Chapter 561: Don't take such a bully
If it is said that the other side is only a small group of Tang troops holding on, after yesterday's melee, their arrows should be very little, and it is impossible to waste them so extravagantly;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; So rainbow
Could it be that the main force of the Tang army is hidden in the dense forest on the other side, they have sufficient baggage, high morale, and full confidence, so they don't take arrows seriously, but it is a waste of energy, but is it possible, Chang Mucang even sent out the cadet team in order to bite himself, which shows that he is already poor in donkey skills.
Zhu Jiu and Yan Qin's troops were all mixed with horses and infantry, mainly infantry troops, it was impossible to keep up with his pace, and Shi Xiong, who only had a chance to fight with him, was more than two hundred miles away, unless he threw away all his baggage and hurried lightly, it was impossible to rush ahead of them to deploy here.
Even so, only a handful of elite cavalry in Shi Xiong's troops could do this, and Yelu came to judge that the number should not exceed a thousand. According to the calculation that the Tang people distributed fifty arrows per person, one thousand people is fifty thousand arrows, and they should have been lost in yesterday's melee.
What kind of courage did they have to shoot such a strong rain of arrows?
Yelu also put three question marks in his mind, and then he decisively called in his own soldiers, ordered them to change into heavy armor, and organized the seventh charge.
In order to maintain mobility, the Khitan people wore leather armor for many soldiers, and a small number of iron armor only protected the heart and lungs and other vital points, but the guards who came to Yelu also carried the heavy armor presented by Xue Qingbao in Liaodong City in the past, which had excellent protection, but the disadvantage was that it was too bulky. The ruler is short, the inch is long, and Yelu is also a clever commander who can understand the advantages of this kind of heavy armor.
It was not an easy task to change the heavy armor, and when the Khitans had changed their heavy armor, the horn whimpered, and the seventh strong attack of the Khitans began.
The soldiers who went into the water were like a heavily armored python, slowly moving forward, and the silence around them was like death, this kind of silence increased the panic of the Khitans, their movements were unusually slow, and Yelu also came to not urge them, no matter how good the heavy armor was, it had its weaknesses, could they carry the fierce arrows of the Tang people
The first heavily armored soldier climbed to the opposite shore with a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, and he scanned the gap in his face to the left and right, vigilantly monitoring every move in the woods, and the surroundings were quiet and fearful, except for the corpses that were piled up on the ground, there was nothing alive.
More heavily armored soldiers landed on the opposite bank, scattered in formation, and searched and advanced, the woods were still quiet and fearful, but the terrifying arrows did not fly out for a long time.
After a long time, the Khitans finally accepted the fact that the Tang army had retreated, and there was no one here.
Yelu also came to carefully inspect the corpse of a Tang soldier, the equipment on his body was not moved, his belongings were also there, the food bags and water bladders were also there, only the quiver was empty, and the other Tang army corpses were inspected, it was the same, everything was there, only the quiver was empty, on the other hand, the quiver of the Khitan corpse was full.
The Khitan bows and crossbows were much more backward than those of the Tang army, and they needed more skills and training to operate them freely.
Yelu also came to feel a little blocked in his heart, a small number of Tang army advance team, taking advantage of the geographical advantage, blocked them for a day, that's all, they are all the elite of the Tang army, defeat to them is nothing, the hateful thing is that they are obviously exhausted arrows, but they used an empty city plan to drag him for a long morning
"Cross the river at once, cross the river."
Yelu also came to refuse to say a word, and personally commanded the vanguard army to split the woods and seek a way out, he wanted to regain the lost time, hoping that everything was still in time.
Under the tremendous pressure of running away, the vanguard army of the Khitans quickly opened a road, and at dusk they crossed the forest area to the savanna, they were the masters of the grassland, and it felt really good to return to their own territory.
Jerod also came to rest for the decision, his army was exhausted and demoralized, and it was no longer enough to force the march.
In addition, they have returned to the grassland, even if they encounter a sneak attack by the Tang people, they are not afraid, nearly 10,000 Khitan warriors gathered together is the sky can also poke a hole, why not be afraid of the Tang people
The Khitan people ate a beautiful meal, fell asleep, and suddenly snored loudly.
At dawn, most people were still asleep, and in the royal blue sky, a few cold stars flew towards a Khitan camp with a long tail of fire, and the soldiers in charge of the guard craned their necks and looked at the uninvited guests who landed in the sky in confusion.
With a bang, the visitors from outside the sky slammed viciously in front of a camp tent, making an earth-shattering loud noise, flames splashed everywhere, and one guard was instantly engulfed in the heavenly fire and burned to charcoal, and ten soldiers in a camp tent were forced out by the fire, they were sleeping in their clothes, their bodies were full of fire, and they let out a sharp and piercing howl.
The howl resounded over the entire camp with the explosion of every visitor from outside the sky.
Awakened by the loud explosion, he rushed out of the tent with his sword, but saw a fireball flying towards him, he looked at the fireball in surprise, narrowed his eyes, and urgently searched his knowledge base for the scientific name and usefulness of the object, but to no avail, his companion roared, pounced and pushed him out, and after a loud bang, the flames burned his spine.
In the midst of the loud noise, his companions were covered in flames, and in the terrible howl they turned into ashes, and the tent turned into a sea of fire, and the huge tongues of fire sprang out several feet high, instantly engulfing several of the manuen beside him, who were on fire and screamed fiercely, and this sound spread far away, causing great panic.
Yelu also came to draw his sword in his hand, and slashed several horse slaves, his eyebrows were licked by the tongue of fire, and it was incomplete, and he naturally didn't care, he wanted to grab a horse. The Khitans are warriors on horseback, and nothing can be done without horses, but what frustrates him is that their stables are attacked by fireballs in the morning, and half of the horses are dead, and the other half is frightened away, scattering around the camp, trampling a lot of their own people to death, and the crazy horses cannot be caught, and they cannot be caught, and they cannot be ridden.
Yelu also came to have a premonition that something was wrong, the enemy launched such an attack, obviously premeditated for a long time, and it was definitely a large force, and it was impossible to let them go easily.
The whole camp was in chaos, and his own camp was still like this, not to mention the other camps, and Jerod also came to curse, snatched one of the guards' horses, and fled with the guards of the army.
There was a huge error in the judgment of Yelu Yelai, his camp was indeed a mess of porridge, but the other camps did not cause chaos, although the Tang army's flowering bombs were huge, but there were many drawbacks, and the cost was high, and it was very complicated to use, so there were not many equipment in the army, and the commander of the Tang army was to concentrate all the flowering bullets together and use them on his head, the goal was to behead, and the beheading failed, but it caused him such an illusion: the Tang army had hit his own camp. Then the camp of the Gongwei on the periphery must have been defeated.
"They're completely messed up."
Shi Xiong and Zhu Jiu, who were standing on the hillside and watching the Khitans fall into chaos, both felt that the time had come.
The two of them looked at each other and said, "Let's go to war." ”
According to the division of labor, Zhu Jiu commanded the infantry army to attack the camp, and Shi Xiong commanded the cavalry to intercept and kill the rout army that escaped from the camp.
The battle of the general's crossing dragged on the Khitans for a day, during which Zhu Jiu urgently marched, hurried and hurried, and finally opened his pockets on time at the intersection of the forest and grassland north of the general's crossing, leaving them not much time, when the Khitans camped and rested, they were also resting, and they were more tired than the Khitans.
After careful observation, Shi Xiong and Zhu Jiu found out the location of Yelu Yelaiwei, which benefited from the in-depth understanding of the Khitans in the right chamber, without the information they provided, Shi Xiong and Zhu Jiu would not be able to understand the rules of the Khitan army's arrangement, and it would be impossible to accurately find out where Yelu Yelai was hiding.
If it weren't for the accuracy of the intelligence, the five flowering shells would not have worked as well as they should, and the encounter would have become extremely difficult.
10,000 elite infantry rushed down the hill on horseback, rushed out of the woods, dismounted outside the camp of the Khitan people, reorganized the team, and launched a charge with shouts, the camp of the Khitan people was relatively rough, and only high guns were laid around to resist the horses, in order to deter the cavalry raid, this kind of fortification was completely an ornament in the eyes of the Tang army infantry.
Foot fighting, wearing heavy armor, excellent bows and knives, the Tang army with skillful formations obviously had the absolute upper hand, and the Khitans who lacked heavy armor had no way to retreat from the arrows that were as dense as flying locusts, and after a few rounds of arrow rain, their morale was seriously damaged, and it was at this time that the news of the death of the leader suddenly came.
The news was released by the Tang army, and dozens of Tang soldiers who knew Khitan language dressed up as the Khitan rout, mixed in the rout crowd, and shouted that Yelu had also come to die for the news, which caused huge chaos.
I wish the nine hands to dance the long knife and take the lead. As the commander of a division, he took the lead, so he fought and rushed, Zhu Jiu was the first person, the symbolic significance of this move was far greater than the actual significance, and the soldiers were greatly encouraged, and the momentum was like a rainbow for a while, and it was unstoppable.
The camps of the Khitan people fell one after another, and the scattered soldiers and wolves rushed to the wolf, and the army could not be formed, and the Tang soldiers ignored this, and only rushed forward to kill until the joint camp was completely killed, and this turned to deal with the rout army that was scurrying around.
The Khitans, who had recovered from the chaos, rode their horses to fight, but found that in the huge chaos, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry could not be displayed at all, so they had to rush out of the chaos and assemble in the open space outside the camp.
The Khitans were efficient, and the chaotic ranks were quickly assembled, and the two thousand cavalry had just taken shape, and were about to regain the initiative on the battlefield, when a hidden cavalry team suddenly slaughtered from the hillside behind them, in the birch forest.
Condescending, overwhelming.
The Khitans were powerless to stop it, and they were instantly defeated.
This rout could no longer be controlled, the offensive and defensive battle ended, and the two sides quickly turned to the pursuit and annihilation battle, pursuing the Tang army's horse infantry army, and fleeing the Khitan cavalry with horses and cavalry without horses.
Zhu Jiu was responsible for dealing with the cavalry without horses, and Shi Xiong led the cavalry to pursue the cavalry with horses.
Shi Xiong's army is the most mobile one in the Anton army, but compared to the mobility of the Khitan, there is still a lack, the pursuit of the war is not easy, the Khitan people are scattered, scattered and fleeing, according to past experience, in the skirmishes of less than 100 people, the Anton army is more defeated than victorious, basically can not beat the Khitans.
The tiger can't eat the mice that are running around, and it takes a cat to catch mice, so Shi Xiong immediately made a decision, broke the whole into zero, and broke the troops into zero, scattering tens of millions of kittens and letting them catch mice
This is actually a big risk, the Khitan tactics on the run are still clever, and when cornered, the rats have become very vicious, can the kittens deal with them
All sides were nervously watching, but the results were exciting, and the kittens were doing a good job of killing the rats that were running away, one by one, and there was no hiding place for the chasing mice.
However, although the cats have skills in catching mice, their appetite is too small, and there is still a gap between them and swallowing the entire Khitan.
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