How good is the effect? The smoke from the thunderbombs was much shorter and lighter than usual. This suggests that unless it is thrown into the mud, it can only be achieved if there is something that prevents the smoke from rising.

Not only is the visual impact smaller, but even the sound has changed. Almost all shrapnel and shock waves are absorbed by the human body, and the sound of the explosion is not so crisp.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this thing is an iron ball that will glow and explode!" Xiao Wuna didn't know whether to thank the founder of the city or curse.

He relieved the siege for himself, but the price was not cheap, and he could see with the naked eye that several open spaces suddenly appeared under the city wall, presumably the current condition of the Khitan soldiers who were originally standing there was not very good.

"Beat the drums!" Yelu Hongji's face turned green, and the dignified Liao Emperor was like a constitutional, but he was slapped in the face in front of so many ministers and soldiers. Cultural people are also people, and they need face more!

Moreover, the cultural people are more terrible than the vulgar people, and the simple two words are destined to have more Khitan soldiers to taste the taste of iron balls, and the sound of drums means that the attack will not retreat!

Siege warfare is actually the most boring and monotonous mode of warfare, and it is extremely bloody, at least here in the new army. There was no interspersed pulling, no formation arrangement, no charging cavalry, just dense crowds of people and layers of corpses.

The new army defended in strict accordance with the most ammunition-saving method, and all trebuchets were adjusted to firing at close range, throwing pieces of masonry and stone in an arc with a large angle, and throwing them high into the sky not far before falling straight down, and the landing point was concentrated on the north bank of the moat. You can't get any closer, and if you get any closer, you'll accidentally injure the defenders at the head of the city.

Braving the flying bricks, the Liao soldiers stepped on the corpses of their compatriots one by one and touched the city, the ladder had been blown up, and the car was burned into a fireball, so they could only climb up the wooden pole.

If you climb halfway through, you will fall down without exception, and the injured will wail in place, and those who are not injured will continue to crawl until they are injured or killed in battle.

If you have a particularly big life, you can spend a few more rounds, and then be replaced by the new force and return to your own camp to rest, watching your compatriots continue to endure the torment they have just endured.

The most incomprehensible and unbearable thing is not the fear of death and mutilation, but the sight of not a single enemy in the city. After an afternoon of fighting, the corpses under the city were piled up in several layers, but they didn't even see what the enemy was.

What made the Liao army even more indignant and helpless happened after nightfall, and the siege troops finally stopped when it was dark, and it was time to eat after a whole day.

But the defenders did not agree, and they actually used hanging baskets to hang people down to carry the corpses, and all of them were moved to the moat, and some things like oil were poured on them. More than a dozen bonfires were burned in the south and east of the city, illuminating the nearby 100 meters as if it were day.

As soon as the north wind blew, the smoke from the burning corpses drifted towards the Liao army camp in the southern city. Human oil and human flesh, this taste made many Liao soldiers vomit all the dinner they just ate. But the big black sky can't change the camp, so he can only cover his mouth and nose with everything that can hide the smell.

This is not the end, during the day it is the Liao army shouting and scolding, and at night it is the turn of the defenders. They placed several huge cylinders at the head of the city, and made the captured Khitan people cry loudly, persuading their people to stop following the mediocre Liao Emperor, and it was better to raise troops to kill him, and the war would be over.

The Song army not only did not take advantage of the chaos to sneak attack, help the rebels fight the royalists, and then return the Xijin Mansion to the Liao State, the Song army withdrew as it came, and did not take a single leaf with them.

Does shouting work? Definitely not, it's a Liao army with a head that knows that this is the enemy's. But there are always people crying, or their own people, their voices are shouting and still shouting, and the taste in their hearts can be imagined.

No way, if you scold yourself, you will be allowed to shout, if you don't want to listen to it, plug your ears with wool. As a result, most of the Liao troops in the south of the city have become disabled people with their mouths and noses covered and their ears blocked.

You don't want to sleep yet, the city gate will open in a few moments, the drawbridge will be lowered, and a group of people will hula out of the city gate, crying and rushing to the Liao army camp. At first, the Liao army didn't react, and they couldn't see it clearly, so they could only shoot and send someone over to check.

As a result, all the Khitan captives in the city, some of them were clansmen, and even friends and relatives. This grief could not be stopped, and after shooting two groups of people in a row, the Liao army decided not to be fooled, and sent people to bring back all the clansmen.

It turned out to be tragic again, there were people in the crowd who were not Khitan prisoners, but were wearing similar clothes. As soon as they entered the camp of the Liao army, these people set fire to the things they were carrying, shouted gods, immortals, and drilled into the crowded camp tent, and they really ascended to heaven with a ball of fire and a corpse.

It's not to kill, it's not to kill, this toss has made the entire Liao army camp miserable, and finally the sky is a little blue, just don't sleep, and then attack the city for half an hour in the morning, even if you die in battle, it's better than sitting in the camp tent and being blown up by a human head explosives bag.

This morning's siege battle was a bit chaotic at the beginning, the siege soldiers had just crossed the river, and a large number of them fell without hitting anything, and the ones behind were also hesitant, even if the overseers fired arrows, it was not very effective.

What's going on? When the officer sent to inquire about the situation returned, Jerod almost fell off his horse. I have never seen such a person who lacks morality, and I don't know what time I was thrown a spike under the city wall and by the moat.

Soldiers can wear iron armor and iron helmets, but they can no longer wear iron shoes. As long as you step on these iron thorns, the instep will be pierced, and there are barbs on the iron thorns, which are not easy to pull, and the more than 200 people who ran in front are completely useless.

"Carpet and planks!" is worthy of being the leader of the clan, and Yelu Zhen has a good brain.

It would not work to let the soldiers brave the bricks and lay on the ground to look for iron spikes, so they simply took the felt blankets that slept in the tents and spread them on the floor. I've seen what the iron thorn looks like, but it's just an inch long, and as long as you don't stick your feet on two layers, it's done.

This method also worked, and the layers of felt carpet were indeed no longer pricked, and the besieging soldiers could finally continue the path of yesterday's death. It's not easy to die, and you have to foreshadow it in advance.

"Launch!" Last night's series of farces were all played by Hong Tao on the spot, and the duration of this battle was not short, but people's energy was limited. Letting you sleep for an hour less every day doesn't seem like much, but after a few days, a dozen days, it should be effective.

At this time, there was a row of new army soldiers squatting on the city wall, and there was a large wooden barrel not far away. It was filled with mixed oil, and it was sprayed under the city with a fire-extinguishing cylinder, not mainly on people, but on the felt blankets.

A less volatile oil mixture that ignites when exposed to fire, combined with combustible felt blankets and wooden boards...... Hey, this fire would have been much better than just burning corpses.

When is it? It must be the time when the Liao army is at its most. In order to achieve this goal, Hong Tao deliberately made a defensive hole appear in the city wall, and put the Liao army climbing along the two wooden poles and then shot it.

However, the city could not see the details on the city wall, and when it saw that some soldiers had broken through the enemy's defensive line, they had to hurry up and reinforce them, and try to tear the breakthrough wider, and this siege battle might be over.

Yelu Zhen was fooled again, and when the reinforcements he sent out had also crossed the moat, several torches were suddenly thrown from the city wall, and they landed exactly on the passage of the moat. The torches were cast as if by magic, and the ground instantly burst into flames, blocking the retreat of the besieging forces.

Not only was the retreat cut off, but the besieging troops were also quickly caught up under their feet. The fire was not like cow dung, firewood, or charcoal, but it lit as it spoke, and the flames could be more than three feet high, and the smoke was very thick, very large, and very choking.

There are not many people who are really burned to death by fire, and there are more people who choke on the smoke, and there are more people who are pushed and trampled on by their own people, and at this time the Liao army finally saw what the legendary new army of Huangzhou in the Great Song Dynasty looked like.

A layer of people wearing small iron pots suddenly appeared on the battlements, each holding a crossbow in their hands, leaning out half of their bodies to shoot at the Liao army who had not been burned by the fire or choked by the smoke.

In an instant, arrows rained down, like harvesting wheat, harvesting all the hundreds of siege troops under the city. What armor is not armor, as long as a crossbow immediately falls to the ground.

The Liao army on the south bank of the moat hurriedly picked up the bow and counterattacked the city, but the effect was not great, the small iron pot on the enemy's head was extremely defensive against the arrow attack, and the defense area was extraordinarily large.

"What kind of crossbow is this, the strength is comparable to the Song people's divine arm bow, and it can be wound with only one hand!"

The wooden platform where Yelu Hongji was located was silent for a long time before one of the clan leaders couldn't help but ask a question, and at the same time turned his gaze to Xiao Wuna, his eyes no longer mocking and contempt, but with infinite curiosity.

"Back to the Prime Minister, when this official went to Jingzhao Mansion, I saw Wang Xu's guards, and they held a small bow and crossbow that I had never seen before. The crossbow arm appears to be made of stainless steel, and is equipped with several small delicate wheels on which the bowstring slides. The princess once told the official that this kind of crossbow is Wang Xu's exclusive secret, and the forbidden army cannot obtain it, only his new army uses it, and it is called a pulley crossbow, which is what I think is the case. ”

Xiao Wuna really wanted to ask what you all did yesterday, so he refused to listen to me more, and was in a hurry to attack. Isn't it too late to ask for advice? After two days of siege, there are not 8,000 Khitan elite soldiers who died under the city, but also 5,000, and they were all killed by you!

It's a pity that he didn't have the audacity to question the emperor to his face, so he could only tell his half-knowledge about the pulley crossbow as it was, and even mentioned Princess Terry to add credibility. The emperor doesn't believe in himself, so he can't even believe in his daughter.