Chapter 68: Dead Carry
"The eldest prince, the thieves are here!"
The soldier screamed and stabbed at a soldier who was showing his small head at the top of the city, and after the sound of a gun entering his body was heard, the soldier was picked down from the tower.
"Rolling logs!"
Sun Ce stood at the head of the city with a sword in one hand and roared, and the seemingly clumsy two-meter-long log was lifted by the soldiers one after another and put up along the siege ladder.
This most primitive way turned out to be the most lethal instrument to the enemy, the moment the rolling log rolled down the ladder, the person on it was either knocked into the moat or jumped into the moat, but the momentum of the rolling log from the height was unabated, and it bounced violently after landing, and when the high cocked head fell, it directly smashed the head of a soldier, and the scene was bloody and fleshy.
The same thing is still happening on the rest of the ladders, but you can't use all the rolling logs, after all, there are still a large number of soldiers in the rear who have not rushed up, and in this gap, Sun Ce roared: "Archer, shoot!" ”
Suddenly, the battlements on the city walls were gone, and a 'shield board' was inserted into each battlement, a thick brick of wood wrapped in cowhides, sheepskins and other animal skins, which could not only prevent the archers from being shot by the city, but also recover the enemy's bows and arrows. As for the problem of his archer's vision being blocked, it doesn't matter anymore, there are all people under the city wall at this moment, as long as the bow is full, and the arrow will not miss if he closes his eyes and shoots down.
But speaking of arrows, what Sun Quan saw was that the old and weak women and children who had climbed to the head of the city to help the war were constantly soaking arrows into boiling dung buckets, and the whole city was sulfur, dung buckets, and sulfuric acid, and the smell was pungent and unpleasant.
Under the city, let the enemy troops scattered by the rolling wood regroup, when they followed the siege ladder again, Sun Ce responded in the same way, and quickly passed in the tense battle situation in the morning, among them, there were three enemy troops successfully landing in Changsha City, but the other party just stood firm, and immediately pounced with a spear in hand. The most unlucky one, in the process of Sun Ce's patrol, fell in front of him, Sun Quan, the cheap big brother, didn't even open his eyes to look at him, shook his hand is a knife, after the head suddenly flew up, Sun Ce directly wiped the other party's shoulder and walked over, and then the corpse fell down with a 'poof'.
"Cheer up!"
"I don't believe that Wang Rui can break through the city we hold on!!"
At that moment, Sun Quan saw Sun Jian's shadow on Sun Ce, and for a while his consciousness was a little blurred, as if he felt that the man who always copied his ideas was beside him, and even Sun Ce's every movement was so similar.
"Brother, brother."
Sun Quan tried his best to sober himself up, and immediately rushed to Sun Ce's side, Sun Ce grabbed him and put him down behind him, turned around to take a look, and saw that there was no danger around him before saying, "Didn't you say that you should stay by your mother's side!" ”
Sun Quan didn't have the time to explain so much, and reminded: "It's almost! ”
Sun Ce hurriedly walked to a battlement, pushed away the archers, removed the 'arrow board' and looked out, and the mud and sand under the city that had been trampled by the enemy army loosened, then turned around, picked up Sun Quan and walked back to Mrs. Wu, who was protected by the soldiers, threw it down, returned to his position and shouted: "Fire oil!" ”
At the head of the city, the hot oil that had been sitting on the fire was brought to the battlements, and the soldiers removed the arrow plates and poured them down.
Ugh.
The soldiers under the city were burned down, and one by one they covered their faces with their hands and hid backwards.
At that time, the hot oil was visible to the naked eye and soaked the sand, but the opponents never noticed any difference in the position they were stepping on.
"Ignition!"
Call.
The charcoal barrels were used again, and one by one the ignited charcoal barrels were smashed down the city, this time, they no longer smashed the siege ladder truck, but to ensure that the charcoal barrels fell vertically.
Woo!
At the same time that the charcoal bucket fell, the fire took advantage of the oil momentum to ignite a huge flame, and when the flames jumped, it was clear that the flames did not reach the soldiers on the ladder, but the group could no longer climb down. Because the flames not only had a temperature in a visible position, but also a high temperature in a higher place, although the flames below did not burn the ladder, the heat was hot enough for them to continue to climb on the ladder.
Sun Ce was afraid that the fire would not be fierce enough, so he shouted again: "Sulfur! ”
Bags of sulfur were thrown, and the fire started again, only then did the enemy realize: "Watch the logs under your feet!" ”
"Retire !!!!"
Many of the enemy troops retreated from the city, and only then did they see that there were two rows of logs buried deep in the soil where they had been covered with sand, and it was no wonder that the fire continued after the hot oil was poured down.
This is the little trick that Sun Quan pulled Sun Ce to say.
He remembered that in the history books he had read, the Song Dynasty often used this kind of defense, that is, digging pits in the soil and burying logs, and when the enemy attacked, he took the opportunity to ignite a wall of fire to delay the enemy's offensive, but this time Sun Quan buried the logs under the city roots, in order to wait for the siege ladder to come up, so as to burn the ladder. Unexpectedly, this time Wang Rui was fully prepared, and he actually used the siege ladder truck, but there was no way, so he could only use it to burn people.
When Sun Ce saw that the enemy troops hiding under the city wall had retreated, he immediately shouted: "Archer, shoot!" ”
This time I've finally found a comfortable shooting position, so why don't you hurry up and have fun?
The archers began to bend their bows and arrows frantically along the gaps in the shields, shooting them as soon as they glanced at the crowd, regardless of whether they would hit the key spots.
Rounds of arrows rained down on the city, and Wang Rui stood at the other end of the battlefield and snorted his teeth.
It stands to reason that the news of Sun Jian's fiasco should make the defenders in the city have no fighting spirit, what did Sun Ce do to make the soldiers and civilians feel the same mind? He saw several women and children helping in the city, if it weren't for the benevolent government, how could so many people come to help you?
"Lord, don't you Mingjin first, let our people come back and rest for a while......"
Wang Rui looked at the corpses all over the ground outside the city and asked, "How is the battle?" ”
"In the morning, our army lost at least 2,000 people in the storm."
Wang Rui glanced at the junior colonel beside him: "What about Changsha?" ”
"Less than five hundred!"
Insufficient...... Five hundred......
Wang Rui's eyelids jumped, he didn't expect that attacking a city held by a teenager would have such a large proportion of casualties.
After pondering for a moment, he finally groaned, "Mingjin! ”
In the distance, the sound of Mingjin finally came, and the soldiers on the city tower suddenly cheered again, and Sun Quan was the only one who was worried.
He looked at the material reserves on the city tower, rolling wood, less than two hundred, the boulder did not move, but the charcoal and sulfur were exhausted, and in the case of no place to replenish, the next fire attack could not be used at all, so he could only carry it to death......