Chapter 248: Burning the Water Army
Qin Shuyao stopped a lieutenant who was leading the troops and asked what was the situation?
"Huh? Your Highness! The lieutenant knew Qin Shuyao, and hurriedly dismounted with one leg, and the surrounding cavalry also dismounted and bowed.
"You don't have to be formal, but you found enemy troops outside the city?" Qin Shuyao sat on the horse and asked majestically.
"Back to Your Highness, on the other side of the Eternal Life Ze, a large number of enemy cavalry has been gathered, as if preparing to attack the city!" The Captain arched his hand.
"The cavalry can't come again, what's the panic?" Qin Shuyao asked puzzled.
"Your Highness, they have already begun to cross the river...... "Du Wei said sadly.
Qin Shuyao frowned, clamped his legs around the war horse, and rushed forward.
I heard someone shouting "Your Highness" behind me, and when I looked back, it was the golden-armored General Zhao, who might not let Qin Shuyao put himself in danger, but Qin Shuyao rode faster and faster as if he hadn't heard it.
"Well, I like to be reckless," I shook my head helplessly, "Su'er, I'm a slow runner, you should go and protect her first." ”
"Yes, Master Pony." Xu Er smiled, rode forward, and chased after Qin Shuyao.
General Zhao quickly caught up with me, their horseback riding skills are very good, fast, I mixed in General Zhao's personal soldiers, barely able to keep up, and when I arrived at the west city gate, Qin Shuyao and Li Xu'er had already climbed the city tower, looking to the west, pointing, and inside the city wall, more than a dozen catapults had just arrived, and under the command of the soldiers on the city wall, adjusting the direction and angle.
I noticed that the catapults were using oil bombs, which were the kind of flammable materials that were soaked in oil around the outside of the stones, and they needed to be lit with torches before they could be fired, but they were about to attack the troops who were "crossing the river", and the slightest deviation from this thing would be crooked, and it would go out of action when it entered the water, and it would be completely useless.
General Zhao went up to the city gate, but I didn't, dismounted in front of the catapult position, and asked the gunner: "Do you have any gunpowder weapons?" ”
The gunner shook his head: "The archers have rockets, we are all stone artillery!" ”
"This can't do it......" I observed the structure of their shells, and found that in the rear position, there were soldiers wrapping flammable materials on ordinary round stones, which were made of cloth, and the large tank that soaked the cloth in oil was nearby, and there was a lot of oil in the tank.
"Do you have plastic bags? The sturdy kind? I asked again.
A veteran who was soaking in oil wondered: "Commander, may I ask, what is plastic?" ”
He knows my uniform.
It seems that there are no plastic bags in the underworld, so what container can be used...... I looked left and right, and found that there was a house on the wall, crawling on a kind of emerald green plant, looking a bit like a gourd, walking over to see, it was really a gourd, but the size of the gourd in the underworld was much larger than the yang world, and the diameter was about the same as the manhole cover.
"What's this thing called? Is there a lot of them? I asked a soldier carrying stones and shells.
"Hui Yu, this is 'Magic', which is grown in every household and can be used to hold water."
I noticed that the vats filled with oil seemed to be this kind of "magical" product, only larger, and the top half of the gourd had been cut off.
"Stop packing the shells," I shouted, "all the soldiers go collect this gourd, fill it with oil, and prepare it for launch!" ”
As soon as I shouted, the soldiers around me stopped what they were doing and looked at me, but no one moved, and although I was wearing the uniform of a commander, I had no authority to mobilize troops.
Upstairs at the city gate, Qin Shuyao and the others also heard my words, looked back at me, and Xu Er whispered a few words to General Zhao, who pointed directly at me with his sword and ordered loudly: "Brothers, this battle is commanded by Lord Chen, all listen to him!" ”
"Yes, General!"
Well, since I'm in command, then I'll be a little more serious, in fact, I don't have any military literacy myself, I'm just thinking, if Ma Yu is where, what will she do? Ma Yu may have a better way to retreat from the enemy than me, but this is the only way I can think of according to local conditions.
I went up to the city gate, and as the first commander, a few generals were appointed below to make the second opportunity, prepare the oil gourd, and let the infantry go out of the city first to meet the enemy, covering the archers.
On the enemy side, the river crossing speed is very slow, and they use an unknown boat, which looks strange, like some kind of animal bones put together a tool, and it looks like it should not be buoyant, but the "deaf" in the water does not drag them into the water.
"If you throw the gourd over, will you be dragged into the water?" I asked Su'er uncertainly, I didn't think so.
"No," said Su'er affirmed, "he only eats living creatures with aura. ”
Although it looks like a forest outside the city, the forest is actually still a swamp, and you can only take the black stone road, it is estimated that the enemy army does not know, and the cavalry who are transported over are cavalry, and the cavalry cannot pass, and their horses do not have that IQ, so I am on top of it, and it is the infantry of golden armor.
Soon, the infantry passed through the woods and came to the shore, followed by the archers, who were armed with gunpowder arrows.
The enemy troops on the opposite side were 5,000 men, and they did not know where to get so many "boats", of which 2,000 men and horses had already been shipped.
When the first wave of enemy troops reached the middle waters of Yongshengze, I asked the artillery in the city to first throw a gourd filled with water and measure the range, but the density difference between this thing and the stone bullet was too big for the artillery calculation formula to work.
An arc crossed the sky, I thought it would hit the rear of the enemy, because it was light, but I didn't expect it, but it fell into the camp of our archers, and they were startled, probably because the gourd was too light and the air resistance was high?
"Turn up the range and try again." I ordered.
The second water hyacinth ejected, still close.
"Try again!"
The third, fourth, and fifth shots finally smashed the water hyacinth into the enemy's "ship" phalanx, fell into the water, and sure enough, it floated on the water.
By this time, the oil hyacinth had been filled with nearly two hundred, and I felt that it was almost enough, so I signaled to the archers in the woods in front of me, the archers were in teams of two, one was responsible for ignition, the other was responsible for firing, the arrows were bowstringed, the ignition soldiers were ready, and I gave the order to the city: "Open the cannon!" ”
Suddenly, a row of eighteen oil hyacinths, over the city wall, over the woods, flew over the enemy crossing the river, smashing like this, of course, it is useless, the key point of this tactic lies in the archers!
At the same time that the oil gourd reaches the top of the archer's head, two hundred archers, volleying gunpowder arrows, the gourd arcs downward, and the gunpowder arrows are diagonally upward, chasing the gourd, the arrow and the gourd, meeting in the airspace between 5 meters and 20 meters above the enemy's head, the arrow shoots through the gourd, igniting the oil inside.
Boom, boom, boom (do you want to type 18 boom words?) )!
The oil hyacinth exploded, as an explosive, it itself has no power, but the oil inside is sprayed in a burning state and poured on the enemy's armor, they are all made of iron, you can imagine how lethal it will be if the iron is stuck and ignited by the oil, or the oil penetrates through the cracks in the armor and clings to the skin.
Many enemy soldiers were so burned that they chose to jump into the water to extinguish the fire.
I don't know if this will speed up the speed of the deaf cultivation in the water to become a demon, it doesn't seem to be good, but I can't think about it so much now, so I can only fight like this first.
When the archers were ready again, I asked the catapult to extend the range, fire the second round of oil hyacinth, and smash it on the follow-up "ship", and so on, after the ten rounds of oil hyacinth were projected, most of the enemy troops on the water were already disabled, and only a small number of enemy troops successfully landed on the shore and rushed directly into the woods on horseback.
Not surprisingly, the vast majority of the people and horses fell into the "meadow", and the follow-up cavalry hurriedly dismounted, stepped on the stone and advanced, and half of them fell into the "meadow" again because they did not understand the color law of the stone, and in the end, only about thirty or forty people remained, and finally understood the mystery of stepping on the black stone, but the golden-armored infantry who rushed up were killed without leaving a piece of armor with an absolute advantage.
During the battle, only two soldiers of our army were slightly wounded, which can be described as zero battle damage!
The 3,000 cavalry on the opposite bank, seeing that the situation was not right, turned their horses and withdrew.
Inside and outside the city wall, there were thunderous cheers, and several soldiers lifted me up and threw me high into the sky, which scared me, for fear that they would not be able to catch it steadily, and then throw me under the city wall, and when they heard that I was the future colt, they were even more overjoyed, regardless of Qin Shuyao's noble status, they also threw her into the air......