The Tang Army's camp was in a C-shape. Except for the entrance where the Western Turks had conquered, all other directions were occupied by tents. The strange thing was that once you entered the place where the Western Turks conquered, there was a large open space.
A total of 50,000 people from the Western Turks came in. Even so, the nearest camp was hundreds of steps away, which shows how big this open space is.
Dawa Tsering's words made Batzorg come to his senses and quickly commanded the army to go to the camp a few hundred steps away.
For the cavalry, the distance of several hundred steps was only a moment. However, as soon as the Western Turkic soldiers moved, a signal bomb flew into the sky with a special sound, and exploded in the air.
The huge noise frightened the horses under the crotch of the Western Turkic soldiers, causing quite a commotion.
This is not the most deadly. As the signal sounded, the outermost tent was opened, revealing Tang soldiers holding strange weapons.
When Bad Zorg saw the Tang army, he looked happy and ordered: "Charge!"
He did not feel that he was ambushed by the Tang army. There was no obstacle in front of the Tang army. With such a small distance, the cavalry could reach it in just a few breaths.
Dawa Tsering thought of the strange noise ahead and had a bad feeling in his heart. However, thinking that the Tang army only had less than 10,000 people and his own side had 50,000 people, it would not matter if the other party had an ambush, so he ordered his soldiers to charge.
"Swish, swish, swish~"
The Tang army fired their weapons, and the crossbow arrows shot towards the Turkic soldiers amidst the sound of piercing the air.
"Ah~"
Many of the Turkic cavalry in the front row were hit by arrows, and their horses fell off in pieces.
Dawa Tsering did not panic when he saw this scene. Although bows and arrows have a certain impact on the cavalry charge, bows and arrows cannot be truly continuous. There will be a short gap between each batch of arrows.
At this time, there was no protection in front of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. With such a short distance, as long as they paid a certain price, they could rush to the Tang army, and then these archers would have no choice but to be slaughtered.
But soon Dawa Tsering stopped laughing. The arrows fired by the Tang army were not only very dense but also continuous. The Western Turks' charging cavalry suffered heavy casualties, but the distance between the two sides did not close much.
"No, those are not bows and arrows!" Dawa Tsering looked carefully and found that the arrows were continuously shot from strange weapons in the hands of the Tang army.
Bad Zorg also discovered this. Seeing that four to five thousand people were killed and injured in such a short time, he was very distressed and said: "Do you have any way to deal with it?"
Dawa Tsering pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that the weapons in the hands of the Tang army can only be fired horizontally and cannot be thrown. People hold shields and charge!"
When fighting, archers actually shoot their arrows upwards at a forty-five-degree angle. This is what is called a throw.
The arrow is heavy on the head and light on the tail, so that the arrow can cause damage to the enemy even when it falls.
The advantage of projectile is that it can cause damage to enemies in a large area, and it can also effectively avoid shields.
However, the Tang army did not carry out projectiles. As long as the front row soldiers held shields, casualties could be greatly reduced.
Bad Zorg had no good idea and quickly sent people to mobilize shields.
Soon, the Turkic soldiers retreated.
At this time, the shortcomings of the continuous crossbow emerged. Once the mechanism is triggered, fifty crossbow arrows must be fired, and it cannot be sent and received freely.
When the enemy retreated out of the shooting range, the repeating crossbow's crossbow arrows continued to fire.
When the crossbow bolts were fired, the soldiers quickly replaced the crossbow bolts without Lin Xuan's order, waiting for the enemy's attack.
In the Beida camp, 20,000 cavalry from the Tang Dynasty and 5,000 cavalry from the Mukun tribe were on horseback, ready to go.
"General, why don't we take action?" Xue Rengui was a little anxious when he saw Cheng Yaojin's delay in giving orders.
Cheng Yaojin smiled and said: "Rengui, the most important thing in fighting is to stay calm. At this time, the enemy has just entered the camp. The 30,000 cavalry outside must be on guard. But if we don't move, they will naturally relax after a long time."
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Xue Rengui naturally knows this truth, but the premise is that Lin Xuan's side must be able to withstand it. Once Lin Xuan's side fails to hold on, so what if they destroy the 30,000 Turkic cavalry.
Cheng Yaojin knew what Xue Rengui was worried about and said with a smile: "Don't worry, with Lian Nu here to assist, the Turks won't be able to threaten them in a short time."
When Xue Rengui saw what Cheng Yaojin said, although he was still worried, he said nothing more.
"Rengui, I give you a task. You lead the brave guards to stay in the camp. After I lead the troops out, you lead people out of the camp from the side and quickly go around to the south camp to block the Turks' retreat.
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"Yes!" Xue Rengui bowed and responded.
"Don't agree in a hurry. The Turks still have 20,000 soldiers and horses. Once you block the retreat of the Turks entering the camp, those 20,000 cavalry will definitely attack you. Then you will face a flanking attack from both sides.
, you must persist until I kill the 30,000 cavalry outside, can you do it?" Cheng Yaojin said seriously.
"I can't guarantee that I will be able to hold on until that time, but I guarantee that as long as I don't die, the Heroic Guard will not retreat!" Xue Rengui said loudly.
"Okay, after this battle, I will personally ask for credit for you." Cheng Yaojin said.
Cheng Yaojin looked at the sky and said, "It's almost time, I'm going!"
The gate of Beida camp was opened wide, and Cheng Yaojin led more than 20,000 cavalry and charged towards the 30,000 Turkic cavalry a few miles away.
Just when Cheng Yaojin launched his attack, Lin Xuan's side, the Western Turks, launched another attack.
Lin Xuan saw the Western Turks charging with a shield, and said disdainfully: "It is too naive to rely on a wooden shield to defend against a serial crossbow."
A wooden shield can protect against bows and arrows. The lethality of bows and arrows can reach 100 steps, but if it exceeds 50 steps, the power will be reduced and it will not be able to shoot through the shield. However, crossbows are different.
The power of the crossbow arrows will not be reduced much at about a hundred steps, and the power of the crossbows is much greater than that of bows and arrows, so these shields cannot stop them for long.
Naturally, the Western Turks did not know this, and the soldiers in the front row charged again with their shields raised.
After entering the shooting range, the speed slowed down a lot because there were a lot of corpses on the ground.
In the previous charge, more than 10,000 Turks were killed, which shows the power of the crossbows.
And these corpses have now become a barrier for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, greatly slowing down the Western Turks.
Although the Western Turks entered the shooting range, Lin Xuan did not rush to order an attack, but waited until the distance was about a hundred steps before giving the order.
The sound of machine guns sounded, and the sky was filled with crossbow arrows, making the sky darken.
A large number of crossbow arrows hit the shield, but did not cause much casualties to the Western Turks.
Dawa Tsering saw this scene and showed a smile.
Even though the Western Turks raised their shields, the Tang army still did not launch any missiles, which showed that his guess was correct. The strange weapons of the Tang Dynasty could only shoot flatly.
However, the smile on his face quickly solidified. The shield in the hands of the Western Turkic soldiers did not last long before it was directly shot through by a continuous stream of crossbow arrows.
"How could this happen?" Dawa Tsering was a little unbelievable.