Chapter 26 Baishan Mountain is also called Flaming Mountain
After Jieli was surrounded on Baishan Mountain, he also tried to break out, but without any surprise all failed.
There are many reasons, the main one is food and grass.
All their cattle and sheep have fallen into the hands of the Tang army.
Jie Li was filled with regret. He knew that he had been fooled. The Tang army in Yunzhong was not the main force at all, they were the ones who lured him!
The real purpose of the Tang army was to cut off his return route.
The soldiers and horses led by Li Jing overran their rear areas, lost all their cattle and sheep, and had no source of food. He had no choice but to retreat to Baishan Mountain.
But now, Baishan Mountain is surrounded.
The foot of the mountain is densely packed with Tang troops holding bows and arrows.
He sent people to make peace, but when the people he sent came back, only a dead head was left.
He knew that Tang Jun wanted to die!
It's not that he hadn't thought about it, but the problem was that the Tang army's large ordnance completely blocked his way to break through.
Thinking of that terrible bed crossbow, Jieli couldn't sleep at night.
The battle cannot be won.
Surrender, the other party will not accept it.
What was left to Jie Li was boundless darkness and panic.
The complicated feelings of regret made Jieli suffer a lot.
At this moment, Bai was descending from the mountain.
"Oh, this damn weather is so hot." Xie Shufang was so hot that he wanted to take off his armor and stomach to cool down.
But remembering the rules in the army, he could only take a sip of water and continue to urge the soldiers to work.
"Hurry up, hurry up, pour out all the kerosene, be fast, and have a good posture, do you hear me?"
"yes!"
Xie Shufang nodded and said loudly: "Very good, very energetic. Let me tell you good news. Once the Turkic thieves are killed, we can eat beef and mutton."
"General, where are the cattle and sheep?" a soldier asked.
Xie Shufang laughed and said: "You don't know, General Li attacked the Turkic baggage and captured more than 200,000 cattle and sheep."
Wow!
The soldiers became excited.
Not only here, but also under Baishan Mountain, soldiers of the Tang Army were pouring kerosene and watering the trees everywhere.
Su Lie, who accompanied Li Jing on patrol, asked in confusion: "General, in the current weather, even if there is no kerosene, we can burn the Turks to death, so why waste it?"
Li Jing said: "Ants can still survive, let alone humans. On the verge of death, Jieli will definitely fight to the death. I poured kerosene on the mountain to completely cut off all avenues of survival for Jieli."
Su Lie frowned and whispered: "General, there is something I don't know whether I should say."
"General Su, that's all."
"Okay." Su Lie said: "If the general really wants to do this, wouldn't he have to burn these hundreds of thousands of Turks alive? In this case, I'm afraid it will cause criticism from the government and the public."
Li Jing smiled and said, "Li Jing is not afraid to repay your kindness."
Seeing this, Su Lie shook his head and did not continue to persuade. Although he also thought that the Turks deserved to die, he still felt uncomfortable when he thought of Li Jing immediately setting fire to the mountain and burning hundreds of thousands of people to death.
This time, Li Jing was conquering the Turks, and Li Zhiyun gave him all the kerosene in the warehouse. This time, Li Jing set fire to the mountain and poured water around Baishan Mountain for half a circle before using up the kerosene. The remaining half of Baishan Mountain was filled with oil.
The circle is a cliff, so there is no need to set fire. Just send people to guard it and wait for the Turks to jump off the cliff.
Seven days later.
The seventh day of July.
Li Jing walked out of the big tent, looked at the sky, and said with a smile: "It is rumored that on the day of the Qiao Qiao Festival, the goddesses in the Heavenly Palace will come down to earth to teach women the skills of embroidery and weaving. But today, I am going to set fire to the mountain. I don't know.
Will it scare away the goddess?"
When the generals heard this, they burst out laughing.
Cheng Yaojin stabbed and said: "If the goddess dares to come, then capture her and present her to His Majesty the Emperor. It just so happens that our Majesty is not a womanizer, so I will give you a goddess. Maybe Your Majesty will like it."
Everyone laughed again.
Immediately, Li Jing looked solemn and said: "Generals, success or failure depends on this one move. After this battle, the Turks will no longer be able to threaten our country. All generals will witness history. I hope you will be cautious again and carry out your respective tasks."
, understand!”
"As you command!"
An hour later, following Li Jing's order, thousands of rockets soared into the sky, densely packed like fire locusts crossing the border, and disappeared into Baishan Mountain.
Bear!
Flames spread all over the place in an instant, and the ignited kerosene lines burned quickly, just like water flowing through the planned river channel, and the fire lines burned one after another.
Immediately afterwards, black smoke shot straight into the sky.
Hedong Road has always been mountainous, with mountains stacked on top of each other. There was no wind in the mountains, and the flames burned wildly. The trees and jungles were doused with kerosene, which became the best fuel.
Countless soldiers of the Tang Army saw the flames and quickly burned towards the mountainside, just like climbing a mountain.
In just half an hour, the entire Baishan Mountain seemed to be roasted on a flame, turning into a mountain of flames!
Immediately afterwards, there were horrific screams that rang out from the mountains.
"If someone breaks through, kill him!" Yuchi Gong yelled.
The soldiers of the Tang army stretched out their bows and arrows, and wildly sniped at the Turks who were trying to break through. Crossbows, big yellow crossbows, arrows, and crossbows were set up in formation.
With a sound of ‘put’.
The black arrows were missing, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the Turks.
The Turks were already suffering from insufficiency of armor and stomach, and coupled with the burning of the flames, they panicked and chose their way out. Faced with the missing arrows of the Tang army, they scurried away and hurriedly looked for cover.
However, there is no shelter for them on the burning Baishan Mountain.
Either be burned alive or shot to death.
With good luck, he managed to pass through the sea of fire and arrows, but in the end he was beheaded by the Tang army cavalry wandering down the mountain.
This is truly a situation where there is no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
Two hours later, more and more Turks broke through. Because the flames had reached the top of the mountain, the entire Baishan Mountain was burning.
In addition to the flames, there was thick black smoke.
What was left was that the Tang army fired thousands of arrows again and again.
On the other side of Baishan Mountain, Turkic soldiers were about to jump off a cliff to survive, but were caught by the Tang army at the foot of the cliff.
If you die by jumping off a cliff, you don't need to worry about it.
Those who are not dead will be stabbed to death with a spear.
There is no way to live, there is a dead end in the mountains, and there is a dead end at the bottom of the mountains!
Two days passed.
The soldiers of the Tang Army killed countless Turks, and until the end of the killing, they could smell the "smell of meat" wafting from the mountains.
And White Mountain is still burning.
The flame is extremely bright.
The Turks tried countless ways to break out of the encirclement, including escaping in groups, escaping in groups, and digging in the ground to pretend to be dead.
But it didn't work at all.
Facing the flames and being heavily surrounded by the Tang army, they had only one way to die.
Killed wave after wave.
At the end of the battle, the Tang army had almost run out of arrows.
When no arrows were missed, Li Jing gave the order to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Some crazy Turks rushed towards the Tang army with their whole bodies burning with flames, and some knelt down to beg for mercy.
Under the terrible power of the fire attack, the pride and strength of the Turks disappeared, leaving only the instinct of survival.
But it is a pity that Li Jing has no intention of giving them a way to survive.
He doesn't want a living mouth, he just wants a dead body!
The flames on Baishan Mountain lasted for half a month, and finally gradually dissipated.
At this time, the Turks were almost dead, and there were few of the crazy breakout behaviors like before.
Li Jing looked at Baishan Mountain with black smoke rising, and said: "Send the order, the three armies must not slack off, and they will enter the mountain in two days!"
"As you command!"
This fire burned for more than half a month and killed countless Turks. According to Li Jing's estimation, the number of Turks who died in the fire was at least tens of thousands.
As for those Turks who were lucky enough to survive, he would personally take their lives.