Chapter 076: Mo Dao Rises
Ashina Simo was influenced by Han culture, so that the whole clan has a sense of being prepared for danger in times of peace, this time he obeyed the arrangement of Jieli Khan, transferred 30,000 troops, but still left 50,000 soldiers to protect the tribe.
Luo Tong didn't think about another hearty annihilation war like he did against Duolun and Nash, but it was more than enough to target the big Turkic families and retreat after grabbing.
Most of the Turkic commoners only raised a few sheep and a few horses to make a living, but the Turkic nobles had 100,000 horses, cattle and sheep. They usually hired Turkic people to raise horses for them. The Han people who plundered from the Central Plains were cattle slaves and sheep slaves for grazing. The Central Plains men who were captured to the grassland had no tents to sleep in, and could only sleep in cattle pens and sheep pens, and they were not fed in order to prevent escape, which was inferior to pigs and dogs.
Because the Duolun and Nash tribes were too close to the border of the Han people, they were worried that the Han people would flee back to their territory, and there were no Han slaves. The tribe of Ashina Simo was relatively deep into the grasslands, and had thousands of Han Chinese slaves.
This is the information that Li Jing gave to Luo Tong, Luo Tong was furious when he heard it, and he did not hesitate to target Ashina Simo, a Turkic nobleman. Fighting the Turkic royal family and nobles not only makes a lot of money, but also can export evil anger for the people who were captured to the Turks, and by the way, it can also rescue some people trapped in the steppe.
Therefore, this time they took the lead in attacking the livestock of the Ashina tribe, occupying the stables, sheepfolds, and cattle pens in one fell swoop, and also rescued more than 1,300 people trapped in the Central Plains.
Luo Tong assigned the soldiers and horses who were in charge of the battle of the Nash tribe to protect the people. and gave the people a commandment. Let them drive the cattle, sheep and horses to the rear. The Tang army could fight, but the grazing was clumsy, and it took a lot of effort to pacify the more than 30,000 cattle captured from the Nash tribe. These Central Plains people have been trapped in the Turks for many years, and naturally learned to drive cattle and sheep for grazing, and drive cattle and sheep. It's what they're good at. The Tang army rescued them from fire and water, and they did everything they could to do extremely hard, sweeping away the cattle and sheep.
After sacking the livestock land, Luo Tong personally rushed to the front line, engaged the Turkic soldiers who heard the news, and the spear in his hand waved, breaking through the Turkic soldiers who intended to resist and prevent them from looting, and laughed loudly, "Burn and loot, who wouldn't." Let you taste the consequences today. "He went back and forth to kill the Turks, ignoring the surrounding Turks. Seeing a Turkic soldier rushing over from the Turkic camp, he let out a long roar: "Run over!" ”
Without hesitation, he rushed over with his own soldiers, and the spear mixed with the whistling wind streaked through the air with a bright silver light piercing the chest of the leading Turkic soldier, picking up his body with one hand and throwing it into the crowd, knocking down a group of soldiers. The Tang army behind him swarmed up, slashing and stabbing the Turkic soldiers.
Having broken through the three orderly counterattacks, Luo Tong faintly felt that the Turks' counterattacks were becoming more and more sharp, they were few and should not fight for a long time, and the dawn was imminent to let the other party see through their reality, they were still in danger of annihilation, and he sensibly gave the order to retreat.
The soldiers he brought out were well-trained, and they did not flee because of the order to retreat. Luo Tong and his personal guards are still fighting on the front line, blocking the pursuit and resistance of the Turks.
Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Chuliang, Yao Chi, and Almaty led their own Qubu to drive cattle, sheep and horses, and slowly retreated one after another.
After confirming the safety of the rear army, Luo Tong beckoned the guards to retreat.
After retreating for about half a mile, suddenly there was a shout of killing from behind. Turning his head, it turned out that the Turkic soldiers had chased after him again.
They were unwilling to let their cattle, sheep and horses be plundered by Luo Tong in this way, and hurriedly gathered twenty or thirty thousand Turkic warriors and chased after them, but what made them depressed was that because the cattle were robbed, they became foot soldiers with scimitars in their hands.
At this time, the sky was already dark, and Luo Tong couldn't help laughing when he saw the appearance of the Turkic soldiers, are the unmatched Turkic soldiers still the Turkic soldiers who dominate the world?
Tang Jun was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, retribution! In the past, the Tang army made the Turkic cavalry unable to raise their heads, but now it has been replaced, and the Tang army has good military discipline and perfect military formation! And what about the Turks who became infantry? It's just a straggler.
"Fuck it!" Luo Tong scolded and shouted: "Don't retreat, brothers, dismount to meet the battle, destroy them with the Mo Sword Formation, Qin Huaiyu led five hundred iron cavalry to attack the left wing, and Luo Yuan's personal guards attacked the right wing." Li Yesi continued to ......"
The Modao Army did not hesitate to change into the equipment they were most familiar with, and lined up to meet the enemy in their own duties.
It's not a problem to break the step with the step, but it's too easy to break the step with the little thing. The Turkic soldiers did not have the advantage of cavalry, so the Mo swordsman simply put the Mo knife by his side and replaced them with crossbows! Wait for the enemy to die on his own.
Waiting for the Turkic soldiers to approach, Luo Tong shouted: "Shoot!" The order to attack was issued one after another, and powerful crossbow arrows flew through the air, and countless sharp arrows flew like locusts towards the dense Turkic soldiers!
The sharp sound of breaking the sky, the whistling of arrows was instantaneous.
Dense like raindrops pounced on the Turkic infantry.
In an instant, the soul-chasing crossbow arrows pierced through people and horses, often piercing three or four people with a single arrow, and the Turkic army was suddenly in chaos.
"Bite them! Serial shooting! Luo Tong's eyes flashed with a scorching light, just as he said before, the Turks were too naïve, and it was a pipe dream to rush into battle with a numerical advantage, how could the Mo Dao Array reveal such a big flaw? The slow mobility of the Mo Knife Soldier will indeed become a target, but before trying to use the Mo Knife as a target, the ferocious and domineering crossbow arrow will shoot the opponent into a sieve first.
The powerful firepower network forced the Turkic cavalry to stop at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and even pressed down to two hundred paces.
Only one wave of attacks caused two or three thousand casualties to the Turks, not because the Tang army was clever in archery, but because the Turks were too dense, they were simply live targets, and the arrows shot by the Tang army did not miss at all.
"There are only two or three thousand dog thieves, and if we press it, we will win."
Just as the Turks were in a commotion, only one of the crowd shouted. As a nation that is good at archery, it has an extraordinary understanding of arrows, and how to shoot arrows and how to break arrows is the clearest, either to close the distance or to close the distance for hand-to-hand combat.
At this distance, once they are entangled in a series of crossbow arrows, it will be difficult for the dense Turkic soldiers to turn around, and once the order to retreat is given, there will inevitably be a situation where they will flee for their lives and kill each other. Therefore, the only way is to rush forward and kill, and even if you are fighting for losses, you have to rush to the front and fight hand-to-hand with the Tang army, so that the power of crossbow arrows will not be able to be exerted. There is no other choice.
Completely caught in a situation of being beaten, losing thousands of people before they could fight, all kinds of circumstances aroused the blood of the Turkic soldiers, one by one roaring and ignoring the crossbow arrows that came from the hurry, and stubbornly piled up a way forward with flesh and blood. Thousands of Turkic cavalry fell, and the distance between the two armies was shortened at a speed visible to the naked eye under the desperate surprise of the Turks.
After the Turks paid the price of more than 4,000 lives, the two armies officially collided on the battlefield.
Mo Dao held his hands shoulder to shoulder and feet against his feet, and stretched out the Mo Dao in his hand for a long time. It forms a defense line like a hedgehog, full of thorns, and people have nowhere to put their mouths.
In just a few breaths, the Turkic soldiers wedged into the Modao army fiercely, and rushed over with fearless courage.
Forced bite with nowhere to go.
In the splatters of blood, the Turkic soldiers who rushed up rushed up collided with the tip of the Mo knife that stretched out, and under the blessing of that terrifying force. Without hesitation, the Mo knife passed through the enemy's chest, stabbed into the body, and finally passed through the horse's back. Pierced into the body of the Turkic soldier.
The Turks have never lacked the courage to fight to the death, but with the loss of their horses and their impact, their threat to the Modao Army is really limited.
"Slash!"
With Luo Tong's order. The warrior, who had been holding back for a long time, took a step forward at the same time, and with the Mo knife in his hand, he fiercely cut down the enemy in front of him.
As the most ferocious Mo knives of ancient cold weapons, they revealed their hideous appearance at this moment.
The knife rises and falls, and everyone is broken!