Chapter 19: The Siege

The man sat on his war horse and shouted:

"I am Yuan Shao's subordinate, the general Wen Chou, now you open the door and surrender within a quarter ......of an hour, otherwise, when the city is broken, the chickens and dogs will not be left behind."

After Wen Chou finished shouting, Zhang Zhang heard a commotion on the city wall, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Zhang Zhang also shouted to Wen Chou:

"Don't talk nonsense, if you have the ability to fight with me for 300 rounds, this general will behead him and hang it on the White Horse City"

Hearing Zhang Li's reply, Wen Chou laughed.

"Hahaha"

"Don't think that everyone is like Yan Liang, don't use a good advantage, what kind of heads-up to play?"

After finishing speaking, he spat at Yan Liang's corpse, and his contempt was undoubtedly leaked.

Zhang Zhang also wished that Wen Chou would say this, there were accidents and luck in killing Yan Liang, and the most important thing was Yan Liang's light enemy!

If Yan Liang is given another chance, it is a matter of whether Zhang Li can still stand here, but that is only if.

Just when the tension was still intoxicated with the memories of killing Yan Liang, Wen Chou's voice sounded again:

"A quarter of an hour has come, and I have already given you the opportunity, since you don't know how to cherish it, then use death to make up for your ignorance"

After saying that, Wen Chou returned to his horse and retreated into the army, and then the war drums sounded in Dudu......

From slow to urgent, neither humble nor arrogant!

Zhang Zhang knew that this was the rhythm of the siege, and sure enough, when the war drums were beating the most urgently, the flag commander waved the flag, and the shield soldiers in the front row raised their one-man high shields, and Jiang's siege vehicles surrounded an iron lump and quickly rushed to the city gate.

Although the spear infantry did not move, the archers and catapults behind them rained down on the walls at the same time, with a rain of arrows and huge stones......

Zhang Li has never seen such a scene, the rain of arrows in the sky is like a dark cloud, black and oppressive towards the people on the city wall!

Although I have not been in contact with the real ancient siege warfare, I have seen a lot of movies, and Zhang Zhang shouted when he saw the rain of arrows in the sky:

"Crouch, dodge"

……

The arrows did not cost raindrops, and it took ten minutes to stop, and after the rain of arrows, the siege vehicles, protected by shields, had joined the battlefield and slowly drove towards the city gate.

Zhang Li looked at the slowly walking siege vehicle, and his mind was quickly thinking of countermeasures, let the archers release their arrows? No, the shield soldiers surrounded the siege vehicles so tightly that if they released arrows, they would only waste bows and arrows, and nothing else would work.

With stones? No, the stones can only slow down, and the speed of the siege vehicles cannot solve the fundamental problem.

If only we could destroy the siege engines! Although Zhang Zhang really wanted to destroy the siege vehicle, he never thought of a good countermeasure!

Just when the tension was bitter and there was no solution, Lu Bu complained and said:

"When you see the siege vehicle, I am very angry, if Cao Cao didn't use it at the beginning, the siege vehicle knocked me down, who can catch me?"

When Zhang Zhang heard Lu Bu's complaints, he was also secretly frightened, it seems that Cao Cao also took a lot of trouble to capture Lu Bu! Just to catch a person to use a siege vehicle, this brain hole is really big enough!

Suddenly, tension seems to grasp something, but he really can't remember what the point is. So he asked Lu Bu again:

"What did you just say? Say it again."

Lu Bu saw that his senior brother's expression was serious, not like a joke, and hurriedly said:

"I'm talking about siege engines."

Zhang Zhang shook his head:

"No, last sentence"

Lu Bu didn't know what Zhang Zhang wanted to ask, but he still did as Zhang Li said!

"The last sentence? I said Cao Cao."

Zhang Zhang still shook his head:

"Still not right, in the previous sentence"

"In the last sentence? In the previous sentence? I said that as soon as I saw the siege engine, I was furious."

"The fire is big, the fire is big"

Hahaha! I've got it!

Tension danced and laughed regardless of the image!

The soldiers on the side were puzzled and looked sideways at their commander!

"What's going on? I'm not stupid."

Lu Bu also touched his head with his hand and looked at his senior brother incredulously.

The tension in the laughter also discovered his gaffe, and quickly coughed twice:

"Ahem......"

"Come, gather all the oil you have prepared, and bring it to me."

Although the soldiers didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the tension gourd, the main general ordered the soldiers to do so.

Poured oil after poured, sent to Zhang Li, and when the last oil was delivered, the siege vehicle had already arrived under the city gate, Zhang Zhang did not hesitate, picked up a pour of fire oil, and smashed it down at the siege vehicle!

Because the siege vehicle was protected by a shield, the tension smashed into the fire oil of the siege vehicle, smashed on the shield, the collision between the fire oil and the shield, so that the fire oil quickly burst, and the fire oil flowed along the gap of the shield on the siege vehicle.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhang Li lit a torch and threw it at it, spraying it on the shield's oil......

The torch fell on the oil in response, and the corners of the tension's mouth also left a confident smile:

"Sample, dare to hit my city gate with a siege vehicle, I will burn you"

But the fact is that when the torch fell on the oil, it did not rush to the sky as expected by the tension, but gradually extinguished!

"How is this possible?"

A big question mark appeared in the tension brain, and the oil didn't meet the fire? Isn't this scientific?

In fact, there is nothing unscientific, but I don't know the tension.

In the era of the Three Kingdoms, fire oil was not like the current fire oil, which caught fire when it saw it.

Ancient fire oil is made of animal and insect oil, refined, due to the ancient refining technology, there are many impurities in it, not easy to ignite, so the ancient oil used for lighting is to be exposed to the sun, condensed into a block, and then added to the wick, before it can be ignited. (This is the ancient candle, now we know why the word "candle" has worms!) Hey...... )

Straight to the point!

Zhang Zhang saw that the fire oil couldn't be lit, and frowned!

"Could it be that there is less oil?"

Zhang Zhang still didn't realize that it had nothing to do with more oil and less oil!

"Come on, get all the oil down"

Tension commanded!

The duty of the army is to obey the order, whether the order is right or wrong, the cans of fire oil are smashed into the siege vehicles, and just when the tension is lighting the torches, I see the soldiers pushing the siege engines under the city, one after another, they fall to the ground, and after falling to the ground, they are getting up, getting up and falling again......

Seeing the soldiers who kept falling, Zhang Li's heart was overjoyed, and the stolen words came out involuntarily!

"Holy, that's okay"

Such a good opportunity, how could Zhang Li let it go, and immediately ordered the archers to release their arrows, and the siege soldiers without the protection of the shield were shot into hedgehogs before they had time to react!

"Come, open the gates, and drag the siege in"

That's what Tension thinks!

"There are no siege vehicles, see how you break my city"

After all, in this era, there were no planes, artillery and tanks.

Zhang Li's idea was right, but the enemy's brain was not stupid, and the moment the city gate was opened, Zhang Li's intention was discovered, and Wen Chou quickly ordered:

"Order the three armies to attack the city! Archers, catapults suppressed! Hurry up ......"