The next situation of defending the city was the same, the army of the Badbeard built a carpenter's site in the camp, and a large amount of timber was cut down by them, due to the terrain, such as the siege tower, such a tall siege machine could not be used, so they built a lot of ladder cars, no longer use simple ladders.

Wang Wei stood on the city wall, his eyes narrowed slightly, the chicken was built on the edge of the cliff, the interior was narrow, the area was not large, but the sparrow was small, but it was complete. After the reconstruction, there were not only barracks and warehouses, but also taverns, inns, and general stores.

The eastern wall of the city was the most dangerous, and it was built close to the edge of the high steps. This terrace rises from the bottom of the valley, and the wall is like a wall, as high as six zhang, and the stone wall is three zhang high, which is as high as nine zhang in total. The base of the wall is as thick as two zhang, and the top is as wide as one zhang. The four corners of the city wall protrude outward by half a zhang respectively, and there is a corner tower platform.

Seisai faces the canyon, which is the only way from the grassland to Shuofang County, and the road is rugged and narrow, and the terrain is uneven, in the form of a shallow nest. This topography has two major disadvantages: first, it contrasts with the relatively high terrain of the castle, and the city walls are especially tall; The second is that once it rains heavily, it will accumulate into a pond, and once the water accumulates, the caravans can only pull aside.

Looking at the bearded men outside who were trying to push the ladder cart, Wang Hao quickly climbed the city wall, came behind him, and arched his hand: "Du Wei, there are 1,000 stone of corn, 500 stone of wheat, and 200 stone of rice in the warehouse. 50,000 quintals of forage, 2,000 catties of cured meat, and 1,000 quintals of pickled vegetables. ”

One stone of grain is enough for a soldier to eat for two months, and 1,700 stone of grain is enough for his soldiers to eat for two months, and there is enough forage.

Wang Mao was arranged by himself to count the grain and grass, these two days Wang Rong always felt that he had missed something, today I finally remembered, but fortunately I had the foresight, I saved a lot of grain and grass in the two fortresses early, otherwise I would be hungry to fight, and the soldiers would not be able to survive the arrival of reinforcements.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!"

Not far away, the shouts of officers of all ranks were heard, and the ladder cart of the bearded man was already within a hundred steps of the city wall. Behind the ladder cart is a large array of bows and arrows of the Bearded Man. They were arranged in a row of five hundred in four rows, all of them horsemen with bows. There are six of these two thousand bows and arrows.

Wearing leather jackets, over-brimmed hats, holding a riding bow and a quiver on their backs, they are generally tall and strong, and well-trained. In the sound of the horn that shook the heavens and the earth, the march was carried out in formation, and the dust under their feet was misty, making the canyon full of desolate murderous aura.

is still a familiar routine, and the ways and methods of attacking the city are not as diverse as those of the Seven Kingdoms of the Central Plains. It's just that the protection of the ladder car for the soldiers has thrown off the flying ladder for more than a dozen streets, and the killing effect of the arrows on the city head has been greatly reduced.

"Boom-"

The sound of bowstrings resounding through the canyon makes people's hearts palpitate.

"Raise your shield!" "Dodge!"

Different orders, but they expressed a response to the same thing, and beside Wang Rong, a personal guard raised the shield in his hand and blocked him. The defenders at the head of the city raised their shields or hid behind the battlements, huddled up in a ball to avoid the arrows in the sky.

Wang Rong understood the strategy of the main general, and he prepared an attack method that coordinated with the infantry artillery of later generations. Suppress the soldiers on the city walls with a large array of bows and arrows, and at the same time send light soldiers to attack with ladder carts. As for accidentally injuring friendly soldiers, it is up to them to dodge, it is best to dodge, but if they can't, if they are injured, they can only blame their own bad lives.

Although the strategy of the main commander of the beard is very reckless, but the effect is indeed there, the soldiers guarding the city have no chance to shoot the arrows in their hands at all, if they stand up, or remove the shield, he will be greeted by more than a dozen, or even dozens of arrows. Even wearing full-body armor, it will be shot as a hedgehog.

"Shoot!"

The general commanding in the city is Wu Xinghan, who is also Wang Rong's early subordinates, one of the veterans who came out of the medical and guard capital, he has been following Wang Rong, and now he has been promoted to the third Shishi commander of the first team, and concurrently serves as the head of the second regiment of Linhe Township and Township Soldiers, with hundreds of people under his hands.

Don't look at him who is usually silent, but today he took the initiative to invite Ying and led the Second Regiment of Linhe Urban and Rural Soldiers to participate in the first round of operations. The five hundred soldiers were divided into three rows, the front row held swords and shields, and crouched quietly behind the battlements, and the shields in their hands made aggressive sounds; The crossbowmen in the middle platoon held crossbows with arms and fired at the enemy in a straight line from the firing holes; The archers in the back row get down on one knee, shoot their arrows with their bows and arrows in the air.

Arrows rained down on the bearded men who were lined up in a large array of bows and arrows. Hundreds of arrows are far from being compared with the density of tens of thousands of arrows of the Bearded Man, but the soldiers of the Governor's Mansion are condescending, and the lethality of the arrows is stronger, and the powerful crossbow arrows shot through the thin leather jacket of the Bearded People, and hundreds of people screamed and fell to the ground with arrows.

The arrow battle broke out first, up and down the city, you come and go, only the second regiment of Linhe urban and rural soldiers, obviously not enough, Wang Rong then sent the Linrong urban and rural soldiers up, the density of arrows at the head of the city increased instantly, and the casualties of the people began to increase sharply.

However, the time for the Bearded Man to endure the baptism of arrows was finally over, and the ladder cart had reached the city wall. Then they were embarrassed to find that the ladder was short, and the top of their ladder was at least half a zhang away from the edge of the city wall, close to two meters, and the difference of more than one person was so high that they couldn't climb the top of the city at all.

When Wang Rong saw this, he was overjoyed in his heart, and the enemy's stupidity was his chance, and he quickly ordered: "Quickly, throw the oil and burn these ladders for me." ”

Thermal oil is the most basic use of crude oil in this era, China discovered and used oil very early, the earliest record of the discovery of oil is recorded in the Book of Changes: "There is fire in Ze", "Fire on fire and Ze below".

Later, it was recorded in the Gaonu County Chronicles of Hexi County: "Gaonu County has water that is combustible"; "There are mountains in the south of the county, and the spring water comes out of the stone, which is as big as that, and the burning is extremely bright, and it is not edible. The county people call the stone lacquer ""Gaonu County stone grease water, greasy floating water, such as lacquer, pick up the lamp, extremely bright"; "There is oil in the territory of Yan and Yan, and it is said that 'Gaonu County produces fat water', which is also. Born in the water, the sand and gravel are mixed with the spring water, and the soil people take the pheasant tail to pick it up, and use it to enter the reed. It looks like pure lacquer, but it is like hemp, but the smoke is very thick, and the curtain is black. Yu doubts that its smoke can be used, try to sweep its coal for ink, black light such as lacquer, pine ink is not as good as also, so it is great, and its literacy is 'Yanchuan stone liquid' is also. This thing will be great in the world, and it will be done from the rest. Cover oil at most, and be born in the earth endlessly, not as pine as sometimes exhausted. ”

At the same time, it is recorded in the county chronicles of Bianxiang County: "The spring water comes out of Nanshan in Yanshou County, Liangzhou County, the water is fat, such as gravy, in the holding vessel, the beginning is yellow and then black, such as the condensation paste, the burning is extremely bright, and the paste is no different, the paste and the water jar are very good, and the other side is called the stone paint." ”

When Wang Rong first saw crude oil, which was used as a raw material for thermal oil, he was surprised. If he had an internal combustion engine, he would have been able to build a car, and of course that's just a matter of thinking.

The guards quickly threw barrels of fire oil from the top of the city, and slammed them on the ladder cart, the barrel shattered, and the black fire oil stained the entire ladder truck. Immediately after that, the torch fell from the sky, and the fire oil ignited with a bang, and the flames rose into the air and spread rapidly.

Not only did the oil ignite the ladder cart, but the leather robes and jackets worn by the bearded men were stained with a little spark, and they all became walking torches. The untouched Bearded Man panicked and turned to flee.

"Don't panic!"

Before the shouting of one of the generals could be heard, a crossbow arrow whizzed and shot directly into his neck, directly piercing his neck, and the general snorted and fell headlong.

The surrounding soldiers felt that the sky was about to fall, dozens of bad-bearded people scrambled to escape, and the city kept shooting arrows to shoot the fleeing bad-bearded people, and the painful screams made the others even more frightened, only hating their parents for missing two legs, desperately fleeing in the direction of the camp.