Chapter 3 Flashy IV

If Shi Zan and Yin Qiu put a little more effort into listening to the enemy's situation, they would definitely not easily choose to go out of the field battle. Li Shimin's Flying Tiger Army did indeed have only 3,000 people, less than one-tenth of the reinforcements at Tiger Pass. But these 3,000 people were painstakingly built by Li Shimin for several years with reference to Saihuben's model, and it is not the same as the Dou family's army's model of a horse being considered a cavalry.

Back then, Li Yuan was ordered to sit in Longxi. Harassed by the Turks day by day. And the energy of the imperial court is mainly in the direction of Liaodong, and there is no time to look west. As the key prevention object of the Great Sui Emperor, Li Yuan did not dare to recruit Xiangyong on a large scale to protect his family and defend the country. He had no choice but to order Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji to recruit those who were willing to take revenge among the homeless people who were forced by the Turks.

After careful selection, Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji selected less than 5,000 fighters. But they all have a deep hatred and are not afraid of death. Li Shimin trained them for a winter in a desert oasis, then changed into the clothes of the Turkic tribes, slaughtered into the steppe, and returned blood for blood. This force was ruthless in its methods, coming and going like the wind, and soon changed the color of the nonsense. However, these Hu people, who were accustomed to plundering, always thought that they were robbed by private soldiers under the command of a certain Turkic secret service, and they had nowhere to redress their grievances, and they did not dare to complain if they were bitter, so they had to knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs.

All the looted wealth, Li Shimin did not pay a penny to the family. All of them changed their armor and weapons, and re-invested in the construction of the team. In order to add a force to the family to protect itself in the troubled times, Li Yuan also had a lot of money and kept throwing money into this army. With abundant funds and continuous combat drills every day, this team was reborn in a spring.

Referring to the old example of the ancients of "Tiger and Leopard Cavalry" and "White-eared Soldiers", Li Shimin named his team "Flying Tiger Army". When the Flying Tigers began to take shape, they were not content to attack the small nomadic tribes, but began to target the Turkic raiding parties.

Since the "Flying Tiger Army" is also dressed in black and wearing fur hats, its appearance is no different from that of the Turkic wolf horse. Every time he encounters the Turkic wolf riders who come out to "fight the grass valley", they are regarded as their own by the other party. For these colleagues in the rivers and lakes, Li Shimin adopted the principle of "avoiding them if they are big, and attacking them if they are small", and every time he makes a move, he must be hit, and he never leaves a mouth alive after the war.

The Turks who suffered a loss did not know that they were beaten by Li Yuan, and thought that it was a powerful tribe of the same clan that killed each other, crying and begging Shibi Khan to uphold justice. After receiving complaints from subordinate tribes, Shibi Khan was helpless. The so-called Great Turkic State has always been a loose alliance of several tribes. The tribes follow the rules of wolf packs, the strong are respected, the weak are destroyed, and each other is attacked and killed almost daily. Even the brothers of the Ashina family, who have black hands with each other, have never stopped stumbling on each other, as long as they eat and wipe clean after doing it, no one can say a word.

The tribes had no choice but to try not to get close to the border of the Great Sui. But it is still inevitable to be attacked from time to time, and the loss of cattle, sheep and horses is not calculated. It wasn't until Li Yuan was transferred to Hedong that the disaster of Longyou Zhuhu was over. But Li Yuan didn't dare to let his hard-earned blade hide in his home and rust, and after straightening out the officialdom in Hedong, he immediately sent out the Flying Tiger Army to sharpen his knife with the bandits entrenched in the countryside.

That is, in the first half of the year, the rogue bandits entrenched in the party, Taiyuan, and nearby were cleaned up. Even Zhang Jincheng's humerus Wang Mazi was caught by Li Shimin and cut off his head. Subsequently, after two more battles of the Great Wall, the Flying Tiger Army was sharpened to become more and more elite. It can be said that looking at the world, except for the Tiger Iron Cavalry and Boling Light Armor, there is no third cavalry, and the field can compete with the Flying Tiger Army.

Even in the face of the first two, Li Shimin was not very convinced. In his opinion, the Tiger Horse has entered its twilight years, and from the commander to the soldiers, he has long since lost the courage of the past. And Li Zhongjian's Boling Light Armor, due to the short-sightedness of its coach, has not rested in the past five years. Day after day, year after year, fighting different enemies, from outside the fortress to Henan, and from Henan to outside the fortress, even if it was forged in steel, it was worn to a brittle level.

Only the Flying Tiger Army, the coach is as young as the soldiers, and he is as heroic and dry. With the addition of Qin Shubao, Wei Chi Jingde, Cheng Zhijie, and Luo Shixin, this team is destined to exude dazzling light. The reason why it is not as high-profile as the previous two teams is that their past records can be hidden and cannot be made public. But this time, the Flying Tiger Army no longer needs to continue to cultivate obscurity, and Shi Zan and Yin Qiu's Dou family forwards will become the first stepping stone to make a name for the Flying Tiger Army.

Shi Zan and Yin Qiu didn't know each other's wishful thinking, and they couldn't wait to immediately behead Li Shimin under the horse. The other party may have set a trap, but 3,000 soldiers, even if they set a trap, what can they do with 30,000 troops? One person shoots an arrow, which can shoot them all into hedgehogs. One person rushes and slashes them, and they can be cut into ten pieces. Shi Zhan, a good man who is skilled in martial arts, has seen a lot, and Li Shimin and several generals around him also left a deep impression on him just now. But three thousand soldiers, all of them can be ten by one, that's a bit too exaggerated? Even the Wagang Army back then didn't dare to brag about such a big bull!

The ensuing battle basically confirmed his judgment, and more than 100 cavalry came to meet Li Shimin. After being shot head-on by the archers under Yin Qiu's command, and after dropping several corpses, he was defeated in a hurry. Their skills are very high, and while they run, they don't forget to turn back and fight back. But the difference in numbers between the enemy and us is too great, and when an arrow is fired, it is often retaliated by dozens of arrows, and the body is pierced like a hedgehog, and if it is not explained by relying on armor, the blood alone will be shed alive.

Li Shimin felt sorry for the soldiers under his command, and began to abandon the road and flee into the wilderness. Shi Zan sent his general Shi Jin to lead 300 cavalry to outflank, and the rest of the brigade continued to advance along the official road, preparing to force out all of Li Shimin's tricks. There were not many cavalry under his and Yin Qiu's command, and the total was only 5,000 hanging zeros. If you are blindly led by the nose of the other side, it will be difficult to completely bite the main force of the enemy army. However, a small number of soldiers and horses were assigned to accompany Li Shimin in circles, and the main army moved forward with its head in a circle, no matter what tricks the other party used, which avoided this defect. As long as Li Shimin still wants to capture the Tiger Prison Pass, the two sides will have to fight each other sooner or later.

Three hundred cavalry and the Flying Tiger Army that rushed to meet Li Shimin fought together. The lance flies, and the blood splashes. In terms of numbers, the Dou family army had the advantage, but in terms of weapons, armor, horsemanship, and personal combat skills, they were far behind the other party, and they were quickly rushed out of a few gaps. Li Shimin, who was fleeing for his life in a hurry, saw the bargain, instigated his mount to turn around, and took his three minions to rush left and right in the Dou family's army. It's like being in a no-man's land. The cavalry of the Dou family army tried every means to surround him, but they were always unable to do so. Most people were picked off by Li Shimin as soon as they saw each other, and a few people insisted on Li Shimin's killing blow, but they ran into Cheng Biting Jin behind him, and the other party swung an axe with a big door panel and split it in two sections.

Seeing this, Shi Zan had to stop the whole team. Set aside a number of archers and lancemen to join the warband. His soldiers were also so depressed by the arrogance of the other party that their eyes were on fire, and after receiving the order, they immediately swarmed them. Li Shimin refused to suffer this immediate loss, and turned his mount and fled again. Qin Shubao and Wei Chi Jingde protected his left and right, Cheng Yanjin held a lance in one hand and an axe in the other, and the pursuers were furious, but they were helpless.

"Shameless boy!" Shi Zan scolded, "Escape faster than a rabbit, and I'm not afraid of embarrassing you!" ”。 He scolded enough, but he took the initiative to recruit the scattered team back, the enemy's behavior was very strange, and he didn't want to leave the Tiger Prison Pass too far.

After a chase, the infantry and cavalry were sweating profusely. Hearing the sound of the gong, Qi Qi breathed a sigh of relief. Before they could even breathe, the sound of horses' hooves in the wilderness started again, and Li Shimin, leading several guards, appeared in everyone's sight for the third time.

"Two generals, stop chasing." Zhang Shuo arrived panting, wiped his sweat, and whispered advice. "Get rid of him, forget it! I can't chase it anyway! ”

This time, Shi Chan decided to give him face. Nodding his head, he raised the order flag for the withdrawal of troops. At this moment, he suddenly saw a faint light in the sky, and then, he threw down the order flag for the withdrawal of troops, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Whole team, whole team." Defensive formation, the long soldiers turn to the west, and the archers shoot the formation! ”

In a hurry, the brothers were unprepared. Trying to follow orders to make a turning move, but the lack of training has caused the team to become more and more chaotic. Li Shimin, Qin Shubao, Wei Chi Jingde, and Cheng Zhijie quickly approached, like a leopard seeing its prey, gathering momentum one hundred and fifty steps away from Dou Jiajun, and rushed forward suddenly. They were followed by more than thirty guards, running at a gallop, changing formations, and converging into a sharp attack formation.

It is as urgent as the wind, and its momentum is like fire.

Thirty guards surrounded Li Shimin and frantically added, added. Run fifty steps and enter the range of the Dou family's army feather arrows. Immediately after, three hundred cavalry surged at sunset, still a simple triangular attack array, chasing behind Li Shimin and the others. Immediately after, one, two, three...... Dozens of triangular attack arrays appeared one after another, lined up, like wild wolves, revealing bloody teeth.

"Buzz!" The archers shoot the first wave of volleyed feathered arrows into the sky. swept a distance of eighty paces and landed on the top of Li Shimin and others. Many people were hit by arrows, but only two or three people fell off their mounts. Others slowly flattened the lance to form a straight line with the horse's head.

"Heavy cavalry, they changed their heavy armor!" Someone screamed in surprise. Then I realized my mistake. The opponent is definitely not wearing heavy armor, and the heavy armored cavalry can't run to this degree, but the protection is not bad at all than the heavy armor. The yellow-faced man who was guarding Li Shimin's side was shot at least five arrows in the chest, but he was still sitting firmly on horseback, and a few carved feathers swayed under the ups and downs of his body.

"Chain mail! They are all wearing rope armor? Oh my God, where did Mrs. Li get that lot of money! In the chaotic queue, only Zhang said that he knew the goods. wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and muttered. He didn't dare to mumble too loudly, lest it hurt his own morale.

Chain mail, a chain mail made entirely of iron rings. Soft as sheepskin, yet tough. Fifty paces away, a normal bow and arrow has no killing effect on it at all! In Zhang Shuo's memory, a piece of chain mail is worth at least twenty pieces. Three thousand light horsemen wearing chain mail, oh my God, how much does it cost, and Prince Dou can't make it up if he smashes the pot and sells iron!

"Buzz!" Without waiting for Shi Zhan's order, the archers shot the second wave of feathered arrows into the air. This time, the results were slightly better than the next time, and about five or six Tang soldiers were dismissed. But the first wave of attack arrays remained intact and had already reached within twenty paces.

There are only three arrows in battle, which refers to the maximum number of arrows that the archers can shoot during the time when the enemy's horse runs from the maximum range of the bow and arrow to the time when the archer is near. Shi Zhan's department used an ordinary mulberry bow, and the range was already close. Ordinary training is grasped and negligent. It was just the third feather arrow that had just been stringed, and before the bow arm could gather enough strength, the Tang army had already killed under his nose.

Several cavalrymen of the Dou family army forcibly suppressed the fear in their hearts and instigated their war horses to meet them, hoping to buy more time for their robes to react. The horses of the two sides were facing each other, getting closer and closer, and their eyes converged into a line in mid-air. "When", the Tang Army's horse lance hit the opponent and quickly bent an arc. The huge impact will send the opponent directly into the air. "Hum", the refined horse lance of the Hundred Workshops flicked away, and the buffering force was released, throwing the corpse of the lance into the air.

By the degree of the war horse, the Tang cavalry did not hesitate to point the lance at the next opponent. The horse chased the enemy's chest and moved, swallowing like a snake's letter. Dou Jiajun's thin leather armor was easily torn apart, and the three-foot lance pierced into it, pierced the ribs, bounced away, and bounced another row of opponents into the air.

Dozens of lances, bloody, lined up, hungrily searching for the next thin sacrifice. The cavalry of the Dou family's army, which was intercepted in front, was rushed out of a huge gap, and Li Shimin led his guards to rush in, invincible. The foot soldiers in front of him couldn't resist it, and they were killed and strode back. Soon, some people were terrified and fled backwards screaming.

"Pierce them!" Li Shimin roared loudly and struggled to stab another enemy soldier in the back. The lances on both sides were like forests, and the arrows around him were like rain, but he was not distracted at all. He believes in Qin Shubao, believes in Wei Chi Jingde, and believes in Cheng Biting Jin. Trust that they will protect themselves. I believe that Hou Junji and the eldest grandson Wuji, who were killed not far away, believe that they can see this opportunity and lock in the victory in one fell swoop.

"Drums! The front army followed His Royal Highness King Qin and went to line up behind the enemy army! "Three hundred paces away. The eldest grandson, Wuji, jumped on a four-horse chariot and raised the drumstick with his own hands. Regardless of whether he agreed with or disagreed with King Qin's plan before, now, he will carry out King Qin's orders to the letter. Li Shimin is not only his father-in-law, but also his playmate, friend and confidant since childhood.

Hearing the rumbling drums, the second attack echelon, led by Luo Shixin, struggled to level the lance. The enemy line opened only a breach, far from the brink of collapse. They have a chance to perform, no matter how many opponents there are, 30,000 or 50,000, in their eyes, they are just a group of lambs to the slaughter.