The big eater was about to take out gunpowder bombs and throw them into the Persian boat when he suddenly found a pipe deep in the bow of the boat.
Then, fierce flames sprayed from the bow of the Persian boat towards the giant ship!
Flamethrower!
In order to make up for the shortcoming of the artillery's slow rate of fire, Su Chen recently prepared a weapon.
Due to technical limitations, Su Chen's flamethrower had a range of less than twenty meters, but it was enough.
The horror of Greek fire is very clear to the cannibals!
The terrifying high-temperature flames instantly swallowed up the man-eating ship,
The big man-eating man standing at the bow of the ship was burned beyond recognition before he could even realize what was going on.
The large food ships approaching the Persian boats were instantly swept away by terrifying high-temperature flames.
The cannibals on the boat screamed and jumped into the river, leaving only the cannibal boats on the river with black smoke!
The other large ships retreated in fear, keeping distance from the Persian boat.
The Persian team ignored the entanglement with the large food ship and took advantage of the large food vessel's panic to flee. They quickly broke through the large food man's interception and continued to rush towards the pontoon bridge.
Although the boat the Persian team found was small, the two of them paddled hard and went down the river very fast!
After putting aside the intercepted large food boat, the boat rushed to the edge of the pontoon in an instant.
The Persians on the boat lit the gunpowder bags they carried and threw them towards the pontoon.
Several small boats hit the pontoon directly, igniting the gunpowder on board!
Rapupasu also spent a lot of money this time, and all the family dead men brought from Bushehr's hometown were sent out to blow up the pontoon!
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After Su Chen confirmed that the pontoon bridge had been bombed, he immediately sent Sun Renshi to lead the cavalry to raid Da Shiren's military camp at the bridge.
The pontoon bridge was blown up, and those soldiers who ran to the other side of the river couldn't come back.
Da Shiren is in the main camp at Qiaotou. It is estimated that only the baggage troops and a small amount of left-behind infantry are left.
Master Sun Ren also knew that the opportunity was fleeting, and immediately led two thousand cavalry to rush northeastward.
Anyway, Liu Jingren and Xue Rengui will be back soon, and they are not afraid of Osman suddenly turning around and coming to kill them again!
When Master Sun Ren arrived at the Great Eater's Qiaotou Camp, he found that the Great Eater was retreating to the west, probably wanting to withdraw to Xila City.
After Osman learned that the pontoon bridge was bombed,
Of course, knowing that most of the troops in the Qiaotou camp were cut off on the other side of the Xila River, Su Chen would definitely make a surprise attack there.
It's just that he can no longer hold back Su Chen's army. Su Chen is already preparing to launch a fierce attack on him. If he doesn't leave, his 10,000 elite cavalry will probably suffer heavy losses again.
Osman had no choice but to order the bridgehead camp to quickly evacuate to the city of Hilla, and at the same time ordered the city's defenders to go out to respond.
But how can those baggage be evacuated so quickly, especially those heavy artillery pieces?
Besides, not long after Osman's order arrived, Sun Renshi rushed over.
The few remaining troops in the Great Cannibal Camp were unable to withstand the two thousand Tang Dynasty cavalry.
Sun Renshi quickly broke through the weak interception of the Great Eater and rushed directly towards the rearmost artillery unit of the Great Eater.
Seeing the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty rushing over, the cannibals dropped their heavy artillery and trebuchets and ran for their lives!
"Haha! I thought the big cannibal would fight to the end, but it turns out he also knows how to escape!"
Sun Renshi laughed and ignored the escaping cannibal.
He just asked his subordinates to quickly destroy all the cannons, trebuchets, ballistas and other heavy ordnance of the Great Cannibal. All other supplies, as well as the Great Cannibal's camp, were burned down.
By the time the reinforcements arrived in Xila City, Sun Renshi had already evacuated southward with his troops!
It's not that the big cannibal in the city of Shila is deliberately trying to mess around.
It’s just that Ottoman stationed all his cavalry in the camp outside the city. There were only three thousand cavalry in the city.
Without a large number of infantry following them, their few people would not dare to run into the Tang cavalry head-on.
So Sun Renshi led his troops and evacuated the black smoke-filled cannibal camp without any damage, and headed south along the Shira River to join Su Chen's army.
The Ottomans had just withdrawn to the southwest of Hilla City. Most of the Dashi army at the east bridge was isolated on the east bank of the river, and a small number of them fled into Hilla City.
The defenders in the city did not dare to leave the city easily.
Su Chen had an unimpeded journey and successfully reached his destination, where he set up camp at the foot of a small mountain six miles southeast of Xila City.
"Haha! The Ottomans suffered heavy losses this time. The artillery outside the city is basically gone, and there are not many trebuchets left!"
"I wonder what else he can do to challenge us?"
Sun Renshi, Liu Jingren, Xue Rengui and others laughed loudly.
Of course Su Chen was also very happy: "I didn't expect it to go so smoothly this time!"
"The original plan was to trick the cannibals at the bridge head to the east bank of the river, and then blow up the pontoon bridge to separate them,"
"I was still thinking about having a hard fight with Osman by the river!"
Ottoman deployed the mobile cavalry in two camps outside the city this time. If these two camps are not removed, there is no way to attack the city of Hilla.
But Su Chen couldn't attack one of them by force.
There are also artillery and trebuchets in the camp. Once we get into a tough battle with one of them, the big cannibals and people from the other camp in the city will come to support.
This gives Su Chen a headache!
After Rappasu reported to Suchen that the Persian team was ready to blow up the pontoon bridge, and the probability of success was very high,
Su Chen discussed this plan with everyone.
The original plan was to lure the Qiaotou Dashi garrison to the other side of the river and blow up the pontoon to separate them.
In this way, Osman had no support, and then fought hard with him by the river.
Xue Rengui and Liu Jingren were lying in ambush at the back. They originally planned to attack Osman from behind after the battle started.
Unexpectedly, Osman was so impatient that he abandoned his baggage troops and hurried to the river with his cavalry.
This caused the Ottoman army to become disjointed on the road!
How could Xue Rengui and Liu Jingren let go of such a good opportunity and immediately led their troops to sneak attack on the baggage that had been left behind?
After the rear baggage troops were attacked and the artillery and trebuchets were destroyed, Osman basically had nothing to do against Su Chen by the river.
The hard fight by the river that Su Chen originally expected was gone!
After Osman learned that his rear was being attacked, he sent a third of his cavalry back to rescue the infantry and baggage troops that he had left behind.
This caused him to lose the opportunity to rescue the eastern Qiaotou camp.
After Osman got the news that the pontoon bridge was bombed, Su Chen knew it immediately and immediately made a plan to attack the Qiaotou camp.
By this time Muvisa had taken away one-third of Osman's cavalry,
This caused Osman to have insufficient troops and was unable to prevent Su Chen from sending troops to raid the Qiaotou camp.
The final result was: the pontoon bridge was bombed, the artillery of the two camps outside the city was almost completely lost, and most of the other supplies were lost!
Although the Ottomans did not lose many troops this time, the consequences were far more disastrous than the loss of more than 10,000 elite men last time!
