My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?

Chapter 69: Trivial skills, nothing worth mentioning!
October [-], the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Qin.

The sky was dimming, and the Qin army's front troops threw away their torches, climbed on the ladders, and continued to attack the Xinzheng city wall.

For three whole days, the Qin army's offensive continued day and night, without sleep or rest!
Just when everyone thought that today would still end in a strong attack, a fast horse flew out of the baggage camp and ran to the command platform. The knight on the horse shouted:
"Thirty trebuchets are ready!"

"Please show me the general!"

Ying Chengyu finally showed a smile: "Instruct the front army to increase the intensity of the attack!"

"Send the order to the transport camp and select the main target at the head of Xinzheng City for diffuse coverage!"

"Command the entire army to put on armor and prepare for a general attack!"

With the flags waving and war drums beating, the Qin army's front troops attacked the city wall more and more crazily.

Several soldiers have even rushed to the city wall!
In the front line of the Qin army, three thousand soldiers roared in unison: "Throw it away!"

Accompanied by the sound of shouts and shouts, three thousand strong men pulled the rope and ran backwards. The oil altar contained in the net bag was thrown along the parabola towards the head of Xinzheng City.

Looking at these flying jars from a distance, Zhang Rang's eyes narrowed.

The news obtained by Wancheng was also passed on to Xinzheng, so Zhang Rang also knew very well that these jars were the culprits that caused Xicheng to fall in one day.

Whether you can stand Xinzheng City depends on whether you can deal with these jars!
Zhang Rang immediately ordered: "Send an order to the whole army. If they encounter an open fire, they are not allowed to put out the fire on their own and act in accordance with the previous order."

"Send orders to the corvee to go to the city and proceed as planned."

"Send the order to the trebuchet, target the Qin army's trebuchet, and smash it to its original form at all costs!"

"The order..."

Orders were spat out one after another from Zhang Rang's mouth. The trebuchet standing at the top of Xinzheng City aimed at the Qin army's trebuchet and threw away heavy stone bullets.

A large number of corvees went up to the city wall with various objects and were ready.

Just when the first batch of jars hit the city, hundreds of corvees picked up linen cloths and rushed to the place where the jars fell. They quickly wiped the liquid flowing out of the jars with the linen cloths in their hands.

But before they could clean up the viscous liquid, the second and third batch of jars had already fallen onto the city wall.

On the command platform, Ying Chengyu clearly saw the actions of the Korean defenders. He did not dare to hesitate and ordered: "The front troops withdraw!"

"Crossbowman fires up!"

With an order, even the Qin army that had already rushed to the city wall quickly retreated.

In contrast, thousands of rockets were thrown towards the head of Xinzheng City.

Even if the Korean military corvee has cleaned up the oil as much as possible, the remaining layer of oil is enough to support a fire, and even ignited the barrels that the corvee used to hold the oil, triggering a more violent fire in a small area. of flame.

The Korean army's trebuchets and city gate towers, which were listed as key targets, instantly burst into flames!
Being in the sea of ​​fire, Zhang Rang showed no fear and just shouted in a deep voice:

"School A continues to guard the city wall and is not allowed to retreat!"

"Schools B, D, and Ji will act as ordered!"

The five thousand soldiers of School A could only huddle in a corner without fire in fear, looking at the jars that continued to fall from the sky in fear.

Fifteen thousand soldiers from the three schools of B, Ding and Ji poured sand, linen, bats, children's urine, geranium blood and other objects on the oil.

Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Sheng ran through the sea of ​​​​fire and ran to the city gate tower, shouting anxiously: "The fire is too strong, Aweng, abandon the city gate tower and retreat to the palace!"

Zhang Rang shouted angrily: "Retreat to the palace in this battle, where will we retreat in the next battle?"

"Since the King has handed over the army to the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister will not be ashamed of the King."

"I don't believe this fire can't be extinguished!"

Zhang Sheng said bitterly: "But the soldiers have tried all the methods you ordered before, and none of them worked..."

Before Zhang Sheng could finish his words, a soldier with a face full of smoke suddenly ran over excitedly: "General! Our troops put out the fire!"

Zhang Rang asked happily: "What method was used?"

The soldiers kept saying: "Sand!"

Zhang Sheng asked: "My troops are also using sand and gravel to put out the fire, but they can't extinguish the flames at all. Did your troops really put out the fire?" When marching in the wild, sand and gravel were often used to extinguish stove fires, so Zhang Sheng's troops were not interested in sand and gravel. Have great expectations.

But the result was that the fire first abated, and then continued to burn on its own.

The soldier hurriedly explained: "It's sand! You can't use sand and gravel. Our troops dumped a cart full of fine sand on the place where the fire broke out, and covered all the burned places with a thick layer, and the fire was extinguished!"

"General, look, we are putting out the fire there!"

Zhang Rang looked along and saw a small sand dune.

Both sides of the dune were filled with seas of fire, but only traces of black smoke were left on the dune.

But as the oil from both sides of the dune flowed over and covered the top of the dune, the dune also rekindled the flames.

Zhang Rang laughed heartily: "The true nature of this fire has been broken!"

"How else can the Qin army be so arrogant?"

Zhang Sheng reminded in a low voice: "Ah Weng, that sand dune is also on fire."

Zhang Rang said in a broken voice: "That's the flame flowing from somewhere else. If all the flames are extinguished with sand, where else can the flame flow from?"

"Instruct all the corvees to dig three feet into the east city area and transport all the sand to the city wall!"

"If you still can't extinguish the fire, then the truth is that the Shuangjie River will be blocked and the sand at the bottom of the Shuangjie River will be hollowed out!"

While speaking, Zhang Rang looked outside the city and met Ying Chengyu who was standing on the command platform, as if he wanted to tell Ying Chengyu.

A trivial skill that is worthless!
Looking at Zhang Rang's crazy smile and firm eyes, Ying Chengyu felt a little regretful: "What a pity."

Ying Chengyu never thought that all cities could be conquered by relying on oil alone. Otherwise, the most capable troops in the Northern Zhou Dynasty would not be the government soldiers, but the arson brigade.

But the reason why oil has been wreaking havoc in China's cold weapon wars for more than a thousand years is because even if the enemy is prepared, oil can still play a great role!

Ying Chengyu shouted in a deep voice: "Send the order to the front troops to attack the city!"

The Qin army's front troops roared towards Xinzheng City again.

After half an hour of hand-to-hand fighting, the jar filled with oil was thrown again.

The Qin army's front troops quickly withdrew, and the Qin army's crossbowmen took advantage of the situation and ignited the oil.

The defenders who knew how to extinguish the fire were no longer as panicked as before, and hurriedly pushed the sand to extinguish the flames.

But during the journey, many piles of sand that had been used to cover the oil were kicked away, and the oil hidden beneath them started to burn again with just a spark.

The defenders finally extinguished the fire at the top of the city, but there was another noise below the city.

"First board! First board!"

Seeing the Qin army coming to the city again, Zhang Rang's originally confident smile turned bitter: "Burn the city with flames, our army will save it."

"Once the fire is put out, the formation will be chaotic and you can't look left or right."

"The Qin army can take advantage of this chaos to sneak onto the city wall and launch a surprise attack."

"This battle is difficult!"

In Zhang Rang's view, even if he knew how to extinguish the flames, the battle would still be extremely difficult.

But in an attic in the distance, Han Qi and others looked very ugly.

"I thought that the flames of the Qin army might defeat Prime Minister Zhang, but I never thought that it would be extinguished like this!"

"The demonic fire of the Qin Army is exaggerated, and it is in vain to make us look forward to it!"

"Wei has decided to send troops to help. If Zhang Rang can hold out until the Wei army comes to help without losing the city, then the army will definitely be dispatched by Zhang Rang. This will be very detrimental to us!"

Listening to the words of his subjects, Han Qi did not hesitate and gave the order: "Han Ke, go to the Qin camp in person!"

(End of this chapter)