Chapter 355: with translation of chapter title

Molotov Cocktail?

Seeing the Wine Jar fly through the air, Chen Wuji looked astonished.

This is somewhat innovative.

"It's burning, I just knew this thing would definitely work!" Qian Fugui shouted excitedly, again taking a flaming wine jar from a soldier's hand and throwing it out.

At this moment, the Cloud Carriage was only a few dozen steps from the city wall; Chen Wuji could clearly see every face of the enemy troops above, and their expressions, whether tense or excited.

At this distance, with such a huge target, as long as one's arm strength isn't too weak, the wine jar will definitely reach.

The only problem is that the Cloud Carriage has several layers above and below, with too much empty space. Qian Fugui and seven or eight soldiers threw two batches, tossing out a dozen or so wine jars, but very few actually landed on the Cloud Carriage.

The fire is burning, but expecting it to spread throughout the Cloud Carriage is still somewhat difficult.

"Commandant, how is my weapon?" Qian Fugui asked loudly, excitedly.

Chen Wuji gestured and called Qian Fugui over, saying, "The thing is indeed good, but its lethality is somewhat lacking."

"I've ordered people to speed up production; one or two have limited lethality, but in large numbers they'll definitely be effective, surely able to demolish their little shabby tower. I just had a sudden inspiration, imitating Shocking Heaven Thunder to make this; it might not be useful elsewhere, but it will certainly work to burn the Cloud Carriage." Qian Fugui was excited about his new creation, hastily finishing his two sentences before running down to the city below.

Chen Wuji stopped him, saying, "Don't rush to make your thing; I'll give you something truly fun."

"Shi Yi Shu, bring the thing over!" he ordered.

Chen Li received the order, turned, and dragged a huge box from the base of the wall.

Chen Wuji patted Qian Fugui on the shoulder, "Commandant Qian, these two Cloud Carriages are yours to handle. This distance is about just right; dropping them should smash a large area."

At this moment, the enemy troops had already rushed to the foot of the city, staring at the rolling logs and stones on the city top while setting up ladders.

"Commandant, what is this thing? Why all the mystery?" Qian Fugui muttered dubiously, squatting down to open the box.

Seeing the neatly stacked bundles of bamboo tubes inside, Qian Fugui's expression froze.

He suddenly turned his head, "Commandant, could this be what I was thinking of?"

"Just try it and you'll know." Chen Wuji said.

Qian Fugui rubbed his hands fiercely, his eyes suddenly flashing with greed, "The thing countless people in the city have been longing for for who knows how many days—having this fine treasure, what do we have to fear from them?"

"Someone, bring a torch up; this commandant is about to show off his skills, hehe, great, this thing is great!"

Qian Fugui's personal guards rushed down the city wall and quickly brought up a torch.

"You bastards, have a taste of thunder! Boom!" Qian Fugui clung to four or five bundles of Shocking Heaven Thunder, took one in his right hand and brought it to the torch; after lighting the fuse, he threw it toward the Cloud Carriage.

Before the Shocking Heaven Thunder even exploded, he first made a sound himself.

With a booming roar, one Cloud Carriage on the right swayed left and right in the violent explosion, several enemy troops were shaken out and fell straight down.

Although the commotion was not small, the Cloud Carriage wasn't blown apart; it merely swayed a few times before gradually steadying.

"Huh, it didn't break?" Qian Fugui was a little surprised, immediately lit another bundle of Shocking Heaven Thunder and threw it out.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

In the booming roar, several more soldiers were flung out.

Whether they were blown up or shaken off, anyway they fell down.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

Qian Fugui had a great time, instantly throwing out a dozen or so bundles of Shocking Heaven Thunder.

The two Cloud Carriages that looked quite intimidating, when they were about to reach the city top, finally broke unwillingly, immediately becoming the most advantageous means of attack, smashing into the allied soldiers who were full of vigor and ready to assault the city.

In an instant it took out a large group of people, at least five or six ladders were snapped on the spot.

Chen Wuji couldn't count how many enemies died, but the scene was quite gruesome.

Moreover, the two Cloud Ladders laid horizontally on the ground almost completely blocked the enemy's attack route.

Those already beneath the city can't get out, and those not yet rushed forward can't get in.

"Quick, pour the Golden Broth!"

Chen Wuji shouted loudly.

Taking advantage of their illness, we must take their lives.

Golden Broth, a biochemical weapon truly deserving its name in ancient siege warfare.

Its smell is foul, its temperature is scalding, and its lethality is astonishing.

Poured over the head, it is both scalding and stinking, a dual physical and psychological attack, with an extremely high mortality rate.

Hit by just a bit, one immediately loses over half of their combat strength.

If one already has wounds, with the current medical conditions, there's basically no hope of recovery.

Golden Broth can cause wounds to continuously fester until death.

Moreover, this is still the basic version of Golden Broth.

If large amounts of substances like wolfsbane, arsenic, and intestine‑breaking grass are added, it can nearly achieve the effect of killing instantly upon contact.

When brewing Golden Broth, Xu Zengyi once suggested adding some extra ingredients.

But Chen Wuji was still a bit merciful and rejected the proposal.

Golden Broth is already very poisonous; adding more would be excessively harmful to Heavenly Harmony.

Too poisonous.

However, Chen Wuji now plans to add the ingredients.

The Gu family's little brat has already employed such insidious tactics as driving civilians to attack the city; does he still consider Heavenly Harmony?

Completely superfluous!

Only by making them tremble with fear is the correct choice.

This material not only needs to be added, but must be added in large amounts!

Basin after basin of steaming Golden Broth was hurled down from the city walls by the soldiers, gritting their teeth.

Gritting their teeth wasn't from hatred, but because the Golden Broth's flavor was too intoxicating.

The wailing cries from beneath the city walls sounded like ten thousand ghosts being thrown into a frying pan.

But this is war.

"Don't hold back, keep going!" Chen Wuji turned his head to glance at Qian Fugui and ordered.

"Any more?" Qian Fugui's eyes lit up.

"Enough!"

Qian Fugui tugged at the corner of his mouth, "Commandant, you should have said so earlier! I was still worried there'd be nothing fun later, but since there's enough, I won't hold back."

Chen Wuji: ……

On this city, above and below, probably only Qian Fugui could have such an attitude.

Moments later, the booming sound once again echoed beneath the city.

With each boom, one or two enemy soldiers would be launched into the air, while over ten more would fall.

These Shocking Heaven Thunders had been improved by Chen Wuji, and they contained many inhumane things.

The most numerous of these was iron sand.

"The enemy should retreat now; this ploy of luring them in by the Commandant should open their eyes, dispel the arrogance brought by their overwhelming numbers, and make them face us properly," Xu Zengyi said with a light smile.

Chen Wuji, however, felt somewhat helpless: "It's not a scheme of luring them in; I'm just making the best use of limited resources. If I had enough troops, I'd actually want to go wild."

Zhang Lao had prepared plenty of Shocking Heaven Thunders; in fact, he could have used them fully last night.

But if he had used them last night, the enemy would certainly have been on guard during today's assault, and we definitely wouldn't have achieved such results.