Chapter 373: Expressions
Seeing that Ali was a little out of shape, a sneer hung on the corner of Deputy Khan Haron's mouth, and he turned his head and quietly looked at the tents of the army outside the city, the roaring bonfire reflecting the ambition and greed in his eyes.
The city of Shule was small, but an army of 50,000 troops from all over the Black Khanate was stationed outside the city, and at night there were as many bonfires as there were stars in the sky, and over the years, stimulated by faith and wealth, the warriors of the Black Khan had won brilliant victories, whether in the wars with the infidels in Khotan east of the Green Ridge or in the clashes with the usurpers and hypocrites of the Samanid dynasty west of the Green Ridge. It is impossible to make the warriors of Qarlu and Oghuz grovel like the Gaochang people, even the once invincible Tang Anxi Army is just a stepping stone on the road to the rise of the Qarlu tribe. Now, whether it is the Wu heroes of the Xia Kingdom, or those Persian and Turkic dynasties in the west, it is the same.
In the morning, because of faith, wealth, tribe, or simply following the elders and fellow countrymen, they came to the camp of the Turkic people in the middle of the river, far east of the green mountains, and the figure of prostrate prayer towards the holy place, and then, falling into the usual chaos of the barracks, cooking, arranging ordnance, feeding the horses, and everywhere shouting and shouting, Persian, Arabic, The Turkic language, as if faith brought infinite excitement to people, everyone was competing to show that they were true believers, and suddenly, a loud cry far exceeded the voices of the people, and a small number of people began to look to the east.
An army with a red banner appeared on the horizon, vigorous horses, heroic cavalry, and heavily armored foot soldiers, one by one in the late autumn mist, except for the military drums, did not make any sound, until the vanguard cavalry officer shouted the order, the hussars and the cavalry of the Tayan army formed a three-column goose marching formation, covering the infantry behind them leaning on the carriage to build a camp.
"Hurry!" Cai Shun shouted loudly, and the soldiers of the Flower Hat Army took off the large square shield hanging on the guardrail on the inside of the King Kong car in accordance with the norms of the drill code, and placed it above the guardrail to resist the arrows shot down from the top of their heads, and then a small number of sergeants took off the round iron shield in the middle of the shield above the outer railing, and observed the outside situation through this round hole, which is also the place where the crossbow arrows were released, and most of the other sergeants quickly set up antlers in front of the car formation, the antlers were placed flat on the ground, first dig the pit to support the antlers, and then erect the antlers when the enemy cavalry was close to the front, and behind the antlers, the sergeant began to dig a trench, and the trench was full of spikesThe earth excavated from the trench buried the wheels of the chariot and raised the walls of the camp. The vanguard soldiers arrived outside Shule in the second half of last night, and began to build the camp non-stop until early morning.
After the fortification was built, the sergeants of the Flower Hat Army placed the crossbow arrows in the combat position, and began to cut wood to make stone-throwing machines under the leadership of the centurion and the ten-commander, they only carried the key parts of these ordnance, such as shafts and ox tendons, and the other parts were completed by the sergeant under the guidance of an almost omnipotent craftsman, "The cavalry sergeant is His Majesty's mule, and the infantry sergeant is His Majesty's stone mill, and we will crush everything." ”
In the distance, in the camp of the Turks in the river, the crowd was already excited, and the vigilant posture displayed by the Xia army was simply naked contempt, "Attack! Attack! Kill the infidels!" The fanatical believers are already irrepressible, so they don't care that the officers need time to discuss the plan of coordinated attack, they need time to judge the traps and traps of the Xia army, they need time to discuss which army is cannon fodder, and that force is the final hammer, they only need to kill, it seems that they can make their faith pure by shedding other people's blood, which is really strange logic.
The commander of the hussar army made Xin Gu squint his eyes and looked at the chaotic scene opposite, there was no expression on his face, but the commander of the liberation army made Mi Di smile sarcastically, these rabble. The cavalry sergeants all sat loosely on their horses, and some of them leisurely stroked the necks of their mounts, until about 7,000 enemy troops rushed out of the camp in a mess and rushed towards the Xia army like a dark cloud. With a loud shout, he lifted the reins and rode out of the horse, and the captain, centurion, and ten-captain of the Liberation Army, seeing that the general was the first to attack, urged the horses to follow, and the five thousand hussars rushed out like mercury, and while charging, they took out the arrows from behind the saddle and put them on the strings.
"Retreat!" Mi Di shouted, dialed the horse and retreated, this is the established tactic, the hussars behind him with bows and arrows far exceeded the other party, after shooting one or two arrows, they all retreated, after three rounds of arrow rain, rushed to the front, had already drawn their scimitars and scrambled to be the first to kill, saw a torrent of steel, five hundred iron horsemen with heavy armor, holding the horse lance in three columns, although the speed was not as fast as the light horse, but the slow and heavy might, but as unshakable as a mountain. Mi Di led thousands of hussars in a circle behind the heavy horsemen, regrouping and preparing to charge again.
The enemy cavalry who was still hurriedly dodging the rain of arrows just now barely had time to react, and collided with the heavy armored cavalry in a daze. The Turks hardly used hammers and hammers, and spears and scimitars were too blunt for heavy cold-wrought iron armor, and even if the Turkic cavalry struck the armor helmets to a ping-pong sound, they only scratched the armored cavalry. Not to mention that the sharp blades of the eight horse lances were constantly cutting through the enemy's thin armor and flesh, and the rows of heavily armored cavalry almost by the great inertia of the charge alone caused the enemy to suffer heavy losses, and just as they turned their horses and prepared to avoid on both sides, the hussars led by Mi Di bit up like wolves, and the pain of the arrows and arrows made many villains who longed for the wealth and heaven of the East no longer had to worry about it.
Riding on his horse, holding the scriptures in his hand, he exclaimed: "Do not retreat, do not retreat, God bless the warriors, your souls will go to heaven, and when you die in battle, you will wake up in heaven." Waving a sharp scimitar in his left hand and holding the scriptures high in his right hand, his face has been distorted with some horror, "Those who retreat are hypocrites, hypocrites! You will be ......on fire forever" A wolf's tooth arrow hit his throat, the sound stopped abruptly, Murding clutched his throat, his chest rose and fell violently, but he could only hiss like a poisonous snake, his eyes flashed with hatred, and finally he dismounted weakly, and a half-melted golden Buddha statue rolled out of his arms.
"your grandma. Mi Di spat out a mouthful of phlegm, he was a Sinicized Hu man who could understand Turkic language, and his wife was a Han man with dark eyes.
Ali Qadir, who rushed to the head of the city after hearing the news, was quite shocked to see that the Hezhong Turks, whom he had led as the elite, had been completely defeated in only one round of confrontation. He said in a deep voice, and ordered Haron to immediately organize the main force of 30,000 Black Khanates to attack the camp of the Xia army.
Haron looked with contempt at the Hezhong Turks, who had gone out to battle without asking for instructions, and now they were defeated and retreated back to the camp, and strode down the city, and at this moment, the Black Khan Qarluq army in the camp outside the city had already sorted out their horses and ordnance, so they surrounded the leader Haron, and slowly approached the camp of the Xia army. Seeing that there were many enemies, Xin Gu ordered Mi Di not to fight alone, but to join the hussars and retreat into the camp that had been built by the Flower Hat Army, and the cavalry dismounted and defended with bows and arrows. The Black Khanate cavalry was not prepared to storm the camp, and only roamed around the camp of the Flower Hat Army. This gave a great opportunity to the already well-prepared Flower Hat Army. Bed crossbows, whirlwind cannons, divine arm crossbows with a range of three hundred and fifty paces, and crossbows with extremely fast fire rates are not ornaments.