Chapter Seventy-One: The Strange Camp
85_85249 Ouyang Xuan didn't fly directly to the battlefield, he first went to the base of the Duliba people in Yinshan, and handed over a few grains of powder on the paper that were still glowing with orange fluorescence to the elders for testing. After a long wait of more than an hour, the elder entered the room with a look of frustration on his face, and finally concluded that they didn't know what it was, and they could be sure that it was a substance on Earth, but the fluorescence was very special and had a strong energy effect, and it needed to be left for further testing.
Ouyang Xuan didn't think much about it, threw down the piece of paper, turned around and got on the flying saucer, and flew straight to the front line in Qiangzhou. After Li Mu's elaboration, Ouyang Xuan learned that the leader of the Sauron Department was She Lehu, with 80,000 soldiers, and in order to prevent the artillery fire of the Huaxia army, they mixed the captured women in the marching army and battle array. Some of the charging soldiers still had a child tied behind them, so that the Yulin army did not dare to move, and could only use the way of driving and deterring to form a confrontation, these Sauron soldiers were well-trained, and the formation was quite orderly, with 30,000 cavalry, guarding the two wings, and the rear army also had trebuchets and curved crossbows.
This method of holding women and children hostage on the battlefield has been done by the Qian people in history, especially Hou Jing, and it has been tried and tested, during the day it is a shield on the battlefield, at night women are their playthings, and children are their food, resulting in the Liang State at that time. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Qiang people were the most brutal people in human history, and Genghis Khan could only sigh. After a night of thinking, Ouyang Xuan gave an order that he didn't want to make, and killed indiscriminately. The human shield is buried according to the war dead, and the meritorious monument is built here.
Early in the morning of the second day, the 50,000 Yulin army lined up and the army of Sauron was a mile away, here was an endless flat grassland, the east and west sides could faintly see the mountains, here was the canyon plain on the south bank of Qinghai Lake, there were originally several Qiang villages here, and there was a small town at the foot of the southern mountain.
Ouyang Xuan: In the telescope, Ouyang Xuan could clearly see the shrivelled and disheveled human shields, almost all of them were women in their twenties. Even if these people are saved, their future lives will be bleak, so it is better to give them a happy life. Ouyang Xuan called a herald and ordered him to find someone to shout, the content was: The Emperor Taishang came to suppress the rebellion, you and others are the people of China, although you are a human shield and a human food, our army cannot bear to attack it; But what are you going to do? Humiliation, parents and relatives were slaughtered, our army will give you a good time, and you will be buried with a national salute after your death, and you will be honored with military merits, please go on the road with peace of mind.
The shouts were written and read aloud by two soldiers with tenor potential through a tin megaphone outside the range of the enemy trebuchet. After reading it again, while the Saurons were still wondering, the women who were human shields almost simultaneously said: "The Holy Emperor is mighty, we are willing to die." It's all a soprano of a water. After hearing this, almost all of them stared at the sword held high in Ouyang Xuan's hand with tearful eyes. As soon as the sword falls, it will be the time when these Sauronites will perish.
Ouyang Xuan couldn't bear to give an order when he heard the soprano shouting over there, and thought for a long time before swinging the meteorite sword in his hand. In an instant, there was a continuous clanging sound in the rear of the Yulin Army, all of which were improved portable artillery. In an instant, a cloud of mushrooms rose from the Sauron army with the sound of violent explosions. Unlike other corps, each team had one portable artillery, and each rear sergeant carried two shells and matching medicine kits. The main and deputy gunners have a back barrel and a back bracket. The entire Yulin Army had a total of 500 such portable artillery. After the baptism of artillery fire, the Sauron army was already in disarray, and the cavalry on both sides had already launched a charge when the artillery fire rang out, and Ouyang Xuan did not give further orders. When the enemy cavalry was within the firing range of the assault rifles, they ordered the assault rifles on both flanks to fire at the same time, and the artillery fire still covered the enemy position. There are less than a thousand enemy troops who can rush to the front of the formation, most of them die on the way to charge, or they are tripped over the horses by the corpses of their companions and fall off the horses, even these thousand people are not much better, and they kill two teams of men and horses from the flanks of the rear army, and the spears and broadswords in their hands are like life charms, just in the blink of an eye, in one round, all that is left of the thousand enemy troops is the horses galloping backwards.
As the long sword in Ouyang Xuan's hand struck in the air, the artillery fire immediately stopped. The main and deputy gunners, with the assistance of the rear army, cooled the barrels, disassembled the guns, and prepared for the next battle. Ouyang Xuan returned the sword into the sheath, took off the broadsword from the victory hook, held the knife in his hand, raised it high, and with the blade forward, Ouyang Xuan patted his horse and took the lead in charging, behind him were three thousand guards with broadswords and spears, and the left and right armies on both sides, the Chinese army followed closely, and the rear army, as a reserve, did not follow, but lined up and rear. The mounts of the Yulin Army were all high-grade sweat and blood horses, and in an instant, they had reached the front of the Sauron army, and the 30,000 army galloped by, and when they encountered the Sauron people who were standing, they were almost two corpses in the blink of an eye. Looking back at the Saurons who were no longer standing, the Hui army killed them again, this time specifically for the wounded Saurons. After joining up with the rear army, Ouyang Xuan ordered to clean up the battlefield and separate the human shield from the Saurons. If there is an injured human shield, actively treat it, and at the same time order people to go to the villages and towns in the rear to recruit some people, build monuments, and bury the women and children who are human shields with national rites.
By the time everything was ready, it was already nightfall, and a total of more than 3,000 complete human shield corpses, 1,300 wounded people, and 1,200 incomplete corpses had been found. More than 6,000 half-dead women were found in the camp of the Sauron army, and 3,800 human bones were eaten. In the face of such a tragic battlefield, the people recruited by Xihai County also started their work with tears in their eyes. The wounded and alive women were escorted to Haixi County by two teams of Yulin Army, and they were all placed with special combat merits. At the same time, release all the horse exploration camps and find the Saurons? Camp. Today, only the military camp was defeated, and his large camp had not yet been found, especially the leader's camp, which was different from other ethnic groups, and both men and women could go into battle to kill the enemy in wartime. More than 20,000 corpses of Sauron female soldiers were found during this cleanup of the battlefield, according to the population registered in Huaxia, there should be more than 300,000 Sauron people, Ouyang Xuan does not intend to let this nation with cannibalistic customs exist in the world again, and it is also a deterrent to the remaining Xianbei people.
Early the next morning, the parties worked overnight to dig several deep pits in a valley in Hainan to serve as human shields, while the corpses of the Saurons were gathered together in a barren mountain valley fifty miles away to feed wolves and vultures. Intelligence from the return of the camp revealed that the tribe of chieftains of Sauron and more than a dozen tribes of Sauron had been found. After reading the report of Tanma, Ouyang Xuan and Li Mu discussed, Li Mu led the Yulin Army to exterminate the other tribes, Ouyang Xuan personally led the Chinese army to kill the chieftain's department, and Ouyang Xuan's order was not to leave a single person, and they were all killed.
The Solon Chieftain is located on the edge of a canyon river, probably near the Guantang Ancient Tomb in Hainan County, Qinghai today, where there is a small lake nearby, far less large than the Qingyangxia Reservoir in later generations, and it is an excellent grazing spot on the plateau. Ouyang Xuan and his entourage set out from the station, all the way to the mountain road, after a difficult trek, cleared nearly a hundred Sauron scouts, before they arrived at the location marked by the Tanma before dark. On the mountain beam, Ouyang Xuan carefully observed the camp, the entire tribal camp around the digging of three deep wide ditches, between each ditch there are arrow towers, the distance between each arrow tower is just one arrow away, and the ditch is also just within the protection range of the arrow tower, and the inner ditch is higher than the camp and the other two ditches. There were three camp gates, and one camp gate was behind the camp, and Ouyang Xuan couldn't see clearly. What you can see clearly is the camp gate facing it, with a drawbridge and a ditch around it, and there are places where you can cross the ditch. However, the obvious vegetation there is a bit of wilting, and it should be a muddy ground or a pit that has just been transplanted. After looking around, Ouyang Xuan couldn't find a way to enter, according to the nomadic habit, there should be sharp wooden stakes in the deep ditch of the camp, and then camouflage it with grass and mud. There may also be rope mixing on the edge of the ditch to trigger defensive bows and crossbows and other mechanisms, for Ouyang Xuan, who has an in-depth understanding of nomadic tribes, these mechanisms and tricks will naturally not be effective. Ouyang Xuan did not give the order to attack, but let all the artillery fire of the guard battalion and the Chinese army aim at the camp gate and deep ditch for linear coverage and aiming, and it was not allowed to fire without an order.
Ordered all the staff to have a simple meal, arranged the light and dark sentinels, and the rest slept on the spot. At the ugly hour, Ouyang Xuan woke up the commander of the guards and the commander of the Chinese army, selected fifty elite soldiers, and led Ouyang Xuan quietly to the camp.
At the edge of the first deep ditch, Ouyang Xuan found a woolen woven rope, which was very tight. Ouyang Xuan ordered all of them to lie on the ground, ordered people to tighten the rope at both ends according to the force, carefully cut the rope with a knife, and slowly loosened the rope a little bit, and only after the rope was completely relaxed, did he continue to crawl forward and came to the edge of the ditch, this ditch was two people deep and ten steps wide, and he couldn't see the situation in the ditch clearly in the dark night. But Ouyang Xuan felt a hint of danger and hurriedly ordered someone to quickly retreat. As soon as Ouyang Xuan removed his head into the ditch, several crossbow arrows came out of the ditch and nailed to the dirt on the edge of the ditch where Ouyang Xuan's head was just now, and then the bell in the ditch rang loudly. The voices of people suddenly rose, and then the rain of arrows came. Ouyang Xuan had to evacuate quickly with people, Rao was so fast, there were still more than a dozen people who were hit by arrows, and the feather arrows were hung on their clothes, and Ouyang Xuan also had seven or eight feather arrows hanging on his back. If it weren't for the soft armor of Yulin Jun and Ouyang Xuan, they would have become hedgehogs long ago.
When I came to the mountain beam, I could already see that the wall of the camp was brightly lit, and in the firelight, I could clearly see the Saurons waiting with their bows, and dozens of crossbow machines facing the direction just now. "Damn, careless. I didn't expect the defense to be so tight. Someone, herald artillery fire to cover the shooting". With the order, 50 artillery pieces were fired immediately, and hundreds of high-explosive shells fell in an instant from the camp gate to the deep ditch outside, and the arrow towers along the line flew high into the sky with the artillery fire, and five or six people were also thrown out at the same time. After firing 500 shells, Ouyang Xuan ordered to stop the shelling. Because Ouyang Xuan had already seen someone coming out of the camp according to a certain line. Looking at its running route, it is more winding, and if you follow that route, you will be threatened by bows and arrows along the way. It seems that the designers of this camp are very clever, even if it is bombarded, the depth of the ditch is reduced very little, and the inner ditch filled with water is higher than the camp, just to prepare for fire prevention. If it is a simple attack, even if it is an attack of 100,000 people, the probability of victory is very small. But they still underestimated Ouyang Xuan and his Yulin Army, and after the observation, Ouyang Xuan suddenly asked, "Burning?" How many bullets are there? ”。 The commander of the Chinese army hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty has not brought much, only more than 100, half of gasoline bombs and half of white phosphorus bombs, and ten thermite bombs."
"It was enough to cover the camp with white phosphorus and thermite bombs, cover the shelling with petrol bombs after it was released, and finally pour all the ammunition into the camp". "No!". Since it is difficult to attack directly, switch to long-range strikes, and they are the most brutal strikes. Judging by the size of the camp, there are at least 70,000 or 80,000 people here.
Ouyang Xuan also contacted the Guizhou base through the communicator of the guard battalion, and used a flying saucer to transfer thirty heavy guns overnight, equipped with various types of incendiary? shells and high-explosive shells. Ouyang Xuan left ten doors here, and the left and right armies left ten doors each. This was to force Ouyang Xuan to use the ultimate weapon. As soon as Ouyang Xuan's order was delivered, the mountain had already launched an attack, and was repelled by the dense rain of crossbow arrows of the Yulin Army. Ouyang Xuan did not let the gunner fire immediately, but was waiting for the heavy artillery, because he saw that a lot of earthen walls and mounds had been artificially piled up in the camp, and the power of these portable artillery fires was still a little small, especially in this kind of potholed terrain, it seemed that the designer of the camp knew the way the Chinese army attacked very well. At dawn, the heavy artillery was all in place, standing majestically on top of the mountain beam, and after the gunner adjusted the standard distance, he waited for Ouyang Xuan to give the order. As Ouyang Xuan's hand fell, the rumbling cannon sound quickly rang out, and when the cannonball fell in the Sauron camp, they were destined not to see the sun today. Ten heavy guns, twenty rounds of various types of burning in a row? The shells covered the fire, and the whole camp was already full of fires, and the water in the inner ditch had been drained, but for such a fierce fire, it could only add fuel to the fire. Ten rounds of high-explosive shells followed, turning the entire camp upside down.
When the first rays of sunlight shone in the morning, Ouyang Xuan ordered to stop the shelling, and all the staff rushed forward on foot, and the lieutenant of the Chinese military academy, who had been observing the camp with a telescope, suddenly grabbed Ouyang Xuan, who was about to go down the mountain, and said, "Your Majesty, there may be fraud in it." Burn? After the bombardment, there should have been people struggling back and forth, and the number of people struggling in the camp just now did not match the number and size of the camp, and there were less than 100 people struggling there. Your Majesty, if you look there, it seems to be reflective, and it should be a weapon," he said, pointing to a deep ditch on the right. Ouyang Xuan picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of his finger, it was indeed as the commander described, there was indeed a faint light and shadow shaking on the ditch wall on the yin side. Look at the camp again, it is now a mess, it is already on the surface of the moon, and with thick black smoke, it is like hell. "Your Majesty, my subordinates have been staring at the camp just now, and there are only a few hundred people struggling in the fire, which is extremely inconsistent with the size of the camp. There was also a sudden drop in the water level in the inner ditch that did not flow to the camp." The Commander then added. Ouyang Xuan nodded, there was a weapon reflecting in the deep ditch, which already showed that there was fraud in it. Just now, the shelling only bombarded the camp, but did not bombard the periphery, because it was afraid that the people in the camp would retreat from behind, and now it seems that there is a mistake. "Order, all soldiers are on standby. Heavy artillery shelled ten rounds of high-explosive shells along the line from the camp gate to the outer ditch, and another scout horse was sent to explore the perimeter. Send three teams to protect the rear and the two wings". "No!" The herald beside him took the order and hurried out.
As the artillery captain ordered the flag, the ten heavy guns fired at once, and a full ten rounds of high-explosive shells and 100 shells bombarded the front line, vividly blasting out a wider ditch and filling in the original three deep trenches. Although potholes, walking was no problem. Ouyang Xuan did not give the order to charge, when he was shelling just now, he obviously saw that the reflected light and shadow were a little shaky, and there were reflections in more places, so in connection with the crossbow arrows at the bottom of the ditch during the sneak attack at night, the two deep ditches on the outside would definitely not be as simple as a mechanism. Ouyang Xuan ordered all artillery fire to be burned again? The shells bombarded the two deep trenches on the outside, the heavy artillery bombarded the far end, and the portable artillery fire bombarded the near end, and each gun fired five rounds.
When the first round of artillery fire fell, Ouyang Xuan saw a large number of shaking fire shadows in each ditch, and even tens of thousands of people climbed up from the ditch with fire on their bodies, ran up the mountain, and finally burned to death on the road. After five rounds of shelling, two blazing bands of fire surrounded the Sauron camp. The artillery captain came to report that the shells were already less than forty percent, and if they continued to fight, they would reach the warning line, and in case of an emergency, they would be in trouble. Ouyang Xuan had no choice but to send a battalion to protect the artillery position, while the others continued to stand by on the mountain beam. Since there are people hidden in the ditch, then there will definitely be a backhand, and in the face of absolute strength, it is the best policy to respond to all changes with the same.
Everyone stared at the camp below the mountain from the mountain beam, aiming at any suspicious target with the assault rifle in their hands, the fire in the ditch burned all morning before stopping, Ouyang Xuan and Yu Linjun blew the mountain wind on the mountain all morning, and the air flowed from high pressure to low pressure formed by violent burning. Due to its location on the plateau, the air pressure here is very low, which also causes the fire to be less intense than in the plains. Tanma came back one after another, and the news they brought back was all unusual. The news of the various armies came from the communicator, and Li Mu had encountered something as strange as Ouyang Xuan. Except for eight small tribes that were slaughtered without even livestock, the rest of the tribes were all deep ditches with arrow towers on the outside of the guards. After using the same method to knock down the arrow tower, one of the battalions tried to break into the camp, but at the first ditch was met with a strong bow and arrow counterattack, in the face of absolute strength, these resistances were almost negligible, after breaking through the camp, the inside was empty, but was surrounded by the Saurons who came out of the ditch, and was attacked by water. After a powerful counterattack, it was possible to break through and rescue the besieged artillery, and it was not difficult for the Yulin Army, which had an assault rifle in hand, to break through. Now they are all confronting the enemy on the periphery, Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army to strictly guard against a surprise attack from behind, and retreated to the south coast of the West Sea with the assistance of flying saucers at night.
Ouyang Xuan always felt that this would not be so simple, the enemy knew too much about his own attack methods. They all adopted corresponding strategies, and Ouyang Xuan believed that they would definitely have a backhand. Or the reconnaissance is not in place, for the reconnaissance, Ouyang Xuan still has a weapon that surpasses the later generations, that is, a flying saucer, which can only fly at night according to the agreement. After another afternoon of observation on the mountain, there was still no movement in the camp, and the smell of roasted meat wafted from afar. After surviving the afternoon, when the night covered the land, with the assistance of flying saucers, the armies retreated one after another. Ouyang Xuan was the last to evacuate, he got on his small flying saucer, and took the captain of the Tanma Battalion and Li Mu in the air to start an all-round reconnaissance.
Through the stereoscopic imaging system, every inch of land within a radius of 500 miles was carefully scanned at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and as the scanning progressed, Ouyang Xuan admired this commander more and more, if it weren't for the reminder of the lieutenant of the Chinese military, he might be trapped in the enemy's camp, and finally killed by the rolling wood