Fenghou

Chapter 221 Fire Attack
Li Liangfu didn't sleep all night. He had been observing the movement of Ganquan Fort in the camp. From the gunpowder arrows above Ganquan Fort, from the alarm bells resounding all over the city, until dawn, there was no fireworks in the castle.

Li Liangfu is basically sure that Liang Gui and his men failed, and it is estimated that none of them survived.

These Heijintang warriors were overconfident, this was a war, a barracks, not a princely mansion where they could enter and assassinate casually.

It's a pity that I wasted my two thousand five hundred taels of silver, and I don't know where they put it?

Li Liangfu returned to the big tent and took out the map of Ganquan Fort to study carefully. He has now realized that the soldiers directly attacking the city is not the best strategy, and it is not their advantage. They should still use large siege weapons to attack Ganquan Fort.

But the current number of trebuchets is far from enough. They only brought [-] heavy trebuchets with the army, and they should bring all the remaining [-] heavy trebuchets.

Li Liangfu wanted to do it, so he immediately ordered: "Notify the Baochuan garrison, and immediately transport all eighty heavy trebuchets to the camp!"

After a pause, he added: "There are also heavy battering rams and three giant trebuchets!"

At dusk, there was a dull sound of war drums in the Xixia army camp, which was different from the sound of the drums for sending troops, but at the same time there was the low sound of horns for sending troops.

Chen Qing and all the generals rushed to the north city wall to look at the enemy camp. They saw the camp gate opened on the northeast side of the enemy camp. After coming out of the camp, there are hundreds of soldiers pushing behind. It seems that the enemy army is going to use trebuchets again.

Through the sneak attack last night, Chen Qing already knew that the other party had obtained the map of Fort Ganquan, otherwise they would not have known that the warehouse was located in the middle of the city.

Now that they got the map, they still need to use heavy trebuchets, and the target of the attack is ready to come out. It must be to attack the Xicheng barracks.

"Pass my order, all the bed crossbows will be concentrated in the west city, and the god arm crossbow army will also be transferred!"

There are three gullies outside the west city. The ground is undulating and rugged, and it is inconvenient to walk, let alone use a heavy trebuchet. If you want to launch an offensive outside the west city, you must first send a large number of troops to fill the gully and level the land.

If you want to fill up the land at no cost, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

On the west wall, a thousand god-armed crossbowmen quickly assembled, and a bed crossbow was moved by the soldiers.

Sure enough, as Chen Qing expected, before the night fell completely, thousands of Xixia soldiers rushed out of the barracks carrying shovels, baskets and sacks, all the way to the outside of the west city, and began to dig high and fill low, leveling the land.

When they gradually approached the city wall, arrows were suddenly fired from the top of the city, and the arrows shot at the dense crowd like a torrential rain. The Xixia soldiers were caught off guard and screamed.

The range of the fireball thrown by the trebuchet is [-] steps, so they must be launched at about [-] steps to throw the fireball into the city. However, [-] steps is a dangerous area, and the bed crossbow, god arm crossbow and military crossbow are all lethal .

Seeing that the soldiers could not level the land, Li Liangfu felt helpless. At this time, Murong Tao suggested: "If the land cannot be leveled, then simply lay wooden boards or rafts so that the trebuchets can pass."

This is a good idea. There are still a lot of spare fences in their barracks, which can just be spread on the ground.

Li Liangfu immediately sent soldiers to fetch the barracks and spread the ground. Thousands of soldiers held shields and carefully laid out the barracks. Although hundreds of people were shot down by a burst of arrows when they approached the [-]-foot line, the ground became level.

Twenty heavy trebuchets began to advance slowly, and the huge protective shields also advanced together. This time they blocked the strong bow and crossbow of the Song army, and placed twenty heavy trebuchets two hundred steps away. Each trebuchet, manned by fifty soldiers, was ready for launch.

At the same time, the Song army in the city was also actively responding. They dismantled all the large tents, the warehouses in the south were also dismantled, and the armor and weapons were also transferred to the main warehouse in the city.

There was an open space three miles long and one mile wide in the west city. Niu Gao led six thousand militiamen to dig thousands of round pits on the ground, prepared a large amount of soil, and waited for the enemy to attack.

'Boom!Bang!Bang! '

The trebuchet made a series of loud noises, and twenty large fireballs whizzed and threw them into the city.

"Get ready!" Niu Gao shouted, staring at the fireball.

Fireballs hit the ground one after another, the fireballs shattered, and a large amount of inflammable materials such as gunpowder, sulfur, and fire cloth poured out, forming twenty pieces of flames immediately.

"dash forward--"

Niu Gao yelled, dozens of teams of soldiers rushed forward, pushed the ball, shoveled the fire, and irrigated the soil. The aircraft has not yet started the second round of launches.

But the soldiers knew very well that the second round of throwing must be fire oil cans. Sure enough, twenty black objects suddenly appeared in the sky, and the militia soldiers shouted, "The Xixia people have brought oil."

The clay pot full of kerosene hit the ground heavily, the pot shattered, and the kerosene splashed all over the ground. The impatient militia soldiers rushed up, covered the soil, mixed it, and shoveled it into the car, almost in one go. The oil on the altar didn't even ignite a single spark.

In the imagination of the Xixia army, the city must be full of fire and smoke, but in fact nothing happened.

At this time, Chen Qing laughed from the top of the wall and said, "Let General Niu light the kerosene in one of the pits to create a little smoke to comfort the Xixia people."

"Follow the order!"

The soldiers ran away, and not long after, a large pit used to place fire oil soil was lit, and black smoke gradually filled the sky over the west city, as if a fire was burning the city.

The Xixia soldiers immediately cheered, but Li Liangfu's face was not very good. He had experience, the smoke was wrong, it came from one place, and at this moment he wished to grow his wings and fly to the sky, but he couldn't see what was going on inside the city.

Li Liangfu looked around, there was really no place to see the city, and the crescent-shaped hill to the south was too far away from the city, so he couldn't see what was inside the city.

In fact, Li Liangfu vaguely guessed that Song Jun could not stand still, and must have dismantled the big tent, but he didn't see it with his own eyes, so he was always so worried.

It seems that a large observation deck needs to be built to keep abreast of the situation in the city.

"General Murong!"

"I am humble!"

"Ben Shuai asks you, are there any trees near here?"

"Reporting to Commander, there are trees fifty miles upstream of the Baishui River, all of which are pine forests, but it is estimated that most of them have been cut down."

"It's okay, I don't use it much, you immediately arrange an army to cut down trees, I need to build a five-foot-high observation tower."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Murong Tao hastily went to make arrangements.

Li Liangfu looked at Ganquan Castle and said to himself, "I don't believe that I can't take down your castle!"

In Baochuan County, a transport team escorted by [-] people slowly drove out of the county seat. This transport team was pulled by camels, and each cart was pulled by five camels on average. A siege warship was placed on the cart There are a total of [-] carts in total, stretching for five miles.

Generally, this kind of heavy luggage is transported by water, but here is a desert, there is no river, so it can only be transported by land.

The team walked very slowly, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, they would have to walk for at least three days.

As soon as the convoy left Baochuan County, it was discovered by the Song army scouts in the distance. The three scouts observed for a while, and immediately galloped southward.

The [-] cavalry led by Liu Cui were stationed in a mountain depression about [-] miles away from Baochuan County. After they canceled the mission of sneak attacking the enemy camp, they turned all their energy to intercepting the enemy's logistics supply team.

It's just that they still haven't made any achievements until now, and it's also because no supply team has come out, which really makes Liu Cui feel deeply depressed.

The soldiers had just finished their breakfast and were packing their luggage. At this moment, three cavalry rushed into the col and shouted: "General, there is business coming!"

Not only Liu Cui was overjoyed, but all the soldiers cheered together, and finally waited until the enemy supply team came out.

(End of this chapter)