Chapter 337: Hornet

Ignoring the puzzlement of Wei Yan's generals, Tian Fan said: "You go down and rest and prepare to enter the city!" ”

After a slight pause, he looked at Guan Ping and said in a deep voice: "Dingguo, the smoke car has begun to smoke, and your department will not be in the sight of the enemy, so you must succeed!" Remember, you can't launch until you're thirty paces away! ”

Guan Ping hugged his fists and promised, led his 2,000 men, and pushed the miniature catapult to the city wall.

Tian Fan looked at Tang Yi and the others and said, "You can change your clothes!" ”

The seven people clenched their fists and took orders, and changed into the leather armor and helmet that Tian Fan was wearing in the rear formation.

As the sound of fifty trebuchets creaking came into his ears, Liu Xun felt more and more that today's events were too abnormal! He shouted, "Archers, let go of the arrows!" ”

The archers began to release arrows again, they had already released more than a dozen rounds of arrow rain, and their physical strength was about to be exhausted, but Liu Xun gave the order, and they still had to do it. So, several more rounds of arrows were fired.

Under the cover of thick smoke, the shadow of the team led by Guan Ping loomed, and it was not clear at all, and the power of several rounds of arrow rain was really miserable.

Finally, when Guan Ping paid more than 100 casualties, he came to a distance of thirty steps from the smoke car.

The smoke cart was thirty paces from the city wall, so the trebuchet was about sixty steps from the city wall. For a catapult that can project a distance of seventy or eighty paces, the landing point of the projection is exactly near the top of the city wall, of course, there may be a gap. But no matter what, these projected ammunition will definitely fall on the city wall among the soldiers of Yuan Shu's army, or a little forward, on the city wall, or into the city.

Guan Ping's soldiers had never operated trebuchets, but this thing could be trained a little. There is an operating soldier next to each car shouting the trumpet, and twenty soldiers pull at the same time, and the process can be completed.

As the fifty catapults continued to be projected one after another, Tian Fan spent nine days of hard work and gradually launched the 400 ammunition he found from Lishan.

After the first round of launches, the soldiers of Guan Pingjun heard the sound of the "Thunderbolt" jar smashing, followed by the screams and cries of pain of the soldiers of Yuan Shujun who were terrified to the extreme! The soldiers were puzzled, but they continued to project the remaining ammunition in order.

Finally, after half an hour of effort, the ammunition ran out, and the screams and exclamations of the enemy became more terrible, and the soldiers immediately retreated after Guan Ping's order.

And the 1,000-strong soldiers led by Tang Yiqi were dressed in leather armor, wearing strange helmets on their heads, cowhide gloves on their hands, carrying high ladders, and holding various weapons, and they had already rushed to a distance of less than fifty paces from them!

Seeing the strong and brave soldiers in this thousand armies roaring past him like the wind, the confusion in the hearts of the officers and soldiers of Guan Ping became bigger and bigger! Why do they wear such clothes?

It's not so much leather armor as leather clothing! This particular type of leather armor was based on the leather armor used by the soldiers, which had no sleeves, while this type of leather armor had sleeves made of cooked cowhide. The end of the sleeve is relatively long, after wearing gloves, the end of the sleeve and the upper end of the glove each have a few cut gaps, with a thin strip of cooked cowhide interspersed and sealed, the upper body skin is not exposed at all!

And that kind of helmet is also very special. It is made of iron, and in shape, it is similar to the helmet of Western knights, but there is no covering, but the cover is replaced by light gauze. The light gauze is very thin, which does not hinder the soldiers' vision. The lower part of the helmet is also made of cooked cowhide, and the sleeves are connected to the gloves by a thin strip of cowhide. The soldiers could easily turn their heads, but no matter how they turned their heads, they would not show any skin.

After the soldiers were changed into such special leather armor, none of their bodies were exposed, it was very hot, and it was very inconvenient to exercise. …,

Except for the 300 soldiers who had seen the real effect of this special leather armor and helmet, the rest of the soldiers were full of complaints, but when they carried various weapons and high ladders, ran past the position of the smoke cart, and were able to see the city wall without being affected by the smoke, they did not have any complaints in their hearts, only shock!

The sweat in Tian Fan's palms came out! Success or failure is here, if it is done, then everything will work, if it fails, then he will fall into a place of no return!

The distance was far away, and there was a thick smoke, Tian Fan and the others couldn't see the specific situation behind the smoke.

He swallowed a mouthful, his face turned a little pale with nervousness, and he said in a hoarse voice: "All the soldiers, light the torches, carry the remaining high ladders, and advance to a position fifty steps away from the smoke car!" ”

The generals such as Lu Yi, Guan Ping, Wei Yan, Shi Lu, and Shi Hua hurriedly went to give orders, and the soldiers immediately lit torches, one for each of them.

Isn't General Tian crazy? What kind of torches to light in broad daylight? That's probably the only question on the minds of all the soldiers at this moment!

I thought so, but the soldiers still held torches, carried the rest of the high ladder, and leaned forward. Tian Fan built two hundred high ladders, Tang Yi, Wang Da Cake and others only carried away fifty, for insurance, he still let the soldiers carry the high ladders forward.

The Tang Yi people, who had already set up the long ladder on the city wall, and the Yuan Shu soldiers on the city wall, didn't think so.

The soldiers of Yuan Shu on the city wall have completely collapsed! Or rather, after the first round of jars smashed in the crowd, on the city walls, on the towers of the city, on the towers of the arrows, in less than ten seconds, they completely collapsed!

A Yuan Shujun Qu Chang saw a jar flying straight towards him, and he hurriedly shouted: "Pay attention to avoid the boulder!" With that, he immediately dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the jar.

There was a "whoosh", a "bang", and the jar fell beside him, shattering, and after that, something rolled out of the jar. It is roughly rugby shaped, nearly two feet thick, about two feet and five inches long, dark tan in color, with irregular protrusions on the surface, which looks a bit like dried mud, but there are still a lot of wood chips on it. After falling to the ground, a lot of debris fell from it, and it looks like this thing should be crispy! What is it?

In a second, the curl chief knew the answer!

I only heard a "buzz", and countless things flew out of the black thing like an explosion, about an inch in length, with large black eyes, a yellow and black belly, six legs with black hair, and two dark brown wings that were rapidly stirring.

Just glanced at it, the long eyes suddenly widened like copper bells, his face was so white that he didn't look like a human being, and a few words burst out of his mouth, "Hornet!" Yes...... Help me! ”

That's right, it's a hornet! During Bai Yuzhu's failed farewell performance, Tian Fan saw Zhang Fei, who was deeply kissed by a wasp and left a bag on his head.

When Shouchun and Liu Bei were separated, the reason why he didn't say this method was because he was indeed the only one who could do it, and secondly, because he hadn't seen a few hornet's nests near Shouchun, and he thought that he couldn't use such adequate preparation in the early stage.

Unexpectedly, after entering Lujiang County, especially in the mountainous area, he found a lot of hornet's nests one after another, which is why he had to leave the camp for ten days, he was looking for enough hornet's nests!

Hornets generally nest in areas where there are abundant trees, especially decaying trees, abundant water, and more insects. Because hornets need dirt and wood chips to build their nests, after mixing these two things evenly, and adding saliva, they become the material for building their nests. Wasps, on the other hand, are carnivorous insects, and they need a large number of insects for food, so they naturally need to build nests in areas with more insects. And the location that meets these conditions is near many low mountains, with water and forests! Therefore, Tian Fan chose to go to Lishan. …,

Each nest of wasps needed a certain area for their own hunting, which took him nine days to find more than 400. However, four hundred hornet's nests are enough for Liu Xun and others to drink a pot!

The method of picking the honeycomb is not difficult, and at night, they are inactive and go to sleep. Just cover it with a cloth bag of the right size, tie it up, and cut off the hanging branches. Hornet's nests generally have only one exit, and they are still located at the bottom of the honeycomb, and after the cloth bag is covered, they cannot hurt people. After removing it, place it in the prepared jar, then fasten the lid, slowly pull out the cloth bag, and finally close the lid tightly, and you're done!

And the reason why Tian Fan chose to start a war immediately despite the exhaustion of the more than 1,000 soldiers after picking the hornet's nest was because the wasps had a large appetite and had to eat a certain number of insects every day. Because the Huainan region is blocked by the Huai River and the Qinling Mountains, the temperature is higher, so they need more food. If they go to war after starving for more than a day, then even if they don't starve to death, they will no longer have such a powerful fighting power.

After that long roar, within a few seconds, he felt several consecutive stings on his hands and face, and the pain caused him to scream.

Wasps are not like bees, the kind of bees that are now raised all over the world are native to Europe, known as European bees, with a docile personality, as long as they are not provoked, they will not sting. Of course, bees can only sting once, and they die after stinging, which is also a reason. Unlike wasps, it can sting people continuously, and when a person is stung, this person will emit a signal to tell other hornets that this is the enemy! Thereupon...... More hornets pounced!

After a while, there was no movement in this song length!

There were many people who were in a similar situation to him, and these wasps were kept in jars all night, and they were on fire, and when the jars shattered, they found that their nests were destroyed, and the hornets went crazy, and they stung when they saw people who could move......

More than 400 hornet's nests, according to the least number, there must be more than 200,000 hornets, this number, uh...... It's horrible!

So, after the 1,000 soldiers led by Tang Yiqi walked past the location of the smoke car, they saw the sky densely packed with hornets like a black cloud, buzzing everywhere and stinging people everywhere.

The smoke billowing upwards was a wall in the eyes of the wasps, and they would not go through the smoke wall to trouble Tian Fanjun.

By the time they came to the city wall and erected the ladder, the people on the city wall had run out, and no one dared to show their might in front of the 200,000 hornets that were burning in anger.

Climbing the city wall, looking at the Yuan Shu soldiers who were stung to death by wasps or stung all over their bodies, the 1,000 soldiers who were covered in hot sweat immediately began to break out in a cold sweat.

Tang Yi and the four of them immediately went to the city tower to change the big flag, while Wang Dabao and the others went to the city along the dirt slope on the inner side of the city wall, preparing to open the city gate.

Wang Da Cake thought while running, General Tian is really not human, his idea is worthy of 100,000 troops!

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