Chapter 175: Sea of Fire
"Thisβis the Song Army's stone cannon? Did they fill the whole of Langzhou with stone cannons?! β
Li Mingxin looked at the rain of bullets that covered half of the sky, as if it was smashing straight towards his head, and he was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.
In the blink of an eye, the stone bullet landed, and the dozens of stone cannons of the Jiaozhi people instantly shattered into a pile of loose wood, and the huge inertia swept the soldiers who dragged the stone cannons next to them, and many people lost their lives.
Chen Changji's face was pale, he glanced at Li Mingxin next to him hatefully, raised his left arm, and shouted: "Pass my military order, rush up the mountain!" β
As the military order was passed to the soldiers lined up behind him, the handsome flag beside him pointed forward, and the earth-shattering drum sounded. With the sound of drums, thousands of Cochin soldiers lined up to fight on the hillside.
Xu Ping saw it on the mountain and said to Sang Yi, who came to his side: "The main general of Jiaozhi in front is a person who has been in battle for a long time, and he knows how to take advantage of the gap between the stone cannon launches to kill. Seeing that he is so decisive, he doesn't know how to deal with the rolling logs we have laid. β
Sang Yi said: "There may not be any way, just take people's lives." The stone cannon that was finally made was knocked out by us, and he was also poor in donkey skills. β
"Otherwise, if you are so decisive, you must have a plan in your heart, and we will wait and see."
Xu Ping never thought stupidly about the enemy, and tried to make all preparations. If you are really stupid, then it is a surprise, and you will cling to the weakness that is exposed.
At the foot of the mountain, the Jiaozhi army was smashed by the stone cannons of the Song army, and the soldiers who were not injured quickly climbed up, and together they lifted the giant trees left behind after the stone cannons were dispersed, and rushed to the foot of the mountain first.
Sang Yi saw it. Qi said: "What are these people carrying big trees and rushing over?" β
Xu Ping sneered: "I just said that such a decisive master general would not be too stupid, I think this is the means he uses to deal with rolling wood." Lu Fang! β
"The last general!"
"Prepare your men for battle! Take care to get all the tools out. The comer is not good! β
"No!"
The Song army, who had just been hiding behind the mountain, quickly appeared on the top of the mountain, nervously preparing defensive equipment. Last time, they faced 300 Jiaozhi soldiers, they could take it calmly, and they had the leisure to test the effect of rolling logs, but this time they faced more than 3,000 troops, and they didn't dare to be careless.
The soldiers of the cochin at the stone cannon were the first to rush to the foot of the mountain, and they all leaned the large logs they had brought against the hillside. They huddled in a row against the foot of the mountain.
At this time, the Jiaozhi soldiers who formed a formation had just rushed halfway, and the stone cannons of the Song army were reloaded, and they had no time to re-range. Directly another volley passed.
The formation of the infantry army was dense, and after the round stone projectiles landed, they would roll again, hitting and clashing with pressure, and a single salvo would take the lives of five or six hundred people.
These people are cross-legged soldiers. After such a blow, he was still able to regroup. Still rushing towards the hillside without stopping.
Xu Ping saw it on the top of the mountain, pointed to the foot of the mountain and said to Sang Yi: "See, this is the means that the master of Jiaozhi has come up with to deal with the rolling wood." The big logs poked up the hillside, and the rolling logs would be blocked by these big logs, and even if they couldn't break the rolling logs, the power would be greatly reduced. β
Sang Yi shook his head and sighed: "To be able to come up with this method in a hurry, this master general is also a talent." But we don't have just a rolling log here, and I don't know how many lives he will have to use to try it out. Then come up with a way to deal with it. The 20,000 Jiaozhi in front of him seems to be insufficient, and it is difficult for him. β
Xu Ping smiled. Turning his head to Lu Fang, he instructed: "Let the soldiers prepare more stones and oil cans, and the rolling wood will not be in a hurry to release it first." Also, the crossbowmen behind the mountain are ready to wait for orders at any time! β
Behind the hill is a three-dimensional configuration, with stone cannon positions in the lower rows, archers near the top of the hill, crossbowmen at the top of the hill, and defensive soldiers casting rolling wood stones on the top of the hill. This small hillside looks inconspicuous, but when the fighting is fierce, thousands of people can gather to ensure a well-layered strike force.
The stone cannon was reloaded and fired, but it only grabbed the tail of the Cochin formation, and did not do much damage. γ
Before and after, plus the manpower of the stone artillery position, the Jiaozhi people paid nearly 1,000 lives, and the team finally arrived at the foot of the mountain.
Xu Ping looked down from the mountain, densely packed with human heads, as if under the summer sun, the pond was crowded with frogs and toads stretching out their heads and panting, and he felt goosebumps when he looked at it.
Lu Fang looked at Xu Ping with blank eyes, waiting for the order.
Xu Ping said loudly: "Go down to the oil tank first, let the foot of the mountain become a sea of fire, and burn the Jiaozhi people." By the way, no matter how expensive oil is, no human life is worth anything, you just have to use it freely! β
Lu Fang got the order, and asked the heralds around him to go all the way to the top of the mountain to order, holding the order flag, staring at the ant-like soldiers under the mountain.
In less than half a cup of tea, the herald soldier came back to reply to the order, and the command flag in Lu Fang's hand waved down violently, and he shouted: "Fight!" β
As he spoke, the drums rang out, dense as rain, and they rang endlessly.
Song Jun raised the can in his hand, poked out his stretch, and threw it towards the Jiaozhi army under the mountain.
Condescending and steep, the Song army didn't need much effort to throw the cans into the crowd of the Jiaozhi army. Although some of them fell on the hillside and cracked, they were very few, and most of them smashed into the crowd accurately, shattering the ground, and the kerosene inside was spilled everywhere.
The soldiers were startled at first, but when they found that the spilled oil was not hot oil, and the smell was not too big, their hearts relaxed, and they just dodged around and dug out the cans.
It is common to use oil to defend the city, but the general practice is to set up a cauldron at the head of the city, heat the oil and pour it down from above, and use the hot oil to hurt people. You must know that most of the oil used at this time is grease oil, that is, sesame oil in later generations, ordinary people can't even afford to use this oil, and it is not easy to burn it with any oil. There was also kerosene smuggled from the sugar cane business to Jiaozhi, but it was expensive, and the following Jiaozhi soldiers did not even see the blessings.
After a while, I don't know how many oil cans were smashed down from the top of the mountain, and most of the soldiers were stained with kerosene, and they began to organize manpower to climb the hillside along the gap where the big trees were erected.
"Ignition!" Xu Ping shouted to Lu Fanggao.
Lu Fang waved the command flag in his hand, and the continuous drum beat suddenly stopped, and only echoes echoed in the sky. The sound of the drum has a terrifying magic, which will make people's blood boil when it sounds, and once it suddenly stops, somehow it will feel empty in your heart.
The busy Jiaozhi soldiers at the foot of the mountain were also shocked by the sound of drums, and they all stopped in an instant and looked up at the top of the mountain.
I saw that several huge fireballs were suddenly pushed up the hillside by Song Jun, and the red ones were even brighter than the rising sun.
This is Xu Ping's order in advance to be made of pulverized coal and loess, a veritable briquette, from the time when the kerosene tank was prepared, it was burned red in the fire behind the mountain, and it was specially used to start the fire.
Seeing that everything was ready, Lu Fang waved the command flag in his hand again.
The stopped drum beat again, but this time it was not hurried, unhurried.
As the drums sounded, the red briquettes were pushed down the mountain by the Song army, rolling all the way towards the crowd of the Jiaozhi army.
The Jiaozhi soldiers who looked up and saw them were terrified, such a big fireball, not to mention burning, was killed by just being hit, and they all dodged and became a mess at the foot of the mountain.
At this time, the crowd at the foot of the mountain was too dense, where could the officers of Jiaozhi be able to suppress it? You can only cage the crowd on the periphery and prevent anyone from escaping.
The fiery briquettes rolled faster and faster on the hillside, and in a few breaths they reached the bottom of the mountain, where they crashed into the crowd of Cochin troops.
With one howl after another, hundreds of Jiaozhi soldiers were slammed into by the red ball, and their lives were lost in one stroke. The Jiaozhi soldiers who escaped the catastrophe secretly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that their lives were great, but before they could calm down, they were suddenly frightened stupid.
I saw that the soldier who was hit suddenly burst into flames, the fire was extremely violent, and quickly spread to the crowd, and almost no one could avoid it.
Who hasn't lit an oil lamp torch? But no matter what kind of oil, where there will be this kind of fire, there is no time to dodge, let alone extinguish the hand, and in the blink of an eye, he will become a burning man.
The cochin officer, who was bounced behind the crowd, panicked at once, when he arrived at this step of the field, he could not retreat, he was frightened back by a fire, and it was impossible to attack the foot of the mountain next time.
In unison, the Jiaozhi officer roared: "This is the Song Army Demon Law, don't pay attention to it!" All the soldiers listened to the order together and rushed to the top of the mountain, there was still a glimmer of life, and it was like a dead end in retreat! Rush! β
The panicked soldiers almost lost their minds, and the roar of the most group of officers frightened their minds, and they suddenly climbed up the hill together.
Lu Fang looked at the foot of the mountain and saw that it had become a sea of fire, and he also secretly smacked his tongue, and said in his heart, the domineering of this fire pot is better than rolling wood, and if it is stained, it is like a dead end, and there is almost no way out.
Xu Ping watched the Jiaozhi soldiers climb up the mountain along the gap between the big trees, like a group of big geckos, and turned to Lu Fang and said, "It's time to put the stones!" Be careful to let the caster pull out the gap and don't squeeze together, as it won't work! β
Lu Fang got the order and let the herald pass the order.
At this time, the battle had begun, and the heralds no longer ran back and forth, but lined up at the back of the mountaintop, leaning on the flags in their hands to pass orders. The flag can only convey some pre-determined military orders, such as attacking, defending, changing logs, changing stones, etc., which is just enough at this time.
The military order was passed down, and Lu Fang waved the flag in his hand again, and the drums became dense again, as if a light rain suddenly turned into a torrential downpour, and the sound of shaking the sky enveloped the entire mountain.
The stone is made of stone cannons, but it is not necessary to make it separately, but from the back of the mountain to move the top of the mountain with a winch, and it is a few big cows that drive the winch. This transportation mechanism is the basic skill of Xu Ping's previous life, the scientific name is the bucket transportation mechanism, and the round bulk material of the transportation stone is just right.
The Jiaozhi soldiers who struggled out of the sea of fire were already frightened, and while climbing up the mountain, they looked up at the movement of the Song army on the mountain.
When the round stone popped out overhead, rolling up the dust and whistling overhead, the Cochin soldier only felt that it was dark in front of him, and knew that the end had come, and even the last trace of fighting spirit was gone. (To be continued.) )