With the shaking of Wang Shichong's order flag, and the corresponding drum horn roared, those bearded veterans, after hearing this order, suddenly their eyes lit up, it was a wolf light, full of murderous spirit, about a thousand archers, quickly ran to less than a hundred steps away from the city wall, holding a bow in one hand, taking arrows in the other, only a blink of an eye, the whole action was done in one go, and there was no need for the team to give an order, these veterans who did not seem to be in a queue quickly fired the arrows in their hands, The rain of arrows covered the entire city of the east gate at once.

After five rounds of arrow rain, the city was full of screams, from Wang Shichong's point of view, the enemy soldiers who were lucky enough to escape a catastrophe in the rockfall attack just now, at this time, they were even more to these five rounds of stormy bow and arrow storms, shooting all over the arrows, unable to raise their heads at all, occasionally a few brave Turkic archers straightened up from the city, counterattacked with bows and arrows, but also looked pale and weak, and a total of dozens of arrows were shot out, which could not form an effective fire suppression at all.

Bows and arrows baptized the enemy army at the head of the city piece by piece, and the stone cart was not idle, still kept throwing boulders, continuing to bombard the opposite city wall, occasionally a few boulders because of insufficient range, did not hit the city, but fell into the crowd of archers of the Sui army, one stone down, three or four archers smashed the people into a pile of meat pies, but the people standing next to them did not even look at it, and still continued to pour arrow rain towards the city, just like those archers who were shot by the defenders in the front row, and their bodies were full of arrow shafts, As long as you can still draw the bow and shoot the arrow, you will continue to suppress it without stopping.

In an instant. Twenty rounds of arrows have been fired. Wang Shichong smiled. The third small flag was raised, and a long-standing rushing car at the camp gate was made of a large bearded tree with two people hugging each other and about one zhang long as the striking bar, which was hung by a dozen thick and large oxtendons, one end of the big wood was wrapped in iron sheets and cut into a round head, and the upper end of the rushing car was covered with two wet cowhides. With a fire attack, the roof of the rushing cart covered the cart soldiers below, twenty people on the left and right, dressed in iron armor and steel helmets, all of them were strong men like bears, as soon as they saw this signal flag, they shouted in unison, and pushed the eight-wheeled cart towards the direction of the city gate at the fastest speed.

The phalanx of infantry in front of them consciously dodged to both sides, making way for the rushing vehicles to move forward, like chopping waves. The chariot sprinted swiftly towards the gate ahead, with the last ten rounds of arrows. The rushing car was pushed into the opening of the city gate, and forty strong men shouted together to pull the giant tree back, and when he let go of his hand at the highest point, the round head wrapped in iron sheet slammed into the city gate, and at once the thick wooden city gate was knocked out of a sinking about three minutes thick, and the city gate and the ground near it also trembled.

The defenders of the city head with the temporary interval of the bow and arrow storm, can finally raise their heads, take a breath, this round of arrow and stone rain, killed more than a thousand defenders of the city, most of the other living people also fled off the city wall, only more than a hundred brave Turkic archers, as long as they are alive, are still looking for a chance to fight back, because now the car has arrived at the city gate and began to hit the door, the trebuchet temporarily stopped firing, and the archers no longer use the kind of high-intensity rush just now, the injured archers began to retreat for treatment, Most of the others did not draw their bows, and only when they saw an enemy archer at the city gate coming up, they attacked them with precise calls.

The commander-in-chief of the city head is a Turk, and he is also the most trusted lieutenant general of Nakuzhen Tutun, Timoshenko, who was so fierce with the arrow storm just now, this man did not escape from the city wall like other Yiwu soldiers, although he could not prevent the Yiwu soldiers from escaping, but he still managed to stick to his post, the cunning Timoshengo did not recklessly bend arrows to attack the city, because he saw with his own eyes more than a hundred men who tried to do so leaned out and were shot down, but he still observed the gap outside the city through the gap in the battlements, Until he found that the huge piece of Chong Wood had been carried over, which made him unable to continue to calm down, he turned back to the Yiwu soldiers under the city and shouted: "Hurry up to the city to defend, bring the boiling oil torches, hurry!" ”

A few Yiwu generals who led the team woke up like a dream, and the loud noises at the city gate also made them understand, seeing that there were no longer pieces of arrow rain and dark clouds at the head of the city, these Yiwu soldiers also ran out of the hiding place just now, and under the leadership of these generals, they ran towards the city, and the people who fled in all directions on the street, almost all the men were caught by some soldiers, and they were forced to the city gate with kicks and pushes, and then followed by dozens of soldiers behind the city gate, With his shoulder, he began to block the gate that had been shaken by the slam.

Wang Shichong sat calmly on the high platform, watching the progress of the siege, Wei Zheng on the side sighed: "Today I have really seen what war is like, these veterans who look unshaven are unexpectedly the elite left by Xue Dashuai to the lord, it seems that people cannot be deceitful, and the army is the same." ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "That's because Xuancheng, you haven't really been on the battlefield, there is a new soldier in the body of the veteran who is not murderous and calm, those young people with bright armor and dignified appearance I never take to heart, but these people who look lazy and dirty, and are full of scars, are the real elite." ”

Wei Zheng nodded: "The attack just now made the Yiwu defenders very wolf, but at this time they have already relieved themselves a little, and they have begun to climb the city wall again. ”

Wang Shichong's eyes flashed: "I just want them to go to the city to defend now!" ”

In the blink of an eye, more than 2,000 Yiwu soldiers poured onto the city wall again, because at this time there was only one rushing car attacking the city, and the suppression of the arrow rain came to an end, these Yiwu soldiers began to straighten up with confidence and boldness, looking at the city gate that kept hitting the city gate, the corpses all over the city were kicked to the city below, and the wounded soldiers who had a breath were quickly carried down the city head, on the other side of the city steps, dozens of soldiers carried more than ten mouthfuls of steaming boiling oil, climbed to the city head, and rushed towards the direction of the top of the city gate.

Wei Zheng's face changed, and he hurriedly said, "Lord, they are going to attack with fire." ”

A trace of cruel killing intent flashed in Wang Shichong's eyes: "I know!" He stood up. A fourth small white flag was removed. Shake it three times on your head. He said sharply: "Archer, twenty rounds of arrow rain attack!" Catapult, get all the ammo out! ”

A herald beside him was just about to blow the trumpet, and when he heard the last sentence, he looked at Wang Shichong in puzzlement: "General, the brothers are still attacking the city gate, and throwing stones at this time will hurt their own people!" ”

Wang Shichong said coldly: "But it will also hurt the enemy." Right? We have only forty men attacking the gate, and the enemy army has two or three thousand at the head of the city, so if we don't take advantage of this time to kill and wound them in large numbers, how long will we wait? Quickly give orders, otherwise military law will be engaged! ”

The herald was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word, puffed out his cheeks, and quickly blew out Wang Shichong's order in the form of a horn, and soon, a new round of arrows and stones rained. Ruthlessly poured towards the city.

At the same time, the defenders at the head of the city had already carried the boiling oil of the dozen cauldrons to the city gates. At the moment when he was about to give the order to pour oil, a boulder struck a battlement two steps away from his side, and the two cauldrons were smashed back to the city, boiling oil overflowing, and the twenty or so soldiers who had not been shaken off the city wall were blistered everywhere, and the soldiers who were burned to the eyes and faces screamed and threw away the torches, and scratched everywhere on their bodies, and where the torches fell, the oil was boiling in the middle, and a flame rose from the head of the city.

Temoshengo flew up with a kick and kicked the two fire men two steps away from him off the city, and with a push of his right hand, he pushed a stunned Yiwu soldier holding an oil pot directly down the city, and his mouth was not idle: "What are you doing in a daze, quickly pour oil!" ”

The Yiwu soldiers at the head of the city woke up like a dream, and threw the oil pot directly down the city, and there was a heart-rending scream from the rushing car under the city, and a few Sui military warriors who were not covered by the roof or splashed by the hot oil fell to the ground, and they also began to roll all over the ground, and if they didn't pay attention to it, they rolled into the hot oil, and suddenly they were so hot that even the bones came out, and they couldn't scream, and soon became a bloody corpse bubbling in the hot oil.

The fire at the head of the city also began to spread, accompanied by rounds of arrows and flying stones, the defenders of the city had no way to retreat, crying dad and shouting mother in the fire to suffer this wave after wave of death baptism, and the first round of the situation is different, the passage to the city at that time was unblocked, the defenders saw the rain of flying stones and arrows, they could quickly run down the city from the corridor, but this time the corridor was crowded with people, and the soldiers carrying the oil pot were still shouting the trumpet with difficulty, sending oil upwards, in addition to running to the city with rolling stones and wood, and the people who carried the wounded down the city, crowded the two or three upper city corridors almost impassable.

The soldiers who fled from the city knocked the oil carriers and stone carriers who went to the city to the ground, and if they didn't pay attention, four or five boiling oil pots were overturned at once, and the hot oil turned the entire corridor into a Shura hell at once, and hundreds of Yiwu soldiers rolled around screaming and fell directly down the stairs, and the city was full of ghosts and wolves howling and scolding.

Wang Shichong's eyes were murderous, he stood up, raised a red flag, shook it vigorously three times, and shouted: "It's now, change to rocket attack!" Ten rounds of assault! ”

The archers quickly took the flint out of their bosoms, threw a ball of pine paste and grease in front of them, lit it up, and then set up a small fire in front of them, and while the fire was rising, the archers took out ten arrows from their quivers, coated with pine oil and sulfur, stuck them in the ground in front of them, drew one, and sent them to the small fire, only to see a flame rise from the arrow, and a rocket took shape in the blink of an eye.

Without waiting for a new order, the archers drew their bows and arrows, and the arrows of more than a thousand bows and arrows burned with raging flames, and with the sound of the bowstrings, with a terrible whistling sound, they flew to the head of the city, and suddenly there were boiling flames in various places with boiling oil, and in an instant, the whole city was plunged into a sea of fire.

Timoshenko's surroundings were completely surrounded by smoke and flames, and there were soldiers who burned into a big fireball, screaming and falling from the city, while many more were caught in a sea of fire, rolling and moaning all over the ground, and then engulfed by the mad flames, with the burning boiling oil flow everywhere, not to mention the city, even the square under the city, it became a sea of fire, black smoke filled everywhere, and the hundreds of soldiers and civilians who resisted the city gate had already fled without a trace.

Timoshenge's own body also began to catch fire, he knew that he had no luck this time, and looked up to the sky and laughed: "Sui Jun, even if you are ruthless, Lao Tzu will not let you go if he is a ghost!" As he spoke, he jumped into the air, with raging flames all over his body, like a huge turkey, and pounced on the roof of the rushing car under the city.

The rushing car under the city has been swallowed up by the boiling oil that has begun to fall, and the flames at the head of the city fell to the car, and suddenly there was a few feet of flames, and dozens of strong men under the car have all turned into burning humanoid torches, screaming and rolling on the ground, galloping, and finally falling to the ground, climbing a few steps, and finally never moving.

As for the siege car, it has become a huge fireball, and even the city gate was ignited by the flames on the car and burned, and the entire city gate cave was enveloped in a sea of fireworks.

Wei Zheng's brows furrowed and he shook his head gently, Wang Shichong turned his head to look at him, and asked calmly, "Xuan Cheng, you have any doubts, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Wei Zheng sighed: "The car is covered with several layers of wet cowhide, even if it is drenched with fire oil, it will not burn so quickly, what is wrong?" ”

Wang Shichong's voice was so cold that it didn't have a trace of human touch: "Xuancheng, the cowhide of the rushing car is indeed wet, including the iron head wrapped in the big wood in front of it, it is also wet, but what is soaked is not water, but oil, the best fire oil!" ”

Wei Zheng's face changed: "What? Is it oil? ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "Is there a better way to break the door than a fire attack?" If you beat the gate slowly like this, the people inside will keep reinforcing the back of the city gate, and even pile up a large number of sandbags to directly block the city gate, and if you want to rush in, it will be difficult to climb to the sky, and let the defenders on the city tower find a way to take the initiative to help us pour oil and light the fire, isn't it the best way to attack the city? (To be continued......) R1292