Chapter 196: Hedong Bloody Battle
The shouts of killing in Shuozhou City were deafening, and three or four thousand fierce warriors who were killed from the Limo refugee camp gathered at the north gate of Shuozhou and the Tang officers and soldiers guarding the north gate to start a series of bloody battles. Outside the city, hundreds of thousands of allied troops of various ethnic groups outside the city, under the leadership of Fengjie, the second prince of the Turks, concentrated all the elite troops to attack the north gate with all their might, echoing the Turks who responded inside.
The Tang, Turkic, Murwei, Uighur, Tatar, and Khitan fought together inside and outside the north gate of Shuozhou. The rain of arrows above and below the city is flying all over the sky, and in such a crowded place, as long as you pull your bow and release arrows, you will be hit. Dozens of ladders were densely erected on the north wall of Shuozhou City, and the soldiers of various ethnic groups outside the Saiwai in gray and yellow robes braved the rolling wood and stones of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and the rain of guns and arrows flocked to the city like a tide. The officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, who were attacked by the enemy on their backs, fought bloodily, resisted to the death, and held the head of Shuozhou City to the death, fighting for every inch of land. Qin Wutong slashed and rolled two big knives, splashing blood all over his body and sweating profusely. This brave warrior took off the armor he had draped over his body, and naked, brandishing the only weapon left at his side, the sword he carried, and slashed wildly at the Turkic warriors who surrounded him with red eyes. In such a passive environment of being attacked by the enemy, he led 30,000 soldiers in the city to fight to the death, making the battle that should have been one-sided show a stalemate.
Looking at the figure of Qin Wutong at the head of the city fighting bravely to kill the enemy, Feng Jie, who was sitting on the high saddle, showed a smile of approval on his face, he turned his head and said to the left vanguard general Tiehan Bianhong beside him: "Look at that Tang general Qin Wutong is indeed very good, such a difficult situation can still make him persist until now, good."
Bian Hong bowed and said, "Second Highness, let me lead someone to rush up, and I will take this person's head and sacrifice it in front of the horse."
Feng Jie shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't be in a hurry, count it out, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty Governor of the Prefecture are about to arrive, and we will talk about it then."
As soon as his words fell, a scout horse flew up to his horse, turned over and dismounted, and said loudly on the ground: "His Royal Highness the Second Prince of Qiqi, Zhang Gongjin, the governor of Tang Dynasty, led 40,000 elite soldiers to kill!" Tie Fu, the leader of the Black Water Spirit, returned from defeat according to the plan, and the soldiers and horses of Daizhou drove straight in, rushing towards our army's main formation."
"Good! It's finally here." Feng Jie clapped his hands excitedly, turned his head to Bian Hong, and said, "Immediately lead the 50,000 elite cavalry lurking in the rear to cover the flank of the Daizhou soldiers and horses and cut off their back road."
"Yes!" Bianhong was in high spirits, nodded violently, and rode away.
Feng Jie called the famous Turkic general Nagu Otter behind him to his side, and said in a low voice, "Now send the most elite Flame Sect members to attack the north gate, remember, let Kunlun ride around and shoot Qin Wutong for twenty-four days."
Nagu Otter nodded understandingly, turned over and dismounted, took dozens of followers, and ran towards the front line of the siege.
Just when the officers and soldiers of Shuozhou saw the Daizhou rescuers who came to help, and cheered in the city, a group of Turkic warriors in black clothes and black robes appeared under dozens of cloud ladders at the north gate like ghosts. In an instant, these brave warriors attacked the city, brandished their sabers, and rushed towards the Tang soldiers around them. These people's sword skills are concise and murderous, dozens of people cooperate closely, and within a few breaths, they killed and repelled hundreds of Tang soldiers who came up together, so that the Turks who attacked the city tower had the absolute upper hand.
Seeing that the reinforcements were approaching, Qin Wutong did not allow the city to be lost, so he shouted loudly and led thousands of soldiers to rush towards the black-clothed flame sect members who were constantly pouring into the city. Just when the men and horses on both sides were fighting in one place, more than a dozen string pulls sounded in all directions, and more than a dozen lightning-fast black feather arrows shot towards Qin Wutong's whole body. The guards who were guarding Qin Wutong knew that it was not good when they heard the sound, and they desperately stopped in front of him, blocking these cold arrows with their bodies. However, the momentum of these cold arrows was too strong, and the sharp arrows passed through the bodies of these guards as if they were piercing the rotten earth, and they still shot straight towards Qin Wutong. That Qin Wutong was not an idle person, he swung his sword hard, blocked several arrows in a row, and was finally shot in the back by a dark arrow, and his body, which had already been crumbling after a day and night of bloody battles, collapsed all of a sudden, and fell heavily to the ground. A dark sweet feeling of tiredness welled up in his heart, and he struggled to his feet, looked unwillingly at the Turkic warriors gathered around him, and muttered, "If I were ten years younger...... he passed out as soon as he finished speaking.
Just when Qin Wutong fell, the north gate under the siege of thousands of people collapsed, and the warriors of all ethnic groups inside and outside the city gathered together and poured into the city of Shuozhou, and the cheers of Hu'er outside the city resounded in the sky.
Although Zhang Gongjin, the governor of Daizhou, felt in his heart that it was a bit too reckless to go out of the customs to rescue Qin Wutong without authorization, it was not done by a wise man. However, the last time because he was two days late in sending troops to rescue Shuozhou, he was fined by the current emperor for one year, and accused him of secretly fighting for merit. When successive kings opened the state, they often killed heroes. Governor Zhang Gongjin once took charge of the Xuanwumen Revolution and made great contributions, who can guarantee that Li Shimin will not suspect him of self-respect and rebellious heart because of these reasons. Zhang Gongjin, who has been cautious and resolute all his life, heard the urgent report from Shuozhou this time, and roughly calculated that the Turks would not have more than 50,000 horses, and immediately mobilized 40,000 male soldiers at Yanmen Pass, and rushed towards Shuozhou under the stars.
Feng Jie sent the soldiers and horses led by the Black Water Warrior Tie Fu to intercept the Daizhou soldiers and horses who came with all their might, and lured ** into the ambush circle that Feng Jie secretly laid outside Shuozhou City. Although the soldiers and horses of the Black Water Warrior are well-equipped, they do not have much combat experience, so they are not suitable for the task of luring the enemy. Because the operation of deceiving and luring the enemy is very difficult, it is very necessary for a well-trained and experienced army to carry it out. But Fengjie has his own set of unique ideas, which are unpredictable.
The soldiers and horses of the Black Water Piercing had just encountered the army led by Zhang Gongjin and fought together, the two armies tumbled and rolled, and fought fiercely for an hour, Tie Fuyou did not have time to order a retreat, and the army at the forefront could not withstand the vertical and horizontal rush of the Tang Dynasty's light cavalry, leaving thousands of corpses and retreating. Tie Fuyou sighed that he was unlucky, and hurriedly led the three armies under his command to flee northward in disarray, and the deception turned into a real fiasco, leaving more than 10,000 bloody corpses of soldiers along the way, and banners all over the ground, fleeing in a hurry.
Zhang Gongjin carefully observed the defeat and retreat of the Hu people's soldiers and horses, did not see anything wrong, and was excited to fight a clean and neat victory, he ordered the flag to be unfurled, and 40,000 male soldiers chased towards the defeated enemy soldiers like a tide, and unconsciously rushed into the ambush circle carefully arranged by Fengjie.
Just as the soldiers and horses of the state came to the vicinity of the hills on the side of Shuozhou City, suddenly a loud horn sounded at the top of the hills, and the overwhelming carved arrows covered the hillside one after another. Countless officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty fell off their horses because they couldn't dodge. Zhang Gongjin immediately knew that he had been ambushed, so he pulled out his sword and shouted loudly to order his soldiers and horses to stop advancing. At this moment, the shouts of landslides and earth cracks rang out from the top of the hills, and tens of thousands of Turkic elite horsemen rushed down the gentle slopes of the hills and condescendingly towards their rear formations. These elite horses went down the slope, and their already powerful momentum was even more formidable, and the first fierce generals were none other than the iron man Bianhong and the elite of the Flame Sect who followed him closely. This unstoppable river of flesh and blood swallowed the lives of thousands of Tang soldiers who resisted in a hurry with just one wave, and countless Tang Dynasty infantry died tragically under the trampling of the enemy's thousands of hooves. Immediately afterwards, the most elite regiments of the Heishui Ya, Khitan, and Murowei tribes rushed over from all directions.
Before the enemy encircled, Zhang Gongjin decisively ordered all the infantry to break off, and he led all the cavalry to rush towards Shuozhou City, wanting to meet the ** in the city. The miserable howls of the infantry after the break continued to pour into Zhang Gongjin's ears with the sound of the wind, and at this moment, he had already regretted his face and white lips, and secretly hated that he should not have lost the lives of these good men for the sake of his career. However, the matter has come to this point, regretting it is useless, he can only barely cheer up, hoping to at least lead 10,000 light cavalry and Qin Wutong to join forces.
When he led 10,000 light cavalry to rush and kill, bloody battles, and finally broke out of the heavy encirclement of the enemy army one after another, and came to the front of Shuozhou City, he only saw that all the banners of the Tang Dynasty in the city fell under the city, and only the wolf head banner of the Turks and wild cheers were entrenched in the high city. The south gate of Shuozhou was opened, and the defeated soldiers of the Tang Dynasty rushed out of the city in embarrassment. Zhang Gongjin looked up to the sky and sighed, led the soldiers and horses to converge with this defeated army, and asked in a loud voice, "General Qin is here?"
At this time, Wu Xiaorong, the deputy general of the Shuozhou City garrison, urged him to step forward and said, "General Qin was hit by a hidden arrow, and his life is on the verge of death, and Shuozhou City is not guaranteed. General Zhang, let's retreat to Yanmen."
Zhang Gongjin shook the horsewhip vigorously and said hatefully, "Hey, let's go!" The two of them each mobilized their headquarters and killed in the direction of Yanmen Pass.
The Turkic soldiers and horses and the defeated soldiers of the Tang Dynasty fought endlessly all the way, counting the number together, leaving thousands of corpses of soldiers on both sides in each encounter, the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses fled day and night, and the Turks and horses chased after each other, and fought endlessly until the Yanmen was closed.
The Yanmen Pass between the towering mountains is in front of him, Zhang Gongjin, who has experienced dozens of bloody battles, is here to breathe a sigh of relief, but he sees that the iron key of Xiongguan, which has stood majestically for several years in front of him, has fallen into a raging fire, countless cloud ladders are densely lined up on the city wall, and the ant-like Hu people and horses are surging towards the city, and they are about to attack the city.
"Oops, I'm mad!" Zhang Gongjin was furious, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and passed out on the saddle.