The fireballs are just beautiful fireworks that make people forget the cruelty of war for a while, and the absence of the honeycomb heavy crossbow makes Chuluo Khan and Zhifu feel a little lucky. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But a more severe test came as expected.

When the Turkic cavalry gradually approached one hundred and fifty paces, the observing soldiers on the command platform shouted: "Two hundred paces." ”

Zhang Xuan said coldly with an expressionless face: "The crossbowman is ready to shoot!" ”

The red flag waved, and the 15,000 Sui crossbowmen were already in full array, everyone holding horned crossbows in their hands and crossbows and arrows on their backs, and they lined up in two rows.

Tiger Benlang shouted at the Tao, "Get ready to shoot!" ”

The 10,000 crossbowmen on the city wall stepped forward two steps to widen the distance, the Sui army's horn crossbow had a range of about two hundred paces, and the effective killing range was one hundred and fifty steps.

When the Turks rushed into a hundred paces, the crossbowmen would be replaced with large shields and spears to defend against the arrows of the Turkic cavalry, while attacks on the Turkic army would be met by archers from below the camp walls.

Within 100 paces of the Turkic army running to the main camp, the average archer could fire three rounds of arrows, while trained archers could fire four rounds of arrows and shoot in three stages.

Crossbowmen and archers could fire a total of 100,000 arrows in front of and behind, posing a great threat to the Turkic army.

In the blink of an eye, the Turkic cavalry rushed within one hundred and eighty paces, approaching the killing range, and fifteen thousand crossbowmen brushed the ground to raise the horned crossbows, and the crossbow arrows were inclined upwards at thirty degrees.

The enemy army is getting closer and closer, the yellow sand fills the sky and the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and the figure of the Turkic army is completely invisible, only the sound of bangzi is heard, and the 10,000 crossbow arrows of the first row of the Sui army rise into the air and shoot intensively into the diffuse yellow sand.

Immediately, the crossbowmen on the wall of the first row of the camp were loaded with arrows, and the crossbowmen standing on the wooden frames of the second row fired, and one round of two rows of arrows, and fifteen thousand crossbow arrows were like a net of arrows, which were overwhelmingly shot at the Turkic cavalry.

Huang Chenzhong suddenly screamed everywhere, and people and horses were constantly hit by arrows, the war horses fell, and the cavalry was thrown out, and the powerful crossbow arrows penetrated the wooden shields in the hands of the Turks, and shot into the faces and chests of the cavalry, but the Turkic cavalry had already killed red eyes, regardless of life and death, and rushed on horseback.

At this time, there was another bangzi sound, and the long arrows of the Sui archers also shot out, the arrows were like rain, and the arrows were like flying locusts, overwhelmingly shooting at the Turkic cavalry, and the Turkic cavalry also immediately opened their bows and arrows to fight back, and the dense arrows on both sides almost covered the sky, and a cruel bloody battle entered the climax.

At this moment, an accident happened, hundreds of Turkic cavalry waved ropes and ran towards the high wall of the Sui army camp, but when they ran to seventy paces, the war horse suddenly neighed like crazy, running and jumping, the cavalry on horseback was caught off guard, and they were taken off the war horse, and the war horse immediately turned around and galloped, but it didn't last long before it was shot down by the Sui army at the head of the city.

The horsemen who had been thrown off their horses also ran, but soon fell in agony, and before they could tell the truth, the whistling arrows had already crucified them to the ground.

A few soldiers suddenly came to their senses and shouted in horror: "There are thistle thorns!" There are thorns in the ground! ”

But the shouts of a few soldiers were soon drowned out by the drums and shouts of the battlefield, and most of the soldiers did not realize the killing machine hidden under the high walls, and the 15,000 infantry behind them were in a tidal wave, and although the Turkic soldiers were shot down in batches under the dense fire of arrows, they still rushed forward one after another, desperately rushing to the walls.

'One hundred and fifty steps... One Hundred Steps。。。。。 Eighty steps。。。。。 ’

Seeing that the attacking infantry who were about to hope suddenly let out a scream, they fell to the ground one after another, holding their feet in horror and wailing, this Turkic southern expedition has been repeatedly hit by thistles thorns, every soldier has left a deep shadow in their hearts, their fear of thistles thorns even exceeds that of strong bows and crossbows, morale quickly collapsed, and the soldiers who did not step on the thistles turned around and fled in fear.

Stubborn thinking power supervised the battle in the back, only to see the soldiers in front of him in chaos, and the soldiers who were about to run to the wall rushed to run backwards, as if there was an invisible force in front of them pushing them, which made the stubborn thinking force stunned.

At this time, several cavalrymen rushed to the scene and shouted: "General, there are poisonous thistles within seventy paces of the high wall, and thousands of soldiers have been stabbed and cannot walk. ”

Stubbornly stunned, there was no tribulus terrestris during the day yesterday, why did it appear today, he suddenly understood that it was the Sui army that deployed the tribulus array last night.

A commander next to him whispered, "General, what should I do?" ”

Stubbornly lost in his heart, there was a thistle on the ground, the soldiers could not attack the high wall at all, they could only sacrifice in vain, and the morale had declined, there was no hope for this battle, he couldn't help but sigh, "Order to withdraw the troops!" ”

"When! While! While! "When the bell rang to collect the troops, more than 14,000 foot knights retreated like a tide, and in just a quarter of an hour, the attacking Turkic soldiers suffered nearly 6,000 casualties, and the most morale-neutral troops completely lost their fighting spirit.

Unable to think about it, he had no choice but to come to the Khan of Chuluo to ask for guilt, "Qi Qi Khan, the Sui army has laid a strict tribulus array, and the lowly army cannot attack the enemy camp, so I have come to ask the Khan for guilt!" ”

At this time, Chu Luo Khan's confidence had been completely shaken, and he sighed slightly: "The Sui camp is fully prepared, let's think about it in the long run!" ”

He immediately waved his hand, "The army retreats to the camp!" ”

After two days of fighting, the Turkic army lost 20,000 horses, further reducing the strength of the Turkic army to 70,000, and the balance of war began to gradually tilt to the side of the Sui army.

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Just when the battle of Hanhu in the north was in full swing, the Tang Dynasty was also experiencing a small turmoil, the root of this turmoil was the battle of Yan'an County to exterminate Song Jingang, 30,000 Tang troops under the leadership of Li Yuanji, the king of Chu, and Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an County, fought fiercely with Song Jingang in Yan'an County.

Li Yuanji did not put the Song Jingang army in his eyes at first, thinking that Song Jingang's 80,000 army was a rabble, and it could be defeated in a battle, but Song Jingang deliberately showed weakness, lost three battles in a row, and lured the hot-headed Li Yuanji to lead the 8,000 army to go deep alone, when Li Yuanji led the army to occupy Fushi County, Song Jingang immediately counterattacked, annihilating Li Yuanji's 3,000 vanguard army, and the 80,000 army immediately surrounded Fushi County, and Li Yuanji's 5,000 army besieged in the county.

Li Xiaoji rushed to the rescue with a large army, but was besieged by Song Jingang to send reinforcements, Song Jingang and his general Lu Chongmao attacked 20,000 Tang troops thirty miles south of Fushi County, the Tang army was defeated, 20,000 troops were almost wiped out, Li Xiaoji was seriously injured and fled back to Chang'an.

Although Li Yuanji took advantage of the opportunity of Song Jingang's army to ambush the Tang army, he successfully broke through, but less than 1,000 people of the 5,000 army escaped.

Song Jingang's army then occupied Diaoyin County, Honghua County and Shangjun, claiming to be the king of Guannei, with more than 100,000 soldiers, the soldiers pointed directly at Chang'an, Guanzhong was shaken, Li Yuan urgently transferred Li Shimin to lead 20,000 troops to the north, Li Shimin defeated Lu Chongmao in Luojiao County, Song Jingang's army was forced to withdraw from Shangjun, and the heavy troops were stationed in Yan'an County, Li Shimin did not continue to go north, but built fortifications in Shangjun, and confronted Song Jingang's army.

The strong rise of Song Jingang made the people of Chang'an panic, and the price of goods rose, the price of grain rose to 300 yuan of doumi, the price of gold soared, and the gold jewelry was out of stock, and the official price was one or two gold for ten yuan copper coins, but the black market price rose to one or two gold for thirty yuan yuan.

Because the battle of Hanhu and the battle of Tang and Song were carried out in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, which greatly affected the economy and people's livelihood of the Tang Dynasty, coupled with the Tang army's full preparation for the battle of Jingzhou, the Tang Dynasty court had financial difficulties, and the two major cities of Chang'an and Chengdu withered commerce, and the people's livelihood began to become difficult.

Li Yuan was extremely angry at his son Li Yuanji's defeat in Yan'an County, and when the news of the annihilation of the 30,000 Tang army came, Li Yuan immediately cut off Li Yuanji's title of King of Chu and demoted him to a commoner, and Li Xiaoji was also removed from the post of governor of Tongzhou and Honglu Temple, but Li Xiaoji was seriously injured, so he did not depose his prince for the time being.

That night, in the Pingliang Restaurant in Chang'an East City, Gao Jin, a member of the Chang'an Intelligence Agency, slowly walked up to the third floor of the wine shop as usual, and the bartender pushed open a door for him, "This is it, sir, please come in!" ”

Gao Jin walked into the room, only to see that a young scribe in a Confucian robe was already sitting in the room, seeing Gao Jin enter the room, the young scribe hurriedly got up and saluted, Gao Jin smiled and saluted: "Let the virtuous brother wait for a long time." ”

"Where! Where! I've just arrived, brother, please take a seat! (To be continued.) )