The extremely sharp Mo knife slashed, sharpening iron like mud, indestructible, one by one the spears were cut off, and the twelve strong Shatuo soldiers didn't even have time to scream, they were cut into twenty-four pieces, and suddenly the internal organs rolled out, the smell was tangy, and the soldiers behind them all squatted down and retched.

The soldiers who rushed up behind were frightened when they saw the bloody scene in front of them, but they had no way to retreat and had to rush up, but what was waiting for them was still a killing without suspense, the blades were all down, the flesh and blood were flying, the city was screaming and wailing, killing five rounds in a row, the corpses at the head of the city were piled up, the soldiers behind were frightened, and they did not dare to step forward, and there was a short gap on the overpass.

The arsonist soldiers seized this opportunity and threw over more than a dozen earthen jars filled with fire oil, the jars shattered, the fire oil flowed all over the ground, a torch was thrown in, the fire was ignited, and quickly spread downward, the soldiers took the opportunity to throw bundles of hay into it, and the dry grass and dead branches met the fire, and immediately burned rapidly, and dozens of Shatuo soldiers hiding in the siege nest car were ignited by the fire, and there was a scream, and the soldiers escaped from the bottom with a rolling belt, and many soldiers still had fire on them.

In just a moment, the siege nest car smoke billowed out, the tongue of fire raged, twenty siege nest cars were ignited one after another, the Tang soldiers launched a bow and crossbow attack again, the city head of ten thousand arrows fired together, the arrows were like a storm, the Shatuo soldiers below fell one by one in the cry, followed by the second round of ten thousand arrows, the third round, the fourth round....... Ten rounds of 10,000 arrows were fired in a row, and the Shatuo army suffered extremely heavy casualties.

'When! While! While! The bell for the withdrawal rang, and the remaining Shatuo soldiers ran for their lives, but they could not escape the arrows above their heads, and finally managed to escape the range of the arrows, but they could not escape the blows of the trebuchets.

Zhu Xie Jinhai looked at the fleeing soldiers falling one by one, his heart was like a knife, he sighed, turned his horse's head and withdrew towards the camp........

In this battle, the Shatuo army suffered an unprecedented setback, which Zhu Xie Jinhai did not expect, and the 15,000 troops only fled back to more than 4,000 people, and nearly half were injured, and more than 10,000 soldiers fell under Zhangye City.

The camp was full of mourning, the 30,000-strong army suffered more than sixty percent casualties, the morale of the army was almost collapsed, and the morale was low.

Lieshan Alu lost control of his emotions, less than a thousand of the five thousand soldiers of his tribe fled back, he yelled at Zhu Xie Jinhai: "This is the war you want, even if the Shatuo army has 200,000 people not enough for you to squander, the Shatuo army is not suitable for siege warfare at all, you have to give up your advantage to fight with the Tang army, in just two days, more than 18,000 people were killed and wounded, do you still have the face to go back to see the Khan?" ”

"Shut up!"

Zhu Xie Jinhai slammed his fist on the table, roaring like thunder, "If you dare to yell at me again, I will take your head!" ”

Several commanders hurriedly persuaded Lieshan Aru to leave the big tent, Zhu Xie Jinhai was so angry that his eyes turned black, he didn't expect that in the last half an hour, the situation would suddenly get out of control, from the first siege nest car to the rout of the soldiers, almost half of the soldiers died in the last period of time.

The Tang Army's bow and crossbow were so powerful, which Zhu Xie Jinhai never expected, and this was also the main reason for the heavy casualties of the Shatuo Army.

In fact, they tried and tested that their leather armor and helmets could block the fire of crossbows at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and the fire of bows and arrows at a distance of eighty paces, and for this reason, they did not make shields for each soldier, and shields were never the standard equipment of Shatuo soldiers, but only a few personal soldiers who protected the commander.

If they were to make 30,000 shields, they would not be able to afford it, but the actual situation on the battlefield was completely different from the results of the test, and the bow and arrow could still easily penetrate the armor of the soldiers at a distance of one hundred and twenty paces.

In fact, it was because of the lack of experience in the siege of the Shatuo army, they did not know that archery on the top of the city was not the same thing as archery on the flat ground, and the arrows thrown from a high place were much more powerful than those shot from the flat ground.

Zhu Xie Jinhai only realized this now, he knew that this was the case, they would have to make a batch of rudimentary shields anyway, in fact, Zhu Xie Jinhai didn't completely think clearly, even if they made a batch of rudimentary shields, they would not be able to block the powerful potential energy of the arrows thrown from a high place, unless they had the same compound shield as the Tang Army, but they did not have this technology.

Zhu Xie Jinhai let out a long sigh and ordered: "Order the whole army to rest overnight and set off early tomorrow morning." ”

After a pause, he couldn't help but hate again: "Ling Lieshan is on duty tonight and is on guard on the periphery!" ”

If Lieshan Aru dares to roar at himself, then let his tribe bear the most exhausting things, and stay awake all night patrolling outside.

.........

At night, the south gate of Zhangye City was quietly opened, and 10,000 cavalry came out of the south gate under the leadership of Guo Song, and went around to the enemy camp.

Last year, 10,000 cavalry of the Tang Army was preparing to attack the Shatuo Army, but they were ambushed by the other party, and now the Tang Army is repeating its old tricks again, but it is already this time and that time, the other side does not have 30,000 troops, and they are also exhausted and demoralized, even if the Tang Army is discovered by the peripheral patrol soldiers, the Shatuo people are not the opponents of the Tang Army.

10,000 soldiers are led by five lieutenant generals, and the commander Guo Song led 50 soldiers with high martial arts skills to go around to the north, the north is the sheep and horse camp, which is the tradition of the grassland army, Xue Yantuo is so, and the Shatuo people are no exception, the Shatuo people do not need cavalry to fight in the siege, and 30,000 war horses are placed in the horse circle.

Guo Song led fifty of his men to ambush in the periphery and watched for a long time, but did not see the enemy soldiers patrolling back and forth, which really surprised him a little, at this time, one of his subordinates bent down and ran over, and said in a low voice: "Governor, there are peripheral patrol posts, but they are all fixed posts, and there is only one person at a distance of fifty paces, and many patrol soldiers are sleeping." ”

This is obviously different from the heavily guarded defense two days ago, and the defense level has been lowered, Guo Song can't figure out why, but this is the will of heaven.

They led the soldiers to rush forward, there was indeed a fixed sentry in front, who was sleeping with a blanket rolled, two Tang soldiers touched him, and killed him with a knife, Guo Song waved his hand, and everyone quickly galloped, running towards the sheep and horse pens hundreds of away.

There are 30,000 war horses in the long sheepfold fence, and the saddle on the back of each horse is also the main reason why the Shatuojun can quickly distinguish the ownership of the war horse, and the color and number of the saddle allow the owner to find his own horse.

On the other side, there are 300,000 sheep, which are the food of 30,000 troops for ten days, and now there are more than 200,000, but Guo Song's goal is not sheep.

Guo Song led his men to gently climb over the fence, each of them carried a leather bag on his back, and in the leather bag were twenty portable torches, these torches were very short, like bones, but the heavy weight was not clear, they were all made of ash and jujube wood, and the front end was wrapped with strips of cloth and covered with ointment, and a little fire was ignited.

"It's almost time, let's do it!"

Everyone started together, pushed to a fence dozens of zhang long, 30,000 horses like a dammed lake to find a dump, have rushed to the fence, Guo Song knew very well that these horses were soon discovered, he and his men turned over on the horse, urged the horse to gallop towards the camp, sure enough, several horsemen ran out of the tent, found the war horse escaped, began to shout.

Guo Song couldn't care about these horsemen, and rushed into the camp, they all lit a torch, and kept taking out the torch and lighting it and throwing it on a big tent, and the big tent began to burn rapidly, spreading very quickly, one after another, and then the wind quickly spread around.

Guo Song led the crowd to throw away a dozen torches, and found that the momentum of the spread of the flames had surpassed them, Guo Song shouted, "Follow me out!" ”

As they ran, they shouted in Turkic: "It's on fire, go and report to the commander!" ”

These shouts are indeed very confusing, many Shatuo soldiers wanted to stop them, heard their shouts and hurriedly dodged, for fear of delaying them to report to the marshal, Guo Song led his men to rush out of the Shatuo camp like a gust of wind.

The fire was already raging in the Shatuo camp, and the fire was fueled by the wind, and the fire continued to be burned and roped, and the wind swept up, burning in the air and drifting into the distance, so that the fire spread by leaps and bounds.

The camp was full of Shatuo soldiers who were fleeing from all directions, shouting and screaming, running around the headless flies, many of them ran and fell into the fire, and many wounded soldiers could not escape from the tent at all, and were burned to death in the tent.

Countless soldiers fled to the sheep and horse pen, but found that the war horses were gone, so they had to continue to run north barefoot, but they did not know that 10,000 Tang cavalry had laid a net for them in the north.