Chapter 227: Capture

The Tang army rushed to the top of the mountain with all his might.

At this time, it was past noon, and the hot sun was shining straight on the Evil Yang Ridge, and the Tang soldiers who were marching in a hurry, preparing to capture the Evil Yang Ridge in one go, were all hungry and thirsty, but in their eyes, there was a fanatical fighting spirit.

The blood on the Mingguang armor had dried into chunks, falling in a flurry as the soldiers moved quickly.

The Turkic soldiers encountered along the way, as long as they put up the slightest resistance, they were dismembered by random knives. Kill all the way to the top of the Evil Sun Ridge.

According to the information provided by Wang San and others, there were more than 7,000 defenders on the Evil Yang Ridge, and after attacking the three lines of defense and fighting with the defenders, more than half of the 7,000 Turkic troops had gone, and now there are less than 3,000 people in the camp of the Evil Yang Ridge.

With more than 2,000 elite Tang troops, it was more than enough to defeat these 3,000 routs.

Reach the top of the hill and launch a final assault on the camp immediately.

In order to prevent the Turks from laying traps in the camp, Li Jing wanted Zhang Yunwen to fire two rounds of artillery to cover the entire camp, and then send soldiers into the camp.

Suddenly, the camp was full of murderous sounds.

While the army was fighting, a soldier hurriedly ran over from the bottom of the mountain: "Report to the general, a large number of Turkic soldiers have appeared at the bottom of the mountain, and they have come up the mountain to kill, and they have now reached the first line of defense." The brothers of the artillery and reconnaissance battalions are arranging defenses at the second line of defense! ”

"Oh?" Li Jing frowned and said, "It's coming earlier than the old man expected!" It seems that these Turks saw the opportunity quickly! Yunwen, go over there and take a look, and command the battle over there! ”

Zhang Yunwen immediately took the order and left.

When he came to the second line of defense, Zhang Yunwen found that the artillerymen had actually built an artillery position behind the stone wall. The Scout, on the other hand, leans against the stone wall and aims outside with a steel crossbow.

Of the 400 artillery pieces, Li Jing had more than 100 people and more than 50 guns, and the rest were all concentrated here. Looking at the more than 150 cannons and hundreds of steel crossbows, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but feel a little sad for the Turks, when they rushed to the stone wall at the risk of being torn apart by cannonballs, they found that they were greeted by a dense rain of arrows. Thinking of this, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but show a smile on the corner of his mouth.

When the soldiers saw Zhang Yunwen coming, they all nodded slightly, which was regarded as a salute. Zhang Yunwen didn't care, after all, this was before the war, so it was nothing. Climbing a high guard tower, Zhang Yunwen put up a pergola and looked down the mountain, only to see that on the narrow road, the Turkic soldiers lined up into a thick snake, slowly advancing towards this side.

It seems to know that the Tang army's firearms are sharp, the Turks are not advancing fast, and the front rows of soldiers are all holding a wooden shield, which is placed diagonally above their heads at a forty-five degree angle. This is the optimal angle to defend against arrows fired from the back.

Seeing the Turks like this, Zhang Yunwen sneered disdainfully, relying on these thin wooden shields, he also wanted to defend against mortar bombardment.

When the Turks gradually entered the mortar range, Zhang Yunwen raised his hand on the sentry tower, and the artillerymen below immediately took out shells and put them on the muzzle of the guns but did not let go of them.

More than 20 shells drew a parabola and landed among the Turkic soldiers who were slowly moving forward. smashed into the front rows of shield-raising soldiers, and exploded. For a time, the huge impact force emptied the rows of people in front, and the flying shrapnel killed and injured the Turkic soldiers behind in a large area.

However, not all shells fell in the crowd, almost half of them landed in the open space outside the crowd.

"The elevation angle of the first four rows is raised by one degree, and the elevation angle of the last three rows is raised by two degrees, and all of them are salvo!" Zhang Yunwen shouted loudly.

Hearing the order, the artillerymen hurriedly adjusted the elevation angle of the barrels, and a moment later, more than a hundred mortars fired shells at the same time.

"Boom-"

An earth-shattering explosion sounded, and the entire Evil Sun Ridge seemed to shake slightly for a moment.

I saw that the Turkic army under the second line of defense was blown out of a big gap, as if a thick snake had been cut off. The place that had been baptized by the shells was densely covered with craters, stumps, and blood stains, which made people feel shocked and chilled.

After a round of artillery bombardment, the Turkic troops behind saw the miserable and bloody scene in front of them, and they lost their morale and retreated in fear, completely ignoring the reprimands and whippings of the Turkic officers who supervised the battle around them.

The defeat is like a mountain, for an army with no morale, any wind and grass will surprise them, the wind is loud, and the grass and trees are all soldiers.

Zhang Yunwen knew this truth very well, so at the first moment when the Turks began to retreat, he ordered loudly: "Artillery stop attacking!" Reconnaissance battalion tail chase! ”

The soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion, who had heard the order, jumped to their feet, and rushed in the direction of the Turks with steel crossbows in hand. Stepping on the craters and corpses on the ground, the soldiers ran quickly, and the Turkic soldiers who entered the range were directly killed by several arrows.

Although the Turks retreated early, they had a large number of soldiers, and they were extremely inconvenient on the rugged mountain roads of the Evil Sun Mountains, and they were often defeated by the soldiers in front, and the soldiers behind were still ignorant and did not know what was happening. So the reconnaissance battalion quickly approached the Turkic soldiers.

As soon as they made contact, the Turkic soldiers immediately retreated. Those who can't retreat are directly surrendered to the reconnaissance battalion soldiers.

Zhang Yunwen looked at the chaos below, knowing that the war here was almost over, so he turned his head and looked at the big camp on the top of the mountain.

At the top of the mountain, the battle is almost over. Li Jing personally came to the camp and overturned several Turks with a horse lance. Suddenly, morale was like a rainbow. Under the strong attack of the elite in the lobby, the resistance of the Turks was completely useless, and they were all killed and fell to the ground.

After nearly an hour of fighting, the remaining more than 1,000 Turks saw hopelessness and surrendered to the Tang army, and the three Turkic generals committed suicide by kissing their necks on the spot.

As the sound of the impact of weapons gradually stopped, except for the standing Tang army in the entire camp, only the Turkic soldiers who surrendered on their knees remained.

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Li Jing couldn't help but look at the second line of defense on the mountainside.

Li Jing left 500 soldiers to guard the unarmed Turks, and he hurried to the mountainside with the remaining soldiers.

However, before reaching the mountainside, a herald hurried up and saw Li Jing, who immediately reported: "General Qiqi, General Zhang has been defeated by the enemy, and is now chasing and killing the Turks by the sergeant of the reconnaissance battalion." ”

Hearing this report, Li Jing couldn't help but smile with relief, it seems that he doesn't need to go to the second line of defense. After a slight sigh, Li Jing said to a general beside him: "You immediately return to Shuozhou and transfer the army here!" ”

The general clasped his fists and said, "No! After saying that, he rode away.

Li Jing waved his hand and continued to move forward with his soldiers. When they reached the mountainside, they sent a thousand soldiers to assist the reconnaissance battalion in chasing down the Turks.

"Yunwen, I'll send five hundred soldiers with you, you go and occupy that valley for me, don't let the Turks take away or destroy a grain inside!" Li Jing commanded again.

Zhang Yunwen arched his hand and smiled: "Don't worry, the general has sent five teams to that valley yesterday, I'm afraid that he has already succeeded at this time, and the last general will take over immediately!" ”

When Li Jing heard this, he smiled and said: "Since Yunwen has thought it through, then Yunwen will handle the affairs of the valley as appropriate, and the old man will no longer ask!" When the army comes, the old man will immediately send Cangcao into the valley to investigate. Don't make any mistakes during this time! ”

Zhang Yunwen nodded solemnly: "Please rest assured, the general is guarding Zhao Yi over there in the valley, and there will be nothing wrong!" ”

"Good! Then you go first! ”

In this battle, the Tang army captured the Evil Yang Ridge within one day, beheaded nearly 10,000, captured 2,000 thousand, killed five enemy generals, and the rest of the Turkic army fled back to Dingxiang City in panic. The Tang army lost less than 500 troops and suffered nearly 1,000 wounded.

At dusk that day, the 3,000 cavalry galloping from Shuozhou were the first to arrive at the Evil Yang Ridge, which greatly strengthened the strength of the Tang Army on the Evil Yang Ridge. In the middle of the night, 10,000 foot soldiers arrived at the Evil Sun Ridge again.

That night, Li Jing used more than 10,000 soldiers, relying on the fortified defense line left by the Turks, to run the entire Evil Yang Ridge like an iron bucket.

On the second day, another 5,000 foot soldiers arrived at the Evil Sun Ridge. That night, the baggage soldiers slowly arrived here.

Tents rose from the ground, quickly turning the entire Evil Sun Ridge into a large military camp. The level of Li Jing's arrangement of troops was beyond the reach of the Turks, and after a few short orders, the Tang army quickly built a series of positions and defense lines in the Evil Yang Ridge, and gradually surrounded Dingxiang City in a crescent moon.

What was once a Turkic tent has now become Li Jing's tent. In the big tent, Li Jing sat on the big tent, and the tent was full of generals who had participated in the Battle of Evil Yang Ridge, they were talking and smiling, their faces were full of joy, and they were talking to each other.

Li Jing pressed his hands, and the generals suddenly quieted down and looked at Li Jing in unison. Li Jing said with a smile: "This victory in Evil Yang Ridge is all thanks to the concerted efforts of the generals and the bloody battles. Come on, the old man replaces the wine with tea, and toasts you with a glass! ”

The generals hurriedly got up and said to Li Jing: "The general is polite, this victory is all thanks to the general's strategy and waiting for the enemy to take the opportunity, so that the Turks were broken and more than 10,000 enemies were killed."

"Yes, yes, it's right for me to wait for the general!"

"Come on, the general has worked hard, I'll wait for General Qi Jing for a cup!"

After the generals drank this tea with Li Jing, Li Jing said again: "This time to take the Evil Yang Ridge, when it comes to the merits of everyone, the old man thinks that Zhang Yunwen should be the first. The reconnaissance battalion and the second artillery department under it, attacking the city and pulling out the village, cutting off the enemy army, are all the heads of the generals, so the old man is preparing to write the first Zhang Yunwen's work in the report to His Majesty, what do you think? ”

These generals immediately shot their eyes on Zhang Yunwen, but they saw him looking at his nose and heart, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

A general with a beard on his face suddenly stood up, clasped his fists and said to Li Jing: "General, my old Lin is a rough man, and he won't say anything!" General Zhang remembered the first credit, but Lao Lin was not convinced. Lao Lin's tent was only a soldier, and only two regiments were selected into the 3,000 iron cavalry of the general's raid on the Evil Yang Ridge, but there were only 400 people. And General Zhang sent a total of more than 1,000 people to participate in the battle of Evil Yang Ridge, among which our firearms were all in his hands, and it was of course easy to take this first credit. If General Zhang also led 400 soldiers and horses to participate in the war and achieved such results, Lao Lin would recognize his first merit! ”

As soon as General Lin said this, seven or eight generals immediately came out to express their agreement.

Li Jing looked at this big man with a bold and reckless face and the seven or eight generals around him, first frowned slightly, and then said with a smile: "Since General Lin is not convinced, the old man will press Zhang Yunwen's exploits this time first, and will not be listed for the time being, and then talk about the merits after breaking Dingxiang City, what do the generals think?" ”

Hearing Li Jing say this, the General Lin grinned: "Hehe, since the general doesn't show the merits of General Zhang, then I have nothing to say about Lao Lin." The general is fair and strict, and the last general admires it! After speaking, he couldn't help but glance at Zhang Yunwen with slanted eyes, but saw that Zhang Yunwen was still sitting like an old monk.