After nightfall, hundreds of soldiers sent by Laihu'er cut a large number of branches with white stripes of leaves from a bush a few miles away, and some soldiers brought a few wooden barrels from the big ship, and dozens of soldiers covered their mouths and noses with wet towels and began to carry bundles of branches to the square platform halfway up the mountain.

Standing on a boulder with his hands in his hands, he watched the soldiers climb up the hill, and his inspiration for this action came from a letter written to him a few years ago by his nephew, who had been promoted to defend the city of Humble Luxury, and had nothing to do with the methods of attacking the Humble City, in which he spoke of an effective means of siege, 'The city of Humble Luxury is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if it is attacked, the casualties are great, and it is necessary to find another way, a few miles northwest of the city, there is a different tree, low as a shrub, creeping serpentine, its leaves are white striped, the juice is not flammable, this tree is unknown, Its smoke is highly poisonous, the wind is upward at night, the oil burns the branches of the trees, the smoke enters the mountain city, the soldiers are dizzy, the chest pain is difficult to support, the army can take advantage of the situation to attack the city, occupy its water source, the city can go down also'

There are only more than 100 words, Laihu'er remembers clearly, his nephew has guarded the humble luxury city for several years, and is very familiar with every grass and tree in the humble luxury city, and he also knows the weaknesses of the humble luxury city, since he proposed this method, he must have tried it, and it will definitely have an effect, Laihu'er is determined to follow suit, and at the same time he asked the famous doctor, and learned that the arsenic burned by the fire is easy to produce white smoke, and its smoke is also highly poisonous, he decided to mix the two and use poisonous smoke to attack the humble luxury city.

On the other side of the mountain where the humble city is located is a cliff, and the wind is extremely strong, but the wind in the north where the mountain city is located is not strong, especially at night, the wind blows from the bottom of the valley and blows towards the top of the mountain, which is very suitable for attacking with smoke, so the promotion specifically specified in the letter that this method should be used at night.

A clear moon hung in the sky, and the silver moonlight poured down from the sky like mercury, covering the city and the entire valley, and the three thousand soldiers who defended on the outer city wall did not dare to rest, and they watched nervously at the mountain road with bows and arrows in hand.

At this time, not many soldiers paid attention to the stone platform below, the Sui army built the stone platform for a day, there was no threat to the mountain city, they were very concerned about the stone platform at first, but as time went by, they gradually became tired and no longer cared about the situation of this stone platform.

But they had already discovered that at least thousands of Sui soldiers were hiding under the mountain passes, ready to attack at any moment, which made the Goguryeo soldiers very nervous, and the palms of their bows and crossbows were sweaty.

At this time, white smoke suddenly floated on the stone platform, and the greased branches began to burn, and soon billowing white smoke came out, and several big trees above their heads could not stop the smoke, and a cloud of smoke drifted towards the humble city on the mountain, and the two soldiers covered their mouths and noses with wet towels, and poured two buckets of arsenic onto the burning branches, and they were also very afraid, and immediately hid under the stone platform, and buried their mouths and noses in the soil,

In just a moment, the humble soldiers above began to cough violently, and there was a commotion, many soldiers were dizzy, their limbs were weak, their chests were severely cramped, and they had to squat down, and the poison brought by arsenic made the hundreds of soldiers at the front bleed from their mouths and noses, and some soldiers began to fall to the ground and convulsed, and the Goguryeo soldiers shouted in fear.

The main general Ning Hanyi held on to the stone wall, he was also dizzy from the white smoke, his legs were weak and weak, and he was nauseous and nauseous for a while, he covered his mouth and nose with his robe and ordered several soldiers around him: "Let everyone cover their mouth and nose with a cloth, the smoke is poisonous!" ”

At this time, the white smoke became thicker and thicker, and began to spread in a large area, so that the soldiers' eyes could not be opened, many soldiers had already torn off their underwear to cover their mouths and noses, but there was no effect, hundreds of soldiers who were poisoned by arsenic began to die one after another, bleeding from the seven orifices, and with more and more soldiers falling, many soldiers were forced to abandon the outer city and retreat to the middle city.

On the mountain road, hundreds of Sui soldiers are quietly coming up, they cover their mouths and noses with double layers of wet towels, tie a knot at the back of their heads, and take advantage of the chaos of the defenders of the mountain city, they quickly approach the city tower, led by the tiger Benlang general Zhou Meng.

The biggest regret in the navy is that there is one less brave champion of the three armies, although the martial arts are strong, but after all, he is old, and he is no longer brave, in contrast, Lang General Zhou Meng is the highest martial arts among the generals of the navy, he makes a seventy-pound iron gun, and the martial arts are very strong.

Zhou Meng with dozens of scout soldiers stood under the city wall, and the rest of the soldiers hid at the turn of the mountain road fifty steps away, the city tower was originally a heavy soldier display, eyeing the tiger, but the poisonous smoke attack put the defenders in danger, many soldiers hid in the stone house and did not dare to come out, only one Bai Yong with a dozen soldiers guarded on the city tower, although there was no smoke here, but there were still scattered white smoke drifting, choking them coughing.

Zhou Meng didn't hear much coughing on the head of the city, so he knew that the opportunity was in front of him, he waved his hand to the two soldiers, signaling to take the ladder up, the two strong soldiers immediately squatted down, Zhou Meng held on to the wall, stepped on their shoulders, the two soldiers slowly stood up, and sent Zhou Meng up.

At this moment, a Goguryeo happened to look down and saw Zhou Meng who was rising, so frightened that he shouted, Zhou Meng raised his gun and dropped a gun, and a shot pierced his head, killing the soldier.

But the soldier's cry alarmed the other soldiers, and the leader Baiyong roared, swung his knife and pounced, and slashed at the top of Zhou Meng's head, Zhou Meng raised his gun to meet him, 'Dang! With a loud bang, the sword slashed against the iron, shaking the man's arm sore, and the knife flew out, and before he could retreat, the sharp tip of the spear had pierced his throat and picked his body out.

Zhou Meng jumped up from the city, stabbed three times in a row, and stabbed the three soldiers over, at this time, he only felt a tingling in his throat, he couldn't help coughing violently, and quickly picked up the wet towel that fell on the ground to plug his mouth and nose, dozens of Goguryeo soldiers hiding in the city tower saw that the situation was not good, and swung their knives together, Zhou Meng threw away the wet towel, held his breath, picked up the big iron gun with both arms and swept towards dozens of enemy soldiers, several soldiers couldn't dodge, and were knocked to the ground by his iron gun.

With Zhou Meng being the first to go to the city, more and more Sui soldiers used the ladder to climb the city, wielding knives to kill the Goguryeo soldiers, dozens of soldiers were killed more than a dozen, and the rest of the soldiers fled to the city, Zhou Meng pointed a gun at the city gate winch, several soldiers rushed up, and struggled to push the winch iron, and the one-foot high iron gate began to creak open.

Hundreds of Sui soldiers swarmed in, into the city, at this time, Zhou Meng's legs weakened, fell to the ground, two soldiers hurriedly used wet towels to plug his mouth and nose, for a while, he recovered from dizziness, he gasped, "His grandmother's, this poisonous smoke is too strong, so that the brothers are not allowed to take off the wet towel." ”

Then he said to another soldier: "Go and inform the mountain, we have taken the city gate, and tell them to stop burning smoke immediately!" ”

The soldiers rushed down the mountain, at this time, hundreds of Sui soldiers hidden at the bend of the mountain road also entered the city, but they did not dare to continue to go deeper, and stubbornly guarded the gate of the outer city, the entire mountain city has become deserted, everywhere is filled with pungent poisonous smoke, thousands of Goguryeo soldiers are also missing, and there are more than 200 soldiers who died of poisoning lying by the city wall.

After a short time, the burning branches were extinguished by water, and the billowing white smoke gradually disappeared, and Qi Liang led three thousand soldiers into the outer city, and they held the eastern part of the outer city, waiting for the white smoke to completely dissipate.

About a quarter of an hour later, the poisonous smoke that permeated the mountain city finally subsided, more than a thousand Sui troops under the leadership of Qi Liang, holding shields and swords, advancing step by step to the depths of the mountain city, the outer city is crescent-shaped, the middle is flat and wide, it is the school ground for the soldiers to move, and behind a row of dozens of stone houses is the steps up the mountain, and more than 50 steps up to the city wall.

The school field was empty, the Goguryeo soldiers had all retreated into the middle city, Qi Liang waved his hand, more than a thousand soldiers divided into three ways to search the outer city, more than 300 of them went up the steps, but just when they were about to approach the gate of the middle city, suddenly there was a bangzi sound, the arrows on the city wall of the middle city were fired in unison, and the dense arrows shot at the Sui soldiers, dozens of Sui soldiers could not dodge, and they fell to the ground with arrows, and the rest of the soldiers immediately raised their shields to form several shield walls to resist the shooting of the Goguryeo soldiers.

Qi Liang was furious and was about to give the order to attack, at this time, dozens of rolling logs were thrown from the city one after another, rolling and smashing towards the Sui soldiers on the stone steps, more than a dozen soldiers led by the giant trees were smashed over, screaming and rolling down from the stone steps, the rest of the soldiers retreated, Qi Liang saw that the other party was fierce, so he had to hold back the anger in his heart, and shouted: "Temporarily retreat, leave the steps!" ”

The Sui soldiers retreated one after another, leaving the range of rolling logs and arrows, hiding behind stone houses, and the Goguryeo soldiers at the head of the city saw that the target had disappeared and also stopped attacking, and the two sides entered a stalemate.

(To be continued.) )