Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 644 Guo Xiaoke, Anxi Protectorate (Second Update)
Chapter 57 Guo Xiaoke, Anxi Protectorate

However, the happy time is always very short.Just when Li Daozhen was thinking about it, there was a rush of footsteps.Zhou Qing reported outside the house: "General, urgent report from Liangzhou!"

Chen Ying was also immersed in the family happiness of father and son, and was slightly displeased to be interrupted by Zhou Qing. Chen Ying frowned slightly, and said displeasedly, "Didn't I tell you not to disturb me?"

Zhou Qingqi and Ai Ai said: "My lord, the matter is urgent!"

Zhou Qing pushed the door and entered.

Chen Ying gave Zhou Qing a hard look, and Zhou Qing shivered in fright.

Chen Yingdao: "What's the matter, wait until my son finishes eating!"

Zhou Qing shrank his head and had no choice but to exit the house and wait.

Li Daozhen said: "The business is important, I will feed my son!"

Chen Ying handed the egg custard bowl to Li Daozhen and said, "That's fine too!"

But as soon as Chen Ying left little Li Siye's sight, Li Siye opened his mouth and burst into tears.

Looking at this scene, Chen Ying was stunned. Could this be the legendary blood connection?
However, Chen Ying took the urgent report and stood in front of Li Siye.

Li Siye no longer worried, but quietly ate egg custard.

Chen Ying opened the urgent report, ten lines at a glance.

His face gradually became a little cold.

Li Daozhen felt something strange, and asked cautiously, "What happened?"

Chen Ying sighed and said, "They're all evolving!"

"Everything is evolving?"

Chen Ying's heart was full of sadness at this time, he had been in Datang for more than three years, and he seemed to have forgotten it.Relying on his foresight, he was able to make a fuss, at least it was beyond the reach of mortals.Now that he is a general of the town army from the second rank, even Chen Ying himself is a little bit flustered.

However, Chen Ying did not expect that the Western Turks would actually learn to use ballistas.

The ballista is different from the trebuchet. The ballista was invented by the Greek Dionysus through mechanical research, that is, the torsion generated by two tensioned horsehairs, leather ropes or animal tendons is used as the power to drive the crossbow arms to drive the bowstring to projectiles. or arrows.

The ballista designed by the Greeks has a strong bracket. The main beam is placed on the bracket. Two torsion spring sets are installed on both sides of the front end. Each spring set drives a crossbow arm. The end of the crossbow arm is connected to the bowstring, and the bowstring is in the middle It is a woven mesh bag to hold projectiles.The ballista has powerful power, and a ballista with good performance can throw a stone bullet weighing 1 talent (ancient Greek weight unit, about 26 kilograms) 300 yards (1 yard = 0.9144 meters) away.

Although the power of the ballista is a little less powerful than that of the thirteen-pointed heavy trebuchet.However, it is undeniable that the Western Turks possessed this kind of ballista, which was the biggest threat to Liangzhou City.

The Western Turks, who had no siege equipment, had no way to deal with the tall and strong Liangzhou City. However, as the war progressed, a group of about a thousand blond slaves appeared in the Western Turkic Army. These blond slaves, Controlling the ballista, he bombarded an enemy building in Liangzhou City, causing dozens of casualties.

The dozens of casualties were not too serious, but they dealt a fatal blow to the morale of the Liangzhou defenders.

Chen Ying also knows that war has always been the main source of power to promote human technological progress.Because the Greeks had to invent the ballista to face the attack of the Carthaginians, and later the Roman Empire included the whole of Greece, and the ballista became a boost to the expansion of the Roman Empire.The Romans improved this kind of ballista to make it more powerful. The giant ballista of the Romans could smash the enemy 400 meters away, and the spears they fired could send two or three soldiers into a dense formation. The enemies are nailed to the ground together.

In addition, the accuracy of the ballista is also amazing, they can even hit the same spot repeatedly, and there was a record that the spear fired by the ballista split the spear that had hit the front into two pieces.

Chen Ying couldn't calm down anymore.At this time, he was in Lingzhou, nearly a thousand miles away from Liangzhou City. Once Li Daozong couldn't hold on, and the Western Turks conquered Liangzhou City, the problem would be serious.

No time to wait, think of this.Chen Ying reluctantly looked at the little Li Siye who was full of food and drink, looked at Li Daozhen and said, "I'm going to the Wild Boar Ridge Barracks, I'll come back tonight!"

Li Daozhen saw that Liangzhou was in a hurry, and she was also a little anxious, and asked, "Is there any problem with brother?"

"You have to trust him, this little scene can't help him!" Chen Ying gently kissed Li Daozhen's forehead, and turned to walk outside the city.

At this time, the hard days of those soldiers from Hebei finally came.

It was already noon when Chen Ying arrived at Yezhuling camp.The soldiers lined up to eat, and some began to wash up in front of the sink after eating.

Duan Zhigan, who was in charge of training the new army, greeted Chen Ying with a group of entourage.

"I'll pay my respects to General Chen, General Chen is mighty!"

Chen Ying waved his hands and said, "How is it? How is the quality of this group of soldiers?"

Hearing this, Duan Zhigan said with emotion: "It's really good. Although he looks thinner and weaker than the soldiers in Guanzhong, he is a man from Yanzhao. His foundation is there. As long as you give the general three months, I will return you one." The elite soldiers are no weaker than the elite soldiers of the Dingyuan Army!"

"Three months!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "The plan needs to be changed. I don't have three months to give you. Anyway, these soldiers have basics. I will give you ten days to let them familiarize themselves with our military discipline and drills, and then we will be able to give you three months." To be pulled out to fight."

"Ten days?" Duan Zhi felt embarrassed: "Could it be too little?"

"A lot!" Chen Ying pointed to these soldiers and said, "If it's a group of peasants who have never seen blood, ten days of training is obviously not enough. However, they are not ordinary peasants. From Hebei to Shandong, from Shandong to Henan, the worst has seen blood. What's more, the situation in Liangzhou is not good now. The Western Turks have siege equipment, although these equipment are not enough to collapse the city of Liangzhou However, this general cannot gamble with the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. The most troublesome thing is that the Western Turks seem to have a tendency to increase their troops. The soldiers who have never seen blood, no matter how hard they train, are not as good as veterans, I don't want to spend so much money, and end up raising a bunch of soldiers who don't see blood!"

Duan Cheng sighed and said: "Let them go to the battlefield in ten days, many people will die!"

"It's not that fast. It's almost a thousand miles from Lingzhou to Liangzhou!" Chen Ying pointed to the soldiers who started to line up and said, "We arrived in Liangzhou from Lingzhou, and I will give you 20 days to march. , you can train while marching, so when they arrive in Liangzhou, they should have trained for a month, almost!"

Duan Zhi said: "The general will understand!"

Chen Ying asked again: "By the way, are there any good candidates among these soldiers from Hebei?"

"A good seedling?" Duan Zhigan hesitated: "If you want to talk about good seedlings, there are really a few, one of them is Guo Xiaoke, and that guy is the one who has challenged his team leader, team leader, and brigade in a day. Shuai, Colonel, Deputy Captain Guo Yi, and Captain Zhechong all have nothing to say about their skills, whether it is bow and arrow or horsemanship, they are all very good, but they are a bit tricky!"

"Pricking heads is good, my general likes pricking heads the most!" Chen Ying said with a smile: "We are the army, we don't want a bunch of good babies, the army has no blood, how can there be no temper? Who... Guo... What? "

"Guo Xiaoke!"

"Who?" Chen Ying asked in surprise, "Guo Xiaoke?"

Duan Zhi was puzzled and said, "The general has heard of his name?"

"No..." Chen Ying's words must have been insincere.In fact, he is not a history expert, nor does he know all about it. Compared with Cheng Zhijie, Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Luo Shixin, and even Luo Yi, the famous generals in the Sui and Tang Dynasties are more famous than Guo Xiaoke.

Chen Ying knew Guo Xiaoke’s name, mainly because he had seen the stone statue of Guo Xiaoke when he visited Beiting (the Northern Xiongnu Shanyu Wangting, now in Jimsar County, Changji, Xinjiang), and knew that he was the second son of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. Ren Dadu, and he died in Ren, the Dadu who died in battle.

It never occurred to Chen Ying that the future general guard would come to his own army as a soldier.You must know that most of the Anxi Protectorate was in the Tang Dynasty, but from the second-rank level, he was in charge of "comfort, conquest, meritorious service, and punishment for the surrounding ethnic groups."

In fact, the Anxi Governor is the real Anxi King. The Anxi Governor's Mansion has four towns and 79 military prefectures. When it was at its strongest, the area was almost 500 million square kilometers. .

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Bring Guo Xiaoke over here, let me have a look!"

Duan Zhigan then ordered a soldier to go to the barracks to find Guo Xiaoke.

Not long after, Guo Xiaoke, led by his own soldiers, came before Chen Ying.Chen Ying looked at Guo Xiaoke, and saw that he was seven feet five inches tall, slightly shorter than Chen Ying, but much stronger than Chen Ying, the muscles on his body swelled, as if to burst the military uniform on his body.

When Guo Xiaoke looked at Chen Ying, he was both excited and apprehensive.Excitedly, he could finally meet Datang's military god.Among all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, there were many who had never met Chen Ying, but almost none had ever heard of Chen Ying's name.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks were like a mountain that suppressed all the Central Plains just like the early Han Dynasty. However, since Chen Ying came out, he beat up the Turks so hard that the Turks now doubt their lives.Winning every battle is a label on Chen Ying's body. The key is that Chen Ying has also made countless veterans lose face. Compared with Chen Ying, these veterans, these half a hundred years old, have lived like dogs.

Guo Xiaoke was also very uneasy, because he was so sharp. One day, actually half a day, he fought six consecutive games in just two hours. The level below the captain's level was only about boxing skills. Guo Xiaoke easily won. Effortless.

But at the level of Deputy Lieutenant Guo Yi and Captain Zhechong, not only fist competitions, but also archery competitions and marching formations are required. Although he also won, he swept countless people's face.Guo Xiaoke worried whether Chen Ying would make trouble for him.

Guo Xiaoke didn't dare to be negligent, and saluted respectfully: "Guo Xiaoke, a lowly post, see the general!"

Chen Ying smiled lightly, looked at Guo Xiaoke up and down, and pinched his muscles with his hands. After tossing for a while, he nodded his head: "It's a good material... have you seen blood before?"

Guo Xiaoke said: "Reporting to the General, yes. I used to follow Mi Gong in Wagang and killed many people, not one hundred, at least eighty."

Chen Ying smiled slightly when he heard the words: "So you are beheaded by a hundred people? Are you not bragging?"

Guo Xiaoke said: "I'm not bragging. I shot fifty or sixty people to death with arrows, and twenty or thirty people were hacked to death with knives. I didn't count carefully. Anyway, I didn't kill anyone outside the battlefield."

Hearing that Guo Xiaoke had actually shot five or sixty people to death, Ashina Simo said displeased: "You bragging? Do you think you have three heads and six arms?"

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Is it true or not, you don't know if you try it?"

"Try, how does the general plan to try?" Guo Xiaoke asked with hope.

Chen Ying pointed at Ashina Simo who was about to move, and said: "Each of you has a horse and a pot of arrows. First remove the arrowheads, dip the arrowheads in white paint, and attack at the same time in two pairs at five hundred paces. Whoever is higher Low, isn't it clear at a glance?"

Although the arrows with the arrowheads removed would definitely not be able to penetrate the armor, but since the bows used by the two were hard bows, once they hit the face or throat, they could still be wounded or killed.

But the two agreed with Chen Ying's opinion very much, Ashina Simo quickly removed the arrowhead, and dipped the removed arrowhead into the white paint.

Guo Xiaoke, also holding an iron tire bow and a quiver on his back, got on his horse.

Two people and two horses, slowly retreating.

Seeing that Guo Xiaoke was going to compete with General Chen's personal army again, everyone immediately gathered around to watch this dragon-tiger fight.

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