The order for the general attack was given at the moment when the troops were surrounded, and the trebuchet that reached the attack position was quickly shaken by several soldiers shaking the winch together, and with a tooth-aching crunch, the trebuchet was ready. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A canister of oil was placed on the nest, and the soldiers holding torches on the side immediately lit the cane cotton cloth soaked in oil that had been stuck in the cork.

With a few "clanging sounds", the first few catapults to be projected threw the canisters into the air. Due to the tight stopper at the mouth of the can, the canister would not spill even if it was tumbling in the air.

When the oil entered the city, it immediately splattered on the ground, and then ignited into a raging fire, sticking to everything and burning.

At first, the guards thought of using water to extinguish it, but it did get a little success. But as more and more of the oil was thrown into the city, many of them burned in a single piece, and then pouring water at this time made the fire more vigorous, and the oil mixed with the water flowed around, burning the fire farther away.

The siege towers were also pushed ahead of the ranks, and the towers were filled with archers who used longbows and fired rockets into the city.

At this moment, their elevation was higher than that of the soldiers at the head of the city, and with the use of longbows with a longer range, although the soldiers at the head of the city fought back, the arrows often fell limply before they reached the target.

As some of the positions ran out of fire, the soldiers loaded the stakes, haystacks, and some things that could be burned on trebuchets, and as long as the trebuchets could still be fired, they were all thrown into the city.

Once the raging fire burned, especially after the houses in the city were ignited, the soldiers and people in the city had to fight the fire and guard against the enemy outside the city.

The scorching sun in the sky added to the power of the fire, which grew more ferocious as the time approached noon.

From the original west and south cities, it spreads to the center of the city and the whole city. At this moment, there are few people in the capital who are defending at the head of the city, and the fires all over the city make them tired of fighting the fire, and Li Wen will not be stupid enough to rush into the city at this time to play any hand-to-hand combat, just let this fire solve a lot of his troubles.

For a moment, everyone outside the city looked at the fire in the city that was competing with the sun, and listened to the desperate roar coming from the wind, and was speechless for a while.

The fire became more and more ferocious, although the original fierce fire oil was burned out, but then the ignited houses burned and the fire was even greater, plus the wooden stacks from outside the city that kept shooting into the city, some of them were still ignited, and the fire on these objects burned when they flew in the air, and it became a big fireball when they entered the city, rolling until they hit the obstacles, and by the way, the obstacles were also ignited.

While everyone in the city was busy extinguishing the fire, the troops outside the city quietly changed, and only a small number of soldiers operating trebuchets remained in the east and south.

Most of the soldiers quietly moved to the north under the leadership of Li Wen.

At this time, although the north gate has not been affected by the flames, but there are not many defenders on the head of the city, at this moment I saw the main force of the enemy moving to this side from a distance, although the horn was also sounded to warn loudly, but at this time, who has time to care about you, half of the city is shrouded in flames, and it is difficult to organize the panicked troops.

"The muzzle of the cannon is lowered, and the gate is directly slammed!" Li Wen commanded to the battalion officer of the artillery team.

As a result, ten guns were aimed at the city gate from different angles, and although the hit rate was not high, after three rounds of shelling, the entire city gate was lifted up, and half of the piled up sand bags were left behind the city gate.

After a few more shells, the sandbags were smashed into debris and formed a low dirt slope.

The slave legion took the lead, holding a large wooden shield and forcing towards the city, and the people at the head of the city panicked and opened their bows and arrows again and again, regardless of whether they could shoot or not, they just shot the arrows desperately downward, and opened the bow straight to the hands and feet.

Some generals brought their own soldiers into the city to fight the fire, and left the soldiers and horses under their command at the city gate, these soldiers and horses were unrestrained, some ran directly in the direction of home, and some still trembled and held their weapons, ready to hold the city gate.

The soldiers of the Slave Legion marched forward step by step with their shields held high, not fast, but soon they reached the bottom of the city, and many of them were also knocked to the ground by the stones at the head of the city, but many more rushed into the city gates.

The original narrow city gate is a good place to snipe even if it is blasted open, but now the defenders are not even-hearted, and the combat effectiveness is low, even if there is a danger of being slaughtered, but it is not to die now, and blocking the city gate may be killed in the next moment, and the inferior nature of no one is showing, and some defenders take advantage of the fact that people are not paying attention to drop their weapons and turn their heads and run.

The retreat of the team was like an avalanche, originally only a few people, but gradually it became bigger and bigger, no one was a fool, and the companions ran away, why should they stay here.

There are even some Dongwang soldiers whose families are not in the city, or soldiers who have been temporarily recruited from various tribes, and they are running and shouting: "The east gate is still there, there is no water over there, let's run from the east gate!" ”

At this time, this sentence seemed to have become the command of all the soldiers defending the city, and all the routs poured towards the east gate.

Li Wen was also stunned outside the city: "Damn, this, this is too smooth." Originally, Li Yang didn't expect another capital city to be occupied for him, and it was estimated that he could only harvest a pile of ruins. But looking at the current situation, if it goes well, he may be able to save half of the city, especially the palace, follow this Li Yang, every war can plunder a large amount of wealth, Li Wen licked his lips, he can't just plunder a pile of ruins!

Outside the city, nearly 3,000 soldiers of the Oriental Han Kingdom poured into the city, and the black background gold dragon flag soon fluttered high above the city.

This also announced the official destruction of the city defense, originally the defenders of several other cities were still struggling to support the city wall, and when their subordinates came to inform the north gate that the enemy's flag had been raised, they also short-circuited their brains for a while and did not know what to do.

The five-meter-high city wall is considered a majestic city in the East China Sea, and with more than 10,000 defenders of all colors, they can't imagine how the city will be broken. What they don't know is that the combat effectiveness and military quality of these peasant soldiers are indeed too low, and it is easier to confuse the morale of the army just by piling up the number of people.

Now in the east and south, if they risk burning themselves, they can barely try to break out, but most people don't have the courage to do so.