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Chapter 175 The Flame is Like the Fire of Love
There are still thirty-seven days until the Chinese New Year, which is the coldest time of the year. The moat has long been frozen, allowing soldiers and horses to move freely.

Early in the morning, Xia Lin was awakened by the sound of orderly footsteps. He quickly put on his clothes and went to the city wall to look over. In the mist, he saw the drowsy and evil-looking siege soldiers carrying ladders and pulling catapults coming over.

The rumbling sound of drums came from far away and seemed to hit people's hearts each time. At this time, the sound of trumpets from the city wall also came, and the city defense soldiers quickly climbed up the city wall and entered a state of combat readiness.

Xia Lin was in charge of the east gate of Luoyang. Apart from Lao Zhang, there was no one else to discuss business with. After all, generals at all levels in Luoyang City were guarding their positions.

At this moment, someone outside the city shouted. Xia Lin stuck his head out and found that it was Cheng Yaojin again. He was wearing armor today, holding a lance, and looked very majestic.

"Brother Xia, I'm here to advise you once again, open the gate and surrender! If you don't surrender now, it will be too late. Good birds choose trees to roost in. You will definitely be valued by the Marshal."

Xia Lin laughed and bowed to Cheng Yaojin: "Thank you for your kindness, Brother Cheng. It is true that a wise bird chooses a good tree to roost in, but an owl eats rotten mice. I can't stand the smell of Wang Shichong. Brother Cheng, you should go back first, or I will hurt you later!"

Cheng Yaojin sighed: "Brother, brother!"

After saying this, he slowly rode away, and soon after, a huge siege team rushed up.

Xia Lin put his hands on his waist and took a deep breath: "Light the signal smoke! Sacrifice to the artillery master!"

The wolf smoke was lit and shot straight into the sky. Then the wolf smoke on the four city walls were lit at the same time. Then three fireworks shot up into the sky on each city wall.

At this time, the troops attacking the city were still wondering why the fireworks were suddenly lit. Even Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, who were guarding the rear, were wondering, "What does this mean? Are they welcoming us into the city in advance?"

As they were talking, they suddenly saw two objects as big as millstones in the sky rushing towards the crowd attacking the city from a distance.

At this moment, they didn't notice anything wrong. They just thought that this slow stone throwing was stupid and ridiculous. They even easily avoided the two millstone-like cloth bags.

The soldier stepped over the cloth bag and continued to move forward, but suddenly two earth-shattering explosions were heard. The earth was shaking at that time, and a large area of ​​the place where the two millstones landed was instantly knocked down, and those who were a little closer were killed without even reacting.

The soldiers attacking the city were thrown into chaos, and then they heard similar explosions from other places in the distance. The continuous explosions made it difficult for the generals of various units to adapt for a while.

At this moment, two more cotton bags were thrown down, one of which exploded before it even hit the ground. The power of this air explosion was even greater and more terrifying. Hundreds of people were knocked down in an instant, and two large areas of space were immediately vacated in the battle formation.

Qin Qiong saw that the situation was not good, and immediately issued an order: "All troops charge! Break into the city!"

The soldiers immediately quickened their pace and rushed to the city wall before the horrible package could be loaded.

But just as they entered the moat, the large slingshot on the city wall suddenly moved, and dozens of smaller cotton packages fell like raindrops. Then there were continuous explosions. In addition, the cannons on the city wall fired again, and the two millstone packages were once again thrown into the army.

Thousands of cannons fired at the same time and blood flowed like a river.

After all, Master Pao made his young comrade proud. The blood mist, limbs and corpses below proved that humans are really vulnerable to hot weapons.

But the quantity is small, so we have to use it sparingly.

However, the first group of soldiers attacking the city had already arrived at the foot of the city. They were very surprised why no one dropped rocks or poured boiling water down. They did not expect that something more terrifying was about to come.

The soldiers on the city wall took out glass bottles filled with kerosene from the boxes, lit the cloth strips on top, and threw them down at the soldiers below.

The glass bottle shattered, and the liquid inside came out. These things were sticky and heavy, and they would burn when they came into contact with fire. After the first bottle of incendiary bomb went down, a soldier suddenly turned into a fireman.

He tried painfully to put out the flames on his body, but no matter what he did, he couldn't extinguish the flames. Instead, his rolling caused the evil fire to spread everywhere, even setting other comrades on fire.

At this time, these things were continuously thrown down from the city walls, and the raging flames immediately surrounded Luoyang City. The ice on the city walls was melted by the flames, and the water rolled forward with the flames.

In this cold winter, the soldiers were wearing thick clothes. If they were contaminated by these flames, they would soon turn into a ball of fire, wailing and rolling in death. Even the most agile soldiers would find it difficult to control these horrible evil fires.

For a moment, the attacking troops screamed in agony, and no one dared to move forward. Even the ladders and battering rams were reduced to ashes in the flames.

At this time, Cheng Yaojin saw his men falling one after another, and his eyes widened and reddened. This was also the most difficult siege they had ever fought. Before they even started to capture the city, thousands of people died outside the city walls.

How powerful can a bow and arrow be? With shield soldiers protecting them, how powerful can falling rocks be? They are heavy and easy to dodge.

But this is too weird. The package as big as a millstone will explode. Explosion is one thing, but a lot of strange things will fly out of it. Those things are much more powerful than bows and arrows. A group of people fall down with a series of explosions. Even if they don't die, they have no fighting power. The whole field is full of soldiers wailing in pain. It looks extremely miserable.

After finally dodging the millstone bag, there was a smaller square bag in front. Although it was not as powerful as the millstone, it was outnumbered. A series of explosions killed a group of experts who were able to seize the city first.

Then I looked down at the city...that was hell on earth, it was simply hell on earth. After that strange thing was broken, it burned fiercely. According to common sense, the blazing flames would be extinguished immediately when they met the melted ice and water.

But no, the evil fire was raging along with the water, and the soldiers who were infected would be burned and screaming. It would be ok if they died, but the worst thing was that they were burned half to death. If we rescued them, it would waste a lot of manpower and resources, but if we didn't rescue them, their morale would be destroyed in one round.

Fortunately, at this time, the horn for withdrawing troops sounded at the north gate. Qin Qiong gritted his teeth and waved his hand, "Withdraw the troops today!"

The army retreated as soon as it began to attack, leaving corpses all over the ground. Qin Qiong had never fought such a cowardly battle before. He returned to the central army tent and threw his helmet to the ground.

"What kind of magic is that, you bastard!"

At this time, the generals from other groups attacking the city came in covered in dust and stood there with their heads down. Qin Qiong didn't even need to look at them to know at a glance that these people's losses were even more serious than theirs.

"General Qin... the North Gate lost nearly 10,000 people..."

"South Gate..."

"enough!"

Qin Qiong threw his arms and said, "Whoever has a plan to capture Luoyang will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and promoted to a higher position!"

But at this moment everyone was dispirited. They had never seen such a method of defending a city. It could be said to be watertight.

At this time, the scout outside came again: "Report! The gates of Luoyang City are open, and the wounded are being collected!"

The spy's words shocked the people in the tent for a moment. One of the generals said excitedly: "General, why not take this opportunity to send out thousands of elite cavalry to capture Luoyang in one fell swoop!"

Qin Qiong didn't say anything, Cheng Yaojin went up and slapped him in the face: "How can you say such beastly words!"

"It is indeed inappropriate. Attacking while the wounded are being collected will make people all over the world laugh at us even if we take Luoyang City." Qin Qiong sighed, "Alas... If we were not serving different masters, I would really like to have a drink with Xia Daosheng. Although he is young, he is a hero of the time."

Cheng Yaojin was walking back and forth in the room with his hands on his hips. He sighed and said, "I never thought that Luoyang City would be so difficult to attack. If it continues to be like this, wouldn't our trip be in vain?"

"We will attack the city again tomorrow. Get your trebuchets ready! Use the trebuchets to open a gap first."

After Qin Qiong gave the order, he felt weak. Luoyang City was not an ordinary rammed earth city. It was an old capital city that had been continuously reinforced by successive kings. It was not an exaggeration to call it the best city in the world. The stones from the trebuchets would probably not be able to make a difference to it.

But we have to try it after all. But it would be difficult to fill the gap with people. We cannot kill all the people just for a city.

At this moment, the wounded in Luoyang City have been collected and are being treated. Guard Hong frowned as he looked at the wounded on the ground: "Brother, why did you take in all these wounded? There are thousands of mouths to feed."

"The Holy Dynasty is based on benevolence. Your Majesty cannot bear to see war. This may be unwise in other places, but here, Brother Hong has not been personally commended by His Majesty, right?"

“Hehe…hehehe…brother, now that you mention it…hehe…” Guard Hong rubbed his hands, his face flushed: “Brother, I really haven’t tried it before.”

Xia Lin stood there with his hands behind his back, pursed his lips and looked at the wounded soldiers, then turned to Lao Zhang and said, "Lao Zhang, do you dare?"

"What do you dare to do?"

"Do you dare to go to the other side?"

Lao Zhang was stunned for a moment: "What? Are you going to kill me?"

"No, if it were someone else, you might die. But if it were Cheng Yaojin, you would definitely not die."

"Why do you say that?"

"Hehe..." Xia Lin stretched his neck: "Second brother, you know, right?"

"I know, he's your brother-in-law. What's wrong?"

Xia Lin nodded: "Cheng Yaojin is also a chivalrous man, and he is the type who is very righteous."

Lao Zhang hummed, "Okay, I'll go. Why should I be afraid? Anyway, you won't hurt me. If I really die, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost. When you go out to fuck a girl, be careful, don't turn around and see your young master's face."

"Go to hell." Xia Lin cursed, "Come, I'll tell you what to say."

(End of this chapter)