Chapter 169 Fighting a war doesn't require stratagem

The Eight Bull crossbow launch is far less earth-shattering than the rocket launch. One by one, the crossbow spears more than six feet long roared out of the string.

In an instant, hundreds of crossbow arrows and rocket artillery shells smashed into the Beacon Volcano Mountain.

Immediately, brilliant sparks appeared on the beacon volcano, and each brilliant spark instantly expanded into fireballs. The small fireballs grew larger and larger, quickly forming patches, patches, rows, clumps, forming a frighteningly dense forest of flames that covered almost the entire Beacon Volcano Head.

Violent explosions rang out one after another, and the blast wave of the explosion was wrapped in shrapnel, flames, and countless debris that rampaged, knocking down the conifer or uprooting it, leveling all the obstacles it encountered!

Some of the trees were too tall for the blast wave to uproot them, but it wasn't easy either, the trees were covered with shrapnel in the blink of an eye, and what was even more terrifying was that the blast wave swept through, and the canopy burned like torches, and the leaves were obviously covered with snow and ice, and they were verdant, but they crackled!

Li Siye looked at this scene and was dumbfounded.

Even Chen Ying was quite surprised.

He could raise his hands and swear in the name of himself and the whole family, this was definitely not the golden finger he quietly opened. In fact, this is the surprise brought to him by Chen Jiabao's craftsman, which can be said to be terrifying.

As early as the seventh year of Wude, Chen Ying had craftsmen make granular black powder, and successfully made a hand bullet that could be burned.

Although on the night of the Xuanwumen Incident, this grenade bomb also made a great contribution, allowing Chen Ying to shock more than 1,000 Qin Wangfu guards under Li Shimin's command, and successfully grasp the situation in the south of Taiji Palace.

However, Chen should be deeply dissatisfied with this method of detonation, which is still obviously directly ignited, not to mention dissatisfied, it can be called a deep hatred.

In Chen Ying's memory, the hand-held bullet should be directly pulled on the ring, then detonated, thrown out, and killed and injured the enemy. Therefore, the pull ring fuse has become the focus of research on supervision. In fact, if Chen Ying wants to solve this problem, it is very easy.

For example, the match head on the match is actually flammable red phosphorus and sulfur. If these two substances are made to look like a pull ring, the ring fuse can be pulled. However, Chen Ying did not think of this.

The troubled craftsmen thought about it day and night, and finally came up with a very clumsy and clumsy method, at the handle of the hand bullet, to make a steel sleeve, put a burr copper bar in the middle, and between the copper bar and the steel sleeve, stuffed with flint, gunpowder, phosphorus, sulfur, nitrate, and broken porcelain shavings. In this way, once the copper bar is pulled, the copper bar will rub violently against the filling in the middle, and in the process of friction, the flammable material will ignite. So as to achieve the kind of pull ring as Chen Ying said, you can detonate the hand bomb.

Now the grenadier regiment of the Tiger Righteous Servant has all been reequipped with this kind of hand-held bomb detonated by pulling rings.

Chen Ying naturally would not be stingy, and gave all the craftsmen who participated in the research and development, according to the size of their contributions, to reward them with huge rewards ranging from 300 to 8,000 yuan.

These encouraged craftsmen are even more brain-opening. put the brain hole on the more mature eight-bull crossbow. The damage of the arrowhead of the Eight Ox Crossbow Arrow is too low, and it is great to rely on kinetic energy to kill and damage three to five people. However, if you change to a refined fire hole, according to the same weight of the crossbow arrow, you can form a sea of fire with a radius of five steps, and if you place the same weight of gunpowder, then the lethality will increase to ten times or more.

So, the craftsmen began to use their brains, and they also adopted this way of pulling the ring to detonate the arrowhead, but the hand bullet is slightly different, the hand is pulled outward, and the crossbow arrow uses the huge inertia of the crossbow machine, the impact force, to stab inside. It is also the same way of friction detonation, the arrow shaft of the rocket is no longer a wooden rod, but a hollow steel pipe, which is filled with refined fire oil, or gunpowder.

Although this is not Chen Ying's golden finger, the effect is the same.

With the eight-bull crossbow arrows with arcs, flying towards the Feng Volcano, the Feng Volcano became purgatory, I don't know how many Goguryeo soldiers were caught in the fire, and there were no bones, and I don't know how many people were trapped in the fire struggling and crying, however, who else could save them? Who would dare to break out of the volcano that has become the whole Beacon Volcano?

Fortunately, the range of the Eight Bull Crossbow is limited, and with a range of more than 800 steps, it can reach the mountainside position at best.

However, the Beacon Volcano, which was ignited by countless ballistas, burned the company camp irreversibly.

As the saying goes, the wind borrows the fire, and the fire borrows the power of the wind, and the fire burns bigger and bigger.

Yuangai Suwen, who was located at the top of the mountain, had his eyes red, and he brandished his horizontal knife and shouted at the bottom of the mountain: "Despicable! Shameless! If you have a kind of come up to fight, what kind of ability is it to just hide under the mountain? You cowards, ah......"

He roared and slashed with a horizontal knife, like crazy, he was really going crazy!

Originally, he learned that the Tang army had crossed the sea and landed from the muddy water. As Su Dingfang guessed, Yuangai Suwen immediately thought of Feng Volcano, which was the only opportunity for Goguryeo to block the Tang army's attack on Pyongyang City.

Therefore, Yuangai Suwen volunteered to lead more than 30,000 Goguryeo soldiers to ambush in the Feng Volcano and Dacheng Mountain, preparing to give Chen Yinglai a two-sided attack when the Tang army attacked Pyongyang City from Haipu.

In fact, when Chen Ying was in Haipu, Yuangai Suwen had already sent scouts to reconnoiter Chen Ying's movements.

It's just that Yuan Gai Suwen was confused by Chen Ying's feints, and Chen Ying created a posture in Haipu to prepare for the construction of a permanent military camp, so that Chen Ying may not attack Pyongyang in a short period of time, and he needs to shrink his forces for at least three or five days.

Just like punching someone, you must first withdraw your fist and concentrate your strength in order to create an opponent.

However, Chen Ying is obviously not a person who plays cards according to common sense, and when Yuan Su Gaiwen mobilized more troops to ambush in the mountains west of Pyongyang City, Chen Ying took advantage of the night to launch a night attack on the Feng Volcano, Daeseong Mountain, and the area around Peony Peak.

Of course, Chen Ying did not order the troops to attack the mountain overnight, such an attack effect was only to hit the stone with an egg, in addition to taking advantage of it in the early stage, once the Goguryeo ambush found out, Chen Ying could only attack.

However, Chen Ying had no intention of attacking the mountains at all, and he used this new type of rocket, gunpowder and oil to turn all three mountains into volcanoes.

Yuangai Suwen almost gritted his teeth, but when he saw the crossbow arrows constantly flying down the mountain, and each crossbow arrow falling was a piece of flesh and blood, he realized that there was no way to fight this ambush battle.

Yuangai Suvin gritted his teeth and advised everyone to abandon the ambush and withdraw to Pyongyang.

This suggestion was unanimously supported by everyone, and the Goguryeo ambush soldiers almost crawled to escape from the ambush in the mountainous area, escaped the effective range of the Tang army's eight-bull crossbow, and retreated towards Pyongyang in embarrassment.

On the way to retreat, everyone was in a heavy mood, Xisanshan was the only geographical advantage they could rely on, once this advantage was lost, did they still have hope?

In particular, the place where the soldiers must fight, which is as steep as a beacon volcano, has become a volcano, and it is only a matter of time before it is burned clean by the Tang army.

Even the mountains are like this, does Pyongyang City still have a chance?

The small city of Pyongyang is likely to be blown up by the Tang army, and the grain, grass and ordnance stored in the city will also be reduced to nothing......

Finally, when it was almost dawn, Yuangai Suwen led the remnants of the defeated army to Pyongyang City, which was less than five miles away.

It's a big open plain, but it's also open land.

Looking at the city of Pyongyang in the distance, Yuansu Gavin felt uneasy.

Especially looking back at the defeated generals with less than 20,000 remnants behind him, he saw no hope for the future of Goguryeo.

At that moment, his eyelids began to leap wildly.

Snowdrifts in the distance seemed to move.

Yes, Yuangai Suwen was not dazzled.

Those snowdrifts are moving, to be precise, these snowdrifts are the camouflage of the Tang Army's soldiers, pulled in the snow-colored camouflage suit, revealing the true face under the disguise.

Yuangai Suwen looked around in shock, but saw that the entire army formation was still moving, like a black mountain. The number of the Don army was small, about three or four thousand people. Less than a quarter of Yuan Gai Suwen's command.

Black banners, black armor, at the forefront of the line are the Tang army crossbowmen, the crossbows put the arrows into the arrow slot, and they are already ready to draw arrows. The crossbowman behind the crossbowman neatly pulled out his crosssword, slapped the shield neatly, and let out a howl full of violence: "Kill, kill, kill......"

This steely voice gives people the illusion of traveling through time and space.

More than a thousand years ago, during the Warring States Period, the terrifying Qin army was lined up like this, with a roar of "kill, kill, kill, ......kill,

Sure enough, it was exactly what Yuangai Suwen thought, and he didn't wait for him to sort out the formation. The crossbowmen of the Don Army were the first to strike.

As soon as you make a shot, it's a lore.

"Woo Woo ......"

Dense arrows like locusts crossing the border, with a clear blue metallic light, loomed towards the Goguryeo army.

Chen Ying did not forget to teach his son at this time.

"Dalang, see it. To fight, you never need to use stratagem, no matter how many enemies there are, in one word, it is to fight! Chen Ying raised the horizontal knife in his hand, opened the void, and shouted: "Crush those miscellaneous pieces to General Ben!" ”

Li Siye was speechless.

I thought to myself, are you still called a scheming? So what is a stratagem?

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