In these five days, Xia Xue prepared for the worst - to fight a longer protracted battle. He sent his men to the battlefield to carry the corpses of the horses, intact bows and arrows, knives and guns, as well as food, money, furs, blankets, etc., looted from the Turkic corpses to the hillside, and at the same time sent a team of men and horses to cover the carrying work.

The carcasses of the horses that were carried back to the hillside were mainly used as food reserves, and the horse skins could be made into rainproof and dustproof materials to be placed on the anti-arrow canopies on the trenches, and they could also be made into carpets and floor mats in the trenches and tents to keep out the moisture, so that the soldiers and the wounded could rest more comfortably and warmly. Horse meat is all made into bacon, cured meat, bacon, sausage, ham, canned food and other shelf-stable food varieties, now although March, but in the northern grassland is still very cold, basically not afraid of food spoilage, not to mention the processed horse meat storage time will be longer. The live cattle and sheep that were snatched up in front of them were temporarily grazing on the grass on the hillside as a reserve of live food.

Eating is a top priority, and Xia Xue must find a way to store more food and prepare for a long battle.

She even considered that if one day the food ran out, maybe even the corpses of the Turkic soldiers would be eaten as food, she remembered that Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem: "Zhuang Zhi is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood", maybe when he is not eating, he will also "hungry for Hulu meat, thirsty for Xiongnu blood".

It's better to eat the meat of the Turkic soldiers than to starve to death, Xia Xue sighed helplessly, war is always cruel, and if you can't adapt to this cruelty, you can only be eliminated, slaughtered, and enslaved.

Why does Xia Xue collect so much horse meat now, she just doesn't let the angel soldiers eat human flesh as much as possible, because eating human flesh will cast a shadow on a person's life, and it is not very good for people's mental health.

Horse hair, fur, blankets, etc. are used as materials for the Angel Army to keep warm, and March in the northern grasslands is still very cold, and Xia Xue, who often explores outdoors in the future society, knows that cold hypothermia is a major threat to casualties.

Swords and spears were made of horses and antlers and placed within 100 meters of the first line of trenches to hinder the charge of the sluggish Turkic cavalry.

In order to fight a protracted war, Xia Xue tried to make the best use of everything.

She didn't want to spend effort to bury the corpses of the Turks, and she also knew that the Turks in the rear camp would secretly carry the corpses back to the camps of various tribes for cremation.

The Turks were warlike and proud of the horse-leather shroud, and they performed cremation after death, believing that it was through fire that the soul of the deceased could ascend to heaven.

Xia Xue learned about some of the funeral customs of the Turks: the Turks would park the bodies of the deceased in felt tents, and their descendants and relatives would kill horses and sheep, put them in front of the tent for sacrifices, and lead the horses around the tent for seven weeks. Then, when he entered the tent, he cut his face with a knife, and blood and tears flowed together, and he did this seven times in a row before it was finished. Then choose a day to take the horse of the deceased and the things it used, and burn it along with the corpse. The ashes after burning are waiting for time to be buried - those who die in spring can not be buried until the grass and trees turn yellow at the end of autumn; Those who die in autumn and winter will not be buried until spring when the vegetation is luxuriant. When the ashes are buried, the relatives perform the same rituals as they did at the time of death. A stone strip is carved on the tomb table, depicting the image of the deceased and the battle during his lifetime. If a man is killed on the battlefield in front of him, he shall set up a stone, so that some of them are as many as a thousand, and he shall engrave it on the stone table with the title of the sheep and horse sacrificed. On the day the ashes were buried, men and women dressed in bright costumes gathered at the burial site.

Therefore, Xia Xue didn't need to let the angel army spend the effort to bury the corpses of these Turkic cavalry, as long as these corpses were cleaned up from the battlefield and stacked 2,000 meters away from her position, she didn't need to care about the rest, and the Turks would definitely quietly take care of the aftermath of these dead Turkic soldiers.

After another five days, Turkic reinforcements from all walks of life arrived, and the total number of troops reached 300,000 horses. Among them were the remaining 40,000 Turkic cavalry, as well as 210,000 new Turkic cavalry corps from major Turkic tribes such as Payegu, Huifu, Tongluo, Fugu, and Xi, as well as about 30,000 slave regiments, which were composed of slaves from the Uighur, Tiele, Western Regions, Tuyuhun, Tubo, Dangxiang, Khitan, Xi and other tribes captured by the Turks; There are also 20,000 Han Chinese regiments, led by Liu Heimin and the Red Lady. After the defeat of the army, the Han Chinese soldiers and horses defected to the Turks.

The tents of the barracks stretched for more than ten miles, the flags were fluttering, and the people were shouting and neighing, and the momentum was huge and majestic.

The Turkic Jieli Khan was overjoyed when he saw it, "Haha, this time the angel army will not be destroyed, and I will not be a man!" ”

In the early morning of the next day, the Yinshan battlefield, which had been calm for ten days, boiled again. The roar of horses' hooves resounded across the land.

Xia Xue stood in the command room and calmly observed the battlefield with a telescope. Today she found that the 20,000 cavalry rushed up in the first echelon turned out to be Han Chinese, led by the red lady Cao Xiuying and Liu Heimin.

After the Red Lady and Liu Heimin gathered Dou Jiande's old troops to oppose the Tang Dynasty in the land of Yan and Zhao, they were defeated by Li Shimin, and led the remnants of the army to defect to the Turks. The next day, he appointed the Red Lady as the commander of the Han Legion, in charge of 20,000 Han soldiers, and then provided weapons and horses for the Han Legion, although they were all eliminated by the Turkic elite troops, but after all, it was a cavalry regiment.

Of course, this is not to say that Jieli Khan was fascinated by the Red Lady, Jieli Khan is a generation of grassland heroes, he only advocates power and power, and will never indulge in women. He didn't persecute the Red Lady again after Y. insulted the Red Lady that night. First, after the red lady was humiliated, she became wary of him, and let Liu Heimin accompany him at all times, and would not get along with him alone. And he doesn't drink anymore, and he doesn't let Liu Heimin drink, so that Jieli Khan can't find a chance. Second, Jieli Khan felt that the Red Lady and Liu Heimin were both talents, and the heroes both liked talents, and he didn't want to lose the two rare talents of the Red Lady and Liu Heimin for lust. In order to keep the Red Lady and Liu Heimin, and also for his own use in the future, Jieli Khan fulfilled his promise and made the Red Lady the commander of the Han Legion, and provided weapons and war horses to the Han Legion.

Jieli Khan Y. insulted the Red Lady in order to satisfy the man's desire to conquer, after all, the Red Lady is the first beauty in the land of Yan Zhao, and also the queen of the Emperor Dou Jiande of the Great Xia Kingdom. Second, Jieli Khan, who is pregnant with the world, also wants to use Y. insults to suppress the Red Lady's reserve and arrogance, let her know that he is the real master and the real king on the grassland, and also let the Red Lady know that there is no free lunch in the world, and everything has to be paid. Thirdly, Jieli Khan also wants to test the Red Lady's will and determination to oppose the Tang Dynasty through Y. insulting behavior, if the Red Lady resolutely refuses, or runs away, it means that the Red Lady's anti-Tang determination is not resolute; if the Red Lady endures the humiliation and does not resist vigorously, it means that she is indeed willing to pay any price for the anti-Tang Dynasty, and Jieli Khan is now in urgent need of such a hardcore anti-Tang warrior.

Jieli Khan has actually long been uneasy about the growing Tang Dynasty, and has long been ready to find an opportunity to eliminate or weaken this new country that will threaten his status as the world's number one power, and the resolute anti-Tang Red Lady is a very important chess piece and pawn he will use to suppress the Tang Dynasty in the future. He took advantage of the status, prestige and appeal of the Red Lady and Liu Heimin, and planned to first rekindle the war in the land of Yanzhao, drag the newly born Tang into the quagmire of war again, and even increase support for the Red Lady and Liu Heimin, and split the land of Yanzhao from the Tang Dynasty and become his vassal state and ally, so as to contain and weaken the nascent Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, let the Red Lady and Liu Heimin now lead the Han army that is not very strong in combat, and they are not afraid of them threatening themselves, and can be pawns and "cannon fodder" when necessary to attack hostile forces. Now is the perfect time for them to be "cannon fodder".

……

The red lady in red makeup, holding a red tassel gun, has a handsome face, a heroic posture, and a beautiful and heroic face with a murderous aura, rushing to the forefront. Immediately behind him was a burly, bearded, black-faced man holding a long-handled broadsword, this black tower-like man was Liu Heimin.

After Dou Jiande was defeated and captured by Li Shimin, Liu Heimin was originally going to return to the field, farm and grow vegetables, and spend the rest of his life incognito. But later, the red lady, who was bent on avenging her husband Dou Jiande, found him, hoping that he could help him oppose Tang.

Liu Heimin, who has always had a crush on the Red Lady and regarded the Red Lady as the lover of his dreams, didn't say a word, and immediately convened Dou Jiande's old department with the Red Lady, and rose up, and within three days, he successively captured Xingzhou, Weizhou, and Xinzhou in the land of Yanzhao, and killed Pan Daoyi, the governor of Weizhou in the Tang Dynasty. Within half a year, all of Dou Jiande's original territory was restored, and the momentum was huge.

It's just that he was later defeated by Li Shimin, the god of war of the Tang Dynasty, and had to flee to the Turks.

The red lady hopes to use the Turkic forces to continue to oppose the Tang Dynasty and avenge her husband Dou Jiande. As Liu Heimin, who has always had a crush on the Red Lady, of course, willingly surrendered to the Turks.

This time, the Red Lady and Liu Heimin listened to the promise of the Turkic Jieli Khan that if anyone defeated the angel army, they would be rewarded with a large number of gold and silver, cattle and sheep, slaves and other goods, and they would also promote him to the general of the hussars and canonize him as Ye Hu. "Ye Hu" is a high-ranking official whose Turkic status is second only to the Khan, and can be hereditary, so it is particularly eye-catching.

The Red Lady and Liu Heimin decided to fight hard to defeat the Angel Army today, and after becoming Ye Hu, they could command a large number of Turkic elite cavalry, and then they could return to the land of Yanzhao and make a comeback.

The Red Lady and Liu Heimin led people to push twenty trebuchets and slowly approached the angel army's position. The trebuchet is the use of the lever principle, one end is equipped with a heavy object, and the other end is equipped with a stone projectile to be launched, before launching, one end of the stone bullet must be placed with a winch, a pulley or directly pulled down by manpower, and the other end with the heavy object also rises at this time, let go or cut the rope after putting the stone bullet, let one end of the heavy object fall, the stone bullet is also thrown out of the trend, this kind of stone throwing machine can throw the projectile body of nearly 454 kilograms at most, the power is huge. These trebuchets made by the Red Lady and Liu Heimin can throw about 60 kilograms of stone projectiles at a distance of about 300 meters, which is farther than the distance of a bow and arrow attack, and the power is also terrifying. If these stone bullets are allowed to hit the position of the Angel Army, not only will the soldiers who were hit not want to live, but those anti-arrow sheds will also collapse, without the protection of the anti-arrow sheds, the casualties of the Angel Army soldiers will inevitably increase greatly. Therefore, it is resolute not to let trebuchets get close to launch.

"Zhao Ning!" Xia Xue shouted.

"In!" Zhao Ning's cheeks were blackened by the smoke of gunpowder, only two small eyes sparkled, and when he heard the queen's call, he ran over quickly.

"Aim all the cannons at those trebuchets and destroy them all!"

"Yes!" After Zhao Ning received the order, he quickly ran back to the artillery camp.

Zhao Ning stood in the artillery camp area, facing the enemy, stretched out his right thumb between his eyes, closed his left eye, aimed at the target with his right eye through the side of his thumb, and then used his left eye to observe through the same side of his thumb, using the eye-beating method taught by the queen to measure the distance, and then using the mathematical knowledge such as geometry and trigonometric functions taught by the queen to do mental arithmetic. Parameters such as angle of fire, elevation angle, range, coordinates, ballistic height, angle of fall, speed of fall, and flight time to the landing point were quickly calculated in the mind of the experienced artillery battalion commander.

The maximum range of the angel cannon is 6,000 meters, which is not comparable to the ancient trebuchet with a maximum range of only 300 meters, and the red lady and Liu Heimin are sweating and pushing twenty heavy trebuchets just 1,000 meters away from the angel army's position.

Zhao Ning let a cannon try out a cannon, this is to calibrate the angle and trajectory, so as to gain effectiveness and start Zhu Yuan.

"Charge No. 1, ready, aim!" Zhao Ning put on the earbuds, pulled out the Tang knife and ordered loudly.

According to the requirements of battalion commander Zhao Ning, the artillerymen calibrated the orientation and firing angle, and quickly sent the shells of the corresponding disguised charge number into the barrel and closed the bolts.

"Launch!" Zhao Ning roared and slashed the Tang knife violently.

Just as the Han legionnaires were sweating and panting as they pushed the heavy trebuchet forward, they faintly heard the sound of a heavy object flying in the air at high speed and rubbing the air. The voice seemed very sluggish. Obviously, the velocity attenuation caused by the air resistance to the object itself is so great that the flow of the air flow above is noticeably confused.

The Han legionnaires looked up at the sky in confusion, just in time to see the black cloud that was covering their ranks.

"Boom, boom! ——”

"Boom, boom! ——”

"Boom, boom! ——”

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Clusters of orange fireballs exploded in the trebuchets and the Han Chinese legions, and the twenty trebuchets that had been finally built were instantly blown into countless pieces before they could fire a single shot or push to the launch position. Many of the wooden materials had turned into wisps of fiber, and rags, scraps, flesh, dirt, and stones fell in a flutter like scattered flowers. The smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the strong pungent smell was mixed with a strong smell of blood. The cannonballs flew away, and the stumps and severed arms rolled and shattered in the air waves! The steel shards screamed and reaped the lives wantonly, the power was so great that the many Han legionnaires were blown up in a pool of blood screaming and convulsing, and they couldn't believe that there was a weapon in the world that could fight so far.

Xia Xue saw the Han army who was willing to be the pawn of the Turkic horses, and despised it in her heart: "This may be the traitor that later generations said, then you have to be polite!" So he ordered: "Give me a hard beating of these Turkic Han lackeys!" ”

Suddenly, the angel army was under fire in front of the array, and the bullets rained down.

Where have the troops of the Red Lady and Liu Heimin seen such an attack, most of them are Dou Jiande's old department, Liu Wuzhou's old department, Liang Shidu's old department, and the soldiers of the Sui army who fled to the Turks, etc., but they are not so fearless as the Turkic soldiers' spirit of death, after a burst of bombardment, more than half of the 20,000 Han legions fled to the left side of the battlefield, that is, in the mountains on the south side, many of them know that after abandoning their horses from there, they crossed the mountains and mountains, and after more than ten days of trekking, they can enter the Yellow River Hetao Plain, and then enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty, Go to Datong, Yanggao, Zhangjiakou area.

Most of the soldiers of these Han legions held: as long as they can survive, it doesn't matter if they surrender to the Tang Dynasty again. Anyway, life is not easy here in the Turks, it is better to return to the Han region and surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

Anyway, now rush forward, and face the terrible zigzag shells that have never been seen before, only death; Retreating, the Turkic army orders are harsh, and all soldiers who retreat and flee from the battlefield will be beheaded, and the Turkic overseers who are behind will definitely kill them; fled to the north, but finally fled to the steppe ruled by the Turks, and was caught by the Turks or a dead end, and wanted to live, so he had to flee south.

The Red Lady and Liu Heimin wanted to rush to kill desperately, but most of the other Han troops under their command did not have the spirit of desperate death, so in just ten minutes, the 20,000 Han army was killed, wounded, and fled, and the whole army was annihilated.

The red lady was also seriously injured by the bombing, fell off her horse, and was dying. Liu Heimin was blown off a leg, and his xiong part was also hit by shrapnel, although he was protected by armor, it was useless, and the blood flowed profusely.

Liu Heimin fell off the horse, saw the dying red lady, heartache, endured the pain, dragged the broken leg, slowly crawled to the red lady with both hands, although the two were only more than ten meters apart, but for the seriously injured Liu Heimin, it seemed to be thousands of meters long, he tried his best to crawl forward slowly, the nails were already in the process of crawling, because of the deep digging into the soil and broken off, ten fingers connected to the heart, painful. But Liu Heimin seems to have become numb to the pain, he just keeps crawling forward desperately, he just wants to crawl to the red lady before he dies, hold her hand, and look at her affectionately.

He struggled with the last trace of strength and finally crawled to the side of the red lady, and held the soft slender hand of the red lady with a rough hand with blurred flesh and blood, these slender hands were Liu Heimin who had always wanted to touch, but had never had the courage to hold them, and now he finally died without regrets, Liu Heimin finally glanced at the handsome red lady affectionately, and closed his eyes with a satisfied smile on his face.

When the red lady was dying, she felt that someone was holding her hands, she struggled to open her eyes, and saw Liu Heimin, who was covered in blood and had a broken leg and died, she couldn't help but have a sour nose and tears, she felt deeply sorry for Liu Heimin, she killed him, he may be living a leisurely and peaceful pastoral life now, but she pulled him into the abyss, she could feel Liu Heimin's heartfelt feelings and secret love for herself, but she didn't dare to face it, she was just full of hatred and wanted to avenge her husband, In the end, such a man who was so infatuated with him died tragically in a foreign land.

The red lady held Liu Heimin's big hand tightly with both hands, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" her mouth kept confessing and apologizing, and tears fell on the cold and blood-soaked land.

At the same time, she also felt too tired, since the anti-Tang Dynasty, she was like a moth to a fire, without hesitation, devoted her efforts and endured humiliation, but in the end she still ended in failure, she was haggard and exhausted. She now felt like she couldn't hold on any longer, she felt so tired, she just wanted to get a good night's sleep now, get a good night's sleep, and never wake up. Too tired, too tired, the red lady's consciousness slowly blurred, there was no pain on her face, only a relieved and relaxed expression. Don't die, you can rest when you die, and you can be liberated when you die. Husband, I'm sorry, I'm so tired, I just want to come to heaven to find you now, I just want to be by your side and be a carefree little woman now......

The red lady's beautiful pupils slowly dilated, and her breathing slowly stopped......

I'd like to be a silly moth,

For love,

For the sake of ideals,

I am willing to be burned,

Even if you die, you have no regrets!

After a long winter, the cold night was dark

Thought I would turn into a butterfly and fly

The moment I broke the cocoon, I knew the poignancy of love

Fell in love with the prickly roses

There is no way back

Let the fire in your heart burn all your love

I flew like a moth into the fire

In the end, I couldn't see anyone crying for me

It doesn't matter if you're in love with each other

Who wants to taste the beauty that turns to ashes?

I flew like a moth into the fire

In the end, I couldn't hope that anyone would be with me

Until the ashes are gone, let me brush away all my sorrows

Who will soothe my tired tears with love

……

The maple leaves are red and bright like blood, and they are as fragmented as clouds. Shaohua Bai's head blinked in an instant, and his greed, hatred and infatuation were all confused. I still remember the old years, the peach blossoms are all over the sky, toast and talk and laugh, make a white vow, once the wind and clouds change, the red dust is like smoke, and the poor soul is broken Yin Mountain!

Xia Xue later learned about the bad life of the red lady, and still admired this heroine who valued love and righteousness, although she was the enemy of the Tang Dynasty, but after the war, she still had her body found and transported back to Yanzhao Dadi Jingcheng County, and was buried with his husband Dou Jiande, and a grand funeral was held in Jingcheng County, of course, this is a later story.

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The Turkic Jieli Khan didn't expect the 20,000 Han army to be wiped out in a short time, he was very disappointed and annoyed, damn, the Han army was too bad, just hit by the artillery fire of the angel army, and he was so frightened that he fled in all directions.

However, Jieli Khan was also capable of being a Turkic khan, and he found steel or lead in his body from the corpses of Turkic soldiers he secretly carried back

The projectiles made, some of which had steel fragments, he was keenly aware that these things caused the death of the Turkic soldiers, and it seemed that it was not the rumors that the Angel Queen would summon the god of thunder and electricity, but that she had a new weapon that she did not understand, and this weapon should be the same as the bow and arrow, with a limited number of feathered arrows. If its projectiles like feathered arrows are consumed, then the Angel Army will definitely be finished.

Thinking of this, the Turkic Jieli Khan was no longer depressed by the rout of the Han army, since he didn't treat them as the main force, he just used them as cannon fodder, and ran away if he escaped. After all, the Red Lady, Liu Heimin and the old subordinates led by them are still very brave, although they are basically dead, they also consume a lot of ammunition for the angel army, which is enough.