Guo Rong looked at Luo Youdu in surprise, wondering for a moment what he wanted these corpses for?
My confidant has always been kind, so he wouldn't use these corpses to do any sinister things, right?
He didn't think much, and had people clean up the battlefield, clearing out the weapons, clothes and armor, and handed the body to Luo Youdu.
Luo Youdu did not do anything immoral, he just gave the order.
The corpses were stuffed with wet firewood and transported to the north of Youzhou City where they were piled up.
The north tower of Youzhou City.
Shi Fang, Xiao Hunian gathered together again.
They had received news that Khitan reinforcements had arrived at the front line and were stationed ten miles away from the North Camp of the Central Plains in the north of the city, facing tit-for-tat with the Central Plains army.
This kind of exciting and morale-boosting good news,
Of course Shi Fang wouldn't let it go.
Reinforcements will arrive early this morning.
The news of their victory was conveyed to the whole army,
Notices were also posted to appease the people in the city.
As the number one scholar, Shi Fang's literary talent goes without saying. He wrote more than a hundred words eloquently, praising their sleeping emperor to the heavens without even blushing.
When this news spread, the originally pessimistic mood and morale of the defenders was in vain.
Originally falling into a dead end, the whole city of Youzhou was filled with pessimism. Suddenly, they learned that His Majesty the Emperor came to the rescue with a hundred thousand heavenly troops. The feeling of surviving from death was definitely different.
They had received news of the unusual movement in Beiying Village today early in the morning, and they all knew that reinforcements must have arrived to attack the village.
Although the Zhou army camp blocked their view and could not clearly see the battle situation, they still came to the Beicheng Tower hoping to get a glimpse of the situation.
no matter what the result is,
Be prepared to be comforted.
Until I looked at the Zhou soldiers one by one,
When the corpses are moved nearby and piled up.
Shi Fang, Xiao Hunian's heart sank.
In this case, it goes without saying that the battle must be defeated.
A trace of anger flashed in Xiao Hunian's eyes and he said: "Are they going to build a Beijing temple to show off?"
Shi Fang said: "Nine times out of ten, they want to use this to scare our army and make our army afraid. I'm afraid they will have the opposite effect. The more this happens, the more it will arouse our army's hatred of the same enemy."
Not long after he finished speaking, he discovered that the other party had piled the bodies up, not to show off, but to burn them.
When these two armies fought, it was normal to burn corpses.
With the development of medical skills, people of this era all understood that the environment and corpses during combat were most likely to cause plague.
Therefore, burning corpses to prevent epidemics is a kind act during wartime.
Shi Fang and Xiao Hunian looked at the three huge fires in the distance, and an idea came to their minds.
What is the other person doing?
The two of them didn't understand why, and time passed by little by little.
The fire is getting stronger and stronger!
It burns from day to night, and from night to day.
Shi Fang and Xiao Hunian both saw fear in each other's eyes.
How many of them died?
Why did it take so long?
Still burning?
When the reinforcements arrived, they suffered a disastrous defeat?
Even they felt this way, especially the soldiers on the tower.
The original joy of the arrival of reinforcements was gone.
What can we expect from reinforcements that are so good?
There were more than a thousand corpses, and Luo Youdu burned them to the point where it felt like ten or twenty thousand people were dead...
Dark clouds cover.
After yesterday’s lesson,
Yelujing and the others have realized the problem.
The weather gets hotter as the weather goes on, and shouting in the sun outside the camp is a waste of your energy. The opponent can seize the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow anytime, anywhere.
The next day, they no longer hoped that they could lure Zhou soldiers out of the stronghold with their mouths, and they no longer hesitated and began to attack the northern stronghold.
They divided their troops into three groups and attacked Dazhai and the small villages on the left and right together.
Luo Youdu was not planning to attack the city. He stood behind Guo Rong and watched the Khitan people's attack techniques at close range.
The Khitan people's method of attacking the camp is very old-fashioned, which is to simply attack by ants.
They held their shields high, held a variety of weapons, and swarmed forward with shouts.
Facing the densely packed enemy, the Zhou soldiers naturally shot their bows and arrows without hesitation.
The black rain of arrows poured down, and in the face of this ant formation, the effect of the arrow rain was extremely good.
Hundreds of Khitan soldiers fell to the ground, and some were nailed to the ground without even making a sound.
The infantry all use hard bows. If a strong man in the army can shoot three or five bows, it is already very impressive.
The power of this step bow is not comparable to that of the horse bow.
Luo Youdu couldn't help but admire him when he saw this.
The first hurdle the Khitan soldiers faced was a series of horse rejections at the entrance of the camp.
Unexpectedly, they suddenly stopped attacking before they could resist the horse, and seven or eight strong men rushed out from the rear covered by the Khitan soldiers.
They threw jars of earthen jars at the village gate from a distance.
The earthen jars were smashed on the village gate and fence, some shattered directly, and some fell to the ground and shattered.
Without exception, pitch black juice flowed out of them.
As the flames ignited, dark poisonous smoke rose into the sky along with the fire.
Luo Youdu is very familiar with this situation.
In the Huaihe River water battle, he used this thing to defeat the Southern Tang navy.
oil!
The Khitan really knew how to use it.
Just as Luo Youdu expected, since the Khitan received the fierce fire oil as tribute from Nanwu, they who were not good at attacking cities immediately felt like a treasure.
Such resources began to be collected for military use and were prohibited from being sold to foreign countries.
The Khitans didn't know how to extract oil yet, so they could only do simple extraction and collection.
However, there is a large amount of oil stored underground in the Northeast. From time to time, some oil will appear for various reasons. This thing is very valuable, and the Khitan court directly purchases it. Every year, hunters search for this oil while hunting, and every time they find it, they can sell it for a good price.
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Over the months, the Khitan court has stored a lot of them, and they have been stored in important military towns within the territory.
In Youdu Prefecture, only Youzhou and Jizhou, two major military locations, have oil. In order to attack the stronghold today, they specially transported the oil from Jizhou.
Zhou Jun also reacted extremely quickly and began to pour sand and earth on the flames.
He performed the rescue skill skillfully and correctly.
The Khitan soldiers also took advantage of the black smoke to obscure their view, pushed the Juma down and changed its direction.
The Khitan soldiers behind also started shooting at the soldiers in the stronghold at close range.
Many Zhou soldiers also died under bows and arrows.
Especially the soldiers who put out the fire were deliberately targeted.
But soon Zhou Jun also fired his second round of arrow rain.
The dense arrows took away hundreds of people again.
Although this oil is terrible, as long as it is used in the right way, it is not enough to affect the situation of the war.
The diversion of less water will soon be extinguished under the isolation of sand and soil.
It's just inevitable that irreparable marks were left on the village gate and fence, making the strong wooden fence fragile.
A hint of surprise flashed in Guo Rong's eyes, and he said: "I didn't expect that I would use my own trump card in this move."
Luo Youdu replied: "It seems that he has made a lot of determination."
He looked at the flames that were gradually disappearing, and began to estimate the oil reserves in Youzhou City in his mind, and breathed a sigh of relief.
This level of energy is far inferior to what I used in the Huaihe River water battle.
The number must be limited, and there must be some in Youzhou City, but it will not affect the overall situation.
At this time, there were new changes on the battlefield.
Seeing that the oil fire was extinguished, the Khitan soldiers rushed towards Dazhai with their heads covered.
They were carrying ramming sticks against oil-burnt fences.
The Zhou soldiers used their spears to stab the Khitan soldiers through the gaps in the fence.
With every impact, the Zhou soldiers would use their spears to inflict fatal wounds on the Khitan soldiers.
Obviously the Khitan spent a lot of money this time, regardless of casualties, the Khitan soldiers came one after another to fill their positions.
With each piece of fresh life, the fence that had become fragile due to the burning of oil was broken open, opening a hole.
"broken!"
Yelv Xiezhen was overjoyed.
With Xiao Siwen as a foil, Yelv Xiezhen, who was already good at military strategy, was favored by Yelujing and was appointed as an offensive general.
Yelu Xiezhen ordered without hesitation: "Charge into the breach!"
He looked at the gap excitedly.
In fact, there was no need to wait for his order, the brave Khitan soldiers had already begun to rush into the Zhou army's stronghold.
"Well done..."
Before Yelu Xiezhen could express his praise, his smile gradually became stiff.
The Khitan soldiers who rushed into the breach actually escaped and came back.
Two door-blocking machines blocked the breach tightly.
Faced with the oncoming attack of such a door-blocking knife cart, who dares to fight head-on?
Perhaps due to special reasons, the technology trees of Khitan and Central Plains are almost the same.
But how to use these technologies?
Compared with the Central Plains, Khitan is still a younger brother.
The Khitan attack was fierce, but the Zhou soldiers occupied the favorable location of the camp and successfully drove back the Khitan soldiers time and time again.
From morning to night, six thousand Khitan soldiers fell in front of the large and small military strongholds.
Although Zhou Jun had a defensive advantage, he only lost more than a thousand men.
Luo Youdu watched the whole battle and had a certain improvement in the combat effectiveness and tenacity of the Khitan soldiers.
They also have the courage and determination to fight to the death, but they are just used to retreating in search of fighter opportunities.
With today's battle ending with this casualty ratio, Guo Rong was in a good mood. Before Luo Youdu could speak, he said first, "Do you want these corpses?"
How could he not see what Luo Youdu was playing at this moment?
"Of course! The fire over there hasn't gone out yet!"
Luo Youdu narrowed his eyes and smiled, then repeated his old trick and threw the newly obtained corpses into the three fires again.
He seemed to feel that the three piles of corpses were being burned too slowly, so he added five more.
Eight corpse piles were burned day and night.
What Luo Youdu burned were the corpses of Khitan soldiers, but what he burned was the hope and morale of Youzhou City.
Shi Fang, Xiao Hunian's face became increasingly ugly.
Shi Fang was filled with powerlessness and said: "I just got the news that the six hundred servants gathered in the Yoshi family and the Mo family have all run away, and not a single one is left. Someone must have threatened them, and they don't dare to offend the eldest lady.
, let alone offend the Central Plains. We simply ran away. We don’t have soldiers in our hands and we won’t offend both sides.”
Xiao Hunian punched the city wall and said: "With the current situation, no one believes that we will win. We didn't stab us in the back at the critical moment and opened the door to the Central Plains. It's already pretty good. What else do you want?"
Shi Fang looked pale and asked, "Are we going to use the remaining one thousand people?"
Xiao Hunian said angrily: "You ask me, I will ask who to go to."
She finally got the chance to go to the battlefield, but found that the battlefield was different from what she thought.