"In other words, these people can no longer be regarded as Hui people, but should be called servants?" After listening to the information obtained by Cao An, Du Huaiguang said with a smile.

Cao An nodded and said, "They made an alliance with Gele Khan, and they have nothing to do with each other, and they really shouldn't be counted as Hui people anymore." Before crossing the Golden Mountain, they fought a bloody battle with Gele Khan's subordinates, losing thousands of elites, and their strength had been greatly reduced. ”

Du Huaiguang said with a smile: "That being the case, why are these servants still so arrogant when they see a certain family, and they seem to think that they can defeat a certain family?" ”

Cao An said: "They feel that they have more people than yours. ”

After finishing speaking, both of them laughed, and even Li Qiyun showed a hint of a smile.

The Beiting Army is the same as the Anxi Army, which battle is not more with less strikes? In the decades since the establishment of the Beiting Protectorate after the Wu Dynasty, the Beiting Army has been famous in the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, suppressing the Western Turkic tribes to be submissive. The servant has been in the Mobei grassland for a long time, and he doesn't know the strength of the Beiting Army, otherwise he wouldn't be so arrogant in front of the Beiting Army.

Li Qiyun said with a smile: "This Fugu tribe is actually divided into two parts, and Mo Nan also has one. During the Taizong period, Tiele nine surnames fell south to the Tang Dynasty, and some of the servant tribes stayed in Mo Nan to nomadically support themselves, and today there are still thousands of accounts of the servant tribe in the Shuofang area, all of which are loyal to the Tang Dynasty. If the Mo Nan Fugu clan saw such an army, they would immediately be defeated and flee, where would they dare to fight the general? This Mobei Fugu clan doesn't know that my Tang Dynasty is powerful, and they want to confront the general head-on, they really don't know whether they are alive or dead. ”

Du Huaiguang smiled and nodded, he also knew about the Mugu tribe in Monan, there were many soldiers of the Fugu tribe in the Shuofang army, and those were all Turkic people who had been completely sinicized, although they belonged to the people of the state capital, they were no different from the Han people in terms of loyalty to Tang.

In fact, not all of the Beiting army are Han people, and there are also many Sinicized Hu people. The Sogdians and Turks who settled were able to learn Chinese and customs, and were not much different from Han Chinese.

If it is reasonable, the invasion of the Pu Sea by the Fugu tribe is actually not the head of the Hui Khanate. After all, the Servant and the Gol Khan have been divided. No longer part of the Uighur Khanate. However, Du Huaiguang knew that Ma Xiang had never been a reasonable person, he had been waiting for an opportunity to attack Hui Hui and complete the royal order of opening up the Hui Dao, and now the opportunity has come to him. How could Ma Xiang give up easily.

Therefore, this account of the invasion of the Fugu people, regardless of whether the Hui people are willing or not, Ma Xiang will definitely be counted on the head of Gele Khan.

……

Five thousand Western Turkic cavalry were hidden in the valley behind the Tang army, at a great distance from the battlefield. Du Huaiguang had no intention of letting these guys participate in this battle, because Ma Lan made it clear. You can't use these miscellaneous fish until you defeat a strong enemy, and you must rely on your own strength to defeat the enemy.

A few years ago, the battle of Talas was a lesson from the past, the Anxi army killed and injured a lot of enemies, and the two sides were still evenly balanced, but a night battle met with rain, and Gelulu Ye, who was responsible for the back of the Tang army, could not resist the first instigation, and fled with a large army to let the tall general suffer the enemy on his back, and as a result, the elite Anxi army of a hundred battles was defeated in the Talas River, and almost the whole army was wiped out.

Under the city, the servants outside the city were assembled. and the servants who had galloped out of the city. Some differences can be seen in the two parts of the servant procession.

Those who came out of Pu City were in a neat formation, they should be the elite of the Fugu tribe, and those who came out of the various tents and finally gathered together were also difficult to arrange in a neat formation, and they knew at a glance that they were some miscellaneous fish. These miscellaneous fish troops are at the forefront, and they are obviously the first to rush up as cannon fodder.

There was a complete city behind him, but the Fugu people had no intention of defending the city, but chose to fight against the Han Navy on the grassland outside the city. Apparently they have a lot of confidence in themselves. Of course, if they retreat back to the city to defend, the Beiting Army will not be able to attack the fortification for the time being, but these sheep and horse tents outside the city will be left to the Beiting Army. This is the lifeblood of the steppe tribes, and they naturally cannot be willing to discard it.

More than 20,000 servants were assembled. All of them were men in the prime of life, and all of them were cavalrymen. The Han Navy also has 10,000 men, and such a ratio of friend to enemy is really nothing for the Han Navy, which is accustomed to attacking more with less.

Among the 20,000 enemy troops, there are about 5,000 elites, which should be the main force of the chieftains of the Fugu tribe. Others are improvised. As the Fugu tribal army opened its stance, a large number of tents between the two armies were quickly dismantled and moved elsewhere by the Fugu people, and a huge open space was presented in front of Du Huaiguang.

In the cold air, the gazes of the fighters on both sides gradually burned. Soon, the clearing will be stained red with blood.

……

After the Fugu tribesmen finished their formation, they did not make any superfluous movements, and directly launched an attack on the Tang army. The knights sat on their horses and shouted loudly, desperately cheering themselves up, and instigated their horses to rush towards the Tang army, which was waiting for the battle.

Du Huaiguang exhaled lightly, there were three or four thousand enemies rushing up in this wave, which was not enough to stuff his teeth. Either the chieftain of the Fugu tribe was really confident, or because he had not fought with the Tang army, he first carried out a tentative attack.

The speed of the steppe knights has not yet increased to the fastest, and the Han Navy has already reacted. Dozens of eight-ox crossbows loaded on ox carts came with a salvo, and more than a hundred huge arrows roared out, falling into the cavalry of the Fugu tribe with great strength.

The eight-bull crossbow is still the original old-fashioned eight-bull crossbow, but it is replaced by the pure steel giant arrow used by the Anxi army, which is extremely powerful, and the trash fish that rushed up first are scattered but extremely dense, which increases the killing effect of the giant arrow. More than a hundred giant arrows raged among the crowd, some directly pierced several people, and those that landed on the war horses also pierced through the body and swept past, continuing to wreak havoc in the crowd. In an instant, hundreds of servant knights fell, and the formation of the charge suddenly became much thinner.

The cavalry of the Fugu cavalry were quite skilled, and they continued to charge around the corpses of men and horses on the ground, and at this time, the Fuyuan crossbow, which was second only to the Eight Bull Crossbow in the Han Navy, also showed its power.

The Fuyuan crossbow army was equipped with hundreds, with a range of more than 300 paces, and the enemy fell in a large area after a salvo. The power of the Fuyuan crossbow was naturally inferior to the Eight Bull Crossbow, but it also killed two or three hundred servant cavalry.

The remaining knights howled loudly with red eyes, like hungry wolves in despair, desperately driving their horses forward.

For the servants, this is a battle for living space, and this kind of battle cannot admit defeat in any case. To the east of Jinshan, they relied on bloody battles to hold off the elite soldiers of the Uighur tribe, forcing Gele Khan to make an alliance with them, and this time they had to defeat the enemy no matter what, in order to take this treasure land of abundant water and grass for the tribe.

So despite the heavy losses under the crossbow rain of the Don army, the cavalry did not stop the pace of the charge. The distance between the two armies was less than three hundred paces, and for the cavalry it was only a matter of a few breaths, and it would soon be able to rush to the enemy.

The range of the Zhang crossbow is 230 steps, and the range of the horn bow crossbow is 200 steps, and these two types of Tang crossbows are more equipped in the Han Navy. Due to the small difference in range, the interval between the crossbowmen and the crossbowmen was extremely short, and the two waves of arrows flew out of the Tang army's position one after the other, and fell into the cavalry of the Fugu tribe who charged. Suddenly, a large number of cavalry fell from their horses with a miserable roar, a large number of war horses were killed by crossbow arrows, and the war horses that had lost their owners neighed and scurried around.

By the time the two thousand crossbowmen followed closely and shot a rain of arrows, there were less than five hundred cavalry members still alive. The four individual Tang crossbows were finished, and at this time, among the army of the Fugu tribe behind, there were 5,000 fresh troops rushing over directly.

In the past two years, the Han Navy has replenished a large number of old-fashioned Tang crossbows, and this time almost all of them were brought here by Du Huaiguang. The purpose of Ma Lan's battle was to reduce the casualties of soldiers as much as possible, and as the Han Navy envoy personally appointed by Ma Lan, Du Huaiguang was also working hard to achieve this. Among the 6,000 horse infantry, except for the spearmen at the front and the five hundred Mo sword warriors, almost everyone had a standard Tang crossbow. The knights who rushed up in the first wave of the Fugu tribe were not as many as his crossbowmen, so naturally they suffered heavy losses.

The range of a single bow and crossbow is one hundred and sixty steps (the so-called steps in ancient times are all double steps, that is, one step with each left and right feet is counted as one step, and one step is about a little more than one meter and a half), and after the single crossbowman wielded his might, the surviving knights of the Fugu tribe were already very close to the Tang army's position. After a few breaths, these knights were already in front of the Tang army.

On the side of the Han Navy, two rows of large shields were erected at the front of the line, and the strong men behind the big shields squatted on the ground with their faces stretched and supported their shields, and the rear ends of their spears were pressed against the shallow pits dug in the ground, leaning on the shoulders of the strong men holding the shields, and stretched out from the gaps in the shields. The formation of the Tang infantry turned into steel monsters with fangs sticking out, waiting for the knights of the Fugu tribe.

This is a battle related to the living space of the tribe, this group of warriors has already held the heart of death, and finally rushed in front of the enemy, the knights did not hesitate at all, urging the war horses to rush towards the dense gun forest.

"Poof!" "Poof!" “……”

One by one, the horses slammed into the spears with great strength, and were easily pierced by the sharp spears, and the spears were lifted up by the huge weight of the horses and separated from the spear array. The follow-up knights and horses crashed into the huge shield, and the strong man behind the shield was shocked and vomited blood.

A nimble knight leaped from his horse, jumped over the giant shield and landed on the ground, swinging his weapon at the strong man holding the shield. A large number of Tang swordsmen rushed up with a round shield in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other, and slashed around the servant people who crossed the shield wall, directly chopping the servant people into pulp. A strong man was hacked to death by the servants, and someone immediately made up for it and erected a big shield again.

The light cavalry of the Tang Army on both sides has not moved, and is located slightly behind the two wings of the infantry, and the knights look calm and ready to attack at any time when they look at the battle in front of the formation.

The battle in front of the formation was short and fierce, and the knights who rushed to the front of the formation only had a few hundred servants, but they relied on their flesh and blood to open a hole in front of the Han Naval Formation. The warriors of the Han Navy fought hard, trying to keep the formation intact as much as possible, and every warrior who crossed the shield wall was quickly killed by the warriors.

After cleaning up the first wave of assault troops, the Han Navy also paid the price of 100 casualties. And by this time, the second wave of enemy cavalry had already rushed up.

…… (To be continued.) )