Section 274 Burning Shule
The pressure of the Tang army on Shule suddenly intensified, and the soldiers poured into the city, and the arrows, the power of the equipment, and the upper city continued to attack, so that the Tubo Shule coalition army in the city was overwhelmed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the barracks, a large number of wood and hemp ropes are laid out, people are busy tying them into catapults, and then there are small hills of pottery, emitting bursts of oil and gas, placed in the open field, and people who come and go strictly prohibit fireworks.
After a week of preparation, the sun was shining in the morning, and the sun was unusually fierce, it was a sunny day, and it was also a big blood day.
On the east and south sides of the siege, more than 200 catapults of various sizes were lined up, and they were densely arranged.
The Tang army did its best, day and night, and finally tied up 500 catapults, and all available manpower came in handy.
I only heard the sound of gold in the army, and the Tang army besieging the city retreated like a tide!
The Tubo and Shule people who were defending the city exhaled heavily from their tension, and saw the Tang army's catapult begin to exert its might!
Countless pottery flew towards the city wall and burst to the ground, and the black liquid flew in pieces, falling on the city and on the people, emitting a pungent smell.
Almost at the same time as the first batch of pottery flew down, the cavalry of the Tang Army urgently dispatched, and they fired rockets one after another towards the city!
Rumble!
The fire is blazing, and black smoke rises to the sky!
What a fire!
Huo Dexing Jun is majestic, and the nine heavens wish to melt down to earth!
The swarm of pottery filled with oil struck the city where the dense crowd stood, causing an immediate tragedy, and they cried and tried to extinguish the flames, but the oil on fire could not be extinguished by ordinary methods.
The catapult continued to drop oil pottery, flame after flame, exploding into balls of fire, rolling on the city wall, everywhere they went, everyone became a fire man, in the flames of relaxation, twisted and deformed, people who have seen it will never forget.
The two sections of the city wall became two huge barbecue ovens, and people were roasted inside!
The flames from the falling pottery were constantly added fuel, and many people jumped off the walls before the flames rose, and after that, many fire men jumped down!
Their screams echoed over the city, bringing the stone men to tears!
The sky was a scorching red, the smoke spread into the barracks in the wind, and the smell was the smell of roasted human flesh, which made many people vomit!
Black smoke drifted in the air, the sun was still high, but the whole sky seemed to be overcast......
Feng Xiaobao and Xiu Mingren watched the fire together, and Xiu Mingren praised: "Back then, Wuhou (Zhuge Liang) burned the rattan armor soldiers in the valley, and it was nothing more than that! ”
The story of the Three Kingdoms has a long history, and Xiu Mingren knows that this plot is not surprising.
Feng Xiaobao is well-read and remembers that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" does have this paragraph, but Zhuge Liang wept and sighed: "Although I have contributed to the society, I will lose my life!" The soldiers on the left and right all sighed.
He felt uncomfortable in his heart, so he said to Xiu Mingren: "We will fight for the country, punish on behalf of heaven, and the Tubo people will take the blame on themselves!" ”
Although Xiu Mingren didn't understand why he said such a sentence without a head, he was quite an old fox, and said with a smile: "The best Tubo people are the dead Tubo people, it was General Feng who said it, that's right, I absolutely agree!" The Tubo people who stand in my way on the Tang Road, I will kill them with you, even if I kill tens of millions of people, I will not regret it! ”
"Good! There are all escorts who walk with me, which proves that I am not alone! Feng Xiaobao said happily.
Xiu Mingren secretly thought that of course it was good, I have to rely on you, a little friend, to become an official and become a knight.
He is old, he has never seen anything, he has experience in the world, his heart is as hard as iron, what is it to burn the enemy on the two sections of the city wall, it is the best of pediatrics, he has done all the slaughter of the city!
The two superiors were thinking about human life and human nature, while the main executor was thinking about tactics, Jing Dongling and his staff officers were also watching the fire, their demeanor was relaxed, they turned a blind eye to the tragic plight of the Tubo people, and only cheered for their own success.
Every batch of oil pottery fell, it exploded into a magnificent flame at the head of the city, and under such an attack, there were no living people on the city wall, and the attack was a great success!
"Saturation Fire Strike!"
A staff officer complimented: "Captain, after this battle, your name can be left on the military book!" ”
Jing Dongling hurriedly said modestly: "It's all the general's wise decision, I'm just an executor!" ”
"However, the general's talent, the art of war and martial arts are all giants, we will be wiped out and show our faces, everyone just needs to follow the general!" Jing Dongling thought to himself, how wise and secretly proud his original decision was!
A few years ago, the temple people who came to the palace secretly invited several groups of forbidden army officers to secretly retire (the ministry officials were removed, and the Jilu officials were retained, but they had to wait until they were promoted to the new ministry before making meritorious contributions, at most minus the corresponding grinding).
The officers are doing a good job, how can they easily go to their posts.
And because he wants to help Feng Xiaobao, the officers invited can't be too bad, how can a capable person be willing to throw away his current good future to help a child who has no reputation and is not from a family, God knows if he can do it, this is not a store sale and can also be returned.
My friend Fan Wushu is a murderer, and the temple people said that the kid (Feng Xiaobao) only wants to kill the Tubo people, so he might as well give it a try, and Fan Wushu will follow.
Jing Dongling went with him, but he didn't expect to go with the right person this time, after a few years of hard work, his general was in sight!
Now since Feng Xiaobao has been fighting, they are preparing for the first battle of Tubo in a few years, as long as they win, Feng Xiaobao will be promoted to the general, and they must be the general in hand!
Now listening to the compliments of the officers, Jing Dongling has a very good attitude and instructs the staff officers to record the details: the saturation fire strike is to concentrate a large number of catapults and throw a large amount of fire oil in a short time.
They did quite a bit with catapults.
And the fire oil has also been used in sieges before, and it is indeed rare to use it so much now.
The cost of fire oil is not low, and the Tang army brought a lot when they came to Shule, but the saturated firepower attack was still not enough, and they couldn't do it, they would throw some, most of them were stones.
If it weren't for the oil deposits that could be burned, and the pottery that I happened to encounter, I wouldn't have been able to fight with saturated firepower.
A variety of factors led to success, and in Jing Dongling's view, there was also Feng Xiaobao's instructions: pay attention to fire prevention!
In order to prevent fire, they specially formulated measures, filling, transporting, storing and putting into the oil, so that there was no mistake at all, and finally succeeded!
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Fifteen miles outside the city to the west, the Tibetan cavalry was ready to go, and the cavalry continued to arrive, and the reports reported that the Tang army was also assembled in groups, and the infantry was guarding the fortress.
Apparently, they were waiting for the arrival of the Tibetans.
After thinking about Zand, he didn't dare to fight, so he could only sit back and watch the Tang army climb the city wall after the flames died down, only to see the bricks and stones turned into powder, and the black marks on the ground, which were the traces of people who were burned to death!
The Tubo people defending the city lost 3,000 dead, plus the 1,000 killed before, and they were unable to fight anymore and fled in confusion.
The Shule people asked to surrender, and the Tang army won the three towns of Anxi. (To be continued.) )