Chapter 241: Burning the Cloud Ladder

War is not something invented by human beings, and any living thing will carry out active or passive invasion or defense activities in order to better survive and reproduce, in which individual life is no longer important.

Under the premise of defending the race or the country, the death of a soldier or a general on either side will be drowned in a long list of the dead, and if you are lucky, you will be remembered by the clan and become a name engraved on the stone tablet.

And the vast majority of people will only turn into a pile of dry bones, and even their names will be lost in the long river of history, only the dearest parents will shed a few old tears in front of the child's soul, and spill three glasses of old wine after saying a few words of self-consideration.

Zhao Tianyou looked at the scorching battle situation under the city, in addition to setting up thirty-five ladders, the Yuan soldiers had already established a battle line outside the moat, and bows and arrows fell on the city like a torrential rain, although the Song army had already prepared, but still could not avoid some casualties.

"Ready, ready, put!"

Thousands of Song troops carrying thick bamboo tubes were scattered, and there were dozens of bamboo tubes at each siege point of the Yuan soldiers, and the soldiers at the front of the bamboo tubes opened a plug, and a few people behind them shouted and wrestled, pushing out the fire oil filled with the bamboo tubes.

This is the water dragon used to spray water to extinguish the fire when fighting fires in the city, it was filled with fire oil after being modified by Zhao Tianyou, and it can be sprayed four or five zhang away from the condescending level, and the heads of the Yuan soldiers gathered under the city opened the oil rain, but hundreds of catties of fire oil were poured on the heads of thousands of people, which was a little insufficient.

However, the Song army's fire oil was not aimed at people, mainly against the wooden ladder under the city, and the wooden siege equipment that was pushed to the moat by the Yuan soldiers and used as a soldier's bunker. Although the tall carts and arrows were turned over, they could not be erected as high as the city wall, and even covered the height of the city wall for archery, but they could still be used as cover to protect the Yuan soldiers and avoid the damage of the bows and arrows of the Song army in the city.

"Ready! Throwing! ”

This time it was not a bow and arrow, not a fire oil, not a brick and stone tile, but like a hailstorm, the iron shell that sneered and smoked white smoke thundered into the sky. Falling on the shield of the Yuan soldier, it was bounced high, and the white smoke drew an arc, and it drilled into the feet of the soldiers who were protected by the bow and waist, and after the lead burned to the end, it exploded violently.

"Boom, bang!"

It was as lively as setting off fireworks and firecrackers during the New Year, and hundreds of thunderbolts were thrown into the pile of Yuan soldiers, and those shields held high were not a whole after all, and the thunderbolts still had to roll into the pile of people and explode.

The power and effect of the thunder are much worse than that of artillery shells, after all, the charge is several times less, unless the key point hits shrapnel, otherwise it is injured and bleeding and loses combat effectiveness, and it is difficult to kill on the spot. However, the left and right sides of the ladder were crowded into porridge, and thousands of people rushed to climb the ladder with shields, but it was good to be able to climb halfway, and the bows and arrows on the head of the city were not vegetarians.

The soldiers below kept climbing up, and when they climbed to a high place, they kept crackling and falling down, but luckily they didn't breathe a sigh of relief from falling to death, and continued to squeeze towards the ladder, hoping to have another chance to climb.

To be able to climb the city of Guangzhou without dying, it is the glory of the three armies, since they have come to play with their lives, who doesn't want to climb to the top? Become a legendary warrior in front of people and in the army!

However, the thunder of the Song army was thrown endlessly, and the Yuan soldiers gathered near the cloud ladder were lying down for most of them in a blink of an eye, with broken legs and broken arms accompanied by screams and howls, which complemented the rumbling explosions.

If you want to continue to climb the ladder to attack the city, you must first climb over a pile of corpses, if you haven't killed the red eyes and can't tell the difference between life and death, these soldiers would have been unable to fight a long time ago.

"Burst rocket, shoot!"

The soldiers of the firearms battalion lit the fuses and swished and swished, and the targets were not soldiers or horses, but all things made of wood, and the first thing to bear the brunt of was the ladder, the overturned building carts, arrows, and horse-drawn carts, and so on, and they did not escape the attack of the assault rockets.

The flames came out in all directions, and after a fresh wind blew, it was poured on the wood with the help of fire oil, and the wind borrowed the power of the fire and the wind, and after a while, it became a raging fire, forcing out the soldiers hidden behind.

Once out of the protection of the bunker, the Yuan soldiers can be covered by the killing of the armor-piercing cone, and after a volley, there are dead corpses everywhere, and those Yuan soldiers who are holding shields are shot through and busy, not to mention how unwilling they are in their hearts.

There was also a fire on the pile of corpses at the bottom of the ladder, and the fuel spray guns on the top of the city were just filled with oil, and there was another burst of spray at the place where the fire had already burned, and all thirty-five ladders were burned, like thirty-five lit torches.

The last elite reserves have been filled in, and they are the most numerous siege points, and they are also the fastest to die, and the corpses are piled up the highest in the ladder under the city, and Li Shun, the most courageous subordinate of Sichinbari, is really not ashamed.

He was the first and only one, in today's siege battle, he was able to touch the arrow stomp of Guangzhou City with his own hands, and jumped up with a scimitar in ecstasy. As long as he buys a few breaths, more soldiers will climb behind him, and he will soon gain a foothold on the city wall, so he is the biggest hero in the destruction of Guangzhou.

But before he could stand up straight, a sword light from above slashed like lightning, and in a hurry he raised his right hand to meet him, and the shield on his left arm also protected his chest.

"Click! Laugh at! ”

After the knife flashed, Li Shun's scimitar was cut in two, and the person was also split in half, and the corpse fell down the city with an arrow stomping, and Zhao Tianyou stabbed two times in a row, cutting down the two Yuan soldiers who followed Li Shun to the side of the city wall.

Under the endless casualties, the morale of the brave will also decay, with the fire of the thirty-five ladders, the momentum of the Yuan army's siege was completely suppressed, and the boiling blood of Siqin Bari gradually became cold.

The 150,000 troops were at his disposal, and now it seems that more than half of them have been consumed, even the remnants who are still struggling in the flames of war, and they do not have the morale to be fearless of death when attacking, but are looking for a place to hide and hide from the endless killing tactics of the Song army in the city.

The siege points of the thirty-five ladders were on fire, and under the collapsed ladders that had been burning, there were enough 1,000 or 2,000 corpses, and under the burning of fire oil and various wooden instruments, flames slowly began to emerge, and after the human corpses and horse corpses were ignited, thick smoke came out accompanied by a strange smell.

There were still more than a dozen guards around Si Qinbari, and while paying attention to the situation on the battlefield, they were looking at their main generals, who had now become heralds, and they wanted to quickly relay the orders issued by Si Qinbari to the position where they should have arrived.

"Order, withdraw the troops!"

The words popped out of his teeth weakly.