Chapter 407: Trenches

"Descendants of the wolf god, this battle is our glory, life, comparable to our ancestors, death, the same heroes admired by the Turks for generations. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoLet's fight this battle with all our might. Brothers, the Tang army was afraid of our sharp archery skills, and withdrew three miles away, and these three miles were enough for our cavalry to charge, and at the same time, it also gave us the opportunity to assemble outside the city, this is the stupidity of the Tang army, but also the favor of the wolf god, this opportunity must not be lost, and it will not come again. Success or failure is in this moment. ”

"Zheng" with a crisp sound, Jieli laughed and pulled out the golden knife that symbolized authority, and with a sound, he was waiting for this opportunity, the outside of the city was full of plains, there was no danger to defend, just enough to use horsepower to launch a strong attack with a large number of cavalry, and break through the Tang army's military formation.

In order to prevent Jieli from escaping, in order to capture or kill his head alive, the Tang army will not retreat, and can only fight in the field with his elite cavalry on the plain. On the plain, he used cavalry to fight against the infantry on horseback, if he Jieli was still defeated, then he Jieli didn't have to think about anything to destroy Xue Yantuo's Yi Nan, dominate the prairie, and then compete with the Tang Dynasty.

Since the division and civil war, the combat effectiveness of the Turkic army has declined year by year, and it is no longer the fierce and heroic division that was when the army began to attack Liao. It can be said that in Jieli's view, this is the last opportunity to go south to unify, rejuvenate, fight the Tang Dynasty, and destroy the Tang Dynasty.

When the two gates slowly opened, he immediately said to Ashina Xian beside him: "First rush, you lead three thousand cavalry out of the city first, responsible for guarding against the sudden attack of the Tang army, whether you can go out of the city on a large scale to meet the enemy, whether you can seize a gathering place outside the moat is up to you, at the same time, you have to be careful of the Tang army's conspiracy, lest they kill us by surprise, go!" ”

"Hey, hey! King Khan, don't worry, I've long wanted to be ashamed! Ashina said with great joy. He was a big man with a scar on his face and a hideous face.

He called himself the king of the sky, and made many exploits in the war of the civil war, and was deeply relied on by Jieli, but when he was in the Shuofang border prairie, he was defeated without a knife, and lost Jieli's 70,000 army, and when he fled back to Dingxiang, he almost let Jieli cut off his head, and now Jieli has reused him, so that he can make meritorious contributions, Ashina first suddenly vowed to wash away the shame of the fiasco in this war.

"Sons! Let's go! Let the Tang Army taste the power of our Turkic Iron Cavalry! Ashina suddenly roared, and the Turkic elite in the first column began to move forward slowly, stepped on the drawbridge, and left Dingxiang City. Carefully guard two miles away from the Tang army to provide cover for the follow-up troops.

After seizing the "landing" point, the Turkic army slowly left the city like ants out of a hole, put themselves in the right position in the open space, and confronted the Tang army.

"Attention the whole army! The Turks are about to be killed! The Turks are about to strike from the front! The whole army is ready to meet the enemy," Wei Chi Jingde ordered.

The Mo Dao battalion under the command of him and Fang Yiai immediately set up a formation, and the front was a gun and shield array composed of shield soldiers and pikemen, mainly used to resist the impact of the enemy cavalry, and behind them were Mo knife men, and then behind them were crossbowmen, crossbowmen were mainly in the enemy cavalry when they were rushing, shooting a large number of enemies, and after the real short combat, they did not have much effect, of course, in addition to bows and arrows, they were also equipped with Mo knives. Behind the Modao battalion is Achilles' Jumping Army, Xue Rengui's Breaking Front Army, the two wings of the army are your real iron cavalry team, the left wing is the cavalry with 10,000 guns and bows led by Luo Tong, and the right wing is the cavalry with 10,000 guns and bows led by Zhang Shigui.

Their main task was to prevent the Turkic cavalry from bypassing the phalanx and attacking the Don army from the flank. At the same time, if the frontal battle is stalemate, they will also rush up and outflank the enemy from both flanks.

The Tang army waited for more than half an hour in a tense defensive state, and finally heard a rumbling sound of people shouting and neighing, and at the same time, all the Tang soldiers felt that the ground was trembling slightly, and they couldn't see clearly that the soldiers in front of them immediately judged that this was the shaking of horses' hooves brought by a large number of horses......

"Kill! Kill all the Tang army barbarians! Ashina suddenly saw that he could no longer accommodate more people, and immediately gave the order to attack.

Ashina Xiantu slowly accelerated while giving the order, and the three thousand Turkic cavalry grabbed the reins one by one, lay down on the horse's back, waved the whip and slammed the horse's buttocks, and entered the sprint stage.

"It's finally here!" Wei Chi Baoqing was relieved when the Turkic army rushed over, so he had been lining up the formation and waiting nervously, which was a double test of will and physical strength for the heavily armored Modao battalion.

Ashina suddenly saw that the Tang army was still unmoving, so he shouted loudly: "Kill!" Kill all these dogs! Victory belongs to our invincible Turkic warriors! ”

Behind him, the 3,000 Turkic cavalrymen were all dressed in light armor, with pigtails on their hands, and shaved heads on their heads, looking fierce. They rode on tall horses, raised their weapons and shouted in response.

After the morale was raised, Ashina suddenly pointed his sword forward and shouted: "Charge!" ”

After that, he took the lead in waving his sword and rushed forward.

Three thousand cavalry followed behind him, and rushed towards the Tang army array, which was waiting in front of him.

Ashina Xiantu can be said to be full of confidence, a distance of one or two miles is not a distance at all for the cavalry who are attacking with all their might.

Anashi suddenly held his sword and rushed forward with a shout, and the momentum of the three thousand horses galloping forward together was still very magnificent. By this time, the Turks had taken the scimitar out of the hook......

It's close, it's close!

Now that he was getting closer and closer to the Tang army in front of him, Ashina Xiantu could vaguely see that the Tang army on the opposite side was looking at the Turkic warriors who rushed over.

"Haha! These Han dogs are really scared silly! We didn't even fire our arrows all the way. Ashina Xian burst into ecstasy in his heart, and secretly said that as long as these elite cavalry soldiers rushed into the formation of the Tang army, they would definitely be able to kill them without leaving a single piece of armor.

Fifty steps!

At this time, the Turkic cavalry had already entered a state of high-speed sprinting, and at this speed, it could rush to the front of the Tang army in the blink of an eye.

However, Ashina Xiantu finally discovered something abnormal: in the Tang army array, a young general on a horse suddenly flashed, and he was looking at him with a smile that seemed to be not smiling.

"That's not right! The performance of these Tang troops is too weird, this Li Jing is the second person in the Tang army after Li Shimin, both wise and brave, how could he be so indifferent in the field? Moreover, Qin Feng was also an extremely cunning fox, and the expression on this young general's face just now ......"

Ashina suddenly became alert, feeling as if there was some trap waiting for him.

"Everyone, stop! Don't rush! Something is wrong! Ashina Xian suddenly reined in the war horse under his seat, trying to slow down the speed.

He reacted in time, but his men were not so lucky. They still rushed to the phalanx of the infantry of the Don Army at the speed of arrows......

I only heard a loud "boom", and the flat ground in front of the Tang army suddenly collapsed and turned into a long and deep trench, about two zhang wide. The Turkic cavalry that rushed to the front immediately fell, and the men turned on their backs, screaming again and again.

Wei Chi Baoqing laughed, just when the head of Dingxiang City let the water dragon shoot unguarded, the main force of the Tang Army, under the cover of the white fog at the head of the city, dug a trench about 20 zhang long and 2 zhang wide on the bank of the soft moat outside the four city gates, and then covered it with branches and weeds on the ditch.

Now the Turks have finally fallen into the trap.

The Tang Army, which had been waiting for the battle, would not let go of such a good opportunity. With an order, the spear and shield soldiers standing in the front row immediately crouched down, revealing more than ten rows of archers in the rear, as early as when the Turkic cavalry began to charge, they used the overall uniform action, put the sharp arrows in their hands on the longbow that had been opened, and prepared to shoot. As soon as the spear and shield men crouched down, they aimed their bows and arrows at the Turkic cavalry, which was close at hand, but in disarray.

"Shoot!" Yu Chi Baoqing pulled out his waist knife, swung it down, and shouted.

"Hum—"

Thousands of longbow bowstrings trembled at the same time, emitting a terrible humming sound. With this sound, countless elite arrows densely rose from the Tang Army's infantry phalanx. They passed the squatting Song spear and shield soldiers, crossed the trench, and flew straight into the sky.

A moment later, the blackened arrow rained down from the sky with a fatal "whoosh-whoosh" sound, and fell precisely over the heads of the densely packed Turkic cavalry in the trench. In the blink of an eye, the Turkic cavalry, who were still trying their best to restrain their horses, fell like wheat harvesting.

"Second round salvo ready!"

Wei Chi Baoqing's deep eyes did not show a trace of pity, he knew that war is a life-and-death struggle, and being merciful to the enemy is ruthless to his own people, not to mention that these Turkic cavalry do not know how many Han people died in their hands, only by killing can they know that the Han people cannot be bullied! Datang cannot be humiliated!

"Arrow wound!" His cold voice rang out again.

"Shoot the arrows!"

I only heard the sound of "buzz-", and the terrifying hum sounded again. Thousands of fine iron arrows rushed out from behind the Tang Army's spears and shields with a black cold light......

On the battlefield next to the trench, the screams of soldiers after being hit by arrows were constantly heard from the Turkic cavalry group. One by one, the elite Turkic soldiers fell unwillingly under the ravages of this black iron arrow.

These 3,000 cavalry were the elite cavalry of the Turkic army, and they were all composed of the descendants of Jieli Khan, and their loyalty and morale were very high. Jieli Khan arranged for them to charge at the front, but also to make a good start, reverse the psychological disadvantage of the Turkic army that would be defeated in the face of Qin Feng, and establish confidence in victory.

In his opinion, the "infantry" of the Tang army, which had 3,000 elite cavalry riding on horseback on the plain, could not have suffered a crushing defeat, at most because the Tang army had a tight defense, which made it impossible for them to rush across the formation.

But now, these elite cavalry have been completely lost before they have rushed to the front of the Tang army.