Outside the Xuanhu City is vast, with the scorching sun, and water vapor steeping. Countless warships of all sizes sailing on the water, like dense ants, surrounding the Xuanhu City like pastries.

The rebels occupied Xuanhu and defeated the official army one after another. The emperor led the army in person. The prime minister led his troops to attack Xuanhu, vowing to recover the lost land and kill the rebels.

The prime minister loved soldiers like his son. In order to reduce casualties, he initially used a water attack strategy. However, the construction of dams downstream of Xuanhu both ended in failure, with thousands of casualties, but he failed to hurt the thief of Xuanhu.

The official army also built dams upstream and downstream, then dug upstream dams and released water to rush the city. They also sent dead soldiers to take a boat to attack the Xuanhu city wall. As a result, they didn't know what methods the Xuanhu thieves used, but they actually sank the warships they were riding on one by one.

The successive failures did not discourage the government army. The strategy of breaking the dike and releasing water to attack the city was not allowed to destroy the wall of Xuanhu City. However, the long fence and downstream dams built in advance kept the water tightly, making the wilderness outside Xuanhu City turn into a lake.

The water depth of the lake is enough for boats, and the government army has already built a large number of warships. In addition to the fast ships, there are also tower ships. If the tower ships can be driven near the Xuanhu City Wall, the top of the tower ship is even higher than the top of the city.

Therefore, by taking advantage of the flood to siege the city, the soldiers of the government and soldiers took warships to fight and attacked Xuanhu from four directions at the same time so that they could attack the city as soon as possible and eliminate the rebels.

Most of the officers and soldiers were not familiar with water, but there were many rivers in Yuzhou, and most of them were boating on the water to make a living. Therefore, this time, the government recruited a large number of people to act as boatmen to drive the boat.

At this moment, among the warships of the big and small heading towards Xuanhu, the oars were sweating profusely, accompanied by the intense drum sound, and waved the long oars neatly, allowing the ships where they were traveling forward quickly.

The ship is of size and speed. The hull is narrow and long, and dozens of fast boats are sailing on both sides, moving fast on the water like centipedes. The hull is huge, with three or four-story towers on it, moving slowly on the water like an old cow.

In the cabins on all levels of the building, many soldiers stood on the railings, and the boats on the water were inevitably bumpy. Many people felt a little dizzy, not because of fear, but because of seasickness. After all, many of them could not swim.

But this is not a reason to be afraid of fighting. Military orders are everywhere on the battlefield. Since the generals ordered attacks, there is no room for retreat.

The reason is this, but many soldiers who do not know how to water are still a little worried. After all, people who do not know how to water are panicked when they see deep water, let alone people who have never taken a boat can't walk steadily on the shaking boat.

Soldier Huang San was one of them. He and many fellow comrades held the railing tightly with one hand, for fear that he would accidentally slide into the water. Although there were many boatmen on the boat, even if they fell into the water, they would be immediately caught, but he still did not dare to take it lightly.

The government army built a dam to store water and irrigate the city. The water outside the city was so deep that no one was. Huang San felt that even if he could swim, he was still wearing armor and a sling, and he couldn't last long after falling into the water. So it would be better to have a happy time. Being shot to death is better than drowning.

If it weren't for the poor family, Huang San wouldn't have come to join the army, but since he had already become a soldier, he would have to fight his life.

If you have a bad life, you will die on the battlefield. If you have a good life, you will not be able to make military achievements. At that time, you will have a single official position, which will be considered a change in your family. Of course, Huang San also has his own dream, so he is willing to sacrifice his life.

Holding the strong bow in his hand tightly, reaching out to take out an arrow from the quiver, looking at the straight shaft, Huang San tried to calm his heart.

He was a archer. Like other archers in the team, he waited for the tower ship he was on to approach the head of Xuanhu City, and he would shoot against the enemy archers on the city to cover the infantry to climb the city.

How do infantrymen climb the city? It’s very simple. There is a springboard on the upper floor of the building. The ship puts down a long springboard after it is close to the city wall and can be directly placed on the top of the city. Then the soldiers can climb the city through the springboard.

It sounds simple, but it is not that easy to do. The defenders are not puppets, so it is impossible to do nothing. They just stare at the official warships approaching the city and putting a springboard.

Therefore, the other party must use various means, such as a catapult and a large crossbow.

"Note, pay attention! Now less than 800 steps away from the city, the enemy's big crossbow is about to shoot arrows. Please be careful!"

The shouts came one after another, and the generals on each ship were urging their subordinates to be careful. The thief in Shannan is said to have a large crossbow with a long range, with a range of about seven or eight hundred steps and a great power.

Huang San was a little worried, but worried that it was useless. Since the warship was about to approach Xuanhu, it had to withstand various attacks from the defenders. There were large crossbows shooting arrows at a distance of six or seven hundred steps. At a distance of two or three hundred steps, there were catapults shooting stones and thunder.

He had seen the power of a trencher. This tall weapon did not require human power to easily throw a huge rock weighing dozens of kilograms away from a distance of 200 steps. If it hit the boat, the ship would probably sink on the spot.

If the boat sinks, those who can swim can float up the water and then go back, while those who can't water will be done.

Huang San didn't want to drown, so he prayed in his heart that the boat he was riding would not be hit, but looking at the dense warships on both sides, he felt that he shouldn't be so unlucky.

There are so many warships on the water surface, and if the ship you are in is hit, it will be a bad thing.

While he was distracted, the tower ship had already traveled for a distance. Huang San and his comrades widened their eyes and looked ahead, waiting for the defenders in the city to fire giant arrows with large crossbows. Once there are giant arrows coming towards them, they can hide quickly.

However, as the ship continued to move forward, there was no movement in the city, but Huang Sanke did not take it lightly. He believed that the other party was deliberately setting it closer before shooting arrows.

Just like shooting on a daily basis, the target can be placed at 100 or even 120 steps away, but the lethality of the arrow at this distance is very low. Only about 75 steps can an arrow effectively shoot a person wearing a crotch armor.

When he reached the distance of fifty steps, the crotch armor was no longer good. When he reached the distance of thirty steps, the crotch armor could not block the arrows at all. Huang San and so on, thinking that the defenders in the city would have to wait for the official warships to get closer to the distance of three hundred steps before using a large crossbow to shoot arrows.

At this time, the two sides were close, and the hull of the tower ship was huge, and the large crossbow on the top of the city was not easy to shoot in a crooked manner. If the enemy fired a burning fire arrow, the tower ship could still be lit.

In order to prevent fire attacks, each building ship is equipped with a large number of buckets and water bags. It can extinguish the fire in a short period of time or prevent the fire from spreading, which is enough to support the ship near the city wall, but before that, how many soldiers will be killed depends entirely on their lives.

Huang San felt that his life was very hard, so he was confident of surviving. However, as time passed, he felt more and more strange, because his ship had approached less than four hundred steps, why was there no movement on the city wall?

The sound of trumpets came, and the speedboats mixed in the gap between the big ships rushed forward one after another. The soldiers on the ship rowed hard, which significantly accelerated the speed of the ship, and the load of thunder was thunder approaching the city wall ahead.

They were the vanguards of the entire army, first to attract the attack of the Xuanhu defender, and secondly to enter the city wall to detonate the sky thunder and destroy the city wall as much as possible.

If the enemy uses catapults or crossbows to attack these fast ships, there will be little chance of attacking the large ships.

The attack speed of the big crossbow and the catapult is slow. After the first round of attack and before the second round of attack begins, there will be a long preparation period, and the official army's tower ship can take the opportunity to rush towards the city wall, put it down and climb the dead soldiers to attack the city first.

If the enemy attacks the slow-moving tower ship, then the fast ship can rush under the city wall in a short time and detonate the sky thunder, which can also cause huge trouble. With such fast and slow cooperation, and the siege of the city from all directions, Huang San feels that today's official army may be able to break the city.

Just as he was thinking about how to kill the enemy and make meritorious achievements, he saw a commotion in front of the deck. Many people pointed to Xuanhu City and said something. Huang San raised his eyes and found that more than ten small boats appeared in the waters ahead with his good eyesight.

It was a small boat released by the Xuanhu thief. He was sneaky on the water and didn't know what to do. He seemed to want to circle the city, but what's the use of turning around at this time?

With so many warships in the official army, you can be sunk as soon as you rush forward!

The dozen or so small boats were sneaking around outside the city. Perhaps they saw the invading enemy being aggressive, so they turned around and drove towards the city wall. Huang San had a good eye and could see clearly: the boats were hiding behind the high towers outside the city wall.

These high towers blocked the city wall and the city gate. Now they are like small islands, scattered outside the Xuanhu City Wall. Huang San estimated the distance between the high towers and felt that the tower ship on his side would not be able to approach the city wall. It is very likely that he would just put down the springboard at the high tower and let the dead soldiers climb up first.

There is a strange battle shed on the high base, and it seems that someone is guarding it. I think a bloody battle will break out later. Huang San has confidence in the official army, himself, and is confident in his life. He has confidence in the confrontation with the enemy archers.

The warship approaching Xuanhu from all directions continued to move forward, and the clutch rushing in front had already stretched more than a hundred steps away from the tower ship behind him, only 200 steps away from the Xuanhu City Wall, and the distance was still rapidly shortening.

These Clippers, full of sky-burning thunder, rushed forward fearlessly. Seeing that the distance had been shortened to more than a hundred steps and there was still no movement at the top of the city, Huang San felt something was strange. Then he saw that the Clippers suddenly stopped moving, as if they were blocked by something in the water.

Perhaps the thief had a few circles of wooden stakes outside the city wall, blocking the clutch's ships from moving forward, but unless the stakes raised were obviously higher than the water, how could they block the boat?

The water is very deep, and the wooden stakes must be long to show their heads on the water surface. As long as you use the hook to resist the exposed part of the water and push it hard, you can easily push it crooked. Push the two wooden stakes to the left and right, and the narrow and long clutch can continue to move forward.

So what are these Clippers going on there?

Huang San couldn't figure it out, but he became more and more confused: his own clutch moved back for some reason, as if the boat was rowing in the opposite direction and was about to escape in the direction he came.

The breeze blew, and Huang San smelled a pungent smell. He had never smelled the smell before, nor did he know what object emitted it. On the water surface ahead, a layer of black liquid could be seen floating.

Under the sunlight, on the yellow water surface, this layer of liquid flashed with a little colorful color, like a long ribbon, surrounding the Xuanhu City, with a thickness of about 30 to 40 steps.

The official army's clutch seemed to be fleeing the water where the "ribbon" was located.

The boats had approached the ribbon, and the big crossbow on the ship was ready to fire arrows at the head of Xuanhu City. At this moment, some fire suddenly lit up at the head of Xuanhu City, as if an archer was preparing to shoot arrows.

What's the use of shooting fire arrows just a few people?

Huang San watched a few fire arrows flying out from the city. While he was puzzled, the fire arrows fell on the water surface and ignited the layer of liquid floating on the muddy yellow water surface.

The colorful "ribbons" originally flashed, instantly burned into a "flame ribbon", blocking the front of the official army ship like a wall of fire. Huang San did not expect that the water could burn, and watched the fast ships that were retreating were ignited one after another.

Then there was a violent explosion.

That was the sky-burning thunder carried by the Clippers that were ignited and detonated.

Explosions came one after another, and even if the soldiers on the Clippers jumped into the water and could not escape the bad luck. They either disappeared into the black smoke or howled on the burning water. The officers and soldiers on the tower were stunned when they saw this scene.

The well-informed general shouted loudly, "There is tincture on the water surface", directed the boatman to row the boat in the opposite direction, trying to stop the ship, and then use the stern as the bow of the ship to evacuate. However, countless warships rushing towards Xuanhu from all directions, and they are anxious and can't respond flexibly.

The hull of the tower was heavy, and finally lifted its speed and advanced towards Xuanhu, so it could stop at nothing. Many of the fast ships rushing ahead had already sailed into the water where tinder oil floated, and the fire was ignited instantly.

In the waters outside Xuanhu City, in any direction, ships of all sizes were in chaos and tried to retreat to avoid being affected by the fires burning on the water. At this moment, a horn sounded at the head of Xuanhu City.

The large crossbows and catapults that were already ready in the city were spinning on the water, like enemy warships with fixed targets launched an attack, with fire arrows like locusts and huge rocks like rain.

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The water was burning, and the warships were burning. The water surface around the Xuanhu had turned into a sea of ​​fire at this time. Tall tower ships were either sunk by huge rocks or ignited by sulphur bombs, turning into spectacular torches, burning on the water surface.

Countless people were wailing in the sea of ​​fire, throwing helplessly into the water, being ignited helplessly, and dying helplessly, turning into charred corpses.

The ambition of deceiving death when he set out not long ago has disappeared at this time. Whether it is watery or waterless, it cannot be spared on the water burning into a sea of ​​fire. However, the guards at the head of Xuanhu City, who are so close to him, looked at the scene in front of him and said silently.

The enemy attacked and was full of momentum. As a result, before they could touch the Xuanhu City Wall, warships of all sizes and warships of all sizes and countless soldiers on the ship were buried in the sea of ​​fire. As the guardian of the city, they should cheer, but seeing such a tragic situation, many people were deeply shocked.

Oil can float on the water surface, and tincture oil can do it, but no one has ever thought that the tincture oil floating on the water surface will have such a mighty power when it is burned. If he attacks the city at this time and the enemy defending the city uses such a trick, he will die miserably.

The soldiers on the city could see clearly that many enemy soldiers were floating on the water and struggled. They would not have drowned, but were ignited by the burning tinder oil floating on the water. When they were burned on the water, they could only dive into the water to put out the fire. But how long can people hold their breath in the water?

I still have to expose my head to the water for ventilation, but when the head appears, it will be stained with burning tincture, which will burn so much. If I toss like this for a few times, I will not be burned to death and I will not have the strength to toss it. I will be tortured to death.

Such a tragedy happened to the enemy, and no one cheered loudly because the scene was too cunning. The tincture oil that was dumped on the water by the ship before was different from ordinary tincture oil.

What kind of tincture oil is this? It is so strong when it is burned? It is still so resistant to burning?

The only person who could answer was King Yuwen of Xiyang, but at this time he was not in the mood to teach the generals what "refined tincture oil" was, but he quietly looked at the sea of ​​fire in front of him without saying a word.

In the past, Prime Minister Zhuge burned vine armored soldiers and lamented that this move would kill too much and reduce his life. Yuwen Wen did not care about reducing his life at this time, but felt that his heart was bleeding: water was burning, and his wallet was burning too.

He had worked hard to save up crude oil extracts for many years, and today he spent a lot of money. In order to use "water boiling" to reduce the enemy, he has consumed most of it now. If it is exchanged for copper coins, it would be worth more than 100,000 yuan.

People nowadays call oil "stone fat". Huangzhou does not produce stone fat. Yuwen Wen spent a lot of money to purchase stone fat from Jiangnan profiteers. Jiaozhi, Linyiguo and other regions have always been exported as specialties. Many rich people in Jiankang City used it as tincture light, so Yuwen Wen could buy it.

The "essence" that has been accumulated for many years, and now it has been released, Yuwen Wen has completed the release of physiological essence and has begun to enter the "sage" state because of heartache and his mind is blank.

The rail gun and anchor thunder are very cool, but they consume a lot of gunpowder, and refined tincture oil is also very strong. However, the inventory is tight, and one barrel is less than one barrel. The remaining refined tincture oil in Yuwen's hand can no longer afford to "boil water" the second time.

In order to reduce the casualties of soldiers, Yuchi Dun adopted a water attack, and Yuwen Wen relied on arms to reduce the casualties of soldiers. Now his arms consumption is amazing. If he continues to waste like this, he will probably have to complete the inventory in advance.

Looking at the camp north outside the city, Yuwen Wen touched his little beard under his chin and thoughts were full of thoughts.

I lost so badly, do you still want to attack the water? Just be more careful, if you retreat, how about we have a life-saving attack and defense battle?
Chapter completed!