Ten thousand horses galloping has always been used to describe the sound of the word, because the sight of thousands of horses galloping is so spectacular, and their momentum is so amazing.

Only 10,000 horses can get such praise, but what about 100,000 horses?

The Western Turks are located in the hinterland of the Western Regions, where the water and grass are the most beautiful, and the Western Regions are rich in horses and horses. Therefore, when marching and fighting, it is common for one soldier to have two horses. With an army of 70,000 men, at least more than 100,000 horses were gathered in the stables.

Fire is the natural enemy of animals, even fierce beasts such as tigers and wolves can't avoid their fear of fire, let alone war horses? After being driven by Duhe's arson, the horses rushed to the Chiting Valley like crazy.

They didn't care about the enemy, they just kept shouting and driving.

This is the most crucial and the most brilliant step in Duho's entire strategy.

With 6,000 men trying to shake the well-defended camp of 70,000 men, this is a fool's dream.

But 100,000 fire horses can easily do it, which is the 100,000 heavenly soldiers in his mouth, the extra 100,000 heavenly soldiers.

One hundred thousand horses, driven by more than 6,000 people, directly collided with the camp of the Western Turks.

Because Hou Junji's army has not arrived for a long time, these people have nothing to do except build fortifications, and their vigilance is long gone. In the middle of the winter night after the snow, everyone went to bed early.

When they woke up to the sound of a hundred thousand horses galloping, they didn't know what was happening, and before they could even get out of the tent, the horses had already made the horses and the tents into a pulp, and the gray tent was suddenly dyed purple. The Western Turkic soldiers who hurriedly came out of their tents in twos and threes to resist, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they were so frightened that they threw away their armor and turned around and ran: they thought that the enemy was coming, and they planned to meet it. But when you look at the surging horses like a tide, where is there still the heart to resist?

How can two legs outrun four legs?

Before he had run a few steps, he let the horse crash out of the way, and then step in the footsteps of the former, becoming meat sauce.

The mighty herd of horses is broken by the soldiers, and when you see the generals, let your martial arts be strong, and in the face of panicked, rampaged war horses are only a dead end.

What's even more terrifying is that wherever the fire horse goes, there is fire. Hair is the easiest thing to burn, and a horse is crowded together and ignites each other.

One, two, five...... Ten horses...... 100 horses...... 1,000 horses...... 10,000 horses...... In a short period of time, tens of thousands of horses were affected, and tens of thousands of tinder raged through the camp.

The tents they encountered were all burning, and the flames rose into the sky, and the sound was terrifying.

When Du He saw his masterpiece, he laughed heartily, slaughtering those who were lucky to survive with the dragon sword in one hand, and driving the war horses with a torch in the other, very proud.

This move was amazingly powerful, and it rushed straight to the opponent's back, scattering and avoiding. In just a few minutes, this unrivaled force of 100,000 heavenly soldiers had already entered the center of the enemy camp. The war horse trampled over countless corpses, constantly wedged deep into the Western Turkic camp. Everywhere he went, he destroyed it and razed it to the ground.

Wherever the horses passed, a raging fire was bound to ignite, and the entire Chiting Valley was surrounded by flames.

Duhe and the others rushed to the entrance of the Western Turk camp, and they had stopped, and did not continue to fight, but just looked at the scene in front of them in shock.

Even Du He himself did not expect to achieve such a result in advance.

His original intention was to drive the cattle directly into the enemy's camp with fire, to disrupt the enemy's position, and then wave his army to cover the killing, and with lightning speed, when the enemy could not organize an effective counterattack, he would finish off the enemy's central army tent in one fell swoop, and then calmly clean up the leaderless enemy army. It's just that I didn't expect the strategy to work even better than expected: only because of the Western Turks' surname and the climate here.

It was winter, the temperature was below freezing, and all the Western Turkic soldiers were wearing hunting fur coats, fur hats, and fur pants. In addition, the people of the Western Regions are good at drinking, and they do not prohibit drinking, and there is a lot of wine in every tent.

These flammable materials make the fire horse rush and immediately burn. The entire camp of the Western Turks was not only trampled by 100,000 horses, but also burned by the flames.

But the terrain of Chiting Valley is like a large funnel, which can hold 70,000 soldiers and horses, but if you want to escape from the tail, you can only leak out little by little like a funnel full of rice grains.

Thirty or forty thousand people want to escape through the exit that can only accommodate thirty people, and what will happen is self-evident.

They kept squeezing forward, kept pushing forward, and some of them were crazy, and danced the butcher's knife directly at their own people.

Originally, as long as you follow the order, you can escape to the greatest extent, but in this realm of life and death, who has such a noble character?

In the Central Plains, some Han people who have been influenced by virtue may have some selfless characters, but the fierce and selfish Turkic people who have been cultivated in an environment of the jungle since childhood, such as wolves, do not care so much when their lives are threatened, one by one, they are mainly to save their lives, and everyone is not willing to lag behind, and they are swarming to be the first.

In the end, the valley mouth that can accommodate thirty people to walk out side by side, a hundred people were squeezed out, and they were like plugs, stuffed in the valley, crowded and unable to get out or come back, which was equivalent to blocking the only way out.

In this case, the only way to get out is to take a step back, but who can have the heart to take a step back at this juncture?

100,000 horses had already arrived, and they crashed mercilessly.

The horsepower is thousands, but thirty or forty thousand people crowded together are like mud and sand piled together, and they stubbornly resist the momentum of the horses. They're like people, and they're all stuck together. No advance or retreat.

The fire horses at the back also rushed up, and the fire spread at an alarming speed under the howling of the winter wind.

Burn the horse, then burn the man!

100,000 horses and 70,000 Western Turkic soldiers were either crushed to death, or they saw the fire spread to themselves, but they could not move and were burned alive.

The fire burned all night, and the stench of coke filled the Akatei Valley.

The 70,000 Western Turkic army was the only one who escaped into the Chiting Ancient Road and survived, and the rest were wiped out, and none survived.

Of the 6,000 night raiders led by Du He, only five were killed in a battle with the Western Turks stationed in the stables.

At the cost of five people, the annihilation of the Western Turkic army of 70,000 is not a miracle and a myth.

Throughout the ages, there are not many battles that can compare to this battle, let alone Du He is only sixteen years old this year. At his age, there is no famous general in history.

All the soldiers looked at Du He with admiration, and their eyes were full of fanaticism, convincing, and worship.

At the end of the war, the soldiers went into the work of cleaning up the battlefield, digging pits and burying the remains of the enemy to avoid causing the plague.

Du He walked in the Chiting Valley, looking at the charred limbs that could be seen everywhere, and his heart was a little heavy. Although such a brilliant victory did make him happy, when he remembered that he had asked for the lives of nearly 70,000 people, he had an indescribable feeling.

"Qinglian!" Luo Tong shouted again and again. He was the first to notice Du He's abnormal expression, but he didn't know how to persuade him, and he kept following him, seeing his mixed expression, he finally couldn't help but cry out and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Du He knew his intentions, stretched out his hand to stop his words, took a deep breath, changed his mood, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm really uncomfortable." But I know that I'm not wrong, if I don't do this, once the chief Hou arrives here, there will be a tragic fight, and there may be more people who will die by then, and it will also be my Tang Dynasty's soldiers and horses. So, I'm not wrong...... It's just a little feeling! ”

At this time, Wang Dezheng, who was in charge of reconnoitring the defeated Western Turkic army, rushed back with more than ten horsemen, threw off his horse, and came to Du He cleanly, and reported: "Report to the general, when the last general was searching, he encountered the group of fleeing Western Turk defeated soldiers who were besieging a group of ten people. When the defeated soldiers saw the last general, it was like seeing a ghost, and they scattered in a hurry. The last general saw that the Han man's appearance was a little suspicious, so he arrested him. ”

Du He nodded and asked Wang Dezheng to bring someone to him.

The Han man who was arrested was an old man, Du He saw that he was tied by ropes, frowned, and said: "Untie him, don't care if he is suspicious or not, it's wrong to treat an old man like this, pay attention next time." In this case, if it is not for the old man's malicious intent, he will surrender his weapons and take strict care of them, and there is no need to bind them. ”

Wang Dezheng nodded and said yes, let people remove the old man's rope.

"Who are you? Why is it here? Du He asked people to bring him water and frightened him.

The old man said: "The little old man is from Gaochang, and he went to Yizhou to visit relatives a few days ago, and he returned recently. Unexpectedly, on the way here, I met that group of brutal Western Turkic soldiers. They don't know why, when they see us, they come up and want to fight and kill. Fortunately, this military master appeared and drove them away, otherwise Xiao Lao'er's life would have been sent here. His face was pale, but his body trembled slightly.

Du He narrowed his eyes, looked the old man up and down, and said with a smile: "You arranged this Turkic camp, thanks to you, if it weren't for you, this battle would not have been so easy for us to win." ”

The old man opened his eyes blankly, "This military master, what are you talking about, why can't the little old man understand?" ”

"Hah!" Du He smiled: "Don't pretend to me, your sentence of Western Turk soldiers has already made you exposed." If you are really innocent, if you dare to take this path, it only means that you do not know about the war, otherwise you will not be stupid enough to take the initiative to approach the battlefield. Since you don't know that there is a war, how can you be sure that they are Western Turk soldiers and not horse thieves? According to the thinking of the people, when you encounter a thief attack, the first thing that comes to mind should be a horse thief, not a Turkic soldier! It must be because of your camp that led to the defeat of the Western Turks, so those deserters plan to kill you! ”

(To be continued)