After the fire oil solidified, the ground was covered with grass and trees, making it look nothing out of the ordinary. Kill all the scouts who try to enter this area for reconnaissance, and use the stench of hundreds, perhaps thousands of rotting corpses to mask the pungent smell of the fire oil.
After the battle begins, and when the Tuling Tuo Army rushes to the bottom of the city walls where the crowd is densely packed, a single spark will turn these tens of thousands of square meters into a fiery hell, certainly causing the Tuling Tuo Army to suffer countless losses amidst ghostly wails and wolfish howls.
Exchange astronomical amounts of supplies for the least amount of casualties and the greatest victory.
In terms from Earth, that’s using a thousand bullets to kill one enemy.
Bury you with money, bury you with countless bullets and shells!
Now in the Rage Wave Kingdom, only Suo Lun can afford to fight such a war!
"Giant Crossbow Battleground, advance!"
"Gigantic catapults, advance!"
With an order, the several dozen gigantic catapults of the Tuling Tuo Army, along with over a thousand giant crossbows, started to move forward.
They stopped three hundred meters away from Tianlang Pass!
Tianlang Pass is shaped like a funnel, narrow on the inside and wide on the outside.
Therefore, the entire city wall is only five or six hundred meters long. However, the outer defense perimeter extends for two to three kilometers, allowing enough space for a significant number of gigantic catapults and giant crossbows.
"Gigantic catapults, fire..."
"Giant crossbows, fire..."
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Stones weighing hundreds of pounds viciously slammed into Tianlang Pass.
Hundreds of giant arrows were fiercely shot out.
"Bang bang bang bang..."
The stones hit the city walls with fierce impacts, producing deafening bangs as if the entire Tianlang Pass were trembling.
Occasionally, a stone would brutally hit the defending troops on the city wall, instantly creating a scene of blood and flesh flying.
Hundreds of giant arrows were shot toward the top of the city wall, the majority missing any target, but the few that hit passed directly through two or three people, resulting in a ghastly sight.
Tianlang Pass was indeed too narrow, and with solid city walls, there was no place to house the catapults and giant crossbows.
To destroy Turing Tuo’s Giant Crossbow Battleground and the catapult positions, one had to rely on griffins.
"Caw caw..." With a cry,
over a dozen Griffin Beasts took to the sky, carrying several-hundred-pound giant gunpowder packages above the Giant Crossbow Battleground and catapult positions of the Turing Tuo Army, dropping the gunpowder packages down.
A series of violent explosions.
Despite the terrible accuracy, these still caused significant damage to Turing Tuo’s giant crossbows and catapults.
And so, the long-range attack of Tuling Tuo continued in rounds.
On Suo Lun’s side, after three rounds of aerial attacks by about a dozen griffin beasts, they suddenly stopped!
Because Turing Tuo’s Dragon Archers had climbed to the tops of the hills on either side of the battlefield, shooting down griffin beasts from a commanding height.
The entire battlefield was only a little over a thousand meters wide. A few dozen Dragon Archers reaching the tops of both hills meant their shooting range now covered the entire airspace of the battlefield.
As a result, Suo Lun’s Griffin Beasts could only shrink within Tianlang Pass, not daring to fly into the air again.
What followed was Tianlang Pass entering a completely passive beating situation.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Turing Tuo’s catapults and giant crossbows bombarded Tianlang Pass crazily.
Causing massive bangs and trembles in the fortress.
The entire situation suddenly turned ugly, with Tianlang Pass being passively beaten, unable to fight back.
In this way, the long-range firepower of Turing Tuo bombarded Tianlang Pass for four hours, leaving the entire top of Tianlang Pass smoky and in complete disarray, suppressing thousands of soldiers so they could not raise their heads.
Seeing his side completely dominating, Turing Chen sneered, "Father, Suo Lun is nothing special after all. I really don’t know how Zhi Wei was completely annihilated?"
Duke Turing Tuo narrowed his eyes, saying nothing,
After more than four hours of long-range bombardment, Duke Turing Tuo finally waved the command flag, "Siege!"
The war drums became even more thrilling.
Tens of thousands of soldiers from the Tuling Tuo Army rushed crazily towards Tianlang Pass.
Countless siege towers, countless ladders, countless giant shield carts, several massive battering rams.
Following Duke Turing Tuo’s order, over forty thousand soldiers surged towards Tianlang Pass like a flood.
It wasn’t that Duke Turing Tuo was being stingy, but Tianlang Pass simply couldn’t accommodate a larger force; the battlefield couldn’t hold too many troops.
When Yan Yan’s Army attacked Tianlang Pass last time, it had only mobilized ten thousand or so troops.
This time, Duke Turing Tuo’s deployment of forty thousand troops had already swarmed the entire battlefield like ants.
"Charge, charge, charge..."
Seeing this scene, Yan Yan was about to raise his hand to order the medium catapults to launch fire oil packages.
Suddenly, he was stopped by Suo Lun!
Since he intended to maximize the fire oil attack tactic, he might as well forgo the use of catapults and gunpowder altogether.
He had earlier dumped millions of pounds of fire oil on the battlefield, and a layer tens of thousands of square meters thick had already accumulated on the ground.
This was a deadly death trap. He might as well burn all the more than forty thousand soldiers in one fell swoop—burn them all to death!
And so, a strange scene unfolded on the battlefield.
The forty thousand or so soldiers of Turing Tuo rushed forward madly.
But along the way, they encountered no obstructions, no attacks.
Even when they entered within one or two hundred meters range, the defenders of Tianlang Pass did not launch any catapults, nor fire any arrows.
After entering the death zone piled up with Suo Lun’s fire oil, many soldiers were still astonished, wondering why the ground felt so sticky.
But once the army started running, it could no longer stop.
And just like that, completely unobstructed, more than forty thousand soldiers of Turing Tuo rushed directly to the base of Tianlang Pass.