Chapter 819: Lore

Before rushing to the valley, Daniel Zhang quickly ordered his two younger brothers, Zhang Meng and Zhang Biao, to lead 3,000 cavalry each to the two wings to surround the valley. Then he sent 4,000 cavalry to set up a defense in the rear to block the Turkic soldiers and horses who came to reinforce them.

He then ordered some of his soldiers and horses to start shooting arrows at the Turkic soldiers along the valley mouth stream, and at the same time asked the army engineers to quickly dismount and assemble various light long-range equipment to prepare for storming the valley.

Due to the surprise attack of the light cavalry, the engineer battalion with the army could not carry heavy equipment, and carried some equipment that could be quickly disassembled and assembled. Torches were lit, and the sappers quickly combined the scattered parts, and in a short time, hundreds of Fuyuan crossbows, dozens of small mine-throwing vehicles, and dozens of fierce fire fuel tanks had been assembled.

Everything was ready, Daniel Zhang waved his hand fiercely: "Do it!" ”

At the sound of an order, the soldiers began to place explosive bags one by one on the mine-throwing truck. Iron crossbows were mounted on the crossbows, and some soldiers were adding fire oil to the fire oil spitter cabinet. More soldiers were lighting their crossbow arrows, and tens of thousands of crossbow arrows were loaded, and one by one the crossbow arrows were set on fire.

"Put!" Daniel Zhang waved his hand violently, and the next moment, countless fire meteor showers suddenly rose above the mouth of the small valley. Tens of thousands of rockets form a spectacular fire rain meteor in the dark night, arrows rain down, and the sparks burn the prairie fire.

Thousands of Turkic food guards who were waiting in the valley mouth suffered a fatal blow at once, rockets fell from the sky, and Turkic soldiers continued to fall to the ground with arrows, and a few Turkic soldiers who used small leather shields to hold rockets did not be happy for long.

A round of rockets just stopped. The second round of rockets is here again. The crossbows equipped by the Chen army became a deadly weapon that the Turks could not resist at this time.

In the rain of arrows, there are even big crossbows, and the thunder carts continue to shoot huge iron crossbows, often one crossbow penetrates the bodies of several people, and the leather shields of the Turks cannot resist at all. The Turks were more frightened than the bolts of the thunder they had heard all night. The explosives that were constantly thrown across the creek by the mine-throwing cart continued to explode around the Turks, and the broken nails and iron in the explosive bags splashed in all directions, although they could not kill people for a while, but the huge injury rate made the Turks lose their combat effectiveness.

The heavy blow lasted less than a moment. Nearly half of the Turks have already lost their combat effectiveness, either dead or wounded.

Just as Chen Jun's fierce attack paused for a while, and the Turks thought that Chen Jun had lost the feared weapon, dozens of huge fire oil spitter cabinets that had just been assembled were pushed to the front of the battle by many Chen Jun shouting.

The huge wooden boxes of the Buddha are equipped with bamboo tubes of fierce fire oil and fire-breathing cabinets, which makes the Turks a little confused. No one knows what this stuff is. But the next moment, all the Turks regretted not running away at the sight of this thing.

I saw that in the bamboo tube, a burst of flame suddenly erupted, and the Buddha Fire Dragon came into the world. The blazing flames erupted far away, directly over the stream, and sprayed on the rows of horses, deer's feet, and wooden fences behind the stream.

The fierce flames instantly ignited the wooden fortifications, and countless Turkic soldiers hiding behind the wooden fence were ignited at once.

The fierce flames lit the entire Turkic soldiers into torches in an instant, and countless miserable howls continued to sound in the darkness of the night, and resounded through the valley with the burning men who kept running and dancing.

Some Turkic soldiers even wanted to step forward to help their comrades extinguish the fire on their bodies, but the fire oil was extremely violent, and it was studied by the Chen Military Firearms Bureau. There are a lot of special things added to it, and when you get it on your body, you can still burn even if you jump into the water, and even if you bury it with soil, you can still burn. Basically, this kind of flame in the body, except for being burned alive, is basically hopeless. The Turkic soldiers who put out the fire were often careless, not only did they fail to extinguish the fire of their comrades, but also set themselves on fire. …,

The fire ignited by the oil burned fiercely. Go fast, too. In less than a moment, most of the wooden fortifications at the mouth of the valley behind the creek had been destroyed, and only black smoke was left everywhere. As for the Turks who had previously defended at the valley mouth, less than half of the 5,000 men and horses were left at this time. Heavy casualties. The rest of them were all terrified by the fierce fire oil. They all retreated into the valley.

"Kill! Burn all the grain and grass in the valley, not a single grain left, not a bunch of hay, not a single piece of dry meat! Daniel Zhang pointed forward with his sword, and nearly 10,000 elite cavalry of the Chen army turned over their horses, rushed forward, stepped across the shallow stream, and quickly killed in the valley.

The valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one exit from the creek. Originally, such a valley was chosen as a place to store grain, precisely because of the terrain of this valley, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and safe and reliable. It's just that at this time, the terrain of this valley suddenly made the Turks a turtle in an urn, surrounded by Chen Jun, even if the Turks rushed to the rescue, it was difficult to rescue for a while.

Nearly 10,000 cavalry rushed into the valley, and the remaining 2,000 or so Turkic grain guards who had already become frightened birds did not resist a few times, and they were all nailed to death by arrows one by one.

Looking at the grain and grass piled up like a hill in the entire valley, Daniel Zhang also sighed a little. Looking at the scale, there are no less than a million stones of grain and grass in this valley, and it seems that the Turks have been preparing for the southern expedition for a long time, otherwise it would not have been possible to hoard so much grain and grass here so quickly. At this scale, not to mention supporting 200,000 Turks, even if all the 400,000 troops arrived here, these grains and grass could feed the 400,000 Turkic army for half a year. With these grains and grasses, the Turks could completely ignore Chen Jun's previous strategy of clearing the wilderness. They can hold out until next year's summer harvest, and they don't have to worry about running out of food halfway like Tongye Hunan's expedition.

"Burn, burn everything!"

The soldiers began to pour fire oil and throw torches, and in an instant, the countless grain and grass warehouses in the valley began to burn into flames, and the fierce fire reached into the sky, and the huge fire turned the nearby ten miles into daylight.

Along with the fire, not only the millions of Turkic army rations were consumed, but also the 5,000 Turkic defenders stationed in the valley.

"General, a large group of Turks is coming this way!" Zhang Biao rushed to the mouth of the valley and encountered Daniel Zhang leading his troops to withdraw from the valley.

Daniel Zhang glanced back at the valley that was already like a volcano, and said with a smile: "Unfortunately, they are one step late!" The biography will order, let's withdraw! ”

Twenty thousand Chen rode back and forth like the wind, and they were far away in an instant.

As soon as Chen Jun left, a violent sound of horses' hooves had arrived, and Desire Valley had just arrived with tens of thousands of cavalry, and when he saw the grain storage valley that had become a volcano, he couldn't help but turn pale, and almost fell off the horse. As one of the ten khanates, he certainly knew how long he had been planning for this southern expedition to the Great Khan. Even in order to avoid the defeat of the Khan, Tong Yehu requisitioned grain and grass from various tribes early, and prepared grain and grass for the army for half a year.

But now, millions of stones of grain and grass have turned into a fire.

"Fight the fire, put out the fire!" Wanting Gushe jumped off the horse and was about to rush to the fire, Teler Ashina and Simo hugged him: "It's not saved, this fire is so big, it can't be saved." It's gone, all the food and grass is gone! ”

Wanting Gu She's face was pale, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief, he got on his horse again, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Come with me, chase down those hateful Chen soldiers who burned my grain and grass with me, catch them, this is supposed to make them break their corpses to pieces!" Walk! ”

Approaching the direction of the Chinese army's camp, Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong were still leading their troops to rush. 10,000 elite cavalry, at this time has lost nearly twenty percent. Despite the heavy casualties, the two generals showed no intention of retreating. They received an order to storm the Chinese army, only advancing and not retreating. Although the battle has been fought so far, more and more soldiers and horses have gathered near the Chinese army of the Turks, and even the Turks have completely reacted from the panic and are rapidly mobilizing forces to surround them. But that still didn't make them back down. …,

The fierce fire in the northwest direction, the sky-high fire, made the radius of more than ten miles as bright as day. This huge change was not only seen by the Turks, but also by Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong, who were rushing to kill.

At the first glance of the fire, both of them invariably understood what was going on, and they also roughly knew the original intention of the marshal to let them storm the Turkic Chinese army. But despite this, before the two received the new military order, they did not have the idea of retreating on their own.

Sitting on his horse, he was directing his troops and horses to surround and strangle the Chen army, which dared to rush straight into the Chinese army, and his face suddenly changed, and he looked at the fire burning in the northwest with a pale face. With such a fire, of course, he understood that only the grain and grass in the valley could be burned.

When his mind changed drastically, a guard covered in blood rushed over and shouted in a panic: "Khan, the Chen army burned our army's grain and grass, millions of grains, and there are no grains!" ”

"Who? Who is it? Yili Little Khan shouted: "Did Wang Rengong personally lead his troops to burn our grain and grass?" It's just that he doesn't believe his own words in his heart, Wang Rengong only has a total of 50,000 people, and there are already 10,000 horses here. There were only 40,000 cavalry left, how could he have killed from the southern camp to the northern camp in such a short period of time, and he had found the Turkic grain and grass camp so clearly. You know, the Turks kept their grain and grass in the valley not only because of the safety of the valley's terrain, but also because of its hidden terrain.

This Chen cavalry has only been killed for an hour or two, how could they find the grain and grass camp so quickly, and burn all the grain and grass at once, you know, there are still five thousand elite wolf soldiers guarding the valley. What's more, along the way from the southern camp to the northwest camp, there are still so many tribal soldiers and horses camped.

"I don't know, my lord, those Chen Jun burned the grain and grass, and they have already killed the Chinese army again!"

"How is this possible?" Yili Little Khan was shocked, did Wang Rengong die? attacked the 200,000 Turkic camp with 50,000 cavalry, and was not satisfied with burning grain and grass by luck, but dared to kill the Chinese army?

Just as he was shocked, the herald, covered in blood and wearing a wolf's helmet on his head, suddenly burst into flames and stabbed the little Khan in the throat with a swift sword. The little Khan who was in a state of shock and distraction did not expect that among the ten thousand armies, in one night, he would actually be assassinated twice! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )