So many big ships were ignited, the soldiers on the pontoon bridge were still throwing fire oil into the boat, the more they burned, the more they burned, the flames jumped up ten feet high, the heart of the river was like a sea of fire, Zhen Jian could feel the heat of the flames on the city wall, the soldiers on the pontoon bridge had already been so hot that their clothes were sweaty, but they didn't care, they were happier than anything else if they could block the enemy's attack.
The fire on the river burned from morning to noon, and finally gradually extinguished, and the burned wrecks were either still hanging on the iron cables, some sank into the water, and some went down the river towards the pontoon, and the soldiers on the pontoon bridge used pennies to hold the wreckage of the boats far away, slow them down, and then slowly tow the boats and logs through the pontoon bridges and drift down the river into the distance.
Zhen Jian was surging in the city, in order to defend the city, from the two pacification generals to every soldier was using his mind and ability to crack the enemy's tricks, this was a battle of life and death, there was no mercy at all, he really wanted to participate in it personally.
The blazing sun was scorching everyone, but no one complained, and no one dared to slack off, and the enemy had not yet retreated, and not long after, I saw another hundred large ships moving upstream, and everyone became nervous again.
A hundred more ships were coming upstream, and this time there were many well-armed soldiers on board, and it was obvious that they were going to attack directly.
Suddenly, Qin Xueyang rushed to the head of the city and shouted at everyone in the Chinese military camp: "Everyone go to the pontoon bridge to defend, and never allow the enemy to approach!"
” "Yes!"
Everyone shouted in unison, and then quickly descended the city walls.
Zhen Jian just walked past Qin Xueyang, and Qin Xueyang suddenly grabbed him.
Zhen Jian looked at her in amazement, frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"
” Qin Xueyang's gaze was a little complicated, he was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "Although your martial arts are good, you are the first time to go to the battlefield, you must be careful." ” Zhen Jian's face was pale, and he nodded: "Got it." ” Qin Xueyang let go of Zhen Jian, and Zhen Jian ran down the city wall with everyone.
In the middle of the city gate, Ye Qiu suddenly came to Zhen Jian's side and said, "Hey, see it, how much she cares about you, I'll just say it......"
Zhen Jian glared at him angrily and said, "Shut up, when is it, still talking about this!"
” Ye Qiu smacked his lips helplessly, and said: "Okay, don't talk about the love of children, talk about the war, let me state first, I can't shoot arrows, I can only help you block arrows."
As he spoke, he raised the rattan shield in his hand.
Zhen Jian nodded and said: "My bow is the strongest among everyone, and the archery is not weak, you are responsible for helping me defend, and I am responsible for attacking." ” Ye Qiu said: "The wind on the river is strong, I don't know if you can shoot accurately, if you shoot accurately, you will pick those officers to shoot." ” "That's nature."
Zhen Jian nodded, patted the strong bow behind his back, in the army, the standard bow is seven to eight buckets, one stone is a strong bow, one stone is a bow used by individual strongmen in the army, two stone bows basically do not exist in the army, and the bow that Zhen Jian uses now is two stones and three buckets, such a strong bow, within the effective range, one arrow can penetrate two or three people, it can be seen how terrible the power is.
Zhen Jian and the others got on the pontoon bridge, and seven or eight thousand people gathered on the huge pontoon bridge at one time, and the defenders on both sides of the city also used small catapults, and all the bullets and stones were loaded, and they waited for the enemy's ships to arrive.
The enemy's ships came quickly, they bypassed the wooden pillars on the riverside, and sailed from the center of the river, seeing that they were still less than a mile away from the iron chain, all the boats began to turn and sail towards the river, they wanted to bypass the iron cable, after all, the Hengjiang lock only blocked the range of the river center.
When Zhen Jian saw such a scene, his heart suddenly rose to his throat, if these boats were allowed to bypass the Hengjiang lock and crash into the pontoon bridge, they would all be finished.
However, when the ships were about to go around the iron cable, suddenly, a boat made a loud noise, as if it had hit something, the hull of the ship tilted sharply, and all the Hun soldiers on the bow of the ship screamed in amazement, and slid into the river, and the ship overturned, and then another ship capsized, one after the other.
Seeing this, the other boats quickly turned around and rushed towards the Hengjiang lock, they now know that there are many wooden piles on both sides of the river, and it is estimated that it extends all the way to the pontoon bridge, and it is impossible to bypass the iron cable, so they are ready to die, it doesn't matter if they die, but they must destroy the pontoon bridge.
Seeing those boats capsizing one after another, Zhen Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as their boats couldn't pass, they could fight.
The enemy's ship is getting closer and closer, the enemy in the bow has begun to open the bow, and the Chu army on the pontoon bridge is also firing the bow one after another, with the shield soldiers in front and the shooters behind.
The generals at the head of the city shouted: "Launch!"
"The soldiers used a sledgehammer to hit the wire buckle rope of the catapult, the catapult was launched, countless boulders flew down from the city on both sides, and threw them towards the center of the river, for a time, I saw countless boulders falling from the sky, smashed into the river, splashing high water columns, some stones smashed on the boat, the huge force smashed the cabin out of one big hole after another, and many Hun soldiers were directly killed by the boulders.
The first wave of rocks smashed two ships, which had already begun to tilt and sink.
"Shoot the arrows!"
There was a shout of shouting from the pontoon, and all the arrows flew out, like dark clouds in the sky, towards the enemy, and the enemy troops in the bow of the ship raised their huge shields to resist the arrows, thousands of arrows, and only a dozen people were shot.
A large number of arrows also flew in the enemy's ship formation, and the Chu army also erected shields to resist, but the shield of the Chu army was too bad, it was a round rattan armor shield, and the rattan armor shield was okay to resist the sword, but it was too reluctant to resist the arrows, and more than 20 Chu troops died in this round of shooting.
The rain of arrows on both sides is shooting at each other, and the casualties are slowly increasing.
Seeing that the enemy ships were getting closer, Qin Xueyang shouted at the bridgehead: "Throw the fire oil!"
” "Throw the oil!"
"Throw the oil!"
…… One by one, it came out.
The soldiers of the Chu army used ropes to throw up the oil pot and threw it at the enemy ships, the reason why they threw it with a rope was to throw it farther, but this time the opponent's ships were more scattered, and only a small half of the oil pot hit the target, and some were blocked by the shield, and the effect was not great, so continue to throw the oil pot.
Zhen Jian calculated the distance, and the boat on the opposite side was about eighty zhang (240 meters) away from them, and said, "Give me fire arrows!"
” Someone immediately brought him a pot of fire arrows, which were actually some thick cloths tied with wire at the top of the arrows, and the thick cloth was dipped in fire oil and fire nitrate, even if the arrow told him to fly, because of the presence of fire nitrate, the flame would not be extinguished.
Although there were seven or eight thousand soldiers on the bridge, there were nearly 3,000 soldiers in charge of logistics, and their responsibility was to deliver arrows, torches, oil cans, firefights, and so on.
Ye Qiu asked the logistics soldiers for a torch, Zhen Jian pulled out a fire arrow, bent his bow and arrow, and said in a deep voice: "Ignite the fire." ” Ye Qiu lit Zhen Jian's fire arrow with a torch, Zhen Jian aimed at himself, calculated the wind force and wind direction, suddenly let go, "buzzed" a bowstring sound, the arrow flew out, "Du" sounded, hit the mast of the enemy ship, and it was a wet part of the mast, it was not damp, it was fire oil, and there was a fire oil pot that happened to hit the mast before.
As soon as the arrow hit the mast, the flames immediately burst out, and the Huns on the ship shouted impatiently, wanting to put out the fire, but they couldn't reach it, so they could only do it in a hurry.
The flames jumped up quickly, and soon the sails were lit, and suddenly the wind blew fiercely, and the mast and sail of the ship were all on fire, and the fire burned over the heads of the Huns, and they were so frightened that they screamed.
"Good shot!"
A general in Xiangyang City immediately shouted happily when he saw this.
I saw Zhen Jian bend his bow and arrow again, and another fire arrow was shot at the cabin of another ship, and the cabin was hit by several fire oil cans, almost all wet, and as soon as the fire arrow hit, the entire cabin began to burn.
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"Good archery!"
Qin Yuan, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, couldn't help but admire, he really didn't expect that Zhen Jian could actually have a good ability to wear through a hundred steps, and this is more than a hundred steps, it is really an amazing archery.
Zhen Jian fired five arrows in a row, and set fire to five enemy ships in a row, which caused everyone in the army to cheer, everyone's morale was high, and the arrows on both sides rained fire, and the enemy's casualties increased, because the more than 200 soldiers on the five ships had no time to defend at all, and were busy fighting fires, and most of them were killed by arrows.
"Bang", the first enemy ship crashed into the Hengjiang lock, and the ships behind hit the Hengjiang lock one after another, the enemy began to attack violently, and they also threw oil cans on the pontoon bridge, but they were few people after all, and the pontoon bridge was not as big as the ship, as long as the strength was not well controlled, the oil pot would be thrown into the river, so the enemy's first round of oil cans, only a dozen smashed into the pontoon.
They threw oil cans and fired fire arrows, and soon flames were burning on the pontoon.
"Fight the fire!"
At the sound of the order, those logistics soldiers began to get busy, only to see countless logistics soldiers tied to their waists with ropes, and the other end tied to the pontoon iron chain, these iron chains are used to fix the pontoon bridge and wooden boats, and it is also the nerve center of the pontoon bridge, as long as it is not hit by a huge external force, it will never break.
Then, these logisticians all jumped into the Taotao River with wooden barrels in their hands, and there were ropes to drag them to ensure that they would not be washed away by the river, they filled a bucket of water, and when they lifted the barrels, their whole people sank into the water, and the river flooded their heads, only to see their hands holding the wooden barrels out of the water, and there were logisticians above who immediately took away the buckets in their hands and found the nearest source of fire to extinguish.
Zhen Jian looked at everyone desperately defending the pontoon bridge, he couldn't help but feel proud, his eyes wandered among the enemy troops, now the enemy army was only a dozen zhang away from them, and he could hear every word he shouted, so close to the distance, with his archery skills, he really meant where to fight, he naturally had to pick an important role to start, he saw a general covered in armor on a big ship shouting and commanding in Hun language, and there were many guards with shields standing in front of him, he felt that this should be an important officer, and immediately said: "Ye Qiu, light a fire arrow for me!"
” Ye Qiu lit a fire arrow and handed it to Zhen Jian, Zhen Jian pointed to the officer who was constantly shouting, and said, "Use the oil pot to smash the one wearing silver armor, don't smash it at others, throw it a little higher, throw it three feet above his head." ” "Okay!"
Ye Qiu smiled easily, held the shield in his left hand and pushed away two arrows, and with a throw of his right hand, a fire oil pot was thrown high, drawing a beautiful arc, falling on the top of the general's head, and the guards saw that there was a fire oil pot thrown at them, and they all erected their shields in front of the general.
Zhen Jian bent his bow and set up an arrow, and an arrow was shot, with a "pop", the oil pot was shot, and in an instant, there was a "whew" sound, and the flames in the sky seemed to fall from the sky, igniting the general and the surrounding guards in an instant.
"Ahhhhh......h Seeing this, Qin Yuan and Lei Yao on both sides of the city clapped their hands and shouted almost at the same time: "What a move!"
” All the soldiers also cheered and shouted, and their morale soared in an instant.
Zhen Jian saw that there was a silver-armored general on another big ship giving orders, and immediately pointed at that person and said, "Ye Qiu, do it again!"
” "Okay!"
Ye Qiu lit a fire arrow, handed it to Zhen Jian, grabbed the fire oil pot in his hand, secretly calculated the distance, and threw it towards the general.