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Chapter 67 The Battle of Pingcheng ([-])

The soldiers of the Iron Armor Battalion were covered in heavy armor, with only one pair of eyes exposed.Although Fusang's arrow rain is dense, it does very little damage.

Armored heavy infantry, carrying heavy sandbags, rushed up against the dense arrow rain. When they reached the moat, they threw the sandbags on their shoulders into the river, turned around and ran back, and then charged again with sandbags on their shoulders. go up.

Although the Fusang people occupy a favorable location and have many archers, they have nothing to do with these armored heavy infantry wearing tortoise shells. They can only watch helplessly as the moat is filled up little by little.

Half an hour later, the four to five feet wide moat has been filled with more than twenty roads with a width of more than two feet.And the entire Iron Armored Battalion, except for a hundred or so unlucky ones who were wounded, died all at once.

After a short rest, the Armored Battalion finally started its real attack

Tens of thousands of armored heavy infantry, with heavy steps, began to charge upwards with more than [-] siege vehicles, battering rams and siege ladders.

At the beginning, the speed of the armored battalion was not fast, but the closer to the city wall, the faster the charging speed

There were also more than 20 heavy siege vehicles that were a head taller than the city wall, and were pulled forward and backward by dozens of armored soldiers, and slowly approached the city wall of Pingcheng.

Although the number of these siege vehicles is small, it is an absolute weapon in siege warfare.As long as the bulky siege vehicles can get close to the city wall, they can lower the suspension bridge and send soldiers to the city wall continuously.

The role of siege engines in siege warfare is so important, of course, Fusang people will not take it lightly.

As soon as the siege engine approached the moat, the Fusang people began to throw kerosene cans out.

This kerosene jar is a clay pot that often holds water. After filling it with kerosene, it is made by sealing it with clay.It's simple to make, but it works amazingly

"Bang bang bang" there was a series of sounds of broken clay pots, and the kerosene in the pots suddenly splashed around.Almost every siege vehicle was hit by several fire oil tanks.The kerosene splashed all over the place immediately stained the siege vehicles up and down.Even the soldiers of the Iron Armored Battalion pulling the siege vehicles were covered in kerosene.

After the Fusang people threw a round of fire oil cans, they fired rockets out

I saw several fireworks suddenly flying above the city of Pingcheng, the scene was really spectacular

"Boom boom boom" The rockets ignited the kerosene in an instant, and more than twenty siege vehicles suddenly ignited a raging fire.

And many armored battalion soldiers with kerosene stuck to their bodies were also ignited by the rockets, turning into torches of human oil.

Heavy armor can defend against bows and arrows, but it cannot defend against fire

Hundreds of soldiers of the Iron Armored Battalion who were set on fire screamed and rolled all over the ground, hoping to roll the flames out.But the ground was also covered with kerosene. Instead of extinguishing the fire on their bodies, they turned the surrounding area into a sea of ​​flames.The thick armor of the soldiers in it was burnt red, and after a moment of desperate struggle, they were burned into a ball of coke.

A small number of soldiers who were on fire, although terrified, managed to maintain a trace of clarity. They quickly jumped into the moat with a few steps, and the fire on their bodies was extinguished in an instant.

But they forgot that the heavy armor they were wearing made them jump into the river more than a foot deep, and they immediately sank into the bottom of the water like weights. No matter how hard they struggled, they could never come up again.

Only a handful of people, with the help of their comrades, barely climbed to the bank, but the piercing river water made them tremble all over, at least today they can no longer charge forward

As for the wooden siege engine, although a layer of iron sheet is nailed on the key position, how can it withstand the devastation of the fire?

The twenty or so siege vehicles instantly turned into twenty or so huge piles of torches, which burst into flames.

For a time, in front of the five or six li long city wall, there were raging fires everywhere, filled with smoke and oppressive heat.

Xue Wanche looked at everything in front of him with a sullen face, and waved his hand without hesitation: "Send the order, tell the Iron Armored Battalion to retreat first, and attack after the fire is extinguished."

The soldiers of the Iron Armored Battalion, who hesitated before the fire, retreated in an orderly manner after receiving the order to recuperate.

At this time, Xue Wanche said coldly: "Hmph, this method of using kerosene to defend the city is a trick commonly used by the people of the Western Qin Dynasty. I didn't expect the people of Fusang to learn it too."

Zhou Hao's heart moved when he heard the words, and he turned his head to Xue Wanche and said, "General, the West Qin people are our enemies, and the Fusang people are also our enemies, and the enemy's enemy is our friend. Could it be that the West Qin people are playing tricks in the middle?"

Xue Wanche was slightly stunned and said: "Haozi, what you said may not have imagined that Xiqin would actually help foreigners at this time. Although Beiyan and Xiqin have been enemies for generations, they are both descendants of Xuanyuan and have the same blood as brothers." It is really sad to look at the wall and be bullied by outsiders.”

After Xue Wanche finished speaking, he thought that since the decline of the Xuanyuan Dynasty, the world had been in chaos for a long time. What kind of blood friendship?

Xue Wanche helplessly shook his head, and turned his attention back to the battlefield.

At this time, the fire in front of the city wall has gradually extinguished.Seeing this situation, Xue Wanche waved his hand and sent the Iron Armored Battalion up again after the rest.

Although there are no siege engines, there are still siege ladders and battering rams.As long as they can smash open the city gate, or grab a foothold on the city wall, there is great hope for breaking through Pingcheng.

The Armored Battalion rushed forward again, without the siege engine, the soldiers' attack speed was even faster.After a while, he reached under the city wall, set up a siege ladder and began to attack.

I saw the soldiers of the Iron Armor Battalion, with their swords in their mouths, a shield in one hand to protect the head of the Lord, and a siege ladder in the other hand, desperately climbing up.

But the Fusang people on the top of the city, seeing that the bows and arrows were useless, abandoned the bows and arrows, lifted the stones and threw them down.

Large chunks of rocks made the iron shield slam, but it still couldn't stop the armored heavy infantry from continuing to charge upwards.

The Fusang people saw that the stone was not effective, so they released the log.

The bucket-thick, ten-foot-long log rolled down quickly along the siege ladder.This time, the iron shield and armor couldn't resist, and several soldiers of the Iron Armor Battalion were thrown down from the siege ladder, turning into a puddle of flesh.

But the soldiers of the Iron Armored Battalion did not flinch. They were smashed down in one wave, and the next wave continued to charge upwards desperately; after being smashed to death, they continued to organize the attack

For a time, under the high city wall, blood flowed and corpses were strewn all over the field, there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, and the painful wailing of seriously wounded soldiers

However, in just over two quarters of an hour, the soldiers of the Iron Armor Battalion lost more than [-] people.

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