Volume 1 Chapter 53 The Wall Collapsed

Surrounding the city with fire is a method that is only feasible in theory. When it comes to practice, there are too many factors to take into account.

As a result, Qin Su almost killed everyone. Fortunately, the decision was made in time, otherwise they would have been unable to hold on.

After wetting their whole bodies with water, they felt better. A large number of Fiery Sun Army soldiers rushed up to the city wall again, enduring the scorching heat and shooting at the wasteland elephants with powerful crossbows.

The high temperature is fatal to Qin Su and others, and conversely, the wasteland elephants are naturally afraid of it because this is not an ordinary flame, but an oil fire.

Once it is contaminated, it is difficult to extinguish. The oil will continue to spread on the body of the prairie elephant until the oil on the body is completely burned out and then it can be extinguished.

However, in the time it took for the hot oil to burn out, a savannah elephant would have been burned to death.

Because of the splashing properties of oil, the oil fire line under the wall of Mo City spread outward for a distance of ten meters.

These wild elephants were very stupid. When they saw the huge fire ahead, they stopped uncontrollably and were unwilling to move forward.

However, the wild elephants behind were unaware of this and were unable to stop their cars, so they immediately pushed hundreds of wild elephants into the sea of fire.

A large number of screams were heard, all of which were the painful roars of wild elephants.

The wasteland elephants ignited by the oil fire had red eyes and ran around in pain without distinguishing between friend and foe. For a moment, the originally neat and orderly heavy armored troops became a mess.

Because the wild beasts were afraid of fire, none of these wilderness elephants dared to approach the desert city, and the heavily armored troops of tens of thousands of wilderness elephants became a mess.

Qin Su on the city wall laughed loudly when he saw this scene: "Hahaha, I knew this method would work. There is no living thing that is not afraid of fire!"

"Bring all the oil to the city wall for me. Don't let the oil fire go out. Let it keep burning!" Qin Su commanded excitedly. It was obvious that she was very satisfied with the result.

The one hundred powerful crossbows on the city wall were still shooting at the wild elephants in the distance, while the front of the heavy armored troops had already become a mess. A large number of Sand Barbarian warriors and wild elephants were trampled to death, and only a few were burned to death.

Ya Yuan, who was watching the battle from a distance, immediately ordered his troops to retreat when he saw this scene. The heavily armored troops slowly withdrew. The speed at which the savanna elephants fled was even faster than when they attacked before. This made Ya Yuan very angry!

After his subordinates counted the number of heavy armored troops, Ya Yuan was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Tens of thousands of heavily armored troops did not achieve any results in this battle, and nearly eight thousand wilderness elephants died!

A small half of the heavily armored troops died directly, this result was really suffocating.

Ya Yuan stared fiercely at the fire in front of him, gnashing his teeth and saying, "Burn, burn! I want to see how long you can burn!"

The enemy withdrew, so the oil barrels were naturally not lost. However, the fire under Mo City continued to burn for nearly half an hour, and the Lieyang Army on the city wall was replaced batch after batch.

There was no other way. The temperature was too high. Even if we got our whole bodies soaked, it was difficult to hold on for long. We had to keep changing people.

"The entire army should rest here, replenish their strength, and prepare for the next battle!" Qin Su gave an order and jumped off the city wall. His whole body was covered in black, obviously burned by the fire.

Before everyone had time to rest, Ya Yuan sent out his troops again, and this time it was a conventional assault team consisting of one elephant, ten wolves, and a hundred barbarians.

These assault teams did not attack together, but advanced in batches in an irregular manner. However, they had the advantage of large numbers, and it looked quite spectacular.

Qin Su ran up to the city wall as soon as possible and commanded the soldiers to shoot with bows and arrows, while the warriors of the Sand Barbarian Tribe also continued to shoot and kill the soldiers of the Lieyang Army on the wall of Mo City with bows and arrows.

The powerful crossbows on the city walls were specifically aimed at the wild elephants, and they would never let go of any wild elephant that approached the city walls.

However, the number of crossbows was too small, while the number of wasteland elephants was innumerable, and it was impossible to defend against them relying solely on these powerful crossbows.

Qin Su had no choice but to smash the oil barrel against the city wall again and raise a wall of fire for defense.

As a result, the war fell into a stalemate. The two sides fought from noon to midnight, and the outcome was still difficult to determine.

Both sides were blood-thirsty. The more people died, the greater the hatred became. The war would never stop and the killing would just go on endlessly.

Qin Su was exhausted at this time, and her hands were shaking as she drew the bow, but she used all her strength in every arrow, aiming at the eyes of the wasteland elephant, and each arrow always achieved good results.

“Crack~”

Suddenly, a cracking sound was heard. The sound was not loud, but Qin Su still heard it. She looked carefully and took a breath of cold air.

She saw a crack half a finger joint wide appear on the rock of the city wall in front of her, spreading from bottom to top.

Qin Su frowned and looked along the crack, and found that the entire wall of Mo City was covered with such cracks, some thick and some thin, the thickest one was as thick as an adult's arm.

A bad premonition came to her mind, and Qin Su immediately stopped what she was doing and shouted, "All troops retreat, take down the city wall immediately!"

As soon as the commander gave the order, all the soldiers on the city wall were stunned. The Sand Barbarians were clearly still attacking and the war was not over yet. If they went down the city wall now, wouldn't they have to watch the Sand Barbarians break into the city?

Although the soldiers were somewhat confused, they could not disobey military orders, especially after seeing Qin Su jump off the city wall first, they no longer hesitated and evacuated the city wall one by one.

But getting down from the city wall was not enough, Qin Su commanded everyone to run towards the city.

Just when the last soldier had just stepped out of the city wall, there was a loud bang, and the huge city wall more than ten meters high collapsed completely!

"How is it possible? This city wall has never collapsed in the hundreds of years since it was built. How could it collapse this time..."

"The desert elephants of the Sand Barbarians clearly didn't hit us, so how could the city wall collapse?"

"It's over, the Sand Barbarians' army is about to enter the city!"

"The Sand Barbarians will not enter the city!" Qin Su suddenly drew out the Longquan Sword, looked at all the soldiers present, and said loudly: "There are more than two million soldiers in Mo City, and the Sand Barbarians only have more than 200,000. We can drown them all even if we spit!

Soldiers of the three armies, take up your weapons, line up neatly, and follow me out of the city to kill the enemy!"

As long as the marshal is still in command, everyone will not lose their backbone. Although they are a little panicked, they cannot escape. The Sand Barbarians must be killed because behind the Mo City are their families!

Soon, everyone returned to their own troops, and generals from various units came to Qin Su, waiting for orders.

Qin Su glanced at all the generals, then took out a large blood-red flag embroidered with a sun pattern, and said loudly: "Generals, who is willing to carry this vanguard flag and be the vanguard general of the three armies!"

The entire venue fell into silence, and none of the hundreds of generals spoke.

The vanguard general, to put it bluntly, is a general who is seeking death.

The Sand Barbarians are so brutal and cruel that as the vanguard, they will definitely be the first targets to be attacked. In such a long war, even if they are lucky enough to survive for a short period of time, they will definitely die on the spot after fighting to the end.

This is an official who is sending himself to his death, and there is no benefit in doing it, so naturally no one will agree to it.

Qin Su felt very uncomfortable at this moment. Her prestige was not enough. If no one was willing to be the vanguard officer, she could not force them. Even if she appointed a general, the other party would find various reasons to refuse.

Moreover, the position of the vanguard officer is extremely important, and he cannot select generals at will. Qin Su does not know these generals very well. If he selects the wrong general, the vanguard officer will die, which will undoubtedly be a fatal blow to the morale of the three armies.

Originally, the emperor gave her the best vanguard officer in the world, but unfortunately he can’t use him now.

Qin Su felt very uncomfortable. Could it be that he, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, was asked to be the vanguard? Who would command the two million soldiers? Wouldn't this war be a mess?

Just when Qin Su was having trouble with this matter, Jiang Fei ran out from nowhere, knelt on one knee and asked for the order: "Marshal, Jiang Fei, a soldier of the Third Column of the First Battalion of the Black Armor Army, requests to be the vanguard general and take up the vanguard banner of the three armies!"

A general not far away immediately yelled, "Where did you come from, kid? You haven't even grown all your hair yet, and you dare to talk nonsense here? Go back!"

Qin Su frowned when she heard this, but after staring at Jiang Fei for a long time, she began to hesitate again.

Qin Su thought for a moment and said, "The vanguard is the morale and spirit of the three armies. This marshal needs a brave vanguard who can lead by example, is not afraid of life and death..."

Before Qin Su finished speaking, Jiang Fei took the lead in answering: "Obviously, I am!"

"Marshal, I told you, if you give me a team, I will get the head of the chief of the Sand Barbarians for you!"

Jiang Fei said firmly: "I will prove myself with my actions, and I must avenge my brother!"

Qin Su sighed upon hearing this, and handed the vanguard flag heavily to Jiang Fei, and said in a deep voice: "You must remember, after leaving the city, just charge forward. Wherever the vanguard flag goes, that is where the soldiers of the three armies are. You must not lose the momentum of the three armies!"

Jiang Fei held the vanguard flag tightly with both hands and said in a deep voice: "I obey your orders!"

"If you have the slightest fear and dare to run back, then this Marshal will kill you with his own hands. Do you understand?" Qin Su said coldly.

Jiang Fei stood up and said with a scornful smile: "In my life, Jiang Fei, I still don't know how to write the word fear!"

Watching Jiang Fei going away to prepare, Qin Su suddenly felt that it was a bit ridiculous for her to let a boy of only sixteen years old be the vanguard of two million soldiers in the three armies. It was incredible to think about it.

Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue, perhaps because they are brothers, Qin Suzhong also held out a glimmer of hope that the younger brother Jiang Fei might not be weaker than his older brother!

At the same time, Qin Su felt a flash of guilt towards Jiang Yue. He himself was already in danger, and he entrusted his own brother to him, yet he actually let him go to the battlefield as the most dangerous vanguard.

If both brothers died in this battle, how would she face the parents of Jiang Yue and Jiang Fei?

Not long after, Jiang Fei appeared wearing a silver armor vanguard robe, riding on a tall and fat white horse, holding a vanguard flag with a sharp red cherry spear tip on the top. He looked majestic and handsome.