Chapter 299: Bloody Battle in Luoyang (4)
Li Dao frantically threw all his troops into the battlefield at once, and Ao Lie did not have spare arrows and crossbows as he expected. But this does not mean that Ao Lie has no other way to defeat the enemy.
Just when the rebels braved the rain of arrows to come to Luoyang City and put the ladder on the city wall, Dian Wei took Liu Xie and others to carry dozens of large boxes and returned to the city wall. The Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers, which have been developed in secret, are packed in these boxes.
Pulling out the Chixiao Divine Sword, a sword split open a box, Ao Lie took out a small Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower from it, and then said loudly: "Tiger Ben belongs, each person takes two Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, quick!" The thousands of Tiger Ben troops who stayed behind strode forward, opened the other boxes, and each took two small Celestial Maidens scattered flowers in their hands. As for the effect of the things they held in their hands, except for Ao Lie, no one present knew the truth, but Ao Lie's order, for the Tiger Ben Army, was the golden rule, what Ao Lie asked them to do, they never asked what they wanted, but firmly carried it out, even if Ao Lie asked them to die.
Ao Lie's choice of the Tiger Ben Army to take the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, it also makes sense, in the four elite soldiers under Ao Lie's command, only the Tiger Ben Army is the infantry army, their physical fitness is the best, the usual training is also more gravity direction, arm strength is slightly higher than other elites, the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower is thrown in the hands of these Tiger Ben Lux, and the explosion effect that can be achieved is also the largest.
Glancing down the city, Ao Lie pointed to the rebels who were about ten to fifty paces away from the city gate, and ordered loudly, "Tiger Ben belongs." Form a skirmish line, and throw the heavenly maiden scattered flowers in your hands with all your might. ”
Thousands of Tiger Warriors did not hesitate, aimed slightly, and then suddenly took a few steps forward, with the help of the force of the sprint to drive their bodies, and smashed the small Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower in their hands towards the rebels.
The next moment, a scene that stunned all the sergeants on both sides of the city and the city appeared. Thousands of Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, which looked like iron eggs, were thrown by the Tiger Lux's infusion force, and fell quickly to the ground in the air, and the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers collided with the ground in a moment. Affected by the reaction force of the ground. The surface of the iron sheet was violently shaken by inertia, which immediately caused a chemical reaction between the oil solids and nitrate and other objects inside, and a violent explosion was produced from the inside, accompanied by a thunderous sound. The iron sheet wrapped around the outside was blown apart. Scattered into dozens of pieces the size of a fingernail. Scattered in all directions.
Don't look at the size of the burst fragments, not much larger than a fingernail, but they are propelled by the air waves formed by the dual action of internal and external forces. With speed and destructive power that this era absolutely does not have. There is no problem in piercing through two layers of leather armor or one and a half layers of iron armor. Ao Lie quoted the advanced technology of later generations to create a cross-era Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower, and at this moment, let the world realize its terrifying power.
The rebels didn't expect Ao Lie to have such a magical weapon, and they didn't have any defenses at all, and they didn't even make dodge moves. After thousands of Celestial Maidens scattered flowers fell to the ground, they exploded into tens of thousands of pieces of iron, and they were all-round, all-angle, and indiscriminate attacks. A large number of rebels were caught off guard, and were scattered by the iron pieces that pierced the iron armor, pierced the chest, and blinded their eyes, and some of the more unlucky ones were unfortunately cut through the lower body by the iron pieces, and the red blood immediately flowed down the crotch of their pants, and a pile of carrion that had lost its function fell from between their punctured crotches, which was shocking.
"Ah————" The rebels collectively wailed, under the huge power of the Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers, thousands of rebels lost their lives in an instant, and they didn't even have time to scream, and those rebels who were seriously injured and could not die immediately for a while, and the rebels who were cut off or suffered some minor injuries, and survived, hoarsely used wails to tell their physical pain and despair and fear in their hearts.
Satisfied with this high-altitude cluster bombardment, Ao Lie quickly glanced at the battlefield with a smile on the corner of his mouth. Under the first bombardment, a vacuum of more than 30 steps appeared between the front and rear armies of the rebels, and countless rebel corpses lay on the battlefield, and those who were seriously injured and unable to stand up were lying on the ground and groaning in pain.
"Target, rebels within ten paces of the city, throw!" Ao Lie coldly gave the order to throw a second time. Thousands of Tiger Warriors grasped the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower in his left hand and handed it to his right hand, and then ran to the back of the battlement, and threw the second Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower out of the battlement.
Another rumbling explosion came, and the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower was blown open, and an indiscriminate attack came towards the rebels within ten steps of Luoyang City. This time was different from the previous one, in the midst of a cacophony of explosions, piercings, and screams of rebels, there was also a strange crackling sound, which was the sound of exploding pieces of iron flying and crashing against the heavy walls of Luoyang. Although the effect of the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower is similar to that of the grenades of later generations, the power is far less powerful than the grenade, and it is only won by the number of fragments, and Ao Lie is not worried about the damage that the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower will do to the city wall of Luoyang.
It wasn't until the smoke of gunpowder after the explosion of the second Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers cleared that the enemy and the enemy who witnessed this scene woke up from their shock. Li Wei was already a little frightened, these two explosions beyond his thinking had brought thousands of casualties to his subordinates, and among these thousands of casualties, those who were lucky enough to survive the explosion were also more or less injured. Hundreds of steps away, Ao Lie on the city wall of Luoyang still used his sharp eyes to see the paleness on Li Dao's face, which was almost a dead person's paleness.
On the city wall, except for the two elites of the Blood Killing Army and the Tiger Army, they were slightly stunned, and then returned to normal, the other generals and sergeants were still in a state of shock and distraction, Liu Xie was one of the representatives, although Liu Xie knew very well in his heart that no matter what miracles happened to Ao Lie, it was not worth being too surprised, but this time, Liu Xie's face was still full of horror, and the whole person was stupid, and he couldn't extricate himself for a long time.
After a long time, Liu Xie took a long breath and said two words from the bottom of his heart: "Miracle!" His tone was full of admiration. It's just that I don't know if he is admiring the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, or admiring Ao Lie's superhuman wisdom.
The others were shocked, but Ao Lie didn't get the slightest distraction. Not to mention that he has already seen the power of the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, but he has never seen it, he has also seen the explosion of grenades on TV in later generations, which is a miraculous existence for people in this era, and in Ao Lie's eyes, it is just a relatively advanced weapon.
Taking advantage of the rebels' panic and shock, Ao Lie took a few steps forward, glanced quickly down the city, and then strode back five steps. He shouted calmly: "The Tiger Ben Army stepped forward." Ruined the rebels' ladder! The reason why Ao Lie deliberately stepped forward to observe it was to confirm the thoughts in his heart, under his imagination, although the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower had a relatively strong lethality. However, it does not have the destructive power to destroy the ladder. After all. Those pieces of iron, which were only the size of fingernails, were only so penetrating that it was impossible to completely destroy the thick ladder. The ladder was one of the necessary conventional armaments for siege warfare in this era. In the era when there were no lifts and landing planes, people could only use this most primitive tool to launch a tragic siege war, destroy the enemy's ladder, which was a heavy blow to the morale of the enemy, and could effectively delay the enemy's all-out siege.
The tiger army roared in unison, strode forward, leaned out of the city wall, and then raised the horse chopping knife in his hand, and slashed down to the cloud ladder on the city wall. The saber was only seven feet long, and at most it could cut off the seven-foot-long portion of the top of the ladder, but that was enough. Not to mention seven feet, even if it is shorter, it will also make the ladder lose its due effect. Just imagine, when a group of soldiers climbed to the top along the ladder, but suddenly found that the top of the ladder was still some distance from the city, what a tragic scene it should be.
Li Dao under the city finally came to his senses in shock, and looked up in the direction of Ao Lie on the city wall, his eyes were already bloodshot, and his eyes were full of humiliation, unwillingness, and anger, but more than that, fear. In just one hour, the 50,000 troops under his subordinates have lost more than 10,000 people without even really touching the edge of Luoyang City, how the can they fight?
"Withdraw! Withdraw quickly! Li Dao let out a heart-rending roar like a wolf's howl. In the process of retreating, their footsteps were extremely chaotic, regardless of the seriously injured comrades who fell to the ground, and ruthlessly stepped over them, and many rebels who were not injured to death died under the trampling of their own people.
Just when Li Dao gathered the remnants, Guo Yan and Han Sui respectively sent people over and asked Li Dao what the earth-shattering explosion was just now, Li Dao glanced at the two probes angrily, and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Tell your lord, if you don't want to die, you will withdraw." ”
The two scouts didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned around and ran back to their respective units to inform Guo Yan and Han Sui. After a while, the rebels attacking the other two city gates, under the orders of Guo Yan and Han Sui, also withdrew from the battle range and gathered on Li Wei's side. In the short fierce battle just now, Guo Yan and Han Sui's troops also suffered a lot of casualties, although Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, who were responsible for defending the other two city gates, did not have red-clothed ballistas and Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, but they still brought huge trouble to the two rebels besieging the city, and never let the rebels take the first step in Luoyang City.
After everyone gathered around Li Dao, they all looked at Li Dao with confusion and confusion. Li Wei pouted in the direction of the battlefield, and said with some fear: "Look, those dead soldiers, they were injured by Ao Lie with an extremely magical weapon, and in just two rounds of explosions, thousands of lives of our army were taken. Ao Lie has ballistas, triple crossbows, and this kind of explosive weapon, Luoyang City, we can't beat it. ”
Li Wei's words made Guo Yan and the others silent. If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, and now you don't take advantage of the weakness of the defenders of Luoyang City to take Luoyang in one fell swoop, and after Ao Lie solves Yuan Shao, he will turn around and use troops against Liangzhou, so how can he resist? But everyone also knows that Li Dao is a fierce character, if it weren't for Ao Lie's secret weapon being too terrifying, Li Dao would never give up so easily.
General Yan Xing lowered his head and pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "General, we can't retreat, we have no way to retreat for a long time, stretching out the head is a knife, shrinking the head is also a knife, why don't we fight to the death?" General, a certain suggestion to temporarily withdraw the troops, arrest the common people in the countryside near Luoyang overnight, and mix them in our army tomorrow to attack Luoyang together. Liu Xie and Ao Lie advertised themselves as Han orthodoxy, so they would definitely not use this secret weapon against our army, lest they accidentally injure ordinary people. ”
When Li Wei heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, if he followed Yan Xing's method, not to mention that Ao Lie couldn't use a secret weapon that would explode, even the red-clothed ballista and the three-in-a-row crossbow probably didn't dare to use it, and he could only engage in hand-to-hand combat with himself and others, if this was the case, wouldn't his own army of more than 100,000 people still be able to take Luoyang, which was only garrisoned by 40,000 or 50,000 people?
"Okay, that's it! Second brother, General Yan Xing, you will go separately tonight to arrest the common people, and tomorrow, we will fight to the death with Ao Lie! Li Wei's eyes regained his fighting spirit, scattering a luster like a hungry wolf, and said ruthlessly. (To be continued......)