On the battlefield, the fierce fighting continues. The previous fierce battle between the thousands of wolf cavalry and the Tang Army's Qibi Department was just the beginning, and the intensity of the subsequent battles continued unabated, becoming more and more cruel and bloody.

In fact, this battlefield near Maling is not ideal for both sides of the war.

As far as the Turkic army is concerned, it is pinned down between the river bends and valleys on the plateau, and its cavalry field superiority cannot be fully brought into play, and it can only carry out a certain clutch change on this small-scale battlefield, and it does not have the conditions for open and vertical combat at all, and its combat effectiveness will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

In particular, the strength of men and horses is consumed, and once a high-intensity battle cannot be quickly resolved, its combat effectiveness will decline rapidly. Like the thousand wolf riders who participated in the war at the beginning, if they were to fight freely in a vast plain, the outcome of the battle would be completely different, even if the Turkic horsepower was not sustained, at least they could ensure that they could get out of the battle.

And for the Tang Army, the advantage they gave up was even greater. They had already rushed to Malingbao first, and they could have defended the fort and waited for work, and at a slight cost, blocked the Turks in the south of Malingbao.

Now the field attack has given up the advantage of the castle, and although it still occupies the advantage on the battlefield, the casualties have also increased.

In particular, the soldiers of the Chebi Department who fought in the first battle, although they pursued and annihilated many wolf cavalry elites, but they also suffered heavy casualties, and when they retreated from the battlefield in Paoze, nearly 1,000 troops were killed in more than 300 battles, and the rest were mostly wounded. After the two sides sent reinforcements into the battlefield, the battlefield situation became more complicated, and they stubbornly faced various variables and directly chased down the wolf cavalry, and then withdrew from the battlefield.

But for both warring sides, the war had to go on. After all, war is not a simple deduction, and excellent generals can take advantage of the situation as much as possible to create more favorable conditions for the army.

However, in many wars, it is often difficult to create an absolutely ideal combat environment. In such a situation, the competition is whether each party's fighting spirit can withstand the constraints of unfavorable conditions.

For Mo Si, the Kushui River Bay here in Maling is not a predetermined ideal camp, once it is contained here by the Tang Army, the longer it drags on, the greater the loss of its combat strength, so it is necessary to break through the Tang Army's blockade of this territory, otherwise, it will be the end of the annihilation of the whole army!

As for the Che Ming, the scenario is a little more complicated.

One is the pressure from the Yongwang side, the Yongwang ordered that no prisoners should be left in this battle, which means that the Turkic forces must be eliminated as much as possible, which requires the Tang army to have absolute control of the battlefield, although the city is stable, but once the Turks are defeated and dispersed, it is too late to encircle and annihilate.

The second is to deter the Hequ Prefectures, the Turks came south this time, although there is a meaning of taking advantage of the internal turmoil of the Tang Dynasty to take advantage of the fire to rob, but its subordinates can drive straight in, and the Hu Prefectures along the way have not been effectively contained, which also exposes that the Hu Ministry, these Hu Prefectures of the Hequ Prefectures are detached, and they are no longer respectful to the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, this time, Qi Ming will take this majestic momentum, leave the city and fight in the field, and simply defeat and even encircle and suppress this group of invading thieves, so as to form a deterrent to the states of Hequ, eliminate those Hu chieftains who have their own tricks, and reorganize the order between Hequ.

Although Qi Bi Ming was born in Tiele, his father Qi Bi He Li led his troops to the Tang Dynasty when he was a teenager, and since then he has followed under the command of Emperor Taizong and has made a lifetime of achievements in the Tang Dynasty, and Qi Bi Ming is the same.

The Tiele tribes were originally a loose alliance, and it could be seen from the easy abandonment of the previous generation of leaders Xue Yantuo, that they were just cooperating with each other for profit, how much charisma could such an alliance have?

Regardless of various considerations, it is far better for the father and son of Qibi to appear in the Tang Dynasty temple than to serve as a Hu chief by the Heshuo Sai. Therefore, when considering the issue of the river meander, Qi Biming is completely out of the position of a Tang general, those who are disrespectful need to be deterred, and those who violate the law need to be killed!

Under the guidance of his comrades, Qi Bi shrugged out of the battlefield smoothly, the robe was stained with blood but it was too late to remove the armor, and he walked to the commander under the banner and said: "The last general is fortunate not to disgrace his life, lead his troops to battle, punish more than half of the enemy, and return to his life!" ”

Qi Ming lowered his eyes and looked at his son, and found that his left shoulder was slightly collapsed, and the blood was soaked through his robe, and he wanted to ask how the injury was, but since he was in front of the military formation, he only ignored this point, and just bowed his head slightly: "The tactics are quite appropriate, take a step back and rest, and treat it a little." If it's okay, you'll be on standby! ”

After saying that, Qi Biming no longer paid attention to his son, but continued to observe the situation on the battlefield.

At this time, in the battlefield, the two sides each invested thousands of people, and the entire battlefield could no longer accommodate the previous cavalry galloping and changing formations. And once they are pulled off the war horse, the combat effectiveness of the Turkic soldiers will be weakened by at least thirty percent.

Although these Turkic elites were also equipped with hard armor, sharp spears, and even other equipment options such as bows and knives. However, when it comes to the complexity of ordnance and the coordination and change of various tactics, it is not the opponent of the Tang Army at all.

A standard soldier of the main force of the Tang Army, in addition to the basic armor, sword, bow and crossbow rations, has as many as a dozen weapons to choose from. Although these weapons cannot all be carried on the battlefield due to the limitation of load, as long as the generals make intentional deployments, and all kinds of soldiers are equipped with different weapons, they can greatly enrich the tactical choices in various combat environments.

In the Tang army's foot warfare, the most classic tactics have the rejection of the horse and gun forest, when Su Dingfang expeditioned against the Western Turks, set up a formation by the river, erected a spear for the forest, and shot with a bow and crossbow, although the Western Turks had 100,000 people, they could not be broken. There is also a Mo knife battle array, entering the wall and killing strong enemies.

Today's situation on the battlefield is more complicated, although both sides are fighting with cavalry, but as the fighting becomes more and more intense, each side gradually increases the number of troops, the space left on the battlefield is extremely small, and the cavalry can no longer be allowed to maneuver, and the war horses have become a drag.

After the two sides abandoned their horses and fought on foot, in the process of handing over short troops, the weapon of the spear was not conducive to killing the enemy. Both sides are well-armoured, and once they can't break their armor and are bullied by the enemy, their spears are not conducive to returning to defense.

Although the spear has a long tip and has the effect of armor piercing, it is under the blessing of great inertia, and it is difficult to carry out efficient armor-piercing and killing if only the swing of arm strength is used. Therefore, after dismounting and fighting, most of the Turkic soldiers chose war knives, which were also their few spare weapons.

But looking at the Tang Army, on the other hand, there are more choices, among which there are those who form a formation, marching in line with the wall, and constantly approaching as the main force in the battle array. The war knives used in the Turkic army are far less powerful than the Mo knives, and the blockers are invincible, and the battle line is compressed step by step.

If it's just a strange knife, it's not enough to completely lock in the advantage. After all, the Mo knife has extremely high requirements for the user, and it is expensive to pay, and the Tang army is only two hundred Mo knife hands on the battlefield, in order to put these two hundred people into killing the enemy, more than 2,000 people were used to cooperate. And in order to ensure that the Mo Dao Formation is not scattered, a large number of jumping soldiers must be arranged on both wings.

As for the jumping soldiers of the Gongwei Mo Sword Formation, they are not traditional sword and shield warriors. Although the horizontal knife also has a certain armor-piercing effect, it is not ideal overall.

Because they knew that the Turkic armor they were fighting against in this battle was good, the Tang army carried many armor-breaking weapons, such as hammers and bells, and even iron picks and other utensils used in marching camps and digging wells, in order to shock and kill the enemy. Many Turkic soldiers were smashed so that their armor was dented, and on the surface there may be no obvious injuries, but on the inside they were shocked and their organs were out of place, and they vomited blood and died.

What shocked the Turkic soldiers the most was that the reason why these Tang troops fought so bravely seemed to be blessed by some evil law. Because every time the Tang army killed someone, they shouted "Ten Hairs" in their mouths, and most of the Turkic troops did not know what they meant, but they obviously felt that every time the Tang army shouted like this, the momentum increased a little.

So on the battlefield, there were also some Turkic soldiers with the mentality of giving it a try, and they learned to shout from the Tang army, but when they were still waiting to feel the blessing of the strange force, they were smashed to the ground by the Tang army on the side.

"The dog is gallant, it scared Lao Tzu! I thought I had injured my comrades by mistake...... Ten Hair! ”

After the roar was over, the Tang army armor continued to move forward and kill the enemy.

"No retreat! No ......"

In the large camp of the Turkic side, seeing that his soldiers on the battlefield were constantly being forced back, he was also anxious for a while, and even wanted to personally go out of the camp to suppress the battle and supervise the battle.

The men and horses on the battlefield suffered heavy losses, and Mo Si naturally took it in his eyes, but at the same time, he also noticed that if it was really in terms of troops, it seemed that the Tang army on the opposite side was less than their Turkic troops, because some Tang soldiers continued to fight after a short retreat and a little rest, and it was obvious that there was not enough reserve force.

But this discovery did not have much effect, because on the frontal battlefield, after the defeat in the first battle, the Tang army has been suppressing the crazy output of their Turkic troops, and with the increase in casualties, the will to fight of the soldiers is also declining rapidly.

Although a serious rout had not yet occurred, the advance of the Don army was becoming more and more rapid. In particular, the tactics of the Tang army are far superior to those of the Turks, the battlefield is combined with infantry and cavalry, in addition to the arch guard infantry to kill, the cavalry will alternate with each other inside and outside, the cavalry takes over the infantry to attack the Turks in front, and the infantry soldiers stand spears like a forest to block the approach of the Turkic rangers.

Although the Turkic soldiers on the battlefield are also mixed with foot and horse, more of them are forced by the battlefield environment, and some of them have to dismount to meet the enemy, but there is no corresponding tactics.

Seeing that if this continues, the troops on the battlefield may be forced back to the river bay directly, and it will be much more difficult to rush out at that time.

So Mo Si ordered again: "Continue to increase the army, and we must break through the blockade of the Tang Army!" The Tang army does not have many troops, and after several fierce battles, it will definitely be exhausted! ”

However, after he finished giving the order, he found that there was little response around him, and when he turned his head to look again, he found that several small tribal chieftains were reluctant to express themselves.

"Khan, the army of the Tang State is blocking the road ahead, and it is very murderous, even if all the tribal warriors are thrown here, they may not be able to kill it! The sons and daughters are all young men in the tribe, do they really want to be sent out and slaughtered by the Tang army? ”

A little chief said boldly: "There are still more than a thousand Tang prisoners and thousands of miscellaneous beards in the camp, we can use them as a threat to let the Tang soldiers let them go!" Even if they don't care about human life, we can still sell some treasures. If they continue to kill, the Tang people will also suffer heavy losses, so now return the people and wealth to them and let them go......"

After hearing the words, his face suddenly became extremely gloomy, but after a moment of silence, he still made a kind attitude, pointed to the little chief who spoke up, and said: "It makes sense to say this, then you will go to see the general of the Tang Army." ”