Chapter 243: The Power of Fire Field [Replenishment 28/40]
"What?!"
In the main formation of the Chu army in the east of Yecheng City, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei stared dumbfounded at the fire field in front of him with flames rising half a foot high. He could not recover for a long time.
From the side, Wu Qi, the general of the Yue Kingdom, also had shock on his face at this moment.
In just the blink of an eye, thousands of soldiers were buried in the flames. Oh my God!
That’s a full 10,000 people!
Although the loss of 10,000 grain and soldiers in order to attack Yecheng, which was guarded by 5,000 Wei soldiers, was not something to be alarmed about, it was too fast. In just one stick of incense, the siege was over.
Already?
"What is that? Kerosene? The Wei army buried kerosene in these ditches outside the city in advance?"
Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei couldn't help but ride his horse forward, trying to see clearly what was supporting such flames in those small ditches - a fire that was half a foot high.
However, just when he was driving his war horse and was about to reach the nearest line of fire, the war horse under his crotch was frightened by the fire in front of him. It kicked with its hooves and refused to move forward, so he could only dismount and walk.
.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
After ordering the grain soldiers crowded in front to retreat to both sides to make way for a passage, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei walked along this passage towards the nearest firing line.
The purpose of the outermost fire channel seems to be to cut off the enemy's retreat. Therefore, this fire channel is fully two feet wide - in fact, the width of two feet is nothing. After all, it is
Commonly seen long swords are basically three feet long. Not to mention normal adults, even children of several years old can easily cross it.
The problem is those flames.
What appeared in front of Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei at this moment seemed to be a wall of fire that was nearly one foot high. The fire was burning ferociously. Even though he was six or seven feet away, he could feel the scorching breath.
He tried to take a step forward, and immediately found that the burning feeling became more intense.
When he tried to take a step forward again, he felt that the scorching heat wave seemed to wrap around him, causing hot sweat to appear on his forehead and arms.
As he continued to move forward, the hot sweat from various parts of his body gradually disappeared and was replaced by bursts of burning pain.
His mouth was dry, his eyes were stinging, and every breath he took in seemed to be a scorching flame that was about to ignite his whole body.
The intuition in his heart told him that he could not move any closer.
He immediately stepped back, a full two feet away, and the heat wave that hit his face was relieved. But even so, there was a dull pain on his exposed body surface, especially his eyes, which were even more stinging.
It hurts so much.
But no matter what, standing far enough away, he was finally able to breathe normally.
They were only a few feet away, but they seemed to be two different worlds.
After hesitating for a moment, he casually threw the riding crop in his hand towards the fire channel ahead.
He clearly saw that the riding whip was burned to char by the fire in mid-air before it even hit the ground, leaving only some gray, black and other powders and small solid blocks falling to the ground.
"This is no ordinary fire oil!"
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei judged secretly.
At this time, among the grain soldiers behind him, someone suddenly shouted: "Come back quickly! Jump over quickly!"
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei glanced back, and immediately turned his gaze to the sea of fire in front of him. At this time, he noticed that about twenty feet away from him, there seemed to be a dozen food recruits preparing to escape from the sea of fire.
, but the way was blocked by the wall of fire that was about one foot high.
Suddenly, two of the food recruiters wearing leather armor looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and ran towards the wall of fire with a roar, trying to jump from there to the other side.
However, halfway through, one of them was forced back by the heat wave when he was still more than two feet away from the wall of fire just like Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei had just done.
As for one person, he did not flinch, gritted his teeth and rushed through the wall of fire...
Immediately, he fell down on the other side of the fire wall with a thud, only half a foot away from the fire wall.
"Help, help me, I don't want to...die..."
The food recruiter stretched out his hand towards Tongze, who was more than ten feet away in front of him, and begged.
It can be seen that this grain recruiter must be the best among the grain recruiters. After all, he is wearing leather armor, which means that he has killed enemies on the battlefield and has the strength to protect his trophies from other grain recruiters.
Walk.
But unfortunately, when he just finished saying those words, he heard the sound of Xiongdi, and the leather armor on his body started to burn. The fire spread rapidly, ignited his hair, and turned him into a human in an instant.
A ball of flame.
"save……"
When he was burned by the flames, the food recruiter still tried hard to call for help, but after only two or three breaths, his eyes became dim, and soon, his raised arms fell to the ground feebly.
But even so, the merciless fire was still burning, as if it was going to burn the corpse until no bones remained.
Perhaps due to the fate of this grain recruiter, the dozen or so grain recruiters who were trapped in the sea of fire no longer dared to try to break out of the fire wall. A dozen people crowded together and looked at the four sides surrounding them in horror.
intensity of fire.
"These people are dead..."
At some point, Wu Qi, the general of the Yue Kingdom, came to Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei and said solemnly: "If these dozen people can bravely try to jump over this wall of fire like that brave soldier, then,
They still had some chance of survival. Unfortunately, they were scared away and chose to sit back and wait for death..."
"..." Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei remained silent, knowing that Wu Qi was right.
After all, he had personally experienced the unbearable heat. He knew very well that people could not withstand such high temperatures for a long time. It might only take a moment for those scorching heat waves to roast the dozen soldiers alive.
Mummy.
Facts have proved that Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei's judgment was correct. In just over a hundred breaths, the dozen or so food recruits were already unbearably roasted by the heat wave, and their exposed skin all showed a strange bright red color, as if they were going to die at any time.
It burns the same.
At this time, I believe that the dozen or so people have also realized that staying here will only lead to death. They rushed towards the fire wall and continued to escape across the fire wall. Unfortunately, their physical strength had been lost along with a lot of sweat.
Loss, in the end, who among these dozen food recruits did not survive, was either roasted into mummies by the heat wave, or directly burned into coke by the flames.
"..."
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei raised his head and looked far ahead.
For a moment, in the fire field in front that was completely enveloped by the sea of fire, there were still many grain recruits wailing and screaming, but at this moment, it became extremely quiet, as if a total of 10,000 grain recruits were just
It was wiped out alive like this.
Only the alluring and disgusting aroma of meat or burnt odor remained in the surrounding air.
The grain recruiters behind Lord Xinyang all retreated a distance.
It's not because of the smell of meat or the stench of burning meat in the air. After all, in the Chu State, which has a large population but a weak agricultural foundation, tragedies of cannibalism may not happen when there is a shortage of food. These food recruits are just miserable by their own comrades.
I was just frightened by what happened.
Although the grain recruiters themselves knew that they might not all be lucky enough to see the rising sun the next day, this did not mean that they were willing to die, or even die in such a miserable place.
"It seems that the fire will not go out for a while. Let's call it a day." Wu Qi, the general of the Yue Kingdom, said to Xiang Pei: "Both the king and Wu have underestimated the enemy. If they want to capture this small city, I'm afraid it won't be possible."
Not easy."
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei nodded silently.
It has to be said that Yecheng's premeditated fire attack burned to death 10,000 grain soldiers under Xiang Pei's command in one breath. Even though those grain soldiers were only used to consume the Wei army's cannon fodder, Xiang Pei felt a little overwhelmed.
After all, it was too fast. In the blink of an eye, ten thousand people were gone.
This was a huge blow to his ambition to conquer this small town in one day.
"Send the order and the whole army will retreat ten miles to set up camp."
The frustrated Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei weakly ordered.
After a while, the Chu-Vietnam allied forces slowly retreated. Seeing this scene, the imperial guards Wei soldiers on the walls of Yecheng cheered loudly.
"The enemy has retreated!"
"We have won!"
Seeing the Chu-Vietnam coalition slowly evacuating outside the city, and seeing the cheers of his own soldiers, Wei General Hou Dan couldn't help but smile on his face.
Apart from being happy, Hou Dan couldn't help but be a little surprised.
He originally thought that today would be a fierce battle, but he did not expect that victory would come so easily.
You must know that in this battle, the 5,000 Wei soldiers under his command suffered almost no casualties. With only the fire canals, fire fields and other defensive methods outside the city, they easily stopped the Chu army's attack, and also caused damage to the Chu army.
There were nearly 10,000 casualties.
"It's really scary..."
Hou Dan quietly looked at Chen Dan, Cheng Lin and other officials from the Smelting Bureau beside him.
He could see that the hands of these officials were not stained with blood, but the weapons they forged and the defensive defenses they designed could easily kill thousands of people.
Of course, Hou Dan did not think this was a bad thing. On the contrary, he was very lucky to have such a group of unscrupulous but reliable craftsmen behind him. Otherwise, he and the five thousand Wei soldiers under his command would not be able to resist at all.
There are no more than 100,000 Chu-Vietnam troops on the opposite side.
Thinking of this, he walked up to Chen Dan and others, clasped his fists with a serious face and said: "For the sake of each other, please be sure to tell Hou about all the traps and defense facilities in the city."
Chen Dan, Cheng Lin and other officials from the Metallurgical Bureau were stunned when they heard this, and they all looked at the defense map of Yecheng in Hou Dan's hand with a strange expression.
After a long time, the eldest Chen Dan asked in surprise: "General...could it be that he is illiterate?"
Immediately, the other officials showed "I see" expressions.
"..."
At this moment, Hou Dan really wanted to smash the heads of these guys in front of him.
The next day, August 13, just before Chu Shuijun attacked Daliang City for the third time, outside the west gate of the city, more than a dozen Wei soldiers covered in blood rode their horses and rushed towards them.
When he got to the bottom of the city, he shouted loudly toward the top of the city: "Luoyang urgently orders! Open the city gate quickly! Let us in!"
"An urgent order from Luoyang?"
Li Lin, the general at the west gate, heard this and walked to the top of the city, looking at the cavalry below the city and muttering to himself.