When attacking a city, the attacker needs several times or even ten times the strength of the defender to be confident.
Under the premise of having an absolute advantage in military strength, Utu still has two points of confidence.
One is due to its fierceness, and the other is the hot air balloon.
If there is no such thing as a hot air balloon, then the most ideal strategy is to dispatch a small group to lure the enemy out of the city to search for the enemy.
But with the hot air balloon, the horizons of both sides have been greatly broadened, so this strategy of luring the enemy will not be effective.
The biggest remaining reliance is to use the hot air balloons from above to attack and harass the defenders on the city wall.
Hot air balloons can be controlled, but after all, they cannot be controlled like a carriage or horse. The attacker obviously has more advantages than the defender.
The huge flag below the Jin Army kept waving, and it was obvious that a new set of flags had been established on the way.
When the Jin Jun in the sky saw the flag, he immediately took action and threw out all the things under him.
The rattan basket they were riding in contained a large number of fire oil jars and sacks filled with gravel.
The signal at the moment was to inform them to attack as soon as possible.
After throwing them out, they all returned to the ship and continued loading supplies to prepare for the next round of attack.
The 'fireball' in the sky fell rapidly with black smoke, accompanied by countless life-threatening gravels on both sides.
In a flash of thought, they had been smashed everywhere, some on the street, some on the houses, and a small number of fire oil cans fell smoothly on the city wall.
However, it was still caught by the planks prepared by the defenders in advance.
The fire that did not have time to spread in the future was extinguished with handfuls of dry ash. If a board was damaged, another piece of wood was covered in time.
Although they were dealt with in a timely manner, the officers and soldiers guarding the city still felt uneasy. After all, the crackling noise above their heads never stopped.
Huge boulders were flying in front of them. The opponent's infantry held shields and carried ladders and rushed to the city wall. At the same time, arrows were fired upwards, trying to suppress the attack at the top of the city with firepower.
On the battlefield, there were shouts of curses and shouts of killing!
Among the Jin Army infantry soldiers below, soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and fell down, but they still moved forward with firm steps.
Soldiers shot by arrows occasionally began to fall from the top of the wall.
"Fire the arrows!! Fire the arrows!! Get ready, the ladder is coming over soon, don't give them a chance!!"
"Thunder rocks and rolling wood, hot oil and gold juice will hit me again at my command!!"
While he was talking, the Jin Army's ladder had arrived. With the combined efforts of dozens or hundreds of people, the long ladder suddenly fell towards the city wall!
The iron barb of the ladder hooked hard on the battlements of the city wall.
Although the city wall has not yet been touched below, there are already a lot of casualties, corpses shot by arrows are everywhere, and soldiers are everywhere wailing and writhing.
Patches of blood have begun to spread across the land...
The soldiers at the top of the city were still trying their best to shoot arrows, shooting arrow after arrow straight down without even looking.
However, it still failed to stop the arrival of the ladders, and rows of ladders began to gradually build up the city wall.
Seeing this scene, the general who defended the city no longer hesitated and immediately shouted: "Pour out the kerosene and burn the ladder!!"
"The rest of them will hit me hard! No one is allowed to climb the top of the city!!"
The soldiers who were ordered took out the cans of kerosene they had prepared, poured them down the ladder, and then ignited them with torches.
The upper half of this long ladder instantly ignited with a fire dragon and turned into a fire ladder.
The Jin soldier who went up at the head suffered the most misfortune, with dripping kerosene pouring on his body and being ignited by the flames next to the ladder. His whole body was immediately burned to death, and he fell down from the ladder wailing.
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 sky.
People keep falling from the ladder to the bottom, and if they are lucky, they will die directly in the west.
If he didn't fall on someone else's body, he could still breathe, but the fire oil under the city was also burning.
Falling from the fire, suffering from broken bones, and then back into the fire!
The soldier still on the ladder was not much better. The upper part was burning, and the smoke below was evaporating with the high temperature and was consuming oxygen.
The defenders kept smashing down thundering rocks and rolling logs, knocking down a bunch of them one by one. If they were lucky, they could break a ladder.
Injured ladders naturally have very poor weighing ability and often fall down as soon as they go up.
Stones, wood and other hard objects are smashed down by gravity. Although the power is amazing, the thing that scares the most is not the hard ones, but the soft ones.
Battle of city walls.
At this time, the soldiers would always set up an iron pot on the city wall and boil a pot of golden juice that smelled like shit.
There is no formula for golden juice. Apart from dung soup, what and how much to put in other things depends on the soldier's personal preference. Everyone is different.
The golden juice at Chenggao Gate is made by mixing oil and water together.
The golden juice with oil and water is like rice noodles that cross the bridge. It can use the thick oil layer to keep heat for a long time.
On the other hand, the smell is not easily leaked, so as not to affect one's own morale too much.
Schematic diagram of oil layer insulation for rice noodle crossing bridge
