The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 121

The Turkic armored battle formation has a total of [-] soldiers and horses. This is because they have spent a huge price. They have trained for three years to train this elite soldier. Invincible, no matter how many soldiers and martial arts the opponent has, they cannot resist.

After the training of this elite army, the Turkic Jili Khan was very happy and planned to use this team to sweep the world. He had long coveted the two fertile lands of the Central Plains and Tuyuhun. Khan divided the [-] armored formations into two and sent them all out. The second and third princes' iron armored formations had [-] people.

Five thousand iron cavalry, every hundred armored horses are linked together in a row with iron chains. The knights of the horses are all in heavy armor, and each holds a spear in his hand. This forms a powerful phalanx, like a huge monster. , stepping on the drumbeat, the whole body is crushed and pushed forward.

Sang Muda saw the terrifying armored battle formation coming out again, and hurriedly led a thousand archers on horseback to a high slope, found a good place to aim at the drummer behind the iron armored battle formation, and shot arrows.

Sure enough, as Yang Yong expected, these drummers are indeed the command center of the armored battle formation. There can be hundreds of them, sitting on horseback, following the sides and rear of the armored battle formation. The rhythm of drum music directs the attack direction and speed of the armored formation.

Because the armored battle formation is invincible despite its small number of people, and the drummers are at the side and rear of the battle formation, so they are considered to be the safest. Beat the drums.

After finding the terrain, Sang Muda aimed all arrows at the drummer.These drummers were beating their musical instruments, directing the armored battle array to charge with Yang Yong's Tugu iron cavalry. Unexpectedly, they would become the targets of the enemy's attack, and twenty or thirty of them were shot down in an instant, and the remaining few The ten people were in a hurry, who still had the heart to play the drums? Many people feared for their lives, threw away the instruments in their hands and ran away. People were panicked, and the sound of the drums stopped abruptly.

At the same time, Du Yi's [-] infantry rushed up, each with a three-foot-long machete in their hands, and Du Yi directed the tide to rush towards the armored battle formation.

The command signal was suddenly interrupted, and these armored battle formations seemed to have lost their ears and eyes, and they were a little at a loss, and then the armored knights fought on their own, fighting with the Tugu soldiers.At this time, the infantry led by Du Yi rushed forward, and the Turkic armored knight stabbed the Tugu infantry with the spear in his hand.

But these Tugu pawns are flexible, and they only drill into the gaps between the horses, and they can penetrate everywhere.Seeing that the spear was coming, he rolled to the ground, and while avoiding the spear, he rolled to the horse and slashed at the horse's hoof with the knife.If one of the horse's four hooves can be cut off, the horse will be useless, and the armored knight will not be able to fight on the horse.

In an instant, countless armored horses were cut down, and the armored knights on the horse were thrown off one after another. The armored knights who did not fall wanted to charge, but these disabled horses became a drag. How could they rush, and soon the armored warriors The formation lost its mobility, and naturally there was no battle, and it became the target of Tugu soldiers. The armored battle formation was in chaos, and there were not a few armored knights who fell from their horses and were trampled to death.

Yang Yong was overjoyed when he saw that Du Yi's pawns had succeeded, and commanded the Tugu iron cavalry to rush up.

At this time, the two Turkic princes saw that it was not good, and hurriedly ordered the armored battle formation to retreat. The drummers had already run away, and they could only shout with their voices.In the end, after a lot of effort, these armored knights knew that the Lord was going to retreat, but where could they retreat? Dozens of rows of 5000 men and horses, hundreds of horses were turned to the ground and became a drag, the armored battle formation was in chaos, the command was ineffective, and they could not move.

At this time, tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry who were preparing to cooperate with the armored battle formation for the second charge rushed up to rescue them, but they were intercepted by tens of thousands of Tugu cavalry commanded by Lu Ke. Moonlight.

But the armored battle formation was broken, and the hearts of the people have long been defeated. Moreover, the Turkic cavalry lost their advantage without the support of the iron armored formation. In addition, Yang Yong, Du Yi, and Xue Renyue were brave and invincible, and they defeated the Turkic cavalry.In an unlucky hour, nearly 20 Turkic soldiers will be killed and fled in defeat.There are countless Turkic generals who died under Yang Yong's spear and horse.

Yang Yong, Lu Ke and others commanded soldiers to chase across the Qingshui River, but they still held on tight.During the scuffle, Yang Yong met the third prince Nianhan for the second time, and both of them fought desperately, killing each other with swords and guns at the same time.But within ten rounds, Nianhan was defeated, and the second prince Nahan also rushed to help. The two brothers fought against Yang Yong. After more than ten rounds, Yang Yong picked the second prince Nahan off the horse with one shot.

The third prince cried and wanted to avenge his brother, so he fought desperately with Yang Yong. He was desperate, but his martial arts were far inferior to Yang Yong. This emotional state was full of loopholes.Just as Yang Yong was about to kill the third prince with one shot, the Turkic side suddenly rushed over with five generals to rescue Nianhan, and six generals Yang Yong surrounded him.

Yang Yong fought one against six without any fear, and the seven generals killed everything inextricably.At this time, Lu Ke and Xue Renyue attacked from the left and right, and the six Turkic generals couldn't hold back. They protected the third prince Nianhan and pulled his horse and were defeated again. Yang Yong and Lu Ke led their troops to chase and kill them again.

In this way, the Turkic soldiers fought and retreated, Yang Yong and Lu Ke chased while fighting, and the two chased outside the city of Shanzhou in one go.When they were more than ten miles away from the city, another [-] cavalry rushed out from the city to rescue the soldiers of the third prince Nianhan back into the city.

The soldiers of Yang Yong and Lu Ke rushed to the base of the city, and shot arrows down from the top of the city. The Tugu soldiers were almost unable to move forward, so Yang Yong and Lu Ke withdrew their troops and retreated ten li to set up camp.

This battle was fought from morning to evening, and the battle line stretched for more than [-] li. Fortunately, these were cavalry, even so, Tugu's soldiers and horses were exhausted.

Check the number of people. In this battle, the Tugu soldiers will lose nearly 2 horses and 20 Tugu soldiers. After these two battles, nearly half of them were lost, leaving only 12 horses.

But the Turkic soldiers will be even worse. Yang Yong and the others made a rough count. In today's battle alone, the Turkic soldiers lost more than 1000 soldiers, which is not counted as injuries.The greater result of the battle was to break the Turkic trump card in the armored battle formation. The second prince of the Turks was killed and more than [-] Turkic cavalry were captured, including more than [-] knights in the iron armored battle formation.The income is tens of thousands of good horses, countless swords and spears.

On the matter of handling the captives, Yang Yong disagreed with the generals. Yang Yong advocated dispersing on the spot, but the Tugu soldiers objected one after another: "Commander, you can't, you don't know how the Turkic Tartars are treated." Our captured brothers. Just yesterday, someone saw with their own eyes that thousands of our brothers were captured by the Turkic Tartars. All the inhuman Turkic Tartars were cut alive, to avenge my brothers!"

"Yes, revenge, kill them all!" The generals were excited, shouting louder and louder.

Yang Yongli resisted all opinions and said: "Everyone, I'm sorry that Yang can't agree with everyone. It has been known since ancient times that soldiers are not belligerent, and those who win the heart win the world. They should be given a chance. Those who are willing to surrender stay, and those who are not willing to surrender sneak in." Dispersing them is better than killing them. They can be cured or killed. Even if they are unwilling to surrender, they cannot be influenced, but at least they will not fight against us again. This is called conquering people with virtue and ruling the world with benevolence. We If all the captives were beheaded, how would it be different from those inhuman Turkic Tartars?"

General Tugu said again: "Commander, we don't read much, and we don't understand the general principles. We know that we have revenge for revenge, and revenge for hatred. Turkic Tartars killed so many of us, we must not Give them a break!"

Seeing that he couldn't convince the generals, Yang Yong looked at Lu Ke: "Brother Lu, what do you think?

Lu Ke said: "Brother Yang has lofty aspirations and a deep heart of benevolence. This palace is not as good as this. This palace believes that the hearts of the people are important, but this is a troubled world, and strength can determine everything. The Turkic Tartars are brutal and capricious. They cannot accept their surrender. .But if you let the tiger go back to the mountain, there will be future troubles. Let’s do this, neither kill nor let it go, let’s watch it in custody and talk about it later.”

When Yang Yong saw what Lu Ke said, he couldn't hold on any longer. Although he was the coach, he came to help after all. The rest of the prisoners were taken into custody.

Yang Yong ordered Sang Muda to lead a team to clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses along the way.Then, gather all the generals to discuss the strategy of breaking the city.

In the city of Shanzhou, at the entrance of the big tent of the Chinese army where the third prince Nianhan lived, there was a white flag hanging over it, and inside the tent lay the body of the second prince Nianhan, like a blood gourd.Nianhan dressed in hemp and filial piety, guarding his brother's body and weeping to death.

All the officers and men under his command persuaded him, and it took a long time to persuade the third prince Nianhan.

Nianhan wiped away his tears, gritted his teeth and said, "Yang Yong, Tugu Tartar, I, Nianhan, will not avenge this, and swear not to be a human being!" As he spoke, a mace arrow broke off with a click, and his small eyes turned red. , roared: "Come on, gather all the soldiers and horses, and fight with Yang Yong and the Tugu Tartars!"

The soldiers under his command quickly knelt down and tried to persuade him: "Your Majesty, you must not! Yang Yong is so brave that no one can defeat him. Our army has just been defeated, our troops have been lost and our generals have been lost. The [-] armored formations are gone, and morale is low. Going to battle at this time, not only will we not be able to avenge, There is also the danger of annihilation of the entire army. There is a saying that a gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late, the prince must mourn, don't show off your bravery."

Nianhan, who has always been arrogant and arrogant, thought about it, listened to the suggestions of the generals for the first time, and asked: "How about the casualties of our army in this battle?"

"Back to the prince, there are nearly one hundred and eight thousand people who have been injured." A Turkic general replied dejectedly.

Hearing this, Nianhan lowered his head listlessly. During the expedition, Jili Khan gave the two brothers 30 soldiers and horses, as well as an invincible 10 armored battle array. Unexpectedly, they lost [-] troops in today's battle. Thousands of people, plus the last fiasco of the vanguard battalion, half of the soldiers and horses were lost in the battle with Yang Yong in the past few days. What is even more distressing is that the second brother Nahan and the brave and invincible vanguard officer Jin Hong were all killed. The armored battle formation no longer exists. How about explaining to your father Khan when you go back?Nianhan stamped his feet and beat his chest again.

After the soldiers under his command persuaded him, they discussed the battle in front of them. All the soldiers agreed that the isolated city of Shanzhou was difficult to defend. They gave up Shanzhou, retreated to the Gerba Banner, and then rested their troops and made a comeback.

Nianhan saw that people were in a state of panic and that none of the generals had the will to fight. More importantly, his second brother was killed in battle and he had to go back to deal with the funeral, so he accepted the generals' suggestion.The next day, Nianhan led 16 Turkic cavalry to abandon Shanzhou and retreat to Gerba Banner.

Yang Yong and Lu Ke couldn't help being overjoyed when they heard the news.

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