The night disturbance of the Sui army can only be regarded as a small episode, it cannot affect the determination of Jieli Khan to defeat the Sui army, nor can it stop the iron hooves of the 200,000 Turkic army from moving south.

Its influence is only reflected in some subtleties, such as the physical strength and mentality of the Turkic soldiers, these subtleties are not visible for the time being, and it will only slowly manifest itself when the physical exertion is huge in a long battle.

This battle is also inevitable for Jieli Khan, the steppe is already raging with a blizzard, the blizzard is about to sweep to the south, and he has no way out.

Despite the fact that it was a back-to-back battle, Jieli Khan was also full of confidence, he had an elite army of 200,000, twice as many as the Sui army, and he would definitely win this battle.

But Jieli Khan also knew that it was not enough to have confidence, he also needed to arrange his troops and play in battle, and there were many lessons and experiences in the past battles between the Turkic and Sui armies, and he had to learn from them.

Of his 200,000 troops, the Turkic army consisted of 120,000 troops, including 100,000 of the Turkic Guards, a system created during the time of the Qimin Khan, which was composed of elites selected from various Turkic tribes.

They were no longer engaged in animal husbandry, but were full-time soldiers, responsible for guarding the Khan, well-equipped and trained, the elite of the Turkic army, commanded by ten commanders, and directly under the command of the Turkic Khan.

In addition to the 120,000 Turkic troops, there were 80,000 followers, Xue Yantuo and Hui each had 40,000 people, they were distributed on two wings, and Jieli Khan had promised them that as long as the Sui army was defeated in this battle, the money and women of the Sui Dynasty would be plundered by them and would not be distributed.

"Khan! The Sui army is ahead. A captain shouted, pointing ahead.

Jieli Khan's eyes narrowed, he had seen the Sui army, just ten miles away, he raised his arm and ordered: "The whole army, slow down, stop at a distance of three miles!" ”

The 200,000-strong Turkic army began to reorganize its ranks. Take 10,000 people as a phalanx. Divided into twenty large squares, overwhelming, almost covering the grassland.

The spears raised are as dense as a forest. The team slowly advanced forward, getting closer and closer, and when it was about three miles away from the Sui army's main array. Stopped moving forward.

A cold wind blew through the grasslands, and a marmot probed out from between the two armies, looked in both directions, and then burrowed back into the ground in terror, never daring to show his head again, the sky was overcast, and dark clouds were shrouded.

In the middle army of the Sui army, there is a wooden tower as high as two zhang near the handsome banner, which is the command tower of the Sui army. In addition to the commander Yang Yuanqing and two herald sergeants, there are eight standard-bearers on the tower.

Under the wooden tower, thirty-six large drums and ten bronze bells were arranged, and the drums and bells commanded the advance and retreat of the Sui army. But the eight-commanding standard-bearer commands specific armies.

on the wooden tower. Yang Yuanqing looked up at the gloomy sky, and dark clouds like ink rolled in the northern sky. He felt like there was a little more humidity in the cold air today.

'A blizzard is coming! Yang Yuanqing said to himself.

In the Turkic array, many soldiers looked back at the northern sky uneasily, the clouds of ink that hung low and tumbled, last night were far away in the north, and today they were close at hand, and all the steppe people knew what it meant, and the blizzard was about to sweep in.

Only Jieli Khan was disdainful of the impending blizzard, his heart was full of murderous intent, and he had a strong desire to swing his sword into the Sui army, and he could no longer restrain his desire.

Jieli Khan slowly drew his sword and stared at the layout of the Sui army, he knew that there must be hidden heavy infantry of the Sui army in the dense army, he knew very well the power of this kind of heavy armored infantry, as well as the crossbow arrows of the Sui army, he must first send an army to suppress the crossbow arrows of the Sui army.

"Dahan!" Jieli Khan shouted.

A burly captain came out and saluted, "I want to serve the Khan!" ”

"It's up to you to fight the first battle, if you don't die, the women in Taiyuan City are up to you to choose."

Captain Wan sneered, "I want Yang Yuanqing's woman!" ”

The Turkic officers laughed loudly, and a trace of displeasure flashed in the eyes of Jieli Khan, but he immediately concealed it, and said in a deep voice: I said, the women in Taiyuan City are up to you. ”

Jieli Khan did not allow him to be presumptuous anymore, and waved his sword, "Fight!" ”

"Woo-" The low sound of the horn sounded in the Turkic array, and a phalanx composed of 10,000 Turkic guards suddenly launched, 10,000 horses galloped, spears were like forests, and the momentum of the Turkic army was like a flood that was high and rushing, whistling and shouting and swept towards the Sui army.

The Battle of Sui and Tu finally kicked off under a dark cloud......

The Turks paid attention to fighting with vigor and momentum, while the Central Plains army paid attention to defense and counterattack, and the difference between this combat method came from the superiority of the Central Plains army's bow and arrow.

Although the bows and arrows of the Turkic army have made great progress at the end of the Sui Dynasty and have been able to compete with the Sui army, the combat style formed over the centuries has never changed, always the steppe nomadic army charges, preemptively strikes, and the Central Plains army defends and counterattacks.

The Sui army has already lined up, and the four thousand strong crossbow army is lined up at the front, in a group of two, carrying a huge seven-stone rhubarb crossbow, if it is a tailwind, the effective killing distance of the strong crossbow is two hundred and forty steps, but now it is a headwind, the wind is strong, and the effective killing distance is only one hundred and eighty steps.

They will launch the first wave of attacks, and after the attack is over, they will transform into pikemen, lining up to defend the conning towers.

Behind the crossbow army were six thousand archers, who were responsible for the second round of attacks, and after the second round of bow and arrow fire, the archers would retreat to the flanks of the six thousand heavy infantry behind, protecting the heavy infantry from the flanks.

Behind the archers, there are 6,000 Mo sword troops, they are the key to Yang Yuanqing's victory in this war, commanded by the six-foot-seven tall general Li Chongwei, he is the second tallest in the Sui army after Yang Wei, but he is not as fat as Yang Wei, but has broad shoulders and a round waist, and has infinite strength.

Six thousand Mo knife heavy armor soldiers in a row of two hundred people, a total of thirty rows, they lined up neatly, six thousand Mo knives in the cold wind like a sharp forest, although they stood quietly, but the killing machine they contained in their bodies had reached the critical point of detonation.

Yang Yuanqing stood on the command tower, staring at the 10,000 Turkic cavalry surging in the distance, he saw through the tactics of Jieli Khan, and first sent 10,000 cavalry to destroy his bow and crossbow army, he sneered, these 10,000 cavalry just came to boost his morale.

"Shoot as planned, prepare!"

A yellow command flag was waved on the conning tower, and General Lang Zhou, who commanded the 4,000 heavy crossbow infantry, saw the yellow flag, and he shouted: "Prepare to shoot!" ”

Two thousand seven-stone rhubarb crossbows were lifted to the ground, and the sharp arrows were aimed at the Turkic cavalry roaring in the distance, and the Turkic cavalry swept the steppe, galloping, and the fierce sound of horses' hooves hit the ground, making a thunderous rumbling sound, and the earth trembled.

Just when the first wave of Turkic cavalry was still three hundred paces away from the Sui army, Jieli Khan gave the order for the whole army to attack, and he waved his sword forward, and burst out with a hissing shout: "The whole army presses down, kill!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Huge war drums sounded on the steppe, and the 190,000-strong army attacked at the same time, and the Turkic cavalry, which could not be seen at a glance, rushed towards the Sui army like a black ocean.

Jieli Khan will not make any previous mistakes at this time, his biggest advantage is the huge strength, he will not fight with the Sui army, and will not let the Sui army break his army individually, only the 200,000 army can give full play to his advantages.

The powerful momentum inspired by the attack of the 200,000-strong army was enough to make any opponent fearful, but Yang Yuanqing stood on the command tower and was not moved at all.

Even if the 200,000 Turkic army is a turbulent sea, the Sui army will be an impregnable reef, and no matter how wreaking havoc the Turkic army is, it will eventually be defeated in the hands of the Sui army.

Yang Yuanqing's face was expressionless, staring at the 10,000 cavalry killed at the front, the other party had already rushed two hundred steps away, and the impatient Turkic army had already shot the arrows in their hands, and the arrows rained all over the sky, but the two thousand strong crossbows did not move at all...... I've already made a hundred and eighty steps.

"It's ready to launch!"

At the same time as Yang Yuanqing blurted out, Zhou Yu, the Lang general who commanded the strong crossbow, also shouted, "Shoot!" ”

Two thousand iron arrows one foot nine inches long burst out of the string at the same time, the arrow power was extremely powerful, and the two thousand iron arrows were like a dense black shadow, instantly shooting into the rushing Turkic cavalry group.

The iron arrow pierced through the shields of the Turkic cavalry, and the screams rang out, and the groups of Turkic cavalry running at the front rolled and fell off their horses, and the horses were shot through the body, blood burst out, and they fell out miserably and miserably.

More than 500 people were shot down in the first round of arrows, but the crossbowmen did not look at the results, they moved quickly, cooperated skillfully, and at the moment when the bow and arrow were fired, they immediately stepped on the bow and pulled the string, one person raised the crossbow, and one person took the arrow and put it in the slot, all in one go.

The death of hundreds of people had no effect on the 10,000 cavalry, and the Turkic army increased its speed and had rushed to a distance of one hundred and twenty paces, and without unified command, the second round of strong crossbow iron arrows was fired at the Turkic cavalry like a storm.

The dense Turkic cavalry once again flipped on their backs, this time with a wider range of blows, and more than 800 people were shot over, although in terms of time, the crossbow army still had a chance to attack a third time, but tactically it did not allow it.

This is because the lethal range of the Turkic cavalry bow is eighty paces, and it takes time for the crossbow army to retreat, and it must be withdrawn before the enemy army enters a hundred paces, otherwise it will cause heavy casualties and will also adversely affect the Sui archers behind.

Lang gave an order: "Withdraw!" ”

Four thousand crossbow infantry picked up the spears on the ground and retreated like a tide to both sides, revealing a neat array of archers, which is the traditional crossbow tactics, in which the crossbow is bowed first and then the length of the range is used to effectively kill and injure the attacking enemy cavalry.

By this time, the Turkic cavalry had rushed to within a hundred paces, and they were skilled in riding, controlling their horses with their feet, and using their waist and arm strength to shoot arrows at high speeds.

Many Sui cavalry could do the same, but it required hard training to do so, but the Turkic cavalry seemed to be born with it, and they could easily complete a series of difficult maneuvers without training.

At the same time that more than 8,000 Turkic cavalry fired arrows together, 6,000 archers also fired the first round of arrows, and the rain of arrows intertwined in the air, forming a dense network of arrows......

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