After being excited for a while, Zhao Hongrun reacted, at this moment, he is the dignified prince of Wei who enjoys the title of "King Su", and he is the commander of more than 30,000 advance marches.

"Ahem!"

He coughed and said casually, "Well, the first bomb was relatively successful." So now, start the real ...... attacked. ”

At this, the smile on his face gradually retracted, for only he knew what kind of scene he would make of the city on the other side when he lit the barrels filled with oil with strips of cloth and threw them at them.

But there was no way, because if he forcibly attacked the city, his soldiers would surely suffer heavy casualties.

Even if he is selfish or partial, between the casualties of his own soldiers and the casualties of foreign tribes, as the prince of the Wei people, Zhao Hongrun did not hesitate to choose the soldiers of his own country.

Of course, this is only on the battlefield, not the killing of prisoners or the abuse of foreign civilians after the war, for those Wei people who corrupt military discipline, Zhao Hongrun will definitely not cover up, after all, this kind of bad behavior will cause a chain reaction, affecting his entire Wei army soldiers, once discovered, it must be eliminated.

"Carry a barrel of oil up."

Waiting for the catapult to tighten the rope again, Zhao Hongrun instructed the guards to carry a barrel of oil onto the throwing basket.

"Fetch a torch."

"Yes."

Taking the torch handed over by Zong Wei Mu Qing, Zhao Hongrun turned his head to look at the wooden barrel.

I saw that above the sealed wooden barrel, there was actually a stopper with a long strip of gray cloth nailed to it.

This is not an ordinary strip of cloth, but a strip of cloth soaked in oil and naturally dried, acting as a firestarter.

And what Zhao Hongrun has to do is to light this strip of cloth, and then throw this "barrel bomb" out.

Since the weight of the stone bullet used to test is almost the same as the weight of the "barrel bomb" this time, the location where the stone bullet landed is the approximate location where the "barrel bomb" exploded this time, and there will not be much deviation.

The question now is......

The basket of this catapult was too high, and even if Zhao Hongrun stood on tiptoe and raised his right hand, he couldn't reach it......

Zhao Hongrun: "......"

Sima An: "......"

Generals: "......"

Soldiers: "......"

After trying to tiptoe a few times, the whole person suddenly became silent, and His Royal Highness King Su, who was standing motionless, closed their mouths very knowingly.

Even Sima An pretended to wrap his arms around him, looking down at the ground at his feet.

"The person who interjects at this time...... There is no place to die!'

Everyone present had a clear understanding in their hearts, not to mention opening their mouths rashly, even if they gasped loudly.

After a long time, Zhao Hongrun said with a calm face and an expressionless face: "Shen Yu, you come to light the fire." ”

"Yes......" Shen Yu stubbornly walked over.

Handing the torch in his hand to Shen Yu, Zhao Hongrun glanced at the onlookers with a gloomy face, and said in a tone that was simply terrifying: "What are you looking at?" ”

"Didn't you let us see your movements, Your Highness?"

wanted to think about it, but no one dared to say so, after all, Zhao Hongrun at this moment, his eyes were no less murderous than Sima An when he was feared.

So, the generals scratched their heads, scratched their faces, in short, they all looked away, and the scene of being a genius never happened.

Perhaps since today, the Wei government and the opposition have added another 'taboo'.

Following the taboos such as "don't mention Xiao Shuyan in front of Wei Tianzi" and "don't mention each other in front of Sima An and Zhu Hai", there is another taboo "Don't mention anything related to height in front of His Royal Highness King Su".

"Bomb throwing!"

As Zong Wei Shen Yu shouted to himself like Zhao Hongrun, the catapult roared again, and in an instant, the wooden barrel was thrown high, crossed an arc in the air, and slammed into the place where the stone bullet fell.

In an instant, the barrel shattered, and the oil inside the barrel exploded all around.

In the blink of an eye, when the oil was stained with the strips of cloth that ignited the fire, it immediately burst into flames, and then burned more and more, but in a moment's time, the tower at the south gate of the city turned into a sea of fire.

"Fire! Fire! The Wei people tried to attack with fire! ”

"Quick! Fetch water to extinguish the fire! ”

The people on the tower of the city were panicked and tried to use water to extinguish the flames.

However, to their shock, when they poured buckets of water on the flames caused by the black water, instead of extinguishing the flames, they made the flames burn more vigorously and devour the surrounding area more rapidly.

"Attempting to extinguish a fire caused by oil with water...... What?'

Because the people of the two clans on the upper floor of the city shouted too loudly, Zhao Hongrun could also hear the other party's words.

He didn't mean to laugh at the other party.

After all, oil is not known to the world, and it is normal for the Sanchuan tribe not to know the nature of oil. Not to mention the Sanchuan tribe, now in the Wei State, in addition to him Zhao Hongrun, how many people know the value of oil and the powerful lethality that this kind of thing can cause when used in war?

In today's world when dry powder fire extinguishers have not yet been invented, it is simply beyond human power to extinguish catastrophic fires caused by pure crude oil such as oil.

No, it's burnt.

After all, the burning temperature of oil is more than 1,600 degrees, which is high enough to melt iron, not to mention just human flesh and blood?

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to inflict heavy casualties on his army in order to conquer the city before clashing with the army of the Qianjiao tribe, Zhao Hongrun didn't want to use this kind of thing against the Qianjiao people and the Qian, after all, the Sanchuan tribe of these two tribes still had the possibility of living in harmony with the Wei State.

This thing was used by Zhao Hongrun to deal with the Qiangjiao tribe.

Sighing slightly, Zhao Hongrun ordered in a deep voice: "The remaining twenty-nine catapults, based on the position and angle of this catapult, start throwing bombs!" ”

With Zhao Hongrun's order, the remaining 29 catapults also took action, and the soldiers of the merchant army carried barrels filled with oil onto the throwing baskets, lit the strips of cloth on the barrels with torches, and then threw them out.

"Bang-"

"Bang bang bang-"

Thirty wooden barrels, one after another, were thrown out one after another, cutting through an arc in the air, and exploded one after another near the south gate of the city and the city wall.

In an instant, the place seemed to be completely engulfed in a sea of fire, and the fire rose several feet high, as if even the city walls were about to be scorched.

The felt tents of the camp outside the city were burned down in an instant, even if they were far away, the Wei army could still see many enemies burning violently, screaming in pain and fleeing in all directions, inadvertently igniting more felt tents.

"What the hell is this?"

"Extinguish the fire! What are you doing? ”

"It's not ...... This fire can't be extinguished by watering! ”

"Yes, it will make the fire stronger......"

"Damn the Wei people! They actually ...... With this terrible black water......"

"Things are ...... so far"

After some struggle, the warriors of the two tribes, who had not yet been engulfed by the sea of fire, launched a surprise attack on the Wei army's position with a strong hatred.

However, in front of the crossfire composed of a full 500 repeating crossbows deployed by the Shang Navy, the tribal warriors of the two tribes who rushed over with only their legs and courage were simply sent to death.

"Well, I've completely become a spectator......

The general of the Dangshan Army Hunting Battalion, Le Qian, scratched his head, and his expression was really a little unspeakably strange.

You know, he originally wanted to respond to the side, at least guard the flank of the Shang Shui Army, who knew that the tribal warriors of the Shan and Shan tribes on the opposite side were carried away by anger and fear at this moment, and actually rushed towards the crossbow defense line of the Shang Shui Army, causing him and the cavalry under his command to have nothing to do and completely reduced to spectators.

I believe that not only Leqian, but most of the generals of the Dangshan Army will have this sense of loss, because they feel that they have gradually fallen from the protagonist to a supporting role in this war.

However, as the general of the Dangshan Army, Sima An's vision is obviously more than a step higher than that of the generals under his command.

"There are catapults and this special oil in the distance, and crossbows at medium and close ranges...... Although His Royal Highness King Su's tactics are incomprehensible, they ...... Surprisingly effective. And, this incredible number of casualties between friend and foe......

With the screams he heard incessantly from the distant city, Sima An had no doubt about the casualties of the enemy on the opposite side, but here, what were the casualties of the Wei army?

To this day, it's still zero!

"......" Sima An couldn't help but glance back at Zhao Hongrun, who was calmly watching the battlefield situation, and for some reason there was a sense of powerlessness in his heart as if he was a hero's twilight.

He had a hunch that the tactics he was accustomed to in the past, to be precise, the tactics and tactics that most of the generals in the world were proficient in, would be phased out because of the appearance of the young King Su in front of him.

Defeated by a new way of warfare that they could not understand.

"Huh?"

As if noticing, Sima An touched his face, and immediately raised his head and looked at the cloudy sky.

"It's raining?"

He frowned and muttered incredulously, "It's raining at this time?" ”

He turned his head to look at the city on the south side of the city where all the walls were reduced to a sea of fire, and he was a little unwilling, after all, in his impression, the biggest natural enemy of using fire attack tactics was natural rainfall that could not be manipulated by man.

No, the people of the two tribes of the city on the other side had already shouted in ecstasy in their hearts.

"(Primitarian language) Plateau God blessed!"

"It's the gods of the plateau who are saving us, His people!"

"Hahaha, damn the Wei people, their fire attack was defeated by the gods."

"(Woohoo! Highland gods! Alack! ”

The people of the city stopped their useless firefighting operations and fell to the ground one by one, expressing their gratitude to the gods they believed in.

And on the side of the Wei army.

Among the generals who gradually showed a worried look because of the rain, Zhao Hongrun was still expressionless, not happy or surprised.

"Highland Tenjin...... What?'

He glanced up at the cloudy sky and sighed slightly.

Because he knew very well that it would not be long before the people of the two tribes on the other side would turn from joy to utter despair.

A moment later, it rained heavily.

However, the sea of fire burning in the area around the southern wall of the city was still burning brightly, and it was not affected by the rain in the slightest.

And, the more it burns, the more it burns. (To be continued.) )