Dong Jishu turned around and asked, "Has the iron juice boiled?" His soldier captain Dong Hao immediately replied, "Master, it has already boiled. The crucible is red."
"Okay, use a steel spoon to pour it down on me immediately." Dong Jishu gritted his teeth and said, "I can't do anything to you even if you are wearing a quilt. It's a joke." The rows of ladders under the city leaned against the wall again, and boomed There was a rumble.
The iron hook at the top of the ladder firmly hooked the wall tiles the moment the ladder came up. The person below shook it vigorously and did not move at all.
"Brothers, come up, the ladder is secure," shouted the rebels below. Countless rebels, holding steel knives in their mouths and using their hands together, quickly climbed up the city wall.
Niu Decai was a small flag. He put the colorful cotton quilt he had snatched over his head and said to himself, "Now that you are so naughty, you are going to break the excrement juice and throw the white ash jar. I am protected by the quilt."
He had just climbed halfway up the ladder when three arrows hit the quilt, but the five thick quilts directly blocked the arrows and did not penetrate completely at all.
Cotton in the Ming Dynasty was not cheap. It takes decades for ordinary people to make a quilt. Even if it is old, it will be flattened, not fluffy, and no longer as warm as new. You also need to find someone to stretch the cotton and carefully re-stitch it. Once again, it can be used for decades more.
Niu Decai used mattresses, and the cotton was already half as hard as cotton armor. Five mattresses directly offset the power of the bow and arrow.
He was overjoyed when he saw that the bow and arrow had not penetrated. He immediately speeded up, climbed up to the top of the city and jumped in through the crenel.
In this way, he can escape the dangerous situation of being flanked by walls of horses on both sides. However, he had just climbed three-quarters of the way when a burst of hot air hit his face.
He had never been exposed to anything so hot. He saw from the gap in the cup, countless dots of golden yellow and golden red liquid spilled down.
In the blink of an eye, it seemed like a blazing rain fell on the outside of this section of the city wall. A dozen drops of iron juice fell on his quilt.
The quilt blew, and a raging flame ignited. Almost instantly, it burned violently.
He panicked, and the quilt wrapped in him burned all day long, turning him into a burning man. At this time, he wanted to throw away the quilt, but it was too late. His whole body was on fire and burned into a torch. He screamed and fell off the ladder.
On the ladder next to him, another rebel who was climbing up was splashed with iron juice on the back of his hand. He watched as the red iron juice, even though it was only a drop the size of a broad bean, melted away the skin and flesh in an instant.
The fat on the back of his hand was ignited, and the iron liquid quickly cooled and turned black, but in the blink of an eye, the back of his hand was burned through.
He could no longer hold on to the ladder and fell down screaming. With a bang, it hit the body of the person who was still rolling on the ground and was burned by fecal juice and lime.
As the iron juice continued to be thrown, the people rolling on the ground were also drenched in iron juice, and howled even more miserably.
The wooden ladders quickly caught fire under the spray of iron juice. The high temperature directly ignited the wood, and each ladder was burned into a torch along the city wall.
The rebels outside the city looked with pale faces at the Tongzhou city wall that was burning on all sides. Everyone was trembling. They knew that the person commanding the defense of the city was Dong Jishu, a veteran from Xuanfu Town, but they didn't know that this old man was so ruthless.
Seeing that morale has dropped to the bottom, those rebels are fighting with the wind and their strength.
Once the situation is unfavorable, these people will immediately run away without strict organization and discipline. Huang Tengyuan and the camp leaders around him ordered a retreat.
There can be no more fighting today, no matter how much they encourage, these soldiers will not listen to them.
Before, these people rushed up without fear of death, just to get permission to rob the city first. This is their mutually agreed upon rule.
The first to climb is the first to break the formation. Receive the reward, the first share of the spoils. They can pick first. This is the fundamental reason why they can stay together.
Seeing these people retreating, Dong Jishu breathed a sigh of relief. Today, I managed to survive. As for tomorrow, we have to wait and see what happens tomorrow.
He knew that the emperor did not have many soldiers left. Unless Zhou Yuji is transferred out, what will happen to the capital if Zhou Yuji is transferred out?
The capital camp is now two thousand miles away. Far water cannot quench near thirst. Mobilizing guardsmen did not have any effect.
In the past few days, the emperor had gathered all the surrounding guards. They were mobilized to support the Tongzhou battlefield. But these people are either old men or weak, and there are not many strong men at all.
This alone doesn't even make up half of the troops. All the young people in the guardhouse ran away. There are now many recruitment opportunities in Zunhua, and farmers are also being recruited to colonize the grasslands.
There are many ways out. Who would want to work as a cow or horse for an officer in the guard station during the day, and then have to farm and do farm work for himself in the middle of the night?
Dong Jishu almost cried when these guardsmen arrived at Tongzhou City several times in the past few days. These people are so miserable.
Not to mention the ragged clothes, the swords and guns were all bright red. It's not that it was stained red by killing enemies, but it turned red due to severe rust.
Dong Jishu even doubted whether these swords and spears could penetrate the enemy's body without breaking. Of course, as long as it causes wounds to the enemy, such severe rust will definitely give them tetanus, which is hopeless.
In the past few days, more than a dozen waves of nearby guardsmen have come, and they were basically defeated at the first touch with the rebels. All of them were defeated as soon as they came into contact without much fighting.
Scattered away. These soldiers are not good at fighting, but they are good at running away. They scatter in all directions, leaving you wondering which one to pursue.
Dong Jishu gasped while holding his sword. In the past few days, the rebels rushed up the city wall several times, and were beaten down several times.
He was also very tired. At this time, a sound that seemed to be drumming suddenly came from the distance. It was vague at first.
Can't hear clearly. But, as time passes, it becomes clearer and clearer.
"Reinforcements, reinforcements are coming." Dong Jishu shouted excitedly. Although he didn't know which army was coming.
He couldn't think of any decent reinforcements around. As the rhinoceros came with agitation, on the distant horizon, a large army gradually approached.
In the middle is a long row of carriages. These carriages are four-wheeled heavy carriages dragged by two horses.
In the past two years, such four-wheeled carriages have begun to appear in large numbers in Xuanda and Ji Town. Used to transport goods.
Especially since Yang Fan built the railway, it has been divided into more than fifty sections from Dagukou to Zhangjiakou, and construction started at the same time.
There were these heavy carriages racing everywhere. Now the people in the north of Ming Dynasty have long been accustomed to it.
Huang Tengyuan's sharp eyes saw that these carriages were all black, but they were obviously not painted black.
He stopped his horse on a high slope and saw the deep ruts behind the carriage. With these carriages so heavy, there was only one possibility.
That is, the walls of these carriages are made of iron. Car camp! This is a car camp. The legendary army in Nanyuan.
Although they have never seen it, they all know the existence of this army. They were originally the soldiers who guarded Qianhu Station trained by Zunhua Dingyuanbo.
Later it was taken away by the emperor.
"Retreat three miles and make way for the battlefield below the city." Huang Tengyuan ordered. They must retreat, otherwise they will be unable to fight this battle under attack from both sides of the city wall and the car camp.
