Early the next morning, the morning light was faint.

Chen Xu had just left the new camp assigned by Li Gu, a small village temporarily requisitioned by the government. There were already a lot of people outside the trenches, some pushing back the piles of siege equipment, some were lining up, as if it was about to start a new day of siege warfare.

Chen Xu has just arrived in Shouzhou, most of the previous military deployments to attack Shouzhou were from the Huainan camp deployed by Li Wenzhao, and the long-term siege deployment, except for special weather such as rain, is attacking the city every day, and it has become a regularization, no need to say more, everyone is used to entering the combat state.

Chen Xu looked at the hot scene, at this time, more than 20 generals such as He Meng, Suo Hu, and Yuan Jizhong walked towards this side one after another, and saw Chen Xu looking outside, the main generals did not enter the military tent, and everyone simply did not go in, and gathered outside the door.

"Is it the siege deployment under General Lee?" Chen Xu asked suddenly.

Just like he thought.

"Exactly. The soldiers were all carried out in accordance with the deployment of General Li in the original Huainan capital. A military general said, "General Chen, do you still need to attack the city according to the original plan?" ”

"As originally ordered." Chen Xu nodded, it was not good for him to directly deal with his superiors when he first arrived, and he didn't have a good way for the time being, so let everyone disband on the spot according to the original order, and go back to perform their duties.

Chen Xu then jumped on horseback and took He Meng and others to inspect the progress of the siege on all sides.

The trebuchets on all sides have been launched, "bang bang bang" smashed on the city wall and cracked in all directions, a group of Wei troops drew bows and fired a volley under the city wall of Shouzhou, suppressing the Southern Tang army on the city tower, and winning the opportunity for the Wei army to approach the city wall behind, a large number of huge ladders, each pushed to the city wall by a group of people, the scene was magnificent, in the meantime, as if the world was swept by war! The most deeply touched is the Southern Tang garrison at the head of the city, condescending and can see the overall situation. The first time I saw hundreds of thousands of Qi attacking the city, I must have a numb scalp.

It's just that no matter how magnificent the scene at this time is, it is in vain to not be able to take the city, the trebuchet is not powerful enough, even if the stones are smashed on the city wall countless times, the original flat wall is smashed with holes and potholes, but it is not able to smash the city wall, the real threat to the Southern Tang Dynasty defenders, after the initial panic, found that the Wei army has no way to take themselves, at this time the defenders may be accustomed to it, there is no initial panic.

As the ladder "chariot" of the Wei army gradually approached the city wall, the battle began to enter the climax, only to see a ladder pushed to the city wall, the underground soldiers turned the "controller", the upper folding ladder body unfolded, and the iron hook at the top of the ladder body hooked on the edge of the city.

As soon as the cloud ladder reached the edge of the city, the Wei army below shouted loudly, cheered themselves up, and rushed up.

Seeing that they were a short distance away from the city, they saw a wooden barrel coming out of the city, and with a "bang", a black unknown liquid poured down and poured on the Wei army who climbed the ladder, and then, a few torches were thrown down on the city, and the black liquid hit the fire, and there was a raging fire, and in a burst of heart-rending screams, the Wei army on the ladder fell down from above, and some of them fell to death and died happily, and the fire on the body that did not fall to death could not be extinguished and could only roll on the ground in pain, Someone had drawn water from the unfilled part of the moat and tried to douse the flames with water, but to no avail, and the fire did not stop.

Bursts of scorched and pungent black smoke drifted away, looking at such a tragic scene, Chen Xu's scalp was also numb!

These black liquids are the fierce fire oil passed down in the army, this is not oil, where did the Southern Tang Army dig it out? Chen Xu thought to himself. (Fierce fire oil was the name given to ancient China when it used oil for warfare, and its greatest effect was during the Song, Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties of ancient China.) ）

Once it is poured on life is worse than death, pain is not desired, with the humble medical level of ancient times, there is no salvation at all, if you want to reduce the pain, you can only cut off your life and no longer suffer from sin!

Some of the burning Wei troops jumped into the moat in flames, and a faint black gas came out of the river, but no one ever surfaced, apparently dead.

Isn't it a waste of time to attack the city like this! Even the most elite and brave warriors encounter this situation the same as ordinary people.