Chapter 7: The Prosperous Age (Part 8B)

Seeing that the warriors were already approaching the city walls, the Persians, who commanded the catapults, had to stop the projectile in order to avoid accidentally killing their accomplices. The grizzled defenders, forced by their junior generals, trembled and peeked out from behind the collapsed walls and fired sporadic feathered arrows at the Turks. Soon, however, they were frightened by the swarming wolf riders, dropped their bows, and ran backwards in disarray. The generals who supervised the war chopped their axes and resolutely refused to turn back.

"Kill their men, snatch their women, burn their houses......." Seeing that the enemy was so weak, the morale of the clansmen in the charge grew. Even if he was accidentally injured by a stray arrow, he quickly pulled out the shaft of the arrow and stumbled forward with the group.

"The men who killed them, the women who snatched them, and burned their houses......." The samurai rushed more and more bravely like flies that smelled fish. Those who are close to the gap in the city wall hold down the broken wall with the palm of their hands and jump in. Those who are far away from the gap are scrambling to squeeze towards the gap. There were also a few brave people who were whimsical, and swung their sabers to chop at the gate that blocked the pass. The result was a pleasing surprise, as the gates, which had been crumbling with catapults, were crumbling with a few chops, opening a golden avenue to treasure and food for the samurai!

"Kill, kill, kill!" Seeing that the first wave of warriors who rushed forward had already successfully attacked, the wolf riders in the valley were even more excited. Some tribesmen, Ejin didn't even wait for Gu Tolu's orders, and led his warriors to rush forward. Although Ashina Daman, Ashina Helu, Ashina Lake Sero and other Turkic nobles could still restrain the people around them, their anxious faces were already full of words. After Yang Guang's deliberate show-off of eating without money and hanging silk on the trees, the prosperous scene of the Central Plains has taken deep root in the hearts of the tribal warriors. The barrier of the Central Plains has collapsed, and the wealth of the mountains is close at hand.

Faced with the aggressive gaze of his generals, Ashina Bone Toru had to compromise. Although subconsciously, he still thinks that victory will come too quickly. Li Xu, who once beat himself to the ground and fled, couldn't let Hulujian miss without leaving any backmoves. But at this moment, he couldn't help himself, so he could only dispatch troops while silently praying to the Immortal Heaven in his heart, praying that this battle would not cause any more extraneous branches.

Immortal Heaven must have heard Gu Turu's call, and the wolf riders and tribal warriors who were the first to storm the wall met with little resistance. Behind the crumbling walls, their cheers and shouts were constantly heard. And these cheers and shouts were like sparks on the barren grass, instantly lighting the morale of the follow-up troops into flames. also swallowed the department and rushed up, the evil pull department rushed up, and the Wuliang department also rushed up. In the blink of an eye, more than 2,000 tribal warriors and wolf riders had already rushed into the wall, and the follow-up army was still surging like a tide. This scene made Gu Toru doubt his instincts again, and with his legs between his horses, he rushed to the front line surrounded by the guards.

He wants to show his bravery in front of thousands of troops. Yesterday's defeat was mainly due to lack of preparation, and today, he will not repeat the mistakes of yesterday. In addition to the thousands of black-armored guards around him, after the valley, he also prepared more than fifteen thousand archers in advance, even if he lost for a while, he could order the archers to shoot a death zone, and he would never be beaten by the Central Plains soldiers again.

The gap in the wall was too narrow, and the further the wolf riders moved forward, the slower they became. The samurai of the various tribes who were eager to enter the fortress and loot were in poor order, desperately squeezing towards the entrance, not paying attention to the first to come and the first to arrive, and the elders and young were respectful. And Gu Toru's orders were no longer effective at this point, and even if he showed off his wool hair, no one made way for him to get out.

This is the frenzy of fighting. In the hearts of the samurai, there was no fear of death, no respect for power, only the desire for wealth and victory. They shouted loudly, not knowing fatigue. I squeezed my shoulder, and I didn't know the pain. was trampled on by the robes, and he didn't care about scolding. Just squeeze forward with all your strength, squeeze forward.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horns on the beacon, "Woo, woo, woo————! ", low and long, like a milk tiger roaring valley, the dragon is singing. The horns fell, and the raiders who had already boarded the broken city all stopped. Not only that, but the samurai who rushed to the cave of the city gate also suddenly braked suddenly, and immediately saw the devil like a devil, and they retreated vigorously and retreated. The samurai and wolfriders in the valley could not see the anomaly ahead, and continued to rush forward, blocking those who tried to retreat and pushing them on.

But the road ahead is no longer unobstructed. I saw that the flags near the city gate were waving, and there were actually four regiments of foot soldiers under the leadership of the captains, and they rushed down the horse road leading to the top of the city wall. The horse road was originally used to provide reinforcements for the defenders of the city, but at this time, it was reversed by the defenders of the Great Wall, and it reaped miraculous results. The wolf riders and warriors did not expect that so many people were ambushed at the quiet head of the city, and they were caught off guard. The vanguard, who had already rushed into the city wall and had run forward for half a mile, noticed that there were enemy troops behind them. Quickly turn around and run back. There was another sound of a horn in his ears, and four regiments of foot soldiers swept from the nearby woods, behind the mounds, and waved their long lances and horizontal knives in their hands, slashing at the Turks like chopping melons and vegetables. (Note 1)

In a hurry, where could the wolf riders and samurai who rushed into the Great Wall react correctly. Some screamed, turned around and fled. Some tried to resist to the end, but Brother Boling was immediately stabbed into a honeycomb. Brother Boling, who succeeded in the attack, did not pause at all, and after finishing the enemy troops who rushed into the wall, he immediately attacked the wall head-on. In the course of the march, the eight lieutenants cooperated with each other and led the brothers under their command to turn left and right, and then turn again, crossing more than 2,400 brothers together to form a triangular array.

As soon as the triangular formation approached the city wall, the samurai who rushed up in chaos were immediately unable to resist. wanted to continue to turn around and run for his life, but he was surrounded by his own robe, and he couldn't retreat even half a step. In a panic, hundreds of spears stabbed alternately, stabbing all the samurai who had nowhere to hide into blood gourds.

Seeing the miserable situation of himself and the people in front of him, the wolf riders and samurai were frightened, "Mom! With a bang, he squeezed back desperately. The wolf riders and samurai in the rear still couldn't stop and continued to rush forward. Under the squeezing of the two phases, the order was even more chaotic, almost like being cut by the Boling army with a long lance, and it was cut over layer by layer near the gap of the Great Wall.

Blood cascaded down the crumbling walls, and corpses rolled out of the city like rocks. Life is like autumn leaves, withering in an instant, and being blown away by the mountain wind in an instant. The looters who were dazzled by the wealth of the Central Plains did not extinguish the lust in their hearts with human blood, and they were still rushing forward desperately.

Rushed to the broken city and was stabbed over. Stepping on the stabbed corpse, another wave of samurai rushed up to the city. Finding the lance forest in front of him, it was too late to turn back, so he had to be pushed by his companion's body and take the initiative to send it to the lance. Layers of corpses were stacked, and it was not until the soil at the place where the city wall collapsed was washed into a swamp by human blood and could no longer stand on their feet, that the Turkic Berks of the tribe suddenly woke up and realized that they had fallen into another big trap.

"Withdraw, away from the walls. Get away from the walls! Still not waiting for the unified dispatch of Gu Tolu, the samurai of all departments retreated one after another. The robes in the valley had no time to coordinate their actions with the vanquished, so they could only squeeze from person to person, and rely on unlimited squeezing to make room for a line of survival.

But this small living space disappeared in an instant, and with a changing drum sound, the attacking Boling army quickly rushed out along the city gate that no longer existed. He calmly formed the team under the noses of the Turkic wolf riders and tribal warriors, and then slowly pushed forward to the rhythm of the drums.

"Again!" Squeezed three hundred paces from the city walls, Toru was so torn with regret that he almost vomited his intestines. The reason why he dared to order the samurai to attack just now was because he was forced by the situation. On the other hand, it is based on the intelligence that "Li Xu has killed Huanghua Huozi". According to the small abacus in Gu Tuolu's heart, since Li Xu had already been killed in Huanghua Huozi, it was impossible for the Boling elite to wait for him here in Hulujian. When Li Xu found out that he had been fooled and rushed from Huanghua Huozi, he had easily taken all the gourd passes.

Unexpectedly, it was not the elite of Boling who was killed from Huanghua Huozi's side, although the leading generals also carried Li Xu's handsome banner. And the team of soldiers in front of him who calmly fought in formation was the real thing, and the Boling army, which was like a fake, didn't even have time to wipe the long lance and Mo knife that killed the Turks yesterday.

Holding a sharp blade moistened with blood that had turned into a lilac, the Boling army bit the Turkic wolf rider to the death. The terrain of Hulujian is slightly wider than that of Huanghua Huozi, so the triangular formation lined up by the forward of the Boling Army is also slightly wider than yesterday. Two thousand four hundred men lined up in nearly thirty rows, and their steps were very neatly spaced from the soldiers. At the same time, from the broken wall smashed by the Turks, more than 2,000 heroes of the rivers and lakes came out one after another, all with a simple knife in one hand and a leather shield in the other, shouting on the two hypotenuses attached to the triangular array.

The cooperation of those heroes is unfamiliar, but the killing skills are far stronger than those of the Boling soldiers. After the Turks were defeated, the slopes on both sides of the gourd stream almost became a juggling field for the heroes of the rivers and lakes. The lone Turkic wolf rider and tribal warrior couldn't support a single face, so they were chopped to the ground by the heroes of the rivers and lakes with a simple move, and then cut off their necks with a knife, hanging their bloody heads on the golden hook around their waists.

Almost pushed by the long lance of the Boling army, the wolf riders and the tribal warriors retreated one after another. Yesterday's scene was repeated again, in the narrow valley, where the unfamiliar infantry cavalry was simply unable to organize an effective resistance. It only took half a pillar of incense to make the forward of the Boling army advance to the catapult, and the heroes of the rivers and lakes guarding the two wings immediately rushed forward, lit a few torches and threw them at the catapult, and in a blink of an eye, the murderous weapon was burned into a barbecue stand.

As the clearing in the valley grew, more Boling soldiers poured out from behind the Wall. Some of them rushed into the triangular formation, expanding their heads to adapt to the gradually opening terrain. Some of them were connected to the end of the formation under the command of the captains, and slowly converged into a huge phalanx. At the junction of the front row of the huge phalanx and the triangular formation, more than 500 Boling disciples armed with bows and arrows were protected, and under the command of the horn drums in the array, they continued to throw feathered arrows in front of them, shooting the embarrassed Turkic warriors to the ground.

With the increase of the number of soldiers, the phalanx became longer and longer, and the entire Great Wall Guardian Array gradually took shape, with edges, blades, and wings, like a gilded boring rod that had just come out. In the center of the entire boring head, Li Xu was pushed forward by the brothers in a cart. In front of the car lay a long lance, and behind the car hung a horn bow and a scimitar. And Li Xu's weapon at this moment has become a giant war drum more than eight feet high. Each knock was like a landslide of lightning, shaking the hearts of the enemy.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up, retreat calmly. There are our archers beyond the valley! Seeing Li Xu appear, Gu Toru knew that he couldn't bargain for anything in the valley. The matter has come to this point, and it is useless to regret it. Hope for a reversal can only be placed on the reserve troops and horses waiting outside the valley. As long as Li Xu dared to chase after him, Bone Toru would rather risk shooting hundreds of clan warriors and wolf riders this time, and being hated by the various tribes and chieftains, and put him to death.

"Calmly retreat, calmly retreat. Beyond the valley we have reinforcements! Da Mei Lu Ashina Hou Jin hurriedly blew the horn and passed on the only correct order of Gu Tuolu today. Hearing the sound of the horn, the wolf rider and the tribal warriors were relieved. Although they are still being chased and beaten by the enemy, as long as the lance and horizontal knife do not stab in front of them, an orderly retreat is always better than an orderly retreat with a better chance of survival.

Seeing that Gu Toru was about to lead the defeated army to withdraw from the valley, the horn sounded for the third time at the head of the Great Wall. Immediately after, a huge base suddenly gave birth to a huge base after the gilt boring formed by the Boling Army and the heroes of the rivers and lakes. Countless Hedong archers shouted and picked up behind the military formation, and at the core was a light car, and the elder Shi Chen Yanshou held a giant horn trumpet, standing upright in the center of the light car, with a gray robe and a majestic posture.

Seeing the defenders of the Great Wall pouring out, Gu Tuoru had no intention of entanglement with the other party in the valley. He ordered his descendants to abandon the clan warriors and the wolf riders of the broken queen, and move to the prepared position as fast as possible. As soon as the elite wolf as the core fled, the tribal warriors of the servants did not have the courage to continue to send them to death, and the wow-wow-wow-wow The Aijin, Tutun, elders, and shamans did not care about each other, and fled over the mountains and mountains.

The wolf cavalry retreated, the tribal warriors fled, and the vision on the battlefield instantly widened. Li Xu guessed that Gu Turu was going to play tricks, and the drumsticks in his hands fell staggered, beating the war drums like thunder and landslides. The surrounding soldiers heard the sound of drums, and the formation changed again. The soldiers in the front row threw away their long lances and took over the huge shields from the heroes of the rivers and lakes who were chasing after them. The brothers in the back row were in high spirits, quickened their pace, and bit the tail of Gu Toru in hot pursuit.

The two armies of the enemy and our horses were one after the other, and in the blink of an eye, they killed from the valley to the outside of the valley. Seeing that Li Xu was really coming to chase, Ashina Gu Tuolu gritted his teeth, immediately shook the horn flag, and ordered the archers who had been ambushed in advance to carry out the plan of the strong man to break his wrist. More than 15,000 archers finally got their chance to use their weapons, lined up in three large formations, clamped the exit of the valley, and drew their bows and fired. With a flick of his fingers, a death zone was opened between friend and foe.

Entangled, the Boling army and the wolf rider were cut openly, and the enemy and us no longer contacted, and a buffer zone about thirty paces wide was vacated in the middle. On this dark red buffer belt, more than a thousand wolf riders and tribal warriors fell to the ground with hatred, their eyes looking at Gu Toru, their eyes full of resentment and unwillingness.

Many of them took the initiative to cover the evacuation of Gu Toru and the others, but they did not expect the Great Khan to repay their loyalty in such a way. knew that the person they were protecting was actually a white-eyed wolf, so why did they give up their lives and forget their lives? Since dying at the last minute was so unworthy, it may have been a mistake to start this battle. Say what for the survival of the entire Turkic people? If you don't obey the orders of the Ashina family, you may be sitting in a felt bag at this moment, drinking fresh goat's milk. Spring has come, the cattle and sheep have begun to scratch their fat, and even if they do not go south to plunder, the continuous famine has already seen the end....but it is too late. The samurai could only raise their heads with the last of their strength and look back at the yellow clouds behind the layers of mountains and rivers. Below the yellow clouds, above the green grass, is their hometown.

"Shoot, shoot them. Don't stop! Being seen by the red-eyed Burke and Ejin beside him, Gu Toru continued to shout. All the samurai who were shot were the price that had to be paid for victory. Killing hundreds of people to save hundreds of thousands of people is a payment he thinks he is worthwhile. Of course, none of the robes who were killed by random arrows were surnamed Ashina, and none of them were Turkic nobles with the blood of a blue wolf in their bodies.

The Turkic archers, hearing the command, raised their wooden bows and repeated the same actions over and over again. The enemy forces did not stop and continued to advance. Although the feather arrow was disturbed by the mountain wind, its power was much weaker. But at such a close distance, it is still dense like hail.

Layers of steel "hail" fell, splashing thick smoke and dust. A violent mountain wind blew, quickly lifting the smoke and dust into the air, turning into yellow clouds. Behind the clouds and mist, the Boling army walked at the same pace, forward, forward. Be duty-bound not to turn back. The heroes of the rivers and lakes on both wings raised their leather shields and followed closely.

Fleeing to watch the battle from afar, Bone Toru suddenly discovers a startling sight. At this moment, the first platoon of soldiers of the Boling Army was not holding the long lance that he was familiar with at all, but a huge shield. They shielded the shield bearer himself and the second and third rows of soldiers with huge shields. The second row of Boling soldiers continued to stretch their lances forward, adding sharp fins to the giant fish-scale shield. From the third row onwards, both the lancer and the knife hand raised their weapons at the back of the heads of the brothers in the front row, and swayed their weapons rhythmically from side to side while following the drums. (Note 2)

The smoke and fog were slanting, and the huge array composed of the Boling army, the heroes of the rivers and lakes, and the archers of Hedong walked out of the valley. The wind was quiet, arrows were raining, and this huge array of steel was spreading its claws and scales in the billowing clouds of smoke.

Where is the gilt boring that Chen Yanshou expected, what is hidden in the smoke at this moment is clearly a dragon that has just come out of the abyss.

Legend has it that when Meng Tian built the Great Wall, he once sealed a small dragon in the foundation.

This dragon has been sleeping under the Great Wall for thousands of years.

Today, it finally woke up on its own!

Note 1: The regiment is an intermediate unit of the Great Sui military system, with one lieutenant in each regiment and 300 people under its jurisdiction. Under the regiment is a brigade, with a brigade rate of one and one hundred people. Unlike modern times.

Note 2: I have always imagined what the ancient Chinese military formation would look like, but I can't get it. In the text, this array is a combination of the Swedish spear array and the Chinese plum blossom array, which is the assumption of the drunkard, and the connoisseur should not laugh.

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