1266. Ten thousand arrows cover the sky, and people turn on their backs

Closer, closer, closer, a thousand, eight hundred, six hundred...... Tuyuhun's iron cavalry rumbled on the thick earth, this sense of oppression in the face of thousands of troops and horses rushing to kill is difficult to understand if it is not a head-on confrontation, if it is an ordinary rabble, I am afraid that this momentum alone is enough to frighten and flee, but how can the Tang army, which is still alive in a hundred battles, be afraid.

Just quietly waiting for the order, there is only indifference in his eyes.

Finally, the Tuyuhun soldiers and horses entered the range of five hundred paces, Li Jing pulled out the sword at his waist, and went to the next station, the herald soldier command flag waved, and the commander of the crossbow soldiers did not delay, and directly released the bowstring in his hand.

The arrow was a ringing arrow, accompanied by a sharp whistle, and the commander said "release", and ten thousand arrows were fired in unison.

The sound of swishing continued, and the rain of arrows rushed forward overwhelmingly, forming a beautiful parabola.

The crossbowmen in the front row finished putting their bows and arrows, and immediately squatted down and retreated, loading their arrows, and the comrades behind them immediately made up for it, and there was another round of arrows that swished.

As the upward thrust of the arrows was exhausted, they fell one after another, and when the arrows fell on the head, the arrows that flashed with cold glow let the Tuyuhun people know the power of the Central Plains bow and crossbow, with long range, fast speed and great power.

Some of the Tuyuhun people who rushed forward were even directly pierced through the body by arrows, and the thin layer of leather armor was like nothing in front of this powerful bow and crossbow, and they were lucky not to be shot in the body, but only the war horses were injured, they would be frightened, and the human and horse harnesses fell, and a blink of an eye would be trampled into flesh by the galloping war horses behind, and more, many of the war horses behind were tripped to the ground by the tall war horses on the ground, after all, the northwest war horses were tall, not the short Dian horses and Sichuan horses.

The crossbowmen in the back shot the bows in their hands, and the first round of crossbowmen had already loaded their bows and were ready, and there was another round of arrows in the immediate part.

After three rounds of arrow rain, Tuyuhun soldiers and horses only marched two hundred steps, and they were still three hundred steps away from the Tang army in the front row.

The bows and arrows of the Tuyuhun people are not the strong bows and crossbows of the Tang Dynasty, their bows and arrows are suitable for firing bows on horses, they are relatively short, and the shooting range is relatively close, so as long as they are shot three hundred steps away.

Batch after batch of Tuyuhun soldiers fell to the ground and could not get up again, but more Tuyuhun people still rushed to kill one after another, this is really respectable, the soldiers of the Central Plains may indeed be inferior to the Hu people in the face of the tough point, facing the head-on arrows in front, if the Central Plains people may dodge, the army with poor morale will even break out, but the Tuyuhun people inherited the courage of the Xianbei people of the Yan Kingdom in the past, facing them head-on, desperately rushing forward, because they are not fools, they know, If they did not break through the encirclement of the Tang army, they would not be able to return to the familiar and beautiful grassland of the West Sea (Qinghai Lake).

With this bloody bravery, as well as the strong desire to survive back to the grassland hometown, finally, Tuyuhun soldiers and horses rushed to the front, although they came to the front, but it was more dangerous, the arrows came with a roar, and they couldn't dodge, and people kept falling with arrows, and people turned over on their backs, but they still stepped on the corpses of their companions without blinking, charging, charging, only charging......

The closer the distance, the faster the Tang army's rate of fire seems to be, the first round of arrows is still a sharp shot in the sky, and then the second round of arrows of the Tang army is shot again, like lightning straight to the Tuyuhun formation, the first round falls, and the third round of arrows comes...... So repeatedly, the Tuyuhun people can be regarded as covered in bruises.

And the arrows of the Tang army seem to be inexhaustible, and the quiver seems to be inexhaustible, and one after another iron-headed arrows are shot out in a hurry, which is the accumulation of several years of national strength of the Tang Dynasty, and they are all crossbowmen fed with arrows.

With such a dense rain of arrows, even if the Tuyuhun people can dodge with some fancy moves on their horses, it is difficult to dodge the third wave if they can dodge the first wave and the second wave.

In just 300 paces, no less than 3,000 of the 30,000 Tuyuhun soldiers and horses fell to the ground, and most of them were trampled to death.

When the bow and arrows were not exhausted, the Tang army behind was not watching with their chests crossed, but also in full swing, the cavalry on both wings was ready to attack, and the infantry army behind was already preparing to press.

Finally, when it was time for the Tuyuhun people who had been beaten to fight back, they were worthy of being a nation on horseback, and it was not a false thing to be good at riding and shooting, and riding and shooting was to shoot while riding, and they could hold a scimitar in their hands at the same time, and they could also hold a bow and arrow to shoot.

The bows and arrows of the Tuyuhun people can't do the parabolic projectile like the Tang Army's bow and crossbow, they can only shoot directly, and at this time, it is time for the sword and shield soldiers in front of them to show their might.

I saw that the sword and shield soldiers suddenly raised their shields, close to each other, impermeable, and muffled one after another, the arrows fell on the shield, and only a very small number of bows and arrows drilled in, but when they touched the excellent armor of the Tang Army, they could only hurt the fur.

Eventually, the role of the bow and arrow faded, as the hand-to-hand combat was already over.

The sergeants of the Tang Dynasty are also ranked in the top row throughout history, especially the old soldiers drawn from the sixteen guards, all of whom have fought for more than ten years and survived with Li Shimin to pacify the world, and the Tang Dynasty has only been stable for more than ten years, and these many old soldiers are only forty years old, which is the time of prime, which is called a fierce one.

With infantry against cavalry, Li Jing was so violent, relying on a tight formation and high morale, Li Jing was stunned to drag the Tuyuhun soldiers and horses, and let the horses they charge slow down.

Just when the charge of the Tuyuhun soldiers and horses was blocked and the speed of the horses slowed down, Li Jing gave another order, the flag waved, and the two wings of Tang cavalry, which had been waiting for a long time, roared out, outflanked and detoured from both sides, and cooperated with the Chinese infantry army that blocked the front, and actually surrounded the charging Tuyuhun people alive.

By the time the Tianzhu King reacted, he had already found that there were already Tang Jun on the left and right.

"Rush, rush over to this king, rush over and you can return to the West Sea Grassland......", the Tianzhu King brandished his scimitar and roared, "The Buddha Lord and the wolf god are protecting our ......." It's like a speaker, constantly stirring people's hearts.

However, the Tuyuhun people who believe in Buddhism and the steppe wolf god eat this set, and rush up with a roar, and the formation of the Tang army's infantry army is also a little scattered for a while.

But it doesn't matter, because the situation on the left and right flanks has changed substantially, the two brothers Xue Wanche and Xue Wanjun on the left, and the two Zhi Zhi Sili and Gao Yongsheng on the right, all four of them are brave horse generals.

Especially Xue Wanche, who was the first general under Li Jiancheng of the East Palace that year, and was recognized as one of the "10,000 enemies".

Moreover, the Xue brothers were deeply favored by the emperor, one was awarded the title of Duke of Wu'an County, the other was named the Duke of Yong'an County, one was the Lord of the Horse (Xue Wanche married Princess Danyang, the sister of Li Shimin), and the other was Shangzhu Guo (Xue Wanjun was awarded the Shangzhu Kingdom, the highest level in the twelfth rank, that is, the title of "Special Battle Hero", and a few people such as Qin Qiong).

With such grace, the Xue brothers are also full of strength to establish great achievements, but their status is respected but they are only accompanying generals, not even a deputy general, they are also holding their breath in their hearts, waving the lance in their hands, and one after another Tuyuhun people died under the lance, and the two brothers felt that this was the only way to live up to the emperor's grace.

Of course, in the end, both of them forgot their original intentions, and one was beheaded for rebellion, and his reputation was ruined; One was imprisoned for incompetence and died of grief. （）