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"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" rockets accurately hit the five siege towers. With a bang, a raging fire suddenly broke out on the five siege towers.

But before our soldiers on the city wall could cheer, the Kugits kicked five or six holes in each tower with great force. The Kugits came out with a sack in their hands and poured the wet ash in the sack directly onto the place where the kerosene was stuck.

The fluid kerosene had a very strong adhesiveness and stuck firmly to the siege tower, spreading and penetrating wildly, causing the flames to burn fiercely. However, the wet ash dumped by the Kugits would stick to the kerosene and act as a flame retardant, thus extinguishing the fire directly.

The entire city wall was instantly surrounded by white mist, yellow smoke, and black haze. The vision was blocked and things beyond six or seven meters could not be seen. It was very strange, forming a fantastic scene that no one had ever seen before. For a moment, the entire battlefield became much quieter.

Except for the siege tower that was completely set on fire inside and out after the jar was thrown into it, the fires in the other four siege towers were quickly brought under control and slowly extinguished.

Seeing that it was effective, the Kugits shouted "Ah!" and quickened their pace, and within a dozen breaths they began to lower the bridge planks.

Seeing this, Resarit hurriedly took off the horn from his chest and started blowing "too much, too much, too much, too much," two short notes and one long one.

This was the clarion call for a charge. All the infantrymen in the array came forward one after another and blocked the battlements on the bridge planks tightly with broad shields. The top-ranking Vigria guards also came forward with moon-blade axes in their hands, roaring.

The smoke-filled siege tower looked like a giant beast with its mouth wide open after the bridge planks were lowered. Suddenly, two Kugit men holding iron shields rushed out side by side from it and crashed into the broad shields of the infantry in the array in front.

If it weren't for the help of the person standing behind the shield bearer, he would have probably been rushed to the top of the city wall.

The iron shield held by this Kugit man is very exquisite. It is semicircular when viewed from above, and rectangular when viewed from the front, similar to the Roman shield. The person hides in the semicircle, which can defend against attacks from the front and the left and right sides at a 180-degree angle.

The two shields pressed against each other and suddenly came to a standstill on the city wall. Then there was a series of "bang bang bang" sounds. Both sides drew out their weapons and hit each other's shields desperately, to see who would break through the other's defense first.

However, the Kugits' shields were covered with iron sheets and were positioned high above the enemy. It seemed that they were about to break through the city wall.

Fortunately, the infantry in the array coordinated well with each other. The archers behind the shields shot at close range, which was very lethal. The Kugit man who was accidentally hit by an arrow fell off the city wall howling.

More of them lowered their heads and pushed hard under the shield, while the Kugits behind them shouted "Hey yo, hey yo" and helped push forward. It was obvious that the Kugits had practiced this specially.

This made it impossible for the infantry array standing on the top of the city wall, which was less than three meters wide, to defeat the opponent. They were gradually pushed back, and some were even pushed down the city wall.

The first Kugits to break into the city wall were from the siege tower on the far right that had dodged the capstan crossbow twice. Suddenly, a man rushed out from the exit of the siege tower.

This man was as light as a swallow, holding an iron shield in his hand. He stepped on the shoulders of a group of Kugits on the bridge and jumped onto the top of the city wall. He also did a Taishan crushing in the air, stepped on the shield in his hand, and directly knocked away the shield-bearing people in the front row.

After landing, before the infantrymen in the formation could react from the shock, he bumped his shoulder to the right, knocking the shield-bearer on the left side off balance and creating a hole.

The Khugit shield bearer behind took advantage of this opening to quickly climb up the city wall, opened the gap in his shield, swallowed the Khugit warrior into the shield wall to protect him, and then began to open up space on both sides of the city wall.

Aix knew this man. He was the Kugit warrior who was shot and wounded by Ran Hu in Adakurum village that day but managed to escape the siege.

Aix was particularly impressed by him and didn't expect to see him again at this moment.

"What a brave general!"

Seeing his heroic performance, even though the two sides were hostile, Aix couldn't help but give him a thumbs up in his heart.

The Kugits broke into the top of the city wall and immediately there was a cheer. The encouraged Kugits attacked the city wall desperately, seeing that the city wall was in danger.

Only then did Aix discover that at some point, Voldratboye's troops were retreating, leaving the position to engage the enemy to Aix's troops and the recruited Vigia guards, who only stood in the back shooting arrows and playing a supporting role.

This made Aix furious, but it was already a critical moment and he couldn't afford to withdraw his men from the front, so he had to bite the bullet and go for it with all his strength.

It was only because the feat of climbing the city wall inspired all the Kugits, and their prestige made their attacks more and more fierce and powerful.

The two sides were in a stalemate on the city wall for more than half an hour, with casualties on their side increasing and the city wall was in danger of being lost.

At the critical moment, Bandak and the retreating throwers climbed onto the top of the city wall again. They held a clay pot filled with flaming oil in each hand and threw it accurately at the siege tower on the bridge board that was full of Kugits.

It turned out that when the Kugits made a hole and cut the noose, Aix was worried that they were also prepared for the flaming oil, so he asked Bandak to move some more flaming oil out of the stock.

Following the experience gained by his predecessors, Aix firmly believed that "all fears come from insufficient firepower". Ever since he knew that the Kugits would attack again sooner or later, Aix mobilized the entire territory to stockpile supplies such as incendiary oil.

Not only that, the Technology Research Institute also conducted repeated experiments on the characteristics of combustion, adding coal powder, sulfur powder, and rosin to it, making the pyrotechnic oil more adherent and burning more violently and quickly.

In addition to using them as food, people throughout the county used all the collected oils to make kerosene, even the smallest bit of fish oil was not spared.

Now, not only is there enough flaming oil here, but Fort Lerag, Fort Schullers and Fort Tangquan also have sufficient reserves of flaming oil.

This upgraded version of the inferno was extremely difficult to extinguish, so the Kugits used up all of their wet ash in the first wave of attacks. When the siege towers were covered with inferno again, they were no longer able to cope.

The increasingly fierce fire not only turned the siege tower into a blazing furnace, but also rekindled the first layer of flaming oil that was blocked by wet ash and soil. Many of the Kugits in the tower were roasted or burned to death.

The fire was so fierce that even the soldiers standing on the city wall had their faces burned by the flames and had to raise their shields to block the fire.

The oil tanks thrown on the bridge were even more terrifying, causing the Kugits on top to lose their balance. Fire arrows shot at them, and in an instant more than a dozen fire men jumped off the city wall with screams.

Seeing that things were not going well, the braver ones on the top of the city wall committed suicide by jumping off the wall. There were sharp wooden stakes in the trenches below, while the more frightened ones simply knelt down and surrendered.

The Kugit warrior Aix thought he could capture him for sure, and was about to order everyone to capture him alive, but he didn't expect that the Kugit warrior was so skilled and daring that he flipped over and clung to the outside of the city wall, and then slid down from the seven-meter-high wall.

What's even more amazing is that when he was three meters away, he bent his knees and kicked against the city wall, then leaped backwards, jumped over the more than three-meter-wide trench, rolled twice after landing, and after standing up, he disappeared in the billowing smoke in an elegant manner.