Chapter 176 was given the title of Princess Yongle

Linhuai, named for its proximity to the Huai River, is also a historical ancient city. However, as an ancient city, Linhuai City is unfortunate, although it has a long history, it has faced severe floods, various natural disasters, and of course, most importantly, it is a place where soldiers must fight.

As early as the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the former Yan Zhengnan Governor Wu Wang Murong Chui had led troops to the south, and Mao Anzhi, who was the Eastern Jin Dynasty Supervisor Sect Zhige, camped here, and rejected the Yan army in the north. Later, the Southern Dynasty Liang Guotianjian for five years and began to build the city.

As the seat of Haozhou, Linhuai City is a military fortress with six gates and an urn city outside.

Li Shimin moved north from Jinling City, and it became Li Shimin's palace.

Standing on the Linhuai city wall, Li Shimin looked at Huaishui from afar, his face was gloomy, as if he was muttering to himself: "You say, will they fight us in a decisive battle?" ”

Du Ru said loudly: "It will be, they will definitely come out!" Qin Qiong faced the attack of Li Shiji and Li Xiaogong, and he couldn't hold out for long......"

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Yes, his family background is too thick, and he failed once or twice, but it did not damage his roots." ”

Li Shimin knew very well that the Tang army was invincible, relying on three things: sophisticated equipment, sharp crossbow machines, and more than 700,000 war horses.

Cavalry is a tank in the era of cold weapons, and the Tang Army is already at the top of the world in this regard. Even the Turks in their heyday, although they claimed to be all soldiers and controlled millions of strings, in fact they could get a million war horses, but they did not have so many elite cavalry.

The herdsmen of the cavalry, and the real cavalry are not the same thing at all. Therefore, when he was in Liangzhou, the 200,000 cavalry under the command of Tongye Hu Khan, in the face of Chen Ying's hook and sickle lancers, collapsed in a battle.

After crossing the Huai River, there is the endless North China Plain, where the terrain is flat, the land is fertile, and most importantly, it is very suitable for cavalry charges.

In the history of China, in the Northern Expedition from south to north, only Zhu Yuanzhang and Chang Shenkai of the Ming Dynasty completed the feat of unifying the world. Because of the lack of cavalry in the south, no matter how much advantage was achieved in the early stage, it would be scattered in the North China Plain. From Beijing and Tianjin to Huanghuai, within a range of more than 1,700 miles, is the death place of the infantry.

Du Ruhui looked at Li Shimin and said with a smile: "This is exactly what Your Majesty is looking forward to, isn't it?" As long as they are willing to fight, we will break their last bones here and force them to surrender! ”

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "It's different, they really dare to fight, and they must fight with a twelve-point mental response!" ”

Du Ruhui wanted to say that Li Shimin was too worried, but after thinking about it, Li Shimin's worries were not that there was no road. Although, in order to deal with the overwhelming cavalry of the Tang army, Li Shimin prepared a large number of war elephants, as well as rhinoceros.

However, whether it is a rhinoceros or a war elephant, they are all famous big stomach kings, in order to feed more than 8,000 war elephants, more than 30,000 rhinoceros, Li Shimin has exhausted all his use, he has secretly tuntian in Bo Ni for three years, and has used more than 2 million slaves to tuntian, and the accumulated grain is not much left, although he still has the support of the clan gatekeeper, but he has all the world's gate valves, and he can't feed so many big stomachs, and a war elephant can be eaten more than twenty horses.

"Report ......"

Li Shimin turned around abruptly and looked in the direction of the messenger.

A horse rushed in, the knight was sweating, and his face turned pale and said: "Your Majesty, they are dispatched!" ”

Li Shimin asked nervously: "How many people are there?" ”

"Thirteen!"

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Only 130,000? ”

The messenger gasped and said, "No, it's thirteen square ships, and they're going down the river!" ”

Li Shimin's face changed slightly: "Pontoon? ”

The pontoon bridge can be said to be an important artery for Li Shimin to communicate the north and south of the Yangtze River, and it is also Li Shimin's weakness. The water flow of the Yangtze River is too fast, and in order to build a pontoon bridge, it is necessary to use more than 1,600 ferries, which are made of 360,000 catties of steel to form chains and fix.

Although Li Shimin had already prepared for the Tang Army's sneak attack on the pontoon bridge, and there were more than 400 naval ships cruising in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, it would probably not be easy to break through these more than 400 naval fleets.

It's just that although Li Shimin's plan is good, they didn't expect that Chen Ying didn't play cards according to common sense at all.

Li Shimin sneered: "Thirteen square ships? Ate bear's heart leopard gall? ”

If Chen Ying is here, he must refute Li Shimin.

He didn't eat the bear's heart and leopard gall, but because of self-confidence.

The square bow, which is no more than 20 zhang long, is very small in the Yangtze River.

Of course, compared to the tall building boat of the Fuso sailor, it is simply the gap between babies and adults.

Standing on the deck of a square stern, he was full of spirit, his fiery red cloak fluttered in the wind like a burning cloud, he was wearing a cuirass, holding a four-meter-long rifle, and a horizontal knife at his waist, a bag of white feather arrows pinned to his back, and the rifle in his hand, looking at the fleet of Fuso sailors lined up in a dense formation, he sneered.

According to the original plan, these ships were supposed to become one-time consumables like suicide ships. However, one craftsman thought it would be too much of a failure, believing that only a slight change was needed so that the tail flame of the rocket would not damage the foundation of the large ship.

This solution simply made Chen Ying stunned. Just like the story that has been passed down in later generations:

It is said that American astronauts are depressed in space, and in weightlessness pens and ballpoint pens are always unable to write. It took X years and X more money for American scientists (a recent Chinese expert who gave a lecture at the Agricultural University has increased the weight to $10 billion) to finally develop a fountain pen that can be used under weightless conditions. At the same time, Soviet cosmonauts used pencils in space all the time (ordinarily, the audience erupted in good-natured laughter). Is the original pencil practical for space? Have those storytellers ever thought about it?

Ordinary pencil refills are easy to break, we all know this, and floating in a weightless environment will become a dangerous goods, will drift into the nose, eyes, and more importantly, graphite is conductive, drifting into electrical appliances will cause short circuits or some other problems.

Of course, the craftsman who changed the rocket launcher this time was named Zhang Chao. His solution was to aim the launcher at the side and let the tail flame spray directly onto the water outboard, which would solve the problem.

In fact, there are certain problems in this. The flame of the tail flame is too large, and after being stopped by the water, it will spread in all directions, and it will burn directly to the side of the ship, and there is no good solution at all. Later, the method of wrapping the ship's side with stone brocade was adopted to avoid igniting the warship.

Of course, in fact, the ancient wooden ships have been treated with fireproofing, and it is not like the TV show, a rocket ignites directly.

Xun Xiang held up his lance and pointed at the Fusang Naval Division battleship more than a thousand paces away, and roared loudly: "Brothers, remember this day! Remember the group of people in front of us! Because, after this day, you will never see them again, and they will all become dead! ”

"Shoot the arrows and blow them to smithereens!"

The trumpeter blew the horn for the rocketeer to fire.

Thirteen large ships with square stern ships were horizontally, aimed at the Fuso sailors with their sides, and then dropped anchor and stopped on the river. The captains of each square bow raised their right fists, drew a semicircle, and then swung forward heavily.

Ten rocketeers lit the fuse with the torches in their hands. As the sound of sneering like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter sounded, the gunpowder fuse ignited the cotton wool, only a roar like rolling thunder was heard, and the whistling sound of the rockets tearing through the air was like tearing silk cloth, making people's hairs stand on end, and the flames of sixty-four rockets erupted, and the rockets roared and smashed in the direction of the battleship of the Fuso Navy Division behind, and the sound was comparable to earth-shattering.

A continuous, shrill howl came, and the thirteen battleships of the Tang Army suddenly rose with a large cloud of white smoke and yellow-white flames, almost drowning the entire battleship, and hundreds of slender fire snakes sizzled and screamed, smashing towards the ships of the Fuso Naval Division.

The sound and light effect made the generals and soldiers of the Fuso Navy Division feel cold as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, and their hairs stood on end.

They hurriedly controlled the battleship to dodge with a mad scream, but it was too late, the fiery serpent fell from the sky with a scream of death, and the explosion points were almost connected, followed by a thunderous explosion, and many sailors were lifted into the air along with their battleship!

Xunxiang, who thought he was more handsome, instantly turned his face into disgrace, and his cloak was burned into a rag, if it wasn't for the guards who hurriedly untied it for him and threw it away. He probably has turned into a roast suckling pig.

Xun Xiang angrily threw off his helmet and roared hysterically: "Let go of the arrows and shoot those grandsons to General Ben!" ”

"Woohoo......

The hair-raising scream sounded again, and the thirteen rocket launchers fired a second salvo, the air waves rolled, the smoke and flames cut through the air, and a terrifying sea of fire rose again in the Fuso water array, and I don't know how many soldiers were blown up to the flesh and blood, and even became trapeze.

Suffering from this blow, the Fuso sailors could avoid chaos, shouting and shouting, the flag broke, and they were quite unstable. Originally, too, this thing was too advanced, and now everyone is still playing pitifully, taking out the collodion is simply cheating, and rocket artillery is intimidating even in modern times, let alone in ancient times?

Even a simplified and simplified rocket launcher is enough to make people feel terrified!

You can't gnaw a single hair of people for half a day, and a salvo from people will kill you and injure you all over the place, how can you fight this battle?

The key is that the range of the rocket is too far, and the eight-bull crossbow with the farthest range of the Fuso sailors can't even touch the edge of other people's houses.

Of course, it is impossible to escape.

With the third salvo, Phase Finder gave the order to stop the fighting.

The enemies are all dead, and they are still smacking.

The most important thing is that these three salvos were too fierce, and in just one pillar of incense, thirteen large ships fired a total of more than 2,500 rockets, although two-thirds of the rockets were byes, and the remaining one-third was enough to turn each battleship of the Fuso Naval Division into huge torches.

Xun Xiang continued to take the rocket battleship and headed for the pontoon.

Of course, he only had one move, he got off the ship, aimed at the target, and fired. The pontoon bridge that Li Shimin had worked so hard to build was burned into a torch.

……

In the ten-mile long pavilion of Chang'an Baqiao, Chen Ying, the generalissimo of the Tang Dynasty, embarked on the journey under the farewell of Li Jiancheng.

Chen Ying smiled at Li Jiancheng, who was worried, and said, "Your Majesty, hope is like a small star, always shining with a dazzling light in the darkest times - we have not yet reached the time of despair!" ”

Li Jiancheng said solemnly: "You can't leave the people behind for victory, the people of Datang are already bitter enough, they have helped us so much, we can't throw them to the Fusang coalition army!" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Of course, the minister should go, it's too late if you don't move!" ”

Chen Ying looked at Li Jing and said, "I left all the sixteen guards and the 250,000 new army, can you hold Guanzhong for me?" ”

Li Jing wanted to speak and stopped.

Li Shimin launched a decisive battle, and the war was bound to be unprecedentedly tragic. If Chen Ying can't resist it, he has less than 500,000 troops in his hands, and it will be too difficult to hold Guanzhong.

There was no way, Li Jing said firmly: "Don't worry, Generalissimo, I will guard Guanzhong for you, unless I die, none of them will want to step into Guanzhong!" ”

Li Xiuning, who has always been known for her strength, was even more tearful, she really wanted to hold Chen Ying, but she still gave him a hug and choked up: "You must come back alive, I will wait for you!" ”

"Don't worry, my life is harder than a cockroach, and I can't die if I want to!" Chen Ying stroked Li Xiuning's cheek and said affectionately: "Take good care of your body, and the children!" ”

Li Jiancheng glared at Chen Ying and said unhappily: "Don't say death at every turn!" Generalissimo, you are our only hope, you must protect yourself! ”

Li Xiuning suddenly clenched his fists, and the raindrops of powder punched Chen Ying's body.

"It's all your fault, if it weren't for you, I would have been able to fight side by side with you!" Li Xiuning looked at his lower abdomen angrily, he gave birth to two sons Chen Qian and Chen Qi, two daughters Li Ruoxi, and after Chen Guoer, she was pregnant with a fifth child.

Li Daozhen is the same at this time.

Maybe Chen Ying has been under too much pressure recently, he has been crazy to ask for it, and he has worked hard to finally get another harvest. Of course, the most important thing is that Chen Ying's eldest son, Li Siye, has entered the army and has become the youngest general in the Tang Dynasty.

General Wu Wei, the right general, is responsible for the security of Taiji Palace. In fact, this position does not require too high ability, only loyalty.

Who let Li Siye have such a father as Chen Ying, since he was born, he has reached a height that is difficult for ordinary people to reach in a lifetime.

Chen Ying waved his hand, looked at Li Siye, who was dressed in armor and had a serious face, and said, "Da Lang, you won't disappoint your father, will you?" ”

Li Siye nodded vigorously.

Chen Ying hugged Li Daozhen, Xu Erniang, and He Yue'er.

Finally, his eyes fell on Yang Rong in the crowd.

Yang Rong hugged Wu Erniang, who was as delicate as pink carving jade in her arms.

Wu Erniang's big watery eyes stared at Chen Ying.

Chen Ying took a deep breath, walked up to Yang Rong, and reached out to pick up Wu Erniang. Regardless of whether she understood it or not, she said lightly: "The Marshal's Mansion is your home, your father, and your brother are your strong backing!" ”

Chen Ying stepped on the war horse, looked up to the sky and shouted: "Datang will win!" ”

The soldiers and the people raised their arms and shouted: "Datang will win!" ”

In fact, Chen Ying has no bottom in his heart. A weapon cannot change the true pattern of war, and war is still fought for in the end of economy and national strength.

What's more, the lethality and effectiveness of the rocket in the original version were far inferior to later generations.

Li Jiancheng suddenly walked towards Yang Rong and said, "Mrs. Yingguo, I love this child very much, and I plan to accept him as righteous anger and give it to Princess Yongle, what do you think?" ”