Chapter 210: Another Victory
The Lou Fu scouts under the command of the Yin Shi Shi could detect abnormal movements in the Turkic camp, and of course the Qian Peng scouts under Chen Yingliang were not eating, of course, they also found out about this situation, so that Chen Yingliang also concluded that the Turkic army would make a big move the next day, and the target was likely to be the self-army team that had just defeated the Turkic army.
Li Yuan did not send rescue troops, and deliberately let the Peng Sui army alone to defend against the enemy, which was also expected by Chen Yingliang, and even if the other Qinwang friendly troops did not come to help, this point also did not exceed Chen Yingliang's estimation - after all, except for the two county orders from Hengshan County, these Qinwang friendly troops were all Li Yuan's direct subordinates, Li Yuan ordered them not to come, and they basically did not dare to come, including the Yin Shishi.
In view of these circumstances, Chen Yingliang naturally prepared for a lonely battle, and decisively gave up the tactics of a decisive battle in the field, chose to close the camp and hold on, using the camp fortifications to compete with the Turkic cavalry, and fighting a camp offensive and defensive battle with the Turkic army. - Of course, Chen Yingliang is not afraid of fighting a field war with the Turks, but the casualties in the field battle must be huge, and now the capital is gone, and Chen Yingliang will have no right to speak in the next Qinwang war.
Sure enough, on the morning of the next day, Ashina Association really brought the Turkic army to Chen Yingliang to settle accounts, and brought 40,000 Turks in one breath, overwhelmingly killing the camp of Qian Peng, forty miles to the south, after receiving the news, Chen Yingliang immediately ordered to close the camp gate, prepare for battle, and immediately assign tasks, ordering Kan Liang to stick to the front of the camp, Ma Sanbao to guard the left camp, Niu Jinda to guard the right camp, Li Yi and Zhang Di two generals to join forces to guard the rear camp, Chen Yingliang himself led Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong and other generals to serve as a reserve team, ready to fill the gap and fight the fire at any time.
"Don't expect reinforcements, Li Yuan's old shameless man won't give us reinforcements by a single soldier, this battle can only rely on ourselves." Chen Yingliang told the generals the truth very frankly, and then Chen Yingliang pointed out: "But we don't need to worry, we have a camp to defend, the Turkic army is good at field cavalry and shooting, and is most afraid of attacking the fortifications head-on. ”
Halfway through the hour, Ashina led 40,000 Turks under his personal command arrived outside the camp of the Han Peng army, and divided 5,000 troops to the south to intercept the Sui army reinforcements - although these reinforcements did not exist at all, and at the same time immediately began to arrange the tactics of attacking the camp, let the 3,000 Turkic soldiers dismount as infantry, carry soil and stones in shrimp and toad carts, fill in as many as three guard trenches of the Qian Peng Sui army, and also destroy the antlers of the horse rejection that the Qian Peng Sui military had planted first, preparing to open the attack road first, and then directly attack Chen Yingliang's camp with heavy cavalry. On the eve of a snowfall, the shame of the fiasco in the mountains behind the dry plains.
At three o'clock, in the sound of war drums, the Turkic army officially began to attack the camp, and at the same time launched an attack on the front and left battalion of the Sui army camp, a thousand archers stepped forward under the cover of the long shield, and formed a temporary fortification within 100 steps of the Sui army camp, suppressing the Sui army defenders with bows and arrows, and the Turkic infantry serving as sappers was a group of one hundred and forty people, pushing the shrimp toad cart and striving forward, and the Sui army also fought back with long-range weapons such as strong bows and crossbows, desperately shooting the Turkic soldiers, the arrows in the sky were like flying locusts, coming and going, and the soldiers on both sides continued to be hit by arrows, The screams and muffled snorts came and went, and there was an endless stream.
The most headache for the opponent is its anti-arrow fire ability, the towering carriage can block all the frontal arrows, the full load of earth and stone can also be effectively fireproof, even if it is shot by the rocket without worrying about being burned, the Peng Sui army also has a headache about this, in the case of not being able to shoot the enemy of the cart head-on, the soldiers of the Peng Sui army can only take the method of cross-oblique shooting to shoot the enemy behind the car, but the Turks are not fools, among them 100 people push the cart, and the other 40 people protect the wings with long shields, It effectively resisted the bows and arrows of the Sui army that crossed from the left and right, so although the bows and arrows of the Sui army were fierce, the effect achieved was very limited, and they could not resist the advance of the Turkic shrimp and toad carts at all.
Fortunately, Chen Yingliang was very well prepared before this war, and brought ten winch crossbows with the army, in the case that the strong bow and hard crossbow could not break the Turkic long shield array, Chen Yingliang decisively ordered the winch crossbow to attack, every twenty Sui soldiers struggled to pull the bowstring, and then put the arrow as thick as a calf on the crossbow, and the crossbowman soldier then struggled to strike the trigger with a sledgehammer, and the huge arrow with a huge three-edged blade iron axle at the front flew out with a roar, and shot at the Turkic long shield array with the momentum of breaking gold and jade, as long as it hit, it would be the end of the shield breaking and the death of the person, Some Turkic long shields were destroyed, and the Sui soldiers were covered with bows and arrows, which expanded the shooting effect.
It's also a pity that the number of winch crossbows brought by the Sui army is too small, and the firing frequency is too slow, and it still can't stop the advance of the Turkic shrimp and toad car, and the guide zhì Turkic shrimp and toad car is very easy to fill a large section of the Sui army's camp protection trench, and then quickly retreat into the distance to reload the soil, the Turkic soldiers shouted and cheered, and the soldiers of the Qian Peng Sui army were somewhat frustrated, knowing that it was difficult for the self-army to effectively prevent the enemy from filling the camp and protecting the trench, and today it was bound to face a bloody battle of fence attack and defense.
The fierce trench attack and defense battle lasted for an hour, and in the case of very limited means of response, the Qian Peng Sui army finally failed to stop the Turkic army from filling the trench, and the three trenches were filled in large sections one after another, and the Turkic army opened two sections of the attack camp road that was 100 zhang long, and then the more cruel and bloody battle of antlers and horses was launched.
More violent war drums echoed, the Turkic infantry stepped forward under the cover of a long shield with axes and hammers, and struggled to chop the antlers outside the fence of the Sui army's camp to resist the horses, a large number of Turkic light cavalry also began to step forward to cover the infantry with bows and arrows, and the soldiers of the Sui army had to withstand the continuous rain of arrows, using bows, crossbows, spears, spears and other objects to kill the Turkic soldiers who destroyed the fortifications, the offensive and defensive sides were like thunder, the offensive and defensive sides were also bloody and fleshy, and countless people were killed and wounded in the arrows, Chen Yingliang also wanted to use gunpowder weapons several times, It was only considering the limited power of gunpowder weapons in this era, and at the same time there was a more brutal fence defense battle behind him, that Chen Yingliang dispelled this idea and gritted his teeth and continued to insist.
It was also at this time that Chen Yingliang discovered that his old rival Li Yuan actually had a better choice, that is, to wait for the self-army and the Turkic army to lose both, and then send troops to extract the fruits, which could not only take credit but also block the mouths of other friendly forces. But when things came to this point, Chen Yingliang had no choice but to continue to resist, hoping that the Turkic army would be able to find out in conscience in the afternoon and go all out to kill Li Yuan's cheap army, so that he could enjoy the credit and honor of resisting the Turks alone.
After all, the antlers were only wooden, and they could not withstand the repeated chopping and smashing of the Turkic soldiers, and after a fierce battle for more than half an hour, a large number of antlers and horses were finally destroyed by the Turkic soldiers, and there was no fortification to protect outside the camp of the Sui army in Qiaojun, leaving only a thin fence to resist the charge of the Turkic iron cavalry. At the same time, the Turkic army also began to rapidly transfer troops, and divided two armies to attack the rear and right battalions of the Sui army camp in a roundabout way.
There was a brief silence in the battle at this moment, and at the same time as the Turkic heavy cavalry assembled in formation, a man in Hanfu with a roe head and mouse eyes came to the outside of the Sui army camp, shouting loudly and demanding that Chen Yingliang open the camp and surrender, otherwise once the Turkic iron cavalry broke through the Sui army camp, all the Sui soldiers in the camp would die without a place to be buried. At the same time, this surrender envoy also loudly ridiculed the Qinwang Sui army's greed for life and fear of death, which was like scattered sand, saying that the war had lasted for so long, and the Qinwang Sui army in the south still did not have a single soldier to go north to rescue, making it clear that he wanted the Qin Peng Sui army to die in vain, and persuaded the Qin Peng Sui army to quickly lay down their arms and surrender, and not to be cannon fodder for those white-eyed wolf allies in the south.
An arrow sounded, the unlucky surrender messenger was killed by Kan Liang with an arrow with his own hands, which opened the prelude to the frontal fierce battle, the thunderous Ashina Association rate decisively ordered an attack, thousands of Turkic heavy cavalry soldiers divided into two ways, respectively directly impacted the front and right camp of the Sui army, stepped on the trench that had been filled and directly impacted the fence of the Sui army's camp, in addition, the Turkic light cavalry that outflanked in place also attacked the rear camp and the right camp of the Sui army camp at the same time, the front and back of the camp of Qian Peng were killing sounds, the horses' hooves were like thunder, and the Sui army had no choice, can only resolutely face the battle.
The most fierce fence attack and defense battle began, the situation of the rear camp and the right battalion was better, the main gate and the left battalion that were frontally impacted by the Turkic heavy cavalry could only be described as tragic, in order not to let the fence be broken by the Turkic heavy cavalry, the soldiers of the Sui army could only use their flesh and blood to resist the Turkic heavy cavalry with iron armor to protect the men and horses, and almost all the heavy infantry that was usually supplied by Chen Yingliang as a treasure went into battle, resisting the fence with their bodies, and then attacking the Turkic cavalry with long weapons such as spears and knives. The Turkic heavy infantry on horseback condescendingly slashed the heavy soldiers of the Sui army with sabers and scimitars, and the sound of striking iron on the battlefield was everywhere, and the sound of steel and steel colliding was endless, and at this moment, the Sui army, which had been less casualty than the enemy before, also began to rise rapidly in terms of casualty figures.
Seeing the bitter battle with the left battalion at the main gate at the high place in the camp, Chen Yingliang was so nervous that he almost chewed his lips and bleed, but he was helpless with the Turkic heavy cavalry armed like an iron can, and he couldn't help but say for a while: "It would be nice if I had a heavy cavalry, the Turkic heavy cavalry has all fallen into the battlefield, and if I have a heavy cavalry, I can immediately turn the tide of the battle if I go out of the camp to charge a clash of light cavalry." ”
"Deputy envoy, let me and Uncle Bao take the cavalry out to rush." Cheng Yanjin volunteered: "We took the cavalry out to attack the enemy outside the camp, and it can also play a role in sharing the pressure for Kan Liang and Ma Sanbao." ”
Chen Yingliang was silent, did not make a statement, and did not dare to make a statement - although the cavalry under the command of Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong was elite, they were all ordinary cavalry with weak protection, and the number was only about 2,000 in total, but the Turks had a full 40,000 cavalry.
After thinking for a moment, shaking his head and rejecting Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong's volunteering, Chen Yingliang called the three dogs in front of him and asked him to divide the firearms team into two teams, carry gunpowder weapons to the front camp and the left camp to stand by and prepare for battle, and when he saw the red flag signal on his platform, he immediately threw a primitive grenade to intimidate the Turkic heavy cavalry, share the pressure of the Sui army's heavy infantry, and give the Sui army a time and opportunity to reorganize the defense line - the ceramic bottle containing gunpowder is indeed only intimidating for the heavy cavalry like iron cans.
After preparing for the emergency, Chen Yingliang settled down and continued to observe the battlefield, and at the same time, the heavy cavalry still failed to break through the fence defense line of the Sui army in Qiaojun, but the Turkic commander Ashina Association was unable to hold his breath first, roared and invested 8,000 light cavalry, and continued to storm the Sui army's current thinnest north main gate and west left battalion. However, the Turkic army still had little effect in doing so, and on the contrary, the ordinary infantry of the Sui army had the opportunity to kill the enemy and fight, and the experienced soldiers of Qian Peng closely relied on the fence fortifications, spears and spears against the enemy's swords and cut the legs of horses, and arrived at the Turkic light infantry in an orderly manner to attack, still not giving the Turkic army any chance to break into the camp.
The war completely fell into a state of stalemate, the soldiers on both sides attacked and defended against a thin fence defense line, the fight was in full swing, flesh and blood were flying, both sides were killed and wounded, and neither side saw any chance of winning, the heavy infantry carried the heavy cavalry, the light infantry carried the light cavalry, it was a draw, no one could help anyone, although Chen Yingliang still had the hole card of gunpowder weapons in his hand to play, but it was limited by the times and technology, even if he played this trump card, he was not sure to turn the tide of the war, On the contrary, it may make the Turkic army adapt to gunpowder weapons in advance and lose the opportunity for future wars.
If it weren't for the accident that my friends all knew, after the defeat of the Sui army and the Turkic army, our Ambassador Li would definitely be able to sit back and enjoy the results of the battle. But it's a pity that Chen Fuliang was always very lucky when he met Lao Li's family, just when the battle situation was completely stalemate, and just when Chen Fuliang was in great need of a heavy cavalry to attack the enemy, Chen Fuliang was the earliest and most loyal to the lineage army.
As mentioned earlier, for the sake of insurance, Ashina arranged 5,000 cavalry to intercept the Sui army reinforcements five miles away in the south, which should be effective, but unfortunately these Turkic light cavalry were extremely unlucky to meet the army of the country, and the army of the Great Sui Dynasty that spent sky-high prices to arm the specimen army of the **** team, from head to toe even people and horses were almost protected by steel to serve the country, the Turkic light cavalry relied on the famous cavalry to shoot is useless at all, and the bow and arrow shot out are not vulnerable unless they hit the face, eyes or throat, otherwise you can't even tickle the **** soldiers!
In the loud military song, everyone rode the Shenjun Dawan horse to report the national army team marching forward, with the sharp weapons in their hands to slam the Turkic cavalry, only attack but not defend, as if the machine qì generally only knows to kill the enemy and kill the enemy and then kill the enemy, the poor Turkic light cavalry bow and arrow are useless, the sabre cut in the **** soldier The bright light armor on the body can not break the armor, but the **** soldier's knife and gun hit is either dead or wounded, how can he resist this group of **** soldiers who are called crazy by the friendly army of the Great Sui? The heavy cavalry of the Baoguo Army only used one charge, and directly broke the interception of the Turkic light cavalry, and then without any pause, directly towards the main battlefield, appeared on the battlefield at the back door of the camp of the Qian Peng Sui army, which was being attacked by the Turkic light cavalry. 、
Although the strength of the army, as always, only four regiments of more than 800 people, but the sudden appearance of the Baoguo army, but still suddenly reversed the situation of the entire battlefield, armed to the teeth of the Baoguo army team did not pay attention to any obstruction and attack, without hesitation directly rushed to the command of the Turkic army, the heavy cavalry has been all thrown into the battlefield of the Turkic army chaos, can only hastily meet the enemy with light cavalry, but the poor offensive and defensive values of the Turkic light cavalry in front of the Baoguo army but useless, The two teams in a row were directly broken by the heavy cavalry of the Baoguo army, and countless Turkic light cavalry were also cut to pieces with men and horses.
More frightened the Turkic team, or the indomitable courage of the **** team, more than 800 people as a whole, closely followed by the banner of loyalty to the country, the eyes are firm just to charge forward, mechanically wielding knives, axes, guns and spears to slash and stab, as if without any emotion wanton slaughter of the opposite enemy, other armies in the charge to shout and be brave, but the **** team is almost no sound, silent like a killing machine, a life-killing puppet, forward forward and forward, Murder and murder, murder and murder, fierce to the extreme, and ruthless to the extreme, as if it was like a group of Shura killing gods born for killing!
The Turkic team began to be chaotic, but the camp of the Qian Peng Sui army was full of joy, countless Qian Peng soldiers were cheering, and countless Qian Peng soldiers were asking each other, "Where are the reinforcements?" Why is it so powerful? How can it be so powerful? ”
"That's amazing!" Cheng Yanjin also exclaimed in surprise, and exclaimed in great surprise: "That Qinwang friendly army who came? How can it be so powerful? Lieutenant, do you know who they are? ”
In the team of Peng Suijun, only Chen Yingliang's expression was the calmest, and when he heard Cheng Yanjin's question, Chen Yingliang's expression showed some gentleness, and he replied with a smile: "Didn't you see the white robes on them?" When you see those white robes, you still don't know who they are? ”
"Report ****?!" Cheng Yanjin came to his senses and shouted in surprise: "It's Deputy Chen who made you personally form the army to serve the country, sorry?" ”
Seeing Chen Yingliang nodding with a smile, Cheng Yanjin was first excited, and then shouted, "Deputy Envoy Chen, are you too partial?" Look at your old relatives ****, what kind of equipment are they? What kind of equipment are we? Even the most ordinary soldiers are wearing Mingguang armor, and in the cavalry team under the command of the last general, are there fifty people wearing Mingguang armor? ”
"You're calling me bankrupt?" Chen Yingliang knocked on Cheng Yanjin's head with a chestnut, and roared angrily: "Their equipment, that is our Great Sui Imperial Court armed for them with the financial resources of the whole country, and even the equipment of the Imperial Forest Army is not as good as them!" Let you equip them with their weapons and armor, war horses and horse armor, I can't even sell my pants! ”
After the roar was over, Chen Yingliang showed some smiles and said, "Besides, in terms of combat achievements alone, you are not qualified to have such equipment. You know? Last year, the emperor made three expeditions to Goguryeo, and our Great Sui army fought three times with Goguryeo, and all three times the army took the lead in attacking the enemy's formation, and all of them crushed the enemy from the front. ”
After three strong attacks on the enemy's big array, Cheng Yanjin hurriedly surrendered his hand and said: "Deputy envoy, should we launch a counterattack?" The last general ordered the cavalry to lead the cavalry out of the camp and launch a counter-charge against the enemy! ”
Chen Yingliang didn't answer, but hurriedly went to observe the battlefield again, and found that the surprise attack effect of the Baoguo army was very significant, after the thief first captured the king's direct conflict with the Turkic banner array, the heavy cavalry had been all controlled by the Turkic team of the self-army was powerless to stop it, and the military heart and the array were in chaos together, and the Turkic cavalry who were waiting in the rear ran to the rescue but had no effect, how could they stop the well-equipped and good at charging and raiding the Baoguo army, and the Turkic light and heavy cavalry who were fighting across the fence with the self-army were also heavily affected by the morale of the army, and the offensive was greatly reduced. The time was indeed ripe for a full-scale counterattack by the Sui army.
After nodding, Chen Yingliang instructed Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong: "You lead the cavalry out of the rear camp, follow the Baoguo army to counterattack, and smash the enemy's flag formation." Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin happily agreed, and immediately went down to organize the cavalry team to attack.
The Turkic army that was unexpectedly attacked was in turmoil, after the cavalry of Qian Peng came out of the camp to counterattack, the Turkic light cavalry that attacked the rear camp was even more panicked, and did not know whether to intercept or continue to attack, and the cavalry of Qian Peng easily broke through the interception, and followed the Baoguo army to smash the Turkic flag array, and the Ashina association rate that was targeted by the Baoguo army was also panicked, while screaming that these white-robed madmen came there, and quickly ordered to withdraw the attacking camp team and return to the army to save the flag formation, but after the order was transmitted, the Turkic team that hurriedly returned to the division was inevitably more chaotic, The morale of the army was even more panicked.
Seeing that the time was ripe for a full-scale counteroffensive, Chen Yingliang was even more unpolite, and immediately asked the soldiers to beat all the war drums, and ordered Kan Liang, Ma Sanbao and Niu Jinda to lead the infantry out of the camp to counterattack.
At the same time, the newspaper **** finally rushed to the vicinity of the Turkic army's banner array, seeing these madmen who had been killed all over blood coming head-on, silently and ruthlessly killing, Ashina Association Rate was even more panicked, and saw that the self-army reinforcement team was pursued by the Qian Peng Sui Army, the battle situation has been completely chaotic, and it is impossible to obtain strong reinforcements in a short time.
In the concerto of war drums like thunder, shouting and killing the sky, and shouting and killing the war drums and horses' hooves, the morale of the two descendant armies under Chen Yingliang is like a rainbow, marching hand in hand, fighting hard, chasing and fighting fiercely against the Turkic team, but the Turkic team that still has the upper hand in number is fleeing all over the mountains and fields, and the army is not formed, and in the cheers and roars inside and outside the camp, the Qian Peng Sui army, which first held on and then counterattacked, also ushered in the second victory of the Qinwang War.