Chapter 292: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole

After determining the target of the attack, Li Daozong was originally going to send someone to invite the local Dangxiang clan to be a guide to guide the army, but Li Shimin stopped him: "Brother Daozong, the alien race has no faith, and it is very easy to repeat. This is the reason why those Qiang people made a rebellion some time ago, so the younger brother persuaded the sect brother here not to hand over this matter of leading the army to a foreign clan! ”

Li Daozong smiled bitterly: "If you don't look for a foreigner in the party, who can you find?" I have already asked the local officers and soldiers of Shanzhou City, the terrain around this reservoir mountain is complicated, there are many fierce beasts, even they rarely go there, but they don't know much about the terrain over there. In this way, for today's plan, the only way to find those party members is to find them! ”

Zhang Yunwen said: "How did Brother Daozong forget the junior brother's reconnaissance camp? One of the tasks of the reconnaissance battalion is to reconnoiter the enemy. When the time comes, the younger brother sends scouts to take the lead, and the army follows, so isn't it clear about the terrain and the enemy's situation? ”

Li Daozong's eyes lit up: "Since Yun Wenken helps, it can't be better!" ”

At that moment, Li Daozong ordered the entire army and horses to gather and set up camp. The army marched all the way south.

At this time, in addition to Li Daozong's 10,000 vanguard iron cavalry and Zhang Yunwen's 3,000 scouts, the Tang army also had a total of 3,000 local garrisons recruited from Longyou Prefecture. So the entire army was 16,000 people, enough to fight against Fu Yun's 30,000 army.

Wu Peng and Liu Cheng each took twenty elite scouts to reconnoiter in the Kushan area. The striker was Li Daozong's brave and warlike general, leading three thousand iron to ride behind the two. And Zhang Yunwen was in the Chinese army with Li Daozong.

From Shanzhou Daoku Mountain, it is not very far, and the army can be reached in two days by marching in a hurry. During these two days, the cavalry under the command of Wu Peng and Liu Cheng constantly shuttled between the army and Kushan, either sending the distribution of the enemy's forces, or the nearby topographical map, or the number of Tuyuhun ranger scouts who were blocked. Seeing Li Daozong's eyebrows and smiles, he praised again and again: "Good!" This scout is really a weapon of the country, compared to the scouts in the army, I don't know how much better! ”

Two days later, the army came to Kushan.

On Fu Yun's side, as early as when the ranger scouts sent out by a group were gone, he had already sensed that something was wrong, and seemed to smell a trace of war. As a result, the King of Tianzhu, who is now in charge of military affairs, hurriedly ordered the whole army to be on alert and ready to fight at any time.

Less than half a day after his order was issued, the 3,000 forwards of the Tang army were already less than ten miles away from Kushan.

After the striker arrived, Wu Peng and Liu Cheng immediately returned to the Chinese army with scouts. Now that the army has arrived, there is no need for reconnaissance, and the rest is up to the rest of the show. What they need most at the moment is a good meal and a good night's sleep.

When the 3,000 strikers arrived, they set up camp and built fortifications. Seeing Tuguhun, everyone was inexplicable.

"These 3,000 men must have been only the vanguard of the Tang army, and they built fortifications here, presumably to wait for the arrival of the army and launch an offensive in one fell swoop. It can be seen from this that these 3,000 people are definitely far away from the army, why don't we wait to defeat these 3,000 cavalry before the main force of the Tang Army arrives! A famous king said.

After listening to the opinion of this famous king, the Tianzhu King slapped the table: "Okay! There is some truth in the analysis! Then you will take 6,000 cavalry to completely annihilate these 3,000 Tang Army! ”

The famous king suddenly hugged his fists and said, "Yes!" ”

As a result, the gate of Tuyuhun Dazhai suddenly opened, and 6,000 Tuyuhun cavalry rushed out with a strange cry of "Wow-woo-" and rushed straight to the Tang army camp three miles away.

Li Daozong's subordinate general is called Li Que, who was originally Li Daozong's personal soldier, but after several wars, he has made countless meritorious contributions, and he has even been promoted to a general, and he is actually Li Daozong's confidant. And he has been on the battlefield for a long time and has a wealth of combat experience.

Seeing that the Tuyuhun cavalry gradually increased the speed of their horses and rushed straight to this side, Li Que smiled coldly and ordered: "After the enemy cavalry enters the firing range, you can release the arrows, and after the enemy cavalry begins to release arrows, they will be guarded by the fence, and the crossbow will shoot them, and they will not go out to engage in battle!" ”

The Tuyuhun cavalry got closer and closer, and finally entered the range of the Tang Army's divine arm crossbow. These crossbows are made of pure steel, have a very long range and great power, but they are very slow to reload. Today, these 3,000 Tang troops are equipped with less than 300 of these steel crossbows.

The crossbow bolts flew out of the flat shot, and there was no need to aim at all, almost one arrow at a time.

The Tuyuhun cavalry, which was attacked, reacted quickly, only to see them quickly separate and run around the Tang army camp. The knight also made various dodge moves on his horse. However, they again entered the range of the bows and arrows of the Don army. The Tang army dismounted and fought, using a foot bow, which had a far range than the horse bow used by the Tuyuhun cavalry. More than 2,000 feathered arrows fell rapidly into the midst of the galloping horses. Suddenly, I saw a cavalry knight fall to the ground, and the huge inertia caused them to rush several feet away, and even knocked the cavalry in front of them into the air.

After two rounds of shooting, the knights of Tuyuhun began to return fire. Feathered arrows flew straight into the Tang army camp like rain, nailed to the wooden fence, stuck in the ground, and shot into the armor of the soldiers. In an instant, nearly 100 Tang soldiers were hit by arrows.

At this time, the Tang Army's divine arm crossbow also began to return fire, accurately shooting down a knight.

The Tuyuhun cavalry is getting closer and closer, and the arrow rain is getting denser and denser.

One by one, ropes were thrown and landed on top of the fence, and the horses ran backwards, pulling the fence to the ground.

It seemed that the Tang army was about to break through the Tang army's camp, but the Tang army beat the Tuyuhun cavalry back with a round of arrow rain and a counter-charge.

On the mountain range not far away, King Tianzhu looked at the Tang army camp that had been attacked to the door several times, gritted his teeth and said: "Add another 3,000 people to enter, you must break through the Tang army camp!" ”

Another 3,000 cavalry joined the Dao attack team and launched an attack on the 3,000 Tang Army. For a time, the pressure on the Tang army increased sharply, and the number of arrows increased rapidly.

At this moment, only a shout of killing was heard from the north, and then the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a cavalry of nearly 5,000 men came to kill in this direction. One of the knights in front of him carried a large banner embroidered with the word "Tang" in red.

As soon as they saw this group of cavalry coming, the Tuyuhun cavalry who were attacking the camp couldn't help but slow, but they didn't know whether to continue to attack the camp or reflexively deal with the galloping cavalry.

The King of Tianzhu also saw this cavalry of 5,000 people, and he was shocked at the moment, looking at the battle situation that was being strangled below, his face changed, could it be that he had fallen into the trick of the Tang Army? With 3,000 cavalry as bait, they kept luring themselves into the interior to increase their troops, and then the brigade made a surprise attack and flanked their own cavalry.

Thinking of this, the Tianzhu King took a deep breath, he didn't know if the five thousand heat was still a bait, but there were nearly 10,000 Tuguhun soldiers and horses in the battle below, and he had to save them, so he immediately ordered: "Send another 10,000 horses out, you must defeat these 5,000 cavalry, those Tang army camps!" ”

The gate of the village opened again, and 10,000 Tuyuhun cavalry rushed out of the gate without hesitation and rushed straight to the battlefield.

Seeing that they had sent their men and horses again, the Tuyuhun army attacking the camp suddenly made a choice, abandoned the attacking camp, regrouped in formation, and countercharged towards the Tang troops who were rushing from the north.

"Kill—"

The two cavalry crashed together.

"Raise your bow, shoot!!" Inside the camp, Li Que still methodically led more than 2,000 soldiers to raise their bows and shoot at the Tuyuhun cavalry who were fighting with the 5,000 Tang army. Feathered arrows landed behind them, thinning the defense line of the Tuyuhun cavalry layer by layer. As for the 10,000 Tuyuhun cavalry that rushed over, Li Que knew that his general would arrange for men and horses to clean up.

Sure enough, I saw that on the horizon in the northeast, a black line gradually appeared, slowly advancing in this direction. But it was 3,000 infantry slowly coming.

As soon as he saw these infantry, the Tuyuhun King who led the army hesitated slightly, but still waved his hand, and ordered the knights under his tent to continue to attack the camp, and at the same time divided two thousand soldiers and horses, ready to scatter the three thousand infantry in one fell swoop!

However, things don't go as he imagined. I saw that these 3,000 foot soldiers stopped, and they all took out a bow and arrow from their bodies. In the face of the 2,000 cavalry charging over, raise his bow to the sky and pull the bowstring. I saw a feathered arrow shooting straight at the charging cavalry like locusts.

After two rounds of shooting, seeing that the Tuyuhun cavalry was less than fifty paces away from their side, these soldiers threw away their bows and arrows in unison, took out a swarthy iron ball, took off the pull ring, and threw it forward.

"Boom-"

I heard a huge explosion as dense as fried beans, and countless shrednel flew in all directions, raging wildly, blowing up the rushing cavalry. The neighing of horses and the screams of personnel spread throughout the battlefield.

After two rounds of feathered arrows, the two thousand men went to three or four hundred, and now this grenade sounded, only the thunder on the flat ground was heard, and the remaining 1,6700 people went to nearly 1,000 people, and the rest were all frightened, and turned their horses' heads one after another, and returned to the army, not daring to fight again.

Not far from the battlefield, a large banner embroidered with the word "Li" fluttered.

Under the flagpole, Li Daozong stared at the changes in the situation on the battlefield and said to Zhang Yunwen: "Tsk, this grenade is really a good thing!" Teach a little lesson, these border soldiers who have never used it before, or even seen it, can use it freely! Hmm, they threw out more than 2,000 pieces at once, aren't you distressed Yunwen? You've only got five of them with you! ”

Zhang Yunwen shook his head: "These three thousand grenades are worth it, and this explosion will blow up all Tuyuhun's morale!" Besides, isn't the chief manager about to arrive, there are 10,000 grenades in the baggage that came with them, I can quickly replenish it, what's so distressing! ”

Li Daozong immediately grabbed Zhang Yunwen: "I want to take things too!" ”

"Okay, let's talk to the chief manager yourself!"

Li Daozong was speechless for a moment, so he had to turn his head stupidly and look at the battlefield.

"Alright, it's almost time for us to go!" Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was gradually improving, Li Daozong said solemnly.

Zhang Yunwen nodded, made a preparation for departure, and the three thousand scouts behind him immediately got on their horses together.

"Yunwen remember, don't fall in love with the battle along the way, directly insert yourself into the enemy's Chinese army camp, and strive to capture Na Fu Yun alive in one fell swoop!" Li Daozong solemnly admonished.

According to Li Daozong's deployment, Zhang Yunwen led the reconnaissance battalion to raid the Tuyuhun camp and capture Murong Fuyun alive when he drew out most of his troops and the battlefield was in a state of stalemate.