Chapter 188: The Battle of Eternal Solid
Gao Huan hurriedly picked up the helmet and put on the armor, the ancestral Pu knife was carried by Gao Zhongming, and at this time Yaoqin came out of the side hall, looking like she had just gotten up, and she was still wearing pajamas. Gao Huan said to her: "What are you doing when you come out, hurry in, the Turks are coming, you are ready to evacuate at any time." Yaoqin stepped forward and grabbed him and said, "My king, I can foresee that you will return in triumph this time, but please promise me that you will not be injured, and that you will come back safely regardless of victory or defeat." ”
These two people are still tired, Murong Shaozong has been impatient to lead people to open the door and rush out, Gao Aocao is in a very dangerous situation at this time, and if he does not rescue him in time, he is afraid that he will die tragically at the hands of the Turks.
Gao Huan stood on the city tower and watched the battle situation outside, Gao Aocao's shaved army was all sent out, but they plus Murong Shaozong's troops and the Turkic generals on the opposite side were tied, and the combat effectiveness of this Turkic cavalry was simply terrifying. The constant assault and sprint back and forth made Gao Aocao and Murong Shaozong fall into a deep bitter battle.
Gao Huan really couldn't stand it anymore, so he wanted to go into battle and personally enter the battle to defeat this Turkic army. At this time, there was a whining horn on the hillside not far away, and then the white deer and wolf flags flew all over the mountain, which was the main force of the Golden Horde. Gao Huan was about to go to him, but he sent people to besiege Yonggu City in advance on the date of the decisive battle, and the Turks were too untrustworthy.
The Turks, who were entangled with Gao Aocao and them, suddenly began to retreat from the battle, was this to attract the Wei army to pursue them? Gao Huan was afraid that he would be ambushed by the enemy, so he immediately withdrew his troops.
The cavalry of the Golden Horde was neatly and solemnly lined up five hundred meters below the city, but Gao Huan did not intend to defend the city, he wanted to take the initiative to attack and defeat the Turks head-on, so that they could know the strength of the Wei people. So all the troops went out of the city to form a formation, although the Turks had retreated 600 meters to make room for them to set up their formations, but in order to prevent the Turks from cheating, the dog changed all the troops to form a dead formation with their backs against the city wall.
At this time, one or two hundred cold and hot captives suddenly appeared in front of the Golden Horde's central army, and they were being escorted to the forefront of the position crying, followed by neat sword and axe hands. Gao Huan saw that his heart was not good, so he rode his horse forward for a hundred meters, and Murong Shaozong, Gao Aocao and Gao Zhongming and others followed closely for fear that he would make a mistake. Gao Huan said loudly to the Golden Horde Khan: "Khan, the two armies fight without taking prisoners, don't you Turks even understand this truth?" ”
The Golden Horde Khan laughed and said: "Gao Huan Xiao'er, this is not your messenger, they are all slaves of our Great Turk, and our Great Turk has always had a custom that a group of slaves must be killed before the Great War. Gao Huan was angry and hateful when he heard this, but he was helpless. I saw that the Golden Horde Khan gave an order, and the more than 100 Han people in front of the battle instantly fell in a pool of blood, which was obviously a provocation and demonstration.
All the Wei soldiers wept, and the Turks on the opposite side shouted triumphantly, and Gao Huan returned to the front of the battle and said loudly to his troops: "Soldiers, you have seen it, and you know how to treat our people and your family, they are cruel and bloodthirsty, the Turks are in ruins, your parents are brutally killed, your wives and children are enslaved, your demolition is ruthlessly plundered, your homeland is wantonly trampled, is this what you want?" ”
The soldiers replied loudly: "No! Gao Huan nodded and continued: "If we don't exterminate all these Turks today, then they will continue to kill our relatives and destroy our homeland, do you want that?" "I don't want to!" The emotions of the soldiers have begun to get excited, Gao Huan held the ancestral Pu knife in his hand and brandished it and shouted: "Kill the Turks, raise the prestige of the country, break the captivity, and protect the mountains and rivers!" The soldiers shouted loudly and excitedly: "Kill the Turks!" Kill the Turks! Kill the Turks! ”
The Golden Horde originally wanted to give Gao Huan and the Wei army a dismount, kill their spirit, and hit the morale of the other party, but he didn't expect that this would help Gao Huan improve morale and boost the morale of the army. The Turks looked at the Wei army on the opposite side and were excited, and they also showed a murderous look in their eyes, waving the weapons in their hands and whistles, eager to step forward to attack the Wei army.
Seeing this, the Golden Horde gave the order to attack the right and left kings, and saw a large number of Turkic cavalry beginning to extend from the left and right flanks, Gao Huan saw that they were about to start preparing for the attack, so he asked the infantry phalanx to move forward fifty meters in a fan shape to make room for archers and ballista troops. I saw the Turkic cavalry all over the mountains and fields begin to advance slowly at the sound of whining horns, followed by jogging, and then speeding up.
Looking at the menacing Turkic cavalry all over the mountains, Gao Huan shouted: "Archers prepare!" Seeing that the archers all opened their bows and arrows, and some of the bows and arrows were about to be pulled into a full moon, Gao Huan continued: "Hold on!" Hold your horses! Hearing only the rumbling hooves of horses and the flags covering the sky and the sun surging like a flood, Gao Huan seemed to be able to feel the air waves brought by the rushing Turkic cavalry on the opposite side to the door, and then he felt that the time was ripe, so he shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrows!" With a whoosh, a rain of arrows shot into the sky, and then slowly covered the rushing Turkic cavalry.
There was a clanging sound, and in an instant a Turkic cavalry fell, but there were more cavalry to fill their position and rush towards the Wei army's position, the Turks had 150,000 people, then these 150,000 people were all cavalry, and most of them were cavalry with two horses, Gao Huan's 3,000 crossbows seemed to be far from being able to shoot them in pieces, after four or five shots, some Turkic cavalry had rushed to the front of the Wei infantry phalanx.
Gao Huan shouted: "Infantry ready!" The infantry phalanx instantly turned into an ironclad array composed of long shields, the Turkic cavalry seemed to hit the wall, the weight of people and horses plus the impact brought by the rapid gallop was very huge, the ironclad array was rushed out of the mouth at once, some cavalry had rushed to the back of the infantry and began to attack, at this time Gao Huan shouted: "Gao Aocao, give me your people!" ”
Gao Aocao couldn't bear it for a long time, so he waited for Gao Huan to give an order, and at this moment he did not hesitate to hold his bald head, and waved the nearly two-meter-five long knife in his hand and shouted loudly: "The last general will be ordered!" Then he turned to the shaved army in the position and roared: "Brothers, it's time for us to play, kill me!" As he spoke, he jumped out of his horse with his sword, followed by a large number of cavalry, and the square team composed of swordsmen and axemen also roared out, and the shaved head army that Gao Huan relied on the most began to act.
At this time, he did not forget to give orders to Murong Shaozong and Li Erhu, asking their cavalry team to be ready to attack at any time. At this time, Gao Aocao's shaved army had already connected fire with the Turkic cavalry, only to see Gao Aocao dancing in the enemy formation with a long knife to stab forward and back and sweep left and right, a large number of Turkic cavalry were temporarily blocked by his shaved head army in front of the infantry phalanx, at this time Gao Huan once again ordered Murong Shaozong's pikemen to carry out a assault.
This spear team is a special unit specially prepared by Gao Huan for the Turks, their spears are about three meters to three meters five, the barrel made of black pine wood is coated with glue paint, and the top is a spear made of stainless steel, which is light in weight but good in texture, and hard and not easy to break, such weapons are invented by craftsmen in Yecheng for Turkic cavalry.
The Turkic cavalry is characterized by fast speed, so most of them are lightly armored cloth with scimitars, bows and arrows, and their weapons and equipment are not sophisticated, but because they are very skilled in riding and archery, they are very skilled in horsemanship, so they are amazing in combat effectiveness when they are with other backward ethnic minorities such as Rouran, Qiang, Di, and Qian, but once they fight against countries such as craftsmen like the Eastern Wei Dynasty, who are technologically developed and have very advanced weapons and equipment, their disadvantages are very obvious.
Gao Huan saw Rouran's backwardness before he thought of using improved preparations to deal with the Turks, and he even thought of firearms, but it is a pity that the research of firearms was in the embryonic state in that era, and Gao Huan also knew a little about this "advanced technology", and he could not summon talents to engage in development, let alone use it in actual combat. But his improvement on existing equipment has reached its peak, and it can even be said that it is ahead of its time.
Because the Eastern Wei Dynasty had huge financial strength and a steady stream of manpower and material resources, as long as the treasury in charge of Sima Ziru still had silver, it was not very difficult to equip an army of 400,000 people. But this battle almost cost Gao Huan all his savings over the years, and Sima Ziru clearly told him that such a war can only come once, and there can be no second time, otherwise there will be unimaginable consequences.
Gao Huan also knew that the reckless military force in the past few years had overwhelmed the people of the entire Eastern Wei Dynasty, and he originally wanted to spend this national strength on the invasion of Yuwentai in the Western Wei Dynasty, but unfortunately the Golden Horde himself came out to block this arrow for Yuwentai.
Cold weapon warfare is not only compared with manpower and material resources and national strength, but also compared with science and technology, like Gao Huan is silent about the development of science and technology, and constantly improve the technology of weapons and equipment, although the cost is huge, but once it is successfully used in actual combat, I am a huge reward, such as this battle with the Turks, he is testing all the things he has accumulated over the years. Fortunately, the results were quite satisfactory.
The vanguard army of the Turks was already mired in the position of the Wei army and could not extricate themselves, and the Golden Horde Khan only discovered the terrible thing about Gao Huan at this time, he did not want the entire Turkic army to be wiped out under the Yonggu City, so he hurriedly sounded the horn of retreat. After leaving behind 10,000 corpses and nearly two prisoners, the remaining Turkic army began to retreat, retreating north to the court of Rouran.
The news of Gao Huan's victory in Yonggu quickly spread throughout the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the entire Central Plains. Together with the Western Wei army that was fighting in Henan, they were greatly shaken, and Yuwentai originally thought that Gao Huan would not be able to withstand it in the face of the powerful attack power of the Turks. At most, the news of the rout of his entire army would come in half a month, but Yuyu Wentai never expected that Gao Huan would be able to defeat the powerful Turks. Even he himself was wondering if this Gao Huan really had the destiny of heaven, how many times he had turned danger into a disaster, Yuwentai felt that this opponent was simply invincible to him, and the struggle over the years seemed to be meaningless.
He didn't want to evacuate Henan, because it had been half a month, and the entire Sizhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou had been subdued by himself except for the two isolated cities of Luoyang and Xingyang, but if Gao Huan waved his army south, he would probably not be able to resist him, and he was really in a dilemma. Xie Sichun's advice to him was to continue to attack Henan, but also to burn the war to Xuzhou and Xiangzhou, and send people to block the passage from Jinyang to the south to prevent Gao Huan from retreating to rescue Henan.
Yuwentai felt that he no longer had the ambition to consume with Luoyang's He Batsheng, he even felt that withdrawing to the defense of Guanzhong was the best policy at the moment, at this time something happened in Chang'an, Guanzhong, which made him have to retreat to the defense, and his eldest son, Yuwen Wuji, who was born to the concubine, died, and the cause of death was actually from falling from a horse and dying.
This is a very strange thing, why do you say that, Yuwentai has always had problems with his body, it is said that he was injured in the war with Ge Rong, and he injured his crotch, but later after being treated by a famous doctor, it was said that it was possible to have children. But over the years, he has married many wives, big and small, but he has not been able to give birth to a son and a half daughter for him. A few years ago, there was a Taoist priest of Kongtong Mountain who specially presented a secret recipe for Yuwentai, and as soon as he ate this secret recipe, he soon had his first child, which was Yuwen Wuji. But this kid doesn't look like Yuwentai himself no matter how he looks at it. (To be continued.) )