Chapter 49

"Damn it!"

General Fang, who was escorted by the sword shield hand, looked at the fire wall in front of him, and his eyes were full of flames.

It was not easy to wait until the five fire walls were gradually extinguished. He quickly ordered the engineers to bury the road and want to win Xiyun city.

As a result, the siege equipment had just been pushed to the front line. Before it could play its role, a fire wall suddenly sprung up, which made everyone stop.

It's a big fire.

According to Chen Ze's orders, the soldiers poured enough fire oil into the 200 meter trench behind them. Once ignited, it was like an explosion, and the flames were almost one person high.

Although the trench is not wide, it only needs a run-up sprint to leap over, at most scorching a few strands of hair.

But what about siege equipment?

In order not to let the wheels get stuck, these trenches have to be filled!

However, the fire is not as broken as ice. One piece is one piece. Before they go down this bag of sand, the fire on both sides is pressed out, and the gap can not be seen from above.

The catapult is made of wood. Although the siege tower is covered with wet animal skin, it is not on the wheels. Moreover, with the fire, I'm afraid the animal skin will be dried soon. At that time, the rockets on the city tower will not last for several rounds.

If you want to fill a gap in the fire wall that can be crossed by siege equipment, it will cost at least twice as much as the ordinary trench before!

The previous sandbags can be picked up after the siege equipment passes, but what about those in the fire pit?

Sand is not afraid of fire, but gunny bags containing sand are afraid of fire. The sand has dispersed long ago and can not be reused at all. The number of sandbags carried by the poison fog army is completely insufficient.

As for using the huge shield of the sword shield hand to build a passage

What happens when wooden wheels roll over red chrome iron?

General Fang did not want to make such a senseless attempt.

therefore.

"Wait!"

Facing the questioning eyes of the leaders of various forces, general Fang clenched his teeth and forced the word out of his throat.

At present, we can only wait until the flame goes out!

The fire in the ditch was so fierce that no one continued to add firewood and oil to it. After burning for a while, the flame would become smaller, as was the case with the five fire walls just now.

General Fang could see clearly that even if the trench behind the fire wall was full of fire oil, it could only stop them for a moment. According to the extinguishing speed of the fire wall before, at most at midnight, all the fuel in the trench would be exhausted.

Although there are more than two hours left, it is far from making his soldiers dizzy with hunger, and their strength will not be greatly affected.

Of course, general Fang, who knew nothing about Chen Ze, did not know what the word Zishi meant.

General Fang didn't worry about it. First, he arranged for the army to have a rest on the spot, and then asked everyone to take out a small amount of dry food they carried and eat it evenly. The big guys ate it separately and recovered their strength.

He also adjusted the formation.

General Fang didn't forget the ambush behind him, and didn't want to be stabbed by an unexpected ambush from behind when the fierce battle was coming.

Therefore, some troops were assigned to defend the rear. Together with the cavalry on both sides, an iron bucket array was set up under the Xiyun city.

At the same time, he didn't insist on taking the west gate. While waiting for the flame to go out, he also sent scouts to explore the situation of the other two gates. Once he had the opportunity, he didn't mind bypassing the west gate and attacking the other two.

Everything was ready. General Fang's eyes passed through the fire and stared at the word Xiyun above the tower. His face was full of resentment.

His rank in the Zhu Yan empire was not low. When he sneaked into the forest of poison fog three years ago, he was a sixth class general. Accepting this task was also jealous of the reward for his high combat achievements, which could promote him to the rank of school captain at one fell swoop.

After three years of careful planning, I wanted to succeed in one fell swoop, but I didn't expect to be stuck in the first step just after I got out of the forest of poison fog.

All this was brought to him by the current urban defense commander of Xiyun city. General Fang was filled with indignation and secretly vowed to frustrate this person when the city was broken!

And Chen Ze

Chen Ze was not on the city tower. He didn't feel general Fang's resentful eyes at all.

Seeing that the poisonous fog army under the city was stopped 200 meters away by the fire wall, he was relieved that the situation was still under control for the time being.

The greatest threat to urban defense is the siege equipment on hand.

Needless to say, the siege tower has to be pushed to the side of the city wall to play its greatest role. Chen Ze has long calculated the catapult with strong long-range strike ability.

The catapult is just to install four wheels on the catapult. The attack distance is the same. If it is flat, it is about 100 meters. However, if you want to attack the city tower with back fire, the distance should be narrowed to 70 meters. Otherwise, the stone bullet can only blast on the city wall. With the thickness of the West Cloud City wall, the other party has only three catapults, which is far from enough to collapse the city wall by throwing stones alone.

Since the other party didn't even reach the effective attack distance, he naturally didn't have any reason to stay at the head of the city. During this time, Chen Ze came down from the city wall and went to check the progress of his previous tasks with Li Quan'an.

As for Meng Yang and a group of sword shield gunmen, they have disappeared. Chen Ze's own soldiers on the tower are only the five archers who are closely observing the fire below. Once they see that the fire wall is about to go out, they will fire arrows to light the next ditch, which is very stable.

"My Lord!"

"My Lord!"

Down from the city wall, the soldiers along the way all stood at attention and saluted when they saw Chen Ze, with heartfelt respect on their faces.

Xiyun City, which no one is confident of keeping, is still alive. Whether it's the fire wall outside the city or the fire of the enemy's army, it's all from Chen Ze. The soldiers' previous pessimism and despair has weakened a lot, stabilized the morale of the army and revived the morale. After the soldiers admire Chen Ze.

But now is not the time to relax.

While responding to the soldiers, Chen Ze led Li Quan'an to the square in front of the city gate. It was crowded and shouting. Everyone was busy with the work at hand.

Ten catapults have been basically erected. At this time, they are placed in the shape of arrows according to the formation of one, two and three, and the tip of the arrow points right outside the city gate.

"My Lord, the catapult has been set up!"

Seeing Chen Ze coming, Xu Qing, who commanded the soldiers, wiped the sweat on his forehead and hurried to Chen Ze to report.

"Very good!"

Chen Ze glanced, nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile, "where's the pitcher? Tell everyone to gather. It's time for class."