Chapter 442: Broken Leaf Fengyun (7)

Guo Mu ran on the street like a madman. Teams of militia were evacuating north with expressionless faces. He pushed away one person after another and ran south regardless of everything.

He just got a news that the great cannibal began to use tinder bombs to attack the city. The Tang army suffered casualties. A Mulan army carrying the wounded was hit by the tinder bombs. Twenty women were burned to death on the spot. He remembered that his wife told him in the morning that her mission today was to transport the wounded in the south of the city. Among these twenty poor women, would there be his own beautiful wife? Guo Mu's eyes were red and tears were almost bursting out of his eyes.

The south of the city was filled with fire, and the air was filled with choking black smoke. Countless houses were burned, and the ruins of burnt wood were in a mess. Teams of firefighting on the streets ran cross-legged. They either filled the soil with dustpans or wooden barrels.

The turbulent oil bomb of the Great Cannibal is actually soaked with cotton balls tied into balls and shot out after ignition. However, the turbulent oil used by the Great Cannibal is the essential oil of Greek fire. It is unextinguished when it encounters water and is difficult to extinguish it even if it sticks to people. Until it is burned to death, when it hits something, the turbulent oil immediately spreads around, forming a sea of ​​fire with great power. It was originally the most mysterious weapon of Byzantine. It was stolen from Constantinople by Surman fifteen years ago and became the most sharp weapon of the Great Cannibal.

Guo Mu had just ran to the south of the city and heard a shout around him. He looked up at the sky and saw a ball of red fireballs passing through the sky. The long tail wings sparkled, like a comet passing by in the night sky, falling straight in his direction.

Guo Mu was shocked. He didn't know what to do. At this moment, someone shouted in his ear, "Go on!" Then he pushed him hard, and he rolled to the ground, lying tightly on the ground, holding his head with his hands, and daring to move.

‘Boom!’ There was a loud noise from the ground, and the sulphur bomb hit a house not far away. The fire surged into the sky and screamed everywhere. Several militia soldiers hiding under the house were affected by the sulphur bombs. After only a few screams, they disappeared. Hundreds of people rushed to put out the fire immediately. A soldier shouted, “Don’t splash with water, the more water the fire is, the bigger the fire, use soil!”

Many people poured out the water from the bucket and filled various containers with soil to splash it into the fire. The fire gradually closed towards the center. Although this house could not escape the fate of burning, at least the fire would not spread.

Guo Mu's face was pale. He was stunned for a while, suddenly remembered his wife, and immediately jumped up and continued running forward. At this time, a group of women who were delivering food were running towards him. There were about a hundred people. Guo Mu recognized the first young woman at a glance, which was the wife of the commander general Han Yue. She was a good friend to her wife. Guo Mu immediately tiptoed and shouted, "Madam Han! Madam Han!"

The woman heard the shout and turned her head to see Guo Mu. She quickly waved to him anxiously, "This place is too dangerous, you go back quickly."

"Did you see my wife?" Guo Mu asked loudly.

"Bai Fang was temporarily moved to the north of the city, she was fine."

Guo Mu's heart fell, and at this moment, a muffled thunder-like explosion suddenly came from afar, followed by explosions, and the soldiers on the street suddenly burst into joy, "Our Datang thunder is showing its power, long live Datang thunder!"

On the top of the city, more than a dozen Tang thunders of the Tang army shot out from afar. One of them hit a car in the city. The red flames burst out, the black smoke soared into the air, and the explosion sounded like thunder. The car in the city was immediately blown up. Dozens of big food soldiers on it screamed and fell from the car in the city, killing and injured.

The first round of attacks of the Great Food Army had begun for nearly an hour. Their catapults exerted great power. The range of two thousand steps dwarfed the Tang army's stone cannons. Especially their Greek fire caused the inexperienced Tang army to suffer a great loss, causing the death of nearly a thousand soldiers and militia. It was not until the Tang army discovered that this fire could not be extinguished with water and could only be extinguished with mud, and the spread of the fire was controlled.

The Tang army in the city has all worn a straight-robed fire suit. This is a fire suit developed by the Tang Army Armor Supervisor three years ago. It is specially designed to deal with the Greek fire that cannibals. Currently, there are 50,000 sets of such fire suits in the city of Saiye, each regular army is one piece. With this kind of fire suit, although it will burn if it is affected by the sulphur bomb, it will not hurt its lives at least. If the fire suit is extinguished in time and even without any damage, the damage of the sulphur bomb to the Tang army will be greatly reduced.

After several rounds of fire from the turbulent bomb, the Great Cannibal's car finally rumbled. The City Car is a bit like the Datang's nest car. The Great Cannibal itself does not have such a weapon, but the Zhaowu countries in the East learned from the Datang and taught it to the Great Cannibal, which gave them an additional weapon to siege.

However, the city-climbing car is different from the stone-capping ram. It requires transporting soldiers to climb the city, so it is easy to cause unstable center of gravity to overturn. The only way is to design it into a pyramid-shaped, but in this way, it is difficult for the soldiers at the top to get close to the city. After repeated experiments, the craftsmen of Dashi adopted a flexible method. After designing several long floating bridge boards on the city-climbing car, pulling them with iron chains, which can extend the height of the city-climbing car and resist the other party's bows and arrows. This is a bit like the cloud ladder of the Tang Dynasty, but it is far less flexible and delicate than the cloud ladder, and it looks very bulky.

Although the range of the Tang army's stone cannon was not as good as that of the heavy catapult of the Great Cannibal, it was extremely effective against the approaching city car. When the Great Cannibal's Chengcheng car entered the range, the Tang army immediately fired gunpowder bullets and competed with the Dashi's turbulent bombs. A loud explosion echoed outside the Saiye City. All the people who were shot in the city car were broken and collapsed. The Dashi soldiers fell one after another, either dead or injured. Soon, the first batch of fifty city carriages had been destroyed or destroyed before they reached the moat. The remaining six were stationed outside the range and did not dare to take another step forward.

Alan looked at the enemy's Datang Thunder with great glory. He had no choice. Five years ago, Dashi once entrusted the Uighurs to steal the recipe for Datang Thunder. The man who made the horse was Surman, who stole the Greek fire back then. He lived up to the Caliph's trust and finally stole the recipe for this mysterious Datang Thunder. However, the Dashi military craftsmen developed it for five years. The so-called Datang Thunder he created only burns without explosion, and is even far from the Greek fire. The Caliph even got furious about it and executed thirty famous craftsmen, but still found nothing.

Finally, some people began to suspect that the recipe that Surman stole was not the real Datang Lei formula. I wonder if he was intentionally fooling the Caliph, or if he was deceived by the Tang people himself.

At this time, the deputy general around him finally couldn't help but speak, "General Mercedes-Mercein, the Tang Lei is powerful, and if you send a car to the city, you can only increase casualties. We should use night battles and use attacks to hit the city, which may be effective."

Alan sighed depressedly, "Okay! I'll follow your opinion this time."

The long horn sounded again, and the rhythmic drums continued to beat. This was the order to retreat. The Dashi Army began to retreat slowly. The first tentative attack ended. The Tang army cheered on the city, but the chief general Wang Siyu remained silent. The powerful turbulent bombs on the other side left a deep impression on him. Moreover, the five siege rams that looked like hills were still towering. He realized that the daytime battle was just a tentative attack by the enemy, and the real battle was still behind.

At night, the Tang army, who had been guarding the city for a day, were exhausted and ended their defenses and returned to the garrison to rest. Another group of Tang troops were replaced by the city. However, the head coach Wang Siyu did not get a rest time. He led a team of personal soldiers to inspect the progress of the fortifications in the city.

During the day, the Great Cannibal's turbulent bombs accumulated experience for the Tang army, especially their heavy trencher, which could actually shoot burning turbulent bombs into the city. In order to prevent the Great Cannibal from shooting a large amount of turbulent oil into the city, the Tang army had already begun to prepare nervously.

The first is to demolish all wooden buildings within 500 steps from the city wall. Not only the south city, east, west, and north wooden buildings within 500 steps from the city wall must also be demolished. The stone buildings are not demolished and are left to temporarily avoid fire, but their doors and windows and all things that can be burned must be demolished. Demolition of the house is only the first step, and the second step is to build an isolation wall to prevent the spread of tincture oil poured into the Dashi Army.

The 80,000 militia troops in the city have been mobilized. They have been divided into three parts. Some of them have demolished wooden houses and dug tunnels on the open space to turn the isolation belt into a ‘V’-shaped terrain, so that the tincture oil and tincture bombs of the big cannibal can automatically fall to the bottom of the pit; the other part is about 40,000 people are stepping up the construction of the isolation wall, and the city is working on all sides at the same time. The project has been underway for more than an hour. The prototype of the isolation wall has begun to appear, forming a two-foot-high low wall; the last militia of 20,000 people is used as a crop transportation team. They not only send baskets of stone bullets and fire thunder bombs filled with special fireproof wooden boxes to the city tower, but now there is another new task, which is to transport a large amount of soil to the city head. This is the only way to prevent the city head from becoming a sea of ​​fire. For this reason, the school ground in the southwest of Suoye City has become a large pit of five feet deep.

The 80,000 militia was carrying out fortifications in an extremely busy manner. Teams of figures were running back and forth in the city. Some were carrying baskets of soil, and some were pushing small cars. The cars were filled with bricks and stones removed from various places, and their pace was fast, accompanied by the team's low scolding.

Wang Siyu did not interfere with the busyness of the militia army, and then turned to the east of the city. This was also a key defense area. He was also demolishing houses and building an isolation wall. As soon as he arrived near the isolation wall, he suddenly heard someone calling him. Wang Siyu turned around and saw several people running in the darkness. He ran closer and saw that the first person was Meng Jiao, and the other person next to him was Wu Yuanheng, the supervisor's assistant censor, was stranded. Meng Jiao stayed in Suye City for a temporary position. He served as the chief of the governor's office of the Suye Ye, and was fully responsible for Suye's government affairs. However, during the war, he actually assumed all the logistics support. Wu Yuanheng next to him also temporarily shelved the supervision function and became the military counsel of the Suye Army.

Seeing the two of them running, Wang Siyu quickly turned over and got off the horse, stepped forward and smiled, "The battle between the two of them is tired."

"The Grand Marshal said this and said it was our duty. We should be able to serve the war. How about the word "tired"? Meng Jiao stepped forward and gave a gift, took out a booklet and said: "Today, the militia was burned to death by a turbulent bomb. To a large extent, he died in chaos. What should we do and why not? Where can militia go and where can we not go? There is no clear rule. I discussed with the Wushuo Officer and drafted this rule. Please take a look at the Grand Marshal."

Wang Siyu was overjoyed. Meng Jiao's suggestion came to the point. His army could do what he wanted and stop what he wanted. This was after a long period of training, but the militia was an ordinary civilian who was temporarily organized. It seemed to be neat and orderly when the weather was calm. However, once a crisis arose, it immediately exposed its weakness of insufficient training, as if a group of headless flies. Most of the 600 people burned to death today were fleeing militia soldiers, and there were less than 100 militia soldiers who died with the team.

Two personal soldiers lit the torches and delivered them to them. Wang Siyu looked through several pages and smiled and handed them to Meng Jiao, saying, "It's great, it's just my wish, but I'm asking the envoy Meng to write it more in a more popular way, shorter and catchy way."

Meng Jiao's face turned slightly red, he took the booklet and said, "Okay! I'll go and modify it now, and I'll take a look at it for the coach tomorrow morning."

Wang Siyu waved her hand and said, "Don't look at it for me anymore. Just make a little modification and make it directly. Things are urgent, the faster the better."

As soon as Wang Siyu finished speaking, the earth began to tremble slightly. Everyone was stunned. A soldier rushed over and reported urgently: "Master, the cannibal has started attacking again."

Wang Siyu suddenly turned around and ordered: "The construction of the isolation wall must not be stopped. We must speed up the movement. All militia troops will retreat behind the isolation wall, and then transfer 10,000 crossbowmen to the city to prevent the enemy from filling the river."

Outside the city, Wang Siyu's expectations were good. Thirty thousand Zhaowu troops came overwhelmed. They were still attacking Nancheng this time. To be precise, they were trying to fill the moat outside the city. They rode horses, held shields, and one person carried three or four mud bags on his back. They rushed here from three miles away, mixed in between them. Three hundred heavy catapults rumbled out again, hundreds of huge turbulent bombs rose into the air, whistling across the darkness.

In the night sky, with a ball of fireballs with blazing flames, the dazzling light illuminated the city. The city suddenly had a sea of ​​fire, and nearly a hundred crossbows were ignited. The fire was so fierce that even the fire-proof suit could not be resisted. Countless Tang soldiers covered their faces and screamed and rolled on the ground, but the Greek fire could not be extinguished. The burning became more and more fierce, burning flesh and burning bones until they died. At this moment, the city tower also burned, and the flames soaring into the sky rushed straight to the nine heavens, and were clearly visible dozens of miles away.

In the raging fire, the Tang army was not silent. The Tang army's stone cannon group hidden behind the protective wall also showed its power. Hundreds of round and black thunder bombs broke out into the air. The fuse on the porcelain bullet was burning wildly. The sky thunder bombs fell into the dense enemy group and exploded violently. Suddenly, large pieces of flesh and blood flew everywhere, limbs and heads splattered, and pieces of enemy troops fell down. The war horses were frightened, and they screamed high, flew everywhere. Countless soldiers who were falling off were trampled into mud, and the sticky blood on the ground gathered into a river, and bubbles were gulp.

The sulphur bombs and the thunder bombs intertwined in the sky, colliding from time to time, exploding violently, and the explosion was deafening, forming countless extremely bright small fireballs, scattering around. In the fierce offensive and defensive battle, the city was as bright as day, and the city was full of weapon wreckage and corpses. Life became extremely fragile at this moment.

Thirty thousand Zhaowu Army was repelled and rushed up again, just like the sea tide rising higher than the wave. The dense sky thunder bombs formed a death channel about a hundred steps wide. The soldiers who rushed in would inevitably be crushed to pieces. Alan, the commander of the Dashi Army, saw that Zhaowu Army had lost nearly half of it, but he still could not cross the sky thunder formation. In his rage, he also lost his mind and shouted loudly: "The Anguo Army detoured the east to fill the river. If he took a step back, he would be killed without mercy!"

The cavalry rushed out of the north side of the camp. This was the 10,000 Anguo Army. They also carried mud bags on their backs, and bypassed the thunder formation from the east and rushed straight to the moat. At this moment, the Tang army stone cannons on the east city were also fired, and red and shiny flowers bloomed on the ground, preventing the Anguo cavalry from approaching the east city.

The Anguo Army had no choice but to turn back to the south of the city and run close to the moat. They successfully passed through the blockade of the thunder formation. At this moment, the city was filled with a pungent burning smell. Nearly 10,000 Tang soldiers in fire-proof suits were desperately covering the overflowing flames with mud. After dozens of rounds of projection, nearly half of the catapults of the Dashi Army had malfunctioned, and hundreds of them were repairing urgently. As the number of turbulent bombs gradually decreased, the blazing fire began to weaken. Eight thousand crossbowmen returned to their positions. They were toweringly close to the battlements, staring at the first Anguo cavalry that was getting closer and closer.

The rumbling drum sounded suddenly on the top of the city, and thousands of arrows were fired at the top of the city, as dense as rain. However, the Anguo cavalry came prepared. They held their shields high and rushed forward frantically in the rain of arrows. Although a large number of cavalry were constantly being caught and fell, tens of thousands of bags of mud were still thrown into the moat. Together with the bodies of Hanoi in the morning, a dam formed next to the floating bridge board. The upper reaches of the Saiye River had been intercepted by the Dashi Army. The moat had become stagnant water and could not destroy the embankment built from the corpse and the mud bag.

As the Anguo cavalry fled back to the position in a panic, the offensive momentum of the Dashi Army suddenly weakened, and no fireballs shot up the city, and the raging fire on the city was burning out. The entire southern city was stinking, and the Tang army began to clean up the battlefield.

At this time, the Tang army on the city discovered a strange phenomenon. After the Dashi Army built a dike, no cavalry came to replenish it. All the enemy soldiers began to retreat, and even the heavy catapults began to retreat. They seemed to have achieved their goal.

Many Tang soldiers looked at the embankment nearly thirty meters wide in the moat under the city in confusion. It was close to the floating bridge paved in the morning. Some of the unscrupulous pontoon bridges had been washed away by the river. Now there is a floating bridge less than thirty meters wide. The floating bridge is close to the embankment, forming a passage about sixty meters wide.

At this time, a strange horn sound suddenly came from the distance, as if the legendary roar of the demon dragon snow mountain was roaring on the full moon night. The Tang army looked up to the distance. A hill like a hill in the distance began to move slowly. Its movement seemed to make the earth moan in pain. This was a city rifle called the "war beast" by the cannibals. It was worth two million dinars. Its value could support 5,000 Khorasan troops in one year. There were ten of this city rifle in total. This battle of shattering leaves used five of them, which also shows that Rashid was determined to win this battle.

On the top of the city, the Tang soldiers were all watching the arrival of this giant with a solemn expression. It was like an unparalleled spider monster. The six thick pillars were its six giant claws, and the black hammer was its sharp teeth that ate people.

‘Boom!’ The thrilling vibration seemed to collapse. Four hundred camels and two thousand strongmen were driving the giant monster. Its huge wooden wheel rolled forward, approaching the city wall step by step.

"Fire!" With a command, the Tang army's stone cannon attacked again. The dense sky thunder bullets mixed with Tang army's own sulphur bombs flew towards the giant monster on earth. The explosion sounded on it, and the big sulphur balls fell on its giant hammer. Except for the pulling camels screaming and running, the Tang army's most powerful weapon could not shake it at all.

The siege hammer rolled forward, and the huge hammer head showed a hideous smile. Tang Jun looked at it with helplessness as he approached the city wall. The siege hammer chassis was fifty feet wide, and the passage composed of the embankment and floating bridge boards was just enough for it to pass. The big drum in the Dashi Army beat violently, and the drum sound was breathtaking, which also urged the giant hammer to step forward.

Two hundred steps and one hundred steps behind it, two thousand food troops shouted together, five hundred ropes exerted force at the same time, and the giant hammer slowly pulled back, as if the power to destroy the world and everything was slowly accumulating. The Thunderbolt City was about to usher in its thunderous attack. Whether it was the guards or their mortal enemies, everyone felt a great fear. People automatically lowered their hands, and the bows and arrows stopped shooting, and the entire battlefield was silent for a moment.

Suddenly, the hill-like monster tilted to the right, as if it stepped on the air, and the huge hammer swung violently to the right. With a sound of "Click!", a pillar was broken, and the siege hammer shook violently. It was like a giant with a broken leg. After a few violent sways, its whole body broke and collapsed. The huge iron chains flew everywhere, and the hammer rolled down. Most of the two thousand strongmen were crushed into meat sauce and died tragically under the strongest siege weapon of Dashi.

This scene made everyone stunned and confused, but the answer was soon revealed. The embankment made of soil and corpses in the moat disappeared, and only five or six pieces of the floating bridge board were left, and the rest were crushed into pieces. Dashi exhausted his energy to build a passage that could not withstand the attacking ram.

The city was filled with joy, but the food army under the city was silent. Alan looked at the defeat of the attacking ram in great frustration. Deputy General Moyali said angrily: "General, we still have four attacking rams, so it's better to build a floating bridge to widen and thicken it."

Before he could finish his words, Alan waved his hand and said, "No! The price of building a pontoon bridge is too high, and there is no need."
Chapter completed!