Chapter 80: The Battle of the River Crossing

Amul is located south of the Wuhu River and is a necessary route from Bukhara to Mulu. In order to prevent the Turgish from entering Khorasan, Ashlas placed a heavy army at Amul, and 10,000 newly recruited infantry entered Amul, which had been repeatedly fortified. In addition to this, there were two thousand cavalry in the city. Amul has been run into a strong fortress.

It takes about nine hours to travel from Bukhara to Amul, which is equivalent to about 200 tangs. It took two days and one night for the Turgish army to march to the north bank of the Wuhu River. The 2,000 Great Food Cavalry, under the leadership of General Yasar, had long been blocked on the south bank, waiting for the opportunity to attack half-crossing.

"Mohedagan, give me a thousand horses, and Balth will cross the river, and let those great cannibals know how powerful we are."

A Turkic general who looked like a fierce general strangled the constantly jumping war horse under his crotch, and automatically asked for help with empty eyes.

The vanguard of the army reached the north bank of the Wuhu River in only one day, but was blocked by the big cannibals and could not cross the river, so they had to wait until the army arrived one after another.

Now, the rear army has also arrived, but for some reason, Mohe Dagan is not in a hurry to cross the river to fight, but leads the generals to the river with great interest, looking at the enemy situation on the other side, perhaps looking for a good opportunity to cross the river.

A tiger general named Balth proudly invited to fight, attracting everyone's attention.

"Humph! Sure enough, a stupid tiger. I only know how to rush and fight, fortunately he didn't go to Begging City at that time, otherwise, that, hehe. ”

Gu Si accidentally said the wrong thing, and he blushed. Fortunately, there were only Li Huaitang and his subordinate A Lifu by his side.

Li Huaitang didn't make a sound, there didn't seem to be many cavalry on the opposite side, as long as he could cross the same number of cavalry, he could defeat them. It was not difficult to safely cross the 2,000 or so cavalry, and the flow of the black water in summer was no longer enough to prevent the cavalry from crossing the river under the evaporation of the scorching sun. There are innumerable suitable crossing points on this long river, and it is impossible to block the army of Tirchi with the enemy cavalry on the opposite bank.

Li Huaitang was worried about whether Mohe Dagan would use the excuse of letting himself go to a feint to attract the attention of the big cannibal, and kill someone with a knife, and then he would sit back and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

As long as his cavalry comes out in all directions, let the big cannibals and plants and trees be soldiers, and then surprise thousands of horsemen in one place, then the crossing of the river will be considered a success. As for a forcible attack, or even a feint, there is no need. He looked at Gu Si and Li Huaitang beside Gu Si, and sneered.

"Gu Si, in the last desert battle, you played the prestige of our Turk Shi people, and now the big cannibals must know your prestige, how do you say that? Oh, it's scary. ”

Mo Heda laughed dryly, and I don't know if it was flattery or sarcasm.

"You see, when the great cannibals saw you, they were afraid to go near the river. Or, in order to boost morale, Gu Si will repeat the wonderful scene of the defeat and cannibalism for us to see, in order to compensate for the regret that we all missed the wonderful at the beginning? ”

Mohedagan's tone suddenly changed. This kind of demeaning and inferior rhetoric in praise made Gu Si very uncomfortable to listen to.

Gu Si's face began to redden, and he wanted to make a sharp counterattack. was kicked by Li Huaitang, and the cue that got the hint had to reluctantly swallow the unwillingness to be ridiculed.

"Mohedagan is a hero, how can I fight with the general? I also hope that the general will give me the opportunity to observe and learn. ”

The bone slurred the airway.

Mo Heda smiled smugly, "It's good to know, I'll do what you want." Keep your eyes open and take a good look at what General Yum is. ”

After speaking, he put away his smile, looked at Li Huaitang, glared at Li Huaitang coldly, and then turned the horse's head and rode away with his subordinates.

"How can this be justified, so arrogant." The bones are full of anger and almost go berserk.

On the north bank of Wuhu Water, the horn resounded in the sky. The rumbling sound of horses' hooves shook the earth and shook people's hearts. The sky is full of sand and dust flying everywhere, showing the grand formation.

After the dust passed, thousands of troops lined up on the north bank of the river.

"You can't force it, do you?"

Gu Si looked at the movement of Mohedagan's department suspiciously. He hoped that Mohedagan would act recklessly.

Li Huaitang said: "There are many more people and horses in Mohe Dagan than in the big cannibals. As long as you divide into several groups and choose a few points to cross the river at the same time, the big cannibals can't take care of both. Once one of the cannibals is entangled, the rest of the army can pass quickly, and encirclement and annihilation are not a problem. ”

As if to confirm what Li Huaitang said, in the camp of Mohe Dagan's army, a thousand cavalry on the left and right rushed along the upper and lower reaches of the river, and the heavy horses' hooves kicked up the sand and dust. Mohe Dagan led thousands of troops to press towards the shore of the Wuhu River, posing as a forced crossing.

The actions of the Turgish fell completely into the eyes of the great cannibals on the other side, and they immediately guessed the intentions of the Turgish. Yasar divided two groups of cavalry to defend the two flanks, while he led a thousand and five cavalry and continued to confront the main force of the Turgish.

To Yasar's surprise, the Turgish men lined up on the north shore in a black row, and after a while they divided into about two hundred horsemen and headed downstream. Yasar frowned, this time, he did not continue to divide his troops, he thought that only less than two hundred horsemen would not pose much of a threat to himself.

"General, look, it's Mohedagan's elite, the blood wolf and the blood bear rider!"

Hudu pointed to the nearly two hundred horsemen who had just broken away from the main camp of Mohe Dagan and rushed downstream, and said excitedly to Li Huaitang.

Li Huaitang led more than 600 people from his headquarters to line up on the right rear flank of Mohe Dagan's main force, so he could clearly see everything that was happening in front of him.

"The Great Cannibal is coming to an end." Li Huaitang said lightly.

Looking at the blood bear riders riding on camels with axes, Li Huaitang kept thinking about how to restrain them when they were in close combat, and the performance of the blood bear riders in Qishi City left a very deep impression on him.

Spear? Cavalry hedge, spears can theoretically restrain the blood bear riders of the short axe very well. However, the spear itself is too stiff, and at high speed, once it stabs the opponent, it will all break, or under the action of the lever, the spearman cannot hold it at all, and the strong rebound force will easily make the spearman fall off his horse. Similarly, as long as the opponent blocks the spear, it will also cause a strong rebound.

However, Hudu once said that the spear made by the Tang Dynasty is good, well, it should be called "lance". This special spear is very tough. It's just that the price is too high, even more expensive than the Damascus scimitar. I don't know, whether that Kang Mosa has the ability to get it, but this involves money, alas, it's still good for Datang, there is everything, beauty, I heard more......

Li Huaitang's thoughts began to radiate, and he didn't notice that the battle situation began to change subtly......

As soon as the Blood Wolf and Blood Bear rode to the end of the Great Cannibal's sight, they began to cross the river without any scruples. The swift crossing of the river showed everyone that they were the elite.

By the time Yasar reacted, the two hundred horsemen had already set foot on the south bank.

Yasar's heart faintly felt that something was wrong, he already knew that this small cavalry was the strange soldier of the Tuqi army to cross the river!

"You, take the five centurians on the left flank. Don't be in love, fight quickly, you will defeat them, and then rush back to support. ”

Yasar wanted to salvage the unfavorable situation caused by his own underestimation of the enemy. He sent his most trusted assistant to encircle and suppress the elite of the Turgish, believing that with his strength and twice the number of troops, he could easily take out his opponent and thus give the Turgish a dismount.

But the result was beyond his expectations, and the strength displayed by the Turgish almost made his jaw drop in shock.

The Turgish army did not take the opportunity to cross the river, but quietly watched the battle on the other side, all because of Mohedagan's confidence in his elite army.

Before the five hundred big food cavalry approached, the blood wolf rode away from them, riding on the back of a crazy horse, the blood wolf horse did not have free hands, and a sharp arrow flew towards the big food cavalry, the accuracy was quite amazing, and one by one the big food cavalry was shot without prevention, and they fell off their horses one after another. The Great Cannibal Cavalry was dressed in fine chain mail, but the chain mail was effective in preventing arrows from penetrating deep into their bodies, but it could not prevent the heavy hooves of horses from trampling on their bodies.

Before they could make contact with the Blood Wolf Rider, the five hundred Great Food Army were noticeably smaller, and the stormtrooper formation was confused by the futile evasion of the arrows.

The blood bear ride with the camel as a mount made the big cannibals feel the invincible strength of the Tuqi Shi people, and the huge axe easily knocked the scimitar in their hands away, and the brave blood bear rode fiercely swept through the messy charging formation of the big cannibals, and dozens of corpses of the big eaters lay in the place where the two sides had just staggered, and their heads were in different places. And the price they paid for letting the Blood Bear ride was only a few people wounded.

The Great Food Cavalry, who turned back to charge, had to face the baptism of the blood wolf riding the deadly arrow again.

"Stupid! Throw a spear! ”

Yasar kicked his feet in anger and cursed, and his mount was driven into a frenzy by his kicking, and he kept jumping.

"Ahh Not good, the Turks crossed the river! ”

The exclamation of the knight beside him reminded Yasar of the quilt. He turned around and saw the black pressure on the ground rushing to ride a horse, jumping down the shallow river of the Wuhu River, desperately wading towards him.

"Short spear ready!" Yasar gave the order in a panic.

After the Blood Bear rode through the hundreds of Great Cannibals, it did not look back to entangle with those Great Cannibals, and went directly to the rear of Yasar.

Yasar was defeated.

Nearly a hundred Turgeos on camels frantically ravaged the soldiers of Asser's own camp from behind. In the panic, the results of the short spear thrown were almost negligible.

Seeing that defeat was assured, Yasar closed his eyes in pain and gave the order to break out. Before the main force of the Turks had crossed the river, they fled back to Amul.