Chapter 432: Breakthrough
Chapter 432: Breakthrough
The Triumphant Barracks was located at the southern end of the only passage in the middle of the Fergana mountain range, which was so tightly blocked that it was difficult for troops from the south to the north to penetrate.
At the front of the barracks were four towers with several crossbowmen on the towers, and any suspicious lifeforms entering or exiting the mountain path were within range of their crossbows. At the mouth of the mountain pass, the smell of death is permeated, and more than a dozen skeletons are scattered all over the place in a frightening and quiet manner, and on the nearby sky and cliffs, either vultures are circling, or crows are waiting for rabbits, as if this is their feeding ground.
One-eyed turned out to be the leader of the Tiger Army, and was wounded by an arrow in the left eye in the defense of Ningyuan City and withdrew from the sequence of the Tiger Army, because of his outstanding martial arts, Gongsun Yaowu fulfilled his wish and transferred him to the newly built Triumph Battalion as a strong crossbowman. Here, the one-eyed became his advantage, and the aiming also omitted a program. In the past six months, he has 'shot' two Their scouts who tried to infiltrate the barracks, adding another silver star to his 'chest'.
With the repeated failures of the Turgish scouts, One-Eye gradually lost the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and no Turgish were willing to come to him as prey. Gradually, it became a boring thing to go to the arrow tower to guard, but the military order was like a mountain, and he had to stand at his post the next day.
On this day, it was one-eyed's turn to work. Strange things happened, in broad daylight, he heard the arrogant sound of iron hooves from the mountain road, judging from the rhythm, he was quite anxious to ride.
"Hehe, the Turgish have finally come to relieve my boredom!" One-eyed grinned, he wasn't interested in knowing the reason for the blatant ride, he just hunted. As before, he knelt in front of the railing, the crossbow in his hand was on the railing, and the arrow was directly aimed at the mountain pass more than 200 paces away.
Suddenly, three short horns came from the mountain road, ruthlessly shattering One-eye's desire for meritorious service, and it was his own person to ride! One-eyed raised his disappointed head to look at Yamaguchi's upcoming figure, but he didn't stand up, he was unwilling.
The embarrassed and lonely figure appeared, and it was indeed his own person.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" The rider kept pointing behind him and yelled at the barracks. One-eyed recognized the thousand cavalry generals and leopard generals who came to ride eagle horses. It seems that the scouts he brought with him can't come back, and the leopard general seems to have several feather arrows behind him, and the pursuit of the Raiders is so fierce!
"Whoosh!" One-eyed replied with a bolt of crossbow arrows, and he saw the pursuers holding their scimitars aloft clinging to the leopard general's back, only a few dozen paces away.
The one-eyed target is not a knight, but a warhorse. Because he heard the rumbling hooves of horses behind the enemy horsemen, the mountain pass must be blocked! War horses are a good choice.
"Give me all the bolts! Help me wind up! One-Eye snatched the crossbow of the soldier next to him and continued the second blow.
Each tower has three soldiers on its tower, armed with three crossbows. One-Eyed is a veteran with meritorious deeds, and the company is buying his account, and the rest of the soldiers dare not complain, and automatically become One-Eye's deputy. Three arrows in a row killed three horses, causing some obstacles to the road of the mountain pass, however, the brave enemy cavalry continued to pour out, ignoring the threat of death. Inspired by One-Eye, the crossbowmen in the remaining three towers also began to turn to 'shooting' the enemy's horses.
After a period of panic, the soldiers in the triumphant camp began to counterattack with longbows under the command of the general, and after the dozens of knights who broke through the crossbow sniper paid half of the dead and wounded, they broke into the barracks, and the barracks were in a fight.
"One-eyed, let's withdraw!" One soldier was timid. The figure of the Turp Shi appeared under the arrow tower, and at the mouth of the mountain pass, although the fallen war horses blocked most of the passage, the crazy Turk Shi people actually abandoned their horses to climb over the obstacles and rushed on foot, and the number of strong crossbows was not enough to block the impact of the protruding people. The point is that there are not many defenders in the barracks, and most of them are from the tiger and leopard cavalry and the tiger and wolf cavalry, and the combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the tiger and the wolf.
One-eyed said angrily: "Ningyuan Iron Cavalry has no soldiers who flee without a fight!" I will kill those who retreat without permission! ”
"Damn, fight with them!" Sadly and helplessly, the two soldiers continued to wind their crossbows. One-Eyed is right, those who dare to disobey the order to retreat will be beheaded even if they live, and all previous meritorious rewards will be confiscated, and the family's source of livelihood will become a problem, and they will be coldly looked at and despised by others. It is better to die in battle than to be executed for being a deserter.
At this moment, he was hiding behind the shield wall, he saw the threat of the four arrow towers, and dozens of soldiers had fallen under the opponent's 'fine' and accurate 'shooting' hits, and the powerful crossbow arrows pierced the heart with one arrow, nailing the arrow-hit to the ground, causing a great morale blow to the soldiers who followed the charge, causing the soldiers who rushed into the barracks to delay their progress.
"Shoot them!" Bone Sip summoned a team of archers, pointed at the arrow tower and gritted his teeth.
One-Eye was caught in a bitter battle, with his cotton armor and towers with baffles, both of which could provide him with good protection, but the enemy's archers made up the gap with their superior numbers.
"The eighth!" The one-eyed killer was red-eyed, and the killing made him extremely excited, and the Turkish archers who lined up to 'shoot' him were undoubtedly his best targets.
"Give me crossbow arrows!" One-eyed handed the 'shot' crossbow to his side, but he didn't see the robe answer. He was stunned, and when he looked back, he saw two robes lying in a pool of blood, both of them with arrows in the face.
One-Eye gritted his teeth and struggled to hook the crossbow with arrows. The time for the crossbow to be wound was much slower than that of the bow and arrow, and in that moment, the Thiras cast two rounds of feathered arrows at the tower where One-Eye was.
"Ahh A feathered arrow 'thrust' into One-Eye's right hand, and One-Eye lost his balance and sat upside down in the tower.
"They're finished, climb up and occupy the Arrow Tower!" The bone sip in the audience was in high spirits, and he saw the role of the arrow tower. As soon as the order was given, several archers rushed to the bottom of the arrow tower and attached themselves to the ant.
The sound of climbing reached One-Eye's ears from below, and he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then suddenly opened his eyes, and raised his crossbow with one hand in his left arm. At the right time, an ugly face 'exposed' out of the baffle and looked at the sharp arrow in One-Eye's hand in horror, and at the moment when the Trolley was dodging, One-Eye pulled the trigger. The bolts 'shot' through the open mouth of the Turgish and pierced out, and the deadly Trolls did not have time to scream and fell off the turret like a high diver in a backward position.
Death could not deter the footsteps of the Turg, and another Turgish man who was not afraid of death jumped on the arrow tower and slashed at One-Eye's shoulder, One-Eye, who was undaunted, swooped forward, and hit the guardrail with the enemy. The two of them fell in response, and the arrow tower was dusty and debris was flying. The tower also 'swings' the one-eyed heroism: the tenth!
The four arrow towers have fallen one after another, the horse corpses piled up in the mountain pass have also been removed, and the offensive of the Tuqi Shi people has come like a 'tide', and the defenders of the military camp have been killed and wounded, and they are gradually being pressed to the rear camp, and the whole army is about to be annihilated.
"Ignition, withdrawal!" The leopard gave the order to retreat, his position was the highest, and the soldiers were of course happy to hear his orders.
The soldiers of Ning Yuan's iron cavalry lit the firewood and grass in the rear camp to block the pursuit of the enemy cavalry, and then retreated in a panic.
The triumphant camp fell into the hands of the Turgish, and instead of taking advantage of the victory to pursue, Gu Si ordered a short rest and cleaning of the battlefield, his goal was too high to look down on the stragglers. After looking at the entire barracks, Gu Si felt very lucky, this barracks was built for defense, in addition to the four arrow towers in the front camp, there was a stone wall in the camp every dozens of steps, as high as the 'chest', which was very suitable for defense, if there were thousands of soldiers guarding, it was impossible to break through this barracks without a few days and tens of thousands of lives. Everything is due to Li Huai Tangxi's expedition to Shiguo, and the consequences of underestimating the enemy will have to pay the price.
"Stupid!" Bone Sip kicked away a scarecrow wearing Ning Yuan's iron riding cotton armor, and his face was 'revealed' with a smug sneer. The so-called wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts, no matter how powerful Li Huaitang is, he is still a mortal, and it is understandable that a mortal is carried away by successive victories.
"Bone Sip, are we waiting for the Great Khan to arrive before moving on? We suffered a lot of casualties. Ah Lifu stood cautiously beside Bone Sip. Secretly, he always lamented that his luck was not good, as a pro-soldier general, he had to 'serve' by Gu Si's side every day, and for this reason, he had not contacted Li Huaitang for a long time, and the reality was gradually distancing himself from his former goal. Maybe it's 'selfish', he doesn't want Li Huaitang to be finished like this.
Gu Si said angrily: "The soldiers are fast, how can there be any reason to stay? Have you forgotten the command of the Great Khan? ”
"But if the enemy sets up an ambush, we, we ......"
"Haha, you were scared by Li Huaitang." Gu Si did not laugh angrily, and the caution of his soldiers showed his courage. The hundreds of corpses hurriedly thrown by the defenders, as well as more than a dozen abandoned crossbows and a large amount of cotton armor, all showed that Li Huaitang's troops left behind were insufficient and unable to resist the army of the Turgish, otherwise he would have to wait for the arrival of reinforcements, and the bone would have to go home.
"No need to talk nonsense, turn to the coal mine of the horse bandits!"
There were tens of thousands of strong slaves in the coal mines, and it was the best opportunity to replenish the army and strengthen the tribe, and the task of snatching the vanguard of the bones made all the generals look hot, not so much to open the way for the army, but to plunder first.
Under the leadership of the fine work, Gu Si killed the Benfergana Mountain Coal Mine all the way, and when approaching the coal mine, he encountered a coal transportation team.
The soldiers transporting the coal scattered with the slaves, and only a few slow-footed slaves were caught. Without interrogation, the captives cooperated to confirm that there were only a few hundred defenders in the mines, and even offered to lead the way to attack the mines to rescue their companions. In line with expectations, Ning Yuan's iron cavalry was slack on guard, and he couldn't imagine that the Tuqi Shi people would dare to come, so he was overjoyed, looking at the fleeing enemies and slaves scattered on the field and ignoring them, and waved his army to the coal mine! Please keep in mind the URL, if you like "War Owl in Tang" written by the wolf under the moon