Chapter 37: The City Breaks

As mentioned last time, Buqi ordered his troops to attack and destroy the strange vehicles outside the city at any cost.

The soldiers rushed to the city wall with big rocks and big logs, and smashed down the strange car when they saw it. Who knows, these dozens of pounds of stones and wood will fall down, and they will roll down the inclined roof of this kind of spire-top car.

The strange cars didn't seem to be affected at all. Someone threw a can of oil onto the roof of the car, and then threw a torch down, and most of the oil in the broken oil filled flowed down the slope to the ground. The remaining thin layer of fire oil ignited a thin layer of flames, which was quickly burned out, and the strange car was still not destroyed.

And in this process, the Soochow army was blown up and killed no less than 100 people. When the situation was reported to Bu Qi, Bu Qi couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh. Who is this prince of Xishu, why are all kinds of strange things emerging in an endless stream, he has never seen or heard of them, and they are all so terrifying and difficult to deal with.

Compared with him, he is simply a mountain village nofu, an ignorant child. In front of him, he had no power to resist, and could only watch as his army was defeated and the city was breached.

In fact, these strange cars of the Shu army are not much mysterious, but they are nailed together side by side with thigh-thick trees to make two inclined planes, and then put the two inclined planes together into a spired roof, this kind of roof is like a roof, oblique, and if something hits it, it will naturally roll down.

And the beams that make up this roof are as thick as the waist circumference of adults, and the roof made of such thick materials can be smashed open by ordinary stones and sassalwood. In addition, the inclined plane also has the effect of unloading, and the structure inside is mostly triangular structure, which makes the car extremely strong.

The reason why the roof can only be fireproof is that the outer layer of the roof is also covered with a thick layer of wet mud, and then a layer of iron sheet is spread on top of the mud. The inside of the strange car is hollow, with only two wooden beams at the front and back, and ten people can push these two wooden beams at the same time to push the car all the way to the city wall.

Then, these people can hide in these strange cars and dig holes in peace. Of course, these burrowers were all former captives. Liu Hou promised to give them back their freedom as long as they could complete the task this time. They could choose to leave, or they could choose to join Liu Hou's army and serve the Liu dynasty from then on.

At this time, Bu Qi also knew that something was wrong, these strange cars would definitely not run under the city wall for no reason, and the Shu army must have a conspiracy. He was already a little crazy, and gave the order to destroy these strange cars at all costs.

So, the Eastern Wu army swarmed up, holding cans of fire oil one by one, and went up to the city to see the strange car and threw it down.

The hard work paid off, and finally, a strange car was smashed into dozens of cans of fire oil, and there was too much fire oil, which had already converged into a small stream. The weight of the strange car was so great that the wheels pressed the ground into deep ruts, like two streams, and many of them converged under the wheels.

There was also some fire oil that flowed into the hole being dug, and at this time, the Eastern Wu Army turned this piece of land into a sea of fire with a torch. The two captives who were digging the hole were burned to death on the spot, the fire spread along the wheels, and in an instant the strange car was also set on fire, and the captives inside screamed and ran out of the strange car and ran towards the Shu army camp.

Two more captives were burned before they could escape, and three or four were burned in different ways. The military judges of the Shu army did not punish these prisoners who escaped and returned. After all, their strange car was burned down and they had to come back, it was not their fault, they had done their best.

If the car is not destroyed, they dare to run back for no reason, and the only thing that awaits them is to be in a different place.

And burning this strange car, the Eastern Wu army paid 500* casualties, and the outer city wall also turned into a sea of fire. Because the hot air balloons of the Shu army kept throwing thunderbolts in the sky, some Dongwu soldiers who were holding oil cans on the city wall were killed, and the oil tanks were broken and the oil was spilled on the ground.

It is strange that these oils are not ignited when they encounter the explosion of gunpowder. The raging fire on the city wall grilled the Dongwu soldiers one by one, many soldiers were still alive, dancing and screaming loudly, and some simply fell from the city wall, but the fire was still not extinguished after falling, until people were burned to charcoal.

Looking at the hellish scene on the city wall, a deputy general took Bu Qi's arm and said, "Master Bu, this city can't be defended, can't be defended." During the day, these monsters threw these things down in the sky, and we have already lost more than 2,000 people, and this time we have lost more than 2,000 people, and if this continues, how many people are enough to fill it! ”

Bu Qi's body shook a few times, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "If you can't help it, if you can't help it." "It's a bit of a feeling that the overlord of Chu doesn't swear.

"Master Bu, let's retreat and return to Panyu to wait for help. I believe that the lord's reinforcements will come soon, and then he will fight to the death with this Xishu kid. ”

Bu Qi knew that after receiving the news of the Shu army's invasion of Lingnan, he had already asked Sun Quan for help as soon as possible, and after calculating the time, the reinforcements were indeed coming soon. However, with the speed at which the Shu army is advancing at a rapid pace, can he really wait for the moment when the reinforcements arrive?

Even if they can wait for the arrival of reinforcements, can the reinforcements stop the attack of the Shu army? Thinking of the previous field battle with the Shu army, their terrifying attack power, Bu Qi couldn't help but have a cold war.

"No, you can't retreat, you can't retreat. Be sure to block them. If we delay the Shu army here for one more day, the reinforcements of the lord will have one more day to prepare. Besides, even if we return to Panyu, we still have to face the same scene, and we still have to defend the city in such a cruel situation. ”

Bu Qi saw it clearly and knew that even if he withdrew to Panyu, it would be useless, but could he delay the Shu army here for one more day?

In any case, Buqi continued to drive the soldiers to the city wall at the risk of death, rushed up with sacks of sand, poured into the sea of fire to extinguish the fire, and then continued to attack the strange cars under the city.

Buqi sent a team of overseers to stand behind these soldiers, but those who dared to retreat immediately cut off their heads and hung them on bamboo poles. It didn't take long for more than a dozen heads to be hung.

Under the action of Bu Qi at the expense of human life, two strange cars were finally burned, and naturally, the Eastern Wu army lost thousands of people. However, at this time, the Eastern Wu army was surprised to find that the big monster in the sky slowly floated away, and the Eastern Wu people let out a cheer, they thought that they had won, and they persevered as during the day.

Many Eastern Wu soldiers poured onto the city wall, dancing and cheering, they looked outside the city, only to see that the remaining two strange cars did not move at all, and the people inside had already run back to the Shu army's main formation.

"Scared? You cowards, you kind of come back and fight your grandfather for 300 rounds......"

"If you don't have the guts to bandits, you will rely on those inexplicable things, and there is a kind of ...... fight with grandpa and me."

"Phew, coward, go back to Xishu, don't come here and defile our land......"

All sorts of foul language came out of the mouths of these Eastern Wu soldiers, and some even jumped on the battlements, took off their pants and peed and spat outside the city.

The Shu army was neatly lined up a mile away, not every Dongwu person was so excited, many Dongwu people looked at the Shu army wrapped in the yellow cancan rattan armor and couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, especially those who had participated in the field battle with the Shu army, and later fled back, thinking of the terrible combat power of these rattan armor troops, the two couldn't help but tremble a little.

Of course, the Shu army was not afraid of the Eastern Wu army, they had already completed digging holes and successfully planted explosives, so they retreated.

The Soochow army, who were cheering on the city walls, did not know that their lives had entered the countdown, and the rest of their lives could now only be counted in minutes, and the gates of hell had been opened for them, because two long fuses were "hissing" in the two caves under the base of the city walls.

And at the end of the fuse is tons of black powder, how destructive it should be caused by the explosion of such a large amount of black powder!

"Master Bu, the monsters in the sky have retreated, and the Shu army on the strange car outside the city has also fled back." A personal soldier came over to report to Buqi.

"Good!" Bu Qi's pale face regained a little blood, and his right hand smashed his right hand on the palm of his left hand and said, "It seems that we have finally survived this day, as long as we drag the Shu army for one more day, the lord's reinforcements will have one more chance to enter Lingnan." Go, follow me to the city walls and see what is going on. ”

After that, Buqi beckoned left and right, preparing to climb the city wall to inspect the battle damage and the movements of the Shu army. At this time, another person came to report to him:

"Lord Qiyubu, there are several big families in the city who have moved."

"What's going on?" Bu Qi was startled, and immediately asked.

After all, the Han family has lasted for four hundred years, and the Liu royal family still has a very high status in the hearts of the people. Liu Bei claimed to be a relative of the Han family, and after Emperor Xian was usurped by Cao Pi, he claimed to have inherited the Han dynasty. This argument is still very popular.

Therefore, when Liu Bei's army arrived, some people often took the initiative to surrender or help. No, after Liu Hou's army surrounded Cangwu County, some big households in the city were also ready to move, connecting with each other, wanting to take the opportunity to cause trouble and respond to the Shu army outside the city to seize the city in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that Liu Hou has only besieged the city for a day, and they haven't found a channel to contact the Shu army, so they can't cooperate with the Shu army. However, Bu Qi is a good person, and he has long expected this situation, and he has sent people to monitor these big families in advance, and he plans to kill the killer first if something is wrong.

Now the people who are watching have really come to report, these big families are connected with each other, and they have gathered their families, as if they want to make a difference.

Bu Qi had to stop his plan to go up the city wall, and was ready to deal with the affairs of these big families first, which allowed him to escape.

After ordering someone to send an order to the city wall, immediately burn the two remaining strange cars, and prepare for the Shu army to attack the city again, Bu Qi led the guards and some deputy generals, officials and a group of people hurried to the accident site.

Just as Buqi and his party walked two or three hundred meters, they only heard a loud noise that shook the earth and the earth, and everyone's ears were buzzing, and then they couldn't hear anything. And the body seemed to be swept by a strong wind, pushed forward, and fell to the ground one after another.

Everyone, including the most courageous people, paused for a few beats as if they had been punched, and then "bang" and beat wildly, their heads were even more dizzy, and they lost their ability to think for a while, and some people were even more unbearable, and fainted directly.

Before these people could come to their senses, a lot of earth and stones, armor, weapons, and fragments of various parts of the human body were smashed in the sky. Everyone was disgraced, and some of the most unlucky ones were hit by weapons or larger stones, and their heads were bleeding.

It took them a long time to come to their senses, and they got up from the ground one after another, many of them were still staggering and unsteady, and some simply patted their heads with their hands. Obviously, no one knows exactly what happened.

One of the lieutenants occasionally looked back, and was suddenly stunned, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak, he reached out and patted Bu Qi's shoulder, and made a "ah, ah" sound from his mouth, like a deaf and dumb person.

"What for?" Bu Qi slapped the lieutenant's hand away with one hand and asked angrily. Bu Qi has always maintained a dignified style in the army, and he has been slapped on the shoulder like this, and he doesn't understand how this deputy general has become so unstable.

"Master Bu, look, look, the city wall, the city wall, the city wall is gone...... the deputy general said breathlessly.

Bu Qi saw that the lieutenant's mouth was moving rapidly, but he couldn't hear the sound, and he felt strange, but his head hadn't fully recovered, and he didn't think of any reason for a while, so he just looked mechanically in the direction of the lieutenant's finger.

He was also stunned by this look.

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