Suo Yanshou came out of the city, but the Turkic army could not resist it, and scattered in all directions, and was beheaded in half by the Hexi army; When the rest fled to the camp, they encountered herds of cattle rushing in a desperate line, and immediately broke out of formation and fled for their lives. Unfortunately, when the strong wind stopped and Suo Yanshou led the cavalry to pursue the 2,000 cavalry, the Turks had already killed more than 3,000 people and fled. Suo Yanshou could only collect the corpse and return to the city.

As a Turk, Suo Yanshou did not allow Liu Qicheng to build a head view, but only counted the death figures; Liu Qicheng's people were addicted to killing, and they didn't think about staying alive at all, and they killed a total of 7,000 Turkic soldiers and 11,000 people with Suo Yanshou. In addition, 3,400 horses and 6,000 cattle and sheep were captured, and all of them were burned to death, and all of them were sacrificed to the army and the people in the city.

The tragedy of the war frightened Yu Shot, almost half of the 10,000 tents were lost, and he also lost his place to live. Yu Jie immediately gathered nine thousand horsemen, abandoned the four county towns and less than half of the remaining people, and rushed to Huaiyuan City; Yu Shu understood that he was not a horse thief, and that if he ran to kill at will in the Central Plains, he was looking for death, and only by returning to the grassland could he get the support of his uncle Shibi Khan and his father Philosher.

Tong Lifushi really sent reinforcements of 7,000 cavalry to Yu Jie, plus 3,000 cavalry of the remnants collected by Jujian Teller, and requisitioned 5,000 old men, women and teenagers, and Yu Shot had more than 20,000 troops and began to attack Huaiyuan City. There are more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, and the food can support four or five months. At first, Liu Qicheng still had opinions, and after two days the Liang division sent 8,000 Liang troops, he realized that Suo Yanshou was not worried about Yu Jie, but a steady stream of Turkic reinforcements.

Yang Ze commanded Li Fei Shixiong and Xiang Yizu's 10,000 horse infantry troops to arrive ten days later, and there was no way to hide in the vast grassland, and they were discovered by Turkic scouts as soon as they came out of Qingtongxia. In the case of Yu shooting and attacking the city, he knew that the Hexi army was powerful, but he still chose to send reinforcements, and personally led the 15,000 cavalry mixed by the Liang army and the Turkic army to meet the battle, and the two sides encountered in the Luhua trench.

Yang Ze received the news of the inquiry, and immediately ordered Xiang Yizu to be the vanguard, preemptively find the high ground to connect all the vehicles with iron chains, erect iron plates, bed crossbows, giant crossbows, and thunderbolt battalions to make a defensive circle, the bed crossbow was adjusted in advance, and a tripwire was arranged fifty steps outside the defensive circle; Li Fei Shixiong led the horse army to 5,000 in the center to respond, Yang Ze's personal soldiers erected a big flag, and the big red circle and gold line handsome flag fluttered in the wind, with a Yang character on it.

In less than an hour, the Turkic cavalry rolled in, spread out in formation amid the sound of horns, and launched an attack on the Hexi army amid the noise and shouting; The charge launched by thousands of Turkic iron cavalry had an overwhelming posture, the horses were bumpy, and the upper bodies were still motionless like a mountain, or holding weapons, or setting up bows and arrows. All the charging cavalry were at a steady distance from each other, and the formation was so close that not a single cavalry could be left behind as far as the eye could see.

Xiang Yizu looked at the unchanged expressions of his soldiers, and secretly rejoiced that every time the Hexi Army was dispatched, it was a veteran, and the momentum of the cavalry during training was not Turkic, if it was replaced by a group of newly recruited soldiers, I am afraid that it would not be able to support it spiritually now. Xiang Yizu ordered the archers to hide behind the iron plate to cover the arrows, not to panic, to observe the enemy situation through the binoculars, to see the Turkic cavalry enter the firing range, and ordered the drums to be beaten, and as soon as the drums sounded, the crossbowmen fired together.

The Turkic cavalry was in a hurry to shoot arrows on horseback to return fire, but the arrow net of the Hexi army was trained, and even if several crossbowmen were shot down, they still maintained the consistency of killing and wounding the cavalry. Only then did Yu Jie discover that the legendary death zone really existed, and at a distance of 400 paces, more than 2,000 Turkic cavalry were shot down by the other side; And the last fifty steps were even more cruel, and nearly a thousand horsemen lost their lives.

Liang General Xin Fang'er, who came to help, saw that many Turkic cavalry were not afraid of death, and turned into a foot charge after the war horse fell, and hurriedly reminded Yu Shu: "General, tell them that the other party has a crossbow in his hand, and he can't charge on foot without a shield." ”

But it was too late, and one after another of the crossbows in the Hexi army were fired, harvesting the Turkic soldiers who rushed to the front; Lifei Shixiong's cavalry also helped to shoot, and after a while, another six or seven hundred Turkic warriors fell in front of the position. The generals around Yu Shot all had gloomy faces, seeing that the death was about to reach a third, and the morale of the Turkic warriors was rapidly declining, but they had not even broken through the opponent's first line of defense; Ju Jian Teller persuaded: "Lord Yu Shot, withdraw the troops, we will find an opportunity to attack them in the middle later." ”

Luhua Trench is only two hundred miles away from Huaiyuan County, and the other party has a day's trip at most, and the army can appear under Huaiyuan County; Xin Fang'er agreed: "General, the Hexi Army is full of bows and arrows, and it is long in attrition, and now there is still a chance to withdraw the army overnight." ”

Although depressed, Yu Shot gave the order to retreat, and more than 10,000 horsemen quickly scattered as when they came; Yang Ze and the three of them could see clearly in the binoculars, and knew that the Turks had their own means of communication, and they seemed to be scattered, but they would soon assemble in a certain place. Yang ordered people to withdraw the defensive circle, clean up the battlefield, collect the spoils of war, find a water source in the northwest fifteen miles away, and the whole army lit a fire to cook and rest.

The evening red sun on the grassland is like fire, and the cool breeze blows, and it is cool; The soldiers of the Hexi Army fought a victorious battle, and in spite of their fatigue, they laid out traps, antlers, tripping ropes, and haystacks around the camp, and fixed bed crossbows inside the camp. Everything was ready, and then the horse meat was roasted in the camp to eat, more than 3,000 dead horses, it is estimated that they have not finished eating until Huaiyuan City; A reckless man doesn't care about this, at the moment of life and death, the day when he can eat meat is a good day.

The camp was full of incense, and even the sentries standing guard, each holding a piece of roasted horse meat in his hand, devoured it; Xiang Yizu inspected the camp, the Turks will not let go of the opportunity in front of them, at least the Turkic iron cavalry launched an all-out charge in the open flatland, as long as the defense of the arrow net is broken, there is still a certain chance of winning in the face-to-face battle, as long as it attacks tonight, it must be an earth-shattering battle.

Most of the scouts under Li Fei Shixiong were born as horse thieves, and they were not under the Turks in terms of their individual combat skills or their sense of smell on the steppe, although they did not find the main Turkic force, but when the moon came up, they found three Turkic cavalry of nearly 2,000 people in the east. That's enough, maybe because of the detour and other reasons, the Turkic army has not yet gathered, but tonight is not destined to be a peaceful night.

(End of chapter)