The fire that soared into the sky on the city wall even ignited the ladders erected on the city wall!
One after another, the rebel soldiers jumped down from the city wall in panic. Those who jumped into the city fell directly to death. Those who jumped below the city made the people below the city gape in shock. The two groups of trembling rebel soldiers retreated for ten seconds.
Yu Bu looked at the rebel soldiers on the city wall wailing there!
There wasn't much fire oil splashed on the city wall, but just like Long Xuan put a lot of broken linen and wood on it, the fire raging on the city wall burned for nearly a quarter of an hour before slowly extinguishing!
A pungent smell of burnt barbecue mixed with the rich smell of blood fills the air! It makes people sick to smell it!
The raging fire seemed to have burned the entire city wall red!
This fire placed on the city wall killed nearly ten thousand rebel soldiers who Xiang Liang had climbed to the top of the city. Even if they were not burned to death, they jumped off the city wall and fell to their death when they panicked!
The entire battlefield fell into an eerie silence because of the fire!
"General, Ming Jin retreats his troops and we can fight again later!" Zhang Liang was silent for a while and then said!
Before Xiang Liang could speak, there was a sudden noise from the rear camp of the Chinese army. When he looked back, he saw a thick smoke curling up from the rear camp along with the sky-high firelight!
"Pull on fire, pull on fire!"
Faint shouts were heard in the distance accompanied by shouts of killing!
Xiang Liang's expression suddenly changed, "General, look!" Zhang Liang's words suddenly rang in his ears! Xiang Liang turned around and saw blazing fire and billowing smoke coming out of the camps in the east, west and north at the same time.
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"Ming Jin withdraws his troops!" Xiang Liang shouted sternly! "It's the Qin army's careful work! I didn't expect them to follow them all the way to Chengwu!" Xiang Liang said with an annoyed look on his face when he saw the flames burning in the four-sided camp!
When he was in Chen County, Xiang Liang was always on guard against the two thousand men of Black Iron due to the sudden attack by the Black Bird Army!
Granaries in several counties were burned down. Then with only more than 500 men, he dared to raid the granaries guarded by his heavy army, and successfully burned part of them, making Xiang Liang hate these seemingly elusive Qin troops!
If he hadn't succeeded in bringing in a large amount of grain from Shouchun and other places, I'm afraid he would soon be without food!
Immediately afterwards, the Qin army in Chenliucang in Chenliu County successfully burned nearly half of the grain and grass. If Xiang Bo had not led enough soldiers at that time and rescued them in time, the entire grain and grass in Chenliucang would have been destroyed by these Qin troops.
Once!
But since the battle of Chen Liu, the Qin army, which lost more than two hundred soldiers, has never appeared again. It seems that they all died in the battle of Chen Liu! But Xiang Liang still can't believe that all the soldiers of the Qin army died.
Got it!
Immediately afterwards, several assassinations against leading generals occurred in Suiyang, once again confirming Xiang Liang's guess!
So this time when he led the army from Suiyang to the north, Xiang Liang did not recruit a large number of civilians like he did in the past when he led troops to fight. Instead, he chose the fierce Baiyue barbarians to escort and transport the food and grass needed for the army! The reason why he did this was right
This was to prevent these Qin army spies from mingling with the civilians transporting grain and grass, and then cooperating inside and outside to take the opportunity to burn the grain and grass luggage!
As a result, during the march from Suiyang to Chengwu, there was not a single attack from the Qin army's troops, which made Xiang Liang gradually relax his vigilance against these Qin troops' troops!
However, he did not expect that these lingering Qin soldiers not only did not give up, but also followed him all the way to Chengwu. Today, when all his troops were out and his attention was on attacking the city, they launched an attack on the camp.
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Xiang Liang is not worried about the fires in the three camps in the east, west, north and west. Apart from tents, there is no such thing as food and grass in these three camps! He hopes that the food and grass will not be burned down, Xiang Liang prays secretly in his heart!
The raging fires ignited in the Chinese army camp and the three-party camp immediately caused some confusion among the rebel soldiers who were attacking the city. Fortunately, at this time, Xiang Liang's call to withdraw troops sounded in time, and the rebel soldiers who came out in full force retreated one after another!
The fire that suddenly broke out in Xiang Liang's camp was quickly reported to Hu Hai by Long Wei!
Hu Hai thought for a moment and knew that this must be the work of Heitie's Black Bird Army!
But to be honest, Hu Hai is a little disappointed with the Black Bird Army now! Since the Black Bird Army was able to follow Xiang Liang all the way to Chengwu, then why didn't he receive any news about the disappearance of Xiang Yu's 60,000-strong army?
Moreover, he had clearly ordered Hei Tie to delay Xiang Liang's army heading north as much as possible, but it seemed that Hei Tie failed to do so, otherwise Xiang Liang would not have arrived at Chengwu in just over two days!
However, Hu Hai also knew that the Xuannian Army, as the pilot of Da Qin's special forces, naturally still had a long way to go! Moreover, Xiang Yu's army obviously used some method to hide from the Xuannian Army!
However, Hu Hai thought the timing chosen by the Black Bird Army for today's action was very good!
The ones who burned Xiang Liang's camp were indeed the Black Bird Army under Heitie who followed Xiang Liang all the way north!
Now, of the more than 2,000 Xuannian troops who left the Pass and headed south, there are only about 1,300 left!
However, over the past month or so, the Xuanniao Army of more than 1,300 people has gradually become more like a special force! Although there is still a long way to go to achieve the effect Hu Hai wants!
When they received the edict from Hu Hai through Longwei, Heitie and the entire Xuanniao army were immediately panicked! You must know that they and others were staring at Xiang Liang's army every day, but in the end, Xiang Yu led an army of 60,000 all the way.
They went north to successfully ambush the emperor who was passing by Chengwu. From every angle, this was a dereliction of duty by the Xuanniao Army! And it was an extremely serious dereliction of duty!
Along the way, the Xuanniao Army was shouting for battle! After all, the emperor's order was very clear, which was to delay Xiang Liang's army from moving north! Since they had neglected their duty and let the emperor fall into Xiang Yu's ambush, if even the emperor, who was extremely
If the clear orders cannot be fulfilled, then the Black Bird Army will not exist for long after the war!
However, Heitie ignored all these invitations to fight and followed Xiang Liang's army to Chengwucheng from afar without moving any troops!
When Xiang Liang's numerous catapults were wreaking havoc on Chengwucheng, the Black Bird Army was even more excited, but was still suppressed by the black iron!
Heitie knew very well that if his more than a thousand people faced Xiang Liang's hundreds of thousands of troops, if they were exposed at this time, they would not only fail to play the role they should have, but they would even alert the enemy and completely ruin the entire Black Bird Army!
He always remembered the emperor's words, the Black Bird Army should hide in the dark like poisonous snakes, and then give the enemy a fatal blow! Instead of messing up the situation as the soldiers of the Black Bird Army thought, and risking their lives with their small and generous actions!
After all, although it is impossible for my elite force of more than a thousand people to defeat Xiang Liang's hundreds of thousands of troops head-on, if used well, it can often have unexpected effects!
What's more, Heitie felt that the emperor must be planning a big plan, otherwise he would not stop in Chengwu County! Judging from the combat power of the Xuanwu Army, if the emperor wanted to leave, Xiang Yu's 60,000 hundred Yue barbarians would definitely be
Unstoppable!
It was precisely in this situation that Heitie felt that he had to endure it until the end before giving Xiang Liang a harsh blow!
However, the catapult offensive of Xiang Liang's army made Heitie feel the danger, not his own danger, but the danger of the emperor! If Xiang Liang continues to use catapults like this, it won't be long before Chengwu City is destroyed.
Broken!
After all, the heavy armored cavalry of the Xuanwu Army can make a surprise attack once, but if they do it a second time, they will definitely not be able to destroy all the catapults in one fell swoop like the first time!
Therefore, Heitie took advantage of Xiang Liang's entire army to finally make a move!
Of course, his main goal is not to burn down the camp, nor to burn down the food and fodder! The food and fodder in Xiang Liang's Chinese army camp has always been heavily defended and heavily guarded since Chen County was attacked!
Black Iron's target this time is just a large amount of wood cut down from the mountains by Xiang Liang's army!
After burning the wood, if Xiang Liang wants to make trebuchets in large quantities, he will have to start over again, which will take more than a little time!
You know, now all the big trees within a few miles of Chengwu have been chopped down by Xiang Liang! If Xiang Liang didn't have this batch of wood, then whether he was making trebuchets or siege equipment, it would be impossible.
It needs to be cut down on Mengshan Mountain, which is more than 20 miles away from Chengwu!
And if there was no such disgusting thing as the trebuchet, it would not be so easy for Xiang Liang to rely on the human sea tactics to capture Chengwu City!
The operation went smoothly. The three camps in the east, west, north and west were empty at this time. The wood inside was easily burned by the kerosene carried by the Xuanniao Army. Burning the tents was just a casualty of the Xuanniao Army soldiers.
action!
In Xiang Liang's Central Army camp, in addition to being heavily guarded against grain and grass, there was not much protection against the wood that could be seen everywhere. Therefore, Xiang Liang's Central Army camp stored a large amount of wood until the flames filled the area before being discovered by the surrounding soldiers!
After all, at this time, everyone is focused on the fire in Chengwu City!
After setting the fire, all the Xuanwu soldiers exited Xiang Liang's camp unscathed and hid again!
Hearing that the food and grass had not been burned, Xiang Liang finally felt relieved!
"General! It seems that the Qin army has a master in its craftsmanship!" Zhang Liang sighed and said worriedly!
"Oh? Where did Zifang's words come from? If there is an expert in this craftsmanship, he should burn the food and grass while we are relaxing, but this Qin army's craftsman only burned some useless wood and other things! You know
, this wood is everywhere in the mountains and plains now! Haha!" The food and grass are not burned, Xiang Liang is in a good mood!
"The general is wrong!" Zhang Liang said helplessly!
"Why? It doesn't matter if you talk about the ovary!" Xiang Liang said in surprise!
"Our army's food and grass are heavily guarded. Even if these elaborate works can set fire, I am afraid that they will be discovered and extinguished immediately by the army! But this wood was neglected! Now all the trees near our army have been cut down, and now this is stored in
All the wood in the camp has been burned. If our army wants to make catapults and siege equipment, they will have to go to Meng Mountain, which is more than 20 miles away, to cut them down! Does the general know?" Zhang Liang sighed! (To be continued)
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