Chapter 31 Destiny should not be extinguished (one more ask for subscription)
"Enemy attack!"
Hearing the piercing sound of breaking the air, Chen Ying's hairs exploded instantly. He roared with all his might: "Enemy attack! ”
Chen Ying was not afraid of the enemy's surprise attack, but he never expected that the enemy would attack on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. Although the Guards Regiment was a regiment, there were only two brigades, and there was only one brigade following Chen Ying at this time. However, Ryazan's reaction was not slow, and as the sound of breaking the air came, he immediately grabbed a large shield and protected Chen Ying tightly.
"Jingle Bell!" Dense arrows hit the shield, making a tooth-souring sound. It's like striking iron in a blacksmith's shop. At this moment, a series of screams rang out.
The soldiers defending the city gate tower suddenly screamed in surprise. Some looked for shoes, some touched their blades, and they were in a mess. But fortunately, the defense of the city gate tower is good, and the shooting of bows and arrows is ignored. There were no casualties.
When Chen Ying supported Lingzhou, the crown prince Li Jiancheng took advantage of his position to transfer a large part of the arsenal, even if it was a small soldier of the pro-guard team, he was wearing heavy armor that only hoplites were qualified to equip themselves.
Even without shields, arrows do very little damage to them. Chen Ying yelled, "Who is injured? ”
The screams stopped abruptly. A few soldiers gritted their teeth and shouted: "I can't die, I will be bitten by mosquitoes!" ”
Except for the lights on the tower of the city gate, there was a large black rumbling under the city, and nothing could be seen.
"Extinguish the torches, let's light the torches now, we are the target of the enemy!" Ryazan yelled: "Quickly extinguish the torches...... Extinguish the torch. ”
Several guards were about to extinguish their fires, but at this moment. Chen Ying pushed away the soldiers and shields pressed on him: "Extinguish a fart, throw the torch out, and see how many enemies there are!" ”
After receiving Chen Ying's order, several soldiers threw out the torches in their hands like pitchers.
The torches were never as weak as the lighting of later generations, and the light was very limited. However, more than a dozen torches flew in the air, and the originally dark city gradually revealed its clues.
There are more than 1,000 enemy troops under the city, and now they are advancing layer by layer, and the enemy generals should know Lingzhou City very well, and the key direction of the advance is actually all defensive dead ends.
"Damn, play this with Lao Tzu!" Chen Ying retreated to the front of the city gate tower, and suddenly saw more than a dozen fierce fire oil drums in the city gate tower. The brigade commander guarding the gate tower of Dongcheng was preparing to ring the alarm bell. Chen Yingdao: "Don't panic first, now sound the alarm, the people in the city don't know how many enemies are coming, if they trample on each other, they will definitely lose a lot!" ”
Chen Ying immediately issued a letter and quickly wrote down a few orders.
"Order, the right guard left and right deputy led Gao Yunquan, He Yuejing, and Du Shanguo, who joined the army, sat in the south, north, and west to command the defense respectively, and Lingzhou Governor Shi sat in the governor's mansion to pacify the people!"
Chen Ying passed the order in an orderly manner, and the soldiers of the defending army, who were originally panicked, instantly calmed down when they saw Chen Ying. Although Chen Ying looks handsome and does not have the majesty of a general, Chen Ying is the god of war in the hearts of all soldiers.
Chen Ying led less than 4,000 soldiers to conquer the city of Bogulu in a battle, beheading nearly 1,000 people and capturing more than 13,000 people. In the second battle, the record was even more terrifying, with 900 cavalry field battles attacking more than 10,000 Turkic cavalry, beheading 5,600 ranks, and killing more than 30,000 Turkic troops.
The army is a place that pays attention to strength, and Chen Ying has proved his strength and courage with facts. A thought inexplicably came to the hearts of the soldiers of the Tang Army. "With Chen Ying, you can win the battle, and no matter how many enemies there are, it's not terrible!"
In accordance with Chen Ying's order, some of the defenders went to act as temporary heralds, and some of them followed Chen Ying's order to hurry up to make incendiary bombs.
In fact, it is crude oil, and in ancient times, Yanzhou, which is not far from Lingzhou, is rich in stone lipid water, which is light crude oil. The combustion effect of this fierce fire oil is not as good as that of gasoline in later generations, such as diesel, and can only be burned under the action of combustion, and a large amount of smoke will be produced. Chen Ying filled the gourd containing water with fierce fire oil, burned it and stuffed it with fine linen cloth, and made a simple fierce fire oil incendiary bomb.
Of course, the power of this fierce fire oil incendiary bomb is too small, and the main purpose is not to injure the enemy, but to act as a flare.
"Archer prepare!"
"Fierce fire oil throw!"
More than a dozen incendiary bombs filled with fierce fire oil fell on the snow, and immediately turned into a large ball of fire. Shine a light on the enemy soldiers lying in ambush around you.
The guards looked at the enemy crawling on the city and were overjoyed: "See, shoot!" ”
At this time, the enemy in the snow has become a target. The archers on the city walls were condescending, shooting one at a time.
The archers of the guards shot out a chain of arrows, and the enemies under the city continued to cry out.
Liu Tong was wearing leather armor decorated with copper and iron nails and inlaid with iron sheets, and a pair of sharp eyes stared at the Lingzhou city wall viciously as if they were nails. He was originally a wealthy family in Lingzhou, and took refuge in Liang Shidu, although he was named the Left Commander Army by Liang Shidu, but the Liang people were weak and weak, and Liang Shidu did not give him many rewards, and Liu Tong did not have much actual harvest in addition to his name.
Seeing that the Tang Dynasty sent reinforcements, Lingzhou was safe and sound. Liu Tong couldn't sit still. If he can't capture Lingzhou, he can't come to Lingzhou again as a savior, then for Lingzhou, he Liu Tong is a joke.
This made Liu Tong very dissatisfied, so he suggested to Liang Shidu that Lingzhou was negligent on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve. It will definitely be possible to break through Lingzhou City. Now that the Turks have been defeated on both sides of Lingzhou, they have broken two Ye Hu, if the Liang division has broken through Lingzhou, they can also show their faces in front of Shibi Khan. So Liang Shidu agreed with Liu Tong's opinion, scraped together and gave him two thousand "elites".
The world was dark, and Liu Tong couldn't see the situation in the distance clearly. Only from the screams that kept coming out. He knew that this round of Liang Jun had fallen into the wind.
The incendiary bomb was used by Chen Ying as a flare, constantly cleaning up the fish that slipped through the net, Chen Ying had already bent the fingers of his right hand to the fifth round at this time, and suddenly gave another order: "Ignite!" ”
This time, it was a fire that was lit! Chen Ying put a whole barrel of fierce fire oil on a trebuchet. The whole thing was thrown out, and more than 50 catties of fierce fire oil were burning, flying towards the outside of the city.
"Boom!" With a loud bang, the wooden barrel loaded with fierce fire oil flew in all directions, forming a large fire with a radius of more than ten paces, and the enemy troops hundreds of paces around had nowhere to hide.
The firelight illuminated the enemy troops surging under the city wall clearly, and Chen Ying was surprised to see: these troops were still carrying ladders! At this moment, I am pushing the ladder to try to get to the city.
If it weren't for the fact that he was disturbed by He Yue'er, had no intention of sleeping, and came to Dongcheng with a gambling heart, I'm afraid Dongcheng would have changed hands at this time. Or rather, in his sleep, he has become a prisoner of the enemy.
Chen Ying thought about it at this time, and still felt afraid. Maybe God didn't want him to die, maybe he didn't deserve to die.
If the enemy's plot is really allowed to succeed, the consequences are really unimaginable. Fortunately, they were doomed to fail at this point. Conspiracy, just because it's a conspiracy, as long as you see through it, it won't work.
"Woohoo!" The dense sound of breaking the air sounded, and the Tang army continued to shoot and kill the Liang soldiers who were ambushing the city.