Chapter 18: A Matter of Life and Death

"Let's draw a lot!"

He Yanming held two grasses in his hand, and touched Han Jinping with his elbow with a smile, "The old rule, the short one." ”

"It's definitely you kid who loses again." Han Jinping took one casually, he grinned, his one was a little longer.

"What fucking bad luck!"

He Yanming sighed and smiled bitterly at a few of his subordinates: "I'm bothering you again." ”

"Up!" At this time, Li Qing'an gave a low order, He Yanming and several Tang soldiers immediately jumped out of the bunker like monkeys, rushed to the enemy's corpse, and cut off the arrow bag from the enemy with unusually quick hands and feet, suddenly, behind He Yanming, a wounded and not dead Tuqi Shi got up from the ground, he slowly raised the knife on He Yanming's back, and the other two soldiers wanted to shout It was too late, at this moment, a wolf's tooth arrow shot like lightning, and an arrow pierced the back of the neck of the Tuqi Shiren, and the remaining strength was not gone, The arrow feathers were still trembling and shaking.

He Yanming was caught off guard, jumped up in fright, and ran back like rabbits dragging dozens of bags of arrows, and the other subordinates also ran back.

"Damn, I almost lost my life."

He threw the quiver to the ground angrily, "Even if you lose next time, Lao Tzu won't go." ”

"Silence!" Li Qingan let out a low snort, and He Yanming immediately closed his mouth obediently.

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The invading Turgish had entered the territory of the Tang Dynasty three days earlier, and yesterday Du Luoxian and his personal guards discovered the Hu caravan and almost succeeded in robbing, and were finally defeated by the Tang army.

Although Hu Shang was escorted by the Tang army, after all, the Tang army was small in number, and the hundreds of camels and dozens of beautiful women full of wealth strongly attracted the Tuqi Shi people, and Du Luoxian strongly felt that the leader of the Tang army was most likely the enemy who cut off his arm.

At this moment, Du Luo Xian was thinking about countermeasures with a cold gaze, the Tu cavalry led by Du Luo Xian was not a regular army, but composed of several tribes and herdsmen living near He Hunting City, the equipment was very simple, there was no shield, and it was impossible to resist the Tang army's crossbows, if you want to capture the opponent's camp, effectively resisting the Tang army's crossbow arrows is the key.

Du Luo Xian lowered his head and pondered, and suddenly, his eyes inadvertently saw a poplar forest in the distance, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of an excellent solution.

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In the valley, the Tang army was tense, waiting for the enemy's second attack, the night wind increased, carrying the sand and stones to overwhelm the sky, a terrible scream echoed in the valley between the stalagmites and stone pillars, hundreds of camels fell asleep in a circle, in the camel pen, more than 100 Hu merchants lay horizontally next to their big boxes, staring at the stars in the sky, silently praying for the protection of the god of light in their hearts.

The two dozen girls were huddled in a corner, all pale, none of them could sleep, and the fear of fate gnawed at their hearts.

At this time, Salda's eyes were also full of anxiety, and he had faced countless life and death lines in his life, but he had never been as worried as yesterday and today, and he knew that he should not have agreed to take Princess Julan to the Tang Dynasty, once something happened, how could he explain to the king, maybe he didn't need to explain, and he would also die at that time, Salda sighed in his heart.

Shi Julan, who was snuggling on the camel on the side, was not afraid, she had a heartfelt trust in Li Qing'an, she was still recalling the hug Li Qing'an gave her and the kiss on her forehead over and over again, she knew that Li Qing'an's hug was just a kind of care, it was a comfort to her before the big war, and he would comfort others like this, but his kiss only belonged to her.

Shi Julan's deep pool-like eyes gradually sparkled with a smile, and it was that kiss that made her carefully capture a trace of Li Qingan's affection for her.

Shi Julan felt that her face had become hot, she used the back of her hand to ice her hot face, quietly straightened up and looked at Taniguchi, a stone pillar just blocked her vision, she sat down in frustration again, and involuntarily touched the short sword on her body, how she longed to fight side by side with him.

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A signal was given from the top of the mountain, and a dozen and a dozen Tang soldiers who were half lying on the ground resting jumped up, grabbed their crossbows and rushed to the bunker, and under the moonlight, sure enough, more than a hundred enemies rushed to this side, but they learned wisely, and no longer rampage as a live target, but lay on the ground, crawling towards this side like a snake, and removing the thistle thorns on the ground.

Li Qing'an watched the enemy approach intently, he had already discovered the weakness of this Turgish, in his one-year military career, he had dealt with the Turgish people countless times, ordinary Turgish cavalry were equipped with shields, but this army did not, and their weapons were varied, some people wore leather armor, some people did not even have leather armor, in addition, the arrows they made were also uneven, some were fine, some were very rough, from these few doubts it can be inferred that this Turgish people are not a regular army, Most likely, some tribe improvised stragglers, and if that were the case, then he might have a way to deal with it.

"General Li, look!" One of the soldiers let out an exclamation.

Li Qing'an had already seen it, and a large group of Tuqi Shi people poured out on both sides of the obstacle stone, no! A row of tree walls, to be exact.

They cut down the poplar trees, and the luxuriant branches were not removed, and a dozen people hugged the other end, and seven or eight large trees were lined up in the shape of a crescent, and slowly advanced, forming a dense wall of trees.

The Tang army began to feel a little uneasy, so that the enemy had a natural shield, and could his crossbow arrows still be effective?

Li Qingan bit his chapped lip, and he suddenly turned around and asked, "How much fire oil did we bring?" ”

Han Jinping ran to count and ran back after a while, "General, there are thirty bags." ”

"Prepare the rocket!"

The soldiers immediately got busy, they set up a few pots, poured a few bags of oil, He Yanming asked for a few bundles of cotton cloth from Hu Shang, and more than a dozen young Hu merchants also came to help, they tore the cotton cloth into strips, tied it to the shaft of the arrow, dipped the cotton cloth in fire oil, and the rockets were made.

The tree wall was getting closer and closer, and it was only a hundred steps away from them, and when they entered the shooting range, Li Qing'an lit a rocket on the torch, slowly pulled the bow away, and the blazing fire jumped in front of his eyes, 'Whoosh! With a thud of the earth, the arrow rose into the air with a ball of fire and smoke, drew an elegant arc, shot into the dense wall of trees, and nailed to a tree trunk, and the poplar branch had already become very dry and easy to catch fire after a winter wind, and the rocket immediately ignited the branch, and in an instant, the fire spread.

The Tang army cheered, countless rockets rose into the air, like a fire snake flying in the air, some shot at the branches, fueling the fire, some shot at the Turgi behind the trunk, ignited their clothes, the fire became more and more rapid, the Turgish people could not hold it, they threw down the burning trees and turned around and ran, in the Tang army in a dense rain of arrows, nearly 100 people fell to the ground with arrows, and the second attack ended in a crushing defeat again.

But in less than a quarter of an hour, the third attack of the Turgish began again, and this time the Tang army encountered a great challenge.

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