The right wing of the Sui army was deployed on the eastern battlefield. The general was Pei Xingyan and the deputy general Xie Yingdeng. They led 15,000 Sui army cavalry against Xue Yantuo's 40,000 troops.
Xue Yantuo has disappeared since his tragic defeat in Dali City in the early years of Daye.
But they were just silent and did not die. On the contrary, they gradually recovered their vitality under the protection of the Turks. After more than ten years of reproduction and continuous annexation, they now have a tribe of 200,000 people and a force of 100,000, becoming a
The most powerful of the Tiele tribes.
The Turks supported Xueyantuo only to use them to deal with the Uighurs who had always been uneasy. They deliberately gave half of the Uighurs' pastures to Xueyantuo to create conflicts between them. The Turks' alienation strategy was very successful.
became a mortal enemy.
But what Xue Yantuo hated most was not the Uighurs, but the Sui Dynasty, or to be precise, the Fengzhou Army led by Yang Yuanqing. They had never forgotten the hatred they had caused more than ten years ago. This time, Xue Yantuo came south for revenge.
Xue Yantuo's 40,000-strong army continued to launch frantic attacks on the right-wing Sui army. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Khan Yinan's youngest son was killed in the battle, and four of the eight 10,000-strong captains were also killed. The casualties exceeded 20,000.
For the grassland army, if the casualties exceed half, it is generally impossible to hold on any longer, but Yi Nan knows very well that if he loses at this time, he will not be able to obtain the rich spoils of war in the Central Plains, and Xue Yantuo will not be able to avenge the shame of Dali City.
"Hold on, if you defeat the Sui army, I will reward each of you with a hundred sheep!" Yi Nan encouraged his troops with heavy profit rewards.
At this time, the Sui army also suffered heavy casualties. Lieutenant General Xie Yingdeng was hit by three arrows. He was rescued by his own soldiers. General Pei Xingyan was also seriously wounded and bleeding profusely. He could no longer hold on.
"Lao Pei, get out and leave this place to me!" Cheng Yaojin shouted loudly with his eyes red with anxiety.
Pei Xingyan gritted his teeth and asked a soldier to remove the arrow from his right arm. He shook his head, "You have no experience in commanding an army. I don't trust you if I leave it to you!"
Cheng Yaojin was furious, actually looking down on him so much. He couldn't help but cursed bitterly: "How long has it been, and you still care about this? I tell you, I will fight to the last man, do you believe it or not?"
He turned around and shouted to a dozen generals: "You said, believe me!"
More than a dozen generals lowered their heads and no one said a word. At this time, Pei Xingyan felt dizzy and had no strength left in his body. He could no longer hold on any longer. He could only say in a low voice: "Wait for His Highness's order!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Yuanqing's soldiers rushed over, raised their arrows and shouted: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu has an order, General Cheng Yaojin will take over the command of the right wing, and must hold on until reinforcements arrive!"
Cheng Yaojin was overjoyed. He stepped forward to take the command arrow, then turned around and stared at Pei Xingyan, his eyes gleaming. Pei Xingyan had no choice but to order the dozen generals around him: "Obey General Cheng's command. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"
All the generals bowed together and saluted. "Obey!"
At this moment, Cheng Yaojin suddenly became serious and said to everyone: "Although I, Cheng Yaojin, have no military exploits and a bad reputation, His Highness still uses me as his general. This kind of trust makes me speechless.
I will die to repay the kindness of His Highness the King of Chu."
He waved his axe, "Everyone, follow me and let the *** Xue Yantuo people taste the taste of my old Chengban ax... At this time, the snowflakes in the sky were getting bigger and bigger, and the vision in the distance began to blur. Behind Xue Yantuo's army
, Li Jing has arrived with fifteen thousand troops.
Li Jing covered the falling snowflakes with his hand curtain and stared at the rear of Xue Yantuo's army a mile away. He knew that the success or failure of the entire war depended on this.
Li Jing took a deep breath and turned around to look behind him. Behind him were five thousand heavy armored cavalry. They were like five thousand statues, standing quietly among the flying snowflakes. Their bodies were covered with
A thin layer of snowflakes.
General Xue Wanche was at the front of the team. He held a horse in his hand and stared at Li Jing, his eyes full of desire for a battle. Li Jing understood the expectation contained in his eyes and nodded slowly, "Let's go!"
Xue Wanche raised his horse high, which was the order to go out. The five thousand heavily armored cavalry began to set off. They were a hundred people in a row, running forward slowly, in an orderly manner, and the horseshoes made a neat and rhythmic clatter.
Behind the heavy armored cavalry, there were five thousand light cavalry on each side. They were also in formation, waiting for the order to attack.
Heavy armored cavalry cannot be launched far away from the enemy, and their horses cannot support too far distances. If they are launched from a mile away, they can produce the best impact effect.
But in this way, the attack of the heavy armored cavalry would be easily discovered by the enemy. In fact, Xue Yantuo's patrol post had already discovered the Sui army appearing behind them.
This news shocked Khan Yinan. He sent people to ask for help from Jieli Khan urgently. At the same time, he deployed the last five thousand troops in the rear camp to meet the upcoming attack with dense bows and arrows.
Xue Yantuo did not get his bows and arrows from the Turks. The Turks would not give them high-quality weapons. Xue Yantuo used a large number of livestock in exchange for 30,000 pairs of bows and arrows from the Koreans.
bow.
In the distance, the black heavy armored cavalry of the Sui Army was getting closer and closer. Many Xueyantuo soldiers had a look of fear in their eyes. Before the Sui Army cavalry entered the range, they began to fire arrows blindly.
The heavy armored cavalry had already reached three hundred steps away. Xue Wanche held the huge shield in his hand and raised his horse high again. The five thousand heavy armored cavalry suddenly accelerated.
They faced the dense rain of arrows and rushed towards the enemy in formation. Their speed was getting faster and faster, the sound of horse hooves was like thunder, and their momentum was like a stormy sea. They destroyed everything and were invincible.
The cavalry charged forward.
Xue Yantuo's cavalry was terrified. They had been fighting fiercely for more than two hours and were exhausted. Their fighting spirit was greatly weakened. The heavy armored cavalry, which was as fast as the violent waves, made him tremble with fear. They turned around and fled in confusion.
Khan Yinan's face changed drastically, and it turned out to be a heavy armored cavalry. He had seen the powerful impact of this kind of heavy armored cavalry during the Sui Army's Northern Expedition in the 20th year after the founding of the Emperor.
But he knew he couldn't retreat at this time, so Yi Nan pulled out his knife and shouted: "Go up to me!"
Some of the five thousand Xueyantuo troops came forward with spears. Others retreated desperately. They hesitated between fighting and fleeing, making them even more confused. The cavalry in the front row yelled in fear.
The horses were galloping and murderous, and the five thousand heavily armored cavalry were only a few dozen steps away from the enemy. Xue Yantuo's army finally collapsed at the last moment. They turned their horses and fled desperately into the wilderness.
At this time, 10,000 Turkic reinforcements also arrived. They stood in front of Xue Yantuo's army, but the Turkic army was also frightened by the earth-shaking momentum of the heavy armored cavalry, and they were extremely frightened. The soldiers in the front row had nowhere to escape.
, unable to retreat, being pushed by the soldiers behind them, they had no choice but to raise their spears, close their eyes, and scream in despair.
"boom!"
Five thousand heavy armored cavalry rushed into the enemy group with a devastating force. The first row of Turkic cavalry was smashed to pieces. Dozens of corpses and horses flew out. Countless people were trampled under the iron hooves of the horses, and even suffered tragic injuries.
I couldn't even scream. Groups of people were cut down like wheat, their bodies were bloody and bloody, and their blood was everywhere.
The huge impact of the heavy armored cavalry instantly broke through the formation of the Turkic reinforcements. At this time, Xue Yantuo Khan Yinan was right behind the Turkic army formation.
He watched helplessly as the dense wall of Turkic soldiers was broken into thousands of pieces like broken porcelain. Bones flew everywhere, and pieces of meat were scattered everywhere. An armored cavalry stained red with blood appeared in front of him, and the war horses looked like
The monster spewed thick white smoke from its nose and rushed towards him with red eyes.
"ah!"
Yi Nan screamed in fear, and the hundreds of guards around him were unable to rescue him. They watched helplessly as their khan was swept under the hooves of the Sui army's cavalry and trampled to a pulp.
The heavy armored cavalry's horse assassinated Feitiao. They were unstoppable and invincible, and they fought a bloody path.
Behind them, Li Jing led 10,000 Sui army cavalry into Xue Yantuo's position along the bloody road they had opened. Xue Yantuo's army collapsed first, and the cavalry fled in all directions in the heavy snow, crying loudly.
The snow fell heavier and heavier, turning from fine flakes into clumps of snowballs, and the sky and earth became gray.
On the battlefield on the Western Front, Peisa, the chief of Uighur, squinted his eyes and looked at the heavy snow in the sky. At this time, Tumidu rushed over and shouted anxiously: "Chief, the reinforcements from the Sui Dynasty are coming. Xue Yantuo has been defeated. Chief
, let’s retreat quickly!”
Pesa glanced at the Turkic camp again. At this time, the balance in his heart finally shifted from the huge profits of the Sui Dynasty to the freedom of the Uighurs.
He smiled coldly, "The Turkic era is over, and the Warring States era of the grassland is coming."
He waved his hand and said, "Let's withdraw!"
The Uighur army on the western front quickly withdrew from the battlefield, but Luo Shixin refused to let go. He led his army to chase after him. At this time, an officer rushed over and shouted: "General Luo! General Luo!"
Luo Shixin reined in his horse, turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
The officer rushed forward, raised a command arrow, and said loudly: "Your Highness has an order, do not pursue the Uighurs, and concentrate your forces to attack the Turkic flank."
Luo Shixin suddenly woke up, turned around and shouted loudly: "The whole army listens to the order and attacks the Turks!"
At this time, Cheng Yaojin on the eastern front also received the order, gave up the pursuit of the defeated Xue Yantuo, and joined forces with Li Jing to launch an attack on the west side of the Turks.
Li Jing's reinforcements turned the tide of the war at the most critical moment. With the defeat of Xue Yantuo and the withdrawal of the Uighur army, the morale of the Turkic army began to collapse. The heavy snow in the sky plunged them into despair.
"Khan, retreat quickly!"
A Turkic captain of ten thousand men rushed over with more than 3,000 men, anxiously urging Jieli Khan to retreat north. Surrounded by hundreds of guards, Jieli Khan knelt on the ground, his head buried deeply in the soil.
, crying quietly.
At this moment, despair, anger, unwillingness, and various emotions distorted his heart. He could no longer control his emotions. He was like a person who put his wealth and life on the gambling table. At the last moment, he lost,
Completely lost.
He suddenly raised his head, with tears streaming down his face. He raised his hands high in the air and shouted sadly to the sky full of snow: "God of Immortality! You have mercy on the Turks... Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The drums of the Sui army's counterattack began to beat loudly, and the sound of the drums shook the earth. The morale of the Sui army soldiers was high, and they launched the final counterattack. The Turkic army began to be defeated across the board.
The Sui army followed behind and killed the defeated Turkic army with heavy casualties. The corpses piled up like mountains and the grassland was dyed red with blood.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, the cold wind is howling, sweeping the heavy snow, overwhelming the earth, the sky and the earth have become gray, the north, which has been dry for nearly half a year, finally ushered in its first snowstorm... To be continued., Welcome to
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