Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 445 Datang Biochemical Weapon Attack
Chapter [-] Datang Biochemical Weapon Attack

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month in the third year of Wude, Li Shimin led the Six Guards of the Tang Dynasty with tens of thousands of troops and arrived at Tongguan. Li Shimin joined forces with Li Shentong, the general guarding Tongguan.Li Shimin was inspecting the three armies outside Tongguan City, and Li Shimin said a word: "This king will just say something that can cheer you up. Add food tonight, and pickles and fat are enough!"

Tens of thousands of Tang soldiers shouted loudly: "Good!"

The short one-word roar was like thunder exploding in the sky.

Li Shentong has already had more than 3000 stoves set up outside Tongguan City, and steaming meals have already been prepared on each stove. It is an exaggeration to have enough fat for tens of thousands of Tang soldiers. Two meats can satisfy the supply.It is precisely because of the briquettes invented by Chen Ying that meals during the march have become much easier at this time.

You know, the firewood for a meal for tens of thousands of troops was a headache in the past, but now there is no such problem at all.

More than 2 pieces of briquettes are more than enough to process meals for an army of tens of thousands of people. Each soldier is also given a pot of hot water to scald his feet.

All the soldiers of the Tang army lined up to eat in each group, while Li Shimin led Zhai Changsun, Du Junchuo, Zheng Rentai, Li Mengchang, Dugu Yanyun, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan and other generals to gallop all the way to To the banks of the Yellow River.

Li Shentong pointed to the thirteen pontoon bridges built on the ice of the Yellow River and said with a smile, "His Royal Highness, the thirteen pontoon bridges have been built and can cross the river at any time."

Li Shimin nodded and said: "There is no rush for now, sharpen the knife and cut firewood by mistake, the whole army will rest for a day and cross the river the next day."

Li Shentong offered a treasure and said to Li Shimin, "His Royal Highness Qin Wang, I can get a treasure for you."

Li Shimin said: "What a treasure the emperor got!"

Li Shentong asked someone to bring a set of dark heavy armor, handed it to Li Shimin and said, "Erlang, what do you think of this armor?"

Li Shimin didn't talk nonsense, he gave Zhai Changsun a wink.

Zhai Changsun understood, and put this set of heavy armor on the wooden stake that tied the horse.Li Shimin raised the spear, aimed at the one on the stake and stabbed it fiercely!
"铛..." a golden inscription, and the ear-piercing sound of the golden inscription sounded, making even the war horse feel obviously uneasy.I saw sparks shooting out, and the sharp edge of the horse in Li Shimin's hand showed a curved arc.

Li Shimin looked at this scene, obviously startled, laughed for a long time and said: "This is a precious armor that is unique in all!"

Li Shentong smiled mysteriously and said, "I got a pair of such treasures for 130!"

Li Shimin was overjoyed and said, "Really!"

"I learned that Erlang is going to expand the black and iron armor, and Gu has reserved it for you!" He said, pointing to a huge convoy by the river, there were about fifty or sixty carriages, densely packed with armor.These earth-colored markings that originally belonged to Zheng Guo have been completely painted off, and all the ones replaced are dark and shiny black.Black is black.

In fact, Li Shentong has a very high status in Li Shimin's heart.In the first year of Zhenguan (627), he paid homage to Kaifu Yitong and granted five hundred households.The generals did not dare to say meritorious service above Li Shentong. When Tang Taizong Li Shimin demoted all the clan and county kings to be county princes, Li Shentong was also able to keep his meritorious deeds from being demoted. This shows Li Shentong's merits and status.

Li Shentong has always been on good terms with Li Shimin, and the key is that Li Shentong is very good at dealing with things, even though the armor that Chen Ying sold to Li Shentong was less than half of the market price.But more than 1000 sets of armor will cost nearly [-] pieces.But people don't blink their eyes.

When Zhai Changsun saw these armors, he couldn't move his eyes.Excitedly, he said to Li Shimin: "His Royal Highness, the Xuanjia cavalry can use this armor to expand three more regiments!"

Li Shimin nodded, and looked at Li Shendao suspiciously: "How did the emperor get so many heavy armors? You can't find such heavy armors in the Chang'an government treasury!"

"The heavy equipment in the Chang'an treasury, how can it be the emperor's turn!" Li Shentong pointed to Fang Zhifang, and said in a low voice: "This is all obtained from the champion general. of!"

Li Shimin asked strangely: "Uncle Huang, is there a shortage of food in Chen Ying's place?"

"The lack is not really lacking. I heard that General Chen Ying took tens of thousands of hungry people in Shan County and Taolin. General Chen Ying took the army rations to help the hungry people, so... his army didn't even have enough food! "

Li Shimin said: "Qu Tupu shoot!"

"Chen is here!"

"Since General Chen Ying is so short of food, then transfer him from the Central Army... give him [-] shi!"

On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month in the third year of Wude, Li Shimin's vanguard, led by Li Mengchang, began to cross the river as a vanguard.Until noon on the [-]th day of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin's troops basically crossed the Yellow River, only some civilians and luggage remained on the west bank of the Yellow River.

Recently, at dawn on the [-]th day of the first lunar month, all the crossings can be completed.

……

Li Shimin led hundreds of thousands of Tang troops out of Tongguan, and the news of the eastward crossing of the Yellow River reached Luoyang. Wang Shichong was shocked.

Jing Wang Xingben Town Hulao.

King Tai of the Song Dynasty took control of Huaizhou to strengthen the defenses around Luoyang. On the other hand, he dispatched troops to guard the eastern capital closely. Hanjia City, Lu Wang Wangdao followed Yaoyi City.

Wang Shichong personally led more than [-] generals of the forbidden army in Luoyang City, out of Luoyang, and set up a battle camp in Cijian, west of the eastern capital, posing for a decisive battle with the Tang army.

The ideal is very full, but the reality is too skinny.

Wang Shichong's idea was very good. He felt that even if he couldn't defeat Tang Jun, he could still smash Li Tang's teeth with the help of [-] to [-] Zheng Jun soldiers.Even if he spends all his family money and ends up taking advantage of Dou Jiande, it is absolutely wrong to take advantage of old Li Yuan.

According to the military comparison of Tang and Zheng, although Zheng is slightly weaker.However, Sheng was fighting on the ground and was on the defensive. There should have been a more tragic see-saw scene. Unexpectedly, as soon as the war started, Wang Shichong's situation deteriorated rapidly.

Li Shimin's soldiers and horses had not yet marched to the territory of Zheng State, and they confused Governor Shi Zhang Gongjin and Governor Cui Shu.Without even seeing Li Shimin's shadow, he raised the flag and surrendered.

In fact, the situation of Wang Shichong vomiting blood has not really started yet. Tian Zan, the governor of Xianzhou, has already started to move when he saw Zhang Gongjin surrendering. Tian Zan, the governor of Xianzhou, leads the 25 prefectures in Jingxiang area. Two-thirds, but he has not had time to actually control the area south of Xianzhou.

In fact, Tian Zan surrendered 25 states under his command (25 states!), which directly caused Wang Shichong's power to collapse instantly.

Although Tian Zan has not yet obtained a specific way to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, it is only at this time that he is ready to betray Wang Shichong.

……

Under the Hangu Pass, Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan, Wei Wenzhong, Feng Li and other generals followed Chen Ying and led the army to line up under the Hangu Pass.Looking at the majestic Hangu Pass, Zhang Shigui said with a worried face, "This Hangu Pass is really hard to beat!"

Chen Ying laughed disapprovingly and said, "What a joke, Wang Renze still wants to fight down-to-earth when he meets me? There is no such thing."

Luo Shixin has been training for the past half a year, and he hasn't won a battle yet, but he is very depressed.Now Chen Ying transferred the left and right guards and the left and right siyu to transfer the cavalry of eighteen Yue cavalry regiments from the eighteen zhechong mansions to Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui.

More than [-] cavalrymen, fully equipped with the equipment of hooked and sickle cavalry, used the combat method of Dingyuan army cavalry to carry out intense training.

Luo Shi's confidence had long been simmering with a monstrous fire: "General Chen, the general is willing to lead the Yue cavalry army to take the lead!"

Zhang Shigui also shouted: "Yes, yes, General Chen, Zheng Jun, bastards, they haven't seen the strength of our hooked and spear cavalry!"

Chen Ying raised his head, looked at the sky and said, "Hmph, I'm not crazy about attacking the city with cavalry."

Zhang Huaiwei smiled, and didn't take the credit.

But Duan Zhigan is not the same, he is really serious now.Now his younger brother follows Li Shimin, and is officially a Zhongwu General on the fourth rank, one level higher than him.If he can't get a head start, can't be promoted, and is overwhelmed by his younger brother, he will not even have the face to go back during the New Year: "General, the last general...the last general must take the lead!"

Seeing this scene, An Xing was overjoyed: "The military spirit is available!"

Standing at the head of Hangu Pass, Wang Renze couldn't hear clearly.I saw the cheers of the soldiers of the Tang army like thunder, and the kerosene prepared on the city wall was shaken to the point of microwave.

Wang Renze frowned: "The morale of the Tang army is like a rainbow, this battle is not easy!"

Cui Binyou said helplessly: "The northwest wind is blowing now, no matter the wind direction, climate or season, it is very beneficial to the Tang army. Now that the northwest wind blows, as long as Chen Ying lights a few bonfires under the city, and then rises With thick smoke, there is no way for people to stand on our city walls..."

Speaking of this, Cui Binyou really couldn't continue.

Wang Renze no longer knew what to say about Cui Binyou, his crow's mouth was really sharp.

As soon as Cui Binyou's words fell, the soldiers of the Tang army under Hangu Pass had already started to make new movements. Thousands of soldiers, led by their respective captains, held bundles of dry firewood and placed them on both sides of the city wall. Standing still at the place of the arrow, these soldiers threw the dry firewood in their hands on the ground, and soon built a pile of dry firewood about [-] steps long and more than five feet high under the city of Hangu Pass.

Not only dry wood, but also black, sticky liquid poured on the dry wood.That's right, this kind of thing is asphalt, which is also the residue of refining kerosene, but it's a good thing, it emits a pungent smell when it burns, and it also produces huge thick smoke.

Of course, what Chen Ying asked people to put on the woodpile was not only asphalt, but many other things.

At this time, the firewood pile has become a garbage dump.Sulfur, aconitum, yellow nitrate, crotons, wolves, tung oil, arsenic, nux, and other sundries are all thrown on the dry wood pile.

After a while, the firewood pile was piled up a full foot.

Luo Shixin looked at the pile of firewood in front of him, and said inexplicably, "This is it, can you chew down Hangu Pass?"

"Haha!" Chen Ying laughed and said, "Is it hard to say now, let's try it and then we'll know?"

In fact, what Chen Ying took out was the earliest biochemical weapon in Chinese history.

In the "Wu Jing Zongyao" of the Northern Song Dynasty, a poisonous smoke ball was recorded, which mentioned in detail the raw materials and usage methods for making this poisonous smoke ball. The prescription of the poison smoke ball is: "The ball weighs five catties, and use sulfur Two, five liang of aconitum, 15 liang per catty of flame nitrate, five liang of croton, five liang of chamaejamas, two and a half tung oil, two and a half of small oil, five liang of charcoal powder, two and a half liang of asphalt, two and a half liang of arsenic, One liang of yellow wax, one liang of bamboo rut, one liang of hemp rut, pounded together into a ball, and threaded through it with a piece of hemp rope, one foot long and two feet long, weighing half a catty, which is used as a string. 14 liang of hemp skin, 12 liang of asphalt, [-] liang of yellow wax, [-] liang of yellow dan, half a catty of charcoal powder, smashed together and spread on the outside. If the gas is inhaled, the mouth and nose will bleed. The two things are mixed together Fire the cannons and kill the besiegers."

Although Chen Ying can create this kind of poisonous smoke ball, it is actually not difficult to guard against this primitive primary chemical weapon, because this kind of chemical weapon is not overbearing enough, and it will only cause harm to the human body when poisonous gas is inhaled.

However, it is actually very easy to guard against this kind of poisonous smoke. Just wet the towel and cover your mouth and nose to avoid being hurt by the poisonous gas.

Luo Shidao: "What if it doesn't work?"

Chen Yingdao: "Then let's change the game!"

Just as Wang Renze was in a hurry to evacuate the soldiers on the wall of Hangu Pass, Chen Ying gave the order: "Light it up!"

Dozens of soldiers, pointing torches, ran to this huge garbage dump.Then he threw the torch in his hand on the rubbish heap.

The garbage dump was immediately ignited by the torch, but the imaginary flame did not come out directly. The firewood pile was like a black dragon that had been chopped into dozens of sections. The thick smoke was like a roaring black dragon, and its claws and claws fluttered. To the soldiers on the wall of Hangu Pass.

Wang Ren watched these several black dragons roaring towards him, and realized something was wrong.

The ancient Chinese people were not stupid. They had already discovered that the higher they stood, the more they would be smoky.Wang Ren hastily ordered: "Get down!"

The soldiers of the Zheng army hurriedly lay down on the city wall.

But the city wall of Hangu Pass is as high as three feet and six feet, which is almost as high as a three-story building in later generations. With such a high distance, how low can it go if you lie down?
After a while, there was a hysterical coughing sound on the city wall.

"Cough...cough..."

This severe coughing sound spread quickly like a good plague.After a while, Zheng Jun soldiers on the entire city wall coughed heart-piercingly.

Wang Ren is alright, he has a handkerchief, and he can cover his mouth and nose with the handkerchief to block the attack of poisonous gas.

It's just that the ordinary soldiers didn't have such good luck. Many soldiers had already started to be poisoned, their faces were blue, and they had difficulty breathing. Some soldiers had already started coughing up blood when they coughed.

Some soldiers of the Zheng army began to fall into a coma. Wang Ren looked at the soldiers of the Zheng army around them, one by one fell on the city wall, struggling in pain. Wang Ren shouted at Chen Ying who was under the city wall: "Children Chen Ying, you are not well!" die……"

PS: There is something wrong with the cervical spine. I went for a massage at night, so the update is a bit late.

(End of this chapter)