As Tuli's order was given, the whole camp became extremely tense and busy. I saw ordinary herdsmen put away valuable items and put them on the wagons that had been prepared. And those Turkic warriors were constantly wiping the scimitars in their hands, tidying up the quivers on their bodies, feeding the horses enough forage and water, and making preparations before the battle.

Inside a yurt, Zhang Yunwen looked out through the gap created by the shaking of the door curtain. I saw a constant flow of people, and from time to time I could see soldiers in leather armor passing outside.

"It looks like he's going to make up his mind to fight!" Zhang Yunwen drank the milk wine and said softly, "How much equipment do we have left?" ”

Boss Jiao next to him immediately replied: "After yesterday's battle, more than half of the grenades were consumed, and one box of shells was consumed. All the arrows were fired, but most of them were recovered! ”

Zhang Yunwen nodded: "Brothers, you go down and prepare, I'm afraid we will have to follow Tuli to fight again!" ”

As soon as these words came out, all the soldiers were suddenly silent.

After a while, Ma Wangshan said: "My lord, they are dog-eat-dog among the Turks, why do you want us to participate?" Eleven brothers died yesterday! ”

Zhang Yunwen looked around, and saw that everyone was in agreement, and sighed slightly at the moment, and said: "To be honest, in fact, Lao Tzu doesn't want to help that old boy in Tuli go to war. But then again, Tuli has already asked to join the court, do you know what that means? In other words, Turki will surrender to my Datang, and these Turkic people will become the source of my Datang's taxes and military service! Maybe in the next war, we will fight side by side with them! Therefore, our battle is not for his sudden profit, but for the people of the Tang Dynasty! ”

Hearing Zhang Yunwen say this, everyone didn't react much, just said lightly: "We are soldiers, you are a general, do what you say!" ”

Zhang Yunwen shook his head secretly, it seems that these guys still have to receive ideological and political education. After returning to Chang'an, he must make a proposal to Li Shimin to carry out ideological education work in the whole army.

"Okay, you guys go down and prepare first, this time let's bring two boxes of shells, put all the grenades on board, and try to beat Jieli once, so that the old guy doesn't dare to do it again!" Zhang Yunwen stood up and said.

"Whoa!" All the soldiers said in unison.

Zhang Yunwen left the yurt and looked at the busy herdsmen in front of him, some of whom had already begun to drive the carriage to the south. He slowly walked to the large tent and opened the curtain to enter it.

This direct intrusion did not make Tuli feel a little annoyed, but Tuli turned his head sideways and smiled at Zhang Yunwen: "I've been waiting for you for a long time!" ”

Zhang Yunwen was not polite, and said indifferently: "I heard that the Great Khan general led the troops to fight with Jieli, and the last general is willing to go with the army!" To help the Great Khan! ”

Tuli smiled "haha" and patted Zhang Yunwen's shoulder: "With General Zhang's help, the Jieli army is vulnerable!" ”

With a polite gesture, Zhang Yunwen sat in the big tent and listened to Tuli's military arrangements.

After listening to it, Zhang Yunwen was in no mood to listen to it anymore, and went directly out of the big account. Tuli is really arranging a war there, which is clearly to gather the knights, and then go to the northwest to kill, find the main force of Jieli, and fight with one. As for how to fight after encountering, there is no mention at all.

Forget it, maybe that's how people fight on the grassland! Zhang Yunwen said secretly in his heart.

In nearly an hour, nearly 10,000 cavalry of the entire tribe were assembled. Tuli walked at the front of the team on horseback with his warriors and some generals, and his cloaks were hunting, and his clothes were clear, and he did not look like an ordinary majesty. Above his head, a battle flag depicting an eagle with outstretched wings was waving in the wind.

In stark contrast to Tuli is Zhang Yunwen and his soldiers. I saw that each of them had two Turkic military horses, this kind of horse was much better than the horse that Zhang Yunwen and they rode from the Tang Dynasty, not only the skeleton was taller, the endurance was better, and even when they were galloping, they were faster. However, the speed and duration of the sprint were a little worse, and it used more forage.

Zhang Yunwen and the soldiers were lazily riding on the horses, all half-squinting and listless, if it weren't for the occasional flash of essence, I really thought that these dozens of people were soft eggs that everyone could bully.

Tu Li's eyes slanted at Zhang Yunwen and his soldiers, and he waved the horse whip in his hand in high spirits: "Turkic warriors, go!" The wolf god will bless us and kill all the Turkic scum who oppress us in front of us! ”

"Wow-huh-" The Turkic knight let out a strange roar.

Nearly 10,000 cavalry suddenly flowed like a tide flowing on the grassland, flowing straight to the northwest.

Along the way, Tuli didn't know how many scouts he released, only to see a team of ten scouts report to Tuli every few moments. Finally, after marching for three hours, with a break and dinner in between, the Tuli army and the 17,000 Chinese army of Jieli met.

On a wide plain, a battle flag depicting a wolf and a war flag depicting an eagle suddenly met, and nearly 30,000 cavalry faced each other across the wide flat grassland in the middle.

Suddenly, the grassland was quiet, and only the sound of hunting made by the south wind blowing the battle flag.

Zhang Yunwen raised his head and looked at the eagle battle flag above his head, his eyes suddenly brightened.

When the two armies confronted each other, they saw three knights riding out of the Jieli army array, until they reached the position of a hundred paces in front of the Tuli formation, stopped the horses, and shouted at Tuli with an arrogant face: "Tuli, don't get off your horse and die!" ”

Zhang Yunwen didn't understand what this meant, but Fan Xing beside him knew. Immediately, he told Zhang Yunwen the Chinese meaning of this sentence. The latter couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, if Tuli really wanted to surrender, why should he bring people to confront him here.

Tuli sneered: "Si Mo, Ben Khan respects you as my Turkic general, I don't fight with you, I want to fight and let the horse come!" ”

At this time, Fan Xing said: "It turns out that the leader is the reckless man who is Si Mo!" As he spoke, he told the story of the silent person. It turned out that Simo was originally the head of a small tribe, and later who started the Khan's expedition to the east and west, and mixed up with Tutun to be a totun. Later, when Jieli seized the throne of the Turki Khan, this Simo joined Jieli.

Na Simo snorted coldly: "Just with your team of less than 1,000 people, you still want to fight with Lao Tzu's 20,000 army, it's really unbelievable!" Well, since you don't know how to lift, then let's see Lao Tzu capture you and sacrifice you to the Great Khan! Let the Great Khan see how cowardly and incompetent Shibi's sister-in-law is! ”

"Shut up!" Hearing Si Mo say this, Tu Li couldn't help but roar angrily, "Si Mo, when your father Khan was alive, you were just a small Tutun, and now you have become Yidu Hu, and you were not promoted by your father Khan!" Now that he has taken refuge in Jieli, he doesn't even pay attention to his father's Khan! ”

Si Mo "haha" laughed wildly, but did not answer Tu Li's words, turned the horse's head, and returned to the main formation.

After a while, only a long and loud horn was heard, and the silent army moved slowly, the two wings of the army slowly outflanked, and the Chinese army slowly pressed up, it seemed that this Simo wanted to eat the Tuli army in one bite.

"Hmph, this sip has too much appetite! He's not afraid that he won't be able to eat and jump his teeth! Zhang Yunwen sneered, dismounted and set up the mortar, and the wooden box containing the shells was opened, revealing neat shells.

When Tuli saw Zhang Yunwen's mortar, a trace of envy and possessiveness flashed in his eyes.

Estimate the distance, directly adjust the angle of the mortar to the maximum range, and wait for the cavalry to enter the firing range.

On Tuli's side, seeing that Zhang Yunwen didn't fire, Tuli didn't move. The neat rows of knights looked at the oncoming Jieli knights and couldn't help but glance at each other and swallow their saliva.

Finally, when Jieli's Chinese army entered the firing range, Zhang Yunwen put down a cannonball, only to hear a dull sound, the cannonball flew out, and the "boom" exploded in the charging cavalry, the turf flew, and the soil and grass flew in all directions.

Suddenly, I saw that several knights who rushed to the front seemed to have tripped over the horse rope, and the horses fell violently, and the people immediately fell to the ground, and were trampled into pulp by the knights behind.

Although the sound of the cannonball explosion was loud, it seemed so small in the vibration of thousands of galloping horses.

"Kill—" Turri shouted as he drew his scimitar and pointed at the charging knight in front of him.

Suddenly, the desolate horn resounded across the grassland, but this time it was Tuli who was blowing.

Unlike the charge of the Jieli cavalry, the charge of nearly 10,000 people in Tuli was prominent in the middle army, with the two wings slightly behind.

The two forces kept changing their curves like a tidal wave, and finally collided with each other.

At this time, the range of Zhang Yunwen's mortar was just enough to go from the line of fire where the two armies were fighting to the depth of 300 steps of Jieli's army. So, Zhang Yunwen unscrupulously put mortars, and one shell after another exploded in the Jieli army, like a blooming man-eating flower, frantically harvesting the lives of the Jieli cavalry.

Finally, after nearly forty shots in a row, the barrel was already hot and could no longer be used. Zhang Yunwen suddenly said to the more than 40 soldiers around him: "You rode horses around the periphery of the battlefield, and when you saw that there were more enemy troops, you threw a grenade over!" ”

The soldiers immediately took the order and left.

Zhang Yunwen looked at the mortar and the remaining shells, but he was a little hesitant, should he step forward to kill the enemy or guard the mortar here? In the end, he stayed here anyway, deciding to wait until the barrel had cooled down a bit and then run out of shells.

What he didn't know was that when the shells exploded in the Turkic army, the hearts of the Turkic soldiers were cold. What the hell is this exploding thing? With each explosion, the flying slices and thistles took the lives of some of the cavalry, and the huge shock wave swept the knight's charging formation into chaos, and the huge explosion startled the nearby horses, and the knight was busy controlling the horses, but was hacked to death by the Tuli cavalry.

This chaos has been going on in the Chinese army, and the cavalry of the Chinese army is also rapidly decreasing.

Finally, when the terrible explosives stopped falling from the sky, the knights of Jieli had no time to cheer, and the knights of Tuli on the opposite side came to kill. The situation on the entire battlefield has become stalemate, and this front has slowly turned into an "S" curve.

However, at this moment, an explosion sounded here, and this explosion resounded in both wings. I saw dozens of knights who were as fast as the wind galloping their horses and throwing out black objects the size of fists. As soon as those things landed in the crowd, there was a violent explosion, and the shrapnel that flew in four rounds again injured the knights within nearly three feet of the vicinity, and the knights in the center were directly knocked off their horses.

After fighting on the battlefield for nearly half an hour, Zhang Yunwen saw that the barrel of the cannon had cooled down, and put the shell into the barrel again.

As a result, the cannibal flowers bloomed again.

Seeing this scene, the knight met the fate of death in despair.

However, Zhang Yunwen, who had put two cannons, suddenly found that the original battle line had been advancing to that side for a long time, and it was still advancing, if he continued to fire the artillery, he was afraid that he would injure the knights on Tuli's side, so he had to lift the mortar, signaled Yang Shi next to him to pick up the ammunition box, and ran forward for nearly half an hour, then put down the mortar, set up the base, and began to fire the cannon again.

This kind of battle continued, and when the shells ran out, Zhang Yunwen saw that the battle line had advanced to the front of the Jieli army's main formation, and the grassland behind him was full of corpses, some on Jieli's side and some on Tuli's side.

Eventually, one of the knights began to turn around and run backwards, and more began to flee.

The so-called "defeat of the army is like a mountain", and a unit that has lost its morale has no combat effectiveness except to flee.

And the morale of the knights has gradually disappeared in the bombardment of shells and grenades. The knight who was the first to turn around and flee took away the last of the morale of the Jieli cavalry.

The battle banner depicting the blue wolf began to move northwest.