Chapter Fifty-Three: The Iron Rider Stands Out
Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the news of the Turkic invasion of the border was sent to the Xiande Hall by the Hongling knights, who were in an urgent hurry for 600 miles.
After some uninformed officials got the news, they disregarded etiquette and started to talk in the palace, whether it was Li Yuan's old ministers or Li Shimin's new officials, everyone was at a loss as to how to deal with the Turkic invasion, and even some of Li Yuan's former ministers who had lost power even had a hint of schadenfreude.
Compared with the different minds of the courtiers, Li Shimin didn't seem to have much reaction to this matter, just let out a faint oh and continued to discuss what happened just now, and then looked at Fang Xuanling, who was in real power, and these people were also old gods, without the slightest panic, which made some ministers in the court feel inexplicable and confused.
Only Pei Lian, an old minister who has lived in the temple for a long time, suddenly discovered that Wei Chi Lao, Hei Cheng Zhijie and other generals called the number one seemed to have disappeared since the Xuanwumen Palace changed. More than half of the generals in the army have not appeared in the court for nearly two months, including the eldest grandson Wuji, who has not appeared in the court for a long time.
Could it be that today's saints got the news of the Turkic attack in advance? If that's the case, it's too scary to be today.
"Haha......, Lao Zhang, I have to thank you for this good brother", I didn't know what the ministers above the court were thinking, but Wei Chi Laohei, who was guarding Jingyang, hadn't closed his mouth since he saw Zhang Gongjin. Looking at the saber stirrup and the new style of armor sent by Zhang Gongjin, Yu Chi Laohei looked at Zhang Gongjin more pleasing to the eye than his wife.
"It's a good thing, it's just too little," Wei Chi Laohei smacked his lips and said.
"Okay, don't be fucking dissatisfied, these things are hard to find, you know how many people drool when they look at this thing, and they cheapen your charcoal."
Saying that, Zhang Gongjin pulled Yu Chi Laohei into his tent, took a jar of liquor and a booklet from a box, handed it to him, and said: "This wine was specially ordered by Xiao Gong to bring it to you, and the other wine is in the hands of the military medical officer." There is also this booklet is how to use these instruments, I also read it, Xiao Gong's idea is very wonderful, I hope you use the equipment of the supervisor to play my Datang prestige."
"That's still Mr. Xiao said, but I want to thank him for the wine" Yu Chi Laohei held the jar in his arms, grinning, but his hand was still swaying in front of Zhang Gongjin.
"What?" Zhang Gongjin glanced at Yu Chi Laohei very vigilantly.
"You must have swallowed the wine that Mr. Xiao gave me, bring it!" Yu Chi Lao Hei is not stupid at all.
"Damn, Xiao Gong gave four altars, originally Lao Tzu wanted to keep more, but you still saw through it, just four altars, you are half and I am half" Zhang Gongjin muttered and took out an altar from the box.
"It's pretty much the same," Wei Chi Laohei nodded with satisfaction.
"Then Mr. Xiao still has any good plans."
"Yes! It's very simple: you have strengthened the city, then harvest the crops, set fires, and clear the wilderness."
When the scout told Yu Chi Laohei the news of the Turkic attack, this guy laughed happily and said: "Lao Tzu has been waiting for them for a long time, come here, prepare for war!" ”。
The Turkic general Ashdewu led nearly 10,000 cavalry to Jingyang City, and when he arrived about ten miles away from Jingyang City, he found that the Tang army did not shrink in Jingyang City, but set up a battle formation head-on and waited for him.
A hundred five-shot bed crossbows had been wound, and they were spread out in a half-moon shape and hidden behind the first row of shields, and the top of the two-foot-long thick arrow shaft was shining with cold light, and the range of killing the enemy was up to 500 paces, which made Lao Hei look forward to it.
Behind the bed crossbow were three thousand crossbow-wielding Xuanjia cavalry, each with a new type of machine arrow trough in their hands raised to the front, the armor of the crotch made these people look extremely majestic, and behind them were the infantry with spears standing quietly.
When there was still a distance of three miles from the Tang army's position, Wu did not sip the horse, and the long-term plundering of the border during the Wude period virtually fueled his arrogance, and every time he robbed the Tang Dynasty, he did not treat himself as an outsider at all, the beauty was gone, the gold and silver treasures were gone, so he came to borrow, anyway, there was no loan or return.
He glanced at the three thousand horses and horses of the Tang army on the opposite side, glanced at his mouth lightly, and said to the people next to him: "If they were in the city, we would have to spend a lot of effort attacking the city, but now they dare to fight us in this kind of place, which saves us a lot of effort."
After speaking, he turned his head and said to the two Qi Jin who led the team: "Warriors, take your men and horses, and use your war knife to tell those Han people who is the master of the world."
The three thousand cavalry rushed towards the Tang army's position like a swarm of bees out of the nest, but they didn't expect the war horses in front of them to run out less than two miles, but many war horses jumped up and fell to the ground inexplicably. Although these horsemen were skilled in riding, they were also thrown off their horses, and some of the Turkic knights who fell to the ground jumped with their feet in jerks. The people who charged behind were also unclear, but they didn't expect that it would be the same after rushing up, and the speed of the attack slowed down all of a sudden.
"What's going on?!" Ashdewu didn't sip a little confused.
A cavalryman who had galloped back from the front ran up to him and held out his hand to hand him a four-edged, delicately crafted thistle, which was only an inch too high to be hidden in the grass and could not be detected without looking closely!
Ashdewu gritted his teeth and said, "These Han people who are as bold as foxes can only play these little tricks!" ”。
After finishing speaking, he also drew his war knife and shouted to the people behind him: "Let everyone be careful and rush over, everything in the city is yours!" ”
Wei Chigong's armored horse stood in the middle of the formation, and saw that the Turkic soldiers rushed to a distance of three hundred paces, and the bows on the horses were pulled away, but the shield platoon soldiers in front of the Tang formation took more than a dozen steps back and showed the bed out.
Five hundred thick feathered arrows were shot out with a whistling sound, and the huge momentum of the arrows brought the person who shot it off the horse, and the momentum of the Turkic attack suddenly lagged and rushed again, and the power of hundreds of arrows was limited in the face of thousands of people.
"Shoot again!" With the roar of Yu Chi Laohei, the bowstrings of the three thousand skeletons behind him made a buzzing sound, and thousands of arrows rose into the sky again, and this time the Turks fell more from their horses. Some Turkic knights with excellent archery skills also began to draw their bows and fight back, but the range of their arrows was far less than that of the Tang army's arrows, and even if they shot, the Tang army's formation became weak and weak, and only made a soft sound on the armor of the person and fell to the ground.
Watching the first wave of arrows rain in, Wu Wusi shouted to the main force behind him from two hundred paces: "Rush over!" ”
He calculated very accurately, at a distance of two hundred steps, the first wave of arrows of the Tang army had just been shot, and at most one more round of arrow rain would be met, and within one hundred and fifty steps, the arches and horses of the Turks were stronger than those of the Tang army, and two hundred steps was a matter of the blink of an eye for the cavalry. But what Wu didn't expect was that the arrows of the Tang army shot endlessly like a torrential rain, and Wei Chigong listened to the continuous clatter of the cavalry machine behind him, which was more beautiful than Xianle.
One hundred steps! It seems to have become an insurmountable chasm that he Ashdeu did not sob, and nearly 2,000 Turks had fallen a hundred paces away.
"Stop the attack, retreat!" Wu didn't sip after a long battle, and when he found that the signs were wrong, he immediately began to retreat.
Seeing the Turks retreating, Wei Chi Laohei raised the horse lance in his hand and took the lead and rushed out, and the three thousand soldiers behind him took the machine and followed him to cover up the past.
Ashdewu didn't sip and looked at the Tang army that rushed over and smiled contemptuously, although his charging troops were shot out of formation, but there were still five thousand cavalry waiting behind him, he didn't believe that the three thousand Tang army could rush the five thousand warriors who grew up on horseback behind him.
The situation that made Ashdewu stunned appeared: when the Tang army rushed through the area of thistles separating the two sides, the horses rushed over as if they were fine, but the cavalry that was driven back fell a lot.
When he was surprised, Wei Chigong reined in his war horse when he reached about two hundred paces, and the Tang army behind him raised his machine and fired ten thousand arrows in unison, shooting five thousand Turkic soldiers into chaos in a moment.
It's not that Wu didn't want to use a bow and arrow, but the distance of the bow and arrow from here was only more than a hundred steps, and it didn't make any sense to be strong after a long time, Tang Jun was obviously bullying people with a strong bow.
Seeing that he was beaten and suffocated like this, Wu Wusi was also on fire, and raised his shield to the top and shouted: "Rush forward and use our war knives to teach these cunning Tang troops a lesson!" ”
Seeing the Turks rushing over without fear of death, Yu Chi Lao Hei laughed and went up to his head. The 3,000 Tang soldiers hung the machine behind the horse's buttocks, pulled out the new Tang knife on their waists and faced the enemy who came over, and the men and horses on both sides were immediately strangled together.
Wu didn't sip this calculation very well, 5,000 cavalry must have a chance of winning against 3,000 cavalry, but he forgot in a hurry that more than 10,000 infantry behind the Tang cavalry took advantage of this time difference to keep up, and the war horse without speed did not have much advantage in front of the infantry.
It was not only Wu Wusi who was aggrieved, but when the Turkic cavalry and the Tang army came into contact, they found that they had miscalculated, and the advantage that they had pointed to on the horse seemed to have lost their effect in front of this gang of Tang troops, and the knife cut on the armor of the Tang soldiers seemed to be fine. The knife in the hand of the Tang army could cut off the scimitar of the Turks after a few slashes. Some Tang troops simply went up directly and chopped the opponent's blade first, and then greeted the empty-handed Turkic cavalry.
When Wu didn't sip that the signs were wrong and wanted to run, a cavalry holding high the banner of the Tang Army suddenly appeared in the valley behind him, and the Turks were suddenly overwhelmed under the attack from both sides. Wu Weisi had just turned the horse's head around and wanted to escape, when he suddenly felt a huge pain in his back, and was slapped off the horse with a lance, and fell to the ground before he could wake up, and the cold and sharp tip of the lance had been pressed against his throat.
Yu Chi Lao Hei insisted on shouting at Zhang Gongjin, who had just been killed: "Lao Zhang, the knife and armor you sent here are terrible!" And the horseshoe, these are all treasures, the Turkic more than 10,000 people have their butts before they are hot, and I want to treat you to a good drink when I go back, haha.......".
In Youzhou City, the people and horses of the eldest grandson Wuji and Cheng Yanjin also met with the Turkic people and horses, ......