In the king's tent, dozens of commanders bowed their heads in shame, and Luo Khan hurried back and forth in the king's tent with his hands, pointing at the generals in the tent and scolding, "All of them are a group of useless cowards, where is the bravery of the steppe men?" Have you all been eaten by wolves? You call yourself a prairie eagle, I think they are a flock of pheasants, drinking wine, eating meat and playing with women, but fighting is a group of bad seeds! ”

The straw mat was destroyed by a fire, but the tribulus thorns and traps everywhere were still there, and everyone was at a loss, in fact, the Turks also found that there were no thistles on the other side of the river, and the only way was to cross the Purple River from ten miles to the west, and detour along the mountains to kill the city, avoiding the tribulus terrestris trap in front of the formation, but the Chuluo Khan refused to accept this plan, which really lost his dignity. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the commander of the crowd, Kang Sheli, whispered: "Khan! There may be two more options. ”

"What two ways? Say it! The Khan of Churo walked up to Khamali and asked with a vicious glare at him.

"One way is to drive cattle and sheep to wade ......."

The Turks did not think of this method, but they regarded livestock as property, and rarely thought of using livestock in war, but Kang Sheli had dealt with the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time and knew a lot of allusions, so he could think of using cattle and sheep to solve the problem of the Sui army's thistle array.

Chu Luo Khan's gaze softened a little, nodded and said, "What about the second way?" ”

"The second option is to go up the mountain!"

"Up the mountain?"

Chu Luo Khan asked puzzledly: "What up the mountain?" ”

"Khan, Zihe Pass is part of the Great Wall, and it is connected with the Great Wall on the high mountains on both sides, since we are not attacking the city with cavalry, then the soldiers can also go up the mountain and climb into the Great Wall, and kill them from the mountains along the Great Wall, which is much more effective than us attacking from under the city."

Chuluo Khan was a man of face, and he wanted to boost morale with a crushing victory, which seemed to be more morale-boosting than killing from the mountain, and it seemed a bit unscrupulous to let the Turkic soldiers who were good at cavalry warfare go up the mountain.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Let me think about this again. ”

Chu Luo Khan waved his hand, "You all stand down!" Attack Seki early tomorrow morning. ”

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The next day, just after dawn, the drums in the Turkic camp ten miles away were loud, this was the drumbeat of the attack, the Northern Sui soldiers rushed to the city, they had a good rest yesterday for a whole day, recovered their strength, all of them were full of energy, and their fighting spirit was high.

In the westernmost part of the city, Han Qianhui and his nine brothers all changed into Sui army armor and held crossbow arrows, Zhang Zhenqiu fulfilled his previous promise to pardon their capital crimes, and incorporated them into the Sui army as ten crossbowmen, while Han Qianhui became the commander of the fire.

The ten people were extremely excited, and they were changed from death row prisoners to ordinary soldiers, which meant that they could also be rewarded for their meritorious service and obtain military land like other Sui soldiers, which was the best result for them and their families.

Although the Sui soldiers were in high spirits, the eyes of the main general Zhang Zhenqiu were very serious, and the Turks attacked again the day after suffering heavy losses, indicating that they already had a way to deal with the Tribulus terrestris array they had deployed.

Once the Tribulus Array was breached, Zihe Pass City would enter a fierce siege battle, they only had 5,000 defenders, and the other side had hundreds of thousands of troops, Zhang Zhenqiu couldn't help but grit his teeth.

At this time, the Turkic army began to march out of the camp, a total of 20,000 people out of the camp, each phalanx by a hundred soldiers in a row, a total of 100 rows, the front is infantry, the back is the mighty cavalry, the battle flag is overwhelming, the momentum is very huge.

One of the soldiers suddenly shouted, "Look, the herd is out!" ”

I saw a group of healthy cattle coming out between the two phalanxes, each cow was covered with leather armor, and its four hooves were tightly wrapped in multiple layers of animal skins, Zhang Zhenqiu's heart tightened, he suddenly understood the other party's intentions, and used the running bull to break the tribulus terrestris array they deployed.

This is indeed a good idea, but it requires a lot of running oxen, and I am afraid that only nomads can afford to use this big money.

In fact, there are many ways to break the tribulus terrestris array, such as rolling with large wooden wheels, and if the materials are fully prepared, you can also lay mud bags or wooden planks, and you can directly use mud bags or wooden planks to pave a new road overnight, which is much more effective than the straw mats used by the Turks.

However, the Turks did use a lot of money, and they were ready to use 5,000 healthy cattle to kick out a way to attack, even if all the 5,000 cattle were killed, they could use the carcass of cattle to pave a road of cattle corpses, which is also the main reason why Chuluo Khan is determined to win today.

Chu Luo Khan looked at Guancheng, ten miles away, and coldly ordered: "Attack the bull formation!" ”

The first batch of five hundred cattle was ready, and they lined up in a long row, with a Turkic soldier standing behind each cow.

At this moment, the drums of the attack sounded, and the Turkic soldier slammed the dagger in his hand into the buttocks of the ox, and the healthy ox was in pain, screamed in a muffled voice, and ran away with all four hooves, and rushed away in the dark grassland ahead.

It was a steppe where a fire had burned the grass mats to ashes, and the bones of 3,000 soldiers were buried inside, but the steppe covered with more than 200,000 thistles made it impossible for the Turkic army to collect the corpses, only for the oxen to trample their bones into dust.

Five hundred running oxen ran wild on the grassland, stirring up black dust in the sky, and there were constantly running bulls stepping on the horse pit and falling, but the cattle were different from horses, most of the cattle did not break their leg bones, but stood up and continued to run.

They were extremely furious, rampage across the ash meadows, and trampled the thistles deep into the ground, but there were still many cattle that were pierced through the skin again and again by the thistles, and finally fell to the ground poisoned, foaming at the mouth and dying.

At this time, the second batch of 500 healthy cattle rushed wildly, and the black dust flew again on the grassland that had just calmed, and then the third group of running cattle rushed forward, this group of running cattle dragged the skinned sheep carcass, and the flesh and blood ran on the grassland in a blur, and the sporadic iron thistle terrestris pierced deeply into the sheep's body.......

It has to be said that the Turks seem to have opened their minds, the use of livestock to the extreme, only took more than an hour to initially clear out a passage about five miles long, up to three miles wide, at this time, five thousand soldiers lined up in five long rows, crawled on the ground and began to search like a carpet, and filled the pit that the bull ran out of, this kind of manual search must be done, but it is not very realistic to invest at the beginning, and only after the initial cleaning of the herd can it be cleaned up in depth.

The manual clearing proceeded very quickly, and after noon, the Turkic army completely cleared a smooth road, and at this time, the long-awaited Turkic army finally launched an attack.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

With the earth-shattering sound of war drums, 20,000 Turkic troops rushed to Zihe Pass like a tide to kill, this battle of the Turkic army is bound to win, their morale has been frustrated again and again, if they can't quickly get up, I am afraid that this southern expedition will be more auspicious.

In just a moment, 10,000 Turkic vanguard troops rushed across the Purple River with bows, arrows and shields, and killed the city wall a mile away, their task was not to attack the city, but to suppress the Sui soldiers at the head of the city with bows and arrows, and create conditions for the soldiers behind to attack the city.

The five thousand Sui soldiers on the city wall were already in full array, and a thousand large yellow crossbows were aimed at the Turkic soldiers who were getting closer and closer, and everyone's faces were extremely serious, they did not know what the outcome of this war would be, and they did not know if they would be able to return to their hometowns.

500 steps...... 400 steps...... Three hundred and fifty steps......

The Turkic army finally rushed into the killing range of the big yellow crossbow, and Zhang Zhenqiu shouted: "Big yellow crossbow shooting!" ”

A thousand large yellow crossbows were fired at the same time, and the dense arrows shot out strongly, only to see a black shadow suddenly fly out, and a thousand arrows lightning shot towards the Turkic soldiers who were running.

The arrows of the big yellow crossbow are about three feet long, the arrow body is made of heavy beech wood, the arrow is an armor-piercing arrow, slender and long, streamlined, extremely lethal, even if two layers of leather armor can not block the long arrow falling from the sky, the Turkic soldiers shouted, they raised their shields to meet each other, their shields can withstand ordinary arrows, but can not block the most powerful crossbow arrows of the Sui army, the heavy long arrows pierced the shield and leather armor, and also shot through the body of the Turkic soldiers.

Hundreds of Turkic soldiers fell to the ground screaming, but the Northern Sui soldiers did not check the effect of the archery, they immediately unwound the heavy crossbow after firing an arrow, and it took two people to work together to pull the heavy but powerful heavy crossbow apart.

There was no need for Zhang Zhenqiu's order, when the Sui soldiers immediately pulled the hanging knife after winding, and there was no need to aim, and a thousand powerful crossbow arrows were shot towards the dense crowd of the Turkic army, and more than 1,000 people were killed by heavy arrows in just two rounds of shooting, but the casualties of the soldiers were in the plan of the Turkic army, unless most of the 20,000 people who attacked were shot, otherwise the Chuluo Khan would never order to retreat.

The second group of 5,000 Turkic soldiers also crossed the Purple River and followed the vanguard to the city, carrying more than 100 siege ladders, and the second group of soldiers was the main force of the siege.

At this time, the range of crossbow arrows that the Turkic vanguard army had entered, the big yellow crossbow had stopped firing from a distance, the soldiers had changed to military crossbows, and five thousand soldiers fired arrows below the city together, and the dense arrows shot at the Turkic soldiers like hail, and a large number of soldiers were shot down, and the lack of range of the Turkic soldiers' bows and arrows made them extremely passive, and the casualties of 10,000 soldiers had exceeded 3,000, and the forward army began to be chaotic. (To be continued.) )