed to it, usually going in and out of the left ear, completely filtering out the news without substance.

Looking at the barrels of sulfur on the ground, Bai Liyan asked:

"How much sulfur has been found?"

"More than 100 barrels, maybe there will be more."

Bai Liyan was taken aback when he heard the news, he knew, this bucket is less than fifty catties, and a hundred barrels is more than five thousand catties, which is definitely a very large amount for the moment, even if the entire Xianguo is turned over, I am afraid that it will not be able to take out five thousand catties of sulfur.

It is no wonder that the Jinxuedi people use a lot of sulfur to prevent poison in their wars, and there are sulfur mines in their territory, and many of them are open-pit mines, otherwise they would not be able to get so much sulfur. In addition, there are not many saltpeters found, more than one hundred and fifty barrels, the best formula of one, two, three, nitrate is obviously not enough.

The traditional monosulfur, dicarbon, or monosulfur, disulfide, and tricarbon earth-made black powder formula is not the most powerful, and the explosive power of the ingredients of the compatibility of monosulfur, dicarbon, and tricarbon is amazing, and the power of other formulas is far less so. [Note 1]

Just when Baili Yan was secretly calculating how much gunpowder he could match, Sikong Nantie came to him with a blue face:

"General, something has happened, and it's best to deal with it immediately."

"What's wrong?" Bai Liyan frowned and asked, he really couldn't think of anything that could make Sikong Nan tricky and had to ask him.

"That's right, ...... just now"

Sikong Nan said in a low voice, Bai Liyan's face quickly turned old, and his fists clenched:

"What about these beasts and people?"

"It's all in the barracks."

"Take me to see it!"

"No!"

When they came to the special barracks in the north of the city, the camp was crowded with people, their expressions were solemn and angry, Su Fangyi and the others outside the barracks had dark faces, their cheeks twitched with green tendons, and they were angry:

"Mr. Su, how many people have been found?"

"Five hundred and eighty-seven." Su Fangyi said in a deep voice, looking indifferent.

Bai Liyan pushed open the felt door curtain of one of the barracks, and a stream of blood came to her nose, and in the faint light of the fire, she could faintly see seventeen or eighteen naked Central Plains women lying in a staggered manner, and her lower bodies were all pierced into the spear by the Jin Xuedi people without exception, and were cut off**, the means were extremely bloody and cruel, and there was no humanity at all.

"Sikong Nan!" Bailiyan said viciously.

"The last general!"

"How many live mouths have been caught!"

"More than 2,300 people, maybe there are more."

"Give me all the stripping, cut off the feet, cut off the ears and noses, gouge out the eyes and castrations, line them up, and nail them to the outer wall of the West Gate with crossbow arrows, and you must not show mercy to your subordinates, these beasts and beasts are not worthy of being humans!"

The scene was silent, Sikong Nan was silent, Su Fangyi was also silent, and all the soldiers at the scene were silent.

"Why didn't the general's military order be implemented, is the general's order wrong!" Bai Liyan asked sharply, and two terrifying cold lights were immediately thrown at Sikong Nan.

"General Qiyu, those who have tortured since ancient times are all unkind and scolded by the world, please think twice!"

"Think twice! What is the use of the beasts now riding on our heads, humiliating and bullying your sisters and people, and speaking to them of righteousness and morality! Baili Yan scoffed: "If benevolence, righteousness and morality can be exchanged for peace in the world, how can jackals, tigers and leopards not eat vegetarian food, how can there be such a reason in the world." Since ancient times, the benevolent and righteous are all the kings of the prosperous era, and now in the troubled times, you die and I die, the enemy is unjust, and we still talk about benevolence and righteousness.

Brothers here! Baili Yan turned his eyes to everyone and said: "Among you, there are Qiguo people, Yan Guo people, Chen Guo people, Wei Guo people, Xu Guo people, Zhi Guo people, no matter who you are or what country, you are all from the Central Plains, with the blood of the Central Plains, if your wives and daughters and sisters are ruined and humiliated by the enemy, can you tell them about benevolence and righteousness!" ”

"Can't!" Everyone spoke in unison and was excited.

"Yes, no! As the saying goes, a tooth for a tooth and blood for a blood, a dignified man serves the field, and the husband dies in battle, all by the mandate of heaven. Now these barbarian cowards, when they are defeated, insult my sisters, and kill my wife and daughter, and their deeds are despicable and cruel, beyond the power of beasts and beasts. How can such a beast still be able to reason with it, and if it is not killed, it is not enough to thank God for justice and justice!

Sikong Nan, if you don't carry it out, this matter will be carried out by Ben Jiang personally, and if he is cursed and infamous in the future, Ben will bear it alone. Come on, execute! ”

Bai Liyan did not hesitate to transfer Tian Peng's miners, and it was most appropriate for them to execute this matter. Poured cold water on all the Jin Xuedi people, cut off their ears and noses with their feet and arms, gouged out their eyes and castrations, and tried their best to use cruel means, and finally pierced the shoulder blades with crossbow arrows and nailed them into the city wall, and the blood stained the city head in rows.

At the same time, Bailiyan drove all the descendants of the Central Plains to the brothel camp, so that every Central Plains citizen could see with their own eyes, especially the Central Plains thieves lurking in them, let them know what their masters were in the end, and then let them see what happened to their masters.

It is said that the living lesson is unforgettable and unforgettable, but to be precise, it is a basin of cold water that extinguishes the illusions of those who have evil thoughts and are not strong-willed, and drives them to rise up and resist and destroy all enemies and shackles that suppress and enslave them.

The wails of the tortured in the cold wind were endless, and Baili Yan dipped the blood on the ground, dipped in strips of cloth, and wrote on the wall of the west gate "blood for blood, tooth for tooth, not to punish birds and beasts, not to return the Central Plains" A line of blood words, in order to show the determination to kill the enemy.

[Note 1] Regarding the formula of black powder, there are both one sulfur, two nitros, three carbons, one sulfur, two carbons, three carbons, and one sulfur, two sulfur and three carbons, and there is no absolute conclusion about which is better or worse, no matter what the proportion, it can produce an explosive effect, and the difference lies in the strength and the environment in which the black powder is used.

First of all, the focus of black powder is on "gunpowder" rather than explosives, while gunpowder is gunpowder and explosives are explosives, which, in military terms, belong to two dangerous goods of the same nature, but completely different functions.

Secondly, gunpowder usually refers to kinetic energy propellant, which is the propellant of guns, shells, and solid-fuel missile dyes, but at the same time, gunpowder can also be used as explosives.

The explosives can not be used as propellants, and the factors that limit the use of explosives as propellants mainly include residue indicators, corrosion indicators, high temperature tolerance, suddenness, etc., the focus is that the kinetic energy of explosives exceeds the bearing capacity of the gun chamber and cartridge shell, so it cannot be used as propellant, so the scope of use of explosives is different from gunpowder.

After clarifying the difference between gunpowder and explosives, we will look back at the formula of black powder.

Among them, "carbon" is the main component of accelerated combustion and air expansion, and the main component of saltpeter is potassium nitrate, its chemical formula is potassium, nitrogen and oxygen, after carbon combustion produces high temperature, potassium nitrate quickly decomposes to produce oxygen to support combustion, and sulfur encounters carbon and high temperature, rapid sulfurization, and catalyzes the rapid decomposition of potassium nitrate.

Therefore, the power of black powder depends largely on the content of potassium nitrate, because only potassium nitrate occupies a relatively high proportion in order to release more oxygen, the more oxygen, the more fully combusted, the greater the air expansion coefficient, to achieve the maximum power of the explosion.

Therefore, if black powder is used as a bullet propellant, the nitrate content must be reduced and the content of charcoal and sulfur increased, because the early forecourt tubular firearms were all seamed steel pipes, which could not withstand large doses of black powder. If black powder is used as an explosive, the nitrate content increases, and the sulfur and charcoal content decreases.

However, no matter how the composition of the black powder formula changes, the kinetic energy generated by it is a small class of all modern gunpowder and explosives, but as a kinetic energy drug of early thermal weapons, it still has its convenience.

(End of chapter)