Chapter 307: Burning Silla Daying I

The turtle shell of the Silla army was so strong that the civil and military forces under Li Yu made a difficulty, and after discussing for a long time, they did not come up with a reasonable solution. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, although it was to discuss military affairs, as Li Yu's personal entourage and responsible for protecting his safety, Xing'er sat on the lower left side five steps away from Li Yu, closer to Li Yu than all the civil and military people who were sitting.

Listening to the Chinese Wu ministers of the palace, they did not come up with a good idea to break the Silla camp that satisfied Jun Jun. Xing'er sighed secretly, Xun Jun really didn't fight this battle, and he couldn't tell the winner for more than half a month, which was really worrying.

Xing'er tilted her childish head, and her mind flew to Pyongyang, more than a hundred miles away. I don't know what Xin'er is doing in Pyongyang now? It has been so long since I followed Xun Jun away from Pyongyang, and it is the first time that Xing'er has been separated from her good sisters for so long, and she thinks a little about Xin'er, Ling'er, and Mei'er, and occasionally thinks about it often with herself, and wants to suppress her rivals everywhere.

While Li Yu was distressed about the turtle shell that Li Yu had built for Kim Won-shu, the attendant handed over a list of supplies that had just been transported from Pyongyang to Seoul, plus a letter from Xin'er.

I haven't seen Xin'er for more than half a month, Li Yu misses it a lot, and wonders if Xin'er sent a letter to express her lovesickness for him?

Li Yu opened the letter and took it out, Xin'er used a poem at the beginning of the letter to express her lovesickness for his army to fight abroad, and then made a brief report on the operation of the palace industry and the situation in Pyongyang, which she was responsible for.

Hearing that Li Yuna's Silla army had built a turtle-like camp, and that the Tang army's siege equipment was useless, Xin'er proposed to Li Yu in a letter an idea to break the Silla camp - Super Flame.

In the past half month, Li Yu and the generals have also tried many times in the fire attack, but it has little effect on hiding in the trenches and covering them with a log covered with dirt on their heads. Li Yu was a little curious about Xin'er's proposed fire attack strategy, and continued to look down to see how Xin'er's fire attack was different.

Xin'er pointed out that in view of the fact that the trench fortifications built in the Silla camp had measures to defend against the Tang army's fierce fire and oil, ordinary fire attacks would definitely not be effective. It was proposed that a large amount of firewood and fire oil was thrown into the Silla camp with a stone thrower in a short period of time, which was enough to cover the entire Silla camp, and when it was burned, it was as fierce as a mountain fire breaking out in the jungle, so that the Silla army in the camp had no time to clean up and no place to stand. After the torches were put in all directions to ignite, firewood and oil should be continuously thrown into the Silla camp so that the fire in the camp could burn for a day and a night. Even if the Silla army took refuge in the trenches that could prevent fire, the fierce surface fires that burned for a day and a night were enough to roast the Silla troops in the trenches alive.

When the fire burns long and violently enough, can a living person who hides under the fire only a few feet deep hold on for a long time? The answer is that it is impossible.

Just like the reason why the chicken is buried in the soil under the fire to simmer and cook, under the scorching fire, the surface of the ground continuously transmits heat to the underground, and the closer to the surface the more heat it receives, the higher the temperature, and the more unsuitable it is for the creatures to live.

After reading it, Li Yu was like a brainstorm, and praised loudly: "Wonderful, wonderful!" Continuously throwing combustibles into the Silla camp and roasting them alive in the trenches, our army almost wiped out the Silla army without a single soldier. ”

The Chinese Wu ministers of the palace looked at Li Yu with straight eyes, and in view of the fact that His Highness looked very happy after reading a letter handed by the attendant, everyone was very curious, who offered what plan to His Highness in the letter, and could break the turtle shell of the Silla camp?

Li Yu handed Xin'er's letter to Xue Jun, who was very curious with his head out, and circulated it in turn, so that everyone could take a look at Xin'er's plan to attack the Silla camp with the 'Super Flame'.

After Xue Jun saw it, he also appreciated the brilliance of Xin'er's plan, and burned the entrenched Silla army with fierce fire, and it was estimated that it would only take a few hours to burn the self-proclaimed impregnable camp of Jin Yuanshu to the ground.

"Hahaha! Your Highness, Xin'er Xiaoniang's plan is to turn the Silla camp into a huge fire and roast the cunning Silla Yi to death. This plan is ruthless and vicious enough, Zhang likes it. ”

Zhang Shi and other generals were even more excited than Li Yu after seeing it, and they clamored to ask for help to prepare enough firewood for burning.

Zhang Wengxi, who is a member of the royal palace, shook his head and sighed, "This strategy is too vicious, and it hurts the heavens and the peace!" ”

"How can it hurt the heavens and the peace to deal with the barbarians?"

As a literati, Zhang Wengxi sighed with compassion for the heavens and the people, which instantly provoked the verbal criticism of Zhang Shi and other military generals, and there was a great tendency to vow not to give up if he did not correct his mentality.

Li Yu waved his hand to signal the noisy crowd to be quiet, and discussed with Xue Jun, Xue Ne and other civil and military personnel the specific arrangements for the implementation of Xin'er's strategy, and assigned tasks to the generals to prepare the required equipment, firewood, oil and other materials.

In order to eliminate more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of Jin Yuanshu in one fell swoop, Li Yu, in addition to Gao Chongde's Suzaku Wei and Su Mingxiu's Tianshi Army guarding Seoul, the whole army was dispatched to prepare to surround the three layers of the Silla camp and the outer three layers of the camp, so that Jin Yuanshu did not dare to send troops to fight and continued to hold the camp as usual, which gave Li Yu the opportunity to implement the super strong flame.

In the list of supplies sent by Pyongyang this time, Xin'er prepared 500 pours of fierce fire oil for Li Yu. According to the large filling there are forty catties, fifty filling; Medium filling with twenty catties, one hundred filling; Small irrigation of five catties, three hundred and fifty irrigation, enough for more than 5,000 catties of fierce fire oil, with firewood enough for Silla camp to drink a pot.

For two days in a row, the Tang army cut firewood in the surrounding mountains and collected bundles among the guards and armies. There was a shortage of dry firewood, so Li Yu directly ordered the houses in Seoul to be demolished to get wood.

In order to make it easier for the stone thrower to throw firewood, Li Yu had the flammable branches woven into large balls, and the inside was stuffed with dry logs, and at the same time, the belt thrown by the stone thrower was made larger, so that it could throw larger firewood balls.

There were only 30 stone throwers in Seoul, which was obviously not enough to throw a large number of firewood balls and fire oil into the Silla camp in a short time, so Li Yu ordered the craftsmen of the army to build 50 medium-sized stone throwers and put them into use.

After three days of preparation, everything was ready, and Li Yu personally led the 12th Guards and 5th Army, a total of 51,000 troops, out of the city and surrounded the Silla camp. Winch crossbows and stone throwers stood in front of the Tang army's formation, and thousands of firewood balls and fierce fire oil were piled up next to the stone throwers.

In the Silla camp, more than 30,000 Silla troops were waiting for the battle, although it was found that the Tang army came to attack many soldiers and horses this time, far exceeding the strength of the Tang army in half a month, and there were dozens of stone throwers than before, but the Silla army was not afraid. Many Silla soldiers also grinned and stuck their heads out of the low wall and shouted at the Tang army, making fun of the Tang army's vain efforts to break through their camp, just to increase their exploits in killing the Tang army.

Although the short-tempered Zhang Shi could not understand the Silla language, he could not bear the extremely arrogant Silla people shouting and scolding, and asked Li Yuzuo to attack.

The jungle around the Silla camp for several miles was cut down for more than half a month due to the fighting between the two sides, and in the scorching summer, under the scorching sun, Li Yu, who was wearing armor, was so hot that he had to take out a folding fan from his waist to fan himself to relieve the heat.

Regarding Zhang Shi's invitation to fight, Li Yu poured two mouthfuls of water before he smiled lightly: "Zhang Shi, why do you need to be angry with a group of dying people?" Besides, you still don't understand? ”