Chapter 0518. torture

Perishing and ignorance, ruined by arrogance, now the people of Shalou have taken possession of both. {This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

In ignorance, King Chaori and A Luoshun comfortably allowed the Min State to take out all the efforts brought by the Central Plains for farming and digging ditches, and dug out this dense trench to limit them to a disadvantageous place.

You must know that the simple elephant in their eyes stepped over the trench with one foot, even if the hot weapon is the main tactic, the trench and machine gun in the First World War formed an invincible meat grinder on the battlefield, and in the Second World War, even if the tanks and planes were rampant, the simple trench was still a headache for both the enemy and us, and then pushed forward for more than a hundred years, the famous Napoleon was defeated on a shallow ditch that he ignored on the map.

Neither Aroshun nor King Chaori knew about these, so it was natural that they fell into the current embarrassing situation.

If it was said that the previous defeat of the Lou Qi people was a little wronged, the back was completely self-inflicted, and the two supreme leaders who found that they were surrounded at the first time did not break through the siege at the first time, but issued an order that was enough to destroy the whole army, and ordered the army to attack the Tang army trench by the river indiscriminately.

It was only necessary to defend a trench of a few hundred meters by the river, and with this point and a small number of infantry, the Tang army successfully dragged 430,000 enemy troops.

"Kill!"

In the shouting and killing of the sky, hundreds of thousands of people rushed forward in a chaotic manner, and the Tianzhu big bow was pulled down obliquely and shot out a rain of arrows, and the arrows were dense and even blocked the sun, panicked by the ditch Tang Jun hurriedly hid in the ditch, and almost instantly there were reeds composed of large pieces of arrow shafts within a few hundred meters of the ditch where they were located.

Under the three volleys, the leading Shalouqi infantry had already approached within more than thirty meters with dry mouths, but this distance was the beginning of their suffering.

The triangular iron thorns, thrown by the Tang army to the river bank in the middle of the night, are ten or twenty thousand, mixed in the mud, it is not clear at all, even if the Tang army's cowhide, whale skin boots are easy to puncture, not to mention the Lou Qijun wearing straw sandals, one foot on it, it is guaranteed to be a big hole, if you fall on it, it will be even cooler.

This is not over, the wood and bamboo that come out of the ridges are nothing, and there are even black and pitch iron lumps hidden in the mud.

Traps!

This thing is the size of a foot, with sharp serrations, the effect is comparable to that of ancient landmines.

More than 100,000 people rushed forward on the battlefield and fell to the ground, most of them were dead, and only Fujian, which has a developed workshop industry, has the ability to make so many immoral things in a short period of time.

In fact, if you want to go out and die a few thousand people, these things can easily be quickly flattened, but whose life is not fate? Even if the commanders were desperately urging, the cheap Lou Lou infantry, the Northern Tianzhu infantry was still dragging on the ground cautiously.

At this distance, it is easy to hurt one's own people by shooting arrows, and the Tang army, who has no care, can calmly poke their heads out of the trench and pour crossbow arrows at the slowing down Sha Lou Qi's army with a steel crossbow.

Under his feet are sharp triangular thorns, in front of him is the water source, obviously the throat is thirsty and smoking, but still can't drink, and at any time to face the deadly threat in front of him, so tortured hundreds of thousands of people are all going crazy with grievances.

The bamboo shield is not broken by the crossbow arrow in time, there are often robes covering their feet and screaming and falling, after a lot of hardships and half an hour to cover Lou's army to the edge of the trench, but it is with the Tang army lance across the trench into a fierce positional battle, the spear lance you come and go, hit each other's shields ping-pong, there are crossbowmen behind the cold arrows, less than a hundred meters away from the Ganges, crazy fighting one after another, not long after someone screamed and fell into the deep trench.

Standing on the towering watchtower more than ten meters behind him, Li Jie stared at the huge battlefield layout map that was fighting to the death below like a god.

Now the fierce fighting is just a corner of this big chess game, thirty miles long from north to south, more than twenty miles deep battlefield spectacularly displayed in front of the present, around a few dark brown ribbons wrapped around, that is after several digging vertical and horizontal coherence has not known how long and wide and deep a few trenches, behind the trench, is as if they are in such a nine-meter-high lookout wooden building one hundred and nine.

Relying on these, the defense system of the Tang army was formed.

Although trench warfare shone brightly during the First and Second World Wars, it was not here that inspired Li Jie, but the figures who do not know whether to count his ancestors or his descendants today.

Li Zicheng.

As a student of history, Li Jie is familiar with the ups and downs and vigorous years of this period, but he is very familiar with the decadence and dreamlike era of the rebel army, the ups and downs of the hellish and the budding capitalism in Jiangnan.

How many times, Li Jie is sighing for the explosion of capital and the loss of the opportunity to become a world-renowned world power, and Li Zicheng, who exhausted the national strength of the Ming Dynasty but did not take charge of it, attracted the Qing army to enter the customs, naturally paid more attention to it, regardless of the merits and demerits of this controversial figure, Li Zicheng's use of troops alone is very interesting to Li Jie, and Li Zicheng's success is only two points.

He understands people's hearts and gives full play to his own characteristics.

Knowing the hearts of the people, Li Zicheng's most famous tactic is the three walls, the horse army rushes first, and if the enemy is defeated, it feigns defeat to attract the official army to pursue, and then 30,000 foot soldiers, spears and forward, stabbing like flying, and the horse army returns left and right, almost invincible.

It's not that this tactic is clever, because if you don't win here, the prince will have to send out the third wall, and the families of the army will fight hard, in order not to put their families in danger, the army will all be one as ten.

On the other hand, he is good at giving full play to his own advantages, Li Zicheng has also done a good job, Li Zicheng is a peasant uprising, his army is a peasant army, and the peasants are best at farming, civil excavation in forced labor.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, it can be said that the battle of Zhuxian Town, which determined the trend of the Central Plains, broke out, and the Ming army supervisor Ding Qirui Shuai, the chief military officer Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei, Yang Dezheng, Fang Anguo, etc., who claimed to be 400,000 The main force of the Ming army in the Central Plains advanced to the center of Henan in order to relieve the siege of Feng, and encountered the main force of Li Zicheng's army in the place where Yue Fei had defeated Jin Wushu.

It's a pity that the bravery of hundreds of years ago did not bring up the younger generations, taking advantage of the internal contradictions of the Ming army, Li Zicheng ordered the department to dig trenches all over the place around Zhuxian Town, the trenches were wide and wide, around a hundred miles, and surrounded the Ming army.

This situation is very similar to today's Fujian country, the homeland was destroyed, hundreds of thousands of Fujian* people, including their own revenge, dare to fight to the death, just like worrying about the family's army, the army is available, the number of Lou Lou's army is huge, but they are afraid of the main defensive ability of the Tang army, and Luo Shun and the king of Chaori are each with their own ghosts, which causes the action of the Lou Qi army to be slow.

Relying on the mining advantages of the farming nation, abundant human resources, and high morale, Li Jie perfectly copied Li Zicheng's strategy and tactics.

Full of vengeful hatred, only more than 2,000 Zuo Xiaowei sergeants dared to fight with more than 100,000 Shalou people in a trench a few hundred meters near the river bank.

Although there is a huge disparity in numbers, the living space of Zuo Xiaowei's two mansions is constantly pressed backwards, but the battle has been going on for almost two hours, the sun is rising higher and higher, and under the scorching heat, whether it is the Tianzhu soldiers and horses in the battle or the soldiers and horses staying in the camp, they have been restless to the extreme under thirst.

"It's almost time for the fire!" Looking up at the blazing sun, Li Jie muttered to himself, and looked down at the army in the melee below again, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but provoke a cold smile.

Thirst made the attack speed of the Shalou people drop a few points again, and the speed of swinging the knife and stabbing the spear slowed down, Rao is so, the army attacked by the Shalou people still has more than 100,000 people, one group was repulsed, and the other group swarmed up, even with hatred, the Tang army was not Sparta after all, and the continuous battle also made them tired.

Several trenches in a row were filled, and seeing that they were about to be thrown down the river, the Tang Army Zhonglang who led the team bit Sheng Lianshan's dry lip, and finally shouted helplessly and resentfully: "Order, pour oil!" ”

The black fire oil that had been prepared was smashed directly into the trench in front of him with the jar, the viscous oil was stained at the bottom of the trench, a layer flowed on the corpse, several torches were thrown in, and the flames of two or three meters high suddenly burst out, and the people who were killing on the pontoon bridge on the trench turned into a fire man in an instant, shouting and screaming and rushing forward.

However, this scene happened for many days, after the frenzied fire man ignited a few comrades, the infantry who dispersed backwards stabbed the fire man to death with a spear without mercy, and he couldn't save it anyway, as for the comrades who were ignited, the small flame was covered by the wet mud, and the large burning area was directly stabbed to death.

Under the cover of the firelight, the remnants of more than 1,500 Tang troops under the leadership of the captain held shields and quickly retreated to both sides of the trench, the strong flames fueled the thirst even more, after extinguishing more than 100 fire people, more than 100,000 people did not have the heart to shoot arrows, one by one looked at the tributaries of the Ganges River flowing opposite the fire, behind the Tang army, covered with blankets, the sweet river seemed to beckon to them at any time.

Finally, at the time of a pillar of incense, the fire was smaller, and they didn't care about the hot smell of the trench, and the extremely thirsty Shalou and his infantry directly shouted excitedly and stepped on the pontoon bridge to cross the trench, and pounced on the rolling Ganges River, far away on the tower in the rear, the excited cries were clear in the ears, but Li Jie and several important ministers of Fujian appeared to smile at this time, and raised the telescope at the same time.

A moment later, the water's edge was in chaos, and the angry roars of more than 100,000 people could be heard clearly, like a nest of ants, and the huge infantry regiment of Shalou exploded, raising its feet and chests as if it had met an enemy who had killed his father, or roaring at the sky with swords.

"Wang Wei, you kid has a lot of ideas." Full of smiles, Li Jie stretched out his hand and clicked on the official hat of Luantai Ling Wang Wei next to him, not ashamed at all, this bad literati was full of laughter and directly gave it up.

"It's not that His Royal Highness the King of Min is edified."

"Hahaha." In the small lookout, several Fujian monarchs and ministers laughed heartily, and the loud laughter was in stark contrast to the painful rage by the river.

By the river, next to the angry army of Shalouqi, a buffalo that had just been slaughtered at night was neatly spread out under the meadows on the riverbank, and the blood of the ox stained the bottom of the meadows red, and continued to seep into the water along the flow of the river.

The thirsty are going crazy, the cow is still a holy object in religious beliefs, and the water stained with the blood of the cow cannot be river anyway, no wonder this group of Shalou people are angry like this.

It's torture.