Chapter 251: Age of Flames II (29/102)
After giving the order, Eugen stood back on the wall with a confident smile on his face.
At this position, he could look at the whole situation. Every battle that took place on the battlefield could fall into his eyes. On the moat outside the city wall, Tarik's soldiers were like crawlers, wanting to climb along the ladder to the city wall.
The soldiers of the city moat put their swords on their must-pass road, and the guardian walls were waiting for them to stop the fierce crawlers who were climbing upwards.
For everyone on the field, this is a major event that concerns life and death. An accident, a mistake, or a long sword that is stabbed out in secret may ruin their lives.
Each of them was in it, fighting for reasons that they understood or did not understand, while Eugen, who stood higher, watched all this before him.
This battle seems to have nothing to do with him, and he is the one who can see the clearest.
What he could see was somewhere where the light could shine, and some things buried in the soil, hidden under the snow, mixed in it.
There are some difficult rules, hidden secrets, opportunities for victory, and hidden dangers of failure. Eugen saw all this more clearly than others.
At present, just where Tarik and Saxon soldiers could not see, Eugen was buried in advance. It was countless gunpowder sealed with animal skin white wax, which were placed in pots and buried in the soil and ice on both sides of the moat.
If Tarik stood at Eugen, he could clearly see two traces, which were traces left by newly turned up dirt.
After seeing these, Tarik had just thought about it a little, he would guess something and then adjust his tactics.
Unfortunately, he couldn't see it. As for the Saxon soldiers, they saw it, but did not think about it carefully.
In modern warfare, another extremely important tactical idea that is born with position warfare is mine warfare.
Landmines are definitely one of the nightmares of all land troops. On the seemingly ordinary road, there are dangerous traps hidden, waiting for the unknown reckless boy to break into it at any time.
With Margaret's previous efforts to acquire, the warehouse in Lebre City was stored in a large amount of gunpowder and was strictly protected as important strategic materials.
This time, Eugen ordered people to take out half of the warehouse gunpowder, seal it all into a pot, and make simple earth mines.
This kind of mine is simple and can be made very quickly by ordinary people. In the past few days, two thousand ordinary citizens in Leiber City participated, and a total of nearly 50,000 local mines were made.
At this moment, all these mines were buried beside the banks of the moat on both sides. The two banks of the moat in front of the city wall have been completely wrapped by such landmines.
Because there are too many landmines, some places are even stacked with several buried together, and a protruding small bag is created on the ground.
The mines are connected to each other with leads. The outer layer of the lead is wrapped with solidified white wax and separated by paper in the middle, so as to simply waterproof the leads.
There are two moat soldiers who have long been hiding there at the left and right ends of the moat, and in some places outside the battlefield. They hold fire in their hands and stare at a corner of the city wall.
There is the agreed place to send signals. What they have to do is to use the fire in their hands to ignite the leads under their feet when the signal appears.
The lead is also hidden in the soil on the inner wall of the moat bank, about two centimeters higher than the ice surface. The lead is placed here, which is both hidden and waterproof.
Two soldiers were ready for battle. Finally, a bright red flag appeared on the wall in their eyes. The bright red swelled in the wind, like a ball of flames wandering in the air.
Seeing this, the two soldiers looked at each other and leaned over and lit the lead as thick as a little finger.
sir...
Accompanied by a burst of blue smoke, the flames spread rapidly along the bank of the moat, and the leads burned extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it burned more than ten meters away.
Eugen will not fall twice in the same place, but the same method can be used again and again.
Just as Saxony soldiers were all gathered on the frozen moat surface, Eugen ordered the ignition of the pre-buried leads. At the same time, dozens of moat soldiers carrying large wooden barrels appeared on the city wall.
The soldiers tilted the barrel slightly downward, and the brightly colored tincture oil poured down, flowing onto the ice surface formed by the moat, gradually spreading the entire moat.
The greased ice surface became very smooth, and Saxon soldiers had to be careful when walking on it, otherwise they would slip to the ground and fall hard.
Before they could understand Eugen's intention to do this, a violent roar suddenly broke out from both sides of the moat.
Rumble!
The loud noise shook the earth like a thunder. As the mines exploded one after another, the sounds rose higher and higher. Sometimes the sounds of several mines merged together, as if they were about to overturn the earth.
Wow! With the explosion of the mines, the tincture oil on the ice surface immediately burned violently when it came into contact with the open flame. The flames on both sides rushed towards the center like demons, covering the entire moat in the blink of an eye.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The explosion continued, starting from the left and right sides of the moat, spreading towards the middle at the same time. Grand fireworks appeared on both sides of the river bank, and the flames connected together to form a fire curtain that stretched through the sky and the earth.
Eugen stood on a high building, and the firelight shone in his pupils, like two red elves dancing in it. A calm smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, as if he was admiring the beautiful scenery in front of him.
The strong wind from the explosion blew on Eugen, lifting his hair back and forth, bringing the smell of smoke from the air, taking a deep breath, as if swallowing a ball of flame into his stomach.
Accompanied by the explosion are the painful wails of Saxon soldiers, the screams of despair, and the helpless wail.
They were wrapped in flames like a group of sheep walking without a path. They could only run blindly in place, wrapped in flames, and let out the last roar before their death.
The ladders on the city wall fell to the ground one after another, as if foreshadowed the attack of Saxony soldiers, collapsed in the ubiquitous flames and turned into nothing.
At this time, Simon walked to Eugen, handed him a new musket silently, and asked in a low voice: "Who are you shooting?"
In a real, simple and straightforward style, Eugen chuckled softly, without answering, but just raised his hand and pointed it down, then held the new musket flat and placed it next to his face, and began to aim.
Simon was the same, pointing two muskets under the city wall.
Chapter completed!