Chapter 173 This war is not a crime of war

"Get out of here, you're going to die!"

Although Hou Mo Chen Xu had never seen a steam engine train, when he saw the forty-meter-long machete and countless dense blades, he immediately reacted.

At the beginning, the military camp was built on the road to the south of Jianmen Pass, mainly for convenience. In June, Bashu has entered a hot summer, accompanied by heat, and abundant rain. Although the road is not because of the high terrain, but the construction standards of Datang's road are very high, first with cooked soil, mixed with glutinous rice juice to tamp into the foundation, and then paved with triple soil tamping, the top is paved with gravel, and then sleepers, as well as asphalt pavement.

The most important thing is that there is a complete drainage system in any part of the road, so there is no need to worry about rainwater soaking the road unless there is a major flash flood.

In this way, a large number of tents were lined up along the gallop road at one time.

Hou Mo Chen Xu's voice had long been masked by the huge roar of the steam engine train, except for the dozens of guards around him who escorted him to the distance, the other coalition soldiers were still blankly looking at the roaring train.

Due to the change of direction of the road, the two steam locomotive trains walked side by side, like a huge ancient beast, devouring everything in front of them.

Tens of thousands of horses were so frightened that they lost their mobility for a moment, and then everyone rushed to get on their horses and fled. When this catastrophe is approaching, where is the organization?

However, where is the time?

On both sides of the valley, when the road was built, in order to prevent the rocks on the hillside from suddenly rolling down and hitting the pedestrians and vehicles on the road, those stones were cleaned up as much as possible to form a smooth and steep slope.

What rejection horses, what war horses, in front of the powerful impact of firepower, are as vulnerable as weeds. From time to time, trains devour life in the valley, whether horses or people.

However, this giant beast that seemed to come from ancient times, as if it was like a glutton, and its appetite was never satisfied, and the space on both sides of the valley was too small to avoid, and a large number of soldiers were running along the valley to the south.

Of course, human strength is sometimes poor. But the steam engine train is not a man, let alone a beast, as long as the water and coal on the train are not exhausted, the train can run forever.

Pushed down by his comrades, before he had time to get up, he was cut in two by the giant blade on the train, especially in front of the locomotive, there was a huge shovel, like a bulldozer, pushing away all the obstacles in front of the track, with the roar of the train forward, the coalition soldiers outside the city cried and shouted for their father, only hating their father and mother for missing two legs.

The huge general of Pang Yu at the head of the city was also secretly frightened. In front of these two trains, I don't know how many people have been swept in, no matter how brave the soldiers are, in front of these two steel monsters, there is no power to fight back, and there are also some coalition soldiers, desperately holding their spears or bows and arrows, venting towards the train. Of course, this didn't have any effect, they couldn't run, they just had to wait for death.

In fact, although the train is full of sharp blades, its lethality is really limited. However, for these two trains, the unknown is their greatest fear for these savage and uncivilized bureaucrats and Baiyue barbarian soldiers.

Including Hou Mo and Chen Xu, everyone thought that these two trains were not weapons in the world at all, and they preferred to believe that this was a divine beast from the heavenly realm, but the patron god of the Tang people.

In particular, the coalition soldiers who were frightened were so frightened that they threw themselves into their bodies, but when they thought they had to, the giant blade of the train roared from above their heads.

Of course, this is because when the giant blade was installed, it was deliberately raised to one foot and three inches, which is almost equivalent to a distance of thirty kilometers. In a hurry, who still noticed this detail, they naturally thought that this giant beast still had mercy, as long as the five bodies crawled on the ground, the divine beast would spare their lives.

As early as the beginning of the train attack, Pang Yu gathered all the Tang army soldiers at Jianmen Pass, and selected a part of the young men from the people, and collected the livestock collected from the city, especially horses or mules, no matter how bad they were, that is, cattle, and finally got together 8,000 cavalry.

The officers and men of the Tang Army followed the train and began to pursue.

Hou Mo Chen Xu became more and more frightened the more he ran, because it was too chaotic, in a hurry, all the generals lost their command of the troops, and they could not find the generals, they could not find their own soldiers, they could only run around like headless flies, and were gradually swallowed by the train.

It wasn't until Hou Mo Chen Xu was tired of killing seven horses that he finally ran to the Wuhou Temple sixty miles south of Jianmen Pass.

The annoying and frightening sound had finally disappeared, but at this time he was accompanied by less than five hundred soldiers, and even more desperate was the dense sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer.

"Hou Mo Chen Xu is in front!"

"Lead the way!"

When Pang Yu chased to Wuhou Temple with his troops, Hou Mo Chen Xu's face was full of despair, his hand pressed on his horizontal knife, stood at the door, and coldly faced all the Tang army soldiers.

Hou Mo Chen Xu looked at Pang Yu and said, "Are you Pang Yu?" ”

Pang Yu smiled: "That's right. ”

Hou Mo Chen Xu sighed and said, "It's your luck!" The devil has also helped you by sending these two beasts! ”

Pang Yu laughed: "The devil sent it? Do you think the devil sent this beast? ”

"Isn't it?" Hou Mo Chen Xu's eyes widened: "Could it be ......?"

Pang Yu said with a smile: "These two giant beasts were made by General Chen's subordinates!" ”

Hou Mo Chen Xu stared at Pang Yu for a long time, finally understood, looked up to the sky and shouted, suddenly pulled out a horizontal knife, and put it across his neck, ready to kill himself.

A Tang soldier holding a crossbow machine shot through Hou Mo Chen Xu's arm, his horizontal knife fell to the ground, and other Tang soldiers rushed up and tied Hou Mo Chen Xu tightly.

Hou Mo Chen Xu, who was tied into a rice dumpling, closed his eyes and did not open them.

Pang Yu praised: "Yes, there is a bit of style!" Take it back to the city and take good care of it. Send it to Chang'an on a later day! ”

Although the enemy's commander was captured, the pursuit did not stop, and in the face of the unknown train, all the bureaucrats raised their clans and surrendered.

Seven days later, Li Shimin, who was preparing to go north along Linhuai City, received the news of the annihilation of Hou Mo and Chen Xu's entire army, and he was shocked, but he couldn't figure out the situation for a while.

Although Hou Mo Chen Xu is not the main force of Li Shimin's total, he has more than 400,000 troops of the allied forces, especially Hou Mo Chen Xu's more than 50,000 old troops in Lingnan, which is not weaker than the regular elite troops of the Tang Army, and is more familiar with mountain warfare.

Although Li Shimin tried his best to conceal the news, the rangers under Li Xiuning's command were simply pervasive, and almost overnight, almost everyone in Li Shimin's department knew that the entire army of Mo Chen Xu, the Marquis of the Western Route Army, was wiped out, and everyone was shocked.

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In the Taiji Palace of Chang'an City, Li Anyan, the general of the Left Supervision Guard, excitedly reported to Li Jiancheng: "Your Majesty, after the statistics of the huge general and the general Xun Xiangxun after the war, a total of more than 114,000 enemies were annihilated in this battle, more than 220,000 people were captured, and the rest of the horses either surrendered or disappeared, and the sheep, horses, herds and various materials were piled up, and the inventory was not clear for a while. ”

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When Li Jiancheng heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past few days, all the bad news has been received, and it is not easy to get this big victory, Pang Yu and Xunxiang continued to move along the gallop road, and regained Chengdu three days ago, according to the time calculation, they should have taken the next pass.

Although the inventory has not yet ended, the Fusang Tang army has faced a situation of collapse, this battle Tang army shocked Fusang Tang Zhuhu, the local clan lords who originally took refuge in Li Shimin heard the news and were scattered, all of them gave up Li Shimin, rushed to Chang'an City to plead guilty, and begged Li Jiancheng to re-contain them.

Seeing this situation, Li Jiancheng calculated in his heart, the construction of the Tang Chi Road has been completed a lot, and now with the big killer of the train, Li Jiancheng groaned: "Do you want to follow the Han Long Line and fight with Li Shimin in Xiangfan?" ”

"Your Majesty had better not have such thoughts!"

Hearing this voice, Li Jiancheng turned around and saw Chen Ying coming slowly.

Li Jiancheng asked curiously, "Why?" ”

"Your Majesty, this battle is a fluke!" Chen Ying frowned and said slowly: "This battle can't be replicated at all, if you change the time and place, the train won't be able to achieve such results at all!" “