Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 121 Fire Attack
Li Buqi personally put on his armor and brought the warriors carrying things to the mountain ridge. After estimating the distance of sixty steps, he ordered to place wooden boards to prevent arrows.At this distance, as long as it is not a powerful crossbow of the god arm bow level, it is basically impossible to break through the two layers of heavy armor on everyone.

Behind the wooden planks, the soldiers leveled the logs with wooden blocks, nailed the logs into the stone with iron brazing, and then followed the procedures of the drills in the past few days to build up the components made of logs, iron and silk in an orderly manner.Working in sixty to seventy-pound iron armor was exhausting, and it took more than an hour for the two torsion catapults to be assembled.Then a group of soldiers operated the trebuchet for test shooting. After confirming that the trebuchet could be used, Li Buqi waved the red flag in his hand.

Immediately, the soldiers on the other side of the mountain ridge scooped hot oil from the boiling oil pan, and poured the oil into a small round clay pot with a magnetic funnel.There are many protruding rings fired on the surface of this clay pot, and many hemp ropes are threaded in these rings.When the pot is filled with oil, the warrior will plug the mouth with a wooden cork and soil, fasten the cork with a hemp rope passed through the pottery ring, and then run to the trebuchet with the hemp rope as a handle, Put the clay pot in the iron spoon of the trebuchet.

At this time, one soldier would use a torch to ignite the oil-soaked hemp rope, and the other soldier would immediately release the mechanism of the catapult, and the clay pot burning on the surface would be thrown towards the stone wall in front of the mountain ridge.

The Jun Kiln in Yuzhou is well-deserved of its reputation. The pots made are so thin that no matter what they hit, the pots will shatter, and hot sesame oil, vegetable oil, or soybean oil will immediately splash out.When the hot oil meets the burning flame on the hemp rope, it is immediately ignited, and at the same time, it continues to spray forward under the action of inertia, igniting everything it encounters.

Hao Dachong exclaimed when the trebuchet shot a bowl-sized stone into the cottage for the first time and smashed the roof of a house: "Is it really a stone cannon?"

But at that time, Hao Dachong just thought that what he was facing would be stones that kept flying, so he ordered his subordinates to hide and not let the stones hit him.But the second time, two fireballs flew over and smashed into the cottage, immediately igniting a large area, and two unlucky people were screeched by the burning oil splashed on their bodies.

Hao Dachong thought he understood Li Buqi's intention, which was to set fire to the cottage.But he really didn't have a good way to deal with it.

The distance of sixty steps was an embarrassing distance for the bow and crossbow in his hand. He was really not sure of penetrating the iron armor, and the officers and soldiers even erected wooden boards to protect the catapult.

Rushing out to destroy the trebuchet?However, there was a group of officers and soldiers in iron armor and sharp knives waiting in front of them. The mountain ridge was so narrow that they could only go head-to-head with the officers and soldiers when they rushed out.There are not many pairs of armor in the cottage, and the steel fronts of the officers and soldiers armed to the teeth?What are you thinking?

Hao Dachong had no choice but to ask Jiang Ying to lead people to put out the fire in the stockade, and at the same time let the minions shoot with bows and arrows, hoping to disturb the officers and soldiers.However, as long as the archers show their heads, they will immediately be shot by the crossbow arrows of the officers and soldiers, and they will be suppressed so much that they cannot lift their heads, so the effect of disturbance is also very limited.

Just when he was burning with anxiety but couldn't think of a way out, he was surprised to find that those arson bombs landed closer and closer to the stone wall, and finally locked on the stone wall.As a few arson bombs hit the stone wall, the stone wall that could accommodate three people in parallel has already caught fire. The thick wooden boards originally used to block arrows and the firewood used to boil water were all ignited. They threw the boards under the wall in time, and the fire and black smoke made it difficult to stay on the wall.

The leaders of the rebel army who were watching the battle on the hills in the distance were also frightened, especially the two ex-soldiers who clicked their tongues: "This is a stone cannon. But the stone cannons are very big. Could it be that Li Buqi cut down trees now?" made?"

"How can the stone cannon be so accurate? You can see that the stone bullets that can set fire have all hit the wall of the village. It is difficult to stand on it."

One advantage of the torsion trebuchet is that the shooting is fairly accurate.After each trebuchet threw more than a dozen clay pots, it was able to accurately throw the pots on the stone wall, and a dozen more pots hit the stone wall, and the stone wall was already on fire.

But at this time, a trebuchet also had problems, and cracks appeared in the wooden beams.How strong do you expect a temporary rough-made thing to be.

But Li Buqi came prepared, how could he have no backup?The red flag was waved up and down, and another soldier rushed up the mountain beam with wooden components, and assembled two trebuchets only [-] steps away from the wall of the village.Three trebuchets threw clay jugs filled with oil behind the stone wall, creating a barrier of fire behind the stone wall.

After about half an hour, the fire on the stone wall diminished, and a group of soldiers wearing light armor and soaking wet all rushed up the stone beam with ladders and wooden barrels filled with soil, and passed through the passageway opened by the heavily armored soldiers. through.They suppressed the flames at the foot of the stone wall with earth, and erected ladders on the wall. Some warriors wrapped their faces in sackcloth moistened with water and climbed up the ladder. He found a foothold and climbed onto the stone wall.

Then as the oil burned out, the mountain wind blew away the smoke, and the shield bearers and heavily armored warriors gradually climbed up the stone wall, Li Buqi ordered the catapults to stop shooting.At this time only one trebuchet was left available.But the stone wall had already fallen into the hands of the Zhenwu Army, and the Zhuantian Village had no terrain advantage to rely on.

Hao Dachong also knew this, so he commanded his minions to demolish several burning houses close to the wall, and immediately drove them to charge towards the wall where the fire had already been extinguished—the wooden door on the wall was still there Burning, not opened, once the official army is opened, there is nothing to stop the official army armed to the teeth from rushing in.

Hao Dachong has fought against the officers and soldiers many times, and he has a deep understanding of the officers and soldiers. The first time he saw the army formation silently stepping on the drums like a door panel, he clearly felt that the officers and soldiers were really serious. It is different from those officers and soldiers who only bluffed in the past.If he hadn't had confidence in the three-meter-high stone wall at that time, he would have wanted to oil the soles of his feet long ago.Therefore, the stone wall that is the source of confidence in the entire cottage must be taken back!

But the Zhenwu army didn't give Hao Dachong a chance at all.The stone wall is only 20 meters long and less than three meters wide. It is too narrow. As soon as the minions rushed up with shouts, they were shot by crossbow arrows. The fine steel arrow clusters easily penetrated the leather armor and clothing and penetrated into the human body, causing serious damage. There was a lot of bleeding, and someone was shot right through at a distance of ten or twenty steps.Now many minions subconsciously slowed down.

Hao Dachong had no choice but to yell to boost morale: "Rush over there quickly! The crossbow bolts are slow to be wound! Don't let them rewind!"

Dozens of powerful backbones under Hao Dachong rushed up to the stone wall with simple knives and long spears to face the continuous arrows, but several heavily armored warriors blocked their way like a city wall.A heavy battle ax struck, and a long knife pierced from under the shield, forcing them to stop and fight.At this time, several long spears suddenly protruded from the shoulders of the officers and soldiers holding battle axes and long knives, stabbing towards them like a poisonous dragon, and immediately piercing those who couldn't avoid it.Someone hastily waved a simple knife to separate the spear, but the battle ax and the long knife were in front of them again.

No, the heaviest plain knife can only take away a few armor leaves when hacked on the iron armor, but if it is touched by a battle axe, long knife and long spear, it will either die or be injured.After only a few rounds, the rushing minions were forced to retreat again and again.And Hao Dachong didn't have the time to command, because the shout just now made several crossbowmen stare at him, they kept shooting, and a crossbow arrow shot through the inferior shield he snatched from the minion and was on his waist A bloody cut was made, and he was so frightened that he quickly hid behind a charred tree.

Seeing the rushing minions retreating in a panic, and more and more officers and soldiers emerging from the stone wall, Hao Dachong knew that the situation was over, but he still shouted desperately, "If you don't kill the officers and soldiers, you will die", Gather the minions and let a few small bosses lead them to rely on the house to prepare for resistance.

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers on the stone wall did not pursue, most of them were vomiting.The tomahawk killing was so ugly that these warriors who saw blood for the first time couldn't help but spit out all their breakfast.

From the perspective of the leaders of the rebel army in the distance, the officers and soldiers put out the fire in the pot after the fire in Zhuantianzhai was a little bit smaller, lined up, and used it along the mountain ridge to the stone wall, and then rushed in in the twilight. I went to Zhuantianzhai.

"Is this the end of Zhuantian Village?" Shitou Ling said incredulously, "It's only been a day."

(End of this chapter)