Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

"Yang Changshi wants to die! Have you ever thought about the [-] Lishu in Lingzhou City?" Guo Zihe sighed and said, "Yang Changshi doesn't want to be a second minister, so does Guo Mou want to be a second minister?"

"This..." Yang Ze pondered.

"Death is the easiest way, and it is even more difficult to live!" Guo Zihe said: "This year's severe cold, white disasters are raging, the Turkic people have suffered heavy losses, and countless cattle and sheep have been frozen to death. Trick, does Yang Changshi really think that even if he surrenders to the Turkic people, they will leave the more than [-] people in Lingzhou City behind?"

Without waiting for Yang Ze to answer, Guo Zihe shouted loudly: "No, the Turkic people will not leave a Tang person behind at all, they will slaughter Lingzhou completely, leaving no chickens or dogs behind."

Yang Ze's expression darkened upon hearing this.

What Guo Zihe can think of, there is no reason why he can't think of it.It's just that there are some things that he doesn't want to think about.Yang Ze was in a state of chaos at this moment: "Director Guo, what shall we do?"

"The only option is to stand firm and wait for reinforcements!" Guo Zihe said, "Your Majesty will not sit back and watch Lingzhou fall into the enemy's hands, nor will you sit and watch Lingzhou's people die. Maybe the reinforcements are already on the way, and they will arrive within half a month, or ten days at least. !"

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The reinforcements that Guo Zihe spoke of had already arrived.The hot spring pool is only more than a hundred miles away from Lingzhou. If Chen Ying wants to, he can reach the city of Lingzhou in at most two days.

It's just that Chen Ying really had no choice but to send troops decisively.If there were no more than [-] Turkic people in Bogulu town, Chen Ying would have sent troops to Lingzhou long ago.If we don't pull out the nails in Bogulucheng now, Chen Ying will have no way to enter Lingzhou.

With the efforts of Lin Chuanfu, more than one hundred skis were made that night, and Chen Ying took a hundred soldiers selected from the whole army to conduct ski training.

However, it is a pity, and for some unknown reason, these healthy soldiers have never been able to ski like the People's Liberation Army in the forest and snow field.

Either this one stumbles, or that person stumbles.Even Chen Ying wondered whether he should give up his plan to sneak into Lingzhou City with skis.

You know, according to the current situation, let alone three to five days, even ten days and a half months, they will not be able to learn to walk like flying with skis.I'm afraid that when they learn how to control the skis like this, Lingzhou City will be lost.

In fact, Chen Ying didn't remember whether Lingzhou was breached by the Turks, but Chen Ying still planned for the worst.Prince Li Jiancheng was under a lot of pressure to send troops to rescue Lingzhou this time.Once he loses, it is likely that Li Jiancheng will fall into a passive position.

Just as Chen Ying was thinking about it, suddenly there was a crisp sound of "Crack!" in front of him.

Chen Ying looked up and saw Liang Zan disappearing from the snow with an "Ouch".

"Liang Zan, Liang Zan!" Chen Ying turned pale with shock, and hurriedly shouted: "Liang Zan, Liang Zan!"

Chen Ying hurriedly ran towards the place where Liang Zan disappeared, but Gao Yunquan stopped Chen Ying: "General, you are the leader of the army. If there is an accident, morale will be frustrated, and the consequences will be serious!"

Luo Shidao: "Let me go!"

Before Luo Shixin could go up, Liang Zan struggled to crawl out from the snowdrift, and shouted nervously, "Don't come here, there are ghosts here!"

Naturally, Chen Ying didn't believe in ghosts. After a long time, Liang Zan said, "Lang Jun, get out of here quickly!"

"what happened?"

Chen Ying asked puzzledly.

Liang Zan said: "This place should be a salt lake. There are salt layers everywhere, and there is no freezing at all."

Chen Ying took a closer look, and sure enough, as Liang Zan said, he didn't know what was going on. Although the snow here looked the same as in other places, it was only a thin layer, and it would fall off even with skis. He fell into the salt layer and fell into a mess.Fortunately, the salt cave Liang Zan fell into was not too deep, only about three or four feet.

"Gao Zuo deputy rate!" Chen Ying turned to look at Gao Yunquan and said, "You have seen a lot, so you know what's going on here?"

Gao Yunquan pondered and said: "Lingzhou produces salt. This should be a salt lake. When there is drought every year, the salt lake will dry up. Where there is salt, the snow will not freeze, forming holes one after another. Look, there is a gazelle here." skeletons!"

When Chen Ying heard this, he suddenly remembered that when Song, Liao and Xia were at their peak, Lingzhou belonged to Xixia, and Xixia was rich in green salt.

"How big is the salt lake here?" Chen Ying looked at the endless snow surface, and a vague idea loomed in his head.

"The last general didn't even come to Lingzhou!" Gao Yunquan clasped his fists and said, "According to rumors, it seems that the salt lake in Lingzhou is about a hundred miles square!"

"Baili, Baili!" Chen Ying murmured: "Make an eye-catching mark here, no one is allowed to go deep, so as not to suffer unnecessary damage!"

Suddenly, a light flashed in Chen Ying's head.

There was a calculation in my heart.

Several soldiers took out their flags and were about to insert them on the edge of the salt lake.Chen Ying suddenly said: "Stop, go back first!"

Chen applied his skis to move quickly towards the hot spring pool. As soon as he entered the camp of the hot spring pool, Chen Ying rushed to Liang Zan and said, "Pass through all the generals above the school lieutenants, and gather in the big camp of the Chinese army!"

Chapter 5 Do your best and listen to the destiny

Chen Ying originally wanted to introduce the Turks into the salt lake area, and use the hollow thin ice layer formed by the salt lake to kill the Turks.When Chen Ying proposed his idea to the Youwei Commander, He Yuejing, the Deputy Commander of the Right, frowned, shook his head and said, "Director Chen, I'm afraid the Turkic people won't be so easily fooled?"

Chen Yingdao: "What's going on?"

He Yuejing said: "Gengwu in March last year (the first day of March), and Dingmo in July (the fourth day of July), the Liang divisions all invaded Lingzhou. Since September, they have invaded Lingzhou three times, especially Lingzhou. The tyrants Liu Tong and Zhang Ju successively took refuge in Liang Shidu. As the native tyrants of Lingzhou, Zhang Ju and Liu Jing have no reason not to know the weirdness of the salt lake, so the Turkic people will not be easily fooled, they are likely to use their tricks , Count us!"

Inside the city, the space is limited. In fact, many common people and gentry do not live in the city, but set up fortresses for self-defense.Especially in remote states and counties, there are many large and small docks.Wubao, also known as Wubi, is a folk defensive building. It was formed around the reign of Wang Mang and Tianfeng. At that time, there was a great famine in the north and social turmoil.In order to protect themselves, the wealthy families built docks and camp walls one after another.

The Wubao outside Lingzhou City has tens of hundreds of people at least, and hundreds of people at most. Facing the massive "Liang" Turkic coalition forces, it is not enough to defend.In July, Liang Shidu failed to attack Lingzhou, but took the opportunity to capture Jiangjiawu Fort.The owner of Jiangjiawu Fort is Jiang Baoyi, the great general of Youwu in the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, his ancestor was Jiang Wei, the great general of the Shu Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms.

Jiang Baoyi and his son Jiang Xie were stationed in Taiyuan and fought against Liu Wuzhou.At this time, only a few old, weak, sick and disabled remained in Jiangjiawu Fort.After Liang Shidu captured Jiangjiabao, he slaughtered all 270 people in the whole castle. Only Jiang Baoyi's concubine Jiang Pan escaped by hiding under the corpse in the dry well.

In September, Liang Shidu led an army to attack Lingzhou again. Zhang Ju was worried that Zhangjiabao would suffer disaster, so he surrendered the city and led more than [-] members of the Zhang clan to surrender Liang Shidu. Liang Shidu appointed Liang Guo Right Army.Of course, to say that Zhang Ju surrendered to the Liang division was because he was afraid of the Zhang family's military disaster, it is better to say that Zhang Ju was out of balance.

Regardless of strength or population, the Zhang family in Lingzhou is far stronger than the Lingzhou branch of the Jiang family in Tianshui.However, Jiang Baoyi had an old acquaintance with Gaozu because of his study tour in the Daxing City Chang'an in his early years.When Li Yuan started his army, Jiang Baoyi had already commanded the army from the left, and later moved to the general of Youwuwei, and was named the Duke of Yong'an County.

But Zhang Shi is not even a ninth-rank official.Following Zhang Ju's surrender to Liang Shidu, Liu Tong also surrendered to Liang Shidu.

Lu Decao said: "What Furui He said is too dangerous and shocking. Perhaps the Turkic people don't think that even Liu Tong and Zhang Ju are so powerful, the Turkic people may not regard them as personal figures!"

"In order to be invincible, you must first think about everything. You can't expect the enemy to be unexpected." Chen Ying thought for a while and said: "I haven't thought of a better way for the time being. When fighting the Turks, we must be safe first. Right now, our most advantageous Yes, the Turkic people can't guess our true reality! In addition, we have advantages that the Turkic people don't have. We don't have to worry about frostbite, and guarding the hot spring doesn't consume much fuel. If the weather is colder , the Turks in Bogulu City will definitely not be able to hold on..."

Wei Wenzhong stroked his beard on his forehead and said, "However, Lingzhou City has been surrounded for three months. Although they don't need to worry about their food and grass, their fuel is also insufficient. I don't know if they can hold on!"

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Naturally, Chen Ying didn't know that the fuel in Lingzhou city was about to burn, and the people in the city had already started burning the corpses to keep warm.When the corpse is highly decomposed, it will be in a state of grease, which cannot be burned directly, but it can be burned if it is accompanied by dry wood or other fire igniters.

Due to the cold weather, there is no way to burn the bodies of the soldiers and civilians who died in Lingzhou recently.However, there were corpses that had been restrained after being killed in July. At this time, the people in the city unanimously dug up those corpses that had already been disintegrated and burned them for warmth.

But the number of these corpses is not very large, and in fact, they can't last long.

On the city wall of Lingzhou, the cold wind was like cutting with a knife.However, Guo Zihe, the general manager of Lingzhou, did not dare to hide in the office of the general manager's mansion to keep out the cold. Although he had to endure the biting cold standing on the city wall, Guo Zihe's appearance on the city wall could boost the morale that was already sluggish.

Although Guo Zihe is in his prime, human energy is always limited.He held the handle of the knife and thought secretly. The soldiers and civilians on the left and right all looked dead and had no morale at all.If it weren't for Guo Zihe's leadership, Lingzhou might have already collapsed.

Although he can take the lead to boost morale, but when the corpses in the city are burned clean, I am afraid he will be powerless.

"Now it seems that there is only one way for us to go!" Guo Zihe looked at Yang Ze and said solemnly.

"Director Guo wants to break through?" Yang Ze mused, "At this time, if you want to break through, it will be as difficult as climbing the sky, and there is almost no hope of success!"

"Of course I know this question!" Guo Zihe said, "I just want to confirm one thing now!"

"Are there any reinforcements?" Yang Ze sighed and said, "This year, the snow fell earlier than in previous years. When the news reached Chang'an, the heavy snow had already blocked the road. Even if the reinforcements sent by His Majesty, they would not be able to reach Lingzhou in a short while. ah!"