Dozens of barrel bombs filled with oil were violently thrown up by the catapult, and landed in the area of Pilaoguan.
In an instant, several fires broke out outside Pilao Pass, shocking the Korean soldiers inside the pass and hurriedly sounded the alarm.
"Dang Dang Dang——"
"Fight the fire. There's a flood in the pass. Come quickly and put out the fire..."
Amidst the shouts and shouts, several Korean soldiers carried wooden buckets filled with water and came to the place where the fire started.
But what shocked them was that the fire in front of them seemed to be different from the flames they had seen before. Even from a few feet away, they could still feel a scorching heat wave rolling in, and the people were exposed.
The skin tingled.
"These fires are so weird..."
A Korean soldier said in horror.
Perhaps there was a Korean army commander who did not believe in evil and endured the scorching heat. He gritted his teeth and stepped forward, trying to put out the fire with the fire in the wooden barrel in his hand. However, he had just taken a few steps, and his exposed skin was
Blisters quickly formed one after another on his arms and face - he was severely burned by the rolling heat wave.
"ah!"
He screamed and couldn't help but cover his face with his hands, causing the barrel in his hand to fall to the ground.
The water in the barrel flowed out and merged with the black water, and then the fire spread all of a sudden.
The nearby Korean soldiers and generals were horrified to see that the fire that spread instantly swallowed up the commander who was still screaming just now.
They watched helplessly as the blisters on the young man's face quickly burst and burst. Immediately, his whole body looked like a cooked fish, and he fell to his knees with his eyes wide open.
There was a crisp "pop" sound, and the two eyeballs of the extremely long man actually exploded. Then his whole body burst into flames, and his whole body was steaming. He fell into the sea of fire. After a blink of an eye, he turned into a black corpse.
It looked like a charred corpse like coal.
"This...what the hell is going on?"
The nearby Korean soldiers and generals retreated with horror on their faces.
Because they gradually discovered that the water that they thought could extinguish the fire was unable to extinguish the flames floating on the "black water". In fact, the more water they poured, the faster the fire spread.
In the blink of an eye, the area of the sea of fire increased several times compared to before.
"Back off, back off... Whoever is there, back off!"
A Korean general commanded the nearby Korean soldiers to retreat slowly. During this period, he saw several soldiers sitting on the ground dumbly.
So, he endured the scorching heat wave, stepped forward to the soldiers, and shouted: "What are you still waiting for? Hurry..."
His voice stopped suddenly.
Because only then did he realize that the eyes of the soldiers who were slumped on the ground had already become dim - these soldiers had been scalded to death by the heat wave.
"Papa -"
On the exposed skin of these soldiers, blisters quickly formed and then burst.
And amidst these popping sounds, their eyeballs also exploded, so that the eye sockets were hollow, which was very scary.
From beginning to end, there was no trace of blood, because the blood in the human body could not withstand such high temperatures and had already been dried up.
"Thousands of generals, come back quickly!!"
The Korean soldiers in the distance shouted loudly.
The Korean general was shocked. Only then did he realize that blisters the size of fingernails were gradually forming on his arms. They were densely packed and disgusting.
He didn't dare to stop any longer and quickly turned around and ran back.
But after running a few steps, he felt dizzy and his breathing became particularly difficult.
Immediately, he felt his eyes go dark, fell to the ground, and never moved again.
Seeing this scene, the Korean soldiers in the distance turned pale with fright. They could not understand what happened.
I believe that if Zhao Hongrun were here, he might not mind spreading a little knowledge to these Korean soldiers and generals: the reason why the Korean general with a thousand soldiers fell to the ground dizzy was due to lack of oxygen, because the sea of fire nearby was burning fiercely.
At the same time, a large amount of oxygen in the air is consumed, causing difficulty in breathing for those around you. Eventually, they fall into a state of shock due to lack of oxygen and die.
The sea of fire inside and outside Pi Lao Pass alarmed the Korean general Jin Yao who was in the pass. He came to the pass wall with a look of horror on his face and stared at the chaotic situation inside the pass.
"Huhu——"
A whistling sound came from mid-air, from far to near.
Han General Jin Yao raised his head subconsciously, Wei Lu was shocked to see wooden barrels flying from the direction of Wangwu Mountain, and then smashed into pieces inside the pass.
He clearly saw that after the wooden barrels fell to the ground and were smashed to pieces, a black water splashed out of the barrels.
Once this black water touches the fire, it will greatly increase the intensity of the fire. As the sea of fire continues to burn, the temperature becomes extremely hot, almost hotter than a red-hot soldering iron.
This was not Jin Mao's subjective estimate, because he saw with his own eyes that one of his soldiers was burned alive into charcoal, and both the leather armor on his body and the wooden shield in his hand were burned until only a pile of black ashes remained.
What was even more shocking was that the long sword carried by the soldier, an iron sword made by the Wei army, was burned red in the sea of fire in the blink of an eye, and then became sticky and almost turned into molten iron.
"What the hell is that?!"
Han General Jin Mao felt horrified and asked in a voice.
In fact, he had some idea in his mind: that black water must be oil.
But the problem is that ordinary oil does not have this power after being ignited.
This is simply a natural disaster!
A natural disaster that mortals cannot withstand!
Suddenly, Jin Mao vaguely heard the soldiers inside the pass shouting something like crazy.
He listened carefully, and then he vaguely picked up some clues.
"It's...it's a sorcery used by the Wei people. The Wei people have skilled alchemists to help them..."
"The people of Wei know the magic of immortality, the people of Wei know the magic of immortality..."
Jin Mao sneered at the crazy remarks made by those soldiers.
You must know that Korean culture is in the same vein as the Central Plains, and they do not believe in the existence of so-called immortals in this world.
Compared with absurd myths and legends, Jin Mao trusted the weapons in his hands more.
As for the alchemists, there is no need to say more. At least in Jin Miao's view, the so-called alchemists are purely charlatan sorcerers who pretend to be gods and ghosts.
There are many such alchemists in the Korean court. Some can breathe out pillars of fire, and some can emit smoke all over their bodies once they perform exercises. However, after revealing these people's tricks, they are just bluffing tricks.
Therefore, Jin Aodang grasped the key to the situation: the Wei people had a special kind of fire oil, a kind of fire oil that could not extinguish the flames with water.
Thinking of this, Jin Mao gradually calmed down.
After all, as long as he is sure that the Wei people are relying on some kind of fire oil that the Koreans don't understand, and not some gods, ghosts, and immortals, he will naturally not be afraid: he is a human being, and the Wei people are also human beings, so what's the point?
Afraid?
In contrast, he was more concerned about a new tactic used by the Wei army this time.
At this time, he had already heard the news from the defeated troops in the Wangwushan area, and clearly understood the reason why Wangwushan was lost: that was because there were hundreds of Wei army catapults at the foot of Wangwushan.
A total of Wei soldiers who climbed the mountain
They fought together, so that in front of the catapults of the Wei army, the camps and fortresses built by his deputy general Qingyao on Wangwu Mountain failed to play their due role at all, and were thrown by hundreds of catapults.
The bullets smashed it to pieces.
Jin Mao couldn't help but want to express his admiration for Wei Gongzi Ji Run, because he had never thought that a catapult, a war weapon that had always been used to attack cities, could be used in this way.
And the power is still so terrifying.
With a long sigh, Jin Mao ordered the guards on his left and right: "Send my general's order to withdraw the entire army from Pi Lao Pass and defect to Duanshi County."
Hearing this, the Korean soldiers and generals on the wall were all dumbfounded.
One of the generals said in horror: "Why did the general give up Pi Lao Pass?"
Jin Mao was silent for a moment, shook his head and said, "I can't keep it..."
After that, he turned around and faced Wangwu Mountain, pointed at the third, fourth and fifth hills from west to east of Wangwu Mountain, and said bitterly: "You know where the Wei army attacked me at Pi Lao Pass.
Over there... where they used catapults to launch a fire attack on my Pi Lao Pass, but my Pi Lao Pass couldn't touch the opponent at all, so how could they fight?"
As he spoke, he shook his head and said in a low voice with a somewhat gloomy mood: "It is only a matter of time before Pi Lao Pass is captured. Instead of holding on to this inevitable pass, it is better to retreat and conserve our troops.
Wait for the opportunity to make another move...go and deliver the order."
"……yes."
All the Korean soldiers looked at each other in disbelief, then clasped their fists and accepted the order.
About half an hour later, the Korean troops stationed at Pilao Pass began to retreat eastward one after another.
It has to be said that Jin Fu, known as one of the ten heroes of Beiyuan, is indeed an excellent general who knows how to advance and retreat. After realizing that Pi Lao Pass cannot be saved, he decisively chose to preserve his strength.
In the final analysis, Pilao Pass is just the western gateway from the west of Hedong County to Shangdang County. For the whole of South Korea, Shangdang County is just the front yard, let alone a Pilao Pass, which is nothing more than a front yard at best.
It's just the entrance to the courtyard.
Jin Mao thought it was not worth it to throw away tens of thousands of soldiers just for a portal.
After all, for generals at their level, they don’t pay too much attention to the gains and losses of a city or a place, nor do they care too much about the honor and disgrace of a day. It’s good to be able to hold on, but if you can’t hold on, the future will be long, and you have plenty of time to fight slowly.
.
This is a good fighter.
"Wei Gongzi Run..."
When the entire army withdrew from Pilao Pass, Jin Yao turned his head and looked at the pass where he had been stationed for a long time, with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes.
Although he was very careful, in the end he underestimated the strategy of Wei Gongzi Ji Run.
No, in fact, that is not to be underestimated. It can only be said that Wei Gongzi Run's art of war subverted his understanding of the art of war.
"I have opened the door to you. Step in, Mr. Wei Run, step into the Shangdang... Then, just like your ancestors decades ago, feel the terror of my Korean clank iron cavalry in this land.
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On the sixth day of October, Wei's "Shangshui Army" broke through Pilao Pass, and Han general Jin Pao retreated eastward with more than 20,000 defeated troops.
On the same day, Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, the commander of Wei's "Northern Second Army", attacked "Tianmen Pass", but was attacked by a Korean cavalry and was defeated.
During the Battle of Tianmen Pass, the Han general known as one of the "Top Ten Heroes of the Northern Plains" like Jin Yao, and the "vicious bird" Bao Yuan gradually became known to the Wei army, and his reputation spread throughout the northern Xinjiang.
With the distinguished status of "the commander-in-chief of the armies of Han and Wei".