Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Let alone two or three years, Chen Ying didn't even want to wait for three months, and of course Chen Ying couldn't afford to wait either.

Chen Ying is naturally aware of this problem, and he actually has a way to solve the problem of wood drying in the shade.There is a special drying room in later generations, which can dry wood in a very short time.

However, without waiting for Chen Ying to say this, Yu Guni said: "I thought it was a big deal, but it's actually easy to handle!"

Everyone looked at Yu Guni in unison, Yu Guni said: "We can use leather bags!"

Chen Ying is very unfamiliar with this so-called leather pouch. After Xu Jingzong explained it, Chen Ying finally understood that the so-called leather pouch is actually a sheepskin raft of later generations. , called "Huntuo", but in this era, it is not a complete skin, but a number of tanned leather, stitched together, first seal the pinholes with isinglass, and then use paraffin and tallow for waterproofing .

"puff……"

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard Yu Guni uttering his solution in a serious manner.

Zhang Shigui smiled and said: "Although the leather bag can sail on the Yellow River and carry three or five people, how can it undertake the important task of transporting the luggage of a large army?"

In fact, what Zhang Shigui said was right. When an army of more than [-] went out, especially the highly mobile cavalry, only more than [-] horses were dispatched, and it would cost [-] shi of grain every day, plus more than [-] people per six liters. Food alone requires nearly a thousand stones. , Even with a hundred stone boats, ten boats are needed for a day. As for the leather bag, it is a drop in the bucket to be able to transport it.

While everyone was laughing wildly, Chen Ying nodded solemnly and said, "I think it will work!"

Everyone was dumbfounded, looking at Chen Ying in disbelief.

Naturally, Chen Ying would not tell them that the sheepskin rafts used to ferry the Yellow River in later generations were made of more than [-] sheep and could carry more than [-] tons. .

It feeds on the enemy itself, and feeds war with war.The supplies prepared by the army do not need too much, the food consumed in ten days is enough, and the food that can be carried for a month is only the transport volume of more than [-] large sheepskin rafts.

Chen Ying can also see the kind of giant sheepskin rafts in later generations. A heavy truck can pull cargo, weighing nearly [-] to [-] tons, and it can swing across the river with a giant sheepskin raft.

Xu Jingzong also felt that Chen Ying was a bit too whimsical, but Chen Ying insisted on doing this, so he let it go.If you want Xu Jingzong to follow Wei Zheng's advice, I'm afraid Xu Jingzong will never do this.

Chen Ying learned from Cao Cao's tactics in the Battle of Chibi, connecting several sheepskin rafts together to form a larger sheepskin raft.

Some people will definitely say that this kind of huge sheepskin raft that is inconvenient to move, if the enemy fires.If Chen could not protect his food road with more than 1 cavalry, he could hang himself.

There are many people and strength, Chen Ying took advantage of the fact that it was not busy at this time, and all the girls and daughters-in-law in Lingzhou and the eighteen towns of Lingzhou were gathered together, and the tanned leather was sewn into a barrel-shaped bag. After sealing, blow in air, and then seal the valve.

Chen Ying also mobilized the artisans under Lin Chuanfu's command to work overtime to build the raft. The raft was twelve feet long and six feet wide, and more than [-] sheepskin airbags were installed on the raft.After testing, such a sheepskin raft can carry more than two thousand stones.

Seeing this result, everyone's eyes popped out.

"That's okay too?"

Chen Ying's brain is obviously different from that of people in this era. Whose leather bag can hold a mast?

But Chen Ying dared to pretend. He set up a tripod on the front, middle and back of the raft, fixed the mast to form a mast about four feet high, and wrapped the tent cloth to form a huge soft sail. When the wind is right, this huge sheepskin raft can sail quickly.

With sufficient manpower, Chen Ying's plan can be implemented smoothly.Just like making dumplings, in just three days, 33 huge sheepskin rafts were built.

Chen Ying originally planned that the troops could save horsepower and manpower and travel upstream along the Yellow River on sheepskin rafts. However, contrary to Chen Ying's expectations, these soldiers of the Lingwu Army would rather jolt on horseback than take sheepskin rafts.

Only then did Chen Ying suddenly realize that the Turkic people were all landlubbers.However, Chen Ying didn't force others to make things difficult, he just let him go.

There are also some soldiers of the Dingyuan Army who are not afraid of getting fainted, pulling their blindfolded horses onto the huge sheepskin rafts. They ride on the sheepskin rafts, looking at the soldiers of the Lingwu Army marching slowly on the shore, what do they think? I feel like these soldiers of the Lingwu Army are a bunch of fools with a broken brain

Chapter 13 Playing with Turks (one more)

Chen Ying led the Dingyuan Army's Sixth Zhechong Mansion and the Lingwu Army's Sixth Zhechong Mansion, with a total of more than [-] soldiers. With the help of more than [-] civilians, they transported one month's supplies along the Yellow River valley. Slowly down the river.

As for the Turkic Ashide Jielifa in Huaiyuan City, Chen Ying did not rush to attack the city. In fact, Chen Ying hated attacking the city very much, and now all his troops are cavalry. They dismounted and fought on foot. That's something a fool would do.

Chen Ying deliberately did not conceal his whereabouts, the purpose was to lure Ash Dejieli to lead his troops out of the city to stop him.However, it was beyond Chen Ying's expectations. Since going south, they have only encountered small-scale Turkic cavalry under surveillance from afar. As long as Chen Ying sent Lingwu cavalry to drive them away, they would never fight and turn around and run away.

After walking slowly along the river valley for two hours, it took only more than [-] miles to arrive at the intersection of the Yellow River and the Hengqiang Canal in the south of Huaiyuan. This speed makes people cry.At noon, Chen Ying ordered to bury the pot and make rice.

When the smoke rises and the rice in the pot has not been boiled.Chen Ying, who was in the Chinese army, received a report from Chen Jinyong.

"What? You said Huaiyuan City is empty?" Chen Ying almost choked on his own saliva when he received the news.Chen Ying asked in disbelief: "How is this possible? Aren't the Turkic people very brave? We are going to rob their sheep now. Shouldn't they be men, women, old and young, fighting us desperately?"

Chen Jinyong (Iscal) did not feel embarrassed at all because he was a Turkic, but said very seriously: "The more brave you are, the faster you die. Turkic people are also very smart. They find that the enemy is stronger than them, and they can't beat them." Sometimes they run away like foxes, like rabbits."

Chen Ying didn't care about waiting for the battle meal to be ready, and rushed towards Huaiyuan City with his bodyguard cavalry, Xu Jingzong, Ashina Simo, Yu Guni and others.The intersection of Hengqiang Canal and the Yellow River is only ten miles away from Huaiyuan City, and to a galloping horse at full speed, it is only the effort of two sticks of incense.

At this time, the gate of Huaiyuan City was wide open, and there was no trace of human beings.

Ashina Simo jumped off his horse, took two steps in three steps, picked up a fairly intact piece of horse dung at the gate of the city, and squeezed it lightly, the horse dung shattered, Ashina Simo looked at it Looking at the color of the horse dung, he said with certainty: "Master, judging from the time of this piece of horse dung, it should be three hours ago!"

"Three hours ago?" Chen Ying said indifferently: "So it was not yet dawn when Ashi Dejieli ran away?"

Ashina Simo nodded and said, "It should be like this!"

Yu Guni said angrily: "Ashi Dejielifa is a rabbit, but he runs very fast..."

Chen Ying said to Xu Jingzong: "Write a letter to inform the governor of Lingzhou and let him take over Huaiyuan City!"

Huaiyuan City was recovered without a single soldier.Chen Ying didn't have anything to be happy about. The Taizu said that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt the enemy's ten fingers.All victories before the enemy's vital forces are wiped out are actually nothing but flowers in the mirror.

Chen Ying thought for a while, and immediately felt relieved.He built the sheepskin raft in a big way, mobilized the army, prepared food and grass, and made the final preparations before the expedition. Such things could not be hidden from anyone.

If Ashide Jielifa, who stayed behind in Huaiyuan City, didn't know, then there would be ghosts.When Ashi Dejielifa learned that Chen Ying was preparing food and grass and building sheepskin rafts, he immediately made a judgment that Datang was going to use troops in Huaiyuan.

If there was no Turkic army to cooperate with Liu Wuzhou in attacking Bingzhou, he could sit back and relax in Huaiyuan City, and Chen Ying would not dare to tear himself apart. At most, he would grab some sheep and horses to go back.However, things are different now.Tens of thousands of Turkic troops marched southward and poured into the territory of Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty. If Chen Ying didn't do anything in Lingzhou, he would definitely be incompetent as the general manager of Lingzhou in the Tang Dynasty.

Ashi Dejie Lifa is very self-aware, and the thin bone law city set up by Lifu can't stop Chen Ying. more than four times that ofAt this time, the army he could use was far more than Chen Ying, and there was no way to keep Huaiyuan intact.

After thinking about it, Ashi Dejie Lifa decided to run, run quickly.

Astek's fleeing without a fight was both reasonable and unexpected.

According to the original plan, Chen Ying used the entire Lingwu army and the sixth Zhechong mansion of the Dingyuan army to go northward with a total of seven Zhechong mansions.However, after discovering that Liu Tong turned out to be a good staff officer.Chen Ying immediately adjusted his deployment and ordered Liu Tong to serve as military counselor in the capacity of marching commander.

Liu Tong looked at Huaiyuan, which was empty, and quietly said to Chen Ying: "Boss, we can no longer hide our whereabouts, so our previous plan..."

Chen Yingdao: "Changing orders from day to day is a big taboo for military strategists!"

Liu Tong said worriedly: "However, we can't be surprised now, and a surprise attack will become a strong attack. I'm afraid it will be very difficult to achieve results!"

Chen Ying looked at Ashina Simo, Chen Jinyong, Yu Guni and others beside him and said, "You think so too!"

Xu Jingzong nodded thoughtfully and said, "Not bad!"

Although Ashina Simo didn't say anything, he seemed deeply convinced.

Chen Ying smiled leisurely, pointed at Liu Tong and said, "You are wrong, you are all wrong!"

"wrong?"

Everyone was stunned.

Chen Ying continued: "We are not here to rob the Turks!"