Chapter 45: The Infantry Battle of the Wolf's Den

Aldan is more than 500 miles away from Hailan, and Ardan is only 500 miles away from the silent snowfield, although it is May, it is still cold and biting.

The wolf nest is in the mountains, the mountains here are not too high, and the ups and downs are said to be hilly. The wolf's den is a gentle slope, with a radius of five or six miles, only a few scattered miscellaneous trees, most of which are knee-high weeds.

Lieutenant Qin Chong gathered the team early and led the men and horses to the edge of the wolf's den to set up a formation, Duan Yun also frowned, the direction of the Tang army was at the bottom of the slope, and the cavalry rushed straight down from the gentle slope, and the consequences could be imagined.

At three poles in the morning, Turkic sentinels have appeared at the top of the slope.

The thirteen feudal soldiers and the mercenaries of the Wandering Ghost Country came out in a scattered formation, some picking their teeth, and some simply gnawing on their bones.

Except for the more than 5,000 people and horses on Temple Street, the rest are like rushing to the market, not to mention the formation, even if they gather, what are these groups of three or five hooking shoulders together?

Qin Chong saw that Dugu Tianxing also appeared on a yellow horse, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Dugu Duwei, this is about to start a war, the formation is so chaotic, how can it be good?"

"It's good," Dugu Tianxing looked at the noisy crowd in front of him.

"This..." Qin Chong was dumbfounded.

"Ah, it's still early? It'll be fine later" Dugu Tianxing didn't care, and rode forward to the front of the team.

Qin Chong was not good at doing something to act on behalf of him before the battle, so he had to go back to his own formation, Duan Yun saw that he secretly made up his mind, and when he saw that things were not good, he would take his team to slip away.

To say that the forbidden army team is indeed strict military discipline, at this moment the five regiments are placed in an inverted cone formation at the end of the whole army, separated by a large group of people and horses have a distance of more than ten zhang, two long lance cavalry formations stand at the front, the middle is separated by two rows of long snake formations of crossbow cavalry, behind is the heavy cavalry phalanx, left and right are rangers, each armor is bright, standard bow and lance, strict formation, solemn expression, the encounter a few days ago is just to see blood, most of them are the first time to experience a battle of 10,000 people.

As the saying goes, there are tens of thousands of people, boundless, and the captain of Tianxing pulled out all 30,000 people on his side at once, and stood at the bottom of the wolf slope with a lot of pressure, stretching for several miles, all of which were Tang troops.

The chiefs of the tribes shouted as hard as they could, and finally had the appearance of a long snake formation.

Dugu Tianxing, the commander of the Temple Street Zhichong Mansion, with his three guards, stood at the forefront of the military formation, behind him was the thousand cavalry of Temple Street, and on the left was the infantry of Temple Street, these two camps were still lined up, barely in a neat formation, and on the right was the five thousand mercenaries of the Ghost Country, huddled in a group, looking at the formation of the forbidden army, he couldn't help but sneer, but he couldn't help but feel cold when he looked at the blades in his hands, some had long sickles, some had long-handled nest hammers, some had big plate axes with dustpans, and some had large flails, in short, it was rare to see standard weapons, It's all heavy weapons that match your size. But the leader was a blue-eyed prince dressed in a funny scholar's uniform, and a horse chopping knife in his hand was also a high horse's head, so he stood at the front of the line.

Further to the left and right are the soldiers of the Far Eastern clan, and there is no standard clothing, most of them are equipped with a bow or a crossbow or something.

Except for Temple Street and the forbidden army, the rest of the men and horses did not have official military uniforms, and some simply went into battle shirtless, wearing leather robes diagonally, revealing their furry chests.

Duan Yun pursed his lips and asked a lieutenant beside him, "Give you a group of people, can you break them up?" ”

"Two teams of men will do," the lieutenant pouted.

"I look at them on weekdays, how can they be pulled out like hooligans fighting"

"Hmph, it's mainly the leader who can't do it" This captain also has a lot of opinions about the leading Demon Wolf Tianxing.

At this time, Dugu Qiuqiu led the people to drag a large number of sharpened pine logs along the skirmish line in a pack carriage.

Three or four zhang long bowls with thick mouths of pine trees are all over the mountain, remove the branches and leaves, sharpen the two ends, and obliquely are the simplest weapons to deal with the cavalry.

The generals of the forbidden army suddenly realized this time that the killer weapon of Dugu Tianxing is here. But this formation is too thin, right? The Turkic soldiers lived on horseback and had superb riding skills, and they could break through with a little concentration of troops on the thin skirmish line of the long snake formation.

The Forbidden Army captains looked at each other, and it was better than nothing.

The Turkic soldiers on the top of the slope gradually increased, all cavalry, and began to form a line, and slowly formed a group.

A strong man in a red robe appeared on the slope, rode a few steps forward and stopped, and immediately the man looked at the team down the slope and couldn't help but be stunned.

The number of soldiers of the Khanate on the slope continued to increase, and there were about five or six thousand knights in armor behind the strong man, Duan Yun knew that this was the guards of the Khanate, and those on the left and right who did not wear armor and only wore fur hats were the men who controlled the strings and the Zheqi soldiers, all riding elite Helan horses.

The Turkic Khanate is now in power by the Dulan Great Khan Ashina Yongyu Lu, also known as the Golden Horde, the soldiers are divided into three classes, the guards are attached to the wolf soldiers, the people who control the strings are the warriors of the Turkic tribes, and the vassals of the Hu tribes are not allowed to wear armor except for the wolf soldiers wearing armor.

The slope is about two miles long, and the red-robed man should be Wusumi, one of the five great Japanese catties of the Far East of the Khanate mentioned by Tianxing yesterday.

The khanate's widow jin should be similar to the name general of Yan Tang, each leading 10,000 or 20,000 tribal soldiers on weekdays, and can command a camp front army in wartime.

The red-robed man began to move forward slowly, and the team behind him followed like a stream.

The lone star began to gallop in front of the formation.

Dugu Tianxing began to run to the left, and his mouth kept shouting all kinds of feudal words, and the tribal feudal soldiers also shouted correspondingly, each raising his blade, Dugu Tianxing held a long lance and touched the blade at the front of the team, and the scene was enthusiastic.

The forbidden army's expedition to Mohe this time was quite well prepared, not every Zhichong Mansion had several translators, Duan Yun couldn't understand the language of Dugu Tianxing, but it didn't prevent him from asking the soldiers who knew the language.

Someone immediately told him that the Dugu Tianxing was boosting morale, saying that the khanate stick invaded my homeland, killed my father and brother, and took my family property, and now the court has an order to send a large army to suppress it, and a certain will fight hard to kill the enemy soldiers, and also said that for every khanate stick killed, a reward will be given, and Ardan will be taken, and the property in the city will be divided equally.

At this time, Tianxing returned to the mercenary formation of the Wandering Ghost Country, and shouted at the prince of Na Keye, every time he shouted, Prince Keye shouted at the mercenaries, Dugu Tianxing shouted in Yan Tang official dialect, but also Prince Ye naturally spoke in the ghost country, and every time he shouted a sentence from those big men of the ghost country, he would say a word.

This time, I didn't need to translate Duan Yun to understand, and Dugu Duwei was promising that one person's head would be one or two gold, and the head of five khanate sticks would be exchanged for a maid.

Duan Yun looked at Qin Chong, the leader of his own army, Qin Chong's face armor was lowered to cover his cheeks, Duan Yun guessed that the right Weiwei Commander was probably twitching.

The Turkic cavalry gradually increased their horsepower, and the team of nearly 60,000 people poured downhill like a flood, some of the horses of the forbidden army began to be restless, Duan Yun's palms began to sweat, and he even saw the long lances of several forbidden army soldiers trembling.

But the tribal soldiers and the mercenaries of the Wandering Ghost Country over there seemed to be divine help under the encouragement of Dugu Tianxing, and all their hideous faces shouted, and Ou Ou roared miscellaneous slang.

Dugu Tianxing returned to the front of the temple street team, Dugu Tianxing waved his hand, and the temple street team behind pushed out more than a dozen carts to stand side by side with him, and the soldiers of various clans also began to pick up the pointed pine, and stuck one end into the mud to attack the Turkic cavalry, like a cluster of hedgehogs, looking numb in his heart.

The Demon Wolf Tianxing then stuck the lance on the ground, looking at the Turkic wolf soldiers who rushed down, the Turkic cavalry screaming was getting closer and closer, starting with four or five rows in front and back, and slowly gathering in several places There were more than ten rows, which was to see that Yan Tang had a defensive move and was ready to concentrate his forces to break through.

The long slope three or four miles wide was paved with Turkic cavalry, overwhelming the mountains and the sea, and the momentum was like thunder.

Two miles, one mile, one hundred zhang, fifty zhang, the face gradually became clearer, Helan Ma ran more and more happily, and the red-robed man in the lead brandished a scimitar and ran towards Dugu Tianxing.

Forty feet away, with the horsepower of Helan horses, it only takes a few breaths to meet in short combat.

Dugu Tianxing looked at it coldly, not moving at all, and the clan soldiers on both sides began to show fear.

Twenty zhang away, some Turkic soldiers began to bend their bows and shoot arrows, and a few arrows fell on the place in front of Dugu Tianxing's horse, Yan Tang began to commotion, the mercenaries of the Wandering Ghost Country clenched their blades, and some tribal soldiers began to release arrows in disorder, falling on the Turkic cavalry charging road scatteredly, Duan Yun began to show a look of despair.

Tianxing waved his hand again, and the soldiers on the side of the cart tore off the compartment board, and the middle one exposed the jet-black iron pipe, and the rest were square iron boxes.

"Ignition" Dugu Tianxing saw that the red-robed Turkic man Wu Sumi who was in the lead was no longer a stone's throw away.

The sergeant next to the cart methodically lit the fuse with the torch he had held in advance.

"Boom, boom" There was a loud bang, and a cloud of smoke rose in the charging Turkic array.

Duan Yun watched in a daze as the red-robed man rushed into the air like a cloud.

Then the cavalry that charged suddenly seemed to encounter a wall in front of the formation, and the men and horses rolled and fell in rows.

Then there were a few more squeaks, and the rest of the carts shot a row of spears.

Zhuge crossbow car, this is a word that the generals of the forbidden army poured into their hearts, this thing has equipment for the sixteen guards, but it is bulky, not to mention, the frequency of damage is too high, unless the siege is basically idle.

The loud sound is not unfamiliar, the siege thunderbolt cannon, and the army is also a standing weapon, but the sound is also too loud, the cavalry of the forbidden army desperately reined in the horses, so as to prevent the riot of the horses under the crotch, but the entire phalanx of the forbidden army has been chaotic.

Duan Yun watched as the whistling spear sliced into the Turkic charging cavalry like a knife cutting through tofu, and clusters of blood flowers represented the death of more than just an enemy soldier.

Cavalry group charge, falling to the ground is on behalf of death, the front row falls to the ground and the rear row naturally trips, the Turkic cavalry on the slope is less than a horse body before and after, a fall at least two rows, fortunately, the Turkic cavalry on horseback of the people, riding skills, the back four or five rows or over the front row to the ground comrades, or stepping on the comrades can finally maintain the cluster charge posture.

Duan Yun looked to both sides again, gasped, and the entire front row of the charging cavalry three or four miles wide seemed to hit the wall, and they collectively fell half of them in an instant.

The remaining half continued to rush forward two steps under inertia, and fell again like a ghost wall.

For a while, the wolf slope and thousands of horses screamed.

The scene is weird and wonderful, I don't know what the Turkic soldiers think, anyway, the forbidden army is stunned, and a few recruits who have just entered the battlefield can't hold the blades in their hands, and they clanged to the ground.

In the hustle and bustle of the battlefield, Duan Yun actually clearly heard the sound of the blades falling to the ground in his forbidden army's phalanx, and couldn't help but want to cover his face, but he immediately widened his eyes again, wanting to see clearly what was happening at the bottom of the battlefield?

The red-robed Usumi, who had been flying in the air for two breaths, finally landed, and the troop hooves of the cavalry that were moving forward like a tide immediately drowned the red-robed horse.

The direction of the assault Dugu Tianxing is the Turkic armor-piercing wolf soldiers, the appearance of five thousand people, forty or fifty horizontal rows, and the longitudinal row is only ten rows, and half of them have been removed at this time.

The roar of the thunderbolt cannon and the sound of Zhuge Xiang's crossbow sounded again, and dark cloud-like arrows also flew behind Dugu Tianxing, Duan Yun blinked again, and there were only a few scattered horses left in front of Dugu Tianxing.

The Turkic cavalry really topped the world, and found that there were one out of ten comrades in the front row who fell to the ground and were alert, and there was only one out of a hundred who could react, but the one who reacted correctly was only one out of a thousand, close to 60,000 assault cavalry groups, one out of a hundred was 600 horses, and about dozens of these 600 horsemen turned their horses' heads, and more than 500 horsemen rushed past the fallen comrades and rushed to the Yantang defense line.

Most of the 13 feudal soldiers in the Far East were hunters, and these more than 500 horsemen were the prey, so more than 20,000 people cheered and cheered and raised the pointed pine wood, like wearing meat skewers, and instantly lifted the Turkic soldiers who rushed over into the air, and the Turkic soldiers who fluttered in the air with their hands and feet caused the feudal soldiers to laugh.

Several brave clan leaders, like the patriarch of the Heishui tribe, Agu Lang, did not allow the clansmen to help, and they slashed at the rushing war horses with their swords, and even the people and horses were split in half, which naturally caused the clansmen to cheer and roar.

More of the feudal soldiers are bending their bows and arrows, no need to aim and release arrows in front, the rain of arrows like flying locusts blooms the blood of death on the line of the Turkic soldiers at the front, and some of the Turkic soldiers who have nowhere to hide are hidden behind their horses, and some are hidden in the dead bodies of their comrades, but this distance is too close to the Far Eastern army array, but it looks like two or three zhang, for the Far Eastern feudal soldiers born in Orion, it is easier to hunt rabbits and deer than to shoot the enemy.

Not to mention the sharpened pine sticks, which were thrown as spears by the powerful feudal soldiers, and some of them were nailed to the grass just as they were about to turn and flee.

Dugu Tianxing pulled out the lance stuck in the ground, pointed forward, and everyone behind him roared and rushed towards the khanate's stick soldiers who were lucky not to die but had become infantry.

A battle that was originally at a disadvantage and extremely dangerous turned into a hunting game for the Yantang Empire in an instant.

In the tenth year of Yantang Shenlong, on May 13, the Far East was 500 miles away from Hailan Pao, and the imperial army won a great victory, destroying 50,000 enemies and losing 508.