Chapter 14 The snow field is trapped in a horse pit

Chen Ying very much hoped that this news was fake, and he could take advantage of the opportunity of the elite led by Livershher to take advantage of the weakness and take the city of Thin Bone Law. However, there are still more than 9,000 Turkic troops in the city of Bogulu, of which more than 3,000 are the most elite royal tent army of the Turks.

The Wang Tent Army is equivalent to the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty, they were originally the Wolf Clan of the Ashina clan, called "Attached", these soldiers who made meritorious contributions during the founding of the Turkic Republic of China, their status is higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and they enjoy extraordinary treatment. However, unlike the forbidden army of the Han Dynasty, these attachments would participate in the war in peacetime and maintain rich combat experience.

And the equipment of this army is the best among the Turkic armies, the general Turkic light cavalry is only leather armor and riding bows, the basic tribes are rich and poor, some are equipped with a small amount of iron armor, but the attached army is all ironclad cavalry, and the Tang Dynasty Xuanjia cavalry equipment is almost the same. And most of these armors are mainly fish scale armor with super defensive capabilities.

This result stunned Chen Ying and caught Chen Ying off guard.

In the face of absolute strength, any stratagem is for the sake of work. In the face of absolute strength, any stratagem is for the sake of work. At this time, Chen Ying finally understood the true meaning of this sentence.

Standing on the watchtower with the cold wind like a knife, Chen Ying's brain was running rapidly. Even if he took the troops of his four prefectures and sixteen regiments, he still couldn't break the siege of Lingzhou. Chen Ying felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

"What should I do?"

"What should I do?"

Chen Ying asked himself repeatedly, even if Chen Ying wanted to break his head, he didn't think of a solution to the problem.

In fact, Chen Ying is not without a way, if Chen Ying brings the troops back to Chang'an now, although the mission of supporting the state fails, Chen Ying is at most just dereliction of duty, he should not be able to lose his head, and he will not be able to dismiss the official and go to the knight.

However, this result is unacceptable to Chen Ying. As long as he doesn't have an official position and title to protect himself now, with his and Su Hu's holiday, Su Hu will definitely make him unable to survive and die.

Now he is different from the past, and he has a falling out with Princess Pingyang. Without Li Xiuning as a backer, his relationship with Li Jiancheng is actually a layer of paper, and when he still has use value, he can still speak in front of Li Jiancheng. But once he goes back in such a gloomy way, Li Jiancheng will lose face, and he will definitely not spare him.

Dilemma, Chen Ying had no way out at all. He pinched his fists and knuckles clicked, frowned, and suddenly Chen Ying shouted: "Convene all the Chinese army to discuss the big tent!" ”

Just when Chen Ying turned around, he suddenly saw that the hand warmer that was originally used for heating had fallen into the snow nearly a foot deep, and it had formed a small hole with a thick bowl mouth and a smooth vertical.

Seeing this small hole, Chen Ying's head suddenly flashed with inspiration.

"Trapped!"

Of course, this trap is not the trap in Li Jingwei's military tactics to attack and defend the horse pit, Chen Ying thought of the trap in the Northern Song Dynasty in the three passes in the north. During the Great Song Dynasty, due to the loss of the land of horse breeding in the sixteen states of Yanyun, there was a great shortage of horses. In the battle of infantry against cavalry, the infantry suffered greatly. In this case, the trap came into being. This kind of small hole, which is only thick at the mouth of the bowl and goes vertically downward, will make the galloping war horse break the horse's leg smoothly, and the horse will die.

A hand warmer can make the snow melt into a pothole in a short time. It's a trap, and it's even easier to dig a trap than a trap dug on flat ground.

Chen Ying took the stove to test in the snow again, and almost a pillar of incense could form a horse trap. But that's too slow.

Of course, in order to avoid burning your hands, the temperature of the hand warmer is not high, if you change it to the form of a hand warmer, can it be better and faster to create a trap?

Thinking of this, Chen Ying found Lin Chuanfu and told Lin Chuanfu his thoughts, and Lin Chuanfu said: "Don't worry, this kind of thing is very easy!" ”

Thinking of a strategy to defeat the enemy, the unhappiness accumulated in Chen Ying's heart was swept away. When Chen Ying returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, the generals had been waiting for a long time, and of course no one expressed their displeasure. It didn't take long for all the generals to arrive in the big tent of the Chinese army.

"Meet Mr. Chen!"

Chen Ying had a relaxed smile on his face, and said loudly: "I wait for the Lu of the king to eat, and eat the people of the world, if you are reluctant to steal your life, how different is it from animals!" Now that Lingzhou is in danger, the governor has decided to fight to the death with the enemy! ”

All the generals clasped their fists and said: "Obey the commander's military order!" ”

"I'll wait two hours for you to prepare for battle!"

The generals were suddenly stunned, Chen Ying usually asked them to gather and prepare, the time was very small, and now it actually took two hours, which made the generals feel incredible. With a little more time, you'll be better prepared and won't have to get scrambling.

None of them knew that the time set aside by Chen Ying was actually to build a new hand stove.

About a quarter of an hour, Lin Chuanfu took out the hand stove that had been built. The real purpose of this kind of furnace is to melt the snow, so there is no thermal insulation material at all, just one large and one small, two iron cylinders are put together, in order to prevent the charcoal fire from extinguishing, which is different from ordinary charcoal stoves.

Chen Ying carried a hand stove full of charcoal, and at this time, the outer iron sheet of this hand stove had been burned red, and he threw it directly into the snowdrift, and in a few breaths, a trap was formed.

Chen Ying was very satisfied with this new type of hand stove, looked at Lin Chuanfu and said, "Is this kind of hand stove easy to build?" Ben General needs a thousand, how long does it take not two thousand? ”

Lin Chuanfu said: "There is no difficulty in this kind of hand stove, if General Chen gives me another thousand people, Xia Guan can guarantee to build a thousand in four hours!" ”

"No, General Ben doesn't have that much time!" Chen Yingdao: "This general needs two thousand, I can transfer all the people to you, can you build two thousand hand stoves in two hours?" ”

"This ......" Lin Chuanfu said: "Xiaguan do his best!" ”

"It's not the best effort, it's the must!" Chen Ying said in an unquestioning tone: "Well done, I'll give you a reward, if you don't do a good job in military law!" ”

Lin Chuanfu sighed helplessly.

When it was dark, the clouds were like lead, and they weighed heavily on the hearts of the people, and the cold wind from Siberia howled and blew on the faces like knives. On the empty snowfield, snow particles are already falling.

Chen Ying squinted his eyes and looked at the majestic Thin Bone Law City in the distance, and the tassel ribbon beads on both sides of his cheeks were blown and scraped on his ears painfully. Although the coming blizzard was extremely unfavorable for the march, the Turkic cavalry had already flocked to Lingzhou City in large numbers, and the blizzard became a favorable cover.

Originally, Chen Ying had already given up attacking the Bogu Law City, and was ready to spare the Bogu Law City to join Duan Zhigan and Luo Shixin, who were guarding in Hongshan Fort, and rushed to Lingzhou City at all costs. When using the field war, use the trap horse pit and pit the Turks.

However, no matter how good the plan is, it can't keep up with the rapid change. Chen Ying didn't want to fight the Thin Bone Law City, but the Turks wanted to beat him.

According to the Turkic official system, the children of the Ashina family can be appointed as Ye Hu and She, while other surname tribes can only be appointed as "Kui". There were 6,000 cavalry under Yu Guni's command, and when the scout told Yu Guni that a large convoy of Tang army had passed by, Yu Guni's heart was immediately moved.

Yu Guni's tribe was set up for the Turkic Yu Shot, as a remote tribe of the Turks, the Yu Shot Department was very poor, and they were all poor. Yu Guni got more than 1,000 carts from the Tang Army, and Yu Guni's mind was full of goods. He was afraid that the "detachment army" would rely on his identity to rob them of their supplies, so he did not notify the detachment army at all.

Yu Guni hurriedly ordered six thousand parts and rushed towards Chen Ying's department.

In order to prevent the Tang army from escaping, Yu Guni ordered the six governors under his command to separate the left, center and right, and the three cavalry fanned towards Chen Ying's department.

Yu Guni pointed to Chen Ying's handsome flag and said, "Rush up and slaughter them!" ”

In fact, Chen Ying has always been very careful, and in the process of formation, the unobstructed snow field allows the watchtower walking in the convoy to be clear at a glance. When the Turks left the city, Chen Ying had already received the news. Although Chen Ying ordered the troops and still marched, he quietly let the two thousand people carry the stove and began to arrange the trap pit.

When the hand furnace melts the snow, a large amount of steam is produced. Two thousand hand furnaces melted the snow at the same time, forming a large amount of steam, a white vapour, which hid the entire convoy in a thick fog, which made the Turkic cavalry hesitate.

Chen Ying actually didn't expect that the concentrated use of a large number of hand stoves would have such an effect.

More than 6,000 Turkic cavalrymen suddenly fell off their horses, and the screams and exclamations were endless.

Yu Guni was shocked: "There is a trap! ”

But the other Turks are different, they feel that it is not a trap, but that the Tang army will spell. A large amount of steam filled the air, so that they could not see a single Don soldier. But when they were inexplicably wonderful, they fell off their horses.

When the Turkic cavalry realized that something was wrong and held the reins neatly, they sadly found that with just one face, the Tang army did not fire a single arrow, so they lost six or seven hundred cavalry.