A gap appeared in the shield formation on the city wall. The archers fired arrows at the Juma ditch outside the city gate. The stone fat immediately burned fiercely!
Several walls of fire blocked the walls, preventing the Turkic soldiers carrying ladders from approaching.
Seeing that the walls of Yanzhou were now covered in fire walls, preventing the scaling ladder troops from approaching, Khagan Shuoye's expression grew anxious.
"What are they burning?" Khagan Shuoye turned to look at Right Kill.
"From the black smoke, it looks like Yanzhou's rock fat was burned. This was originally used to make ink. I didn't expect them to be able to gather it together and use it like this!”Right Kill was also very surprised. Not only could he speak fluent Han, but he also knew a lot about Han.
Khagan Shuoye closed his eyes and sighed." The Tang army is too smart…"
"Order the front troops to retreat and the archers to hold their positions. We can't get in, and the Tang army can't get out. The Yanzhou stone fat in this ditch will burn out one day!”Khagan Shuoye gave the order, and the messenger officer beside him hurriedly sent the order out using the military flag.
On the walls of Yanzhou, Guo Ziyi saw that the Turkic scaling ladders had all retreated, but the crossbowmen behind them were still holding their ground.
As he had expected, the Turks had temporarily stopped attacking the city and were waiting for the stonemat in the ditch to burn out before launching another attack.
According to the current burning speed, the grease in the ditch could only last for half a day. The Turkic archers had blocked the city gates, and the Tang army could not go out to replenish their supplies.
From this, it could be seen that evening would be the time for the Turkic army to attack again. After witnessing the power of the rock fat, they would be prepared for the next attack.
Guo Ziyi looked at Taba Feng anxiously.""General Li still needs to urge the craftsmen to hurry up and make more tools!”
In the Turkic tent, Shuoye Khagan sat at the head of the table, with the Right Slayer and seven or eight Turkic generals sitting below him, as well as a young Turkic woman dressed in luxurious clothes.
"Have you found out who killed Heng Si Luo Teller?”Ye Kehan looked at Right Kill.
"According to the spies in the city, he is a prisoner on death row in Yanzhou named Guo Ziyi. There were not enough soldiers in Yanzhou, so they had no choice but to let the condemned prisoners fight.”Right Kill replied hurriedly.
"Death row prisoners…"
"Also, according to our spies, the idea of using Yanzhou's stone fat to defend the city was also proposed by this prisoner named Guo Ziyi. During the siege today, he and Yanzhou's general, Taba Feng, had been on the city walls the entire time.”
"It's still that death row prisoner…Interesting.”Khagan Shuoye tightly gripped the golden cup in front of him. A Great Tang prisoner had beheaded his most beloved son. Khagan Shuoye's heart was bleeding.
"How long before Wang Zhongsi's reinforcements arrive?”Khagan Shuoye's face darkened.
"It will take another day and night."
"Attack the city immediately after the fire is extinguished. Pass down my orders. We must take Yanzhou before sunset. Anyone who dares to retreat will be beheaded immediately!”Khagan Shuoye gripped the golden cup tightly and slammed it on the table.
"Listen up!" The Turkic generals replied in unison.
The luxuriously dressed young Turkic woman silently stood to the side, a pensive expression on her face.
In the evening, the Yanzhou stone grease in the Juma ditch outside the city gate burned out, and the fire gradually died down. The Turks immediately sent their troops to attack the city.
This time, the Turkic ballista bolts were even more concentrated, and they struck the shields like a rain of arrows.
The Tang army guarding the city also changed. Behind each shield stood a Tang soldier holding a strange object made of bamboo tube. The front end of this thing was sharp, and there was a thick bamboo pole at the back that could be pulled like a cylinder.
To be exact, the shape of this thing was like a syringe used in hospitals, but it was made of bamboo and was much thicker. This thing would make a " chirp " sound when it was pulled. Guo Ziyi named it a pump.
Guo Ziyi drew the design last night and asked the craftsmen to make hundreds of ancient versions of the large syringe overnight.
Behind these Tang soldiers, there was a bucket of Yanzhou rock fat with the lid open. The pump held by each Tang soldier was also filled with Yanzhou rock fat.
This time, the Turkic scaling ladders and ballistae advanced at the same time, with many Turkic cavalry following behind them, their ballistae constantly firing at the walls.
Guo Ziyi looked at the situation on the battlefield through the gap in the shield and muttered,"Come closer, come closer…"
The Turkic scaling ladders were erected, each with two or three Turkic elites crouching on them. They held scimitars and shields as they descended along with the scaling ladders. As soon as the scaling ladders were placed on the walls, they could immediately leap up.
Several dozen scaling ladders finally reached the walls of Yanzhou, and the Turkic elite soldiers immediately began to climb up.
Taba Feng's body trembled slightly as he shouted,""Spit!"
The shield on the city wall cracked, and the Tang soldiers holding the pump immediately pressed down on the stopper, spraying the grease filled in it toward the Turkic elite soldiers and the scaling ladder.
Immediately after that, another group of Tang soldiers shot out fire arrows from the gaps in the shields. The Turkic elite soldiers and ladders were covered in grease and immediately caught fire.
The elite Turkic soldiers at the front let out miserable shrieks as they fell off the scaling ladders like fireballs. The Turkic soldiers behind him remained unmoved, still climbing up the walls like a tide.
The Tang soldiers kept shooting out lava from the pump in their hands, and the fire arrows followed suit. The Turkic soldiers on fire kept falling down. Many scaling ladders were also destroyed, and the Turkic soldiers on the ladders also fell down.
A few tall carriages also gradually approached the city wall. The Tang army did the same thing and kept using the pump to spray the stone grease at the carriages and the Turkic soldiers pushing the carts. Rockets also followed closely.
The few cars also started to catch fire, and the fire grew bigger and bigger. The Turkic soldiers hidden inside couldn't withstand the fire, and many of them jumped off the vehicles, falling to their deaths.
The Turkic bolts continued to fall like rain. Many Tang soldiers were hit by the bolts the moment they dodged the gaps in their shields. Those who were lightly injured continued to hold on, while those who were seriously injured and killed were immediately replaced by Tang soldiers.
The spraying of the rock fat and the shooting of the fire arrows did not stop, but more and more Tang soldiers fell on the city wall.
Khagan Shuoye stood in front of the tent, watching the inferno outside Yanzhou. His body trembled slightly.
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