Chapter 147 Datang Biological and Chemical Weapons Attack

On the thirteenth day of the first month of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin led the Tang Dynasty Liuwei and tens of thousands of troops arrived at Tongguan, and Li Shimin joined forces with Li Shentong, the general of Tong Town. Li Shimin inspected the three armies outside Tongguan City, and Li Shimin opened his mouth with one sentence: "This king will say something that can boost his anger, add vegetables tonight, and the pickles and fat are enough!" ”

Hundreds of thousands of Tang Army soldiers shouted: "Good! ”

The roar of one word was like a thunderbolt exploding in the sky.

Li Shentong had already let people set up more than 3,000 stoves outside Tongguan City, and each stove had already prepared steaming meals, and it was naturally an exaggeration to have enough fat for tens of thousands of Tang Army soldiers and soldiers, and six taels of meat per soldier could meet the supply. It was precisely because of Chen Ying's invention of briquettes that it became much easier to eat on the march at this time.

You must know that firewood for a meal for hundreds of thousands of troops was a headache in the past, but now there is no such problem at all.

More than 20,000 briquettes were more than enough to process the meals eaten by more than 100,000 soldiers, and each soldier was given a basin of hot water to scald his feet.

The soldiers of the Tang Army lined up to start eating in each group, while Li Shimin took Zhai Changsun, Du Junxuan, Zheng Rentai, Li Mengwei, Dugu Yanyun, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan and other generals to gallop all the way to the bank of the Yellow River.

Li Shentong pointed to the thirteen pontoon bridges built on the ice of the Yellow River and said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness King Qin, these thirteen pontoon bridges have been built and can be crossed at any time." ”

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Don't be in a hurry for the time being, sharpen your knife and don't cut firewood by mistake, and the officers and men of the whole army will rest for a day and cross the river the next day." ”

Li Shentong offered a treasure and seemed to say to Li Shimin: "His Royal Highness King Qin, I can get a treasure." ”

Li Shimin said: "Uncle Huang got some good treasure!" ”

Li Shentong asked someone to bring a set of dark heavy armor, handed it to Li Shimin and said, "Erlang, how about you take a look at this armor?" ”

Li Shimin didn't talk nonsense, and made a look at Zhai Changsun.

Zhai Changsun understood, and casually put this set of heavy armor on the wooden stake of the bolted horse. Li Shimin raised his horse lance and stabbed it at the wooden stake!

The sound of "bell ......", and the piercing sound of Jin Ming sounded, making the war horses feel obviously uneasy. I saw that the sparks were shining in all directions, and the blade of the horse lance in Li Shimin's hand appeared in a curved arc.

Li Shimin looked at this scene, obviously stunned, and laughed for a long time: "This is a treasure armor that is unique in ten thousand!" ”

Li Shentong smiled mysteriously and said, "I got one thousand one hundred and thirty-one such treasure armors!" ”

Li Shimin was overjoyed and said: "Seriously! ”

"I learned that Erlang is going to expand the Xuanjia Iron Armor, and Gu has already reserved it for you!" As he spoke, he pointed to a huge convoy on the riverside, on which about fifty or sixty carriages were densely packed with armor. All of these markings that originally belonged to Zheng Guo's land have been erased, and all of them are black and shiny black. Black is the color of black.

In fact, Li Shentong has a very high status in Li Shimin's heart. In the first year of Zhenguan (627), worship the three divisions of the opening of the palace and give 500 households. The generals did not dare to talk about meritorious deeds above Li Shentong, and when Tang Taizong Li Shimin surveyed and demoted the county kings of the clan to the county princes, Li Shentong was also able to refrain from surrendering with meritorious service, which shows Li Shentong's meritorious service and status.

Li Shentong has always been good friends with Li Shimin, and the key is that Li Shentong is very good at things, even if the armor Chen Ying sold to Li Shentong is only less than half of the market price. But more than 1,000 sets of armor also cost nearly 100,000. But people don't blink.

As soon as Zhai Changsun saw these armors, he couldn't take his eyes off. Excitedly said to Li Shimin: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, the Xuanjia cavalry can use this armor to expand three more regiments!" ”

Li Shimin nodded, and looked at Li Shendao suspiciously: "How did Uncle Huang get so much heavy armor?" You can't find such heavy armor in the library of Chang'an Mansion! ”

"The reloading in the Chang'an Treasury, how can it be the turn of Uncle Huang!" Li Shentong pointed to the guide and said in a low voice: "This is all from the champion general, and this king exchanged meat or grain for it!" ”

Li Shimin said strangely: "Uncle Huang, is Chen Ying very short of food there?" ”

"The shortage is not really lacking, I heard that General Chen Ying defeated Shaanxi County, Taolin, and received tens of thousands of hungry people, and General Chen Ying took the military rations to help the hungry people, so ...... He didn't have enough food to eat in the army! ”

Li Shimin said: "Qu Tu Servant Shot!" ”

"The minister is here!"

"Since General Chen Ying is so short of food, then transfer him from the Chinese army...... Transfer him 30,000 stones! ”

On the 14th day of the first month of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin's vanguard troops, under the leadership of Li Mengwei, began to cross the river as a vanguard army. Until noon on the 15th day of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin's troops basically crossed the Yellow River, and only some of the people and baggage remained on the west bank of the Yellow River.

Recently, the dawn of the 15th day of the first lunar month can be completed in full.

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Li Shimin led more than 100,000 Tang troops out of Tongguan and crossed the Yellow River east to Luoyang, Wang Shichong was shocked, he roared and scolded Li Yuan for being shameless, and at the same time pressed the Wei king Wang Honglie to town Xiangyang.

King Jing is in the tiger prison of this town.

King Tai of the Song Dynasty town of Huaizhou, strengthen the defense of the periphery of Luoyang, on the other hand, he transferred troops and sent generals, strictly deployed the garrison of the eastern capital, and ordered Wang Shiyun of Qi to inspect the southern city, Wang Shiwei of Chu to guard the treasure city, the prince Wang Xuanying to guard the east city, the king of Han Wang Xuanshu Hanjiacheng, and the king of Lu to guard Yaoyi City.

Wang Shichong personally led more than 30,000 generals of the forbidden army in Luoyang City to leave Luoyang, set up camp in Cijian in the west of the eastern capital, and posed for a decisive battle with the Tang army.

The ideal is very plump, but the reality is too skinny.

Wang Shichong's idea is very good, he feels that even if he can't defeat the Tang army, he can also rely on 150,000 or 60,000 Zheng army soldiers and horses to break a few teeth of Li Tang. Even if he fights his own family foundation and finally cheapens Dou Jiande, he will definitely not be cheap Li Yuan's old man.

According to Tang Zheng's military comparison, Zheng was slightly weaker. However, the victory was fought on the ground and the defensive position was adopted, and there should have been a more tragic tug-of-war scene, but as soon as the war began, Wang Shichong's situation deteriorated rapidly.

Li Shimin's soldiers and horses have not yet gone to the territory of Zheng State, confusing the governor Shi Zhang Gongjin and confusing the state assassin Shi Cui Shu. He didn't even see Li Shimin's shadow, so he raised the flag and surrendered.

In fact, the situation of Wang Shichong vomiting blood has not really begun, Tian Zhan, the governor of Xianzhou, has begun to move when he sees Zhang Gongjin surrendering, Tian Zhan, the governor of Xianzhou, leads the twenty-five states of Jingxiang region, and after Wang Shichong annexed Yang Shilin, the territory has expanded by two-thirds, but he has not yet had time to actually control the area south of Xianzhou.

In fact, Tian Zan surrendered to the twenty-five states of his department (twenty-five states!), which directly caused Wang Shichong's power to collapse instantly.

Although Tian Zan has not yet obtained a specific way to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, it is only at this time that he is ready to betray Wang Shichong.

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Under the Hangu Pass, Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan, Wei Wenzhong, Feng Li and other generals followed Chen Ying and led the troops to line up under the Hangu Pass. Zhang Shigui looked at the towering and tall Hangu Pass, and said worriedly: "This Hangu Pass is really not easy to fight!" ”

Chen Ying smiled disapprenously: "It's really a joke, when you meet me, Wang Ren still wants to fight in a down-to-earth manner?" There are no doors. ”

Luo Shixin has been training for most of the past half a year, and he hasn't fought a battle yet, but he is depressed. Now Chen Ying has transferred the cavalry of the left and right guard rates, the left and right Siyu rates, and the four rates of eighteen Zhichong Mansions, a total of eighteen Yue cavalry regiments, and handed them over to Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui.

More than 5,400 cavalrymen completely adopted the equipment of hook and sickle lancers, and took advantage of the combat methods of the cavalry of the Dingyuan Army to carry out intense training.

Luo Shi was already holding back a monstrous fire in his confidence: "General Chen, the last general is willing to lead the Vietnamese cavalry to take the lead!" ”

Zhang Shigui also shouted: "Yes, yes, General Chen, Zheng Jun, these bastards, they haven't seen the power of our hook and sickle lancers!" ”

Chen Ying raised his head, looked at the sky and said, "Hmph, take the cavalry to attack the city, this general is not crazy." ”

Zhang Huaiwei smiled and did not take credit.

But Duan Zhigan is not the same, he is really real now. Now his younger brother is following Li Shimin, a loyal general on the fourth rank of the official residence, and he is one level higher than him. If he can't get a head credit, he can't be promoted, and he is pressed by his younger brother, and he doesn't even have the face to go back for the New Year: "General, the last general...... The last general must take the lead! ”

When An Xing saw this scene, his face was full of joy: "The military heart is available!" ”

Standing at the head of Hangu Pass, Wang Ren couldn't really hear it. I saw that the soldiers of the Tang Army were thundering with joy, shaking the fire oil prepared on the city wall into microwaves.

Wang Renze's brows were locked: "The morale of the Tang army is like a rainbow, this battle is not easy to fight!" ”

Cui Binyou said helplessly: "Now the northwest wind is blowing, whether it is the wind direction, the climate, or the season, it is very beneficial to the Tang army, and now that the northwest wind is blowing, as long as Chen Ying lights a few bonfires under the city, and then rises smoke, there is no way for us to stand on the city wall......

Speaking of which, Cui Binyou really can't go on.

Wang Ren no longer knows what to say about Cui Binyou, his crow's mouth is really smart.

As soon as Cui Binyou's words fell, the Tang soldiers under the city of Hangu Pass had begun to have new movements, thousands of soldiers under the leadership of their respective captains, holding bundles of dry firewood, placed on the city wall two arrows to stand still, these soldiers threw the dry firewood in their hands on the ground, and soon set up a pile of dry firewood about 300 steps long and more than five feet high under the city of Hangu Pass.

Not only dry firewood, but also black, slimy liquid poured on the dry firewood. Yes, it's asphalt, and it's the residue of refining the oil of the fierce fire, but it's a good thing, it emits a pungent smell when it burns, and it produces a huge amount of smoke.

Of course, the things that Chen Ying asked people to put on the firewood stack were not only asphalt, but also many things.

At this time, the firewood stack has become a garbage heap. What sulfur, aconitum grass, yellow nitrate, croton, wolf, tung oil, arsenic, strychnine, and all kinds of sundries, are thrown on the dry wood stack.

In a few moments, the stack was piled up a foot high.

Luo Shixin looked at the firewood stack in front of him, and said inexplicably: "That's it, can you gnaw down Hangu Pass?" ”

"Haha!" Chen Ying smiled: "Can you not say it now, let's try it?" ”

In fact, what Chen Ying came up with was the earliest biological and chemical weapons in Chinese history.

In the Northern Song Dynasty's "Wujing General Essentials" recorded a kind of poison smoke ball, which mentioned in detail the raw materials and the way to use the poison smoke ball, the prescription of the poison smoke ball is: "The ball weighs five catties, with sulfur 15 taels, grass aconitum 5 taels, flame nitrate 1 catty 14 taels, croton bean five taels, wolf poison five taels, tung oil two halves, small oil two halves, charcoal powder five taels, asphalt two halves, arsenic two taels, yellow wax one tael, bamboo ru one tael, Ma ru one tael, pounded into a ball, run through a hemp rope, one zhang two feet long, weighs half a catty, for the string." More so paper 12 halves, hemp skin 10 taels, asphalt 2 halves, yellow wax 2 halves, Huang Dan 1 2 1 points, charcoal powder half a catty, pounding and coating Fu outside. If it is smoky, it will bleed from the mouth and nose. and set them with cannons to harm the besiegers. ”

Although Chen Ying can make this kind of poisonous smoke ball, it is really not difficult to guard against this primitive primary chemical weapon, because this chemical weapon is not overbearing enough, and only when the poisonous gas is inhaled, it will cause harm to the human body.

However, it is very easy to guard against this kind of poisonous smoke, as long as you wet it with a towel and cover your mouth and nose, you can avoid being harmed by poisonous gas.

Luo Shixin said: "What if this doesn't work? ”

Chen Yingdao: "Then let's change the way we play!" ”

Just when Wang Renze was hurriedly evacuating the soldiers on the wall of Hangu Pass, Chen Ying gave an order: "Ignite the fire!" ”

Dozens of soldiers with torches in their fingers ran in front of this huge garbage heap. Then he threw the torch in his hand on the garbage heap.

The garbage pile was immediately ignited by the torch, but the imaginary flame was not directly generated, the firewood stack was like a black dragon that had been cut into dozens of sections, and the large puffs of smoke were like a roaring black dragon, and the minions and claws pounced on the soldiers on the wall of Hangu Pass.

Wang Ren watched these black dragons roaring towards him and realized that something was wrong.

The ancient Chinese people were not stupid, they had already discovered that the higher they stood, the more they were smoked. Wang Ren hurriedly ordered: "Get down quickly!" ”

The soldiers of the Zheng army hurriedly lay on the city wall.

However, the wall of Hangu Pass is as high as three feet and six feet, which is almost equivalent to the height of a three-story building in later generations.

In a few moments, there was the sound of coughing from the city walls.

"Ahem...... Ahem......"

This violent coughing sound is as rapid as a plague. After a while, the soldiers of the Zheng army on the entire city wall coughed heartbreakingly.

Wang Ren is okay, he has a handkerchief, which he can use to cover his mouth and nose to block the invasion of poisonous gas.

It's just that those ordinary soldiers don't have such good luck, many soldiers have begun to be poisoned, their faces are bruised, it is difficult to breathe, and some soldiers have begun to cough up blood when they cough.

Some Zheng soldiers began to fall into a coma, Wang Ren looked at the Zheng soldiers around him, one by one fell on the city wall, struggling in pain, Wang Ren roared at Chen Ying under the city wall: "Chen Ying'er, you can't die well......

ps: There was something wrong with the cervical spine, I went to do a massage in the evening, and the update was a little late. Read the latest chapters, stay tuned