Chapter 143: Burning the 180,000 Army
There are suspicion everywhere before attacking Yanmen Pass again, your own people will fight with them.
Uneasy, fear, and suspicion lingered in the hearts of all Turks.
"Let's go into Yanmen Pass and let them taste the plague." Someone said loudly, since they are all dead, it's better to fight.
The Central Plains man stood up angrily, looking at the chaos in front of him, the Tang Dynasty reacted quickly. Even if the remaining troops attacked again, he might not be able to enter Yanmen Pass with new firearms. He brought the clothes on the side and left here without paying attention to the leaders of various tribes.
Gu Qing's plague suddenly resolved the original Turkic alliance with one move. The plague that killed him was very terrible. If he came up with this method, Gu Qing also felt nervous. Will this fierce virus come to his side?
The Turkic horses neighed again, with nearly 200,000 people, and a total of 180,000. Su Dingfang shouted, "The whole army is on guard."
Gu Qing also shouted, "Prepare the fire bomb, put the Kongming lantern!"
"Let the lights!" A shout came from the army.
One after another, Kongming lanterns rose with the wind, and drifted from the top of the city toward the Turks, like thousands of Kongming lanterns were covered with the sky. At the same time, the remaining 180,000 Turks launched a final fierce attack on Yanmen Pass.
Gu Qing looked at the fierce Turkic army and his heart was beating violently. The Turks noticed the flames above their heads. The Kongming lanterns moved with the wind and pulled their bows. Turkic people fired arrows at the Kongming lantern. The arrows roared out in the moment when they left their hands, piercing the lampshade above. The entire brazier lost its support and turned down, igniting the line of fire from the mould bottle and explosives in the bamboo basket below.
boom!
A loud bang of more than ten kilograms of explosives detonated in the sky, with fire rain and gasoline pouring down. The head of Yanmen Pass had long been full of bows, and 30,000 soldiers were connected in a row and shot arrows at the high altitude in the direction of the Turks.
The arrows with fire connected into arrow curtains to block the entire night sky, whistling out, shooting towards the Kongminglan and the Turks floating in the air. For a moment, a rain of fire broke out above the Turks.
boom!
boom!
boom!
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Thousands of Kongming lanterns with explosives exploded in the air, and the harsh fire was like rain, like heavenly punishment.
There were wailing everywhere, and there were Turkic people running around with fire everywhere. When the Turkic people entered the minefield, mines detonated one by one, and the war horses under the Turkic people were directly blown away by flesh and blood. In front of hot weapons, human lives were like grass, and the cruelty of the pen was several times higher than that of cold weapons.
"Incendiary Bomb!" Cheng Chumo shouted.
Clay jars were thrown at the Turks rushing towards the flames and fire lines tied with explosives!
"Twist it again!" Gu Qing shouted, "Don't let them pass the minefield and smash things out for me."
Hundreds of incendiary bombs were thrown down!
"Shoot the arrow!" Su Dingfang shouted hoarsely!
Bear!
On the battlefield thousands of meters wide, a fire broke into the body of the Turks. The black smoke rolled, and the fire illuminated the entire Yanmen Pass. Gu Qing, who was standing on the top of the city, could feel the scorching flames.
"Kill!" The Turkic man covered in fire roared and wanted to rush to Yanmen Pass. When his feet stepped on him, a sound of machine sounded, boom! The land under his feet exploded, and his legs were immediately covered in blood and lying on the ground. He gritted his teeth and shouted to the Turkic man rushing up behind him, "Don't come over! There is something underground!"
Who could hear this in the chaos? The Huns, who were rushing forward, stepped on landmines with flames and detonated.
The rain of arrows roared down at the head of Yanmen Pass, and countless Turkic people fell under Yanmen Pass.
Cheng Yaojin, who was about to arrive at Yanmen Pass, also saw the night sky outside Yanmen Pass red, and the blood-colored firelight surged, and his heart was filled with anxiety.
"Fight!" The horse whip was swung, and the army drove quickly towards Yanmen Pass.
Gu Qing stood above the Yanmen Pass city wall. Standing here, he could smell the smell of barbecue. The continuous burning of the fire had eased the Turks' offensive situation. He watched many Turks break free and wanted to escape from this battlefield.
"Shoot the arrow!" Gu Qing shouted.
"Don't kill." Su Dingfang felt a little nervous when he looked at Huo Hai, "More than 100,000 people have been killed, and the only ones left are Turkic deserters. They can't do anything. Gu Qing, forget it."
"Shoot the arrow!" Gu Qing still shouted.
Arrows rose into the sky again. They ruthlessly headed towards the remaining Turks who had been scared and reaped the remaining lives. Yang Sheng felt distressed when he looked at the sea of fire. It wasn’t it that there had been wars, but was this a war? The Turks, who have always been called barbarians by the Central Plains, had no room for resistance in front of explosives, gasoline, landmines and other hot weapons.
This is not a war! This is simply a massacre! Yang Sheng turned his head to look at Gu Qing. Is this good fortune or a disaster when Gu Qing came to the Tang Dynasty? He slaughtered a total of 180,000 Turkic troops with one hot weapon!
This battle result was enough to make Tubo, Tuyuhun and the Western Regions scared.
The battle lasted the Turks in one night before Yanmen Pass, and no one stepped past the thunder pool.
The fire burned until dawn, and the ground was covered with burnt corpses. Cheng Yaojin Jinda and came with a large army. Cheng Yaojin hurried to the wall of Yanmen Pass. The sky-sky fire made him scared. He looked at the tired soldiers on the top of the city and shouted: "Where is the man! Where is the man! Chu Mo, Gu Qing!"
"Father, the child is here." Cheng Chumo said.
Gu Qing, Su Dingfang, Cheng Chumo stood intact on the top of the city and he breathed a sigh of relief. When Cheng Yaojin saw the burnt corpses everywhere outside Yanmen, he couldn't speak for a moment. What was going on here?
"Chu Mo..." Cheng Yaojin was trembling as he looked at the scene.
"Father, the child is so tired. I'll go to sleep for a while." Cheng Chumo walked down the city wall with a numb expression.
"Boy Gu!" Cheng Yaojin looked at Gu Qing.
Gu Qing shook his head and didn't want to speak, "Uncle Cheng, boy is tired!"
No one has had a good sleep these days. The defenders of tens of thousands of people have not slept for several days and nights to make gasoline. A fire in making hot air balloons drained everyone's energy. Gu Qing turned around and did not look at the scorched corpses all over the ground. He came to a quieter corner of Yanmen Pass. Seeing Cheng Chumo lying here, Gu Qing was so tired that he had no strength to take off his armor and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.
Gu Qing had nightmares all the time, his mind was filled with the screams of Turkic people, howling and crying, and the scene of the sea of fire and sky continued to appear.
It was already dark when he woke up again. Gu Qing was awakened by a nightmare and breathed in the cold air with his groggy head. After a while, he came to his senses and grabbed a soldier and said, "When is it?"
"Return to the General of the Central Army, it's the hour of Hai." The soldier replied.
At the hour of Hai... it should be around 11 o'clock in the evening now, Gu Qing said to him, "Is there any water?"
"Yes!" The soldier handed over a water bag, "General Zhonglang, I am Yang Sheng's man! My name is Sun Sheng."
"Well! I remember you." Gu Qing nodded, "Where is Yang Shengren."
"He's still sleeping, I'll wake him up now."
Chapter completed!