Chapter 955: Harassing the Enemy Camp
As night fell, a crescent moon hung on the hill like a silver scimitar.
The Turkic camp tents are connected and opened, they are not like the Central Plains people, the military camp has to be arranged, they are all camped according to their living habits, but there must be the most simple and practical truth in life, so the camp looks messy, but in fact, it is scattered, and it does not seem crowded, just like a family, a household, people walking, horse aisles, etc. have reasonable arrangements.
It was late at night, and most of the soldiers had gone to sleep, except for the patrol guards who were walking around.
But the wounded barracks were still wailing, there were no anti-inflammatory drugs, there were not enough medicine stones, and there was no way to relieve the pain, so the wounded could not hold back at night, and could only howl in pain.
Someone couldn't help it and took out a reed pipe, which was a musical instrument made from the stems of the reeds, a kind of wind instrument played by the Hu people of the Western Regions and the grasslands, and played it to distract the wounded and relieve the pain.
The song is lofty, melodious and tactful, with the sonorous power of the Hu people, and the bold wind, but it is also sandwiched with some softness and warmth.
The sound of reeds entering the camp of the wounded soon stopped howling, and many people quieted down and listened, endured the pain, and even forgot about the injury, nostalgic for the joyful days in the grassland hometown, singing and dancing, in stark contrast to the painful scene at this time.
I don't know where to blow the reed pipe, and I recruit people to look at the hometown overnight.
Many people wept, some were homesick, and they were unwilling to fight with the Central Plains again, because in the past few years, they had fought with the Dahua army, and they did not take any advantage, and they were often buried in the Central Plains.
Suddenly, outside the camp, there seemed to be the sound of horses' hooves approaching, and the whole ground was shaken by the iron hooves.
The Dahua cavalry rushed in, but did not directly attack the camp, because the Turks dug trenches and arranged tripwires, trap pits, thistles, barbs, etc., to prevent enemy soldiers from sneaking up.
If you rush forward, the casualties in the early stage will definitely be very large.
The cavalry stopped, someone dismounted, and the two cooperated to prop up the crossbow machine, both of which were foot crossbows, with great strength and long range, and the crossbow arrows were tied with oilcloth torches, and after they were lit, they swished and shot out towards the camp.
The range of this foot crossbow can reach one hundred and fifty paces, which is farther than a longbow, and the soft bow drawn on the back of the Turkic horses is only sixty or seventy paces.
This is not to say that the Turks have small arm strength or poor archery, but because the Turks are all riding horses and archery, and it is too difficult to use a long bow and a hard bow, and the waist strength and footsteps cannot be exerted, and it also causes some damage to the horses, so they all use soft bows, plus the horse's rush speed, and the range will be closer and closer.
And the archers of the Central Plains, on the contrary, do not move in place, pull the bow and release the arrows, the time of accumulation is long, and the strength of the feet and waist is more, which is more suitable for longbow shooting.
"Woohoo!"
Arrows with tarpaulins were shot down and fell into the Turkic camp, causing a nuisance to the Turks.
Suddenly, the tents in the outlying camps were the first to catch fire, and some of the soldiers were caught in the flames, wailing and rolling on the ground, still carrying the fire on their bodies, and constantly running around, often carrying the flames to other places.
The fire rolled up and spread, the Turkic soldiers panicked, and the sound of horns, sticks, and gongs sounded as a call to assemble the ranks and prepare for battle.
There were also Turkic archers who shot outside, but the range was insufficient to reach the ranks of the Dahua cavalry.
"Crossbowman, shoot in a different place."
"Whoa!" Thousands of crossbowmen began to mount their horses and shoot at different angles around the perimeter of the camp.
Xue Wancheng and Pei Yuanqing took the rest of the elite cavalry, patiently waiting for the Turkic cavalry to come out to fight, they could take the opportunity to ambush, intercept and kill, and if there were still good fighters, they could also enter the camp, kick the joint camp, make trouble, and then evacuate.
They only had 10,000 men coming to attack tonight, and the task given by them was to nuisance, not to let the Turks sleep well, to break morale, and to increase trouble.
Sure enough, some Turkic cavalry rushed out of the camp, and at least six or seven thousand men and horses, as the vanguard army, came out to test and stop these Dahua archers from firing rockets into the camp.
"Kill it!"
"Rush"
Pei Yuanqing held a spear in his hand, led thousands of men and horses to fight, and the mountains and fields were full of rushing and killing sounds, dense black and pressing, and the sound of fighting was noisy and grabbing the ground, surging over like a tide of angry waves.
"Dangdang!"
In an instant, the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat, completely ignoring each other's human beings, swords, guns, swords, and halberds as melon cuts according to the head, bursting out of their brains, frantically slashing at the enemy's limbs, chest, abdomen, and neck, and streams of hot blood splashed everywhere.
Thundered!
A troop of cavalry came from afar, coming to encircle and suppress this Dahua army.
The crossbowmen, in that direction, fired arrows indiscriminately, covering a wide range and killing many Turkic knights.
"Kill!"
Xue Wancheng held the Zaoyang horse lance, led the troops to kill from the side, and rushed out of the camp, was shot by the dark arrow Turkic cavalry collided together, and suddenly the people turned on their backs, and the Dahua army had the upper hand with the intention of calculating or not, but it was not in love with war, but mainly to dig and cut off.
After a quarter of an hour, the sound of horses' hooves in the Turkic camp was loud, the fire was bright, and the main army was alarmed and kept pouring outside.
"Withdrawn."
Xue Wancheng and Pei Yuanqing ordered to withdraw at the same time, their manpower was not enough to kill the enemy camp, they had already killed more than a thousand enemies outside, plus the destruction and disturbance of the Turkic camp, the task was successfully completed, there was no need to stay, otherwise, it was likely that it would not fall.
The two teams quickly merged into one force and ran wildly, followed by 10,000 Turks or 20,000 people in pursuit. But rushing out a few miles away, passing through a mountain forest, there were ambushes out, bows and arrows flying wildly, intercepting the Turkic pursuers, not daring to follow up rashly, for fear of being ambushed, scolding and turning around and retreating.
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