Chapter 173 This battle is not a crime

"Leave here quickly, people will die!"

Although Hou Mo and Chen Xu had never seen a steam engine train, he immediately reacted when he saw the machete that was 40 meters long and countless dense blades.

When we first built a military camp on the Chi Road south of Jianmen Pass, it was mainly for convenience. In June, Bashu had already entered a hot summer, accompanied by the heat and abundant rain. Although the Chi Road was not because of the high terrain, the construction standards of the Chi Road in the Tang Dynasty were very high. First, they were tamped with cooked soil and mixed with glutinous rice juice to form the foundation, then they were tamped with three-piece soil on top, and gravel was laid on top, then tamped with sleepers and asphalt pavement.

The most important thing is that a complete drainage system is built in any part of Chidao. Unless there is a major mountain torrent, you don’t have to worry about rainwater soaking the road surface.

In this way, a large number of tents were lined up along the road at one time.

Hou Mo Chenxu's voice had long been covered by the huge roar of the steam engine train. Except for dozens of personal guards around him who were running towards the distance, the other coalition soldiers were still looking at the roaring train in a daze.

As the fork changes direction, two steam trains run side by side, like a huge ancient beast, devouring everything in front of them.

Tens of thousands of people were so shocked that they lost their power of movement in an instant, and then everyone rushed to get on the horse and flee. When this disaster was coming, where would there be an organization?

However, there is no time.

On both sides of the valley, when the rocks were built, in order to prevent the falling rocks on the hillside from suddenly rolling down and hit pedestrians and vehicles on the road, the stones were cleaned as much as possible to form a smooth and steep hillside. In the narrow valley, two trains were in parallel, and the space of more than 100 meters was dead.

Whatever resists horses or war horses, the powerful impact of firepower, are vulnerable like weeds. The trains devour life in the valley from time to time, whether it is a horse or a human.

However, this giant beast seemed to come from ancient times, like a Taotie. When its appetite was never satisfied, the space to avoid on both sides of the valley was too small, and a large number of soldiers were running towards the south along the valley's mountains.

Of course, human strength is sometimes poor. But the steam engine train is not a human, nor is it a beast. As long as the water and coal on the train are not exhausted, the train can run all the time.

He was pushed down by his comrades, and before he could get up, he was cut into two pieces by the giant blade on the train. Especially in front of the locomotive, there was a huge shovel, like a bulldozer, pushing away all obstacles in front of the track. As the train roared forward, the coalition soldiers outside the city cried and called for their parents, only to regret that their parents had fewer legs.

General Pang Yu and Pang Da were also secretly shocked to see it. In front of these two trains, countless people were already swept in. No matter how brave the soldiers were, they had no power to fight back in front of these two steel beasts. Some coalition soldiers were desperately holding their spears or bows and arrows to vent their vents towards the train. Of course, this did not have any effect. If they could not escape, they had to wait for death.

In fact, although the train is full of sharp blades, its lethality is really limited. However, for these two trains, unknown to these barbaric and uncivilized soldiers, is their greatest fear.

Everyone, including Hou Mo and Chenxu, believed that these two trains were not weapons from the human world at all. They were more willing to believe that they were divine beasts from heaven, but the guardian god of the Tang people.

Especially those frightened coalition soldiers were so scared that they were thrown into their bodies. However, when they thought they had to, the huge blade of the train roared from above their heads.

Of course, this is because when installing the giant blade, I deliberately lifted it to one foot and three inches, which is almost thirty kilometers away, which is a safe distance. In a hurry, who would notice this detail? They naturally thought that this giant beast still had compassion. As long as it climbed on the ground with its protruding body, the divine beast would spare their lives.

As early as the beginning of the train attack, Pang Yu gathered all the Tang soldiers from Jianmen Pass, picked out some young and strong people from the people, and collected the livestock from the city, especially horses or mules. If not, they would be cattle. Finally, they gathered eight thousand cavalry.

The soldiers of the Tang army followed the train and began to chase.

Hou Mo and Chenxu became more and more frightened as they ran because it was too chaotic. In a hurry, the generals lost command of the troops. Their soldiers could not find their generals, and they could only run around like headless flies, and were gradually swallowed by the train.

Until Hou Mo Chenxu was exhausted and finally ran to Wuhou Temple, sixty miles south of Jianmen Pass.

The annoying and fearful voice finally disappeared, but at this time, less than 500 personal soldiers were followed by him, and what was even more desperate was the dense sound of horse hooves getting closer and closer.

"Hou Mo Chenxu is right in front!"

"lead the way!"

When Pang Yu led his troops to Wuhou Temple, Hou Mo Chenxu looked desperate. He pressed his hand on his horizontal knife and stood at the door, facing the soldiers of the Tang army.

Hou Mo Chenxu looked at Pang Yu and said, "Are you Pang Yu?"

Pang Yu smiled and said, "That's right."

Hou Mo Chenxu sighed and said, "You are lucky! The devil also helped you and brought these two ferocious beasts!"

Pang Yu laughed: "The devil sent it? Do you think this giant beast was sent by the devil?"

"Isn't it?" Hou Mo Chenxu widened his eyes: "Is it..."

Pang Yu smiled and said, "These two giant beasts were made by General Chen!"

Hou Mo Chenxu stared at Pang Yu for a while, and finally understood, shouted to the sky, suddenly pulled out the horizontal knife, crossed it around his neck, preparing to commit suicide.

A Tang soldier held a crossbow and shot through Hou Mo Chenxu's arm. His horizontal knife fell to the ground. Other Tang soldiers rushed forward and tied Hou Mo Chenxu to a strong position.

Hou Mo Chenxu, who was tied into rice dumplings, closed his eyes and refused to open them.

Pang Yu praised: "No, it's a bit of character! Take it back to the city and take it to guard it. It will be delivered to Chang'an on a date!"

Although the enemy's commander was captured, the pursuit did not stop. Facing the unknown train, the officials all raised their clans and surrendered.

Seven days later, Li Shimin, who was preparing to head north along Linhuai City, received news that Hou Mo and Chenxu's entire army were wiped out. He was shocked, but he couldn't understand the situation for a moment.

Although Hou Mo and Chenxu were not the main force of Li Shimin, he had more than 400,000 troops from various coalition forces, especially Hou Mo and Chenxu's more than 50,000 old subordinates in Lingnan. This was not weaker than the regular elite troops of the Tang army, and he was more familiar with mountain combat. He actually reversed the situation in a short period of time, which made Li Shimin dare not go north for a large time, for fear of encountering Hou Mo and Chenxu's fate.

Although Li Shimin tried his best to conceal the news, the rangers under Li Xiuning were simply omnipresent. Almost overnight, almost everyone in Li Shimin's army knew that the troops of Mo Chenxu, the troops of the Western Army, were wiped out, and everyone was shocked.

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In the Tai Chi Palace in Chang'an City, Li Anyan, the general of the left guard, excitedly reported to Li Jiancheng: "Your Majesty, after statistics from General Pang Da and General Xunxiang Xun, this battle has wiped out a total of more than 114,000 enemies and captured more than 220,000 people. Others either surrendered or disappeared. Sheep, horses, herds and various materials are piled up like mountains, and they cannot be counted clearly for a while."

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When Li Jiancheng heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Over the past few days, I have received bad news everywhere. After finally getting this big victory, Pang Yu and Xunxiang continued to move along the road and recovered Chengdu three days ago. According to time, they should have won the Xia Pass.

Although the inventory has not yet ended, the Tang army in Fusang is facing a collapse. In this battle, the Tang army is intimidating the Huhus of the Tang Dynasty in Fusang. The local aristocratic families who had originally defected to Li Shimin were horrified when they heard the news. They all abandoned Li Shimin and rushed to Chang'an City to apologize and ask Li Jiancheng to take them back.

Seeing this situation, Li Jiancheng thought about it in his mind that the construction of the Datang Chi Road had been completed a lot. Now that the train is a big killer, Li Jiancheng pondered: "Do you want to fight with Li Shimin in Xiangfan along the long line of Han?"

"Your Majesty should not have such thoughts!"

Hearing this voice, Li Jiancheng turned around and saw Chen Ying coming slowly.
Chapter completed!