Chapter 56: The Waves (Part 2)
"Blow the horns, notify Qu Lianboke, and continue to move forward with his team. Notify Udon Burke, lead the rest of the people, stop and organize the team on the spot!" The right hand Ashina raised his head and estimated the distance between him and the Tang army on the hillside, and ordered decisively and in a deep voice. (Note: The Turkic official position is similar to the Jiedu.)
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--" A short trumpet sounded from his side. At the same time, several commanders carried flags and ran to the Burke Qu Company and Burke Udon in the team, and passed the order of the right Shi Zhixin to the two to execute.
The two thousand Turkic warriors who were circling around the left of the Anxi Army's Thunder Ye Camp continued to move forward quickly under the leadership of Berkequ Company. The Turkic warriors who were striking towards the Thunder Ye Camp in front slowly stopped under the leadership of Berke Udon.
The wooden shields, which were more than five feet high, started several times in front of Berkuton, and soon became a wide shield wall. Behind the shield wall, Turkic spearmen extended their spear forward, poked over the shield, and turned the entire army into a huge hedgehog. Behind the spearmen, Turkic archers quickly raised their horn bows and swung them to their bodies and left and right sides, and set a distance between each of them from the front row and left and right sides.
"Yes—" Youshi Ashina nodded with satisfaction, then jumped onto a stone, carefully observing the reaction of the Tang army on the opposite hillside.
In the Tang army's position, all the catapults were ready to be in place, at least thirty, giving people a feeling of extreme majesty. The Fire Dragon Cars, which had caused the Turks to suffer many times, also formed a whole row in front of the Tang army's formation. However, the right hand was set up in his heart, but he didn't feel very nervous!
He had found a safe way to deal with Mo Chuan. That is, to change his previous combat habits and give up the trick of repeatedly hitting his opponents with bows and arrows. After two rounds of long shots, he immediately launched a charge!
According to the secret reports sent back from the southern line and the news collected by Xiucai in the past, the Tang army's catapult cart attacked from 80 to 90 steps. However, the light arrows in the hands of the Turks could launch a coverage shooting from one hundred steps away.
Although the armor-breaking ability of light arrows is limited, and the further the distance, the greater the influence of mountain wind, thousands of light arrows descending from the sky can also cause great trouble to the Tang army.
After the arrow rain was covered, the distance between the two armies was narrowed as quickly as possible. Then, he used a spear and a flying axe to tear the Tang army into the formation and rushed in to fight with each other!
The catapult car has a slow firing speed. No matter how powerful the fire thunder is, it is impossible to kill thousands of people in one round. The fire dragon car has a limited attack range, which is definitely not beyond the range of the throwing spear and flying axe.
As long as the Turkic warrior breaks through the blockade of the Fire Dragon Car before the second round of Fire Thunder descends from the sky and gets mixed with the Tang army, the latter's catapult and Fire Dragon Car will all become waste!
"I reported to the right, the team was sorted out, and the other party did not react at all!" I didn't understand what the hell wanted to do. After sorting out the team, Berk Udon ran to him and reported loudly.
"You go and pass on all the big arrows under your command, and listen to the sound of the horns on my side later." You Shiqiu smiled and confidently ordered, "Your troops' twenty big arrows will all act according to my orders. You are only responsible for leading your personal soldiers to supervise the battle."
"This?" Berkowon shuddered in his heart when he heard this, and bowed with a blue face, "Yes, right."
According to the previous combat tradition, the right-handed and set up commands only to him and then ask him to assign tasks to the big arrows and small arrows under his command. He rarely commands the higher level like today. Once the command situation occurs, he is probably preparing to fight his opponents to the death. By then, 30% of the two thousand brothers under his command can survive will be blessed by the Golden Wolf God!
"The Khan is watching us from behind!" Seeing the fear and reluctance on Udon Burke's face, the right hand clasped and stressed. "The two of us, both of us, have the surname Ashina, have to be worthy of our ancestors, don't learn the waste of running brothels in Chang'an City!"
"Yes!" Udon's eyes immediately began to turn red, and he gritted his teeth and bowed again.
The Ashina family branch in Chang'an City not only provided a lot of information to the Turks, but also provided a huge amount of money in the early days of the Turks' restoration. However, on the grassland, there were no descendants of the Ashina family, and they were proud of the branch in Chang'an City.
When Jie Li Khan was defeated by the Tang army, he had no courage to die in the battlefield. He took his wife and children to Chang'an City and danced specifically for the Emperor of Tang to see it. This was an eternal shame for the Ashina family on the grassland. Every descendant of the Golden Wolf King was unwilling to follow in the footsteps of that branch.
"Go and send the order!" The right Shi Qiei stretched out his hand to hold Udon's arm, and whispered the order, with a smile full of determination. "After half a incense stick, I will order someone to blow the horn of the general attack. Then..."
Before he could finish his words, a war drum suddenly sounded on the hillside. "Dongdongdong, dongdongdong, dongdongdong, dongdongdongdong..." Just like the sunlight pierced through the dark clouds, it instantly tore the depressing atmosphere brought by the sound of the horn into pieces.
"The Tang army took the initiative to attack?!" The right Shijie was stunned and quickly looked up and watched. He saw more than a thousand Tang soldiers quickly walked out of the military formation on the hillside, pushing towards the Burke Qu Company's team along the left side of the hillside. He did not carry any catapults, nor did he push the powerful fire dragon car.
"The Fire Dragon Car is too heavy to adapt to the rugged terrain!" The next moment, the right Shi Zhi almost jumped up with joy.
The reason why the Turkic army gave up the war horses and chose infantry battles was, on the one hand, because the mountainous terrain was not suitable for horse racing. Another important reason was that Mo Chuo had already escaped from the southern line to report the news that the Tang army used a catapult to fire thunder, which could easily make the war horses lose control.
In hiking, the combat effectiveness of Turkic soldiers will inevitably be greatly reduced. And the Imperial has always been worried about this. Now he suddenly found that the Tang army was unable to push the fire dragon chariot and the large group of people due to the restrictions of the terrain. How could he not be overjoyed?!
"Set right, the Tang army has taken off the flank!" Berkowton also saw the latest changes in the battlefield situation and hesitated and whispered, "Does our troops still follow the previous arrangements..."
"The previous order remains unchanged, you should go and notify the major arrows and listen to my horn. No matter what the right wing is like!" Right Shi Qie waved his hand and made a decisive decision.
"Yes!" Berk Ulong agreed in a low voice, then jogged to convey the order. Qishen himself turned his head and looked back. He found that Mo Chuan did not give him any instructions, so he quickly turned his head to his right wing. While continuing to observe the situation on the battlefield, he quickly thought in his heart how to adjust the deployment based on the latest reaction of the Tang army.
The Tang army's individual combat effectiveness is indeed superior to the Turkic warriors, but without the help of the fire dragon chariot and fire thunder, a mere thousand Tang army wanted to defeat twice its Turkic warriors, which would be too arrogant! Once the Tang army that was killed down the hillside was entangled by the Turkic warriors under his command, he would have several more offensive choices.
The Tang army cannot be eliminated too quickly. The best choice is to slow down the pace and attract more Tang army to escape from the protection of the Fire Dragon Car and the Catstone Car and join the battle group.
If the chief general of the Tang army was not deceived, he could turn the entire army to the right wing and give up the center line, and at the same time ask Mo Chuan Khan to send other troops to fill the gap. In this way, the entire battle situation will come alive, and the Turkic generals will firmly control the initiative on the battlefield from beginning to end.
If the situation is not so ideal, the Tang army on the right wing suffered a loss and retreated in time. On his side, he could take advantage of the chaos of the Tang army and launch a fast attack from the front according to the initial plan.
In this way, even if the Tang army cannot be destroyed, at least some of the Fire Dragon Cars and Catstone Cars can be destroyed. Then, he can move away under the support of his robes...
Just as I was thinking about the hotness in my heart, the drum beats on the hillside suddenly changed. The more than a thousand Tang soldiers who were fighting down from the right wing suddenly accelerated their pace. The wide-edged helmet and vest made of iron were so bright that it made people feel sad under the sunlight!
It was so rich that the materials used in the helmet were exactly the same as the blade of the horizontal sword. It was so much that the ordinary soldiers were wearing iron vests? If the Turks were so rich, the descendants of the Golden Wolf King would have long unified the Mobei and then rushed their troops to kill the Yellow River! But now, they were forced to the end of their journey by a group of prodigal sons!
The Tang army generals on the opposite side were definitely a prodigal son. Apart from equiping the soldiers under his command with expensive wide-edge helmets and iron vests, he would not have anything else! He clearly had a high advantage, but he took the initiative to send a team to kill down the hillside. He could obviously cooperate with multiple troops and multiple formations, but he chose to line up just like the Turks, with only a simple triple-stacked formation with the sword and shield hand in front, the spear hand in the center, and the archer behind, forming three obvious waves.
"...Boom!" The drum sound suddenly stopped, and the world was so quiet that it made people frightened.
The Tang army rushed down faster, like a huge iron pulley. The battle boots stepped on the ground, making a terrifying sound.
In order to offset the impact caused by the Tang army's condescending force, the Turkic army on the right wing quickly formed a formation under the command of the Berkequ Company. Then, it slowly pushed forward. The sword and shield hand was in front, and the spearman followed the sword and shield hand, and the archer followed the spearman and advanced, placing the long arrow on the bowstring.
The distance between the two sides was shortened within a hundred steps in a blink of an eye. The archers who formed the last stack of Tang army ran and shot the feather arrows into the air!
"Adhere to arrows, to arrows!" Although it was far away, the order could not be reached at all in Berke Qulian's ears, and the right hand was still screaming instinctively.
"Adhere to arrows, to arrows!" Not only he was calling, but many Turkic small arrows and big arrows waiting in front of him also instinctively gave reminders to their right-wing accomplices!
Amid the screams of hoarseness, the Turkic warriors who were moving forward decisively slowed down and raised their shields. The spearmen behind them also slowed down at the same time, swinging the spears diagonally above their heads and swung back and forth.
Most of the feather arrows that came into the air were blocked by shields and spear jungle and did not play any role. After falling into the spear jungle, a few clusters of blood mist were brought, but it was not enough to cause too serious casualties to the two thousand Turkic soldiers on the right wing.
"Swoosh swish swish swish--" The archers in the right-wing Turkic team immediately used feather arrows to repay their colors. Their shooting skills were much better than those of the Tang army, and their numbers were also superior. The first round of shooting covered the middle and back sections of the Tang army. However, the actual results they achieved were as few as those of the Tang army archers.
Because the target was accelerating along the hillside, most of the feather arrows shot by the Turkic archers fell in the empty space. There was only a very small part of them. The body of the Tang army was lucky. However, at such a long distance, the feather arrows were difficult to penetrate even the leather armor, let alone the iron vest on the Tang army? It just splashed a string of sparks in vain and was shot to the ground, and then it was swallowed by the weeds on the ground.
"Swoosh swish swish swish-" Among the Tang army, the second round of feather arrows soared into the air again, hitting the shields and spears raised by the Turkic army, making a "crackling" sound.
The Turkic archers retaliated again, even though they knew that 99% of the feather arrows could not play any role, they followed up and shot the third round first.
"Swoosh swish swish swish-" "Swoosh swish-" The feather arrows shot from both sides came and went, falling like hail. In a blink of an eye, there were five or six rounds. The wooden shields raised by the Turks were filled with white arrow feathers. Wherever the Tang army ran past, the white feathers and black arrow shafts also fell densely in the grass.
"Dongdongdong, dongdongdongdong, dongdongdongdong, dongdongdongdong..." The sound of war drums sounded again, like thousands of horses galloping, making people's souls tremble and their blood boiling.
The archers in the Tang army suddenly stopped firing arrows, put their horn bows on their shoulders, and at the same time followed the footsteps of the spearmen in front and continued to rush forward. The feather arrows shot by the Turks still fell like hail. As the distance between the two sides continued to get closer, the threat became greater and greater!
While running, a man from Datang was shot into his calves, soles of his feet, and staggered and fell down. His companions rushed past him without stopping.
"Swoosh swosh swosh swosh swosh-" Another wave of feather arrows fell from mid-air.
More Tang Dynasty men fell on the way to attack, and blood gushed out from the wounds on their bodies, dyeing the weeds on the ground red.
Other Tang men who were not shot by feather arrows continued to move forward. The weapons in their hands swayed up and down with their bodies, like layers of waves rising and falling from the sea.
"What are the Tang army doing?" Zuo Zhiqian suddenly felt a warning in his heart, but he didn't know where the danger was hidden.
The distance between the two sides is less than forty steps. Logically, the archers among the Tang army's archers should stop, replace the armor-breaking cone or heavy arrows, and cooperate with each other to attack the target behind the shield of the Turkic side. Continue to run forward, not only will it not increase the power of the feather arrow, but it will easily be involved in the upcoming hand-to-hand combat.
The close-knit fight, the archers can't play much role! All generals with combat experience know this! The Turkic right-hand man set up and mound did not believe that the Tang army leader would be so stupid and did not even understand the most basic combat principles. However, he was puzzled by what the other party's purpose was!
He quickly turned his head and set up Ashina and looked at the location of Khan Mochu, hoping to get some guidance. However, the flag passing the orders on the side of the Chichu did not change at all, and there was no sound of a horn in the air.
Obviously, no one could guess what Tang army would do next. He bit his lip hard, and forced himself to calm down and continue to observe carefully, but he still couldn't see what the Tang army general wanted to do. He only saw more Tang men lying on the golden grass, one after another.
"Swoosh swosh swosh swosh swosh swosh-" The feather arrow fell like hail, hitting the wide helmet above Tang Jun's head and the iron vest on his body, and sparks flew everywhere!
Blood flowers kept splashing, and were as bright as falling flowers in the sun.
One after another, the Tang Dynasty athletes fell to the ground, but the entire team was still accelerating, accelerating, accelerating along the hillside. Rows of combat boots stepped on the grass, making the grass undulate.
"Go and ask for support from Khan." I couldn't stand the heavy pressure in my heart, so I pulled a close friend over and said with a pale face. "Please send him another twenty big arrows to support our right wing just in case!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of war drums in the air stopped again, and then the shouts of killing rose into the sky.
From the perspective of Qishong, the distance between his right wing team and the Tang army's front row of swords and shields was only twenty steps left. The spearmen in the right wing had already laid their spears flat and penetrated the armpits of swords and shields in front. The sharp spears aimed at the Tang army that was rushing up, like rows of neat fangs.
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang..." The Turkic sword and shield hand hit the wooden shield with a steel knife to cheer for their own people, and at the same time intimidate the athletes of the Tang Dynasty. The Turkic archers gave up their horn bows, pulled out the spear and flying axe from behind, and slowly raised them over their heads.
They were accumulating their strength. When the teams on both sides collided, they threw the spear and flying axe out and hit the head of the Tang army's spearmen. Not far away from them, the Tang army's archers also stopped. They took out the fire from their waists and ignited in the wind. A stream of blue smoke immediately emerged from the entire team.
"Roar up, don't give them a cell phone!" The moment he saw Qingyan, Ashina suddenly understood the danger! He opened his throat and ordered loudly.
The distance was too far, and his right wing team could not hear what he was calling. The messengers beside him were stunned and instinctively grabbed the horn and were about to blew it. However, the Tang army archers had already raised their arms high.
Hundreds of fist-sized black dots rose into the air, with blue trails, like little dragons who had just woken up.
"Woo——" As soon as the horn sounded, it was swallowed up by the muffled thunder, "Boom, boom, boom..."
The little dragon landed at the feet of the Turkic people who were waiting for the right wing, and exploded one after another. The smoke rolled, and the broken limbs and shields splashed together!
The Turkic right-wing team, which was originally as solid as a rock, split in an instant.
Chapter completed!