Chapter 90: The Turks are defeated
Because the cavalry and horses that charged in front were blocked, the cavalry behind could not charge past them, because once they crossed them, then what awaited them in the place where they fell off their horses must be the sharp blades of the Mo sword soldiers. The Turkic saber is shorter than the attack distance of the Mo knife, and there are some Turkic cavalry who want to step forward and want to break through the seemingly thin wall of the Mo knife soldiers, and they are cut into two pieces by the Mo knife soldiers in front of them.
Suddenly, the Turks, who had lost nearly a third of their cavalry troops, were once again divided into two parts, but by this time the armies of the two warring sides had been strangled together, and the remaining thing left in the minds of the soldiers on both sides was to cut down the enemy in front of them and go on to find the next enemy. Therefore, the Turks who were trapped in the formation for a time did not notice that they were surrounded in the large array, and they only galloped in the large array, looking for the musketeers they had seen earlier.
But no matter how they rode their horses in the formation, they could not find any trace of the musketeers. All he could see was the kind of Mo sword soldier who was covered with thick armor along with his face. When Pu saw it, the Turks thought that these Mo sword soldiers were wearing light armor that covered their whole bodies, and they tried to chop with the sabers in their hands, and tried to kick and trample with the mounts under their hips. But they soon found out in horror that even with the help of the impact of the horses, they knocked those swordless soldiers dozens of meters away, and rushed for their lives with broken bones and tendons of the mounts under their crotches, but only made those strange sword soldiers fly sideways. But then they were soon able to get up again and attack themselves with their knives.
The corpses of hundreds of men and horses lying on their backs in the formation once again proved that the weapons in their hands could not hurt those Han people, but on the contrary, the long broad-bladed knives in the hands of those Han infantry could easily cut themselves off their horses. At this time, the Turks who were hot-blooded finally regained some sanity, and only then did they find that they had been surrounded by Mo sword soldiers.
"Daru, we're surrounded." One of the pro-soldiers said to the leader of the Turkic cavalry.
At this time, the leader of the Turkic cavalry called Daru found that he had been separated from the cavalry outside the formation, and he looked around, looking at the fewer and fewer Turkic cavalry in the phalanx. A bad thought arose in his heart, and he secretly thought that if he didn't stand out in time, he might be trapped and killed by the Han people. At that moment, he raised his saber and pointed to a seemingly weak human wall and said, "Warriors will follow me in pairs and fight there to make a cut." We will be able to join up with the cavalry outside, and if we stay here we will only die, so we might as well risk our lives to attack again. ”
Then he clamped his legs between the horse's belly, lifted the horse up, and rushed straight to the crack in the phalanx. It was not the place that Li Wenyuan had arranged in advance to lure the enemy to attack, but the physical strength of those Mo sword soldiers showed some flaws. Even though Li Wenyuan's Mo Sword Soldiers were composed of the strongest men in the entire Western Regions, the source of the soldiers also had to be divided into three, six, nine and so on, after all, not everyone's physical strength could support them to continue fighting while wearing heavy armor.
As the impact of the Turkic cavalry towards the corner of the large array gradually appeared, Li Wenyuan also found that the formation there was a little scattered, and some Mo sword soldiers there were lying on the ground and did not know whether they were alive or dead. A pair of Turkic cavalry had already approached the gap, and immediately rushed towards the gap with the battle group beside them. But how is it possible for a man's two legs to outrun a horse's four legs? What's more, people are still carrying dozens of pounds of armor.
Seeing that the Turkic cavalry was getting closer and closer to the gap, in a hurry, Li Wenyuan turned the Mo knife in his hand and raised it in his hand, aimed at the body of a Turkic cavalry who was about to break out of the gap, and threw it like a javelin. That Turkic cavalry was none other than Daru, who had just rushed out of the big formation and had not yet breathed a sigh of relief. was pierced into the back of the heart by the Mo knife that attacked from behind, and then penetrated out from the front heart, and the next second it was already nailed to the ground alive by the Mo knife thrown by Li Wenyuan. The rest of the Turkic cavalry was intimidated by the strange knife thrown by Li Wenyuan, and they all involuntarily slowed down the speed of the horses under their hips.
The few Mo sword soldiers who could still move at the gap in the big array saw that a Turkic cavalry was nailed to the ground by a Mo knife flying from behind them, so they hurriedly looked back, and also found this group of Turkic cavalry who wanted to break out of the phalanx, and hurriedly helped each other and pulled, and they all mustered up their last strength to block the gap.
At this time, Li Wenyuan also took the battle group, and reluctantly rushed to the gap, and after cutting off several Turkic cavalry one after another, it could be regarded as stabilizing the somewhat chaotic position again. As the Turkic cavalry in the large array became fewer and fewer, the distance between each battle group became smaller and smaller, and the range of movement of the Turkic cavalry was gradually suppressed in a corner of the large array, so that these Turkic cavalry could no longer give full play to the mobility advantages provided by the horses, and could only fight to the death like crazy under the power of the Mo sword soldiers who slowly pressed over like a mountain in front of them, or directly dismounted and bound to ask for their lives.
The Turkic cavalry outside the phalanx found that the friendly forces in the formation had begun to collapse, and even sharp-eyed people saw that the person who Li Wenyuan was nailed to the ground with one shot was his leader Dalu. At the moment, there were some discouraged soldiers, and at this moment, I don't know who shouted: "The leaders are dead, what are we staying here for?" Waiting to be killed? Then he turned his horse's head and fled in the direction he had come.
At this time, those Turkic cavalry came to their senses, and watched the Mo sword soldiers in front of them, who did not know whether their armor was stained red with horse blood or human blood, slowly advancing towards their side, and they turned their horses and fled north in horror.
Seeing the Turkic cavalry scattering northward, Li Wenyuan breathed a sigh of relief, stopped the advancing formation, and commanded his Modao soldiers to tear off all the last handful of Turkic cavalry in the array, and after tying them up, he slammed the Modao in his hand to the ground and plunged it deep into the ground. Then he took off his helmet and put it on the ground next to him, and sat on top of the horse carcass on the side. He took the cloth handkerchief handed over by his subordinates and wiped the sweat and blood all over his head.
The Turkic cavalry, which had broken north, had not gone far before they encountered the Fourth Army, which was rushing from the north to the south. Udrus rushed to the front with one horse, slashing a dozen Turkic cavalrymen one after another with the swing of his saber. Not to be outdone, the rest of the cavalry followed the commander and rushed to kill. The cavalry that had been routed in front of Li Wenyuan's formation came into contact with the cavalry of the Fourth Legion, and their momentum weakened a little. Intimidated by the bravery of the Udrus, he fled in all directions, surrounded by the cavalry of the Fourth Legion, which followed behind.
In this battle, the more than 3,000 Turkic cavalry that attacked, except for more than 500 Turkic cavalry who were captured alive, the rest died on the battlefield or were seriously wounded. In addition, Li Wenyuan captured nearly 1,000 horses, but they were all horses raised by Turkic people, and they were not as good as the horses produced in his own military horse yards, so they were simply given as rewards to the people who accompanied the army.
(End of chapter)