After crossing the Great Wall to the north, there is an endless grassland, this grassland with a radius of thousands of miles includes Dingxiang County in the west, Mayi County in the middle and Yanmen County in the east, with the Qifubo of Mayi County as the center, it is a grassland with abundant pasture and fertile land, but it is actually a strategic buffer zone between the Central Plains Dynasty and the nomadic people of the northern grassland. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There lived some nomadic tribes in this vast steppe, including some small tribes of the Turks and Tiele, but with the re-strengthening of the Turks and the betrayal of Liu Wuzhou, this steppe was once again controlled by the Turks and became the southern sphere of influence of the Turks.

Just before last autumn, the dividing line between the Turkic and Central Plains dynasties had been pushed south to the Zihe line, but after the Northern Sui army inflicted heavy losses on the Turkic army stationed in Qifubo, the Turkic army had withdrawn north, and the area around Qifubo was regained control by the Sui army.

In the early morning of this day, a scout cavalry team composed of 50 people was galloping on the grassland north of Qifubo, and the Northern Sui deployed 20 scout cavalry in the area of Qifubo, about 1,000 people, commanded by Sun Ying, Sun Ying, who was Sun Xuanya's nephew, he was promoted step by step from the team leader, brigade commander, and captain, and now he has been promoted to Yingyanglang general, and is a very good scout general of the Northern Sui Army.

This 50-man scout team was led by Sun Ying, and their mission was to set up outlying patrol posts, and once the Turkic army was discovered, it would immediately send an alarm to the south.

The reason why Sun Ying traveled north quickly was because yesterday they found a few wolves with arrow wounds, wolves are social animals, generally hundreds of wolves, rarely see a lone wolf, unless it is slaughtered by humans, most of the members of the wolf pack are dead and injured, and the remaining wolves will flee alone, Sun Ying immediately keenly realized that it must be the wolves that met the Turkic army patrol.

"General, look over there!" A soldier shouted as he pointed to a grassy knoll miles ahead.

Sun Ying also discovered the abnormality on the grassy hill, it seemed that there was a wolf lying on his stomach, he immediately pulled out his sword and urged the horse to meet it, and the rest of the cavalry hurriedly followed.

Sure enough, it was a huge wolf with a large physique lying in the grass, but it was already dead, and it seemed that it had not been dead for a long time, and it had been hit by eight or nine arrows.

Sun Ying pulled out one of the arrows, and compared with the few arrows collected yesterday, several arrows are exactly the same, but they are different from the arrows of the Sui army, the arrow shaft is slightly shorter, the arrow is triangular, and the workmanship is excellent, it is a typical arrow used by the nomadic army, indicating that this is a standard arrow, made in batches, not an earthen arrow made by ordinary herdsmen.

Sun Ying can basically judge that a Turkic army has appeared nearby, and the wolves dare to attack them, indicating that they are not numerous, at most about 100 people, and they should be a Turkic patrol team.

"General, what shall we do?" The soldier asked in a low voice.

Sun Ying stood up and said to everyone: "This wolf has been hit by nine arrows, at least five of which have been shot in fatal places, this wolf cannot run too far, if I am not mistaken, this Turkic patrol is near us." ”

The soldiers suddenly became nervous, the grassland had a wide field of vision, and the enemy could see it more than ten miles away, could it be that the enemy army had already discovered them?

Sun Ying turned over his horse and urged the horse to run up the grass hill to look north, the north was still a vast grassland, but there was no trace of any army, but Sun Ying found a forest covering hundreds of acres in the northwest.

Sun Ying's eyes narrowed into a slit, and he saw several eagles hovering above the woods, which indicated that there were birds in the woods, Sun Ying turned around and ordered his opponent: "Release wolf smoke!" ”

Releasing wolf smoke is the contact information between the scouts of the Sui army, the smoke of wolf dung is not easy to disperse, even if it is a thin smoke, it can be seen dozens of miles away, not long after, two soldiers lit the wolf dung, a straight wolf smoke straight into the sky, as long as the Northern Sui scouts who see this wolf smoke within dozens of miles, they will come from all directions to support.

Sun Ying was not in a hurry to go to the woods, he wanted to delay as much as possible and wait for the other scouts to arrive, and Sun Ying also urgently needed to capture one or two enemy spies to find out the information of the main Turkic army from the other side.

At this moment, a frightened bird flew up over the woods in the distance, only to see a group of Turkic cavalry rushing out of the woods, about more than 100 people, they were divided into two ways, one left and one right to outflank the Sui army scouts, this Turkic patrol team also wanted to capture several Sui army scouts, from their mouths to find out the deployment of the Sui army, they were ambushed in the woods, trying to ambush the Sui army scouts, but Sun Ying was not fooled, but lit the wolf smoke for help.

Sun Ying didn't want to go toe-to-toe with the Turkic army, so he immediately shouted: "Retreat east!" ”

Fifty Sui scouts quickly turned their horses' heads and followed Sun Ying to the east, and a hundred Turkic cavalry were in hot pursuit, which was also the self-confidence of the Turkic cavalry, chasing on horseback on the grassland, and the Turkic cavalry did not take the Han people of the Central Plains in their eyes at all.

The two sides were hundreds of paces apart, although the Turkic cavalry gradually caught up with the Sui cavalry, but they never entered the distance of three hundred paces, half an hour later, they had run out of more than thirty miles, at this time, Sun Ying shouted, "Prepare to fight!" ”

The scouts of the Sui army reined in their horses, turned their horses' heads, and raised their crossbows together, and Sun Ying shouted: "Shoot!" ”

The sound of the crossbow machine clicked, and fifty arrows rose into the air, shooting at the Turkic cavalry in pursuit, at this time, the Turkic cavalry was already stretching their bows and arrows, although their bow-making level benefited from the north-fleeing Hebei and Bingzhou craftsmen, there has been great progress, but limited by materials and bow-making technology, the Turkic bows and arrows are still slightly inferior to the bows and arrows of the Sui army.

The range of the Turkic bow and arrow is 100 steps, and the effective killing distance is about 70 steps, while the range of the Sui army's bow and arrow is 150 steps, and the killing distance is 100 steps, and the killing distance of the crossbow arrow is even farther, reaching 150 steps, more than twice that of the Turkic bow and arrow.

Therefore, the Turkic cavalry had already entered the killing range of the Sui army's crossbow arrows at the same time as they opened their bows and arrows, and the centurion led by them suddenly realized that something was wrong and shouted: "Immediately retreat!" ”

The Turkic cavalry retreated one after another, but fifty crossbow arrows were already whistling and shooting, and more than a dozen Turkic cavalry did not have time to retreat, and they were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, at this moment, three more Sui army scouts appeared from the south and north, and the reason why Sun Ying stopped the army from retreating east was because the reinforcements he summoned had arrived.

The two scouts to the south immediately split up and rushed to the rear of the Turkic patrol soldiers, and the Turkic centurion, seeing that the situation was not good, shouted: "Retreat to the northwest!" ”

The Turkic soldiers also found that they were caught in the encirclement of the Sui army, and they were shocked, and they shouted that their war horses were running in the northwest direction, which was the biggest gap at present, and whether they could break through the encirclement of the Sui army was in one fell swoop.

About 200 soldiers from the four Sui scouts attacked the Turkic cavalry from four directions, and the encirclement was shrinking rapidly, and at this moment, another Sui scout team was killed from the west, which was the fifth Sui scout, and they just blocked the way for the Turkic cavalry to break through.

The Turkic cavalry's eyes were red, and they roared angrily, brandishing their swords and spears at the Sui cavalry.

This Turkic patrol team is also the elite of the Turkic army, they wear a full set of cowhide armor, leather helmets, wooden shields and Turkic bows and arrows, holding sharp spears and snowy war knives, the crotch is the most robust war horse, the key points of the war horse are also covered with cowhide armor, but compared with the Sui army scouts, the equipment is obviously lower.

The war horses of the Sui army scouts are also selected from the high-quality war horses imported from the grassland, which are by no means inferior to the war horses of the Turkic cavalry, they are draped in Mingguang armor, holding a steel short lance, carrying a horizontal knife at the waist, a round shield on the back, and equipped with a horn bow and a crossbow, which is the embodiment of the national strength of the Northern Sui, and their pig iron production far exceeds that of the Turks.

The advantage of the Turkic cavalry lies in horsemanship, they grew up on horseback, and their ability to control the war horse is much stronger than that of the Sui cavalry, they have not been able to catch up with the Sui cavalry before, the reason is not that the cavalry of the Sui army is superb, but that the war horse of the Turkic cavalry is also covered with leather armor, and the weight of the war horse is much greater than that of the Sui cavalry.

This is a contest between two elite cavalry, more than 50 Sui scouts from the west blocked the retreat of the Turkic cavalry, the two armies fought fiercely together, the cavalry killed to make the Turkic cavalry's hope of breaking through, only a moment, the Sui cavalry scouts from all directions surrounded this Turkic patrol team of more than 100 people.

A quarter of an hour later, a hundred Turkic cavalry were gradually killed and wounded under the constant strangulation of the Sui scouts who kept coming, and the corpses of the Turkic cavalry were everywhere on the steppe, and five Turks finally became prisoners of the Sui scouts.

Hundreds of Sui scouts turned their horses and galloped in the direction of Qifubo to the south.

(To be continued.) )