Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 434
Chapter 438

Qiming Academy has no moat, nor has it dug a moat.

This brought great convenience to the attack of the Xifu Army.

Zhou Chu watched this one-sided battle without the slightest interest.During the Battle of Luoyang, Zhou Chu was captured by Ran Ming, and later Huan Wen exchanged him with Nanyang County.

Zhou Chuchong cupped his hands with Huanwen and said: "General, the general doesn't understand. There is no need to mobilize the troops so much in this battle. Give the general a thousand soldiers and horses, and within two hours, the general will bring you Ran Ming's head!"

Huan Wen smiled slightly, didn't care about Zhou Chu's rudeness, and explained very patiently: "I don't want Ran Ming's head, nor a mere academy, what I want is to use these enemies to promote our Xifu Army Morale!"

Only then did Zhou Chu suddenly realize.Since the establishment of the Xifu Army, it has been invincible.However, the Wei army led by Ran Ming failed one after another. Since then, the Xifu army has left a shadow in their hearts.

As long as these "Wei troops" are used and the soldiers of the Xifu army kill them all, then the shadow in their hearts can be removed and the confidence and courage to fight can be regained.

Just as the generals of the Xifu army were relaxed and talking and laughing, Xi Chao's face became more and more gloomy.

"Not right!"

"Oh!" Huan Wen asked curiously, "What's the guest's opinion!"

"Ran Ming is different from ordinary people, if he is really so easy to deal with. He is not Ran Ming, and he is not worthy of the title of that wise fox!" Xi Chao said: "This battle is not right, from the beginning until now, Ran Ming has not yet made a move. What is his backhand?"

"No way!" Huan Wen said: "Is the guest too worried? No matter how powerful Ran Ming is, he has no soldiers or generals, and he can turn the world upside down? Besides, this is not Wei, but Jiankang. Ran Ming He is not a god, he is just a mortal!"

However, the moment Huan Wen finished speaking, it seemed like a slap in the face.

Just when the Xifu army's siege ladder had just been placed on the city wall, dozens of figures suddenly protruded from the academy's city wall.A black clay pot appeared in their hands. These pots were all on fire, and they flew towards the ladder on the city wall.

There was a "click" sound, and the pot cracked.

However, the originally very small flame suddenly grew bigger.The Xifu soldiers who climbed the ladder were instantly engulfed in flames!
The fierce oil is actually unrefined light oil, which contains more or less colloid and asphaltene attachment substances. Even if it is not improved, it still has the properties of incendiary bombs of later generations. Of course, the fierce oil of this era is not as solidified as that of later generations. Molotov cocktails are so perverted.

The discovery of fierce fire oil is inseparable from military warfare.

The use of Chinese fire oil is similar to that of Greek fire, both spraying (the fire oil tank is an ancient flamethrower) and projectile.Put it in a clay pot and use a catapult to launch it, but gunpowder was invented in ancient China. With the application of gunpowder, kerosene was gradually replaced by gunpowder.

The fire oil in clay pots used by the defenders is just like the kind of simple incendiary bottles made of beer bottles in later generations.The siege ladder and the soldiers of the Jin army with ants attached to it were instantly engulfed in flames.This kind of flame is different from ordinary flames. Instead of being extinguished quickly when encountering water, it has the effect of adding fuel to the fire.This kind of burning speed is also very fast. The soldiers of the Jin army who were burned by the fire were burned by the fire before they even had time to take off their armor.

The burns were very painful, and the soldiers of the Jin army who were burned by the fierce fire oil uttered terrifying screams, which made the faces of the surrounding Jin soldiers change drastically.Deng Xia watched more than a dozen siege ladder trucks fall into flames, with pain on his face.

The siege ladder vehicle is not a simple ladder.The ladder car not only has wheels, but can be pushed forward. It is equipped with anti-shields, winches, grabbing hooks and other appliances, and some have pulley lifting equipment.The siege ladder vehicle has a certain defensive ability, and the simple ladder is completely different.

Simple ladders are actually very easy to deal with by the defenders, as long as they use a fork or a pole, they can easily push that simple ladder to the ground.With the height of the ancient city walls, as long as people on the ladder are pushed down, they will be killed or injured.Unless you have an absolute superiority in force, the losses will be even greater.

But the ladder car is different, because the ladder car has a huge base, it will not be pushed down by weapons such as forks and poles.As more than a dozen aerial ladders fell into flames one by one, they could no longer be put into use.

Deng Xia had to accept a painful fact that he failed in this wave of siege.

Deng Xia finally ordered to withdraw from the battle helplessly, and the Jin Dynasty retreated like a tide as if they had been pardoned when they heard Jin Ming's voice.At the same time, Xue Tao looked at the retreating Jin army with a serious expression, and he understood that a more severe battle was about to begin.

Xue Tao said: "The general ordered that only one team of surveillance personnel be left on the city wall, and the other soldiers immediately removed the city wall for repairs."

A military marquis said: "General, the courtyard wall is seriously damaged now. We should speed up repairs while the Jin army is retreating. But why retreat!"

"Retreat!" Xue Tao explained: "That is to reduce unnecessary losses!"

The captain wanted to say more, but Xue Tao gave him a wide-eyed stare, and swallowed back in fright.Before the defenders had time to fully walk down the courtyard wall, at this moment, the soldiers on the city wall shouted: "The catapults are attacking, quickly avoid it!"

The offensive and defensive sides actually have their own advantages and disadvantages, just like the offensive side. Although they are on the offensive and have no geographical advantage, they have the initiative. They can attack when they want, and they can invest a lot of troops where they want to carry out the main attack.You can attack wherever you want.At this time, the side defending the city is completely passive.

Deng Xia withdrew the attacking soldiers and immediately ordered the catapult to speak. Under the blow of the catapult like a storm, the defenders couldn't lift their heads at all.At this time, he changed to another team and attacked.

The siege troops of the Xifu army, recharging their energy, rushed towards the main entrance of Qiming Academy brandishing their weapons.

At this time, the siege troops pushed the nest cart towards the courtyard city, and the nest cart was even closer to the courtyard wall.The nest cart can not only suppress the defenders on the city wall, but also has a function, which is to cast a ladder from the hanging basket and directly put it on the city wall.

Burning clay pots can deal with the siege ladder vehicles, but they cannot deal with the nesting vehicles. The nesting vehicles are wrapped in raw cowhide to avoid fire attack. In the mud.As long as the fire oil sticks to the mud and burns, and dries the moisture in the mud, the mud will naturally separate from the cowhide. In this way, the nest car can truly ignore the fire attack.

Over time, more than a dozen nest vehicles of the Xifu Army of the Jin State built more than a dozen passages.The siege troops of the Xifu Army rushed towards the city wall from the lifting basket of the nest car.

The situation is extremely critical.Xue Tao shouted loudly: "Follow this general and drive the enemy out!"

As the saying goes, generals are courageous soldiers, generals are not afraid of death, why should soldiers be afraid of them.

Under the leadership of Xue Tao, the defenders fought a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Xifu soldiers on the city wall.The sounds of cursing, screams, angry reprimands, and the golden cry of swords and soldiers are intertwined to form a tragic song of death.

In a short while, countless soldiers from both sides fell in disorder on the city wall.

Although the Jin army has more than a dozen channels, it can continuously transport reinforcements.However, the transportation capacity of these dozens of channels is still limited, and only hundreds of soldiers can be transported at a time.

Hundreds of soldiers climbed onto the city wall and were soon submerged in the crowd of defenders.Unknowingly, the Xifu army made a fatal mistake, that is, to adopt the tactics of refueling.

Logically, Deng Xia would not make this mistake.But the situation on the battlefield made him have a little fantasy, seeing that the defenders were about to run out, and the next time they increased their troops, they could take down the city wall.

However, the defenders are like immortal Xiaoqiang. No matter how much the Xifu army increases their troops, they "barely" defeated the Xifu army.Deng Yan was in the middle of the game and didn't see the situation clearly, but Huan Wenwen and Xi Chao who were watching the battle at the back understood that Deng Xia had caught the trick!
After fighting for an hour, the Xifu army lost more than a thousand people, and even Huan Wen felt his heart ache.

Xi Chao looked at it, shook his head and said: "Minggong, now that the morale is frustrated, and the long-term battle is useless, it is better to withdraw the troops!"

Huan Wen showed a knowing smile.

In fact, he also had the idea of ​​retreating, but thinking that he had 6000 or [-] troops, but he couldn't afford a small academy, he felt a little embarrassing.Now that Xi Chao gave Huan Wen this step, Huan Wen happened to use the slope to descend the donkey: "Send the order to retreat!"

"Dangdang..." There was a golden sound of retreating from the central army of the Xifu Army, and the siege troops heard the order to retreat.In the battle of more than two hours, both sides lost a lot. Xue Tao's [-] defenders suffered more than [-] casualties, although the loss was far smaller than that of the Xifu army.

But he was a little worried.

As for Deng Xia, the famous general of the Xifu Army, his face was like that of the proud Guan Yunchang.Deng Xia went back outside the tent of the Chinese army and asked his own soldiers to remove his armor. He was bare upper body, but because he couldn't find rattan, he tied a few military sticks on his back to enforce the military law.

"The last general was unfavorable in the first battle and suffered heavy losses. Please punish the general to correct military discipline!"

Huan Wen shook his head and smiled secretly, "Deng Xia, Deng Xia, how can I succeed with you in this way. Forget it, victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs. Besides, our opponent is not an ordinary person. This is a man who is more cunning than a fox." , an enemy more ferocious than a tiger. It is normal for you to be defeated by him!"

Deng Xia didn't raise her head, she said in a more serious manner: "Please punish the general!"

Huan Wen said: "General Deng, you must know your shame and be brave. This general will give you another chance. If you still can't win the academy, I will punish you for both crimes. You can be convinced!"

At the same time, Murong Ke, the regent of Longcheng (Chaoyang), the capital of Yan State, watched the information from Wei State expressionlessly.

He counted the time, if Murong Chui was going to assassinate Ran Min, he would have had time to do it now.But the information sent made Murong Ke a little puzzled.

Everything in Wei State is very smooth, no accident happened.Although Zhang Yu rebelled suddenly, it was only three or four days before he was put down by General Dong Run in one fell swoop.

Everything was so peaceful that it seemed a little eerie.

(End of this chapter)