Chapter 4: Drunken Country (Four Upper)

The scouts of the Xi tribe, who followed the footprints left by Li Xu and others on the snow, suddenly found that the footprints under their feet were in chaos, and after careful distinction, they judged that at least more than 500 war horses had appeared on the snowfield, and they did not dare to slack off, so they immediately turned around and retreated, and reported the news that the other party had prepared to the army of their own clan.

The leader of the Xi clan, Ejin Lifu, listened to the report and knew that the news of the sneak attack had leaked. Hurriedly adjusted his strategy and ordered his cavalry to slow down and move slowly. While continuing to approach the garrison of the Su Si Division, he cultivated his horsepower and was ready to fight to the death with the Zhuqi coalition forces that came to meet him.

The tribal camp of any nomad does not have walls, so no tribe will hold the fort. At present, the number of the Xi army is as high as 5,000, and the Zhuwei coalition army has just begun training, and the soldiers and horses are less than 3,000. There is such a huge disparity in numbers, even if the sneak attack fails, there is no reason for the Suotou Xi people to be defeated. Therefore, he plans to completely destroy the resistance of the Zhuxia tribe through a head-on decisive battle, and take the grasslands near the Crescent Lake in one fell swoop. Although the climate in this area is cold, the abundance of water and grass is no less than that of Suotou Waterfront. It is believed that after a few years of repair, the tribe will slowly recover from the loss of being expelled by the Turks.

As for the reports of the first six scouts to flee about the adequacy of the opponent's sword and horse and the skill of archery, he thought that it was all a prevarication of the cowardly. Those who have lost a battle will give themselves a catchy excuse, as if the braver they say the enemy, the less responsibility they have to blame. So he only listened halfway, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the deserter to be dragged down. At present, the tribe is short of food, and this waste is useless to raise, so it is better to throw it into the snow and freeze to death.

The reaction of the Zhufei coalition army was beyond the expectations of Tong Lifu, knowing that the Xi people were coming from afar, but they did not go out of the village to meet the attack. Instead, all the young men stationed on the periphery of the camp withdrew into the village, and nearly a hundred pyres were lit about 150 steps outside the wall, as if to welcome the arrival of the sneak attackers with a bonfire.

With the acquiescence of Willif, more than a dozen cavalrymen rushed to the fire to provoke, and were immediately shot through the body by the powerful crossbows flying from the camp. The thick and long crossbow was castrated, and after shooting the cavalry, it flew out more than ten steps with his body. The wounded cavalryman struggled on the crossbow pole, shouted, and just did not have the strength to pull himself out. His companion couldn't bear it, and made up a few arrows with his bow and arrows from afar, before he ended his pain completely.

After seeing the power of the opponent's crossbow, he felt that he could not afford the loss of attacking the camp, so he had to take the team to camp five miles away for repairs on the grounds that "the enemy will attack at night, and the enemy will be dark and I will be clear". It's freezing cold, where can I make a stake in the snow? It took more than an hour for the soldiers to get into the tents that they could barely manage. Before their numb bodies could be warmed by the night wind, a trumpet suddenly sounded in the distance, and a long fiery dragon rushed straight into the tent.

The Xi soldiers were shocked and hurriedly raised their weapons to meet the battle. The enemy troops, armed with torches, rushed to a position more than 200 paces away from the camp, and suddenly stopped again. He shouted and let go of the arrows for a while, then turned and retreated. Tong Lifu was angry and laughed, so angry that the Zhufei coalition army was so combative, and he actually wanted to copy his own camp. The smile is that since the other party's combat effectiveness is low, tomorrow's battle will definitely be easy to win.

Thinking about it made him happy. Order the soldiers under his command to seize the time to rest, and when the sun rises tomorrow, they will immediately pacify the Zhuyun tribe. The soldiers cheered and entered their tents, the leather cushions under their bodies not waiting to be warmed. Outside, the sound of horses' hooves was loud, and in the night, I don't know how many cavalry came to rob the camp.

The Xi soldiers climbed out of their tents and bent their bows at each other. The attacking cavalry circled half a circle from afar, shot cold arrows for a while, and fled again. Enraged, he ordered his men not to sleep, and to prepare horses, bows and arrows, to take them by surprise when the enemy came to harass them again. The soldiers struggled in the cold wind for half an hour, but the allied forces refused to come.

After tossing for a little half of the night, until the pink morning glow appeared on the horizon, the Xi soldiers fell asleep. While he was in his sleep thinking about the rushing river and the abundant pastures of his hometown, the low sound of horses' hooves was heard outside the tent.

"Harassment again, it's endless!" Lifu thought in a daze. The war between the tribes depends on each other's strength, and it is already a miracle to run from afar like him. And the behavior of repeatedly harassing in the middle of the night and not letting the other party sleep is purely a loss outside of the strange.

He rolled over and didn't want to get up, now that his muscles were weak, it was really hard to get up. Besides, the Zhufei coalition is only harassing, and will not seriously engage with themselves at all. Thinking, thinking, Liver's mind was a little confused, and suddenly, a cold wind blew into his neck.

"Who!" He shouted angrily. Although the Xi people are casual, breaking into the tent of the leader of the leader without reporting it is also a crime of a hundred lashes.

"Report the big Ejin, the people have entered the camp!" A small arrow (ten men long) with a bloody face cried out with a scimitar. The body is swaying, and it may fall down at any time.

"Nonsense!" He retorted loudly, his mind cleared instantly. The sound of horses' hooves in my ears was low and gentle, even if the enemy was attacking, the distance should be five hundred paces away, and it was impossible for the horse's hooves to land within a hundred steps.

A long feather replaced the small arrow's distinction, and the cold edge pierced through the cowhide tent and slanted in front of Liver.

"Enemy attack!" He sprang to his feet and rushed out of the tent with his scimitar in his hand.

The camp that had been set up improvised last night was full of shouts of killing, and the warriors of the Xia tribe with brown-red sheepskin inlaid on the edges of their armor looked heroic in the morning light. Armed with scimitars, they instigated war horses and drove three times the number of Xi soldiers to run around like sheep.

"Steady, steady! Reflexively face the battle! "He cut down several of his own rebels in quick succession, trying to stabilize the situation. But this idea was obviously too wishful thinking, and the soldiers who had just been awakened from their slumber were so weak that they couldn't even lift their scimitars, barely meeting the opponent's horses, and just rushed up to die, and could not play any role in delaying the other party.

He saw a young general wearing an iron crown and holding a wooden spear not far ahead. The young man was also accompanied by a hand-wielding scimitar, full of flaws all over his body, but he recruited desperate child soldiers. Although the two men were young, their attack power was amazingly large, and the horse's head pointed at it, and the soldiers of their clan immediately collapsed like snow splashed by boiling water.

The barbarians guarding the boy immediately followed, increasing the chaos caused by the spear-wielding boy. Some Xi archers wanted to sneak attack the two teenagers from the flank, but the feather arrows released were blocked by the Zhufei guards with leather shields in the middle of the way. Those Zhuxia warriors were extremely brave, and they would rather fight to get injured than let the two teenagers be wiped off half of their cold hairs by feather arrows.

There were only more than 1,500 people from the Zhufei coalition army who came to charge the camp, but the casualties caused were terrible. Many Xi soldiers were still asleep, and they were hacked to death in tents in a daze. More Xi soldiers were slashed by scimitars as they ran, blood spurting up from the cut wounds like fountains, splashing hot air on the white snow.

After several days of marching in the snow, they were teased by the enemy for most of the night, and the men were sleepy and tired. In the early morning, when the human body is at its most tired, the Xi soldiers are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Xu Dayan held a temporarily modified spear in his hand, rushing back and forth, as if entering a no-man's land. Although the wooden pole and hard spear were not as easy to use as the horse lance that he had been immersed in for many years, it was also more lethal than the scimitar used by the mist in his hand. The Xi generals in front of him couldn't support it at all, and as soon as the two sides looked at each other, the scimitar was picked open by Xu Dayan with the tip of the spear, and then the spear in Xu Dayan's hand was like a poisonous snake, stabbing into their throats.

Several Xi generals tried to break through from Li Xu's position and besiege Xu Dayan. With many years of combat experience, they could see that Zhu Xi's attack queue was based on Xu Dayan and the others, and Li Xu was the only flaw in this sharp arrow. Only by discounting this arrow can the Ejin on his side have a chance to collect the remnants. Otherwise, the bones of the five thousand brethren will be gone.

Most of the people didn't wait to rush to Li Xu's approach, and they were put down halfway by Ah Silan with feather arrows. A few people who fought with Li Xu were either forced to be scramble by his life-for-life style of play, or they were smashed off their horses by a spear swept by Xu Dayan's cold eyes. No matter what the situation is, the warriors of the Xia clan beside Li Xu will not give their opponents a second chance, rushing up and cutting them down with their scimitars.

"Don't fall in love with war, find its army" Xu rushed with big eyes and ordered everyone.

The best outcome of the raid is to kill or wound the enemy's commander. As long as the opponent's command center is smashed, no matter how strong the army is, it will lose its combat effectiveness. Moreover, the Xi people from the banks of the Suotou River had nothing to do with the strong, and if they really had the courage, they would definitely not be easily driven away from their homeland by the Turks.

"The lord of the taunting people likes to wear black mink fur, the more ornate the fur, the higher the level!" Ah Silan raised his hand and released an arrow, shooting over a Xi general who was organizing resistance in the distance, and turned his head sideways to remind Xu Dayan.

The hierarchy of the various classes within the steppe peoples was not as strict as that in the Central Plains, and there was no difference in dress between many nobles and ordinary herdsmen. This habit has also continued in the military, and almost all Xi soldiers are dressed in black leather clothes. At first glance, people who are not from their own tribe cannot tell who is higher and who is lower.

As a result, the effect of Xu Dayan's tactics was greatly reduced. He led the army to disperse many resistance teams organized by the Xi people in a hurry, and he did not find the camp of the Xi leader.

"There's a wool stalk there!" In the center of the team, Su Sixier, who was in charge of scheduling the overall situation, shouted loudly. This battle is already a ruin for Su Sibu, victory is life, defeat is death. When they learned that the Xi tribe had discovered the intentions of the Zhuxia alliance to deal with them, and that the Xingda army had come to ask for their guilt, many elders of the neighboring tribes immediately regretted that they had listened to Su Sixier's "bewitchment" and let their own people come to die. Some of the patriarchs who were not determined even lamented that "if the plan is revealed, this battle will be lost", trying to withdraw their own clansmen first. Thanks to Xu Dayan, he squeezed all the elders with cruel words, and Ah Silan also used Li Xu to bite an opponent to death on the side, scaring away six opponents, which proves that the holy wolf has begun to show strength.

"There are six of us, and we can fight twenty-one of them. Now we have nearly 3,000 men, and what is the fear of the enemy coming with 10,000 soldiers! When Xu Dayan was in a hurry, he opened his mouth to be a string of Chinese.

After his words were translated into Turkic by Eru, the meaning became, "The warriors of the six Su Si tribes are fearless in the face of twenty-one Xi scouts, and they are all descendants of the white swan, and the warriors of the other tribes are all fearless wild ducks?" ”

The elders of the tribes were embarrassed by the "words of Xu Dayan", so they had to reluctantly agree to let Su Sixier lead the army to fight. In the event of a first victory, they will hand over all command to the Cyr chief. If the first battle is lost, the soldiers of each division retreat to their respective camps to protect their people, while Susisir goes to the division to confess his guilt. Ask the Great Khan of the Yan people to send messengers to the Ashina family of the Turkic tribe, and they will come forward to administer justice.

"Whoever does not want to divide the sheep and cattle with the shepherds, let them stay in the barracks. If you want the enemy to witness the bravery of the descendants of the white swan, come with me! Under the instruction of Xu Dayan, Su Sixier said such a word, and then set out to rectify the team.

There were more than 2,200 warriors who were willing to accompany him in battle, and Su Sixier removed them and selected 1,500 people, and formed fifteen hundred-man teams according to the usual training methods. Then, according to Xu Dayan's strategy, let these 1,500 people rest early, and handed over the work of harassing the enemy army to the more than 700 warriors who were slightly weaker in physical strength.

Xu Dayan told the seven hundred-man teams responsible for harassing the enemy army through Eru's translator that they did not want them to fight, not because they looked down on their combat effectiveness, but because someone had to make sacrifices for the final victory of this battle. Harassing the enemy is the most dangerous and tiring task, and once the enemy army comes out of the camp to counterattack, they will immediately turn from harassment to death, and they will not be allowed to retreat if they do not achieve the effect of exhausting the enemy army.

The samurai were so enthusiastic by him that they wanted to die in front of the enemy one by one. Therefore, the two harassing attacks were attacked to the edge of the camp of the Xi people, and the feeling to the enemy was really like thousands of troops coming to rob the camp.

Everyone's efforts were not in vain, and at dawn, the allied forces saw the hope of victory.

The wool of the Xi people was not far ahead, and the one wearing a black mink fur coat who roared under the big silk was definitely their patriarch. Su Sixier's shout was relayed to the leader of the team by the samurai, and Xu Dayan immediately rode his horse and held a spear, and the wind swept towards the wool dajiu.

"Hold on!" He cried out, hearing his voice change tune. At this moment, he no longer had the luxury of turning defeat into victory, but only hoped that the soldiers could block the young man with the spear so that he could adjust his tactics.

Countless Xi soldiers poured towards the Chinese army, one after another, carrying Xu Dayan's spear with their flesh and blood. Their loyal and courageous actions paid some results, and about fifty paces away from the wool daxi, Xu Dayan's war horse was blocked by the corpse mountain. Li Xu, A Silan and others slashed indiscriminately, killing flesh and blood, but they couldn't cut a passage to get close to the opposing coach.

Getting the opportunity, he immediately adjusted his tactics, and took advantage of the chaos in front of him, he jumped on his BMW, lifted his sword, turned around and fled.

Countless Xi soldiers gave up their opponents and fled in embarrassment after the horses of Tong Lifu.

The human wall made of flesh and blood collapsed, and Li Xu rushed forward and cut down the ridiculous wool with a knife.

"Detachment!" The cheers were like thunder.

The young man stood solemnly with a sword, and his face was covered with blood, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or sad.

Drunkard's note: The names of the leaders of the tribes such as Ai Jin and Xi and Xi can be found in the "New Tang Dynasty Book".

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