Chapter 2837 Bai Qi’s early layout, high-pressure water truck breaks Puyang


    Chapter 2834: Bai Qi’s early layout, high-pressure water truck breaks Puyang


    From Cao Cao''s perspective, not only is there sufficient number of defenders in Puyang City, but Le Yi and Lan Yu are also good at defense, and there are also many powerful generals such as Niu Mowang, Jiang Wenhuan, and Elai. In addition, there are rebels in Dongjun, and the rebels in rebellion, so they will not be unable to defend even for ten days.


    But since the spies have reported this, it is impossible for this to be fake. Puyang City has been really broken.


    But how did Bai Qi defeat Puyang in just ten days?


    In fact, Bai Qi used it for ten days on the surface, but when Jia Fu attacked Puyang, Bai Qi was already preparing to break through Puyang.


    Puyang is the capital of Dongjun and is also the last line of defense to guard the northern part of Cao Wei. Such an important city will inevitably be easy to defend but difficult to attack.


    Bai Qi naturally could not have known this, but he still sent Jia Fu to lead a 35,000 army to attack Puyang before he captured Baima City.


    At that time, a group of Wei generals, including Le Yi, felt that Bai Qi wanted to quickly occupy Dongjun after breaking through the Yellow River defense line, and was eager for quick success and instant benefits.


    Although Xun You, as a military advisor, did not think of this, he could not think of other reasons, so he could only secretly be vigilant in his heart.


    But neither Le Yi nor Xun You expected that Bai Qi was preparing to break Puyang in the future.


    Bai Qi had long known that Jia Fu could not defeat Puyang, so before setting off, he deliberately used aggressive methods to arouse Jia Fu, so that Jia Fu could do his best while also implementing it according to his arrangements.


    Jia Fu still trusted Bai Qi very much. Even Bai Qi said that Puyang City is difficult to capture, so how dare he not follow what Bai Qi said?


    In the end, although Jia Fu failed to capture Puyang City, he laid the foundation for Bai Qi''s second siege.


    When Jia Fu attacked Puyang City, the number of Puyang defenders was small and it was difficult to take into account the defense of the whole city. Although he failed to successfully break the city, he also destroyed most of Puyang''s defense facilities.


    Later, although Le Yi took advantage of the gap between Bai Qi''s attack on the White Horse and rebuilt the defense of Puyang City, and strengthened the city defense after retreating into Puyang City, it did not solve a fatal problem left by Jia Fu when he siege the city.


    Jia Fu followed Bai Qi''s instructions and launched a strong attack on Puyang''s North West Second Gate, the main attack on the North Gate, while the West Gate was only to restrain and used a large number of sulphur bombs.


    Jia Fu naturally didn''t understand Bai Qi''s intention to do this. After all, the Qin army''s resources were limited, and it was impossible to supply unlimited amounts of sulphur bombs.


    So in Jia Fu''s view, instead of using sulphur bombs at Ximen, which is mainly restricted, it is better to concentrate on the North Gate, so the success rate of breaking through the North Gate is also higher.


    In the end, although Jia Fu failed to break through Puyang, he did not blame Bai Qi for this, because he knew that even if he used all the irrigation bombs at the North Gate, it would still be difficult to break through Puyang City.


    But what Jia Fu didn''t know was that it was his many days of fire attack that gave Bai Qi a chance to take advantage of.


    Since Jia Fu attacked the North Gate strongly, he also focused his attention on the North Gate, and often ignored the West Gate, which was mainly restrained. When it was Bai Qi''s turn to attack Puyang, he also adopted the strategy of attacking the North Gate and restraining the West Gate. Therefore, the siege battles in the first nine days were mainly concentrated on the North Gate.


    80,000 Qin troops attacked Puyang City, dispatched 800 catapult cars and nearly 10,000 various combat crossbows. Although such long-range output capabilities put great pressure on the Wei Ming coalition, they were not as strongly as possible to break Puyang City Defense.


    Under the strict defense of Le Yi and Lan Yu, although the Qin army attacked the North Gate many times, they failed to break the city, even if Li Cunxiao climbed the city tower.


    After all, under the Wei Ming coalition''s fire-raising tactics, even Li Cunxiao had to avoid the edge for the time being, let alone Niu Mo Forgot about the coalition.


    On the nine-day strong attack, the Qin army suffered nearly 8,000 casualties, of which more than 4,000 were killed in battle, but it also caused nearly 10,000 casualties to the Wei Ming coalition.


    There are two common senses in war: defense is always simpler than offense, and the casualties of offense are definitely greater than defense.


    But as the attacking side, the Qin army suffered smaller losses than the Wei Ming coalition on the defensive side, which obviously broke the common sense on the battlefield.


    In this Puyang offensive and defensive battle, the main force of the defending army was the Ming army. The Ming army was above the Wei army in terms of morale and combat power, and there was no fear of the Qin army. If the Wei army was defeated repeatedly, casualties would probably increase further.


    One move, the energy will fade again, and the energy will be exhausted three times.


    The Qin army''s strong attack on Puyang this time was also the most powerful attack on the first day. It was difficult to break the city for a long time, and morale naturally declined.


    Le Yi naturally felt the decline in the morale of the Qin army and the weakening of the Qin army''s offensive against Puyang City, so he naturally had his confidence multiplied. He felt that he could defend Puyang City, but he didn''t know that when he was determined to pounce on the North Gate, the foundation of Puyang West Gate was almost hollowed out by Bai Qi.


    After more than half a month of burning, some locations of the Ximen City Wall have cracked.


    The Wei Ming coalition in the city naturally knew about this and repaired the city wall as soon as possible, but the cracks on the surface were easy to repair, but the internal ones could not be repaired at all.


    On the tenth day of Bai Qi''s fierce attack on Puyang, Le Yi and Lan Yu thought the Qin army would attack the North Gate, but they did not expect that Bai Qi would attack the West Gate this time.


    This is exactly the same as Le Yi and Lan Yu''s intentions. After all, after nine consecutive days of fierce attacks, the North Gate was already covered with scars and wounds, but the West Gate''s damage was not great, and its defense was obviously above the North Gate.


    However, in order to prevent Bai Qi from firing a shot, Le Yi did not relax his defense against the north gate. While sitting in the west gate himself, he also asked Lan Yu to guard the north gate.


    Seeing that the number of Qin troops gathered outside the West Gate and the siege equipment had been transferred, Le Yi knew that Bai Qi was not trying to flick a shot, but really wanted to attack Ximen, and couldn''t help but say to himself:


    "Then come on Bai Qi. As long as I, Le Yi, you can''t conquer Puyang City, you can''t conquer the North Gate, and you can''t conquer the West Gate, either."


    Puyang City, outside the west gate.


    Bai Qi looked at Le Yi on the city tower, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then asked to his left and right: "Have all the catapults been brought here?"


    When Tian Feng heard this, he immediately replied, "Report to the General, all 800 catapults have arrived at the West Gate and have been arranged outside the city."


    "Um."


    Bai Qi nodded and then asked again: "How many tincture oil tanks are left in our army?"


    "I used too many turbulent oil tanks before, but now there are only 5,000 cans left in the military camp, which is only enough for our army to attack the city in two days. However, another 30,000 cans were transported from the rear. It has arrived at the White Horse, and it will take some time to reach the front line."


    "Are five thousand cans? It''s enough."


    A flash of light flashed in Bai Qi''s eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "I will pass the order to aim at the Puyang city wall and launch all the five thousand cans of turmeric oil."


    "No."


    The messenger ordered the troops to take the order away, but the generals present were stunned. Only a few people including Li Cunxiao, Hao Zhao showed their thoughts.


    "General, if you want to launch it, you can also launch it on the city wall. Why do you launch it on the city wall? It won''t burn the defenders in the city. Can they still heat them up?" Qin Niu asked with confusion.


    "Yes, our army''s turtle oil is not enough. If it is so wasteful, there will be no turtle oil for the next few days of siege."


    As soon as Yu Yuan said this, it immediately aroused the consent of some generals. Obviously, they also felt that there were still some battles in this battle, and the mission of breaking the city in ten days was impossible to complete. "How many days? The enemy hasn''t been for a few days. Our army will definitely break through Puyang today."


    As soon as Bai Qi finished speaking, the Qin army''s catapult formation had begun to project one after another.


    Eight hundred catapults, firing five thousand cans of turbulent bombs, is only five rounds, but Bai Qi’s target is the city wall, so he only needs to use the last row of catapults.


    Long before the Qin army cast the stone casting array, Le Yi had ordered the fire-fighting troops to prepare sand and soil and be ready to join the fire at any time.


    So, when he saw the Qin army''s catapult formation start to project, Le Yi immediately dispatched fire-fighting troops to put out the fire, but the next unexpected scene happened.


    The Qin army''s sulphur bomb did not project onto the city tower, but instead hit Puyang City.


    Boom, boom, boom...


    The turbulent oil tank instantly shattered after hitting the city wall, and more than 20 kilograms of turbulent oil instantly triggered a fire, but it was just burning the city wall and did not pose a threat to the defenders on the city wall.


    Boom, boom, boom...


    The turbulent oil tanks bombarded the city wall one after another, but it made the defenders on the city tower more and more confused.


    If one or two shots are not hit, it would be fine, but dozens or hundreds of shots are hit on the city wall, it only means that the Qin army did it intentionally.


    "What is Bai Qi doing? Do you want to burn us to death? Haha."


    Evil laughed out loudly, and there was a burst of ridicule, obviously feeling Bai Qi was confused.


    Le Yi frowned. Although he felt a little bad in his heart, he still couldn''t understand Bai Qi''s intention. When he looked at Xun You, he found that his expression was the same as that of him.


    "Did Bai Qi want to use tincture oil to break the city wall? But the Puyang city wall uses big bluestone. Even if it breaks, it will only break locally and can be repaired soon. It is meaningless to burn it."


    Xun You looked puzzled, and he really couldn''t figure out Bai Qi''s intention, but he felt a sense of crisis like Le Yi, because Bai Qi never did meaningless things.


    "Military advisor, what should I do now?" Le Yi asked.


    "I don''t know Bai Qi''s intention yet, so I can only prepare sand and soil in advance and prepare to put out the fire at any time, so as to respond to changes in the same way." Xun You said helplessly.


    "That''s all."


    Boom, boom...


    The Qin army''s turtle oil attack continues.


    Every time an incense stick is placed, when the fire begins to weaken, the next round will continue to be launched, and each round will be about 500 cans.


    After five consecutive rounds of projection, the west gate of Puyang City turned into a sauna, becoming a literal hot spring, and many defenders on the city tower were also frightened by the heat.


    Le Yi had no good idea, so he could only change a group of soldiers to continue standing guard every half an hour.


    "Grandmaster, this is not a solution. Although the Qin army cannot hurt me, if our soldiers are all heatstroke, it will greatly affect their defense."


    "Indeed, this can''t continue."


    Le Yi nodded in agreement, and then ordered the soldiers to throw sand and put out the fire, while the coalition soldiers could only endure the high temperature and threw sand back and forth towards the city wall.


    But what Le Yi did not expect was that the effect of using sand to extinguish the fire this time was not good. The sand did not absorb the city wall like tinder oil, but slid directly into the lake and city river.


    Overall, the fire extinguishing effect is available, but it is only a little bit, far less than that of the effect on flat ground.


    Seeing that the sand could not be destroyed, Le Yi and Xun You had no choice but to let the Qin army burn like this. Anyway, it was just a little hot, and they couldn''t burn them. Besides, the Qin army could not keep burning like this.


    Soon, the Qin army''s turbulent offensive had already been projected to the ninth round.


    Seeing that the situation was almost done, Bai Qi immediately ordered the soldiers to push out nearly 100 chariots.


    These chariots were jointly developed by the Mohist and the workers, and had never been used on the battlefield before, and Ying Hao named it: high-pressure water truck.


    Seeing the new equipment appeared in the Qin army formation, Le Yi and Xun You both changed their expressions. Although they didn''t know what it was for, their bad premonition was even stronger.


    "Trailing cars will attack immediately and never let these tanks approach."


    Le Yi made a decisive order, and the defenders'' catapult formations also launched attacks at the first time. However, because they were fumed by the fire for several hours, the old catapults were basically replaced and rested. The newcomers who came from the bench were still very unskilled in control, so their reaction speed was naturally very slow.


    Before the defenders'' catapult cart had time to launch, the Qin army''s catapult cart outside the city launched the attack first, but this time it was not aimed at the city wall, and in addition to the turbulent oil tank, there were stone bombs.


    Five hundred cans of turbulent oil bombs and thousands of stone bombs poured into the city tower at the same time, immediately causing great chaos to the defenders.


    But under Le Yi''s command, the defenders quickly recovered. They fought back when they should fight back and put out fires when they should be put out. Everything was so orderly.


    Until the high-pressure water truck sprayed out the water column, Le Yi and Xun You could no longer continue to be calm, and they finally realized Bai Qi''s intention, but it was obviously too late.


    After more than ten days of slow fire and burning the fire on the last day, the internal structure has been severely damaged.


    In extremely high temperatures, hundreds of water columns are poured over the rocks at the same time. When they suddenly come into contact with the water, their internal structure will be completely destroyed and burst.


    But Puyang North Gate lasted for nine days, but Puyang West Gate didn''t even last for a day.


    Under the Qin army''s water and fire offensive, the Ximen City Wall collapsed on a large scale, which completely exposed the city to the Qin army.


    At this time, Puyang City, in the eyes of Qin Jun, was like a beauty who took off her clothes and could be lucky at any time.


    (This chapter ends)