Chapter 376: Architecture
"Your Majesty besieged the city on three sides and opened the net on one side, although it can force the enemy army to abandon the city and reduce the damage of the soldiers, but there are still great food countries to the west of the Green Ridge and echo the Black Khan, so it seems a pity that these Gelluq and Oghuz Turks who have done all kinds of evil can escape and breathe. Chi Dama, the king of Khotan, looked at such an overwhelming projection scene with some trepidation, he knew all about the stone thrower and the return cannon, but what he couldn't imagine was that the Xia army would use it so desperately, but Khotan and the Black Khanate had different hatreds, and it was a pity that they couldn't completely annihilate their army and capture their kings in such a good situation at the moment.
Wu Yingying stared at the battle situation in front of him, and did not answer, Chase explained beside him: "Our army sentry has verified that all the holes leading to the west in the Green Ridge have been blocked by heavy snow, and if you flee to the west, you will only die of cold and starvation." "Huh?" Although Wei Chi Daruma knew that there was heavy snow blocking the mountain in the Green Ridge, he didn't expect that the Military Intelligence Department of the Xia Army had already investigated every hole, "The Ge Lulu people are nomadic and established a country around the Green Ridge, and they also know very well that it is a dead end for His Majesty to let go of the west, so it is the same whether they are surrounded or not." King Gaochang nodded his head frequently.
Chase shook his head, looked at the fire gradually rising in Shule City, and said in a deep voice: "When the snow covers the mountain, it is a hundred deaths, but it is better than staying in the city, or attacking our military camp, it is ten deaths, as long as the Qarluq people understand this, they will enter the Green Ridge." Although it was death for them, the loss of our army was smaller. His tone was understated, but it made Fu Guqin and Yu Chi Dharma secretly fight a cold war, and between this sentence, the Qarluqs, who had dominated the Western Regions for hundreds of years, were doomed to the fate of being exterminated. The two vassal kings who had been powerful in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains looked at Wu Yingying's back with fear, the weather had turned cold, Wu Yingying was wearing a black coat, his face was reflected by the raging fire in the distance, his lips were closed, he frowned, and there was no pleasure in his eyes to destroy the enemy between his hands, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"The fire is almost over, let's throw oil bombs. Through the crystal-polished clairvoyant mirror, in Xiao Jiu's eyes, the terrified faces of the soldiers at the head of the city were clearly reflected by the firelight. "Yes!" Captain Yang Bao hurriedly went down to give the order, in the camp full of stone throwers, the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom were already sweating profusely, and some people had already taken off their upper bodies naked regardless of the cold weather, and carried the pottery bullets into the pottery bullet frame of the stone throwing machine with their bare arms, the stone throwing machine of the Xia Kingdom was used to pull the winch to turn the winding, and a wrestler was finally responsible for firing the cannon, and the pottery bullets were placed alone at a safe distance away from the stone throwing machine position, and there were sword and shield hands to guard it tightly to prevent the ammunition from burning on the Xia army's own camp.
"The general has an order, change the oil bomb, change the oil bomb!" Yang Bao said loudly, a wave of pride suddenly surged up from his chest, and he seemed to be infected by the hot scene here. "Change the oil bomb!" the centurion passed on the order one by one, the gunner first carefully extinguished all the ignitions, and only after the bullet frame of the stone thrower had cooled down did he place the pottery bullet moved from the warehouse in the bullet frame, and the wrestler pushed the trigger hard, and with a bang, a huge torque drove the cantilever and threw what was actually a huge clay pot filled with fire oil at Shule, which was already raging with fire.
In the city of Shule, there were panicked crowds everywhere, and countless voices of crying fathers and mothers, "Fight the fire" and "Quickly put out the fire!" The face of Ogurcha, the little Khan of Ogurkya, was blackened by the flames that were very close, but he still shouted hoarsely, and hundreds of clan soldiers, under his supervision, kept carrying water from the well in the city and poured it on a rather tall building, the buildings in Shule City were not mostly made of wooden materials like the Han people, but were mainly made of earth and stone, and only the roofs were mostly covered with thatch. Ogurcha looked at his burning house quite sadly, and suddenly, with a bang, a huge pottery bomb smashed around him, and at this time there were sparks everywhere in the city, accompanied by the fragments of clay pots flying everywhere, and the fire oil became a flowing tongue of fire as soon as it was stained with sparks, and several clan soldiers could not dodge, wailing and turning into torches to catch people everywhere, and finally turned into black charcoal and fell to the ground.
The army of the Xia State continued to project the fire oil collected from the entire Western Regions, and even the unprocessed oil that could barely burn, adding fuel to the fire, and the city of Shule was turned into a blazing fire, and the old and weak women and children in the city could not avoid it, and were burned to death countless times, and the Turkic, Qarluq and Oghuz armies could no longer put out the fire, and they all rushed out of the door under the leadership of their respective leaders.
Outside the south city gate, looking at the anxious Black Khanate army opened the city gate, the clothes and armor were messily beating the horses and rushing over desperately, the commander of the Iron Bone Bureau made Zhu Dao take a deep breath of cold night air, waved his horsewhip, and said in a deep voice: "Release the arrow!" In the camp, ten thousand arrows were fired, Xia Guoshen arm crossbow, crossbow, Bed crossbows are unparalleled militaristic weapons in the world, although the bows and arrows of Khotanese are soft, but they are enough to deal with the almost unarmored rout in front of them, after leaving a corpse, the heavy infantry behind the crossbowmen who are constantly rubbing their hands and stomping their feet has not had a chance to go into battle, and the Black Khanate army retreats to the city. Kang Lisi is dressed in Luo clothes, Jiangnan raw silk sandwiched with gold thread of clothing, brilliant in the slanting sun, earrings are in Khotan's mutton fat jade, such as a cloud bun with a golden step sway, the pearl embellished on the clothes is shining, and the delicate body exudes a rich fragrance. Beside her was a baby's cradle, and inside was a child who looked as cute as an angel, while the mother's eyes were just staring into the distance.
"King Xia is simply too cruel, he is a barbarian!" said this sentence, Utbi, the prime minister of the Samanid Kingdom, dozens of times. One after another, the Turks who survived the Green Mountains brought news of the fall of Shule, and the terrifying image of the Xia army that brought with them thunder and fire spread around the river, and it is said that the hero of Wu, the king of Xia, claimed to be the whip of the gods to punish those who pretended to be evil in the sense of the gods. The invincible Black Khanate, the Qarluq and Ugos tribes that had crisscrossed the Green Ridge for hundreds of years, were almost completely wiped out, and the rest would rather die and risk their lives to escape over the mountains than dare to stay east of the Green Ridge.
It is said that the fire of Shule burned for three days and three nights, only charcoal remained in the city, the Xia army captured more than 10,000 scattered and escaped Black Khan, forced them to admit that it was because of robbery and pretended to crusade against the infidels, all those who did not confess their guilt were buried alive by the Khotanese army, and the confessors were handed over to the Inquisition, and the end was even worse, the Xia State planned to make a copy of the confession signed with thousands of confessions' handprints and names to the Caliph's court after the spring snow melted, so as to prove the justice of the Xia army's crusade.