NCCnovel Chapter 103 Defeat the enemy.
Chapter 103 Defeat the enemy.
The other general did not understand Ye Kun's words. He only knew that Ye Kun was provoking him. He became furious and urged his troops to attack.
The armored troops were in the front, holding their shields high, charging towards the city gate.
Shangguan Jifu immediately organized a battle and defended the city gate.
Ye Kun took a look and found that Shangguan Jifu was well versed in military tactics and had strict guarding.
Many large iron pots were placed on the top of the city walls, and tung oil was boiled in the blazing flames, which were made into torches and thrown down to stop the enemy.
The leather armored soldiers were afraid of fire and did not dare to get too close to Shangguan Jifu's fire attack.
The armored army is not very afraid of fire, but it is afraid of stones.
Using catapults to throw stones down from the top of the city wall might happen to kill a few enemy soldiers.
Bows and crossbows were used as supplementary weapons to shoot at the enemy's face.
After a 30-minute melee, the enemy was unable to capture the city and had to slowly retreat with a dozen dead and wounded comrades.
But there were too many arrows on the opposite side, and several soldiers on Shangguan Jifu's side were shot dead.
Shangguan Jifu sighed: "Brother Dalang, you saw it, we fought like this for two months."
"Saw."
Ye Kun nodded and said, "Let the soldiers take me to check the weapons and order all the craftsmen in the army to obey my command."
Shangguan Jifu nodded and asked his personal soldiers to take Ye Kun to check the armaments and city defense equipment.
Ye Kun checked it and began to assemble the catapult.
The catapult used this time was not the junk used in the attack on Xiping Mountain, but a high-tech weapon equipped with a noose.
The accuracy, range and rate of fire have all been greatly improved.
A few days ago, Ye Kun asked Wang Meng to send the specific drawings of the accessories, and they were immediately produced. Now we have more than a dozen frames.
There were also some small parts that Ye Kun brought from Pingye County.
After assembling three stone-throwing machines, Ye Kun trained the operators overnight.
The next morning, Ye Kun's large army arrived and all the supplies were delivered.
Ye Kun was cheered up and stepped up the production of catapults. A total of twenty were assembled and all were transported to the south city wall for installation.
It cannot be placed on the top of the city wall, so it can only be set up inside the city.
With a range of 300 meters, it can also exert great power within the city.
The double bows with double arrows were also modified by Ye Kun into double bows with single arrows, and equipped with heavy arrows, they can penetrate armor and kill enemies within two hundred meters.
Within a hundred meters, you can penetrate the opponent!
Shangguan Jifu originally had forty double-bow crossbows.
Ye Kun brought thirty sets, a total of seventy sets, all on the top of the city wall.
Ye Kun climbed up the tower and told Shangguan Jifu:
"From now on, every half hour, beat the drums to feint an attack, provoke the enemy, and make them afraid to rest, so that the whole army will go into battle!"
Shangguan Jifu clasped his fists, opened the city gate, and personally led his troops to challenge the enemy.
As expected, the other side lost their patience. The iron-armored and leather-armored troops marched out, formed a square formation, and slowly approached.
Shangguan Jifu withdrew and waited to see what Ye Kun would do.
Ye Kun shouted: "Don't shoot arrows, defend the city gate and wait for the enemy to approach!"
The double-bow crossbow can only exert its power when the enemy is within range.
The opponent's general Qu Biwulian personally led the battle, and five thousand warriors swarmed over to attack.
Ye Kun held his troops still, waiting for the enemy to come within a hundred meters, then waved his hand and gave the order: "Strong crossbows, draw your bows!"
Whoosh whoosh!
Seventy powerful crossbows fired at the same time, and heavy arrows shot into the enemy formation, causing an immediate wailing.
The power of double bows and single arrows increased by nearly double, and the opponent's iron and leather armor could not block it.
Even a shield can't stop it.
Shangguan Jifu was overjoyed: "Brother Dalang, you really didn't let me down!"
"Just appetizers."
Ye Kun waved his hand and ordered the crossbowmen: "Keep shooting, don't stop!"
It’s a pity that seventy powerful crossbows are too few and the firing rate is not high enough.
After the second round of firing from the powerful crossbows, the enemy's vanguard had already reached the city.
The armored troops carried large logs and began to knock on the door.
Ye Kun waved the red flag and shouted at the catapults in the city: "Catapults, fire!"
Woo, woo!
Thirty catapults, firing together.
On the bucket of each stone-throwing cart are ten small jars of quicklime.
The jars are square and tall, similar to a square thermos cup.
That was the jar that Ye Kun used to package bean paste. It was designed with use on the battlefield in mind.
Three hundred jars of lime flew out of the city at once, crossed the city wall and fell into the enemy camp.
Suddenly, white ash rose up.
Shangguan Jifu frowned and shouted, "Brother Dalang, what is this thing? Is it useful?"
"It works, let the jar fly for a while longer!"
Ye Kun was confident.
The Dading Kingdom also had lime, which was made by burning shells. It was called mirage ash and could be used to build houses, but it was not burn-causing.
Moreover, this kind of mirage ash is exclusively used by princes and nobles and is not available to ordinary people.
What Ye Kun made was standard quicklime, which could burn people's eyes and skin.
Shangguan Jifu didn't believe it and was busy directing his men to defend the city, throwing stones and pouring kerosene down.
A minute later, the quicklime took effect and chaos broke out deep inside the enemy camp.
The barbarians were blinded by quicklime. They rubbed their eyes with their hands, but the more they rubbed, the more painful it became. They screamed and cried out.
Ye Kun's second round of quicklime was issued one after another.
Shangguan Jifu took a look and laughed, "Brother Dalang, what kind of poison did you put in there? It seems to be working!"
It's useless. Would I go through so much trouble to bring it here?
Ye Kun glared at Shangguan Jifu and shouted to the city: "Pause for lime, five cars on the left, fire rockets! The rest, all fire strong liquor bombs!"
The so-called fire bomb is alcohol.
Ye Kun didn't have time to make a Molotov cocktail, so he had to use the catapult on one side to shoot out the small jar of alcohol, and the catapult on the other side to shoot out the fire.
The fire was the same as that used in the attack on Xiping Mountain. Small stones were wrapped in sackcloth, ignited, and shot into the enemy's formation with a catapult.
Separating the fire and alcohol is also for safety reasons. Otherwise, if the alcohol is ignited during the operation, you may kill yourself instead of the enemy!
Bang bang bang!
Small bottles of alcohol and fire kept falling into the enemy's camp.
The cans fell into the enemy's ranks and exploded, splashing alcohol everywhere.
When it encounters a little flame, a blue flame immediately rises.
The barbarians screamed, dropped their weapons, jumped around, and hurriedly tried to take off their armor.
But it is not easy to take off the armor in a hurry.
If alcohol flows into the gaps in the armor, it will ignite the underwear.
The feeling of being roasted by the flames immediately destroyed the enemy's will. Many soldiers dared not move forward and turned around to retreat.
"Keep firing the liquor bombs!"
Ye Kun shouted and ordered Shangguan Jifu: "Prepare to open the city gates and pursue the victory!"
Shangguan Jifu also saw the opportunity and made a prompt decision: "Open the city gates and follow me to chase and kill the enemy!"
The city gates are wide open.
Shangguan Jifu led two hundred armored soldiers and five hundred infantrymen, wielding weapons and charging out.
The enemy had already begun to collapse completely, and was now being hunted down, trampling on each other, with countless casualties.
Ye Kun shouted to the people in the city: "Stop the catapults. No more catapults are allowed. Stop immediately! All soldiers in the city, get out!"
The melee has begun. If we set off more firecrackers, our own people will be burned to death.
Now, to pursue the victory, we must mobilize all our forces to kill and crush them.
Yan Liuhai, Wang Bao and others, each led their subordinates and rushed out shouting.
The army in Hirano Prefecture actually lacks combat experience.
Most of them were newly recruited, and some were new recruits who had only been in the barracks for a few days.
But now that we have won the battle, it is still easy to pursue the victory.
The enemy's defeat was like a landslide and they retreated like a tide.
Qu Biwulian, who was sitting on the elephant's back, was also frightened and turned around and ran away.
Shangguan Jifu and Yan Liuhai led the troops and killed countless enemy troops.
The enemy's heavily armored soldiers fell to the ground, with gaps in their armor, making it easy for them to be pierced by spears, basically committing suicide.
Countless people were blinded by lime and burned by alcohol.