Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 90
Hearing Tian Luo's order to stop the attack, all the officers and soldiers of Lu Longtian's begging army cheered and couldn't help it.Since the first attack, Lu Longtian's begging army suffered heavy losses. More than 800 crossbowmen were killed and more than 600 people were killed, of which nearly 200 were killed, and more than 600 wounded could not recover in a short time.The attack was frustrated and lost another 1000 people, of which more than [-] were killed, three were handsome, six were about to be killed, and seventeen were killed.It can be said that the soldiers were lost and the morale suffered a severe setback.

It can be said that Tian Luo is determined to force the Immortal Valley, and he will never give up halfway.Although the whole army stopped attacking, they ordered the soldiers to collect stone bullets, and then put stone bullets weighing more than ten kilograms on firewood to burn.

Seeing Lu Longtian's begging army gathering and lighting piles of fires under the city, Liu Meng smiled and said, "Lazy cows just have a lot of excrement and urine. What time are they starting to light a fire and cook?"

"I'm afraid it's not that simple!" Ji Kan frowned and said, "They're just lighting a fire, but they're not cooking. It looks like they're trying to make a thunderbolt fireball!"

This weapon was an explosive weapon made before gunpowder was invented.The shell of the fireball is made of clay pots, and lime, croton, arsenic, asphalt, and burning coal are added inside.Once the fireball hits the city wall or the target, it will burst, and when the coal and croton, arsenic and asphalt burn, it will produce toxic smoke, which is the earliest and most primitive biological and chemical weapon.

Liu Mengdao: "It seems impossible. We have not found coal (coal) and stone juice water (light crude oil that is easy to mine in ancient times) near us. It is not easy for them to make a thunderbolt fireball!"

However, after nearly an hour, the drums of Lu Longtian's begging army began to sound again. Fortunately, Lu Longtian's begging army did not have the technology to convey orders with drums, but only used messengers to convey combat orders.It took nearly a quarter of an hour for Tian's begging army to begin to assemble.

In front of the soldiers of the dead army, the soldiers of Lu Longqi's living army began to modify their five-point trebuchets, dismantling the net bags made of leather or rattan rods and replacing them with iron net bags.Under Tian Luo's order, the officers and men of Tian's Qihuo Army fine-tuned the angle of the trebuchet, and then put one by one red-hot stone bullets in the iron net bag.

Seeing this scene, Ji Kan yelled, "Get out, get down!"

At this moment, Tian Luo ordered: "Tabuchet, let it go!"

More than fifty trebuchets were launched almost at the same time, and the long arms were swung out, throwing stone bullets weighing more than ten kilograms in the air. Dozens of red-hot stone bullets spun in the air, whizzing and smashing towards the Valley of Banished Immortals. city ​​walls.

Dozens of fireballs with fiery red tails flew towards the city wall. The first stone bomb did not fly over the city wall, but landed in the middle and lower part of the city wall. The bomb suddenly turned into thousands of fragments, and dazzling sparks burst out.Each piece of these red-hot stone bomb fragments is a fire, and when it hit the fragments of the ladder thrown by Lu Longtian's beggars at the foot of the city wall, it ignited a raging flame.

The second stone bomb happened to land on the crenel of the parapet, 'Boom! 'Exploded, fire rained down among the crowd on the city wall, and a dozen dead soldiers were enveloped in the fire rain. The fragments of the stone bombs were not powerful at first, but because each piece was like a branding iron, it burned wherever it touched. Several soldiers of the dead army were beaten to a bloody mess by the fragments of the stone bullets. The stone bullets hit the city wall one after another, enveloping the crowd on the city wall, and there were screams one after another.

"Huh!" Another stone bomb flew higher and hit the city wall.It happened to be at the tofu shop opened by Guo's sister-in-law near the inner side of the city gate.The three thatched huts were instantly burned into flames, and the dozen or so citizens of the Immortal Valley who were hiding under the city wall were scalded to pieces by the red stone bullet fragments and howled again and again!
Just one wave of stone bombs caused hundreds of casualties to the dead soldiers on the city wall.Although this kind of stone bomb fragments is difficult to cause fatal casualties, this kind of burn is not easy to heal, and it is extremely painful, which has a great blow to the morale of the soldiers who died in the Banished Fairy Valley.

Looking at the dead army soldiers writhing in pain on the city wall, Ji Kan was so angry that his eyes were tearing apart, and he slammed his hands on the battlements fiercely, smashing his hands to a bloody mess.

"What a vicious mind!" Ji Kan said, "Tian family boy, you have such a vicious mind. This is forcing us to go out of the city to fight with them!"

Sima Liu Meng said: "Marshal, why don't I take the sons out of the city to kill their vigor!"

"No!" Ji Kan said coldly: "We are all infantry, and they still have more than 800 cavalry who are watching. Once they leave the city, they will definitely be blocked by their light cavalry. willing!"

"Ah!" Liu Meng said angrily, "This battle is too suffocating!"

Ji Kan said: "The crossbowmen are ready, shoot their catapults!"

The foot-mounted crossbow has a long range. In fact, it is fully capable of shooting the catapults of Tian's begging army and pulling people.It's just that I was worried that the crossbowmen would suffer too many casualties. After all, Lu Longtian's begging army not only had more than [-] crossbowmen and [-] cavalry archers, it was almost a five-to-one advantage. Compared with the enemy's shooting, the probability of suffering was relatively high. .

"Boom!" There was a loud sound, and the broken stones splashed everywhere. The crossbowmen of the dead army who had just got up were enveloped in the sky of fire and rain. More than a dozen people were hit, and they fell to the ground and wailed.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" The soldiers of the dead army endured the all-round attack of stone fragments, and finally shot out the arrows in their hands.Nearly [-] crossbow arrows shot at the catapult, and immediately shot down the soldiers of the Tian family army who were pulling the catapult, and let out a series of screams.

The archers of Lu Longtian's begging army under the city also began to fight back, shooting arrows like dense rain towards the top of the city, and soldiers of the dead army were shot continuously, screaming and falling from the top of the city, and the casualties gradually increased.

However, the catapults of Lu Longtian's Begging Army continued to project red-hot stone bombs, and the fragments of the exploded stone bombs radiated up to a radius of one foot, leaving the soldiers of the dead army nowhere to hide, causing heavy casualties. Catapults can completely eliminate the threat of enemy trebuchets overhead.

Ji Kan had no choice but to order the remaining less than [-] hard crossbowmen to withdraw from the city wall, leaving only dozens of sword and shield soldiers on the city wall to monitor the Tian family army's siege troops.

However, seeing the power of the red-hot stone bullets, Tian Luo was overjoyed, clapped his hands and smiled, "Continue to fire the stone bullets, let's have extra meals tonight, and all the soldiers participating in the battle will be rewarded with military merit."

Seeing that victory was in sight, the morale of Lu Longtian's begging army, which had been sluggish, gradually rose.The soldiers of the Tian family army yelled again and again, chanted the chant and worked hard together, smashing the red-hot stone bombs one by one towards the city wall as if they were free of money.

As some stone bombs crossed the city wall and exploded in the city, the houses close to the city wall were set on fire, and the fire burned rapidly, and the people in the city also ran for their lives in panic...

Seeing that the defenders were losing money, Gao Jingzong stood in front of the new army, who had just been armed and hadn't even warmed up his weapons, and shouted: "Look, what is that, that is our common homeland, look, what is that, what is that?" It was the enemy who destroyed our homeland with stone bombs. Listen, listen to what this sound is, this is our compatriots, our countrymen are crying miserably, what should we do?..."

　Lao Cheng got off work a little late today, so he barely wrote a chapter.Readers, don't worry, more excitement will continue!

　　
　
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