In the dark night, the scouts Qin Haiyang and Feng Shilang once again sneaked into the vicinity of Broken Leaf, the last time they found that the hinterland of Broken Leaf was unusually empty, but the suspicious Cui Qianyou did not believe that the main force of the Broken Leaf had left, he needed more information to support his decision, he needed to know, whether the Broken Leaf Cavalry would be hiding in Broken Leaf City.

"Brother Qin, how do we know if there is an army in the city?" Looking at the tall black city wall, Feng Shilang's heart was full of doubts.

"You idiot! What's under your nose? ”

"It's a mouth, oh! Brother Qin, do you mean to go and ask someone? ”

"You don't admit that you're stupid." Qin Haiyang glanced at him angrily and sighed, "Hey! Lao Tzu is about to be a general, and he brought you, a fool, out to make trouble for Lao Tzu. ”

Feng Shilang was a little frightened, and hurriedly said, "Brother Qin, I'm sorry!" ”

"Forget it, forget it, I've been as stupid as you were."

Qin Haiyang waved his hand and said, "I'll tell you!" There are many ways to know if there is an army in the city, one is to look at the patrol post on the city, if there are many troops in the city, then the patrol post on the city will be strict, think the opposite, if there is no army in the city, the sentry will be slack, and generally hide where to sleep, of course, the best way is to be able to blend into the city, whether there is an army at a glance. ”

Speaking of this, Qin Haiyang saw that Feng Shilang was silent, so he asked strangely, "Why don't you speak?" ”

"I don't dare, I'm afraid of being scolded by you!"

"I'm afraid of a fart! You look stronger than me, if it were you, I would have beaten me up to obedience, these days, dignity is out, you know? ”

"Yes! Brother Qin, I know. ”

"You know a!"

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves from the direction of Broken Leaf City, Qin Haiyang's eyes widened suddenly, and he immediately pulled out a poisonous arrow, stretched out his bow and arrow, and turned back and scolded: "Fool, don't prepare a bow and arrow quickly!" ”

Feng Shilang hurriedly took the arrow, "Use poisoned arrows!" Qin Haiyang scolded again, at this time, two horses came from afar, Qin Haiyang's eyes narrowed into a slit, so late, the city gate had already been closed, and ordinary people could not go out of the city, only soldiers could come out.

The horse galloped closer and closer, and sure enough, it was two turbid soldiers, Qin Haiyang immediately commanded in a low voice: "You shoot a war horse, remember, only shoot the horse and not the person." ”

Feng Shilang nodded, his hands were trembling with nervousness, and he slowly pulled the bow, in fact, he had never killed anyone, but he didn't dare to admit it.

The Turgish cavalry was getting closer and closer, and their loud laughter could be heard, and at that moment, a cold arrow 'whoosh!' Shot out of the ground, right in front of a person, he snorted, planted from the horse, a person behind him was stunned, transferred the horse to escape, Feng Shilang's arrow shot out, there was no strength, but still shot the horse, the scout's poisoned arrow is specially configured, the poison surname is violent, the war horse only ran out of one step and fell to the ground, throwing the horse on the horse far into the grass.

Qin Haiyang swooped up, pressed the struggling enemy soldier under him, and smashed his temple with a hard punch, the enemy snorted and fainted.

"Quick! Bring the hemp rope. ”

The two men tied up the Turkey cavalry, stuffed him into a sack, and quickly carried him into the forest.

．．．．．．．． Cui Qianyou got the most detailed information from the mouth of this Turk prisoner of war, the main force of 20,000 Turk Cavalry had gone north three days ago, and there were only less than 400 defenders in Broken Leaf City at present, this valuable information made Cui Qianyou excited, he rewarded Qin Haiyang and the two, and immediately ordered the Anxi army to attack.

The three thousand Anxi army was like a rolling torrent, the sound of hooves was like thunder, and the dust was all over the sky, whistling past the side of He Hunting City, and the Tuqi Shi people at the head of the city were dumbfounded, the Tang army actually went in the direction of Broken Leaves, only for a moment, it was like a fried pot in He Hunting City, their wives and children, their mothers and sisters were all in Broken Leaf City, if the Tang Army occupied Broken Leaf City, what kind of consequences would it be, they couldn't imagine.

The 5,000 Turgish who defended the Anxi army were the old, weak, sick and disabled army selected by Dumozhi from among the 30,000 soldiers, most of them were old men in their fifties and sixties or teenagers, war was a very distant thing for them, they lived on the steppe for generations, grazing, milking cows, and living a poor and carefree life, but the poor soldiers of Dumozhi forced them into battle, wearing heavy leather armor and holding spears higher than them, which made them tremble, and did not know when their lives would end?

But at this time, the anxiety for their families made them forget their fears, and thousands of people were clamoring and clamouring, forcing their leader to open the city and release them.

The leader of this old and weak army is the nephew of Du Mo Zhi, called Du Duo, although Du Mo Zhi received twelve sons, but only he can inherit the position of the great chief of Du Mo Zhi, not only he has a noble blood, but more importantly, Tudor is the leader of the younger generation, infinite strength, and smart mind, he knows that although he has a large number, he is vulnerable, where will be the opponent of the elite Anxi Tang Army.

For this reason, he tried his best to shout to the hundreds of people who gathered around him to ask for battle: "Everyone listen to me, now we can't go to save Broken Leaf, the Tang Army will not slaughter the city, we will go to a dead end, we must hold on to He Hunting City, and the big chief will come back soon." ”

Although he tried his best to comfort the soldiers, in front of this group of anxious old men and young men, it was useless for him to say anything, how did he know that the Tang army would not slaughter the city? The Great Chieftain was far north, and when he returned, the bones of his family were cold, and his bitter exhortations were immediately drowned out by angry shouts.

"We're going home! Back to the broken leaves! ”

I don't know who opened the city gate first, and the chaotic Tuqi people rushed out of the city gate and drove towards the broken leaves, they didn't go to war, they didn't have the concept of war in their hearts, they only had one thought: 'Go home!' ’

It is about 80 miles from He Hunting City to Broken Leaf City, and there is a mountain beam that stretches for more than ten miles in the middle, called He Man Mountain, in the wilderness west of the hill, thousands of turquoise horsemen are anxious and galloping, all over the mountains, each in their own formation, as if to compete for the fat pasture, they have only one thought in their hearts, rush back to Broken Leaf City, protect their relatives, the heavy leather armor is taken off, the spear that gets in the way is discarded, the knife is hung diagonally on the saddle, and the longbow becomes the whip for them to whip the war horse, they have completely forgotten that they are still a soldier.

The Tang army did not forget, when the swarming thousands of Tuqi Shi people bypassed He Man Mountain, the Broken Leaf City was already faintly visible, but they reined in their horses one after another, looking ahead in horror, on the plain north of He Man Mountain, three thousand Tang troops lined up, strong crossbows wound, horizontal knives out of sheaths, sharp spears pointed straight ahead, Cui Qianyou's eyes looked at the scattered and disorderly Tu Cai Shi people, and a trace of wisdom appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Kill!" As soon as he gave an order, the three thousand Tang troops were launched, bursting out of the sky with murderous aura, the iron hooves hit the ground, the armor flashed dazzling in the sun, like a rolling torrent, killing the Tuqi Shi people with an unstoppable aura, the Tuqi Shi people were frightened, and the instinct for survival made them scatter and flee desperately, and the five thousand Tuqi Shi troops deployed on the southern defense line of Dumo Branch collapsed in an instant, the men and horses collided, trampled on each other, and screamed everywhere, they were so frightened that they screamed wildly, and they fled slower. was immediately swept up by the rolling Tang Army iron cavalry and strangled to pieces.

In less than two hours, the 5,000 Tucai Shi army was completely annihilated, 1,000 people were beheaded, more than 2,000 people were captured, and the rest fled without a trace.

At dusk, under the reflection of the blood-red remnant sun, the three thousand Tang troops with two thousand prisoners of war drove to the city of Broken Leaves, forming the kind of momentum that only more than five thousand troops have, the alarm bell on the city has no effect, the sparse soldiers defending the city looked at the overwhelming Tang army below in horror, and there were only four hundred turbid cavalry defenders in the Broken Leaf City, and the other armies were all taken away by Saoud to go to the main force of the Tang army, and four hundred people could not hold the big city with a circumference of sixty miles, What's more, they don't have that kind of belief in living and dying with the city." Shoot the book of persuasion! ”

Cui Qianyou gave the order, and dozens of soldiers rushed forward, each shooting a thin letter of persuasion on the city wall, all of which contained only eight words: surrender to the city protection; Recalcitrant resistance to the slaughter of the city, and translated into Turkic, the city was quiet, Cui Qianyou waited patiently, he knew that the brutality of Du Mozhi had made the Turks alienated, under the pressure of the Tang army, how long could they hold out?

A quarter of an hour later, the gate of Broken Leaf City slowly opened, and the four hundred Turk soldiers who remained in Broken Leaf went out of the city to surrender under the leadership of a thousand commanders, they laid down their weapons and raised their hands high, the Tang army immediately cheered, Cui Qianyou's face showed a smile of victory, and he waved his hand, "Enter the city!" "As the Tang army marched into Broken Leaf City, this important border town that had been lost for more than half a year once again returned to the hands of the Tang Dynasty.

．．．．．． But the war continued, this afternoon, the sky was particularly gloomy, the dark clouds were low, in the north of the Broken Leaves Almadai Pass, Saud was ready, 26,000 Turgish soldiers were distributed on a two-mile battle line, a burst of flying sand and stones, the yellow dust in the sky filled the air, the Tang army camp on the grassland in the distance became a little blurred, Saud rode on a majestic and oily black-maned horse, holding a sharp spear about two feet long, majestic, he looked at the Tang army camp coldly, His face couldn't hide the look of anticipation for a big battle with the Tang Army.

"General, the Tang Army doesn't seem to have any intention of going to war." An officer whispered to him.

Saud looked at the calm camp of the Tang army and said coldly: "No! You can test their defenses. ”

He glanced back at the Turgish soldiers, urged the horses to gallop in front of the team, and shouted sharply in Turkic language: "The Tang army wants to seize your land, to rob your women and children, your homeland can only be protected by yourself, warriors, the honor belongs to you, belongs to the Turgish people, kill into the Tang camp, drive them out of the broken leaves!" ”

"Get rid of the broken leaves!" The national indignation of the Turgish was ignited by Saud, who raised his spear and shouted in unison.

Saud's spear was pointed at the Tang camp, "Kill!" ”

The offensive of the Tuqi Shi people was launched, and the cavalry of the 8,000 former army urged the war horses and killed the Tang army overwhelmingly, and the shouts, roars, and galloping hooves of horses resounded throughout the field.

The Tang army camp is still quiet, but behind the fence, 10,000 Tang troops are ready, 3,000 Tang troops holding huge shields to form a dense shield wall, behind them are 6,000 crossbowmen, divided into three teams, everyone holds a strong crossbow, crossbow arrows are pointed obliquely at the sky, behind the crossbowmen are two hundred medium-sized trebuchets, each of ten people is in a row, with a cowhide skein to tighten the trebuchet, there are thirty pounds of stones in the pocket, crossbow arrows and trebuchets form two strike defense lines far and near, the Tang army has been ready to fight.

Li Qing'an rode on a horse, watching the thousands of horses swept in the distance, the eight thousand horsemen were like turbulent waves, undulating and galloping on the grassland, and a cold smile appeared in his eyes, unlike the first attack on Broken Leaves, he no longer cared much about exercising the soldiers' battlefield fighting ability, he paid more attention to the use of tactics and strategies.

He has been dealing with the Tuqi Shi people in the five years since Tianbao, and he knows the characteristics of the Tuqi Shi people's combat, and the Tuqi Shi people are more like flash floods, which are menacing, but they are weak in succession.

Beside him, Li Guangbi looked a little uneasy, Li Qing'an's tactics of garrison defense were the first time he had encountered them, the camp fence was not as strong as the city wall, once the enemy rushed up, it was easy to pull it down with a rope, and the Tang army in the camp fence lacked space to deploy the formation, which was not conducive to defense and organizing a counteroffensive.

He reminded Li Qingan in a low voice: "General, you must guard against the enemy's fire attack!" ”

Li Qing'an nodded, he had already thought of this, the Tang army holding the shield had a water skin bag on his back, which was to prevent the Turquoise people from igniting the fence, but he believed that it would not happen at that moment.

The sound of hooves was like thunder, and the people of the Turquoise rode closer and closer, a thousand steps, eight hundred steps, six hundred steps, five hundred steps...... It has gradually approached the range of the trebuchet, the trebuchet of the Tang army started, a series of strong winds sounded, hundreds of stones rose into the air, in the air into a dense stone rain, made a strange sound, whistling to the top of the head of the Tuqi Shi people, running in the front of the Tuqi Shi people for a while people turned on their backs, the boulder hit the soldiers, the head was smashed in an instant, the flesh and blood blurred, the war horse was smashed, neighed and fell, the soldiers on the horse were pressed under him, a stone rain killed and injured more than 400 cavalry, so that the crazy arrogance of the Tuqi Shi people was frustrated, their attack did not stop, went forward one after another, continued to kill the Tang army camp, the second wave of stone rain hit again, and another group of people turned on their backs, at this moment, their forward troops were less than two hundred steps away from the Tang army camp.

The Tang army's arrow array was launched, a drum sounded, six thousand crossbows were fired at the same time, a dense rain of arrows rose into the air, forming a long black arrow cloud in the air, which instantly became a black dot, overwhelmingly shooting head-on to the Tuqi Shi people, and the Tuqi Shi cavalry raised their shields to meet each other, but the Tang army's crossbow arrows dominated the world, not only the range was long, but also the strength was strong, ordinary shields and leather armor could not resist at all, especially when thrown from the air, the arrows fell with their own gravity, so that the wooden shield of the Tuqi Shi cavalry became an ornament.

The powerful and heavy crossbow arrows pierced the shields of the cavalry, shot through the leather armor, the cavalry fell from their horses one after another, and wailed all over the field, and then the second and third waves of crossbow arrows roared like raindrops, so dense that people could not breathe, and the long arrows sneered down, shot through the shields, shot through the faces and chests of the enemy, these cavalry cavalry seemed to be the crops destroyed by the storm, fell one by one, blood splattered, one by one died tragically in wailing, the morale of the enemy died sharply, they began to waver, retreat, scatter and fleeAs if a strong wind was blowing through the dark clouds, the clouds opened and the fog dispersed in an instant, the first attack of the Turgish people was disintegrated, they were dealt a heavy blow, the Tang army only fired two rounds of arrows, and the 8,000 cavalry were reduced by 30%, and nearly 3,000 people were killed and wounded.

Saud, who was watching the battle from behind, gasped, he had never seen such a strong and domineering bow and arrow, compared with the bow and arrow of the Great Eclipse, the difference between the bow and arrow of the Great Food was too far, although the bow and arrow were not the strength of the Great Eclipse, the Great Eclipse Army was good at throwing short spears at short distances, but even the Byzantines who were good at bows and arrows could not be compared with the bows and arrows of the Tang Army, and Saud was frightened for a while.

The spirit of the Tuqi Shi people was wiped out under the strong bows and arrows of the Tang army, and the slogan of protecting the family and defending the country, which had just been shouted as loud as a mountain, also disappeared, and everyone was anxiously thinking about their own way of retreat, they were originally ordinary herdsmen, and how to keep their meager property was the top priority they cared about.

And the bizarre disappearance of the leader Du Mozhi at a critical moment began to give them a feeling of abandonment, and many people turned their suspicious eyes to Saud, why did he listen to the command of this big cannibal, why did he hide behind at the moment of attack, and after the passion and fanaticism of the Turgish people were ruthlessly crushed by the rain of arrows of the Don army, they began to calm down.

At this time, there were many palm-sized pieces of red paper blown in the air, which were paper bullets shot by the trebuchet of the Tang army just now, there were as many as tens of thousands, and no one paid attention to them at first, but now that the battlefield has calmed down, these pieces of paper were blown by the wind to the position of the Tuqi Shi people, and many people have picked them up, and they have passed on each other, and a whispering sound sounded in the army, and everyone's eyes flashed with horror.

Someone handed the piece of paper to Saud, only to see that it was written: 'Broken Leaf City has been attacked by the Tang Anxi army, your parents, wives and children are in the hands of the Tang army, you can go home quickly, the Tang Dynasty will keep you safe, give you pasture and land, as in the past, otherwise, this is your cemetery." ’

"Bastard!"

Saoud tore the paper to shreds and immediately ordered: "Prepare for a second attack!" ”

His order was met with a cold reception, and no one responded, at which point a Turgish general stepped forward and said, "May I ask General Saud, why did my Grand Chief leave at such a critical time, and his personal guards were not taken with him, we all think it is strange, I hope you can explain it to us." ”

"What's there to explain here!"

Saud scolded him and said: "You have seen it yourself, can your strength be compared with the Tang Army? Dumozhi is going to ask the Muslim governor for help, and without the support of the Great Food Army, who can help you save the broken leaves? ”

"If you really have the heart to keep Broken Leaf, then why did you transfer all your troops, and what if the Anxi Army in the south attacked Broken Leaf? And Tang Jun said that the broken leaves have been lost, and we all think that it is very likely to be true. ”

"Bold! How dare you speak to me like that? ”

The general of the Tuqi Shi didn't dare to offend him, so he held back his anger and said: "General, we don't want to die in vain like this, we don't want to fight, we hope to return to Broken Leaves!" ”

Saud stared at his eyes viciously, and after a while, he waved his hand and ordered: "The whole army is closed!" ”

The order to collect the troops was handed down, and the Turgish people began to retreat slowly, but at this moment, the Tang army's camp gates were opened on three sides, and 15,000 cavalry rushed out, like a raging wave bursting the embankment, surging towards the Turgish people two miles away.

If he was under the Great Food Army, he could organize an emergency confrontation and block the momentum of the Tang army's offensive with dense short spear throws, and then adjust his forces to fight against the Umayyad army, and General Ziyad used this strategy to successfully use this strategy to turn defeat into victory.

But now he is a fighting spirit faded, without any training of the Turgish herdsmen army, they are like arrows, no one to listen to his command anymore, the Tang army's unstoppable murderous spirit and landslide-like momentum, so that the Turgish people are broken, they rushed to flee for their lives, the defeat is like a mountain, Saud saw that the situation is not good, led a dozen guards to flee west...... In this battle, the Tang army defeated the main force of the Tuqi Shi army with an absolute advantage, beheaded more than 4,000 people, and captured 13,000 people, so far, the dream of revitalizing the Tuqi Shi of Dumo Zhi turned into smoke in the Tang army's devastating offensive, the Tuqi Shi people were completely conquered by the Tang army in the spring of the tenth year of Tianbao, fifty years later, with the death of the last Tuqi Shi old man, the last Tuqi Shi woman married a young Han who moved west, and the last Tuqi Shi child changed to the Han surname Tang, Tuqi Shi, This people, which was a branch of the Turkic peoples, died out in the course of history.

The rich and beautiful land of Broken Leaf River has also returned to the embrace of the Tang Dynasty again, but this is only the beginning, with the Tang Dynasty army entering Broken Leaves, with the rise of the Abbasid Empire, the Hezhong region, the center of Eurasia, the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, this strategic place where soldiers must fight, is destined to trigger the collision of the two empires of the East and the West.

(To be continued)