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The Tongluo people were very superstitious about their galloping skills, but when faced with a tall ice fortress that firmly guarded the mouth of the river valley, and the various fortifications crisscrossing and dense in front of the fort, it was also the donkey who stopped at the end of his skills. In desperation, instead of the comatose Gu Luo Commander leading the army, the commander of the thousand commanders Udil decided to let go of the Sui people and fight to the death, he still had a trace of luck in his heart, thinking that maybe after the tribal brothers worked hard, the Sui people might not be able to stop them.

Among the more than 8,000 Tongluo cavalry, all of them were cavalry, and all of them had horses, and there was no such thing as an infantry army. However, it is also different from the Luo cavalry, which is divided into the regular army and the auxiliary army, and the main difference between the regular army and the auxiliary army lies in whether there is armor. The armored cavalry with complete armor is almost always the youngest and strongest regular army, while those auxiliary soldiers are rarely armored, and most of them only wear wolf helmets, horn helmets, or cowhide armor. In general marching operations, the task of the regular army is to charge into battle and defeat the enemy. The auxiliaries are cooperating with the auxiliary army, one of the main army has two auxiliary soldiers, one is responsible for beating grass and solving the problem of grain and grass, and the other is responsible for guarding the camp, when the march they have to help the regular army set up camp, and when the regular army goes to war, they are responsible for staying in the camp. In addition, the auxiliaries were responsible for cleaning the battlefield, helping to guard the spoils of war, escorting prisoners of war, and so on.

Tongluo Zhengjun is equipped with its own weapons and armor, and the selection of the regular army not only requires young strength and courage to have good riding and archery skills, but also the most important one also requires the regular army to be selected to have a good family background, so as to buy a full set of equipment.

The hair around the head was all cut off, and only Nilan, who had a short piece of hair on the top of his head, waved. Immediately behind him, two auxiliaries with their hair tied in two large strands jumped off their horses and ran over. The two auxiliaries were about thirty years old, much older and stronger than Nilan, who was only eighteen years old. However, the two of them were only Nilan's auxiliaries. In fact, both of them are members of Nilan's family, but the two of them did not have enough property to be selected into the regular army, and finally they were selected as auxiliaries because of their strong bodies, so they made auxiliary retinues for Nilan, the son of the patriarch of their clan. It was the first time for Nilan to fight, and he had fought a few tailwind battles before, but he didn't expect that he would immediately fall into the situation he is in now. As the son of the patriarch of a small tribe. Nilan, who was in battle for the first time, prepared a lot of equipment for this battle and spent a lot of money.

First of all, the war horse bought three excellent war horses, and even in order to show favor to the two auxiliary soldiers of the same clan. Let them take care of themselves for the first time, and even the horses of the two of them are his money. In addition to horses, in order to become a regular army, the standard equipment that needs to be equipped is called the Iron Armor Nine Things. A set of iron armor. A set of vests, then a saddle bridle, and four bows, four hundred arrows, one long and one short spear, iron bones, axes, cones, fire knives, horses, and materials. A material bag, a fur umbrella, and a horse rope of 200 feet. When the troops were sent to fight, the tribes did not give grain and grass, and relied on their own grass and grain to plunder and supply.

However, although the regular army needs to bring its own equipment. The burden is very heavy, but there are still many people vying to be elected to the regular army. Naturally, this is not all stupid. It is the habit of the Tongluo tribe that the spoils obtained from the war are given priority by the regular army, and then a small part is distributed to the auxiliary soldiers who accompany the army. In Mobei, wars and conflicts are frequent, and tribes like Luo are more of a fighting tribe, known for their bravery and warlikeness, as long as they have the ability, they all want to join the army to fight, take the spoils of war with military merits, and obtain money and cattle and sheep, which is many times better than grazing.

Buck and Jiatai helped Nilan check the armor, Nilan came out this time with a set of chain mail and a belt of rhinoceros leather armor, when he defeated Xi Ren before, he captured a pair of bright iron armor, that iron armor was basically intact, and after wiping it was shiny, he was very happy. It's just that this Mingguang armor is a little troublesome when it is worn, not to mention the heaviness, and it has to be helped by auxiliary soldiers. When he retreated before, he only wore the rope armor on his body, but now he was going to attack the ice castle of the Sui army, and he was about to face the sharp ultra-long bow and arrows, and Nilan couldn't care about the heavy Mingguang armor, so he hurriedly took out the Mingguang armor and let Buck and Jiatai put it on for themselves, and then put the rope armor on the outside, and the two sets of iron armor were dozens of catties, which made Nilan a little heavy.

Bactinylan put on his armor, took off two horned bows from his horse, carefully drew the bow and tried it, adjusted the bow, inserted the bow into the bow bag of Nilan's war horse, and hung two bags of arrows on the horse, one bag of light arrows and one bag of heavy arrows. On the other hand, Jiatai hung Nilan's iron bones and short spears in front of Nilan's saddle, and handed Nilan's scimitar to Nilan, and then handed the spear to Nilan.

Although Udil decided to attack the city, the first thing they had to sweep away was the defensive structure within two hundred and fifty paces of the fort. According to the advice of his officers, Udir was ready to let Nilan and other regular troops play the skill of galloping with the warriors of Tongluo, gallop close to the city to attract the attention of the city, and then cover Buck and other auxiliaries to tear down the earthen walls, fill in the ditches, cut down the sharp piles, and sweep the horse pits and other fortifications.

With the hard spear in hand, Nilan's mood was a little heavy. Since going south, the tribes encountered along the way are all vulnerable, and many of them have fled early. But here, in this narrow ravine, they suffered an unprecedented loss, and in a few days, they had already lost nearly 2,000 brothers. The nearly 2,000 dead in the battle were not only auxiliaries like Buck, but also many leopard riders like him. Many of them had spoken and chatted along the way, and some had instructed him in riding and shooting, but now, all of them had become headless ghosts who had been cut off and their bodies hung on stakes for crows to peck at. In front of the camp in the west, he clearly saw that the Sui people stood in the camp and could kill and injure the leopard riders with their longbows and arrows two hundred paces away. Now it is the same as the scene at Nishiyaguchi, and even worse than the shape of Nishiya.

Next to him, Ted was also wearing armor, Ted was the leader of Nilan's squad, commanding ten regular troops, including Nilan, plus their respective auxiliaries, this squad had thirty people. Ted is not only the captain of Nilan's team, but also his uncle of the same kind. He rushed forward and helped Ted put on his armor as well. Ted's armor was even more beautiful, shining with gold. The iron armor is coated with a layer of gold paint, and the armor pieces with interlaced mountain patterns on it are the most resistant to arrows, and ordinary arrows are difficult to penetrate, even in the face of longbows and arrows with people, they also have extremely strong defensive power. This made Nilan very envious, this set of golden lacquer mountain armor was Ted's biggest gain this time in the south. If you bring it back to Mobei. This set of armor can be exchanged for at least 200 good horses. Ted got this treasure armor before, but he was reluctant to wear it at all, and the treasure was wrapped in robbed silk, but now. But he took it out and put it on his body.

Ted raised his hand and patted Nilan gently, and sighed in his ear, "Nilan, if you have the chance." surrendered directly to the Han Chinese. ”

"Why?"

Ted whispered. "This battle can't be fought, can't be fought, you look at the ice castle on the other side, and the Sui army on it. To be honest, I have also gone south with the tribal army to follow the Turkic khans in the past, but I have attacked the Sui Dynasty, and I can be regarded as seeing a lot of Sui troops, but I have never seen such a Sui army. So far in this battle, we have lost almost 2,000 brothers. But the number of Sui deaths does not exceed two hundred, and now we are directly blocked in this river valley. And the longbow and arrows. I've never heard of such a bow and arrow before. In the ice and snow, their bows can shoot more than 200 steps away, and we, in such a climate, the bow can shoot 50 steps and the lethality is very amazing. This battle can't be fought, these Sui troops don't need to fight with us at all, as long as they stay on the city and release arrows, they can exhaust us. You're still young, so surrender if you have the chance. ”

Nilan bowed his head and was silent, even his battle-hardened uncle Ted was so pessimistic about the prospects, his heart became heavier and heavier.

"Listen to me, there is no shame in surrendering, it is better to get out alive than to die here and become a headless ghost. In the future, you may have the opportunity to return to Mobei again, if you really have a chance to go back, remember my words, don't go back to invade Middle-earth in the future. ”

Nilan said in a low voice: "In that case, why is the commander of the Udil still attacking the city? ”

"Udir has never been a smart person, otherwise it wouldn't have been Gu Luo as a general going south, but it's a pity that Gu Luo has been unconscious, otherwise he would definitely not be so reckless and impulsive if he was awake."

"Uncle, then let's surrender to the Han together."

Ted shook his head and said, "Let's talk about it then, remember to take advantage of the opportunity yourself." ”

Nilan returned to his horse in a bit of a daze, and pulled out his antler wrench and put it on the thumb of his right hand. After a while, Ted rode over with several of his leopards and shouted to him, "Get on your horse!" ”

Nilan turned on his horse and drove behind Ted to make peace with the team. At this moment, shouts were everywhere around, and one group after another of the main army squads were gathering, gradually moving forward, converging into a larger cavalry thousand cavalry team.

Udir stretched out his bow and shot an arrow into the sky, and the whining arrow from the string made a sharp whistling sound, which was the order to attack, and the trumpets and war drums rang out with it.

There was a rumbling sound from the two wings, and Nilan watched a hundred cavalry of leopard cavalry rushing out on each side, rushing towards the opposite side, and soon he had rushed to within two hundred and fifty steps of the city, and the city on the opposite side still did not react. The two centurians began to slow down, and in front of them was a breastwork, and behind the breastwork was a ditch, and they could not cross, so they had to run along the breastwork to both sides. But there was still no reaction in the city, and no one fired their arrows.

On the contrary, a few horses suddenly slipped when they were galloping, and one person fell on his back, and a few horses behind him couldn't dodge for a while, and they also crashed into it, and another group of people turned on their backs.

The cavalry behind slowed down, and finally retreated to the two flanks three hundred paces away.

Udil's face was pale, and the silent reaction of the city was more like a burst of mockery.

"There is ice on the ground in front of the breastwork, which is probably the ice that the Han people poured water on after melting the ice." Experienced generals immediately pointed out the reasons for the fall of the cavalry.

Although he lost more than a dozen horses, Udir didn't care too much, and the reason why he was really in a bad mood was the reaction of the Sui army. Under normal circumstances, as long as it is within range, the soldier will not be able to resist attacking. But just now two hundred cavalry ran around, obviously already within the attack range of the archers in the city, but the other party did not react, this is not simple, without strict training, this is difficult to do. This shows that the defenders of the city are indeed an extraordinary elite. This made him think of the previous Sui cavalry that had dragged them for six days and failed to retreat, and his mood became more and more bad.

But by this time, the arrow was ready to fly, and it had to be sent.

Udir gritted his teeth and ordered the auxiliaries to push the chest wall and fill the ditch with their shields on their heads.

Another trumpet sounded, the cavalry retreated to the flanks, and the auxiliaries of the brigade bowed forward with their shields, and soon reached the bottom of the breastwork, where they began to cut and dig.

At this time, the crossbowmen on the city wall still did not attack, but the longbowmen who stood in the back in a formation of arrows moved.

One by one, the bows began to be drawn, the squeaks of the bowstrings were connected, one by one the longbows were opened, and as the words were shouted one after another, the archers raised their arrows in unison and shot them in unison.

The arrows rose into the air, coalesced into clouds, and then fell with a shrill whistling towards the target that had been set for a long time.

One after another long arrows fell in the air, arrows rained down, and the Tongluo auxiliaries who were gathering densely in front of the chest wall to dig the corners of the wall suddenly turned like earth, and in their panic and fear, soon there were continuous arrows from the Tongluo auxiliaries. The auxiliaries dropped their shovels and hoes and began to pick up their shields and raise them, but the small shields, in front of the rain of arrows, were not very effective, and more and more auxiliaries fell to the ground with arrows and screamed in pain. The raised shield array suddenly became like a sieve, and there were holes everywhere. More arrows fell, and the shield array became more and more holes, and finally collapsed, and the Tongluo auxiliaries began to turn and flee, running backwards, no longer pinning their hopes on the top of the shield array that leaked arrows everywhere.

Some of the auxiliaries took out their bows and fired back as they ran, but the arrows they shot were still very far away from the ice city, and they had already fallen weakly. On the contrary, the longbow and arrows of the Sui army began to extend to the west, and the dense rain of arrows fell one after another, and every time it fell, it would carry the lives of some Tongluo people.

Not only were the auxiliary soldiers far inferior to the regular army, but their fighting will was also far inferior to the regular army, and under the dense rain of arrows from the longbowmen's arrow array, they retreated faster and faster, farther and farther, and soon they had retreated to three hundred paces away.

Udir watched this round of attack lose so quickly, his face was gloomy, and he reluctantly ordered Mingjin to retreat, in fact, it didn't matter whether he Mingjin or not, the auxiliaries who came forward had either already retreated, or, they had stayed in front of the formation forever and could never come back. (To be continued......)