Chapter 966: [Withdraw Again]
With the shouting of the tooth general, I also saw that the melee team on the upper layer of the city wall made the Ruyi stick quickly withdraw the stick and push back, and accompanied by the people of the fire group to carry the boxes of things packed in wooden boxes onto the combat platform, and then more carefully opened the bolt to open the cover plate on the attack port of the Ruyi stick a little, and after making sure that there was no enemy climbing on the side of the shooting port to ambush, they also helped the people of the fire group to take out the contents of the wooden box. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But when I saw these things taken out, they were all the size of a human head, and their whole bodies were black, and they were all made of wrought iron, leaving only a small hole on the top and bottom. After taking out the iron balls, the people of the fire team found a cross-section-long fire rope placed in the box, drove it into the upper and lower two small holes with a wooden stick, and waited by the firing port.
When they were almost ready, they watched the general give the order, and everyone lit two fire ropes with fire, and with a kick of their feet, they kicked the iron balls off the city wall from the firing hole, and quickly buckled the cover to death, and blocked all the gaps with cotton cloth.
Because the bottom corner of the city wall of Tangchi Fort is an anti-slope (similar to V-shaped) angle, so when these iron balls crackle and fall and fall on the shields and people, the Jin army below thought it was a stone thrown from the city, and subconsciously put their bodies close to their bodies, and the shields were stacked more closely together to resist the attack of the stones, but they soon found out that something was wrong: why did these stones still smoke?
However, in the time of three or five breaths, when most of the Jin army had just figured out that these smoking iron balls should be the gunpowder weapons of the Song army, the poisonous fireballs, they also heard a "boom" around them, followed by billowing black smoke and a pungent gas that was difficult to breathe.
Huang Jie is not stupid, how could he give the city defenders a large number of earth-shattering thunderbolts and let them blow up their corners?
Therefore, the gunpowder weapons uniformly distributed by the Lingbao garrison troops, the large ones are only poisonous smoke mines with little explosion power, but enough to smoke the enemy, and there are also earth-shaking thunders, but they are all small grenades the size of fists, and they will definitely not blow up their own corners.
And for the purposeful wall-cutting attack method in which the enemy army gathers under the city, it is naturally not interesting to use grenades to blow up one by one, of course, it is more effective to use poison gas bombs in groups. However, the poison gas bomb used by the Song army today is not the formula of the older generation, although the composition has not changed much, it is still a mixture of wolf venom, croton, lime, aconite, aconite, arsenic, asphalt, etc., but the effect has been greatly strengthened, enough to suffocate or blind, but it cannot achieve the effect of "smelling dead" or "dying next to it", after all, this kind of gas bomb is used as a defensive weapon.
It was also said that after a non-violent explosion sounded, a thick smoke suddenly rose from the foot of the city wall where the Jin army was attacking, followed by earth-shattering coughs and screams.
Moreover, although the north wind is strong in winter today, the black smoke produced by these explosions seems to be under control, and it does not rise upward, nor dissipates with the wind, but spreads on the ground like a sea of clouds on a high mountain.
Although many of the soldiers of the Changsheng Army under Guo Yaoshi were experienced veterans, as soon as they saw that the Song army had unleashed such poisonous smoke weapons, they quickly took off the cloth towel on their bodies, took off their pants and peed on them, and then covered their mouths and noses to detoxify (don't laugh!). It's true! But there are still many recruits who can't pee out or don't know this method at all in a panic, and they are immediately smoked by the poisonous smoke to tears and cough, and some are even afraid and retreat.
"Those who retreat without permission will be killed!"
Seeing that the troops attacked by the poisonous smoke showed signs of slowly dispersing, he led his own soldiers to supervise the battle under the wall, but Zhen Wuchen, who happened to be in the limelight, also made a quick decision while drinking, while commanding the soldiers around him who were not poisoned by the poisonous smoke to quickly tear up their clothes and pee to save people, he himself also took out the water bladder he carried with him and handed it to Guo Anguo, who was obviously frightened Guo Anguo and said: "Da Lang, take it, if you feel eye pain, you must quickly wash your eyes with water!" ”
But after Guo Anguo took the water bladder, he rushed forward first, dragged out a soldier who covered his eyes and kept screaming from the crowd, and after washing his eyes with water, he found that it could not alleviate the symptoms at all, so he was also busy with Zhen Wuchen and said: "Uncle Zhen, the poisonous fireball of the Song army is more powerful than before, how can this be good?" ”
Zhen Wuchen naturally saw it, originally this Song army's poisonous fireball, in the Song-Liao conflict in previous years, naturally it was not uncommon, that is, the Liao army also had a lot of imitation poisonous fireballs used to defend the city, so the power of this kind of poison Zhen Wuchen of course knows, but now looking at the poisonous fireball cast by Tangchi Fort, the power is several times greater than before, and the smoke alone is unimaginable, not to mention that it looks even more toxic.
In a hurry, Zhen Wuchen hurriedly stood up and looked at the back, but found that the Daxu battle flag was still leaning forward in an offensive posture, and he didn't hear the sound of Mingjin, so he could only stubbornly say: "Da Lang is right, I'm afraid that the Chinese army doesn't know how powerful it is......"
Immediately, Zhen Wuchen's heart moved, so he also called two personal soldiers, ordered them to put on the back of the wounded soldier who was burned by poison gas and another wounded soldier with similar symptoms who Guo Anguo had treated, and then took a token and stuffed it to Guo Anguo, and said: "Da Lang, you quickly send these two people back to the Chinese army for treatment, and see if the general can do anything to detoxify them." ”
Although Pharmacist Guo has the word pharmacist in his name, he is not a pharmacist, and he will detoxify something. However, Guo Anguo instantly understood Zhen Wuchen's intentions, and his eyes were red and he was about to get angry, but Zhen Wuchen reached out and patted him on the shoulder and scolded: "Bastard boy, go!" Don't miss the great things of the general! ”
In desperation, Guo Anguo could only hold a shield to protect the two personal soldiers, and retreated to the rear.
When Guo Anguo and the others spent almost half a cup of tea running back to the Chinese army with the wounded soldiers, and brought the news that the poisonous fireball cast by the Song army this time was more powerful than in the past to Yan Zongpan and Guo Yaoshi, in fact, they also saw that something was wrong in the back, because at this time, the black poisonous smoke under the city of Tangchibao obviously did not dissipate significantly, and the coughing and shouting that had just resounded under the city were obviously also low.
Seeing that the eyes of the two wounded soldiers were swollen like rotten peaches, and their throats were also slightly bulging outward, and it was obviously difficult to breathe, Pharmacist Guo was naturally shocked, and hurriedly handed over his hand to Wanyan Zongpan and said: "Deputy Marshal, the poison of the Song Army is so powerful, please quickly Mingjin to withdraw the troops!" ”
What the poison was, Wanyan Zongpan naturally saw it, although he was very annoyed, but he also knew that there was no room for delay at this moment, so he hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops again.
However, as the Chinese army erected the battle flag and knocked on the big cymbals, they only saw soldiers sparsely falling and stumbling out, and only after the cymbals were struck three times, only barely more than a thousand people ran back, and the rest were silent in the black smoke in front of the city.