Chapter 24 Destroy the City (Part 2: The Super Bowl(2/2)
The well-trained brothers Shuofang Army turned a blind eye to the giant crossbow that was close at hand. Under the command of each gang leader, they continued to inspect the mechanism in an orderly manner, load gunpowder bullets, ignite the mugwort used to ignite the fire in their hands, and then stood up and stood on standby. The whole set of actions was like flowing water.
"There are all in the First Brigade, launch!" Zhou Quji refused to be beaten and did not fight back, and suddenly waved the order flag.
The lead of the gunpowder bullet was immediately lit. At the same time, someone kicked the machine with his feet. The counterweight basket of the catapult car quickly sank, pressing the throwing arm high from the other side. Sixteen four-pound gunpowder bullets broke away from the basket and headed straight for the city wall ninety steps away.
Because of deliberately lightening the counterweight, no gunpowder shot up to the city head. The shells cast from cast iron hit the surface of the city wall made of earth, making a dull sound. Immediately afterwards, the explosion sounded like a sudden explosion, "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" The smoke filled the gunpowder, and the city wall trembled up and down like a quake.
Large piles of wet soil fell off the surface of the city wall. Although it could not threaten the safety of Sogdian soldiers on the top of the city, they were frightened. Some turned around decisively and headed straight for the horse path, while others were unstable, squatting behind the marquee, covering their ears with their hands, trembling.
"Stop, no retreat. There are Tang people on the top of the city, and they are reluctant to blow their own people to death!" Little Berksulder was furious, waved his scimitar, chopped over the two leading escapees, and then, together with his hard-core confidants, blocked the horse road leading to the city.
In front of the bloody corpses and the bright steel knife, the Sogdian soldiers who were trying to escape stopped. However, few people still had the courage to pull out the horn bow, spread their strong crossbows, and launch a counterattack outside the city.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "!"..., another sixteen gunpowder bullets hit the city wall. Then, the explosion rolled like muffled thunder. "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang..."
The soil splashed, the city walls shivered, and in a blink of an eye, the walls on the east side of Talas were all shrouded. In the miserable white smoke, Sogdian soldiers squatted down and covered their ears with their hands. No matter how threatened or tempted Little Berksuled, they refused to face the outside of the city.
"Purchase more Tang people up, but fewer Tang people are not useful! Pull up all Tang people in the city and let them shout out outside the city!" Sulede had no choice but to use his trick. He opened his throat and gave orders to Ma Dao.
"Pull the Tang people up and pull all those wearing Tang people's clothes up!" Under the horse's way, Sogdian soldiers repeated loudly. Then, crying rose into the sky, and a large group of local people who looked a little like the Tang people, or who had Han ancestry, were driven by the soldiers with whips and swords, walked up the horse's way, step by step towards the city.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom..." The third wave of gunpowder bullets exploded again, but none of them fell on the top of the city.
Suleder knew what caused the gunpowder bullet to lose its accuracy. He sneered silently in his heart, and at the same time, he waved the scimitar in his hand even more urgently, "Hurry up, take the Tang people up, first take the head of the city. Then divide half of the horse faces on the left and right sides, tied them with the Tang people who were originally on the horse face to prevent the Tang army from firing iron thunder and breaking the crossbow outside the city."
"Give me your life!" Some local people who were forced to put on Tang people's clothes cried and prayed, but the Sogdian soldiers around them turned a deaf ear.
"Give me your life!" A woman holding the child knelt on her knees, but the one she received was a whip and a knife back.
If the Tang people die, it is definitely better than the one who dies. Most Sogdian soldiers are extremely smart. Although, among the so-called "Tang people", many of them are their neighbors. And many of them have been prisoners of the Tang army a few days ago and have been forgiven by the Tang people.
"Stop tossing, hurry up, let your people shoot arrows under the city! The Tang army's grass cart is almost over the city wall!" Dagan She Tuo came out of the smoke again at some point, rushed to Sulede, waved his arms and shouted, "Hurry, hurry up, take advantage of the catapult cart outside the city being loaded. Zhang Qian has brought hundreds of carts of grass for no reason, and he must be unhappy!"
"Grass cart?" Suleder was stunned, and then he remembered that there were a large number of grass carts and iron-winged cars walking in front of the Tang army's catapult. So far, he had not figured out what the use of these two wheelbarrows was. However, an ominous premonition directly enveloped his whole body in the next moment.
"Everyone, go back to the city wall, shoot arrows, and stop the straw cart from approaching!" He suddenly raised the scimitar, shouting with all his strength. Then, he took the lead in pounce on the mercedes closest to him.
"Everyone, go back to the city wall, shoot arrows, and stop the straw cart from approaching!" Sullard's confidants repeated loudly, and then used weapons to drive away the Sogdian soldiers around him.
Most of the Sogdian soldiers around chose to dodge sideways. However, there were still a small number of people who had no choice but to bite the bullet and return to the merceration.
Under the city wall, the smoke of gunpowder had not completely dissipated, and their vision was very blurry. However, there were still people who saw hundreds of carts of green semi-dried weeds, which were closely attached to the east wall of Talas by the Tang army and the wheelbarrow.
"Bump it with a rolling stone wood!" Sullard shouted again, leaning over to pick up a piece of wood wood and throwing it out of the city. "Bang!" The heavy wood smashed a straw cart on the spot, and the brown horse manure splashed from under the weeds, and in an instant, the smelly smell filled.
"Bang!" "Bang" "Bang!" "Bang!" More rolling stones were thrown into the city by Sogdian soldiers, smashing the straw carts that the Tang army had finally pushed over one by one. However, the Tang army outside the city quickly retreated and turned a blind eye to the reaction on the city.
"What exactly is the Tang army going to do? Can horse manure be used to smoke the city gate, or what magic method is used?" The more the little Berksulder smashed, the more nervous he felt. He turned his head and asked Dagan Shetuo for advice.
"No, I don't know. I must not be kind!" As a wise man among the Sogdians, Dagan Shetuo couldn't figure out what kind of tricks Zhang Qian was going to play. He responded loudly with a dense bead of sweat.
The next moment, the confusion between him and Sullard disappeared. The number of iron-winged cars quickly approached the city wall, and suddenly spurted out several black and yellow water columns across fifteen or sixteen steps away.
The water column seemed to have a little flame in front of it, which looked very strange. What's even more strange is that when the flame fell on the grass cart, a large ball of flames rose up in an instant.
"Hulala..." The hundreds of straw carts attached to the base of the city wall, whether they had been smashed to the ground or not, were burned. The yellow flame, clamped with thick smoke, rose rapidly. Then, a smelly and sweet smell was sent to the top of the city by the east wind and drilled into Sullard's nostrils.
"Vomit--" Even though he had experienced many battles, Sullard's stomach and intestines were churned. He turned his head and vomited out all the late night snacks yesterday.
Look at his close friends, covering his nostrils with their hands, staggering back, snot, tears, saliva, flowing out uncontrollably.
The other Sogdian soldiers who were smashing the rolling stones downwards were also dizzy and stood up one by one and fled in a hurry. The Tang army outside the city pushed more grass carts to the city gates and walls, and then sprayed the black and yellow liquid with the iron-winged carts (fire dragon carts) and lit them into torches.
"Hu——" The east wind blew thick smoke, passing through the city and the horse's face. The strong smell of wet horse manure and poisonous weeds burned into the nostrils of everyone on the city and the horse's face, making them smoke or drool or vomit.
Little Berksulder and Dagan Shetuo did not care about restraining their brothers, and took the lead in staggering back to the horse road. Soon, the horse road was also covered with poisonous smoke. The two could not breathe, so they could only stagger back and retreated all the way back to the city.
The Sogdian soldiers on the city wall were already in a low morale. After losing the threat from their superiors, they had no intention of sticking to the place to get smoked, rushed to the horse road in groups and rushed back to the city.
The people who were forced to stay on the city walls and horse roads as meat shields and were just taken to the city walls as meat shields, were overjoyed, covered their noses and mouths with their sleeves, followed closely behind the Sogdian soldiers and fled to the houses and alleys near the east gate of Talas.
"Burn, keep burning. Pile the poisonous weeds and horse manure at the base of the city wall, don't waste a car!" Outside Talas City, Luo Huaizu, who saw the enemy's troops retreated by poisonous smoke, was overjoyed. He raised his weight to measure the scales and pointed forward with force.
I learned another move and followed Master Yongzhao, which is the benefit. I can learn new killer moves anytime and anywhere! In the future, I will gather a group of like-minded brothers from the world and go to India with these killer moves and weapons. The Mohist family will prosper in the world and will be just around the corner.
"Push the poisonous weeds and horse manure! Hurry up!"
"This, this, this, this is not enough piles!"
"Then, the smoke is not thick enough."
"Cover your nose with a wet cloth and don't smoke yourself to death!"
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The brothers of Zhang Si'an, Lu Dechuan and other teaching groups used wet cloth to cover their mouths and noses, reminding each other that they would push more poison trucks into the fire. None of them would be wasted.
Horse manure was collected by everyone, and the poisonous weeds were collected by everyone. In order to make poisonous smoke, many brothers have been smoked so that they can't eat for two consecutive days. Today, everyone finally sent the poisonous smoke into Talas City. How could it be possible to easily cut off the supply of raw materials?
"Preparation of catapults, the first brigade is responsible for the left and right horse faces, the second brigade is responsible for the above city gate and the wreckage of the enemy building. The third brigade is responsible for the city wall, with the first round of counterweight of 62 and a half kilograms! Then each brigade will adjust it themselves and bomb it for me!" Zhou Quji was not interested in watching the fun, waved the order flag, and issued the order as quickly as possible.
"Get orders!" The Tang Dynasty athletes from Shuofang Army responded with a loud bang. Then, they quickly adjusted the counterweight, loaded gunpowder bullets, ignited the firing line, and pushed the mechanism open.
"Swoosh swish swish swish swish-" More than forty gunpowder bullets, dragging the blue-gray tail marks, rushed towards the city. Above the city gate, above the city wall, and above the horse's face, exploded one after another. Ships flew across the city and smoke rolled. The Sogdians left the defense facilities on the city and horse's face were blown to pieces.
In the city of Talas, Sulede and She Tuo were so angry that they jumped up, but had no choice. If they wanted to force the "Tangren" to act as a meat shield, they had to send soldiers to escort them. If they wanted the soldiers to escort the "Tangren" and other cities at the risk of being poisoned to escort the "Tangren" and other cities, they had to follow the soldiers to supervise the battle.
They cannot stand the poisonous smoke and cannot supervise the war. If they cannot supervise the war, no soldiers are willing to take risks. Without soldiers are willing to take risks, no "Tang people" can be driven away...
It was completely different from the anxious Sulled, outside Talas City, the Tang army's reaction was calm.
Looking at the defense facilities on the top of the city, they had been cleaned up by Shuofang using gunpowder eggs. He took his brothers to wait for the captain Ren Wu for a long time, suddenly raised a red flag and shouted loudly. "The fire dragon car and the fire cabinet car are gathered near the city gate."
More than a hundred iron plate fire dragon cars quickly gathered around him.
Immediately afterwards, there were more than a hundred fire cabinet cars that were larger than the Fire Dragon car but without any protective facilities. The long bamboo tubes were raised in front of the fire cabinet, like elegant swans.
"The whole team, ten cars in a row, aim at the city gate!" Ren Wu's eyes swept quickly over the faces of his brothers, then jumped onto a fire dragon car and waved the red flag to his middle army.
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Ren Wu took a deep breath, then pointed the red flag at the east gate of Talas, "Everyone has it, line up, ten cars in a row, aiming at the east gate of Talas and the city walls on both sides of the east gate, and spitting fire in turn until the harsh fire is exhausted!"
"No!" The brothers standing in the first row agreed and pushed the Fire Dragon Car to rush to the city gate. Ten yellow and black liquid columns were sprayed out from a distance of fifteen steps.
The liquid column fell on the fire, and the flames on the fire immediately rose into the air.
The liquid column fell on the gravel tiles that blocked the city gate. The gravel tiles instantly turned into dry firewood, and clusters of flames rose on the surface.
The liquid pillar fell on the city wall, and the city wall was ignited instantly, and the flames swayed up against the surface of the city wall.
Before the first row of fire dragon cars could squirt the liquid in the car, the entire east gate and the city walls within five feet of the two sides of the east gate had turned into a huge fireball.
The first row of fire dragons blew the liquid in the car and quickly retreated. The second row of fire dragons went up to fill up and continued to spray.
The second row of fire dragon cars was sprayed and the position was given out. The third row of fire dragon cars stepped forward to relay.
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The wreckage of the enemy building at the top of the city gate was quickly swept into flames, and the broken stairs, beams, rafters, as well as the sluices, nails and other objects placed in the wide area all turned into dry firewood to help burn.
However, Ren Wu refused to give up. As if he had a grudge against the city gate of Talas, he commanded the fire dragon chariot, team after team, and sprayed the storm oil that had been simply refined and added with materials onto the "fireball", making the fire ball bigger and bigger and the flames surged higher and higher.
Round after round.
All the fire dragon cars have been sprayed, and the fire cabinet cars have stepped forward and continue to make up for the seats.
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There is no need for a stone casting cart to throw gunpowder bullets to protect it, and there is no need for thick smoke. Ren Wu commands the fire cabinet cart, feeling drunk. The turbulent oil columns rise and fall, and the red flame elves dance on the top of the city.
In the south wall, the north wall, and in the city of Talas, countless defenders screamed and tried to rush to the city wall and horse face near the east gate to prevent the Tang army from continuing to spray the "magic water". However, before they could reach the destination, they were burned by the flames and had to stagger back.
On the east side of Talas City, a city wall of twenty steps long was burned red by flames. The closer it was to the city gate, the brighter the red became.
The entire city gate had already turned into a huge stove, and red light shone from outside the inside and outside the island. Near the city gate, the city wall, which was obviously built with rammed earth, began to melt. From top to bottom, red liquid kept falling, and wherever it fell, Mars splashed everywhere.
Outside the city gate, there are more Mars and thicker.
Countless red Mars, along the east wind, swayed into the city, landing on the defenders, burning the soldiers of the defenders, leaping with their heads in their arms. They fell on the backs of the war horses, making the war horses hiding loudly and mournfully. On the nearby roof, the thatched smoke boiled. Soon, a ball of bright flames jumped up again!
Chapter completed!