The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1243 You Can Die
At night, the Han army's offensive also stopped, which gave the Xianbei people some breathing space.After a long journey all the way, these Xianbei soldiers were already hungry and thirsty, and after a day of fierce fighting, many people were tired and exhausted. After this relaxation, many people were already so tired that they lay on the pile of dead people, no different from dead dogs. What a difference.

In the chaos, the food and grass of the Xianbei people had long been lost, but there were corpses all over the ground, both human and horse, and there was no shortage of food, but in a desperate situation, more people were fearful, and today is considered to be over. But whether he will become one of these corpses tomorrow, no one knows the result, he can only spend the night in this panic.

Tuoba Xilu was covered in blood, and he didn't know whether it was from his own wounds or splashed with other people's blood. In short, his face and body were covered with blood, which was terrifying.

Tuoba Xilu is like a lion trapped in a cage, walking back and forth restlessly. In today's battle, more than half of the Xianbei army trapped in the encirclement was killed or injured. Escape to death.

So Tuoba Xilu tried to launch an attack at night, trying to tear open a hole to escape, but the defense of the Han army was so tight that countless torches were lit no matter it was the valley mouth or the top of the mountain, shining like daytime, Xianbei People can't get close at all.

Tuoba Xianbei also organized death squads to try to break out of the encirclement, but before they could climb the hillside, they were met with a flurry of arrows, and had to retreat in embarrassment.

After the breakout attempt was shattered, Tuoba Xilu was helpless, and sat there waiting for the dawn.

Just before dawn, the Han army began to throw the rolling logs and rocks down again without money, but the effect did not seem to be very good, because too much was thrown down yesterday, and they piled up like a mountain at the bottom of the valley, forming an obstacle However, hiding behind these obstacles, the Xianbei people can linger on.

Rolling trees and rocks can't hit, bows and arrows and shooting range are not enough, and if they want to kill the Xianbei people at the bottom of the valley, it seems that the Han army has to charge.

And this kind of hand-to-hand combat was exactly what Tuoba Xilu was looking forward to. Now that the Xianbei were huddled at the bottom of the valley, there was no hope of breaking through. They could only have a chance to escape if they hoped that the Han army would attack and fight hand-to-hand.

If the Han army does not attack, they will have to work like this, and the Han army will have nothing to do with them in a short time. There are water sources and corpses in the ravine. It is not difficult to solve food and drink temporarily, but in hot weather, these horses The corpse wouldn't last long before it would rot, and Tuoba Xilu could only rely on his father to send reinforcements, otherwise they would have been trapped here to die.

The situation has entered a stalemate stage, and the Han army seems to have no plans to rush to the bottom. After all, if there is a hand-to-hand combat, there will definitely be casualties. Consumed slowly, the total energy consumption will kill them.

But when Zhang Le rolled his eyes, he had an idea. He smiled and ordered his men to find some oil.

The subordinates quickly found some butter, mutton oil and sesame oil from the kitchen. People in this era mostly ate meat oil, fat extracted from animals with horns, such as cattle and sheep, and ointment extracted from animals without horns. Such as pigs, the ancients were still very clear about this. Sesame oil is vegetable oil, which is squeezed from flax. The application of sesame oil was very common in the Three Kingdoms period.

"Not enough, not enough, bring some more." Zhang Le glanced at it and ordered again.

The subordinates had no choice but to bring all the grease and sesame oil in the kitchen, and also brought a lot of pine oil for lighting the torch. Zhang Le smiled and said, "Okay, enough."

The generals didn't know what Zhang Le was going to do, and Zhang Le didn't explain, so they poured some grease on the rolling logs, and then pushed the rolling logs down the mountain.

These rolling logs naturally mixed with the wood and rocks under the logs, but obviously they couldn't hurt the Xianbei people.

At this time, Zhang Le made people light torches and branches, and threw them down the mountain. Those grease-soaked logs were the first to burn, with thick smoke billowing, and the flames soaring into the sky.

Tuoba Xilu turned pale with fright. If the Han army attacked with fire, he would surely die without a place to bury him. He urgently ordered the Xianbei soldiers to put out the fire.

But how can the fire ignited by the wood soaked in grease be easily extinguished? Seeing that the fire is getting bigger and bigger, the piles of logs and the corpses of Xianbei soldiers are also ignited, and the whole valley is plunged into darkness. In a sea of ​​fire.

Zhang Le laughed loudly, and ordered his subordinates: "Give them some more firewood, add more fire, and roast these bastards."

The Han soldiers roared with laughter, and hurriedly threw the remaining logs on the top of the mountain down.

In the whole valley, the wind was blowing with the wind, the smoke was lingering, and the flames were soaring into the sky. The Xianbei army crowded in the valley. The area was originally narrow and overcrowded. In the process, more people were choked by the thick smoke and fell to the ground, even the corpses were swallowed by the spreading fire.

Tuoba Xilu felt that the situation was over, he didn't want to be buried in the sea of ​​flames, so he immediately raised the white flag, led some soldiers, and climbed up the mountain.

The Han army immediately greeted them with bows and arrows. Tuoba Xilu and others resisted and shouted loudly: "Don't shoot the arrows, we are willing to surrender."

Zhang Le saw it from the mountain, smiled coldly, and ordered the Han army to stop shooting.Don't think that the Xianbei people are the kind of spineless cowards. In fact, this is exactly the cunning of the Xianbei people. They surrendered when they were poor, and rebelled when they were strong.

Zhang Le turned to Tuoba Xilu and said: "Since you are willing to surrender, can you be convinced to lose this battle?"

"Convinced, convinced, we are convinced." Tuoba Xilu secretly rejoiced, Zhang Le said so, obviously willing to accept their surrender, as long as he can survive, there will always be a chance to escape in the future.

With a mocking smile on Zhang Le's face, he smiled at Tuoba Xilu and said, "Since you are convinced, you can go to die!"

As soon as Zhang Le's words fell, the Han soldiers around him held Yuanrong crossbows and fired them together. The black crossbow arrows poured down like a torrential rain. Can't escape the Yuanrong crossbow.

In just a blink of an eye, Tuoba Xilu's body was shot into a hedgehog by random arrows, and the entire back was densely filled with arrowheads. Together with the hundreds of soldiers he brought, none of them They escaped and were all shot to death on the hillside by Yuan Rong crossbow.

(End of this chapter)