Yuhuang Yin Shang

Wearing a purple prince's uniform, King Yu led [-] light cavalry on the road for several days, and arrived in Yuhang from the capital Kuaiji in two days. The area to the west of Yuhang was occupied by Chu State ten years ago.

When they came to Yuhang, General Qi, the guard general of Yuhang, received His Royal Highness King Yu, the military adviser and the left and right generals.Take them to the city to understand the situation.Looking into the distance from the city, I can vaguely see the tents of the Chu army in the distance, gathered into a continuous piece.It is possible to attack the city at any time.

"General Qi, how long have they gathered here?" King Yu stared into the distance.

"Almost a month, moving ten miles forward every day."

"What do spies get in return?"

"Yes, roughly estimated, there are about [-] soldiers and [-] cavalry. There is no siege equipment in sight. However, there are [-] permanent troops stationed in the Chu City behind, which can relax at any time."

King Yu lowered his eyebrows and thought for a while, "Maybe this is the vanguard, waiting for the siege troops and transporting supplies. So they dare not stockpile troops below the city, for fear that we will suddenly kill them."

General Qi nodded in agreement.

"This king brought five thousand cavalry, and Yuhang city guards thirty thousand, how many cavalry are there here?" King Yu asked.

"There are only [-] cavalry. Our country is seriously short of horses."

"There are not enough cavalry, so we can make a lot of rockets, gunpowder, add kerosene, oil, and attack the enemy camp with fire." King Yu looked at the dark enemy camp in the distance.

The country of Yue is located in the eastern coastal area of ​​the Central Plains. It is not a horse-producing area, and there are even fewer war horses.However, Vietnam's homemade fire yao is also a coastal area, where shipping is very developed and it is convenient to do business with other countries.

"The last general asks for orders. Tomorrow night, we will gather at three o'clock and send two cavalry, flanking left and right, to sneak attack at four o'clock. Kill half of their [-] vanguard troops. Withdraw the troops back at five o'clock. Lest they join the troops behind, we will be even more difficult to deal with. It would be even better if he could kill or capture the Crown Prince of Chu alive."

King Yu also felt that it was feasible, so he nodded and agreed: "The winter is relatively dry now, and westerly and northwest winds are often blowing. It is best to attack with fire. But we must withdraw at the fifth watch, and we can't love to fight."

The two smiled knowingly.

next morning

General Qi gave orders to the cavalry on the teaching ground, and divided the cavalry into two teams. Half of the cavalry was led by the deputy general beside him, attacking the right side, and the other half led by himself attacked the left side.He ordered them to feed the horses and go back to the camp to rest. In the middle of the night, they all tied up the horses' feet with cloth and put the horses' mouths on them.so as not to make a sound.

King Yu was busy checking the defense equipment, and saw that there were not enough weapons in the arsenal, most of which were obsolete weapons many years ago.

In the past ten years, the iron ore mined by Yue State has to be handed over to Chu State, which has caused the metal-deficient country to become even more metal-deficient.

Although knives and axes can be re-sharpened.But some of the arrows were worn out and unusable.All craftsmen in the city must be called to rush to build day and night.

King Yu had a general understanding of the situation before he set off, and he had asked King Yue to send a fleet to go abroad to buy weapons and armaments, which was faster than producing them himself.

In the past ten years, under the strict management of the Chu State, the State of Yue has been strictly prohibited from buying war horses.Moreover, most of the weapons processing plants have long been destroyed by Chu State.Even the agricultural iron tools of the Vietnamese people are strictly controlled.

Under such circumstances, it is hard to blame the veterans against attacking Chu.Even though weapons processing factories across the country are rapidly being built, hundreds of thousands of arrows and swords, tens of thousands of shields and armors, how can they buy them back as quickly as a large number of merchant fleets!

King Yu ordered the keeper of the armory to take out the usable weapons and sharpen them again, and distribute them to the soldiers.Put the unusable ones near the city and save them for fire attack when defending the city in the future.

Although there are not enough weapons, you can use catapults on the city to throw stones, giant trees, and fireballs at the enemy.

King Yu used simple words and issued a notice in the government office in the city, uniting the people to defend the city together.

The tigers and wolves of the state of Chu wanted to destroy the state of Yue,

The city will be destroyed, the family will be destroyed.

Parents, uncles and nephews are slaughtered by others,

Sisters, wives and daughters, let others plunder.

Ten years of hatred, especially in front of my eyes.

The whole city contributes, and men and women are responsible.

Chiseling rocks and felling trees, transporting equipment,

Unite as one, protect the family and the country.

On the one hand, King Yu ordered General Zuo to garrison the city and train the soldiers.

On the other hand, General You was ordered to lead the people to dig stones in an orderly manner, cut down trees, and transport them to the city gate for later use.

After seeing the post notice, young people in the city participated enthusiastically.Even women came to help deliver rice.The so-called unity of one heart, unity of will.

King Yu arranged for the national division to go to the neighboring country Wu, and advised the other party to send troops to encircle Chu as soon as possible.

楚营

The prince of Chu State sat in the tent early in the morning, frowning, listening to the military report of a bearded general Gao Yang.It was learned that a King Yu of the Yue Kingdom personally brought [-] soldiers to Yuhang.That means that the king of Yue refused to hand over people.Li Zhengqian had never heard that there was a King Yu in Yue State.Where does it come from?Could it be that the lord of Yue has an illegitimate son, and he just met each other, and he is temporarily crowned king?

General Gao Yang continued to report: "Your Highness, our [-] army has no siege supplies, and no city to resist. We neither attack the city nor go back. We are hoarding troops here. .What shall we do?"

"The king of Yue was so afraid of death that he didn't dare to send troops. He was just afraid that we would attack the city, so he sent tens of thousands of troops to defend the city. You send spies to find out who is that King Yu?"Of course the prince dared not say that he was just using tens of thousands of soldiers to frighten the king of Yue and force him to hand over Princess Ziyu.

"It's Your Highness. In winter, the westerly wind is tight, and it's blowing from the west these few days. If the opponent makes a surprise attack and attacks with fire, then...!" General Gao Yang once fought with the Emperor of Chu, and has a lot of combat experience.To station troops on such a flat terrain without any effective obstacles is to put themselves in danger. In addition to the north wind and dry weather, they put forward their opinions.

"Here..., you immediately go and arrange for troops to expand the perimeter of the barracks by 200 steps, and step up patrols at night. Even if they attack with fire, they will be beyond the range. And immediately order several teams to bring water to the stream and pour water on the top of each tent. Wet. Put three or four tanks of water next to each camp, especially near the grain and grass, and send additional soldiers to patrol and guard. Be careful to fortify."

At the fourth watch, it was pitch black everywhere.

General Qi and his lieutenant general were both wearing paper armor, leading two pairs of cavalry in black uniforms, carrying arrows soaked in kerosene on their backs.Stealthily came to the vicinity of Chu Ying 400 steps away.

They separated the left and right teams ahead of time and surrounded them on both sides.The cavalry dismounted and pulled their horses and moved slowly to a distance of 400 steps and stopped.Then use the first rocket launched by General Qi as the number.

With a sound of "whoosh", the sky in the dark night was quickly polished by a rocket.Immediately, thousands of rockets dipped in kerosene were fired densely.In an instant, all the camp tents around Chu Camp were on fire. The flames were fierce, following the direction of the northwest wind, they burned one tent after another in the northwest.

The people in the Chu camp jumped out before they had time to put on their clothes.There was a sea of ​​fire outside.The soldiers ran around in chaos without the call of their superiors, without weapons in their hands, trapped in the sea of ​​​​fire, unable to see the enemy, and did not know what to do.Whether the soldiers were going to fight the fire, hit the enemy, or run for their lives, their minds went blank.

The Yue cavalry continued to advance 50 steps quickly from a distance of 200 steps to the Chu camp, and fired rockets into the deeper part of the Chu camp.Continue to advance another five hundred steps and continue to release the rocket.Seeing the Chu army running out from inside, he immediately killed them.

Prince Chu ran out from the camp of the central army, and saw that the outer barracks were on fire, and the soldiers were in a mess.

The crown prince Zhenggan yelled loudly, "Why panic? The outside is on fire. This is the middle camp. Has it burned here? The prince is not afraid, what are you afraid of? Isn't there a water tank next to the tent? The soldiers of the middle camp are gathered."

The soldiers in the middle battalion immediately gathered when they heard the call, and the prince ordered his deputy general to lead the first, second and third teams to put out the fire with water from a nearby water tank.

The main general led four, five or six teams to shoot at the Vietnamese troops who set fire to the left and right with bows and hands.Force the Vietnamese army who approached the Chu camp to retreat.Stop them from firing rockets into the deeper center tent.

The eighth team was responsible for rushing out to hack and kill the Vietnamese army.Step by step, the Yue soldiers were forced out of the Chu camp.

The ninth and tenth teams are responsible for carrying water to the creek behind.Come to support one, two or three teams of soldiers to put out the fire.

No.11 team is responsible for saving lives.

Li Zhenggan directed in an orderly manner.

The Yue cavalry saw that the densely packed bows and arrows shot towards them through the sea of ​​flames and turned into rockets, so they had to retreat.

The two captains of the Vietnamese army led the cavalry to immediately change direction and continue the fire attack from the front, and then rushed in to hack and kill.

It was five o'clock soon, and the Yue soldiers' eyes were burning red, and they were reluctant to leave. When they heard the signal of Mingjin's withdrawal from the city, they had no choice but to withdraw their troops and run back.

Although the generals of the Chu army were prepared, they were still burned to the front battalion.The grain and grass in the middle camp and the rear camp were preserved.Even so, it was a lost battle.

The emperor of Chu received an urgent military report from the prefect of the border town, "The 3000 soldiers of the Chu army were attacked in the middle of the night outside the border of Yue, and the front battalion was burned. Burned, unable to fight, the prince was almost trapped in the flames."

Emperor Chu glared angrily, the hand holding the military report trembled, and his breathing became serious.He slapped the table, "It's rebellion, the country of Yue dares to rebel! Dare to besiege the prince with fire, I will make the country of Yue pay the price."

Eunuch Wei and the court ladies beside him were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and dared not speak out.

The Emperor of Chu immediately wrote an imperial decree and handed it to Duke Wei, "Eunuch Wei, pass on my imperial decree and order General Chen Biao to rush to the front line immediately to support the crown prince, and hand over the imperial decree to Chen Biao. Mobilize. The nearby towns take out the stored food as military food to support the prince."

Eunuch Wei took the imperial decree and went to General Chen's mansion immediately.

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Paper armor, also known as paper armor, is a simple body armor in ancient China. It is made of hard cloth to mount bones and then paper tendons.

It was used by soldiers and civilian armed forces in the Song Dynasty.In the Qing Dynasty, there was an iron leaf wadding paper cloth armor on the front chest.It is mainly used for infantry in southern China. Because of its light weight, it is also used for warship sailors. - Sourced from online information.Readers can find information about paper armor by themselves.

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