Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 517 New Concept War
Chapter [-] New Concept War ([-])

The ideal is plump, but the reality is too skinny.It wasn't until this moment that Li Shimin understood what a blessing it was to have a capable subordinate. If Chen Ying was allowed to command the offensive and defensive battle, it would be good for himself, good for the soldiers, and even better for Datang.

It's a pity that Chen Ying is not here, and what's even more pity is that Chen Ying is not his subordinate, but Li Jiancheng's.For some reason, Li Shimin felt a sense of resentment in his head at this moment. This resentment was not aimed at the evil Wang Shichong, nor was it aimed at the overwhelming rain of stars and fire, but at Li Jiancheng, his brother-in-law.

Why is Li Jiancheng the prince.

Why does Li Jiancheng get the support of the world's aristocratic families, Boling Cui, Qinghe Cui, Taiyuan Wang, Taiyuan Wen's, including Hedong Xue's, why do they support Li Jiancheng?
And Chen Ying, a courtier who can prosper the country with literature and establish the country with martial arts, is only loyal to Li Jiancheng, not to him?
It has to be said that Li Shimin's brain is very powerful. At such a critical moment, what he thought of was not how to retreat from the enemy, but angry that Li Jiancheng was better than his own life.

The night wind became stronger and stronger.More and more red-hot stones flew into the Tang army's camp. The red-hot stones ignited all ignitable substances pervasively, and even made the entire Cijian Tang army's camp billow with smoke, making it impossible to see.Although he couldn't see it, from the sense of touch on his face, Li Shimin felt that a bigger crisis was coming.

In fact, Li Shimin guessed right.As the densely populated Juma and Luzhai outside the camp were destroyed by the meteor-like catapults, the generals of Zheng Jun began to move forward slowly.

Wang Shichong did not let Zheng Jun soldiers fill the trench with their lives, but under the cover of swordsmen and archers, craftsmen and civilians began to move forward again.

Seeing that using a trebuchet to launch red-hot stones can smash the Tang army soldiers to the ground, Wang Shichong reaped the benefits of this trick.Of course, Wang Shichong did not come up with this plan on a whim. This clever plan was actually thought up by Zhao Jiqing, Wang Shichong's Zhonglang general.

Chen Ying originally captured Wang Xuanqiong and Zhao Jiqing in the Taolin Jinsha Camp, and imprisoned them in the Taolin Gold Mine for hard labor.However, Zhao Jiqing, who betrayed Wang Shichong in history and offered the Luoyang city gate to surrender, used a mining chisel to hijack the steward who was in charge of the gold mine, and took the opportunity to escape from the gold mine.Wang Shichong did not hold him accountable for his defeat, but instead trusted Youjia. Under such circumstances, Zhao Jiqing, who was familiar with mining matters, offered this clever plan.

In the era without explosives, there was only one way to mine ore, and that was to burn the stones red with fire, and then pour water on the red-hot stones, so that due to the physical effect of thermal expansion and cold contraction, these stones would It was discovered that it exploded and split from the mountain that was originally integrated. If you don't pay attention, these explosive red stones can fly a hundred steps away and injure the craftsman.

Although Zhao Jiqing doesn't understand physics, he also knows that this method will amplify the power of the stone bomb.Wang Shichong did an experiment first, and found that no matter whether it was iron armor or leather armor, it could not prevent such pervasive fragments of stone bombs.

Wang Shichong didn't even have any interest in dismantling the trebuchet. He asked people to demolish the houses in Xin'an County and surrounding villages and towns to obtain dry wood to build the trebuchet. The army shrank the line of defense and directly pushed the trebuchet position to the edge of the trench less than [-] steps outside the Tang army's camp.

Although Li Shimin didn't see clearly that at least hundreds of catapults had slowly built their bases [-] steps away from the Tang army's camp, he felt something was wrong.

However, the trebuchet fired red-hot stone bombs, which was too bad.Ordinary methods are useless at all. Putting the soldiers in front of the camp wall, I am afraid that after a few rounds, morale has already collapsed.

Using the bed crossbow with a super long range to counter the trebuchet is Li Shimin's most valuable means of suppressing the bottom of the box. Now Li Shimin doesn't care about whether the bottom of the box is pressed or not. If he can't suppress the Zheng Jun's trebuchet, he may have no chance. .

Fortunately, although the red-hot stone bullets fired by the trebuchet were powerful, in the dark night, the blazing stove used to heat the stone bullets was the best target.

The soldiers of the Tang army tremblingly adjusted the launch angle of the bed crossbow. When the bed crossbow was ready, following the order of the general of the Tang army, the bed crossbow made a heart-warming sound of "boom, bang, bang...", followed by bursts of bed crossbow The vibrato of the strings trembled everyone's heartstrings, and more than 100 six-foot-long crossbow guns shot out violently. Then, as if they had found the feeling, the soldiers of the Tang army quickly loaded the crossbow arrows, then moved the ratchet, and quickly stringed the crossbow on the bed. The wooden hammer hit the machine, the bed crossbow, and then fired..., three hundred crossbow guns were poured out!
However, something unexpected happened to Li Shimin. Zheng Jun’s trebuchets were still firing red-hot stone bullets in an orderly manner. Should also hit a few, right?But even a trebuchet didn't misfire, which is too abnormal.

Not only Li Shimin was strange, but even Qin Qiong was also very strange.

Qin Qiong couldn't bear it anymore, took his lacquered iron tire bow from the soldiers, took out a light arrow, pulled out the arrow, wrapped the arrow with linen cloth, soaked it in kerosene, lit it, and shot towards the camp. go.

However, after the arrow rocket was shot out, it illuminated the scene near the Tang army's camp. Seeing where Qin Qiong's rocket passed, Li Shimin broke out in a cold sweat.

It turned out that the densely packed soldiers of the Zheng Army took advantage of the darkness and advanced layer by layer like an undercurrent. It was the soldiers of the Zheng Army who advanced in the dark.Zheng Jun had surrounded the Tang Army for many days, and they knew the defense situation of the Tang Army Camp in Cijian very well. Although it was in the dark, the people they sent were flocking to the dead corner of the Tang Army's defense in Cijian.

These Zheng army officers and soldiers did not directly attack the Tang army camp, but gently dug earth and built walls on the spot.Li Shimin also suddenly realized at this time, no wonder the bed crossbow could not hit Zheng Jun's trebuchet.Because Zheng Jun had become much more cunning, in front of these catapults, they used sacks or baskets filled with soil, and built a parapet no more than five feet high.

Although the bed crossbow was powerful, there was really no way to deal with this kind of flimsy parapet. Some bed crossbow guns shot at the breast wall more than [-] steps away from the camp, even though these crossbow guns were almost exhausted. Not within this kind of parapet, but it cannot cause fatal damage to the trebuchet and the trebuchet operator.

Li Shimin broke into a cold sweat when he saw this situation. The trebuchet is not a direct-pointing equipment, it is an ancient cannon, which can be thrown at the enemy within a certain range along a parabolic trajectory like a cannon, but the bed crossbow shoots directly. Weapons, although within the effective range of [-] steps, the flight trajectory of the bed crossbow's crossbow gun has some arcs, but it is not a parabola.If it wasn't for Qin Qiong's unintentional launch of a rocket, allowing these trebuchets who were forced to speak thirty steps away from the Tang Army's camp, I am afraid that the Tang Army's camp would not be able to defend the first camp.

"Hurry up, drive Zheng Jun out!" Li Shimin ordered hastily, and Lei Yongji shouted desperately: "The guards of Prince Qin's mansion follow me!"

Seeing that Li Shimin launched a small-scale counterattack, Wang Shichong was overjoyed and said, "The whole army presses on, tear this Tang army apart!"

In fact, Wang Shichong is really anxious. Chen Ying's army has already approached Yanshi, less than a hundred miles away from Luoyang. Although Wang Shiyun went to Yanshi, Wang Shichong really has no confidence. He thinks that Wang Shiyun can stop Chen Ying. At this time, Zheng Jun has already thrown stones Under the comprehensive suppression of the aircraft troops, the morale-boosting generals of the Zheng army roared and rushed to the battlefield full of corpses.

Chen Ying never dreamed that because his troops performed too well, Wang Shichong was forced to have no way out from the beginning, and he had to fight Li Shimin to the end.On this desolate wilderness, the most tragic battle between the generals of the Tang Army since they became an army kicked off.

As Wang Shichong expected, Zheng Jun's violent trebuchet attacks made Li Shimin vomit blood, especially when he was approaching thirty steps, those newly assembled trebuchets launched the first round of extremely intensive attacks. The volley of artillery fire stunned Shimin even more. After fighting with Zheng Jun for so long, it was the first time he encountered such fierce firepower from Zheng Jun!

Under Zheng Jun's catapult firing red-hot stone bombs in turn, Tang Jun's soldiers had almost no chance to display their proud offensive and defensive stunts, and they kept fighting and being beaten.

The stone bullets, as fast as meteors, were fired at close range, covering almost the entire Tang army camp within [-] steps. The red-hot stones were aimed at the bed crossbow positions of the Tang army soldiers. The main materials of these bed crossbows are As soon as the wood was covered with red-hot stone bullets, almost all bed crossbows turned into burning fires.

Seeing the bed crossbow at the bottom of the press box turned into a burning fire, Li Shimin was so angry that smoke rose from all his orifices, and he roared like thunder. He swung his horse vigorously and tried to rush into the center of Zheng Jun's formation to have a good time, but how could Changsun Shunde let him go? Li Shimin went up desperately, and quickly hugged Li Shimin.

But fortunately, Qin Qiong rushed to the edge of the camp with a bow and arrow at the head of the fragments of stone bullets flying everywhere, and shot Zheng Jun's trebuchet thirty steps in front of the camp. Under the attack of the army's trebuchets, the Tang army still suffered heavy casualties.

Just like a classic line in "Soldier Assault", at the end of the war, it is still people who fight.

Wang Shichong tossed all night and failed to break through the first line of defense of the Tang army's camp, but he succeeded in suppressing the morale of the Tang army's soldiers.

Looking at the battalion of wounded soldiers howling and screaming, Li Shimin muttered in his heart: "I don't know if I can hold on until Chen Ying's arrival.

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In fact, Chen Ying was not as relaxed as Li Shimin imagined.As the saying goes, one trick is eaten all over the world.

The trebuchet tactics invented by Zhao Jiqing were not only used by Wang Shichong, but Wang Shiyun was also using them. In a hurry, he arrived at the city of Yanshi and prepared to learn the tactics of Mo Dao general Li Siye. Take the ladder to participate in the siege.

However, before the Modao army approached Yanshi City a hundred steps away, Zheng Jun's trebuchet on the wall of Yanshi City fired stone bombs and hit his skin blue and face swollen, especially the Modao army was burned dozens of times by the hot stone. Hundreds of people, Chen Ying felt so distressed that his heart was dripping with blood.

Chen Ying didn't have heavy bed crossbows or heavy equipment such as trebuchets under his command. What's more, siege with ants was a tactic that Chen Ying hated the most.

Li Xiuning learned that Li Shimin's situation was critical from Hou Junji's mouth, so he took the initiative to ask for a fight.Said: "General, let me fight, this will not work!"

But Chen Ying still refused, shook his head and said, "The time hasn't come yet."

"Not yet? Then when will it be?"

Li Xiuning shouted: "Wang Shichong has added more than [-] soldiers and horses. If he can't break through the city and go to Xin'an as soon as possible, not only the [-] troops surrounded by Cijian will not be able to keep it, but I am afraid that the [-] remaining defeated soldiers in the Beimang camp will not be able to persist." Now, the situation in Henan has gradually become clear, Wang Shichong intends to attack Cijian first, and then take Beimang, is it true that General Chen wants to sit back and watch more than [-] Tang soldiers be wiped out by Wang Shichong?"

However, Liu Tong said: "Based on the current situation, although the situation of His Royal Highness King Qin's troops is not good, it will collapse. We have a slight advantage over Yanshi in terms of military strength, but we have no advantage over Wang Shichong as a whole. As Princess Pingyang expected, Wang Shichong attacked Cijian first, and then defeated Beimang, but Wang Shichong still has a possibility!"

Li Xiuning looked at Liu Tong very surprised, she didn't remember that there was someone like Liu Tong under Chen Ying's command.Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying with questioning eyes, but Chen Ying remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Li Xiuning asked, "What tricks does Wang Shichong have?"

Liu Tongdao: "That is to take advantage of our eagerness to rescue His Highness the King of Qin, and use our tactics. The real target is not the King of Qin, but General Chen. In the terrain that is not good at cavalry charging, they will be slaughtered. Meng Jin and Dou Jiande's Cao Zhan tribe have unknown purpose. He is too close to Luoyang. Once Cao Zhan's troops join the war horse of the Central Plains, I am afraid that our situation will be very bad. .”

Li Xiuning said: "I know what you mean..."

Chen Ying heard Li Xiuning's dissatisfaction, and interrupted her: "But what I want is not only to rescue His Highness King Qin! What I want is to fight a beautiful battle, hurt, even injure, and even destroy Wang Shichong. Only then will I be able to temporarily withdraw from here and lead the army northward to fight Dou Jiande decisively."

Chen Ying turned to look at Li Xiuning and said, "You should understand what I mean!"

Li Xiuning said: "I understand, but...

"Don't worry!" Chen Ying looked into Li Xiuning's eyes seriously, and said loudly: "This war has lasted too long, it's time to end."

Seeing Chen Ying's eyes, Li Xiuning felt inexplicably at ease.

Chen Ying turned to look at Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui and said, "Lead your cavalry along the embankment of the Yellow River and patrol westward all the way. If you encounter enemies, shoot them to death!"

Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui didn't ask why, although they were very puzzled, they still carried out Chen Ying's order.

Chen Ying looked at Liu Tong again and said, "How many days will it take for the Beiwei army to sneak into Luoyang secretly?"

When Li Xiuning heard this, she seemed to understand something.

PS: It is a tragedy because there is no manuscript.Ruthless and ruthless yesterday became the first Dharma protector in this book, adding [-] words for him.Sorry for not writing until now!
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