Volume 3 Chapter 86 "Spring Thunder" on a Snowy Night
In Chrysanthemum Harbor, Lu Lingqi and Murong Ziying were playing chess in the guard...... Play backgammon with a Go board. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info Go and chess are too time-consuming and brain cells, and backgammon comes quickly, so it is more popular in Yizhou.
It was falling, and there was a sudden commotion on the high lookout, and then the voice of the sentry came: "Commander Lu, Commander Murong, the fire has risen!" ”
Lu Lingqi and Murong Ziying threw down the chess game at that time, each ran to the lookout at a very fast speed, and then took out the binoculars together and looked into the distance where the fire was flickering. After taking a few looks, Lu Lingqi said to Mo Rong Ziying: "It's time to do it!" It must be fast, there are only 3,000 people who can be dispatched on Xiaoyu's side, and once they are reacted by Budugen, Xiaoyu will definitely suffer a big loss. ”
With that, the two of them had already rushed down the lookout, and at this time the assembly call had already sounded...... Well, you read that right, it's the set number. With Yizhou's current metal smelting technology, it would be too bad if the copper military horn couldn't be straightened out.
Soon, more than 3,000 cavalrymen and horses were united and assembled in the school military field, Lu Lingqi also rushed to the Dianjiang platform, and Murong Ziying jumped on the horse, and the horse came to the Dianjiangtai. Then Lu Lingqi knocked on the microphone and tried the audition, and then sent a message to the three thousand cavalry: "Don't gossip, attack immediately!" Finally, I would like to remind you once again that the main target of this sortie is the granary, cattle, sheep, and horses in the Budugen camp. ”
"Understood!!"
Chrysanthemum Harbor has been fighting for several days, but the 3,000 cavalry have never moved, which is simply a torment for these hot-blooded men. Now it's finally time for them to make a move, and they're all grinding their fists and being impatient.
Lu Lingqi nodded to Murong Ziying again, Murong Ziying understood, shook the spear in his hand violently, and shouted: "Open the city gate and attack!" ”
The city gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Murong Ziying took the lead, leading three thousand cavalry to rush towards Budugen's camp like a gale.
A certain great man once had a poem "Northern Scenery / Thousands of Miles of Ice / Ten Thousand Miles of Snow Drifting", and at this time it was nearly November, and there had already been a few small snowfalls in the western Liaoning region, although it was not a thousand miles of ice or thousands of miles of snow drifting, but looking at the past, all that entered the eyes was a vast white, and the rest of the scenery color was almost invisible because it was covered by thick snow.
Budugen's camp is not too far from Chrysanthemum Port, and as a nomadic on the prairie outside the Guan, it can be said that they have been accustomed to the overwhelming snow since childhood, and they have long been accustomed to it, so this situation of a few snows that are not too big is not a big deal for them.
They have their own methods for dealing with the snow inside and outside the camp and next to the tent tent, which should be dealt with and which ones do not need to be taken care of, and no one needs to talk about it. As soon as the snow that should be dealt with around them is cleared, the Xianbei soldiers will hide in the camp tent to keep warm, and they will be more or less lazy.
Some people may say that the soldiers are so lazy, so they can still fight? The other party has to make a surprise attack, so you can't mess up? Please, they are besieging Chrysanthemum Harbor, and I wish the soldiers in Chrysanthemum Harbor could run out and fight them on the plains. And they all know that the infantry in Chrysanthemum Harbor is the main force, and the number of cavalry is not large.
The original marching speed of the infantry corps was relatively slow, and then the advance of the large corps on the snowy terrain type, the speed was not much different from the turtle crawling, and the most important thing was that due to the influence of excessive snow, it would be difficult for the army formation to maintain a tight formation.
The slow pace of advance, and the difficulty of maintaining the formation, so that the attacking troops were simply targets for the opposing archers. In other words, such snowy weather is good for the soldiers and nomadic cavalry of Chrysanthemum Harbor. Almost all nomadic cavalrymen have been dealing with bows and arrows on horseback since childhood, and it can be said that almost all of them are proficient in bows and horses; As for the Yizhou soldiers in Chrysanthemum Harbor, there is no need to doubt that the crossbowmen are well-trained and well-trained.
Based on the fact that both sides have very strong medium and long-range attack capabilities, it is a piece of cake to shoot a slow-moving human target in the snow, so any general on both sides who has a little military knowledge will not choose to attack in such weather conditions, because it is no different from sending their own soldiers to the opponent's arrows. If you want to fight, you have to fight after the snow has melted.
Therefore, these Xianbei soldiers will dare to be so lazy, under this kind of weather, it should be said that it is a kind of fearlessness based on common sense and common sense. It's just that these Xianbei soldiers don't know that it is this kind of fearlessness based on common sense and common sense at the time that will immediately bring them a catastrophe.
On this night, the moon was not very bright, the sky was full of dark clouds, the cold wind was not big, but it was not too small, and if the cold meaning of the wind was blown into the placket of the clothes, it would really make people feel cold to the bone. Anyone with a little weather experience knows that it won't be long before a heavy snow falls.
On the lookout platform at the wall, a few Xianbei soldiers who took turns to keep watch gathered around the brazier, stretching out their hands to warm the fire, while casually looking at the chrysanthemum harbor, and from time to time they would quietly complain and curse a few words in a low voice.
It's normal to whine and curse from the lookout. Chrysanthemum Port is like a thick-shelled turtle, it can't be beaten no matter how it is fought, and tens of thousands of nomadic cavalry are nailed here. Now that he is on duty in this kind of weather where heavy snow is about to fall, the dynamics of Chrysanthemum Harbor are simply superfluous for these Xianbei soldiers on duty, who will be full of food and nothing to attack in this weather? Obviously, they couldn't fight, but they still had to be on duty in the cold wind to watch the guard, so that one by two of them were about to freeze into icemen, and they would naturally curse a few words fiercely when they were unhappy.
With such a mentality, these lookout posts seem to be extremely scattered, and the time spent on the fire to warm up is much more than the time to look at the police from afar.
At night, the third watch, a few Xianbei soldiers who had been changing the guard for some time were tired and swelled up, and simply leaned on the pavilion pillar next to the brazier and dozed off, leaving only one person to look. And the one left behind is not in a good state of mind...... To be honest, it's weird to be good, so it's just a daze in the lookout pavilion.
In this half-dazed and half-confused way, the Xianbei soldier who was looking at him vaguely saw that something seemed to be moving rapidly a little farther away. After a while, the Xianbei soldier quickly rubbed his eyes a few times, and then looked at the past carefully to see what it was.
Although he noticed that something was wrong, the Xianbei soldier did not scream. Because based on common sense at the time, under such a thick snow weather, it is unlikely that the soldiers and horses will move so fast, if they don't see clearly and scream, only to find out afterwards that it is a false alarm, then he himself will never have good fruit to eat.
looked at the past carefully, but because he was in the downwind, the cold wind blew straight into his eyes, and sour tears swirled in the frame of his eyes. Rubbing his eyes a few times and wiping his sour tears, more than ten or twenty seconds had passed, and then before his eyes were raised, before he could react, a feather arrow shot with the sound of breaking through the sky, but it did not hit one of the two, but flew over the heads of the two of them, directly through the lookout pavilion. At this time, the two of them fully understood, and hurriedly shouted loudly:
"Night Raid! Han army night attack!! ”
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"Damn! I didn't even shoot!! ”
Murong Ziying roared indignantly, and secretly said in his heart: "Since he has been shocked and shouted, it is pointless to shoot again. Anyway, it's already so close, so let's just attack. ”
Backhand took out another feathered arrow and put it on the bow, but this time it was not to shoot at the enemy on the opposite side, but to shoot it into the sky after firing the bow and arrow. This is a whistle arrow, as soon as the arrow leaves the string, a piercing whistle sounded in the night sky, and the three thousand cavalry who followed closely behind Murong Ziying heard this whistle, and immediately took off their bows and arrows, and at the same time played a windproof fire fold. At this time, if you look closely at the arrows set up by these cavalrymen, you will find that they have a round paper rod tied to their arrows.
Spring thunder, if placed in modern and modern times, is just a kind of firecracker with a huge sound set off during festivals, but at this moment, the spring thunder tied to the arrows of three thousand cavalry...... This has to be put on hold in modern times, in fact, it is a detonator/tube!
Don't be surprised, it's indeed a detonator/tube. Then again, Yizhou even has breech artillery, so if you can't get something like a demine/tube, wouldn't you laugh off the big teeth of others?
Yizhou has been developed for so many years, and the gunpowder technology has been relatively mature, and it is not difficult to make detonators/tubes, but it is mainly used for opening mountains and building roads, and is not used much in military affairs.
There are two reasons for this, one is that based on the production technology at that time, the safety factor of all aspects of the detonator/tube is low, especially in the occasion of marching and fighting, it is too easy to have accidents; Second, as far as weapons are concerned, the lethality of the detonator/tube to the soldiers is actually very bad, if it is not directly on the human body or a very low distance explosion, then as long as it is a little farther away, the air wave shock wave generated by the detonator/tube explosion alone will not produce much damage. In contrast, the same amount of gunpowder is not as practical as making a fragmentation grenade or grenade.
But things are not absolute, Lu Ren ingeniously made a "wind lamp", tied the detonator/tube under the lamp to detonate it by triggering breath, which was a kind of aerial bombardment at that time, and when he was supporting the battle at Juyong Pass, he actually received a miraculous effect by mistake. But Lu Ren knew very well that this was just a coincidence, and it could never be regarded as a case of war, so he took a more convenient way after changing his mind, that is, tying the detonator/tube to the arrow and shooting it.
At this moment, Murong Ziying's three thousand cavalry were doing this, and the hissing sound of the "Spring Thunder" fuse, mixed with the sound of feather arrows breaking through the air, brought out a slender spark in the night sky and fell into the Xianbei camp. After a few moments, there was a loud explosion of "spring thunder". In this quiet night, how different is this loud sound from the real thunder roar?
At the same time as the loud noise, Murong Ziying's 3,000 cavalry was less than forty steps away from the wall.
"Turn right! Walk along the wall of Xianbei and keep a distance of forty steps from the wall!! ”
As soon as the direction of the horse's head turned, the cavalry behind naturally turned with the leading cavalry. This turn was to use the cavalry's flanks to face the Xianbei camp. And the arrow that Murong Ziying shot before was also marking the target for the three thousand cavalry.
In this way, after Murong Ziying shot the first arrow, the three thousand cavalry maintained a better firing distance of about 40 paces from the wall, and shot the feather arrows tied to the "Spring Thunder" into the Xianbei camp. All of a sudden, the loud rumbling sound in the camp was endless, and even completely suppressed the exclamations of the nomadic soldiers. But Murong Ziying did not take the opportunity to rush into the fresh camp, but took advantage of the side to follow the camp all the way to the end.
How big should a camp of 50,000 horses be? According to the general standards of the Central Plains army in the Han Dynasty, it probably has to be five Han miles square, as for the relatively informal Xianbei nomadism...... It is a radius of seven or eight Han miles.
Eight hanli, converted into the modern metric system, is actually less than four kilometers. The 3,000 cavalry led by Murong Ziying marched relatively fast on the snow that was not too thick in the case of a tailwind, and the distance of less than four kilometers was completed in less than half an hour. In half an hour, it was enough for the 3,000 cavalrymen to shoot the twenty "Spring Thunder Arrows" they carried with them into the enemy's camp.
3,000 people, 20 each, that's more than 60,000, what kind of bombing of this camp has to be? It is only said that this road was "bombed", and even if some fell in the snow and soaked the fuses and turned into "dumb mines", there were still tens of thousands of detonators/tubes that exploded normally. In the midst of this continuous thunder, the entire camp fell into chaos.
To be honest, these tens of thousands of detonators/tubes actually didn't kill many people, and the main thing that really caused was large-scale chaos. Bu Dugen's subordinates also didn't expect that Chrysanthemum Port would launch such a surprise attack, and suddenly encountered such a night attack, and the time for all aspects of command and order to be issued was completely out of order.
In addition, the loud sound of the detonator/tube explosion immediately frightened the large number of war horses in the Xianbei military camp. Know that this is a night raid, not a battle on the battlefield during the day. People will be startled when they suddenly hear a loud noise in the middle of the night, and even heart disease will be scared out if they are not in trouble, not to mention this beast?
If the chaos of people is easy to suppress, then the tens of thousands of war horses are frightened together, and then run wildly, it is not something that can be controlled. The stables and fences were knocked down and broken by the frightened horses, and the panicked Xianbei soldiers did not know how many were trampled and trampled to death by the horses they were proud of;
In fact, people are frightened and chaotic, this is not a really fatal thing, the real most fatal thing is fire!!
That's right, it's fire!
Can detonators/tubes be used to set fires? Here you might as well consider how many fires are caused by improper firecrackers during festivals in modern and modern China. As long as there are corresponding flammable products, a small firecracker can still cause a fire, how can a detonator/tube that is not known how many times more powerful than a firecracker not be able to set fire?
What about flammable products...... It was a cold winter in the north, and the Xianbei soldiers spent the cold winter in order to keep warm from the cold, and the hay, firewood, and animal manure collected by the fence next to the tent can almost be described as a mountain. As soon as these things are touched by a few sparks when the detonator/tube explodes, they will be ignited immediately, and then there will be a "spark that can start a prairie fire". There is another one, Murong Ziying's three thousand cavalry are coming for these things, and most of these three thousand cavalry are also nomadic people, and they know these living habits well, so when they make a move, it is called a quasi.
Use fire to borrow the wind, and the attack route chosen by Murong Ziying is exactly the direction of the downwind. When a fire broke out somewhere in the Xianbei camp, the wind blew again, and the fire immediately spread to the Xianbei camp, which had not been bombarded by detonators. It didn't take long for tens of thousands of Xianbei camps to find not many places that weren't on fire.
At this time, the three thousand cavalry had already rushed to the other side of the camp, and the adjutant general beside Murong Ziying looked back at the Xianbei camp, which was already chaotic and firelight, and his face was full of excitement in the firelight: "Good opportunity!" Commander, now that the enemy camp is in chaos, we can take advantage of this chaos to kill the enemy army!! ”
"Don't be reckless!!"
Murong Ziying stopped the lieutenant general, and then ignored the puzzled look on the lieutenant's face, but shouted to the cavalry behind him: "Turn around, avoid the camp, and take the sidewind position to turn back to the city!" ”
The adjutant general was a little anxious: "Commander!" Why is that? Why don't we take advantage of the chaos!? ”
"I'll explain to you on the way back!"
The horses were neighing, the people were shouting, and the fire was burning, and the initiator of all this was three miles away from the Xianbei camp, and under the cover of night, he hurried back to Chrysanthemum Town.
After running out for a while, it should be considered a safe distance, and the general looked back at the firelight, and his face was full of unwillingness. But he was unwilling to be reconciled, and as a deputy general, he had to obey orders, but he still looked at Murong Ziying, hoping that Murong Ziying would give an explanation.
Murong Ziying also knew that she should explain, otherwise the morale of the men who had been holding back for more than 3,000 days would be depressed, so she said loudly: "Do you think I don't want to kill the generals and make meritorious contributions?" But why don't you think about it calmly, although the enemy camp is chaotic, after all, there are tens of thousands of people, and we only have 3,000 children. Once anyone in the enemy camp stabilizes a little and then leads the crowd to besiege and kill, our 3,000 sons will not be enough for them to eat!" And you must know that the more than 10,000 people brought out by Budugen may come back at any time......"
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(The leftover egg festival is finally over, and the bottle here can finally breathe a sigh of relief, but it will be New Year's Day in a few days, and the bottle is still busy here.) In addition, it has been a very tight time rush recently, but I feel that there are a lot of omissions and bugs in many places, so please forgive me. Thank you to the book friends who are still reading this broken book! Again, if you are interested in tricks, please go and report your name, Lao Lu is going to fight Liaodong next, and Zhao Yu and their number of people are always not enough. (To be continued.) )