Chapter 801: The Battle of Life and Death (4)
The position of the Flying Fire Thunder Thrower is very particular, he must be on the side of the siege ladder, and when throwing, he needs to lean out, and he must guard against the cold arrows under the city, so he must shoot quickly, be calm, decisive, and hit with one hit.
In front of a siege ladder in the western section of the northern city, a young thrower had already entered his seat, his name was Liu Kang, a native of Caizhou, who was only seventeen years old this year, the youngest of a thousand throwers.
At this time, Liu Kang was only two zhang away from the siege ladder of a golden soldier, which was the best distance, he took a closer look at the siege ladder, and then squatted down, put the two fire thunders together, and the fire rope was also gently twisted together, if there is no training, it does need two cooperation, one is responsible for ignition, and one is responsible for throwing thunder, but after training, basically everyone can operate one skillfully.
Liu Kang half-knelt on the ground, pulled out a fire fold from the fire barrel on his waist, shook it casually, the fire fold suddenly burned, he changed the fire fold to his left hand, lit the fire rope, the two fire ropes were ignited immediately, and more than a dozen soldiers next to him looked at him blankly, I don't know what he was doing?
Liu Kang smiled slightly, "This is a new type of firearm, specially designed to deal with siege ladders!" ”
Everyone's eyes lit up, and they immediately gathered around, and Liu Kang shouted, "Brothers, let go, the younger brother has made a move!" ”
Everyone dodged away, Liu Kang held the city with his left hand, and when the fire rope burned to the red line, he leaned out, saw it very accurately, and shook the copper rod hard, "Wow! With a bang, the iron ring of the flying fire thunder slipped out of the copper rod.
The flying fire thunder circled and flew towards the siege ladder, and the iron chain was in the middle of the siege ladder, and the two fire thunders immediately wrapped around the main trunk, only to hear 'Boom! Rumble! With two explosions, the siege ladder was suddenly blown into two sections, and a dozen golden soldiers on the ladder screamed and fell down the city.
The soldiers at the head of the city immediately cheered, it was simply a miraculous firearm.
Except for the three strings of flying fire thunder that failed, the remaining ninety-seven strings of flying fire thunder all exploded on the siege ladder, destroying nearly 100 siege ladders.
The news immediately reached the ears of Wanyan Lou Room, in fact, Wan Yan Lou Room saw the siege ladders broken one after another, although the specific reason for the ladder was not seen from a distance, but black smoke rose from the ladder, Wan Yan Lou Room also guessed a few points, and when the soldier reported to him that the ladder was blown off by a new firearm, Wan Yan Lou Room's face immediately became gloomy.
"Plus two hundred siege ladders to go up!" Wan Yan Lou immediately ordered.
Although the Jin soldiers had thousands of siege ladders, and the loss of a hundred siege ladders was nothing to them, if the Song army really had firearms to deal with the siege ladders, the consequences would be serious.
Wan Yan Lou immediately turned his horse and ran towards the banner of the marshal of the capital, and as soon as he arrived in front of Wan Yan Xianye, he was questioned by Wan Yan Xianye: "What happened when the siege ladder suddenly broke?" ”
Wan Yan Lou clasped his fists and said: "Marshal Qiyudu, the Song army has used a new type of firearm, which seems to be specially designed to deal with siege ladders, which is very sharp. ”
Wan Yan Xian's face immediately changed, and he said in a loud voice: "Increase the siege efforts, and increase the siege method, you can use the earth-shaking thunder to blow up the city gate in the melee, and the nest car can also be put into the battlefield!" ”
"Obey the order!"
Wan Yan Lou was just about to leave, and Wan Yan Xian also stopped him again, "How is the Earth Dragon Project going?" ”
"It's ongoing, I'm already frowning, it will be opened tonight at the latest, Zongwang is organizing the people to cut off several rivers in Bianjing, and the water from the moat will be drained away in the afternoon."
Wan Yan also nodded, "This matter is as hidden as possible, and strive to be safe, this is our last move, and we can't afford to lose!" ”
"Humble duty understands!"
After Yan Lou bowed, he rode his horse and galloped.
Wan Yan also looked at the city again, and shouted: "Use the trebuchet to attack again!" ”
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The Jin soldiers increased their progress, the siege ladder increased to 300 hanging cities, the 35,000 army rushed like a sea tide, killing the city, the earth-shattering thunder dropped by the Song army continued to explode above the heads of the Jin soldiers, the Jin soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and at the same time, the huge figures of the ten nest cars also appeared far away.
Jin Bing invested another hundred heavy trebuchets to fire fire oil from two hundred paces away to the city, but Jin Bing's heavy trebuchets were removed from the walls of the outer city and temporarily put into the battlefield, unlike the previous eighty giant trebuchets transported from the Daimyo's mansion, Jin Bing built it himself, and both the design and test were very perfect, and they could accurately hit the target.
But a hundred heavy trebuchets are far from achieving this effect, the throwing effect is not significant, the first round of 100 oil barrels throwing, only seven oil barrels hit the city, most of the others are off target, either fly over the city head into the city, or smash on the city wall, with the fireball flying in, except for a few fires on the city head, the city has become a sea of fire, the gold soldiers have retreated back, many gold soldiers retreated in time, were burned alive by the fire.
"Stop the fire!"
Wanyan Lou Room immediately stopped the trebuchet fire attack, he watched more than a dozen Jin soldiers on fire struggling to escape back, fell headlong, and was burned and curled up, Wanyan Lou Room's face was very ugly, and he glanced in the direction of Wan Yan Xianye dissatisfied.
As the marshal of the capital, Wan Yan Xian can also put forward an attack plan, but the specific attack is his own business, and it should be arranged by himself.
The trebuchet fire attack immediately stopped, and Wan Yan Xian may also know that he was not thoughtful, so he did not interfere again, and Wan Yan Lou immediately ordered more than a dozen soldiers to mix in the crowd with five earth-shattering thunders and touch towards the old sour jujube gate.
Jin Bing's fire attack mistakes were also beyond Li Yanqing's expectations, fire oil is a sharp weapon, can be attacked and defended, and of course it is also a good strategy to defend with fire oil, such as splashing down the siege ladder with fire oil, the effect will not be worse than flying fire and thunder, but it is a pity that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, the fire oil warehouse in the capital is in the outer city, the Jin soldiers broke through the outer city too quickly, and thousands of barrels of fire oil were too late to be transported back, resulting in almost no fire oil stock in the inner city, only more than 300 barrels of fire oil for testing firearms in the warehouse of the Firearms Bureau, which is all the fire oil stocks in the inner city.
Looking at the raging fire outside the city, Li Yanqing couldn't help but sigh secretly, if the inner city has enough oil stock, it can make the city under the city wall burn continuously, what other city can the Jin soldiers attack?
The golden soldiers retreated to the outside of the moat, began to increase the crossbowmen and the city head to shoot, 10,000 gold soldiers at the same time to the city head of the arrows, and the city head also had eight thousand crossbowmen to shoot under the city, for a time, the arrows were like a torrential rain, dense like raindrops of arrows woven into a big net, and like an overwhelming locust plague coming, the city and the city under the city constantly have soldiers in the arrow fell to the ground, from time to time there was a thunder from the city to throw down, fell into the archer crowd, the golden soldiers and archers could not be prepared, and were suddenly blown up to the flesh and blood, and suffered heavy casualties.
In just a quarter of an hour, more than 4,000 people were killed by the earth-shaking thunder, with stumps and broken arms everywhere, rivers of blood flowing everywhere, and moats dyed crimson.
The morale of the Jin soldiers gradually lost and they began to retreat, and Wanyan Lou ordered 5,000 cavalry to supervise the battle behind, and those who fled were immediately beheaded, forcing the soldiers to return to the battlefield.
A quarter of an hour later, the fire under the city gradually extinguished, the low horn of the Jin soldiers sounded, and 30,000 Jin soldiers carried the siege ladder and began a new round of climbing the city.
Xu Ning was in charge of the eastern section of the operation, and at this time, a soldier suddenly rushed to report: "The existing golden soldiers under the old sour jujube gate are abnormal. ”
Xu Ning hurriedly ran to the sour jujube gate, looked over, and a soldier pointed to a group of golden soldiers by the wall and said: "It's them, sneaky, not quite like the enemy army in the city!" ”
There were about a dozen soldiers on the side of the city wall, clinging to the city wall and approaching the city gate a little bit, Xu Ning's eyes were like torches, he found that five of the golden soldiers were each carrying a big leather bag, and the leather bag was bulging, as if a winter melon had been put in, Xu Ning sneered, needless to say, the golden soldiers wanted to use the earth-shaking thunder to blow up the city again, it seems that they had learned a lesson and used a waterproof leather bag to load the earth-shaking thunder.
Xu Ning sneered, turned around and ordered: "Smash them with rolling logs, and then splash them with water!" ”
Immediately, dozens of soldiers rushed up with rolling logs, and before the dozen or so soldiers below could react, dozens of rolling logs above them were smashed above their heads, and the soldiers below were caught off guard, and they were hit by the rolling logs, screaming and falling to the ground, and several soldiers carrying the earth-shattering skulls were smashed and fell into the moat.
At this moment, a shout came from the city, and in the distance, ten nest cars like giant beasts were slowly approaching the city.