Chapter 8: Seeing each other's white blades and blood falling
The rapid breakthrough of the Tang cavalry obviously exceeded the expectations of the attached army, and they thought that the rain of arrows from the front and rear should be able to kill and injure the Tang army in large numbers, or at least slow down the pace of the Tang cavalry. But he didn't expect that Tang Qi ignored the attack of the rain of arrows, and still under the leadership of the samurai wielding a horizontal sword, like an eagle that swooped down from a high altitude to catch a hare, fearless and thunderbolted!
In an instant, many of the soldiers in the detachment army were in some physical and mental turmoil. They thought that they were already rare elite soldiers, but compared with this well-equipped and fearless Tang army, they seemed to be still a group of vulnerable chickens and dogs, and the atmosphere of frustration suddenly enveloped the attached army, and their movements slowed down.
"Sons and grandsons of the blue wolf! Where is your courage? A swarthy black horse burst out of the ranks of the departing army, and on horseback a Turkic warrior as majestic as a mountain brandished a scimitar like a full moon, his hair was all open, and he shouted with all his strength, "Warriors of the Turgish! Charge me!"
The roar of the Turkic warrior shook Wang Fei's ears, and he couldn't help but cover his ears with his hands. Wang Yong raised his eyes and glanced at it, his eyes flashed a trace of surprise and a little surprise, and he said to Wang Fei in a low voice: "Xiao Langjun, thanks to you, I have bumped into a big fish, and in front of me is the Removal Khan of the Tuqi Shi people. ”
The Great Khan's roar apparently irritated the demoralized detachments. The detachment army was originally set up to protect the Great Khan, and now, it is the Great Khan charging in front, which makes countless soldiers of the detachment army rush to shame. They threw down their crossbows one after another, drew their scimitars or spears, and began to charge towards Tang Qi. At this time, they didn't care about saving horsepower and maintaining the formation, they only felt an unwilling blood rushing in their chests, and they couldn't wait to immediately eat Tang Jun like a wild wolf on the grassland.
"What an old and spicy opponent!" Watching the Emigration Khan who came out quickly stabilize the morale of the departing army and led the team to charge, Wang Yong couldn't help but think, "I actually found another way, preparing to break through from Suyeshui in the north of Broken Leaf City, and set up a double trap, and did not hesitate to sacrifice the last tens of thousands of cavalry of the Tuqi Shi to confuse us, and even deceived the Da Shuai and Judge Du, what a terrible opponent!" ”
"But that's it, since I was hit by someone, it's the sky to destroy the Tuqi Shi! In any case, a certain Khan must be captured! Wang Yong secretly made up his mind, looking at the roaring Shifting Khan and the attached army, with a slight smile on his face. Then facing the pale moonlight, he raised the horizontal knife with his right hand, pulled the reins of the horse with his left hand, and shouted: "Turn!" ”
The Tang army, which will have 200 people, quickly pulled the reins and changed direction with Wang Yong's shouting, and following Wang Yong's trajectory, the triangular team suddenly turned to the left rear, and at the same time put away the horse lance, grabbed the longbow, and began to fire arrows in front of his right.
The horn bow used by the cavalry of the Tang Army was softer than the longbow used by archers, but it still had great lethality. The attached army thought that Tang Qi would continue to fight with him at close range like a mad tiger, and he could use his numerical advantage to fight the tiger like a pack of wolves. But unexpectedly, the Tang army suddenly changed direction and changed bows and arrows to attack, and was caught off guard, and immediately many attached troops were injured by arrows.
"What a handsome riding and archery kung fu!" Shifting the Khan pushed aside a few feathered arrows that fell from the sky, and thought secretly. Fortunately, the Tang army did not have time to aim in the high-speed change of direction, but only spilled the arrow in the direction from which the detachment army came, and the casualties caused were not large.
Wang Fei was a little dizzy by the sudden high-speed change of direction, and his body suddenly began to shake. Fortunately, Wang Yong's right arm was always close to Wang Fei's side, so Wang Fei did not fall off the horse. Stabilizing his mind, Wang Fei looked back and forth, left and right, understood the change in Tang Jun's formation, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Why is this so similar to Uesugi Kenshin's car suspension array!" Then he quickly snorted, "Uesugi Kenshin doesn't know where to cool off yet!" It seems that the car suspension array was also learned by Little Japan from the Tang Dynasty. ”
The chariot suspension formation is a spiral offensive cavalry combat formation, and the light cavalry relies on high-speed mobility to make a spiral movement to avoid frontal contact with the enemy and wait for the opportunity to surprise the enemy's weak link. The earliest user of the car suspension array recorded in historical records was the Han champion Hou Huo Quai, a general. The power of the chariot suspension formation is not small, but the disadvantage is that the cavalry is very demanding, and if it lacks a high degree of control and strict discipline, it is likely to turn itself unconscious before attacking the enemy, and become a good meal for the opponent to send to the door.
The Han and Tang dynasties were one of the few dynasties in ancient China with powerful cavalry, and the abundance of horses and perennial conquest made the Tang Dynasty cavalry have strong combat power. Therefore, this Tang cavalry of more than 200 people was able to casually use the cart to hang the formation, and dealt a blow to the arrogant detachment army.
The two detachment armies in front and behind the Tang cavalry were about to close, and the Tang cavalry, which was doing spiral motion, was like a playful butterfly under the leadership of Wang Yong, fluttering out from the front and rear, and blowing the rain of arrows like dust towards the detachment army behind them. The angry detachment army punched the air, not only did not hurt the opponent, but was bitten by the opponent's arrow.
The two teams of the attached detachment army gathered together, and the shifting khan looked at the Tang cavalry who was still spinning at high speed on the left side of the attached detachment army, and shouted loudly: "Turn left on the east side, raise your spear to defend!" Change bows on the west side and attack with arrows! "The detachment began to change ranks under the order of the Khan of Shift. Although the detachment army is a rare elite unit on the grassland, it is still heavy on brave strength and light on organizational discipline, and it is not easy to realize the transformation of the queue in a short period of time.
"The reaction is not slow, but it is too late!" Wang Yong laughed lightly, and shouted again: "Change! ”
As soon as the arrows of the western queue of the attached army left the bowstring, the Tang army had already picked up its horse lance again and pounced on the eastern side of the attached army like a hungry tiger. The relegated army, which was turning the horse's head, had no time to resist, and was chiseled a gap by the Tang army, and the cold horse lance was like the sickle of death harvesting the lives of the retained army.
The purpose of Wang Yong's change of car suspension formation was to move to the flank of the attached army, attack the interior of the attached army from the side, and attack and kill. The Khan discovered the danger of the car hanging array and made a suitable response, but the ability of the reluctant army to change the array was far inferior to that of the Tang army, and he was finally seized by the Tang army and attacked it.
Looking at Tang Cai, who stabbed straight into like a sharp knife, the face of the Shifting Khan Gujing Wubo also became nervous, and before he could think of a countermeasure, he heard many soldiers in front of him shouting in exclamation: "Great Khan be careful!" ”
The Khan was startled, only to see a feathered arrow pierce through the overlapping detachment and strike at his face. The Khan didn't even have time to swing his sword, so he hurriedly leaned back, his back pressed against his horse's back. A muffled grunt was heard behind him, and one of the soldiers of the detachment grabbed the long arrow that pierced his throat with both hands and fell from his horse.
As he leaned back to dodge the arrows, he reached out and grabbed the round shield from his saddle and held it in front of him. By frantically swarming towards him in an attempt to protect his subordinate sergeants, the Khan found that the samurai who had been in the position of the Tang army's arrows and held horizontal swords had quietly slowed down their horses and retreated to the middle of the wedge formation. At this time he was pulling the bow again, looking for himself. And beside the Tang army warriors, hundreds of horse lances kept twitching and piercing, and the Tang army's team was like a hedgehog that drilled into the belly of a fat cow, and the head of the hedgehog had been pierced into the belly of the fat cow, so that the unprepared attached army became a blind headless fly, and could only rely on instinct to deal with the seemingly endless lance forest, completely losing the organization and coordination that the army should have, and the Tang army's samurai's attack on himself made this chaos even greater.
"Which general of the Tang Army is this, who is so brave? Compared with the Tang Army, the Trolley Shi is still too weak! The Khan thought helplessly, "Hey, how come there is a child in front of his horse?" What's going on? But it seems that this child's identity is not ordinary! A chill flashed in the corner of the Khan's eyes, and as he cautiously rose, he withdrew his scimitar and felt for the carved bow in the saddle.
Wang Yong, who was shot with an arrow, was searching for the figure of the Khan, and suddenly became vigilant, and immediately heard a faint sound of breaking the air from the north. There was no time to change his weapon, Wang Yong waved the horn bow in his hand and bounced off a feather arrow that was slightly lacking in strength.
Followed by the sound of cavalry rushing like thunder, a team of about 100 people rushed from the north and rushed straight to the flank and rear of the Tang army.
The earth-shattering sound of killing on the shore of the Suye water alarmed an owl hunting in the woods, and because the hunt was disturbed, the night owl jumped up from the branches in a very angry way and flew towards the other side of the river. As it glided in the night wind, it found that on the airway of the Suye River, which was not very spacious, several human cavalry were tightly tangled together, stirring like a whirlpool in the Suye water. These humans, like their own counterparts in heat, are frantically fighting.
"Are these humans in heat too? Forget it, let's go to the other side to catch a delicious forest mouse! The owl wagged its wings in the turbulent air current, gained more lift, flew over the groves by the river, and began to cross the crimson river. Then it glanced down boredly, and found a cute little human girl standing on the riverbank, guarding a dozen people by her side. Next to her, there were people who didn't know what they were busy with.
The hungry purring owl flashed from the sky, and in the woods on the west side, which it could not see, a man in gray was pulling another beautiful little girl cautiously towards the river; In the woods on the east side, more than a dozen Tang Army scouts were getting closer and closer to the black-clothed man in front; Farther to the west, the cavalry of the brigade was groping their horses to the water's edge; And in the far east, the fierce battle of the brigade was just coming to an end.
But all of this was far less important to the night owl than the woodmouse on the other side, and it flapped its wings lightly, screamed, and flew excitedly towards the north shore of Suyeshui. Behind it, there was still a never-ending fight and a river of blood.