"Hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry?" Jin Liang gasped and said, "So the rest of the Xiongnu tribes are all in one place?" ”

Guo Jia behind Jin Liang groaned: "This Hetao is entrenched in the land of a hundred Xiongnu tribes in the south and the Xiongnu tribes under the subordinates, they usually have dirty feelings with each other and are not united, so they are often bullied by the Xianbei people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This time, the Sinicization policy of the lord has been pushed thoroughly, and it is simply estimated that the leaders of those Xiongnu tribes see that the lord is really moving, and their single tribe is not the opponent of the Central Army at all, so they will join forces to resist the Central Army regardless of their previous suspicions. Of course, this is just my speculation, and I need to verify it with the latest information from the agents. ”

A day later, Guo Jia's agents from the Huns who had been planted in the hinterland of the Hetao sent information confirming that the remaining Xiongnu tribes had united to form 140,000 iron cavalry to try to fight against the Central Army.

At the same time, Jia Xu returned from an envoy from the Qianghu tribes west of the Hetao, and he found out from the Qianghu tribe that several Qianghu tribes were also involved in the Xiongnu alliance army.

In the past few days, Jin Liang led an army of 80,000 and only swept a dozen small tribes, and every time the battle began, the Huns succumbed, Jin Liang felt very unpleasant and bored, if it was pushed over smoothly like this, there was no challenge at all, and it was very time-consuming. The Huns gathered 140,000 horses at once, and although this bone suddenly became very large and difficult to gnaw, it was able to complete the battle. It would be nice to be able to end the war before winter.

The agents in front also brought back the terrain around Qingyanze, although Qingyanze is a saltwater lake like the salt pond in Hedong. But the surrounding land is unexpectedly not saline-alkali land, but a lot of lush grass and trees, those plants and trees after tens of thousands of years of growth, can be said to cover the sky, now it is nearly October, late autumn and early winter, the yellow leaves have withered, and there has been no rain for more than two months. The grass in the place is no longer green and looks a little yellow.

There is a mountain next to Qingyanze, called Qingyan Mountain, the mountain is not high, but it is very broad, and there is a valley in the mountain, which can accommodate more than 100,000 people. The 140,000 Hun cavalry were hidden here, and the old and weak women and children of the Hun tribe were still grazing outside, as if the young men had never left their tribe.

Obviously, the 140,000 Hun cavalry was in ambush in Qingyanze, waiting for Jin Liang's army to pass there. It is good to take the opportunity to ambush, because in the middle of this valley near Qingyanze, there is a plank road built during the Qin Shi Huang period, which has not been flooded by wild grass for hundreds of years, and the Han army of all dynasties has passed through there, and then passed through the chicken song plug to attack.

If this information is not detected by Jin Liang, he is full of ambition because he swept away the dozen or so small Xiongnu tribes before, and swaggered past from Qingyanze, he will definitely be ambushed by the Hun cavalry, Jin Liang's headquarters has 80,000 men and horses, and the real cavalry is less than 20,000, and there is only a dead end when encountering 140,000 Hun cavalry. But now Jin Liang already knows that the Huns have laid out their pockets in Qingyanze, and when he gets in, he will be sorry for the good intentions of the Huns if he doesn't come to a plan.

Jin Liang followed the army to the expedition of several strategists Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Xu Shu, Huang Quan, and the generals in the army, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Cao 'Xing', and others did some research, and issued orders one after another.

Jin Liang's army set up a large camp fifty miles outside the Qingyanze Valley, and the news came out that the army had been marching for many days, and was very tired, and recently caught a lot of Hun women, and had a three-day holiday, so everyone was happy.

When the news reached Qingyan Valley, the Huns were furious, and wanted to rush out immediately to have a hard encounter with the Jin Liang army, but they were stopped by the head of a big Xiongnu tribe, the head was named Li Jian, who was a famous general who had no choice but to surrender to the Huns, Li Ling, after Li Ling was named the right colonel by the Xiongnu, the Li family had become one of the several major tribes of the Xiongnu after three hundred years of painstaking management in the Xiongnu, but Li Ling's descendants have been relieved to be the Huns, and there will no longer be Li Ling's hesitant state of mind. *

Li Jian loudly dissuaded: "I don't know, do you remember the story of my ancestors who resisted with 5,000 foot soldiers and rode with 80,000 'fine' horses, Jin Liang's headquarters has 80,000 people, although the cavalry is less than 20,000, but there are more than 40,000 crossbowmen, you and I are not as good as the 'fine' of the cavalry, and Jin Liang's bow and crossbow strength is especially worse than my ancestors, not to mention that Jin Liang also has Ju Yi, Zhu Ling, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang and other three-way reinforcements, if we venture to attack, I am afraid that not only will we not be able to break through the camp of the Central Army, but may be in danger of being besieged by the Central Army's four-way army, so think twice. ”

Li Ling was out of the fortress with 5,000 infantry and encountered in Junji Mountain, and the Marquis of Yu was alone in 80,000 'fine' cavalry, with the cart as the battalion, and the company fought and retreated until it was a hundred miles away from the Great Wall, if it was not for the arrows used up, he could hold on to the Great Wall, and he would not be captured, and even then, he shot and killed more than 10,000 Hun cavalry.

Li Jian used the story of his ancestors to 'fine' warn these Hun leaders not to despise the bows and crossbows of the Han people, these Hun leaders all comprehended and decided to lurk in the Qingyan Valley and wait for Jin Liang to come automatically.

And Jin Liang has come to the periphery of Qingyan Mountain, and the 40,000 auxiliary soldiers left in the camp, Jin Liang, Gao Shun, and Zhang Liao have already led 40,000 soldiers to take advantage of the night, and the people and horses are safe, and they quietly surround Qingyan Mountain.

At the same time, Ju Yi, Zhu Ling, Zhao Yun, and Xu Huang's men and horses also came to Qingyan Mountain overnight, and Zhang Yan and Huchuquan's men and horses also arrived at Qingyan Mountain, and the 2,000 Feiyan army, who were good at crossing mountains and mountains, carried fire oil and quietly entered Qingyan Mountain.

Jin Liang stood in a piece of grass more than one person high, quietly looking at this dense mountain forest, Qingyan Mountain, how good the name is, but unfortunately it will soon become Black Rock Mountain.

Behind Jin Liang, the 40,000 'elite' elites of the Central Army were all lying in the grass, and the war horses were also quietly crouching in the grass, holding a piece in their mouths, and they didn't make a sound, just the sound of the fierce cold wind and the brushing of the treetops and weeds.

Jin Liang raised his head and stared at the sky, it was pitch black, and he couldn't see his five fingers, it was really a dark month, a high wind, and a murderous night.

In the depths of the valley, the Huns were all asleep, and the Huns who were on guard were also squatting there, and they couldn't see clearly or notice that there were constantly black shadows scurrying around the valley in the mountains and forests, and those black shadows were pouring some inky black 'color' liquid into the woods.

More than an hour later, Zhang Yanfei came to Jin Liang and whispered: "General, all the oil you ordered to pour has been sprinkled, do you want to light the fire now?" ”

In Yin County, Hejian County, Jizhou, that is, Renqiu City, Hebei Province, there is the largest carbonate in the country, one day, you have reserves of nearly 600 million tons, Jin Liang knows about the Renqiu oil field, but limited to the technical conditions of this era, can not exploit the oil, but before to sweep away the Youzhou family rebels, passing by Yin County, suddenly saw the surface of the black oil exposed, the locals only know that this oil is poisonous, but do not know the function, Jin Liang tried to take this oil to ignite the fire, but the locals exclaimed again and again, Jin Liang ordered someone to take a hundred cans as a backup, Jin Liang this expedition but forgot to carry the hundred cans of oil, but he saw the oil exposed on the surface in several places in the Hetao area。

Jin Liang was surprised at first, because he thought that oil was generally buried deep in the earth's crust under the continent or ocean, but then he was surprised and thought of using it for war.

Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty mentioned in Mengxi that near Yan'an, people used bamboo poles to drill wells to extract oil, and after burning, they could use soot to make ink to write, and the name "oil" has been preserved to this day. During the Northern Anniversary, the Turks attacked Jiuquan in Gansu Province, and the local soldiers and civilians burned the "fire oil" point, destroyed the enemy's siege tools, repelled the enemy, and defended Jiuquan City. In the rear beam, there was a case of putting "hot oil" in an iron tank and launching it to burn the enemy ship. Zeng Gongliang's "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" of the Northern Song Dynasty has a very specific record of how to use oil as a raw material to make a powerful offensive weapon, "fierce fire oil". According to Kang Yuzhi's "Yesterday's Dream Record", during the Northern Song Dynasty, the northwest frontier "dug the ground to make large ponds, and built a surplus to store fierce fire oil" to defend against the intrusion of foreign rulers.

Jin Liang is now located near the northwest frontier, and it is not surprising that oil can be found in very shallow burial or outcropping.

Zhang Yan received Jin Liang's order, and hurriedly ordered to go down, hundreds of torches were lit and thrown into the mountains and forests scattered with oil, the raging fire rose into the air, the cold north wind blew, and the fire spread rapidly and swept across the entire Qingyan Mountain.

After a while, the fire spread along the barren grass all over the mountains to the camp of the Huns, and the neighing of thousands of horses and the terrible shouts resounded through the valley: "The fire is on fire, all over the mountains and fields, run for your life!" ”

Li Jian and the others heard the shouts and hurriedly rushed out of the camp, and the fires all over the mountains and fields rose to the sky, and Qingyan Mountain turned into daylight in a moment.

The Huns were all confused, how did this fire start, and how did it spread so quickly.

The fire that permeated the soles of their feet made them too late to think about it, and they rushed to the plank road between the valleys, rushed to the plank road, and then rushed out of the valley, but there were 140,000 Huns lurking on both sides of the valley, and the narrow plank road was so able to accommodate the narrow plank road, and the Huns had to wave their sabers to kill each other, fighting to run to the plank road, and for a while, people turned over their horses, and the Huns became a mess.

Although these Huns have lived near the border of the Han Dynasty for more than 200 years, they have been stubbornly refusing to be Sinicized, and their minds are ignorant, and many Huns see that the mountains are all over the wilderness, and the unavoidable mountain fire is no longer scattered and fled, but knelt down in the fire, bowed down in awe, and bowed down and said: "Great Kunlun God, you send down the heavenly fire to punish us Huns, you forgive us Huns for their sins!" ”

The non-existent god Kunlun could not forgive them, the mountain fire that poured oil and raged, and would not forgive them, once they knelt on the ground and touched the oil a little, the leather robe that was put on early because of the October sky in the north instantly caught fire, and all the fur on the whole body was burned, and it was impossible to extinguish a good Hun because of the incorrect religious belief that he burned himself for no reason, and after a while, a living person turned into char in a series of terrible screams.

Jin Liang held a clairvoyant mirror and looked at the Huns who set themselves on fire, and couldn't help but sigh: Religious ignorance kills people.

Li Jian, the head of the Hun tribe, rushed out of the Hun camp, and saw that the trees on the slopes on both sides of the valley that originally covered the sky and the sun were all crackling and burning, and the fire spread extremely fast, almost in the blink of an eye, all the plants and trees around the valley that could be burned were ablaze, and the fire rose into the air.

Li Jian felt very strange, although the trees in the mountains were all pine trees rich in oil, and although it was nearly October, the grass and trees were yellow and the weather was dry, but the fire should not spread so quickly.

Li Jian's nose is sensitive, and he has a fight with the hunting dogs raised by the Huns. He smelled a pungent smell in the air, a smell he seemed to have smelled somewhere, and he sniffed again. Finally determined that the pungent smell that permeated the jungle grass and trees was something, and said, "Stone paint is stone paint!" It's not a heavenly fire! It's not a heavenly fire! Someone deliberately set the fire! It must be Jin Liang, only Jin Liang, a killing god, can use such means! This stone paint is too easy to ignite. If you can't get wet, take off your robe quickly, take off your robe quickly, and run to a place where there is no fire! ”

Under Li Jian's terrible shouting, his tribesmen first came to their senses, and no matter whether their robes were on fire or not, they took off their leather robes and ran towards the plank road where the fire had not yet spread.

The Xiongnu soldiers of Li Jian's tribe ran along. While shouting and repeating Li Jian's words just now, the other Huns heard it, and they all hurriedly took off their flammable leather robes in panic, ignoring their good partners in war, horses, carrying scimitars and carrying bows and arrows on their backs, and ran towards the plank road. Because most of them realized that they had escaped the sea of fire and not escaped the forbidden area of death, there must still be Jin Liang's brigade waiting outside the valley, and if they clashed unprepared, the result would still be one. Die.

Jin Liang heard the stone paint in the terrible shouts in the valley, so he asked Jia Xu beside him in surprise: "What is the stone paint?!" ”

Jia Xu nodded and said: "The lord stone paint is what you call oil, in Gaonu County, there is this kind of oil that can float in the river and burn, and is called stone paint by the locals, and the Huns also follow the county people to call it stone paint." ”

Jin Liang was a little ashamed of his loneliness.

In fact, the brown and black 'colored' flammable viscous liquid poured by Jin Liang's Zhang Yanfei and Yan Jun on Qingyan Mountain was completely different from the gasoline and kerosene refined in later generations, but the crude oil that had not been refined. Petroleum was first seen in Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings", which was previously known as stone paint, water and fertilizer, and grease water. Around the time of the Western Han Dynasty, oil had been discovered, according to the famous Eastern Han Dynasty historian Ban Gu's "Book of Han? The Geographical Chronicle records that "there is water and fertilizer in Gaonu County", that is, oil floats in the Yanhe River and can be used as fuel, which is the earliest record of oil at present. Later, Jin Zhanghua pointed out in the "Naturalist Chronicles": "Water and fertilizer are also located in Weishui, Gaonu County."

The plank road built during the Qin Shi Huang period should have been flooded by the wild grass long ago, but because the Han people and the Huns often trampled on the plank road from here for hundreds of years, there was no wild grass, only sand and gravel, and the sand and gravel blocked the raging fire, and from a distance, this valley was all turned into a sea of fire, but the narrow plank road was like a black line, dividing the sea of fire into two sides.

Those Huns who were originally trapped in the sea of fire and could not be saved, but had to accept their fate and pray for the so-called Kunlun God to atone for their sins, were reminded by Li Jian, and they all began to throw the Kunlun God out of their minds, and they ran to the plank road, ran to the plank road, and then ran along the plank road to the valley mouth on both sides.

But the plank road is not more than a few zhang wide, between the valleys, it is only more than three miles, standing at the same time, it can only accommodate forty or fifty thousand people, there are more than 100,000 people who can escape from the fire, so many people are running to the plank road, the place is not enough, other places are fierce, in order to grab the living space, they were originally going to Jin Liang Central Army to wave the saber first to their own people, the more chaotic cannibalism, the more helpless they to seize the plank road, and then quickly escape, if someone organizes them to quickly evacuate to both sides, their chance of survival is at least ninety percent, but they kill each other, waste time in waving knives and slashing each other, but forget that as long as people run to both sides, there will be constantly gaps left for them。

Jin Liang looked at these cannibalistic Huns with pity and sighed: "The Hu people are a zero-sum game in which the Hu people don't know how to cooperate with each other to achieve a win-win situation, and they can only kill each other." Jin Liang didn't finish sighing, he looked uncomfortable, because he thought that the Han people were no better, the entire history of the Three Kingdoms is a history of cannibalism, if Sun Liu Cao can form a coalition, zhengfu, with the talents of this era, the Han nation will not be reduced to the five chaos of later generations.

Or that Hu-Han mixed-race Li Jian, he woke up to the fact that cannibalism was useless, or diverted and fled, in order to give those Huns who were trapped in the sea of fire and trying to squeeze the plank road a chance to survive, he shouted loudly, and the other Hun leaders also restrained their subordinates to flee to the valley mouth on both sides in two directions, and the Huns who were originally standing on the plank road ran to both sides, leaving a gap in the middle, and those Huns who took off their leather robes and struggled naked in the fire jumped the plank road.

Jin Liang saw that the Huns had woken up from the cannibalism and rushed towards the valley mouth on both sides, so he ordered the crossbow men on both sides of the valley to prepare.

Those Hun soldiers who escaped from the sea of fire along the plank road rushed to the valley mouth, but found that there was already a wide and deep trench waiting for them at the valley mouth, and on the other side of the ditch there were crossbowmen of the Central Army who were waiting for them, and they were aimed at them with strong bows and hard crossbows.

Without thinking, these Hun soldiers picked up their bows and arrows and fired vigorously at the crossbowmen of the Central Army on the opposite side of the trench.

How can the bow of the Huns have not been improved in the past three hundred years, and it is even inferior to the strong bow of the Maudun period, the range is far worse than that of the strong bow of the Central Army, and the range of the crossbow of the Central Army is far, and they can only deploy troops in the narrow valley, and the Central Army can calmly arrange troops on the other side of the trench, and there are 500 Hun soldiers pouring out of the valley mouth, and there are 4,000 crossbowmen of the Central Army on the side of the trench, and the crossbowmen of the Central Army shoot strong arrows, and the arrows fly like rain, and the 500 Hun soldiers all die tragically under the strong bow and hard crossbow of the Central Army, and the bows and arrows of the Hun soldiers fall to the ground when they cross the trench, and they cannot touch the body of the crossbowmen of the Central Army at all。

Besides, those Hun soldiers who fled from the sea of fire were panicked, where were there any 'spirits' to shoot bows and arrows that could hurt people, they could pick up their bows and shoot arrows, it was already remarkable, this was a one-sided battle.

The mouth of the valley on both sides was shot by the strong bow and crossbow of the central army, thousands of Hun soldiers were shot and killed, and the Hun soldiers behind retreated step by step, wanting to escape the bow and crossbow range of the central army, but there were many Huns who fled from the sea of fire and ran to the valley mouth, and did not want to retreat into the sea of fire again, so the people in front could not retreat, and even pushed the people in front to run forward, if the Huns in front were still afraid of the strong bows and crossbows of the central army, the Huns behind raised their sabers to the retreating Huns under the order of the head. (To be continued.) )