A burly cavalryman, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a beard with sideburns, like the statue of the king or the statue of the wrestler in the ancient stone carving art of Longmen, with a solemn and majestic demeanor, riding motionless on a horse, holding the reins in one hand and holding a large blue flag tightly in the other. The banner carries a tassel made of snow-white horsehair and a silver spear with a white light, and the center of the flag is embroidered with a large "Tang" character in black satin.

In front of the banner, there stood a particularly tall horse, with a short mane and tail, the horse was dark gray, with white spots, and the hair was curly, very much like dragon scales, some people did not know this name, just look at its fur color black but not pure, so it was called a black barge horse. Riding on it now was a thirty-seven-eighteen-year-old general, tall, with broad shoulders, bulging cheekbones, full heaven, a high nose, deep eye sockets, thick eyebrows, and a pair of large, piercing eyes that were staring forward and contemplative. This kind of eye often gives people a sense of perseverance, composure, and wisdom. This general is the famous general of the Tang Angel Army: Su Dingfang.

Su Dingfang led 10,000 Tang. As soon as the army arrived at the Western Regions, it was surrounded by 100,000 Turkic soldiers led by Ashina Helu, who had been ambushed in advance.

Su Dingfang saw that the enemy was outnumbered, but he did not panic. Su Dingfang personally led Tang. 8,000 infantry men with spears, swords, bows, crossbows, etc. occupied the southern plain heights, surrounded the defense, and ordered Wanyan Kule to lead the Tang Dynasty. The 2,000 cavalry of the army lined up in the northern plains and waited for an opportunity to attack.

Ashina Helu see Nanyuan Tang. The army was numerous, and the commander Su Dingfang was also among them, and it was infantry, so he ordered the Turkic army to attack Nanyuan first and eat this main infantry. Then, the Tang with only 2,000 people left in the encirclement. Army cavalry. Fighting 100,000 to 10,000 is a sure win in everyone's eyes.

After the horn of the attack sounded, amid the rumbling war drums, Ashina Helu's son-in-law Yan Si took the lead in leading 80,000 horses to attack the Tang soldiers in Nanyuan.

After Yan Si led 80,000 Turkic soldiers to rush to Nanyuan, he found that the opposite Tang Dynasty. The soldiers were well-armed, the formation was strict, and the bright armor in front of them was all the same, all of them were tall and large, holding a four-foot square iron shield in one hand and an eight-foot spear in the other.

Behind this iron wall thorn forest, there were still many heads shaking, and I saw that behind them were countless tall men with the same iron helmets and iron armor, but they were holding a two-edged Mo knife with a length of a zhang, and there were countless regimental sword and shield hands standing on one side on both sides. Further back, there are many crossbowmen waiting with their bows open.

Yan Si screamed bitterly in his heart, although it seemed that there were only seven or eight thousand people on the other side and less than ten thousand, but just looking at the formation, looking at the momentum and equipment of the soldiers, he knew that this must be a Tang. Elite soldiers.

Yan Si and a group of Turkic people who were also fierce horseback peoples, when they saw the elite of the other party, they went crazy one by one, and rushed straight to Tang. Army positions.

"Shoot the arrows!" Although Su Dingfang was a cavalry general, he stayed in Nanyuan to command the infantry this time, and when he saw the enemy rushing towards him, he immediately gave orders.

Suddenly, the eight thousand Tang soldiers, whether they were strange soldiers, jumping soldiers or even strange sword soldiers, all pulled their bows apart, put on the arrows that had been inserted on the ground, and threw them at the enemy.

After shooting an arrow, regardless of the result of the battle, at this time, all the Tang soldiers adhered to the rules of training, just "nervous bow, shoot arrows quickly".

Tang Dynasty. All soldiers in the army are equipped with longbows, and longbows are a prerequisite for all classes. Basically, Don. The standard for the assessment of the longbow of the soldiers is to shoot 12 arrows per minute with precision, and 15 arrows per minute, and some particularly good ones can even reach 20 arrows a minute. For example, Su Dingfang and Wanyan Kule, who have excellent archery skills, can basically reach one arrow in three seconds.

In an archery test, Su Dingfang competed with a soldier on the spot, and he fired five arrows in a row, and the soldier had just shot an arrow.

At a distance of one hundred and twenty paces, it takes about a minute for the light infantry charging in array, about a minute and a half for the infantry with iron armor, and even fifteen seconds for the cavalry. Against such a moving target, slow and accurate shooting is clearly meaningless. The key is the density of the launch, and the more arrows you shoot, the more hope of life and victory.

Another factor in increasing the density of strikes is the increase in the number of people. In the Don. In the tradition of the army, the Don. The army is not only equipped with armor, but also with bows, and bows and arrows are equipped with 12 percent, and everyone is equipped with bows. When fighting, Don. Thousands of longbowmen were usually gathered and volleyed from the flanks of the infantry line and from the gaps in the array. Eight thousand longbowmen fired at the same time, and more than 80,000 arrows could be fired in one minute, forming an out-and-out storm of feathered arrows.

In the face of the charging enemy army, Don. The army did not panic, but methodically opened the bows of the whole army, 8,000 longbows, in the short period of about a minute from the time the enemy entered the firing range to the time when they rushed to the front of the formation, basically everyone shot more than 10 arrows, and 8,000 people shot more than 80,000 arrows at once in a short period of time. Such a dense number of arrows formed a metal storm of death within a hundred paces, and countless Turkic troops rushing in front continued to fall.

"Raise your shield!" When the enemy was within fifty paces, Su Dingfang decisively ordered the odd soldiers and sword and shield soldiers to stop firing and raise their shields to meet the impact instead.

"Kill!" The 2,000 strange soldiers shouted, and under the guidance of the red spear flags of the generals, team leaders, gang leaders, and army commanders, the soldiers in the front row smashed their huge shields on the ground, and the spears stretched out at a forty-five degree angle, forming an oval camp, and the contraction was very small, and the dense spear tips stretched out like a big hedgehog.

The crossbowmen in the back also lowered their bows and began to pick up the crossbow machine. The crossbow machine has more power, longer range, and is also less labor-intensive, making it easier to strike with precision. The only drawback is the slow rate of fire, often firing two or three arrows before a crossbow can be fired. But for the archers, after shooting a dozen arrows in a row, it also consumes a lot of strength. At this time, the crossbow machine can not only restore strength, but also be more suitable for accurate aiming and shooting at short distances.

The Turkic soldiers continued to charge with a round shield, and there were more than 10,000 cavalry in the front, but because the Tang army was on the southern plateau, the Turkic soldiers were attacking from the bottom and rushing up, so the speed of the cavalry slowed down a lot compared with the plain.

These light cavalry were used as heavy cavalry by Yan Si at this time to break the formation. Under normal circumstances, seeing more than 10,000 cavalry charging into battle, the thousands of soldiers and horses on the other side would definitely be frightened back directly. But to his surprise, the other party not only did not retreat, but was firmly nailed to the spot. With the sound of a majestic roar of mountains and rivers, behind the iron wall, countless spear heads suddenly pierced out.

The sharp tip of the spear shone with a faint chill, like the gaze of death.

Behind the shield array of Tang Bing, the strange soldiers in the first row knelt on one knee and half-squatted on the ground, and the tail end of the eight-foot spear in his hand was fiercely inserted. Sinking into the ground, the spear pointed diagonally forward. The second row of Odd Soldiers' bayonets rested on the shoulders of the first row, then the third row. This is the standard infantry-to-horse spear formation.

The horses' hooves rumbled, and the horses stepped on countless dirt and dust flying. Looking at the enemy cavalry that was getting closer and closer, Don. The soldiers of the army had no fear, but just held the barrels of their spears more tightly.

Like the waves hitting the reef, the surging iron stream slammed into the shield array of spears, and the war horse that rushed to the front was directly stabbed by the spear, and blood flowed out. Before dying, the war horse slammed into the shield array with huge inertia. The strange soldiers behind leaned sideways, pressed their shoulders against the four-foot-high iron shield, and their feet were firmly pinned to the ground.

The Turkic cavalry that rushed to the shield array hit the tip of the hedgehog-like spear heavily, and some people howled and flew into the shield array, and were immediately dismembered, and some people were directly stabbed to death by the spear.

The shieldmen in the first row successfully blocked the most fierce first wave of impact, and the strange soldiers in the back, under the cover of the shield bearers in the front row and the crossbowmen in the back, kept stabbing the spears in their hands, retracting them, and stabbing out.

One by one, the Turks fell in front of the rock-solid shield and gun, and built a mountain of corpses, bleeding all over the ground.

Shock, impact, impact.

Resist, resist, resist.

In just a quarter of an hour, although the waves were stormy, Tang. The 8,000 soldiers of the army did not take a step back at all, and countless Turkic troops fell in front of them, but they still could not break through this level.

After the jumping soldiers fought a bloody way and broke through the enemy formation, Su Dingfang seized the opportunity in time and recruited the logistics soldiers who had been enduring useless.

There are 1,000 logistical soldiers. However, because it was a reserve soldier in the battle sequence, Su Dingfang made this team a pure team. A real pure team, 1,000 people are equipped with only one weapon, an eight-foot spear. When such a team pulls out, it is estimated that everyone who sees it will smile contemptuously. However, at this time, when a thousand spearmen followed the footsteps of the jumping soldiers to the front of the battle, many people were frightened.

The spearmen arrived, and quickly formed a phalanx of spears in formation.

Su Dingfang personally rushed to the spear phalanx and commanded the spearmen to attack.

As if he had trained thousands of times, Su Dingfang shouted: "Raise the spear!" ”

"Kill!" The logistics soldiers of the ten spear phalanx reflexively shouted a killing word in unison, and then waved the assassination action that had been trained thousands of times.

"Raise your spear and move forward!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Amidst the sound of neat slogans, the pace of the spear team was incomparably neat. Since the formation of the logistics corps, they have only practiced one battle formation, that is, the spear phalanx. This is the simplest battle formation, it is practiced once a day, it has been practiced thousands of times, and the spear formation can be put out with your eyes closed, and the whole team can be the same and advance and retreat freely just by listening to the sound.

With Su Dingfang's order, the spearmen were excited, excited, and accustomed to marching forward freely. Take a step forward with each shout, and make an assassination with the spear in your hand with each step forward. Everything is standard and fluid.

As most of the spearmen came up, the sword and shield soldiers automatically retreated to both sides. The spearmen marched in a posture of destroying everything, with simple movements and simple formations. But such a simple team has played an incredible effect at this time.

Facing the formation that had been torn apart by the sword and shield soldiers, the spearmen advanced steadily, and anyone who stood in their way could only be crushed. Thorn spear, forward, forward, stabbing spear.

The eight-foot spear was like a forest of steel, and the tip of the spear shone with the light of death.

"Poof, poof!" The sound of the spear tipping into the flesh kept ringing, and one after another made people feel terrified. The Turkic soldiers were usually well-trained, they were skilled in swordsmanship, and they were mounted and arched. proficient, but at this time, facing only one spear in the body, a simple soldier can no longer be simple, but there is no skill to use. Their formations had previously been torn apart by the sword and shield men, and many of the commanders were stopped by the archers.

At this time, they were pressed up by these spear phalanxes, and the only result was that they fell under the spears one by one. No matter how strong the iron armor is, the sharp tip of the eight-foot spear on the opposite side can only be unwilling to kneel.

Pierce enemies one by one, then step on them. The logistics soldiers who went to the battlefield for the first time reacted differently, and some of them were pale and couldn't help vomiting. Some people were flushed and excited. But whether it was fear or excitement, as the killing words sounded one by one, their footsteps still moved forward mechanically, and the spear in their hands stabbed out a little numbly, and withdrew.

This is the result of the usual daily training of the queue training, which has already formed a conditioned reflex and is firmly engraved in their minds.

A spearman so poorly armed is vulnerable, but when a thousand of such a poorly armed spearmen line up, they are formidable. Strong enough to crush everything in front of you and tear everything up.

Rolling, this is the real rolling. Unstoppably destroyed everything in front of him, not even a single person survived, and all the enemies in front of him could only become a hornet's nest in the end, with guns piercing all over his body.

Forward, forward, forward, assassinate, assassinate, assassinate again.

In the end, the spear phalanx was pushed all the way to the half-waist of Nanyuan, and there were no more enemies above the half-waist.

Killing the last enemy, Su Dingfang ordered the spearmen to retreat and return to standby.

The majestic and cold killing shouts finally stopped again, and the ground within half of Nanyuan's waist was piled up with corpses on the ground. Tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers armed with iron armor, leather, spears, horizontal knives, and even crossbows, before they even showed their skills, they all fell to the ground, becoming unwilling corpses.

Yan Si was angry and unwilling, and frantically rushed up with the retreating men and horses, and launched a second round of charging attacks, except for leaving a large number of Turkic soldiers' corpses, he still failed to break through Tang. Army of defense.

Yan Si's eyes were red, the bruises on his face were exposed, and he organized his men and horses to launch a third crazy attack. This time he was even more miserable, Don. The army camp is still as stable as Mount Tai, the Turkic soldiers have more casualties this time, and Yan Si was also unfortunately hit by an arrow and fell off his horse, and his body was pierced with several bullet holes, lying on the corpse pile without looking at it, and the corpse mountain paved with corpses increased a little higher.

From the very beginning, both Ashina Helu and his son-in-law Yan Si underestimated Tang. The army underestimated Su Dingfang, and they all thought that with 100,000 Turkic soldiers, it was too simple to take Nanyuan. So there was no more arrangement, but simply a strong attack.

The third round of fighting was over, and more than 50,000 Turkic soldiers had died. Ashina Helu looked at Nanyuan with an iron face, at this time, this not high Nanyuan became a hideous bottomless pit in his eyes. After a lot of effort, he had already swallowed 50,000 of his own horses. What made him feel even more chilled was that so many people had died, but it didn't seem to hurt Tang on Nanyuan at all. How many people in the army.

It was nearly dusk.

The fierce battle situation in Nanyuan made Yan Kule's eyes hot and his blood was full of blood. Wanyan Kule led the army to take advantage of the fact that Yan Si was killed, Nanyuan could not be attacked for a long time, and the Turkic soldiers were demoralized, so he led 2,000 Tang from Beiyuan. The elite cavalry of the army came over in a big way.

"Kill—" Don of Kitahara. The cavalry, under the leadership of Wanyan Kule, who wielded Tang swords, made an overwhelming killing sound, and two thousand Tang swords shone dazzlingly in the sun, killing into the Turkic army like a tide.

The Turkic army Nanyuan could not rush up, and was followed by Tang. When the cavalry arrived, they were defeated in confusion, and the army scattered and fled. Ashina Helu knew that the morale of the army had been weakened, the morale had collapsed, and it was difficult to organize a counterattack, so he had to lead a group of personal soldiers and his son Ashina Yuyun to flee to the base camp of Jinya Mountain.

As soon as Su Dingfang saw the enemy's rout and flee, he immediately ordered all the infantry to turn into cavalry, rush down from the southern plains, and pursue and kill the Turkic army. Su Dingfang trained Tang. The army can fight on foot and on horse, and when conducting positional warfare, blocking warfare, defensive warfare, and siege warfare, Tang . The army becomes infantry, and when it pursues the enemy, outflanks the enemy, harasses the enemy, and flanks the enemy, it becomes cavalry.

After a period of pursuit and hunting of the enemy army, the Turks lost more than 20,000 people.

At this time, the 10,000 Tang led by Liang Jianfang, the general of Zuo Wuwei. The elite cavalry also rushed to the Western Regions and joined forces with Su Dingfang.

Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, Su Dingfang was overjoyed and led Tang. The army continued to advance in pursuit of Ashina Helu.

Along the way, they met the Turkic Hulu Wu Que Si Division, Wu Nu Lost Bi Division, etc., and they saw Tang . The army was so powerful that 10,000 people defeated 100,000 Turkic soldiers, so it was decided not to follow Ashina Helu to rebel against Tang and surrender.

Ashina Helu and his son Ashina Yuyun had no choice but to lead Sha Boluo and the Chumukun Qulu Division, and thousands of horses fled west.

The Wulu Land Department was defeated by the army and also attached to the South Road Tang led by Ashina Buzhen. Army.