In November of the fifth year of Dazhi, the Tang army sent a surprise army from Ashi Bulai City to attack Bahanna, taking advantage of the loopholes in the defense of the Great Food Army, burning all the materials hoarded in Bahanna, and then attacked the capital of Bahanna, and the private army of the Saman family was low in combat power, and was defeated by 2,000 Tang troops, and almost the whole army was annihilated.

Encouraged by the victory of the Tang army, King Bahhana called on the people to rise up against the Great Cannibals, and received a response from nearly 200,000 people who gathered in the city of Thirsty for the winter.

In mid-November, the 7,000 Khorasan Great Food Army, which transported heavy stone throwers from Bahanna, encountered 40,000 Tang reinforcements from Shule in Yezhi City, and the Great Food Army was outnumbered and defeated in the First World War, and 500 heavy stone throwers and 30,000 camels all fell into the hands of the Tang Army.

Under the city of broken leaves, the big food army has been pressed on a large scale, nearly two hundred giant trebuchets have used boulders to smash the east city gate in turn, the huge iron gate has been smashed by the boulders, many places have been broken, revealing the gray and white ashline stone, and finally the boulders under the city gate are like a hill, and even the city gate is covered, but the big food army has not stopped bombarding, they seem to want the boulders to pile up a stone slope, so that the army can rush to the city along the stone slope, this is already the desperate gamble of the big food army.

In the past two days, Alan seems to be a gambler who has lost all his blood, the situation in Bahan has been reversed, all the materials have been burned, Yilihe has been defeated, Yezhicheng has been defeated, and Tang army reinforcements are coming, all kinds of unfavorable news have come one after another, almost driving him crazy. In order to finally turn the tide of the battle, he made the final decision, put all the boarding vehicles into the city, and poured all the fire oil bombs into the Broken Leaf City, and in just two days, all his climbing vehicles were destroyed. The oil bombs are gone, but Shattered Leaf City still stands tall, and it gets colder as the weather gets colder. There was a thick layer of ice on the ground and on the walls, and the attack was even more difficult.

After a whole day of bombardment, the boulders thrown by the trebuchets are getting higher and higher, and they have gradually leveled with the city, and most of the 200 trebuchets have been damaged due to overuse, and only a dozen trebuchets are still continuing to attack, and the Tang army did not wait and see, they set up a cauldron on the city to boil water, and more than 1,000 soldiers were like dragons. Through bamboo tubes and funnels, pots of hot water are poured on the boulder pile, and soon the hot water cools and forms a thin layer of ice.

But the big food coach Alan was obviously unwilling, and as the last dozen trebuchets slowly stopped bombardment, he gave an order, and the 3,000-stone national army acted as the vanguard. Shouting and rushing towards the towering boulders, the mountains of boulders were stacked on top of each other, the mountains were steep and strange, sometimes like knives and difficult to climb, but like traps. Hiding a huge hollow, the three thousand men were clearly looking for a way to climb upwards.

The Tang army did not use the heavenly thunder bomb, let the 3,000 stone army climb and find the way, the whole battlefield actually appeared quite a funny scene, the 3,000 stone army is like ants looking for food, a group of groups on the stone mountain to find the way to climb the ground, the stone mountain is smooth and abnormal, from time to time there are soldiers fall from the stone, the bone is broken and the tendon is broken, but in the south of the stone mountain. Hundreds of people have climbed to the top of the mountain. It was less than thirty paces from the city, but a ravine three feet wide appeared in front of it. Make the stone mountain and the city wall a close distance to the end of the world, maybe you can pass it with wooden planks, but how can the Tang army give them a chance.

At this moment, there was a bang on the head of the city, thousands of crossbowmen of the Tang army suddenly appeared, thousands of arrows were fired together, and the dense arrow rain was overwhelmingly shot towards the Shi Guo army, hundreds of soldiers on the top of the stone mountain had nowhere to hide, they were hit by arrows, screaming and falling from the top of the stone mountain, in a moment, hundreds of soldiers were either killed by arrows, or fell to the bottom of the stone mountain and fell to their deaths, none of them were spared, the blood stained the stone mountain, and the rest of the Shi Guo army turned around and fled in fright.

Alan was furious and shouted: "Order 20,000 Turkic slaves to press on all fronts, whoever is the first to attack the city will be rewarded with 100,000 dinars and 100 beauties!" "The herald has the order, and he turns around to give the order.

"Wait!" Myali shouted and stopped the herald, and seeing that Alan had lost his mind a little, he hurriedly dissuaded him: "General, we should give up Broken Leaf and withdraw our troops to Bakhana before the enemy's reinforcements arrive, so as to preserve our strength, even if the general captures Broken Leaf now, what is the use?" There are not many troops in the city, and they will hold us back, and when reinforcements come, we will be in a situation where we are in a situation where we are in the back of the enemy, and I must evacuate as soon as possible. ”

"Withdraw!" Alain suddenly looked back at Muryali and said excitedly: "I have already lost more than 50,000 people, are you so willing to go?" The Caliph has commanded us to take down the Broken Leaf by December, and if we withdraw our troops, how will we give an account to the Caliph? ”

"It's better to be wiped out if you can't explain it, general, we can't attack Broken Leaf anymore, let's retreat south! Save your strength and come back next year to attack the city. "Mayali pleaded bitterly, he had fought the Tang army head-on, and he knew the strength of the Tang army.

"No!" Alan stared at the city, he seemed to think of something, and his pupils slowly closed, "Maybe I can use Tang Jun's confidence to turn the tide of the battle." ”

As soon as he turned around, he resolutely ordered: "Order to collect the troops and return to the camp and prepare to retreat south!" ”

Woo--The sound of a long horn echoed on the battlefield, this was the order to collect the troops, and the Great Food Army slowly withdrew from the battlefield and returned to the barracks.

The sky is already dusk, the blood-red sunset shines on the hideous stone mountain, in the strong north wind, the stone mountain seems to be lit with a raging fire, the desolate sky has gradually revealed the figure of the night, Wang Siyu slowly walked to the city, his majestic body is straight, revealing a tenacious and decisive military temperament, he looked at the enemy army camp for a long time and was silent, the attack of the big food army has obviously been out of order in the past few days, the boarding car has been destroyed, and the fire oil bomb has not appeared again after the last attack yesterday, Today, they even thought of using the clumsy method of piling up huge rocks to get to the city, but in the end, they were also anticlimactic, and after a hasty attack, they withdrew their troops, didn't they know that after a night of freezing, the stone mountain would become impossible to climb?

Wang Siyu's deep eyes showed a hint of understanding, the fatigue of the offensive revealed the impetuousness and anxiety of the enemy commander, the situation in Bakhana had changed dramatically, the logistics supply was cut off, and the arrival of reinforcements from the north and south of the Tang Army, the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the Great Food Army, and he had realized it. The enemy's attacking forces were exhausted, and there was a retreat.

"Dashuai, you see that this sunset seems to be a little weirdly red!" Shi Wu Yuanheng walked up slowly, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on his face, his face became red as if he was drunk, and two flames seemed to be lit in his eyes. He leaned on the head of the city, stared at the blood-red sunset, and said with a hint of melancholy: "This kind of bloody sunset is often a harbinger of great disasters. ”

He saw that Wang Siyu did not answer. Then he turned his head to look at him, only to see that he was looking intently at the big food army camp in the distance, as if he didn't hear what he said, Wu Yuanheng smiled helplessly, and the topic turned to the topic, "Dashuai, do you think the big food army will really retreat on all fronts tonight?" Wang Siyu glanced at him and said with a faint smile: "The situation is obviously unfavorable to the Great Cannibals, do you think they are still unwilling to withdraw their troops?" ”

Wu Yuanheng shook his head and said: "After dealing with the enemy commander for more than two months, I am about to find out his character. This man is the kind of person who is stubborn and refuses to give up easily, and he has not fought a good battle with us, how can he retreat willingly, so I deceive that he will retreat tonight, but it is just to lure us to pursue and kill again. Perhaps he will defeat us in a battle, and then take advantage of the situation to capture Broken Leaf and turn the tide of the war in one fell swoop. ”

"Wu Yushi is worthy of being a person from the military department, and he really sees it thoroughly." Wang Siyu looked at the heavy trebuchet of the Great Food Army slowly returning to the camp, and he nodded slightly. Wu Yuanheng's analysis is very reasonable, the possibility of the big cannibal killing back the horse gun is very great, this will be the last crazy fight of the big food boss, but it is his crazy thoughts that will bury a trace of the vitality of the entire big food army, Wang Siyu sighed and said: "I have a plan, Wu Yushi will help me see if it works." ”

That night, there was a movement in the Great Food Barracks, and the whole night was full of people and the neighing of war horses, until it was almost dawn. The Great Food Army began to retreat. It was as if the black clouds that could not be seen were slowly drifting southward, and the spontaneous sound of the Tang army knocking on the bowls and pots began to appear on the city. At first, it was only sparse and sparse, but later, more and more Tang troops caught up with the city, earth-shattering cheers resounded in the sky, countless Tang troops hugged each other and cried, the big cannibals finally retreated, and the nightmare battle for more than two months was over, and the Tang army also paid a heavy price of 8,000 people, but they won the victory, and nothing boosted the morale of the soldiers more than victory.

"Marshal, the enemy has no intention of fighting, we can't let go of this fighter!"

"Marshal, the morale of our army is like a rainbow, and it is ready for a decisive battle with the enemy." The generals under him have asked for battle, and they have not fought with the enemy army for more than two months, how can they be let go so easily, Wang Siyu has already made up his mind, he waved his hand, and smiled slightly at the generals: "Don't worry, I have already made arrangements yesterday, and the big food army will definitely not be able to run." ”

In the north of Yezhi City, Cao Hanchen's 40,000 troops dug a long trench in one day, as long as three miles, this trench is located at the exit of the Broken Leaf Valley on the north bank of the Yezhi River, about forty miles away from the Broken Leaf, choking the only way to return to the west, 6,000 crossbow soldiers, 5,000 Mo sword troops, 20,000 light cavalry and 5,000 spearmen formed this elite army, and there were also 500 Thunderbolt chariots cruising on the opposite bank of the Yezhi River to prevent the enemy from crossing the river and fleeing south.

This army, including the 10,000 Tang Army that went out of the Green Ridge to disturb the Tocharian Great Food Army and the 10,000 Tang Army who stayed in Shule, a total of 60,000 troops were from Guanzhong, Bashu, Hedong, and Longyou.

Cao Hanchen stood on a high post, staring at the cold Broken Leaf Valley in the distance, he had received the order of the commander last night, just today part of the enemy's army is likely to return to the west of the Broken Leaf Valley, and ordered him to block the westward return of the Great Food Army at all costs, this will be a big battle that will determine the fate of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, Cao Hanchen's heart is heavy, although he has been named the Marquis of Gaochang, but it is the first time for him to independently command a campaign, and his troops are not very many, The 80,000 allied troops of the Western Regions are still on the way, and it will take at least two days to get here.

"General, look at the Red Eagle!" A soldier pointed to the sky and shouted, Cao Hanchen put his hand on the curtain and looked over, only to see several red earth eagles hovering in the gray sky, the red eagle has always been a traditional way for Zhang Huan's Xiliang army to report messages, usually used to warn, it is more concealed than beacon fire. Trained and controlled by a specialized scout army, the appearance of the Red Eagle means that the enemy army is less than ten miles away.

Cao Hanchen immediately ordered: "The crossbow machine army enters the position, the Mo knife hand prepares, and the cavalry arranges the two wings." Then give me the order, and quickly dispatch the thunderbolt to come to support. ”

The six thousand crossbow troops immediately formed three rows in front of the trench and half-crouched down. Began to pull the string on the arrow, this is a specially trained crossbowmen, they use the Tang Army's farthest range, the most powerful Fu Yuan crossbow, extremely accurate, a hundred steps away can penetrate the enemy's ordinary shield, but the only drawback is that the winding is slow, the operation is inconvenient, and it can not be used in rainy days, so the Tang Army adopted the three-stage shooting method invented by the Qin Army, arranged in three rows to shoot alternately. In this way, each crossbowman can shoot three arrows within a hundred paces of the enemy cavalry.

Behind them are five thousand Mo sword troops, arranged in two rows, holding two zhang long Mo swords, when the crossbow army finishes shooting three rounds, they will be on top. They will be the main force against the Great Eclipse cavalry, and the 20,000 light cavalry will be arranged on both sides in the form of goose wings, which can be collected or released, to intercept the enemy's stragglers from escaping, and at the end are 5,000 spearmen. This spearman is also Cao Hanchen's Diya Army, the soldiers are all from Guanzhong, all of them are tall and strong, holding three-zhang spears, forming a huge phalanx, which is also a sharp weapon against cavalry.

In a moment, the Tang army was already ready, and on the distant horizon, a black line faintly appeared, this army was the 40,000 Great Food Army led by Adjutant General Myare. It consisted of two Turkic slave legions and two Egyptian legions. Their mission, like Cao Hanchen's, was to intercept the Tang army heading north and attack the main force of the Great Food Army from behind. At present, the main force of the more than 100,000 Great Food Army led by Alan is located in General Peiluo City, which is fifteen miles away from Broken Leaf, which is the Acropolis of Broken Leaf, and on the side of this Acropolis, the main force of the Great Food Army is like a huge pit viper, opening its bloody mouth, waiting for the Broken Leaf Tang Army to send it to the door.

At this moment, Hyali also saw the Tang army in the distance, he was secretly taken aback, yesterday the scout also reported that the Tang army was in Yezhi City, I didn't expect them to advance to this place now, it was so close to General Peiluo City, and from the other party's foot formation, the number was not less than him, the first battle of Shule, Nyali was captured by the Tang Army for three years, he worked as a miner in the Broken Leaf Silver Mine, until he was released by the Tang Army two years ago, although he knew the Tang Army very well, and was sent as a deputy general, but he had a fear of the Tang Army in his bones, The powerful weapons and well-trained soldiers of the Tang Army left him with a vivid memory, although the Great Food Army was able to sweep through the West, but it did not have the slightest advantage over this powerful Eastern army, and even was at a disadvantage in weapons and equipment.

"General Mayali, are we going to fight?" A Turkic army commander is eager to try, the Turkic slave army is the Turkic soldiers captured by the Great Food when he fought against the Western Turks, and they were adapted into the army of the Great Eater, stationed east of the Amu Darya River, although it is called the Slave Army, but that mainly refers to the first generation of Turkic people, after decades of evolution, the Turks have become a special race in the Great Food, and the mercenaries who have been the Great Cannibals for generations, a bit similar to the military households of the Tang Dynasty, they fought bravely, second only to the Caliph Guards and the Khorasan Benzong Army, and had a very high evaluation in the Great Food Army, In fact, three hundred years later, it was this Turkic army that took control of the military government of the Black-clothed Great Eater, and the Great Diet Caliph became their puppet and could be deposed at any time, and this army is the ancestor of present-day Turkey.

From the original intention of Muryali, he was not willing to fight the Tang army, and even wanted to turn around and retreat, he came to intercept the Tang army north, not to take the initiative to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army, but he also knew that retreating would mean the end of his official fortune, no matter what the reason, the caliph would never tolerate a cowardly general who escaped.

He pondered for a long time, then turned back to the four legion commanders and asked, "I need a legion to test the reality of the Tang army, is it the Turks who are willing to take the lead, or the Egyptians who are willing to take the lead?" ”

"Do you need to ask?" The two Turkic army commanders glanced at each other and said arrogantly: "The Turks and the Tang Dynasty have fought for hundreds of years, except for us, who has the qualifications to fight against the Tang Army, and the black and white people in the West should step aside!" ”

"Good! Then the Second Turkic Army will challenge the Tang Army, and there is no need to fight hard, and if it is found that it is not supported, it can be immediately retreated. Mayali commanded two words, and immediately ordered: "The second Turkic army is attacking!" ”

With Mayali's order, 10,000 Turkic troops rushed out of the brigade, like a sharp blade, wrapped in murderous aura all over the world, stabbing towards the Tang army several miles away.

This Turkic army is no longer a strong enemy in the north of the Sui and Tang armies, and their establishment and equipment are no different from the Great Food Army, especially in long-range weapons. Originally, the Turks learned the bow-making skills of the Han people, and the bows and arrows were very sharp, but because the big cannibals had become accustomed to throwing short spears, after being adopted by the big cannibals, the Turks also switched to short spears and gave up bows and arrows. Moreover, the army is also the same as the Great Cannibal, with a regiment as an independent combat unit, about 10,000 people. It is divided into ten brigades, a brigade of 1,000 people, and a squadron of 100 people under the brigade, and finally a small team of 10 people, simple and clear, the captain is killed, and the officer at the higher level can directly appoint a new captain.

"Kill!" The overwhelming Turkic cavalry had rushed to a distance of five hundred paces.

The camp of the Tang army was still unmoving, and the six thousand crossbow soldiers began to pick up the nearly twenty-pound Fuyuan crossbow from the ground, and pressed one end of the Fuyuan crossbow against their shoulder sockets, and the cold arrows aimed at the Turkic cavalry on the opposite side. Three hundred paces, the Turkic cavalry has rushed into the range of the Fuyuan crossbow, but the three hundred paces of the arrow has disappeared, can not be pierced, the crossbow machine soldiers are still not moving, they are waiting for the best range, this crossbow machine soldiers are from the east of the river. After three years of rigorous training, they had a good sense of distance, and they had already ordered them to fire arrows in 100 paces in advance, so there was no need to beat the drum and give orders.

The crossbowmen of the two-hundred-step Tang Army still did not move, and their cold eyes were fixed on the Turks who were galloping in with thousands of horses. They could even clearly see the shrugged faces of the Turkic people.

One hundred steps! With a soft click, the sound of breaking the sky suddenly sounded, and two thousand sharp crossbow arrows were like a dark cloud, piercing the cold mist, and shooting head-on at the Turkic cavalry in black pressure, and the powerful crossbow arrows shattered the Turkic shields, piercing their heads and chests, and screaming one after another, falling from their horses, and being trampled into flesh with the sound of dense horses' hooves. After the first round of arrows. The more than 400 Turkic soldiers who rushed to the front were killed, as if they had been stripped of a layer of skin. But only ran less than twenty paces, the second row of arrows, the third row of arrows in turn, after two rounds of six rows of arrows, the Tang army's strong crossbow array caused heavy casualties to the Turks, the dead bodies all over the ground and the wounded and struggling soldiers hindered the gallop of the follow-up horses, and the offensive momentum of the Turks was obviously blocked.

The huge leather drum rumbled behind the Tang army, and the well-trained crossbowmen immediately retreated from the gap in the reserved ground of the Modao army to the back, and quickly ran to three hundred steps away to rearrange the formation, waiting for the next opportunity to shoot, but they left nearly a thousand crossbowmen, squatting down at a distance of about sixty steps from the Mo knife hand, pulling the strings and arrows, waiting for a possible opportunity to shoot the first bird The Turkic cavalry was a step slower, they were distracted by a wide trench, and they slowed down their horses and jumped across the trench, In the very short time when the Turkic cavalry jumped over the trench, the crossbowmen had already rushed out of the range of the Turkic army's short spears, this is the role of the trench, although it could not stop the charge of the enemy cavalry, but it gave the crossbowmen time to retreat, not to be injured by the short spears of the Great Food Army, perhaps this is the details that determine success or failure, often a small detail can save the lives of hundreds of soldiers.

Jumping over the trench, the Turkic army rushed into forty steps, and entered their throwing range, he had already held back his strength, and the overwhelming short spear flew towards the Tang army, and the five thousand Mo sword army shouted neatly, and the passage of the crossbow soldiers retreated abruptly closed, forming a copper wall and iron wall, and the flying spears pierced on their heavy armor, making a clanging sound, and they fell to the ground one after another, it was difficult to hurt the Mo knife army in the slightest, and the five thousand Mo knife army Huo Di flattened the Mo knife, and the sharp spikes at the front end of the Mo knife formed a dense knife forest, The cold light stabbed at the attacking enemy.

More than 100 Turks who rushed to the front could not regain their momentum, and even the horses crashed into the spiked forest, falling a large area of bloody corpses, and the Turks behind were eager to rein in the horses, and the war horses raised their front hooves and jumped high, this is the opportunity for thousands of crossbowmen waiting sixty steps behind, and thousands of powerful crossbow arrows flew away, passing over the heads of the Modao army, and shooting hundreds of birds to the ground.

The five thousand Mo sword army began to advance like a wall, the blades passed everywhere, the momentum was like a wild blow, flesh and blood burst out, bones were split, the black rumbling human head rolled to the ground, the cry and moan suddenly rose, and the ownerless war horse neighed sadly, with a mane scattered, and left the battlefield in an avalanche-like fierce battle, like a ghost horse from hell.

About half an hour later, Cao Hanchen saw that the enemy army had collapsed, his red flag flashed, the drums on both sides sounded at the same time, and the light cavalry on both wings began to launch, they contracted the battle line, the tips of the two wings rushed forward, and from a high altitude, the dense Tang cavalry was like a huge bird vibrating its wings, and the two wings bent forward, as if to encircle the Turkic army.

Woo--The horn of the Great Cannibal withdrawal suddenly came from afar, and Myali saw that this Turkic slave army was in danger, and once the two flanks of the Tang Army were encircled, this army would be like a flying insect caught by Cordyceps Eaten, and the Tang Army would be eaten one by one.

But the horn of the withdrawal was too late, the cavalry of the Tang army was flying, the encirclement was quickly closed, and none of the remaining thousands of Turks could escape.

"General Mayali, we must press on with all our troops and save our brother!" The leader of another Turkic legion shouted with red eyes, "If you don't save you, I will report to Harry that you collaborated with the enemy and deliberately sent us Turks to death." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about." Myali glared at him fiercely, he observed for a few more moments, and made sure that the surrounded Turks were indeed unable to break through on their own, and he finally gave the order to attack: "The whole army is dispatched to defeat the Tang army." ”

Ten thousand horses galloped, 30,000 food troops swept towards the Tang army, the Tang army's huge drums also rumbled, and 5,000 spearmen began to dispatch.

The 5,000 Mo Sword Army transformed into an inverted eight-figure formation, divided into two teams to strangle the last remnants of the 3,000 Turkic slave army, and the 20,000 Tang Army cavalry was like two giant dragons that suddenly raised their heads, one left and one right to meet the enemy.