"No!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head: "Too heavy stone bullets will damage the elastic cord. The Baekje people's wall is very thick. We don't have enough time to ask the gunner to raise the angle of the crossbow. We can shoot the inside houses!"
Following Wang Wenzuo's order, the artillerymen of the Tang Army began to adjust the elevation angle of the ballistae. The stone bullets passed over the wall and landed in the Chaichuan Barrier. Soon, bursts of exclamations and wails came from the barrier from time to time. Obviously, the Tang Army's artillery fire stopped. As a result, the houses inside the fence have been hit.
"It's a pity that you can't set fire. If you put kerosene in a clay pot and shoot it in, tsk tsk, you can win without using a knife or a shot!" Shen Faseng shook his head regretfully.
"The food in there has also been burned!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "The terrain of this village is very good, and there is enough food in stock. If possible, I hope to occupy it completely! Dharma monk, you lead the troops forward and wait. I give the order!"
"The Tang Dynasty is moving!" the sentry shouted from the watchtower. Miao Fu hurriedly climbed up the wall, stuck half of his head out and looked out. Sure enough, the enemy was out. The ones at the front were the long flags, the ones behind were the crossbowmen and the spear team, and the ones at the back were carrying the long ladders and bundles of firewood. of miscellaneous soldiers. He resisted the urge to give the order to go up the wall. After the few rounds of shelling just now, the wall near the west gate had been smashed by the Tang Dynasty's stone bullets like a dog. The shooting tower, the female wall, the long sign, etc. It has been swept away, and the guards are standing on it without any cover. Now if anyone goes up, it is just a matter of death. Instead of doing this, it is better to wait for the Tang people to get closer, suddenly open the gate of the village and rush out, killing both sides, and the Tang people's terrible weapons that can fire stone bullets will be useless. He made up his mind and ordered two hundred selected forwards to hide behind the gate of the village and wait for orders.
But to Miao Fu's surprise, the Tang people did not rush directly to climb the city. Instead, they stopped when they were about a stone's throw away from the city wall, put up a long sign, and then the carts moved forward again. After moving for a while, they reconnected in series. From this distance, Miao Fu could clearly see the machines that fired stone bullets. They were thick in front and narrow in the back. There were baffles to block the arrows. The soldiers were playing with them behind, and they didn't know what they were doing. What.
"Replace with oil bombs and bombard the enemy's gate!" Cui Hongdu's voice was like muffled thunder, echoing above the heads of the soldiers. As the trigger was slapped away, the torsion spring pulled the crossbow arm, and the clay pots filled with grease were ejected one after another, fiercely. It hit the west door of Chaichuan Gate, and then the rocket fell, and the flames jumped up, licking the oak door. There were shouts both inside and outside the wall, but what was outside was cheers, while what was inside was despair. In the following time, the defenders of Chaichuan Gate showed amazing courage and self-sacrifice. Men, women, even children and the elderly rushed to the wall, braving the scorching heat and choking smoke, splashing water and The sand and soil tried to extinguish the fire, but the Tang army's arrows and stone bullets fell like raindrops, taking away lives one after another.
Click.
Miao Fu almost thought he heard wrongly. He turned his head and held his breath. After a while, he heard the second and third sounds from the noise around him. At this time, he was already sure that the sturdy iron-clad oak door The door was about to crumble, and wood being wood, no matter how hard, could not withstand the licks of flames.
"Come down, come down from the wall! The door is about to collapse!" He shouted loudly: "Push the cart over and block the door. We will fight with the Tang people in the street!"
Just as Miao Fu expected, about half a cup of tea later, the oak door collapsed in the flames, splashing sparks all over the sky. At this time, the Baekje people had already pushed several carts, overturned them, and piled a lot of miscellaneous furniture on top to form a barricade. The young men armed with swords, spears, bows and crossbows hid behind the barricade, and the old, weak, women and children climbed up Near the roof, pick up the masonry tiles. Miao Fu also poured fuel into the granary. Once the army was defeated, he asked his wife to light it on fire, and both the jade and the stone were destroyed. Everyone knows that victory or defeat has been decided, and the only thing they can do is to make the winner pay the maximum price.
Before I knew it, it started snowing again. The thirsty soldiers stretched out their hands to catch the snowflakes and licked the snow on their hands. The flames on the collapsed gate gradually extinguished, leaving only wisps of smoke. Miao Fu couldn't help but secretly thought that if the snow could have fallen two quarters of an hour earlier, the Tang people's fire attack plan would have been in vain. Could it be that the Bodhisattva is also on the side of the Tang people this time?
Just when Miao Fu was thinking wildly, a limping man walked out of the gate, and then there was a unique creaking sound of a bow string tightening in his ears. Before Miao Fu could give the order, the man spoke in Baekje dialect. Shout: "Don't shoot your arrows, I am Boliu!"
"You're okay, I thought you were dead!" Seeing that the deputy general was safe and sound, Miao Fu's face didn't look very good.
"You can't blame me!" The deputy general heard Miao Fu's unkind tone and hurriedly explained: "My horse was shot to death at the beginning. I was pressed to the ground by the dead horse and couldn't move at all! Wait until I crawl out from under the horse. Come out, the battle is over!"
"Hmph!" Miao Fu snorted coldly: "Then why did the Tang people let you come back? To persuade you to surrender?"
"General, there is no point in continuing the fight!" The deputy general raised his voice so that everyone around him could hear clearly: "The Tang people made a condition: as long as we put down our weapons and hand over the Chaichuan Gate completely, our lives will be guaranteed. If we want to leave, everyone can take self-defense weapons, warm clothing, and five days of food rations!"
The faces of the Baekje people around them all showed doubts. The demands given by the Tang people were too generous and did not seem to be true. Generally speaking, the final result of this kind of siege was to kill all the young and strong, leaving the women, children, old and weak as slaves. It was lucky to save one's life. As for leaving and carrying weapons and food rations, it was even more unbelievable. No matter how you looked at it, it felt like a trap by the Tang people.
"Don't say anything!" Miao Fu stopped the others' questions and asked directly: "What do people in the Tang Dynasty mean by self-defense weapons?"
"It's just swords and shields, but the long soldiers such as crossbows, armor, spears and spears must be handed over!"
"This is a trap by the Tang people!" someone shouted sternly: "They want to lure us out of the city gate and then kill us all in the wilderness. Without crossbows, spears, or armor, we have no choice but to let the Tang people slaughter us!"
"right!"
"Well said!"
"Rather than just waiting to die, it's better to fight to the death here."
"Feiliu, you, a lackey of the Tang Dynasty, came to deceive us!"
"Yes, kill this lackey!"
Facing the arms and curses stretched out from all around, Feiliu couldn't help but subconsciously took a step towards Miao Fu and shouted loudly: "I am not a lackey of the Tang people, I just help them carry the message. As for whether you accept it or not, it is up to you." That’s the thing; besides, the Tang people have scorpion crossbows, even if we hold on here, we’re just going to die!”
