Chapter 153 Primitive Chemical Weapons Attack and Defense

There are more than 100 armed men in the Zheng Clan's Courtyard, and if they are facing ordinary stupid thieves, even if they are invincible, they are enough to hold out until reinforcements arrive. However, the people led by Chen Ying were either masters of the fierce tigers or fierce generals of the three armies, so the armed men of the Zheng family's courtyard were tragic.

In less than a quarter of an hour, there was no one in the entire Zheng Clan Courtyard who dared to resist. These armed men are not fools, since the other party dares to rush at the Zheng family's courtyard, they naturally don't mind killing a few people, as long as they don't resist, these men in black don't embarrass these armed people, they beat them down with sticks, tie them up with ropes, stuff rags and stinky socks in their mouths, and leave them in the house. Even the maids and ladies in the courtyard were not treated well, and these maids and ladies were also tied up and locked in a few empty rooms.

At this time, Zheng Anchun woke up slowly. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw a bright horizontal knife, dangling in front of his neck, a man in black who was more than eight feet tall and had a strong body grabbed his collar with one hand, Zheng Anchun was so frightened that his soul flew away, and he screamed miserably: "A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life......

Chen Ying is really not at ease, in case his voice is heard by Zheng Anchun, he really needs to kill people if he doesn't get it right. Chen Ying glanced at Zhou Qing, and Zhou Qing took off his hood.

Chen Ying was taken aback, and thought that Zhou Qing would play with Lu Stuffing. But seeing Zhou Qing's face clearly, Chen Ying almost laughed. This Zhou Qing is also too funny, he actually smeared a palm-sized black mark on his face, and stuck a few black hairs that looked very disgusting. Zhou Qing casually flicked the horizontal knife with his fingers, and at the same time looked at Zheng Anchun with slanted eyes and said, "Call the soul, and then ask Lao Tzu to cut off your dog's head!" ”

Zheng Anchun trembled, tears were scared out, and he quickly closed his mouth and mouth, not daring to make a sound.

Zhou Qing stretched out his hand and gently patted Zheng Anchun's face and said, "That's right, that's right, that's right, yes, I only want money and don't kill you, as long as you cooperate honestly, we won't touch a single hair of you." ”

Zheng Anchun exhaled with great difficulty, and with a frightened cry: "You...... What do you want? ”

Zhou Qing said: "Don't do anything, I'm short of money, I want to borrow some money from you to spend it..."Speaking of this, Zhou Qing mentioned Zheng Anchun and said: "You fucking young man Ye Ye should be called Huazi, remember, you only have one chance, if you are not satisfied, your head will also move place"

Zheng Anchun knelt down at that time, losing Zheng's money, if he asked Zheng Rentai to be accommodating, maybe he would have a chance to live, but if he didn't cooperate with them in black, his head would not be able to be saved immediately. For Zheng Anchun, the choice did not seem to be difficult, and he immediately took Chen Ying and others to the Zheng family's vault.

Xin'an Zheng's vault was extremely hidden, and to Chen Ying's surprise, it was not in any treasury, but in a small pavilion in the middle of the lake in the backyard.

In the backyard of the Zheng family's courtyard, there is a small lake about three or four acres in size, and there is an inconspicuous small pavilion in the middle of the lake. Riding a flat boat, Chen Ying, Zhou Qing, Luo Shixin and more than a dozen people took two small boats to the small pavilion on the island in the middle of the lake, only to see Zheng Anchun trembling and twisting the stone table in the pavilion. As the rattling sounded, the stone table slid to the side, and the flat floor slowly cracked to both sides, revealing a gap that could be entered by one person, Chen Ying's eyes were about to bulge out.

There is such a mechanism, it seems that the wisdom of the ancients cannot be underestimated! Chen Ying walked in first. Then, his eyes widened again.

I saw that in this dark room, which was only twenty or thirty square meters, there were densely packed and neatly stacked silver ingots with white flowers and yellow gold ingots, not to mention thousands of taels.

Chen Ying didn't say a word, and hurriedly found a sack to put gold or silver in it, Luo Shixin didn't pay much attention to money, but he was even more ruthless, directly clasped a silver box with both hands, and carried three thousand taels on his shoulders.

Chen Ying is no longer surprised, three thousand taels of silver, one tael in the Tang Dynasty is forty-two and a half grams, three thousand taels is one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred grams, which is about two hundred and fifty-five catties, of course, the wooden box made of sandalwood is at least sixty or seventy catties, and the entire silver box is three hundred catties away, but looking at Luo Shixin's appearance, there is no effort at all.

The gold and silver in the courtyard of the Zheng family, more than a hundred black-clothed people, were really not enough for this gang of fierce men, and the black-clothed people were like a gust of wind, and when they saw anything valuable in the house, they picked it up and left, and even the copper basins, corals, bonsai, and even the smoked venison in the kitchen in the courtyard of the Zheng Mansion were swept away by this gang of black-clothed thieves.

Of course, more than forty horses and more than a dozen cows in the stables in the courtyard were also put on the cart, and fifty or sixty carriages and ox carts were not empty, and the grain, salt, and even cooking oil in the Zheng courtyard were also loaded into the car.

In Chen Ying's view, waste is a shameful thing. Curtain cloth is also cloth, and it can also be made into dozens or hundreds of sets of clothes.

Below Zheng Anchun, everyone in the entire mansion was tied up and gagged, they didn't know where these black-clothed people were transporting supplies and money, nor did they know where these people came from. The most hateful thing is that Zheng Anchun was tied up for a whole day, and if it weren't for a clever family member who broke the hemp rope on the door frame, they didn't know how long it would be tied.

Chen Ying first stored his belongings in the pacification envoy outside Xin'an City, and then rushed to the camp in Beibi overnight. Returning to the camp in Beipi, Chen Ying fell asleep, running back and forth for more than 100 miles this night, carrying things and digging three feet into the ground, which made Chen Ying tired.

Just when Chen Ying was busy sleeping, Xin'an County was in chaos.

When Zheng Anchun got out of trouble, he hurriedly reported the case to Wang Wei, the commander of Xin'an County. Xin'an Ling Wang Wei has nothing to do with the Taiyuan Wang family, but is very close to the Zheng family. Wang Wei's father is the shopkeeper of a firm in the Zheng family, and his mother is the third division of the Sui Shangkai Fuyi Tongsan, the hussar general, the Quzhou Thorn Shi, and the nurse of Zheng Dashi, the prince of Xiangcheng, and is also a member of the Zheng family.

When Wang Wei learned that the Zheng Mansion had been looted, he hurriedly led the three classes of officials to investigate, but what could he find? Asked the soldiers on duty, and found that the soldiers on duty said truthfully, because Li Shimin and Wang Shichong were fighting in Luoyang City recently, Xin'an was too close, and a large number of gentry went out of the city every day to avoid disasters, and dozens of big cars were very conspicuous in Pingyang, at this time, it was too common at all.

Just as Wang Wei was standing on the tower of the city gate and asking the soldiers on duty, he saw at least thirty or forty carts leaving Xin'an County in just a quarter of an hour.

The case of the robbery of the Zheng family's courtyard in Xin'an has not yet been seen, and the new case has reappeared, the largest grain merchant in Xin'an, the Hu family's Hu Wenyong's home in Xin'an, the vassal family of the Zheng family, was also looted, and there were also more than 100 people in black, who also knocked people unconscious and tied them up, and then emptied the valuable property in the family.

Wang Wei's beard was so anxious to tear off a lot, but he didn't find any clues, this gang of thieves shot ruthlessly, but they didn't hurt people, and meat and vegetables were not taboo, and there were no valuable objects that they didn't rob. Wang Wei had no choice but to tell Chen Ying about the case, but Chen Ying didn't meet Wang Wei at all, and he was now busy accompanying Princess Li Xiuning of Pingyang.

In the evening, Chen Ying finally slept enough. But when he opened his eyes, he was taken aback, only to see He Yue'er sitting on the desk opposite the bed, supporting her chin with her hand, and looking at Chen Ying quietly.

Chen Ying came back to his senses for a long time: "I know I'm handsome, so it's not like looking at me so directly, right?" Weird and scary! ”

Suddenly, Chen Ying felt a little cold behind her, Chen Ying didn't need to look back, and read her meaning from He Yue'er's mouth: "Pingyang!" ”

Chen Ying hurriedly turned around, and sure enough, he saw Li Xiuning dressed in men's clothes, with narrow sleeves, very energetic: "Sanniang, why are you here?" ”

"What, I'm not welcome?"

"How dare you!" Chen Ying hurriedly said cautiously: "I hate not looking at you Sanniang all the time, I want to see you in my dreams......"

Li Xiuning was very unsuitable for Chen Ying's almost straightforward words, and hurriedly put his hand around his hair to hide his panic: "I'm here this time...... I came to ask you something on the orders of my father! ”

"If you say one piece, it is ten hundred pieces, as long as I Chen Ying knows, I will definitely know everything!" Chen Ying smiled slightly: "I don't know what Sanniang wants to know?" ”

Li Xiuning waved his hand, He Yue'er walked away with interest, Li Xiuning smiled slightly: "My father wants to know, why can you capture Hangu Pass in just half an hour, of course, if you are inconvenient to say, you can not say it!" ”

Chen Yingdao: "Actually, there is nothing, it is just the use of smoke tactics!" ”

"Smoky?" Li Xiuning is not a flower in a greenhouse, nor is she a novice who doesn't understand military affairs, she frowned and said: "It is impossible to have such a powerful poisonous smoke." ”

The "smoke tactics" can be explained as a precedent for "gas warfare" in later generations. However, due to the limitation of the level of science and technology, the poisonous gas produced cannot be as powerful as the poisonous gas of later generations, and the main role it can play is "fumigation." That is, in a certain period of time, the people in a certain area will be smoked away, and then the siege of the city can take the opportunity to climb the wall and seize the city, which plays a role in the cooperation Even so, considering the technical level of the times, it is already a very powerful trick. If ladders, climbing troops, catapults, etc. can keep up. It is possible to cause a great crisis for the defenders.

Li Xiuning naturally knows about smoking, but the power of smoking, it is definitely not as powerful as Chen Ying. Even though the defenders can't see and can't suppress the enemy with bows and arrows, the enemy standing on the city wall will be in smoke on both sides if they don't retreat, and no one can help anyone.

Chen Ying said with a smile: "As long as you put it bluntly, in fact, it is worthless, the dry grass is the inside, so that it can burn, and the wet grass is the surface, it can produce thick smoke, and if it is mixed with poisonous weeds, it will be even more powerful." The wolf poison grass horse will have diarrhea if eaten, but if it is smoked, coupled with arsenic and asphalt, inhaling too much will cause the nose to bleed, and if you do not avoid the smoke in time, you may faint or die suddenly. ”