The sound of hooves was like thunder, and the momentum was huge, and the Turkic cavalry and infantry rushed closer and closer, a thousand, eight hundred, six hundred, five hundred...... It was already approaching the range of the Sui army's long-range attack, the yellow flag was waved on the command platform, and the Sui army's trebuchet was the first to launch. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

A series of strong winds sounded, a hundred big stones rose into the air, a group of black spots appeared in the air, made a strange sound, whistling and smashed to the top of the Turkic cavalry, the Turkic cavalry running in the front turned over on their backs, the furious boulder hit the cavalry, the head was smashed in an instant, the flesh and blood were blurred, the war horse was smashed, the broken tendon was broken, neighed and fell, the horse was thrown out, the cavalry also had experience, kept shouting to dodge.

Although the momentum of the trebuchet was violent, the killing effect was obviously inferior, a round of boulder attacks killed and injured more than 400 cavalry, the crazy arrogance of the Turkic cavalry was not extinguished, but more arrogant, they shouted and shouted, went forward one after another, brandished swords and spears and continued to kill the Sui army camp.

Zhang Xuan also saw that the trebuchet had little effect, and he said coldly: "Heavy crossbow attack!" ”

The honeycomb heavy crossbow that thousands of people were looking forward to was launched again, the blue flag waved on the command platform, and with a rapid drum beating, a thousand honeycomb heavy crossbows were launched at the same time, a dense rain of arrows rose into the air, and 30,000 iron crossbow arrows quickly formed a long black arrow cloud in the air, which instantly turned into black dots, overwhelmingly shooting head-on at the Turkic cavalry, and the Turkic cavalry raised their shields to meet each other.

However, the Sui army's honeycomb heavy crossbow is already the world's first long-range weapon, not only has a long range, but also has a strong force, thrown from the air, and the crossbow made of pig iron has its own gravity when it falls, so that ordinary shields and leather armor can't resist it at all.

The most frightening thing is the dense, 30,000 iron crossbow bolts are like the moment when a typhoon lands, the storm hits violently, so violent that all the soldiers within the strike range have no place to hide.

The heavy armor-piercing crossbow arrows pierced the cavalry's shields, shot through the leather armor, and penetrated the bodies of the cavalry and the horses, and the cavalry fell from their horses one after another, and the horses fell down, and the wails were all over the field, and the three thousand cavalry at the forefront had disappeared.

Then the second and third waves of crossbow bolts roared like dense raindrops, so dense that they were breathless, and the crossbow arrows sneered down, shot through the shields, shot through the faces and chests of the enemy soldiers, and these Turkic cavalry seemed to be the crops destroyed by the storm, falling one by one, blood splattered, and one by one wailing and dying miserably.

Pieces of cavalry perished in a torrent of crossbow arrows, and the cavalry and infantry behind were terrified and fled in desperation, and the first attack of the Turkic army was completely disintegrated, and they were dealt an extremely heavy blow.

In a short period of time, the Sui army fired a total of three rounds of honeycomb heavy crossbows, a total of 90,000 iron crossbow arrows, 10,000 cavalry killed nearly 8,400 people, only 1,500 cavalry luckily escaped back, all the surviving cavalry were in shock.

The Turkic army was extremely quiet, only hearing the main general Wen Mutie crying helplessly, he didn't even have a chance to withdraw the army, 20,000 tribesmen followed him on the expedition, and now there are less than 2,000 people left, how can he explain to his brother and tribesmen when he goes back?

The powerful honeycomb strong crossbow made the Chu Luo Khan who was watching the battle behind him stunned, he had never seen such a powerful and domineering crossbow arrow, the Turkic bow and arrow were too far away from the Sui army, not to mention that now the Sui army had a long-range dense crossbow arrow, which made the Chu Luo Khan chill.

At this time, Zhi Zhili urged him to step forward and handed an iron crossbow to Chu Luo Khan, "Khan look at this. ”

Chu Luo Khan took over the heavy crossbow arrows, and he realized that the Sui army shot metal arrows, which required a lot of financial and material resources, and the Turks would never be able to do it.

"Khan, this iron arrow is not simple, the shaft of the arrow is pig iron, but the arrow is bronze, so that the arrow can maintain balance in the air, and finally the arrow hits the target, and there is a bloodletting groove in the arrow, once it is shot, the blood will not stop, and the lethality is very powerful."

Chu Luo Khan sighed for a while, "Then what do you say we should do and withdraw our troops?" ”

"No!"

Zhi Zhi Sili hurriedly waved his hand and said: "We haven't seen this kind of arrow in Mayi County, it should have been sent just now, generally speaking, the first batch of arrows can not be sufficient, the Sui army has shot eighty or ninety thousand arrows, I estimate that their inventory is almost over, if we withdraw the army, they will definitely come out to collect the arrows, and the next time they use it, our soldiers will die in vain, and the lowly suggestion is to persist in fighting." ”

Chuluo Khan's confidence was low, but he still reminded him that this kind of arrow could be reused, and if they did not continue to attack the camp, then the army in front of them would really die in vain, and more importantly, the morale of the Turkic army would be lost.

Chu Luo Khan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! If you can attack the Sui camp, I will give all the pastures in Yudu Jin Mountain to the Lost Division. ”

Yudu Jin Mountain is located in the north of Dingxiang County, where there is a fertile pasture within a radius of thousands of miles, which has been directly governed by the Turkic Khan, because it is close to the pasture of the Deacon, the Deacon has been longing for this pasture for a long time, and several applications to the Khan have been rejected, this time, the Chuluo Khan finally agreed.

Zhi Zhi Sili was overjoyed and said: "Since the Khan promised, the Zhi Zhi Department is willing to fight to the death for the Khan!" ”

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In order to destroy the morale of the Turkic army as soon as possible, Zhang Xuan adopted the strategy of concentrated attack, and shot 90,000 crossbow arrows intensively, and annihilated nearly 10,000 cavalry at the cost of ten arrows and one person, which has never been lethal, and almost all the Turkic troops were shaken and panicked.

But what Zhang Xuan did not expect was that not all the Turkic armies had lost confidence, and one of them actually saw an opportunity in despair.

The 20,000 Turkic infantry quickly lined up on the field, and it was obvious that a second attack was going to be carried out, and Zhang Xuan also knew very well that the honeycomb heavy crossbow could no longer be used, but the absence of the heavy crossbow did not mean that they could not defend themselves against the attack of the Turkic army.

Zhang Xuan immediately ordered: "The heavy crossbow is withdrawn, and another 25,000 crossbowmen are added."

Another 30,000 infantry rushed quickly, lined up in front of the high wall into a large array of bows and crossbows, the Sui military camp wall is not a thin wall, although it cannot be compared with the city wall, but it is as thick as six feet, the wall can stand a row of soldiers, plus there is a row of wooden frames behind, in fact, two rows of soldiers can stand, which makes a total of 15,000 people can be deployed on the three-mile-long north camp wall, all of them are crossbowmen.

In addition, six rows of archers were deployed under the camp wall, totaling 30,000 people, making a total of 45,000 crossbowmen deployed under the entire north camp wall, forming a powerful defensive arrow network.

Not only that, but the Sui army deployed 10,000 crossbowmen on each of the east and west camp walls to prevent the Turkic army from attacking from the east and west.

He lived in Luoyang and Mayi County for ten years as a teenager, and was well aware of the tactics of the Central Plains army and the terrain around Loufan County.

This time, in order to travel lightly and quickly, he plundered the wealth of the population of the state, and only brought a month's worth of food, which was opposed by many Turkic generals, and Zhizhi Sili was one of the opponents.

Zhi Wei Sili thought that Yangma City should be moved to Lou Fan County, and the food should not be too far away from the main force, but Chu Luo Khan believed in Lou Fu Pass too much, and was worried that Yang Ma City would drag the main force to retreat north, so he did not listen to Zhi Wei Sili's persuasion and insisted on placing Yang Ma City in Mayi County.

In the end, they only had ten days of food left, and maybe twelve more days if they saved a little more, but that didn't make sense.

Unless they can annihilate the Sui army in one fell swoop, Lou Fu County will be their place of death.

Stubbornly looking at the Sui army camp in the distance, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he had to rush into the Sui army camp today no matter what.

"Kill!" He roared, and the five thousand Turkic cavalry in front of him launched, they raised their shields, their war horses galloped, rolled up the rolling yellow sand, and the murderous aura filled the Gobi, and swept towards the Sui army camp.

Fifteen thousand infantry ran behind with siege ladders and ramsticks.

When the cavalry led the army into the line of 400 paces, the trebuchet was activated, but this time it was not stones, but huge fireballs.

It was a ball of hay, soaked in flammable high slave oil, and the flames mixed with smoke whistled from the air over the heads of the cavalry.

The lethality of the fireball is not great, mainly to bring psychological shock to the enemy army, and it may not be deeply felt by the running Turkic soldiers, after all, most people run with shields.

But for the Turkic army watching the battle from afar, it can have a great shocking effect, a hundred bright red fireballs caused smoke and fire to fly in the air, which is a scene rarely seen by the steppe peoples, this scene like the anger of the gods actually made many soldiers kneel. (To be continued.) )