Chapter 786: Encounter
The night breeze swept across the grassland, sweeping down a patch of grass ash.
A team of horses with no head in sight galloped through the night of the steppe.
The line is very long, I don't know how many people.
The march of the Turks was very irregular and fragmented.
This Turkic army has lost its combat effectiveness six years ago, and since the return to the Tang Dynasty, the establishment of the steppe army has seen that the soldiers have been absent from the battle formation for a long time and have not been trained.
The whole team is like a steppe wolf that has lost its fangs, and it is precisely because of this that it has repeatedly suffered in skirmishes with the Tuyuhun Khanate.
Now, a tribal coalition of 30,000 people has been assembled, which is all the military strength that the Turkic tribes under the leadership of the former Jieli Khan can muster.
They decided to join forces with the Tang army to fight against the invasion of the Tuyuhun Khanate.
However, they were already three days behind schedule.
Judging by the scattered marching paths of the troops, there is a big problem with this team.
The first is the division within the chief.
The Turks had been enemies of the Han people for generations, and now they have become allies of the Han people, jointly fighting against the Tuyuhun Khanate, which also belonged to the steppe.
This war was destined from the beginning to be ostracized by many people.
Although joining the current new khan is a blood line of Jieli Khan, the previous khan was appointed by the Tang Dynasty after the Tang Dynasty, and his son inherited the throne of the khan, and he had a lot less prestige for the Turks who had been living in the steppe.
In addition, there was a Han Chinese in the Turkic clan who served as the Khan of the Stars, and not everyone was willing to accept it.
Nowadays, there are many Turkic problems, and it is difficult for anyone to stand up and win the hearts and minds of the people.
If it weren't for the big step in the invasion of the steppe by the Tuyuhun Khanate, there would not be today's coalition army.
Nowadays, the Turkic Khan Gu Xi is a staunch Tang faction, and Ajibado is a close confidant by his side.
It was this coalition army that the two of them had gathered together, and the two were very anxious and wanted to quickly join the Tang army.
After all, the Tang Army is here to fight for them, if they don't rush to the front line, how can they raise their heads in the Tang Dynasty in the future?
Baduo looked at the map: "In another four hours, we should be able to reach Lukou Mountain." ”
Gu Xi looked back at his scattered team and frowned.
Now there is no need to have any hope for his army, just hope for a safe and secure convergence.
But at this moment, a wolf howl broke the calm of the night.
"Wolves!"
Someone exclaimed, pointing to the dark edge of the prairie and shouting.
Wolves?
For the Turks, wolves are nothing.
But when Baduo and Gu Xi saw the dark shadow under the moonlight on the side of the team, the two of them took a cool breath almost at the same time.
Dense and uncountable, what they saw in their eyes was not a pack of wolves, but a tide of wolves.
After a wolf howl, countless wolves responded by howling in the sky.
The sound traveled far away, and a team of tens of thousands of horses caused a commotion.
The horses were so frightened that many fell off their horses, and some of them fled the ranks and rushed straight into the darkness.
The long procession suddenly became like a severed earthworm, twisting and curling up in the vastness.
"Don't panic! Hold on to your horse and stay in formation! Gu Xi shouted loudly, "No matter how many wolves there are, there will never be as many of us as there are!" As long as the order is adjusted, there will be danger. ”
The Turks knew about the wolves, and after the initial surprise, everyone stabilized.
Wolves will not attack teams that are also in groups.
As long as everyone huddles together, don't get separated, and wait until dawn, the wolves will naturally disperse.
Of course, everyone also knows that the gathering of so many wolves is by no means the behavior of the wolves themselves, and there must be someone behind it.
After a few minutes, the group began to settle down, and everyone gathered together to move on, albeit at a much slower pace.
Baduo looked at the wolves on the side, and as everyone expected, the wolves just watched from the side, following them all the way, in front of this army of tens of thousands of people, a group of livestock still did not dare to approach.
However, Bado's heart was faintly uneasy.
Since someone is controlling such a wolf pack, the other party will never appear here rashly, and it is obvious that tonight will not be as calm as imagined.
"Grab all the knives and be ready to deal with them!"
Bado shouted, drawing his knife.
As soon as the words fell, a burst of fire suddenly lit up in the other direction.
"Kill!"
Shouting to kill the heavens, an army suddenly appeared and rushed from the opposite direction of the wolves.
The battle was imminent, it came suddenly, and it was impossible to tell the number of enemy troops in the darkness of the night.
At this time, it was already too late for any dispatch, and Gu Xi drew his knife and shouted to fight.
The two horse teams clashed, and the moment they came into contact, they couldn't even cut the first knife, and the horses and the horses collided violently, this time fighting whose horse was stronger. If the horse falls untenably, the man falls to the ground, and in an instant he is trampled into pulp.
Or if the horseback riding technique is not good, and an unstable fall, the result is the same.
When the chaos began, Bado didn't care, and rushed into the enemy line alone.
The former Turkic princess, in order to lead the people to grow, has long lost her identity as a woman, and years of training have made her more courageous than the men of the steppe.
However, the battle between the two armies was not a personal battle.
It's the use of tactics.
This time, the Turkic coalition forces responded in a hurry, responding to the enemy's sudden frontal charge with weak flanks, and in the first encounter, the team was instantly scattered, and the long dragon-like team was instantly stirred up into a plate of sand.
As soon as Baduo turned around, he found that he could no longer find any team members except for a few of the Aji clan's cronies.
He was surrounded by unknown enemy soldiers, each of whom was extremely fierce, and a pair of eyes seemed to exude a penetrating red light.
"Kill!"
Baduo shouted, and cut off the hooves of the enemy around him with a knife, and the horse fell down in response, and the enemy rolled off the horse and rolled on the ground several times.
But the enemy was not directly trampled to death, but roared and grabbed the horse's hooves under Baduo with both hands!
Baduo's pupils shrank, he didn't expect the enemy to be so fierce, and he forcibly overturned Baduo and his horse to the ground.
Bado only felt his brain buzzing, thinking he was dead.
His daughter Eagle Cub inadvertently flashed to his mind, and he was a little glad that he had sent her to safety.
At the same time, Bai Song's smiling face appeared, and his heart was sour.
"Patriarch! Launched! "One of the Aji tribesmen came up to Bado and held out his hand.
Bado came back to his senses, grabbed the other man's hand and was pulled up.
Baduo had just sat down, but the people who saved him were cut off by a knife, and the blood instantly stained Baduo's eyes.
The tribesmen fell, and Bado didn't have time to be sentimental, snatching the reins and controlling the horses.
In such a chaotic situation, no matter who it is, as long as it falls, it will definitely die.