Chapter 147 Tang Dynasty Biochemical Weapon Attack

On the 13th day of the first lunar month of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin led tens of thousands of troops of the six guards of the Tang Dynasty to arrive in Tongguan. Li Shimin met with Li Shentong, the general of the Tongguan garrison. Li Shimin inspected the three armies outside Tongguan City. Li Shimin said: "I will say something that can be boosted. Add vegetables tonight, and pickles are enough to make up for fat meat!"

Tens of thousands of Tang soldiers shouted: "Okay!"

The roar of a short word is like a thunder exploding in the sky.

Li Shentong had already sent more than 3,000 stoves to be opened outside Tongguan City. Each stove had already prepared steaming food. It was naturally exaggerated to have enough fat meat for tens of thousands of Tang soldiers. Six taels of meat per soldier could satisfy the supply. It was precisely because of the coal balls that Chen Ying invented that marching food became much easier at this time.

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

More than 20,000 coal balls were more than enough to process the food eaten by the army of tens of thousands of people. Each soldier was also given a basin of hot water to burn his feet.

The soldiers of the Tang army lined up to start dining in each group, while Li Shimin took Zhai Changsun, Du Junchuo, Zheng Rentai, Li Mengchang, Dugu Yanyun, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan and other generals to gallop all the way to the bank of the Yellow River.

Li Shentong pointed to the thirteen floating bridges on the ice of the Yellow River and smiled and said, "Your Highness Qin, these thirteen floating bridges have been built and you can cross the river at any time."

Li Shimin nodded and said, "No hurry for the time being, sharpening the knife will not delay the chopping of wood. The soldiers of the army will rest for a day and cross the river the next day."

Li Shentong offered treasures and said to Li Shimin as if: "Your Highness, I will get a treasure for you."

Li Shimin said: "What good treasure did the emperor get?"

Li Shentong asked someone to bring a set of dark heavy armor and handed it to Li Shimin and said, "Erlang, how about this armor?"

Li Shimin didn't say anything nonsense and gave Zhai Changsun a wink.

Zhai Changsun understood and casually put the heavy armor on the wooden stake where the horse was tied. Li Shimin raised the horse spear and pointed it at the one who was put on the wooden stake and stabbed it hard!

A "clang..." sound of Jin Ming sounded, and the harsh sound of Jin Ming sounded, making the war horses feel obvious uneasy. Mars were everywhere, and the sharp blade of the horse spear in Li Shimin's hand appeared in a curved arc.

Li Shimin looked at this scene and was obviously stunned. After a long time, he laughed: "This is a treasure armor that is in no place!"

Li Shentong smiled mysteriously and said, "I got 1,131 pairs of such treasure armor!"

Li Shimin was overjoyed and said, "Take it seriously!"

"I learned that Erlang was going to expand the black armor and iron armor, so I have kept it for you!" As he said that, he pointed to a huge convoy by the river. There were about fifty or sixty carriages densely filled with armor. These marks of land originally belonged to Zheng have been painted off, and all of them were dark and shiny black. Black is black.

In fact, Li Shentong had a very high status in Li Shimin's heart. In the first year of Zhenguan (627), he was granted the title of 500 households by Kaifu Yitong. All the generals and ministers did not dare to discuss their merits and honors to Li Shentong. When Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin surrendered the royal family and princes to the county magistrates, Li Shentong was also able to save his merits, which shows Li Shentong's merits and status.

Li Shentong has always been a good friend with Li Shimin, and the key is that Li Shentong is very good at doing things. Even if the armor Chen Ying sold to Li Shentong is less than half of the market price. However, more than a thousand sets of armor cost nearly 100,000 yuan. However, people don’t blink.

When Zhai Changsun saw these armors, his eyes couldn't move away. He excitedly said to Li Shimin: "Your Highness of the King of Qin, the Xuan Armored Cavalry can use this armor to expand three more regiments!"

Li Shimin nodded and looked at Li Shentong in confusion: "How did the emperor get so many heavy armors? Such heavy armors can't be found in the Chang'an Prefecture warehouse!"

"How can it be the reinstallation in Chang'an Ku Mansion, I am the emperor's turn!" Li Shentong pointed to the south and whispered: "This is all obtained from the champion general. I exchanged it for meat or food!"

Li Shimin said strangely: "Uncle Emperor, is Chen Ying very short of food?"

"It's not really a shortage. I heard that General Chen Ying captured Shan County and Taolin and accepted tens of thousands of hungry people. General Chen Ying took military rations to help hungry people, so... he didn't think there was enough food in his army!"

Li Shimin said: "Qu Tu and Zu She!"

"I'm here!"

"Since General Chen Ying is so short of food, then transfer it to him from the Central Army... to him 30,000 stones!"

On the 14th day of the first lunar month of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin's vanguard, led by Li Mengchang, began to cross the river as a vanguard army. Until noon on the 15th day of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin's troops basically crossed the Yellow River, and only some of the civilians and supplies remained on the west bank of the Yellow River.

You can spend all the last day at dawn on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

...

Li Shimin led tens of thousands of Tang troops out of Tongguan and crossed the Yellow River to Luoyang. Wang Shichong was shocked. While roaring and scolding Li Yuan for being shameless, he ordered the Wei King Wang Honglie to conquer Xiangyang.

King Jing Xing is the capital of Huzhu.

King of Song, Wang Tai, stationed Huaizhou, strengthened the defense of Luoyang's periphery, and on the other hand, dispatched troops and strictly deployed the garrison of the Eastern Capital. He ordered King Shiyun of Qi to investigate the Nancheng, King of Chu, Wang Shiwei of Chu, guard the Baocheng, Prince Wang Xuanying guard the Dongcheng, King of Han, Xuanshuhan Jiacheng, and King of Lu, Wang Daoxun guards Yaoyi City.

Wang Shichong personally led more than 30,000 imperial guards in Luoyang City to leave Luoyang and set up a battle camp in Cijian, west of the eastern capital, and put on a decisive battle with the Tang army.

Ideals are very full, but reality is too skinny.

Wang Shichong had a very good idea. He felt that even if he could not defeat the Tang army, he could still use 150,000 or 60,000 Zheng army troops to destroy Li Tang's teeth. Even if he had only his own family background, he would definitely not be as good as Dou Jiande in the end.

According to the military comparison between Tang and Zheng, although Zheng was a little weak, he was defeated by local fighting and adopted a defensive stance. There should have been a more tragic tug-of-war scene. Unexpectedly, as soon as the war started, Wang Shichong's situation deteriorated rapidly.

Before Li Shimin's troops arrived in Zheng State, he conquered the governor Zhang Gongjin and the governor Cui Shu of the State. He did not even see Li Shimin's shadow, so he raised the flag and surrendered.

In fact, the situation of Wang Shichong vomiting blood has not really begun. Tian Zan, the chief manager of Xianzhou, had already begun to act. Tian Zan, the chief manager of Xianzhou, led the twenty-five prefectures in Jingxiang area. After Wang Shichong annexed Yang Shilin, his territory expanded by two-thirds, but he had not had time to actually control the area south of Xianzhou.

In fact, Tian Zan surrendered to his twenty-five states (twenty-five states!), which directly caused Wang Shichong's power to collapse in an instant.

Although Tian Zan had not yet obtained a specific way to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, he was ready to betray Wang Shichong at this time.

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Under the city of Hangu Pass, Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan, Wei Wenzhong, Feng Li and other generals followed Chen Ying and led the troops to form the city of Hangu Pass. Zhang Shigui looked at the towering and tall Hangu Pass and said with a worry: "This Hangu Pass is really hard to fight!"

Chen Ying smiled disapprovingly and said, "What a joke. When Wang Renze met me, he still wanted to fight steadily? There was no door."

Luo Shixin has been training troops for most of the past six months, and has not yet fought for a single battle, but he is so depressed. Now Chen Ying has drawn the left and right guards, and the left and right guards led four times to 18 Zhechong Mansions and a total of 18 Yue cavalry regiments, and handed them over to Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui.

More than 5,400 cavalrymen completely adopted the equipment of the hook and sickle lances, and used the combat methods of the Dingyuan cavalry to carry out intense training.

Luo Shixin had already held a huge fire in his heart: "General Chen, General Chen is willing to lead the Vietnamese cavalry to take the lead!"

Zhang Shigui also shouted: "Yes, yes, General Chen and the bastards like Zheng Jun have never seen the power of our hook and sickle cavalry!"

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

Zhang Huaiwei smiled and did not take the credit.

But Duan Zhigan is not the same. He is really true now. Now his younger brother follows Li Shimin, General Zhongwu, who is the fourth rank of official position, is one level higher than him. If he can't get a first merit and cannot be promoted, he will be suppressed 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!"

When An Xing saw this scene, he looked overjoyed: "The morale of the army is available!"

Standing at the head of Hangu Pass, Wang Renze couldn't hear it. The Tang soldiers were cheering like thunder, and the turbid oil prepared on the city wall was so shaking that it rustled.

Wang Renze's eyebrows were locked in a ball: "The Tang army is so motivated, this battle is not easy to fight!"

Cui Binyou said helplessly: "Now the northwest wind is blowing. Whether it is the direction, climate, or season, it is very beneficial to the Tang army. Now, when the northwest wind blows, as long as Chen Ying lights a few bonfires under the city and then raises thick smoke, there is no way for us to stand on the wall..."

Speaking of this, Choi Binyou really can't continue.

Wang Renze no longer knows what to say about Cui Binyou. He is such a crow's mouth.

As soon as Cui Binyou finished speaking, the Tang soldiers under Hangu Pass had already begun to take new actions. Thousands of soldiers, led by their respective commanders, held bundles of dry firewood and stood on the city wall with two arrows. The soldiers threw the dry firewood in their hands on the ground and soon formed a pile of dry firewood that was about 300 steps long and up to five feet high under Hangu Pass.

Not only dry firewood, but also black and sticky liquid poured on the dry firewood. Yes, this kind of thing is asphalt, which is also the residue of the refining hot oil. However, this is a good thing, which emits a pungent smell when burning and produces huge smoke.

Of course, what Chen Ying had to put on the wood pile was not just asphalt, but also a lot of things.

At this time, the firewood pile had become a garbage pile. All kinds of miscellaneous items such as sulfur, aconite, yellow salt, beans, wolf, tung oil, arsenic, horse money, and other debris were thrown on the dry firewood pile.

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

Luo Shixin looked at the firewood pile in front of him and said inexplicably: "Just this, can you chew Hangu Pass?"

"Haha!" Chen Ying smiled and said, "Can we be hard to say now? Let's try it out?"

In fact, what Chen Ying brought out was the earliest biological and chemical weapons in Chinese history.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the "Wu Jing Zongyao" recorded a poison smoke ball, which mentioned in detail the extremely use of the raw materials for making this poison smoke ball. The prescription for the poison smoke ball is: "The ball weighs five kilograms, 15 kilograms of sulfur, 5 kilograms of aconitum, 14 kilograms of flame salt, 5 kilograms of beans, 5 kilograms of wolf poison, 2 kilograms of tung oil, 2 kilograms of small oil, 5 kilograms of charcoal, 2 kilograms of asphalt, 2 kilograms of arsenic, 1 kilograms of arbor, 1 kilograms of yellow wax, 1 kilograms of bamboo jujube, 1 kilograms of maru, 1 kilograms of maru, 1 kilograms of hemp rope, 1 chews of long and 2 chews of heavy weight, and 1 kilograms of string. In addition, paper is 1 kilograms of hemp skin, 1 kilograms of asphalt, 2 kilograms of yellow wax, 1 kilograms of yellow pills, 1 kilograms of charcoal, 1 kilograms of charcoal, 1 kilograms of charcoal, 3 kilograms of pounds, 1 kilograms of charcoal, 3 kilograms of charcoal, 3 kilograms of pounds, 3 kilograms of charcoal, 3 kilograms of pounds, 3 kilograms of charcoal, 3 kilograms of pounds, 3 kilograms of charcoal, 3 kilograms of pounds, 3 kilograms of

Although Chen Ying can create this poisonous smoke ball, it is actually not difficult to guard against this primitive primary chemical weapon, because this chemical weapon is not domineering enough. Only when poison gas is inhaled will it harm the human body.

However, it is actually very easy to beware of this poisonous smoke. Just wet it with a towel and cover your mouth and nose to avoid being damaged by poisonous gas.

Luo Shixin said: "What if this doesn't work?"

Chen Ying said: "Then let's change the way of playing!"

Just as Wang Renze was evacuating the soldiers on the Hangu Pass wall in a hurry, Chen Ying issued an order: "Light!"

Dozens of soldiers with finger torches ran to the huge garbage dump. Then they threw the torches in their hands on the garbage dump.

The garbage dump was immediately lit by torches, but the imagined flames did not directly occur. The firewood pile was like a black dragon cut into dozens of pieces. Large swells of thick smoke were like roaring black dragons, and their claws rushed towards the soldiers on the Hangu Pass city wall.

Wang Renze watched the black dragons roaring towards him and realized that something was wrong.

The ancient Chinese people were not stupid. They had already found that the higher they stood, the more they were smoked. Wang Renze hurriedly ordered: "Let's go down!"

The Zheng army soldiers hurriedly lay on the city wall.

However, the city wall of Hangu Pass is as high as three feet and six feet. It is almost as high as the three-story building in later generations. At such a high distance, how low can it be when you fall down?

After a while, a cough from the bottom of the city wall came from the bottom of the city.

"Ahem...ahhhh..."

This violent coughing sound was as fast as a plague. After a while, the Zheng soldiers on the entire city wall coughed heart-wrenchingly.

Wang Renze is fine. He has a handkerchief, and he can use it to cover his mouth and nose to block the invasion of poisonous gas.

But those ordinary soldiers were not so lucky. Many soldiers had already started to get poisoned, their faces were blue and purple, and they had difficulty breathing. Some soldiers had already started coughing up blood when they were coughing.

Some Zheng soldiers began to appear in a coma. Wang Renze looked at the Zheng soldiers around him and fell one by one on the city wall, struggling in pain. Wang Renze roared at Chen Ying under the city wall, "Cheng Ying, you must die a good death..."
Chapter completed!