Chapter 800: Gods and ghosts don't come out, who competes
On the field, two mighty soldiers and horses are thousands of steps apart, far away, more than 60,000 Tubo troops under the command of Lu Dongzan, forming a huge lineup of thirteen, the desolate and passionate horn sound makes the blood in the chests of the Tubo soldiers boil a little bit, a pair of eyes become slowly hot, like a group of fierce beasts that choose people to devour.
On the opposite side of the Tibetan army, witnessing the powerful momentum of the enemy army as if swallowing the sky and devouring the earth, many Zhangxiong soldiers had a look of fear in their eyes, no matter how elite this Xiangxiong soldier was, but the strength and fierceness of the Tubo soldiers had already penetrated into the hearts of the Xiangxiong soldiers. After all, the kingdom of Zhangxiong, which has been inherited for thousands of years, is also a country that believes in the strong and fears the strong, and when the enemy is stronger and more fierce than them, they can't be fierce.
In contrast, the various phalanxes of the Sui army are as stable as Mount Tai, it must be known that the main battle of the army is the first army of the Great Sui, known as the first army of the Son of Heaven Xiaoguo Army, since its inception, the Xiaoguo Army is the imperial forest army of the Great Sui Dynasty, weapons and equipment, combat effectiveness, combat will crown the world, they followed Yang Dong to conquer the north and south, without any defeat, even the powerful Eastern / Turkic, Western Turkic, Great Sui feud Goguryeo were killed by them to lose their armor and bow down...... These Tubo people, who are all wearing leather armor and even have very chaotic weapons, how can they make the soldiers of the First Army take it to heart?
Yang Tong looked at this Tubo army, and a solemnity flashed in his eyes, although these Tubo soldiers were wearing double-layer cowhide armor, their weapons were also relatively chaotic, with war knives, spears, iron rods, maces, and even earthen bows and arrows and ropes. But on Cole's strong army with religious beliefs, but there is no such momentum, although Cole's army is strong, the tactics are like a beast that only knows how to rampage, as long as a little guidance can pit itself to death, and now this army gives Yang Tong a different feeling - that is, the nomadic people have very little discipline!
In the past, the nomadic army was almost pulled into the battlefield by virtue of the prestige of the khan and the dividends of war? How fast does the morale of such an army come? But go fast, and once morale is frustrated, it will collapse? And now this army has the temperament of ordering and prohibiting? It is also more fraught with danger.
This danger came not only from the Tibetans, but also from the Xiangxiong soldiers. They have been suppressed by the Tibetans for too long and defeated too much? I can't hate it anymore, it's more about the awe of the strong; If it weren't for the fierce Tibetans? Do you only know the way of killing? As a result, the idea of protecting the family and the ambition of the people of Zhangxiong to fight against the enemy soared, and Zhangxiong had already been defeated by Tubo; If Tubo adopts a strategy of division against the current Xiangxiong Kingdom, I am afraid that Li Mixia, the king of Zhangxiong, will no longer be able to impatience with his country.
"Holy Lord, the Zhangxiong people are estimated to be unreliable." After Du Ruhui next to him finished speaking? He also explained: "Doesn't it mean that the Xiangxiong people can't have combat strength and will? Instead, when they faced the Tibetan people, their momentum was completely overwhelmed. However, the Tibetan people are getting higher and higher because of the Zhangxiong people, which is the contempt of the strong for the weak. ”
"What Du Shangshu said is extremely true." Xue Wanshu also said: "If I were Lu Dongzan, I would use the Xiangxiong army as an attack point. ”
Yang Tong had a feeling of meeting a "pig teammate" in his heart? With a wry smile, "I feel something similar, in a sense? It was the appearance of the elephant male soldiers that promoted the morale of the Tubo army to win; But the Tibetan army wants to use the Zhangxiong army formation as a point of attack? At the very least, the goal of a stalemate with the front army must be achieved, otherwise the soldiers attacking Zhangxiong will be outflanked by the rear army of the front. But do you think the Tibetan soldiers can break through the front army? ”
"Hard? But don't be careless. Du Ru was succinct and to the point.
"Hmm!" Yang Tong nodded silently? Ordered: "Let the crossbowmen line up before the elephant soldiers?" Yang Feng led the Qiang troops from the north to respond. ”
"Yes."
With Yang Tong's order, the banner soldiers waved their flags, and there was a slight change in the lineup of the Sui army.
Lu Dongzanzi, who climbed high and overlooked, also noticed the changes in the Sui army, and knew that the chief general of the Sui army saw his flaws, and his face changed slightly.
"Woo woo woo" a low horn sounded, followed by hundreds of horns at the same time, 'Woo-'
This is an order to attack, and Drepung Nasheng, who has been waiting impatiently for a long time, gave the order, "Sons, kill me!" ”
He was the first to rush out, and the 20,000 cavalry behind him launched at the same time, with a thunderous voice, shouting and killing straight into the sky, "Kill!" ”
Thousands of horses galloped, like a surging wave, under the guidance of hundreds of banners, 20,000 Tubo soldiers rolled towards the front army of the Great Sui Dynasty to cover and kill, like a mountain and a sea, unstoppable.
Yang Tong stared at the four 5,000 cavalry formations that came from the front, the other party had already rushed to 400 steps away, and some impatient Tubo soldiers shot out the arrows in their hands, and the arrows rained all over the sky, but the Sui army did not move at all...... When they reach a distance of four hundred paces. Leng Leng ordered: "The bee crossbow stepped forward and prepared to be launched." ”
The three rows of Mo knife hands knelt on the ground one after another, revealing the thousands of honeycomb crossbows lined up behind them, the car door opened, the crossbow arrows slowly rose, and the thirty iron crossbow arrows in the crossbow box were cold and obliquely pointed into the sky, and the bowstrings on both sides had also been tightened, and a thousand bee crossbows were lined up, aiming at the galloping thousands of troops and horses, and the cruel war was about to break out.
Yang Tong calmly looked at the thousand honeycomb crossbows with expectant eyes. In the past one or two years, although he has not launched a large-scale war in the surrounding area, he will carry out indiscriminate strikes on some nomads on the grassland who are hostile to the Great Sui for the purpose of training troops, not only to improve the combat experience of the Sui army, promote the reputation of the Great Sui, and deter the four stoppers, but also to test the new weapons, and every time there are craftsmen with the army, carefully record the advantages and disadvantages of the weapons, and then study and improve. It has already entered a glorious period, and the Sui army can sometimes break through a small and medium-sized tribe with a hundred-man brigade.
"Launch."
While Yang Tong was pondering, the murderous Tubo army had already entered the range of the honeycomb crossbow, and General Huben immediately issued a combat order.
The sound of the war drums of "Dong Dong Dong" suddenly sounded, this is the order of the honeycomb crossbow shooting, thousands of honeycomb crossbows have long been ready to wait, only to hear a 'click' sound, the powerful iron crossbow arrows shot out instantly, the dense arrow rain quickly formed an arrow net, like a storm to shoot towards the rushing cavalry group.
The sound of the honeycomb crossbow being launched almost at the same time was very loud, and thousands of honeycomb crossbows were fired at the same time, and the sound was not inferior to the explosion of thunder, which shook people's eardrums.
"Woohoo!"
Tens of thousands of crossbow bolts streaked across the sky, bringing a sharp and piercing sound, no worse than modern warfare. When Yang Tong heard this, he thought he was in a modern battlefield.
A thousand honeycomb crossbows can fire 30,000 iron arrows at a time, which requires strong national support, and today is also the first large-scale use of the Sui army, which has created an amazing lethal effect.
Although the Tibetan soldiers held large shields, they could not resist the shooting of strong arrows at all, and the powerful crossbow arrows shattered the shield and penetrated the leather armor, and the huge thrust even directly shot the cavalry off the horse, and the war horses covered with leather armor in front were also pierced by heavy arrows, neighing and falling to the ground.
If the trebuchet produces a shocking effect of killing the enemy is not strong, then the honeycomb crossbow is completely opposite, the killing effect is quite obvious, and the overwhelming locust-like attack makes the Tubo cavalry rushing in dense with no way to hide, no way to dodge, no way to retreat.
With only one round of 30,000 arrows, most of the first 5,000 Tibetan horsemen who galloped in front were shot down, and less than 1,000 cavalrymen were left unharmed, and the ground was full of soldiers and horses howling in pain.
With only four rounds of crossbow fire, 20,000 Tibetan cavalry suffered heavy casualties and corpses piled up a hundred paces away, and the remaining three or four thousand cavalry finally responded.
But the general Laiji, who abandoned the text and followed the martial arts, and was promoted to the crossbowman Tiger Ben, did not intend to let them go, gritted his teeth and said: "Shoot me, don't leave a single one!" ”
Another round of arrows.
The 20,000 forwards of the Tibetan army were exhausted, and Drepung Nasheng remained on this land forever.
Yang Tong was so surprised that he almost dropped his jaw, the scene in front of him was really shocking, the scene was no different from modern society being covered by artillery fire, the only difference was that the dense corpses on the ground were full of dense arrows, not craters! But compared with modern warfare that has been bombed into dust, the battlefield of cold weapons with countless corpses is undoubtedly more bloody, cruel, and shocking.
The soldiers of the Sui army cheered loudly together, and before they could fight head-on, the Tubo soldiers were killed and wounded nearly 20,000 people, which was an unprecedented result they achieved when dealing with the nomads, and the shocked Yang Tong couldn't help laughing, in the past, he used to face the cavalry with the Mo knife hand, although it can also slow down the impact of the other party, but the strong impact force will also make the Mo knife hand lose, many times, the first row of Mo knife hand will lose more than half, but now, the honeycomb crossbow This big killer finally lives up to his expectations, It has played a great role in the strong killing surface, and in the future positional battles, it can replace the Mo Dao Hand who meets the fierce enemy horsepower with flesh and blood, and avoid a large number of casualties among the Mo Dao Hand.
But at this time!
The Tibetan army did not react immediately, they came to the battle according to Lu Dongzan's prior deployment, Ba Dianzebu led 10,000 soldiers to kill the southern wing of the Xiangxiong army, and Meng Zhong took 10,000 as his rear army, and continued to kill one after another.
Under the order of the main general, the Sui Dynasty crossbowmen used the crossbows in their hands to launch crossbow arrows like a storm, covering the running Tubo army head-on. Suddenly there were screams, and a large number of Tibetan soldiers and war horses were shot down by arrows, as if swept by a violent wind.
"Mo Dao Men killed the south flank of the turn, cut off the enemy's retreat, and divided the two enemy armies in front and rear of the south flank. The cavalry and Qiang soldiers of the front army attacked,"
The battle formation of the Sui army moved forward with the momentum of an arrow, the enemy of the front army had been annihilated by the neat honeycomb crossbow, and the Tubo army that killed the southern flank was about to fill the vacant area of the front army and the southern flank, Yang Tong was afraid that the Tubo army would hit the crossbow phalanx, so he immediately issued a new land order to use the army of the Great Sui to completely replace the Xiangxiong soldiers.
"Knock, knock, knock!" The drum sounded, this was the signal of the front army to take the initiative to attack, and the Mo knife hand turned to the south, advancing south step by step, and every step forward, a wave of men and horses would inevitably be cut to pieces. At the same time, the cavalry of the front army guarding the Mo Daoist suddenly dispatched and quickly surrounded and closed the Tibetan in a roundabout way. The Qiang soldiers were like sharp arrows, piercing the south flank from the northwest, replacing the Xiangxiong soldiers and taking over the southern flank of Tubo
"Attack from the north flank and kill the phalanx on the enemy's north flank." Seeing that the encirclement had been completed, Yang Tong gave the order to attack the army on the northern flank.
The Tibetan army numbered more than 60,000 people, 20,000 forwards have been wiped out, and another 20,000 have been thrown to the southern flank, and the remaining troops are only more than 10,000 rear troops, and the northern flank, which is the 10,000 elite soldiers led by Dazan Gampo and 2,000 soldiers who plan to set fire to the oxen array.
Yang Tong was condescending, seeing that the opponent's fire ox array was not fully prepared in advance, and more than 2,000 cattle were still in a state of chaos, neither tied together with wooden strips, nor did they let the bull head face the Sui army, and the more than 10,000 soldiers on the northern wing of Tubo before the ox formation did not get out of the way, so they simply launched an active attack; As long as the two armies are trapped together, these cattle will scatter and flee in all directions when they are frightened, and the fire bull array will naturally not be able to catch fire.
The north flank was pressed up and fought with the Tibetans.
"The cavalry of the rear army attacked and killed the rear army of the enemy." This is Yang Tong's last order, which is equivalent to an all-out counteroffensive.
"Boom~"
The rear army formed a dense cavalry formation with the power of destroying everything, and it passed through the gap in the honeycomb ballista, like a stormy wave, and swept towards Lu Dongzan, two miles away.
Dozens of generals looked nervously at Lu Dongzan together.
Lu Dongzan's expression was very complicated, and his eyes were full of hesitation: because the front army was defeated too quickly, the two armies in the front and rear of the southern wing followed the pre-war deployment and killed them at once, and now they have fallen into the outflanking of the front army and the southern wing of the Sui army, and the 10,000 soldiers on the northern wing were also killed by the Sui army, and his only soldiers were this one.
Lu Dongzan looked at the swept Sui cavalry, although the fighting spirit in his chest had been exhausted, but he couldn't retreat, let alone dare to retreat.
First, Dazan Gampo has fallen into the enemy army, which is not only the only surviving son of Langri Zanpu, but also the next Zampu used by the old Tubo Shannan nobles such as the Geer family to fight against the Subi lineage, so whether it is for the sake of the future of Tubo or for the sake of his own family interests, Lu Dongzan cannot ignore the life and death of Dazan Gampo; Second, if the withdrawal was given at this time, the encircled army immediately collapsed and became the prey of the Sui army, and his ten thousand people were also subjected to endless pursuit; The third is the cunning Sui army behind them, and they will not let them retreat.
In short, no matter what aspect you think about, you can't retreat, and there is a glimmer of life in the decisive battle.
Thinking of this, Lu Dongzan took a deep breath and said angrily: "The Sui army is indeed powerful, there is no doubt about this, as an opponent, we should face up to the enemy's strength." ”
He looked around to the left and right, looked at a general with a look of fear, and continued to say aloud: "But we are also the elite who crisscross the plateau and are invincible in the world, why should we be afraid of the Sui army?
"General Gehr is right!" A general roared in a rough voice: "Who is not born by his father, why are you afraid of his Sui army?" Don't forget, the undoubtedly weak elephant male soldiers are still looking at us, am I willing to be ridiculed by these incompetent guys? ””
Lu Dong praised and said: "The prince is still fighting in the front, and tens of thousands of warriors are still fighting in the front, even if the enemy is more and stronger, we will not retreat!" Today, I will use the war knives in our hands to tell the Sui army that our Tubo warriors are bloody men, and they are ten thousand times stronger than them! ”
"Roar Roar Roar~"
The morale of the Tibetan generals was stimulated by Lu Dongzan, and they kept waving the weapons in their hands and roaring.
"Kill the enemy with all your might."
Looking at the rushing Sui army in front, Lu Dongzan waved his sword and ordered loudly.
"Boom."
This Tibetan cavalry was suddenly launched, and its galloping momentum was like a flood that was high and rushing, roaring and shouting towards the Sui army.
The two armies marched like a torrent in the wilderness, and soon came within the range of each other, the soldiers on both sides almost slowed down their horses, and as the generals of both sides gave the order, rows of dense arrow arrays swept through the air, staggering into a dense network of arrows in the air, and the whole sky seemed to darken for a moment, and then the arrows fell fiercely towards the enemy with a scream of death.
However, no matter how fierce it is, it can't change the gap in range, Tubo's bow and arrow only have a range of fifty steps, and they shoot against the wind, and the fluttering arrows fall one after another, falling in front of the Sui army, causing the Sui army to laugh and sigh.
And the crossbow arrows of the Sui army were overwhelmingly whistling and shooting, the Tubo cavalry was caught off guard, screaming loudly, countless soldiers fell from their horses, killed on the spot, the Sui army fired thousands of crossbows in unison, the field was a wail, the Tubo cavalry fell down like a target, and nearly 3,000 casualties were killed and wounded in an instant.
"Abandon the bow, put up the shield, and kill forward!"
The Tibetan generals gave orders one after another.
The soldiers threw away their bows and arrows, raised their shields, and continued to rush forward, and the arrows that fell from the sky continued to fall on the dense shields. Some were bounced away, some arrows hit the centaurs, and some crossbow arrows with great power easily pierced the shields of the Tibetan soldiers, nailing the opponent with his shield together.
Although the Tubo people were poorly equipped, they continued to fight in the south and north over the years, making these Tubo elite soldiers a strong-willed and unyielding elite army, and their fighting will was not much worse than that of the Sui army.
Under the baptism of arrow rain, the Tubo soldiers finally met with the Sui army, and the two troops that advanced opposite each other were like two torrents, colliding together, and in an instant the bleak blood bloomed on the battlefield, and the sound of the impact of weapons, the collision of shields, the wails of the wounded, the shouts of the generals, and the ubiquitous roar constituted a music of death.
Although there is a temporary stalemate here, it is only a part of the war after all, and in other battlefields, the Sui army has slowly shown a crushing trend.
In particular, the Mo Dao soldiers, who had taken the initiative, killed the southern wing of Tubo, which had lost its impact advantage, to the point of flesh and blood and broken limbs. As the Mo Dao soldiers advanced step by step, their front and back became a field of flesh and blood, and the corpses of horses and people were mixed and unrecognizable.
However, the Mo Dao soldiers were accustomed to stepping on the corpses of the enemy and killing the enemy step by step.
The entire battlefield has fallen into the most brutal white-knuckle battle, with blood mist and stumps and broken arms everywhere.
Such a cruel battlefield, for the Zhangxiong soldiers, it is the first time in their lives to see, seeing that the Modao soldiers are like a devil's army, constantly harvesting the lives of the Tubo soldiers, Hugh said that it is an ordinary soldier, even the Xiangxiong King Li Mixia also turned pale, had inexplicable palpitations, and was almost smoked by the strong smell of blood.
Forcibly enduring the discomfort in his heart, the frightened Li Mixia looked back left and right, and found that the faces of the elite soldiers he brought were full of horror.
When he looked at the high watchtower, he couldn't help but be stunned, the Great Sui Shengwu Emperor who was still on it was gone.
And when he was amazed.
There was a sudden tremor on the ground, Li Mixia hurriedly turned his head to look, and saw a small number of Sui cavalry coming out from the watchtower, and the cavalry array assembled into a huge cavalry formation on the flank of the battlefield, wrapped in the power of crushing everything, bypassing the fierce battlefield and sweeping towards the northern wing of Tubo.
"Boom!" I saw this heavy armored cavalry rushing into the Tubo soldiers with devastating power, the Tubo soldiers were smashed to pieces, dozens of corpses and war horses flew out, and countless people were trampled on the iron hooves by the war horses, and they couldn't even shout screams. Groups of soldiers were like wheat had been cut down, and the corpses were bloody and bloody.
Li Mixia was stunned, just because he recognized the person leading the troops from the armor of the main general, it was Yang Tong, the Great Sui Emperor.
He watched as the dense Tibetan soldiers looked like broken porcelain. Broken into tens of thousands of pieces, where Yang Tong passed, rolled up a blood mist, stumps and broken arms splashed in all directions, and when the blood mist dissipated slightly, the snow-white and non-variegated king of horses had been dyed with blood into a tall red horse.
This scene made Li Mixia unforgettable, every inch of blood-soaked land, weapons and corpses scattered everywhere, and Yang Tong and his devilish army used the blood of the enemy to dye the armor and war horses a formidable purple.
"Brother, how is Sui Jun?" By his side, the princess of Zhangxiong Li Tuman's face was pale, and she sat on the battlefield weakly, she was not on the battlefield, nor did she lose people, but in the face of this tragic scene, she still couldn't control the vomiting, and her internal organs were vomited spasmodically, and she almost didn't vomit to death.
"If the gods and ghosts don't come out, who will compete?" Looking at the Tubo army that almost wiped out the Xiangxiong Kingdom, it was slaughtered like an animal by the murderous Great Sui Xiong at this time. Li Mixia obviously knew that he was killed as his mortal enemy, but he couldn't help but feel a kind of sympathy in his heart.
Looking at the imposing Sui army, brutally harvesting the lives of the Tubo army, the Xiangxiong led by Li Mixia couldn't help but turn pale and be frightened.
They didn't even dare to move, for fear that the Sui army would misunderstand them and slaughter them as Tibetans.
The strength of the Great Sui is like a brand, deeply engraved in their hearts.
Li Mixia even made up his mind in his heart, Xiangxiong can only have hope of survival if he is dependent on the Great Sui and surrenders to the Great Sui for generations.