Chapter 44: Demon Wolf Celestial Star's Tactics
Duan Yun saw that Dugu Ball's fierce knife technique in the forest, and he saw blood again and again, and he really couldn't think of how this fat man with his own two widths could be so flexible.
The Turks hurriedly dismounted and prepared to turn over the formation, and the horses behind also opened their bows and fired at each other.
In Temple Street, people were hit by arrows and fell to the ground one after another, but as soon as the Turks who turned over the car formation landed, a long lance stabbed them. Temple Street horses regardless of the overturned formation of the enemy, volleys fired at the rear row, and the rain of arrows formed a broken belt between the infantry and cavalry dismounting.
After a while, the front and back of the car formation were full of corpses, but the enemy's endless arrows, a steady stream of dismounting, a steady stream of overturning the car formation, Dugu Qiuqiu's chopping knife danced like a splash of wind, but his own men and horses still continued to suffer casualties.
When Qin Chong saw this, he hurriedly took the lead and rushed out of the forest, shooting with a bow far away.
When the Turks saw that Yan Tang rushed out of the men and horses again, there were more people than their own, and hurriedly turned their horses' heads and left in a hurry, ignoring the corpses on the ground and the people who dismounted.
The forbidden army came up, and in less than a moment, they cut down all the Turks who were standing.
Duan Yun also stabbed the two of them, excited, but turned the horse's head and smiled bitterly when he saw the lonely ball.
"Fatty, I didn't expect your knife to dance well."
Dugu Qiuqiu ignored it and let his men clean up the mess.
"Hey, so-and-so saved you, what's the matter with this ghost?" Duan Yun asked.
"Hey, I was supposed to hold on for a while, and when all the Turks dismounted and turned over the car formation, we could eat dumplings" Dugu Qiu didn't look back.
Qin Chong was also stunned, he didn't expect this fat man to be so big-hearted and ruthless. completely disregarded his own safety and lured the enemy with his body, it seems that he did come out early.
There were more than 200 corpses at the scene, dozens of people were lost in Temple Street, and even more enemies fled, nearly 800.
bury the enemy, burn the body of his brother and put the ashes in a ceramic jar, and continue to lead the way.
Before dark, the rain was a little lighter, and someone in front of him brought back a fire horse, which was sent by Dugu Tianxing on Ardan's side to pick it up.
Seeing the Demon Wolf Heavenly Star, Duan Yun was very disappointed.
Qin Chong led a group of generals to this big tent halfway up the mountain, the brazier was burning brightly, a fat sheep was hanging on it, squeaky dripping oil and water, a young man with hair was engrossed in applying materials to it with a brush, and the whole big tent exuded an attractive fragrance.
The young man with the hair was wearing a loose silk trousers, a robe tied around the waist, a handsome face, and starry eyes, but looking at the greasy brush in his hand, how could he have the temperament of a great magician, and how could he be like a commander who commanded the Yantang soldiers of the First Mansion.
There were two people squatting next to him, a tall man munching a half-baked leg of lamb, and a short man holding a saucer with a mouthful of ha.
Duan Yun suddenly felt a sense of evil, and when he looked up, he found that there was a man in black in the account, his hair tied with a belt, and he was holding a long sword, staring coldly at the people who came in.
When the young man with the hair saw someone coming in, he put down the brush, and laughed, "Hard work generals"
In a blink of an eye, I saw Dugu Qiuqiu, "Qiuqiu, did I bring the cumin powder I wanted?" ”
The chubby Dugu Ball Empire had a wooden box, and the man took it, "Everyone feel free to sit, a certain Dugu Tianxing, just wait a while for mutton"
Qin Chong took his five or six regimental captains to sit on a few logs, and three blue-eyed and blue-eyed foreign men dressed as bearded men and a Yan Tang scholar came in outside the account, and the leader said in Yan Tang official words, "Oh, I have a good mouth today, and I haven't tasted the fat sheep that the regiment commander personally roasted for a long time."
Dugu Tianxing also ignored it, turned back to Qin Duan and the two and said, "This is several patriarchs of the Thirteen Tribes of the Far East, Mo Hefu, the patriarch of the Omuro Wei Tribe, Mo Han, the patriarch of the northern part of the mountain, and Agu Lang, the patriarch of the Heishui Tribe, that is the Prince of the Flowing Ghost Country, this time the Flowing Ghost Country also sent troops to help my Tang Dynasty, and the hard work is high, these are the generals of the forbidden army who came to Kyoto to support us."
"It's Qin Chong, several patriarchs are working hard" Qin Chong didn't ask his surname when he saw that Dugu Tianxing, so he had to introduce himself.
"The nobles of Kyoto have come from afar, and they have been waiting for a long time, and the generals have worked hard," Mo Hefu, the patriarch of the Omuro Wei tribe and the future deputy governor of the Far Eastern Governor's Mansion, hurriedly returned the salute.
"The general of the single general will come to Dugu Duwei to listen to the order, listen to the military order, and obey everything" Qin Chong said to Dugu Tianxing again.
"You're polite, Captain Qin Chong, right? Qin Duwei will be a tiger in the door, and the generations will be hairpins" Dugu Tianxing sat on his chair and took out a short-handled scimitar, "We are all Du Lieutenants, no one listens to anyone, your army can move at will"
"How? In Hailan, the chief manager of Baoshan and General Yunlu repeatedly told a certain group to listen to the dispatch of Dugu Duwei, and a certain person should act according to orders, "Qin Chong took a look, yes, this person is still hypocritical?"
"That, it's easy to say, it's easy to say, generals, please, let's fill our stomachs first" Dugu Tianxing laughed, shook his wrist, and kept cutting slices of meat from the roast lamb, putting them on a plate, and letting Ah Gou distribute them to everyone.
Maybe he was indeed hungry, Duan Yun had never eaten such a delicious roast mutton, and after a while, the whole sheep was left with meatless bones.
"Your army came this time, they are all cavalry, it is currently raining, the road is muddy, and it is quite tired" Dugu Tianxing comfortably stretched on his wide folding chair, "I apologize to you first, and when this battle is over, I will invite you to a banquet in Hailan, and you will not return if you are not drunk."
"Dugu Duwei is serious, someone came to the battlefield to kill the enemy, what is it to suffer a little?"
"Okay, okay, the forbidden army is the pride of my Yantang, I want to learn from you" Dugu Tianxing looked at Dugu Qiuqiu again, "Qiuqiu, did you go all the way this time?" How do you feel like you've been in a fight? ”
"On the way, I met a Turkic thousand-man team, and I did a fight" Dugu Qiuqiu was still gnawing on sheep bones.
"What about the casualties of the brothers? There is no damage to the baggage, right? ”
"It's fine"
"Well, let's go down and rest first, there has been no fighting in the past few days."
Sure enough, after the forbidden army joined this mixed team, they did not come into contact with the Turkic enemy for several days, but only marched all the way, sometimes even starting to march again after half an hour of camping in one place, and on several occasions they still marched in the middle of the night.
For three or four days in a row, every day, Duan Yun was also tired, and Qin rushed to ask the Dugu Tianxing, how could the forbidden army be exhausted and go to the battlefield like this.
Dugu Tianxing was lying on his chair, enjoying the sunshine that had finally appeared.
Seeing Qin Duan coming, he didn't get up, motioned to Ah Gou and handed them to the two Maza, and asked with a smile, "Two captains, but are you looking for me to drink?" It just so happened that I hunted a wild boar yesterday, and today I just cleaned up the wine."
"Dugu Duwei, I didn't come to look for wine to drink, I just wanted to ask, we are always walking and stopping, and we don't look for the enemy to fight, in the long run, the soldiers are physically and mentally exhausted, and their combat strength is greatly reduced" Qin Chong asked politely.
"Well, well, is that a problem? But now the enemy is big, and we have few people, so we have to avoid the enemy."
"I heard that the enemy is only 30,000, and we have more than 30,000, so we can fight in one battle" Duan Yun couldn't help but say, since that day he stabbed two enemy soldiers, his self-confidence has soared, and this Turkic soldier is nothing more than that.
"Haha, Duan Duwei, don't worry, since you have come to the Far East, the battle is indispensable, the enemy is only 30,000 people, but we have the men and horses of our Temple Street here, there are thirteen feudal soldiers, there are mercenaries from the Ghost Country, and your right guard forbidden army, the troops are complicated, and the combat power is not as fierce as the opponent's army."
Qin Duan and the others looked at each other, speechless.
For another two days, Duan Yun and his forbidden army had already complained and complained, and there were many strange words. Qin Chong was also anxious, and he didn't know when the march that didn't know where the destination would end, when he heard that someone had come to invite him into the big tent.
This time, Dugu Tianxing finally put on his battle armor, which is also majestic, but what is it in his hand? A half-gnawed leg of lamb.
In the account, Mo Hefu, the patriarch of the Damurwei tribe, Mo Han, the patriarch of the northern part of the mountain, Agulang, the patriarch of the Heishui tribe, and the prince of the Flowing Ghost Country were all there, pointing around a sand table.
I saw that on the huge sand table with a length of more than five feet wide, the mountains were observed, the white sand was water, and the red and black flags were densely covered, and Duan Yun was quite surprised.
The forbidden army has also had sand table drills, but this thing is time-consuming and laborious, and everyone is perfunctory, Duan Yun has seen a few sand tables about the same size as those in front of him in the Li Mansion of the Duke of Weiguo, and the level of detail is not as good as this.
The famous generals of the Manchu Dynasty are only the first generation of the Patriotic Army God Li Jing likes to use the sand table, even if the later generations of the Patriotic Princes only use this as a show off capital, let alone other generals? I heard that the divine knight Xue Chuyu once said: If you have time to do such a thing, it is better to practice the sword more, no matter how powerful the enemy is, if your bow and arrow are far enough and the blade is sharp enough, you can defeat the enemy.
Seeing such a delicate and huge sand table today, Duan Yun's eyes are full of stars, obediently, this can't be the reincarnation of Wei Guogong, right?
Dugu Tianxing, who is suspected of being the reincarnation of Wei Guogong, finished nibbling on the last bit of minced meat on the leg of mutton, pointed to the sand table and said, the red flag is ours, and the black is the stick of the Khanate, you take a look at the situation first.
Qin Duan is a disciple of the general, and he can naturally figure it out by looking at the sand table, not to mention that this sand table is so detailed, what is the name of the mountain, what is the name of the city, there are all markings.
Qin Chong came over and frowned, Duan Yun also gasped when he saw it, looking at the sand table marking, the enemy army had increased to 50,000.
In the middle of the sound, the Dugu Tianxing knocked on the wooden frame on the edge of the sand table with a leg of mutton to attract everyone's attention.
"Haha, Huang Tian pays off, we have been going around this ravine for ten days, and finally lured that Usumi out of Ardan"
Everyone showed a clear expression, and the prince was even more adoring.
However, Qin Chong still frowned and asked, "But this enemy army is blocking our way to Ardan, even if we sneak attack Ardan, even if we make a detour, the enemy army will definitely know."
"Who said to attack Ardan?" Dugu Tianxing said proudly, "Let's make an ambush here, make him dumplings, as soon as the more than 50,000 khanates are finished, Aldan is in the bag."
"Uh," even Duan Yun was speechless, a few days ago, the enemy soldiers were running away, and now there are nearly twice as many people, do you want to fight?
"Here," Dugu Tianxing pointed at a relatively flat and wide enemy with a leg of mutton bone, "This is a good burial place for them."
Qin Duan and the others looked at it, this place was written with the words "wolf's den", this place is an ideal battlefield, but that is for the Turks, the other party is all cavalry, and the gentle area is conducive to charging?
In the past few days, Qin Duan and the others have also figured out the strength of their own side, in addition to their own 2,500 cavalry here, although the others have pack horse carts, but in addition to the temple street Zhichong Mansion has more than 1,000 cavalry, the tribal soldiers have 3,000 cavalry, the others are infantry, especially the 5,000 mercenaries of the ghost country, although they are tall and mighty, but they can't even ride horses, in fact, they want to find horses for them to ride, they are too strong, they just don't have armor and no horses can carry them to charge.
Dugu Tianxing ignored the suspicions of Qin Duan and the others, knocked on the sand table and continued: "This new more than 20,000 people and horses, just arrived last night, people are sleepy and tired, and the rest of the days are also tired from us, just today everyone will rest for a day, tomorrow we will eat and drink enough, let's go to this wolf's den for a while, one of the five major catties of the Turkic Far East, Wusumi."
The people of the Thirteenth Department and Prince Keye naturally applauded, but Qin Chong Duwei was still worried.
Dugu Tianxing also ignored it, waving his hand and preparing to let everyone disperse, Qin Chong really couldn't help it, "Dugu Duwei, how should this battle be fought?" How is the formation arranged? Which part is the former army? How are the flanks arranged? ”
"Ah, not that much trouble? Tomorrow at dawn, bury the pot and cook, eat and drink enough, and when you see the enemy coming, everyone rushes up to kill them" Dugu Tianxing smiled and was full of pride.
"Ah" Qin Chong and Duan Yun looked at each other.
"Then how should my forbidden army be arranged?" Qin Chong had to ask.
"Forbidden Army?" Dugu Tianxing scratched his head: "Do you want to stay camped?" ”
"Shou. . . Garrison? Qin Chong was dumbfounded, he was dignified Yan Tang Sixteen Guards Forbidden Army, and there was an exclusive name of Zhechong Mansion to guard this rabble when he founded the country?
"Well, this task is too easy, isn't it?" Dugu Tianxing suddenly realized, "Then you wait for the opportunity to move, when we disperse the enemy army, you will go out to intercept, don't put a khanate stick back to Ardan"
"Dugu Dudu, the soldiers are fighting, you have to think about it" Qin Chong had to bite the bullet and continue to speak.
"Ah, what is the good strategy of Captain Qin?" Dugu Tianxing still knows how to accept advice with an open mind.
"Let's carefully consider arranging the troops," Qin Chong hurriedly said, "For example, the terrain here is gentle, which is conducive to cavalry charging, and our army is at the lower end of the gentle slope, and the Turkic cavalry is strong, and the charge down the slope is bound to be strong."
"Well, that makes sense, keep talking"
"There are many types of troops in our army, including crossbowmen, lancers, rangers, sword and shield men, hoplites, and the precedence of each branch of the army must be carefully considered."
"Well, that makes sense, did you hear that?" Dugu Tianxing pointed at Mo Hefu and them, "Go back and study it carefully, each class stands there and has a plan"
"Yes," a few people replied in a noisy.
Qin Chong and Duan Yun looked at each other again, and they were kind enough to treat them as donkey livers and lungs.
The two returned to their military tents worriedly, Duan Yun turned around, several regimental captains also shouted loudly when they heard it, Qin Chong gritted his teeth and led the men and horses to find Dugu Tianxing again, but was told that Dugu Captain went out to check the enemy's situation.
Qin Chong hurriedly got on his horse and searched everywhere, but he couldn't find it.
The soldiers of the forbidden army returned to the camp in a hurry, and Qin Chong hurriedly wrote two urgent letters and sent people to Hailan Pao's chief administrator Shan Sijing and his own Yunlu general Yan Qiong.