Chapter 563: Water and Oil (1/2)

Sam's trick can be considered somewhat dirty. Particularly, when he saw the way these people carried themselves. They are too prideful and too focused on killing their enemies in one sweep.

If they really clashed, then one party will surely perish completely.

They wouldn't retreat, these people are close to barbarians. But he didn't care about feelings. Feelings don't win wars.

He also knew that the castle walls wouldn't stop them for too long, the more free time they have on them, the more beneficial it is for the enemies. The provisions are not enough at all the other party would gladly wait and plan on how to deal with the castle slowly, while the castle turned chaotic.

Sam didn't want that to happen. So, the first day went with him spraying hot rain on the enemies. It might not seem like much, but it is actually critical damage for the enemies. More than half of the enemies are completely soaked in the hot water.

Their skin scalded slightly, but that is not the main damage. The water on their bodies will start to freeze immediately and even their thick clothing will start freezing.

When some freezes right on their skin, they wouldn't be able to endure it, they are did something wrong and rubbed it off, there would be layers of skin disappearing from the spot, even if they don't, they will suffer Ice burn on top of the scalded skin.

The Ice burn is enough to make the enemies go chaotic. More than half of the people who caught up in the rain will feel their bodies burning on the fire even in that cold and will definitely catch a cold.

A cold in the snowy mountains and in the middle of the war, they should see how chaotic they would become.

The first thing he has to do is, that to reduce the calm of the enemies and he achieved that. Only when they are not calm will they take decisions on impulse and only on the impulse will they make mistakes. This is what he wanted them to do, make mistakes.

And the commander happened to be a Naga of some other nation, but currently, his appearance is that of a human. He has no idea about normal warfare without any spiritual energy. So, he is counting on the five days depletion of the provisions and the chaos, but now he knew that he has to defend against the enemy attacks too.

The enemies retreated a bit and didn't stay within the range where the hot water could affect them. Even if they used catapults the water wouldn't stay in the barrel until it reached the area.

Sam went on to look for the next trick he should use, even though some of his subordinates are not pleased with his method, they understood the severity of the situation. They couldn't just bitch and whine about the methods they used.

That night, there was a surprise attack on the castle, a volley of arrows came from the enemy side, but there are no casualties, the castle walls were constructed in such a way. Even the people who are stationed on the wall will not be attacked by the arrows as they have a clear hiding spots.

But the arrows that were shot are set on fire and they set hay and some wooden equipment on fire within the castle.

Sam didn't worry too much, it is easy to put off the fire with this many people and the damage is not severe. But he is thinking of what to do next.

How to cause more chaos in the enemy camp that they would feel like retreating and abandoning the post.

He sat in his room and kept on thinking and didn't notice that the fireplace was not burning, he forgot to load the wood in and the room turned cold. But he didn't notice it, he only noticed until the oil in the lamp was frozen and the light reduced by a lot.

He once again made a fire and heated the lamp a bit to get the light and went into deep thought.

He immediately went to check all the provisions they have.

The oil they are using in the lamps is made the mixture of the excess fat of some sea creatures. The city they are in actually a seashore city. This came as a surprise to him as he didn't expect that.

The oil was actually made of seal fat and Polar bear fat. Even though they could use it to make lard the fat of all the sea creatures is not that tasty, and in this time, they have way too much of that, they could use it for lamps, other than cooking.

The people who go hunting or fishing will collect animal fats and the delicious ones will be used for cooking but the no delicious ones will be made into fuel.

Sam checked the provisions and realized that the only abundant thing is this fat oil. Except for this, everything else has to be rationed. The people mostly rely on hunting and they will exchange those goods for the grain from other areas.