Chapter 819 Lore
Before rushing to the valley, Zhang Yong quickly ordered his two younger brothers Zhang Meng and Zhang Biao to lead three thousand cavalry to the two wings to surround the valley. Then he sent 4,000 cavalry to set up defenses behind to block the Turkic troops coming to reinforce.
Then, while he ordered some soldiers to start shooting arrows at the Turkic soldiers at the stream at the entrance of the valley, he also asked the army engineers in the army to quickly dismount and form various light-range equipment to prepare to attack the valley.
Due to the light cavalry raid, the engineering battalion of the accompanying army was unable to carry heavy equipment, and they were equipped with equipment that could be quickly disassembled and assembled. Torches were lit, and the engineers quickly combined the scattered parts. In a moment, hundreds of Fuyuan crossbows, dozens of small lightning-throwing vehicles, and dozens of hot oil cabinets had been assembled.
Everything was ready, Zhang Yong waved his hand fiercely: "Do it!"
With a command, the soldiers began to put their bags on the thunder-throwing chariots. They put the iron crossbow frames on the Fuyuan crossbows, and some soldiers were adding irritating oil to the fire cabinet. More soldiers were igniting their crossbow arrows. Tens of thousands of crossbow arrows were loaded, and crossbow arrows were ignited.
"Let it go!" Zhang Yong waved his hand fiercely. The next moment, countless fire meteor showers suddenly rose above the small valley entrance. Tens of thousands of rockets formed the spectacular fire meteor in the dark night. Arrows were like rain, and sparks spread across the prairie.
Thousands of Turkic food protection soldiers who were waiting for the battle at the valley mouth were suddenly hit by a fatal blow. Rockets fell all over the sky, and Turkic soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground. The few Turkic soldiers who used small-skinned shields to block the rockets were not happy for long.
The first round of rockets had just stopped. The second round of rockets arrived again. The crossbows equipped by Chen Junren became a deadly weapon that the Turks could not resist.
In the rain of arrows, there were even large crossbows. Thundercarts kept shooting huge iron crossbows. Often a crossbow penetrated several people's bodies, and the Turkish shields could not resist them. Compared with crossbow arrows, the Turks were more frightened by the thunder that had heard the sound of thunder all night tonight. The thundercarts kept throwing through the streams by the thundercarts kept popping up around the Turks. The nailed iron in the explosion bags sputtered everywhere. Although they could not kill people for a while, the huge injury rate made the Turks lose their combat effectiveness.
The fierce attack lasted less than a moment. Nearly half of the Turks had been killed or injured and lost their combat effectiveness.
Just as Chen Jun's fierce attack was paused for a while, the Turks thought that Chen Jun had lost the fearful weapon, dozens of huge turbulent oil spray cabinets that had just been assembled were pushed to the front of the formation by many Chen Jun.
It seemed like huge wooden boxes and bamboo tubes of hot oil spray cabinets, which made the Turks a little confused. No one knew what kind of thing this was. But the next moment, all the Turks regretted not running away immediately when they saw this thing.
I saw a fire suddenly spurting out from the bamboo tubes, as if a fire dragon came to the world. The hot flames spewed out of Xu Yuan, and directly crossed the stream and sprayed on the rows of horses, deer feet, and wooden fences behind the stream.
The violent flames instantly ignited the wooden fortifications, and countless Turkic soldiers hiding behind the wooden fence were suddenly ignited.
The fierce flames instantly lit the Turkic soldiers into torches. In the dark night, countless miserable howls kept ringing, and the fire people running and dancing in the valley resounded.
Some Turkic soldiers wanted to go forward to help their companions extinguish the fire on their bodies, but the ignition oil was extremely fierce. After research by Chen Junyiwei Bureau, many special objects were added. Once they touched the body, they could still burn even if they jumped into the water. Even if they were buried with soil, they could still burn. Basically, the flames in their bodies were basically unsuccessful except being burned alive. The Turkic soldiers who put out the fire were often accidentally, not only did not extinguish the fire of their companions, but also caused themselves to burn themselves.
The fire that burned the tinder oil burned violently and went quickly. In less than a moment, most of the wooden fortifications at the entrance of the valley behind the stream were destroyed, leaving only black smoke everywhere. The Turkic people who had previously lined up for defense at the entrance of the valley were less than half of them. There were heavy casualties and injuries. The rest were all frightened by the tinder oil and retreated into the valley.
"Kill! Boil all the food and grass in Guanggu, don't leave a piece of food, don't leave a bunch of hay, don't leave a piece of dried meat!" Zhang Yong pulled his knife and pointed forward. Nearly 10,000 elite cavalry of Chen's army turned over and rushed forward, stepped onto the shallow stream, and rushed towards the valley.
The small valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one exit from the stream. I originally chose such a valley as a place to stockpile grain because of the terrain of this valley, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and is safe and reliable. However, at this time, the terrain of this valley suddenly turned the Turks into turtles in a jar and surrounded by Chen Jun. Even if the Turks come to rescue, they will be difficult to rescue for a while.
Nearly 10,000 cavalry rushed into the valley, and the remaining two thousand Turkic grain guards who had already become frightened birds were all nailed to death without resisting a few times.
Looking at the grain and grass that were piled up like hills, Zhang Yong sighed a little. Looking at the scale, the grain and grass in this valley were less than one million stones. It seems that the Turks had been preparing for the southern expedition, otherwise they would not have been able to stock up so much food and grass here so quickly. At this scale, let alone support 200,000 Turks, even if the 400,000 troops arrived here, these grain and grass could be used for half a year. With these grain and grass, the Turks could not care about Chen Jun's previous strategy of clearing the countryside. They could hold on until next year's summer harvest, and they did not have to worry about the food that was cut off in the middle like Tongye Hu's southern expedition.
"Burn, burn everything!"
The soldiers began to dump kerosene and throw torches. For a moment, countless grain and grass warehouses in the valley began to ignite raging fires. The fierce fire rushed straight into the sky. The huge flames turned more than ten miles nearby into daylight.
The fire was burned out not only the million rations of the Turks, but also the 5,000 Turkic defenders stationed in the valley.
"General, a large group of Turkic people are coming here!" Zhang Biao rode his horse to the entrance of the valley and was about to meet Zhang Yong leading his troops out of the valley.
Zhang Yong looked back at the valley that was already like a volcano and smiled: "It's a pity that they are one step late! I will pass the general's order and we will withdraw!"
Twenty thousand Chen cavalry came and went like the wind, and they went away in an instant.
As soon as Chen Jun left, a violent sound of horse hooves had arrived. Yu Gushi led tens of thousands of cavalry to arrive. When he saw the grain storage valley that had become a volcano, his face turned pale and almost fell off the horse. As one of the ten Khans, he certainly knew how long he had planned for this southern expedition to the Khan. Even in order to avoid the defeat of Rushibi Khan, Tong Yehu collected food and grass from various tribes early and prepared food and grass for the army for half a year. From collecting grain to transporting grain, the hardships in this were unimaginable.
But now, millions of stones of food and grass have turned into a fire.
"Put the fire quickly, put out the fire!" Yugushe jumped off his horse and was about to rush to the fire. Treachna, Smo hugged him: "I'm not going to save it. The fire is so big that I can't save it. It's gone, all the food and grass are gone!"
Yu Gushe's face turned pale. After finally taking a breath, he roared again, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Everyone follows me, follow me to chase the hateful Chen Jun who burned my food and grass. When I caught them, I set it up to break them into pieces! Let's go!"
Near the direction of the Central Army camp, Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong were still leading their troops to rush. Ten thousand elite cavalry had lost nearly 20% at this time. Although the casualties were heavy, the two generals had no intention of retreating at all. The order they received was to attack the Central Army and only advance but not retreat. Although the killing has reached now, more and more troops have gathered near the Central Army of the Turks, and even the Turks have completely reacted from the panic and are quickly mobilizing troops to surround them. However, this has not allowed them to retreat.
The violent fire in the northwest direction and the fire that soared into the sky made the radius brighter than ten miles as daytime. Not only did the Turks see this huge change, but Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong, who were rushing to death, also saw it.
At the first glance of the fire, both of them understood what was going on and roughly understood the commander's intention to let them attack the Turkic Central Army. But despite this, before receiving the new military order, the two did not have the idea of retreating on their own.
Little Khan Yili, who was sitting on the horse, was commanding troops to surround and strangle the Chen army who dared to rush straight to the central army, suddenly changed his face and looked at the fire ignited in the northwest with a pale face. With such a big fire, he certainly understood that only the food and grass in the valley over there could be burned.
When his mind was changing drastically, a guard covered in blood rushed over and shouted in panic: "Khan, Chen Jun burned our army's food and grass, and millions of food, and there were no particles left!"
"Who? Who is it?" Yili Xiao Khan shouted, "Is it Wang Rengong who personally led his troops to burn our food and grass?" But he didn't believe in his words. Wang Rengong had only 50,000 people in total, and there were already 10,000 people here. There were only 40,000 cavalry left. How could he kill from the Southern Camp to the Northern Camp in such a short time, and even found the Turkish food and grass camp so clearly. You must know that the Turks placed food and grass in the valley, not only because of the safety of the valley, but also because of the secret terrain of the terrain.
The Chen cavalry only took one or two hours to kill, how could they find the food camp so quickly and burn all the food camp at once? You know, there are still five thousand elite guards in the valley. What's more, there are so many tribal soldiers camping along the way from the South Camp to the North Camp.
"I don't know, the Chen army has burned food and grass and has already killed the Central Army again!"
"How is this possible?" Yili Khan was shocked. Could it be that Wang Rengong was desperate? He attacked the 200,000 Turkic camp with 50,000 cavalry. He was lucky enough to burn food and grass and was not satisfied. He actually dared to come to the central army?
Just when he was shocked, the messenger covered in blood and wearing a big wolf helmet on his head suddenly rose up and stabbed Yili Xiao Khan in the throat with a flash of lightning. Yili Xiao Khan, who was shocked and lost, did not expect that among the troops, he would have been assassinated twice in one night!!!~!
Chapter completed!