Chapter 459: Temptation
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The banks of the Wuhou Qinshui River are not reckless grasslands.
On the east side is a vast forest sea, and three miles away on the right flank, a mountain beam rises up, blocking the view.
After Qin Qiong's 1,000 soldiers crossed the river, he ordered 500 foot soldiers to seize the mountain beam first and obtain the commanding heights.
After the five hundred steps were ordered, the next time to search forward. Because he was worried about the Turkic ambush that would appear at any time behind the mountain beam, the five hundred foot soldiers were all dressed in armor and gathered in formation and walked slowly.
After a while. Five hundred foot soldiers crossed the mountain beam, and then a wolf smoke rose from behind the mountain beam, to show that there was no enemy ten miles north of the mountain beam.
Seeing this, the mountain soldiers were also relieved, and the mountain soldiers began to camp on the top of the mountain and guard the north.
Seeing that there were no enemy troops behind the mountain beam, Qin Qiong was not uneasy, and he ordered a search in the direction of the dense forest.
The Turkic wolf rode it to dominate the grassland for a hundred years, its gods were haunting, floating uncertainly, how dare Qin Qiong be careless, and immediately led three hundred cavalry to search in the direction of the dense forest.
The three hundred cavalry slowly approached the dense forest, and now the dawn had passed, and the sun had risen above the mist like a cloud of smoke.
The cavalry shook their hooves and passed, a group of reddish-brown sand pheasants, from the side of the sand willow tree under the puff and fly, the birds fluttered their wings and flew away, the cavalry looked far away, sailing to the distant mountains of the woods, bordering the blue sky and white clouds.
After only a few miles away from the dense forest, Qin Qiong suddenly reined in his horse and ordered the whole army to stop advancing.
Adjutant General Eagle Tooth Lang stepped forward and asked, "Why did General Qin stop?" ”
Qin Qiong pointed at the dense forest with a horsewhip and said: "When a certain bird near a certain observation saw my cavalry passing by, they all rose in shock, but they did not fall and inhabit the forest. Isn't that strange? ”
The Eagle Tooth Lang was stunned for a moment, and saw that there was silence in the forest, and he didn't even hear the sound of birds, which was really very abnormal.
"What the general said is very true, there may be ambushes in the forest."
Qin Qiong immediately ordered the entire army to dismount. After that, he said to the falcon keeper, "Investigate the forest." ”
"Yes, General."
After saying that, the eagle keeper shouted a few times on the leather jacket of his arm, and the goshawk pecked off its wings, and then with a pop, it shook its wings and swept towards the dense forest.
The goshawk flew extremely fast, and soon it was hovering over the forest.
Seeing that the goshawk was not abnormal, the Eagle Tooth Lang breathed a sigh of relief and said to Qin Qiong: "General, maybe we are too worried. ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard a long cry of the goshawk in the forest, no longer circling and soaring in the forest. And the wings struck sharply, straight to the sky.
The faces of the eagle and the eagle keepers changed, and just as the goshawk flew straight up, an arrow caught up from behind. An arrow hits.
The goshawk suddenly lost weight in the air. Vertical planting.
When the falcon keeper saw that his face was bloodless, his eyes were full of tears, and he wept aloud.
Seeing this, Qin Qiong immediately ordered the soldiers to get on their horses and immediately retreat to the riverside.
Qin Qiong saw it in his eyes, and while riding his horse, he asked the falcon keeper, "What's going on?" ”
The eagle keeper said: "My eagle is very sensitive, and ordinary archers on the steppe cannot shoot it, unless only the Turkic annex can shoot it down." ”
"What is detachment?" Qin Qiong asked.
"The guards of the Turkic khans, the bravest warriors of the steppe."
"Detachment!"
Between words. The whistle sounded loudly in the forest.
Immediately after that, a strange sound of breaking wind sounded from the forest, and an arrow shot into the air.
Qin Qiong knew that this was a Ming Di shot by the Turks, and summoned the Turkic warriors around him.
The cavalry in the forest came out, and Qin Qiong looked back at it on his horse, but saw that the enemy cavalry was all dressed in black wolf skins, and there were dozens of horses, which seemed to be the elite of the Turks, attached to the cavalry.
Soon two or three miles outside the dense forest, the cavalry 6 continued to seep out of it.
The eagle keeper on the side said: "Damn, it's not only the Turkic annexation, but also the cavalry of the Xi tribe, they are all ambushed in the forest. ”
Qin Qiong did not dare to slack off, and ordered the three hundred cavalry to withdraw, and at this time, Luo Shixin also led his subordinates three hundred cavalry to cross the river and rushed to meet Qin Qiong.
Luo Shixin stepped forward and asked Qin Qiong, "What's wrong?" ”
Qin Qiong scolded: "The Turks are such thieves and birds, they are actually ambushed in the forest, and they want to plot against Lao Tzu, if they hadn't taken a step earlier, hehe." ”
As soon as Luo Shixin heard the change of color, not only Luo Shixin, but also the three hundred cavalry under Qin Qiong's command all knew that if it wasn't for Qin Qiong's quick opportunity, there was an enemy ambush in the forest one step ahead, otherwise once the three hundred cavalry approached the forest, it would be absolutely unfortunate to wait for the enemy to kill.
At the moment, Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin joined forces, and the six hundred cavalry were full of strength, leaning on the five hundred foot soldiers who had been deployed on the mountain beam, and the other two hundred foot soldiers of Qin Qiong were auxiliary soldiers, and they retreated to the river early.
The cavalry of the Turkic, Khitan, and Xi tribes in the forest gathered more and more, and there were already five or six thousand people.
They didn't seem to be annoyed that they had lost the opportunity to annihilate Qin Qiong's 300 cavalry, and after the men and horses were assembled, the Turkic and Xi cavalry pressed down like black clouds.
Thousands of cavalry covered the steppe with impermeable wind, horses neighing, hooves rumbling.
The leading generals of the Turks were obviously also very organized, scattering the cavalry and dividing them into several ways to rush to Qin Qiong's 800 soldiers, surrounded in a half-moon shape.
The 500 foot soldiers on the mountain beam had already laid down the horse rejection stakes, sprinkled the thistle terrestris, erected a large oar, and the 500 foot soldiers also raised their bows and crossbows.
Qin Qiong Luo Shixin's 600 cavalry was in danger and joined up with 500 foot soldiers. Thousands of Turks and Xi cavalry under the mountain also stopped in front of the Zhao army.
The Han army's arrow array, famous all over the world, Turkic generals and the Sui army have been fighting for many years, and they know the strength of the Han army's crossbow array.
When Yang Su led the army out of the fortress, the Sui army first suppressed the crossbow array, and then swept with armored cavalry, breaking more than 100,000 Turkic cavalry. Since then, the Turkic cavalry has been very afraid of the Sui army's arrow array, and they are not completely sure, and they no longer need cavalry to attack the Sui army's foot soldiers who have completed the formation.
Only the Xi people, the Khitan did not know the depths, and in the battle of White Wolf Mountain, they used the cavalry army to shake the strong position of the Han army, so that they were defeated.
Qin Qiong scolded: "The Turks are cunning and know the power of Lao Tzu's arrow array. ”
He originally planned to lure the Turkic cavalry to the range of the Han army's infantry bows and arrows, and secretly calculated against the other party, but he didn't expect the Turks to be very alert and retreat out of range early, which made Qin Qiong lose his strategy.
Listening to Qin Qiong's scolding, Luo Shixin also guessed that the other party was afraid of his own arrow array. At that moment he said in a deep voice: "All the brethren have dismounted me and sat down at the front of the formation, and I shall not attack without my orders." ”
As soon as Luo Shixin's order came out, all the soldiers were in an uproar.
The eagle strike general in Qin Qiong's army hurriedly advised: "The Turkic army is in front, and my six hundred soldiers are already worried, and the general is actually fearless, so big in front of the enemy, in case the Turkic cavalry comes to attack the formation, will our cavalry advance or retreat?" ”
Luo Shixin glanced at the other party and said, "What do you know, Brother Qin and I are here, where is there a place for you to talk?" ”
As soon as Luo Shixin's words were blocked, the eagle strike Lang couldn't help but be angry, and was about to speak, but he received a horsewhip on the head.
This whip was drawn by Qin Qiong, which pressed the other party's anger back into his stomach.
Qin Qiongyan said: "What are you talking about, General Luo Lang's words are my Qin's words, you follow the order to do it." ”
When the Eagle Strike Lang heard Qin Qiong say this, he complained again and again in his heart, but he could only obey orders.
After listening to the order, the six hundred cavalry had no choice but to dismount.
All the soldiers discussed, and one of them said: "It's really terrible, if the Turks see through our bravado, a charge, our army will collapse, I Lao Xu is not afraid of death, but afraid that death is not worth it." ”
One person said: "Okay, okay, the matter of crossing the river was originally a dead sign, but now that these two foolish generals are messing around, I have no hope of returning to the south bank." ”
Everyone was scolded, but only one or two people said: "What do you know, General Qin is brave and strategic, otherwise he wouldn't have seen the Turks' plan just now." ”
"That's General Qin, what is Luo Lang, seeing that he is young and has a few hairs on his mouth, he actually doesn't put the Turks in his eyes?"
Another person said: "Perhaps, it's not that Luo Lang is confused, but the empty city plan he laid out." ”
The soldiers talked a lot, but Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin didn't care, they sat in front of the horses and simply took off their helmets and armor together, picked up the wine jug together, and the two drank to each other and drank wine.
When the eagle strikes the general, and the corporal under his command see it, they can't help but fall collectively.
On the other hand, the Turkic cavalry was also suspicious when they saw Qin Qiong Luo Shixin and the six hundred cavalry under his command. After fighting for so many years, I have never seen the generals of the Sui people, who did not put on armor and went into battle to fight, but dismounted and drank.
The Turks did not act rashly, but stood in front of the battle, neither advancing nor retreating.
The two armies were less than a mile apart, and they confronted each other so silently, and soon after, the Turks divided several waves of cavalry at the same time,6 and continued to run over the mountain beams, apparently sending distant reconnaissance to see if there were any Zhao ambushes.
When the army saw it, they were all beating drums from the bottom of their hearts, and once the Turks saw through the details of the Zhao army, their own side would be in danger.
After Luo Shixin saw that the Turks were splitting their horses, he just glanced at them and didn't care about continuing to drink.
Seeing that the Zhao army did not seem to react, the Turkic cavalry also sent dozens of horsemen to test it, and the Turks rode their horses from time to time to sweep hundreds of paces away, and the horses' hooves raised sand and dust.
The Zhao army had already been strictly ordered, so no one fought back, so the Turks tried several times, the Turks became more and more bold, seeing that the Zhao army still did not move, and now approached hundreds of steps, directly cruising in front of the Zhao army.
The faces of the Turks were already clear, the distance between the two armies was only a few hundred steps, and the noses of the Zhao army's foot soldiers were already oozing sweat, hanging on the tip of their noses, but at this time, no one dared to erase them, but they just aimed their crossbows at the Turkic cavalry in front of them.
Soon after, three Turkic cavalry were dispatched, one of which returned from behind the mountain beam, saying that there was no enemy ambush behind the mountain beam.
Luo Shixin saw clearly, a Turkic cavalryman rode a horse and galloped in front of a Turkic man wearing a gray wolf's skin jacket and reported to him.
Luo Shixin lowered his voice and said: "I bet that this person must be a Turkic official, maybe it will be some kind of Tutun, and he will come here." ”
Qin Qiong grinned, wiped the wine stains on the side of her mouth, and said with a smile: "Then what are you waiting for?" ”
Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong exchanged a look, suddenly turned over and got on the horse, and the two jumped forward together.