Chapter 792: Fire Attack

But Li Yang knows very well in his heart that the fierce fire oil made of oil as a raw material is such a powerful killing weapon, as early as the five dynasties and ten kingdoms of the world of strife has been widely used, some directors in later generations of blockbusters are also fond of using this thing as an embellishment, with it to cause a raging and long-lasting fire, water is poured but not extinguished, it is actually a good companion for home travel to kill people and kill people. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The climate of the East China Sea is humid, and ordinary arson methods are not easy to use, but if you use fierce fire oil, you can also get twice the effect with half the effort.

Li Yang, who originally didn't want to set the fire, was really angry this time, even if he burned everything, this time he would let the seeds disappear and the seeds would be destroyed. First call the craftsmen to think carefully about the shipping method and projectile method of the oil, and at the same time, you need to send a few craftsmen directly to Li Wen's side, now either directly put the oil into the city and then ignite it with rockets, or directly ignite it and throw it into the city, that is the most direct method.

But no matter which one it is, if the amount is large, and the houses in the city are dense, as soon as the fire burns endlessly, there is nowhere to run, and the killing is great, but now it doesn't matter.

Military affairs are the first priority, the craftsmen immediately began to work in this area after returning, Huang Yu is a person who has studied gunpowder, and now he has also turned to the use of fierce fire oil, all of which are playing with fire, and also let him inspire a trace of inspiration at the same time, if the agglomerate of this fire oil is ground and mixed into gunpowder, will it receive any miraculous effects?

In this way, the craftsmen tried and tested it while using it, and in less than ten days, they sent Li Yang a preliminary conclusion: the fierce fire oil produced in the southeast tip of Ryukyu Island burned the most quickly and lastingly, and the use effect was the best.

So, a large shipload of fierce fire oil and loaded pots and jars, plus a few selected craftsmen, all went to Tanegashima.

Tanegashima's army had already been instructed to prepare for an all-out attack on its capital, and after completing its mission to help the natives in the Western Peninsula, all the troops converged on the capital.

It is just a very simple transfer and arrangement, and in fact, nearly 10,000 people have made efforts to do so. Originally, the team was basically not equipped with trebuchets, but now it is re-equipped, and the fierce fire oil is filled with a fine-mouthed clay pot, the mouth of the can is blocked with corked cotton, and it is lit before projection, etc......

Li Wen has already received Li Yang's order, this attack, do not care about killing and population issues, with the destruction of the city as the priority condition, now Li Yang only wants land, as for the stubborn people, let him go.

After all, the team had some losses, although it was replenished to a certain extent in the later period of the immigrants who moved from various places, and now the three legions were still not full, and the current combat force was about 3,700 people, which was indeed a little small for the army of 10,000 people gathered in the capital.

However, the army in the capital lacks the necessary equipment, especially the lack of training, and at this moment the standing army of the barbarians is only some of the personal soldiers around the chief, most of them are conscripted in wartime, and the quality can be imagined.

At this moment, being able to stay in the capital without retreating completely is already an effort to suppress, and Li Wen has indeed done a lot of massacres, with these double factors, these indigenous soldiers can hold on, and they still routinely patrol the city wall a few times a day, otherwise the team would have dispersed a long time ago, and everyone would go back to hunt and farm, what's wrong.

The siege of the city had been lifted, and the bold people and merchants had dared to go out of the city to make a living, and the civilians of the capital naively thought that the war was over, and perhaps they would be satisfied if the men who crossed the sea and conquered occupied half of the islands.

But the bigwigs in the city knew in their hearts that this was just the calm before the storm, and the assassination team was sent out by them in a desperate way, and it also made the old man they trusted the most set off with the "mission".

It's just that they think too simply, and if they miss a blow, how can Li Yang's anger be bearable. At this moment, no news came, and they already knew in their hearts that the assassination operation seemed to be a failure.

And the absolute calm around them made them very uneasy, in the west, they only sent scouts to investigate, and under the slaughter of the elite Oriental Han army, the losses of the scouts were not small, so the frequency of sending them was getting smaller and smaller, and at this moment they didn't know what the opposite army was doing.

At this time, in the dense forest far from the capital, large trees were cut down, and experienced craftsmen instructed the soldiers to assemble the timbers together, and simple catapults were assembled.

This is not a super trebuchet that shoots a thousand pounds of boulders, but it can shoot canisters of fire oil into the city, so the production requirements are not so high, and the trebuchets are generally made in mass production.

More than 50,000 catties of fire oil were transported, and it was also in the southeast of the Ryukyus that a place where black oil could seep out, so that such a large amount of fire oil could be quickly collected.

After the forty or fifty catties of a large altar were packed, according to the predetermined plan, it was necessary to launch a projectile from at least two sides of the city at the same time, and pour the fierce fire oil of the thousand altars into the city in one go, so that the defenders would be completely caught off guard.

In order to achieve such an effect, the number of catapults was of course not less, and the whole army of more than 3,000 people, plus the people and a few immigrant tribes in the vicinity, all started to make nearly 10 days before they made about 80 qualified simple trebuchets.

Li Wen, who was well prepared, ordered the three armies to pull out camp and launch a final general attack on the capital.

Oxen dragged horses and carried on their shoulders, these more than eighty heavy catapults approached the capital with the army.

Early that morning, when the defenders of the city awoke from their dreams and looked out of the city, they found a circle of troops on the west and south sides of the city, and there were still sparse but scattered carts in the middle.

"Enemy attack, defend the city! Defend the city! Terrible shouts rang out from all over the city, and when countless people were awakened, they could not wear their clothes, and they grabbed their weapons and climbed up the walls.

At the extreme, the army in front of him did not seem to be very strong, and the number of people was not to the extent of covering the sky, but it still made the defenders of the capital a little weak: the enemy had not come in such a big battle for a long time.

Under the city, after the trebuchet entered the city wall more than a hundred paces away, if the bow and arrow on the city had a heart, it could barely get itself, and the city head also had similar trebuchet weapons, everything had to be hurried.

The craftsmen were naturally much more skilled in the use of trebuchets than the soldiers in the army, and they calculated the angle slightly, and the city walls were only more than five meters high, and the distance of more than 100 paces was not much higher, even if a simple trebuchet projected these fierce oil canisters into it, it was effortless.