Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 275 Seven Star Killing Formation

Niu Fu has 1 elite Feixiong soldiers under his command. If Liu Yu were to command them, he would first send [-] to guard the main roads outside the city to prevent ambushes outside the city, and then send [-] to directly rush into the city to control them. city ​​defense.

If there is an ambush in the city, he will fight it with all his strength, and he has [-] reserve troops who can rescue the siege troops in time.

And if the city is an empty shell, the real ambush is outside the city, and defenses have been deployed on the main roads just before, and the [-] reserve troops and siege troops can also turn to help.

Siege and rescue are both correct, so it is not easy to break this empty city plan.

But Liu Yu thought that Niu Fu was timid and foolish, and didn't dare to attack Lu County by force, otherwise, he wouldn't have given himself so much time to make other plans.

"We can't go any further."

Liu Yu was laughing at Niu Fu's incompetence in his heart, when he suddenly felt his arm being tightly held by Zou Huimin.

"Husband, look, there are lanterns hanging on the city wall!" Zou Huimin pointed at those lanterns with some horror.

It is not strange to hang torches and lanterns on the city wall, but what is strange is that the lanterns on the city wall are arranged in a mess at first glance, but when you look closely, they seem to be arranged according to some special rules.

I saw that some of those lanterns were hung on the parapet, some were lower than the parapet, some were densely packed, and some were arranged in a diagonal line.

Liu Yu observed carefully for a while and found that the placement of these lanterns actually has one thing in common, that is, seven adjacent lanterns can form a pattern of the Big Dipper.

The lanterns on the city wall are for lighting up at night, who would pose in the shape of the Big Dipper in idleness, is it someone doing it for fun, or is there some unknown deep meaning hidden in it?

"That lantern...was it supposed to be placed like this? Does Min'er know what that means?"

Seeing the nervousness on Zou Huimin's face, Liu Yu knew that she must know something.

Sure enough, after Zou Huimin bit her lip tightly, she said, "It was made by my adoptive father... Seven Star Killing Formation!"

"...Seven Stars Killing Formation? Hehe, the name sounds strange...with momentum!"

Putting up a lantern formation is called the Seven Stars Killing Formation, and Mengxin really deserves to be called a magic stick.

Liu Yu originally wanted to say that the name of this team was old hat, but after all, it was Zou Huimin's adoptive father who made the name, so he decided not to judge too much.

"What's the name of this array? I don't think there are many guards on the city wall, and the city is almost empty. It must be an empty city plan deliberately set up by Meng Lao!"

Liu Yu felt that this was Mengxin's little trick to fool people, but Zou Huimin held his arm tightly and did not let go.

"Don't go there, once the seven-star killing array is ignited, it can't be extinguished anymore, anyone who enters the Wengcheng will definitely die!"

Ignite?Invincible!Could it be...

Liu Yu was aroused with strong interest, so he began to ask what the seven-star killing array was.

Zou Huimin said that she lived with Mengxin in the Mengjiazhai. The cottage was built on the mountain, so there are many caves and springs on the mountain.

There is a very viscous "black water" coming out of the spring in one of the caves.

"Black water" can be ignited, and the water can not be extinguished.So someone put black water in a jar and brought it back to the village to use as firewood.

However, the burning of black water was not easy to control, and it often caused fires, so it was finally abandoned.

Once the stockade was attacked by bandits, causing heavy casualties. In order to take revenge, Meng Xin buried countless jars containing black water in the stockade and connected them with ropes. seven star shape.

Then, when the bandits attacked again, Meng Xin led his clansmen to escape from the village in advance, and ignited the black water with fire arrows after the bandits entered the village.

The fire spread to the entire village in an instant, and from time to time, the tanks filled with black water would explode, and the black water splashed in all directions burst into flames.

The fire lasted for most of the afternoon, and all the bandits who broke into the village were burnt to ashes along with the village.

Hearing this, Liu Yu was basically sure that the "black water" that Zou Huimin said should be oil.

And the city in front of him is likely to be buried with countless "black water" jars by Mengxin, not only in the Wengcheng, but also in the loose land in front of the city gate.

In fact, as early as the pre-Qin period, there were records of this kind of flammable black water. Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded in his "Hanshu Geography" that "there is flammable water in Gaonu County". Oil leaking from the ground.

Crude oil was first called "shiqi" in ancient times. It was called "shizhishui" in the Tang Dynasty, and it was changed to "Menghuoyou" in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Shen Kuo in the Song Dynasty was the first to propose the name "petroleum".

Oil is flammable and not easy to extinguish. It was originally used for military defense, especially for city defense.

It was not until the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties that someone invented the "fierce fire oil tank". This kind of weapon, which is similar to the flamethrower of later generations, immediately changed the embarrassment that oil can only be used for military defense.

But this kind of "fierce fire oil tank" only flourished for a short time, because in the Northern Song Dynasty, gunpowder was developed and invented, and the "fierce fire oil tank" gradually lost its original glory on the battlefield.

However, far away in the western world, the reputation of "Greek fire" has been famous for hundreds of years, and the Arabs were beaten terribly by this "Greek fire" when they launched an offensive.

Mengxin has used oil before, so he naturally knows how powerful it is after burning, so it is not unusual for him to set up a seven-star killing formation here again to deal with Niu Fu's army, but what Liu Yu is curious about is where he found the oil.

Oil is a good thing for travelers. Although Liu Yu doesn't have the ability to refine oil for the time being, at least he knows how the "fire oil tank" is made and used.

If a "flamethrower firing force" can be formed at the end of the Han Dynasty, it will definitely become the king who dominates the battlefield.

There happened to be a troop named after fire in the Seventh Battalion of Yulin, so Liu Yu had the plan to transform the "Second Fire Battalion" into a flame troop.

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In the end, Liu Yu chose to follow Zou Huimin's "advice" and did not enter the city. However, in order to find Mengxin and ask about the origin of the "black water", the two decided to inquire about the surrounding villages.

It's a pity that after a busy afternoon, they couldn't find anyone in the village.

It seems that Mengxin understands the importance of population very well, and should have taken all the people here together before escaping.

Looking at the Xiong'er Mountains stretching for hundreds of miles behind him, Liu Yu guessed in his heart, did Meng Xin and others hide there on the mountain?

Xiong'er Mountain is actually a branch of Funiu Mountain. There are many forests on the mountain. Liu Yu worried that there would be wild beasts and even remnants of the Yellow Turban on it, so he didn't dare to ask Zou Huimin to go up the mountain alone to find Mengxin.

Fortunately, Zou Huimin knew a specific contact method for their descendants of the Meng family.

She found a large smooth stone slab at the foot of the mountain, and placed several "small stone formations" on the stone slab according to a special pattern.

There is no need to ask that the small stone circle should be their code for meeting. If Meng Xin and others are really hiding on the mountain, as long as they see this code, they will definitely come out to meet each other.

(End of this chapter)