Author: Leng Qingshan

In an instant, the eyes of everyone present were dyed red.

The soldiers climbing on the ladder screamed and rolled down the ladder with their bodies covered in flames. The people below were also caught off guard and were engulfed by the flames that suddenly burst out from the trench. They screamed and screamed.

They were rolling all over the ground, and some people even lost their footing in a panic and fell into the trench.

The thin layer of soil and branches and straw spread on the trench surface were burned away, and everyone saw that there were countless clay pots densely packed in the trench that was almost half a person deep and half a person wide.

Everything inside is filled with tung oil!

No wonder they were ignited by two rockets, completely blocking their offensive.

The people behind looked at these two tall walls of fire, which directly covered the entire Fufeng City Tower. The ladder was swallowed up, burned down in a short time, and could no longer be used. Their people did not dare to get close to the city wall, so they could only

He watched helplessly as his own people struggled in the flames and called for help.

At this moment, Xue Xian was also stunned.

He traveled across Longxi and fought countless battles, but he never expected that Fufeng, who was pushed to the extreme by him, would have this trick - he had only seen fire as an attack, but he never expected that there were people who used fire as a defense!

The surrounding lieutenants and soldiers were also panicked at this moment, and hurriedly came forward and said: "General, what should I do?"

"If the fire continues like this, our ladder will be destroyed!"

Xue Xian gritted his teeth and said: "Put out the fire!"

The lieutenant asked: "Put out the fire? Where can we get the water?"

Although there is Xiaolin River not far behind them, after all, it is such a distance away, and water is not easy to come; besides, they are here to attack the city and have nothing to transport water. This is

Even water cannot save fire.

What's more, the people on the tower are waiting for them to cause chaos.

Just when everyone was panicking, they suddenly turned around and saw more than 20 long-forgotten waterwheels in the crowd!

Isn't there water there?

Xue Xian immediately said: "Quick, use the water there to put out the fire!"

In fact, before he could shout, the people around the water tanker had already had this idea, and everyone tried their best to move the water tanker back towards the city gate. However, the water tanker was extremely heavy, and the battlefield was now full of people.

People running back and forth also made it impossible for vehicles to move. Someone in the crowd shouted: "The terrain over the city gate is low, just release the water!"

The man pushing the cart understood immediately.

However, they searched for the valve of the water tanker for a long time but could not find it. Just when everyone was in a hurry, they suddenly heard a shout of "Get out of the way!"

Everyone looked up and saw Xue Xian galloping towards him, the sword in his hand waving a bright arc of light in the air!

Everyone understood immediately and hurriedly backed away.

Xue Xian flew over on horseback, and struck the corner of the waterwheel with the heavy Yanyue knife. There was only a "click" sound, and the waterwheel was cut open. Suddenly sawdust flew, and a cold blast

Liquid splashed out from inside, splashing into the faces of everyone around him.

Immediately afterwards, the water from the water tanker gurgled out, and soon it flowed on the ground into a stream.

Seeing this, the people next to him imitated him, waving their swords and slashing at the remaining waterwheels. In an instant, several more waterwheels were slashed, and the water inside surged out and gathered together.

, rushing towards the city gate.

But at this moment, those whose faces were splashed by the water stretched out their hands and suddenly smelled a strange smell.

"This, this is-"

I don't know if it was them, but when the water from more than a dozen water trucks gathered on the ground and flowed under everyone's feet, more and more people smelled a strange smell.

Xue Xian, who was standing on horseback, suddenly felt a thump in his heart when he saw the faces of everyone.

This smell is the same as the smell that just came from the ditch under the city wall!

At this moment, Xue Xian's eyes were red. He suddenly turned around on his horse and galloped forward while shouting: "Get out of the way, get out of the way quickly, that's——"

It’s tung oil!

But before he finished speaking, the water flowing out of the dozen waterwheels had already gathered together and rushed towards the foot of the city wall in front. At this moment, a few sparks were thrown from a burning ladder.

, drew a stream of light in the air, and finally fell gently into the surging water.

Just listen to the sound of "boom"!

Xue Xian opened his eyes wide and watched as a huge flame suddenly exploded under the tower.

Immediately, the flames continued to flow upwards along the water flow. During this period, they jumped past the feet of the hurried Longxi soldiers, as if countless golden fire lotuses bloomed. One fire lotus swallowed up a person, and countless soldiers suddenly fell into

In the sea of ​​​​fire, people ran and screamed desperately, and some people were even instantly engulfed by the flames and turned into coke; but the flames were still not satisfied, and in the blink of an eye they had climbed back to the waterwheel, and suddenly moved up along the gap cut by the big knife.

One jump——

Boom!

There was another deafening loud noise.

The waterwheel turned into a ball of fire and exploded. Countless flames mixed with broken wood shards pierced the bodies of the people around them. Those Longxi troops who had not had time to be swallowed up by the flames spreading on the ground were beaten and wailed by this wave of attacks.

Continuously, a large number of people suddenly fell to the ground.

Xue Xian couldn't believe his eyes.

But all of this, the flames soaring into the sky, the water trucks that burned and exploded one after another, the soldiers who were engulfed in flames and knocked to the ground by the exploding sawdust, these scenes all happened alive!

Right before his eyes!

The burning flames not only swallowed up the lives of countless Longxi soldiers, but also burned away his sanity at this time.

Xue Xian stared blankly in front of him and even forgot to react.

Compared with the previous two times when he was almost defeated by Yu Wenye, he never expected that Yu Wenye fell ill. He thought he was already too weak to be vulnerable to a single blow - in fact, it was indeed true that he was vulnerable to a single blow and almost fell.

Fu Feng City, which is in his pocket, will launch such a desperate counterattack at this last moment.

And one blow is fatal!

Xue Xian suddenly raised his head, his blood-red eyes looking at the slender and frail figure standing on the tall tower on the other side of the flames.

At this moment, those eyes, which were also illuminated red by the flames, looked at the Shura Field below with an extraordinarily calm light.

Shang Ruyi took a deep breath.

The flames that had just risen from the trench almost enveloped her. Fortunately, the good boy behind her had quick eyesight and quick hands to pull her away, so that she did not fall into the same hell as the people below. Now, her plan has been revealed.

Once it worked, the flames swallowed up most of the attacking Longxi Army. Those who had not had time to retreat were also beaten by the burning and exploding waterwheels and were unable to fight back. However, she felt a strange calmness.

Taking another step back, she said in a deep voice: "Dai Junliang!"

But at this time, his voice was immediately swallowed up by the cheers that followed from around him. Shang Ruyi turned his head and realized that the soldiers around him were shocked by the scene in front of him and were all cheering.

The archers around them who were feeling defeated and depressed just now are even more excited now——

"Very good!"

"Hahahaha, God is really helping me!"

"These Longxi troops are dead!"

Just as everyone was cheering, several trembling figures climbed onto the tower. It was Ma Xu and Song Yu who had just fled into the city in panic and saved their lives. They were in a miserable state, with their faces covered with blood and mud.

Dirty, looking at the sea of ​​​​fire below the city and the joyful cheers of the soldiers around them, they were stunned for a moment.

Ma Xu murmured: "How come there is such a big fire? Isn't it water we transport?"

And the smell floating in the air immediately gave them the answer.

Tung oil.

Although they went to the river during the day and indeed filled the car with a lot of river water, half of it was tung oil that burned easily!

"So much tung oil..."

Song Yu's eyes were stained by the flames and turned red and bloodshot. He said almost subconsciously: "No wonder, no wonder we can't find tung oil -"

Before he finished speaking, Shang Ruyi in front looked back at him.

Although just now, he almost felt that he was about to die under the arrow of the general's wife, and he didn't know why she stopped again, but now, before he even had the strength to step forward to question, he was surrounded by another group of people.

The people who came up squeezed away, and Dai Junliang rushed forward excitedly and said to Shang Ruyi: "Madam, we succeeded!"

His eyes were almost red when reflected by the flames below, but this time, they were red with excitement, and the temperature of the flames seemed to ignite his blood.

Only then did Shang Ruyi look away from Song Yu.

"Don't worry,"

In response to the excitement of his predecessor Junliang, Shang Ruyi became a little calmer: "It's not time for us to celebrate yet."

Dai Junliang was stunned: "Then-"

"Take advantage of this opportunity and ask the archers to release arrows immediately!"

"...!"

Dai Junliang understood immediately.

Now, it is indeed not the time for them to cheer for victory. Although it is impossible for Xue Xian's people to attack again, everyone knows that the main force of the Longxi Army has arrived. He has nearly 300,000 troops. Fufeng's troops are already

The shortcoming is that he had killed a total of 80,000 people before. There was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides. If we did not take advantage of this moment to kill the other party to the greatest extent, as long as we gave them some time to cultivate and make a comeback, Fufeng would never be like this again.

Chance!

Dai Junliang took a deep breath, and when he looked at Shang Ruyi, the admiration in his eyes was beyond words.

Before, he was a little shocked by the dangerous tactics of the general's wife - according to the two military orders given by Yu Wenye when he fell ill, "Close the city gates tightly and dig deep ditches", she asked him to collect tung oil in the city.

Most of them were buried in the huge trench dug at the city gate, and then the remaining tung oil was poured into more than 20 specially-made waterwheels.

These waterwheels have a mezzanine layer, with tung oil injected into the lower part, and the upper part is used to hold water.

When Xue Xian's siege ladder was engulfed by the flames spurting from the trench, he was naturally eager to put out the fire with water. He had just ordered Song Yu, Ma Xu and others to abandon the water truck and enter the city just to give them the "water" to put out the fire.

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Water and oil are incompatible. When the water was released by them, the deadly tung oil was also mixed in the middle and poured out, floating on the surface of the water.

So wherever the water goes, the flame will burn!

Unexpectedly, this dangerous and extremely cruel strategy would come from the mouth of a woman, and today, at this moment, it would all come true!

What was even more unexpected was that facing the success in front of him, Shang Ruyi did not show any emotion at all. Instead, he became the calmest one among all the people. He could even think of pursuing the victory and destroying the enemy's combat power to the greatest extent.

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She wanted to fight and destroy Xue Xian!

At this time, a boiling fighting spirit surged in Dai Junliang's heart. He immediately turned his head and ordered loudly: "Archers, prepare!"

The surrounding soldiers had been boosted by the sudden reversal of the situation. When they heard this, they immediately understood. The archers had just stepped forward in a hurry. Although the wall stacks had been burned by the flames below and the air was also hot,

But they didn't care at all. They endured the scorching heat and stepped forward, aiming at the Longxi Army below who had begun to retreat.

Suddenly, arrows rained down like rain!

Those soldiers who had just escaped from the sea of ​​​​fire and had not even had time to extinguish the flames burning around their feet were once again dealt an almost devastating blow. For a moment, arrows pierced the sky with sharp screams and responses.

The screams intertwined and resounded throughout Fufeng County.

Blood dyed the sky red again.

As for Shang Ruyi, who was watching this scene, the look on his face and the warmth in his eyes were a bit colder than before.

Even when the archers who had been injured and dragged down from the tower swarmed up the tower again, scrambling to shoot arrows at the Longxi Army below who had begun to flee the fire scene, she silently and slowly withdrew.

the crowd.

Just as she was quietly watching everyone fired arrows at the Longxi Army who was escaping in embarrassment under the tower, a gentle voice with a smile sounded behind her.

"Brother and sister, you really surprised me."

"...!"

Shang Ruyi's heart suddenly jumped.

She slowly turned around, and at some point, Yuwen Sui had walked back behind her from the other side of the tower. He was still holding the bow that had just shot a wall of fire with one arrow in his hand, and there seemed to be still a trace of blood left on him.

The breath of fire.

However, his eyes were strangely calm.

Those blue-grey, clear eyes still looked at Shang Ruyi quietly with a hint of vagueness and a higher and more unpredictable smile, as if the killing and struggle ahead were just a blur to him.

The scene was empty, and he could still only see the person in front of him, silently examining something.

Then, after reviewing this sentence, I came up with it.

And this sentence is not too unfamiliar to Shang Ruyi. Not long after she and Yu Wenye got married, and they agreed to only be a superficial couple, Yu Wenye said this to her more than once.

Now, these words came from Yu Wenzuo's mouth.

Almost subconsciously, Shang Ruyi was about to say her usual response to this sentence——

We are strangers.
Chapter completed!