A thick curtain was placed on the outermost part of the tower, and a shield array was arranged behind it. All of this was arranged, and the effect could be said to be immediate.
Half of the cloud-piercing arrows shot by the Beifu soldiers and flying upward were blocked by these two layers of protection, and the casualties of the soldiers were also greatly reduced.
The situation is not good!
The Beifu soldiers are going to suffer?
Murong Chui stood up, he was going to add fuel to the fire to make the fight more lively.
“Why doesn’t General Fu use fire attack?”
Murong Chui strode over and Fu Rui gave him a disdainful look.
Old fox, want to see a joke again?
All kinds of military supplies in Xiangyang City are piled up into a hill. It can be said that everything is ready, but there is only one thing, but the preparations are not sufficient.
It is tung oil.
Tung oil is obtained by pressing the seeds of the tung tree, and the tung tree is widely distributed in the vast area ruled by the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Although there are also plantings near Xiangyang, since there are few trees, the oil that can be squeezed out is naturally less. There is a lack of tung oil in Xiangyang City. This is a secret in the Diqin military camp.
Old fox Murong Chui is now in high spirits, as if he has returned to the Yan Kingdom. He smiles, and so does Fu Rui.
The smile is more joyful than his.
“What a rare opportunity, General Fu and I thought of going together!”
“General, bring them all!”
Zhao Xiu’s cheerful voice came, and Murong Chui looked back and was dumbfounded.
Zhao Xiu was followed by several soldiers, each carrying a basket on his back. The basket was filled with rockets soaked in tung oil and wrapped in cloth!
Murong Chui was very embarrassed: "When did General Fu make such preparations? He is really far-sighted."
Fu Rui said he accepted Murong Chui's compliments well.
He sighed: "It's when you are training as a sailor!"
"I have said it a long time ago, our Qin army does not need to rely on sailors. Those things are just for show. In the end, we still have to rely on bows, arrows, swords, and cavalry assaults."
Murong Chui was shocked.
This General Fu is really a reincarnation of great wisdom. With a few words, he actually smoothed over the bad thing of having all the warships burned down!
Di Qin will probably have no shortage of masons when building palaces in the future.
Fu Rui took control of the command, and Murong Chui returned to the place where he had just watched the battle. Zhao Xiu secretly approached.
whispered in Fu Rui's ear: "Hu Si has been very close to Murong Chui recently. General, please be careful."
“So what if we get closer?”
"Anyway, Husi won't live long!" He raised his chin, and Zhao Xiu realized that Husi, who had never been able to charge forward, was now hiding behind the curtain, trying to shoot arrows at the bottom of the city.
The heavy curtain was already full of arrow holes and damaged even after it had been erected for a long time.
Even some of the holes were large, and feathers had already passed through them, piercing the archer's chest.
It looks very suspenseful.
Zhao Xiu brought the rocket, and the soldiers felt like they had found a treasure. When they saw it, their eyes lit up.
Hurrying up the bow and loading the arrow, he closed and released his fingers, and the rocket flew out in an instant, blazing with flames!
………
“Up the arrow!”
“Bring up some more rockets!”
The archers stood on the catapults, with huge stone bowls on their heads. The huge stones on the stone bowls had not yet been thrown out.
The soldiers faced this huge danger, but they still had high morale and no fear.
Their blood was boiling. In the sky above Xiangyang City, billowing smoke had already risen. The thicker the black smoke, the more excited the archers became.
This shows that their offensive effect is significant.
Standing on tall catapults, facing the evening breeze, the Beifu soldiers fired their arrows without any miss, and soon expanded the Jin army's advantage.
Historically, when fighting with favorable winds, the soldiers' momentum would get higher and higher. The archers would load and fire as hard as they could, and soon their quivers would be empty.
“Here, save some money.”
The archers looked down and saw that the person who provided them with equipment was actually Wang Mi, and they felt flattered.
A soldier representative obediently took the rocket with both hands. The others were unconvinced when they saw that there were only twenty arrows.
“Secretary Wang, aren’t there still a lot of rockets?”
“Give it all to us!”
“It’s so exciting to fight!”
"no!"
Facing the excited expressions of the archers, Wang Mi said these two words firmly.
Wherever the archers who were in high spirits were willing to comply, all kinds of pleas came out one after another. The main purpose was to persuade Secretary Wang to send them more rockets so that they could completely turn Xiangyang City into a sea of fire.
"No matter what you say, I won't give it to you. Moreover, after these twenty arrows are shot, you have to come down and don't shoot any more rockets tonight!"
what? What?
Secretary Wang actually wanted to give up such a useful artifact like rockets. The soldiers stared at Wang Mi in surprise.
What kind of tactic is this?
Hurry up and give me an explanation.
“Do you think the Qin army on the opposite side will not fight back?”
“Just wait and see, it won’t take long for the rocket trick to be cracked by the Qin army. Our equipment is limited, so we still have to save some.”
"Besides, I have other errands for you."
The soldiers’ eyes suddenly turned from dim to bright. Other errands?
Everyone said happily: "What is Secretary Wang's order?"
“Brothers, we must try our best!”
Beifu soldiers are so motivated that they have already rolled up their sleeves. As long as Wang Mi gives an order, they will quickly get into new work.
However, it is a pity that the errand Wang Mi arranged for them has nothing to do with the war.
Wang Mi had just sent the soldiers off the stone cannon carts. On the Xiangyang City Tower, rockets in bunches passed through the layers of blockades and headed straight for the battle formation in Beifu!
"quick!"
“Quickly put out the fire!”
You have rockets, but our Qin army doesn’t?
Not only do we have it, we want as much as we want, endlessly.
The Qin army occupied the Xiangyang City Tower and was in a condescending position, so the attack position was more favorable. Countless arrow clusters were blazing, and they were rushing to kill!
The Jin army was unprepared and only focused on continuous attacks. They did not expect that the Qin army would actually treat others with their own methods.
Not to mention the thick curtains, even the towering shield array gradually became loose as the battle lasted for too long.
The loopholes gradually increased to the point where it was impossible to stop the Qin army's rocket array. Soon, flames broke out in the battle array.
The soldiers were hit by arrows and rolling in a sea of fire. Wang Mi was presiding over the rocketeers in making a new secret weapon.
When he looked up, he was stunned!
"not good!"
“The Qin army fought back!”
“Send a slave! According to it!”
“Get ready to climb into the city!”
This man's temper also changes at a moment's notice. Just now, Wang Mi was biting his tongue and refused to let Liu Yu and the others play.
It is even more impossible to attack the city. The cavalry troops led by Liu Yu and others can only watch from a distance. Under the auspices of Wang Mi, the main combat method of the Beifu soldiers tonight is to attack from a distance. Try not to engage with the troops in the city.
It can be said that every Beifu soldier is an all-rounder on the battlefield and can play multiple roles, and they all perform them well.
For the general Wang Mi, he valued every comrade in the Beifu very much and was unwilling to consume the personnel of the Beifu prematurely.
Before reinforcements arrive, trying to preserve his strength is a problem he must face at this moment.
And when fighting on the city, the personnel of the two armies come into direct contact, the casualties of the Jin army will increase exponentially. If the follow-up reinforcements cannot arrive in time, then all the Beifu soldiers led by him will be left outside Xiangyang City!