Chapter 43: The Capture of the Commander (Part 2)

Zhou Qujian held a long lance and walked in the center of the first line.

On his right and left flanks were four brothers. Behind him, there are thirty-four horizontal rows.

Each row of brothers is separated from the front row by the neck of the horses, and each horse and its companions on the left and right sides leave a gap of the width of the horse's body. Three hundred and six other soldiers, like a heavy and huge comb, methodically pushed towards the enemy camp half a mile away, the sound of horses' hooves beating on the ground like war drums.

Three horses apart from the Shuofang regiment, which served as the main attack of the first wave, was the teaching regiment of the Broken Leaf Army. The same neat nine columns were lined up, and they were also orderly. The morning breeze blew the flags behind the leaders of several brigades, making the sound of hunting. Give all the brethren a name on the way forward.

The weeds around the enemy camp have long been gnawed bald by the herdsmen's war horses, cattle and sheep, so everyone does not have to worry about the problem of dew and slippery at all. The slightly taller trees around the enemy camp had either been cut down for dry firewood or had been turned into deer bars, so there was no obstacle in the way of the group's advance. Two huge "combs", in the same direction, slowly but firmly accelerated, the blade and lance reflected in the starlight, jumping and rolling, dazzling.

On the bank of the river, the Qiuzi Regiment and the Guards Regiment that had just crossed the river were also assembled and launched operations one after another. Unlike the first two teams, the brothers of these two groups formed two horizontal formations with a width of up to 30 zhang next to each other. In the morning light, which gradually began to shine, it was like two huge waves.

The sky was gradually brightening, and in the morning light the situation in the camp of the Qarluqs was unobstructed. Most of the herdsmen who came from afar slept soundly in their tents. A few shepherds, who were old and slept lightly, had already realized that something was wrong, and panicked into the nearest tent, trying to wake up the young man and fight with him. The horses tethered to various places in the camp frantically kicked the ground with four questions, and at the same time made a "gray" cry from their mouths to warn their masters, but it was too late.

Seventy paces away from the Qarluq camp, Zhou Quji began to gently tap the horse's lower abdomen with the base of his war boots. A well-trained colt doesn't need a more intense stimulus and will immediately spread its hooves and sprint to the top of its game.

Fifty paces away from the Qarluq camp, Zhou Qujian lowered the lance, and the bright front of the snow pressed diagonally to the ground, while bending his body to slow down the resistance of the wind. All the brothers around him with lances in their hands made the same movements as him, like tigers and leopards ready to pounce on their prey.

Thirty paces from the Qarluq camp, at last a feathered arrow came from the opposite side, most of them into the air, and in vain they splashed a cloud of yellow smoke. Occasionally, a few of them made contact with the armour of the brethren and the hanging armor that stood in front of the horses' legs, making a clanging sound.

Ten paces away from the Qarluq camp, Zhou Qujian loosened the reins of his horse, pressed Shuo with his left hand, and held the lance even tighter with his right hand.

"Boom!" The sharp lance made contact with the temporary deer in front of the warhorse, and with the help of the impact force formed by the high-speed running, it was directly lifted off the ground. The lance, which is made of multiple pieces of wood, bends due to excessive force, providing sufficient cushioning for the human arm. In the next instant, the mallet bounced straight in mid-air, sending the deer flying and slamming into a tent. The tent and the shepherd in the tent were smashed to shreds at the same time!

A tall shepherd scurried past his horse screaming. His hands were empty, and he was wearing only a calf-nosed robe. The long lance in Zhou Quji's hand had just been flattened, and he directly pierced this person. The lance bent again into a bow, unloading most of the impact, lifting the shepherd's body off the ground, and then throwing off the dust far away.

Two of the shepherds, the warriors, hiding behind a tent more than ten paces in front of them, tried to launch a sneak attack with bows and arrows. In a hurry, they couldn't aim at the high-speed moving horses, and they both shot their feathered arrows into the air. Before they could draw the bowstring again, the brother on Zhou's left side had already rushed to the ground. The lance in his hand directly overturned the tent and covered the two samurai from head to toe.

The horses' hooves trampled over the overturned tent, leading to a series of terrible screams. Immediately after that, there was a second, a third, a fourth warhorse. In just three breaths, at least seven horses, from the same position, stepped over. The tent was trampled through holes, and human flesh and dirt splattered out of the holes, staining the surroundings with great color.

No one could afford to have mercy on the Qarluq warriors who had been trampled to pulp, and no one could afford to show any mercy to the enemy. Continue to ride your horse and deliver a clean blow to all enemies in your path.

Most of the cavalry's attack power is in speed. Once the speed is added, even if your own people accidentally rush to the horse's head, they can only step on it, and they will not avoid the enemy!

And the disparity between the forces of the enemy and us is too great, so that the brothers who serve as the vanguard do not dare to make any pause. They must push forward as fast as they can, crushing the enemy troops they encounter along the way, along with their morale.

They must break their way to the front of the opponent's Chinese army before they can organize an effective resistance. Only in this way will they be able to seal the victory in one fell swoop, instead of falling into a vortex and being consumed by the enemy army who have regained their composure!

More Qarluq warriors and shepherds, half-bare-bottomed, jumped out of their tents, trying to scare the Tang army's horses with weapons and bows and arrows. Their courage is admirable, but their efforts are tragic and ineffective.

Zhou Qu quickly swung his lance and tore over every obstacle that dared to stand in the way of his head, whether the latter was a man or a tent. The brethren around him also shouted and roared, making the lance like a giant python. Under the sharp blade, the Qarluqs, who had only time to pick up short knives and rice bowls in their hands, fell one by one, like a wind sweeping away the past crops.

The resistance lasted less than forty breaths before it came to an abrupt end. Finding that the bravest warriors and the strongest companions had fallen one after another, the shepherds turned and fled for their lives, away from the spear's point.

In the blink of an eye, the outlying camp of the Qarluqs was divided into two, with hundreds of people on each side on the left and right, scurrying around like headless flies. In the center of the outer camp, a three-zhang wide flesh passage appeared, leading directly to the inner camp.

"Tang people, they are Tang people!" Finally, there was the Qarluq shepherd, who identified the attacker. Tear your throat open and yell.

"The Tang people have been killed!"

"The Tang people have come to collect debts from the Great Khan of Chengzong!"

"Hurry up and warn the Great Khan!"

"Run, run, if you don't run, everyone will die here!"

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All around, the other frightened Qarluqs also shouted loudly. Everyone has their own ideas, but no one can convince their peers to act in unison with them. Some of the older and experienced elders tried to reorganize the young and strong of their clan and survive in groups, only to find that the people who usually obeyed their words and plans had all become deaf and blind, that is, they could not hear their orders or see their gestures, or they were desperately snatching the horses, or they were holding their heads and fleeing away from the passage of flesh and blood.

"Woo woo, woo woo, woo woo-" Finally, a trumpet sounded from all over the outer camp, sending a warning message to the Great Khan Chengzong of the Qarluqs. However, in the blink of an eye, the warning signal fell mute again.

The screams, quickly replacing the alarms, sounded from the edge of the outer camp, and then spread like a tidal wave into the depths of the camp. Exhausted and severely ill-trained shepherds, one by one, they threw down their weapons and ran madly to the inner camp. Behind them, two wave-like Tang army troops, crossing the deer barricade, and those who had no time to flee for their lives in the future were all cut down to the ground and trampled into meat sauce with horses' hooves.

There are 100 horizontal columns, and there are only three stacks in front and back, but in fact, the impact is not much. However, after being crushed by the two columns of the Shuofang Regiment and the Teaching Regiment, even the most brave Qarluq warriors did not have the courage to try to block the advance speed of the horizontal formation like their comrades who had died in battle before.

As a result, it was a one-sided slaughter. The officers and men of the Anxi Army, who are separated by the width of a war horse, do not need to think about their own safety at all. Drive your mounts and catch up with the fleeing warriors and shepherds from behind, slashing them to the ground one by one. And the latter, as long as they are caught up, choose to resign themselves to fate, regardless of whether they have weapons in their hands at that time or not.

"A bunch of rubbish!" Goshu Daoyuan disdainfully put away his horizontal knife and sat on horseback and looked out at the gate of the inner camp.

Killing ordinary shepherds who had no courage to resist made him feel bored. At this moment, the inner camp of the Great Khan of Qarluq is where he should really appear. However, when the task was assigned, Zhou Jianliang, the commander of the Shuofang army, actually ranked him and the Qiuzi regiment in the order of crossing the river.

This kind of arrangement made Geshu Daoyuan feel very unhappy. However, the military order was difficult to disobey, and for the sake of Zhang Qian's face, he could only choose to obey. However, if the Shuofang regiment can't take the main gate of the enemy's inner camp for a long time, don't blame his brother Shu Daoyuan for rushing over to help without authorization. After all, time was pressing, and every breath of delay in the camp would give Qarluq Khan Chengzong a little more chance of organizing an effective resistance.

"Boom—" As if in response to the expectation in his heart, there was a loud sound of the sky cracking at the main gate of the inner camp. Immediately after, the smoke rose into the air, and the ground shook.

"Shhh

"Shhh Thanks to the fact that the team only had three rows and the speed of the advance was not fast, there was no trampling on each other.

"Brute, scrap, stop, delay the fighter, Lao Tzu slaughtered you!" Geshu Daoyuan was angry and anxious, and scolded at the ears of the war horse under his crotch. It took a lot of effort for the tiger to finally regain its composure.

He had thought that the Qarlu shepherds, who he had driven and hunted down, would take the opportunity to flee in a hurry. However, when he sat down in the saddle again, he was shocked to find that the Qarluq shepherds, who had been chased and killed by his brothers like sheep, were all so frightened by the explosion that they fell to the ground, and none of them took the opportunity to escape.

And the gate of the enemy's inner camp has completely disappeared. Instead, there was a gap more than three feet wide. The brothers of the Shuofang Regiment and the Teaching Regiment instigated the war horses to drive straight in! The elite of Qarluq, who hastily organized to block the gate in the inner camp, collapsed like snow in boiling water, and could no longer stop the hooves of the Tang army.