Chapter 193: The Battle of Defending the City VII

After hearing the order, the soldiers of the island country pushed thousands of heavy siege crossbows and hundreds of wall-breaking crossbows in formation, and after pushing them into the effective firing range area, the siege crossbows and the wall-breaking crossbows sent out two phalanxes, the siege crossbows were in front, and after the wall-breaking crossbows, they aimed at the arrow towers and city gates on the city walls respectively, and more than 3,000 soldiers were responsible for loading with crossbow arrows and crossbow pillars.

When the soldiers of the island country lined up under the city wall to prepare for the siege, Ling Xia also tinkered from behind the city wall, he asked the soldiers to take out all the carts of stone bullets that had accumulated before, and ordered people to bring a few barrels of flammable copper oil, soak the stone bullets from the copper oil one by one, and put them in the groove of the catapult.

Ling Xia had captured 200 catapults before, and at this time, he had five soldiers next to each catapult, two soldiers were responsible for calibrating and firing, two soldiers were responsible for filling the stone projectiles, and the remaining soldier was responsible for lighting the fire with torches.

Because he saw the arrow towers on the wall of the battle guards, he was worried that the soldiers would be injured by the archers inside, so Yoshio Yamamoto deliberately chose to be outside the range of the archers when arranging the siege crossbow soldiers to set up the formation.

After all, the attack distance of the siege crossbow is much farther than that of the archers, once the battle starts, the siege crossbow can use the range advantage to attack the city wall without worrying about the archers above firing back, but he doesn't know that there are more than a thousand siege crossbows on Ling Xia's side.

Just when the island nation set up the attack formation and was about to start the attack, Ling Xia stepped on the city wall again and spoke: "Lord Commander, why do you say that you will turn your face, just now the two of us were talking about brothers, why are you going to meet me all of a sudden?" If you continue to do this, then I will not be polite brother. ”

"Hmph, just because of you, you still want to be polite to me? It's a joke, you think you can sit back and relax by using those captives as meat shields? This is a small skill of carving insects, if you have the ability, you can use it, let me see how you are polite? With a sneer, Yoshio Yamamoto was about to give the order to shoot.

But at this moment, Ling Xia said a sentence without a beginning or an end: "Since Your Excellency the Chief Soldier wants to see how you are polite, then I am really welcome, I will first destroy these siege crossbows, wall-breaking crossbows, and those catapults next to you, and after all your siege equipment is scrapped, let's talk slowly." ”

"Cut, who wouldn't say big talk? Just because you still want to scrap my siege equipment, I'm really not afraid of the wind flashing your tongue. Seeing the difference in strength between the two sides, Yoshio Yamamoto didn't pay attention to Ling Xia's reminder at all, and mocked Ling Xia, he shouted loudly: "Siege Army, prepare -------"

Yoshio Yamamoto thought that Ling Xia was just bragging in public, so he didn't take Ling Xia's words to heart at all, but he didn't expect that just as he shouted the order and was about to let the siege army attack, suddenly, Ling Xia's roar "Fire" came from the opposite city wall, "Fire," Ling Xia actually took the lead in ordering an attack.

"Whoosh!"

"Knock knock!"

With Ling Xia's order, one by one the burning stone bullets were thrown in an arc towards the phalanx of the siege corps of the island country outside the city, and the stone bullets smashed into the crowd, and the soldiers who were immediately hit were caught off guard, and the soldiers who were originally squatting next to the siege crossbow were either stoned to death or injured by the stones that burst out after the stone projectiles shattered.

These are all simple, and the worse ones are still to come, at the beginning, everyone didn't understand why Ling Xia soaked the stone bullet into copper oil, and then used a torch to light the stone bullet? Although this will increase the damage of the stone projectile a little, it will not be too effective, as the stone projectile is not combustible and cannot burn for a long time.

Once the copper oil on the surface is burned out, the flame will be extinguished, even if the stone projectile hits the siege crossbow or catapult, at most it will cause some sparks, and it is impossible to cause a large-scale fire, but what happened next fell through everyone's glasses, it turned out that a large part of the stone projectiles that flew away smashed into the wine jar sent by Ling Xia.

When the captives returned to the island camp before, Yoshio Yamamoto was ordering the siege corps to arrange the catapults, and when they were halfway through, because he saw Ling Xia pulling the captives to the city wall, and was worried that he would be charged with killing his own captured soldiers, Yoshio Yamamoto suspended the catapults, and at this time, it happened to be in time for Ling Xia to send a group of captives in the name of giving wine to negotiate.

The captives came to Yoshio Yamamoto and knelt down to plead guilty, at this time, the captives put the wine jar next to the catapults, and without a few words, Ling Xia suddenly flickered to negotiate, pretending to exchange the captives for weapons and food, attracting the attention of Yoshio Yamamoto and those generals, so that the other party all ignored the thousand jars of spirits.

After the negotiation broke down, Yoshio Yamamoto began to arrange siege crossbows and wall-breaking crossbows to form a phalanx, at this time, if Ling Xia sent the siege crossbow in the watchtower to shoot and block, the siege army of the island country could not form a phalanx at all, but Ling Xia did not do this, but let the other party set up the siege crossbow and the wall-breaking crossbow to form a phalanx.

It was only at this moment that Ling Xia's fox tail was revealed, and when the burning stone bombs were concentrated in those wine jars, the wine jars were instantly shattered, and all the spirits contained in them were sprinkled on those catapults, and the frames of the catapults were made of wood, and after encountering flames and alcohol, they burned instantly, and under the effect of alcohol, the flames burned very quickly.

"Crackling, crackling......"

The 600 catapults of the siege corps were all burned, and after the frame was burned, all the ropes and flares inside were burned, and many delicate parts were also burned by the flames. ”

At this time, Ling Xia was holding a night vision telescope to observe the enemy situation on the opposite side, and saw Yoshio Yamamoto send someone to put out the fire on the side of the catapult, he also hurriedly shouted below: "Quick, continue to attack, don't save Lao Tzu, I can't do it, use all the stone bullets, and never give the other party a chance to extinguish the fire, without these catapults, what do I think he will do to attack the city?"

Inform the watchtowers and fire towers that all the siege crossbows are attacking, and ask the soldiers to dip the crossbow arrows in copper oil, light them and shoot the enemy's siege crossbow phalanx, note that our goal is to destroy the enemy's attack weapons, so that everyone can aim at the target, just shoot the flaming crossbow arrows into those siege crossbows. ”

"Fight the fire, hurry up and put out the fire, why are you all stunned? Why don't you go up and put out the fire? Don't you see those catapults and siege crossbows on fire? Without those weapons, what will I do to attack the city? Seeing the soldiers dangling from the edge of the fire with buckets, but no one dared to rush over to extinguish the fire, Yamamoto jumped to his feet in a manly manner.