I turned the cold palace into a paradise

Chapter 216: Defending the City 3

One hour is really short.

With a loud horn sound, the enemies outside the city launched an attack.

The first thing to arrive was the countless arrows falling from the sky. Countless arrows were like silver raindrops, jumping on the battlefield.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuankai had experience, and in the past hour, he had asked the people to contribute many door panels.

Soldiers and civilians raised their weapons above their heads.

After two rounds of arrow rain, the enemy launched a charge.

Zhang Yuankai and others dropped the wooden boards in their hands and shouted, "Archers, get ready! Shoot!"

However, our side had fewer people and archers, and their arrows were far less numerous than the enemy's. They only hit a few people sparsely, and were unable to resist the attack of the large army.

Soon the enemy arrived at the foot of the city and began to build ladders.

"Quick! Heat the oil!!!!" Aunt Wang shouted with a loudspeaker.

Immediately, many people who had been prepared carried oil pans and wooden buckets to the city wall and poured hot oil under the wall.

The enemy soldiers who were about to climb up fell down one by one, and screams came from below. The air was filled with the smell of meat.

Many soldiers who were scalded and splashed with oil retreated.

I cursed in my heart: Damn it! This is all oil! ! ! They are reluctant to put oil in their meals, but they are pouring it down like this! !

Except for those who were lying on the ground unable to move or dead because the hot oil was poured on their heads, the other people who were splashed in a small area were wailing constantly, which made everyone terrified.

The attack paused for a moment.

"Damn it! Go ahead! They have run out of oil! Go ahead! I will kill anyone who dares to retreat!" the general in the enemy team shouted angrily.

The retreating soldiers were forced back under the city wall.

Gritting his teeth, he climbed up the ladder.

It was just because of the hot oil that had just been poured, the city walls and ladders were slippery and I couldn't grab on no matter how many times I tried.

During this time, a new batch of hot oil was added to the overhead.

This time it was not poured down, but the soldiers scooped it up with wooden spoons and sprinkled it out.

Although this will not kill people immediately, it will expand the scope and cause more people to be injured.

Oil fell from the sky and landed on the soldiers' heads and faces. Instantly, wailing broke out and they retreated in panic.

The generals in the rear had to chop down a few of them before they stopped their retreat.

Prefects Yang and Wu, who were standing in the back and observing, discussed for a while and said, "Attack! Attack! I don't believe a small city has much oil! Let those who are already injured and soaked in oil come to me! Tell them that if they die, the court will subsidize their families."

The people of the city on the city wall couldn't help cheering when they found that the enemy began to retreat. They knew that they only won the first round, but they were also very happy.

But this joy did not last for a quarter of an hour before the enemies launched another charge.

But this time was different from before. The ones rushing over were the injured who were scalded by the oil just now.

"Damn it! They actually want to use the lives of the wounded to consume our fuel." Zhang Yuankai spat.

The soldiers of Qianhu Suo looked at the enemy soldiers who were staggering and struggling to come over, feeling both sad and relieved.

Sadly, these people are just like them in the past, being used as cannon fodder by those in power. Fortunately, they are now following Master Yue, otherwise they would have ended up like them.

"My brothers, please follow a good master in your next life. I'm sorry!" The soldier guarding the oil pan gritted his teeth and poured the oil in.

Wave after wave, the enemy finally ran out of oil after spending thousands of lives.

The corpses under the city wall were poured with oil several times and were cooked, emitting bursts of meaty aroma.

Many civilians and soldiers on the city wall couldn't help vomiting.

"Hmph! They are out of gas, come on!!!" Magistrate Yang said happily.

The enemy's horn sounded again.

The enemy charged again.

This time they were greeted with boiling hot water.

"Fuck him!!!" Magistrate Yang was so angry.

The two armies fought with real swords and guns, damn it! How can there be such a defense of the city? What kind of dirty tricks are they using? It is true that only women and villains are difficult to raise. Thank you, women have many dirty tricks!

"Retreat!" Prefect Yang had no choice but to order the army to retreat first.

The enemy retreated temporarily, and the general entered the main tent to discuss matters with Prefect Yang and Prefect Wu.

"You can have as much hot water as you want. We can't use more lives to fill it. Otherwise, the soldiers might..." The general frowned. The prefects didn't feel bad, but he did!! These were his soldiers! I don't know what the court was thinking, letting two civil officials lead the troops.

But no matter how dissatisfied you are, you can only obey orders.

Prefect Yang closed his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking. After a while, he said, "It's getting dark."

"It's getting dark." Aunt Wang Wang Yu'er said as she looked at the darkening sky.

"I'm afraid it won't be peaceful tonight." Zhang Yuankai took the pancakes the women brought and took two bites.

"Let's eat in batches first. Let the people who are boiling water take turns boiling water."

"Then have the engineering department dig some soil to cover up the oil."

Wang Yu'er arranged everything in an orderly manner.

Zhang Yuankai bowed to Wang Yu'er in admiration.

There aren't many people he admires, especially women. The one he admires the most is Yunyue, because of her thoughts and her vision.

But now he discovered that the elegant old woman in front of him was actually so powerful.

He actually led them to defend the city.

He was a military commander, and at first he was afraid that they would give blind orders, after all, fighting a war was different from managing a city. But it was beyond his expectations.

Sure enough, Young Master Yue is not an ordinary person, and the woman beside her is not an ordinary person either.

The soldiers on the city wall had been worried for an entire afternoon, and had vomited twice. After eating, they leaned against the city wall, their eyes drooping.

“Bang, bang, bang!” Enemy attack!!! The gongs of the investigators sounded, and everyone immediately took precautions.

The people in the city who were assigned to guard the firewood pile and boil water stood up, scooped the hot water into buckets and carried them to the city wall.

However, the enemy stopped about 200 meters away from the city wall and then retreated.

"Huh? Why did the enemy retreat?"

"Are you afraid of us carrying hot water?"

The soldiers were all making strange guesses.

Wang Yu'er and others felt their hearts sink.

"They want to exhaust us to death." Zhang Yuankai kicked the city wall angrily.

"There's no other way, we can only wait." Wang Yu'er looked into the distance helplessly.

Sure enough, the enemy launched several more attacks during the night, but just like the first time, every time when everyone was ready to fight, the enemy retreated.

Both the soldiers guarding the city walls and the civilians were somewhat overwhelmed.

They dared not close their eyes or relax. Even if they took turns to rest, they would wake up immediately every time the alarm sounded.

"Auntie Wang, you go to sleep for a while. I'll watch over here." Ouyang Shu came over and supported Wang Yu'er.

"No. Everyone is here, I can't go. Besides, I guess the enemy is going to really attack soon."

Another round of wolf coming.

The soldiers lay on the ground, taking the time to rest.

"Bang, bang, bang!" the alarm sounded again.

Many soldiers did not stand up, and few of them brought up hot water.

"It must be fake again." Someone muttered.

"Get up!!! Everyone, get up!!!!" Zhang Yuankai walked forward with a bad look and kicked a few people who didn't get up.

"Yuan Kai!! It seems to be real this time!" Wang Yu'er's face changed drastically when she saw the number of people increased by twice as much as before.

Looking back, I saw that there were only a few people responsible for fetching water.

I think most people thought it was fake this time too and fell asleep.

The enemy rushed in very quickly, leaving them no time to arrange for someone to go down and fetch hot water.

The enemy began to climb the ladder. More and more enemies approached.

“Throw the torches!!! Throw the torches down!!” Wang Yu’er shouted.

Ouyang Shu also reacted, and quickly picked up the torch and walked to the city wall and threw it down.

At this time, the enemies also climbed up one after another. If Zhang Yuankai hadn't raised his knife to block them for her, Ouyang Shu would have been almost chopped.

"Brothers, block it!!!"

"Throw it quickly!! Throw the torch quickly!!!"

Zhang Yuankai led the soldiers to fight with the enemies who were climbing up, while others threw down their torches in a hurry.

In an instant, the entire city wall turned into a wall of fire, and all the corpses below were burned.

Except for the soldiers who climbed up, the rest of the army was blocked by the wall of fire.

Fortunately, there were not many people climbing up, and they were all cleared away in a short while.

The fire couldn't be put out in a short time, so Wang Yu'er quickly arranged: "Send the injured to Doctor Yu, and the others should step back a little to avoid being burned by the fire."