He dreamed that the Qin army came to attack, and he led the Zhao army to kill the Qin army with blood flowing into rivers, and ghosts crying and wolves howling.
Xuchang stood high on the top of the city, raised his sword and smiled in the wind.
It was majestic, admired by thousands of people, with loud gongs and drums, and red flags waving...
Xuchang even laughed a few times in his dream.
At this time, soldiers came to report:
"General, something bad is happening!"
"The Qin army is invading."
"The captain invites the general to come and take command in person!"
Xuchang woke up with a start, then sat up from the bed and cursed:
"I still want to know what it is."
"But it was the Qin army who came to die!"
"This is a good thing, how can it be called a 'bad thing'?"
Before the soldier could explain, Xuchang calmly shouted:
"Come on!"
"Hurry up and put your clothes on for me."
"Warm up another pot of wine, and when I bring back a few heads, I'll have a few drinks to celebrate."
Soldier:......
After Xuchang and several personal guards staggered onto the city wall, they saw Wang Bai and others looking nervous as if facing a powerful enemy.
Xuchang frowned and said with a hint of reproach in his tone:
"Captain, this is your fault."
"I am a general of an army."
"You should be calm when things change, and never be confused when facing rebellion. Only in this way can you set an example for an army..."
Wang Bai interrupted Xuchang and said: "General, the Qin army seems to be going to attack with fire!"
Xuchang laughed:
"I had expected that the Qin army would attack with fire."
"So move the wood chips and branches back."
"Let's see what the Qin army can do to me..."
Wang Bai interrupted Xuchang again: "General, the Qin army seems to be using trebuchet fire to attack."
Xuchang smiled again:
"It's just a trebuchet."
"Our army has rushed to make thousands of weapons."
"And being so condescending, how can the Qin army get close..."
This is when Xuchang suddenly stopped talking.
Because his eyes have turned to the city.
At this time, the Qin army had already lit fire bombs, and there were fireballs everywhere, like a sea of fire.
Xuchang's expression changed drastically, he turned around and shouted to Wang Bai:
"Why haven't we fired stone bullets yet?"
"Don't let the Qin army come up."
"There are also crossbowmen..."
Wang Bai just shook his head helplessly.
Why didn't he want to fire stone bullets?
But before the Qin army lit the fire, the city was completely dark. Where should he attack?
At this time it was too late to stop the Qin army.
Just hearing a "crunching" sound below the city, hundreds of fireballs rose into the sky and flew towards the city wall.
The flames of the fireball "whistled" in the mountain wind, breaking through the night like meteors breaking through the sky.
Then with a "teng" sound, it hit the city wall.
The sound of broken wood and screams were immediately heard from all around, as well as the sound of Zhao Jun's hurried counterattack.
However, after the Qin army fired the fire bombs, it was dark again, and the Zhao army's trebuchets were just a blind attack.
At this time, Xuchang was already panicking and hiding behind the female wall.
However, Wang Bai calmed down and ordered loudly:
"Trebuchet, prepare, don't fire randomly!"
"Crossbowmen, prepare rockets and indicate the position for the trebuchet."
"The rest of the soldiers go quickly to put out the fire!"
…
Wang Bai is indeed a veteran who has fought for many years. He immediately understands the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and ourselves.
As mentioned before, the Qin army chose to attack at night, which eliminated the Zhao army's superiority.
Although Zhao Jun's trebuchets could hit farther, they could not see the target.
What's more important is that you can't see the stone bullets you shot.
So like a blind man touching an elephant, he can only rely on his feelings and luck.
The hit rate of trebuchets in ancient times was not high.
It is only after adjustment that the improved version can barely hit three out of ten shots.
Zhao Jun was fighting indiscriminately in the dark without any control. If he could hit one out of ten shots, it would be considered good.
Therefore, the trebuchet needs rockets.
Use rocket lighting.
However, Zhao Jun was not well prepared, so he temporarily prepared a batch of rockets and then shot down sparsely...
The firelight was like a little starlight reflected in the water. It briefly illuminated Qin Jun's murderous face and then disappeared.
At this time, the Qin army was fighting freely.
The first batch fired by the Qin army were flint bullets.
The reason why it is a flint bullet is that it is easier to ignite if the logs on the city wall are smashed.
Although the hit rate of this batch of flint bullets was not high, their firelight illuminated the entire city.
Therefore, the Qin army's drill sergeant calmly adjusted the distance.
The accuracy of the next batch of stone bullets will naturally be different.
I saw Yang Ting reining in her horse and neighing in front, and then pointed her spear forward: "Let go!"
Immediately, fireballs passed over Yang Ting's head and headed straight for the enemy camp.
There was another sound of breaking wood, and the fire on the city wall became stronger again.
But this is just the beginning.
Immediately afterwards, the next batch was linen bombs.
Speaking of which, making linen bombs has some twists and turns.
The difficulty lies with Mai.
In ancient times, the workload of making clothes and trousers was quite large.
Spinning thread, weaving, cutting...everything requires a lot of time and patience.
It would be good for ordinary soldiers to have a change of clothes, but how can they donate so many linen clothes to make fire bombs.
Shen Bing didn't expect that this would become a problem. How could this be a problem in modern times?
But in ancient times with low productivity, a piece of clothing could never be as simple as Shen Bing thought.
Although it was just brown clothes (linen clothes) worn by ordinary people.
In the end, Gaocheren came up with a solution:
"We killed many Zhao soldiers when we entered the Great Wall."
"Why not take off their clothes and make fire bombs?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
This... is to strip the clothes off the dead person?
And it has been dead for several days and has begun to rot and stink?
But there is no way, this linen bomb is very important to the battle situation.
It can even be said that whether Zhao Jun can be "scorched inside and out" depends on this linen bullet.
So in the end, we organized some people to remove the clothes... but they weren't gunners.
Shen Bing found an excuse to report to Yang Ting:
"The artillery engineer needs to supervise the production of trebuchets and stone bullets and cannot be distracted."
"So this matter of collecting Mai..."
Yang Ting replied without thinking: "You go and supervise the production, I have my own arrangements."
It goes without saying what the self-owned arrangement is.
This matter soon fell on Tian Fei and a group of soldiers under his control.
It is said that Tian Bei and his subordinates were so smoked that they could not eat for a whole day.
Not only that, other troops also stayed away like the plague.
Na Tian hated Shen Bing so much that he gritted his teeth.
Linen bombs played a role during wartime.
Groups of fireballs shot into Zhao Jun's walled city from a distance.
Because the linen bullet is wrapped in linen, it is very elastic. When it lands, it actually jumps around like a ball with flames.
In an instant, fire broke out all over the camp, and the tents, sawdust piles, branches, etc. were all unavoidable.
Zhao Jun rushed around to put out the fire.
But after extinguishing the fire here and there, it became stronger again.
That side was wiped out and this side was resurrected.
It was finally almost destroyed, and just when I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, I found...
A group of fireballs flew overhead from a distance.