When a passerby becomes a princess

Although Beimo County is only a small county, it is close to the border after all, and there is no shortage of strategic material reserves in the city, especially Heishui comes from Jiuwan Township under Beimo County. The warehouses in the county town also stored a lot.

When Liang Xi organized Orion and came back, he saw Lin Qiu standing under the city tower, and Madam Liu was instructing the improvised civilians to block the city gate with all kinds of sundries. The city gate of Mo County is not strong enough. If it is really knocked open, tens of thousands of bearded soldiers rush into the city, and no one can stop it.

"Why did you come out again?" Liang Xi pulled Lin Qiu into the tower, and said, "Qiuer, Huzi's bow and arrow are very powerful, what if I hurt you? You hide here obediently, don't go anywhere, don't let I'm worried, okay?"

When Lin Qiu heard the sentence "Don't worry me", his eyes flickered slightly, and he finally nodded.

The light in the city tower was not good, but the afternoon sun slanted in from the window, and a few rays of sunlight just reflected on one side of Lin Qiu's face. A small face was half-bright and half-dark, and even the two pupils showed different colors. For a moment, Liang Xi was almost stunned. He only felt that there was a pool of spring water in those eyes that were always calm and focused on weekdays, which could almost make people drown in it.When Liang Xi realized it, he had already kissed the corner of Lin Qiu's mouth at some point.

Liang Xi straightened up abruptly, his face flushed immediately, although in the dream he and Lin Qiu had almost achieved good things, but in reality he has always been very restrained, even if the two of them sleep on the same bed every night, he is honest and honest. dare not move.The respect and love for Lin Qiu made his heart beat faster even when he held Lin Qiu's little hand, and now...to hide his embarrassment, Liang Xi coughed twice and said, "I...I'll go outside and have a look. "After that, without waiting for Lin Qiu to answer, he ran out in a hurry and almost bumped into Chen Fan who was at the door head-on.

"Have all the supplies moved here?" Liang Xi asked quickly.

Chen Fan bowed his head and said, "Back to the prince, the black water has been transported to the bottom of the city wall. In addition, several water dragons in the city have also been brought here, and the tung oil, rosin, wheat bran and other things are basically in place."

"Okay, follow me." Liang Xi said and walked out.

"Yes." When Chen Fan walked out, he looked back, and saw Lin Qiu standing at the window, touching the corner of his mouth with one hand and looking towards this side, but his eyes passed him, and he followed Liang Xi's direction steadfastly. back view.

The beards outside the city had already assembled. Hu Seda's tribe was close to Daliang State, and they often went to Daliang State to fight grass valleys. He was quite skilled in siege warfare. He first sent more than 3000 fine horses to charge forward and shoot arrows at the city wall. Overwhelm the defenders with bows and arrows.

Liang Xi followed the suggestion of Wuman, a thousand households left behind by Lin Bai, and when the cavalry had rushed to less than half a mile, he used the small catapult on the city wall to ignite and throw the clay pots filled with black water, rosin, tung oil and wheat bran. As soon as they came out, black clay pots fell into the bearded cavalry in a disorderly manner, and burst into flames.

The black water is already flammable. After mixing it with rosin, the temperature of the flame will increase rapidly. As long as this kind of flame touches the skin, it will hurt people's heart. Tung oil is extremely viscous, and it can stick the wheat bran soaked in black water to the skin. I can't get rid of it even if I shake it off.

Hu country is poor in mineral resources and backward in handicraft industry. Even the generals wear crude leather armor, not to mention the soldiers. They basically wear a sheepskin or cowhide vest with wool on top of the cotton robe. It was not scraped clean, and it almost burned at one point. Many cavalrymen who were charging had already been burned and fell off their mounts, screaming and rolling all over the ground.

When they managed to rush to the place where there were only twenty or thirty steps below the city wall, before they could rein in their horses, they saw several jets of black water suddenly flying out of the city wall, and landed on the bearded head below the city wall, and the leader's beard wiped his face. I held the black water on my nose and smelled it. It smelled pungent and unpleasant, but I didn't know what it was.Although Huzi had been beaten at the border for more than half a year, and was burned by the black water for almost half a year, but every time he only saw the burning black water and never saw the real thing, so no one could recognize him.

At this moment, a loud shout of "Shoot the arrows!" was heard from the city wall, and hundreds of arrows were shot down from the top of the city immediately. In a short time, countless beards ignited a fire, and even the mounts under them that were also doused with black water ran around.

Countless fire men screamed and ran around the battlefield. The scene was horrifying, and immediately frightened the people behind. The beards who followed behind with the siege ladder belonged to Habu. They were originally because Huval did not rescue Ha Qihai, the leader of his own family, was angry and dissatisfied that Ha Qihai was killed. Now Hu Seda obviously asked them to be cannon fodder, so he was willing to work hard. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately ran back with a ladder. He also turned the horse's head and ran back.

The defenders on the city wall and the temporarily recruited hunters all cheered, unexpectedly, those vicious beards were beaten away after only a single encounter.

Only Chen Fan frowned slightly. The victory just now was due to the power of the black water, and there is not much black water stored in the city. If the 2 beards attack the city together, the black water can last for an hour at most , but the reinforcements will not arrive until noon tomorrow.

Hu Seda saw it clearly on the slope, and was so angry that he cursed and picked up his whip to smack the beards who ran back, but he also knew that the fire just now had burned down the morale of the siege team, and now everyone was afraid, If the siege continues forcibly, the casualties will only be more severe.But if you don't hurry up, the cavalry from Daliang Kingdom's border camp will arrive, and they will all die here.

Although according to what he and Huval agreed, at noon today, Huval launched an attack on several border passes at the same time to hold back Lin Lian's army.But he didn't believe in Huval in his heart. He was very aware of Huval's ambition. For Huval, all the tribal leaders on the grassland were obstacles to his dominance, including himself.If there wasn't an exact report, the prince and concubine of Daliang Kingdom were in Beimo County, so he would not have gone deep into the pass alone no matter what.

"Boss, we must disperse the attack." A strategist under Hu Seda stood up and said, "There are not too many defenders in a small county like this. We can attack two city gates at the same time and let them focus on one and lose the other." .”

Hu Seda also tended to divide his troops to attack. Standing on the slope to watch, the east of Beimo County is very close to the river, and there is a large area of ​​bushes in the north, which is not suitable for charging. Only the west and south are flat and open. Siege can only be done from these two directions.

At this time, the hearts of the people in Beimo County have stabilized, and it is no longer the panic of the past. Not only the young and strong, but also the women and the elderly have come to help. , Stones and beams were transported to the city wall. Everyone knew what would happen if the city was destroyed. No one would begrudge those belongings for themselves and their families to survive.

Standing at the top of the city, Liang Xi immediately noticed that the beards that had gathered at the west gate parted out and turned outside the south gate. He immediately went to Xin Fu and said, "When we were doing Perak, those beards that made people feel paralyzed How much medicine powder is left?"

Xin Fu said, "There are probably five or six packs left."

Liang Xi was overjoyed and said: "Go and get it quickly, I want to make my beard look good today!"

Here Xin Fu went to get the medicine powder, Liang Xi called Zhang Shu and Zheng Huang again, and said: "You take the troops and lead the horses to the south gate, ready to attack at any time."

Zhang Shu and Zheng Huang looked at each other, and they both saw the doubt in each other's eyes.Attack?Even if they horse bandits are brave and not afraid of death, as long as they open the city gate, how can hundreds of them stop the beards outside?

Zheng Huang cupped his fists and said in a rough voice: "Boss, there are 2 people outside here. If hundreds of our brothers go out, they will all be killed within a quarter of an hour."

Liang Xi smiled and said: "You two can rest assured, we will wait for the opportunity for a while. If nothing can be done, I will naturally not let you go out to die." He remembered Lin Qiu explaining to him what it means to "wait for the opportunity "Shi said, stay calm and act randomly, even in the battle of defending the city, don't let go of every opportunity to fight back.

Although Zhang Shu and Zheng Huang didn't understand Liang Xi's meaning, seeing his full confidence and because they had been trained to obey orders in the barracks during this period, they clasped their fists and agreed to leave.

When Xin Fu brought the medicine powder, Liang Xi had already asked several soldiers to tie up a few big grass balls. He poured the medicine powder on the grass balls, and only waited for the beard in the south to siege the city before igniting and throwing them down.The current wind is blowing from north to south, as long as the grass ball is ignited, almost the entire battlefield outside the south gate will be affected.Moreover, this kind of medicinal powder will paralyze people only when it is ignited into smoke, so the people in the city don't have to worry.

Liang Xi arranged the affairs of the south gate, let Xin Fu and Chen Fan take charge of the command, and rushed to the west gate with Qin Yu himself.

There is not much black water in stock, and Liang Xi does not dare to use it in large quantities. Huzi had used up nearly a quarter of it in his first charge before, but Huzi burned to death only a hundred people. The reason why Huzi retreated was completely was scared off.So besides the black water, stones and rolling logs are constantly being carried on the west gate, and there is also a long pole team composed of young and strong in the city.

When Liang Xi arrived, he happened to see Madam Chen bringing up several boxes. After opening it, it turned out that Liang Xi had made some time ago with the craftsmen.This kind of earth mine needs a fuse to detonate. Liang Xi's trigger device has never been designed, but if it is ignited and thrown out, there is no need for any trigger device.

"Great, I forgot about these landmines." Liang Xi was overjoyed, and said to Nanny Chen, "Did you bring the gunpowder left over from the last time you blasted the mountain?"

Chen Momo said: "The Crown Princess has already been picked up."

Liang Xi nodded again and again, slapped the city wall hard, stared at Hu Zi who was lining up, and said through gritted teeth: "Today we must let Hu Zi come and go!"