Chapter 350: Trapped
The replacement battalion led by Zhao Chonghuan only rushed over after Shi Xin was surrounded by the Tuqi Shi army, which was a step short, and this step required them to use their flesh and blood to chisel through the enemy formation and rescue Ji Ji Ji Khan.
Zhao Chonghuan put the flag behind his shoulder, holding a long lance in his hand, and commanded the four under his command to unite into a Yuli array, and the eighth regiment captain Yuan Tao led the army to be in the center.
The 800 Tang troops brought by him were of a single class, with only three types of troops: jumping, bows and crossbows, and odd soldiers, lacking cavalry, and even more lacking offensive heavy infantry strikers with lethality to the enemy's cavalry.
He could only break through to the opponent's mixed cavalry formation, with the jumpers in front, the odd soldiers with spears on the flanks, and the crossbow team in the center and throwing arrows at the enemy.
The Turgish hurriedly sent cavalry to attack the team from both sides, which made the dumpling wrappers in the encirclement even weaker.
"Form a four-sided formation!"
Yuan Tao quickly retreated with all the soldiers, formed a tighter phalanx, and placed his spears and shields in front.
The cavalry began to attack from all sides again, throwing arrows at the Tang army on their horses, and the horse team was divided into three batches, and after rushing into the land of one arrow, they drew their bows and threw them, and then withdrew and replaced them with another team.
Zhao Chonghuan shouted loudly on the horse: "Shoot a horse for me!" Shoot me a horse! ”
Weak mobility, they were in a position of being beaten passively, and the nimble turkey cavalry continued to move their positions, and although they were heavily armoured, there were still people who kept falling.
"Don't stop! Towards Kulan City! ”
The phalanx of the Tang army finally collided with the Turgish infantry formation, Yuan Tao personally held the shield and formed a shield wall with the soldiers around him, and the flesh and blood instantly collided together, and the spearmen behind him stabbed out from the gap in the shield, and the sound of knives and guns entering the flesh sounded, and the stabbed Turgish soldiers fell. Suddenly, a long axe slashed horizontally......
"Keep your head down!"
The heads of the soldiers beside him parted from their shoulders with scarves, spurting thick, brown blood, and the corpses fell backwards, and someone quickly replaced them with shields.
"One-two, thorn!"
Three or five spears pierced from the cracks in the shields, piercing the strong man with a long axe, and blood rushed out of his belly.
Yuan Tao's face was covered with blood, and he shouted loudly with great momentum: "Eighth regiment! Kill! ”
They gradually moved towards the enemy line with their shields, and their shields resisted the swords and spears that slashed at them, and the spears continued to stab outward. The cavalry that rushed from the rear threw spears or shot only three zhang away, and many hundred soldiers were shot at the front door, still holding their shields and sticking to the outside, as long as the formation was not chaotic, thousands of troops and horses were not afraid.
The shield array continued to fall, but people kept coming from the side, so that the irregular square gradually decreased, and also made the four squares gradually shrink into a circular array, and the shield covered with blood was like a lotus petal blooming in this army, despite the increase in casualties, it was still like a reef in the raging tide, still standing still.
Que Si's special service was under the big curd, and his eyes were wide open, and the Tang army of 800 people was about to attack his Chinese army, which was simply appalling. He got his father's order to stop Shi Xin here, if 15,000 people can't leave his body behind, how can he go back to face his father Khan!
He snatched the flag from the guard's hand with his own hands, shook it in his hand and shouted: "Change the formation!" Running Bulls! ”
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The onslaught of the reinforcements from the transfer battalion on the periphery made the enemy's encirclement even weaker, and Fujimaki saw this, as did the turret Shi Yehu in Kulan City.
Fujimaki immediately shouted loudly: "Turn into a sharp arrow formation!" Rush through the junction of enemy light cavalry and foot soldiers! ”
"Go! Protect Shi Xin Khan and the princess in the center of the formation! ”
Several soldiers ran to the carriage and pulled out the Shi Xin family lying under the car, each of them supported one to protect them closely, and several surviving Longwu soldiers also hurriedly followed behind the Anxi army, they didn't expect the Anxi army to protect them, as long as they could get out of it, it would be a blessing.
Shi Xin Khan's legs were sifted with chaff, and Princess Jiaohe's face was like earth.
He said to the soldier who supported him, "Give me a sword, let me follow you outside, and I can fight." ”
The soldier ignored his request, and only bluntly refused: "Hurry up and hide behind, don't trouble us." ”
Two or three ladies of Shi Xin's mansion dodged the arrows and followed them with packages behind them.
The soldier snatched the package from them and threw it on the ground: "All your lives are gone, what do you want to do!" ”
"Don't think about anything, just follow us with your eyes closed!"
The gate of Kulan City opened with a bang, and Ye Hu, the eldest son of the Khan, led all the soldiers to rush out, and it was too late to put on any formation, Ye Hu waved the golden knife in his hand and shouted: "Rush over with me, whoever takes Shi Xin's head, I will reward him with 800 yaks!" ”
Fujimaki also raised his arms and shouted: "Blade Arrow Formation! Castration is like an arrow, one shot and no return, we have no way back! ”
He carried the banner that had turned into a torn piece of cloth behind him, wrapped the piece of cloth from the placket of his coat around his right hand holding the sword, and held the shield in his left hand, and stood at the tip of the arrow. Before making this final decision, he thought carefully in his heart and asked himself, "If General Li was here, he would do the same." ”
"Kill!"
A stone's throw was only a hundred paces, and Fujimaki was the first to pounce into the enemy formation, his shoulders bent against his shield, and he let out a roar like a wild bull, knocking down three Turks in a row. An enemy soldier slashed at him wielding a broad-bladed knife, and he raised his hand against his shield and slashed at the opponent's neck, blood splattering his face.
The soldiers behind him pressed their spears to the shoulders of their teammates, and the front jumpers in front of them with their shields in their hands, pushing away the enemy with the force of their impact. The spear pierced through the gap between the shields, but the main goal was not to kill the opponent, but to break a way.
Now is indeed the best time, the enemy's Chinese army formation has been pinned down by the defenders of the city led by Zhao Chonghuan, and the combination of the cavalry formation and the infantry is more loose, but those spears stabbed down from the horse are more difficult to resist.
Ye Hu had already led the soldiers to chase and kill, and he shouted loudly: "Don't let Shi Xin go!" Take his head and reward 800 yaks! ”
Groups of Turks squeezed towards the front of the Tang army, the entire battlefield was completely chaotic, and the formation of the arrows gradually became scattered, and they could no longer care for each other. And the direction in which they broke through was also getting farther and farther away from the transfer battalion that broke into the enemy's rescue position.
Fuji Mu was covered in blood and came out of the encirclement, and when he looked back, Shi Xin's family was still within a few dozen steps, threw away the shield in his hand and rushed in again.
"Shi Xin, let's go!"
The escort team survived less than two hundred people, and the scale armor was already contaminated with blood, protecting Shi Xin's family and fighting and walking, they had basically broken out of the encirclement, but the real desperate road had just begun.
The horses of the Tang army carrying supplies had been lost in the formation, and only two legs could be used to escape, while the enemy was organizing cavalry pursuit.
Fujimu glanced back at him resolutely, and said loudly: "Some people take Shi Xin away, and some of them stay with me to stop the enemy!" ”
The Anxi soldiers looked at each other, they were unwilling to be so separated, and they were even unwilling to make such a choice, the same robe, who should live? Who deserves to die?
An officer with messy hair and silver armor came up and said to Fuji Mu: "Fuji Mu Commander, if you can rest assured that my Long Wu Army, we are willing to take Shi Xin Khan away, and we will definitely ensure his safety." ”
Fuji Mu glanced at Fan Shao in surprise. You're still alive, too, and the timid usually live long.
He turned his head indifferently and looked at the sunset in the sky, and the seaside of his hometown seemed to be in the afterglow of the setting sun, but it was a pity that what he had learned could not be brought back to his homeland.
"Yes," Fujimaki said calmly, "Go back to see General Li, and ask him to find and cremate my body, bring it back to Chang'an and hand it over to Abe Nakamaro, and ask him to ask someone to bring my ashes back to Fujiwara-kyo." ”
He reached out and wiped the blade of the horizontal knife in his hand, and ran his fingers over the surface of the knife: "If this knife is not broken, it will be held tightly in my hand, please bring it back to Japan." ”
The dragon warriors dragged Shi Xin, who looked back, and Ashina's blood boiled in his chest, but now it was too late, more than 20 years of life in Chang'an had worn out the wolf nature in his blood, even if the flames were rekindled, the minions had degraded and disappeared. He could only look back at the man who had saved his life.
Fujimaki held the horizontal knife in both hands, the back of the knife was facing the center of his eyebrows, and said loudly in the face of the approaching enemy horseman: "Come on! Fujimaki serves the Tang Dynasty! Fujiwara Akisuke returns to his hometown! ”
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