Chapter 3: The Beacon (Part 3)
Just as he was admiring his father's wisdom, a fast horse rushed at him. "General Li ordered your troops to continue the attack and expand the results of the battle." The herald on horseback shouted, raising an arrow aloft, "The Chinese army is going to meet the right flank!" The general has an order, and the rest of the left wing is left to you! ”
The Flying Tiger Army is not under Li Xu's command, and he has no right to give orders to the second son. The eldest grandson Wuji frowned, and he was about to scold. But he was surprised to see that the second son, who was usually unwilling to live under people, took the order flag without hesitation, and then pointed the tip of the knife high in front of him.
"Brothers, kill the thief!" Li Shimin pointed his scimitar at the defeated tribal warriors and shouted.
"Kill the thief! Don't give them a breather! Hou Junji, who has always been smart, seemed to be stupid at this moment, not only did not protest to the herald, but followed closely behind Li Shimin. Two thousand Flying Tiger soldiers immediately took over the task of the Chinese army, rushing diagonally from the flank to the front, becoming the main force chasing the enemy. The Chinese army, which was originally responsible for the frontal attack, slowly slowed down under the leadership of Li Xu, and turned to the right after the soldiers and horses on the left flank completely took over their tasks.
The fleeing tribal warriors had no idea that the number of enemy forces behind them had been reduced by two-thirds, and they fled for their lives like frightened roe deer, not daring to look back at their pursuers. The pursuers of the Flying Tiger Army behind them were under the command of Li Shimin, controlling the rhythm of the attack like the main force. Whenever the fugitives slowed down, they pounced like wolves and tore open the throats of the slowest runners. Whenever the enemy fell into confusion again, they quietly tightened the reins of their horses.
It was a completely one-sided slaughter, and the Flying Tigers had little to no risk. After chasing the footprints of the tribal warriors for half a mile, the eldest grandson Wuji finally understood Xuzi's intentions. Although the herald from the Chinese army behaved rudely, at this moment, whoever Xuzi handed over the task of chasing and fleeing was equivalent to giving someone a large amount of war merit in vain.
"In the end, it is the person that Tang Gong values." The eldest grandson Wuji, who understood the other party's kindness, thought curtly, and took advantage of the moment when the pace of the attack slowed down, he turned around and saw the ten-mile joint venture behind him bursting into the sky. Six thousand military winds passed through the flames, and nothing could stop their fierce figures.
The Hu camp, which was ploughed twice by the Central Plains cavalry, has become a hell on earth. Countless mutilated corpses lay there, some stabbed by cavalry with lances, others trampled to death by horses' hooves. The men who had survived the dead were holding a pile of looted pots and pans, crouching and trembling by the burning fire. They were completely frightened, they didn't know how to flee for their lives, and even if they heard the sound of horses' hooves rolling like thunder, they didn't know how to stand up and avoid the bright lance.
Xuzi didn't stop in the smashed camp, and those who managed to escape under the horse's hooves were no longer worthy of defiling his black knife. He was in a hurry to pick up Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin, both of whom were children of Qi County, and Xu Zi had promised Zhang Xutuo to bring these simple brothers back to Henan as much as possible, so he was unwilling to let the county soldiers suffer too much sacrifice.
He didn't believe in Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin's bravery, in fact, it was precisely because Qin and Luo were so brave that it was even more worrying. Xuzi, who has been instructed by Zhang Xutuo for nearly two years, is no longer simply thinking about how to defeat the enemy, he is thinking more about how to minimize his own sacrifice on the premise of defeating the enemy. As Li Shimin and Wu Shitong discovered, he is no longer the brave general who only knows how to work hard, but in actual combat, he has slowly mastered all the skills of being the commander of the first army.
These were all unrecorded in Yang Fuzi's notes back then. Before she knew it, Asahiko had broken away from that notebook and entered a whole new realm. In total, he used to study under Yang Fu, Sun Jiu, as well as Master Coppersmith, Qian Shixiong, Liu Hongji and Zhang Xutuo, but now the things taught by these people have slowly melted and disappeared, and finally belong to him.
Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin's advance was very fast, and with their skillful cooperation and strict formation, they stepped on the big camps one after another. No one could resist the juxtaposition of the two iron triangles, and the tribal warrior who jumped on his horse in a hurry could barely tell the direction before he was slashed off his saddle with a horizontal sword. Many more tribal warriors didn't even have a chance to mount, naked and armed with scimitars, and watched as two huge triangles pressed against their heads, and saw hordes of their companions being chopped through by the iron triangles, and then trampled into pulp by the cavalry that rushed up after them.
"Mother-" the timid cried out in the crowd. Ignoring boots and clothes, or looting belongings, he scurried around. The ghost cried wolf, and the brave man also weakened his legs. The Great Sui cavalry marched in line like a pack of furious wolves, blood dripping from their teeth, and launched a deadly attack on all living creatures that dared to stand in front of them. They don't know how to pause, they don't care about injury, and as long as they don't fall, they don't close their mouths. The camps of the Clan Alliance were torn apart and crushed by their roar, and turned into fires and corpses.
In the past, Luo Shixin was always dissuaded by Zhang Xutuo and Qin Shubao on the grounds of "hurting the heavens" or "being compassionate for the generals". And tonight, not only did Qin Shubao not say half a word, but he also went on a killing spree. Luo Shixin had personally seen in a hurried glance that the second brother of Qin, who had always been kind-hearted, used a combination of spears and hammers to knock down several tribal warriors who had already dropped their weapons. The newly recruited frontier guide next to him screamed and pounced, stabbing and stabbing until the fallen man could no longer move, and then rushed to the next opponent with his unbroken horizontal knife.
"His grandmother's is more ruthless than Lao Tzu!" Luo Shixin was shocked by the few recruits in the team who killed the fugitives and muttered curses.
"Revenge!" The recruit, who was slashing at the enemy, seemed to hear his words, and suddenly turned his head, his blood-red eyes wide.
They were originally a group of honest border people, and their highest goal in life was just to live in peace. They have lived at the foot of the Great Wall for generations, and after hundreds of years of intermarriage, it is difficult to tell whether they have Han or Hu blood in their bodies.
They did not have any good feelings for the imperial court, and they were often perfunctory about the grain assigned by the government. When the Great Sui conscripted, they even fled to the outside of the fortress to avoid military service. But today, they had to pick up the knife.
Because the invaders, whether they were Hu or Han, whether they were loyal to the imperial court or idle clouds and wild cranes, robbed their property indiscriminately, killed their wives and children, and burned down their houses.
Therefore, they had to defend their right to exist, not because they were furious, but because the invaders forced them to face up to their differences, and to face up to the blood and ethnic belonging that they usually ignored.
"Stay in formation!" Luo Shixin emphasized loudly, "Maintain the formation to kill more!" He brandished his lance, which had been stained with blood, and stabbed it into the heart of the rout in front of his horse.
The two cavalry always maintained a complete formation, and anyone who was caught in the center of the iron triangle, whether it was a man or an animal, had no chance of surviving. The terrified warriors of the tribe fled to the sides as best they could, dodging the oncoming blades. In order not to be the next prey, they do not hesitate to use scimitars to cut a bloody path for themselves between their companions. Others simply rode over the heads of their companions and fled into the darkness with their robes.
The wilderness in the dark is the safest, although the act of fleeing will be laughed at by the people for the rest of their lives. They didn't dare to turn back, they didn't dare to listen to the screams of the robes, the attack of the Central Plains people was too sharp, and blocking them in front of them was equivalent to suicide.
Several white feathers suddenly flew from the darkness and knocked the panicked war horse and the rider on horseback to the ground. "Woo-woo-woo-woo!" The terrible sound of trumpets tore through the darkness, and tens of thousands of horses rushed out of the night and marched into the chaotic battlefield.
In an instant, both the enemy and the enemy were stunned. After a few breaths, the tribal warriors, who had been killed in fear, were like children who had seen adults, crying and galloping their horses and running away. It was their reinforcements, and the nearest reinforcement to Lao County arrived. The flag with the wolf's head painted on it was so intimate that as long as you escaped under the flag, it meant eternal safety.
"Change formations. Change formation, the front closes, the rear army unfolds, north, blade! Qin Shubao also noticed the changes on the battlefield at the first time and shouted loudly. The sound of the horn was like a tiger roaring and a dragon roaring, and when he heard his own military order, the two thousand soldiers who were rampage in the enemy camp suddenly turned around in a beautiful arc, and the triangular array converged into a square formation, and then the center of the square quickly raised, and the wings were slanted back, and a new blade formation was quickly completed in running and fighting.
This is an emergency plan that the county soldiers have practiced hundreds of times, and it has also been tested countless times in actual combat. The newly killed Turkic force was blocked by its own rebels and could not immediately enter the battle, so they had to watch as the Sui army adjusted its formation less than 200 paces in front of it. Ye Hu, who was leading the soldiers, looked at each other, unable to believe that what he saw was real. In their memory, there had never been a cavalry on the steppe that could suddenly change their ranks in battle, let alone change the direction of attack while fighting like this.
Before they could recover from the shock, the Sui army in front of them was launched. "Kill, let them taste our awesomeness!" Qin Shubao rode his horse, danced with a lance, and led his brothers to stab at the most eye-catching wolf's head.
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