Chapter 248: Fire and Water Moat

Time flies, two days have passed, in addition to the official soldiers and officials of the six departments of Qishan City are still in the Qishan Pass, the rest of the people have all entered the north of Qishan through the secret passage, this time it is not the Loulan soldiers and people who take the initiative to avoid the war, resulting in a state of excitement in everyone's hearts, thinking of the scene of being burned by the Han army, and the battle atmosphere is already very high.

Empress Lan Qi'er held a court meeting on the city wall of the pass, and began to subdivide the scope of responsibilities and missions of several generals.

Each general started from the battle of the pass moat, how to deal with and how to act, to how the Han army should move with the Han army if it gave up the main attack on the moat, and how to defend if the Han army entered the southern primeval forest and attacked the southern primeval forest.

The ancient kingdom of Loulan was over, and General Zuoqi led eighteen hussars and two hundred soldiers to enter the southern primeval forest to prepare for war after receiving the holy decree, and Princess An Ran also acted together, because she had special soldiers, nearly 10,000 bees and wolves in the deep forest, which was not a small lethal force in the primeval forest, enough to cause a certain amount of damage to the Han army.

The rest of the people took the pass city wall as their headquarters, and they took up their duties, and the material troops were mobilized, and the preparations for the war entered the final hour.

A new day has come, the Han 25,000 soldiers under the leadership of General Zhao and Wang Guifei appeared on time in the surrounding area of Qishan, the difference is that the Han army has already divided its troops, and nearly 10,000 soldiers have been divided into the exit of the primeval forest in the south of Qishan and the first line of the eastern Qishan to block the retreat of the people of Loulan.

General Zhao and Wang Guifei led an army of 15,000 to the Qishan Pass, although the army was menacing, but still stationed, after several hours of encampment, from the camp two miles away with siege vehicles advanced to the Qilong Pass.

The defense system of the Qishan Pass has long been ready, and when the ministers of the six ministries left, they retreated to the north of Qishan, and for a while, except for Lan Qi'er, the general of the pass and the archers and the leader of the Qiang Yi tribe of the Sa tribe were on the wall of the pass, and all the forces that could be mobilized were all in place.

The war drums of the Han army sounded, the two vanguard generals of the Han began to command the archers and shields, and the engineering soldiers climbed the military vehicles and began to advance to the two mountain passes, attacking, because the Han army did not know that the Qishan moat was so wide, and did not know, the soldiers arrived to know the situation, and there was no way to be strong for a while, so they had to stop advancing, and waited for the order of General Zhao, the marshal of the Han Dynasty.

The marshal of the Han army and Wang Guifei and others appeared by the moat together, only to know that the great changes in the Qishan Pass had suddenly appeared such a deep and wide moat, and they could only sigh for a while, and they could only retreat and think of a way to deal with it!

The Han vanguard general led the army to advance to the moat, due to the escalation of the moat, the Han army had to stop the pace of attack, in fact, only stopped the drums, stopped the soldiers shouting and killing, and stopped the advance.

The tent of the marshal of the Han Dynasty began an urgent discussion, the moat was deep and wide, and it was too late to break through it, and the ships were not suitable for the collective advancement of the army, and finally it was to cut down the wood and pave the pontoon bridge.

The Han army had timber to prepare, and had already prepared timber according to the plan of entering Qishan City last time, which was used, so the vanguard general got the order of Generalissimo Zhao, and the engineering army set up a pontoon bridge, so that the army could collectively storm the Qishan Pass.

Han Shuai ordered, the war drums beat again, and the log planks began to appear on the moat with the continuous movement of the soldiers, and the laying speed was still there, and in a quarter of an hour, a quarter of the entire moat was covered with log planks.

Seeing this, General Soha immediately waved the flag, the archers on the mountainside can collectively release their arrows, and a small amount of rolling wood and thunder stones also rolled from the mountainside to the Han engineering soldiers at the same time, all the effects are expected by the generals and generals of the two sides, the number of casualties of the Han engineering soldiers is not much, the Han army seems to be busy laying pontoon bridges, in fact, there are already anti-Loulan soldiers of the arrow rain and rolling wood and stones.

One side is releasing arrows, rolling wooden stones, one side is laying pontoon bridges, time is moving, the surface of the moat is shrinking, and more than half of the Han engineering soldiers have been laid, which has not yet reached the effect imagined by Lan Qier and others, because the pontoon bridge is only engineering soldiers for a while, only a few dozen people, General Soha looked at Lan Qi'er from time to time.

Lan Qi'er said: General Suo, do you think this will work, can the pontoon bridge be laid by the Han army, and let the Han archers and siege vehicle soldiers all go on the pontoon bridge?

Now there are still several generals such as Tulong, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, on the wall of the pass, everyone understands what Lan Qi'er means, that is, a large number of Han soldiers on the pontoon bridge, and the formation of a confrontation with the Loulan army for a while, will not bring trouble to the pass gate, but the Han army on the pontoon bridge is 100% dangerous, and will definitely lose its initiative with the burning of the flames.

The Han soldiers were still building bridges, of course, they saw the hope of breaking through the city gate, and only a third of the moat was completely covered, and of course at this time, within the effective range of the archers on the wall of the pass, the Han archers had already appeared on the left and right of the Han engineering army, and began to matrix.

After General Suo gave an order, the archers on the wall of the pass were really according to the Han army's strong attack on the Qishan Pass and collectively released arrows, and nearly 300 arrows rained down on the Han engineering soldiers and Han archers, which was just a batch of arrows, followed by two batches, three batches, and a large number of casualties among the Han soldiers at this time.

The Han pioneer general knew that the Qishan army had begun to defend the city, and immediately sent all kinds of soldiers to the pontoon bridge, what archers, shield bearers, siege vehicles, etc. were all advanced, and at this time, the archers who had gone to the bridge in advance had already finished the matrix and began to be ready to fly.

This time can be noon, the angle of sunlight is Loulan bronze mirror can be used, although not the best angle, but can also be refracted on the pontoon bridge, General Suo Da ordered, the black cloth on the bronze mirror was removed, the pass city wall emitted a dazzling light, for a time so that the Han archers lost the ability to shoot, liquid hump oil also in the pass gate with the river injection, which was not discovered by the Han soldiers.

At this time, the Han engineering army had completed the laying task and all withdrew from the vanguard camp, and the pontoon bridge was full of regular siege soldiers, and the hump oil naturally spread to any position in the moat.

General Suo Da waved the flag again, and the soldiers on the mountainside poured the liquid hump oil that had been prepared early on the pontoon bridge, and the hump oil fell on the pontoon bridge like rain for a while, and fell on the Han soldiers, and the siege vehicles, the Han soldiers on the pontoon bridge had an unknown oil body on their bodies, of course, they sensed that something was wrong, and individual Han soldiers reacted.

Hundreds of rockets can be shot from the mountainside and the pass city wall, for a time the entire moat instantly became a sea of fire, the pontoon bridge because the gap is too large, the flame from the feet of the soldiers, the hump oil on the body was ignited, the feet and bodies of the Han soldiers are on fire, and the more and more the fire, the soldiers themselves are felt, the skin of the soldiers has appeared a large number of burns, screams, shouts are shocking, is to make people feel the pain in their hearts, because the 100-meter pontoon bridge is on fire, There were so many soldiers on the pontoon bridge that I really didn't know how to dodge for a while, a moving fire man appeared on the pontoon, and as the shouts gradually weakened, they began to fall, and nearly a thousand soldiers on the pontoon bridge lost their combat power in a moment, and almost no one hundred and eighty people survived.

This situation can be seen by all the generals and generals on both sides, and the Han Marshal Wang Guifei naturally saw it clearly, and had to immediately stop the siege, at this time, it is impossible not to stop, because the wooden planks of the pontoon bridge are still burning, and it is impossible to go up again.

The soldiers defending the city of Qishan knew in their hearts that the gate of the pass city wall must be foolproof, and everyone stopped all kinds of actions, and could only wait for the next move of the Han army, and could only watch the fire of the moat slowly extinguished, and watch the carbonized planks go down the river.