Chapter 659: Dawn
"What to do? What to do? Chen Fei and Cheng Chumo and other generals were like ants on a hot pot, anxious and circulating.
The thunderbolt fire is powerful, but it can't radiate to a city wall, if the thunderbolt fire reserve is a little more, it's good to say, you can try, the problem is that their existing thunderbolt fire storage is only about 3,000 pieces, and the vicious war has just begun, so naturally it is impossible to use it indefinitely.
As for the cannons....... At such a close distance, and at the foot of the city wall, it is basically useless!
"Why don't you try throwing an oil jar under the city wall and lighting it with a thunderbolt?" Chen Fei came up with a crazy idea, and Cheng Chumo was taken aback.
"It's crazy! You risk ruining the walls! Cheng Chumo shook his head, but there was also a hint of madness in his eyes.
There's no better way to do it at the moment, maybe give it a try!
"Or... Pick a place to try first? ”
Cheng Chumo's eyelids jumped, and he nodded silently.
Soon, several shield bearers on the city wall covered a soldier to come to the predetermined position, and there were soldiers waiting for the corresponding position in the city with stones, so as to prevent the city wall from really being blown out of a big hole, but they did not fill it in the first place.
The soldier leaned out first and threw the oil tank in his hand down the city wall, the oil tank shattered, and the oil splattered everywhere inside.
It was only then that the soldier lit the thunderbolt and threw it down. This will greatly reduce the power of the explosion and avoid threatening the city walls.
Fortunately, the idea did not disappoint everyone, and after the thunderbolt exploded, a large flame burned along with the oil. However, because the oil had already fallen, there was no explosion, so there was almost no damage to the wall, but the people below who were struggling to dig the corners of the wall were engulfed in fire and screamed.
"It works!" The generals shouted excitedly, called out to the soldiers to follow suit, threw down the oil cans, and then lit thunderbolts, turning the foot of the wall into a sea of fire, and the burning enemy had nowhere to escape.
The tactic of digging the foot of the wall failed, and even if the enemy was unwilling, he had no choice but to retreat, stop the rain of arrows, and have no choice but to withdraw his troops. They know that today is not going to be a good deal.
After the enemy retreated, the Tang army still tensed its nerves and stood guard at the head of the wall for a long time, for fear that the enemy would kill another horse gun.
It wasn't until the first rays of dawn fell on the earth and their vision was better that they could see the scenery clearly ahead, that they breathed a sigh of relief and knew that the enemy had really retreated, dragging their tired bodies to clean up the battlefield or repair the broken walls.
Seeing that the soldiers were tired, Chen Fei couldn't bear to let them be too tired, taking advantage of the enemy's retreat and not coming back in a short time, he hurriedly arranged shifts, so that the soldiers who had not rested all night would take turns to take a nap.
When the sun was fully raised and hung high in the sky, the scene of last night's fierce battle was revealed.
The walls and feet were littered with mutilated corpses, both from enemies and from their own. Some were shot into sieves by bows and arrows, some were charred by fire, and many corpses were torn apart by the blast, unable to distinguish human shapes.
Tragic! The unseen tragedy.
Last night's vision was not good, I could only hear the fighting, screaming, but I couldn't see how tragic the real battle situation was, and now this scene is presented in front of everyone, some of them have poor psychological quality, and even have nausea.
For example, Chen Fei..........
"Gross!" Chen Fei hugged the city wall and vomited, because he glanced at the foot of the wall in curiosity, and saw nothing but a row of charred corpses.
The disgusting smell of the corpse made him lose his appetite, and he threw up the city wall.
Cheng Chumo was very speechless about this. You made the weapon, and you came up with the solution, so why can't you accept it now? What a strange person.
The handling of the battlefield was handed over to the other generals, and Chen Fei vomited cleanly and was "forced" to be escorted to sleep by the soldiers sent by Cao Ming.
He and Cheng Chumo are the core of the fight against the enemy, and they must be taken care of. Therefore, Cao Ming sent people to force them to rest, because he was afraid that during the decisive battle, he would be too tired and affect his state.
The Tang army was filled with joy after a crushing victory, but the coalition army was different, the whole camp was gloomy, and it seemed that something bad was brewing.
"You have all seen that the defeat is not because our combat effectiveness is not good, but because the weapons of the Tang Army are too sharp to resist at all!" Ju Lian said gloomily.
Last night he lay down in the rear camp all night, and today he is in a much better state and participates in the meeting of the generals.
At this moment, no one blames Ju Lian, in the face of the Tang Army's various weapons, even their more than 170,000 troops can't do anything, not to mention Ju Lian'an's 50,000 horses, it is normal to fail.
But now almost all the generals of the coalition army are staring at Ying Hao with unkind expressions. Ju Li'an's defeat was normal, because he didn't know how powerful the Tang army was, and he suffered a big loss.
And Ying Hao, as the promoter of the alliance, actually did not make it clear the sharpness of the Tang army's weapons, which led to the defeat of the coalition army again and again, and the morale was extremely low.
Especially a few small countries, they have suffered indelible losses, and the army they brought out is almost completely wiped out, and the Church of Our Lady has to pay the main responsibility for this!
"Don't look at me like that, in fact, I've been lied to too!" Ying Hao thought that Yan Yun'er used a fake thunderbolt to deceive him, and he felt a burst of anger in his heart, and he couldn't wait to kill Chang'an alone now and strangle the second daughter of the Yan family.
But I'm afraid he doesn't have that chance, because there is still a mess for him to solve.
"Don't worry! I have already arranged for the church personnel to explore Suzhou and Ganzhou, if we find accurate information, we will make a detour to Dunhuang, first attack Suzhou, and then attack Ganzhou! Then go all the way west! Ying Hao's words were shocking, which shocked many generals.
"What? We can't even capture Dunhuang, how can we bypass Dunhuang to attack Suzhou and Ganzhou? No way! It's absolutely impossible! "Some generals spoke out against it.
Then, almost all the generals were against it.
First, it is necessary to take great risks to bypass the city to attack other cities, such as being surrounded, such as being cut off from the back road, cutting off the supply of food and grass, etc., which is a taboo for soldiers. Therefore, if you are not very sure in your heart, few generals will do this.
Second, a Dunhuang is so difficult to bite, what if Suzhou is as hard to gnaw as Ganzhou? Are you going to let these people run all the way to their deaths?
So these generals quit, feeling that the risk was too great, and in case of failure, there was no room to turn over.
"Everyone!" Ying Hao suppressed the voices of the generals and said: "Don't worry, there are so many powerful weapons in Dunhuang because Chen Fei, the creator of these weapons, is here, and Suzhou and Ganzhou may not have these weapons, if the intelligence can be confirmed, we can make a detour to Dunhuang and go to Suzhou and Ganzhou."
Moreover, Dunhuang's troops are only enough to defend the city, and the attack will appear to be the city's air defense, I don't think they will do such a risky thing, we can give it a try, not to mention, the defenders of Yangguan and Yumen Pass together have more than 14,000 people, all of whom are our people, and they are not afraid of being cut off! ”
The generals Ying Hao said were moved, and secretly said that if the intelligence was really as he said, maybe he could give it a go!
(End of chapter)