Chapter 69: Trivial skills, nothing worth mentioning!
October 16, the ninth year of Qin Wangzheng's reign.
The sky was dimming, and the Qin army's former troops threw away their torches, climbed on the ladders, and continued to attack the Xinzheng city wall.
For three whole days, the Qin army's offensive continued day and night, without sleep or rest!
Just when everyone thought that today would still end in a storm, a fast horse flew out of the baggage camp and ran to the command platform. The knight on the horse shouted:
"Thirty trebuchets are ready!"
"Please tell me, general!"
Ying Chengyu finally showed a smile: "Send the order to the front army to increase the intensity of the attack!"
“Send the order to the heavy camp and select the main target at the head of Xinzheng City for diffuse coverage!”
“Send the order to the entire army to put on armor and prepare for a general attack!”
With the flags waving and war drums beating, the Qin army's front troops attacked the city wall more and more crazily.
A few soldiers have even rushed to the city wall!
In the front line of the Qin army, three thousand strong soldiers roared: "Throw!"
With the sound of shouting, three thousand strong men pulled the rope and ran backwards, dressed in full attire. The oil jar in the net bag flew along the parabola towards the head of Xinzheng City.
Looking at these flying jars from a distance, Zhang Rang's eyes narrowed.
The news obtained by Wancheng was also passed on to Xinzheng, so Zhang Rang also knew very well that these jars were the culprits that caused Xicheng to fall in one day.
Whether you can stand Xinzheng City depends on whether you can deal with these jars!
Zhang Rang immediately gave an order: "Send an order to the whole army. If they encounter an open fire, they are not allowed to put out the fire on their own and act in accordance with the previous order."
"Send an order to the corvee to go to the city and act according to the original plan."< br>
“Send the order to the trebuchet, target the Qin army’s trebuchet, and smash it to the truth at all costs!”
"Send the order..."
One order after another came out of Zhang Rang's mouth. The trebuchet standing at the top of Xinzheng City aimed at the Qin army's trebuchet and threw out heavy stone bullets.
A large number of corvees went up to the city wall with various objects and were ready.
Just when the first batch of jars hit the city, hundreds of corvees picked up linen cloths and rushed to the place where the jars fell. They quickly wiped the liquid flowing out of the jars with the linen cloths in their hands.
But before they could clean up the viscous liquid, the second and third batch of jars had already fallen onto the city wall.
On the command platform, Ying Chengyu clearly saw the actions of the Korean defenders. He did not dare to hesitate anymore and gave a decisive order: "The front troops withdraw!"
"Crossbowmen fire!"
An order. Next, even the Qin army that had already rushed to the city wall retreated quickly.
In contrast, thousands of rockets were thrown towards the head of Xinzheng City.
Even if the Korean military corvee has cleaned up the oil as much as possible, the remaining layer of oil is enough to support a fire, and even ignited the wooden barrels that the corvee used to hold oil. In a small area A more violent fire was triggered inside.
The Korean army's trebuchets and city gate towers, which were listed as key targets, instantly burst into flames!
Being in the sea of fire, Zhang Rang showed no fear and just shouted in a deep voice:
"School A continues to guard the city wall and is not allowed to retreat!"
"B. Schools Ding and Ji are following the orders!”
The five thousand soldiers of School A could only huddle in a corner without fire, fearfully looking at the jars that continued to fall in the sky.
Fifteen thousand soldiers from the schools B, Ding, and Ji took various objects such as sand, linen, paddles, children's urine, and geranium blood and poured them on the oil.
Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Sheng ran through the sea of fire and ran to the city gate tower, shouting anxiously: "The fire is too strong, Aweng, abandon the city gate tower and retreat to the palace!"
Zhang Rang yelled angrily: "Retreat to the palace in this battle, where will we retreat in the next battle!"
"Since the king has handed over the army to the prime minister, the prime minister will not be ashamed of the king. Go up.”
“I don’t believe this fire can’t be put out!”
Zhang Sheng said bitterly: "But the soldiers have tried all the methods you ordered before, and none of them worked..."
Before Zhang Sheng could finish his words, a soldier with a face full of smoke and dust suddenly became excited. He strode over and said, "General! Our troops put out the fire!"
Zhang Rang was overjoyed and asked: "What method was used?"
The soldiers kept saying: "Sand was used. !"
Zhang Sheng asked: "My troops are also using sand and stones to put out the fire, but they can't extinguish the flames. Did your team really put out the fire? "When marching in the field, we often use sand and stones to extinguish the fire. Therefore, Zhang Sheng's subordinates have great expectations for Shashi.
But the result was that the fire diminished first, and then continued to burn on its own.
The soldier hurriedly explained: "It's sand! You can't use sand and gravel. Our troops will dump a cart of fine sand on the fire place, cover all the fire places thickly, and the fire will be extinguished. "It's gone!"
"General, look, we are putting out the fire there!"
Zhang Rang looked along and saw a small sand dune.
Both sides of the dune were filled with seas of fire, but only traces of black smoke were left on the dune.
But as the oil from both sides of the dune flowed over and covered the top of the dune, the dune also rekindled the flames.
Zhang Rang laughed heartily: "The true nature of this fire has been destroyed!"
"How else can the Qin army be so arrogant?"
Zhang Sheng reminded in a low voice: "Aweng, that sand dune is also on fire."
Zhang Rang said in a broken voice: "That is the flame flowing from somewhere else. If all the flames are extinguished with sand, where can the flames flow from?"
"Instruct all the corvees to dig in the Dongcheng District. Three feet from the ground, bring all the sand to the city wall!"
"If the fire still can't be extinguished, then the truth is to block the Shuangjie River and hollow out the river sand at the bottom of the Shuangjie River!"
While speaking, Zhang Rang looked outside the city and met Ying Chengyu who was standing on the command platform, as if he wanted to tell Ying Chengyu.
It’s a small trick, but it’s nothing!
Looking at Zhang Rang's arrogant smile and firm eyes, Ying Chengyu felt a little regretful: "What a pity."
Ying Chengyu never believed that oil alone could conquer all cities, otherwise the Northern Zhou Dynasty would be the most Those who are good at fighting will not be the government soldiers, but the arson brigade.
But the reason why oil has been wreaking havoc in China's cold weapon wars for more than a thousand years is because even if the enemy is prepared, oil can still play a great role!
Ying Chengyu shouted in a deep voice: "Send the order to the front army to attack the city!"
The front army of the Qin Army roared towards Xinzheng City again.
After half an hour of hand-to-hand fighting, the jar filled with oil was thrown again.
The Qin army's front troops quickly withdrew, and the Qin army's crossbowmen took advantage of the situation and ignited the oil.
The defenders who knew how to extinguish the fire were no longer as panicked as before, and hurriedly pushed the sand to extinguish the flames.
But during the journey, many piles of sand that had been used to cover the oil were kicked away, and the oil hidden beneath them started to burn again with just a spark.
The defenders finally extinguished the fire at the top of the city, but there was another noise below the city.
"Go first! Go first!"
Looking at the Qin army that was attacking the city again, Zhang Rang's originally confident smile turned bitter: "Burn the city with flames, our army will save it."
“Once the fire is put out, the formation will be chaotic, and you cannot look left or right.”
“The Qin army can take advantage of this chaos to sneak onto the city wall and launch a surprise attack.”
“This Fighting is difficult! ”
In Zhang Rang's view, even if he knew how to extinguish the flames, the battle would still be extremely difficult.
But in an attic in the distance, Han Qi and others looked very ugly.
“I thought that the Qin Army’s flames might defeat Prime Minister Zhang, but I never thought that it would be extinguished like this!”
“The demonic fire of the Qin Army is exaggerated and is in vain. We are so looking forward to it!”
“Wei has decided to send troops to help. If Zhang Rang can hold out until the Wei army comes to help without losing the city, then the army will be dispatched by Zhang Rang, which will be very detrimental to us. Ah!”
Listening to the words of his subjects, Han Qi did not hesitate and gave the order: "Han Ke, go to the Qin camp yourself!"
(End of this chapter)