Chapter 247: Bloody Battle of Kongduigou
"Kill—"
"Kill—"
The Turks fought with Xue Yantuo's soldiers.
The Turks and Xue Yantuo have been entangled in the north and south of the desert for more than 100 years, and the hatred between the two sides is deeper than the sea.
At this time, Li Simo had been forced into a desperate situation by Li Chengqian, and he only wanted to defeat Xue Yantuo to leave a chance for the Eastern Turks, so at the beginning, he tried his best to lead people to Xue Yantuo's camp to kill.
Xue Yantuo has always looked down on Li Simo's remnants of the defeated generals, and at this time, seeing that he dared to lead his troops to take the initiative to attack Xue Yantuo's tent, he was shocked and angry.
The two sides started a bloody battle at the beginning, and it was also at this time that the snow was tighter and the mountain wind was more urgent. Clusters of snowflakes swirled and fluttered in the air, some hitting the heads and faces, making it very difficult for the warriors on both sides, but the men were not ambiguous at all.
Soon, hundreds of Turkic and Xue Yantuo warriors fell horizontally in Xue Yantuo's camp, and no one looked at the wounded and dead, allowing them to be buried by snowflakes like cotton wool.
The battle between the two sides entered a stalemate, the Turks could not attack, and Xue Yantuo could not repel Li Simo for a while......
Wang Fangyi had been waiting quietly on the top of the mountain, the wind and snow on the mountain were stronger than in the valley, and the sound of tearing and killing in the distance accompanied by the wind intermittently reached the top of the mountain.
Wang Fangyi took two steps forward with a calm look in his eyes, shaking the cloak on his body to shake off the thick snow on his shoulders.
Stretching his neck to look down the mountain, through the heavy snow curtain, he saw that the eastern Turks of Xue Yantuo's camp and Xue Yantuo were tearing and killing very fiercely, but the rest of the camp was in order, and Wang Fangyi also had to admire Yi Nan's talent in governing the army. He immediately sneered, turned around and shouted to the soldiers: "Erect the catapult and prepare to throw gunpowder!" ”
With Wang Fangyi's order, one by one explosives bags flew through the wind and snow with a "woo" roar towards the western part of Xue Yantuo's camp, that is, Xue Yantuo's back camp.
In the Xue Yantuo camp, there was a "booming" explosion, the fire in the western part of the camp flickered, black smoke billowed out, and for a while, even the momentum of the raging snowstorm was suppressed by the sound of gunpowder explosions.
In fact, the effect of throwing explosives bags in the snowstorm weather is not very good, but the explosion is amazing, and the sound in Xue Yantuo's camp can be clearly heard within a radius of several miles, not to mention the people in Xue Yantuo's camp.
This momentum not only frightened Xue Yantuo's side, but also Li Simo and the others, thinking that Datang was going to eliminate them together.
Both sides even stopped fighting, looking up to the west.
"Great Khan, what now?" Qu Silu of a small tribe asked Li Simo eagerly.
Li Simo looked at the western half of Xue Yantuo's camp in the distance, which was chaotic, and was very desperate, who could withstand this gunpowder like heavenly power at this time?
The Tang army threw gunpowder into Xue Yantuo's camp at this time, apparently without considering the life or death of their Turks.
However, Li Simo soon discovered that the gunpowder of the Tang army only fell in the western part of the camp, and no explosives fell in the front camp of the two sides.
Li Simo was overjoyed when he saw this, and shouted loudly: "The gunpowder dropped by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only blew up the Xue Yantuo people, and the Turkic warriors quickly follow me to kill the Xue Yantuo thieves." ”
As he spoke, he lifted the reins and stepped forward again to fight with Xue Yantuo, and the Turks around him were also shocked when they heard this, and they hurriedly followed Li Simo forward to kill the enemy.
Seeing this, the Turkishi had no choice but to tear themselves together with the Turks again.
Just as the Turkic soldiers and horses and Xue Yantuo began to tear apart again, Wang Fangyi just threw the last pack of gunpowder, and the explosion stopped, and the valley was once again enveloped by the whining wind and tearing sound.
In the sweat tent in the middle of Xue Yantuo's camp, Yi Nan sat on the throne with a grim face, and Hu Li and Lu Mang stood below.
"The divine thunder in the west is no longer exploding?" Yi Nan's question is actually emboldening himself.
Hu Li and Trolley didn't know how to answer, it was true that there was no explosion for a long time, but who could say it clearly......
However, Yi Nan also expected them to answer, but got up and walked out of the Chinese army's tent.
Lu Mang followed behind him and said, "Father Khan, please allow your son to go and capture Li Simo." ”
Yi Nan ignored him, took the war horse brought by the guards and rode up directly, walked to the main road of the camp and stopped, where you could see tearing the battlefield.
After nearly an hour of tearing apart, the Turkic side has gradually shown fatigue, and the Turkish side has begun to counterattack.
Yi Nan rode on his war horse and saw that the Turks had gained the upper hand with his soldiers and the Turks, but his face was still covered with a layer of frost.
He whispered to Hu Li: "Go and arrange it quickly, and prepare to flee west." ”
Hu Li was stunned when he heard this, and wanted to ask Yi Nan why he wanted to flee west, but when he saw Yi Nan's face, he didn't dare to ask, and hurriedly arranged to escape.
Yi Nan was able to establish a sweat tent in Mobei, where all the tribes were in turmoil after the fall of the Turks, and ruled the tribes, and his mind was naturally not weak.
He saw Li Simo leading the weak Turkic soldiers to fight Xue Yantuo desperately, and he knew that Li Simo was forced by the Tang Dynasty. Yi Nan guessed that even if the Tang Dynasty could force Li Simo, there was only one person who could force Li Simo, and when he thought of Li Shimin, Yi Nan felt a chill down his spine.
At this time, Yi Nan already believed that his second son Bazhuo had lost the battle, but he didn't know where Li Shimin was now, but thinking that he would send someone to capture Li Chengqian, Li Shimin would not let him go no matter what.
Therefore, Yi Nan has no other thoughts now, he just wants to be able to escape back to Mobei later, as for Bazhuo and 200,000 Xue Yan soldiers and even Tu Lishe, they can only let them resign themselves to fate.
Yi Nan stared at the battle situation in front of him, thinking that there must be Tang Army behind Li Simo, and at this time he had to wait for Tang Army to come out before he could determine the escape route.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
"Woo-"
Yi Nan was thinking about it when he heard the sound of war drums and horns faintly coming.
Yi Nan listened for a while, because of the wind, Yi Nan was not sure which direction these sounds came from, and hurriedly asked back: "Where did you hear the sound of war drums coming from?"
Lu Mang hurriedly said: "It seems to come from the south." ”
Yi Nan looked at a few guards around him again, and everyone quickly nodded in agreement with Lu Mang's statement.
Determining the direction where the Tang army was, Yi Nan hurriedly ordered Lu Mang beside him: "Quick, Chuanben Khan will order everyone except for the Tuli Headquarters to immediately leave the camp from the West Gate and retreat in the direction of the Great River." ”
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As soon as Yi Nan's father and son withdrew, Qiu Xinggong, Cheng Wuting and Qi Bi He Li quickly converged in Xue Yantuo's camp.
Cheng Wuting carried Tu Li She, threw it in front of everyone and said hatefully: "This Tu Li Shi is the person who entered Chang'an to ask for relatives, but I didn't expect it to be to harm His Royal Highness the Prince." ”
Li Simo looked at the turitude on the ground and the radiant Cheng Wuting, his expression was complicated and he didn't say a word.
Qiu Xinggong glanced at it and said coldly: "Such a faithless and unrighteous person, the little general should stop him and cut him off if he is caught." ”
Cheng Wuting just smiled and didn't care, but He Li, who was next to him, looked at it and was shocked, Tu Lishe is Yi Nan's nephew and his confidant's favorite general, and he is by no means incompetent.
Li Simo sneaked into the camp and fought with Tulishe, but he could only get a draw for a long time, but Cheng Wuting, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old general, actually held him in his hands.
Although he knew that Cheng Wuting was Li Chengqian's confidant, he always thought that Li Chengqian valued Cheng Wuting because of Cheng Mingzhen's face.
Everyone has always called Cheng Wu a little general, but he shouted this for the sake of his father's position.
I never thought that this Cheng Wuting was also a brave general, and then I thought of Xue Rengui who was far away in Changze County......
What made Qi Bi He Li desperate the most was that Li Chengqian, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, was no worse than the current emperor Li Shimin, and even more ruthless than Li Shimin in dealing with the various tribes in northern Xinjiang.
At this time, Qi Bi He Li didn't know whether it was right or wrong to lead Li Chengqian to destroy Xue Yantuo this time.
Qi Bi He Li sighed in his heart, but his face was not relaxed at all, and he said loudly to everyone: "Yi Nan has escaped from the camp, we should hurry up and catch up with General Su to surround this fang." As he spoke, he took the lead and chased people in the direction where Yi Nan fled.
Although He Li had a complicated perception of Li Chengqian, he also knew that Yi must not be allowed to escape at this time.
Once Yi Nan escaped, with Li Chengqian's current strength, it would be impossible to pursue the remnants of Xue Yantuo in the heavy snow, and once Yi Nan fled back to Mobei, the Chebi clan would inevitably suffer.
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In the wind and snow, Yi Nan and his party ran out of the camp and came to the edge of Kongduigou, and they never encountered the bombardment of divine thunder along the way, which made him and Xue Yantuo breathe a sigh of relief.
When he came to the embankment of Kongduigou, Yi Nan rode on his horse and saw that the forward had more than 1,000 foot soldiers running up to the ice of the Kongdui riverbed very smoothly.
Seeing that he could walk into the Yellow River with a bend, but did not see the Tang army blocking him, a trace of doubt flashed in his heart, and then he turned his head to look at the embankment of the Yellow River, and there was only heavy snow.
With his mind determined, he pointed to the embankment and said loudly: "Walk along the embankment!" Then he beat his horse and ran forward.
Lu Mang and Hu Li glanced at Xue Yantuo's soldiers who had already run to the riverbed of the Yellow River, and without even saying a word, they followed Yi Nan to change direction and escape.
"Yi Nan didn't flee to the Yellow River?" Li Chengqian felt a little troubled.
Since Wang Fangyi dropped the explosives, Li Chengqian walked out of the snow nest on the top of the mountain, stood on the top of the mountain and watched the battle below.
"Yi Nan is the lord of Mobei in the end, and since he knows the arrival of the Tang Heavenly Soldiers at this time, he naturally doesn't dare to be careless." The old god Yu Chigong is in the tunnel.
Li Chengqian looked at him and was a little worried about Su Dingfang, and there were still 20,000 or 30,000 people who escaped with Yi Nan, while Su Dingfang only had more than 10,000 people here.
But seeing that it was impossible for Yi Nan to flee to the river again, he said to Liu Kui: "Wave the flag and order Wang Qun to detonate the gunpowder." ”
Hearing this, Liu Kui hurriedly bowed down and ordered someone to shake the flag, and Wang Qun had someone there who was watching this side, and as soon as he saw the banner, he immediately ordered Wang Qun to detonate the explosives on the river.
Wang Qun saw that the more than 1,000 Xue Yantuo soldiers had already entered the first trap, so he waved his hand to signal the detonation.
"Boom" There was an explosion, and the ice and snow in the Yellow River flew into the sky like broken jade.
After the explosion, an ice surface in the Yellow River that was five zhang wide and more than ten zhang long collapsed, and all the soldiers standing in it sank into the icy water.
There was a circle of broken ice piled up on the edge of the collapsed ice ditch, and some of the Xue Yantuo soldiers outside the circle, although they did not fall into the ice water, some were seriously injured by the ice cubes, and they were dripping with blood when they fell or stood up.
Wang Qun, who was hiding on the bank, saw that there were still one or two hundred Xue Yantuo soldiers standing on the Yellow River, and he was stunned to see his comrades who had fallen into the ice water, struggling desperately, indifferent, so he led people over and killed these people.
Xue Yantuo, who fled with Yi Nan, heard the explosion and looked back from a distance, and saw that more than 1,000 people and brothers were instantly swallowed by the Yellow River, and they were frightened from the bottom of their hearts, and ran forward desperately, for fear that they would bury themselves with a sudden bang under their feet.
Su Dingfang at the foot of the mountain had already lined up in formation, and when he saw that Yi Nan was really fleeing this way, the fifty-year-old Su Dingfang immediately roared excitedly, and took the lead in meeting Yi Nan's military formation with a spear in hand.
(End of chapter)