August 1, Earth Thunder (1)
The Khitan army continued to pour into this Huanghe Valley, and the wolf smoke on the mountains on both sides continued to rise, and the way of biography of the Central Plains people is still worth learning from the grassland people.
Yelu Shilu squinted at the white pillars of smoke rising one after another on the mountains on both sides in front of him, and then glanced at the simple defensive camps arranged by the Tang army, and then slowly said: "Change the stability!" ”
Jerugjali steadied his horse and clenched his fists and replied, "The last will be." ”
"The Tang people thought that they could stop the advance of my Khitan Iron Cavalry by arranging such a simple obstacle? Go, clear the obstacles in front of you first! ”
Yelujali retreated, and after only a few moments, he left the brigade with more than 300 cavalry and roared out.
After approaching the Tang army's camp, these Khitan cavalry braved the rain of arrows, threw out the rope noose in their hands, and immediately turned their horses' heads and galloped wildly after lassing the wooden stakes in front of the Tang army's camp. Most of the horse-repelling piles wedged into the ground in front of the camp by the Tang army were pulled out or broken after being subjected to a huge impact and tension.
There are also stakes that are particularly strong, breaking the ropes that tie the saddle or pulling the rider of the horse on his back. The Tang troops in the camp hid behind the fence, constantly firing crossbow arrows outward, trying their best to prevent the Khitans from destroying these obstacles. The Khitan archers were also making every effort to suppress the defending Tang army in the camp.
The sound of hooves thundered, and without warning, a fierce battle began.
Yelu needed to clear the obstacles such as the wooden stakes and deer barricades that had been laid in front of the Tang army's camp so that his main heavy cavalry could charge.
Crossbow bolts flew in mid-air, and the sound of a roar was like the call of death, covering the area where the Khitan cavalry had broken through. When a rain of arrows goes down, these Khitan cavalry who are clearing obstacles in front will be reduced by hundreds of ......
Two hours later, a passage 100 meters wide was cleared in front of the Tang army camp, and in order to clear this passage, the Khitans lost a total of nearly 2,000 cavalry.
Yelu Gaili looked coldly at the dozens of men who had escaped death and galloped back, and then turned around and glanced in the direction where Yelu Shilu was. In the distance, it seemed that the emperor's banner of Yerod Light was slowly coming.
The Khitan and Diera slave armies led by Jelugailiyin were the best death squads, and these slave armies were made up of captive Han Chinese and other steppe tribe slaves, who paved the way for the advance and served as death squads themselves. As long as you can survive on the battlefield and accumulate enough combat achievements, you can get yourself and your family out of slavery and become free.
Therefore, the slave army was quite brave in battle, regardless of casualties.
Seeing Yelu Shilu raise his hand to signal, Yelu Gai Yin took a deep breath and shouted: "The emperor has arrived, the time has come to level the Tang Army and make meritorious contributions!" ”
"Flatten the Tang Army, kill!"
More than a thousand war horses rushed along the river valley towards the Tang army's camp, and the earth trembled, like a torrent.
Seeing that they were about to start charging the camp, dozens of frantic war horses with short knives stuck in their buttocks suddenly rushed out from among those slave horsemen, and slammed straight into the camp of the Tang army.
"Raise your gun, pestle the end of your gun!" Tang Dahe, the commander of the Tang army in the camp, shouted loudly when he saw this.
"Balley of bolts!"
Arrows rained down, and the charging Khitan army kept falling off their horses, and then being trampled by the galloping war horses......
Most of the war horses that were galloping in front also fell, but there were still a dozen or so horses that crashed headlong into the wall of the Tang army, and were pierced by the long spears that stood there.
The Khitan cavalry that followed screamed in their mouths and continued to rush up.
"Don't panic! Line up the guns! The commanders of the teams continued to shout loudly, and the soldiers under their command were trained according to their usual days, and once again replenished the dense array of guns lined up in three rows.
Crossbowmen and archers were firing desperately, intending to stop the charge of the enemy's cavalry.
More than a dozen war horses with arrows stuck in their bodies, those slave soldiers were also desperately controlling the war horses before they died, crashing into the Tang army's gun array. As soon as they rushed into the enemy's military formation, the Tang people would completely collapse.
This is their belief in fighting against the Don Army!
"Hold on, put the gun to the ground!" Tang Dahe, who was standing in the middle of the team and commanding, found at this time that some of the armored Khitan cavalry behind him had turned their horses and retreated, which showed that the Khitan cavalry attack in this assault was only to break through the wall in front of them and come to die.
The battle stopped for a while, and the ground in front of the Tang military camp was covered with war horses and the corpses of the Khitan soldiers, some of the Khitan soldiers who were lucky not to die were wailing loudly on the battlefield, and some survivors who could still move were desperately fleeing back to their own military formations.
In a fierce collision, more than 1,000 Khitan cavalry were killed under the strong crossbows and spears of the Tang army, and the battlefield was full of corpses, and the slave army that rushed into the Tang camp was only more than 100 horsemen.
Yelu Shilu looked coldly at the surviving slave soldiers who had retreated, and then looked sideways at the Emperor's banner, which was only a few miles away from him. Then he raised his horsewhip and pointed to the camp of the Tang army and said loudly: "Now that the camp of the Tang army has been broken and the obstacles have been cleared, it is time for them to taste the taste of the Khitan iron horse." Are you ready to charge? ”
The black and strong Jeruzacai nodded, rode his horse back to the main formation, and the three thousand Khitan elite heavy cavalry with two eyes on the horse's head slowly stepped out of the array, which was ready to use the powerful impact of the ironclad cavalry to break the Tang army's defense line in one fell swoop.
The heavy cavalry, lined up in a row, began to jog.
The sound of horses' hooves should hit the ground with a hammer, which will bring a strong impact visually.
Just as the Great Khitan heavy cavalry began to charge, the Tang army, which was originally in front of the camp, suddenly collapsed, shouting and fleeing towards the mountains on both sides.
This made Yelu Shilu, who was watching the battle, also a little dumbfounded, and said that he would collapse at the first touch, but now that the two sides have not made contact, the Tang army has begun to flee? !
The heavy cavalry charge could not be stopped, and the charge could not be turned during the charge, and Jeruzacai in the cavalry array looked at the fleeing Tang army on the hillside on both sides very depressedly, and had the intention to chase and kill, but he couldn't stop. It is a pity that these "credits" are given to the light cavalry units that followed......
Jeruza finally managed to control the speed of the horse, and these Khitan heavy horsemen continued to turn a hillside due to inertia, and then looked up, and there was another Tang army camp in front of them. These Khitan heavy horsemen have already slowed down the horse, and if they want to speed up the charge, the distance is no longer enough.
"The whole army retreats!" Jeruzacai cried out with a loud voice.
Three thousand Khitan heavy horsemen crowded the valley and began to turn around with difficulty.
Jerusherus had already led a large army to come.
At this time, only the Tang army was heard beating the war drums, and as the war drums echoed, some Tang troops with bows and arrows kept pouring out from the mountains on both sides of the valley......
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