Chapter 984: Battle of Taiyuan (25)
Ten miles away, Chu Luo Khan is also surrounded by hundreds of commanders and thousands of commanders, looking at the Sui army camp from afar, the Sui army camp built a high flat land about a few zhang on a soil slope, east and west about five miles, north and south three miles, the whole camp is like a county town, and a few miles away in the west is Fenshui, a small river comes from the east, passes through the camp, and finally injects Fenshui, the previous Tang camp has been dismantled, turned into a pile of soil, the Sui and Tang armies have been united. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
From the point of view of the attack, it is not very difficult, there are wilderness on all sides, but the terrain in the south is lower, which is unfavorable to the attacking side, and there are rivers on the east and west sides, which cannot accommodate too many troops, so it is most advantageous to attack only from the north.
At this time, Chu Luo Khan's eyes fell on the ground again, he was most worried that the Sui army had deployed the quenched tribulus thorns, and they had been repeatedly hit by the tribulus thorns and horse traps, which had become their nightmare.
At present, in the ranks of the Turkic army, there is still an army of Tiele, that is, the five thousand people of the Baye Ancient Division, led by the nephew of the great chief Tule Jinluo, Chuluo Khan of course knows very well the relationship between the Baye Ancient Department and Zhang Xuan, and also knows that the Sui army sold pig iron to the Baye Ancient Department, and the Baye Ancient Department has long been a thorn in his eye and a thorn in the flesh.
However, due to the tripartite alliance of Bayegu, Hui and Fugu, Chuluo Khan never made a move, and after he prepared for this southern expedition, he began to clean up the three eastern tribes and sweep away all forces that dared to oppose Turkic rule.
This time, the Baye Ancient Department also sent 5,000 people to participate in the southern expedition, and the Chuluo Khan has not used them, he wants to save this army until the end to humiliate Zhang Xuan, and use the Baye Ancient Department to clear the obstacles today!
"Where's General Jinluo?"
Among the generals came a captain of ten thousand soldiers, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, it was the leader of the ancient army of Baye, Jin Luo, who looked very much like his uncle Thule, with a broad face and a small stature, but he was unusually strong.
Jin Luo stepped forward and saluted, "The last general!" ”
Chu Luo Khan coldly ordered: "The army is attacking, Liwei is the first, and today's first battle will be established by the Baye Ancient Army!" ”
Of course, Jin Luo knew Chu Luo Khan's intentions, he secretly gritted his teeth, and asked, "I don't know what kind of authority we need to set up?" ”
"Just break through a camp wall!"
At this time, the former army commander stepped forward and said: "Khan, there are only 5,000 people in the ancient army of Baye, and the number of troops is too small, I am afraid that the failure to establish power will affect the morale of our army, and I am willing to fight the first battle with the ancient army of Baye." ”
Later, the Turkic generals were secretly surprised, everyone knew the Khan's purpose of letting Bayegu fight, but he lost his thinking but didn't know what to do, and he actually wanted to fight with Bayegu, didn't this embarrass the Khan?
Chu Luo Khan's eyes narrowed into a slit, and his eyes flashed with a terrifying light, which showed the anger in his heart, and Chu Luo Khan said coldly: "Since you want to go into battle, then fight the second battle!" ”
Of course, he knows the intentions of the Khan, but he has always opposed the Khan's harsh treatment of the Tiele people, you must know that the Tiele tribes and the Turks live together on the steppe, and have submitted to the Turks for decades, and the two sides are at peace, this southern expedition, hundreds of thousands of Tiele troops are almost all killed and wounded, and the unfairness and injustice of the Khan's treatment of the Tiele people have made the Tiele people cold, and I heard that even the most loyal to the Turks have rebelled, and if this continues, sooner or later it will cause chaos in the grassland.
But the khan did not listen to the persuasion at all, so that the stubbornness of the power of thought was worried, today the khan is going to take the last of the Tiele people to open the knife, the stubbornness of the strength of the mind finally could not bear it anymore, so he stepped forward and confronted the Khan in public.
"Khan, morale is already low, morale should be boosted at this time, if the Khan is worried that there are thistles on the ground, he can let hundreds of soldiers go to investigate, and let the Baye Gubu go to ......."
"Shut up!"
Chu Luo Khan's face was flushed with anger, and he roared viciously: "I am a khan, I let whoever I want to go, if you want to be a khan, I will give it to you!" ”
Stubbornly lowered his head, and sighed in his heart, "Don't dare!" ”
Chu Luo Khan raised the golden wolf's head and ordered, "Give me a drum!" ”
'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
The drums in the Turkic army were loud, and Chuluo Khan shouted: "Baye Gubu attack!" ”
At this time, the five thousand cavalry of the Baye Ancient Department had already lined up, and Jin Luo was so helpless that he had to draw his sword and wave, "Attack!" ”
"Kill!"
The 5,000 cavalry rushed out like a river bursting its embankment and swept away towards the Sui army camp ten miles away.
Chuluo Khan coldly ordered Amulun, the commander of his guards: "You can lead three thousand guards to supervise the battle, and whoever dares to escape back will be beheaded immediately!" ”
"Obey!"
Amulon immediately led 3,000 cavalry of the Guards to run forward, they held sharp blades in their hands to supervise the battle behind, more than 100 hesitant and did not dare to step forward Baye ancient cavalry were killed by them on the spot, under the ferocious killing of the Guards, 5,000 Baye ancient cavalry were forced to attack the Sui army camp.
The overwhelming cavalry is like a black tide surging towards the Sui army's camp, on the camp wall, Zhang Xuan shook his head, the Turks began to attack before they had a stable foothold, even if the pressure was great, it would not be so eager, this must be the other party to test the Sui army's defense, or even to test whether the Sui army had laid thistle thorns.
At this time, Fang Xuanling next to him said in a low voice: "Your Highness, looking at their battle flag, it seems that they are the Ancient Department of Baye." ”
Zhang Xuan was stunned, and looked carefully at the battle flag, there were dozens of battle flags in front of him, most of them were Turkic wolf-headed banners, but there was a black flag among them, which was the banner of the Kulun Department, and now it was also the battle flag of the Baye Ancient Department.
And judging from the equipment of the soldiers, they are different from the Turkic soldiers, these cavalrymen wear unmuddy hats, which are very different from the helmets of the Turkic army, which is also a characteristic of the Eastern Tiele people.
Although it is not entirely certain that this army is the ancient tribe of Bano, the possibility is already very high.
"Dashuai, do you want to launch a honeycomb crossbow?" Pei Xingyan asked in a low voice.
Zhang Xuan shook his head, "Don't use honeycomb crossbows and trebuchets, shoot with a bow when they get close." ”
Zhang Xuan didn't have mercy, the pity for the enemy on the battlefield was cruel to his own army, the key was that he didn't want to be tested by the Turks, and five thousand cavalry with bows and crossbows were enough.
The cavalry of the ancient tribe of Baye rushed to a mile away, and to their surprise, there were no thistles and horse traps on the ground, which made the Turkic army behind them breathe a sigh of relief at the same time, and Chu Luo Khan secretly rejoiced in his heart, without thistles and horse traps, their biggest threat was gone.
But surprises came one after another, not only did there be no tribulus array, but even trebuchets and long-range crossbows did not appear, which really made the Turkic generals feel strange, and everyone talked about it, I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the Sui army?
Chu Luo Khan sneered, can the ancient department of Baye enjoy preferential treatment? Kill under the camp to see how Jang Hyun treats him preferentially.
The cavalry of the ancient tribe of Baye is getting closer and closer to the camp wall, and has entered the killing range of the horn crossbow, and the cavalry have drawn their swords and shouted, and hundreds of cavalry in front have prepared rope sleeves, ready to lasso the camp wall, and use the power of war horses to drag down a section of the camp wall.
This is also the difference between siege and siege camp, siege must be siege ladder to climb the city, must use infantry, but in addition to the siege ladder can be used to attack the camp, you can also use rope sleeves to drag down the high wall, just because the camp wall is thinner, far less thick than the city wall.
In contrast, the Turkic cavalry preferred to attack with ropes, so they could not leave their horses, and these nomadic soldiers who grew up on horseback lost their dependence on their horses, and they didn't even seem to know how to walk.
But the Sui army did not open the net because they were the ancient department of Baye, when they rushed into the crossbow arrow killing range at the same time, the bars in the camp rang, and the wall was shot with 10,000 arrows, this is 10,000 crossbow soldiers took the lead in shooting crossbow arrows, but in the city wall, 10,000 archers are also lined up to wait for them, as long as the enemy cavalry kills within 100 steps, the archers are also 10,000 arrows.
Dense crossbow arrows shot at the galloping cavalry, a piece of cavalry arrows fell, led by hundreds of cavalry with rope nooses all annihilated, crossbow arrows for the cavalry is far more lethal than the infantry, this is because the cavalry runs to increase the impact of the arrows, making the crossbow arrows easier to shoot through armor and shields, more lethal.
But the running cavalry group was difficult to stop, the first round of crossbow arrows shot more than a thousand cavalry, while the cavalry behind continued to charge forward, at this time, the archers of the Sui army began to attack, 10,000 archers shot long arrows into the air, and the long arrows rained down from the sky intensively, and the cavalry raised their shields to meet each other.
But the heavy arrows pierced the armor stronger than the crossbow arrows, the blades were bloodthirsty, shot through the shields and leather armor, and shot into the bodies of the cavalry and war horses, and the battlefield was full of wails, although many soldiers dodged the crossbow arrows and long arrows, but their war horses were difficult to dodge, the war horses fell to the ground with arrows, and the cavalry got up from the ground and ran backwards to flee for their lives.
After only two rounds of 40,000 arrows, the 5,000 cavalry lost nearly seventy percent, and Jin Luo was also frightened and shouted: "Retreat!" Fall back! ”
Jin Luo led more than 1,600 cavalry to flee back, but Chu Luo Khan refused to spare them easily, 3,000 guards forced them to continue the camp, and under the intercession of the Turkic generals, Chu Luo Khan finally relented and allowed them to return to the battle.
At this time, the sky was already dark, and Chuluo Khan had no intention of continuing to attack the camp, so he ordered: "The army is stationed on the spot!" (To be continued.) )