The turbulent oil tank is most suitable for combating narrow spaces, and is also convenient to use and easy to make.

The night lighting of the city households is inseparable from candles and tinder oil, and all kinds of oil are not cheap; most people use small cans or jars, including ceramic or porcelain, as oil bottles, with narrow openings.

The turbulent oil tank is a pottery jar collected on site, which contains about half or one-third of the flammable pressed oil, and hold the cloth at the mouth of the bottle; the oil naturally impregnates the cloth. When using it, use the fire to fold it.

Light the rag, throw it to the enemy soldiers and throw it under their feet.

In this way, two large barrels of tincture oil can make hundreds of tincture oil tanks, which not only saves tincture oil, but also has a more accurate range of fire attack. You don’t have to worry about the spread of the fire and will accidentally damage the formation. At the same time, the throwing distance of the tincture oil tank is also far away.

Directly pour the turmeric oil into it.

Xu Huai ordered a fire attack, and forty guards divided into two teams, several of whom acted as throwers, and others formed a formation to cover them, and advanced from the narrow passage reserved above the city wall to both ends.

When the turbulent oil tank is ignited, throw it accurately at the enemy; if one is not enough, throw it again; if two are not enough, throw it again; if one is half a pound of oil and one turbulent oil tank, the pipe is enough.

If the enemy soldiers hold a heavy shield with a large area of ​​protection, they will be smashed into the turbulent oil tank on the shield. As long as the body is not poured with turbulent oil, they will not be too panic for a while; but most enemy soldiers are especially

It was the elite Red Hu who was fighting in the horse and the crossbowman, watching the turbulent oil tanks throwing at their feet. If they cannot be accurately picked up and blocked with shields, they cannot avoid splashing turbulent oil in the narrow and crowded space.

Clusters of fire will be ignited instantly, and anyone else will be in a hurry to put out the fire.

However, as the tincture oil tanks continue to be thrown, the tincture oil is poured, and the fire spreads, and the enemy soldiers will turn into fire people in the blink of an eye.

The enemy soldiers must react quickly, jump off the two-meter-high city wall, and have a chance to survive. At this time, the defenders only need to use heavy shields to suppress the enemy soldiers. The crossbowman in the rear took advantage of the chaos and continued to output.

The enemy soldiers between the two horse-faced battle sheds will be cleaned up soon, and then advance to the next battle shed.

The city walls on both sides of the north city tower seem to be more than a thousand steps long, but between every two horse-faced walls of the Huaichuan city wall (also known as piers, it protrudes from the city wall like the city tower. In addition to strengthening the strength of the city wall structure, it also has

Eliminate dead corners of the city wall to facilitate cross-bowmen to shoot the enemy attached to the city, and build a battle shed and enemy tower on the pier, which is an important defense node of the city wall). Apart one hundred and fifty steps apart, there are only six walls on the one side of the north city.

The pier battle shed, a corner tower, is guarded by the defenders to resist the attack of the enemy soldiers.

Although the personal guards around Xu Huai were dispatched in small numbers, there were only more than twenty soldiers in a team, and it was difficult to pass quickly in the city wall full of obstacles. However, the fire attack was so sharp and neat that dozens of enemy soldiers who had cleared a section of the city wall.

, which naturally greatly encouraged the morale of other guards on the pier.

Zhong Changqing and Moli suddenly saw that nearly two hundred generals and soldiers were killed and injured in the fourth section of the city wall. They had to order the soldiers in other sections of the city wall to temporarily withdraw and adjust their deployment, and replace them with the

The big shield climbs the city to fight.

Xu Huai used fire attack to slow down the pace of the enemy's attack. The defending generals won a chance to breathe, and his morale was also cheered up. He found that the enemy did not have heavy siege equipment, and dozens or even hundreds of people were calm and simply guarding the pier.

, The corner tower is not difficult.

No matter how strong the enemy is, it cannot launch a fierce attack before the city walls full of obstacles and extremely narrow attack passages.

In comparison, the enemy hastily attacked the city wall, and the most core shading device is the shield.

The defenders not only have larger defense areas, but also heavier shield vehicles, iron chariots and other combat equipment that suppress the enemy's attack, but also have sheds and eaves to cover them. They are not afraid of enemy's shooting, and occupy the pier and battle shed. Crossbowman crosses the archer from the flanks.

What else can the defenders keep calm?

The fish belly turned white in the east, and under the dark morning light, the mist was spreading over the rivers such as Rushui and Huai River. Several warships appeared and disappeared, like arrows leaving the strings, heading towards the Pier of Huaichuan South City .

The scouts on the north bank saw this scene and blew a loud whistle before galloping north.

When he learned that the reinforcements of Chushan had arrived, Zhong Changqing suddenly looked at Moli and said, "Then General Yan, it's meaningless to fight again!"

Mo Li suddenly guessed that there would not be too many reinforcements from the first batch of Chushan who rushed over to help, but the North City was still under the control of the defenders and had no hope of occupying the North City Wall in a short period of time.

Although the gap has been opened between the east and west cities, the key nodes of the city tower and corner tower have not been captured, and there has been no smooth passage to enter Huaichuan City.

At this time, if people were sent to cross the wall, if a city tower could not be captured after one or two hours, the soldiers entering the city might be wiped out by more and more Chushan reinforcements.

Although he was unwilling to give up, Molihu nodded to Zhong Changqing, indicating that he could withdraw his troops and retreat.

For the defenders, the casualties in the battle of defending the city were tragic. More than 800 people were killed in one night, and countless injured people were even more. However, when the enemy saw the simple equipment and thousands of corpses abandoned the city, He retreated north in a hurry, and thunderous cheers erupted from the city.

At this time, the fire that had burned in the city in the middle of the night gradually extinguished.

Although most of Huaichuan City was destroyed by fire, there were shocking burning ruins everywhere, and collapsed sheds everywhere. Overnight, more people became homeless refugees, but Huaichuan City was defended after all.

In the eyes of countless people, there are both concerns about the future and relief from the danger.

Of course, the city was also quite heavy, with burnt corpses being brought out from the fire.

Meng Jie, Xu Kang and others finally understood at this time. Xu Huai said that there were still six or seven hundred ambushers north of Huaichuan, which was purely a lie, but this was no longer important.

He was forced to stay at the North City Tower for half a night, and witnessed the extremely cruel offensive and defensive battles with fear. This was an experience they had never seen in their lives. Only then did they know that they could tell the truth after reading a few military books in the past, and thought that they could tell a few words of "attacking the heart". It is ridiculous to be the best, and to be the best of one's own military service.

Xu Xin'an led the first batch of reinforcements into the city and only had one battalion of troops. After receiving the message in the middle of the night, Xu Xin'an urgently mobilized all the elites near the inspector's yamen, and took eight oar-mounted and fasted two hundred miles of water. Come from the mouth of Shixi River.

The soldiers took turns to take oars and rushed to Huaichuan City, and were exhausted. After entering the city, they took over the defense of the east and west cities, and replaced the defenders with heavy casualties to go down to the city to rest.

In the early stage of Chushan, hundreds of boats were collected, mostly small wooden boats, and very few could transform into qualified warships. In the Jishi period, except for more than a thousand infantrymen who continued to arrive in Huaichuan from Luoshan, they went from Zhouqiao, Xinyang and other places. The two thousand cavalrymen who gathered and advanced westward through Luoshan arrived at the pier on the south bank of the Huai River before noon.

Xu Huai ordered all the war horses and a thousand generals to garrison outside the south bank, and only one thousand soldiers crossed the river and entered Huaichuan City.

Huaichuan City has three thousand elite Chu Mountains and more than two thousand defenders. Xu Huai is not afraid of the enemy soldiers daring to attack in a hurry in a short period of time; the most important thing to do next is to bring the people in the city to Huai River immediately.

Evacuated on the south bank.

It is not enough to just evacuate the people in Huaichuan to the south. Huangchuan, Guangshan and other places also need to immediately evacuate the people to Jinghu, south of Jiuliguan.

Huaichuan is already destroyed, most of the houses in the city were burned down by fire, and there is no place for 100,000 people to live in. The enemy will make a comeback at any time. They will immediately organize people to cross Henan and retreat. Mengjie and Xu Kang can understand, but Huangchuan and Guangshan

Located south of the Huai River, all the people need to be evacuated to Jinghu North Road immediately. They hesitated and asked, "Do you need to report to Xiangyang first?"

When he returned to the Xingyuan Yatang, Xu Huai was not allowed to rest, but he was energetic and could even hold on for several nights. At this time, he was still energetic and arranged many things.

"Of course, you have to ask Xiangyang to report to you before you can move. At this time, you are just preparing urgently." Seeing Meng Jie, Xu Kang was confused. Xu Huai sighed after sitting in a few cases and explained, "The casualties of Xuanwei Army were too tragic.

, defending Huaichuan City cannot truly stabilize the people's hearts and morale in Guangzhou south of Huaichuan. There is no threat to the right wing. Ge Yu led his troops and horses to safely withdraw from Ruyin through the Yingshui River. The best outcome is that,

Next, Yue Hailou will send troops to the city of Chushan without any scruples. Chushan really has no ability to defend the two lines. All the remaining soldiers on Huaichuan, Huangchuan and Guangshan can only retreat to Qianli Pass to ensure that this winter,

The soldiers could not penetrate Jinghu North Road and hindered people's livelihood."

Liu Xian and Fu Qian acted rashly, resulting in the destruction of the main force of the Xuanwei army. This attack on the barely formed Huaihang defense line was much worse than injury.

The Chu army in Bianliang north of the Huai River, the troops of Yanji surrendered to the outer army, and the Pingyan army of Chihu East Road Pingyan was 160,000 to 170,000 troops, and they were all fully activated at this moment.

Xu Huai even needs to consider the situation that Pinglu, Gongxian will not defend, or the southern army in Chihu West Road Town slows down the attack on Pinglu, Gongxian, and transfer more troops to the southern line. The situation that will be faced throughout the winter is so bad.

, much more severe than expected.

The only option is to give up the eastern section of the Huai Shang defense line and gather all the limited troops to Jiuli Pass. It is inevitable that Luoshan and other cities will also give up, gathering more troops to defend Xinyang, which is easier to defend and difficult to attack.

If we can repel the enemy this time, it is because the enemy is too hasty and there is no preparation.

There is no threat north of Huaichuan. Yuehailou can lead 50,000 or 60,000 troops to advance to Qingyiling, Shimenling and Chushan New City with the cooperation of the elite cavalry of Chihu.

It is well prepared, either directly transporting combat equipment from Chenzhou and other places, or driving a large number of captured craftsmen to use local materials to build trench machines, shield chariots and other combat equipment; it is time-consuming, and with the cooperation of the Red Hu cavalry, it is also possible.

Before the city, form a heavily defended camp and then attack the city calmly.
Chapter completed!