"According to the observation of the last general, although Broken Leaf City has no defensive ability, it occupies a huge area, built in imitation of Chang'an, and is about eight or nine miles long and wide. Countless merchants and travelers in the Western Regions come and go, and the location is very important.

The Turgishes sent people to collect merchant taxes there, and did not garrison troops. ”

The army marched on horseback along the southern shore of Atatsu, and Feng Changqing introduced his experience in Shattered Leaf City to the other party. It's a little different from what you imagined.

The Turgish were nomadic tribes with no experience in managing large cities, let alone rebuilding them. Their advantage is that they live nomadically, have no fixed residence, and are very mobile.

The herdsmen and livestock under his command are basically the main wealth. The nomadic economy and the agrarian economy are two completely different ideas.

Only by breaking the inherent thinking of the farming people can we better understand the thinking of the Turgish people.

For the confluence of Broken Leaf and the surrounding rivers, the Turgish were used for grazing and collecting taxes from the passers. Therefore, the extreme backwardness of agricultural technology and the relative development of trade civilization seem absurd, but it is very in line with the living conditions of the Turgish people.

Farming civilization often has to be very developed when farming technology is very developed, and then a relatively developed business will be derived.

If you don't understand this, you can't properly deal with the needs of the nomads, and you can't deal with them.

"Feng joins the army and is well-informed and strong, and you have made a great contribution to this victory."

Fang Chongyong encouraged Feng Changqing and said that this person is very good at map mapping, reconnaissance of the enemy, and collection of mountains and rivers cultural information.

At this moment, there is a breeze blowing in the big lake on their right, which is refreshing. The sparkling waters of the Great Lake, at the end of the view, are a dark blue mixed with white mountains, towering and stacked on top of each other.

Desolate, quaint and magnificent.

The scenery is indeed beautiful, but it cannot be eaten, and the salt water lake has cut off most of the local life. Fang Chongyong secretly regretted in his heart.

"Shattered Leaf City has been ruined for too long, and the army can't sustain itself here. In the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Tang Army built a Buddhist temple here, called Dayun Temple, which is still there today, and the incense is endless.

However, the last general is only hearsay, and he has not seen it with his own eyes. The Tooth Tent of Turgish is not in the Broken Leaf City, but lives with the water and grass, somewhere on the bank of the Broken Leaf River. If you want to find it, you have to ask the locals. ”

Feng Changqing said eloquently.

"By the way, the ten surnamed Khans must be here in Broken Leaf Town, is it because there is a Turkic Holy Mountain near Broken Leaf?"

Fang Chongyong suddenly remembered this stubble and asked suspiciously.

"On this matter, the festival marshal can get to the point.

When the Turks took the oath, they referred to the name of this sacred mountain as Xin, calling it the residence of the Emperor of Heaven.

Every time the Tang Dynasty canonized the ten surnamed khans, they had to make the new khan swear to the sky in front of the mountains north of the Broken Leaf River.

Otherwise, the allegiance of the ministries will not be obtained. The Turkish, who currently have the surnames Yellow and Black, are from the divided Turks.

As far as the last general knows, in addition to the black and yellow surnames, the Turks also have white surnames, red surnames, etc., corresponding to the five elements of yin and yang. These so-called surnames are also one of the ways in which the Turks kneaded people from different places. ”

The two rode at the front of the group, chatting as they went. Soon, a scout in front turned around and saluted Fang Chongyong with a fist: "Jie Shuai, there are ambushes halfway up the mountain ahead!" ”

The southern route of Atami had rivers flowing into it in autumn and winter, but the northern route did not, so it was naturally the primary passage for the march.

Since the current ten surnamed Khans have already turned against the Tang Army, it is not unusual to set up an ambush on the southern front just according to normal military logic.

However, this kind of small routine is not enough to see in front of the elite soldiers of the Tang Army.

"He Laohu, you took the sharp soldiers to rush and did those ambushes. It's on the hill on the left hand side ahead. ”

Fang Chongyong shouted, pointed to a hill in front of him with a horsewhip and said.

These ambush soldiers don't even need to think about it, they are "servant troops" recruited by the Turgish, and they are not even equipped with horses. was used as cannon fodder and came to test the strength of the Tang Army.

It's not distressing to be killed, and it's convenient to shirk responsibility!

"Order!"

He Changqi yelled, took the order flag from Feng Changqing's hand, and headed towards the headquarters.

After He Changqi left, Fang Chongyong continued to order: "The jumping soldiers are ready to set off, with leather armor behind, following behind He Laohu's front team, alternately covering and killing. The sword and shield soldiers wore heavy armor and formed a circle formation, standing by for duty. Otherwise, the whole army was wound with bows and crossbows, ready for battle, and lightly armoured. ”

After receiving the military order, the marching team of the long snake began to form a formation, in an orderly manner, without showing any panic.

Fang Chongyong took a monocular "telescope" from Feng Changqing's hand, squinted one eye, and looked at the telescope with the other one, looking into the distance.

In the establishment of the Tang Army, soldiers, soldiers, armor, bows and crossbows, equipment, and horses were all compiled separately, and many of them were redistributed before battle. For example, infantry can ride horses, and then dismount and fight on foot when they reach the place of engagement. It can also follow the infantry team and fight, which is very flexible.

In different situations, the weapons and horses equipped will be different.

The armor on the soldiers' bodies is also changed according to actual needs, rather than a set of equipment sticking to a certain soldier and never changing. Except for swords and bows and arrows, all other ordnance was officially owned and not the private property of the soldiers. If you sell it privately, you will be killed directly after being discovered.

Generals who can figure out what conditions and what equipment to use are already above the ordinary level in the Tang Army.

There are standard operations for the tactics of the battle, and how to play it depends on the individual.

When a turtle is like a turtle, it is okay to wear heavy armor and slowly grind blood, and it is okay to kill with a single blow with a Mo knife with a bare chest and breasts, and the standard for testing suitability is only the victory or loss of the battle.

Soon, in the narrow field of vision of the telescope in Fang Chongyong's hand, there was a picture that he couldn't bear to look at directly.

A warrior wrapped in a turban on the side of the Turgish, holding a short spear, stabbed at He Changqi. Fang Chongyong had seen this kind of "throwable and stabbed" short spear on the side of Bai Xiaode, the ten generals in Qiuzi Town. However, that person's level was too poor, and He Changqi "took the white blade empty-handed" and grasped the spear shaft.

Then he dragged it hard, and the horizontal knife swept it directly, the head flew up, and the corpse slowly fell. He Changqi took the opponent's short spear, and stabbed down another enemy soldier with his hand, really like a tiger descending from the mountain.

"He Laohu's brain is not very bright on weekdays, and he kills the enemy in battle, but he is fierce and abnormal."

Fang Chongyong put down the "clairvoyant mirror" and muttered to himself.

He didn't need to say much, when the ambush was detected, their destruction would follow. The situation that should have been one-sided has now become a one-sided massacre, and the bloody slaughter on the hill in front of him made Fang Chongyong unbearable to look at it directly.

Many enemy soldiers who had already knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and didn't know what tribe they came from were still killed by the elite soldiers under He Changqi's command, which was a matter of a knife.

This is not called war, this is simple slaughter!

Fang Chongyong frowned slightly, but did not order them to stop.

In less than half an hour, He Changqi, who was covered in blood, came over with a short spear from the enemy's side in his hand, and carried a human head. The sword and shield soldiers of the Tang army separated a way and let him in, all with a relaxed smile on each other.

"Commander Jie, fortunately, the head of the enemy's main general is here. The last general also wanted to catch alive to ask, but the gang of puppies under his command were too fast. ”

He Changqi complained with a smug face.

It's not that they started too quickly, but they were too murderous, and they didn't plan to stay alive at all.

The ten surnamed Khan of the Turks actually dared to detain the envoys of the Tang army, dared to backstab them for no reason, and dared to send troops to ambush the Tang army that entered the southern line of Rehai!

Not killing is not enough to deter the enemy chieftain.

He Changqi's thoughts are all unusually simple and simple: kill all those who dare to resist, and the rest are respectful and obedient.

Want to rebel against the Tang Dynasty? That's not the way it should be!

"Feng joined the army, you are responsible for credit. We'll just camp on the bank of the river ahead. ”

Fang Chongyong commanded Feng Changqing, too lazy to say anything to He Changqi.

The rules tempered in the war really can't be changed by one or two masters. Fang Chongyong believed that even if he ordered to keep his hands in advance, these people would not be able to care about them when they went to the battlefield.

Many times, the enemy army who has already been defeated kneels down and beg for mercy will also be killed by the red-eyed soldiers.

He didn't like it, but he knew that habit was powerful. The ideological level of the Qiu Ba people cannot reach the height of the "united front", and they cannot be too demanding of them.

……

"Khan! Something is wrong! On the South Line of Atasu, the Tang Army even broke the Frozen City and He Hunting City, and they were already rushing to Yezhi City! It's just a river away from here!

The transfer department is also reversed, there is no resistance at all, and it is still leading the way in front! ”

In the tent of the camp outside Yezhi City, a scout of the Turkish Dynasty said to the ten surnamed Khans, his face extremely anxious.

In order to prevent the leading party from snowballing, the ten surnamed Khans deliberately rushed to the front line of Yezhi City from near Broken Leaf City, and supervised the battle here, in a vain attempt to block the direction of the Tang army's march to Broken Leaf City with the narrow passage of Atami.

Anyway, if you have torn your face, you don't need to mention any nonsense like "misunderstanding", you can do it with real knives and guns!

However, the ten-surnamed khan seems to have overlooked one thing.

A hundred eggs, stacked on top of each other to touch a stone, will not hurt the stone in the slightest.

The inability to deploy troops on the north and south lines of Atami was indeed a great restriction for the Tang Army. But it's the same thing for the troops of the Turgish!

Objective geographical conditions, for the warring parties, the impact is not at all different.

The two lines of defense arranged by the ten surnamed Khans on the southern front could not stop the march of the Tang army at all. In other words, those Turgish people didn't have the will to fight at all, and even the transfer department stationed in He Hunting City directly surrendered to the Tang army!

In the final analysis, the Tuqi Shi people were not psychologically prepared for why they suddenly turned their faces with the Tang Dynasty, let alone prepared for war.

The collusion between the ten surnamed Khans and the black-clothed Great Food was all a matter within him and his inner circle, and the middle and lower-level Turgish people did not know about it. And because the internal forces of the Turgish are naturally divided into "yellow and black", it is impossible to pinch them into a rope.

Therefore, it is not surprising that there are people on the front line who are anti-water, and it is reasonable.

"Khan! Khan! There is a Tang army in the north to storm the camp! ”

There was an exclamation from outside the tent, but in fact, there was no need for anyone to shout, because at this moment, the ten surnamed Khan had already heard the sound of shouting and killing everywhere in the camp, from far and near!

"What's going on! Didn't you say that the Tang Army was on the southern front, across a river from us? How could it come from the north! ”

The ten surnamed Khan grabbed the scout's collar and was furious!

At this moment, dozens of rockets were fired at the tent, and soon, one side of the tent was engulfed in flames, and it was so crumbling that it could not hold it!

"Let's go, go back to Broken Leaf City!"

The Ten Khan shouted.

As soon as he stepped out of the tent, he saw that the camp outside was full of Tang cavalry on horseback. And the tooth tent where he was located had been surrounded by more than a hundred Tang soldiers.

The tooth tent is very special and extremely gorgeous, you can see it from afar, and there is no semicolon in the whole camp, so it is difficult not to be noticed!

The Ten Khan regretted that he was too high-profile, and if he had been in an inconspicuous small tent before, he might still have a chance to run away.

Suddenly, the Tang soldiers who surrounded the tooth tent parted ways, and a general on a horse stepped forward, raised his horse lance and pointed at the ten surnamed Khans and asked, "You are the ten surnamed Khan of the Turgish, Iridemi Shi Gu Lupiga?" ”

This general of the Tang Army is the king who has not stopped all the way from the northern front! He was looking at the Thorn Khan in front of him, a little bewildered, with an arrogant expression.

"I am the Khan of the Ten Surnames, and I am a vassal of the Tang Dynasty. Dare to ask why the Tang army attacked my camp for no reason? ”

The ten surnamed Khan asked with a clear pretense of confusion, but his trembling legs had betrayed his true thoughts.

"If you have a hard mouth when you die, if you have any excuses, go and tell us Fang Jieshuai. Come on, take it! ”

Wang rarely let out a loud shout, and the two sharp soldiers around him directly pounced on the ten surnamed Khans and tied them tightly with ropes.

The Turgish were attracted by the Tang army in the south, and the main forces were on the southern front. This time, it was rare for the king to sneak attack the Turkey Cavalry camp, just like an adult bullying a child, the other party had no defense at all, and he didn't consider that the Tang army would take the northern line, and there were not many elite soldiers in the camp.

This is actually a betting game, where the Turgis gamble on one side and have the hope of winning; If both sides bet and the forces are scattered, both ends will not be able to hold on, and the loss will be even worse.

It's not that there is a problem with the response of the ten surnamed Khans, but that today's Tuqi Shi, compared with the elite strength of the Tang Army, is too much worse, and it is no longer a strategy that can make up for the gap.

In fact, although the ten surnamed Khans concentrated their forces, the southern front actually did not hold, and the backstab of the transfer department at the critical moment made the Thirshi Khan desperate.

"Take people away! Send it to Fang Jieshuai's camp!

Just told the festival marshal that I am now leading the troops to attack Broken Leaf City, thinking that the army is moving forward, so I will not go back to restore my life. ”

Wang rarely laughed.

He didn't want Fang Chongyong to "peacefully settle" the turquoise, so how could he make his achievements?

Don't say anything, just kill all the way and it's over, there is nothing that the Tang Army's iron cavalry can't solve with a knife!

If one knife doesn't solve the problem, cut it again.

"Get the order, and the last general will do it!"

The lieutenant general saluted Wang with a rare fist, and couldn't help but step forward and kick the ten surnamed Khan.

"Although those who offend me as a strong man will be punished from afar, you are a small raider Shi Khan, and you dare to raise a soldier to the Tang Dynasty, who gave you the face? Who gave you the guts? ”

The lieutenant general pointed at the ten surnamed Khan who was like a mourner and cursed, took the handle of the horizontal knife, and knocked the other party on the cheek.

His face was full of disdain.

(End of chapter)