Whenever attacking a city, the attacker needs to have several or even dozens of times as many troops as the defender in order to have a chance of success.
Despite having an absolute advantage in military strength, Wutu still has two points of confidence.
One is because of its fierce force, and the other is the hot air balloon.
If you don't know about hot air balloons, the most ideal tactic would be to launch a small-scale attack to lure the enemy out of the city and search for them.
However, with the hot air balloons, the field of vision of both sides was greatly widened, and this strategy of luring the enemy was ineffective.
The biggest remaining reliance was to rely on the hot air balloons above to attack and harass the defenders on the city walls.
Hot air balloons can be controlled, but they cannot be moved as freely as carriages and horses. The attacker obviously has more advantages than the defender.
The huge flags below the Jin army kept waving, and it was obvious that they had established a new set of flag signals along the way.
When the Jin army in the sky saw the flag signal, they immediately took action and threw away everything under them.
The rattan baskets they were riding in were filled with large quantities of kerosene cans and sacks of gravel.
The current flag signal was to notify them to attack as soon as possible.
After throwing them out, they all returned and continued to load supplies in preparation for the next round of attack.
The 'fireball' in the sky was falling rapidly with black smoke, and on both sides there were countless life-threatening debris.
In a flash, they were already crackling and smashing everywhere, some on the street, some on the roof, and a small number of kerosene tanks successfully fell onto the city wall.
However, it was still caught by the wooden boards prepared in advance by the defenders.
The fire, which had not yet had a chance to spread, was put out with handfuls of dry ash, and if any wooden boards were damaged, they were promptly covered with another piece.
Although the situation was handled promptly, the officers and soldiers defending the city still felt uneasy, after all, the crackling sound above their heads never stopped.
Huge rocks were flying in front of them, and the enemy's infantrymen holding shields and carrying ladders rushed to the city wall. At the same time, rain of arrows was shot upwards, trying to suppress the attack from the top of the city with firepower.
On the battlefield, the air was filled with curses and cries of killing!
The Jin army infantrymen below were constantly shot by arrows and fell down, but they continued to move forward with firm steps.
Occasionally, soldiers shot by arrows began to fall from the wall.
"Shoot! Shoot! Get ready, the ladders are coming soon, don't give them a chance!!"
"Thunderstones, rolling logs, hot oil and golden juice, smash down again at my command!!"
As they were speaking, the Jin army's ladders had arrived. With the combined efforts of dozens or even hundreds of people, the long ladders suddenly fell towards the city wall!
The iron barb of the ladder hooked firmly on the battlement of the city wall.
Although the area below had not yet touched the city wall, there were already casualties everywhere, with bodies shot by arrows and soldiers wailing and rolling everywhere.
Patches of blood have begun to spread across the land...
The soldiers on the city wall were still trying their best to shoot arrows, almost without looking, as they shot arrow after arrow straight down.
However, it still failed to stop the arrival of ladders, and rows of ladders began to be gradually placed on the city wall.
Seeing this, the general defending the city no longer hesitated and immediately shouted: "Pour kerosene, burn the ladders!!"
"The rest of you, smash down hard! No one is allowed to climb onto the top of the city wall!!"
The soldiers who received the order took out the kerosene cans that they had prepared long ago, poured them down the ladder, and then ignited them with torches.
The upper half of this long cloud ladder instantly ignited into a fire dragon and turned into a fire ladder.
The Jin soldier who led the way suffered the most. Kerosene was poured all over his body and ignited by the flames next to the ladder. He was immediately burned to death and fell off the ladder wailing.
The people at the back were not much better off. Although they had wrapped their hands, the high temperature of the flames was too high for ordinary people to endure.
Many soldiers with weak willpower also fell from mid-air.
People kept falling from the ladder, and if they were lucky, they would die directly.
If he didn't fall on other people's corpses, he could still survive, but the kerosene under the city was also burning fiercely.
Falling out of the fire, suffering broken bones, and then falling back into the fire!
The soldiers still on the ladder were not much better off. They were burning above, and the smoke below was consuming oxygen as it rose with the high temperature.
The defenders kept throwing thunder stones and rolling logs down, each one knocking down a bunch of them, and if they were lucky they could even break a ladder.
A damaged ladder naturally has very poor weight-bearing capacity, and often falls down as a string.
Using gravity to smash down hard objects such as stones and wood is certainly powerful, but what we should fear most is not the hard objects, but the soft objects.
Battle of the city wall.
At this time, the soldiers would always set up an iron pot on the city wall and boil a pot of strong-smelling golden juice that smelled like shit.
There is no recipe for the golden juice. Apart from the feces soup, what other things are added and how much to add depends entirely on the soldier's personal preference, which is different for each person.
The golden juice at Chenggaoguan is now made by mixing oil and water together.
The golden juice with added oil and water is just like cross-bridge rice noodles, and the thick oil layer can keep it warm for a long time.
On the other hand, the smell is not easy to leak out, so as not to affect the morale of our side too much.
Schematic diagram of oil layer insulation for Guoqiao rice noodles
When the Jin soldiers climbed to the top of the city wall with all their might, a splash of hot gold juice would be poured over their heads!
As soon as the hot oil touches the scalp, it can burn the skin and flesh, and then the remnants of the second-cooked food flow through the face and neck...
Those infected will become blind immediately, and coupled with the infection, there is no cure in this era!
Countless amounts of dung soup began to be thrown wildly under the soldiers' hands like rain.
The air was filled with the smell of a mixture of non-protein nitrogen and sulfates.
If Fang Zhengyi were here, he would definitely exclaim, "Awesome!"
Compared with the current situation, his battle with the Dung Gang back then was child's play, even gentle.
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