Chapter 148 Break through Hangu Pass in half an hour

"My eyes, my eyes can't see!"

"Help, help, I'm going to suffocate!"

Although Wang Ren covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and the poisonous smoke was not inhaled into his lungs, he looked very embarrassed, with tears and snot flowing everywhere.

On the wall of Hangu Pass, the soldiers of the Zheng army have been in chaos. The northwest wind blew gently, sending a large stream of smoke up the city wall, Zheng Jun soldiers had no experience in anti-poison, nor did they have anti-poison equipment, and the pervasive poisonous smoke made Zheng Jun's soldiers unable to see anything, and their ears were full of miserable screams.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, a wolf poison smoke ball weighed only five catties, Chen Ying was good, he made a wolf poison smoke barrier wall, at least 20,000 or 30,000 wolf poison smoke pieces, standing in Hangu Guancheng Zheng army soldiers only more than 3,000 people, on average, each Zheng army soldier to enjoy seven or eight, or even ten wolf poison smoke balls.

However, in this case, Wang Ren is also holding on.

There is no way, he has no way back. Behind Hangu Pass is the county seat of Xin'an, but the county seat of Xin'an is only more than 100 miles away from Luoyang, and they have no danger to defend, and they will die even worse if they encounter the kind of canned iron that the Tang army's knives can't penetrate, guns can't pierce, and arrows can't shoot in the wild.

Seeing that some soldiers of the Zheng army dropped their blades and groped their way down the city wall, Wang Ren angrily ordered: "Flee and behead in battle, make a loud noise, and slash ...... in fear of the enemy."

The guards who faithfully carried out Wang Renze's orders would have gone through a lot of hard slashing, but they didn't expect that there were very few Zheng soldiers running from under the city wall.

In fact, wolf poison smoke will not only make Zheng soldiers runny, tears, poison their lungs, but also paralyze their nerves, these Zheng soldiers do not want to escape, but their hands and feet do not obey the call at all, the greatest sorrow in life, is to lie there and wait for death.

But now, most of the more than 3,000 soldiers of the Zheng army are like this, they are crying and shouting, they are struggling, they are trying their best, but to no avail.

Eventually, the poisonous smoke beneath the walls began to slowly disappear. Wang Ren was surprised to find that the Tang soldiers began to attack with cloud ladders, and each of these Tang soldiers wore a white gauze scarf and hood on their heads. Cover your mouth, nose, and eyes.

Wolf poison smoke will not recognize people, not only to hurt the enemy, but also to hurt the enemy. So Chen Ying had to ask people to get white silk cloth, and used five layers of white silk cloth and charcoal powder to make a simple face-proof mask, but the wolf poison smoke not only hurt the lungs, but also burned the eyes.

However, although the light transmittance of this fish gelatin is not bad, it is far worse than the goggles made of glass, and when you look out after this kind of cloth, everything is blurry.

At the same time, a large amount of sediment and snow was covered in the burning fire. The poisonous smoke gradually began to thin out. However, at this time, the ladder of the Tang soldiers had already set up on the wall of Hangu Pass.

"The Tang army is coming, everyone gets up and prepares for battle!"

Wang Ren threw away the handkerchief, got up suddenly, pulled out the horizontal knife and slashed forward, but he felt that his head was dizzy, and his arms couldn't exert his strength.

However, after waiting for half a pillar of incense, there were no more than a hundred people on the city wall struggling to stand up. Wang Ren looked left and right at the city wall, at this time, the smoke had begun to dissipate, and Wang Ren found that there were countless soldiers lying densely on the entire city wall, some with black faces, some with purple lips, and some had been dead for a long time when they were bleeding. There were also soldiers who lay on the ground and rolled, clutching their throats with both hands until they were drenched in blood.

At this time, on the entire Hangu Pass city wall, the more than 100 people who could stand up were also staggering, and they might fall to the ground at any time. Seeing the soldiers of the Tang Army slowly approaching, they could climb the city wall in a dozen breaths at most, and Wang Ren felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

More than 3,000 people were smoked by Chen Ying's poisonous smoke, hundreds of people died tragically, and more than 2,000 people lost their combat effectiveness, and I am afraid that it is only a matter of time before they die.

"Chen Ying'er, despicable and shameless, can you dare to fight to the death with this duke?"

Cui Binyou hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Wang Renze's arm and said: "Ming Gong, we have lost this battle, even if Sun Wu is alive, he has no skills to return to the sky, hurry up and withdraw!" ”

Wang Renze's eyes were about to burst into flames: "More than 30,000 troops, in the hands of this general, have been completely destroyed in just half a month, what face does this general have to return to Luoyang?" ”

"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" Seeing Wang Renze's hesitation, Cui Binyou was anxious: "Ming Gong, only the living have a chance to take revenge, you can't let the blood of the soldiers be shed in vain!" ”

Wang Ren pointed at Cui Binyou with red eyes, and scolded: "Bastard, you actually tricked General Ben into fleeing without a fight? ”

Cui Binyou saw Wang Ren glaring at him, and ordered his guards: "Quickly set up the general, and withdraw quickly!" ”

Wang Ren pretended to struggle a few times, and then followed the meaning of the guards, and was "erected" by the guards to leave the wall of Hangu Guancheng.

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Under the walls of Hangu Guancheng, Shiro Chinese Zhengming, a staff member of the military department, shouted excitedly: "Ah...... Rush up, rush up! ”

Chen Ying laughed.

Luo Shixin's face began to stink: "Let Duan Dalang pick up a big bargain?" ”

Wen Zhengming asked strangely: "Since ancient times, sieges have been very tragic battles, and the casualties are not small......

Zhang Shigui pointed to the still steaming fire and said, "Because of this smoke!" ”

Attacking with fire is the mainstream of siege warfare in this era. Wen Zhengming, as a staff member of the Ministry of War, naturally knows it. However, the smoke attack only blocked the enemy's line of sight, so that the enemy's archers could not accurately hit the target, just to reduce casualties.

Sure enough, as Zhang Shigui said, Duan Zhigan led four regiments of short soldiers and landed at Hangu Pass in one go, but the expected tearing did not appear.

Looking at Chen Ying's Da Shen banner began to appear in Hangu Guancheng, Duan Zhigan's troops who climbed the city wall burst into enthusiastic cheers, and An Xing, the eunuch, still felt unbelievable.

At this time, with the sound of squeaking and souring teeth, the gate of Hangu Pass began to slowly open.

Chen Ying's expression became serious: "Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Ashina Simo!" ”

Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, and Ashina Simo lined up neatly, bowed down and hugged their fists and said, "The end will be!" ”

Chen Yinglang said: "Luo Shixin is on the left wing, Ashina Simo is in the center, Zhang Shigui is on the right wing, pursuing Wang Renze, be sure to leave Wang Renze to this general!" ”

"The last general commands!"

When the three received the order, they immediately turned around and returned to their main formation, turned on their horses, and galloped away along the empty gate hole.

Chen Ying retracted his gaze and said, "Feng Li! ”

"The last general!"

"You lead the whole army to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded!"

Feng Li was overjoyed when he heard this.

Cleaning the battlefield is a fat gap, and Hangu Pass, as the front line of the Zheng army, must have stored a lot of food or property.

Chen Ying said again: "Zhang Huaiwei! ”

"The last general!" Zhang Huaiwei bowed and hugged his fists.

Chen Yingdao: "Take Xin'an down!" ”

"The last general commands!"

Chen Ying said again: "Wei Wenzhong, Wei Chigong, Gao Yunquan, He Yuejing, you sent troops respectively to receive Xiong'er, Mianchi, Xin'an, Yanshi, Gong, Yiyang, Shou'an, Lu Hun, Yique, Xingtai, Wushi, Songyang, Yangcheng and other places!" ”

The generals and generals received orders to lead their troops to leave, and at this time the large army became sparse. Wen Zhengming listened to the little officials around him running quickly, and whispered softly in his ear for a while.

Wen Zhengming was dumbfounded and said, "Really? ”

The little official nodded heavily.

Wen Zhengming didn't care to greet Chen Ying, so he pulled his legs and ran towards the city wall.

It was similar to a vicious dog snatching food, fast and fierce.

After a wild run, Wen Zhengming came to the city wall, and found that hundreds of naked corpses had appeared on the city wall.

Armor, spears, spears, horizontal knives, short knives, shields, axes, axes, hooks, forks, and guns (one of the ancient weapons) have been piled up into a hill, and even soldiers who have surrendered have been removed from their armor and received emergency treatment from the medics.

Wen Zhengming was dumbfounded: "This ...... That's it? ”

"Oh!" Duan Zhigan heard Wen Zhengming's words, pointed to the piles of corpses and said: "In this battle, our army killed 644 enemies and wounded 1,861 enemies. 2,414 prisoners, ...... themselves Oneself! ”

Duan Zhigan howled outside: "Are any of our people injured?" ”

A Tang soldier was lying on the ground, covering his crotch, his face flushed, and he said timidly: "Yes...... I! ”

Duan Zhi said with a frightened face: "Why the hell are you hurt?" ”

The soldier's face instantly looked like a dyeing shop.

Another soldier said: "The second dog is too anxious, step on the fork pole!" ”

Duan Zhigan instantly understood. The fork pole is a device used to knock down enemy ladders, placed on the city wall like a shovel, forming an arc, and a soldier accidentally steps on the other end, which is cocked and hits the crotch of the unlucky man's pants.

Duan Zhigan was very speechless at this time, pointing at the wounded soldier and said, "How fucking unlucky you are, this rotten thing can also happen!" ”

Wen Zhengming instructed the little official: "Don't count this wounded soldier!" ”

"But ......"

"Non-combat damage soldier Ding Yi!"

At this time, Wen Zhengming also fell into a happy trouble, how should this good news be given to the Ministry of War, Hangu Pass broke the city in just half an hour, and achieved the record of annihilating more than 3,000 enemies, but there were no casualties among themselves, if it went up according to this actual information, the Ministry of War would definitely make him think he was.

An Xing and Chen Ying began to enter Hangu Pass, at this time, the Tang Army had fully received Hangu Pass, An Xing sighed: "Who would have thought that Hangu Pass, one of the strongest passes in the world, was actually under the hands of General Chen, and it didn't last for half an hour......"

Chen Ying smiled and said: "What's this, this general fights, he never lets the soldiers fight hard, and the battles that can be fought with their brains are absolutely not brute force!" ”

An Xingchong glanced at a little eunuch beside him, and the little eunuch took advantage of the lack of attention, got out of Chen Ying's sight, and tied a scroll of paper to a soldier wearing ordinary clothes. The soldier stuffed the note into a red bamboo tube, put it on his back, turned over his horse, quickly left Hangu Pass, and galloped in the direction of Chang'an.