Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wind Rises
Suddenly feeling that the sky was much darker, She Yi looked up, and dark clouds covered most of the sky. Faintly, there were bursts of thunder, the temperature in the air began to decrease, and a gust of wind blew, which suddenly cooled a lot.
"The main drama is about to be staged......
She Yi turned his head and sat upright, paying attention to the battle at the east gate, the Xia soldiers were really fierce, and they actually rushed to the city in such a dense rain of arrows, and only a dozen of the hundreds of pioneers behind him were hit by stray arrows and fell off their horses, and the others were almost unscathed. They held a shield in one hand over their heads, and in the other they didn't know what they were taking from their bodies.
The remaining more than 2,000 soldiers and horses followed, constantly shooting at the city bridge with feathered arrows, covering the approach of the hundreds of people who were ahead.
She Yi was very curious about what the hundreds of Xia soldiers who rushed to the bottom of the city wall intended to do. Seeing this, the soldiers defending the city on the city wall threw heavy objects such as rolling wood and rolling stones from above, and there was a scream from below, and many Western Xia soldiers were stoned to death. The Xia soldiers under the city wall retreated more than ten meters.
She Yigang shook his head, a change occurred, and those Xia soldiers under the wall threw a smoking ball on the city wall, and the smoke on the city wall suddenly rose. The soldiers on the city wall covered their eyes one after another, including Ding County's order, who also hurriedly covered their eyes.
The city walls suddenly changed in chaos.
She Yi couldn't help but get nervous, opened his arms, and obviously felt that the wind was blowing, but why didn't the "lime arrow" in the city defense strategy he wrote to Zhao Wanqi not use it? Could it be that Zhao Wanqi didn't arrange it according to what he said? In this case, I'm afraid that this Ding County Order won't even be able to stop the first wave of attacks from Xia Bing......
At this time, the Xia soldiers under the city wall did not lose the lock of the city, but gathered towards the east gate. They were holding a large bag of things in one hand and looked at the east gate and threw them ...... The more than 2,000 Xia soldiers in the back continued to shoot arrows at the city wall, and the rain of arrows was mixed with some rockets (arrows poured with oil, flaming feathered arrows). Fireworks erupted on the city wall, and the panicked defenders settled down, covered their mouths with their sleeves and dropped the unburned "smoke balls" off the city wall, while picking up bows and arrows and continuing to shoot below.
Under the protection of the adjutant, Ding County Commander retreated to the steps of the inner city wall, his face covered with smudges and messes, and his face was cloudy.
"My lord, how is it good?"
There was an anxious expression on the adjutant's face, Suide had not fought for more than ten years, and now most of the soldiers defending the city had not experienced a real battlefield, and now they had already been chaotic when they saw such a bloody battlefield.
"Damn, get ready for a crossbow! Wait...... Wait a minute. ”
Ding Xianling suddenly felt the wind blowing in the air, and the wind direction was really eastward, that is to say, it was a west wind, and when he looked up, the sky was full of dark clouds, and he suddenly remembered what Zhao Wanqi had told him.
"Adjutant Lu, didn't the county lord give a bag of lime powder to each of you, and return it to others in the way of others, tie the lime powder to the arrow, cut the opening, shoot out, and shoot it as far as possible to a place with a lot of people!"
"Ah...... Good! ”
The adjutant didn't react for a while, and when he saw the hunting sound blowing in Ding County's robe, he immediately reacted, his eyes lit up, and his face showed a happy expression.
The Xia soldiers under the city wall were rejoicing in their hearts, but they didn't expect that one person and one wolf smoke bomb would go up, and the Song soldiers would be confused, and they were really vulnerable...... There is a large powder keg piled up next to the wall, and if it is lit in a moment, the wall can blow a gap, and when the time comes, rush in and kill...... Food, money, women, all fucking ......
Sun Wei and Li Yanyi in the distance squinted their eyes and looked at it with a smile.
"General, this Song soldier is really vulnerable, at most a stick of incense, we can break through the city and enter it."
Sun Wei had an arrogant and uninhibited expression.
Li Yanyi glanced at the dark clouds in the sky, and felt a little uneasy in his heart...... I don't know why, but he always had an uneasy feeling in his heart, as if he had walked into a huge net.
"Strategist, a thunderstorm is coming. It is better for us to be cautious and wait a little longer for the rest of the army to come and break the city together. ”
"No, our 3,000 iron armor is enough to storm this city! General, you see, the range of the Song soldiers' feather arrows is much shorter, and they are obviously inexhaustible. ”
The corners of Sun Wei's mouth curled, and he said disdainfully.
Li Yiyi took a closer look, and the feather arrows shot down from the city wall were indeed much weaker, and the range was less than two-thirds of the previous one, but every feather arrow flew by, and there was a long white powder scattered, and he didn't know what it was.
"Strategist, why is Song Bing's arrow mixed with white powder?"
"The general is worried about it again, it must be because the Song army has been negligent in management all year round, and the built feather arrows have been improperly kept, and they have been bitten by mosquitoes and rotted......"
Before Sun Wei finished speaking, there were bursts of screams from the front, and hundreds of soldiers who rushed to the city dropped their shields and covered their eyes.
Li Yanyi had already smelled the smell of lime powder in the air, and his face changed drastically. Sun Wei's face on the side also changed...... They have been fighting and on the battlefield all year round, and they can guess the general situation just by looking at it.
At this moment, the wind gradually became stronger, and the area where the Xia soldiers were located under the city wall was gray. In a matter of moments, many of the soldiers had their eyes wounded by lime...... Fortunately, a large part of them are still unharmed, and the Song soldiers guarding the city should be free of lime.
Two cold lights shot out of Li Yanyi's eyes, he had always used a wolf chimney to yin the Song soldiers, but today he was yin by the Song soldiers, and he was very annoyed in his heart, most of the gunpowder cartridges were thrown to the designated position, and the city gate could be blown open as long as it was ignited with a rocket.
Looking up at the cloudy sky with thunder and lightning, my heart became nervous, as long as it rained, completely ignite those powder kegs and blow up the city gates, I could still take Suide City.
He glanced sideways at Sun Wei, Sun Wei's face was a little ashamed, and he was silent for a moment, and the two nodded at the same time.
"Archers obey! Shoot a rocket and ignite the powder cartridge immediately! ”
Li's voice echoed around like thunder. The rows of archers behind him quickly grabbed their bows and arrows, took out their feathered arrows, and lit the powder packs......
"Others, rush!"
Li Yanyi pulled out his long knife with a loud thud, raised his arms and rushed forward.
……
On the square inside the city gate, Zhao Wanqi wore a straw hat with a solemn expression, looked up at the sky, and held the hilt of the sword tightly in her right hand.
The sky was surging and black, like an endless dark void, about to swallow the whole world. Thunder exploded in the sky, and electric dragons shuttled through the clouds.
It can be said that the black clouds are overwhelming the city, and the light of the armor opens to the golden scales!
Zhao Wanqi retracted her gaze and placed the straw hat on her head.
"Ah Wu, inform the guards guarding the city, prepare to open the door!"
"County Lord, wait a moment, the time is not yet ripe!"
Ah Wu looked at the guards on the city wall and said nervously.
"Open the door!"
Zhao Wanqi's apricot eyes widened.
"Good ......"
Ah Wu nodded, took a deep breath, and shouted towards the east gate.
"Open...... Door............!!!!!! ”
The wind is blowing......
The rumbling sound of opening the door sounded in the wind, the two heavy iron doors of the east gate slowly opened, and the raindrop-like rockets flew densely from not far away, flying to the east gate. The rockets landed four or five meters away from the city gate, and the powder kegs piled up at the gate did not ignite.
"Raise ashes, archers, step forward, shoot!"
Thirty recruits standing in the first row, decisively took shovels, and raised the lime in the bag in front of them, the lime powder was swept by the wind, and rushed out of the city gate......
Li Yanyi and Sun Wei saw that the rocket did not ignite the gunpowder, and were thinking about how to solve it, but the door opened automatically, and they were overjoyed.
"Rush, rush into the east gate!"
"Rush ...... Kill ......"
Li Yiyi shouted loudly in the wind...... The soldiers who followed closely behind let out a tidal wave of shouts.
They had just rushed forward less than a few dozen meters when white powder suddenly flew out of the city gate, and Li Yiyi shouted terrible.
I always thought that Song Bing had finished using the lime powder, but unexpectedly there was still a balance.