Chapter 625: Catching turtles in the urn
The next day, Ge Biluo led his army to the northwest and headed straight for the Quliu Canyon. His team was stronger than before. Therefore, this time, he added 10,000 Mukun troops and 10,000 Nishu troops, led by Luo Kun and Groni respectively. Originally, the equipment of these two troops was very bad, but Ge Biluo was very generous and provided them with weapons and armor. There was no way. If the horse ran away, he had to give more grass. In fact, he was not so generous. He just planned to let these 20,000 troops fight the vanguard and reduce the losses of his army. The less the loss, the greater the military achievements. This is what he thought.
The scouts sent by Asana Shabi were also staying on the mountain for nearly a whole day, observing the movements in the Tang army camp at all times. However, there was no abnormal movement in the Tang army camp. The army was practicing in the camp. Because it was too far apart, it was difficult to see clearly.
In the evening, the scouts on the top of the mountain blew flags down to signal them to prepare for a night attack. Asana Shabi immediately ordered the entire army to prepare.
On the other mountain, Toushan, Fan Lihua was also looking at the situation on the Western Turks with a telescope. She knew all the Western Turks' flag languages. She invented them. They were learned from the Tang people and changed them. This led to the Western Turks' flag languages. He clearly saw the Western Turks' flag languages through the telescope: "Prepare to attack."
So Fan Lihua quickly rushed down the mountain and arrived at the camp to order: "The whole army is ready, and the Western Turkic army will attack the camp tonight." Then she began to convey specific orders one by one.
After receiving Fan Lihua's military order, all the soldiers were a little confused. They didn't understand how Fan Lihua knew that the enemy would attack the camp. Did she have any suspicion in the Western Turks? With such thoughts, the troops began to prepare, and Qin Huaiyu and the others finally felt relieved.
Qin Huaiyu had been trying hard to persuade Fan Lihua before, because she was afraid of being attacked by the enemy. If she was under this terrain, she would have nowhere to escape. However, the situation is different now. They took the lead in information and knew that the enemy was going to attack the camp, so they could ambush. At that time, the enemy would be fleeing. With such a terrain, it would not be easy for the enemy to escape. He finally knew why Fan Lihua wanted to station troops here. It turned out that she wanted to lead the enemy into the trap. The biggest difficulty in this was to gain the lead in information.
Fan Lihua has a telescope to help her, so she naturally has the opportunity to get information. She knows herself and her enemy, and will never be defeated in a hundred battles. She was originally a military genius, but now she is cheating. If she wants to win, she is like playing tricks. What she is pursuing now is not as simple as how to win, but how to win with the smallest loss.
After dark, Asana Shabi led his army to the Tang Army camp along the Quliu Canyon. When they were far away, they walked very fast, but when they got closer, they slowed down because this was a canyon and there was a sound. If they still marched so quickly, the sound would have been heard more than ten miles away, which would give the Tang Army time to prepare in advance.
At about two o'clock in the middle of the night, Asina Shabi had already quietly appeared five miles southwest of the Tang army camp. The valley where the Tang army camped was in the shape of a stomach, and where Asina Shabi was now located was the entrance to the stomach.
When Ashina Shabi stood here, he could vaguely see the flames and figures in the Tang army camp. Seeing that the distance was enough, he excitedly drew out the scimitar and roared: "Kill!"
"Kill!" All the Western Turkic army rushed out from the entrance and headed straight for the Tang army camp. The cavalry was in front and the infantry was behind, and they came very quickly.
The first wave of Eight Thousand Cavalry took only a few minutes to rush into the Tang Army camp. However, after entering, when the first cavalry swung his sword and cut off the head of a sentry soldier, he was shocked and shouted in Western Turkic words: "It's a scarecrow!"
As they approached, the same sound rang everywhere, and the entire Tang army camp was full of scarecrows, not a single living person.
Ashina Shabi rushed into the camp immediately, and a cavalry came to report to him: "General, we have been fooled. This is an empty camp, there is no one inside, it is all scarecrow!"
"What!" When Ashina Shabi heard this, he felt dizzy and almost fell off his horse. Well, this guy probably has high blood pressure and maybe he has high blood lipids. Who told him to eat meat every day?
"Father! Father!" Asanaru hurriedly rode his horse to Ashanarabi and asked worriedly, "Father, are you okay?"
"Call me General!" Asana Shabi finally stabilized his body, glared at his son with great force, and then ordered loudly, "Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
All the troops turned around and ran back. However, when they had just rushed to the entrance of the "stomach", there were suddenly loud noises coming from the mountain peak, and the ground kept trembling. As they approached, they saw countless dark shadows rolling down from the hillside, smashing the cavalry running out to the back of their horses. Many of them were crushed into meat pie. Although more than a dozen people escaped, a feather arrow shot from the darkness, and the dozen cavalry were also caught in the arrows and fell off their horses.
These rolling things are actually round stones, as round as balls. In fact, these look like stones, but not stones at all. They are large cement balls cast with cement concrete. Each one is more than one person tall and weighs in tons. These cement balls are not a few dozen, but hundreds. These hundreds of cement balls roll and fall behind and pile up directly in the canyon passage, blocking all the canyons a hundred feet wide.
Immediately afterwards, countless arrows rained down, forcing the Western Turkic army to retreat. Even if Ashina Shabi was stupid, he realized that he had ambushed and hurriedly ordered to go to the entrance of the canyon in the north and go out from there. However, as soon as he got there, he saw countless huge stone balls rolling down from the hillside, blocking the canyon here. Ashina Shabi wanted to curse at this moment. He didn't know where the Tang army brought so many round and rolling huge rocks and asked workers to chisel them out? How many craftsmen would they need!
The canyon here is very wide, nearly a hundred feet wide. According to common sense, even if a stone is pushed down from the mountain, it is difficult to block the canyon. But if it is all round stone balls, it would be different. These stone balls can easily roll into the middle of the canyon and block the entire canyon.
Asana Shabi is not available to study where the Tang army got these many spherical boulders. He just wants to escape now. He leads his troops back to the Tang army camp and carefully analyzes the situation and studies tactics with the generals.
Start analyzing the current situation. When they were besieged here, the Tang army must be ambushed around. There were bare everywhere here. As long as there were a few trees at the foot of the mountain and on the mountainside, he guessed that the Tang army probably was ambushed at the foot of the mountain or on the mountainside. After all, although there were few trees there, they could be hidden. They have now entered the pocket formation set up by the Tang army, and this pocket was a bit big, nearly ten miles long and about five miles wide, and the camp occupied most of the area. However, the Tang army has not launched a surprise attack on them now. I think the Tang army dared not fight hard, so it must have had any conspiracy.
Ashina Shabi slapped the table with certainty and said in a deep voice: "Although the situation is bad now, it is not yet reached a desperate situation. Fortunately, it is very large here. The crossbow arrows of the Tang army cannot shoot so far. Wait until dawn..."
Before he finished speaking, with a "bang", a huge feather arrow drilled into the tent from the sky and pierced it into the military case, breaking through the map and military case. The tail feather arrow was still trembling. This feather arrow was so big, almost the same size as a spear. If it weren't for the feathers at the tail, no one would have thought it was an arrow.
The appearance of this arrow scared everyone and slapped Ashina Shabi in the face. He just said that the Tang army's bow and arrow could not be shot so far. Look, the arrows came and the slap in the face sounded.
All the generals turned their heads and looked at Asina Shabi. Asina Shabi was very embarrassed at this moment. How could he not be embarrassed? Anyone who came here would be very embarrassed.
Asana Shabi soon discovered that embarrassment was nothing, because a more serious problem occurred. The Tang army's rain of arrows came, which was fatal.
This time, Fan Lihua led troops to fight against the Western Turks, and naturally brought a large amount of siege supplies, including 400 bed crossbows. These bed crossbows had been placed on the mountainsides by Fan Lihua, and finally came in handy today. The Tang army was ambushed at the mountainside. Because there was a lot of snow hundreds of meters up the mountainside, the mountainside was very cold at night, which was also the reason why Fan Lihua distributed cotton coats to the soldiers.
Each bed crossbow had three huge arrows at the same time. Four hundred bed crossbows were fired at the same time, which was more than a thousand arrows. The power of these arrows was extraordinary. One arrow shot through two or three people was like a joke.
Under the ruthless attack of the bed crossbow, the Western Turkic army lost seven or eight thousand people in a short while. The entire Western Turkic army was in chaos. Then, the bed crossbow shot out fire arrows, which were arrows with fire. This was amazing. A lot of tincture oil was sprinkled in the Tang army camp. Originally, so much tincture oil should have the smell of tincture oil, and you could smell it as soon as you enter the camp.
However, in order to attack at night, Asana Shabi ordered all the soldiers to carry tincture oil on their bodies. Therefore, they had become accustomed to the smell of tincture oil along the way. After entering the Tang Army Camp, they encountered drastic changes. Naturally, they did not find that tincture oil was everywhere in the Tang Army Camp.
Countless fire arrows shot into the Tang army camp, and they were blooming everywhere. Fires began to ignite everywhere, and they could not extinguish them. Some soldiers used the water from the water tank to put out the fire, and a bucket of water poured onto the flames. The flames rose more than ten feet high. They realized that the water tank was full of tincture oil, which was a scam!
Originally, the Tang army camp was full of tincture oil, and the Western Turkic soldiers were carrying tincture oil. Once the soldiers were burned by the flames, they would not be able to destroy them again. They would undoubtedly die. The entire camp was howling like a purgatory.
Fan Lihua stood halfway up the mountain, looking at the camp like a sea of fire with her hands behind her back. She slowly turned around and stopped looking at it. Once upon a time, these Western Turkic soldiers were her comrades, and many of them were trained by her. However, now she had to kill them, and she felt very uncomfortable.
I wish you good luck in the New Year, good luck and good luck. Although you are busy during the New Year, don’t forget to read books.
Chapter completed!