The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 119: Taking advantage of the situation
There were approximately 25 minutes of ineffective shooting.

After wasting countless bullets and arrows.

Guan Jun and his men realized that they couldn't do anything about Hu Jun's forces for the time being.

Before we knew it, they had used the full sacks to build a wall two meters wide and more than a meter high at the base of the wall.

The gate tower at Xiguanmen is only fifteen meters high!

At this rate, they'll be able to climb onto the city gate before dawn.

This left the Guan army in a state of panic.

period.

Someone, in a moment of quick thinking, fired a rocket at the chest of Hu Jun, who was leading the charge.
Inside the fortified city.

"Huh? Why did the fighting stop? Did they drive the Hu people away so quickly?"

The post station was less than 500 meters from the West Gate, so they could hear clearly how many shots the soldiers fired.

Just fifteen minutes ago, the gunfire was quite loud.

There was no sound of the barrel exploding or anything like that.

Why did you stop fighting?

The men were restless and agitated.

They were eager to climb up the city gate tower to see how the battle was going.

If the soldiers guarding the city weren't capable of killing the enemy, they would be willing to go up and help!
The Guan soldiers had no need for the help of these exiled convicts.

Because of that rocket, they finally found a good way to defeat the enemy.

Earth comes, fire attacks.

Fire, though it cannot extinguish earth.

But those bags for filling the soil were made of cotton and fine wool.

The rocket's arrow struck the pocket, and the sparks from the arrow quickly set the pocket ablaze.

Cotton and fine wool are both flammable.

There was simply no time to extinguish the fire or block the entrance.

The yellow mud and sand in the satchel leaked out through the hole.

After the satchel shrank.

Hu Jun is no longer shielded from the mud and sand that used to protect his chest and back.

At such close range, the firearms and arrows would be extremely lethal!
Then, everyone in the inn heard gunshots again.

Amidst the gunfire, besides the muskets of the Guan soldiers, there were also matchlock muskets from the Kashgar Khanate cavalry.

That's the other side retaliating.

The arquebusiers were providing cover for their comrades who were building the wall.

Those who were building the wall passed the satchels one after another.

Even if the soldiers at the front are shot dead, the soldiers behind them will immediately take their place.

There were even a few brilliant minds who, after a brief, whispered discussion, decided to...

They also piled the bodies of their dead comrades onto the sandbags.

The two-meter-wide wall of sandbags quickly grew to two and a half meters high.

The soldiers on the city wall were completely dumbfounded!
Now that he knew these bags were afraid of fire, the guard was no longer as at a loss as before.

Inside the West Gate, several large pots were immediately set up.

All the oil cans in the garrison have been moved here, and soldiers have been going door-to-door to notify their families to bring the oil cans to Xiguanmen.

Once the oil in the large pots is heated to a rolling boil...

The garrison commander then ordered his subordinates to use large wooden ladles to scoop up boiling oil and run it down the city gate tower.

They poured the water onto the three-meter-high pile of bags at the base of the wall.

After pouring two pots of boiling oil, they then launched a few rockets.

There was a "boom".

The flames shot up to a meter high in an instant.

Wherever the hot oil touched, it burned instantly.

The corpses used to build the wall were also engulfed in flames.

The city gates were as bright as day. All the Kashgar Khanate cavalry were exposed to the firelight.

Taking advantage of the situation, the soldiers on the city wall launched a new round of firing.

They successfully killed nearly a hundred of Hu Jun's men.

The Kashgar Khanate cavalry were pinned against the wall and attacked, but when they retaliated against the city gate, the enemy remained hidden inside.

Its lethality is practically zero.

I played for nothing!
As soldiers of God, we are not afraid of death or pain, but we cannot be fools either.

We can't really let them pile up corpses to form a wall, can we?

The main issue is that the other side's practice of burning the corpses of their comrades violates Islamic teachings.

The team leader quickly issued a retreat order.
After it got bright daylight.

The troops guarding the city gates quickly switched to a new defensive strategy.

Those who fought last night went back to rest.

The soldiers and their families inside the fortress soon learned the good news that the fortress army had repelled the enemy the previous night.

The natural fear of the nomadic cavalry that I had felt before vanished.

Even several breakfast shops inside the city gates have opened.

Accompanied by the shouts of vendors and the lively atmosphere of bustling activity.

The people inside the city finally began to emerge from their homes in twos and threes.

Seeing their neighbors and familiar friends, they gathered together and inquired about the battle that had taken place the previous night.

Right now, everyone is most concerned about how Hu Jun launched the night raid, how our army countered it, and how many enemy soldiers were killed.

Fortunately, a large number of military dependents were there to answer everyone's questions:

“Those Hu people are incredibly cunning and their attacks are always unconventional! They traveled a long way and even brought bags, which they used to fill with mud and sand to build walls.”

"You asked what happened in the end? I heard they worked all night and piled the wall up to half the height of the city gate!"

The result? Our garrison commander first poured oil on them, then burned all the bags of mud and sand. Now, outside the West Gate, all that's left is a pile of dry mud and sand!

Some people were puzzled: "Was it just a fire attack? Why did I hear gunfire all night? Was it Hu's army counterattacking?"

"They're all using guns now. Our army is using muskets, while the Hu people are using matchlock guns! However, our army is firing from inside the city walls and gate towers, and we haven't suffered any casualties."

"No, someone got hurt. They burned the back of their hand when the oil was poured on them."

"Oh dear, then quickly apply some good ointment, lest the wound heal completely if we delay too long."

"Hahaha! You guys are just being cheeky! Our Jinzhou Pass is a fortress that has withstood the test of a thousand years. How could it be easily breached by mere barbarians?"

"That's right, everyone doesn't need to worry and be afraid. Just go about your business!"

"Yes, yes, I'll go home and have the women in my family make some extra pancakes so I can send some to the kids at the garrison later."

"That's a great idea! Let's send them our oil cans too! Since boiling oil is so useful, let them use it to kill a few more Hu soldiers!"

"Let's go, let's go home quickly, let's go home!"

A bunch of stingy old men.

Normally, if my wife puts in two extra drops of oil while cooking, she'll scold me for three days straight.

It's better now.

They willingly and proactively offered to give all the oil cans in their homes to Guan Jun and his group.

That truly shows a lack of heartache.

White flour pancakes were something the little kids in the family could only eat occasionally.

Now we absolutely have to feed Guan Jun!
You need to eat your fill to have the strength to fight the barbarians!

Wow, they killed hundreds of enemy soldiers without losing a single soldier.

It's beautiful no matter how you look at it!
When she met her neighbors again, she shared the good news she had just heard with them.

Everyone listened with beaming smiles.

The day after the Hu people attacked, the entire city was filled with joy.

The shops on the street, especially the teahouses, were several times more bustling than usual.

Compared to the outside world, it was a completely different world.

(End of this chapter)