The night was peaceful, and the next morning there was a roar in the mountains, and a swarm of bees flew to the top of the Xianjun mountain, and the Black Turban Army took the lead in launching an offensive in an attempt to drive the Xian army out of the mountains and forests.

"Lord Qiqi, the rebels launched a fierce attack on our army, and the two wings of our army's main peak are particularly fierce."

Jiang Jie said quickly, Bai Liyan looked at the simple topographic map that had just been drawn and found the location of the main peak:

"It seems that this person is quite powerful in using soldiers, feints to assist in the virtual and real, and he does not fight the main peak, but first attacks the two wings of the main peak, intending to gain a firm foothold and then fight, this person has some strategy. Summoned Gu Zhong, strictly guarded the hills, used bows and crossbows when he was far away, grenades and Molotov cocktails when he entered, and did not leave the range of ten steps before and after the trenches. ”

"No!"

Attacking the mountains is no more advantageous than fighting in the plains, and taking the defenders is more advantageous. The Xian army dug trenches and cat's ear holes on the top of the hill and on the slope of the back of the enemy, forming a ring of fortifications to defend against swarms of bees and fire and thunder bombs.

After Jiang Jie left, Zhao Anling said:

"Master Hou, this magical power hides this here, which can be described as sinister. It is expected that the main attack of our army is not Zhaocheng, but trying to lure our army north to attack Yinqu, Gongcheng, Penny, Xuping and Pingdi, but at the critical moment, it will attack Lintai and the back of our army from behind, and annihilate Hou Ye in one fell swoop. ”

"But it's a pity that Ben Hou is not in a hurry to go north to seize Ganfu and Shangguan, and wait for the situation to change here, and play Zhaocheng to practice by the way, I didn't expect such a fight, and a goblin came, I'm afraid that the magic power himself didn't expect it.

Now that I think about it, what Mr. Zongbo expected is really right, if our army is in a hurry to enter the army, it must have fallen into the supernatural strategy, and at this time, I am afraid that it has been cut off from the front and back. ”

As he spoke, the guards outside the tent came to report:

"Deputy Marshal Qiqi, General Bai He has arrived."

"Oh, please come in."

"No."

Bai He, Su Hong, Fang Liang and others led the armed battalion to garrison in Lintai to assist Ye Xin in the battle, and when it was not necessary, the armed battalion did not participate in direct combat, but the style of war was undergoing earth-shaking changes, and the armed battalion, as an officer academy, must adapt to the great changes in the military system brought about by the changes in the new type of war.

When he was young, he entered the tent and saluted:

"The last general Bai He, see Deputy Marshal, Mr. Zhao."

"General Bai He is exempt, how is the battle situation in Lintai?" Bailiyan asked, and gave Bai a bowl of water.

"Back to the deputy marshal, the soldiers and horses of the two generals Xiao Qu and Xu Jin retreated to camp within five miles of the east and west gates of Lintai, General Xu Jin's cavalry is in the west, General Xiao Qu's infantry is in the east, and the artillery is pulled outside the east gate, giving the color of the rebels at any time."

"Very good, how is the situation of the rebel Shen Duchi's department?"

"There are more than 27,000 people left, about a few hundred have fled, and about 300 have surrendered to our army, and they are temporarily detained in the city to eat, drink, and be offered up, and the armed battalion will publicize our national policy."

"Well, that's good. People's hearts are flesh and blood, no one in the world is born to die, there is a good life, but you have to kill people and sell goods. Most of the soldiers and horses under the command of Shentong are from Sun Guo, but there are also many people from Zhiguo and Xu, and there are also some people from Xianguo, as long as they loosen their military morale, the longer it drags on, the more beneficial it will be to our army. ”

"But Mr. Guan Long is worried that the supernatural power may draw troops to pounce on the deputy marshal back and forth, oh yes, Mr. Guan Long's letter."

Taking the letter from Bai He's hand, opening it and looking at it carefully, Guan Longxiang faintly noticed that the divine power showed signs of rushing behind Bai Liyan.

"Mr. Zhao, do you think there is such a possibility?"

"The supernatural powers have always been deceitful, my clan brother and the supernatural powers are between the two brothers, but the supernatural powers have been soldiers for many years, and the military affairs are more familiar than the clan brothers, if the supernatural powers are aware of this matter, they are very likely to use it. With the current strength of the supernatural power, it is less than 10,000 of our Lintai defenders, and even if there is a swarm of bees and fire and thunder bombs, they may not dare to attack.

I guess he actually put on a sneak attack on our army, but it was inevitable that after the arrival of the reinforcements from Zhaocheng, the supernatural power made a feint to move westward, and in fact, he led Xu Jin's cavalry out of Lintai, causing it to break away from our infantry army, and then gather and annihilate. At the same time, our army and Ye Xinbu still have to be reinforced, and they may also kill halfway and rob our reinforcements, so they can take advantage of both sides. ”

"It is reasonable, at this time, we must not let the supernatural powers make a feint to move westward, so as not to make our army passive and in vain."

"The last general!"

"I immediately handed over a letter to Ye Xin and Guan Longxiang with you, so that the two of them can take the initiative to launch an offensive within a radius of twenty miles from Lintai City, but they can mainly attack from a distance, supplemented by white-knuckle warfare, and can be disturbed by air artillery attacks at night, and real artillery bombardment disturbs their hearts, and they must drag their magical powers in Lintai and cannot look west."

"No!"

The defenders of Lintai are 10,000 more than Shentong, and the biggest bargaining chip of Shentong is that the 80,000 people in Zhaocheng can surprisingly cross the Bailiyan defense line and appear in Lintai.

But now that it has been aborted, the supernatural power can only feign westward advance, on the one hand, to respond to the reinforcements of Zhaocheng, to put pressure on Bailiyan's back, and on the other hand, to annihilate the mobile force of the Xian cavalry, so as to achieve the purpose of luring the Xian army in batches and concentrating superior forces to gather and encircle and annihilate.

Leave Bai He for half a day to understand the battle situation, and in the afternoon Bai He returned to Lintai again. At this time, the attack and defense in the mountains were fierce, and the Black Turban Army was frustrated in attacking the mountain and turned into adjustments, planning to fight again in the afternoon.

Bailiyan hiked to the two wings of the main peak to investigate, and a large number of corpses were left on the front slope of the hillside, and the air was filled with gunpowder smoke and wailing. From time to time, there are black turban soldiers who brave the rain of arrows to rob people at the bottom of the slope, and the soldiers of the Xian army are about to release arrows, but Bailiyan raises his hand to stop it:

"Don't let the arrows go, let them go."

"No!"

The soldiers put down their bows and crossbows and retracted into the trenches, and Bai Liyan turned around and said to Jiang Jie:

"Order all battalions that the wounded will be rescued regardless of whether they are friends or enemies, and that the captured and surrendered shall not be mistreated, and that they should be kept in custody for the time being."

"No!"

"In addition, quickly order the gang to eat thirty pots of preserved chicken soup, the more soup the better, and burn it on the mountains everywhere for Ben Shuai."

"Master Hou, what are you doing with the chicken soup on the mountain?"

"The Black Turban Army will not conquer the land, its food in the early years is still acceptable, mainly based on full food, and the non-staple food is all based on plunder, and now its general trend is not there, and the food is even worse. Look at that Han Qi, he is a thousand-commander anyway, and he doesn't even have a decent meal of meat, which shows that the Black Turban Army has reached the point of exhaustion.

At present, the rebels have been attacking the mountain in the morning, and the offensive has weakened, and it must be that they have not eaten enough in the morning, and they are unable to attack and kill at noon, so they should be eating at this time. The chicken soup has a strong aroma, which can be used to demoralize and shake the morale of the army. ”

In the final analysis, the defeat of the Black Turban Army was not a military defeat, but a failure in internal affairs, and its military success was undoubtedly a complete failure, but the internal affairs were a complete failure.

Whether it is an eloquent argument or a foolish faction, they only regard the common people as cattle and horses that can be driven, but they do not know that the foundation of the country is the common people.

These two concepts seem to be similar, but in fact they are fundamentally different, the former is rights-oriented, and the latter is people-oriented.

The Black Turban Army has been in rebellion for more than ten years, occupying a larger land than any vassal state, with an unprecedented population of more than 50 million.

However, for more than 10 years, he did not think about the development of agriculture in internal affairs, but instead held the mentality that as long as the people were squeezed, there would always be it, and the economy fell into an internal vicious circle.

In the final analysis, it is the Eloquent and Foolish factions that are purely theoretical factions in terms of internal affairs and the standard of governance, and they have no ability to talk on paper and have no experience in politics and governance.

Of course, it is undeniable that the Eloquent Dao and the Foolish Sect are very powerful in using troops, and they were exhausted by killing Bailiyan in the early days.

However, no matter how powerful it is, the people's living standards are declining, the economy is in recession, and there is no strong force to rely on, and in the end they can only fall into a vicious circle of reckless militarism.

In the interval of trimming, the Black Turban Army continued to test the flanks of the main peak, but they were all driven back by the Xian army with Molotov cocktails and grenades.

The casualties of the Black Turbans were obviously much higher than those of the Xian army, and the use of grenades and Molotov cocktails turned the siege of the mountain into a journey of death, and they suffered a big loss in the morning, at this time they could only hide beyond the limit of the Xian army's throwing, and constantly covered the mountain with bows and arrows and a swarm of bees.

In addition, there are fire and thunder shells fired from simple stone cannon trucks, which are hemispherical metal iron shells, a bit like wolf tooth balls, and are a variant of fire oil bombs.

The fire oil bomb is a siege weapon that is filled with burning grease in a clay pot, ignited and fired, and hit and shattered and set fire, on top of which the black turban army uses lead or tin to contain two higher bronze, and the outer shell is cast with a cone thorn, and the clay pot is filled with oil and fire oil, and finally the outside is covered with cowhide and tied with a gunpowder bag.

After inserting the fuse, it is loaded into a trebuchet and launched, and after the ground explodes, a large amount of fire oil and pine oil will flow out, which is used to attack the defenders of the city wall and set fire to the city, which is very powerful, so the Xian army can only use the soil excavated in the trench to extinguish the fire.

Before four o'clock, the Black Turban Army resumed its offensive again, this time the tactics remained unchanged, still focusing on attacking the two flanks of the main peak, but the means were renewed, bringing in a large number of shields and water-soaked quilts.

The cotton was trapped in front of the shield, and rushed forward on the front, and the cloth shoes and trouser legs on the feet were also drenched with water, and the cloth belt was tied tightly to resist the Molotov cocktails and grenades of the Xian army, and the effect was extremely effective.

The grenades of the Xianjun army are mainly traditional black powder, with only 5 percent nitrocellulose added, which is actually no different from home-made grenades, and the effect of explosion impact and fragmentation is not large, and the hard killing of fragments to solid targets is relatively limited.

Since the popularization of multi-layer water-soaked quilts to resist shoulder-carried firearms in the Xian army, the black turban military has learned very quickly.

The Molotov cocktail of the Xianjun army is mainly alcohol, which is very contaminating and has high requirements for dryness.

However, they could only rush fifty or sixty meters away, and if they got closer, the grenades of the Xian army would have to fall on top of their heads.

Originally, the Xianjun army still used coal tar in the early days, but after the alcohol was extracted on an industrial scale, the cost was much lower than that of coal tar, and the coal output could not be increased, resulting in limited coal tar production and a relative increase in cost.

At the same time, coal tar needs to be used in industrial production now, and it also needs to be used to extract drugs and chemicals in the future, and it is not only expensive to use for pure arson, but also a huge waste.

In the early days, the scope of use was limited, and now there are industrial and civilian needs, so it can no longer be extravagant.

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