Chapter 234: Divine Fire Legion
One night was quiet, and the next morning was early.
Huang Chao thought about it before thinking about it, this matter could not be stopped here, maybe it was the conspiracy of the Tang army, only knowing that there were tigers in the mountains and leaning towards the tiger mountains, could the conspiracy of the Tang army finally be thwarted, so as not to prevent the enemy from succeeding in his plan and the righteous soldiers would collapse without a fight.
Huang Chao sent a small servant to find the Cheng family brothers and sisters, Murong Jie and Xian'er, as well as Wang Chong, Xue Gui, Li Shun, Geng Qing, Fan Ling, Du Yong, Jiang Chao, Zhang He and other twelve tiger generals of the righteous army.
Huang Chao elaborated on the strange incident that happened in the cemetery, and hoped that everyone here would speak freely and discuss a perfect response together.
After several discussions, Cheng Shengzu proposed that since they did not find any abnormalities in the cemetery during the day, why not use the daytime to conduct an all-round search of the cemetery for the time being, so as to find out if there is anyone who really set up an ambush in the cemetery and pretend to be a ghost, so that this matter can be clarified, so that the right medicine can be prescribed and this strange matter can be properly solved.
Everyone felt that what Cheng Shengzu said was reasonable, the so-called twelve tiger generals of the righteous army were all illiterate barbarians, they had developed limbs and simple minds, except for a handful of manpower, all of them were rough people with no brains. It's really hard for them to let them come up with ideas, so everyone praises Cheng Shengzu's good ideas, anyway, they can't think of other ideas themselves, the rebels are actually just a bunch of rabble. Only Huang Chao can barely be regarded as having studied for a few years, and he is a scholar who has taken the imperial examination several times, and as for the others, he can't even write his own name.
Don't look at Cheng Shengzu's age, but his status in the righteous army is second only to the commander Wang Xianzhi and the deputy marshal Huang Chao, in the eyes of the righteous army, he is a judge who knows how to call the wind and rain, that is a great master outside the world, it is said that he also has a big brother, is the top disciple of Taishang Laojun.
The more ignorant people are, the more superstitious they are, and they are convinced of Cheng Shengzu's mana rebels, even Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao are no exception, who makes Cheng Shengzu, who likes to turn his mind into ghosts, is always so lucky, so that he can turn evil into good fortune every time, and he has repeatedly saved the rebels by fate, and even Huang Chao has been rescued by their brothers and sisters by chance, so they will worship their brothers and sisters as brothers with different surnames.
Cheng Shengzu is indeed shameless enough, he not only arrogantly said that he can change the wind and rain. Now that he met Murong Jie, he shamelessly told everyone that his brother was the great disciple of Taishang Laojun, and as for Lin Xian'er, who didn't know that he came, Cheng Shengzu didn't forget to blow it up, so he was about to blow Lin Xian'er into Da Luo Jin Xian, and if he continued to blow it, I am afraid that Da Luo Jin Xian would not have Lin Xian'er's ability.
Huang Chao knew that Cheng Shengzu was good at talking, and he also knew that Cheng Shengzu did have some ability, and he also knew that Murong Jie and Lin Xian'er, who were extraordinary, were not ordinary villagers, so he did not hide them, so he asked people to bring them in, wanting to hear what they could say.
Murong Jie and Lin Xian'er knew that to the righteous army, they were just outsiders, even if they were really insightful, it was best to rot them in their stomachs, so as not to cause trouble and ask for trouble.
Since everyone had no other opinions, Huang Chao had no choice but to adopt Cheng Shengzu's suggestion, and he arranged for three teams of men to conduct a search of the cemetery every day at dawn, noon, and evening, but required them to return to the barracks before sunset, and no one was allowed to go to the cemetery without permission after sunset.
For several days after that, Huang Chao personally led his troops to the cemetery to investigate, but he never found anything.
There is nothing special about those graves, all of them are the graves of the villagers of nearby villages, there are no dignitaries buried here, and there are no imperial nobles buried here, all the graves here are the most ordinary graves, the posthumous residences of these sparse ordinary people, there is no ingenuity, let alone any traps.
However, after a few days, except for Wang Xianzhi, who was carried back by Huang Chao, none of the people who went to the cemetery that night, whether it was the soldiers of the rebel army or the nearby villagers, came back alive, and what was even more strange was that their bodies could not be found.
There will be no results if it goes on like this, Huang Chao can't continue to delay time like this, now that the handsome Wang Xianzhi's injury has not healed, and the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty are also eyeing him, he must solve this matter as soon as possible, otherwise it will be tantamount to cocooning himself.
Since the daytime search yielded no results, Huang Chao was preparing to carry out a large-scale night operation, and he wanted to use overwhelming absolute superiority to ensure that this operation was foolproof, after all, the enemies they were facing were likely to be far beyond their understanding.
With the memories of the bitter battle in the middle of the night, Huang Chao remembered very clearly that the sword was useless against the four-eyed monster, it seemed that only fire could restrain those black shadows, and they didn't seem to have any weaknesses other than that, and losing no time in launching a fire attack might be the only chance to win.
Huang Chao summoned his twelve tiger generals and asked them to hurry up and collect as many firearms and fire-igniting objects as possible, and form a new team, the Vulcan Army.
The Vulcan Army is composed of 10,000 soldiers, all of whom are elite and strong generals in the rebel army. [Vulcan Army] is subdivided into five ways of people, with the rush of the fire pestle, thistle, flame kettle, fire net, flame bow, flame whip and other firearms, used to equip these five people, by Wang Chong, Xue Gui to command the front army, Li Shun, Geng Qing to command the rear army, Fan Ling, Du Yong to command the left army, Jiang Chao, Zhang He to command the right army, Huang Chao himself to lead the Chinese army, by the Cheng family brothers and sisters, Murong Jie, Lin Xian'er with him, the rest of the generals guarded the gate in case the Tang army attacked.
The so-called flame pestle is a large wooden stick that is lit after being smeared with tar, and if the stick is too small, it will continue to burn for a very short time, so they chose a wooden pestle that is much thicker than the wooden stick.
No such weapon had ever been used in the army, and it was clear that the soldiers needed some time to become familiar with and master the skills of using these firearms. Otherwise, in battle, you will either hurt yourself or your comrades.
The so-called firewood is not the fire thistle used by the army in later generations, and the firearms of the Tang Dynasty are not so developed, but some flammable grass and vine balls coated with tar and covered with thorns.
The so-called flame pot is to fill a clay jar with tar, seal it, throw it into the air during battle, and detonate it with a rocket, and it will scatter in all directions.
As for the fire nets, flame bows, and flame whips, they are actually all tar-coated beast nets, bows and arrows, and hunting whips. It's just that these weapons are all things with fire, and it is difficult to master them as soon as they get started, so they always have to be more careful, and it is also necessary to practice some in advance, so as not to have an accident when facing the enemy, and in the end it will be self-defeating and self-defeating.
After ten days of training, the combat power of the [Vulcan Army] has achieved initial results, and the soldiers can basically use their weapons well, which not only lays a solid foundation for fighting against the monsters in the cemetery, but also lays the groundwork for the future burning of the Great Wall, and it is this [Vulcan Army] that will set fire to Chang'an in the future.