Chapter 43: A Sudden Rise

Gechila discovered the movement of the Tang army, he did not hesitate to lead the team to rush over, the most elite cavalry of the two armies collided head-on, and the Tang army of other arms moved out of the battlefield one after another, they did not play any role in this level of battle, they would only become cannon fodder.

This is a tragic duel, Zheng Gu's iron cavalry are all veterans of the Xiao cavalry battalion who have fought for many years, and they have grown into elite cavalry that will not lose to the Turkic cavalry in the Turkic battles for many years. And Gechila was the first warrior of the Ulica Division, and he was the commander of all the departments of this Turkic southern expedition.

The two teams of cavalry have hedged each other many times, Zheng Gu and Gechila have fought more, and the losses of the troops on both sides are equal, but among the thousands of troops and horses outside the city of Changzhou, the two steel torrents of the Turkic army are constantly washing each other, the war horses are roaring, and the sergeants are roaring.

In between each breath of the hedge, the heads or limbs of the two armies were thrown high where they met, the horses fell forward, and the sergeants fell off their horses and were trampled to death by the hooves of the horses behind.

As the Iron Cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion dragged the reinforcements of Gechila, the Karaji Division, which was surrounded by the Tang Army, had been almost depleted, and the remnants were taken away by the Turk Cavalry Division, which rushed in, but this was irrelevant.

The cavalry of the Tang Army on the right and left flanks was obviously at a disadvantage, and had been killed by the Turk Shi Division and the Oghuz Division, and they fought separately, and the infantry on both sides of the Tang Army also joined the battle group to assist the attack.

Gechila roared, turned his horse's head, and the cavalry of the Ulica Division behind him followed him, adjusted their direction again, and rushed towards the Zheng Gu cavalry in front.

Gechila stretched the axe and spear forward, and pressed it against the horse's neck, his body even closer to the horse's back, he was slowly relaxing the muscles of his body, and the golden armor in front of him was churning in his eyes.

This general, who has guarded Mobei for more than ten years, reawakened the monstrous battle spirit today, an iron spear trembled up and down in his hand, and when it was about to intersect with Gechila's horse's head, he suddenly turned around the full moon, exerted all his strength, and picked up Gechila's back.

Gechila slid sideways to the left side of the horse's back, Zheng Gu's spear tip picked up on the back of Gechila's horse, a piece of flesh was torn apart, which horse rushed forward in pain, Gechila's whole body muscles instantly collapsed at this moment, his legs clamped the horse's belly, the upper body was raised back, and when the two horses were wrong, the axe and spear slashed backwards across Zheng Gu's back, and a bloody arrow shot out with countless pieces of gold and bronze armor.

Zheng Gu looked forward to Gechila's stiff Chinese words: "You are old now!"

He immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood, only to feel the pain in his back, the blood quickly flowed to the horse's back, Zheng Gu only felt a dizziness and loss of strength, he cheered up, quickly untied his belt, and tied his body to the saddle.

"Commander, how are you?" the military leaders who followed behind asked one after another.

Zheng Gu waved his hand, signaling that it was okay, but he didn't speak, and the generals behind him had to form a team again, turning back and charging again with the marshal, Zheng Gu's figure in front was still upright, just like leading these generals through the dead hurdles again and again.

The generals believe that this time they can follow the commander to win the final victory.

A slight smile appeared on the corner of Gechila's mouth, and he clamped it vigorously on the horse's belly, and the four iron nails on the stirrup pierced the horse's abdomen again, and the pain and loss of bloodletting made the horse excited again, and rushed towards Zheng Gu like an arrow.

And Zheng Gu didn't use any defensive position at all this time, and he used his last strength to stab a lightning-fast shot, straight to Gechila's chest.

But Gechira seemed to have expected it, and he kicked the stirrup with his left foot, and spun his right foot on the horse, and the axe spear quickly swirled with the strength of his body, and once again cut through Zheng Gu's left rib.

Zheng Gu fell off the horse in response, and blood foamed in his mouth, spraying into the sand and dust on the ground.

"Dashuai", several anxious shouts came to his ears, but he was powerless to respond.

After a while, he felt a strong response from his back, and he had been scooped up from the ground by the generals who followed him and rushed towards the main formation.

A group of generals Ben Li brought Zheng Gu into the army, and at this time, Zheng Gu's blood had soaked his whole body, and the two huge wounds on his back and left ribs were still bleeding, and it was impossible to stop it.

The generals pressed their hands against his wounds, but blood came out of his fingers, like a fountain, but still warm.

Zheng Gu stiffened his upper body, grabbed the hands of the two generals, and said with his last breath: "Withdraw to Changzhou City, and hand over the command of the whole army to General Ximing."

After saying this, his once upright body slowly softened, and his gradually divergent pupils seemed to see the late his former handsome, and Zheng Gu, like his predecessor, completed the inheritance of Mobei and let go, and the generals were at a loss for a while, not knowing what to do.

"Let's take the general back to Choshu City first" had a suggestion, and the others had to do the same.

Ge Chila immediately stood on the battlefield with a horizontal spear, looked at the movements of the Tang army, and said slowly: "The Tang army guards are not as good as the next generation, this is the immortal heaven is blessing my Turkic son, and the day when we break through the Yanmen Pass seems to be not far away." ”

The generals of the two tribes behind were excited: "What should we do now?"

Gechila turned his head to look at it and laughed: "Now, let the Tang army know that their main general is dead, distract their military morale, and then it's time for the wolves on our steppe to prey." ”

The news of the death of the commander soon spread throughout the battlefield, the situation of the Tang army took a sharp turn for the worse, and the news of the retreat to Changzhou City came, and the army's heart was in chaos for a while, and the great rout of the Tang army was just around the corner.

However, at this moment, several horns suddenly sounded in the east of the battlefield, and four huge horn cars sandwiched a tower-like general in the middle, followed by a dense infantry army, rushing towards the battlefield.

The tall general carried two huge copper hammers, led a group of cavalry to open the way in front, no one could stop him, and followed closely by a group of infantry carrying large rejecting horses, wherever they went, they set up the large repulsive horses densely, and in a moment formed a powerful defensive line on the battlefield.

The infantry army behind was guarded by this, using spears/assassinating the Turkic cavalry, and the Turkic cavalry could only pull the armistice horse and turn around when they ran to the front of the rejection horse, and if there was a vacancy opened by the Turkic generals, it would also be quickly filled.

When the defenders of Choshu City saw this, they joined the array one after another, and after withdrawing to the rejection of the horses, they set up while defending, and soon built a full moon-shaped defense line on the entire battlefield, which created an orderly buffer zone for the retreat of the infantry and saved the situation of the great rout of the infantry army.

If a great rout retreat is really formed, and the cavalry of the Turkic army follows behind to cover the killing, the consequences will be unimaginable.

At the same time, at the rear of the battlefield, a group of 2,000 cavalry quietly killed, this group of cavalry was like a snake in a huge wave, tenacious and vicious, rushing back and forth on the cavalry battlefield in the rear, and disturbing a small group of Tang cavalry and joining the battle sequence.

By the time Gechila noticed this, the viper had grown into a giant python, and the small groups of cavalry on the left and right flanks of the battle formation had been almost disturbed by Wu Xiao, and there were still more Tang troops joining the team that was rushing back and forth in the Turkic cavalry array to kill the churning red python.

"Who is that?", Gechila pointed to Wu Xiao in front of the cavalry

"It seems that he is the defender of Guandi Castle, and he defeated 30,000 infantry of our army in the Battle of Guandi Castle last time," the general of the left near replied

In Gechila's field of vision, Wu Xiao's iron spear stabbed and stabbed, and the Turkic cavalry rushing in front seemed to hit a wall, and flew out upside down to the left and right.

The cavalry behind followed him intensively and rushed forward to kill, and for a while no one could stop him, the decline of the Tang army slowly reversed, and the iron cavalry of the Xiao cavalry battalion handed over Zheng Gu's body to the soldiers and pulled it back to Changzhou City, and they all got on their horses to join Wu Xiao's cavalry sequence.

Gechila looked around the battlefield and said, "All the tribes will gather the horse team and assemble on the north side of the battlefield," and the generals took the order.

Zheng Gu's death was a great opportunity for the Turks, and Gechila wanted to defeat the Tang army in one fell swoop, and conquer Changzhou City in a few days, but he didn't want to kill two generals at a critical moment.

Gechila's deployment failed, he looked back at the battlefield that had been fighting for a day, and reluctantly killed back to his own position, and if he didn't kill it, under the front and rear attacks of the Tang army, the Turkic army would be in danger.

And Wu Xiao seemed to have a tacit understanding with him, Wu Xiao let go of the middle passage and let the Turkic tribes harass the troops return to their own positions, he and Gechila glanced at each other from a distance, and their eyes were cold.