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Chapter 514
But there is still a way. Although the bunker group is a difficult problem, it is not impossible to resolve it.

Just like the underground explosives, if they are left to explode when the army charges, they will be more lethal. Why detonate it now?
It shows that it is very afraid of hitting the wood.

And there is also a serious shortcoming. Although there is only one hole, the soldiers inside are only for killing, but not for being killed.However, because the hole is small, it is not possible to place rolling wooden rocks to make full use of the height of the Muke Ridge.The only long-range weapons are bows and arrows.

Now that it exploded, we used the terrain of the explosion to dig out trenches. First, it was possible to prevent the enemy from digging tunnels again and bury the explosives below.The second is to dig up the mud from the trench, increase the height of several roads, and increase the speed and strength of hitting the wood.The third is that there are only bows and arrows, and the shield army can be used to cover the engineers to complete this project.Fourth, there are trenches, which can reduce casualties and be close to bunkers.

But before that, Chang Yuankai had an inspiration, which he got from Xue Ying. Now the bunker group is on the west side, and the southeast wind blows.Since Xueying can use lime powder, why can't he use lime powder, so he sent people to find lime powder while digging trenches.

So another day was delayed.

The lime powder arrived on the third day, along with dozens of windmills.A hundred steps away from the wind, just out of the range of the bow and arrow, Chang Yuankai asked the soldiers to pick a small earth slope, carry the windmill and lime powder up, and then sprinkle the lime powder into the air. The group soon spread in a white mist.

Chang Yuankai ordered three thousand soldiers to rush forward with their eyes narrowed, facing a group of blind men, what is there to be afraid of?

It was approaching quickly, and some soldiers came to the bunker, ready to smash it with a hammer, but sharp arrows shot out of the hole again.

How can the enemy see the lime powder?Chang Yuankai watched a group of soldiers under his command fall down, and the rest of the soldiers fled back when they saw the situation was not going well, feeling pain and surprise in their hearts.

At this time, Feng Changqing patted the lime powder on his body, wiped the gray mist from the eye mask, and cursed: "Damn it."

As I use one move after another, the opponent also uses one move after another.If it wasn't for the meticulous preparation, and Wang Hua said a lot of things before leaving, I really couldn't stand it.This reminded him of a sentence Wang Hua said: "Feng Changqing, in this battle, you don't want merit, but you just want to stop the enemy for ten days. State City, even if you’re done. But remember, the Tubo and Turkic people are good at field battles, but the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are good at siege warfare or defensive warfare. This time your burden is not light. Be careful.”

Seeing that the enemy retreated, but the trenches continued in the distance, Feng Changqing ordered: "Prepare vegetable oil and shields."

The trench progressed rapidly, and by the afternoon it was extending below the bunker.

Chang Yuankai once again ordered the soldiers to push the small carts to attack up the slope, because the excavated mud raised several roads, and the small carts pushed very fast.At the same time, Chang Yuankai ordered again that [-] soldiers set out for the bunker under the cover of the trench.

At this time, Feng Changqing was also giving orders, and four thousand soldiers came out of the bunker behind in a file, leaving only one thousand soldiers in the front bunker, and continued to shoot bows and arrows to cover the four thousand soldiers.

4000 people came to the front line of the position. The shield army was in front, and the soldiers behind were carrying oil barrels. Generally speaking, the terrain of the front trench was higher than that of the east trench.Protected by the shield hand, the soldiers behind poured the oil, lit a torch and threw it in.

These oils have been refined without any moisture at all. At the same time, some cotton and other substances with a lower ignition point were thrown in. As soon as the torches were thrown away, fire dragons were set up immediately. Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldiers in the tunnel immediately dialed The legs fled, but the soldiers behind blocked it.Some soldiers climbed to the road above the tunnel.

But the avenue was also in chaos, not all the cars were side by side, there was a car in front carrying the bumper, and there were more behind.If it wasn't for panic, they could still be organized and disciplined. Now the soldiers above are also panicking. The fire on both sides is continuously injected with vegetable oil, and the flames ignited from the tunnel. The road is not safe.They ran away one by one, and the small car continued to drive forward despite its inertia.The soldiers behind were also stopped by the car.

More than half of the people were folded again.

Chang Yuankai's face turned gray.However, it is not angry. The main reason is that the morale of the soldiers has plummeted. If the blood battalion draws out the main force to take advantage of the trend, the whole army may collapse.

He convened the generals to discuss again, and this time he had to discuss a safe method.

As a result, there is a new way.

During the day, everyone also saw that the trench is easy to dig, but the trench is in the open, so it is better to dig a tunnel. The number of your own far outnumbers the opponent, dig the tunnel under the bunker, and attack from the bottom up.You don't even need to attack, as long as you dig a passage extending in all directions below to connect with the opponent's tunnel, you can take advantage of the number of people and defeat the opponent.

This is a good idea, Chang Yuankai shouted.

So he immediately went to the rear to recruit shovels and baskets, so the nature of this battle changed and became a battle of fortifications.

Not to mention the scheming of both sides, let's talk about the north.

Originally Chang Yuankai planned to use Lun Gongren to lead this army, but he also heard that Wang Hua had escaped from Tubo and stayed in Shazhou for a day, during which time he had a good talk with Zhaheling and Lun Gongren.He was a little suspicious, even though he knew that Lun Gongren was extremely brave and talented in military affairs, but he only brought Lun Gongren to his side for urgent use, or as a guard.The general was also replaced by Cao Cen.

Cao Cen was also one of Chang Yuankai's brave generals, and the army he led was mostly barbarians, and almost all cavalry.Although there are only 2 people, the combat effectiveness is extremely impressive.

But he didn't dare to underestimate the blood camp.

This line does not seek speed, but stability. Like Chang Yuankai, all the troops are gathered together in order to exert the greatest combat effectiveness.

Step by step, start to Xingning County.

But the brigade had only marched for three days before they found the enemy.

You can't just focus on moving forward, you have to send out scouts, but after the third day, the scouts went out and never came back.

Cao Cen ordered the army to advance temporarily, and sent out many scouts again.And with binoculars.It was Wang Hua who was so angry that he smashed the telescope in front of Wu Zetian. As a result, the army of the Tang Dynasty is now equipped with telescopes.Not only the Tang Dynasty, but even the Turks were equipped with such eyes.Consequently, this strategic weapon immediately lost its shocking power.

But compared with the popular telescopes, Wang Hua's telescopes are much better in terms of clarity and visual range.There was the Ministry of Industry in the Tang Dynasty, and the Turkic people also had craftsmen, but they had no theoretical basis and groped blindly.However, under the guidance of Wang Hua's several books on physics and chemistry, Oceania was a step ahead.

But Wang Hua never took it out again.

Everyone looked at each other. Although Cao Cen's soldiers couldn't "look" at the blood camp, after being careful, and the vegetation in this area was not very lush, they also saw a few vague shadows.not many.After hearing the news, Cao Cen remembered that Wang Hua attached great importance to scouts, so he sent more soldiers to act as scouts, and the army continued to move forward.

On the fourth day, it was only [-] miles away from Xingning. If it hadn't been considered to divide the troops into two places, the Blood Battalion would have been defeated one by one, and cavalry could have rushed to Xingning County in one day.This idea is correct, if it is really divided into two parts, Zhang Shougui can really break them down one by one.

However, more than a dozen blood battalion teams appeared on both sides, and the number of each team varied. Some had nearly a hundred people, and some had only twenty or thirty people. Seeing them coming, Cao Cen immediately ordered the soldiers to attack.However, as soon as the cavalry left the brigade, these small groups pulled their horses and fled into the distance.

The horses of these scout teams are all selected from tens of thousands of horses.During this period, Wang Hua obtained a large number of war horses, including those from Dangxiang people, Tuyuhun people, captured Tubo war horses, and original horses.The imperial court turned their eyes against each other, and Wang Hua was not polite anymore, and took over the Lingzhou Racecourse, and all the soldiers and officials of the imperial court were imprisoned.

Wang Hua has almost 20 war horses in his hands. One can imagine the excellence of the war horses selected from so many war horses.

They couldn't catch up, but seeing the enemy left behind, these teams deliberately slowed down their horses so that they could feel that they had hope of catching up.If you chase and run like this, you will be far away from the army.At this time, the formation of the scout team suddenly changed. More than a dozen teams speeded up, combined into several groups, and then beat one of the smaller ones to catch up with Tang Jun.

Although most of the army of the Tang Dynasty was composed of Hu people, its combat effectiveness was not weak.However, the scouts selected to harass and wipe out the enemy can be said to be the elite of the blood camp.Coupled with non-stop drills, some of them have been in actual combat, and their combat effectiveness is far above these Hu soldiers.

Now using the speed of the horses to gather together, the number has gained the upper hand again, and the Tang troops chasing one after another were immediately wiped out.At this time, other troops also rushed over, but this group of squads dispersed like a group of ducks again.These troops had no choice but to split up and chase again, but just after a period of time, the distance was widened, and the blood battalion reunited.

Cao Cen was holding the binoculars and was stunned when he saw this kind of tactic. He had never seen it before.

For those who have seen it, if it is not Wang Hua, it will take hundreds of years for this tactic to appear in the world.Let half the world see it.But this tactic has strict requirements.Not only is it required that the entire army can achieve this quality, but the scouts sent out have high combat effectiveness, a level of combat coordination, excellent riding skills, and even the quality of horses.

Since last year, it has been practicing. This is to prepare for large-scale field battles with nomads in the future. I did not expect to use it in Cao Cen's army.In fact, the mutual cooperation is still a bit rusty, mainly because there are fewer actual combats.But even so, Cao Cen was taken aback.

Although he is not a famous general, he can still understand Guan Jian in it.

After being stunned for a long time, the Blood Battalion had already wiped out the third team. Seeing that something was wrong, Cao Cen quickly blew the horn to retreat.

I can't continue playing, although the number of opponents is small, they are like a pack of wolves, bit by bit, they can finish the 1000 people they sent out.

The thousand Tang soldiers were also very depressed. When they heard the call to retreat, they turned around and ran back immediately.They retreated, but the blood camp did not let them go.Turning around in front, Xueying chased after him, put down the horizontal knife, it was not considered a horizontal knife, it was more curved than a horizontal knife, but this kind of curved knife was more lethal than a horizontal knife on horseback.

The scimitar was tied to the saddle, and the curved bow was taken out. It was also not a very thick bow arm. This kind of bow had a short range, but it didn't require a lot of strength to draw it.Therefore, the frequency of shooting arrows can be accelerated.Follow behind to catch up and shoot arrows.

Hearing the screams from their comrades-in-arms, these Hu soldiers ran even faster.So a strange scene appeared on the grassland, obviously there were many more people than the opponent, and there were tens of thousands of his own army in front.But it was like the situation in the big defeat, being chased by the opponent to a panic.

Cao Cen had no choice but to send 1000 men forward to cover.

Seeing another 1000 people dispatched, this group of scouts flew all over the grassland again.

Although Cao Cen was annoyed, there was also a kind of vigilance in his heart.In the past, it was said that it was Wang Hua's tactics. All kinds of weird tactics made people hard to guard against.Now it is not only tactics, but also the combat effectiveness of soldiers is also worrying.

A group of scouts flew away, but did not leave, just followed them, very arrogant, Cao Cen sat on the horse thinking about countermeasures.The harm is not great, but the consequences are serious.First, if this continues, there is no way to send out scouts to inquire about the news, and second, it also hurts morale.

Just at this moment, probably after walking slowly just now, the group of scouts pounced on them again.

Cao Cen had no choice but to send another thousand soldiers to drive them away, but the scouts seemed to have grown bolder. When they saw the thousand cavalry marching out, they did not stop and turn around, but continued to gallop towards them.This made Cao Cen very puzzled.
However, when the two armies were about to collide, these scouts turned their horses and made a very beautiful turn, turning in a circular arc.Then he turned around and left, but when he turned around, he took the time to shoot two or three arrows, killing dozens of Tang soldiers.

Cao Cen was so angry that he almost jumped three feet.

So he ordered that the cavalry with excellent mounts and brave battles should be selected from the army to attack.

However, these soldiers had not been trained, and once again staged a game of chasing and anti-chasing on the Gobi Desert in the grassland, but Tang Jun suffered a lot.

It wasn't until noon that the group of scouts stopped, not far away, riding on horses, swaggering and gnawing dry food.Cao Cen's army also had to rest. In order to prevent them from making a surprise attack, archers were sent outside to strengthen their vigilance.But there are always omissions. The scouts of the blood camp threw away the dry food in their hands again, rushed over, shot and killed them, and when the defense came, they flew into the distance again.

This time it really flew far.After a whole morning of tossing, their physical strength was exhausted, and the power of their war horses was also severely depleted.

Originally Cao Cen breathed a sigh of relief, but another group of scouts appeared in front of him, and the situation in the morning reappeared.

Depressed, Cao Cen stopped sending troops and only sent archers to cover both sides of the army.But this is an army of [-] troops, and they are constantly advancing, even if there are no omissions, because the movement of the troops will also create new loopholes.

This time the scouts were more daring, they rushed directly in front of the army, bowed their bows and set up arrows to shoot.

After a full day, before a direct battle, Cao Cen's [-] troops made these scouts exhausted.

Cao Cen ordered the camp to be set up, the generals discussed it, and finally came up with a way to put the camel-carrying vehicles on the periphery, and put a crossbow behind the vehicle. The horse is fast or the crossbow is fast.

This is a good way, but just after finishing speaking, there was a lot of noise outside, Cao Cen came out, and saw the group of scouts from the morning appeared again. Arbitrarily shooting rockets outside the camp did not cause a big fire, but it still caused sparks near the fence.Some soldiers are preparing to organize a counterattack, while others are fighting the fire.

Cao Cen had no choice but to order the tent to be a little further away from the fence.

The group of scouts retreated after seeing no results.

Not long after they settled down, everyone began to fall asleep. There were several loud noises in the camp. Cao Cen got up all of a sudden. He didn't even have any clothes on. Not many soldiers were killed, but the loud sound and explosion awakened all the soldiers from their sleep.

Cao Cen looked outside, but there was no scout. At this time, a soldier pointed to the sky. By the moonlight, everyone saw several spheres in the air slowly flying towards the west bank of the Yellow River. It turned out that they were thrown from the sky.But knowing where the enemy is, how can we pursue it.It's really hard to chase, and the temperature will drop after a while. This is the first time that a hot air balloon does not use a rope to move in the air.But in order to land safely on the west bank of the Yellow River.

But this hot air balloon undoubtedly depressed the extremely superstitious Hu Bing soldiers to the extreme.

In fact, Cao Cen himself wanted to withdraw his troops at this time, and this battle could not be fought.Terrified of being beheaded for disobeying military orders, he had no choice but to comfort the soldiers.

After a while it calmed down and everyone fell asleep again.

But at this moment, countless horns blew outside the camp.This made the soldiers wake up again from their sleep one by one.

One harassment during the day, one harassment all night, the next day the infantry had no strength to walk.

Cao Cen had no choice but to let the soldiers rest for a while and go on the road.Moreover, they cheered up and arrived at Xingning immediately. After taking Xingning, the city wall is in danger, so everyone can take a good rest.

But the scouts followed again, but this time they couldn't win. Under the crossbow fire, more than a dozen Blood Battalion soldiers turned over and fell off their horses. Cao Cen's subordinates couldn't help but let out a cheer.After being angry for more than ten hours, he finally let out a little.

These scouts had no choice but to follow them from a distance.

Cao Cen also had no choice but to let them hang on both sides to follow.

But it made him a little worried, because it would mean that all his scouts would be scrapped, and it would also be equivalent to blinding one eye.But thanks to Wang Hua, because of the telescope, the range of several miles is still within sight.

The army meandered, getting closer to Xingning County, but at this moment, many soldiers from the Blood Battalion appeared on the Gobi Desert in the east.

The main force of the blood battalion finally appeared. Cao Cen ordered to prepare for defense while watching the enemy's movements and numbers.There were quite a few people, but not as many as his own, but the fighting power shown by the scouts of the blood camp yesterday made Cao Cen extremely scrupulous, and he was thinking about whether to start fighting.

He saw these soldiers getting off their horses. Cao Cen looked over with a binoculars and saw that there was a lot of half-dry withered grass on the rough Gobi Desert, and there were many things like horse dung and black coal. , even became a long piece.

This is also because there is no way to send out the scouts in his hands, otherwise he would have discovered where this long pile of things was placed.

What are they going to do?
Just as Cao Cen was thinking, he saw the soldiers of the Blood Battalion pulling out the flames from their arms.Cao Cen still didn't understand, just looked up and saw his army's flag swaying in the wind, he yelled: "Not good."

(End of this chapter)