Chapter 1011: Half-Crossing Attack
"Cross the river......" Everyone screamed, so they had to grit their teeth and insist, urging their subordinates to get on their horses and cross the river.
At this time, the water level of the Tamu River is very high and the current is even more rapid. The horses had to swim very carefully to swim to the other side, and the speed of crossing the river was naturally extremely slow.
After tossing for two hours, the sun was already high in the sky, and only half of the people could come over. As soon as the soldiers crossed the river, they tumbled off their horses, lay down on the ground, fell asleep, and could not be dragged up.
The former army crossed the river for a long time, Tong'e also crossed the river, although it has been galloping for several days, but Tong'e's mental state is still very good, he rode on a horse and looked at the people all over the ground, and couldn't help sighing: "It's really not as good as a generation, I think when I was young, I followed Datou Khan to run out of six hundred miles in one breath, and I didn't look like a bear." ”
Those nobles were tired and wanted to die at the moment, thinking that Datou Khan was not glamorous back then, didn't he also lose the battle and fled west? What is there to say about running fast when you are running? After two sentences of flattery, they got off the horse and rested, wanting to make up for sleep quickly. But no one can sleep...... It feels like being hungry, not eating when you're the hungriest and not wanting to eat when the meal comes. When I finally had time to catch my breath, the feeling of exhaustion came to me, and I couldn't help but feel a pain all over my body!
But there are also unexpected gains, after such a round of tossing, everyone has a fire in their hearts. We can't beat your strange firearms, can't we beat people? When Lao Tzu arrives at your Dingxiang City, no matter how much it costs, you must take the city down.
Over the years, the Turks have had close contacts with Dingxiang, but they know that the prosperity of Dingxiang City is incomparable to that of the two turtles. Especially the thing called potatoes made by the Tang people, it is very delicious and has a high yield, if there are potatoes, the revitalization of the Turks is really just around the corner.
Tong'e looked at the people around her, although she was depressed one by one, but the resentment in her eyes was piled up, and she was secretly relieved in her heart, although one generation is not as good as the next, but this immortal child is a wolf on the grassland, and it will definitely not be defeated.
Tong'e said, 'I have to lift their spirits.' Thinking of this, he burst out laughing: "Hahahaha! ”
The surrounding Turkic nobles were shocked when they heard the wild laughter like night owls. Before he could dismount, he fell off his horse.
"Who the is smiling!" The people who fell to the ground were furious, looking for the culprit all over the world, and suddenly saw that it was Tong'e who was laughing, and he was embarrassed.
"The Great Khan's skill is really profound...... the man immediately came to his senses, and quickly changed his words and said: "After such a fast march, there can still be such a spirit, laughter is like thunder, and I will be shocked off the horse at once!" "He is also a capable person, he was knocked unconscious, and he can still shoot sycophants with a mouth full of firewood.
Tong'e's old face was hot, and the surface was still light and light.
"I wonder why the Great Khan is laughing?" Let that man mix this, and the nobles will remember their vocation.
"Ahem, cough ......" Tong'e was also stirred and almost forgot the words, coughed a few times before remembering what to say, so he lifted his expression and raised the horsewhip.
All the nobles hurriedly turned their heads sideways and covered their faces...... only to find out that he was not trying to hit someone, but pointing to the other side of the river.
"Ben Khan is laughing at Li Mu, but that's it," Tong'e made a gesture of pointing at the country, and then said unhurriedly: "He is just bluffing, relying on strange firearms to be a hero, why do you think he doesn't dare to go out of the city to pursue?" If you really dare to have a hard fight with us, it will not be in vain for the man's husband, so cowardly, Ben Khan is really ashamed to be his enemy. ”
"Great Khan, all the servants we have saved along the way have all been folded in Qiuzi City. And the eight thousand female dependents, hey...... "The nobles are extremely distressed!"
"Hey, those servant armies are consumables, so what if they are all consumed." Tong'e said disapprovingly: "As for those female dependents, hmph, there are better ones in Dingxiang City, what kind of beauty can compare to Tang Nu?" After the city is broken, Dasuo is three days, and whoever robs it is who's! ”
As he spoke, he looked at the army that had crossed the river, was crossing the river, and had not yet crossed the river, and said: "This is our foundation, we are not injured at all, and we will come again!" As he spoke, he stroked his beard and looked around confidently: "You remember, we are the people of the Immortal Heaven, and the grassland is our territory, not their Tang people!" ”
"It's still the Great Khan's realm!!" The nobles were like an initiation, and they sang praises one after another: "I can't wait for the horse!" ”
"Yes, yes, we must wait for the wise leadership of the Great Khan to regain the glory of our ancestors and recapture our Hetao!"
"We must wash Dingxiang City in blood, and then wave the army to the south to take Chang'an City!"
The nobles were full of words, but when they saw Tong'e's complexion suddenly changed, the whole person froze there, and the beard that was pulled off in his hand was impressive......
Seeing that Tong'e was as immobile as a mountain, the nobles didn't know why, but when they saw the beard in his hand, they faintly had an ominous premonition.
"What's wrong?"
"What's going on?"
The nobles hurriedly got up from the ground and looked around for some reason, but there were many horses around them, blocking their view, and they didn't see anything unusual. The army was crossing the river, and the scene was so noisy that nothing unusual could be heard.
I saw Tong'e gurgle his teeth, raised his hand and pointed to the north, and he didn't notice that the horsewhip in his hand fell to the ground. His throat twitched a few times, and finally squeezed out a few words with difficulty: "How can there be cavalry here?" ”
A cadre of people and others hurriedly climbed on horseback, and now the line of sight was not blocked, and they found that a cavalry army in the distance was fanning them around, and the distance between the two sides was only a few miles, and they could already clearly see each other's flags!
Especially the two-zhang high banner of the Chinese army, the apricot yellow flag is hunting in the wind, and the word 'Li' with teeth and claws on it is surrounded by dragon patterns, and it is obvious that the person who came is the royal family surnamed Li, and it is the respect of the county king! In this grassland, the only one who can use this flag is Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian County in Dingxiang City!
I think that back then, this county king attacked Jiangnan, and his military exploits were only one line less than that of the current emperor Li Shimin, and even the current military god Li Jing was just a general under his account.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, this county prince put down his military power and neglected military affairs, and became an idle prince in the eyes of everyone. His belly has also become bigger, and his behavior has become perverse, and he no longer has the bearing he had when he was in battle.
The tiger put away his claws, and made the foolish people of the world think that he was already a sick cat.
However, a fierce general is a fierce general. No matter how dim gold is, it will not turn to stone. The tiger descended the mountain, and the beasts bowed their heads. I saw that in front of the military formation, Li Xiaogong was holding a spear, with a momentum like a tiger and a dragon! How can there be a trace of indifference in Chang'an?
"This is the Tang Army of Dingxiang?" The Turkic nobles were all dead, and exclaimed: "Why is he here?!" ”
"What are you doing in a daze!" Tong'e looked back at most of the people who were still crossing the river, and shouted: "Hurry up and meet the enemy!" Don't let the Don Army attack halfway! ”
Everyone woke up like a dream, and quickly grabbed the weapons around them, regardless of whether they were in armor or not, they all put them on their bodies. For a while, the originally chaotic situation became even more chaotic.
At this time, the Tang army had already killed, less than two miles!
The Tang army that came to kill was the main force of the Dingxiang Capital Protectorate led by Li Xiaogong! 30,000 elite cavalry!
On the way here, Li Mu and the generals of the army were planning for this day. The reason why they have been marching slowly, in fact, is planning, Li Mu knows that he has no time to spend with the Turks, not only the supply of grain and grass is not allowed, but the domestic situation is also not allowed, and now Li Shimin is leading the army, he has mobilized almost all the remaining troops, and the large-scale establishment in the Tang Dynasty is only 20,000 people led by the Hou Jun of Jiangnan left, so the internal emptiness, if someone really rises up, there is no one to find a counterinsurgency for a while.
He must fight quickly, but the Turks have 150,000 people, and they are all cavalry, coming and going like the wind, how can they fight quickly?
Opportunities sometimes come by waiting, but more often than not, they are created on their own initiative. Li Mu naturally does not rely on the sky to eat, he wants to take the initiative to create this opportunity. He knew that Guizi was under siege, and a plan slowly formed in his mind, and the first step was to release the carrier pigeons!
In the eyes of the Turks and the defenders, the role of those carrier pigeons was nothing more than to boost the morale of the defenders and inform them when reinforcements would arrive. Or it may have an extra layer of meaning, to achieve the effect of confusing the Turks. But in fact, the real role of this batch of carrier pigeons is to induce. To induce the Turks and convince them that the Don army was cautious and sent out only eight thousand cavalry, and most of them remained unmoved!
However, the real situation is that in addition to the 3,000 defenders and the 8,000 cavalry of the 'rescue' in Dingxiang City, all the remaining main forces crossed the Tam River from the east side of Dingxiang City and made a big circle in the north!
Because after seeing Li Mu's Huzun cannon, Li Xiaogong concluded that in the face of such unreasonable firearms, the Turks would definitely spare their lives, and they would not dare to take the risk of fighting, and would inevitably choose to go around the river to avoid the sentinels and take Dingxiangcheng directly.
If Tong'e knew that Li Xiaogong thought so, she must have shouted for an expert, the two of them thought the same, wouldn't it be the same as the hero?
Li Xiaogong walked around and set up a sentry on the other side of the river, and whenever he saw the whereabouts of the Turks, the sentry would light a secret spice made from the pampas reeds of the steppe, which could not be smelled by the people, but could be smelled by dogs who had been trained for many years. Li Xiaogong led the cavalry to this section of the river basin one day earlier than Tong'e, and this morning the hound neighed, and Li Xiaogong knew that the Turks had arrived! Hearing this news, Li Xiaogong was shocked into a cold sweat, originally estimated, the Turks would have to wait another night at the earliest to get here, but they turned out to be half a day ahead of schedule, if the Tang army had not marched half a day earlier, they would have almost been driven ahead by them. If the Turks had crossed the river, the plan would have failed. Just like Tong'e thought, the steppe is the world of the Turks, and the cavalry fights hard, and the Tang army needs to have more than thirty percent of the people to defeat the Turks. In the face of 150,000 cavalry, Li Xiaogong can only become the prey of being driven away, and there is no possibility of victory!
OK! Providence belongs to Tang, or the Tang army arrived first. And a day off, eat and drink to your heart's content!
He quietly sent a few small sentinels to crouch in the grass by the river and wait, waiting for the Turks to cross the river halfway before they suddenly attacked.
Although, his men and horses were far less than those of the Turks. But fighting a war is never about the number of people, otherwise what else to fight, report directly to each other, I have more people than you, and you can catch it with your hands?
Such a battle is simply not too cool!
Erli, Yili, Li Xiaogong raised his arms and shouted: "Arrow!" ”
"Wind! Wind! Wind! ”
The archers shouted one by one, and the arrows whistled away with the wind, and the Turks, who had not had time to mount their horses, were suddenly wailed by the arrows. They wanted to pull out the arrows, but they found that the shameless Tang people had made all the arrows into barbs, and when they pulled them out, it was a big blood hole, and the wailing was even louder.
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When the Don army appeared, the Turks were all stunned......
You must know that the distance between here and Dingxiang is not more than 500 miles. They weren't guarding the city, and when we passed, why did they take the lead?
The war didn't happen like this, did the Tang Army not want Dingxiangcheng?
"Resist it, don't let them attack it halfway!"
The Turkic nobles shouted hoarsely, they were not fools, and they knew in their hearts that if the Tang army broke through the front army, the army would be completely finished! The situation was extremely urgent, and the Turks finally burst out with the courage hidden in their blood, regardless of dignity or inferiority, and mounted their horses one after another to meet the enemy!
It's just that at this moment, their condition is really terrible, the army marches with extreme intensity, people are sleepy and tired to the extreme, many people are lying in the grass, snoring like thunder, no matter how loud the movement is, they can't be aroused. The awake people are not having a good time, the whole body is still weak, the key is to keep running for their lives, not regrouping, like a headless fly huddled together, suddenly found that the enemy is coming, the soldiers can't find the generals, the generals can't find the soldiers, not to mention, even the weapons and horses can't be found!
As a result, 30,000 people had crossed the river, and in a hurry, only one or two thousand people found war horses and weapons and followed the nobles to meet the enemy.
The Tang army killed in a blink of an eye, and the bow and arrow passed over their heads and poured into the Turkic camp, although the archers of the Tang army were not as good as the Turks who grew up holding bows and arrows, but at this time there was no need to aim, and it might be more accurate to shoot casually, because the ground was full of Turks. The bows and arrows in the sky covered the sky, and the Turkic people who snored like thunder had no consciousness at all, just like the cattails that had been destroyed by the wind, and fell to the ground with stubble!
The Turks were all stunned, how could they have suffered such a loss? More than half of the more than 2,000 people who rushed ahead were lost in one face, and people turned on their backs, killing and wounding everywhere......
Immediately after that, another volley was fired, and now it's all settled, and the rest is all settled......
The Turkic nobles were shocked to find that they had become the first line, and in front of them was the Tang army that was approaching within dozens of steps!
When the Tang army raised the musket and crossbow again, the nobles were all dead, and the moment of blood and courage evaporated with cold sweat, there was only one word left in their minds - escape!