Chapter 570 Fire Oil Retreats the Enemy

Like a tiger that wants to devour anyone, the Jingzhou Army slowly approaches the head of Yuyang City. It is not in a hurry to kill with a fatal blow, but first uses its momentum to intimidate the enemy in Yuyang City.

However, under the command of Li Yan, the people in Yuyang City were united and showed no emotion. Instead, thousands of soldiers stood on the top of the city, motionless.

Cai Mao frowned: "This Li Yan is a bit of a general, that's all. Order the army to attack the city. Cai Zhong, you go forward personally to supervise the battle."

"promise!"

Cai Zhong clasped his fists in agreement, and then walked excitedly to the land outside Yuyang City, holding a yellow flag to personally supervise the battle.

"Archers, come forward and prepare!"

"Fill the river!"

Tens of thousands of Jingzhou troops surrounded Yuyang City on three sides. After realizing that they could not force the enemy to surrender, they finally launched a fierce attack.

Whoosh whoosh!

Under the firepower of the Jingzhou Army archers, rows of Jingzhou Army infantry carried wood, stones and other debris in their hands and rushed towards the moat of Yuyang City. They rushed to the side of the moat and immediately put their weapons in their hands. The debris was thrown into the moat.

"Fire the arrow!"

Li Yan gave an order, and the archers of the Nanyang Army on the top of the city aimed at the soldiers under the wall and fired randomly. The Jingzhou soldiers hurriedly raised their shields to resist the rain of arrows falling like locusts on the top of the city.

Although the Nanyang Army rained down arrows, it had little effect. Moreover, the Jingzhou Army had a large number of people. Tens of thousands of troops kept filling the moat with debris. The moat suddenly rose to a large level. It's about to be filled.

Cai Zhong, who was supervising the battle outside the city, chuckled: "The moat is filled, won't it be easy to capture Yuyang City by then?"

However, Li Yan still looked calm and just waved his hand and said: "Pour in the kerosene."

"promise!"

The soldiers had already agreed in unison, and then two or three soldiers carried a small urn together, walked tremblingly to the city wall, and opened the stopper. It contained a thick black liquid with a pungent smell.

Among this group of soldiers, there were more than ten soldiers, each holding a burning torch in their hands.

As the small urn was turned upside down, the kerosene stored in the urn slowly poured down and poured onto the wood and debris that filled the moat.

"ignition!"

A dozen torches were thrown down, landed on the kerosene, and burned with a "crack" sound. The flames more than three feet high jumped up instantly, and the sultry temperature spread out.

"Ouch, not good!"

Many Jingzhou troops who were filling the river were startled. Some Jingzhou troops were even stained with kerosene, and the flames immediately burst into flames.

"Help!"

A Jingzhou soldier who was on fire turned around and ran away. He threw his weapon on the ground and slapped the flames with his hand, but his body was stained with kerosene. Entered the Han River.

"Hurry up and don't get stained by the kerosene. You can't knock it off!"

The Jingzhou army who was filling the river suddenly became confused, turned around and ran away, for fear of being contaminated by kerosene.

Cai Zhong was furious: "What are you doing? You are not allowed to retreat. If you dare to retreat without an order, are you seeking death?"

However, even so, the Jingzhou Army still turned around and ran away. Are you kidding? Not running away even after being burned to death is crazy.

Cai Mao, who was far away on the deck of the battleship, couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw this scene: "This Li Yan is really a character, he can actually burn the moat with kerosene."

In the filled moat, the flames jumped and burned. Although the Jingzhou army was outnumbered, they were still afraid of the natural power of flames and took a step back, not daring to step forward.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of burning kerosene, the Jingzhou Army temporarily retreated, while the Nanyang Army on the top of the city temporarily gained a breathing space.

Li Yan immediately ordered: "Carry down the injured brothers from the top of the city and carry some of the arrows up."

Previously, under the rain of arrows from the Jingzhou Army, more than ten Nanyang soldiers were injured, so they were carried down, and more siege materials were brought up. The hundreds of Nanyang soldiers on the top of the city were all ready. .

Although the flames temporarily drove back the front of the Jingzhou Army, as the flames gradually extinguished, the Jingzhou Army naturally made a comeback.

Cai Zhong shouted angrily: "Fill the river again and attack the city for me!"

Tens of thousands of Jingzhou troops swarmed in again and launched a fierce attack on Yuyang City, but Li Yan was not at all confused and commanded in an orderly manner.

"Fire the arrow!"

The Jingzhou Army and the Nanyang Army shot at each other up and down the city, while the Jingzhou Army rushed to the top of the city on a ladder.

"The swordsmen and axemen come forward and drive the Jingzhou army down."

Seeing the Jingzhou army gradually climbing up to the top of the city, a row of swordsmen and axemen standing behind the parapet immediately pushed aside the crowd and stepped forward. The armor he wore was quite thick, and the sword and ax in his hand was polished and shining.

At the beginning, Liu Ye was worried about his insufficient ability to attack fortresses, so he requested that each of his thousands-man troops be equipped with twenty pairs of heavy armor to form a team of swordsmen and axemen, which would be extremely effective whether they were used to fight the enemy in the wild or defend the city. it works.

"kill!"

A row of swordsmen and axemen rushed forward with heavy steps, and raised their sharp swords and axes at the rushing Jingzhou soldiers. Blood spurted out the moment they fell.

"ah!"

The Jingzhou soldiers screamed repeatedly, because if they wanted to attack the city, they had to climb ladders, so they mostly wore light armor to facilitate movement. How could they withstand the sharp and heavy axes?

Under a fierce attack by the swordsmen and axemen, the Jingzhou army that rushed towards the city suddenly burst into blood and suffered many casualties. And now that the Jingzhou soldiers have climbed to the top of the city, the archers of the Jingzhou army naturally cannot continue to fire arrows regardless of the enemy or ourselves, so the Jingzhou army suddenly fell into a stalemate.

Seeing this, Cai Zhong ordered a fierce attack. Cai Mao had promised him to go out of the town before, and this time he asked him to go forward in person to supervise the battle. This was just to give him a chance to make a contribution. If he couldn't attack, how would he explain to Cai Mao? ?

Although Cai Zhong ordered a fierce attack, the Jingzhou army was always contained on the city head and could not advance even an inch. For a while, the city head was covered with the corpses of the Jingzhou army.

"No, if you continue like this, you will only lose your life in vain. I won't fight!"

As a few Jingzhou soldiers turned around and ran away, most of the Jingzhou soldiers who had been fighting hard couldn't hold on any longer. They all feinted with their swords and turned around and ran away.

Cai Zhong's eyes suddenly turned red, he rushed forward with his knife, aimed at a Jingzhou soldier who fled, and chopped it down, and his head immediately fell to the ground.

"Did you see that?" Cai Zhong roared: "Whoever dares to retreat without permission will suffer this fate. No retreat! No - ugh"

The defeated Jingzhou soldiers didn't care about him. A group of people rushed over and knocked Cai Zhong to the ground.