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Volume 1: Laughing and Talking about Thirsty Drinking the Blood of Japanese Pirates Chapter 67: Battle of Pingcheng (2)

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    The soldiers of the Iron Armor Battalion were completely covered in heavy armor, with only a pair of eyes exposed.  Although Fuso's arrow rain was dense, it caused very little damage.

    One by one, the armored heavy infantrymen carried heavy sandbags and rushed up against the dense rain of arrows. When they reached the moat, they threw the sandbags on their shoulders into the river, turned around, ran back, and then charged again with the sandbags on their shoulders.  Go up.

    Although the Fuso people occupies a favorable location and have many archers, they have nothing to do with these armored heavy infantry wearing tortoise shells. They can only watch the moat being filled in bit by bit.

    Half an hour later, the four- to five-foot-wide moat had been filled with more than twenty roads that were more than two feet wide.  As for the entire armored battalion, except for a hundred or so unlucky ones who were injured, no one was killed.

    After a short rest, the Iron Armored Battalion finally began its real attack!

    Tens of thousands of armored heavy infantry marched heavily, pushing more than twenty siege vehicles, carrying battering rams and siege ladders, and began to rush upward.

    At the beginning, the armored battalion was not very fast, but the closer it got to the city wall, the faster it charged!

    There were also more than 20 extremely heavy siege vehicles that were taller than the city wall. They were pulled forward and pushed by dozens of soldiers from the armored battalion, and they approached the city wall of Pingcheng extremely slowly.

    Although the number of this siege vehicle is small, it is an absolute weapon in siege warfare.  As long as the heavy siege vehicle can get close to the city wall, it can lower the drawbridge and send soldiers to the city wall continuously.

    The role of siege engines in siege warfare is so important, and the Fuso people will certainly not take it lightly.

    As soon as the siege engines approached the moat, the Fuso men began to throw cans of kerosene out.

    This kerosene jar is a clay pot that is used to hold water. After filling it with kerosene, it is made by sealing it with clay.  Although this is simple to make, it actually works amazingly!

    “Bang bang bang!” A series of sounds of broken clay pots!  The fire oil in the clay pot splashed everywhere.  Almost every siege vehicle was hit by several fire oil tanks.  The splashing fire oil immediately covered the siege vehicle up and down.  Even the soldiers of the armored battalion who pushed and pulled the siege vehicles had a lot of it on their bodies.

    After the Fuso people threw a round of fire oil cans, they then released rockets!

    I saw countless fireworks suddenly flying from the top of Pingcheng City. The scene was truly spectacular!

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Countless rockets ignited the kerosene in an instant, and more than twenty siege vehicles suddenly ignited like huge torches, igniting raging fires.

    And many armored soldiers with kerosene on their bodies were also ignited by rockets and turned into human kerosene torches!

    Thick armor can protect against bows and arrows, but it cannot protect against fire!

    Hundreds of soldiers of the armored battalion were set alight, screaming and rolling all over the ground, hoping to extinguish the flames.  But the ground was also covered with fire oil. Instead of extinguishing the fire on themselves, they turned the surrounding area into a sea of ??fire.  The thick armor of the soldiers inside was burned red. After struggling desperately for a moment, they were burned into a ball of coke.

    Although a small number of soldiers who were on fire were frightened, they still managed to maintain a sense of clarity. They quickly jumped into the moat and the fire on their bodies was extinguished instantly.

    But they forgot that the heavy armor they were wearing made them jump into the river more than a foot deep, and immediately turned into weights and sank to the bottom. No matter how hard they struggled, they could never come up again!

    Only a handful of people managed to climb onto the shore with the help of their colleagues, but the biting river water made them tremble all over. At least today, they could no longer charge into battle!

    Although the wooden siege vehicle was nailed with a layer of iron sheets at key locations, how could it withstand the ravages of fire.

    For a time, in front of this five or six mile long city wall, there were blazing fires everywhere, filled with smoke and overwhelming heat.

    Xue Wanche looked at everything in front of him with a sullen face, and waved his hand without hesitation: "Send the order, let the armored battalion retreat first, and wait until the fire is extinguished before attacking!"

    The soldiers of the armored battalion who hesitated in front of the fire, after receiving the order, retreated in an orderly manner to make some repairs.

    At this time, I heard Xue Wanche say coldly: "Hmph! This method of using kerosene to defend the city is a common trick used by the people of the Western Qin Dynasty. I didn't expect that the Fusang people also learned it!"

    Zhou Hao's heart moved when he heard this, and he turned to Xue Wanche and said: "General, the people of Western Qin are our enemies, the people of Fusang are also our enemies, and the enemies of our enemies are friends! Could it be that the people of Western Qin are causing trouble in the middle?"

    Xue Wanche was slightly startled and said: "Haozi, what you said is very possible! Although we, Northern Yan and Western Qin, have been enemies for generations, we are both descendants of Xuanyuan and share the same blood! Brothers look at each other!It is really sad to stand in a wall and be bullied by others!  "

    After Xue Wanche finished speaking, he then thought that since the decline of the Xuanyuan Dynasty, the world has been in chaos for a long time, with constant conquests between the princes, and the hatred between the Northern Yan and the Western Qin is as deep as the sea.  What kind of blood relationship can we talk about!

    Xue Wanche shook his head helplessly and returned his attention to the battlefield.

    At this time, the fire in front of the city wall had gradually extinguished.  Seeing this situation, Xue Wanche waved his hand and sent the armored battalion up again after resting.

    Although there are no siege engines, there are still siege ladders and battering rams.  As long as they can break open the city gate or grab a foothold on the city wall, there is great hope of conquering Pingcheng.

    The armored battalion rushed forward again. Without the siege vehicles, the soldiers' attack speed was faster.  After a while, they reached the bottom of the city wall, set up a siege ladder and began to attack.

    I saw the soldiers of the Iron Armor Battalion holding their swords in their mouths, holding a shield above their heads with one hand, and grabbing the siege ladder with the other hand, trying to climb up.

    "But the Fusang people on the top of the city saw that their bows and arrows had no effect, so they gave up their bows and arrows, picked up rocks and started throwing them down.

    Large chunks of stone made the iron shield bang, but they still couldn't stop the armored heavy infantry from charging upward.

    Seeing that the stones had little effect, the Fusang people released the rolling logs.

    The rolling log, which was as thick as a bucket and more than a foot long, rolled down quickly along the siege ladder.  This time, the iron shields and armors could not withstand it. Countless soldiers of the armored battalion were knocked down from the siege ladder and turned into a puddle of flesh!

    But the soldiers of the armored battalion did not flinch. They were knocked down in one wave, and the next wave continued to rush upward desperately; after being smashed to death again, they continued to organize the attack!

    For a time, under the high city wall, blood flowed everywhere, corpses were everywhere, broken limbs and arms, and the painful wails of seriously injured soldiers were everywhere!

    However, in just over two quarters of an hour, the soldiers of the Iron Armored Battalion lost more than 2,000 men!

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