Chapter 372: The Battle of Dujin Mountain
Yang Shuang sent Du Yan, the head of the march, to lead most of the men and horses to rush back to Baidaozhou to ensure that the passage between the whole army and Yanmen Pass was not cut off by the Turks, and he himself led more than 20,000 men and horses to move forward bravely, wanting to capture Dujin Mountain in one go, in order to win the complete victory of the Northern Expedition leading the army out of the pass. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Turks belong to the nomadic people and are accustomed to living in tents, so after Shabalu Khan succeeded as the Great Khan of the Turks, he did not set up his Great Khan's tooth tent in Wuyuan City, but set it up at the foot of Dujin Mountain, about 40 miles north of Wuyuan City.
Chu Luo Yu and Yong Yu Lu's uncle and nephew successively led the remnants of the defeated army who had withdrawn from Wuyuan City to retreat to the foot of Dujin Mountain, and both of them understood that they had no way to retreat.
In the minds of the Turks, they have always regarded the Great Khan's tooth tent as their holy place, and even in the minds of ordinary Turkic people, the status of the Great Khan's tooth tent is even higher than that of the emperor's capital in the hearts of the Chinese people. Therefore, if the Great Khan's tooth tent was captured by the Sui army led by Yang Shuang, even if Sha Boluo did not blame them, the uncle and nephew of Chu Luo Yu and Yong Yulu would have a deep sense of guilt, thinking that they were sinners who lost their families and humiliated the country.
Therefore, although Yang Shuang pursued the victory, and the army under his command was more powerful than the Turkic army guarding Dujin Mountain, he encountered extremely stubborn resistance at the foot of Dujin Mountain.
The Sui army and the Turkic army went back and forth several times, and even once attacked the front of the Great Khan's tooth tent, but they were still repelled by Yongyu Lu with the "five hundred horsemen of the wolf's teeth".
On the first day, he failed to break through the defense line of the Turkic army, Yang Shuang was afraid that he would not be able to attack Dujin Mountain for a long time, and the Baidaozhou in the south would change, so early the next morning, he personally put on the battle, led three thousand daring troops, armed with shields and short knives, and killed the Turkic array under the cover of crossbowmen.
The generalissimo personally went out and rushed to the front, which greatly boosted the morale of the Sui army's soldiers, they shouted, charged, and successfully broke through the first line of defense of the Turkic army, and directly exchanged hands with the "five hundred horsemen of the wolf's teeth" led by Yongyu Lu.
Yang Shuang was entrusted with important tasks by Yang Jian at a young age, in addition to the fact that he was raised by the emperor's sister-in-law Dugu Jialuo since he was a child, and was deeply trusted by Yang Jian and his wife, the main reason is that he fought bravely, and his mind was flexible, he led the army to make many achievements, and was one of the indispensable assistants in the army for Yang Jian to create the Sui Dynasty.
Today, Yang Shuang is also desperate, and he is out of the way, like an ordinary soldier of the Death Army, holding a shield and a short knife, one step down, one horse, and the Turkic prince Yongyu Lu is fighting in one place.
Yang Shuang was slightly inferior to Yongyu Lu in terms of force, but he was not like Yan Rong before, who had a hard time with Yongyu Lu, but gave full play to his advantages of moving and jumping flexibly under the step and fighting with Yongyu Lu. At the same time, the 3,000 daredevils led by Yang Shuang fought against the "Wolf Tooth 500 Cavalry", which took advantage of the strength of the troops, and before the hour came, the "Wolf Tooth 500 Cavalry" became the "Wolf Tooth 200 Cavalry".
Among the Turkic troops guarding Dujin Mountain, Yongyu Lu's pro-soldier guard team has the strongest combat effectiveness, seeing that the "five hundred wolf tooth cavalry" around him was killed by the three thousand death soldiers led by Yang Shuang, and only two hundred cavalry remained, and he himself still couldn't get rid of Yang Shuang's entanglement, Yongyu Lu had the intention of committing suicide with a stick.
Just at the critical juncture when the victory or defeat was immediately clear and Dujin Mountain was about to be captured by the Sui army, there was a sudden sound of gongs behind Yang Shuang to ring gold and withdraw the troops.
Yang Shuang, as the marshal of the Hebei Provincial Marching Army, naturally knew the iron law of the army that when he heard the drums, he would advance and retreat, and although he was angry, he had to jump out of the circle, and reluctantly led the three thousand daring troops to quickly retreat back to the battalion.
Yong Yulu obviously heard the sound of the gong in the camp of the Sui army, but he was intimidated by the momentum of the other party, and did not dare to order the pursuit, sat on the back of the horse and raised his hand to wipe his sweat, secretly saying that he was lucky.
Yang Shuang roared and retreated to the barracks, grabbed a Chinese military governor, and asked him, "Why did Mingjin withdraw his troops?" ”
The governor of the Chinese army pointed to a scout standing beside him who had come to report the news, and replied in a trembling voice: "Chief Du sent someone to report that the men and horses he led encountered the Turkic reinforcements less than a hundred miles south of Wuyuan City, and it has been preliminarily proved that the number of Turkic reinforcements should be ...... 100,000."
Yang Shuang was startled abruptly, and the hand holding the governor of the Chinese army subconsciously let go, glared at the scout who came to report the news, and asked, "Where did these so many Turkic troops come from?" Is Bai Daozhou still in the hands of Zhou Shao? ”
According to General Manager Du's guess, most of Baidaozhou has fallen into the hands of the Turks. General Manager Du asked the marshal to quickly withdraw his troops from Dujin Mountain, and join forces with his subordinates, and then make plans. ”
"I'm so angry!" Seeing that the strongest defense line of the Turks has been broken by his own daring army, Dujin Mountain can be taken in one go, but he didn't expect that at this moment, the confused governor of the Chinese army under his command actually withdrew to the barracks because Du Yan sent someone to report the news, and Mingjin wanted to collect his troops and withdraw to the barracks.
It was also so by mistake to retreat, missed the best opportunity to capture Dujin Mountain that day, and on the third day, Du Yan successively sent three scouts to urge Yang Shuang to withdraw from Dujin Mountain, Yang Shuang looked at the vaguely visible Turkic Great Khan's tooth tent in front of him, and let out a long sigh, and in desperation, he had to order the whole army to withdraw from Dujin Mountain, and quickly went south to meet Du Yan's department.
When the 30,000 iron cavalry of the Second Turkic Khan's Anluo tribe suddenly appeared in front of Du Yan, Du Yan truly realized that the situation on the battlefield was developing in a direction that was extremely unfavorable to his side. He immediately made a decision, and on the one hand, he sent scouts to quickly rush to Dujin Mountain, alarmed Marshal Yang Shuang, and on the other hand, ordered the whole army to form a number of phalanxes with a thousand people, and steadily retreated to Wuyuan City.
The 30,000 elite iron cavalry of the Dyegan and Anluo tribes united and launched a rush to the Sui army led by Du Yan, but in front of dozens of Sui military arrays that echoed each other, they could not bargain for a little bargain, but were shot by a rain of arrows from time to time in the Sui army array and killed many Turkic cavalry. At this time, the scout sent by Dyegan to Wuyuan City to inquire about the news reported to him: Wuyuan City had been captured by the Sui army, and Yang Shuang, the chief general of the Sui army, was leading the army to storm Dujin Mountain.
Ran Gan was concerned about his father's safety, and as soon as he heard the news, he immediately became anxious, and wanted to personally lead a cavalry army to bypass the dozens of Sui army formations in front of him that were fighting and retreating, and galloped to the aid of Dujin Mountain.
However, a cavalry army led by Ran Gan with tens of thousands of people had just come out of the Turkic camp and circled to the flank of the Sui army's formation, and Du Yan, the chief general of the Sui army, immediately guessed Dyegan's intentions and sent ten Sui army formations to block the way of the cavalry led by Ran Gan, and at the same time ordered the whole army to speed up and retreat to Wuyuan City.