304. Death of the Prince
The red signal flare kept rushing towards the hazy sky of the grassland, as if to dispel all the gloom of the sky and give the Tang herdsmen a clear and clear sky.
After these flares exploded in the sky, they left behind bright red Tianzhu numbers.
That's the sequence of the squad where the flare is located.
"Boom!"
The roar after the firelight was the retreat of the Han captains guarding the retreat of the Tang herdsmen with iron shells and wooden handles.
Just like the sequence where Shi Da is, these Tang captains are very ruthless when fighting the Turks, and they spare no effort to sacrifice their lives when protecting the Tang herdsmen!
And these Tang herdsmen are the former Turkic people!
How many Tang Turkic soldiers turned their heads with tears in their eyes and joined the evacuation of the herdsmen. It's not that they don't want to charge with the captain, it's that the first lesson the captains teach themselves is to obey orders.
In the middle of the steppe, there is a meandering river, which is only fifty miles away from the former Turkic court of Jieli Khan.
This is the patrol area of the 002 Ranger Sequence.
The 002 Ranger sequence is the only one on the Tang steppe whose main officer is a Turkic Ranger and the only one with a hundred Ranger Troves. Their chief official is called Ashina Sheer, the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, and the deputy governor of the Turkic Protectorate!
"Report!"
A Turkic cavalryman beat his chest and reported: "Prince Qiyu, due north, northwest, and southwest, a total of more than a hundred squads have set off red signal flares!" Their sequences are ......! ”
Without waiting for Qi Yu to report on the team sequence, Sheer waved his hand lightly and interrupted: "Needless to say! Lao Tzu can see the red in the sky! Someone has invaded! Lao Tzu wants to see who is so bold! The order goes down, and a gathering signal flare is placed every ten miles, so that the surrounding parade sequence is all like Lao Tzu's assembly!
In addition, go to someone to inform Duhu and ask him to send 20,000 soldiers and horses to support the north, and Lao Tzu will go to the northwest! ”
"Yes!"
The Turkic Tang soldiers received the military order, turned around and left without the slightest pause.
Sheer didn't stop at all, and rushed directly to the northwest where the red light was most densely triggered with the 002 parade sequence.
Non-stop, half an hour, can really run fifty miles.
The sequelae of this kind of running style is that the original one person with three horses has become one person with two horses.
Just as this man and two horses turned into one man and one horse, groups of Turkic herders riding horses to the southeast appeared in Sheer's sight!
Behind these herdsmen were Turkic people in Tang armor who drove the herdsmen to the southeast!
This is, the Rangers rebelled en masse?
Sheer immediately thought of such a shocking event!
"TMD has a good day, though, kill the captain and rebel?"
He took a deep breath and said, "Prepare for battle in line, graze the herdsmen over, and the soldiers behind will be executed immediately if there is any abnormality!" ”
None of the assembled thousand-strong team questioned anything, and drawing their scimitars was their only response.
It was this uniform scene that made Sheer doubt his guess!
The rangers behind him can do the ban, and the rangers on the opposite side have rebelled? This doesn't make sense! Besides, if it was really a ranger rebellion, how could those Han captains have a chance to release flares? Are so familiar with each other, how easy is it to go directly to the side and assassinate them with a knife?
Just as Ashina Sheer suspected that he had made a mistake, the Turkic soldiers on the opposite side, who appeared to be escorting the herdsmen, stopped.
"What's going on?"
Such a move made Sheer overturn his guess, and he couldn't see where the rangers on the opposite side were not escorting, but escorting the herdsmen!
He asked, "Captains, come out with a reply!" ”
However, not a single Han Chinese came out of the ranks.
Instead, a large group of soldiers with Turkic braids took two steps forward, and then fell to their knees at once.
A soldier choked up and replied, "Deputy Protector of Qiyu, my captain is dead!" ”
She'er recognized that the man used to be his own personal soldier, and it seemed that he was called Ashinada!
He opened his mouth to ask what was going on!
Another Turkic soldier who was kneeling on the ground spoke: "Deputy Duhu, the captain of our squad has also died!" ”
"So is our captain!"
“......”
For a while, the chaotic voices sounded, but they were all about the sacrifice of the captain of his team!
"Shut up!"
How is it possible to make things clear?
She'er said with a dark face: "Star, aren't you supposed to be cruising around the edge, what the hell is going on?" ”
"Prince! Whining! ”
Shi Da cried and said, "We met Xue Yantuo, and we met the herdsmen on the way back, and the captain asked me to take the soldiers to protect the herdsmen and go first. Then the captain rushed to Xue Yantuo's army alone......"
Ashina Sheer's heart was shocked all of a sudden! My eyes couldn't help but sour, and tears condensed in my eyes.
The Don people, the captain of the Tang people, rushed to the Tiele people alone in order to protect the Turks!
This move of exchanging one's own life for the lives of others, how can it not move She'er?
"You guys!"
He reached out and wiped his eyes, wiped away the hot tears, and asked, "Is it all like this?" ”
The Turkic soldiers on the opposite side suddenly dismounted and knelt on the ground.
Sheer knew that it was a shame.
"Stand up!"
She'er took a deep breath and said, "The Turkic people have never knelt down! The Tang Dynasty soldiers have never been a bad seed! Get up, assemble immediately, and kill Lao Tzu with the courage to go back, and let the Han captains who died take a look to see if there are no bad seeds in his team! ”
Swish!
Shi Da stood up suddenly, and he turned around with tears in his eyes and said, "The 861 Parade Team is assembled!" ”
"Team 862 assembles!"
"Six-five-three team gather!"
“......”
The sound of assembly continued to sound, and the crippled squad of rangers began to assemble.
At this time, Sheer found that there were nine people left in the parade not far in front of him, and there was only one person left.
Assembled, reported, and the final data obtained by the deputy capital of the Turkic Protectorate was three hundred and sixteen people!
That is, less than half of the hundred parade squads in the far northwest came back.
This means that out of a hundred parade squads, dozens of teams have even been wiped out!
"Everyone!"
After exhaling several breaths and feeling a pain in his heart, She'er finally issued a military order: "Get on the horse, turn around, and kill those bloody Xue Yantuo pieces!" ”
The temporarily integrated team, plus the 1,000 people integrated on the road, a total of 1,416 Tang Turkic cavalry rushed directly to the northwest.
For walking in opposite directions, the sum of the velocities of both sides must be calculated as the velocity.
Two quarters of an hour later, the team, which had been less than thirty miles away, collided head-on.
Marching from southeast to northwest was the ranger cavalry led by Ashina Sheer, and from northwest to southeast was the vanguard of a thousand people of the Tiele people.
The two sides tacitly stopped one hundred and fifty paces away.
This distance is not close, but it is not far. Each could already hear the snort of each other's horses.
A Tiele man came out on horseback, and he said, "*********! ”
It was Tiele language, which Sheer understood, and the commander of Tiele was saying, "Hey, the Turks on the other side, either join us and follow us to kill the herdsmen who have just run a short distance to betray the steppe!" Or, get out of the way and let Lao Tzu pass! Otherwise, I'll kill you! ”
She'er ignored the Tiele people who came out to shout at the opposite side, he drew his scimitar and said to the soldiers behind him: "When the Tang Dynasty attacked the valve, we had already lost a game!" The Tang people did not treat us as prisoners of war, but gave our people a new life. When the war came, the captain of the Han people rushed to the enemy before us!
Now, the Tiele dog on the other side actually dared to yell at us, asking us to be sorry for those dead comrades-in-arms and let them go over to kill our people.
Erlang, what do you say? ”
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
“......”
A murderous roar was the soldier's choice.
"Kill!"
She'er burst into a shout, slammed the horse's belly with his foot, and the movement of his hand did not stop, holding a bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right hand, and shooting the first arrow!
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Shouts of anger and hatred rang out from the soldiers' mouths again.
Like the leader of the front, they bent their bows and arrows and let go.
More than a thousand arrows rushed directly towards the oncoming Tiele people.
At the same time, the Tielers, as the pioneers, also shot the first round of arrows in the gallop.
Arrows rained down on both sides.
The wounded Tiele people began to wail, where could their leather armor resist the iron arrows of the Turks, who could already be called the "Don Army"?
The arrows of the Tiele people also pierced into the camp of the Tang army, and many people in the Tang army with half-body armor were pierced by the arrows and fell off their horses.
However, those who fell to the ground, those who did not fall to the ground, and not a single Turkic Tang soldier wailed.
They have only one belief, that is, under the leadership of Du Hu, they will chisel through the Tiele dogs of that group of dogs!
One hundred steps!
Eighty steps!
Fifty steps!
Sheer rode his horse and galloped, and he was getting closer and closer to the other party!
With thirty paces remaining, he threw away his bow and arrows and drew his scimitar!
The same is true for the guards around you!
The same is true of both the Tang and the Turkic behind him!
Tang knife, in the faint light, exudes a cold knife light, scimitar, in the faint light, exudes a deadly cold glow.
Boom!
A bang!
It wasn't who dropped the grenade, but She'er ran into the Tiele people with his troops under the arch of the guard.
The horses came to a halt, and the men on horseback flew out!
Flying to the southeast are the Tielers, and to the northwest are the Turks!
The light of the sword kept piercing the sky, and the blood was constantly spilled on the earth.
In less than two years, the second war on the steppe officially began! However, what is different from a year ago is that the Ashina family at this time represents the Tang Dynasty.