Daqin: Assist Zulong at the beginning and become a public enemy

Chapter 252
Chapter 252
In the early morning, the snow that had been falling for several days finally stopped, and the whole land was covered in silver, which was extremely enchanting.

Li Xin was still the same as usual, and after breakfast, he started to patrol around the city wall.

As usual, Zhao Gao outside the city still didn't seem to have figured out a way to crack it.In fact, this was already expected by Li Xin. After all, Zhao Gao, a eunuch, only relied on conspiracy to get to the top, and he definitely didn't have the ability to do a real career with real knives and guns.

While Li Xin was daydreaming wildly, a sharp-eyed personal guard suddenly pointed to the bottom of the city and said, "General, look there."

Li Xin stared intently, suddenly slightly dazed.

Above the white snow, several wooden carts appeared at some point. There were many felled trees on the carts. Many rebels pushed the carts and gradually approached Jicheng.

With the appearance of these cars, more and more rebels also appeared in their field of vision.

Some of these soldiers held bows and arrows, some held shields, and most of them carried bags one by one.

"No, the enemy army looks like they are going to attack the city. Tell the brothers to take precautions against the enemy's onslaught." Li Xin quickly conveyed the military order, and then stared straight ahead.

The cart pulling the trees traveled a certain distance and stopped three hundred steps away from the city.

If it was before, relying on the crossbow equipped on the city wall of Jicheng, this distance is enough to launch arrows to attack the opponent.But as Jicheng changed hands several times, all the defensive weapons on the city wall were removed and destroyed. Now the only long-range weapon of the Qin army is the Liannu in their hands.

Although the continuous crossbow can fire continuously, and its lethality is not weak, but the biggest disadvantage is that the range is too short.

It's okay for the two armies to charge forward, but if it's an offensive and defensive battle in the city, by the time you rush into the range, the enemy army can already shoot a few rounds of arrows.

From where these rebels stopped, it can be seen that they should know that the Qin army in the city cannot beat them.

After a short pause, groups of rebels removed the trees from their vehicles, cut them down on the spot, and cut the entire tree into many sections, and then tied the sections of tree together.

Seeing this scene, Li Xin was a little puzzled.

What the hell are these rebels doing.

Soon, the rebels gave him the answer.

Some rebels loaded the bundled wooden frames onto the vehicle again, then held up a shield with one hand and pushed the vehicle forward with difficulty.It has been snowing heavily for many days, and the roads are covered with snow. The cars are moving very slowly, but relying on the advantage of the number of people, these cars quickly entered the attack range of the Qin army on the city.

"General, are we launching an attack?" A personal guard asked Li Xin in a low voice.

"Wait a minute and see what these guys are trying to do."

The carts were soon pushed within ten steps of the city wall, and then the soldiers turned around and ran away.

Just as the soldiers of the Qin army on the city wall felt baffled, some rebel soldiers pushed wooden shelves to the bottom of the city.

Li Xin couldn't bear it anymore and asked his soldiers to attack.

But because the rebels below the city had already prepared to hold up shields to protect themselves, even though the Qin army had powerful bows and crossbows, they could not do anything to them.

In order to reduce the use of arrows, Li Xin had no choice but to stop the soldiers from attacking.

As the rebels below the city brought the wood over again and again, an hour passed, and a large pile of firewood was densely packed under the city.

At this moment, Ying Gang came to the city wall with a sigh of relief.

"General Li, what are you all looking at?"

Li Xin quickly led Ying Gang to the city wall, and pointed to the situation below for him to see.

Seeing this, Ying Gang broke into a cold sweat.

I thought that Zhao Gao wouldn't be able to think of a solution for a while, but he didn't expect that only a few days had passed before he came up with the strategy of burning.

Right now, Yinggang just hopes that the other party doesn't know how to use oil.

But soon, he discovered that his guess might be wrong.

All of a sudden, groups of archers appeared in the rebel camp. These archers held bows and arrows and stood a hundred steps away from the wood.

With an order, a rocket flew up quickly and landed on the wood beside the city wall.

The moment the fire light fell on the wood, the wood suddenly ignited a raging fire.

"This..." Li Xin stared straight at him.

He didn't understand how on earth this was done.

Wood, especially in winter, is definitely not an easy task to burn freshly felled wood.Even though these soldiers released rockets, it would not be possible for these trees to burn so fast.

But Ying Gang saw the clues and sighed softly: "If I read correctly, these trees are pine trees, and there should be a layer of oil attached to them. Pine trees are originally trees rich in oil, and once they encounter fire, they will burn quickly. Burning. In order to make the fire burn bigger, Zhao Gao put a lot of oil on the wood. In this way, the burning speed and temperature of the wood will be even greater."

Just as Ying Gang finished speaking, hundreds of fireballs suddenly appeared in the sky.

"Be careful, son."

Li Xin quickly reminded Ying Gang, but found that the strength of these fireballs was far from reaching the city wall, most of them fell on the sides of the wood below the city pool, and only a few of them hit the city wall due to excessive force superior.

The moment the fireball hit the ground, a large amount of black ink-like things were splashed out, and these things quickly burned with desire.

All of a sudden, there was a sea of ​​flames outside the west wall of Jicheng.

Li Xin was dumbfounded.

Ying just said before that when watering a city, the most fearful thing is fire.Ordinary fire is okay, but I am afraid of encountering oil.

I thought Zhao Gao said that he never thought of this, but he didn't expect that this eunuch found a way to crack it in such a short time.

"My lord, what should we do now?"

Ying Gang looked at the fire burning below the city, with a cold light in his eyes.

The rebel army outside Jicheng is said to have more than 5 to [-] people. If they launch a fierce attack, the soldiers in the city will not be able to last a day.

Right now, I don't know where Meng Tian is and how far away he is from them.

Even though Ying Gang could use Hercules to lead Li Xin to run away, most of the remaining soldiers of the Qin Army may only be buried under the enemy's butcher's knife.

This is not the result that Ying just wanted to see.

Turning his mind, he suddenly thought of something, looked at Li Dao in front of him: "Sand, use sand."

"Sand? Young Master, this sand is easy to find in the desert, but I'm afraid it's not easy to find it in Liaodong!"

Ying just realized it, and quickly added: "Use mud, or use snow directly, anyway, from now on, you let the people in the city pack the mud or snow with something and throw it into the fire."

"Is...is this effective?"

"Can I still lie to you? This is the only way to put out the fire. Let the brothers hurry up. If the fire continues to burn, I'm afraid all the ice on the city wall will melt away."

Li Xin was in the spirit of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, so he didn't bother to think so much, so he directly asked the soldiers under his command to step up their preparations.

(End of this chapter)