Chapter Eight
?Yang Qi and his troops approached the Anzhou Army's spear formation. Yang Su, the leader of the former troops, had already issued an order: You either break through the enemy and come back alive, otherwise you don't have to come back!
The division is the military organization division and private department that emerged in the Han Dynasty. It evolved into the title of private soldiers with the times.
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, wars broke out everywhere. In order to protect themselves, local tyrants used military organization departments to recruit their clans, guests, tenants, and disciples to form private parts. The official department of the former imperial officer commander gradually became private.
Therefore, the department is also a common synonym for private armed forces of aristocratic families. The private parts that are private families of wealthy families are also called family soldiers in some occasions.
They inherited the tradition of private soldiers since the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the war, they were tribes, and they were tenants. The men and women distributed the fields to them and their families to farm. The men and women handed their lives as rewards to the men and women. They were the men and women's slaves and property, like other real estates, and land was passed down from generation to generation.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Ling Cao, a general of the Eastern Wu, followed Sun Ce to fight in Jiangdong. Later, he followed Sun Quan to fight Huang Zu, a general under Liu Biao in Xiakou, and was shot to death by his subordinate Gan Ning, the "Jinfan Thief". Sun Quan asked his son Ling Tong to inherit his father's private soldiers.
In today's era, it is natural to raise private soldiers of the tribe. The tribe always follows the general and is subordinate to the chief general's personal ownership, and it is natural for the son to inherit the father's tribe. Therefore, for the tribe, there is nothing to say if the tribe asks them to die.
The marching chief Yang Su saw that he was still in a stalemate with the other side until now, so he couldn't bear it anymore. Not to mention that the main village had not taken down one of the three small villages and would not be able to continue like this, so he decided to use his own troops to solve the problem.
Yang Qi knew that the current situation was obvious. As long as he could break through the long spear formation blocking the Zhongzhai, it would be not far away to take down the Zhongzhai. As for the purpose of achieving this, the lives of himself and the hundreds of fellow comrades behind him were completely unimportant.
In August last year, they followed the attack on the Yingzhou Governor Yu Wenzhou, who responded to the call of the general manager of Xiangzhou, Yuchi Jiong, to rebel, and the situation of fierce fighting in Hulao was stalemate. At that time, the Langzhu ordered Yang Qi to wear heavy armor to break the enemy's main formation with five hundred elite troops.
In that battle, they braved the arrows and fought with the enemy in bloody battles. Up to 80% of the damage was exchanged for the opponent's army to disintegrate and then they took advantage of the situation and finally collapsed. The enemy general Yu Wenzhou was chased by Langzhu himself and was finally killed by the horse overnight.
The hideous scar on the face of Yang Liu, a comrade-comrade Yang Liu, was a commemoration left by the battle. Yang Qi himself was seriously injured and was injured more than ten scars on his body were crisscrossed like centipedes and carefully.
However, all this is worth it. The Langzhu made military achievements and was named Duke of Qinghe County. The troops and relatives who made great contributions and fought hard were all rewarded.
In a year, the Langzhu practiced more elite corpses, so Yang Qi had no doubt whether the formation could be successfully broken. The densely packed spears seemed tricky but not without flaws.
The method is very simple now. Before rushing to the formation, throw the short gun into the long gun array to cause damage and chaos, and then use human lives to exchange for the opportunity to rush into the formation. Even if the comrade in the front row is stabbed, he must rush forward to strive to let the long gun stab him.
They were wearing armor and masks, and their helmets protected the vital parts and couldn't stop breathing for a while. They used their hands to pull or clamp the spear that was stabbed as much as possible. With them, they were living targets to attract spears, the comrades in the back row continued to rush forward.
Even if fifty people, one hundred people, two hundred people or even three hundred people die, they have to use their lives to exchange for the opportunity to break the formation. As long as the comrades behind them who have experienced many battles can rush into the enemy formation, it will be the beginning of victory.
The corps held shields and short spears, and wrists and daggers to facilitate close combat in the crowd. They were agile and used to attack people, and then they bent over and drilled in the crowd like loaches. This spear array would not be stable.
The ordinary soldiers behind the spears had the chance to rush in, and the Anzhou army with only weapons had no other choice but to die. They caused such heavy casualties on their own, and no one would allow them to surrender.
Especially the main general of this spear formation, Lang mainly cut it down to make a chamber pot!
Yang Qi and several comrades rushed in front. He raised the shield blocking in front with his hands and suddenly felt forceful and then a "aggressive" sound. After a long battle formation, he knew that this was the effect of the arrow shot by the other party hitting the shield. He turned his head slightly and glanced at the long spear formation in front of him. He found that it was almost close to the distance that could throw a short spear.
Just as Yang Qi and his comrades were holding short guns in their right hand and preparing to throw them, he saw a row of people suddenly walking out of the long gun array ahead. They were holding something similar to a small clay pot in their right hand, as if pulling the rope under the small clay pot in their left hand.
The rope-pulling action was completed quickly. When Yang Qi saw them posing in a throwing position, he lowered his head slightly to take the attack from the items thrown by the other party. He and his colleagues were wearing iron helmets and there was no need to raise the shield to protect their heads, as that would make them lose protection below their abdomen.
Even if they don’t wear an iron helmet, they won’t block their heads. They are not afraid of death, and they are even less afraid of their heads being broken. Yang Liu felt that the other party was just some stones or hot liquids such as gold juice.
Collect the feces and urine and cook until it is boiled until it is boiled and then falls down from the city. It can kill the soldiers who attacked the city. Because the feces are dirty and rotten, it is difficult to cure them.
‘But before that we had broken the formation!’ Yang Liu thought so.
With a bang, something hit his shield and then a burning sensation spread on his head and his back spread. Yang Liu planned to endure it and then throw the short gun for a few more steps, but the burning sensation became stronger and stronger.
Even the hand holding the shield began to feel hot!
No, it's burning, and the neck, shoulders, and back are all hot. That feeling is no different from burning. It's said that the smell of gold juice is so stinking, but now it's not a bad smell except that it feels hotter and hotter.
Yang Liu found that his hand holding the shield caught fire, which was caused by the black water that caught fire on the upper edge of the shield, as well as many flames caused by slightly viscous black water on his shoulders and cheeks.
The burnt smell came from beside him, and he glanced to the right and was frightened to find that a comrade next to him turned into a fire man!
Not only the right, but also the left one, not only one or two, but also more!
Yang Liu felt that his upper body was starting to burn, and it seemed that liquid was sliding down his neck to ignite his whole body. The sleeve armor he wore could not stop the burning black water from spreading.
Someone slapped the fire's neck with his hands, and even his hands were burning on his cheeks. Yang Liu gritted his teeth and rushed forward regardless of the increasingly unbearable heat.
The lonely short spear did not cause any damage when it landed in front of the spear formation, and the distance was still not close enough.
However, only Yang Liu could throw the gun in his hand. Beside him, the comrades behind him had turned into a personal torch and rolled around on the ground. The comrades following him could not hide and collided with each other and their bodies also started to burn.
Another wave of small pots were thrown out from the spear formation. They fell into the elite group of people rushing to the formation and burst out and then ignited an inextinguishable fire. Some pots even turned into fireballs in mid-air.
They instantly ignited most of the hundreds of men, and an irrepressible fire burned out of thin air on the battlefield. The soldiers of the Zhengnan Army, who were on the side, ran up to help the "firemen" who rolled all over the ground to put out the fire, but were completely affected.
Yang Qi could no longer support his whole body and fell to the ground with severe pain and convulsions. The burning fire quickly swallowed his eyes. Before he lost consciousness, he glanced at the helpless spear formation.
The other soldiers looked at the "firemen" who were wailing in the burning fire in horror and retreated one after another, no one dared to step forward. The murderous death soldiers who rushed forward, who had already been buried in the sea of fire, and the fierce offensive collapsed instantly.
The soldiers in the Anzhou Army's spear formation looked at the fire-bowing people in front of them with expressionless expressions, without being surprised or panic, and were more sneering.
Because they had long seen this "expensive first year of Dading" trial-making tep oil bomb created by the Xiyang County Gonggu.
This weapon, which was simply called "sulphur bomb" by the soldiers, was indeed powerful. They had witnessed the demonstration that it was just a small pot that pulled off a rope on it and threw it away, and a fat pig worth hundreds of kilograms started to burn.
It turns out that it is expensive, and a big fat pig is so burnt that it doesn’t even have a edible piece of meat!
I don’t know what the black water in the clay pot was, and it smelled strange. When it burned, it couldn’t even extinguish the water. As soon as it touched the fire, it spread to it and could not be extinguished except for covering it with sand.
The county magistrate specially selected people to practice throwing this "sulphur bomb" and said that there is no heavy armored swords that can break into the array with a thick shield. After watching the demonstration, no one raised any questions about the effect of "Liao Li Ren" on the spot. Now, the effect of watching "Liao Li Ren" on site is so terrifying and no one has any questions.
A burst of disgusting burnt smell came, Yuwen Wen sneezed, and his eyelids twitched as he looked at the human meat barbecue in front of him.
It was not because of stage fright but because of the price, but because of the jingling copper coins. What others saw were small pots thrown out and the hanging copper coins he saw.
‘The expensive one is the first year of Dading’s trial-type hair-pulling oil bomb’, as the name suggests, is a incendiary bomb, and another attribute is ‘expensive’.
This is the first batch of finished products to be put into practice, so the cost of "R&D" must be counted as the cost. The average cost of a "sulphur bomb" is 400 jin.
This time I invested about 60 of them, so there was no such thing as 24,000 guan of money...
Twenty-four thousand guan, and the more than two thousand soldiers under Yuwen Wen's command were converted into a pension of 12 guan per person, which was about 24,000 guan.
Of course, he would not settle accounts so inhumanely, because he trained two thousand soldiers to fight and could do much more than these hundred "sulphur bombs".
"Dare to compete with me for burning money? I'm even afraid of myself when I burn money!"
Chapter completed!