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Xue Wanche knew that Du He was talking about Qi He Li, and after thinking about it carefully, he also felt that what Du He said was very reasonable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Qibi He Li is a Tiele person, and Xue Yantuo is also a Tiele person. They are one of the Tiele tribes, which were formed by the merger of Xue and Yantuo, and then they were renamed Xue Yantuo, and the origin of Xue Yantuo is Tiele. He Li is not only a Tiele person, but also the chief of the Tiele tribe. "Qibi" is the name of the tribe to which he belongs, and "He Li" is his own name.

When he defected to the Tang Dynasty, the "Qibi" tribe led by him also surrendered. Every time he fights for the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the Tang soldiers in the headquarters, the warriors of the "Qibi" tribe will also be used by him and listen to his dispatch. While accepting the sinicization, these people also maintain some of their own customs, and even if their scouts meet Xue Yantuo's scouts, they can also be detected in a big way, and they can carry out the surprise attack plan well.

Thinking of this, although Xue Wanche was a little unwilling, he couldn't help but agree that Du He chose the most suitable candidate, and immediately withdrew from the military tent without saying a word.

Du He then called Qi Bi He Li, told him about the surprise attack, and asked him to carry it out. Of course, he didn't take the credit for Xue Wanche, and bluntly said that the plan was as for Xue Wanche.

Qi He Li is also a knowledgeable general, realizing that this plan is promising, he took it without any hesitation, went down to arrange, and planned to act overnight.

Dusk came, and the cold wind howled.

In the bitter cold wind, suddenly there was the deafening sound of war drums.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

The dull sound of drums, beating people's hearts, trembled and trembled, reverberating throughout the grassland.

Du He got out of the big tent, listened to the sound of war drums in the distance, and smiled bitterly: "This Hou Junji really deserves to be surnamed Monkey, so anxious...... I can go and be the captain of the death squad......"

Half an hour ago, Du He had already received the news of Hou Junji's arrival.

He chose to be five miles away, facing the pioneer camp where Du He was and set up camp.

Du He felt that Hou Junji was tired from afar, so he had to rest for the night, settle down, and launch an offensive tomorrow.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Hou Junji arrived, it had not been half an hour, and it was estimated that he had not even set up a camp, so he immediately beat the war drum and prepared to launch the first wave of offensive.

The Zuowei Guards led by Du He were all battle-hardened troops, and at the moment when the war drums sounded, all the soldiers came to their posts according to the original arrangement and made preparations before the battle.

Xue Yantuo's soldiers, densely packed like mosquitoes, gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes. When the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty saw it, they all showed strange looks.

Only Du He, Luo Tong, Xue Rengui, and Xue Wanche had a solemn face, and there was a trace of solemnity in their eyes.

The Xue Yantuo soldiers who appeared in front of all the Tang soldiers were not the kind of warriors riding tall horses as they imagined, they all held strange iron shields, held a war knife in their hands, and trampled on the ground with their feet sturdily, forming a huge phalanx.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty fought against foreign countries many times, and most of the aliens they encountered were strong in horse warfare and had excellent riding skills. This kind of infantry formation is very rare for them.

"Sure enough!" Du He said in his heart, glanced at Xue Rengui, and secretly praised: "Rengui is worthy of being a famous general in the future, if it weren't for his reminder this time, I would have really ignored this point......"

Since Hou Junji set up an infantry formation, it was obviously specially used to deal with the crossbow arrows of the Tang Dynasty.

Although the shield soldiers cannot completely restrain the crossbowmen, they can indeed reduce the power of the crossbowmen to a minimum.

Fang Yiai, who was standing beside Du He, stared at the shield with his small eyes, and muttered, "Are they really called shields?" What do I think, how do I look like a lump of, piled up together? ”

He spoke quietly, but his voice was loud enough. This muttering is almost comparable to the normal speech of others.

His words made the surrounding soldiers burst into laughter.

Du He couldn't help but take a few more looks, and couldn't help laughing, this is really a bit like it when you look closely.

It turned out that the peoples of the steppe hardly knew what the shield was, they marched and fought, where such things were needed. Xue Yantuo's technology is far from being comparable to that of Datang, and few blacksmiths can build it. However, Hou Junji, who knew that Tang crossbow was powerful, already had a general tactical plan in his heart to face Tang soldiers, of which restraining Tang crossbow was the most critical point.

Otherwise, in the sky of crossbow arrows, Xue Yantuo's soldiers will be restrained in attack everywhere.

It is said that this shield is not difficult to make, as long as the blacksmiths are given a certain amount of time, enough materials, and a few days of research, they will eventually be able to make some decent ones. It's just that it takes a lot of time, a lot of iron ore.

Xue Yantuo is not comparable to the Tang Dynasty, with thousands of blacksmiths and inexhaustible iron ore resources.

They don't have so much iron ore to waste, and they don't have so much time to craft, and in addition to giving full play to the usefulness of the shield, it is also compatible with several advantages such as beauty and handy. In order to create such a sword and shield soldier, Xue Yantuo melted all the useless iron, and then used his clumsy smelting technology to make the molten iron into a shield. Since Xue Yantuo did not have a boiler for iron, he used the most primitive method of iron, and there were many pieces of iron that could not be completely dissolved, so they were mixed in the shield. The technology is not up to par, and it is mixed with various impurities, which also forms a super shapely,-like shield.

Looking at the Tang army from afar, Hou Junji saw that most of the people in the Tang camp were pointing to this side, and his old face was also red, Xue Yantuo's smelting technology really made him break his eggs, and the soldiers were holding such a shield, and he also felt that his face was dull. But soon his face turned to a solemn one.

The shield is ugly and not tight, the key is to be useful. Such a shield is thick and heavy, and the lightest one in the hand is thirty pounds, which has a miraculous effect on defending against crossbow arrows.

Hou Junji held high the order flag and roared angrily: "Kill ......"

The war drums rumbled like dull thunder, and the huge phalanx composed of Xue Yantuo's soldiers began to shake, advancing step by step, at first glance, it seemed that the dark clouds were closed!

Shield array, layer after layer.

In the center of the shield array, a group of warriors with spears in hand followed the shield array. There is no doubt that they are the main force of the attacking camp, and the purpose of the shield soldiers is to defend against the sharp crossbow arrows of the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing that Xue Yantuo's soldiers had already stepped into the firing range, Du He coldly ordered: "Release the arrow!" ”

Countless arrows flew up from the black oppressive formation.

Hou Junji licked his lips and commanded the Chinese army to meet the attack in a stacked formation.

The front can defend against the crossbow arrows fired from the front, and the previous one can defend against the crossbow arrows thrown from the sky.

In the face of Hou Junji's order, the soldiers who rushed into the formation did not hesitate to form a stacked array in the shortest possible time, forming an iron bucket. It can be seen that in dealing with Tang crossbow, Hou Junji has really put a lot of hard work.