Chapter 397: The Battle of Northern Xinjiang II

With a stick of incense, Si Cao, the middle of the army, walked in front of the arrogant man with a roster in his hand.

"General, the Bow and Arrow Battalion suffered more than 1,200 casualties, including more than 700 minor wounds, more than 100 serious wounds, more than 400 battle casualties, more than 70 casualties, more than 100 serious injuries, and more than 300 minor injuries. Ninety percent of the Turkic arrows were killed, and one percent of them were killed by cutting their throats with scimitars. ”

Zhang Yan frowned and took the roster handed over by Si Cao, with a look of sorrow that could not be dissipated.

After looking at the roster for a while, Zhang sighed wildly: "The losses are so heavy, this is just a tentative attack by the vanguard troops, if the army is doing its best, what kind of losses will there be?" O general Ben is ashamed of their parents! ”

Zhong Qiang's expression was also not good: "General, the Turks' cavalry archery is really powerful, and the strength of each of them is not weaker than our marksman, this is their natural advantage, the brothers of the archery battalion have no time to retreat after shooting the arrows before they are shot through the body by arrows." ”

"There is still too little plate armor, especially the soldiers of the bow battalion are wearing light leather armor, if they are equipped with plate armor, they must be able to reduce a little loss, and the Turks' cavalry shooting should not be underestimated."

"The general can rest assured, the end will arrange a gap for the brothers to shoot arrows and retreat, and the Turks must not be given a chance to take advantage of it."

"Ke Yan, how could the Modao team lose so many brothers?"

Ke Yan looked at Zhang Yan with shame: "General, it is the last general who is not in good command, please punish the general." ”

"Don't think about taking responsibility for your brothers, General Ben didn't ask about the guilt, tell me the truth, what's going on?"

Ke Yan struggled for a while: "Back to the general, there are only two thousand Mo sword teams and a small number of spears and halberds outside the city, and the brothers are inevitably a little flustered, the upper right corner of the battle formation is lost, and the last general is not well trained, please punish the general." ”

"Alas, the old man's fault is that he only thought about testing the power of the Mo Dao team and neglected the pressure of the brothers."

"The general is Zhong Qiang's incompetence, and the general has mobilized so many arrows and still hasn't stopped the Turkic cavalry's attack."

"Don't blame you, the Turkic war horse is originally famous for its strength and speed, coupled with the Turkic people's superb riding skills, this is an unavoidable thing, when the 300,000 army in the Chinese New Year's Eve went north to the border pass, although many Turkic tribes also lost more than 100,000 brothers to have the reputation of Weihe military disaster."

"General, it's better to let Dong Kaishan's light cavalry respond from both wings."

"No, at the moment, our cavalry to fight against the Turkic cavalry is tantamount to a sheep into the mouth of a tiger, unless the heavy cavalry attacks the light cavalry on a large scale in order to give the Turks a thunderous blow, our war horses are not worse than the Turkic horses, and there is no enemy alone."

"Alas, the damage of the bed crossbow is indeed remarkable, but it is too cumbersome, otherwise we would have to leave all these people behind."

"Zhong Qiang, don't blame yourself, it's the general's deployment that has a problem, the old man was worried that using the bed crossbow too early would make the Turks retreat in shock, so he ordered you to use the bed crossbow for three hundred meters to shoot, but I didn't expect these people to be so fierce and not afraid of death, and now I can't control it so much, the Turks entered within seven hundred meters, and immediately began to release arrows, and they must reduce the hand-to-hand combat, and they can't let their bow and arrow advantages be brought into play."

"General, when will the divine arm crossbow you said be transported to the northern frontier? Although the strong archers have a long range, the brothers who can pull the bowstring are really limited, otherwise they would not have rushed to the city as easily as expected. ”

Zhang Madness sighed wistfully: "It's fast, it's fast, where is the time, the most lacking thing now is time, and I don't know what the results of the other six main cities of the border fortress are, their equipment is not as good as ours, especially Fuzhou, the terrain is flat and open, and it has a great advantage for the Turks!" ”

What Zhang Qiang never imagined was that since the casualties in Fuzhou were smaller than those in Yingzhou, Shi Bibu's tentative attack had to retreat and repair because of the fifty eight-bull crossbows.

Fuzhou's eight-bull crossbow began to shoot arrows at the age of 700 steps, which greatly interfered with the cavalry charging formation, but received unexpected results.

The Turkic camp, in the interval between Ashinamo's attack on Yingzhou, the Turkic tent has been built.

Ashnamo's lips were pale, and his face was pale as he looked at the Turkic soldiers who had returned with him.

There were less than 500 of the 3,000 cavalry, and the 2,000 foot soldiers were even more dismal, and each of them waited for their wounds, and only returned less than 300 people.

A single tentative charge of 5,000 men resulted in the loss of more than 4,500 men.

Some died under the rain of arrows, and most died from the chaos caused by the eight-ox crossbow.

In the past, when the Turks attacked the city, they did not encounter a bed crossbow arrow array, but such an arrow array that did not cost money was unprecedented in ancient times, and the lethality was too great.

In the past, the bed crossbow would lose its power when it penetrated at most two people, but today, it can penetrate six people without diminishing its power, and it can also knock people under the horse.

The most pity is the war horse, because of the loss of the war horse, most of them were actually lost under their iron horses.

The corners of Ashinamo's mouth trembled slightly, how should he meet his father with such a result, the army of the army went south in two ways, and the total number of soldiers who attacked Yingzhou was more than 30,000 people, and nearly one-tenth of the men and horses were lost before the official battle began, which has never happened in the past ten years.

"Talmu has seen the eldest prince, the eldest prince ..........."

Tarmu looked at a group of ragged Turkic cavalry with a dull expression, if it was just a ragged Tarmu would not be so sluggish, he was sluggish about the number of people in front of him.

The 5,000-strong contingent now has less than 1,000 men.

According to past experience, King Lu thought that even if the eldest prince could not open the gate of Yingzhou City, he would definitely fight equally, so Du Lu and a cadre of generals were drinking and frolicking in the big tent, and did not pay attention to the war at all.

"Just come back with such a few people?"

"Talmu, the southerners are crazy, the arrows cover the sky and the sun, and they shoot out without their lives, and they suffer heavy losses, so let's go to see my father first."

Tarmu looked at the place of the battle, and his scalp tingled at the sight of the dense corpses on the ground and the number of at least three or five arrows on each person's body.

He finally knew why the Great Prince's losses were so heavy, and such a dense rain of arrows could not be avoided no matter how skilled the Turkic warriors were.

The first tentative engagement unleashed more intense arrows than it had taken ten days to shoot.

"Yahamu, lead the wounded soldiers to heal their wounds."

"It's General Talmu."

"Your Highness, the king will definitely be thunderous and angry, you have to be careful."

"Uncle Talmu, you have also seen the situation on the battlefield, I hope you can explain a few words to Namor, the arrow array of the southerners is too terrifying."

Ashina, the king of Dulu, threw the wine glass in his hand on the ground and looked at his trembling son with a murderous expression: "What did you say? Five thousand people only came back less than a thousand? ”

"Yes!"

"Waste, how did you lead the soldiers, this king wants to expel you from the Golden Family, you are a disgrace to the Golden Family."