Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

In any siege, the attacking side needs to have several times, even ten times, the defending side's forces to be confident of success.

Even with an absolute advantage in troop numbers, Wutu still had two sources of confidence.

First, the ferocity of their attack, and second, the hot air balloons.

If they didn't know about hot air balloons, the ideal tactic would be to send out small-scale sorties to lure the enemy troops out of the city to seek battle.

However, with the hot air balloons, the field of vision for both sides was greatly expanded, and this tactic of luring the enemy could not be effective.

The biggest reliance left was to use the hot air balloons above to launch a fierce attack, harassing the defending soldiers on the city walls.

Hot air balloons can be controlled, but after all, they cannot be as flexible as chariots and horses. And the attacking side obviously has more advantages than the defending side.

The huge flags below the Jin army were constantly waving, obviously a new set of flag signals had been established along the way.

Seeing the flag signals, the Jin army in the sky immediately took action, throwing everything under them out in one go.

The rattan baskets they were riding in were filled with a large number of kerosene jars and sacks filled with gravel.

The current flag signal was to notify them to launch a fierce attack as soon as possible.

After throwing everything out, they would all return to reload supplies, preparing for the next round of attack.

In the sky, 'fireballs' fell rapidly, emitting black smoke, accompanied by countless life-threatening gravel on both sides.

In the blink of an eye, they had already crashed and rattled everywhere, some on the streets, some on the roofs, and a small part of the kerosene jars successfully landed on the city walls.

However, they were still caught by the wooden boards prepared in advance by the defending soldiers.

The fire that had not yet spread was also extinguished by handfuls of dry ash, and if a wooden board was damaged, another one was immediately covered.

Although the disposal was timely, the officers and soldiers guarding the city were still uneasy, after all, the crackling above their heads had never stopped.

Giant stones were flying, and the enemy's infantry, holding shields and carrying siege ladders, rushed to the bottom of the city wall, while a rain of arrows shot upwards, attempting to suppress the attack on the city head with firepower.

On the battlefield, shouts, curses, and cries of killing filled the sky!

The Jin army infantry below had soldiers constantly falling down after being shot by arrows, but their steps were firm and they still moved forward.

Occasionally, soldiers on the wall began to fall after being shot by arrows.

"Release the arrows!! Release the arrows!! Prepare, the siege ladders are about to be set up, don't give them a chance!!"

"Rolling logs and stones, hot oil, and molten gold, listen to my orders before smashing them down!!"

As he spoke, the Jin army's siege ladders arrived, the long siege ladders, with the combined force of dozens or hundreds of people, slammed towards the city wall!

The iron hooks of the siege ladders hooked fiercely onto the battlements of the city wall.

Although the bottom had not yet touched the city wall, there were already casualties everywhere, corpses shot by arrows everywhere, and soldiers wailing and rolling everywhere.

Patches of blood had already begun to spread on the earth...

The soldiers on the city head were still trying their best to shoot arrows, almost without looking, shooting one arrow after another straight down.

However, they still failed to stop the arrival of the siege ladders, and rows of siege ladders began to gradually reach the city wall.

Seeing this situation, the defending general no longer hesitated and immediately shouted: "Pour the kerosene, burn the siege ladders!!"

"The rest of you, smash down hard for me!! Don't allow anyone to climb onto the city head!!"

The soldiers who received the order took out the kerosene jars that had been prepared long ago and poured them down the siege ladders, then ignited them with torches.

The upper half of the long siege ladder instantly ignited a fire dragon, turning into a fire ladder.

The Jin soldiers who were leading the charge were the most miserable, the kerosene sprinkled on their bodies, ignited by the flames beside the siege ladder, and the whole person was immediately engulfed in flames, wailing and falling from the siege ladder.

The people behind were not much better, although they had wrapped their hands, the high temperature of the flames was really unbearable for ordinary people.

Many soldiers with weak willpower also fell from the air.

People were constantly falling from the siege ladders to the bottom, if they were lucky, they would directly return to the west.

If they were unlucky and landed on the corpses of others, they could still keep a breath, but the kerosene under the city was also burning fiercely.

Falling from the fire, suffering from fractures, and then entering the fire again!

The soldiers still on the ladders were not much better, the top was burning, and the smoke below was evaporating with high temperature while constantly consuming oxygen.

The defending soldiers constantly smashed down rolling logs and stones, one smash could knock down a string, and if they were lucky, they could break a siege ladder.

Naturally, the damaged siege ladders had extremely poor load-bearing capacity, and often a string would fall down with it.

Although hard objects such as stones and wood were naturally intimidating when smashed down using gravity, the most feared were not the hard ones, but the soft ones.

City wall defense battle.

Whenever this time came, the soldiers would always set up iron pots on the city wall, boiling a pot of strong-smelling, feces-smelling golden juice.

There was no recipe for golden juice, except for the fecal soup, what else to put in, how much to put in, all depended on the soldier's personal preference, everyone was different.

At the moment, the golden juice on the city gate was boiled with oil.

The golden juice with oil added was like Crossing-the-bridge noodles, which could use a thick layer of oil to keep warm for a long time.

On the other hand, the smell was not easy to leak, so as not to affect the morale of one's own side too much.

Schematic diagram of Crossing-the-bridge noodles oil layer insulation

When the Jin soldiers painstakingly climbed to the top of the city, a splash of golden juice with full heat would be poured down on their heads!

As soon as the hot oil touched the scalp, it could scald people's skin and flesh, and then the twice-cooked food residue would flow through the face, neck...

Those who were hit would immediately go blind, plus infection, in this era, there was no cure!

Countless dung soups began to be frantically waved under the soldiers' hands like rain.

The air was filled with a mixture of non-protein nitrogen and sulfate.

If Fang Zheng were here, he would definitely exclaim awesome!

Compared with the current scene, his battle with the Dung Gang that year was really child's play, and even considered gentle.

After all, he used room temperature...

As the golden juice continued to spill, a different kind of wail began to linger on the city head.

Before entering the melee, the battlefield had already become hell.

Wails were everywhere, screams were shrill!

Although the Jin soldiers were temporarily weak, they were all fearless of death, and countless rows of siege ladders were still being erected, and the city wall was already in a state of chaos.

Looking from a distance, almost half of the entire city wall had been covered by siege ladders!

If a siege ladder broke halfway, the next siege ladder would immediately be added.

Wutu's expression in the distance was slightly anxious.

The current situation was still within the normal range, but he did not expect that the Jing Kingdom was so well prepared.

This was greatly beyond his expectations.

However, looking at their consumption speed, kerosene, rolling logs and stones, etc. should not be able to support them for a few days.

Let some infantry die now... these people are only used as cannon fodder on the battlefield.

It does not affect the overall situation.

Time continued to advance, and the situation on the battlefield began to change.

Under the continuous and fierce attack of the Jin soldiers, some people finally began to climb the city wall!

Rolling logs and stones, wanting to attack from top to bottom again could no longer solve the problem.

The defending soldiers on the city head decisively drew out their sabers and stepped forward to kill, three or five people fighting one person, and soon the Jin army was beheaded.

As soon as one person fell, the subsequent Jin soldiers immediately made up for it, and several people stepped forward to kill again.

Although everything was still going smoothly, it was visible to the naked eye that the rhythm of the defending soldiers was becoming more and more rapid....

After all, it is difficult to take care of everything.

At this moment, Wutu smiled coldly: "The time has come! Pass down the order, break the city gate!"

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