Kang Sheli beat for more than an hour before he calmed down, put down his horsewhip and returned to the house, and asked Li Li to send Yang Shanjing: "Good scripture, what should I do now?" ”

Yang Shanjing is a beautiful man of the Han nationality, about thirty years old, with a pearl crown and gorgeous clothes, bright teeth and red lips, and said with a smile: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, we brought 15,000 Turkic wolf horsemen and 10,000 Tiele elites this time, even if we lose 5,000 people, it has nothing to do with the overall situation." The key is whether the general can endure this breath and stay in the mountain of greedy sweat without moving. ”

Kang Yanli smiled bitterly, "No. All the heads have been cut off, if the Sui army is not worried that we have reinforcements behind, I am afraid that there will be another landscape outside the mountain, if you and I don't kill Gaochang and pass it to the tooth tent, Yantuo set those people still don't say all the right and wrong, how can there still be a place for us, so I thought about it just now, only to march, blood for blood, tooth for tooth. Tomorrow I will leave five thousand wolves to ride for you, and the rest of the men and horses will kill Gaochang with all their might. ”

Yang Shanjing arched his hand and said, "Thank you." ”

Yang Shanjing is also a member of the Great Sui royal family, as a representative of the royal family, he voluntarily followed Princess Yicheng in the Turks, and he has been a powerful minister of the Turkic Tooth Tent for ten years, but Yang Shanjing has his own bottom line, that is, he will not participate in the war against the Sui Dynasty. Apparently not losing his mind, Kang Shali advised: "In case my army is defeated, you should immediately take your men and horses and escort the captives back to the north, and don't think about rescuing me or making another scheme." ”

Yang Shanjing was puzzled and asked, "Since you don't have the confidence to win, why do you want to go?" ”

Kang Sheli Zhengse said: "The tooth tent is not ready to carry out a full-scale war with the Great Sui, no matter whether the Sui Emperor's eastern expedition is won or defeated, once he returns, the Khan can only give the other side to withdraw his troops, unless we have already occupied Gaochang." Now Yang Chong has not yet united the forces of Gaochang and Baishan Tiele, and when he completes all this, the other party's number of people and materials will far exceed ours, and if it is winter, it will be difficult for us to support it. ”

Yang Shanjing nodded and said, "So the matter of Ashina Guxiang is not an accident, he is preparing to attack Gaochang." ”

Kang Shealy said with a smile on his face: "I just wanted to provoke a reason at the beginning, but I didn't expect the other party to be so neat, and now it's okay, a battle to decide the battle, save a lot of dreams." ”

Kang Sheli began to dispatch troops in the early morning of the next day, the golden wolf flag fluttered with the morning breeze, 15,000 cavalry, 20,000 war horses were at their peak, marching in and out, cooperating with each other to kill out of the mountains. The first news reported by the scouts was that Yang Chong, the commander of Gaochang County, personally led the troops to come, with 8,000 iron cavalry and 2,000 infantry, and the troops were stationed fifty miles in front of the hunter city, waiting for the arrival of the Turkic army.

Yang Chong was also helpless to go on this expedition, 8,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry, which can be said to be the largest force that Gaochang County can come up with. Sikong Xing and Murong Xixiong both wanted to go on the expedition, and they couldn't argue, and in the end it was Meng Tuo's idea, Yang Chong was in charge, Murong Xixiong and Wang Ting were deputy generals, Xie Yingdeng, Suo Yanshou, Liu Hongji, Yuwen Chengdu, Yu Qinzhang, Xifeng Changshan, Wei Chigong, Li Panwei 8,000 cavalry, and Shan Xiongxin's infantry battalion fought side by side with Long Shanming because he replaced Han Qi.

Everyone in the Gaochang army knows that Shan Xiongxin's infantry battalion is the real hole card in Yang Chong's hands, with five hundred swordsmen and five hundred long axe soldiers. The knife is a two-edged knife, the full length is close to the zhang, and it cannot be used by non-vigorous people; Compared with the general long axe, the blade is widened, the handle is also shortened, and the tail of the handle has a prismatic point, which has high slashing efficiency; Most of the swords, eagle swords, and victory swords designed by Yang Chong himself were equipped in the cavalry, but the infantry was rarely used.

Long Shanming's infantry battalion is now almost a strong crossbow battalion, with a hundred giant crossbows and eight hundred hard bows; The infantry's giant crossbow was more similar to the Song Dynasty's divine arm bow, with a bow body length of three feet three and a string length of two feet five, and the maximum range dropped from 500 paces to 300 paces to defend the city, but it could fire ten to thirty arrows at a time. Because Yang Chong added a pulley to the design, it was not very physically demanding for soldiers to use.

Ashina's face twitched when he saw a hundred giant crossbows, and it was impossible for this thousand infantry to take without three thousand cavalry. As for Ashina's request to participate in the war on the front line, Yang Chong naturally refused, not wanting to be said to be a coalition of the Great Sui and the Western Turks.

Yang Chong waited only three days before the Eastern Turkic army arrived; Knowing that Yang Chong's side was mostly cunning, Kang Shealy took the initiative to give up various attack strategies, so as not to steal chickens and rice. After a night's rest, the 15,000 cavalry of the Eastern Turks came out in formation, Kang Sheli was a little uneasy, all the way to last night, the Sui army did not have any surprising movements, is it really sure that in the frontal battlefield with less to win more.

As in the legend, the Sui army of Gaochang County faced each other with infantry in front of each other, cavalry on both sides, and there were no antlers, tribulus and other things around the outside of the formation, which was completely a posture of fighting each other. Kang Shealy looked at the opposite side carefully, there were no cattle and sheep or anything like that, indicating that the other party was not ready to set up a fire bull formation at all, thinking that he had to be cautious all the way over, and even prepared a death squad for the opponent's fire bull array, Kang Shali only felt that his face was hot, and the soldiers around him looked at him wrongly.

The two generals beside Kang Sheli's side were two of the nine Eastern Turkic warriors, Pin Yanding and Lin Yang, who looked at the formation of the Sui army and said: "As long as you defeat the infantry army in the middle, you can cut the Sui army into two sections and strangle them at will; There are many people under Yang Chong who have experienced war, and they dare to do this, which shows that the combat effectiveness of the infantry army is amazing. ”

Behind Kang Sheli, the general of Tiele, the servant of Gu An, said: "I and Ba Ye fiercely led 5,000 cavalry from our headquarters to attack the opponent's infantry, and the two generals Pin Yanding and Lin Yang each led 3,000 wolf cavalry to attack the opponent's left and right flanks. ”

Yang Chong shocked the world with his name for Gewu, and there were many bows and crossbows in the army, but even if the five thousand cavalry suffered three or four thousand casualties, as long as one thousand people were killed in front of him, the two thousand infantry would only be slaughtered. Kang Sheli nodded, gave the order to attack, the horn whined, the Eastern Turkic war drums sounded as fast as a burst, the war horses were staggered, and the three teams came out of battle and attacked the Sui army.

Long Shanming shouted, and a hundred giant crossbows were pushed to the front of the formation, and the crossbowmen spread out the shooting range, each loading arrows, and seeing the Eastern Turkic cavalry getting closer and closer, five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps; Long Shanming roared and shot arrows, crossbow arrows rained down, and the first round shot out a full two thousand arrows, densely packed, killing and wounding nearly a thousand people in a blink of an eye. The formation of the five thousand horsemen was so dense that those in front dodged, but those behind were shot.

The servant was relieved, the strong man with the bow and arrow shot more than 200 steps, the ordinary crossbow arrow was at most 50 steps, the other party turned out to be 300 steps away, and his own cavalry was between 200 and 300 steps as long as he was beaten, it was purely a death distance. But the five thousand cavalry had already been launched, and they couldn't hold their feet at all, and they couldn't push back, so the servant Gu'an screamed, shouting to disperse the formation, and speed up, the soldiers of the Eastern Turks all grew up on horseback, and they understood this truth without being reminded by the commander, and they all urged the horses forward.

Rao was like this, and when he advanced to two hundred and thirty or forty paces, he received another round of crossbow arrows, and seven or eight hundred men fell; Just rushed into two hundred steps, the Sui army's eight hundred hard bows shot eight hundred arrows, and the accuracy was much greater, shooting down more than five hundred people at one time. The servant's eyes were red, and before the end of a charge, two thousand men were lost; The Eastern Turkic cavalry fired back with arrows, and the Sui army obviously suffered casualties.

But the giant crossbow can be fired by one person, and each crossbow is equipped with two people just to substitute, two hundred steps, one hundred steps, one hundred giant crossbows and two rounds of fire, plus the continuous shooting of the hard bow, when the servant Gu'an rushed to the front of the Sui army's infantry formation, there were really only a thousand people. In the exchange of fire, the Sui army's crossbowmen also lost nearly half, but 500 infantry for 4,000 cavalry, no matter how you look at it, it is all rowed.

(End of chapter)