Chapter 333: Ambush on All Sides (Part II)
There should be one more shift in the evening, the time is to be determined.
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Tens of thousands of war horses galloped at the same time, hundreds of thousands of horses' hooves knocked on the earth, this is what a momentum, how magnificent, words are really difficult to describe one or two, but seeing the stormy sound of horses' hooves, smoke and dust billowing up, but listening to the shouts, the murderous spirit burst into the sky, the wild sprinting Western Turkic cavalry brigade has rushed to the distance less than one hundred and fifty steps away from the Tang army's infantry phalanx in an instant, the rows of straight and straight horse lances, all make people palpitate, the scimitar with a high handle, all make people look at the coldThe Great Earthquake trembled and groaned, and the Grim Reaper hovered unbridled over the battlefield, waiting for the feast of the harvest.
"Shoot the arrows!"
"Shoot the arrows!"
Seeing the Western Turkic cavalry getting closer and closer, Lin Ting and You Sifan, who were standing behind the infantry phalanx, almost unanimously gave the order to release arrows, and in an instant, thousands of archers lined up in the Tang army array shot arrows that had been ready to fire at the same time, but when they heard a tight bowstring sound, thousands of feather arrows roared across the space, like flying locusts covering the Western Turkic cavalry that was rushing forward, and in an instant, it aroused a miserable cry in the cavalry array, and hundreds of Western Turkic cavalry who rushed in front of them wailed and rolled off their horses. In an instant, the war horses rushed up from behind were trampled into puddles of flesh, however, the number of the Western Turkic cavalry was too much, and this rain of arrows could not affect the Western Turkic cavalry's rapid advance in the slightest, and the Western Turkic cavalry, which was determined to break through the Tang army's array, still roared forward and forward, and rushed through the open ground between the two armies, and in the blink of an eye, it was only fifty paces away from the Tang army's array.
More than a dozen large ballistae deployed in front of the array before the Tang army have already been destroyed in the previous battle, and the rest have long been exhausted of crossbow arrows, which have completely become decorations at this time, after such a rain of arrows, the Tang army can no longer stop the advance of the Western Turkic cavalry, and the rest can only rely on the power of the battle array - but after listening to the roar of "raising the sword" after the formation, more than 3,000 archers immediately retreated to the back of the formation, and nearly 2,000 Bai knife hands standing in front of the formation raised their thick/long Bai knives in unison, and the shield knife hands immediately moved forward, Fill the empty space vacated by the archers, swords resting on shields, ready to rush forward and fight alongside the swordsmen.
Thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps, like the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, the Western Turkic army finally rushed to the front of the Tang army array, like a forest of swords, the swords slashed the past, like a wall of hundreds of horsemen and horses rushed to the front of the hundreds of horses and horses into pieces of minced meat, blood flowers rose all over the sky, and the screams became a piece, but the ruthless Western Turkic cavalry did not care about the tragic death of the robe in front of them, and still launched a brave impact without hesitation, gradually, the swordsmen who entered the wall could not wave the knife in their hands, The formation was immediately broken through dozens of gaps, but at this moment, the shield swordsmen behind the Tang army's array bravely rushed forward, frantically slashing and killing the Western Turkic cavalry that had already stalled, and the battle was bloody and cruel at the beginning, and the entire battlefield was like a meat grinder, grinding human lives into pieces like mustard.
The stalemate of the battle was quickly broken - under the impact of the White Wolf Army's fearless death, the Tang Army infantry phalanx in the middle was broken through in many places, and the breakthrough became bigger and bigger, although the Tang Army soldiers on both wings bravely used their flesh and blood to continuously launch a counter-charge to the breakthrough, however, everything was to no avail, and the White Wolf Army cavalry, which had rushed through the Tang Army's infantry interception, did not leave a single step, and rushed to the hillside with swarmed horses, and at this time, the battle situation had reached a critical juncture for the Tang Army.
"Signal!" Seeing that the White Wolf Army was so brave, Li Zhen's face immediately became solemn, and he calmly gave the first order since the start of the war.
"Yes." The eagle standing behind Li Zhen answered loudly, reached out and took out the flint from his arms, ran to the side quickly, lit a pile of wolf smoke, and without counting the breaths, the billowing black smoke swayed into the sky.
Li Zhen didn't go to see if the wolf smoke was lit, but turned over on horseback, took the bright silver spear from the victory hook, pointed to the white wolf army cavalry who was charging and adjusting the formation in the middle of the hillside, and shouted: "Cavalry, attack with this king!" As soon as the words fell, the horse took the lead in rushing towards the White Wolf Army, and the five thousand Tang cavalry led by Chen Wu immediately followed and launched a counter-charge against the White Wolf Army with a shout.
"Ah, damn it!" Gao Heng, who was watching the eagle light the wolf smoke, suddenly heard the sound behind him, and looked back in a hurry, but found that the cavalry had already started, and suddenly became anxious, jumped to his feet and scolded, ran to his own mount, jumped up, merged into the Tang cavalry formation, and also rushed down the hillside.
"Kill!" Li Zhen rushed fast, and in an instant, he killed the front of the White Wolf Army, roared, and with a slash of the bright silver spear in his hand, he flew into the air with seven or eight horse lances that were coming to him, and then his wrist flicked, and more than a dozen spear flowers suddenly burst out, and in an instant, the two stunned White Wolf Army cavalry were picked off the horse, and then people like dragons and horses crashed straight into the array of the White Wolf Army cavalry, stirring up a bloody storm, and before the White Wolf Army cavalry began to besiege Li Zhen, the Tang Dynasty cavalry who was down the slope behind had arrived, With a single impact, the White Wolf Army, which had penetrated the Tang Army's infantry phalanx, was killed on their backs, and the White Wolf Army cavalry behind saw that the situation was not good, and they hurriedly dispersed in all directions, giving way to the Tang Army's cavalry's impact line.
Kill, kill again! In the face of the surging White Wolf Army cavalry, the bright silver spear in Li Zhen's hand danced quickly, left and right, and in an instant, he rushed through his own infantry phalanx, and led his troops into the Western Turkic cavalry formation.
"Don't let Li Zhen escape, and those who kill Li Zhen will be rewarded with 10,000 cattle and sheep!" Seeing that Li Zhen led his troops to rush down the hill, he was not surprised but rejoiced, and the scimitar in his hand pointed to Li Zhen's position, and gave a loud order to encircle, and the reward was opened very high, and the soldiers of the White Wolf Army suddenly boosted their morale when they heard this, and they rushed to kill Li Zhen from all directions.
Rush, rush again, Li Zhen led his troops to rush left and right on the battlefield, killing the cavalry of the White Wolf Army, however, as time went by, the cavalry of the White Wolf Army did not only not decrease, but gathered more and more, gradually, the momentum of the Tang cavalry charge was contained, and the casualties were also rising sharply, even though Li Zhen was still so invincible bravery, but there was no power to return to the sky, and the balance of victory was quietly tilting towards the Western Turkic side.
On the left flank of the battlefield, Ashina Thero's division formed a defense, relying on the power of the bow and arrow to rush over the two troops and horses of Arysi, Asgutai firmly blocked the formation, unable to break through the defense of Ashina Thero's two Western Turkic cavalry simply gave up the attempt to break through, just wandered back and forth not far away, and Ashina Thero launched a confrontation, although both sides were damaged, but they did not hurt their vitality, and the fight was tepid, it can be regarded as peaceful coexistence, then, When Li Zhen led the cavalry army to be besieged by the white wolf army with an absolute advantage in strength, Ashina Sero could no longer stabilize, without him, although Ashina Serro was jealous of Li Zhen's robbery, but he couldn't sit back and watch the Tang army lose, if Li Zhen folded here, not to mention that Yi Bi Lu would not let go of the remnants of the five major catties, even if Yi Bi Lu made an unprecedented kindness, it was impossible for the Anxi Tang Army and even the Tang Dynasty to spare the five major tribes, and Ashina Sero, who didn't want to have the disaster of extermination, had to be ruthless and gritted his teeth, He ordered loudly: "The whole army is on horseback, attack, and rescue His Royal Highness King Yue!" At this order, the remnants of the five major Qi Jin who were originally hiding behind the horse formation and shooting arrows rushed forward one after another, each turned over on their horses, and rushed towards the middle of the battlefield, and the action was very resolute.
Excited, incredibly excited! Seeing that the Tang cavalry army has gradually been besieged by its own superior forces, and the rest of the Tang army is unable to rescue Li Zhen's troops, Yibi Lulu was so excited that his eyebrows and beard trembled, and he continued to dispatch troops, roaring again and again, and the reward was getting higher and higher, and he was even already fantasizing about how to vent his anger after holding Li Zhen, but unfortunately, dreams are always dreams, and dreams will always wake up - just when all the attention of the Western Turkic cavalry was attracted by the impact of Li Zhen and Ashina Thero's cavalry, The north and south of Matoudian at the same time made a lot of smoke and dust, and the cavalry of the Tang Army rolled in like an angry tornado, killing from the north was the 10,000 iron cavalry led by Liu Whirlwind, and from the south rushed to the 8,000 elite cavalry led by Sha Feihu, these two cavalry came very fast, and when Yi Bi Lu found out that something was wrong, these two soldiers and horses had already rushed to the battlefield only a mile away, and the panicked Yi Bi Lu could not send more men and horses to encircle and suppress Li Zhen in his own phalanx, hurriedly mobilized two cavalry to meet the Tang cavalry that was rushing and killed, trying to slow down the pace of the Tang army, so as to buy enough time for their own extermination of Li Zhen.
Yibi Lu's idea is undoubtedly good - as long as Li Zhen who is trapped in the formation can be taken down, this battle can at least be invincible, and the Tang army can only accept the fate of defeat with a blank eye, but unfortunately this is still a dream - at the beginning, in order to prevent leakage of news, except for Li Zhen's troops who secretly moved to Matoudian under the cover of night, the rest of the Tang army was located in a hidden place away from the battlefield, and only after receiving the flying eagle message sent by Li Zhen could they rush to the vicinity of the battlefield from the hidden place according to the plan. Liu and Sha's two troops and horses had already arrived at Matoudian half an hour ago, and had already finished resting, and at this time they were about to get up, how could the Western Turkic cavalry after a long battle be able to stop it, just a charge, and the thousands of Western Turkic cavalry who came to stop in a hurry were scattered and fled by Liu and Sha's two soldiers and horses, and the two cavalry without blocking were like two sharp knives into the battlefield, and the Western Turkic army that was rushed into chaos was completely thrown into disorganized chaos.
"Withdraw, withdraw!" Seeing the sudden reversal of the situation, how could Yibi Lu dare to fight, and regardless of the fact that the two soldiers and horses of Arysiu and Asgutai were strangled with Ashina Sero's department, they led thousands of white wolf army cavalry around them to turn their horses and gallop towards the Baiye River camp, and the white wolf army cavalry that was besieging Li Zhen's department also took advantage of the opportunity of Li Zhen's heavy casualties and inability to pursue, turned around and fled, and ran away after Yi Bi Lu.
Yibi Lu fled, the entire Western Turkic army collapsed immediately, how could there be the slightest fighting spirit, by several Tang troops and Ashina Sero under the four sides of the attack, immediately collapsed, except for more than 30,000 horsemen who fled with Yi Bi Lu, most of the rest laid down their weapons under the blade of the Tang army, and obediently became prisoners. Li Zhen did not stay on the battlefield to deal with the aftermath, but turned to Sha Feihuo's cavalry, and led the troops to chase after the defeated and fleeing Yipilu, but he did not chase with all his strength, and even ignored the scattered Western Turkic officers and soldiers who had fallen behind, but just embellished the Yibilu headquarters like a flock of sheep.
Run, run! Yi Bi Lu didn't care about the cavalry behind him who were left alone due to horse fatigue, and led the remnants to fight their horses desperately to speed up, trying to get rid of the Tang cavalry chasing behind him, however, just ran out of the road of only ten miles, but saw the two Tang troops from both sides of the kill, one left and one right to cut the long team dragged by Yi Bi Lu into two sections, the number of these two Tang cavalry is not too much - Yan eighteen on the left, seven eagles on the right, only 3,000 men and horses each, However, the frightened Yibi Lu did not dare to stop the battle at all, but a gecko broke its tail, gave up the five or six thousand men and horses behind the palace, and led the remnants to gallop away, and the Tang army did not pursue these two roads, and the cut off Western Turkic cavalry was easy to kill, except for the surrender of four thousand cavalry, the rest all died under the Tang saber, as for Li Zhen's department, he did not stop for the remnants of this gang at all, and continued to chase after the defeated soldiers of Yibi Lu.
The frenzied escape of Yi Bi Lu has not had time to rejoice in escaping the interception of the Tang Army's two soldiers and horses, this has just escaped less than five miles, and there is a burst of smoke and dust on the left and right sides of the front, and there are two Tang cavalry of 3,000 men and horses each to kill the generals, this time the killing will come out of the Eagle Six, He Chengye two generals, and the Li Zhen Department that pursued up behind the chase is also chasing closer and closer, the gallless Yi Bi Lu had to abandon the five or six thousand troops again to fill the appetite of Ying Six and He Chengye, only led the last nearly 20,000 horses and then fled, Seeing that there was the Baiye River camp in front of him, and he could see from afar that the wolf flag in the barracks was still fluttering in the wind, Yibi Lu finally breathed a sigh of relief - as long as the camp was still safe, and with the help of more than 10,000 troops from Tong Si Sadu, relying on the obstruction of the Baiye River, it may not be possible to block the pursuing Tang army, but only if it can block the pursuit of the Tang army a little, there is hope for a safe retreat.
The Western Turkic cavalry, which had the hope of life, didn't even have time to wonder why their old camp would seem so quiet, so they rushed into the Baiye River with cheers, wading to the opposite bank, and everyone's faces showed the joy of escaping death, but unfortunately this joy was still unreliable - just when the Western Turkic cavalry just rushed to the center of the river, a terrible horn sounded from the barracks, and a fiery red battle flag led thousands of Tang Dynasty rangers to rush out of the barracks with shouts, and quickly killed to the river, rushing along the river, Shoot a deadly rain of arrows at the Western Turkic cavalry in the middle of the river.
It's messy, it's all messy, the Western Turkic cavalry, who just breathed a sigh of relief, didn't expect that it would be the Tang Army that rushed out of their own barracks, and they were confused by this sudden blow, and nearly 20,000 Western Turkic cavalry were all like headless flies in the river and on the riverbank, becoming the best target for the Tang Rangers.
"Rush across the river and take back the old camp!" As soon as he saw the Tang cavalry appear by the Baiye River, the last trace of luck in his heart was shattered, seeing the smoke and dust on his back road, he knew that the Tang army behind him had caught up, although his heart was chaotic at this time, he still understood that the only way out for his side was to break through the blockade of the Tang army's rangers, recapture the baggage and grain, and then have the capital and opportunity to flee from the road. Desperately rushed to the opposite shore. As soon as he was so desperate, all the Western Turkic cavalry immediately woke up from a dream, and they all went crazy, and they roared and launched a decisive attack on the opposite shore regardless of the roar.
"Your Highness will be here soon, sons, kill the thief! Kill the thief! Kill the thief! Dong Qianli received the order when he already knew that his subordinate would face the dying counterattack of the Western Turkic cavalry, at this time, seeing the Western Turkic cavalry killing the generals like crazy, he immediately pulled out the full moon scimitar on his waist, and shouted loudly, Wu Qian's rangers threw away the bows and arrows in their hands, each holding a knife in their hands, and killed the Western Turkic cavalry in the face of the crazy surge, and the two cavalry teams soon fought together, from the river to the river bank everywhere were crazy cavalry slashing cavalry, and people kept screaming and falling off their horses, The Baiye River, which had just been clear for a long time, was once again stained with blood.
One side wants to desperately break through, one side is not an inch of land, this battle is extremely fierce, Rao is the Tang army rangers occupy the geographical advantage, but under the fierce attack of the Western Turkic cavalry with their lives, the losses are extremely heavy, and gradually they can no longer hold the river bank, and they are oppressed to retreat, and as more and more Western Turkic cavalry pours onto the river bank, the situation of the Tang army rangers is becoming more and more bad, and it is about to be rushed out of the encirclement by the Western Turkic cavalry. Boosting their morale, however, they still couldn't recover their own decline, and when they were anxious, the Western Turkic cavalry waiting to cross the river on the other side of the river suddenly became chaotic, and the cries rang out - the Tang army had arrived!
It's over, it's all over! As soon as he heard the shouting of killing from behind him, Yi Bi Lu immediately felt like a knife, and his face was gloomy as he watched his cavalry being driven away from the sheep, and his heart was like ashes for a while, and his old eyes were full of desolation, and he rode on his horse with a wooden flute, standing in the river, and did not move.
"Great Khan, hurry up, the Tang army is catching up!" The new left wolf marshal Ayoqigu rushed to the side of Ebilu in the midst of the chaos, and when he saw Ebilulu standing stupidly in the river, he hurriedly rushed forward, grabbed the reins of Ebilu's horse, and shouted loudly.
"Run?" Yibi Lulu raised his head, glanced at Ayoqigu blankly, and said with a wry smile: "Where else can Ben Khan escape?" You escaped on your own. ”
"Great Khan, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, you go quickly, the last general will lead people to kill a bloody road to protect the Great Khan and rush out." Seeing that Ebidulu was so depressed, Ayoqigu immediately became anxious, and suddenly pulled the reins of Ebilu's horse, and was about to rush to the other side of the river.
"Let go, Ayozigul go quickly, go back to the tribe to gather elite soldiers, go and ask Prince Bazhuo to send troops, go quickly!" With a slick of the horse's reins, he shook Ayozigu's hand away and shouted loudly.
Seeing that the Great Khan ...... refused to leave, Ayoqigu hurriedly turned back and tried to persuade him again.
"Hurry up, Li Zhen'er's goal is in Ben Khan, if I go with you, then no one can go, go quickly!" After Yibi Lu roared, he no longer gave Ayoqigu a chance to speak, and stabbed Ayozigu's buttocks with a knife.
Li Zhen's arrival was like the last straw on the camel's body, completely crushing the remnants of the Western Turkic cavalry's resistance heart, except for a few who saw the opportunity to slip away quickly, the rest of the Tang army in the two ways of the front and rear attack, have dismounted and surrendered, the war has come to an end, only more than 100 white wolf army will protect the Yibi Lu regiment in the middle of the river, unwilling to put down the weapons in their hands, and the Tang army did not attack, just surrounded this small group of Western Turkic cavalry, waiting for Li Zhen to come to decide.
"Yibi Lu, will you descend or not?" Li Zhen, who was about to come out of the army, glanced at Yibi Lu, who was surrounded at the core, and asked in a flat tone.
"Hehe...... " Yi Bi Lu stared at a pair of blood-red old eyes, glared at Li Zhen angrily, and burst into a creepy strange laugh, and then suddenly raised his voice and roared: "My Western Turks only have the Great Khan who died in battle, and there is no Great Khan who surrendered, Li Zhen'er, do you have the courage to fight with this Great Khan?" ”
Bored, all fucking damned people, who has time to play heads-up with you. Li Zhen smiled disdainfully, waved his hand and said: "Since you are bent on death, then the king will send you on the road, release the arrows, kill them all, and leave no one behind!" ”
"Li Zhen, you coward...... Ah...... "Before Yibi Lu finished scolding, the Tang officers and soldiers surrounded by him had already fired arrows in unison, shooting the more than 100 cavalry of the White Wolf Army into hedgehogs together with Yi Bi Lu......
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