Chapter 253
As the tower car slowly moved forward, the archers on its arrow platform caused great casualties to Li Hao's side.
These people were warriors raised by major families, and each of them was an expert at shooting arrows from a hundred steps away.
The front protection of the tower car was impeccable, and the archers on the city wall could not reach it at all.
In addition, the other giant wooden chariot also arrived under the city wall, and under the protection of the rebel shield soldiers, it started to hit the city gate.
The quality of the gate of the royal city was much better than that of other gates, and in order to prevent the gate from being hit, the general guarding the city ordered the soldiers to pile up countless sandbags behind the city gate. Not to mention the giant wooden chariot, even if it was explosives, it would not be so easy to blow it up.
"Sir, the power of the tower car is too great. We can't reach them, but they can hit us at any time. Keeping them is a disaster, otherwise I will take people out to destroy it." Seeing the suppression of the archers on the city wall by the tower car, Yan Shun and others were as anxious as ants on a hot pot.
One by one, they said that they would go out of the city and destroy the tower car.
"Shut up, this is a war, not a game. With the strength of you guys, if you go out of the city gate, you will probably be torn into pieces before you even get close to the tower car." Looking at these brainless guys under his command, Li Hao was immediately furious.
They are all stupid, they only know how to rush and kill, and they are useless. They are simply a bunch of good-for-nothings.
In this battle of thousands of troops, the so-called martial arts masters are not worth mentioning. Once you go out of the city gate, your mind and emotions will be affected. Not only will your strength be suppressed, but you will also lose your composure, and you may be beheaded by a soldier without knowing it.
"But if we don't go out, this tower car will pose a great threat to our defenders." Murong Fu frowned and said.
"Fatty Cheng, is there a catapult in the armory?" Li Hao shouted at Fatty Cheng.
"General, we are the defenders, why do we need that thing! Besides, this is the royal city, who would have thought that we would fight here. So, in addition to a large number of arrows, fierce fire oil, soybean oil and so on, the armory does not have things like catapults and crossbows." Fatty Cheng explained helplessly.
Although the City Defense Department and the Imperial Guards are not subordinate to each other, there is a certain connection between the two parties. Things like armory warehouses are shared by both sides. After all, the Imperial Guards have only a few people, how can they store so many weapons.
"What about their tower cars? Find a way quickly, or I will chop you down." Li Hao pointed to the eight huge tower cars and said to Fatty Cheng.
Zhang Zhongjian is worthy of being a time traveler. He not only has amazing strength, but also has wisdom that surpasses ordinary people.
According to the idea of the head of the aristocratic family, it is to use tower cars to rush up to attack the city. After all, the height of the tower car is much higher than the city wall.
Moreover, the structure of the tower car is strong and durable. Except for heavy weapons like catapults, ordinary weapons can't really destroy it.
However, the proposals of these aristocratic family heads were directly rejected by Zhang Zhongjian. He insisted on placing the tower car outside the moat, and then using the advantage of being high above to use archers to throw arrows to achieve the greatest damage to the defenders on the city wall.
Facts have proved that Zhang Zhongjian's approach is correct. Didn't you see that the density of arrows on the city wall has decreased a lot?
"What is fierce fire oil." Li Hao suddenly asked.
"Fierce fire oil is black oil, produced underground, black, very viscous, processed by craftsmen, and extremely easy to burn. And it is difficult to extinguish after burning." Murong Fu said beside him.
This family head has too little knowledge. Isn't he afraid of being laughed at by others when he asks what fierce fire oil is on the battlefield!
"Wow, isn't this petroleum?" Li Hao picked up a black porcelain jar filled with fierce fire oil and said after studying it carefully.
"Petroleum, the general is really amazing, and his words hit the nail on the head. This fierce kerosene flows out from the cracks in the rocks underground, and the name "petroleum" is the most appropriate." After hearing this, Fatty Cheng, Zuo Xiang and a group of people immediately praised it without any scruples.
"Yan Shun, go get a few kerosene cans." Li Hao ordered Yan Shun while removing the seals of the cans.
In order to prevent kerosene from leaking, all porcelain cans were sealed.
"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and remove them for me." Li Hao looked at Fatty Cheng and the others looking at him stupidly, and he immediately got angry.
These guys are nothing. They can't do anything, and intrigue is the first.
After removing the seals of the porcelain cans, Li Hao added some rags into the cans, and then sealed the cans again.
"Yan Shun, come here, have you thrown the porcelain jar onto the building truck across the moat?" Li Hao handed the porcelain jar in his hand to Yan Shun and said, pointing to the huge building truck in the distance.At this time, the tower car was still shooting arrows. As for where these arrows were shot, they didn't care, as long as they completed the assigned tasks of each person.
Anyway, everyone was the army of the Great Xia Dynasty, and the weapons used were all of the same standard. Who knew who killed this person!
The fire suppression of the archers on the tower car made the rebel general who led the troops to attack the city very annoyed.
These idiots, don't they know to aim before shooting? This kind of random arrow method killed a large number of their brothers. Didn't they see that most of their soldiers were shot in the back!
Just as the rebel general who commanded the siege cursed his archers, countless hanging baskets were suddenly lowered on the city wall, and a large number of well-equipped royal guards came to the city in the hanging baskets.
"Kill! The general has ordered that whoever takes the head of the enemy commander will be granted noble status, rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and his family can be freed from slavery." Li Hu, who had just chopped off the heads of two rebels after going down the city, shouted loudly with the scimitar in his hand.
"Long live the general, long live the queen..." Li Hu's words made the soldiers who went down to the city wall excited, their eyes were red and bloodshot.
"Long live freedom..." Before everyone woke up from the big cake painted by Li Hao, a child about fifteen or sixteen years old couldn't resist the temptation, holding a knife and shouting as he rushed towards the rebels.
"For freedom..." The word freedom was too tempting for the slaves. Compared with freedom, the noble status and the reward of a thousand taels of silver were simply weak.
The people who rushed with Li Hu were the private soldiers of the original slave owners. Since they were responsible for the safety of the family and handled the secret things for the family owner, their strength was relatively high, and their combat effectiveness was not comparable to these rebels who were organized by patchwork.
After a burst of fighting, the vanguard of the rebels' siege was actually opened by them.