Volume 1 A Hundred Battles Yellow Sand Wears Gold Armor Chapter 56 A Tragic Melee
Just when Wang Junlin wanted to go back to the tent and start practicing the nameless exercises given by Chang Kuzi, he suddenly saw a monk wearing a red robe, with a red face, as fat as a pig, surrounded by four monks in gray robes, passing past them and walking towards the depths of the Kurunubi tribe.
"My lord, this fat monk is Master Suodagi of the Kurunubi tribe, his temple is on the low hill in the west, and if Hurunubi is not summoned, this monk rarely comes. Even if there was a war in the tribe, he would come and do things for the Turks who died in battle. The person who spoke was the principal of Wang Junlin's caravan, and in fact, he was also a merchant that Wang Junlin secretly selected from among the homeless people.
This guy's name is Deng Yuzhuo, he was originally a big businessman in Gaolan County, Jincheng County, and the result was also unlucky, in the big war last year, he didn't have time to lead his family and property to withdraw to Jincheng County, so he was robbed by Tuyuhun, killed his whole family, and robbed him of all his belongings, the reason why he was able to survive was because he could settle accounts, and Tuyuhun had a leader who wanted to leave him to settle accounts for himself.
Later, the Sui army defeated the king of Tuyuhun Bailan, but the leader couldn't take care of Deng Yuzhuo, so this guy took the opportunity to escape, ran to Gaotai City, and became a homeless.
Wang Junlin was able to know that this guy was a big businessman, or because he had a hundred people under him, and he recognized Deng Yuzhuo when he passed through the camp of exiles.
Of course, Wang Junlin's recruitment of him was naturally carried out secretly, otherwise how could Wang Junlin make money and find out the news at the same time.
For Deng Yuzhuo, who has nothing, Wang Junlin not only gave him a chance to survive again, but also gave him a chance to regain his former wealth, coupled with Wang Junlin's prestige, this guy initially established loyalty to Wang Junlin, which can be said to be Wang Junlin's biggest cash cow today.
Wang Junlin is also very generous, he has never treated Deng Yuzhuo like the nobles of this era treat their own servants, but directly gave Deng Yuzhuo a percentile, and even made Deng Yuzhuo die for him, and made money for Wang Junlin and himself wholeheartedly, and married a little daughter-in-law who was more than 20 years younger than himself in Gaotai City for most of the year.
The Bon master named Sardin of the Ashina tribe made himself like an ascetic, in addition to liking to sacrifice and burn things, his own food, housing, use, and walking are not as good as the hardest herdsmen, which is also a kind of Bon practice to hone the will and firm faith, which is actually the same reason that Tibetan Buddhist believers in later generations can kneel and travel hundreds of miles to Lhasa to worship the living Buddha.
But Master Suodagi of the Kurunubi tribe is just the opposite, not to mention anything else, just look at the old monk's red face, fat like a pig, the robe on his body actually has gold silk lines, followed by four monks who are actually his servants, and the golden temple on the mountain west of the Kurunubi tribe can be known.
Kurunubi summoned Master Sodaji to discuss with him about joining forces with Ashina to deal with the Khan of Tongyehu and King Hatofa.
Kurunubi never suspected that someone would be to blame for his assassination, because he was the only survivor of the previous Western Turkic royal family, and he had a life-and-death feud with the Tongye Protector Khan and the King of Bodofa, not to mention that the arrow he was in was indeed the arrow used by the Tongye Protector Headquarters, all of which made him immediately target the people of the Tongye Protector Khan and the King of Potofa.
What's more, this hand is not the first time that the Yehu Khan and King Bodofa have used it, when the two of them coup d'état before, they used assassination to kill Chu Luo Khan first, so that the henchmen loyal to Chu Luo Khan fell to the head of the dragon, so they were broken so quickly and seized the royal court.
Therefore, in Kurunubi's view, his assassination this time was just a reuse of the old tricks of the Khan of Tongyehu and King Bodofa, but he was not killed.
If it weren't for the fact that there were only 80,000 soldiers under his command who could mount their horses to kill the enemy, and his strength was only one-third of that of Tongye Hu Khan, he would have led a large army to kill him, and now he could only join forces with Ashina to deal with the bastard Tongye Hu.
Just when Kurunubi was gathering troops and horses to prepare for battle at any time, the spies he sent reported that Tong Yehu personally led an army of 200,000 to kill the Ashina tribe, and then the messenger sent by Ashina also came, and Kurunubi agreed to the request of the Ashina envoy without hesitation, and ordered the army to set off to rescue the Ashina tribe.
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Just when Ashina had completed the mobilization and deployment of the great war, the 200,000-strong army led by Tongye Hu Khan came over in a mighty manner, and the songs of the royal court cavalry were all over the mountains: "Suppress the infidels, defeat the rebels, uproot them, and seize everything from them!" Riding the pagan horses and using their beautiful women as your pajamas and cushions is the greatest pleasure of a warrior......"
Since the coup d'état more than half a year ago, the biggest civil war in the Western Turks has become inevitable!
Tongye Hu Khan originally wanted to kill the other party as much as possible, but he also knew that it was impossible for Ashina to be unguarded, because since Ashina had already sent someone to poison their forage, he would inevitably guard against his own crazy revenge after the matter was revealed, so he listened to the opinion of King Pota and simply let all the soldiers sing the song composed by King Pota himself, which condensed morale and made these warriors invisibly more firm in their belief in Nestorian Christianity.
Sure enough, just as the army led by Tong Yehu arrived, I saw that the Ashina tribe was already in full battle.
The Turks have never said that they salute first and then fight wars, and since they have torn their faces, then there is no nonsense and they start fighting directly.
In the eyes of Tongye Hu Khan, he has 200,000 cavalry, and Ashina only has 100,000 horses, twice the strength of the opponent, even in the opponent's territory, he also has an absolute superiority in troops, this battle, he must kill Ashina. As for King Potofa, he must kill Master Sardinia and the most established followers of Bon, so that hundreds of thousands of people from the Ashina tribe will eventually become followers of their Nestorianism.
The rain of arrows roared, shouting and killing.
On the grassland in spring, people turned on their backs, swords and guns were raised, and there were constantly terrible screams, but they were suppressed by the more high-pitched shouts and howls.
Cavalry charges, trying to find a way to cut through the opponent and fight, this is the most common and favorite tactic used by the Turkic cavalry. Therefore, the tactics of the two tribes are the same, they both use offense instead of defense, so they kill extremely fiercely.
Tongyehu Khan stood on a hillside high behind the battlefield to watch the battle, thinking that he would directly kill the Ashina tribe today, and the latter was surrounded by women, children, old and young, although it aroused the desperate heart of the warriors of the Ashina tribe, but it also made the cavalry of the Ashina tribe dare not charge too far, which is considered to be firmly tied to all the warriors of the Ashina tribe here, and he can fight if he wants to, and he can retreat if he doesn't fight.
At the same time, Kurunubi led 80,000 cavalry from the southeast, and he planned to suddenly attack the rear army of Tongye Hu Khan from the flank when Ashina and Tongye Hu were in full swing.
Everything in this battle was designed by Wang Junlin, Changsun Sheng, and Changsun Wuji, and the flames of war intensified......
Tongye Hu Khan relied on the strength of the people, the tribe of Ashina attacked unscrupulously, the tribe of Ashina did not have a city wall, not even a fence, although the warriors desperately guarded their homeland, but there were still a few places that were finally broken through, the fierce soldiers of the royal court tribe killed into the Ashina tribe, the latter old and weak women and children cried and ran, the warriors of the Ashina tribe fought back like a desperate death, but the soldiers were outnumbered, and the situation of the war was difficult to reverse, unless reinforcements appeared.
However, at this moment, the sound of horses' hooves, the sound of strings like tens of thousands of buzzes, and the sharp arrows that covered the sky and the sun shot from the back of the army of the Khan of Tongyehu, and Kurunubi finally arrived with 80,000 horses.
Kurunubi is bent on revenge, usually he has too few soldiers and horses to defeat Tong Ye Hu, but now he has the opportunity to join forces with Ashina, and sneak attack from the rear, so he came in a hurry and fast, Tong Ye Hu Khan's soldiers and horses were originally also deployed to defend the rear of the army, but when the Ashina tribe was broken, these generals behind couldn't wait to rush forward. Just kidding, the Turks fought for one purpose, to rob property and women, and now they have broken the Ashina tribe, and the rich women will be left to their captivity, how much temptation is this? If you blindly stick to the back, won't you end up empty-handed? Therefore, after a commotion in the rear of the Khan, he could not wait to rush forward, and it was at this time that Kurunubi led a large army to kill.
Arrows rained down, and the army of Tongye Hu Khan, who was caught off guard, fell one after another like lambs waiting to be slaughtered!
After two rounds of projectiles, Khurunubi pounced viciously with 80,000 cavalry. A scuffle, the two sides were entangled, roaring and shouting, blood gushing out. Even in the darkness and chaos of the night, these Western Turks can skillfully form a group of three or five, cooperate with each other, and the team rushes to kill, on the vast grassland, the torches are dotted, and the three sides of men and horses ride and clash endlessly.
Ashina's side, which was retreating to the core part step by step, saw that Hurunubi led 80,000 reinforcements to arrive, and immediately boosted their morale, and immediately mustered up the courage to launch a counterattack, and the two sides continued to scuttle through each other, and a melee with nearly 400,000 cavalry participating in the battle began in an all-round way, like a group of wild wolves fighting on the grassland.
On this day, I wonder how many Western Turkic lives will be buried in this steppe...... And this is the ultimate goal that the Great Sui Emperor and the Manchu civil and military officials, as well as Wang Junlin and Changsun Sheng, the two chief and deputy envoys, have been planning for a long time, and now it seems that this strategic goal has been successfully achieved.