Chapter 192 Fire Attack

The terrible howl gradually subsided, and Yu Chongming looked sadly at the black wreckage under the Chengdu wall, together with the lying corpses, there were two or three thousand piles.

These are his soldiers.

Each small mass of black ash was a charred corpse. Under the engulfment of the flames, the fat in the human body begins to burn, and when the water in the organs evaporates, the charred corpse remains shrinks to an incredible size, curled up as large as a child.

Neijiang, Ziyang, Jianzhou...... Along the way, extravagant Chongming conquered the city as if he had entered a no-man's land. Although these cities are not as large as Chengdu, they all have walls and defenders. In the face of the overwhelming strength of more than 100,000 troops, Jianzhou, which resisted the longest, only barely lasted two days - there is still a Yang'an Pass there! The attack has become a familiar process, just go through it all over again: at the sound of an order, the brothers shout and charge, the defenders shoot arrows, the defenders throw stones, dozens or hundreds of ladders are erected one after another, some people fall from the ladders, one place ascends the city, several places on the city begin to fight in several places, and all the ladders are surging with a series of black crow heads—the defenders collapse, no one throws stones down, the city is broken!

In the past, when the sons were still two hundred paces away from the city, there would be defenders on the wall who shot feathered arrows early out of fear. This distance is more than double the range of a normal bow and arrow, so the lethal effect is zero, and not only will it not have the slightest effect on the attack, but it will further boost the morale of the children. The Yi soldiers brandished their weapons and laughed loudly, striding towards the wall—they all knew that they had to conserve their strength, and they would not run until they were a hundred paces away from the wall. The Han soldiers were stupid: almost all the Han dogs had to drive the auxiliaries or the people to carry bags of earth and stones to fill the trenches before attacking the city, which was even more stupid than pigs! Where do we Yi soldiers need this? Everyone has been urinating over mountains and mountains since childhood, isn't it just a trench, and a few ladders are flattened and run over? By the time most of the people leaned against the wall, the defenders had already shot more than a dozen rounds of arrows, and their physical strength began to fail, especially those raw melons and eggs who had never seen blood, they might have shot fifteen or sixteen rounds, and their arms were so sore, that they couldn't pull the bow. Hold the ladder above your head with a rattan plaque and put the ladder up the wall, and then you can wait to see which of the brothers from the stockade will be the first to jump up......

But something was wrong with this attack from the start. When I walked a hundred steps to the city wall, there was no movement on the wall! The veterans muttered a little in their hearts, so they slowed down and pointed their weapons at the head of the city and began to curse and shout. Yu Chongming knew that they were doing the right thing: to provoke the defenders to release their arrows. There will be no real threat to this kind of distance feather arrows, and when the first round of arrow rain is in the air, everyone will start to sprint, and run to the wall, during this time, the defenders can only shoot two or three more rounds of arrows at most, and then use the rattan to protect the ladder above their heads and climb the wall!

However, no matter how noisy the outside of the city was, the city was still very quiet. The iron helmets reflecting the sunlight between the battlements did not move at all, and if it weren't for the mountain wind blowing the red helmets and flags, it would be like a painting. The scolding of the brothers went down, the people in front unconsciously stopped, and the people behind were still walking forward...... Not good! If the Han dogs set off their cannons, they will kill and injure many brothers!

"Herald: Charge the whole army!"

The melodious beep of the horn sounded. Yu Chongming waited with fear to see the flames and smoke rising from the city.

Fortunately, the brothers rushed up, the formation spread out slightly, and the city had not yet fired!

Ha, it's late! Even if the cannon is fired now, it is not a big deal, the team is completely scattered, and the shells will not hurt two or three people!

Hey, why didn't you fire just now?

"Guodong, why didn't you fire just now?"

In the city tower, Zhu Xieyuan was also asking Sun Jie.

"My lord, on the day the last general entered the city, I asked General Lao that there were eighteen cannons in the capital. The last general sent someone to see that most of the guns were rusted or cracked, and there were only seven of them available. My lord, please see, the extravagant thief only brought a ladder today, and he didn't come up after the crash, so it should be a feint to test the strength of our army. There are many thieves, and even if they are accurate, there will be only a limited number of people killed. These thieves Changjie battalion and General Lao's subordinates can deal with it. The last general thought that it was better for Mo to teach extravagant thieves to get a glimpse of the strength of our army. ”

"Good! Gordon said it well! The old man is here to see you thief! ”

"Don't worry, my lord, the last general will not be dishonored!" Sun Jie's voice was not high, but he showed full confidence. As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that his forearm armor was patted lightly, and when he looked back, it was Lao Shun's chubby smiling face. I saw Lao Shun stretch out his big finger and praise: "Sun Junmen is really going to get it!" Then he lowered his voice and whispered, "There are a lot of thieves, and I scared a certain person half to death." If so, I would have told the babies to set off their guns...... The military gate wants to win, you want to get it! ”

Sun Jie really looked down on this fat man in his heart at first, but now he has some liking this real guy.

Yu Chongming saw that his soldiers had already run dozens of steps outside the wall, and at this moment, a flying locust suddenly rose from the head of the city, not a projectile, but a straight down swoop, and the fire flashed and disappeared - a flying locust with fire!

Then came the second wave, the third wave, the fourth wave!

Four Rounds of Rapid Fire!

On the city tower, Zhu Xieyuan stood up from the Taishi chair, rushed forward a few steps, leaned on the railing and looked down, turned his head to look at Sun Jie, opened his mouth wide in surprise and couldn't speak for a long time. Master Zhu originally wanted to learn from Xie An, playing chess or stroking the guzheng to break the thief soldiers, wouldn't that be a beautiful talk for the ages? It's a pity that Master Zhu can't play the piano, and Sun Jie can't play chess. In fact, Sun Jie will, but as a military general, down-to-earth is the foundation of life-saving, and the enemy is currently at stake, so he doesn't dare to accompany Lord Zhu to play this fancy, so he will not ...... Master Zhu had no choice but to ask someone to move the Taishi chair and sit in the city tower, thinking about where to find a goose feather fan - if you can't learn it, Xie An can learn from Zhou Yu (don't be deceived by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "I think about Gongjin back then...... Majestic and heroic, lupine scarf" + "Dongfeng is not with Zhou Lang, Tong Que Chun Shen Lock Er Qiao" ...... When Du Mu and Su Shi were reading, Kong Ming was a dead fan Luo Guanzhong was still hundreds of years away from birth, I didn't write it wrong), the thieves launched a charge, and the Changjie battalion began to shoot. What surprised Lord Zhu was the shooting speed of these sword and shield soldiers! Master Zhu had seen the Ming army's drills in Suzhou Mansion and Chengdu Mansion before, and the professional archers were all drawing their bows to the sky at a 45-degree angle, and firing them under the order of the team officer. Each soldier had a torch under his right foot, but there were only a dozen feather arrows in the quiver, and at first Zhu Xieyuan thought that it was because they were not professional archers, and they could only shoot so many because of their strength, so they didn't ask in order to take care of Sun Jie's face. Now that I think about it, it's because of the grease-soaked cotton wool tied behind the arrow clusters, and the quiver can only hold so much - looking at the rate of fire of these rounds, who would doubt their arm strength?

Well, this is Sun Shuai's personal guard battalion!

Compared with Zhu Xieyuan, who is half-hanging, Yu Chongming's understanding of military affairs is not a little stronger. Not only did he see the rain of arrows in the city, but what frightened him the most was the targets of these rockets: they were all concentrated on the brothers who were carrying the ladders!

The cotton wool tied behind the arrow cluster was soaked in grease, and after the feather arrow, the ball of grease that burned under the action of inertia rushed forward and smashed onto the rattan armor or rattan card, and the flying flames instantly expanded to a palm-sized piece, and the armor that was also soaked in tung oil immediately began to burn. The rattan armor is on the body, although it can't be taken off in a hurry, and the rattan soldiers are no better - many people are firmly tied to the rattan card on their forearms, and they can't get rid of it under the licking of the hot tongue!

The ladder is the only way to cross the trench - as long as the ladder can't be erected, everyone will have to stay on the edge of the trench as a live target, waiting to be slaughtered by the defenders!

Of course, the leaders who commanded the charge in front of the battle also understood this, and roared hoarsely and ordered the others to run to the ladder abandoned by the firemen...... However, wave after wave of rockets rained down continuously, and one burning corpse after another piled up around the ladder, and soon, almost all of the ladders were surrounded by a wall of fire, blocking the Yi soldiers who wanted to run over.

There was no need for the defenders to shoot arrows here: the Yi soldiers, most of their bodies covered in flammable materials, had no chance of approaching. When the most witty, bravest, and luckiest Yi soldiers untied their rattan armor and cut the ropes that bound the rattan cards, they were equally horrified to find that they had been busy in vain - the ladder in the wall of fire had already begun to burn! Before they could recover from their stunned stup, the unprotected and frozen warriors screamed and were shot down - the defenders of the Chengdu Central Guard also began to shoot at this time under the orders of the officers of the Changjie Battalion, and these almost stationary and unprotected enemy troops became their excellent targets.

Sun Jie's Changjie battalion received 500 infantry bows, and each temporary archer had ten rockets. Of course, 5,000 feathered arrows can't help 20,000 siege warriors, however, there are only a hundred ladders, and these are enough to deal with them...... Invest decisive power in the decisive key - for the famous generals!

Four rounds of rapid fire knocked down all the Yi soldiers who were carrying the ladder. Subsequently, the soldiers of the Changjie battalion began to concentrate on aiming at the crowd running towards the ladder, and the battalion soldiers of the Chengdu Central Guard were single-mindedly dealing with the guys who were crowded on the edge of the trench and did not know what to do...... That is, a little more than two pillars of incense, and in less than half an hour, the battle was declared over: Yu Chongming finally woke up from the shock that was no different from ordinary Yi soldiers, and sounded the bamboo tube that ordered the withdrawal of the army.

The rattan armor and rattan brand are a kind of armor unique to the Miao soldiers in Guizhou (the Ming Dynasty was not so fine, and the Miao, Yi, Tujia and other compatriots were all called Miao Man). The specific method is to soak the old vine in water for half a month to a month, dissolve the substances other than fiber as much as possible, and then expose to the sun for a few days to dry thoroughly, in order to increase flexibility, and then soak it in tung oil for half a year to a year, and finally weave it. After the finished product, you can brush some tung oil at any time for maintenance.

The rattan armor is lightweight and waterproof, and a few pieces of rattan armor and spears can be bundled together to make a simple raft to cross the water. The strength and toughness are also good, and it can resist bows and arrows at a distance of more than fifty paces, and it also has some slash protection at close range. Of course, you can't deal with spear stabs - not even rattan armor, not even chain mail.

But the rattan armor has a fatal weakness: it is afraid of fire - it has been soaked in oil for a year, can you not be afraid! However, the Miao people are brave, and most of the battles with each other are hand-to-hand slashing, plus the Miao land is full of forests, in addition to hunting, in large-scale battles, bows and arrows will be seriously affected by the branches and branches of the shooting effect, so it is rarely used, so this weakness usually does not show anything.

However, in siege warfare, this usually insignificant weakness turned into a fatal wound - especially when they ran into Sun Jie.

The ancestors of the Sun family were all military generals who opened up territory for the Ming Dynasty and contributed hundreds of lives to this empire, so in the past two hundred years, no matter how the Chinese courtiers fought for power, the Sun family has always been a saint. Each generation of ancestors has accumulated valuable experience of condensing blood through brutal actual combat and passed it on to future generations, so by Sun Jie's generation, not only was he familiar with various formations in his early childhood, but he was also familiar with the characteristics of various armed forces in the border areas.

Looking at the retreating enemy, Zhu Xieyuan stroked his long hair and laughed, and Lao Shun also slapped the railing of the city tower with a smile and scolded, praising Sun Jie's martial arts from time to time. However, Sun Jie's words made their hearts hang again: "This is just the beginning, and the last general thinks that the extravagant thief will have more powerful killing moves next......