Chapter 287: Burning Anshi City
Liu Ling died, Yelu Zongkang was imprisoned, Yelu Cai suddenly seemed to be more than ten years old, an old man in his sixties, found that his concubine and son had cuckolded him, and he couldn't stand it on anyone.
Yelu Chu took advantage of the situation to persuade Yelu Cai, so that Ye Lu Cai agreed to the conditions of the Tang Dynasty, and ceded the Hetao to the Tang Dynasty, and then the Tang Dynasty sent troops to help the Northern Liao deal with the Northern Jin together.
After the Tang Dynasty monarchs got the news, they immediately felt that they were hit by a pie in the sky, Li Jun was afraid that the Northern Liao people would regret it, so he immediately ordered Lou Chong to take over the Hetao, and at the same time Yi Chuan also led the Xiliu Army to set off to the Hetao, as long as Yi Chuan was in place, there were 100,000 troops to defend the Hetao and Liaozhou areas, Li Jun believed that even if the Northern Liao repented, it would not form any threat.
On this day, Wei Chaodong also quietly left the capital with 50,000 Yulin troops and went to Beiping County, Beiping County has 100,000 loyal and righteous troops and Guiyi army, plus the Yulin Army and the Liaodong Army of Yuyang Pass, there are 200,000 troops waiting for the day, ready to make a move on Beijin, this time Li Jun's purpose is very simple, that is, to take the Liaohe Plain, further compress the living place of the Beijin people, and then completely separate Goryeo from Beijin, and prepare for the recovery of Goryeo in the coming year.
After five years, the terrifying war machine of Datang began to operate again, in these five years, Datang has accumulated enough materials, and the money in the treasury in Datang Qian Zhuang has been full, this time it flowed out to the front line like flowing water, and the various Shangshu departments were also busy with their feet not touching the ground.
At this time, Li Jun stood on the high tower of the North Que City and looked into the distance, this time Li Jun not only wanted territory, but also needed more slaves, since the implementation of the land exchange order, the south of the empire is also booming, but because of transportation problems, the empire's grasp of the south is still very weak.
After fighting this war, Li Jun was ready to open canals and repair roads in the south, which required a lot of money and people, and there was no need to worry about money, mainly because of the lack of people, so this war could be regarded as a war of population plunder.
The first to launch was Pei Du's army, the location of Anshi City is too important, if this nail is not removed, the soldiers who went out in Beiping County are likely to have a bad back.
Pei Du simply carried out a swearing-in meeting, and then led the army straight to Anshi City, the Liaodong Army held back for seven years, and it was already almost crazy, and even many veterans couldn't help but retire.
This army went straight to Anshi City like a tiger, and all the Beijin fortresses they met along the way were reduced to ashes under their rage, and the place where the army walked was a place of death, not to mention people, not even a rabbit.
After two days of marching, the 50,000 army finally came to the city of Anshi, and when they came to the city of Anshi, they found that the city of Anshi was tall, and when they walked to the place less than three miles away from the city, the high city in front of them almost made Pei Du breathless.
The battlefield was quiet, and there was no one on the city wall, and suddenly, a landslide and tsunami sound sounded at the head of the city, and countless Beijin soldiers suddenly poured out from behind the low battlements, and they were all over the city wall in an instant.
The guard of Anshi City is called Yang Dachun, the Yang family is the first Han family to surrender to Beijin, so it is deeply trusted by Wanyan Zongbi, the Anshi city in front of him is built by the Yang family, and a Han man has an army of 50,000, which is also the first one in Beijin.
Pei Du pointed to a river in the distance and said: "Lao Yue, look at it, that is the Liao River, the moat of the entire Anshi City flows down from the Liao River, we must cut off the Liao River now, in order to force the water of the moat into the city, the Liao River is not cut, even how much oil is poured into the river does not matter." ”
Yue Qing nodded and said, "Dashuai, leave this to the last general." ”
Pei Du shook his head and said: "You can't do it, you are the most familiar with the use of fire oil in our army, and the matter of setting fire will be left to you, and the rest will be left to others." ”
"No, handsome."
At this moment, a personal soldier ran over and reported: "Commander Qiqi, a messenger has come to Anshi City." ”
Pei Du waved his hand and said, "No, behead the sacrificial flag." ”
Yang Dachun watched his nephew's head being picked up by the Tang army on the flagpole, and knew that there was no room for negotiation between the two armies, and there was no other way but war.
The night was very quiet, but the war after dawn came so quickly and fiercely, countless crossbow arrows shot down the city like a torrential rain, Pei Du watched those Northern Jin people fall in the rain of arrows, wailing, and then pierced by other crossbow arrows, they had huge shields to guard, but the rain of arrows was too dense, and many of the arrows had fire on them.
A team of 3,000 people behind Pei Du took the opportunity to walk towards the Liao River, after the arrow rain, the Beijin people found the team, the feng shui took turns, Tang Jun also experienced the taste of a wave of arrow rain, watching his brothers fall to the ground, Pei Du roared angrily: "Gunpowder bomb preparation." ”
Immediately after that, a wave of gunpowder bullets went straight to the city wall of Anshi, of course, so far, using a trebuchet to smash the gunpowder bullets over, there was always a deviation, Pei Du saw a gunpowder bullet explode in his own army.
Pei Du screamed angrily, if he found out that blind bastard by himself, he would definitely blow him up to the sky.
Taking advantage of the gunpowder bullet covering, 3,000 soldiers finally came to the Liao River with earthen bags, and threw the earthen bags into the Liao River, and after the army lasted for half an hour with gunpowder bullet support, the team finally succeeded in cutting off the water flow.
The soldiers completed the task and ran behind them one by one, but many soldiers ran and ran but still couldn't dodge the arrows of Beijin, and there were not a few who fell to the ground.
"The crossbowmen retreat, the catapults send stones, and the siege engines advance." Pei Du breathed a sigh of relief and ordered again.
Yue Qing walked in front with a trebuchet, one by one the jars were placed on the trebuchet, and threw them to Anshi City, a Beijin warrior broke the jar and found that it was not gunpowder, the warrior licked the grease that fell on his body with his mouth, and his face changed greatly: "It's oil, be careful of the Tang people setting fire......
Before the warrior could finish speaking, countless fireballs rushed into the city like meteors, and loud screams and wails rang out in the city, and a large amount of white phosphorus was added to the fireballs used by Pei Du.
After the white phosphorus is ignited, it will continue to burn even in the water, and it will not be extinguished until it is burned, and if it accidentally gets wet, the best thing to do is to use a knife to cut off the burning flesh, otherwise they will drill into the meat.
This trebuchet war ended with the victory of the Tang army, and after the smoke cleared, there were few Beijin people who could stand on the city wall.
Yang Dachun is also a famous general, knowing that he is very disadvantaged by this style of play, the equipment of the Tang army is really perverted, there are both explosives and fire oil, so in order to maintain morale, Yang Dachun had to send cavalry to fight, not to win, as long as the cavalry can destroy the trebuchet of the Tang army.
Pei Du had been waiting for the cavalry of Beijin for a long time, and specially arranged for the steel-armored cavalry to be responsible for the protection of the trebuchet, so the Beijin people were tragic again, and the five thousand cavalry who went out of the city were quickly cleaned up by the thousand-year-old steel-armored cavalry like cutting melons and chopping vegetables.
In desperation, the Beijin people could only hide behind the city wall in heavy armor and could not retreat.
If there is a water inlet in Anshi City, there will inevitably be a water outlet, and when Yue Qing saw a large amount of black oil at the water outlet, he gave a signal.
Pei Du insisted that this fire should be put on his own, it doesn't matter whether it succeeds or not, as long as he can get out of his evil anger over the years.
Pei Du shot a rocket, and the entire city of Anshi became the best candle, and the moat was like a flowing river of fire, burning violently, and entering the city along the low waterway, 100,000 catties of black oil, I don't know what it can do to this city.
The people of Beijin finally felt frightened, they didn't know how long the fire would burn, in order to survive from the city gate with flames to attack out, trebuchets kept throwing oil cans at the city gate, trying to rush out of the sea of fire, it was completely impossible, they still insisted on pouring water at the city gate, wanting to extinguish the fire, due to the wrong method, the flames burned more and more fiercely.
In the second half of the night, there were fewer and fewer people in Beijin, and at this time the south wind suddenly rose, and the Tang army was stationed downwind, Pei Du covered his mouth and nose with a layer of black yarn, scolded, and had to take his army slowly.
Yue Qing specially confessed that the smoke of this fierce fire oil was also poisonous, and in order to prevent his army from being poisoned, Pei Du had to leave this human purgatory first.