Chapter Seventy-Two: Jieli Khan

Yang Lin didn't know that a video he had recorded on the spur of the moment would cause controversy in the academic circles of later generations for hundreds of years, so he didn't forget to remind Qianniuwei, who hurried to the shore to drag back more than a hundred ironclad people who were stunned by explosives, to hurry downstream to fish for horse corpses, and thousands of war horses were slaughtered in this battle, which could just be used as military rations for the Tang army.

The pale-faced Ashina Tu Su made three bowls of mare's milk wine in a row in the camp tent, this time he was injured, five thousand Turks were young and strong, and ten thousand war horses failed to kill one of the Tang Army, and the little advantage of using human lives was destroyed by the last earth-shattering explosion, he had already questioned Dou Yingshan many times, what was this thing that the Tang people came up with? Dou Yingshan, who was at a loss, naturally didn't know how to answer.

At night, a fire was lit in the Tang military camp, the horse meat was very astringent, not delicious, but it couldn't stand up to the meat, the sergeants cut the horse carcasses that were salvaged from the water by a boat, sprinkled some salt and roasted them on the fire, Qin Qiong failed to go to the battlefield after all, so he took the horse meat and started the brush, and today's roast horse meat captain is him.

The Turks don't eat horse meat, they are afraid that the immortal heaven will punish them, the Han people are different, as long as it is a beast, it is for people to eat, when the soldiers puffed out their cheeks and munched on horse meat, Li Er appeared outside the camp, and there was still some roar echoing in his ears, he pretended to be amiable, greeted the generals of the Tang Army who participated in the war one by one, and also shared the horse meat with the soldiers, when he killed the enemy, he was the devil, and when he did not kill the enemy, he was the commander who loved the soldiers like a son, and the emperor who loved the people like a son.

The corpses of thousands of war horses were piled up in the open space outside the camp tent into a large mountain of meat, and the weather was cold, and there was no fear that the meat of these horses would spoil. It took dozens of warships of the navy to fish back and forth dozens of times before the horse carcasses in the lower reaches of the Weishui River were fished clean, and Yang Lin estimated it. I am afraid that there are more than one or two million catties of horse meat, which can be allocated to the victims of the Yangjiang River construction site for a period of time.

A battle with thousands of casualties was enough to make Yang Lin, a person who came from later generations, look at the war calmly. He was imagining a scene of 100,000 Turkic cavalry dispatching, in fact, the so-called 100,000 in ancient times was generally less than 100,000, and the young and strong people really mobilized by Jieli Khan were only about 60,000, and 30,000 or 40,000 were old and weak herdsmen who drove cattle and sheep and pulled haystacks, and their marching speed was not fast, and they arrived in Weishui on the seventh day after the pontoon battle.

Ma Yongquan never came back, and Yang Lin thought that he really sacrificed for the country with an explosive bag like Dong Cunrui. But he didn't want him to be dressed in sheep's clothing, fighting with the Turks who were driving cattle and sheep, his actions were top secret, and even Yang Lin didn't know his mission.

"Your Majesty, the fifteen Shenwei cannons and three hundred pairs of plate armor Mo knives newly made by the craftsman have arrived, but the titanium ore named by the master has been used up, and the craftsman has no raw materials, so I am afraid that new weapons and armor will not be produced for the time being." Xie Wuregret submitted a list of equipment, which is currently related to the national fortune of the entire Datang. He personally supervised and escorted them.

"Well, with this batch of equipment, I have the strength to compete with Jieli Khan. The credit of the craftsman is in my heart, and during this time you have a good rest for a few days, and take time to develop the new weapons that the colt said. Do your best to make the finished product for me to see. ”

Li Er's brows did not spread because of the arrival of this batch of equipment, and the attack of a hundred thousand troops was no more than one or two hundred thousand. Although the plate armor has increased to four hundred, if the opponent is divided into ten ways. Even the 20-way attack, he may not be able to stop it, he put all his hopes on Ma Yong, who has been with him since he was a child, if he can ignite the gunpowder that has been placed on the opposite bank in time, the Tang army can achieve an unprecedented victory at the minimum cost.

Xie Wuregret returned to Chang'an, and when he left, he took away the ancient moon knife inscription and some hand-drawn drawings of Yanglin, after seeing the pictures on Yanglin's mobile phone, the ancient moon knife inscription was with the ship, in the study of science and war, of course, he is more passionate about science, and the shipyard that is about to be built next to Qujiang Pond is his next test site.

The Turkic camp tent has expanded several times, the living conditions of more than 100,000 people have been observed by Yanglin with a telescope for two days, the Turks are less than 90,000 after the battle damage along the way, and there are at least more than 10,000 Han people captured by Jieli in Guanzhong in the camp tent, not only these, Yanglin also observed the decreasing haystacks in the Turkic camp tent, hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, can eat the grass as high as a mountain in a day, Jieli Khan can not hold out for long, if the war starts, he will definitely launch a thunderous blow, and take Li Er quickly, invaded Chang'an, looted and then withdrew back to the grassland.

Yang Lin never needs to think much about the enemy's battle plan, Li Er is a master in this regard, Yang Lin has done some work so far to kill people with advanced technology, or in other words, Yang Lin is learning and practicing the technology of killing. Li Er assigned him a task again, commanding an artillery battalion composed of five hundred thousand Niu Wei soldiers who were supervised by the inner servants, and the Shenwei cannons assigned to him were naturally the fifteen guns made by the craftsmen and supervisors, and the technique of cannon work is generally done by men, especially when a woman is pressed under him, and the cannon will also be fired, especially when he drinks two taels of old white dry, but the soldiers of this group of Qianniuwei don't know anything, Yang Lin taught two days of ballistics, the theory of angle, they all listened to it in the book of the day, and finally Yang Lin patted his head and regretted it: "Fuck there are ready-made ones who understand the angle, don't use it, teach them to do it."

Isn't the naval battalion Zhang Liang's lair, hasn't the 500 naval army under his son Zhang Long suppressed bandits with him, and it's not over if he picks a dozen shrewd people to come over and be gunners.

Zhang Liang is very happy that Yanglin can think of finding his own person, but he thinks that he wants a little too little, and the navy will take over the two warships in the future, not to mention, there are really a few more talents in this area, so Zhang Liang sent one or two pairs of three gunners to each gun in Yanglin, and even Zhang Long and his deputy Zhao Hu were also sent over to be the captain and deputy captain of the gunner team.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, that is, three days after the Yanglin training artillery camp, in the Turkic camp tent, Jieli Khan convened all the tribal leaders to hold a large army meeting, for this legendary first Turkic warrior who can kill a cow with one punch and kick over a horse with one kick, Yanglin actually wants to see him, mainly to ask him, 'That fool taught you to fight with the Han people across the river'.

In the huge round tent, the tendon-fleshy Jieli Khan held a naked Han girl in his arms, he didn't feel the cold of winter at all, only the girl who was shivering and lying in her arms to keep warm after being played with by him knew how hot his body was, so that people with too much heat generally had a bad temper, Ashina's battle report made him angry for three days, of course, the Turkic army was preparing to cross the river for these three days, and this time he thought he could plunder a lot of Han property. Who would have thought that the Yumen Pass was actually barren, why did the Guanzhong be ten rooms and nine empty within half a year?

Jieli Khan, who had a belly of fire, consumed a huge amount of grain and grass along the way before rushing to the Weishui River, imagining all the way to fight and rob, and failed to realize the method of fighting and raising war, and now the grain and grass are not enough for him to use for a month, I thought that I could go to Chang'an City smoothly, and after taking a benefit fee from the emperor, Jieli patted his ass and left, and was even more angry after seeing the remnants in the camp tent of Ashina Tusu, and more than 5,000 people were killed and wounded and did not take down the other party's 3,000 Tang army, which can create the most miserable defeat record in the history of the Turks. However, Jieli did not have a good impression of Ashinabu, and it would be more beneficial for him to control Ashina, the largest tribe outside the Western Turkic king's tent.

"Tu Su, tomorrow you will personally lead your troops to rush across the river and kill the Tang army without leaving a single piece of armor." Jieli is not a person with developed limbs and a simple mind, it is impossible for such a person to run such a large force as the Western Turks, his meaning is obvious, tomorrow when he goes into battle, it is still you Ashina who charges to death in front, and he waits in the back to cross the river to eat meat.

Ashina Tusu's expression was very rich, as the vanguard of the army, he had no reason to refuse, but he couldn't face the clansmen who were crying in front of him, a war had killed nearly one-third of the young people in his tribe, and as the leader of the tribe, he couldn't afford such pressure. At the same time, he was full of resentment towards Jieli, did he have to consume his tribe into a second- or third-rate small tribe before he was willing! He wanted to fight back, but he didn't have that kind of capital, after all, there were more than 40,000 young people in the Jieli Wang's lineage, which was not something he could shake.

Dou Yingshan, who was qualified to enter the sweat tent meeting, saw that something was wrong, just last night, he received a message from the other side, Li Shimin planned to fight hard with Jieli, so as he wanted to replace Li Shimin, he naturally wanted to see the two sides fight as fiercely as possible, and without waiting for Ashina Tusu in the entanglement to answer Jieli Khan's words, he took the lead.

"I received a report from spies on the other side of the strait that the Tang Army had mastered a very powerful killing weapon, called 'gunpowder'. This thing will explode after ignition with fire, not only the power is amazing, even the sound can hurt the horse, the leader of Tu Su was defeated under the gunpowder of the Tang army a few days ago, but this material is troublesome, and the raw materials are not easy to find, so the gunpowder in the hands of the Tang army is not much, if it is only Ashina to attack the other side, I am afraid that the effect is no different from the previous battle, such as the Khan with 100,000 people to attack the opposite bank with the momentum of Mount Tai, I believe that not only the loss of each department will not be too big, but also win a battle, so as to avoid accidents. ”

Dou Yingshan's words naturally attracted Ashina Tu Su to applaud, think about it carefully, if the battle is divided into ten roads, the Tang people have two catapult ships, and the ironclad soldiers are only a hundred, how can they take care of it, now plus the rest of the departments and the king's lineage, divided into thirty roads, fifty roads out, even if the Tang army has gunpowder, how can it be blown up, as long as one or two of them successfully land on the shore and hold the pontoon bridge, the Tang army will be trampled into meat by 100,000 iron horsemen.

Dou Yingshan's words have been approved by many leaders of the Turkic tribes, and the somewhat depressed Jieli Khan naturally does not say much, of course, the happiest is Dou Yingshan, his secret order has been released, Hebei Dou raised the banner of righteousness to drive out Hu Lu, just wait for Li Shimin to die, he can pick up the cheap behind the Turkic army that has run out of grain and grass, not only get benefits, but also take advantage of the righteousness, and the day of ascending to the emperor's throne is not far away. (To be continued......)