Chapter 14 Snow Field Trapped in Horse Pit
Chen Ying hoped that the news was fake. He could take advantage of the opportunity of Shiliffs leading all the elite troops to take advantage of the opportunity to take over the Bogulu City. However, there are more than 9,000 Turkic troops in Bogulu City, of which more than 3,000 are the most elite Turkic troops.
The Wangzhang Army is equivalent to the imperial guards of the Tang Dynasty. They were originally the personal soldiers of the Wolf clan of the Ashina clan, called "Fuli". These soldiers who made contributions during the founding of the Turks had higher status than ordinary soldiers and enjoyed extraordinary treatment. However, they were different from the imperial guards of the Han Dynasty. These imperial guards of the Han Dynasty usually participated in the war and maintained rich combat experience.
Moreover, the equipment of this army is the best among the Turkic armies. Generally, the Turkic light cavalry is just leather armor and cavalry bows. The tribe is rich and poor. Some are equipped with a small amount of iron armor, but the Fuli army is all iron armored cavalry, which is similar to the equipment of the Xuan armored cavalry of the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, most of these armors are mainly fish scale armor with super defensive capabilities.
This result made Chen Ying stunned and caught Chen Ying off guard.
In the face of absolute strength, any strategy is a laborious task. In the face of absolute strength, any strategy is a laborious task. At this time, Chen Ying finally understood the true meaning of this sentence.
Standing on the watchtower where the cold wind was like a knife, Chen Ying's brain was running rapidly. Even if he was on the 16th Regiment of the Four Departments, he still could not break the siege of Lingzhou. Chen Ying felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
"what to do?"
"what to do?"
Chen Ying repeatedly asked himself that even if Chen Ying thought about it, he had never thought of a solution to the problem.
In fact, Chen Ying is not helpless. If Chen Ying brings the troops back to Chang'an now, although the mission to support the state failed, Chen Ying would only be dereliction of duty at most and should not lose his head. It is amazing that he would be dismissed from office and become a title.
However, Chen Ying could not accept this result. As long as he had no official position and title protection now, with his holiday with Su Hu, Su Hu would definitely make him unable to survive or die.
Now he is different from the past and has broken up with Princess Pingyang. Without Li Xiuning as his backer, his relationship with Li Jiancheng is actually just a layer of paper. When he still has value, he can still speak in front of Li Jiancheng. But once he goes back in shame, Li Jiancheng will never give him up easily.
In a dilemma, Chen Ying had no way out at all. He pinched his fists and his knuckles and frowned. Suddenly, Chen Ying ordered: "Call the big tents of the Central Army to discuss matters!"
Just as Chen Ying turned around, he suddenly saw that the hand warmer that was originally warming was already trapped in nearly one foot of snow, and formed a small hole with a thickness of a bowl and a vertical and smooth vertical hole.
Seeing this small hole, Chen Ying's head suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
"Stuck the horse pit!"
Of course, this horse trap was not the horse trap in Li Jing's military offensive and defensive equipment. Chen Ying thought of the horse trap that was spread all over the northern three passes during the Northern Song Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, he lost the place where the horse breeders were raised in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and there was a shortage of horses. Infantry was at a disadvantage when the infantry fought against the cavalry. In this case, the horse trap was born. This small hole that was only the size of a bowl and was vertically downward would cause the horse to break the legs of the horses, and the horses were destroyed.
A hand warmer can melt the ice and snow into a pit in a short time. It is a pit that traps the horse, which is even easier than traps that are dug out on the flat ground.
Chen Ying used the stove to test in the snow again. With almost a stick of incense, he could form a horse trap. However, the speed was too slow.
Of course, in order to avoid burning hands, the temperature of the hand warmer is not high. If it is changed to the form of a hand warmer, can it be better and faster to create a horse trap?
Thinking of this, Chen Ying found Lin Chuanfu and mentioned his thoughts to Lin Chuanfu. Lin Chuanfu said: "Don't worry, the general manager, this kind of thing is very easy!"
Thinking of the strategy of defeating the enemy, Chen Ying's unhappiness was swept away. When Chen Ying returned to the central army's tent, the generals had been waiting for a long time, and of course no one expressed their unhappiness. Not long after, the generals arrived in the central army's tent.
"Meet General Chen!"
Chen Ying had a relaxed smile on his face and said loudly: "We are the one who eats the king's fortune and eats the grain of the people in the world. If we live alone, what is the difference between them and animals! Now Lingzhou is in danger, and this general manager decided to fight the enemy to the death!"
The generals clasped their fists and said, "Abide by the general's military order!"
"I'll give you two hours to wait to prepare for the battle!"
The generals were suddenly stunned. Chen Ying usually asked them to gather and prepare very little. Now it takes two hours, which made the generals feel incredible. If you have more time, you will naturally have more preparations and don’t have to get busy.
They didn't know that Chen Ying reserved the time to create a new hand stove.
For about a quarter of an hour, Lin Chuanfu took out the hand stove he built. The real purpose of this furnace is to melt the snow, so there is no insulation material at all. It is just one large and one small, and two iron tubes are wrapped together. In order to prevent the charcoal fire from extinguishing, it is different from ordinary charcoal furnaces.
Chen Ying was carrying a hand stove full of charcoal. At this time, the outer iron sheet of this hand stove was burning red and threw it directly into the snow pile. In a few breaths, a horse trap was formed.
Chen Ying was very satisfied with this new hand stove and looked at Lin Chuanfu and said, "Is it easy to build this hand stove? This general needs one thousand, and how long does it take to not two thousand?"
Lin Chuanfu said: "This kind of hand stove is not difficult. If General Chen gives me another thousand civilians, the subordinates can guarantee that one thousand can be built in four hours!"
"No, I don't have that much time!" Chen Ying said: "I need two thousand people. I can transfer all the civil servants to you. Can I complete the two thousand hand furnaces in two hours?"
"This..." Lin Chuanfu said: "Do your best!"
"It's not about trying your best, it's necessary to complete it!" Chen Ying said in an unquestionable tone: "I'll do it well, I'll ask you for rewards. I can't do it well in military law!"
Lin Chuanfu sighed helplessly.
When it was dark, the clouds were as dark as lead, and the dark clouds were pressing on everyone's hearts. The cold wind from Siberia whistled and blew on his face like a knife cutting. On the empty snow field, snow particles had already fallen down.
Chen Ying narrowed his eyes and looked at the majestic Thin-Bone City in the distance. The tassels and beads on both sides of his cheeks were blowing on his ears and causing pain. Although the upcoming blizzard was extremely unfavorable to the march, the Turkic cavalry had already rushed to Lingzhou City in large numbers, and the blizzard became a favorable cover.
Originally, Chen Ying had given up attacking Bogulu City and was preparing to spare Bogulu City and join Duan Zhigan, who was guarding Hongshan Fort, and Luo Shixin's troops rushed to Lingzhou City at all costs. When he was using the field battle, he used the horse pit to trap the Turks.
However, no matter how good the plan is, it cannot keep up with the change. Chen Ying did not want to fight the Thin Bone Lucheng, but the Turks wanted to fight him.
After Livercut led his army away, the largest official of the Turkic people in Bogulu City was "Fu" Yu Guni. According to the Turkic official system, the children of the Asina family could be appointed as Ye Hu and Shi, while other tribes of surnames could only be appointed as "Fu". Yu Guni had 6,000 cavalry under his command. When the scout reported that Yu Guni had a large convoy passed by the Tang army, Yu Guni was immediately moved.
The tribe where Yu Guni was located was Yu Shishi. As a remote Turkic tribe, Yu Shishishi's tribe was very poor, and they were all afraid of poverty. Yu Guni got more than 1,000 large carts of the Tang army, and Yu Guni was full of wealth. He was afraid that the "Fu Li Army" would rely on his identity to steal their supplies, so he did not notify Fu Li Army at all.
Yu Guni hurriedly ordered six thousand tribes and rushed towards Chen Ying's troops.
In order to prevent the Tang army from escaping, Yu Guni ordered the six generals under his command to separate from the left, center and right, and three cavalrymen were fanning and surrounded Chen Ying's troops.
Yu Guni pointed at Chen Ying's handsome flag and said, "Roar up and kill them!"
In fact, Chen Ying was very careful. During the formation process, the unblocked snowfield made the watchtower walking in the convoy clear at a glance. When the Turks left the city, Chen Ying had already received the news. Although Chen Ying ordered the troops to still march, he quietly began to arrange the trap of horse pits with two thousand civilians.
When the hand furnace melts the snow, a large amount of steam is generated. The two thousand hand furnaces melt the snow at the same time, forming a large amount of steam. The white steam hides the entire convoy in the thick fog, which makes the Turkic cavalry hesitate.
Chen Ying actually didn't expect that the concentrated use of a large number of hand stoves would have such effects.
More than 6,000 Turkic cavalry suddenly fell off their war horses, screaming and screaming incessantly.
Yu Guni was shocked: "There is a trap!"
But other Turks were different. They felt that it was not a trap, but a Tang army knew magic. A large amount of steam spread, making them unable to see any Tang army soldier. But they fell off their war horses at an inexplicable wonder.
Chapter completed!