Spring is getting closer and closer, and the weather is slowly getting warmer.
But when it comes to warming up, it actually means that the temperature has changed from the original sub-zero temperature to above-zero temperature.
In the late Han Dynasty during the Little Ice Age, heavy snow would fall in Hebei every winter.
Goose-feather snowflakes will cover the entire northern Hebei plain in white.
As spring approaches this year, the snow has already melted, and the signs of spring are becoming more and more obvious.
The grass is sprouting, the flowers are blooming, the trees are growing, and life is reviving.
Only the wind that blows all over the world is still so biting and cold.
The flags on the Fuyang City Tower were buzzing, and the soldiers were waiting solemnly, looking down at the Yuan army slowly approaching from the bottom of the city.
This is already the third day of the siege. In yesterday's bloody battle, Yuan's army attacked the city tower several times. Not only was the siege going on outside the city vigorously, but the underground was also buzzing.
Yuan Shao repeated his old trick, using the cover of the siege soldiers to dig tunnels from the east city into the city from the northeast and southeast.
Fortunately, Xun You had taken precautions and excavated in advance. He dropped a Molotov cocktail into each tunnel to seal the entrance, and then threw down all the firewood and other kindling materials to cover the tunnel.
A series of countermeasures caused Yuan Jun to suffer heavy casualties. In several tunnels about 200 meters away, as many as 700 to 800 Yuan Jun soldiers were suffocated to death.
However, although the tunnel battle failed, the frontal pressure still exists. Fuyang City is small and there is no way it can withstand such a fierce attack.
What's more, Yuan Shao's catapult has almost been made. Once completed, it will be a devastating blow to the Qingzhou Army, so Xun You should also make plans for their lone army.
Yesterday we were able to repel Yuan Jun only with a few remaining Molotov cocktails. Now we have all our trump cards. If we can delay it for one day, we can delay it for one day. We can no longer worry about so much.
When the trumpets from Yuan Shao's army sounded again and the drums roared and drums surged, the soldiers on the city wall suddenly withdrew.
"Huh? What's going on?"
Yuan Shao watched from a high platform in the distance. The high platform was a little higher than the city wall. Although he didn't have a telescope and couldn't see carefully, it was still clear whether there was anyone on it.
In his eyes, there were originally many soldiers on the city tower and they were all in good order. How could they all suddenly retreat?
Is there some conspiracy?
"Perhaps Gongsun Zan is preparing to gather his troops and break out from the east gate."
Some counselors speculated.
"If it's a breakout, it would be better to break out at night."
"But if it wasn't a breakout, how can we explain Gongsun Zan's withdrawal of troops from the city wall?"
"I don't quite understand, but Ming Gong, I suggest you take a look before talking, and be careful of scams."
Everyone was talking a lot and did not dare to comment on the actions in the city.
Only at this time in Fuyang City, the soldiers responsible for transportation near the city gates could still feel the stench coming, even if they covered their mouths and noses with cloth towels.
Under Zang Ba's command, there were more than 2,000 soldiers from the two schools, four divisions and sixteen tunes, Xin Ziqu and Ren Ziqu who were responsible for cooking, as well as Huang Zhong's and Taishi Ci's tribes. They were suffering greatly now.
It is estimated that this will be the biggest worry for them in the rest of their lives. They would rather go to the battlefield to kill the enemy than do this kind of job again.
"Third brother, this thing is more disgusting than fighting on the battlefield."
"Stop talking, I'm going to vomit."
"vomit......."
Under the leadership of a veteran, several elite soldiers who had killed enemies on the battlefield and made meritorious deeds without even blinking carried a big pot up the tower.
The big pot was covered with a lid, so you couldn't see what was inside, but the stench was unmistakable.
There were five people in a team, one person at the front and one at the front held the pot ears and carried it carefully, one person held the firewood, and the other two carried an iron frame, and swayed up the tower.
Not only them, but a large number of soldiers in groups were constantly moving up. Farther away, near the center of the city, countless soldiers looked panicked and looked here with horror. They were glad that they went to the city to fight yesterday.
, you don’t have to suffer this crime.
It really stinks.
Zang Ba put his hands on his waist and almost collapsed. However, in order to maintain his morale, he still endured and stood on the top of the city. Other generals also took the lead, directing the soldiers to set up the cauldron and start preparing to cook.
With an order, the soldiers of the death squad opened the lid of the pot. Almost as soon as it was opened, hundreds of soldiers couldn't help but vomit loudly, and almost vomited out the jaundice water.
It was covered before, and although the stench was unpleasant, I could still bear it as long as I didn't think about it.
Now that I have opened the lid of the pot and seen it with my own eyes, it is so sour that even the famous shit-sniffing expert Lao Ba would probably have to run away thousands of miles away.
These soldiers felt lucky yesterday that they did not have to fight to the death on the battlefield, but today they completely regretted it.
It would be better to go to the battlefield and die happily.
Just see the pot...forget it, I won't describe it.
Children in rural areas must have seen it, because the toilet in the countryside is just a big cesspool. People collect the excrement and use it to fertilize vegetables. After a long time, after fermentation, it looks like black sludge, and the smell is not particularly smelly.
But these are all fresh excrement. Many soldiers have done farm work and poured excrement before, so they have long been accustomed to the smell. However, there are too many collected this time. The fragrance spreads for ten miles, which really challenges the bottom line of mankind.
Zang Ba stood on the top of the city, feeling the cold wind howling in the air.
I'm lucky today, the east wind is blowing.
my country has a subtropical monsoon climate in the south and a temperate monsoon climate in the north. Northwest and northerly winds prevail in winter, and southeasterly and southerly winds prevail in summer.
However, it is now approaching early spring, and this place is close to the Bohai Sea. After spring, the east wind begins to blow.
"ignition!"
After giving the order, the soldiers began to light firewood under the iron frame.
When cooking this thing, it's fine without heating it. Once it's heated, the flavor comes out and the taste becomes even better.
Just like the Seven Injury Fist, before hurting the enemy, you hurt yourself first. In an instant, the sound of vomiting could be heard all over the city, and some soldiers even vomited directly into the dark sky and fainted.
There is a reserve team below the city. If someone faints on the city tower, soldiers will immediately come up to carry the person, then add them to the queue, and then continue to vomit...
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At this moment, Yuan Shao's army was gathering outside the city. The sound of the horn blowing was not the sound of an attack, but an order for the troops to start gathering.
Yuan Shao took the lead and went to the high platform to look into the distance. The soldiers began to walk out of the camp with neat steps.
Then they formed several square formations, and there was a crowd of people outside the west city.
After coming out of the camp and forming a square formation, less than half an hour passed. During this time, Yuan Shao also saw soldiers starting to appear on the city top, then he carried the big pot and started cooking.
"What is that?"
Yuan Shao was puzzled and turned his head to look left and right.
The people on the left and right looked at each other, not knowing what they were doing.
Golden Juice for Defending the City.
The first time it appeared in history books was the Battle of Suiyang in the "Old Book of Tang".
However, at that time, Zhang Xun was smelting iron juice to burn the enemy's siege equipment, not boiling excrement.
Those actually used in city defense operations only appeared a few times in "History of the Song Dynasty" and "History of the Yuan Dynasty", and not many times.
On the contrary, it has appeared many times in novels such as "Water Margin" and "Shuo Yue Zhuan". It has been fictionalized by novelists as a weapon for defending the city, and it has no disadvantages.
It is indeed true that there is no disadvantage. It is said that when Lu Deng was guarding Luzhou, he boiled golden soup to force away Jin Wushu.
So why are there relatively few records in history books?
Because this thing is inelegant at first, for the literati who recorded history books, they don’t know how to write about it. Secondly, whether it is the siege or the defender, using this thing can indeed kill a thousand enemies and damage eight others.
Hundred.
Needless to say, the hot golden soup was poured down on the siege team. It was so hot that the skin and flesh were torn apart. It was also full of bacteria, making it easy to get infected and sick. When it was poured on the ladder, it was difficult for the soldiers to climb up. It was not only hot to the touch, but also very slippery.
And for the city defenders, the taste... is hard to describe in words.
In the current boiling stage alone, hundreds of soldiers have been fainted alive by the smoke. When it boils, they will have to pour it down bucket by bucket. It really challenges the lower physiological limit.
Therefore, during the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, no one had invented gold juice to defend the city. At most, arrows were soaked in feces to achieve the purpose of infecting the enemy's wounds.
After all, people at that time still paid great attention to reputation and integrity. Even Cao Cao probably wouldn't be able to do this with this thing.
As the mixture of feces and urine begins to heat up, the smell immediately comes out.
Yuan Shao and others were still watching outside the city. The east wind howled, and the unbearable stench soon floated to his army and spread to the entire army.
There was a massive commotion among all Yuan's soldiers. People covered their mouths and noses and kept gagging.
"this......"
Yuan Shao's counselors and generals on the high platform were dumbfounded.
Is there still such a way to fight a war?
Cooking shit in the city?
Disgusting people?
"Ming Gong, this..."
Even Liu Hui, who had always been a strategist, was stunned and at a loss.
Xin Ping clapped his hands and said sadly: "The world is getting worse. The world is getting worse. How can someone do such a bad thing?"
Xu You even felt like vomiting: "Why is there an east wind blowing today? The stench is unbearable and I'm about to vomit."
"Gongsun Zan is notorious today!"
Xun Chen was so disdainful that he had no idea that it was his distant cousin who did this in the city.
"Ming Gong, otherwise, it's better not to attack the city today."
Wen Chou, Gao Lan and other generals only felt their scalps numb.
It didn't sound like much from a distance, but as frontline generals, they had to take the lead and lead the soldiers to charge towards the city.
If you get rained on, the hot feces will cause your skin to peel off even if you don't die. It's even scarier than hot oil.
Although they don't know about bacterial warfare, they don't know that pouring gold juice can cause the wound to become inflamed and bacterially infected, making it difficult to heal and requiring penicillin to cure it.
But even as a normal person, I don't want to get wet by this thing at all.
Yuan Shao's mentality was a bit broken, but he still held back and said: "How can a great general be so lazy? Seeing that the city is about to be destroyed, everyone must be patient. After the city is destroyed, if Gongsun Zan is captured alive, I will soak him in excrement water and drown him."
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"Ming Gong, this..."
"Okay, don't say any more, beat the drums and prepare to attack the city."
The soldiers wanted to say something more, but they were forcibly interrupted by Yuan Shao. He was not a person who cherished his soldiers, and it was not him who went up to soak in manure anyway.
The powerful people gave the order, and the soldiers at the bottom were the ones who suffered. Drums were beating, and officers at all levels urged the soldiers forward.
As soon as they moved here, the soldiers in the city also began to move. After all, it is unrealistic to rely on two thousand soldiers to defend the city. The archers on the enemy's well can suppress the dung-throwers on the top of the city and dare not show up.
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Under the general's forced order, Yuan Jun's soldiers had to endure terrible physical pressure and began to advance slowly, starting with the usual rams and wooden curtains, and then the well-mounted chariots.
Countless soldiers went into battle carrying ladders and planks of trench bridges. The day before yesterday and yesterday were fire attacks. The ladders and trench bridges were burned to the ground and had to be re-laid every time.
"Enemy attack!"
Following the sharp shouts from the top of the city, the city of Fuyang also began to move.
In the two-day brutal battle, not only Yuan Shao's army suffered heavy casualties, but the Qingzhou army also suffered heavy casualties. Hundreds of soldiers were shot to death by archers on the fence alone, plus the soldiers who were injured and died during the offensive and defensive battle at the top of the city.
There were about two to three thousand casualties.
Although it was a huge advantage compared to Yuan Shao's army who suffered nearly tens of thousands of casualties, the Qingzhou army was defending the city and its numbers were small. It still suffered such large casualties, which shows how brutal the war was.
There is no other way. The city is too small and is not conducive to defense. Once the ladder is set up, the strong Yuan Jun soldiers can climb up within a few breaths, making it impossible to defend.
The first to start were the archers on both sides.
The archers of the Qingzhou Army on the top of the city soaked their arrows in the boiled gold juice. Otherwise, if this thing did not hurt the enemy, it would hurt themselves first. Before they started shooting, many archers were already vomiting and filled with bile.
Spit it out quickly, you won't be able to shoot an arrow at all.
For a while, there were sounds of vomiting on the top of the city. Fortunately, Zang Ba did not allow all the soldiers to eat in the morning, otherwise there would be no idea how much vomit was on the top of the city alone.
However, after this thing was boiled, the fragrance spread for ten miles, and Yuan Jun outside the city felt uncomfortable. They moved forward slowly one by one, much slower than the previous two days, moving like a turtle crawling, forcing the supervising team to
They had to kill some cowardly soldiers before they started to move forward.
"Fire the arrow!"
When the enemy and we reached the distance between the arrows, at the command, the archers fired arrows one after another.
Soaking arrows in feces is also a commonly used method in ancient times.
Ever since Geng Gong of the Eastern Han Dynasty invented poisonous arrows, people have discovered that using arrows soaked in excrement water to kill enemies will cause the wounds to be difficult to heal and cause them to fester and die. Therefore, this method is often used in offensive and defensive battles.
Arrows from both sides shot at each other like meteors, and there was a clanging sound of iron weapons inside and outside the city. Since the enemy had a wooden curtain in front and an iron shield behind, the bows and arrows did not do much damage, and there were planks and walls on the city wall to block the arrows.
It is not easy to be hit if you use the crenels of the female wall to shoot arrows, so the first wave of bows and arrows did not have much effect on either side.
But as the distance gets closer, bows and arrows are also exerting their power. Occasionally, unlucky people are hit by arrows. Not to mention the sharp arrows, just the boiling excrement water above is enough for Yuan Jun soldiers to drink a pot.
At that time, there were bursts of wailing outside the city, disrupting the rhythm of Yuan's army's attack on the city.
On the contrary, Yuan Jun's soldiers were very virtuous. They did not apply poison on their arrows or soak them in excrement water. When they were shot, they were just skin wounds. After being simply bandaged, they still retained their combat effectiveness.
In the end, countless Yuan Jun soldiers finally arrived at the city gate and began to lay wooden plank trench bridges.
At this stage, there is still no direct contact between the two sides, and the archers are still facing each other.
But after crossing the trench and Yuan's army began to lay ladders, the Jizhou Army's nightmare finally began.
It was an indescribable experience.
The Qingzhou Army at the top of the city used gourds as gourds and tied wooden sticks to them to make poles. Even city dwellers must have heard of how rural people pick up dung for fertilization and scoop the dung out of the cesspool.
an object.
The hot golden juice was poured down on the head, and it was not poured directly outside the city, but was poured down the ladders, one ladder at a time, and it kept pouring down.
Yuan Jun could not fly over the walls. If he wanted to reach the top of the city, he had to climb a ladder.
So when the golden juice fell down the ladder, the first ones to suffer were the soldiers who were the first to rush towards the city.
This group of people are sword and shield players. They hold a shield in their left hand and a knife in their right hand. When climbing a ladder, they often hold the shield above their head with their left hand, attach a knife to their waist, climb with their right hand, and then draw their knife to slash when they reach the top of the city.
But what we need to know is that a large, all-round defense shield cannot be lifted with one hand, so the average sword and shield hand is almost always a small round shield, or made of wood.
It is almost impossible to cover the whole body with this kind of shield. The gold juice pours down as if it costs nothing. A little splash on the face can burn the face to a boil and cause unbearable pain.
And you have to climb a ladder. Getting feces on the ladder is a great physical and psychological test. The feces is so hot that you get blisters even if you touch it.
For a moment, the soldiers on the ladders were scalded off one after another, and as scoops of excrement poured out, the ground below the city was filled with filth, and there was no place to stay. Yuan Jun’s first wave of offensive barely made any waves.
was repulsed.
"this......."
Seeing that the power of the golden juice was so great that even the first wave of attacks could not climb up the ladder, Yuan Shao and everyone on the high platform looked at each other in silence.
This move actually worked well.
After a while, Liu Huicai said: "Ming Gong, let's stop the troops today. The morale of the soldiers has dropped to the bottom."
Yuan Shao looked over and saw that all the soldiers under his command were pale and nauseating.
You must know that this is only the first wave of tentative attacks. There are three sides of the city. There are less than 20,000 people attacking at the beginning. Five or six thousand people in the vanguard start to climb the city wall. Then the golden juice pours down, causing thousands of casualties. The rest will continue.
He didn't dare to rush down the city wall.
There are still 60,000 to 70,000 people in the rear, preparing for the next wave of massive attacks.
As a result, in the first wave of exploratory attacks, the lethality of the golden juice was too great, which shocked the soldiers behind him, making everyone have difficulty breathing and trembling.
Obviously it is difficult to fight again today.
"hateful."
Yuan Shao was furious and said: "Gongsun Zan behaves like this, how is he any different from an animal!"
"Ming Gong, please withdraw your troops. Our stone cart will be ready soon. Fuyang City is small. If we bombard it for several days, we will be able to break the city."
Xun Chen also advised that as a man of integrity, he couldn't stand the smell of this stuff.
"Ming Jin!"
Yuan Shao had no choice but to order the withdrawal of his troops.
Yesterday and the day before, we were forced back by the fire, and today we were forced back by the golden juice. The small Fuyang City was so difficult to attack.
But the catapult will be ready soon, and he wants to see what cards Gongsun Zan has to fight him!