In the early morning of the thirteenth, the sky had just turned white, and the Xia army couldn't wait to start attacking the city.

Today's Tangut attack was noticeably more ferocious than yesterday's, and yesterday's trebuchet was of little use. But today is different, on the one hand, they took advantage of the night to steal a lot of boulders under the city last night, and on the other hand, they also sent people to transport stones yesterday.

Although the stones were available, they used trebuchets to come with them, and their accuracy was not very good.

Either they fell outside the city and hit their own people, or they fell inside the city and smashed a dwelling, in short, they didn't fall on the city wall.

Even so, the soldiers of Huanzhou still felt great pressure, because this time the Xia army's attack direction was not only on the north gate, they launched an attack on Huanzhou City from four directions: east, west, north and south.

Chen Ke also led his Xuanwu army to help defend, and Tang Ning's subordinates were not idle. Under the command of Qi Fu, these 500 people began to take on the task of transporting wounded soldiers, which allowed many officers and men of the Western Army to participate in the battle.

Tang Ning stayed in the wounded barracks all day yesterday to help the gold sore doctor treat the wounded soldiers.

The wounded barracks in Huanju City are different from the wounded barracks in Gyeongju, and it is still very primitive with a dozen or twenty people crammed into a big tent.

The ground was littered with messes, rags and shredded clothes everywhere. The air was filled with a turbid stench, and with the smell of golden juice, if those pampered little girls and little boys in later generations came here, most of them would have to die.

However, the officers and men of the Western Army have become accustomed to this.

Today, Tang Ning was not in the wounded barracks, but under the supervision of Chong Pu, he was playing things in his big tent.

Chong Pu squatted beside Tang Ning, watched Tang Ning fill the crockpot with wine, and then tore a ball of cloth from a torn garment to block the mouth of the crockpot.

He looked at Tang Ning suspiciously and said, "This thing, useful?" ”

When Tang Ning heard this, he put aside the configured crockpot, looked at Chong Pu and said, "Whether it is useful or not, I don't dare to guarantee it now." But if this thing is thrown out, it will definitely burn, but the effect may not be too good.

For example, if you burn it for a while, you won't burn it...... The wine you gave me was mixed with water, and the alcohol content was too low. ”

After saying that, Tang Ning picked up another crockpot and continued to repeat his previous behavior.

Chong Pu was not calm, he pointed to a clay pot that Tang Ning had worked hard all night and said, "That's it, you said you can burn it if you throw it out?" ”

"yes."

"I don't believe it."

"I don't believe you're still here all night."

One sentence choked Chong Pu, and Tang Ning told him last night that as long as he gave him wine, torn clothes, and clay pots, he could make a sharp weapon that could help defend the city.

Chong Pu didn't believe it at first, but Tang Ning chased his ass and chattered for half an hour, and Chong Pu couldn't bear to bother him, and asked Ge Kui to pull him away and put him in prison.

He was very dissatisfied with his performance on the city wall yesterday, and now this man chased him like he had a fever and talked nonsense, and he really thought that he had no temper if he didn't teach him a lesson.

As a result, when Ge Kui picked him up like a chicken, he shouted that he would regret it if he didn't believe him.

As soon as these words came out, Chong Pu stared at Tang Ning for a long time, and finally agreed to Tang Ning's request. He himself was curious, so he followed Tang Ning and wanted to see him

How to use these things to make a weapon to defend the city.

It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that I've been watching it all night, but I've been here since before dawn.

"Then you try one first." Chong Pu thought about it and made a request.

Downing had no reason to refuse, so he reached out and picked up a crockpot from the ground.

The torch hanging at the door of the tent had not yet been extinguished, and Downing brought the strip of cloth close to the flame, and when the strip of cloth began to burn, until the whole ball of cloth stuffed in the mouth of the crockpot was burning, Downing threw the crockpot to the ground.

With a clatter, the clay pot shattered, and the wine spilled all over the ground, and the flames on the cloth burned the wine on the ground as it touched the wine.

However, as Tang Ning expected, the purity of the alcohol was not high, the flame was not fierce enough, and it did not last long, and it only took about five or six seconds for the flame to gradually extinguish.

"Goose girl!" Chong Pu exclaimed.

Tang Ning glanced at Chong Pu, and said helplessly: "This should be the best effect, after all, the wine you gave me is mixed with water, if you ......"

"If the officer gave you wine that wasn't mixed with water, would you be able to make something like this that would work better?"

This Tang Ning is really not sure, he really hasn't studied the factors that affect the intensity and burning time of this extremely simple incendiary bomb.

However, the stronger the wine, the better the effect.

So he nodded and said, "Theoretically, the stronger the wine, the better the effect." ”

Chong Pu said hello three times in a row, and then patted Tang Ning on the shoulder hard. After calling a few words of command, the subordinate took the order and ran.

"There are also twelve stones of good wine in the army that have not been mixed with water, all of which are rewards from the officials. I wanted to mix the water and give it to the soldiers to drink slowly, but after a while, the official asked them all to bring it all over for you.

There is no shortage of crockpots, and there are many of them in Huanzhou that specialize in making this thing, and the official will also ask someone to come over for you.

As for the cloth, if there is not enough clothing, you will tear down the tent.

In a while, the official will find a hundred city residents to help you make this thing, you teach them how to do it, use up all the materials in the fastest time, and you will be a great achievement......" Kind of Pu spoke very quickly, and spoke like a machine gun.

However, Tang Ning still heard it clearly, nodded and came down, anyway, he couldn't help anything else, so he could only do logistics work.

Then Chong Pu laughed loudly: "With this thing, there is no way back to protect the group of thieves in the West!" Ha ha! ”

Chong Pu patted Tang Ning's shoulder again, and his eyes were no longer as wary as before, but full of encouragement and appreciation.

After that, Chong Pu turned around and left, and before leaving, he repeatedly told Tang Ning to do this thing well. He didn't have to do anything before that, Ge Kui stayed here, and if Tang Ning had any needs, he could just find Ge Kui.

Soon after Chongpu left, there were trucks pulling jars of wine one after another.

Tang Ning wanted to pour out all the drinks in those crockpots, but Ge Kui was reluctant.

So when all the people came. Tang Ning began to teach them how to make this improvised incendiary bomb, and then after they had used a few jars of wine, he and Ge Kui poured all the wine from the crockpots they had made into the empty jars and set them aside.

This time the wine was obviously much better than the previous one, and it didn't take long for the air to fill the air

Wine. Like the wine that Chong Pu mixed with water for him before, he used it in the camp tent all night, and not much of the wine fragrance escaped.

The Xia army's siege lasted for about two hours, and the casualties of the defenders of Huanzhou were still not unacceptable. After a day and a half of fighting, there were only nearly a hundred seriously wounded.

Taking advantage of the fact that Xia Jun Mingjin withdrew his troops and went back to regroup, Chong Pu came in a hurry and asked Tang Ning how his progress was.

Although it is faster when there are more people, including Tang Ning, everyone is not proficient. Especially when Downing asked the cloth group to seal the crockpot and leave a long strip outside for ignition, it was easy to have flaws and then redo it.

For more than an hour, Tang Ning only used six stones with people, but Chong Pu was still very happy. After instructing his subordinates to distribute the made clay pots to the defenders on the four walls of the east, west, north and south, and telling them not to use them until it was in a critical moment, Chongpu left happily.

After half an hour's rest, the Xia army attacked again, but this time the Xia army's offensive became extremely fierce.

Finally, it took another hour to dismantle the three camps and consume all the remaining six stone wines, and Ge Kui took Tang Ning to return to Chongpu.

At this time, Chongpu was inside the city wall, looking out from an arrow hole to observe the enemy's situation. This man's style is like this, not at all like a manager who is strategizing.

Since yesterday's battle, Downing had noticed that this man had been hanging out on the front lines.

When Ge Kui reported to work, Tang Ning also looked out from the small arrow hole.

He suddenly found that the Western Xia soldiers who came to attack the city today were very different from the previous ones, and the armor on their bodies alone covered a wider area than yesterday's Xia army.

"What's going on?" Tang Ning asked in surprise.

Chong Pu was in a good mood, especially since Tang Ning also made a real weapon, and his prejudice against Tang Ning also disappeared. Looking at Downing now, how do you look at it and feel like an excellent offspring.

So he explained to Tang Ning: "In a thief war, especially in a siege war like the one now, generally speaking, it is not their elite troops that attack first, but the cannon fodder army.

Most of the so-called cannon fodder corps are made up of prisoners, including death row prisoners, who are not afraid of death and are very difficult to deal with.

Fortunately, their protection is not very good, so yesterday and this morning, the archers alone can make them suffer.

But these thieves who came today are all elite troops of thieves. I'm sure you've seen that, right? The armor on their bodies is much better than yesterday's cannon fodder. ”

"I see."

As he was talking, Tang Ning suddenly saw two tall wooden buildings in the Western Xia army approaching in the direction of the city wall.

"What is this?"

Chong Pu cried and laughed: "It seems that your kid is on the battlefield for the first time...... This is the Arrow Tower, which is for archers when fighting in the field.

But in a siege like now, the arrow tower is used by the warriors in the army to climb the city.

When the five roads were attacking thieves, the thieves did not have such a thing. As a result, after that time, they learned it.

In the past, it was very tricky to deal with this kind of thing, and the soldiers defending the city had to spread a lot of energy to deal with the thieves and warriors who came to the city from the arrow tower.

But this time with your incendiary bombs...... Hahahaha! ”

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