Chapter 488: Battle Snake Valley 6
"Woo woo woo ........."
The sound of the vast horn continues to echo in the vast and endless prairie, just like the toast and mare's milk wine that have not changed for thousands of years, iron blood, sacrifice and conquest, for countless years, also continue to be staged on the grassland.
"Array"
There was an extremely firm shout in the hoarseness, which made the tens of thousands of tired Turkic troops have a little more confidence in facing a strong enemy.
"My lord, our army has been fighting for many days, most of the soldiers are tired, and many of them are still wounded, in this case, we can't fight it, otherwise, my 50,000 elite warriors will all be lost here."
Seeing that less than three miles away from him, it was dark and oppressive, and the army that could not see the edge at a glance was slowly pressing towards his side, and a Turkic general couldn't help but say to Ashid Yuanzhen.
"If you don't fight, the enemy is close at hand, if you don't fight at this time, don't you want to surrender." Asted Yuanzhen came and scolded angrily.
"My lord's anger, the last general does not mean this, for today's plan, when you give up some drag, to ensure that a part of the soldiers rush out of the enemy's encirclement, in this way, it is better than the whole army is wiped out here, if the adult is willing, the last general is willing to lead a part of the warriors to kill you out of a bloody road, I hope that in the future, the adult can avenge the last general and kill the Khitan dog."
The Turkic general said firmly.
"Well, hey, I know your intentions, but, at this moment, it's not that we can kill it desperately, more than ten days of hard fighting, our 50,000 troops have killed more than 10,000 people, thousands of people have been seriously injured, and the remaining more than 30,000 people, almost everyone is injured, in this case, if you want to fight out of the encirclement, I'm afraid it will be difficult to climb to the sky, besides, since the enemy dares to appear here now, then he must have made all preparations, how can he easily see us killed, forget it, whether it is life or death depends on whether Changshengtian blesses us."
When he said this, a bitter feeling appeared on Ashid Yuanzhen's face.
In vain, he thinks that he is comparable to Zhuge Kongming, and now, he doesn't even know that he has stepped into the trap, and now that he thinks about it, it is really ridiculous.
"Da Da Da ......"
Just as Ashide Yuanzhen and other Turkic generals were discussing, a fast horse galloped over from the enemy army on the opposite side.
For this fast horse, all the Turkic soldiers did not take it seriously, although the Turkic army was exhausted, but it was not something that a knight could deal with, and to deal with this knight sent at this time, there must be something to be said.
Sure enough, when the knight galloped a hundred paces away from them, he stopped his horse suddenly, and then shouted loudly in Turkic, "Listen to Ashid Yuanzhen, my lord has an order, you have been surrounded by our 100,000 army at the moment, if you want to avoid unnecessary casualties, as long as you are assured of your weapons and raise your hands to surrender, my lord can guarantee that he will never offend you, etc., if you are stubborn, after an hour, our army will launch an attack, where to go, I hope that Lord Ashide Yuanzhen will make a decision after thinking carefully. ”
He came and went in a hurry, and immediately the knight shouted three times before turning and driving away.
The knight shouted in a dashing manner and walked easily, but it left Asted Yuanzhen with a huge problem.
If these words were said in private, Ashed Yuanzhen would definitely refuse immediately, no matter if it was for the sake of his own face or dignity, and maybe even had the intention of killing the knight who passed the word, but this time it was in front of tens of thousands of troops, although the Turkic soldiers were warriors who were not afraid of death, but there was a premise, it was in the case of interests, in the current situation, they had to surrender, there was only one way to die, Ashed Yuanzhen was not afraid of death, but he couldn't stop other people's thoughts.
In the eyes of the Chinese people, it is the duty of a courtier to pay attention to integrity, and it is the duty of a courtier to be loyal to the two masters, but this is not the case on the grassland, because of the lack of materials on the grassland, which leads to frequent wars in order to grab materials.
Except for the fact that when the two tribes are fighting for life and death, in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, they will kill all the men of the other tribe, most of the time, after one tribe defeats another tribe, they will absorb the warriors who can fight well in this tribe and strengthen their own tribe.
Just like Genghis Khan, at the beginning his Qiyan tribe was only a very weak tribe, but in decades of fighting, the Qiyan tribe has become the largest tribe in the whole of Mongolia and even the entire Asian region, which does not rely on their own reproduction, if they rely on their own reproduction, let alone decades, I am afraid that hundreds of years may not necessarily have such a strong combat effectiveness, what they rely on, even if they rely on this method of constantly absorbing the elite of the defeated side, so as to continuously expand themselves.
Therefore, in the grassland, if one side chooses to surrender and is willing to deal with it, the disadvantaged side can choose to surrender.
"What do you think, do you want to live humbly, or die a glorious battle like a hero."
Riding on his horse, Ashide Yuanzhen turned to the many Turkic soldiers behind him and asked.
Ashide Yuanzhen's voice was a little hoarse because of the war in these days, so when he spoke, his voice was not too high, I am afraid that except for a few people around him, there are not many people who can hear him speak, but on the contrary, when he spoke, all the Turkic troops suddenly seemed to become mud figures, standing there quietly, motionless, not even breathing heavily.
In the entire grassland, only the voice of Ashide Yuanzhen was constantly floating.
"My lord, we Turks, only the heroes who died in battle, there are no living villains, although we may all die here today, but we have to let these Khitan dogs see, the dignity of our Turks is something they can never beat, besides, under the banner of the blood wolf, either the enemy dies or I die, and now we and the enemy have no side to die, how can we give up?"
A young Turkic warrior stood up and shouted, judging by his face, he was probably not more than twenty years old, and his face looked rather immature, but at this time he looked extremely resolute.
"Good, good, good, this is my Turkic man, this is my Turkic warrior, I would rather die than bend. Since this is the case, then we will kill one happily today, and even if we die, we will no longer regret it. ”
The words of the young Turkic warrior seemed to arouse the pride hidden in Ashid Yuanzhen's heart, and his face was full of resolute admiration.
"No regrets, no regrets, no regrets when you die."
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"Lord Duan, since we have surrounded these Turkic dog thieves, why do we still give them a chance to surrender, the army is launched, and it is not enough to completely flatten them."
Looking at the Turkic army, whose morale was re-energized, the Khitan veteran asked Duan Jian with some dissatisfaction.
"Don't worry, Duan Langjun's move looks simple, but it is actually an extremely powerful hand." Duan Jian didn't answer, but Yan Ming interjected.
"An extremely powerful hand, where is the power, why didn't I see it, I only saw the momentum of the Turkic army, if I start a battle now, I'm afraid that my Khitan warriors will die many more soldiers."
Duhuo no longer said with disdain on his face.
"Hey, hey, Duhuo leader, as the saying goes, when fighting, the heart is the first, we first unexpectedly dispatched a large army to surround the Turkic army, causing an extremely panicked and frightened psychological pressure to the Turkic army, and then sent people to persuade them to surrender, in this kind of loose and tight situation, the Turkic army's will to fight will often fall into a low ebb invisibly."
Yan Ming said with a smile.
"Since their morale will fall into a low ebb, but what's going on, their appearance now doesn't look like they are at a low ebb!"
"Mingjian, the leader of the lone life, this is the responsibility of a certain person, although a certain has overestimated Ashid Yuanzhen, but when I see it today, I still underestimate him, this person can assist Ashina Guduolu in just a few years, let the declining Turks rise again, and almost unified the entire northern Xinjiang grassland, it is really an extremely rare talent, that kind of small means, it is okay to change it to others, but when it comes to him, it is completely useless."
Duan Jian said with a sigh.
"Lord Duan doesn't have to blame himself, he was able to bring 50,000 Turkic elite troops into the trap, this is all the credit of Lord Duan, and a small flaw is nothing."
Although Duhuo was extremely dissatisfied with Duan Jian in his heart, at this time, he did not dare to openly offend Duan Jian.
"Okay, now that it's over, it seems that these Turks won't surrender, so let's prepare for battle, tell Shi Daring that you can't let go of an enemy in this battle."
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"Knock knock, knock knock........."
The sound of the trumpet means to prepare for battle, and when the drums sound, everyone knows that the real war has come.
"Assault Formation Preparation"
After hearing the sound of the drum, Shi Daring immediately opened his mouth and ordered.
Soon, with Shi Daring's order, tens of thousands of Khitan troops, quickly formed three large triangular formations, in the grassland, this is a pure offensive formation, generally speaking, if it is not for one side to occupy an absolute advantage, it will never put on this kind of formation, of course, there is also a possibility, that is, when breaking through, using this formation, implying the attitude of becoming benevolent if you don't succeed.
Compared with the pure offensive formation of the Khitan army, the Turkic army formation on the side of Ashide Yuanzhen is a bit inconspicuous, just a simple crescent-shaped battle formation.
Although it looks inconspicuous, this crescent-shaped battle formation is also a kind of military formation on the grassland that integrates offense and defense, the so-called crescent moon is actually a semi-circular formation, the two sides are high and convex, and the middle is slowly pressed back, it looks like a crescent moon, if it is not for the soldiers under their command to be extremely confident, the generals rarely use this kind of military formation.
"Rush"
"Boom, boom........"
Tens of thousands of war horses galloped up, there is indeed an earth-shattering feeling, change a person with a bad heart here, I am afraid that just this kind of momentum will be scared to death, no wonder some people will say that war is a place of courage and luck, if you are bold, you have a great chance of survival, and if you are lucky, you will be able to make a contribution.
I have to say that although the Khitans can only be regarded as half of the steppe people, their riding skills are no worse than the real steppe people, riding on horses, while galloping quickly, while reaching out to take out the bowstring from behind, pulling out the arrow from the quiver at the waist, bending the bow and arrows, and shooting towards the battlefield of the Turkic army.
"Shoot"
"Shoot"
Two different orders were issued one after the other, the first to shout was one of the Turkic troops in a defensive state, and under one order, the Turkic soldiers bent their bows and arrows and shot at the galloping Khitan army.
Similarly, the fast-galloping Khitan army also shot sharp arrows at them at the same time.
"Puff Puff ........"
The sound of the arrow entering the flesh was originally extremely slight, but at this time, I don't know if it was because there were too many people who were hit by the arrow or other reasons, everyone seemed to feel that their ears were filled with the sound of the arrow piercing the flesh.
The sound of sharp arrows entering the flesh was accompanied by a burst of screams.
"Ah, it hurts, help........."
In the first meeting, the number of arrows hit by both sides was roughly equal.
The reason why this is the case is that the Khitan army on fast horses, although there are many people, but because of the horseback, they cannot be covered, as long as they are shot by the arrow, except for a few who are not too serious, most of them fall under the horse and are trampled into meat by the war horses of the latecomers.
On the side of the Turkic army, although the number is smaller than that of the Khitan army, in addition to the archers, there are also comrades with shields next to them, and after they shoot arrows, they are hidden behind the shields, except for some unlucky people, most of the Turkic soldiers have been protected accordingly.
"Boom, boom, boom........."
From the two sides entering the range of bows and arrows to the real confrontation between the two sides, that is, less than two hundred paces, such a short place can be said to be in the blink of an eye for a fast-galloping war horse.
Even with the archery skills they have practiced since childhood, they only have two chances to shoot arrows.
"The archers stand back, shoot freely, and the sword and shield hands step forward, ready to defend."
In the face of the galloping troops, the most ideal military formation should be a spear formation, several meters long spears, densely set up, in front of which are rows of heavy shields blocking, even in the crazy army, do not dare to crash into this phalanx.
It's a pity that the Turkic army is not the army of the Central Plains, they usually fight, the most common is that the two sides ride fast horses to rush each other, to this kind of positional warfare, is not their strength at all, unfortunately, at this time, if the two sides choose to rush each other, the Turkic army will definitely be defeated very quickly, it is better to line up like this, maybe there is a glimmer of life.
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