Chapter 29: War (2)
It wasn't a fair collision, and the young men in the rear lined up behind the five thousand elite infantry as the formation continued to change. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info then led by a few veterans, a phalanx of thousands of people began to throw short spears, and the overture to buying human lives was sung.
A simple or even rudimentary spear may be difficult to pierce through leather armor if it is on a frontal battlefield. But when the spearmen lined up in rows, every time they tried their best, they threw the dead spears, it was this row of spears that became a nightmare for the Turkic cavalry, the huge impact and the relative acceleration, although there were only simple metal spearheads, no matter how good the Turkic horsemen were, their huge rows of war horses could not dodge the raindrops, batches of spear throwing.
Badly hit, the horses threw the Turkic soldiers off their horses and trampled their former owners into a pulp. Seeing that the surrounding comrades-in-arms fell to the ground one after another, the frightened Turkic soldiers could only shrink their necks and clamp their bodies, and galloped wildly.
The force of the impact caused the sturdy shield to tear open in an instant, even though the Turkic cavalry paid a heavy price for it. The sharp spear of the horse rejection is like the call of death, and the wide tower shield also makes anyone daunted, but the Turkic cavalry still relies on the spear and body in their hands to hit the thick defense line, or forced or willing to wave after wave of impact, the front line of the battle is soon covered with a thick layer of corpses, the enemy and the enemy are no longer clear, only know the charge and the charge, people shouting and neighing, screaming and wailing, like a huge concert hall, composing a song of the Han family against the steppe wolf.
Seeing that the waves of cavalry were crushed, the iron-faced Jieli held the gorgeous horsewhip inlaid with gold and jade tightly. His bloodshot eyes stared straight ahead.
But what disappointed him was that the Tang army's death spear throwing has not stopped, although the enemy army was accidentally injured by the Tang army's spear throwing, under the death charge of the Turkic warriors, the Tang army's heavy infantry vanguard formation has been shaken, but it has never collapsed, even he himself feels incomprehensible, but he also understands, because the Turks are all tall cavalry, and the Tang army's vanguard is heavy infantry and dead soldiers, so this kind of regardless of the projectile is the method with the least relative losses at this moment.
As for the casualties from their own side, the blow to morale, the elite henchmen who had been prepared for a long time, and those strong men in cloth who were obviously dead soldiers, these forwards who had caused serious casualties to themselves obviously had the consciousness of dying in battle.
Jieli closed his eyes in pain, and if he continued like this, he was afraid that before he could destroy the infantry in front of him, the Turkic warriors would be lost. Could it be that his fate will be buried here? He couldn't imagine what the consequences would be.
Jieli will not forget those Tang Army iron cavalry who guarded the infantry phalanx and fought with him. and the nephew Tuli who betrayed him and was preparing for war not far away. One is to sneak attack himself, kill the general of the Fang, and capture the iron cavalry of the Tang Army of the Golden Wolf, and the other is to betray his Jieli and betray the Turkic entire tribe of the Turkic Turks.
"The Great Khan has suffered too heavy losses, so retreat! The slave is cut off for you."
The Great Khan, who was brave and wise in the past, looked like madness and had the idea of launching a desperate charge. This personal servant was a little worried, he didn't have as many worries and worries as Jieli, and his mind was much clearer.
With a shock in his heart, he took a long breath violently, and Jieli regained his heroic nature. However, just as he was about to give the order to retreat, someone next to him suddenly shouted: "Look, Great Khan, look at the reinforcements, it's reinforcements!"
Following the gaze of the generals beside him, smoke and dust had been rolled up in the distance behind the military formation, which was obviously the trace of the cavalry of the brigade. "Drag you with the headquarters of the thousand horses, go to the back door of my military camp to line up, come to Tuli, don't be careless."
"It's the Great Khan" At this time, Dragun also remembered that night, Tuli's faint betrayal, although there was no definite testimony, but just because he did not send a support camp that night, and afterwards there were more than 100,000 sheep, and the change of ownership of the batch of fine war horses belonging to the headquarters of 10,000 horsemen, it explained everything with the scriptures.
"Stop the charge and gather the army, and the rear army slowly enters the camp."
"No pursuit, strictly defend the main formation, gather the war horses, and the cavalry on both wings slowly step forward" Then the military order of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, also sounded in the Tang army's array.
The Tuli army quickly came to the rear of the Jieli camp, looked at the delay guarding the camp gate, and immediately ordered the army to slowly advance to the right front of the camp to line up, ready to meet the headquarters army. Ordinary soldiers saw that Tuli had brought troops to support and received the order to retreat, and they didn't want to stay on this flesh-and-blood battlefield at the moment, so they slowly returned to the camp under the arrangement of their respective generals. The Turkic cavalry, which was still intact at this moment, breathed a sigh of relief and sighed that it was good to be alive.
But if they know that all this arrangement comes from a five-year-old baby, I don't know if they will be directly angry to death, and whether those Turks who died in battle can crawl out of hell and strangle Li Xiu.
And the initiator of all this, Li Xiu, was only the initial target of the condor archers, even if he brought the well-planned Li Shimin under his command, they just wanted to have a small, dominant, forward conflict, and then make Jieli think that the defeat of Gyeongju would also suffer heavy losses, so that he had to retreat and return to the grassland through Tuli.
However, as the commander-in-chief, Jieli's wrong decision-making, or the death of those condor shooters, made the Turks, who were already not highly intelligent, have a negative IQ, and thus collided with the dead soldiers of the tower shield that Li Xiu was about to use to break the back. Then he was the most elite Tiance Mansion elite soldier in the Tang Dynasty, and the Turkic warriors who were disrupted by Li Xiu's various tricks and tricks in the early stage and provoked infinite anger.
Just like Hong Feng, who was cut into several sections, especially the whole battle arranged by the eldest grandson and the fat man, only three times were fired in half an hour, and the trebuchet even knocked out the entire full front, and the strongest front delayed the follow-up charge, and the two subsequent launches interrupted the continuous momentum of the entire charge. Although there are not many killings, but the effect is not small, anyone who sees his comrades-in-arms around him, being knocked off his horse by a stone falling from the sky, will subconsciously stop, not to mention those horses that are injured, in such a situation will not be too docile.
The chaos caused by the Turkic charge energy weakened, and those young and strong spearmen who were originally used to shoot the formation evolved into the killer weapon of this battle, the men of the northern land fought all year round, which family will have some weapons, and this simple spear is of course the most convenient, the simplest and most standing weapon, otherwise the planner Li Xiu would not be able to equip the more than 10,000 people in the city with more than 20,000 spears.