The general responsible for attacking the Shazhou fortress in Hejian was named Tian Chongjin.
He has a burly appearance and dominates with his physical strength.
Luo Youdu attached great importance to the cultivation of a new generation of generals, and often promoted outstanding people in the army to serve as reserve officers.
Tian Chongjin is one of them.
As a newly promoted general, Tian Chongjin was not like the surrounding veteran generals who had great military exploits, but he did not have outstanding command record.
This time he was given the main attack mission, and it was time to prove himself by launching a fierce attack on the Shazhou Shibao Village between the Dadu River.
Luo Youdu had a very high prestige in the army, and when he saw the soldiers in Shibao Village, they started to humiliate their emperor.
The soldiers who attacked the stronghold were extremely angry and cursed one after another.
However, each of them said nothing, and they were disorganized and chaotic.
Tian Chong entered Ben Youzhou and was recruited from one hundred people to join the army. He had no family background and no status, so he was just an ordinary soldier. He was able to achieve his current status only because of the selection system implemented by Luo Youdu.
Although I haven't had the opportunity to meet Luo Youdu face to face, I still remember his kindness and kindness in my heart.
At this moment, he was also furious. He laughed loudly. He suppressed his random curses first, and then said loudly: "I am Youzhou Tian Chongjin, the commander of Si Xiaowu Army, the bodyguard's personal army. I am a kid in Dali. I am short-sighted and only know how to do it."
Just talk. I am standing on the bow of this boat, what can you do to me?"
When he shouted, his voice was like a loud bell, full of energy.
It reached Yang Huaian's ears across the river.
Yang Huai'an was angry and thought to himself: If you want to die, I will help you!
Without thinking much, he loudly ordered: "Each gunner aims at the opponent's lead ship and uses all his strength to knock out Tian Zhongjin's ship first and capture the thief and the king!"
Trebuchets from various places moved their attack targets in accordance with the order.
With this delay, the Zhongyuan ship has advanced more than thirty feet.
Yang Huaian gave an order, and more than thirty boulders the size of millstones were thrown towards Tian Zhongjin.
Tian Zhongjin got out of the boat. When the boulder came, the boat suddenly accelerated. Amidst the exclamations and shouts of the soldiers of both armies, the boulder fell heavily on the water behind the boat, stirring up a row of tall water columns.
Tian Chongjin's courage inspired the soldiers around him to burst into laughter.
"It's rude to come and not reciprocate!"
When Tian Zhongjin saw that he was close to the distance, he shouted loudly.
More than twenty earthen jars were shot towards Shazhou Shibao Village.
Yang Huaian felt confused and frowned slightly when he saw black shadows shooting towards him.
I just feel baffled.
Yang Huaian knew how powerful the Central Plains was. His grandfather, father, and tribe all died tragically in the Central Plains. He was fully prepared for this attack from the Central Plains and did not dare to be careless.
The Central Plains has always been dominated by artillery stones. In order to defend against the artillery stones in the Central Plains, his Shibao Village is built with tender bamboo as the core, rammed stones and bluestones, which has a strong protective ability against the artillery stones.
But the way the Central Plains side attacked the stronghold was very different from what he imagined.
The Central Plains actually did not attack with cannon stones, but charged forward to meet their cannon stones.
Fortunately, the opponent's warships were strong, otherwise they would have been smashed to pieces.
After finally waiting for the flying rocks to attack, when I saw the powerless black shadow flying towards me, a thought flashed through my mind: "This is the power of the cannon rocks in the Central Plains? What the hell... I dare to catch it with my hands just like this."
Of course, there was no chance for him to take it.
The earthen jar contains asphalt oil.
Cans of asphalt oil hit the wall of Shibaozhai and spattered in all directions.
The sticky snot-like liquid splashed out and flowed down the wall of the village.
Yang Huaian was even more confused...
This thing? What the hell?
But as a rocket flew in, dark smoke instantly rose.
Luo Youdu has always attached great importance to the purification of oil.
It is impossible to purify petroleum into asphalt and various types of oil with current technology.
However, after unremitting efforts, there are still certain results.
Crude oil is now refined into fire oil and asphalt oil.
The power of the fierce fire oil is terrible. It can be ignited at once, and it can also spread along the water, so it is extremely powerful.
Asphalt oil is just the opposite. Although it also burns when exposed to fire, it lacks the speed of spreading. It is relatively resistant to burning in strong fires and is not very powerful. However, due to many impurities, it burns with black smoke and thick smoke.
The Ministry of Industry completed the refining of oil, passed the flamethrowers of the Later Liang Dynasty and the Later Tang Dynasty, improved the fierce fire oil tank, and dedicated it to Luo Youdu for credit.
Having seen the power of fierce fire oil, all the generals in the army were amazed by it.
Only Luo Youdu found asphalt oil interesting.
Asphalt is toxic, and the black smoke produced when asphalt oil burns can not only obscure sight, but also cause minor trauma to the eyes and respiratory tract of enemies in the smoke, greatly reducing their combat effectiveness.
This kind of asphalt oil is of little use on the frontal battlefield, but it has a miraculous effect on attacking the small but strong city of Shazhou Shibaozhai.
"Cough cough cough!"
This was the first time Yang Huaian encountered this kind of attack method. He inhaled a lot of black smoke and coughed uncomfortably. His eyes were a little raw, and there were even faint tears left.
Listening to the coughs coming and going all around.
"This smoke is poisonous!"
Yang Huaian shouted, "Lie down quickly and dodge!"
Yang Huaian has rich experience in dealing with poisonous smoke, which is nothing rare in their southern Xinjiang.
When Dali was unified, we encountered local barbarians using poisonous insects to rot leaves to create poisonous smoke.
The power is much greater than this.
It looks scary, but it's actually easy to avoid.
Lie down on the ground, and the poisonous smoke will naturally rise into the air and dissipate.
Moreover, the poisonous smoke does not recognize people, and the other party cannot do anything in the poisonous smoke.
Yang Huaian was not at all confused. Seeing that the momentum of the poisonous smoke had slowed down, he leaned out and saw that the Zhongyuan boats on the opposite side were divided into two teams and showed signs of bypassing the Shazhou Shibao Village in the river.
Yang Huaian was stunned for a moment, then there was a trace of fear in his eyes, and he finally panicked.
The other party had no intention of attacking Shazhou Shibao Village.
The other party's purpose is to connect the pontoon bridge of Shazhou Shibaozhai in the river.
As long as the pontoon bridge is captured, the Shibao Village located between the Dadu River will lose the support of the left and right villages behind it, and will be completely helpless.
The pontoon bridge connecting the three major stone castles is the weak spot of the Dadu River defense line...the only counterattack.
The opponent actually saw through the flaw in their own defense and used the poisonous smoke to cover up and attack the pontoon?
Only then did Yang Huaian feel the terror of the Central Plains soldiers.
After all, Yang Huaian had been in battle for a long time and reacted quickly. He shouted loudly: "Send an order to the southwest stone village and the southeast stone village. Divide a thousand troops into the floating bridge to defend the enemy with crossbows and spears."
However, the Central Plains soldiers did not directly attack the pontoon bridge as they imagined.
Instead, it once again launched jars of jars at the pontoon.
"Again?"
Yang Huaian frowned slightly. Even if the sticky liquid did not sink when exposed to water, it would be washed away by the current.
Although the black smoke is powerful, it can only last for a quarter of an hour, so what's the use?
But the next scene left him speechless and speechless.
This time it was not smoke, but fire.
A raging fire burned on the surface of the Dadu River.
The merciless fire surrounded the soldiers he transferred to the pontoon bridge. Listening to the wailing and screaming of the tribesmen, he watched the raging fire burning the pontoon bridge connecting the southwest stone village and the southeast stone village, and his mind went blank.