Chapter 661: The Power of the Fire Oil Bomb (First Update)
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The Zhao army has a lineup, and the siege strategy has the saying that there is a lack of one of the three sieges, but the Zhao army's style of play is obviously to concentrate on one wing.
The sun had already risen over the city, and the daylight in Goguryeo did not have much temperature. The wind blows up the rubble and sand on the ground, fascinating the human eye.
The sound of war drums under the city of Pyongyang was deafening, and the infantry phalanx of the Zhao army beat their shields and advanced slowly, stepping on the ground with powerful steps, raising gusts of shallow dust. In the dust, the oxen and horses pulling the crossbow bed pulled forward with all their strength. The sound of the car grinding on the ground is resounding, and the array on both sides is so neat that it seems to be cut out with a knife, which is pleasing to the eye.
As the horn blew, the Zhao army covering the cavalry lined up in front of the nest cart and on the left and right flanks of the infantry phalanx began to spread out to both sides, making way for the infantry phalanx and siege weapons in the center. Yesterday, the Silla army had filled all the trenches, and the Zhao army could reach the city unimpeded.
The Zhao army under the city raised his head, the sun slightly covered his eyes, and the fortress of Pyongyang City stood tall in front of him, and the Goguryeo soldiers on it were densely clustered at the head of the city.
The ten nest carts of the Zhao army were erected at a distance of three hundred steps from the city wall and stopped, the crossbowmen on the nest carts were ready, and the city of Pyongyang was in full view of the flag bearer's gaze, and then the flag bearer came out with the flag of advance.
The Zhao soldiers behind the nest car shouted together, pushing the stone throwers and barberry crossbows drawn by oxen and horses to the front, and the Goguryeo soldiers under the city walls had already retreated into the city. Eulji Mundeok kept giving orders, and the Goguryeo soldiers on the walls of Pyongyang City constantly adjusted the angles of the ballistas and stone throwers. Just wait for the infantry phalanx of the Zhao army to attack the city.
After inspecting the arrangement of the Goguryeo army at the head of the city, the flag-raising soldiers on the Zhao army's chariot continued to wave the flag behind them. Under the command of Qi Yu, the stone throwing machine and the barberry crossbow slowly pushed forward and took their places, stopped, and hundreds of large stone throwing vehicles lined up in two columns under the city of Pyongyang. In the phalanx of the infantry of the Zhao army, rows of Zhao soldiers with large shields on their backs stepped forward, inserted huge shields in the front line, and erected spears. Defend siege weapons to prevent the Goguryeo army from sneaking out of the city.
Seeing this scene, the Goguryeo general Eulzhi Wende already knew that the Zhao army was going to sweep the city with throwing stones and bed crossbows, and then gather infantry ants to enter the city.
Eulji Mundeok immediately ordered the Goguryeo soldiers to erect a curtain against artillery stones at the head of the city, and removed some of the soldiers on the head of the city to reduce the casualties of the stone throwing machine. It can't be helped. The Zhao army was all large stone throwers and bed crossbows, and the range was far better than that of the ballistae and stone throwers on the head of the Goguryeo army.
Yizhi Wende could only wait for Zhao Jun's round of blows before counterattacking.
At this time, the flag-bearers on the ten nest cars began to give orders to the stone-throwing carts, and Zhao Jun under the stone-throwing carts began to adjust the angle and height.
Sergeant Zhao loaded the stone bullet on the stone throwing cart and took position. Start the first round of shooting.
The stone bullets fired by hundreds of stone-throwing trucks volleyed into the air, and the stone bullets were first blocked by the curtain outside the female wall for a while, reducing the momentum of their fall, and then smashed into the city wall. The Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall picked up a large oar held by several people to resist the hammering of the boulder. It has also received a certain effect.
After the first round of shooting, the Goguryeo soldiers at the head of the city suffered only more than a dozen casualties. Only one ballista was destroyed. However, after the city wall was attacked by a boulder. Left behind a series of deep and shallow traces.
After observing the results of the attack, the flag-bearer on the nest cart made adjustments and assessed the location of the landing. The second round of stone bullets was undoubtedly much more accurate. But seeing a piece of sawdust flying at the head of the city, a stone thrower of the Goguryeo army was smashed into three pieces by stone bullets on the spot. The Goguryeo soldiers at the head of the city were busy and continued to mend the curtain.
After two rounds of blows, Eulji Wendeok breathed a sigh of relief, although the large catapult was powerful, but it could not hit continuously, and after two rounds of shooting, it actually did not have much impact on Pyongyang's fortified city. And the casualties in the city were not worth mentioning for the Goguryeo troops in the city.
At this time, Ezhi Wende saw that Zhao Jun had put a bomb like an oil drum into the stone thrower. Etozhi Wende smiled, and immediately ordered the soldiers to immediately prepare sand and water tanks to prepare to extinguish the fire. Out of an abundance of caution, he sent hundreds of his soldiers down the city.
Ezhi Wende's smile lasted for a while, when Zhao Jun exploded on the top of the city with a fire oil bomb.
A heavy scorching stench hit Etoshiwende's nose, not the smell of oil he was familiar with. Yizhi Wende turned his eyes, but when he saw that the oil bomb shot by Zhao Jun was black and charred, and when it was scattered on the city wall, it quickly burned.
Ezhi Wende was taken aback for a moment, and said in his heart What kind of strange oil is this. At this time, more and more fire bombs exploded on the city. Crackling sounds continued to sound on the city walls, where Goguryeo soldiers tried to extinguish the fire with sand, but to no avail.
In order to prevent stone throwing, the cloth curtain made of several layers of linen cloth on the city wall became the best thing to ignite, and the fire quickly swept the city wall. The Goguryeo soldiers were constantly rolling in the fire, and even as a way to avoid the fire, the ballistas were also burning under the fire.
"Bang!"
The war drums under the city rumbled, and at this time, the barberry crossbows under the city were fired together, and hundreds of huge arrows pierced the walls of Pyongyang. Cracks in the stone walls were like cobwebs, and the arrows were firmly planted in the walls.
After the ballista was fired, the Zhao soldiers shouted in unison and began to charge the city. The soldiers strode with the escalators on their shoulders, and the Goguryeo soldiers at the head of the city had not yet reacted from the panic of the fire and oil bomb attack, only a few stone throwing vehicles and ballistae that were not disturbed by the fire and oil bombs reluctantly fired at the Zhao army that was charging densely under the city.
But after seeing that the throwing stones and crossbow arrows knocked down a group of people, the gap was quickly filled by the soldiers of the follow-up Zhao army. The sea of people charging the Zhao army under the city rose and fell like a tide, and there was no end in sight.
At this time, Yizhi Wende said in his heart that if the stone thrower and ballista on the city could still be there, he would definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on the Zhao soldiers under the city. But Ulzhi Wende can only think about it now.
The crossbowmen and archers of the Zhao army followed the soldiers of the trap, and when they were about to kill fifty steps below the city, the crossbowmen and archers of the Zhao army in the rush scattered a wave of arrows to the head of the city, and the Goguryeo soldiers who tried to extinguish the fire while trying to shoot down with their bows and crossbows were suddenly hit by this blow from the sky.
The corpses of the Goguryeo people on the pheasant moat kept falling from the top of the city, and the Goguryeo archers on the head of Pyongyang could not even try to shoot their heads out of the city walls. The arrows fired by Zhao Jun's crossbow array seemed to never stop, and they continued continuously.
Screams rang out one after another from the top of the city, and the soldiers who could not dodge were shot by arrows that entered through the gaps, and they continued to wail. Seeing this scene, Yizhi Wende immediately waved his sword and roared and ordered the reserve army under the city to immediately enter the city to stop the Zhao army.