The Turks are strong!

This is Hu Bingchang's first impression after fighting with the Turkic coalition army, and the second impression is that Hu Bingchang feels that he is very unsuitable for the Turkic people's way of fighting to annihilate the enemy in this movement!

This is the first time that the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom has really engaged the Turkic cavalry, even if Jiang Chuan has some combat experience in fighting with the Tiele people who are dependent on the Turks in the upper reaches of Wanshui when he was attacking the Omuro Wei Department, but Jiang Chuan is carried out in the way of night attack, in fact, the cavalry did not gain much experience in the battle.

After easily solving the nearly 20,000 cavalry of the Tiele people last time, the cavalry of the Xia State has always felt that the grassland empire that has been touted is nothing remarkable, and there have even been people advocating war against the Turks, but it is only now that the two sides are at war, they know that they are wrong, and they are outrageously wrong.

The fighting methods of the Turks are not only different from the fighting methods of the Goguryeo cavalry, but also very different from the fighting methods of the Tiele people of the same origin, because the Turks themselves are good at smelting iron, and the Turks do not lack iron weapons, not to mention that they have better weapons, and even the war horses under their crotches are also one person and two horses.

In the past, the Xia army fought with the Northern Qi, fought with the Southern Chen, fought with Goguryeo, and fought with the cavalry of these countries, but the cavalry of these countries belonged to the cavalry of agricultural civilization, and its combat methods paid attention to array and frontal attack, and the cavalry of the Xia army actually belonged to this type.

However, when the Xia cavalry fought with the Turks, they found that their understanding of the steppe cavalry was far from in-depth, and these Turks stayed on war horses all year round, resulting in them and the war horses being simply a whole, and the equestrian skills were not comparable to the cavalry trained by the Xia army.

Another thing worth mentioning is the way the Turks fight, they almost do not compete with the Xia army head-on, but go east and west, sometimes with the Xia army head-on, when you think the Turks are going to fight you head-on, but suddenly find that there is a stronger cavalry on the flank.

Due to their skill in smelting iron, the Turks did not lack arrows to make their archery skills more sophisticated, although the accuracy of the crossbow arrows of the Xia cavalry was also very high, but the time required to shoot a crossbow arrow, the Turks could shoot more than three arrows with a bow and arrow.

The perennial hunting made almost everyone of the Turks have a superb archery skill, coupled with the strength advantage of the Turks, so that the Xia army simply did not want to live, if it were not for the cavalry of the Xia army equipped with rockets, thunderbolts and other gunpowder weapons that the Turks had never seen, I am afraid that the losses of the Xia army would be even greater.

Of course, the range of crossbow arrows is longer than that of bows and arrows, and the protective armor of most of the Xia cavalry is very effective, which is also a favorable factor that the Xia army's losses are not so large, otherwise the Xia army's losses will be greater.

Even so, Hu Bingchang still felt a little irresistible, the Turks did not fight with you head-on in the field, but constantly sent cavalry to intersperse in a roundabout, constantly harassing the flanks and rear flanks of the Xia cavalry, in the face of this kind of unreasonable battle, even Hu Bingchang had nothing to do.

The Turks' mobility is too strong, if it is a frontal battle, the Xia army does not need to be so afraid of the Turks, but the Turks are using their mobility to harass you, if you can't stop it, then congratulations, you will soon be cut off by the Turks for use as a wine jug.

Therefore, in this situation, Hu Bingchang was still able to resist the Turkic army of 100,000 and retreat more than 40,000 cavalry under his command to Fuyu City safely, and finally only lost about 5,000 cavalry, which has already impressed many Xia generals.

After retreating to Buyeo City, Hu Bingchang breathed a sigh of relief, not because Buyeo City was strong enough to block the Turks, but because the geographical environment where Buyeo City was located could block the Turkic attack.

Buyeo City itself is a mountain city built on a mountain range, which is the Great Black Mountain of Jilin in later generations, and Buyeo City is located at the foot of the mountain at the end of its northeast.

Although this northeast-southwest mountain range stretches for only two or three hundred miles, it is connected to the mountains in the upper reaches of the Sumo River in the northeast, and the mountains in the southwest are connected to the mountains of Liaodong County, and there are Liaoshui and Sumo water on both sides, so it can be said that this is a natural dividing line between the mountains and the plains here in Liaodong.

Buyeo City is located in the northeastern part of Dahei Mountain, close to the junction of the plains, the terrain is dangerous, and there is the fourth division led by Yu Feng and more than 10,000 National Guards in the city, so as long as the Xia army holds Buyeo City, the Turks who do not have many siege means can be under the city.

When the Muzhu Khan cooperated with the Northern Zhou army to besiege the Northern Qi for the first time, it was precisely because the newly rising Turks lacked siege means that they had to be blocked outside the Great Wall, and a large number of Turkic soldiers were killed by Hu Luxie, who was the governor of Shuozhou at that time.

Although the Turks have now occupied the city-states in the Western Regions, and even conquered the Huns and occupied the Hezhong region, there are a large number of craftsmen to make professional siege equipment, but because the Marquis of Chu Luo is only a Turkic Turkish, he does not have these craftsmen in his own hands, so the Turkic army outside the city of Buyeo still has no siege equipment.

If it weren't for the Xia army's equipment with hot air balloons, a large number of gunpowder weapons, and giant trebuchets, it would not have conquered Buyeo City so quickly, and this dangerous city was not so simple. Xiaotao Chinese

The city walls, which had been breached by the Xia army last year, had already been repaired after a winter, and the steep terrain and the tall and sturdy city walls were enough to withstand the attack of the Turkic army.

In addition to the advantages of terrain, there are nearly 30,000 infantry troops in Buyeo City, and 40,000 cavalry led by Hu Bingchang outside the city are camped against the city wall.

Sure enough, Chu Luohou did not give up, and first ordered the Khitans, Kumoxi, and Wuluohou to send troops one after another, but these steppe cavalry were good at field warfare, but it was really difficult for them to let them attack the city.

In order to improve the killing effect of the defenders in the city, he deliberately put the Turks closer, although at this time the Turks can also attack the defenders in the city with bows and arrows, but the infantry are all wearing armor, so they don't have to be afraid of the Turks' bows and arrows.

The Xia army was greatly strengthened because of the attack power of the crossbow arrows shot condescendingly, and after the Khitans, Xi people, and Wuluo Houren approached the city wall, the Xia army on the head of the city suddenly used rockets, thunderbolts, crossbow arrows, etc. as weapons at different strike distances, and the coalition lost thousands of soldiers in just one day.

After several failed attempts by several vassal soldiers to attack Buyeo City, the Turks, who could not bear it, simply rushed upwards on their own, but they were still repelled by the defenders of Buyeo City, and again lost thousands of men.

After touching the ashes, Chu Luohou calmed down, and then he decided not to attack Buyeo City again, after all, there were tens of thousands of Xia cavalry outside Buyeo City, and once the Turks lost too much, these Xia cavalry would inevitably take advantage of the situation to chase and kill.

After the failure of the attack on Fuyu City, Chu Luohou turned to lead the army to the southwest, preparing to attack the hinterland of Liaodong County.

Under the leadership of the envoy of Yuan Dazuo, the Turkic coalition army attacked Xincheng and Liaodong City successively, but Xincheng and Liaodong City were also built on the southwest end of the Great Black Mountain Range, and the Xia infantry army arranged a solid defense line along the mountain range and Liaoshui, so the offensive of the Turkic army failed again.

After the defeat in these two places, Chu Luohou returned to attack Fuyu City again, but the result was still a failure.

In the end, the Marquis of Chu Luo had to order the Turkic army to retreat for 20 miles and set up camp, because the Turks had lost tens of thousands of people in the past ten days, and other coalition forces had also lost tens of thousands of people, so he was angry and wanted to purge and retaliate against the people of Xia within hundreds of miles around Buyeo City.

Because of the little time that Hu Bingchang had gained, the vast majority of the people of the Xia Kingdom had already safely withdrawn to the other side of Sumoshui, and then moved further to the east of Jiangzhou City, after all, the ice on the surface of Sumoshui had not yet been civilized at this time, and the Turkic army could easily cross this wide river to attack it.

However, at this time, there are still many people who have built their homes along the Sumoshui River, especially the Xinfangzibao where Qin Han and Yan Xiaowu met the old man Jingzhi at the beginning, they have already established a solid civil structure on the west bank of Sumoshui, so they did not move in time.

In addition to them, there were also some people who had luck in their hearts, and they also stayed along the Sumo River, so these people who did not leave became the objects of the Turks to vent their hatred, and while Hu Bingchang had not expected his actions, Zhu Luohou used 50,000 cavalry to confront Hu Bingchang's army, and quickly sent 30,000 cavalry to scatter and plunder the wealth.

After a large number of people fled from Xuanyu County, the results of the Turks were of course not very good, so the wealth of the people of Fangzibao who did not retreat was very eye-catching, especially Fangzibao was only about 100 miles away from Fuyu City, so the Turks sent 5,000 cavalry here.

At this time, there were only 1,500 young people in Fangzi Fort, and there were also five or six hundred Xia people who fled from other places, and there were only more than 2,000 people in the fort.

The new Fangzi Fort is relatively close to Buyeo City, where Yu Feng once set up a beacon tower for early warning, which was just in handy at this time, and the people of Fangzibao bravely resisted the attack of the Turks while lighting a beacon fire to ask for help from Buyeo City.

As the captain of the militia of Fangzibao in Pingyang County, the old man Jing Zhen played the role of the Zhenhai Divine Needle at this time, and this sixty-year-old man faced the fierce faces of the Turks, did not hesitate to put on a leather armor, and then participated in the resistance with a spear in his hand.

Even at the most critical moments, he calmly commanded the young men in the fort to carry out methodical defenses, defeating the Turkic offensive many times.

The Turks saw that their fortress was mainly made of wood, so they used cattle and sheep fat to ignite it and threw it on it, but they were extinguished by Jing Xu and the young men with ice and snow, and then because the wall of the fortress was not high, the Turks gradually approached by accumulating ice and snow.

Regardless of his old age, he personally led 500 men who dared to die to destroy the Turks' intentions, but after all, the Turks' forces were larger than the Han people in Fangzi Fort, so their defense was also precarious as time went by.