Chapter 447: Hanhai is Hard to Do (7)
Beginning from Qiuzi and continuing westward, the desert Gobi began to gradually replace the grassland as the absolute dominant color here, and these deserts occupied the vast northwest land like a shade of the sun, and the oases dotted in it became the hope of all life.
"Commander, we are about to arrive in Kupila, and after the desert in front of us we will enter the grassland area, and we can rest well." At this time, on the ancient Silk Road from Qiuzi to Shule, a group of hurried people with a team of camels and camels dressed as foot merchants stopped, and one of the porters who hurried from the front ran over to report the situation ahead to the leader, but this tone did not sound like a merchant. Sure enough, after the leader took off the face towel that blocked his face from the wind and sand, it was Su Xiaohu, the commander of the Flying Eagle Brigade, this young man who dominated the world with a group of soldiers and kings in the northwest in the past two years has made his face have a trace of vicissitudes, and after hearing the report of his subordinates, he said thoughtfully: "The name Kupila can't be obtained by a poisonous ascetic, right?" But it's okay, let's also take a look at what the doors of this ancient city are, and where is the current position of the third brigade? ”
"Lee's troops have already led an army to track down the Uighur forces that have returned to Yuquan from the north, but it is not clear where they are." Luo Minghao, the first brigade behind Su Xiaohu, came over and signaled the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade behind him to keep up with the rhythm and continue to walk forward, shaking his head and saying: "This is still a message sent the day before yesterday, I estimate that they may have entered Yu Quan ahead of us at this time." Boss, should we go into town now? ”
However, apparently, when Su Xiaohu had not yet decided whether to enter Kupila, the front came to report again, this time it was the news from the Xuanying Guard's secret guard, the Flying Eagle Brigade was transferred to the Anxi Uighurs by Zhao Si, and the original plan was to track whether the last of the Anxi Uighurs would go to Yanqi, but from the current point of view, the Anxi Uighurs were obviously not ready to fight to the death, so after sending the tribal alliance led by Barsi Khan, they instead transferred the last elite forces of their royal court to the vicinity of Yuquan, Trying to rely on the desert to resist the advance of the Tiance Army, and at the same time preparing to contact more allies to share the pressure of the Tiance Army. However, according to the current progress of the Flying Eagle Brigade's march, I am afraid that it may not be able to deliver the news back in time. However, after Su Xiaohu carefully asked the secret guard Shule if there was any latest news, he still gave up his plan to enter Kupila, and set off again after replenishing the secret stronghold of Xuanyingwei outside the city with water and dry food, their final destination this time was Shule, and after entering Shule, they had to find a way to dredge the communication channel between Shule and Khotan in the south, and connect the intelligence networks of Khotan and Shule to assist Qin Kong in Khotan to arrange the surrounding secret guard lurking network. Therefore, this group of people only stayed in Kubiro for a day and hurried west, before leaving, Su Xiaohu wanted Li San'er to pass on the news through the secret guard and asked him to join him near Yuquan.
"Go and send someone to inform the lieutenant marshal that the Uighurs are not prepared to send troops to continue their eastward advance." Shortly after Su Xiaohu left Kupila, he rejoined the Dark Guard, and learned that Yu Quan's side had begun to issue Ye Hu's royal court conscription order, and began to build fortifications in Quan Yishan, and immediately sent a message to the rear, telling Gao Siji to give up preparations, apparently after the Uighurs did not continue to advance eastward, Wan Yi and Gao Siji's plan to take down the Anxi Uighurs in one fell swoop in Yanqi was completely frustrated.
But what Su Xiaohu didn't know at this time was that when he arrived at Kupiro, Gao Siji had already begun to plan to withdraw his troops. However, Gao Siji did not guess the intention of the Anxi Uighurs, but the war in the rear officially began, Hammud led the army to rush into the large array of the Shule tribe led by Basi Khan himself, and then repeated the old trick again, regardless of the direct towards the Chinese army of Basi Khan, 30,000 cavalry galloped, hundreds of thousands of horses' hooves like a rainbow to completely shatter the clouds in the northwest sky in the evening, although Balsi Khan personally commanded the 30,000 elite headquarters around him to step forward to resist the opponent's offensive, After Hammoud explained the characteristics of the battle to his generals, the only thought of the inferior Uighur army from top to bottom at this moment was to chisel through and keep chiseling, chiseling through all the obstacles they encountered along the way. In order to achieve his goal, Hammoud even gave up fighting with his opponents and changed the entire military formation into a huge and incomparably sharp arrow formation. The impact of the sharp arrow formation is strong, especially suitable for cavalry assault, but at this moment on the battlefield, the opponent's strength is almost three times that of his own, and as Barsi Khan continues to blow the horn in a hurry, the originally chaotic front army has also begun to gradually sort out the clue, although the people who were caught off guard by the cavalry artillery bombardment turned on their backs, but in the almost non-stop horn sound of the Chinese army, all the tribal coalition forces still gave up the attack on the cavalry artillery and began to turn their horses' heads towards the Chinese army.
"General, the front army of the other side has begun to adjust and is beginning to come towards the rear of our army." During the battle, Hammoud couldn't remember how many heads he had chopped off, as if he had been fighting for so many years and had not killed as many enemies in this battle. Just as Hammoud swung his scimitar and cut down an opposing centurion in front of him, he finally took a breath, threw away the broken scimitar in his hand, and pulled out a Tang knife that Wan Yi gave him before, and the hurried voice of the captain of the guard came behind him, but it was obvious that Hammoud himself knew the surrounding situation very well, although there was a deafening shout behind him, but the chaotic sound of horses' hooves showed that the other party had not completely adjusted, and the speed of each department was different, and there was no one to command the snare, Such an attack is not much pressure for me at this time. Therefore, Hammoud did not frown at all, but raised the Tang knife and let out a long roar, and took the lead in killing again. The slowed offensive of the countless Uighur soldiers behind him reached its peak again at this moment, and the indomitable momentum and speed of the assault before also descended on the battlefield. The blockade set up by the 30,000 elite headquarters of Balsi Khan was gradually broken, and Hammoud had even seen Balsi Khan's constantly shaking figure at this moment. If it weren't for the fact that the Anxi Uighur leader Ye Hu transferred his royal tent from Yanqi to Shule to avoid being attacked by the Tiance army at the first time, Balsi Khan was basically one of the best controllers in the Shule region, and his orders were sometimes even more effective than the orders of the royal court for the large and small tribes around Shule. It's just that after Ye Hu arrived in Shule, a large number of elites directly under the royal court moved from Yanqi to the vicinity of Shule, and completely suppressed this ground snake, so that he didn't dare to move. Hammoud had seen Balsi Khan before, and he knew the other party's temperament, to be honest, until now, Hammoud couldn't imagine what means Ye Hu used to deceive this capricious guy with no credibility at all to the battlefield in the east, and it seems that the other party still spent blood to bring his direct elite headquarters over. Balth Khan is different from other tribes, his troops are basically equipped with the popular broadsword as a weapon on the shamanic side, the ability to ride and shoot is not strong, but the hand-to-hand combat is extremely strong, just a round of confrontation Hammud and his own corps soldiers obviously feel the huge difference in strength between them and other tribes before the alliance, one-on-one This force is even stronger than the strength of the soldiers selected by their own hundreds of battles.
But what's the use of being tough? In the face of the absolute superiority of the Tiance Army, no matter how elite the 30,000 people are, it will not help. Hammoud smiled coldly at a strong confrontation with a small colonel beside him, and directly ordered the guards behind him to blow the trumpet of the decisive charge, and the sharp and piercing metal horn sound replaced the bull horn, this completely different horn sound made all the Uighur cavalry tremble, and the already fierce battle suddenly became cruel again, and almost all the soldiers began to play with twelve points of spirit and courage to follow their commander to attack.
"Mozhigen, fire smoke rockets and inform General Tuoba that this battle will defeat Balsi Khan." Hammoud raised his right hand, and the captain of his own guard immediately asked Tuoba Siji's personal guard, who followed him, to launch a smoke rocket, and a brilliant multicolored pillar of light suddenly crossed the somewhat dim sky that was originally reflected by the sunset and sunset, and quickly went towards the southwest with a sizzling sound, and the multicolored smoke cloud brought up by the pillar of light across the sky lasted for a long time, like a rainbow hanging in the sky.
At this time, staring at the offensive of Hammud, he was actively mobilizing the various tribes and coalition troops of the rear army behind him, and Balsi Khan, who was coming towards the Chinese army, did not expect what this pillar of smoke meant to him. After his elite stepped forward to block Hammud's assault and fought with the other party, Balsi Khan directly mobilized his rear army to take over the battle of his headquarters. For him, his own capital can't be put in for others at any time, but what he doesn't know is that it is precisely because he transferred thousands of rear troops to encircle and suppress Hammud, so the consequence is that when Tuoba Siji led the army to attack from his flank and rear, the rear was about to collapse at the touch of a button, so that Tuoba Siji 30,000 people quickly interspersed.
However, at this time, Hammud immediately led his army forward after firing the smoke rocket, and although Balth Khan's headquarters was extremely brave, Hammad's Uighur corps was still approaching Balth Khan's central command center step by step. Through the heavy killing array, Hammoud came out covered in blood, the war horse under his crotch raised his front hooves, and in the passionate neighing of the horse, he trampled the two cavalrymen in front of him with the hooves of the horse, so that his figure rose up like a bloody boulder, jumped three feet away, and jumped directly into the crowd in front, and the personal guards behind him took advantage of the opportunity of the other party to be caught off guard and killed through the encirclement and followed Hammad.
"Barth Khan, your time of death has come." Hammoud laughed, and with a strong slash of the Tang knife in his hand, he directly split in half the white-clothed guard of a Balth Khan who was blocking in front of him, and the spurted blood made Hammad's figure look hideous and terrifying, with boundless might, and in an instant, the hearts of all the soldiers around Balsi Khan were throbbing.
"The whole army will give me up, kill Hammoud, and the other side will collapse without a fight." Barth Khan was taken aback by Hammad's appearance, but then discovered one thing, Hammoud rushed too fast and was out of touch with the large army except for his personal guards, so he didn't care that this guy was less than a dozen feet away from him, and shouted: "Kill Hammoud, the bounty is 10 million, and the city lord is sealed." Originally, these tribal reinforcements came for real benefits, and when they heard that they killed Hammoud and directly rewarded a city, they immediately suppressed the fear of Hammoud just now, and the swarming cavalry surrounded Hammoud again, and the battle became fierce again.
However, at this moment, a fierce gunfire came from the southwest, and this familiar sound must have been fired at the same time by thousands of troops and horses in order to reach the position of the Chinese army where Hammud was located through the battlefield of heavy fighting. These voices puzzled Balth Khan, but for the Uighur army, which was already familiar with the operational characteristics of the Tiance army, it was like a joy descending from heaven, and it was his own army that arrived in time. Therefore, at this moment, the news of the arrival of reinforcements caused all the Uighur soldiers to cry out, and the battle that had been in a stalemate once again fell on their side, and the Hamoud and the members of the personal guard who were surrounded by the encirclement were even more murderous, and the situation was reversed in an instant. Hammoud sprinted again towards where Barth Khan was.
And Hammad's actions also made Balsi Khan instantly guess that he was afraid that the other party's reinforcements had arrived, so at this moment, before he had time to think about whether to retreat, countless scattered cavalry appeared behind him, and their arrival directly made Balsi Khan frightened, the other party came from the rear, and he had just transferred all the rear army to the Chinese army, so now-
However, Balsi Khan apparently did not expect that before he could give the order to retreat, Hamoud immediately bent his bow and aimed his arrows at his figure after his personal guards surrounded him. I saw Hammoud take a deep breath, the bowstring in his hand suddenly loosened, and the long arrow of black wolf teeth came out of his hand, like a ghost, swept through the chaotic battlefield in front of him, silently piercing through the body of Barth Khan.
"Barth Khan is dead, and the warriors of the three armies will fight to the death." Hammud watched as Balsi Khan's figure fell from his horse, shouted loudly, and led his troops to accelerate forward again, and not far in front of him, with Balsi Khan being killed, the entire Shule tribe coalition army and rear army became more and more chaotic. And with the chanting of Hammoud and his own guards, the news of Balsi Khan's death spread rapidly, and the already chaotic coalition army was once again in chaos at this time, and after Hammoud led the team to launch the final blow, it could no longer be supported, and the entire army completely collapsed.
At this time, Tuoba Siji's corps had also come towards the Chinese army, and under the loud charge were the sound of countless horses' hooves trampling the earth and the shouts of the soldiers. In this sea of charge, the fate of the Shule tribe alliance was completely shattered by the two corps.