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Li Xu put down the straw man and picked up his bow and arrow from his side. Whether or not you can beat the enemy depends on the first three volleys. All horse thieves, both those responsible for the attack and those responsible for disorienting the enemy, were required to participate in the first three rounds of shooting.

One after another, war horses climbed ashore, and groups from east to west walked to the place next to the river beach to graze. Some of the beasts blocked the view of the horse thieves, but they couldn't drive them away. The purpose of this battle is to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible, and no one can make any moves without Liu Jizhen's order.

More and more Turkic soldiers took to the river beach, cursing and taking off their wet clothes. The river was already cold in autumn, and the leather clothes that had been splashed with water were cold and hard against the body. Everyone didn't have to suffer this crime, they all blamed a group of damned Han people. They actually dared to go to Lord Qiyu's new camp to steal horses, and finally set fire to Lord Qiyu's camp. This is an insult to all the Turks, and everyone will not tolerate it. Especially when there are less than a hundred of them, the wolf riders have to defend the dignity of Lord Qiyu.

Li Xu gently put the feather arrow on the bowstring and slowly pulled the bow arm apart. He was still a little nervous, but he tried to adjust his breathing. The general of the Turkic wolf rider had already stepped on the river bank with the support of everyone, hiding at the end of the crowd, about a hundred and fifty paces away from him, a little far. However, if he had been shot, the losses of his companions in the ensuing battle would have been much smaller.

The careless Turks began to straighten their clothes and armor, and they were divided into several clumps in a chaotic manner. Someone walked down the river beach to lead the war horses, and some figures were already less than sixty steps away from the stealth place of the horse thieves. Li Xu heard his heart pounding, and the air exhaled from his nostrils was uncomfortably hot. His whole body was trembling, but his hand holding the bow was getting more and more steady.

"Shoot!" Liu Jizhen jumped up suddenly, raised his hand and released a ringing arrow.

The feather arrow let out a long, mournful roar, drew an arc, and smashed straight into the outermost wolf horse. The wolf riders, who were undressing, were stunned and messed around with their pants.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......." More than sixty feathered arrows flew into the crowd at the same time, and more than 20 wolf riders were directly overturned on the river beach. Without waiting for the other to react, the horse thieves unleashed a second wave of feathered arrows, and the sharp triangular pyramid pierced the breastplate, claiming more lives.

"Don't panic, column--" The Turkic general waved his sword at the innermost layer of the team and shouted, there will not be many people on the other side, as long as everyone is lined up and raised their shields, they can completely rush through this distance.

His command was forever held in his throat, and a feathered arrow flying from a distance went beyond the usual range and shot directly into his throat. The Turkic general struggled, convulsed, his body went limp, and he fell on his back to the sky.

Li Xu put down his bow and erected the first straw man beside him. The third row of feathered arrows had been fired, and the wounded jumped up from their hiding places one by one, placing more straw men in a long line. A few seriously wounded men who could not get up to fight with their comrades lay on the ground, their arms waving large flags made of clothes whirring.

Farther away, the King of Horse Thieves drove more than twenty horses, each with a battle flag made of torn clothes on their bodies. From a distance, it seemed as if dozens of teams had rushed over to reinforce them.

The Turkic wolf rider was stunned, they never expected that the horse thief would have thousands of accomplices on the other side of the river. The cavalry, who did not have time to go ashore, quickly turned the sheepskin raft and rowed desperately towards the way they came. The cavalry, who had already come ashore, picked up the sheepskins as best they could, and "plopped" and swarmed and jumped into the river. And those whose sheepskin rafts had been deflated, and who had no way out, had no choice but to wave their scimitars in a panic, like a flock of rams to be slaughtered shaking their short horns.

"Kill, leave no mouth alive!" Liu Jizhen shouted, snatched the horn from the hands of the minions beside him, and blew it up with a "woo-woo-woo". This battle is cheap and profitable, and there is actually a stunned young man who walks shit luck on his side and shoots the opponent's main general at such a distance. Will it be the courage of a soldier, and a soldier who has no general will still have a fart fight?

Liu Hongji and Wu Heimin each rushed to the river beach with more than 20 horse thieves, one left and one right. Two neat teams wedged into the chaotic crowd and stabbed the Turkic warriors in their way one by one. The samurai who were not in the way were squeezed by the formation of the horse thieves and had to retreat into the river.

The river turned red in an instant, and the Turkic wolf riders, accustomed to wielding knives on horseback, were not at all accustomed to foot combat, not to mention that their legs were still wrapped in cold water and could not take a step. Often, they are slashed by their opponents, and the next moment, their blood has melted into the red river.

The flanks were suddenly attacked, and the panicked Turks had to move their ranks closer to the center. And in the center, more weapons pressed over. The small attack phalanx composed of more than thirty horse thieves advanced step by step, and the sword light was like snow, and there was only a dead end in front of it.

Zhang Liang and Niu Jinda brandished their scimitars and rushed to the front of the frontal attack team. There is only one place that is best for swimming, so they are in the right place. Under their leadership, the attacking phalanx smashed heavily into the wolf rider who had lost its warhorse, and the sound of weapons clashing, the friction of blades and bones, screams, and moans instantly became one.

The horses grazing on the bank of the river were stunned by the sight in front of them, they did not know how to escape, nor did they know how to help their masters defend themselves, and watched their masters being cut down by horse thieves who suddenly emerged from the ground, and their bodies were swept down by the current, rushing away without a trace.

"Anyone who can copy a guy, give it to me!" Liu Jizhen dropped the horn and jumped out of the grass with a large chopping horse with a wide door panel. There is no longer any need to pretend to be suspicious, all the Turkic wolf riders have long been frightened and cannot organize any effective resistance. Those who had already climbed to the opposite shore did not dare to turn back and fled on foot into the distance. Those who did not have a chance to jump into the river retreated to the middle of the river in desperation, not remembering that they could not swim.

The horse thieves did not know what mercy was, so they waded into the water to chase after them, stabbing the fleeing Turks one by one from behind. There were also clever horse thieves who picked up the bows dropped by the Turks from the ground and stood on the shore to shoot live targets in the water. At the edge of the river, there were Turkic soldiers who did not know how to surrender on their knees, but their weakness did not pay any return from their opponents.......

The situation on the battlefield has turned into a one-sided slaughter. The wolf riders were obviously more numerous than the horse thieves, but no one had the sensibility to take a look at the "ambushes" in the grass and in the distance, and since the beginning of the war, the "ambushes" had not advanced half a step at all. They fought in groups of three and five on their own, delaying the end of their lives with the blood of themselves and their companions. The horse thieves were very patient, and they rotated in circles, making the circle a few feet smaller with each change of position......

Wu Heimin led a few horse thieves and forced more than twenty dying Turkic soldiers into a corner. Behind them was the river, and the Turkic soldiers heard the screams of their comrades in the river, refused to retreat, gritted their teeth and fought back.

A small Turkic leader with a thick skeleton howled and rushed out of the ranks, pounced on Wu Heimin. He obviously found the wrong target, and before the scimitar in his hand fell, Wu Heimin's boots had already kicked into his lower abdomen. The leather armor suddenly recessed inward, and the little leader staggered back a dozen steps, opened his mouth and spurted out a pool of black blood, and his body immediately fell limply on the shallows.

Wu Heimin didn't want to stop there, his body twisted, and the knife light swept into the lower abdomen of a wolf rider. Immediately afterward, he struck his left fist straight into the neck of the other wolf rider.

"Wow!" The sound of a broken neck bone is eerie. The two wolf riders fell down at the same time, creating a three-foot gap around Wu Heimin. The last intact procession of the Turks collapsed, and the horse thieves rushed in with a rage, scattering and chopping the wolf horsemen to pieces.

Wu Heimin found two other wolf riders, and he swung his knife like the wind, and the knife did not leave the opponent's vital point. With no way to escape, the Turkic wolves let out a desperate cry from their mouths, supporting each other and dying and struggling.

A scimitar was knocked into the air by Wu Heimin, and he stepped forward and stabbed the tip of the knife forward. The Turkic man with empty hands knew that he would die today, so he didn't run away or dodge, screamed, and used his body to resist the scimitar in Wu Heimin's hand. The blade pierced the armor, pierced the clothes, and stabbed the wolf rider in the chest. The dying wolf rode his arms together and hugged Wu Heimin's body tightly.

"Ahh Several weapons slashed at his body, but he ignored it, howling, and the scimitar slashed down.

A huge black scimitar lay across Wu Heimin's body, and the blow that he was determined to win was blocked by force. The badly wounded Turkic wolf rode in a daze and fell straight down.

"Save with you little brat!" Wu Heimin got rid of the corpse on his body and turned around to scold. Li Xu smiled at him, turned around and killed into another wave of scuffle.

"If Lao Tzu's steel fork hadn't been lost....... Wu Heimin looked at the scimitar in his hand and said with some annoyance. The scimitar is shorter than the steel fork, and if it were not a scimitar in the hand just now, the Turks would not have had the opportunity to hold themselves at all.

Raising his head, he saw that Li Xu had blocked another knife for others, and took advantage of the situation to cut down an exhausted Turkic soldier. Then, the stunned young man carried the ridiculously long scimitar and rushed towards the denser area.

"Come back, you're going to die, who else will Lao Tzu go!" Wu Heimin scolded loudly and rushed towards Li Xu.

Note 1: The Tofuchen River, that is, the Laoha River, has basically been cut off.

Note 2: This is a Chinese ruler. A horse's hoof-to-shoulder bulge is called body height, and chest to hip is called body length. The requirement for a war horse is that the shoulder height is greater than the body length. The shoulder height of an ordinary Mongolian horse is about 1.3 meters, and the height of Sa Luzi in the Tang Dynasty is about 1.70 meters now.

Note 3: Telebiu, a Turkic breed in the Tang Dynasty, is said to be a bloody horse. Tang Taizong once got one, and he fought for several days in a row, and the war horse was tireless. Later, it was one of the six horses of Zhaoling. Li Shimin commented on it: "Ying Ce vacated the sky, and the voice of half a man; Destroy the enemy in danger and take advantage of the danger to help the enemy! ”

Note 4: Horse face, the Tang Dynasty city wall is raised, which is used to offset the defensive dead corners and form a flanking advantage for the besieging side.

Note 5: "General Dictionary? Northern Turkic Biography": "The Khan Yugu Shan Yu Ye, his wife is Ke Hedun, and he is also the ancient Yan clan. His children are called special services, and those who lead troops in other departments are called set up, and their senior officials are at the level of Qu Lu, the second Apo, the second Jaw Lifa, Tutun, and the second Qijin. It is estimated that the set is equivalent to the festival of the Tang Dynasty. Usually by the special services. Tutun is equivalent to a civil affairs official in charge of a county, similar to the prefect of the Central Plains. Burke, usually a nobleman, a general. Meru is the steward.

Note 6: Liu Hongji, a native of Chiyang, Yongzhou. Less to make up for the right servant of Sui. At the end of the great cause, from the conquest of Liao, the lack of money, the line and Fenyin, the later period and punishment, so he and his subordinate vertebral cattle broke the law, and the sarcastic officials were arrested. For more than a year, in order to redeem himself, because of his death, he stole horses and provided for himself.

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