Chapter 194: The Battle of Merging States Reinforcements have not arrived
The book continues from the above, the last book said that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and Chu Mofeng, the Duke of Qi, led his troops to arrive in Bingzhou to garrison, at this time in the face of the Turkic army outside the city, Chu Mofeng, who has always been full of wisdom, could not think of any good strategy to deal with the Turkic leopard division at this moment, who knew that the Tiance army that was originally deployed to Yiwu all arrived, and the military department also sent someone to hand over the Mo knife and twenty small wooden boxes made by the Ordnance Bureau to Chu Mofeng.
Looking at the henchmen and new weapons in front of him, Chu Mofeng suddenly had a certain certainty of victory in his heart, and on the second day, under Li Shimin's slogan of 'Tang Erlang will fight to the death, and those who invade the land of our Central Plains will be punished even if they are far away', 20,000 Tang soldiers went out of the city and launched an attack on the 30,000 Turkic soldiers on the opposite side.
A battle lasted for nearly two hours, and then in view of the inability to fight at night, the two sides quickly withdrew their troops, and it was Ye Chu Mofeng who led the Tiance army to set a trap on the battlefield, waiting for it to come in handy in the battle tomorrow.
That night, Hachile was furious in the big tent, today's fiasco is a situation that the leopard division has never encountered, which makes Hachile who swore before, inevitably a little angry, in the big tent Hachile is holding a horsewhip, and there are several Turkic men who have taken off their shirts kneeling in front of him, these people are the small commanders who led the Turkic soldiers to face the Tang Dynasty today, but at this moment he knelt on the ground without saying a word, listening to Hachile's reprimand.
I saw Hachile whip the whip heavily on a person's back, and with a crisp sound, a blood mark suddenly appeared on the white back, and the person just snorted in a low voice, and hurriedly straightened his back again.
Seeing this, Hachil said angrily: "You waste, you have failed the expectations of the great Khan, and a small annex will let you people turn on their backs, and you are not worthy of the soldiers of our Turkic Leopard Division." With that, the whip in his hand was raised again, and it was whipped heavily on the back of the other man.
Seeing this, Qu Niren on the side hurriedly persuaded him: "Brother Hachile, please extinguish the thunder anger for the time being, and listen to Qu Niren's words." ”
If it was someone else who spoke at this time, Hachil would not pay attention to it, but this sister of Qu Niren was the favorite concubine of Jieli Khan, and for fear of the power of the pillow wind, Hachile could only withdraw the horsewhip that had been raised again, turned to look at Qu Niren and said: "Brother Qu Niren does not need to intercede for these wastes, you must know that the great Khan is still waiting for the good news of our victory." ”
"Brother Hachile, don't blame these sons for today's events. Listening to Hachile's words, Qu Niren thought with disdain in his heart, if it weren't for you, an idiot, who commanded blindly and attacked in three directions, how could you be defeated today, and if you lose, you will complain about your subordinates, I really don't know why the Great Khan chose you to be the commander this time, thinking of this, Qu Niren said with a smile: "The people of the Tang Kingdom are too cunning, and we didn't know what the black armor soldiers of Qi Guogong were also here, so we suffered a loss." Tomorrow, we might as well concentrate on attacking from the front, a large-scale cavalry charge is simply a hand-to-hand capture for our Turkic children, I think the infantry of the Tang State will not be able to resist. ”
Hachile, who didn't know that he had been scolded thousands of times in the other party's heart, nodded when he heard Qu Niren's words, and then said angrily to his subordinates kneeling in front of him: "Get up, if it weren't for Commander Qu Niren saying good things for you this time, I should really pay tribute to your dead soldiers." ”
Hearing this, several people hurriedly stood up, and secretly sent a grateful look to Qu Niren, Qu Niren only smiled when he saw this, and then waved his hand to signal them to retreat, and he said to Hachile with a smile: "When it comes to the fierce generals around the Great Khan, it should be the Hachile brothers, so tomorrow's battle will be handed over to the Hachile brothers." ”
Hearing this, Hachile couldn't help laughing and patted Qu Niren on the shoulder and said, "Hachile has thanked the Qu Niren brothers here, and tomorrow Hachile will lead his sons to take the opposite city, and then I will invite the Qu Niren brothers to taste the best wine in the city." ”
Wine, you kid will fight the city tomorrow first! Looking at Hachile with a look of victory, Qu Niren couldn't help but secretly slander himself in his heart. However, after thinking about it, how delicious is this wine of the Tang Kingdom? It can make many Turks admire, and for a moment Qu Niren's thoughts are completely placed on the reverie about fine wine.
"Poof, what kind of wine is this, it's so unpalatable?" Holding the wine jar and only tasting one sip, Chu Mofeng hurriedly spit out the wine in his mouth, and then looked at Li Shimin with a disgusted look and said: "This is the so-called Bingzhou wine? I knew it was so unpleasant, I might as well bring a few jars of Zhangye to get drunk." ”
"Be content, it's very rare to be able to find you these jars of wine during the Great War. Listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Li Shimin glanced at him angrily and said: "Originally, the Tang Dynasty military order stipulated that you are not allowed to drink alcohol in wartime, you have already violated the law, I did not punish you according to the military order, you are still picking and choosing here." ”
Bingzhou aging was actually a medium-to-upper liquor in the Tang Dynasty at that time, but Chu Mofeng was either drunk with Zhangye, or went into the palace to drink those imperial wines, and suddenly changed to folk wine, which was indeed a little uncomfortable, but there was only Bingzhou aging here, and in desperation, Chu Mofeng had to take a sip again, and then said with a smile: "Our military order of the Tang Dynasty was originally improved by me according to the old system when Jinyang raised the army, and your Royal Highness King Qin has such a big pomp, and even the person who formulated the military order has to be punished?"
", don't I think there will be a new battle tomorrow, I'm afraid you'll drink too much and delay things. After listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Li Shimin remembered that he had been working for a period of time before the goods in front of him. Moreover, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he has held military power for a long time, and then said with a smile: "In other words, except for my father and emperor, who would dare to punish you Grandpa Chu?"
Putting the wine jar in his hand on the ground at will, Chu Mofeng immediately said seriously: "Tomorrow I estimate that the Turks will not divide their troops to attack again, according to the stubborn donkey-like thinking of the Turks, tomorrow the opposite coach will definitely take the middle palace directly, so my idea is that once I lead people to face the Turks face off tomorrow, you will take your elite cavalry to attack the opponent's camp from the flank, only arson and killing, no stalemate, as for the frontal battlefield, you don't have to worry about it, everything is easy to say with me." ”
Hearing that Chu Mofeng had left the most difficult task to himself, Li Shimin said with a worried face: "Then you should be careful in everything tomorrow, and remember not to blindly fight alone." ”
"Cheng, tomorrow once I contain the main force of the other party, I will use three arrows as a signal, and you will be careful at that time, it is estimated that there should be a lot of troops left in the Turkic camp. Chu Mofeng nodded, then picked up the two jars of wine on the ground and walked straight towards the door.
When he was about to walk to the door of the house, Chu Mofeng suddenly turned his head and said: "Tomorrow morning, when the Turks have not yet attacked, send people to the surrounding provinces to ask for support, I am afraid that if the Turks cannot attack for a long time, they will continue to increase their troops, and then our situation will be difficult." ”
Li Shimin nodded when he heard this, and after Chu Mofeng left, he quickly called someone to call Li Shixian, and instructed him to go out from the North City Gate at night to seek reinforcements from the nearest Fudao, and wrote a letter for him to carry with him. After receiving the order, Li Shiqian sneaked out of the city overnight and headed for the nearby Luzhou Mansion in Hedong Province.
At the beginning of the second day, there was a disturbance in the Turkic camp, and the Tang soldiers who had already been on the city wall quickly reported the situation to Li Shimin and others, and then Li Shimin climbed to the top of the city to take a look, only to see columns of cavalry slowly driving out of the Turkic camp opposite, and the blade of the sword emitted a chilling light under the sunlight.
Immediately, Li Shimin shouted to Chu Mofeng, who was already ready to attack under the city, and a group of Tang Dynasty soldiers: "The Turks are going to attack, everything is left to you, people are in the city, and people are not dead in the city." After speaking, as the city gate slowly opened, Li Shimin personally walked to the war drums, picked up the drumsticks and beat the war drums, accompanied by the low sound of war drums, the Tang Iron Horse slowly walked out of the city gate under the leadership of Chu Mofeng.
Looking at the neatly arranged Turkic soldiers on the opposite side, Chu Mofeng shouted with a hideous face: "Sons, go into battle with Ben Shuai to kill the enemy." ”
With an order, the army that was ready to attack followed Chu Mofeng and rushed towards the Turkic army. At the forefront was the cavalry led by the Tiance Army, and I saw that the second battalion of Tianji and Tiangun still used the original mace and spear as weapons, charging forward according to the conventional offensive formation.
Behind the second battalion of the Heavenly Kill and Heavenly Spear were three hundred cavalrymen armed with Mo knives, their task was to quickly expand the results of the battle after the enemy formation was rushed away, and the Heavenly Shield Battalion had already changed to a horizontal sword and round shield at this moment, and tightly guarded the surroundings of the Heavenly Bow Battalion, so that the Heavenly Bow Battalion would not be affected when covering the shooting.
The cavalry was followed by columns of soldiers with large shields, interspersed with pikemen, swordsmen, and a few archers. Seeing that the Turkic cavalry was about to arrive at the designated position, Chu Mofeng took out a rattle from behind him and threw it into the sky, and several soldiers of the Tiangong Battalion behind him quickly opened their bows and arrows and pointed at a position each, quietly waiting for Chu Mofeng's signal.
At this moment, Chu Mofeng could already see the hideous faces of the Turkic cavalry opposite, seeing this scene, Chu Mofeng quickly threw out a dart, and the soldiers of the Heavenly Bow Battalion who received the order, twisted the hand of the arrow tail and gently loosened, only to see a few arrows shooting towards the target position like meteors.
The Turkic cavalry, who were running at full speed, felt that the war horse under the crotch suddenly stagnated, and then the whole person flew forward, and the first batch of soldiers and horses that landed instantly blocked the offensive momentum of the people behind, as more and more people fell to the ground, at this time, the Turkic cavalry who held the reins found that it was those commonplace triphorses that blocked their own side's attack.
However, if one or two triphorse ropes could not stop the cavalry, the problem was that Chu Mofeng and his people set up not as simple as one or two triphorse ropes, and there were more than ten of them that had already played a role.
Just when the Turkic cavalry was stagnant, the Tang cavalry would not wait because the opposite attack was blocked, and at this time, Chu Mofeng had already led his cavalry to rush in front of the Turkic army.
With his right hand, he clenched the Burning Sky and slashed at a Turkic soldier in front of him, instantly beating the opponent to the point that his head was broken and bleeding and fell off the horse, and the splattered blood stuck to Chu Mofeng's armor, but became a trace of embellishment.
The soldiers of the Heavenly Killing Battalion behind him picked up their maces and did not hit anyone, but specifically greeted the horse's head, and the horse that was hit immediately stood up high in the air with its front hooves in pain, and then fell to the ground with the man on horseback, and the Heavenly Spear Battalion followed quickly killed with spears.
At this time, Chu Mofeng drilled into the opponent's military formation like a loach, rushing left and right to slash and kill, while the Tiance army behind him was like a hot knife inserted into butter, quickly tearing apart the Turkic formation.
After Chu Mofeng led the people to rush out of the opponent's formation, he quickly turned the horse's head and killed from both sides, while the Tiangong battalion shot indiscriminately one after another, and immediately shot the Turks to the ground.
Seeing that his side's attack was blocked, Hachile's eyes were torn apart, and he immediately picked up his big knife and said to Qu Niren beside him: "Brother Qu Niren, the camp will leave it to you." ”
Qu Niren nodded and did not speak, and then Hachile turned on his horse and led the next group of Turkic cavalry out of the camp.
Seeing the second wave of Turkic cavalry dispatched, Chu Mofeng immediately shouted loudly: "You guys follow me to this formation." Then he put his legs between the belly of the horse and ran towards his own formation. The Turks who were in charge of the pursuit behind them desperately beckoned the Ming Di to the Tang cavalry, and with the continuous roar, casualties began to appear.
After running back to the main formation, Chu Mofeng shouted to Cheng Yanjin: "General Cheng, hold on to the spot and erect a shield." With Cheng Biting Jin's order, the infantry erected the prepared shields.
At this time, the Turkic soldiers were also about to rush to the front of the battle, and with the continuous banging, the two sides were suddenly stuck together, Chu Mofeng adjusted his state when he saw this, and took the cavalry under his command to meet him again.
In the process of advancing, Chu Mofeng suddenly found that the defense was a little weak in one place, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were killed and wounded one after another, so he immediately shouted to the Tiance army behind him: "Cooperate with the infantry against the enemy, I'll go over there and take a look." ”
After speaking, the horse's head adjusted the direction and rushed towards the place he saw, and when he was about to get to the front, Chu Mofeng suddenly caught a glimpse of the light of a big knife from the corner of his eye, and immediately clenched the wrist of the burning sky, played with a knife flower, and pulled it in the direction of the cold light.
When rushing to the front of the Tang Dynasty, Hachile waved the big knife in his hand and cut down several Tang soldiers one after another, at this time a spear suddenly stabbed in front of him, Hachile saw that the long knife in his hand picked up from the bottom up, swung the spear away, and then slashed down at the gun-wielding soldier from top to bottom.
Seeing that the broadsword flashed with cold light and was about to slash at his head, the soldier did not dodge, but accelerated the action of collecting the gun, preparing to resist with the spear, but at this time, there was a sudden banging sound above his head, and he saw that the big knife that would have fallen on top of his head flew high into the sky in an instant.
The frightened soldier looked back and saw his commander Chu Mofeng standing beside him at the moment, looking coldly at the Turkic general with a knife and saying, "Turkic dog, is your strength quite strong?"
When the big sword fell, Hachile hurriedly copied it back, and then looked at the thin young man in front of him and said, "Who are you? ”
Unexpectedly, the man on the other side rushed forward with the strange weapon in his hand, and muttered, "I'm your grandfather." Then he raised the weapon in his hand and waved it at himself.
Seeing this, Hachile hurriedly raised his knife to block, but the opponent's move suddenly changed, and the whole person jumped up straight as soon as he stepped on the stirrup, held the weapon with both hands in the air, and slashed down on the top of his head with the momentum of falling.
Seeing the other party's sudden change of moves, Hachile was suddenly a little unable to adapt, but there was no ambiguity in his hand, holding the spine of the knife with one hand and holding the handle of the knife with the other, and raising the big knife above his head, only to hear the sound of 'bang', and suddenly a feeling of pain came from the tiger's mouth.
Hachile looked at it with his backhand, and there was already a trace of blood oozing from the tiger's mouth, but the other party seemed to be ignorant of the pain, and quickly retracted and immediately stabbed forward, attacking his chest again.
At this time, Hachile ignored the pain, and pressed the knife tightly to his chest, in a vain attempt to block the blow, but who knew that the dark weapon suddenly flashed again in the process of attacking, and turned into a stab that was drawn to his right ribs.
At this time, Hachile could no longer keep up with the opponent's variables, and received a blow on his right rib, and the whole person fell off his horse with severe pain.
Seeing that the blow was successful, Chu Mofeng took out three rattling darts and threw them into the air, and a soldier of the Tiangong Battalion on the battlefield heard the sound of the darts, and hurriedly pulled out three rattling arrows from the quiver on the left side of the war horse and shot them into the air.
Li Shimin, who was in the city, heard the sound of arrows, immediately turned on his horse and led 3,000 cavalry to rush towards Hachile's camp from the flank.
Seeing Hachile fall to the ground, Chu Mofeng immediately stepped on his feet, and the whole person fell from the horseback like an eagle with open wings, released the burning sky behind his back, felt out the other side of the Yellow Spring on his waist, and shouted to Hachile: "Turkic dog, come up and die!"
Being scolded as a dog, coupled with the unbearable pain on his body, Hachile suddenly screamed, picked up the big knife and rushed towards Chu Mofeng. Seeing this, Chu Mofeng shouted in his heart, and the dagger in his hand rushed over with a knife flower.
I saw Hachile raise the big knife in his hand and slash at Chu Mofeng, thinking that he could slash it to the ground with one sword, but when the blade was about to reach the top of Chu Mofeng's head, he saw Chu Mofeng first dodge the blow sideways, and then took advantage of Hachile's imminent recruitment, and the whole person's feet rotated one after another, and came to Hachile's back.
When Hachile reacted, he only felt a pain in his left shoulder behind him, which immediately made Hachile stumble forward in pain, and Hachile, who had never faced the Central Plains martial arts, suddenly felt a sense of fear in his heart, although the person in front of him didn't talk much, but he was always like a ghost, so he couldn't figure it out.
Just when Chu Mofeng was fighting against Hachile, Li Shimin, who was rushing to the Turkic camp, had already arrived at his destination at this moment, only to see Li Shimin waving the lance in his hand, pointing at the front and saying: "Sons, rush over with this king." ”
With an order, everyone rushed into the camp together, and it was Qu Niren who stayed in the camp at the moment, because most of the troops under his command were taken away by Hachile, Qu Niren only left less than a thousand people to defend, and in the face of nearly 3,000 cavalry in the Tang Dynasty, Qu Niren suddenly had a feeling of wanting to cry without tears.
After Li Shimin led people to rush into the camp, he divided a part of the people to set fire to the barns, mainly targeting grain and grass and stables, and then the rest of the people rushed towards Qu Niren with all their might, and the Turkic soldiers who stayed behind immediately defended on the spot without greeting, and the two sides almost shot at each other, completely ignoring the casualties, but the Tang soldiers had already lit the fire at this moment, and the Turkic soldiers who were in a hurry suddenly lost their heads.
And Li Shimin saw that there was no heavy defense around Qu Niren, so he immediately called a few archers to whisper, and then led people to kill in the direction of Qu Niren, seeing the other party's generals attacking, Qu Niren was about to flee in a panic, only to hear a few successive 'sighs', the Turkic soldiers saw Qu Niren holding his neck and falling to the ground, and at this time Li Shimin quickly stepped forward, with the lance in his hand from the bottom up, rubbing the ground and bringing out a series of sparks, towards Qu Niren's neck.
saw a cluster of blood flowers flying, Qu Niren was suddenly cut off his head, and then Li Shimin picked Qu Niren's head with a walking lance and shouted loudly: "The thief will give the head, long live the Tang Dynasty." Then he quickly rushed out of the Turkic camp with his cavalry and ran towards his own city.
At this time, Hachile, who was fighting against Chu Mofeng on the battlefield, heard the exclamation of the soldiers beside him, and took the opportunity to turn his head to take a look, who knew that it didn't matter, but he found that the smoke was billowing in the direction of his camp, and he was immediately stunned in place.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng didn't care whether the other party was in a daze or not, and slashed the other side of the Yellow Spring in his hand at Hachile's joints a few times in a row, and then the whole person turned to Hachile, raised his foot and kicked Hachile's chest four times in succession, kicking Hachile's whole person away.
Seeing this, the Turks on the side hurriedly shot a few chirps at Chu Mofeng, and then took advantage of the situation to snatch Hachile back.
At this moment, Hachile was agitated by the pain, and then he came back to his senses, and immediately shouted: "Withdraw the troops, withdraw the troops." Then, under the desperate cover of the soldiers, he ran in the direction of his own camp.
Seeing this, Chu Mofeng pulled open the cover of his helmet and made a long whistle, and then saw his jade lion running quickly, at this moment Chu Mofeng turned over his horse, felt the last dart and threw it in the air, and then the sound of Mingjin collecting troops came from the city.
After this great victory, Li Shimin and the other soldiers couldn't help but be overjoyed, thinking in their hearts that since the Turks had suffered such a heavy blow, they should withdraw their troops, but who knew that Chu Mofeng was indeed frowning and not saying a word.
Seeing this, Li Shimin was very puzzled, and hurriedly asked: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
I saw Chu Mofeng say with a worried face: "Actually, it wasn't me who hit you, according to the Turkic character, let's kill one of his generals, it is estimated that it won't be long before the Turks will come to retaliate in a big way, the question is that I asked you to send someone to transfer troops, did you send it?"
"After you finished talking last night, I told Li Shiyun to go. Li Shimin nodded and said, "Don't worry, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, let's prepare in advance." ”
At this time, it was the Gengchen day (19th) of August in the eighth year of Wude, and the third day of Li Shimin's army stationed in Bingzhou.
In the following days, the Turks did not organize an attack and did not withdraw their troops, as if they were waiting for something, Li Shimin saw this and sent several groups of scouts to investigate, all of which were useful news, and at this time it had been four days since Li Shiyun left the city to seek reinforcements.
On the 24th of August, Li Shiyun returned to the city, and when Li Shimin saw that Li Shiyun was the only one who had returned, he couldn't help but hurriedly ask: "Li Shiyun, what about the reinforcements you asked you to find? Why are you the only one who has returned?"
I saw Li Shiyun kneeling on the ground, and shouted with a depressed face: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, Grandpa Guo, you two punish the last general, the last general went to Hedong Road this time, but Li Jing, the governor of Luzhou, was unwilling to recruit a soldier, and then his subordinates rushed to Guannei Dao to find Li Daozong, the governor of Lingzhou, to borrow troops, who knew that there was also a Turkic army in Lingzhou, so Li Daozong was really unable to recruit soldiers to us. ”
After listening to Li Shiyun's words, Li Shimin slammed his fist on the table with one hand and said: "This group of people is really dead and can't be saved." ”
Who knew that Chu Mofeng listened to Li Shimin's words, but said with a smile: ", who is dead?" You are asked to transfer troops just to prevent the Turks from sending reinforcements, let's consume them like this now, and sooner or later consume them to death." ”
Listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Li Shimin's original anger was suddenly alleviated a lot, and just as he was about to say something, suddenly a soldier reported from outside the door, saying that there was an abnormal movement in the Turkic camp.
Li Shimin asked Yan and hurriedly climbed the city wall with Chu Mofeng, looked in the direction of the Turkic camp, and saw that the camp was crowded, Chu Mofeng carefully identified it for a long time, and immediately leaned against the city wall and sighed and said: "I'm really afraid of something, this group of things is really suitable for the situation, and if you say that you will increase the troops, you will increase the troops." ”
Hearing Chu Mofeng's words, Li Shimin thought that there were no reinforcements coming, and he suddenly fell to the ground......
As the saying goes, the cauldron is wrecked and the boat is fought against the water, and the fireworks under the city of Bingzhou are gorgeous, and then the mountains are shaken in the interior of the same state, and you want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......