Oriole Line

Clouds, behind the clouds, the faint light of the sky can already be seen.Tomorrow...if the sun clears tomorrow, Beiyan will attack the city with tar, and no matter how thick their city walls are, they will definitely not be able to withstand it.

This day, after nightfall, the truce was routine. Although Wen Tao was so tired that his whole body was filled with lead, his nerves were so tense that he couldn't sleep.He was in the room, listening to the pattering rain outside the window, which had never caught his attention like it does now.Once upon a time, in Qi Dai's small building, the summer rain fell on the banana leaves, accompanied by the sound of Qi Dai's piano, which was the leisure mood of the scribes that he once dismissed.Only now did Wen Tao deeply understand the cruelty of reality. This pattering rain was actually the last shelter of their [-] garrison troops.In this thousand worlds, he is still too insignificant. The talent he relied on in the past is so insignificant in front of powerful enemies and the way of heaven...

Pa... Pa... The sound of water came from afar.This sound is not the sound of rain.Wen Tao listened intently for a while. He was not a person with five senses as sharp as Pu Chen. After analyzing it for a while, he suddenly realized that it was the sound of the Yangtze River.This continuous torrential rain has raised the water level a lot, and the sound of the waves has also become much more majestic and powerful.

Wen Tao suddenly had a plan in his mind. This plan is very risky, but if it succeeds, they don't even need to wait for Pu Chen's reinforcements. They can severely defeat Beiyan's army by relying on the remaining garrison.He called Mr. Wei overnight, and Mr. Wei was also up all night because of the defense of the city. When he heard Wen Tao's plan, his eyes lit up immediately, and he was about to get up to prepare.Wen Tao stopped him: "Sir, the people in the city must settle down."

"Naturally." Mr. Wei said, "If you choose a good location, the city of Wuchang will be able to avoid being affected as much as possible."

Wen Tao nodded, and wanted to prepare together, Mr. Wei stopped him: "After tomorrow's plan is completed, Khalil will never let it go. If there is a strong attack, you need to stabilize the overall situation."

"Mr. has also been tired for a few days. I'd better go with him."

Mr. Wei made a stop gesture, looked at Wen Tao and said, "I have worked with you for the past few days, and I can see why the head of the family values ​​you so much. He was arrogant since he was a child, and few people caught his eyes. I thought You were born in a poor family, and your knowledge must be inferior to that of the disciples of the aristocratic family. Now it seems that I was wrong. In this world, there are really people who are all in one body. Since the Patriarch handed over Wuchang to us, he handed over his back to us .If you trust me, let me prepare. You can rest well. There is still a tough battle to fight tomorrow."

Wen Tao looked at Mr. Wei, who was also extremely tired and several times his age, but let him rest while trying to hold on, and was moved in his heart.But he knew Mr. Wei was right.After the plan is completed, Khalil will never let it go. Perhaps then, it will be the beginning of the hard battle.He nodded and accepted Mr. Wei's arrangement. Although he still had a lot of thoughts in his mind, he still forced himself to rest for two hours.As he was half asleep, he felt a furry mass jump onto his bed and curl up around his calf.

It was the civet cat he rescued, named... Taotao.Wen Tao thought in a daze, this name is quite nice.I don't know if it's because of the civet cat, but Wen Tao rested well that night.

On the second day before the time of Mao, Wen Tao had already got up, put on Pu Chen's black armor, and went to the tower to supervise the battle in person.The archers were resting directly in the tower. Seeing their patriarch arrived, a bugle sounded. The archers rubbed their eyes and braced their tired bodies to prepare for the battle.Wen Tao made a gesture, and a group of soldiers came behind him, bringing water bags and food to the archers on the city wall.The archers who have been fighting hard for several days have reached the limit of their physical strength at this moment. They are cuddling each other, eating and watching the sky light up outside the city tower. The rain will stop after all.

Mr. Wei also rushed to the gate tower, whispered a few words to Wen Tao, and everything was arranged.

"Let's join the ordinary infantry today." Wen Tao thought for a while and said softly to Mr. Wei, "Their arrows can't shoot very far."

After a little thought, Mr. Wei understood Wen Tao's intentions. He nodded and said, "Alright, lure the enemy deep."

Give an order, the archers from the previous two days are all resting in the tower today, and the position of the archers will be taken by the infantry.After a while, the infantry on the tower was in place. Although they could also shoot arrows, they were not as skilled as archers after all.The bannermen issued an order, and the infantry shot down with sparse bows and arrows. The Beiyan people who were still in the whole team tensed up, but then found that the arrows shot today were far worse than those of the previous two days. There is still a lot of distance.Khalil squinted his eyes and looked at the city wall. Sure enough, many soldiers' costumes had changed, and their archery movements were not proficient. This is, have they finally exhausted their archers?Halil was overjoyed, looked at today's weather again, ordered the trebuchet to be pushed forward a few feet, and ordered people to take out the tar barrels that they had prepared but hadn't used for a long time.

Take Wuchang, today!

"Boom!" "Boom! The block fell all over the floor.In Khalil's formation, a bucket of tar had been ignited, and the ignited black-smoky flame poured on the stone, and the stone instantly turned into a fireball.

Khalil raised his chin again at the black-armored man on the tower, waved his big hairy hand, and the huge fireball hit the deep hole on the city wall directly! With a loud bang, the city wall was pierced, leaving an ugly black hole. The tar sticking to the city wall burned for a while, and foul-smelling black smoke floated out of the hole.

On the third day after Pu Chen left, the city tower of Wuchang was finally pierced.

"Should I..." Seeing that the situation is not good, Mr. Wei suggested.

"Wait a little longer." Wen Tao held his breath, "We will start after the rest of the trebuchets start using tar. Tar can no longer be left in the hands of barbarians."

That's right, it's best to consume all the tar of the Beiyan people in one blow, otherwise, it's always a disaster to leave unopened tar behind.After a while, Wen Tao finally saw what the dying little boy he met in Xiangyang City called "Fireballs all over the sky".

"Let's start!" Wen Tao nodded to Mr. Wei, and the flag was signaled there, and suddenly there was a thunderous cannon.This is not the dull sound of a boulder hitting the city wall, but the crisp sound of cannons. The sound lasted for dozens of times, followed by the sound of water. The sound became louder and louder, and finally it was like the sound of a waterfall!

Beiyan's army froze in place, and just about to continue the attack of the trebuchet, suddenly a sharp-eyed shout: "No, the embankment has burst!"

Beiyan people lived in Saibei all the year round, and they were very unfamiliar with rivers, lakes and seas. At this moment, they saw a breach in the embankment of the Yangtze River not far from the west gate of Wuchang City. Come, pour directly to the four sides of Wuchang City.Because preparations had been made the night before, the gates of Wuchang City were filled with additional sandbags and other things, and all the water rushed out of the city.The hole became bigger and bigger, and more and more water rushed out, rushing straight towards Khalil's [-] troops!

The Beiyan people had never seen such a formation. Although they were excellent in riding and archery, they basically knew nothing about water. When they saw the tide rushing in, they all threw away their helmets and armor and fled in all directions. Many of Beiyan's horses were stuck in the Unable to move in the muddy water, those catapults were thrown alone in the formation, and the tide washed them away.

"It's done!" Mr. Wei said excitedly.The Wuchang garrison on the city wall also cheered when they saw this. They thought they were going to break the city today, but at the last moment, the Patriarch thought of a water attack!Thanks to the heavy rain in the past few days, the water level of the Yangtze River is high, and a small hole can cause the river to burst its embankment and flood the northern Yan army.

After nightfall, the water gradually calmed down.The moonlight on this day was very good, and the moonlight shone on the entire expanse of ocean outside Wuchang City. However, under this white moonlight, countless drowned Beiyan soldiers were shining, their bodies were soaked to the brim. Pale and floating on muddy water.Of the one hundred thousand army, there were only scattered teams left, scattered in the shadows that the moonlight could not reach.

45, 45.

On the fourth day, the water level outside the city of Wuchang hadn't completely gone down, and the city walls were soaked in muddy water, and a lot of water had entered Wuchang city, and the muddy water caused waterlogging.Mr. Wei had to allocate part of the garrison to clean up the waterlogging in the city.

Wen Tao has been guarding the tower, he does not believe that Khalil will give up.It was a sunny day, and the midsummer heat was rising, and the muddy water outside Wuchang City turned into a swamp.The corpses of Beiyan soldiers and war horses from the previous day began to rot, emitting a stench.

When night fell that day, Wen Tao didn't go back to the city to rest, he was gambling.In the past few days, Khalil was able to be patient because he had rations in his hands. Once the water attack plan was successful, Beiyan would not only lose the lives of soldiers and horses, but more importantly, their luggage and rations.Now, it is not difficult for Khalil to gather the living Beiyan soldiers, but it is impossible to continue the war of attrition.

Sure enough, after midnight, a group of people appeared from the shadows in the southeast, and the leader was Khalil!When the northern Yan army was flooded, his men and horses fled in all directions, and he spent a whole day reorganizing the remaining men and horses.He is not reconciled!At that time, with 10 people, they came to flatten Wuchang.For this reason, he did not hesitate to confuse the public, and led the garrison in Wuchang City to Jingzhou.He thought he was powerful