Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 46
"No need!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head: "Too heavy stone bullets will damage the elastic cables. The Baekje people's walls are very thick. We don't have enough time to ask the gunners to raise the Angle of the ballista. We can hit the ballista inside." houses!"

According to Wang Wenzuo's order, the gunners of the Tang army began to adjust the elevation angle of the ballista. The stone bullets passed over the wall and landed in the Chaichuan fence. Soon, there were bursts of exclamation and howling from inside the fence. When it came to fruition, the houses inside the fence had already been hit.

"Unfortunately, you can't set fire. If you put kerosene in a clay pot and shoot it in, tsk tsk, you won without moving a knife or a shot!" Shen Faseng shook his head regretfully.

"The grain in there is also burned!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "The terrain of this stockade is very good, and there is enough grain in stock. If possible, I hope to occupy it completely! Monk Fa, you lead the troops forward, wait I command!"

"The Tang people have moved!" The whistle came from the watchtower.Miao Fu hurriedly climbed up to the top of the wall and poked out half of his head to look out. Sure enough, the enemy was dispatched. The first ones were long cards, the ones behind were crossbowmen and spear teams, and the last ones were carrying long ladders and fagots of miscellaneous soldiers.He forced himself to resist his urge to issue orders to go up the wall. After the rounds of shelling just now, the wall near the west gate was smashed like a dog by the Tang people's stone bullets. It was swept away, and the guards stood on it without any cover. Now it is just death for people to go up.Rather than doing this, it would be better to wait for the Tang people to get closer, suddenly open the gate of the village and rush out, killing both sides, and the terrible ordnance of the Tang people that can shoot stone bullets will be useless.After making up his mind, he ordered two hundred pickers to hide behind the gate of the village, waiting for orders.

But to Miao Fu's surprise, the Tang people did not rush up to climb the city, but stopped when they were about a stone's throw away from the city wall, put up a long sign, and then the carts moved forward again. After moving for a while and connecting them again, Miaofu could clearly see the machines that fired stone bombs from this distance. They were thick at the front and narrow at the back, and there were baffles to block the arrows. what.

"Replace oil bombs and bombard the enemy's gate!" Cui Hongdu's voice was like thunder, echoing above the soldiers' heads. When the trigger was slapped, the torsion spring pulled the arm of the crossbow, shooting out clay pots full of grease one by one, viciously It hit the west gate of the Shibakawa gate, and then the rocket fell, and the flames jumped up, licking the oak gate.Shouts emanated from inside and outside the wall at the same time, but the outside was cheering, while the inside was despair.In the following time, the guards of the Chaichuan Gate showed amazing courage and self-sacrifice. Men, women, even children and the elderly all rushed to the wall, braving the scorching heat and choking smoke, splashing water and fighting. Sand and soil, trying to put out the fire, but Tang Jun's arrows and stone bullets rained down, taking away lives.

Click.

Miao Fu almost thought he heard it wrong, he turned his head and held his breath, and after a while he heard the second and third sounds from the noise around him, at this moment he was sure that the solid iron leaf-clad oak door The gate is about to collapse, and wood is wood, no matter how hard it is, it cannot resist the licking of flames.

"Come down, come down from the wall! The door is about to collapse!" He shouted loudly: "Push the cart over and block the gate, we will fight Chinatown!"

As Miao Fu expected, after about half a cup of tea, the oak gate collapsed in the flames, splashing sparks all over the sky.At this time, the Baekje people had already pushed several carts, overturned them, and piled up a lot of sundries and furniture on top of them to form a barricade. Near the roof, pick up the masonry tiles.Miao Fu was still pouring oil on the granary. Once the army was defeated, he would let his wife light the fire, and both jade and stone would be destroyed.Everyone knows that the outcome is decided, and the only thing they can do is to make the winner pay the greatest price.

Before I knew it, it started snowing again.The thirsty soldiers stretched out their hands to catch the snowflakes and licked the snow water on their hands. The flames on the collapsed gate gradually extinguished, leaving only wisps of green smoke.Miao Fu couldn't help thinking to himself that if the snow could fall for a quarter of an hour earlier, the Tang people's plan of attacking with fire would have been in vain. Could it be that the Bodhisattva also sided with the Tang people this time?
Just as Miaofu was thinking wildly, a limping man came out from the gate, and then there was a characteristic creaking sound of a bowstring tightening in his ear, and before Miaofu gave the order, the man spoke in Baekje Shouted: "Don't shoot arrows, I'm Boiling!"

"You're actually fine, I thought you were dead!" Seeing that the lieutenant general was safe and sound, Miao Fu's face was not very good-looking.

"It can't be my fault!" The lieutenant heard Miao Fu's bad tone, and hurriedly explained: "My horse was shot to death at the beginning, and I was pinned to the ground by the dead horse, so I couldn't move at all! Wait until I crawl under the horse Come out, the battle is over!"

"Hmph!" Miao Fu snorted coldly: "Then why did the people of Tang let you back? Persuading you to surrender?"

"General, it's pointless to continue fighting!" The lieutenant raised his voice so that everyone around him could hear clearly: "The people of Tang offered a condition: as long as we put down our weapons and hand over Chai Chuanzha completely, we will guarantee our lives. If we want to leave, everyone can take weapons for self-defense, warm clothes, five days' rations!"

The faces of the Baekje people all around showed doubts. The request given by the Tang people was too generous and unreal. Generally speaking, the end result of this kind of siege was that the young and strong were killed, and the women and children were slaves. It was lucky to save his life. As for leaving and carrying weapons and rations, it was even more unbelievable. No matter how you looked at it, he thought it was a trap of the Tang people.

"Don't even talk!" Miao Fu stopped others from asking questions, and asked directly, "What do Tang people mean by self-defense weapons?"

"It's swords and shields, but bows, armor, spears and other long soldiers must be handed over!"

"This is a trap of the Tang people!" Someone shouted sharply: "They want to lure us out of the city gate, and then kill us all in the wilderness. Without crossbows, spears, and armor, we have to let the Tang people slaughter us!"

"Correct!"

"Well said!"

"Instead of waiting to die, it is better to fight to the death here."

"Boiliu, you lackey of the Tang people, you actually came to trick us!"

"Yes, kill this lackey!"

Facing the arms and curses stretched out from all around, Fei Liu couldn't help but subconsciously took a step towards Miao Fu, and shouted loudly: "I'm not the lackey of the Tang people, I'm just giving them a message, it's up to you whether you accept it or not." What’s the matter; besides, the Tang people have scorpion crossbows, even if we stick to it here, we’re just going to die!”

(End of this chapter)