Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 333 Battle II

Murong Xiaojun felt very strange about Datang's behavior, he looked completely besieged, but he brought a lot of food and grass, and in the current situation, it is not impossible to break out of the encirclement by force, just choose to be without the Xuanjia Army Just break through.

Even if they are caught up by the Xuanjia army, they can still keep people behind, but if this is the case, the operation will be a complete failure, and they can only retreat to Tuyuhun.

"What is the intention of General Tang Jun?" The deputy general on the city wall looked at the layout below and asked strangely.

"It should be trying to trap us to death!" Murong Xiaojun replied, as if telling himself.

"What should I do? Are there reinforcements behind the Tang army?" The lieutenant general's expression changed.

"It should be so." Murong Xiaojun frowned, guessing the same.

"General, let's break out of the siege. While there are not many of them now, they will be beaten all the time if they stay in the city." The lieutenant persuaded.

"Let the brothers eat, and then gather the extra horses. After nightfall, let the empty horses charge into the formation. Everyone breaks through to Songzhou. There is a Tubo army there. Let's go to join them, and the Tang army will not think of us breaking out from there." Murong Xiaojun ordered.

"The general is wise, the last general will do it now." The deputy general became happy when he heard that he was allowed to break through, and quickly flattered him.

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Although Murong Xiaojun's arrangement was good, Duan Zhixuan obviously didn't intend to give him a chance. After the arrangement was completed, he immediately made people prepare to attack.

"Report to the general! The south gate is ready!" A knight rushed to report!
"The north gate is ready!"

"Simon is ready!" Not long after, two more knights came.

"Blow the horn!" Duan Zhixuan looked at the city coldly and said with a wave of his hand.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!" Immediately, guards beside Duan Zhixuan took off the horns and blew them loudly. The loud and deep voice resounded through the small town.

"Let it go!" A clay pot was placed on a catapult, and a test shot began.

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"What's going on? Did the Tang army attack?" Murong Xiaojun, who was resting under the city wall, was startled by the sound of the horn, jumped up, pulled out his waist knife, and yelled at the city wall.

"General, take a look!" The soldiers on the city wall looked strangely at a clay pot thrown up by the catapult, which fell to the ground and smashed to pieces, but no one was injured, except for the smell, the soldiers didn't know what it was. Afraid of being poisoned, he covered his mouth and nose and backed away for a certain distance, staring at him stubbornly, but didn't find any other problems, so he quickly yelled at Murong Xiaojun.

"What's going on?" Murong Xiaojun quickly ran up the city wall, glanced outside the city, and found that Datang hadn't attacked, and asked while hiding behind the walls with his back bent.

Tuyuhun already had experience with being attacked by catapults for many days, and they found that they would not be hit by stones by hiding behind the battlements.

When Murong Xiaojun asked, immediately a soldier bent over and ran over to report in detail.

When Murong Xiaojun heard this, he didn't understand what happened. Just as he wanted to go over to have a look, he found more than a dozen jars falling from the sky. He was so frightened that he turned pale with fright, and quickly squatted down.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!" A series of clay pots fell to the ground, smashed to pieces, and now Murong Xiaojun didn't need to go over to smell that smell, so frightened that he quickly covered his nose and mouth, wondering what it was Things, and many clay pots fell.

Murong Xiaojun didn't think much about it, he quickly squatted down obediently, took advantage of the interval, peeped out of the city, and found that the archers of the Tang Dynasty were approaching under the cover of shields.

He was not surprised by this, because Hou Junji has been attacking in this way for the past few days, except that the casualties were a little higher in the first few days, and later he found that he was fine hiding under the wall. The counterattack had no effect at all, and would be blocked by the Tang Iron Shield. Of course, he didn't know that those were all steel shields.

After walking for a while, Murong Xiaojun was wondering why the infantry hadn't found the siege ladder and other things coming when the archers were already in place.

Just wondering, Murong Xiaojun suddenly discovered that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty actually lit the torches in the daytime, and just as he was puzzled, he discovered that the soldiers were lighting rockets.

Murong Xiaojun suddenly turned his head, stared at the broken clay pot on the ground, sniffed vigorously, and shouted loudly in shock: "Retreat! Retreat!"

While shouting, he ran desperately towards the city. It turned out that he finally remembered that the strange smell on the ground was like the smell of oil. After seeing the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty lighting rockets during the day, of course he understood why.

The Tuyuhun soldiers were taken aback by his actions, but their good training still allowed them to obey orders and hurriedly ran down the city.

"Swipe! Swipe! Swipe!" Murong Xiaojun just ran a certain distance when he heard the sound of bows and arrows, he didn't dare to turn his head, and ran forward even faster.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Tuyuhun soldiers were retreating, not noticing the arrival of the rockets, many people were shot, and screamed one after another.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The fierce flame was ignited by the rocket, shooting up from the ground to the sky.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Many people were burned by the sudden fire and screamed more. Some rolled on the ground quickly, and some ran around in pain from being burned.

"Quickly put out the fire! Put out the fire!" Murong Xiaojun, who had run a certain distance, looked back and saw the tragedy, and shouted loudly with his eyes tearing open.

In every city defense battle, a large amount of water must be prepared, just to prevent fire attacks, but no one has ever seen gasoline, so no one would have thought that this would be frightened by such a fire, only to react when they heard Murong Xiaojun's heart-piercing cry Come over, quickly lift the water and pour it on the fire.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" It's okay not to pour water, but this pouring of water is like adding fuel to the fire. The fire on the ground burns even more violently. Many people were burned, and many people lost their hair and beards due to the sudden fire wave. No one was overwhelmed by the shock and backed away again and again, at a loss.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!" "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Just as the soldiers of Tuyuhun didn't know what to do, and when they saw the miserable condition of their comrades and felt scared, many clay pots fell from the sky, fell to the ground and ignited.

"Ah! Ah!" This time there was no need to say hello, everyone turned pale with fright, and ran back without looking back.

"Push forward a hundred steps and continue to release!" Duan Zhixuan continued to order as he looked at the fire in the city.

"With such a sharp weapon, it's nothing more than a piece of cake among many enemy troops. Who else is our opponent?" Hou Junji had been observing with a telescope, and he could clearly see the effect of oil. He couldn't help but trembled with excitement. Duan Zhixuan said loudly.

"I'm afraid Director Hou will be disappointed. It's not easy to refine oil. What I brought this time is all the inventory of the imperial court. Although there are still two kinds of oil, they don't have the same effect, and if they are missing, they won't be of much use." Duan Zhixuan stared at the front, He explained without looking back.

(End of this chapter)