Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1900 The Tragedy of the Yanjing Offensive and Defensive War (9)
Chapter 1898: The Tragedy of the Battle of Yanjing (9)
Boom...boom...boom...

Flying stones and kerosene kept falling, but because Qin Jun's catapults were scattered, only a small part was smashed.

As for the fire oil dropped by the Han army, it was quickly put out by groups of five or six soldiers of the Qin army with sand, one by one.

"what……"

The unlucky soldiers were affected by the kerosene, and the flames ignited on their bodies, but they could not be extinguished, so they could only roll on the ground in pain.

When the comrades around saw it, they immediately poured the sand covered on their backs directly onto the soldiers, and also used the sand to put out the fire.

After paying the price of twenty catapults being smashed, the Han army on the tower also fell within the siege range of the Qin army's catapults.

Seeing this, Xue Rengui made a decisive decision and shouted: "Throw fierce fire oil."

The soldiers immediately reloaded the catapult, and loaded a jar of fire oil onto the catapult.

There are 180 catapults, each projecting three jars of fierce oil, and one round is 540 jars.

Boom...boom...boom...

540 The altar of fire fell on the tower, and in an instant, one-twentieth of the tower was surrounded by backwards.

Many defenders of the Han army were even burnt to death. Unable to bear the pain, they jumped off the city tower, preferring to fall to death rather than being burned to death.

As for the other defenders, under the command of Su Jian, the guard of the north gate, they also used various means to put out the fire.

However, the fire oil of the Qin army is different from that of the Han army. It is not only more powerful, but also more durable, and it is difficult to extinguish it.

Qin Jun's fierce fire oil is a new type of fire oil extracted from petroleum. Once it is ignited, it will burn everything around it before it burns out. It is not easy to extinguish it even with sand.

Naturally, Qin Hao had no hope for the great weapon of oil. He didn't have the skills to dig underground oil, but open-pit oil could still be collected.

After searching for two full years, the spies of the Black Ice Platform finally found two oil fields in Nanyang and Hanjiang.

Qin Hao immediately ordered the oil field to be sealed up, and built a kerosene processing plant on the spot to urgently process and make kerosene. It took a year to refine [-] altars of kerosene, which was barely enough for the Qin army to consume.

When attacking Jizhou, relying on this new type of fierce kerosene, the Qin army repeatedly succeeded in attacking the city, and the Han-Zhao coalition army screamed again and again.

Relying on Nanyang and Hanjiang alone, the output of the two thermal oil factories naturally cannot supply the continuous consumption of the entire Qin army, but only these two oil fields are under the Qin army.

Strange to say, the Qin army is sitting in the four prefectures of Bing, Yong, Jing and He, but there are only two oil fields in Jingzhou, and there is not even one in the huge Bingzhou and Sizhou.

In the process of attacking Jizhou, more than half of the new fierce oil has been consumed, and Jingzhou was attacked by Shu and Chu, and Sizhou was attacked by Tang State. The situation is critical.

Therefore, the production capacity of the Hanjiang Oilfield can only be supplied to Jingzhou first, and the Nanyang Oilfield must also be supplied to Sizhou first, so that the Hebei Qin Army is about to face the situation of running out of fire oil.

Fortunately, the sky is endless.

Just when the new type of fierce oil was about to run out and could not be replenished, Gu Yong, the prefect of Bohai appointed by Qin Hao, discovered an oil field in Bohai County. Still barely enough.

With the supply from the Bohai Oilfield, when the Qin army attacked Youzhou, it was able to use the new type of fierce fire oil.

The Qin army's new type of fire oil is extremely difficult to extinguish. This is the experience summed up by the Han army with blood and lives in continuous defeats.And also found an easy way to extinguish it.

As for all fire oil, water will become more and more watery, and it can only be extinguished with sand, and although sand can also extinguish the fierce fire oil of the Qin army, the effect is not good, and it will take a certain amount of time.

In the siege battle, every second is precious, and every position on the tower is extremely important. If it takes so long to put out the fire, the city will not need to be defended.

In the continuous defeat, the Han army really found a way, a way to quickly put out the fierce fire oil.

Wei Qing came up with this method, that is to add a certain amount of gravel to the sand, and only by using sand and gravel can quickly extinguish the fierce flames.

Liu Che had long expected that the Qin army would attack the city with fierce fire oil, so he prepared 20 sacks of sand and gravel in Yanjing City in advance. The only function was to put out the fire. manufacture.

So, as soon as Qin Jun's catapult approached, Su Jian was already ready to put out the fire before the heavy fire oil was poured into the city.

As soon as the fire started, Su Jian’s soldiers who specialized in firefighting immediately put out a large amount of kerosene carrying generations of sand and gravel, but then the next wave of kerosene was thrown up again, and the Han defenders could only Continue to put out the fire.

Xue Rengui let the catapult cast ten rounds, and after launching [-] altars of kerosene, he stopped consuming kerosene and used flying stones instead.

You can't stop, after all, Xue Rengui is attacking [-] altars on one side, and [-] altars on the other three sides. Qin Jun can't afford to consume one of these.

Under the fierce offensive of the Qin army's [-] altars, the Han army lost a large number of catapults and bed crossbows, and thousands of soldiers were burned to death, but similarly, the situation on the Qin army's side was not much better.

The Qin army also had to face the kerosene, rockets, and flying stones of the Han army. Compared with the Han army on the defending side, the Qin army on the attacking side suffered significantly greater losses.

Under the offensive of the Han army, the Qin army lost nearly one-third of its catapults, and only twenty of the fifty Jinglans remained, and the soldiers died in battle.

This is not only the case on Xue Rengui's side, but also the other two city gates. The two sides can be said to be exhausted by fighting each other.

Since the moat of Yanjing had not yet been filled, Xue Rengui did not let the soldiers attack the city directly, but first used catapults and crossbows to shoot at each other with the Han army on the tower, and at the same time asked the soldiers to carry sandbags back and forth to fill up the moat .

The biggest advantage of this is that it can reduce casualties, but the disadvantage is that the siege equipment is severely damaged and the supplies are consumed too quickly, but the Qin army is obviously not afraid of this.

With the capture of Yuyang and Shanggu counties, the Qin army can transport materials from these two routes. As long as the consumption rate is controlled within a reasonable range, there will never be a problem of running out of materials.

"General, the loss is too great. In less than an hour, our army lost thousands of brothers, but the Qin army's offensive has not weakened at all,"

"Quick, go and tell the commander-in-chief that the Qin army's offensive is too fierce, and our army needs support."

Su Jian said anxiously to the soldiers beside him, but he didn't realize that his body was exposed outside the city wall.

Outside the city, on the edge of a well, Xue Rengui held a longbow, looked coldly at Su Jian on the tower, and said coldly: "You know Xue Rengui is my opponent, but you dare to show your face, you are looking for death."

After saying that, Xue Rengui let go of the bowstring, and the iron arrow in his hand flew out directly, and the target was Su Jian on the tower.

[Ding dong, Xue Rengui's skill 'Arrow God' is activated, the force is instantly +6, the basic force is 105, the equipment is +2, and the current force is increased to 113. 】

"General, be careful..."

Su Jian, who heard the reminder, was just about to squat down, but the iron arrow had already arrived in front of him, and there was no time to dodge it.

Snapped……

Su Jian's head was shot by an arrow, leaving only the body, which fell directly to the ground.

In this way, the Qin army had only attacked the city for an hour, and Su Jian, the guard of the north gate of Yanjing, died tragically under Xue Rengui's arrow.

　Make up for yesterday's guarantee...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)