Chapter 49 Hu Lao Guan Xia

"Change the fire oil and throw it again!"

With Pang Tong's cold voice, the second batch of jars were also thrown on the city gate. Unlike the first batch, this time the jar contains not gunpowder, but fire oil.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, vegetable oil was generally rapeseed oil in addition to soybean oil. It can be used to help fuel combustion and can also be used for consumption. Since Jiaozhou and Nanzhong were relatively calmed down, the local tung oil has gradually become familiar to the southern people. Although it can't be eaten, it is not bad to use it to light up and make oil paper and oilcloth. When it comes to attacking or defending the city on the battlefield, this tung oil will replace all kinds of edible vegetable oil before and become the cheapest choice, saving vegetable oil for the soldiers to cook.

Hulala, dozens of tung oil cans were thrown on the wall of the tiger prison. This time, it did not explode. Cao Ren just breathed a sigh of relief, but he saw that all the jars that hit the head of the city were broken, and a unique smell of ** suddenly flowed out.

"What is this?" Cao Ren is a northerner. He has never seen tung oil. He smelled this strange smell and suddenly didn't know why. If it had been replaced by vegetable oil or soybean oil, or if the enemy under the city had prepared rockets, Cao Ren would have reacted and taken relative countermeasures. Now, it's time to react a little. This little reaction immediately made him pay a heavy price.

"Light the fire, keep throwing!" Under the order of Pang Unification, the third batch of jar thunder was thrown into the tiger prison. This explosion of jar thunder suddenly ignited the tung oil spilled everywhere, and the whole city of Huluoguan suddenly fell into a sea of fire!

"General, be careful!" Although the fire broke out in an instant, the guards around Cao Ren did their duty for the first time and quickly protected him to retreat to a place where there was no fire. I'm fine. Come on, put out the fire. Come on!" Regardless of the fire, Cao Ren quickly commanded loudly. In fact, at this time, the fire is still within control. If it is allowed to continue to burn, it will not be good. Cao Fu, who was beside him, listened and quickly organized people to prepare sand and water to put out the fire.

It's a pity that Pang Tong didn't give him this opportunity. After this time, the tung oil jar was thrown into the city again. This tung oil is extremely flammable. Cao Fu organized people to put out the fire with seven hands and eight feet. How could it be too late? Seeing this, Cao Ren immediately realized that it was unrealistic to put out the fire now. At the moment, he hurriedly stopped and asked Cao Fu to lead people to avoid it for the time being, and wait for the fire to rest. After all, under such a fire, it is unrealistic for the enemy to want to land and attack the city. If you are in a hurry to put out the fire, it is equivalent to letting the soldiers joke with their lives. He just ordered people to fight with sand far away while climbing high to check the movement of the enemy.

"Give it to me!" Pang Tong ordered to continue to throw fire oil, while ordering more than 2,000 elite soldiers who had already carried cloud ladders, rushing carts and other siege equipment to move forward quickly with the cloud ladder when the enemy could not show their heads. Then they didn't run long before they were surprised to find that many of their colleagues were holding jars in their hands and went with them.

"Crash!" Despite the surprise on the battlefield, they still chose to do their duty and push the car to the established Guancheng. The rushing car is generally used to hit and destroy the city wall. It is made of sharp coarse wood, with wheels installed underneath and covered with a tin roof to reduce the damage of soldiers by arrows and rolling wood stones on the head of the city.

"General, the enemy is coming up!" The soldier in charge of observing the enemy's situation at a high place shouted hurriedly. Cao Ren looked at the fire on the top of the city, which was still very fierce. It was really unrealistic to attack the enemy. At present, he waited for the fire to go out a little. Even if Liu Bei is so rich, it is impossible for him to burn like this all the time. As for taking the opportunity to destroy the city wall, Cao Ren is very confident. In such a short period of time, it is impossible to make too much damage to the wall of Huluoguan that he has strengthened. Considering this, Cao Ren also held back his surname and waited for the fire to weaken.

"Boom! Boom!" Several sounds sounded in succession, and eight rush cars hit eight holes in the wall of Hulaoguan. It's a foot square, and the depth is about the same. This damage is negligible compared with the whole strong wall. But this time it was very strange. The rush car only hit one or two times and was about to hit again. The colleagues who came forward with them had stopped them, and then piled up the jar in their hands in the small hole that had just been knocked out.

"Withdraw quickly!" Pang Tong, who had been paying close attention to the situation here, saw such a scene, and also hurriedly ordered all the people who attacked the city to retreat. Only a few people took out the fire fold, lit the lead on the jar, and then quickly escaped back.

"Shi Yuan, do you want to rely on the power of gunpowder to blow up the wall of the tiger's prison in one fell swoop?" Seeing this, Liu Bei understood more or less. Pang Tong nodded and looked at the rapidly burning lead near the wall. Pang Tong couldn't help clenching his hand.

Pang Tong has been deeply shocked by the power of gunpowder since he first saw it. He often sighed that if he had known the recipe of this thing, he would have blown up the tiger prison. He didn't know that Zhao Feng suffered from the limited amount of fire saltpeter, and he had made such a point for so many years. As a last resort, Pang Tong had to save some money. First, the defenders on the head of the city were bombed with deterrence, and then set fire to prevent them from further action. Then they sent people to rush out of the nest on the city wall with a car to install explosives to blow up the city wall and try to blow up the city wall in one fell swoop.

"I hope it will succeed in one fell swoop!" Pang Tong muttered. More than 200 jar thunders fired together in the caves cut under the city wall. This power should be enough! If he could blow up the city wall in one fell swoop and not want to collapse, he would have succeeded more than half of it.

"Ban!"

"Ban!"

"Ban!"

The loud noise sounded in succession, and the power of this time was not a little bit stronger than the previous one. Under the series of bombardment of more than 200 jar thunder, the solid wall of Hulaoguan also seemed to begin to tremble. Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei and others in the distance covered their ears to withstand the loud noise. When the tiger prison was closed, the defenders led by Cao Ren made a loud noise in their ears, and their feet swayed as if they were in hell.

Finally, when all the gunpowder was blown up, after the smoke dissipated, Liu Bei was happy to find that a crack about two feet wide had also exploded on the solid wall. With the smoke that has not yet dissipated, Liu Bei has faintly seen after closing the wall.

"Third brother, come on!" Sharply capturing the fighter, Liu Bei quickly ordered. However, someone was faster than him. Before Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao had already taken the lead and rushed up. After receiving Liu Bei's order, Zhang Fei also hurriedly led people to rush up. Before Cao Ren ordered to repair the city wall, he entered the gate from the narrow crack, and then tried to open the gate and enlarge the army to enter the gate.

"Let's go!" Zhang Liao and his 800 soldiers rushed to the front. These 800 people are all Zhang Liao's personal guards. After following him from Bingzhou to here, he was as brave as Guan Yu's five hundred swordsmen. This all-out impact stepped on the bombed gravel under his feet. While Cao's army had no time to organize effective resistance, several people killed from the crack in a row.

"Uncle, the enemy is coming in!" Cao Ren and others, who were dizzy on the head of the city, as soon as they stabilized their footsteps, they saw a big crack under their feet. After the smoke dissipated, nearly a thousand people had entered the tiger prison along the cracks and fought with the defenders who had not yet had time to fully react. In particular, Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei's team are about to reach the gate. Seeing this situation, Cao Fu, who had no experience, suddenly shouted in a hurry and stamped his feet.

"Quick, organize troops and drive them out, hurry up!" Seeing this, Cao Ren was already in a cold sweat. If you can't drive the other party out of the gate and fight like this, your own strength is not enough for others.

"Wen Yuan, open the gate quickly and let the eldest brother's army in!" He stabbed a Cao Jun's uncle to death with a spear, and turned around and cut the other person into two pieces. Zhang Fei also shouted loudly to Zhang Liao, who rushed in earlier than him.

"I know!" Zhang Liao roared and stabbed them to death. At present, he and Zhang Fei just led thousands of people into the gate. The victored defenders had led people to intercept the following Liu Bei's army near the crack, and at the same time wanted to destroy more than a thousand of people. No matter how confident Zhang Fei is, he doesn't expect such a person to win the tiger prison.

Therefore, at this time, Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei led people to kill while killing at the door. Now it depends on who can hold on. If Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei can't hold on and the gate is opened, then Cao Ren will lose today. If Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao can't open the gate, then they will be trapped in the city.

"Quick, move the stone away!" When they reached the gate, the two found that the gate had already been blocked by Cao Ren with stones. At present, Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei personally led the team to fight with the swarm of Cao army, and dozens of other people removed the stones piled at the door at the fastest speed. At this time, Liu Bei, who was so anxious, saw that the door could not be opened for a long time. He also hurriedly led the army to escort him and ordered someone to hit the door in a hurry.

"Kill!" Headed by Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao, these thousands of people rushed to fight to buy time for their colleagues who opened the city gate. The gate was narrow, and Cao's army couldn't rush open for a while. Cao Ren has personally come down to command, but the speed is still extremely slow.

"Archers, shoot them all to death!" Seeing that there were fewer and fewer stones, Cao Ren hurriedly ordered. A team of archers hurried forward and aimed at Cao Jun and Liu Jun, who were fighting in the field. At the time of the hasty battle, not many people on both sides carried shields, so in a series of screams, the current hundreds of people have been on the ground, and both sides have.

"Uncle, you still have your own people!" Cao Fu was stunned when he saw the situation. Cao Ren squeezed his lips and said no word, but his heart was clear. If he didn't control the situation now, it would not work.

"Wen Yuan, hurry up!" When Zhang Fei saw that Cao Ren had begun to shoot the second round of arrows, he was almost so anxious that he shouted on the spot. Zhang Liao squeezed his mouth and said no word, but he still ordered someone to remove the stones in a hurry.

"Wh" shot an arrow, hitting the back of a soldier who was carrying stones. The busy figure suddenly stagnated, but he still threw a stone in his hand aside, and then fell down and died.

"Hide me!" Liu Bei outside the door was separated by the gate and heard the shouts of killing inside. It seemed that every moment was as long as a year. Next to him, there were already soldiers pushing the car and hitting the gate.

"Squeak! Squeak!" With fewer and fewer stones blocked behind the door, the sound of the city gate will become louder and louder under each impact. Finally, after dozens of bumps, with a bang, the half of the gate on the left fell back.

"Kill it!" When Liu Bei saw the city gate fall, he jumped up excitedly. Don't let him call again. The rest of the soldiers, led by Chen to, Gao Lan and others, hurried to the city to kill. Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao behind the gate suddenly rejoiced when they saw this. If it hadn't been for the bitter battle, I would have cried with joy. Although there were only five or six hundred left for more than a thousand people who rushed in, although Zhang Fei himself was also hit by two arrows, Zhang Liao was even stabbed in the left shoulder by Cao Ren. But now that the army has rushed in, this sacrifice is obviously worth the money.

"It's not good, retreat into the inner city and continue to defend!" Cao Ren's heart suddenly sank when he saw this. Although he was unwilling, reason told him that it was really unrealistic for Cao's army to expel the other party from the city now, so he had to retreat into the inner city and then be a guard. But what Cao Ren didn't expect was that his plan could not be realized.

"Cao Renxiu, go!" It was Zhang Fei who came first and killed him like chopping waves. Cao Ren was shocked and quickly commanded his men to block it. He was ready to go to the inner city and then organize an effective defense. At this moment, Cao Ren suddenly felt a huge danger and attacked him.

Almost relying on instinct, Cao Ren hurriedly turned to the right, but it was a late step after all. A speeding wolf tooth arrow pierced his right shoulder with armor in an instant.

"Ah!" After screaming, Cao Ren looked around at the arrows, but saw a veteran who had just put down the long bow in his hand. Looking at the Cao soldiers around him who were killed and cut to the ground one by one and felt the sharp pain on his shoulder, Cao Ren suddenly had a sad idea in his heart.

"It seems that I'm going to die here today, and it's too late to return to the inner city. The tiger prison is in danger, and I lost it on the first day. What face do I have to see the master again? But Meng De, don't worry, I'm your brother, and I will never surrender. Cao Ren, who figured this out, gritted his teeth and grabbed the arrow on his shoulder and pulled it out desperately.

"Come with me!" After dressing up, Cao Ren roared angrily, and then led the people to evacuate the battlefield quickly. On the other side, Liu Bei looked at Huang Zhong and Wen Ping, who rushed in front of him, and were also overjoyed.

"Han Sheng, Zhong Ye, fortunately you arrived in time, otherwise, I'm afraid it's difficult to take down this tiger's prison so easily today!" Liu Bei, who was in a good mood, also said with a smile. Of course, there is a polite element in this. Although Huang Zhong and others led the rear army to kill in time, and under the attack, Cao Ren's Ruyi's calculation of withdrawing into the inner city failed, even without them, Liu Bei's former army was enough to control the situation. At most, it was just a little time-consuming. Liu Bei wanted to praise him like this, and the two of them quickly said they didn't dare.

At this time, more and more Liu Jun entered the city, and Cao Jun had gradually fallen behind. Zhang Fei led the people to the inner city to kill. Just as they were in power, a group of elite people, led by Cao Ren, who had just bandaged his wounds, suddenly came out of the inner city. He almost did not care about his life and fought with Zhang Fei's people. Liu Jun, who was caught off guard for a while, was defeated and retreated. Zhang Fei was furious, but he could only fight wildly and steady his pace before making the next step.

(to be continued)