Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 244

It seemed to be raining, and the weather was extremely hot.In the airtight Lingzhou Army's central tent, it was stuffy and hot. Standing in front of the map, Chen Ying's feet were covered with sweat and water. I don't know how long he had been standing here.

Hearing footsteps, Chen Ying said without turning his head: "Is there any news about the scouts sent to Taiyuan? How is Taiyuan now?"

Liang Zan asked Ai Ai Qiqi: "The mountain of corpses... the sea of ​​blood!"

Liang Zan didn't have great talent at all, but he was in charge of all the soldiers and horses in the Chongfu, which made him feel as big as a bucket.In desperation, Chen Ying also had no way to force others to make things difficult.Zhao Chunyang, the captain of the Yueqi school, was transferred to the Dingyuan Army's First Zhechong Mansion as the Captain of Zuoguoyi. Although Liang Zan was still the First Zhechong Commander in name, but at this time the Dingyuan Army's First Zhechong Mansion was changed again. He returned to his old job and became the captain of Zhechong Mansion, Chen Ying's pro-army.

The mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood... very vividly describe the situation in Taiyuan.Liu Wuzhou led the battle in Taiyuan City, set up the banner of the Tianxing Army, and recruited soldiers and horses on the spot.However, Taiyuan is the place where Li Yuan started his family, and Li Yuan has a very solid foundation in the hearts of the people here.However, there were not none who responded to Liu Wuzhou, but most of them were poor families and shabby households. These poor people and shabby households began to liquidate as soon as they took up arms.

The rich and well-to-do families in Taiyuan City, no matter good or evil, right or wrong, all their wealth was confiscated and all their people were killed.Of course, impoverished and dilapidated families have no overnight food, and there is nothing to rob.In the first month of Liu Wuzhou's occupation of Taiyuan alone, more than [-] people were killed in Taiyuan City, and countless families were destroyed.

Today, the land of Longxing in Datang has become a city of death.

A mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood also made the eyes of the generals of the Dingyuan army turn red.Their resentment came up again, and they all looked at Chen Ying's back sadly.Many of the generals in the Dingyuan Army, especially at the rank of lieutenant, were veterans who followed Li Yuan in Taiyuan, and they were either family members or relatives in Taiyuan.Knowing that Taiyuan City was killed to the point where blood flowed like a river, there was only one thought left in their minds—revenge.

Chen Ying turned to look at Liang Zan and said, "Order, take advantage of the cool night and cool weather, set off from camp."

It's not that Chen Ying doesn't want to pull out the nail of Taiyuan, but before entering Taiyuan, Yanmen Pass cannot be leaped.Yanmen Pass is an important pass on the Great Wall. It is famous for its "dangerousness" and is known as "the first pass in China".Together with Ningwuguan and Pianguan, it is called the "Three Outer Passes".Although Chen Ying rushed into Hedong suddenly from the Hetao area, he caught Turks and Liu Wuzhou by surprise.However, five days have passed, and Liu Wuzhou's messenger should have crawled in front of Liu Wuzhou even if he crawled. Now Liu Wuzhou has not made any changes, which is very strange.

The only explanation is that Liu Wuzhou definitely didn't hold his fart well.

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In fact, as Chen Ying guessed, Liu Wuzhou really didn't hold his fart well.

Liu Wuzhou now basically occupies Hedong, creating an unprecedented good situation.However, he never became arrogant for a moment, instead he was very cautious.He has been in the army for a long time, and he has seen countless talented and beautiful people die of arrogance, so he is more cautious than anyone else.

When he heard that Chen Ying had raided Hedong, he did not meet the enemy immediately, but Zhang Lun, the Minister of the Five Soldiers, collected information about Chen Ying.The news of this era is too slow to spread, and the information that Liu Wuzhou can actually collect is very limited.However, he got the evaluation of Chen Ying who had defeated the Turks four times, and thus got the evaluation of "Warrior in the Field".

Liu Wuzhou's family at this time was stronger than that of the Liang division. Although the cavalry was not as good as that of the Turks, it was more than enough to pull [-] cavalry.These cavalry were an important decisive force for the other Tang troops, but he knew better that the [-] cavalry troops were actually cavalry infantry, and it was a joke in front of Chen Ying.

Even Li Fushe suffered a big loss in front of Chen Ying, and even Shibi Khan, a fierce man who could be hit hard in front of the battle, compared with Chen Ying in a field battle, it was like a beggar competing with the Dragon King.Therefore, Liu Wuzhou led his more than [-] elite soldiers to station at Yanmen Pass. In order to avoid a field battle with Chen Ying, he even arranged his cavalry in the city of Yanmen Pass. Although he could gain room to maneuver, he fought against Chen Yingtan, who had defeated the Turkic cavalry in a row. , Liu Wuzhou's cavalry is still too weak.

Liu Wuzhou had carefully analyzed Chen Ying's combat methods. Whether Chen Ying chose Lingzhou or Bogulu City, even Fengzhou City was the same. Basically, he did not go through similar siege operations.He came to an astonishing conclusion that Chen Ying was not good at attacking and defending cities.This is Chen Ying's weakness, if he doesn't make good use of this weakness, Liu Wuzhou will have spent more than ten years in vain.

"As long as you defend Yanmen Pass, you will be victorious!" Liu Wuzhou said to Shangshu Zhang Lun very affirmatively: "Chuluo Khan will not let Chen Ying go, as long as Chen Ying's head is smashed at Yanmen Pass, Chuluo Khan will definitely send Turks If the army attacks the rear, Yanmen Pass will be the burial place of Chen Ying's son."

However, Liu Wuzhou did not say what he said later.As long as he can't stop Chen Ying, or let Chen Ying break through Yanmen Pass without any effort, the Turkic people will definitely turn around and go back north, hiding deep in the desert.Turkic people are cunning foxes, they will take advantage if they have an advantage, and they will flee thousands of miles if there is no advantage.

In order to defend Yanmen Pass, Liu Wuzhou was very well prepared.He not only made Fan Junzhang, the best defensive general under his command, Neishi Ling (equivalent to the prime minister), the military commander of Yanmen Pass, but also named Fan Junzhang's son as the visitor to the platform.This Fan Junzhang, like Song Jingang, is Liu Wuzhou's brother-in-law.

After Fan Junzhang received the order, he immediately made preparations to defend Yanmen.Yanmen Pass used to have a dense forest outside the city. In order to prevent Chen Yinghui from using the trees in this dense forest to build siege equipment, he mobilized more than [-] soldiers to cut down trees day and night. When Liu Wuzhou led more than [-] people to Yanmen Pass , the entire forest stretching for more than ten miles outside the city of Yanmenguan, at this time, not even a tree as thick as the mouth of a bowl can be seen.

Of course, Fan Junzhang did even better.Not only have the trees been cut down, Yanmen Mountain is a rocky mountain, and there are many stones in the mountain, but most of them are huge rocks, which can be used directly as stone bombs, such as 35 to 150 kilograms of stones, all of which Fan Junzhang sent civilians to pick up , Throw it into Hutuo River.

It is part of Fan Junzhang's work to reduce Chen Ying's ability to take advantage of Yanmen Mountain and frantically reinforce Yanmen Pass. At the same time, he also prepared very well when preparing defensive materials.Some of the felled trees were used to burn quicklime, and some were used to make trebuchets. They were also transplanted to the city of Yanmenguan by using the water fighting pole invented by Yang Su in the Sui Dynasty.

At the same time, Fan Junzhang also prepared more than [-] bed crossbows and built hundreds of trebuchets. Of course, there were everything that one expects to find, such as beating stones and rolling logs, and gray bottles of golden juice.

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When Chen Ying led the Dingyuan army to cross the Hutuo River at the first turn, they were not harassed by Liu Wuzhou's army or the Turkic cavalry. Chen Ying was in a good mood. , if thousands of soldiers and horses are deployed here, it will be difficult for our army to cross the river!"

When the army walked along the mountain road and slowly entered the Yanmen mountain road, seeing the trees that had been cut down on both sides of the mountain road, Chen Ying wanted to scold his mother very much.

(End of this chapter)