Chapter 67 A chain of fire horses and a place of blood and mud
Chapter 67 A chain of fire horses and a place of blood and mud
Tong Yehu Khan really didn't understand Tang Yan, but Li Zhongyan beside him did. Li Zhongyan nervously translated Chen's words to Tongye Hu Khan, and when he heard this, Tongye Hu Khan's nose was crooked.
"Heads-up!"
Tong Yehu Khan was stunned, he stared at Chen Ying in a daze, and snorted a few times, clearly wanting to scold, but he didn't know what to scold.
Singled out? If it was the Tongye Hu Khan twenty years ago, he would definitely not be scared. Not just Chen Ying, but anyone. Tong Ye Hu wanted to be a well-known man in the Western Turks back then, and he could urinate three feet in the wind, although he didn't dare to say that he was invincible in the world, at least he really didn't have anyone afraid of anyone, he was single-handed, he was two shoulders and one head, who was afraid of whom!
But now it's not good, he's already on the verge of being a man, and he's in his sixties, and he has to get up three or four times a night to pee, and he single-handedly picks up a fart.
It's a pity that Tongye Hu Khan doesn't know the details of Chen Ying at all, Chen Ying doesn't look at his great military exploits and reputation, in fact, his martial arts are really not powerful, but he just relies on his courage and dares to kill.
Seeing that Tongye Hu Khan did not dare to fight, Chen Ying's confidence was even higher.
"Guardian Ye, don't you have a fucking handle? It's kind of heads-up! ”
Tongye Hu Khan was angry, and he was determined to kill this Tang army that dared to challenge the elite of the Western Turks in the field. Judging from the description of Zhenzhu Tong, this Tang army is an army that he is completely unfamiliar with, this army does not seem to know pain, does not know fear, and does not fear death, and they also dare to fight the cavalry head-on! He didn't know how this army was trained and when it was formed, but he only knew that the Tang Army would become a great uncertain factor on the Hexi battlefield, and his attitude towards the uncertain factor was very simple: destroy it!
As for the Liangzhou Tang Army...... In his eyes, it was not a matter, as long as the Tang army of Liangzhou left the hateful city wall, the Western Turkic iron cavalry could also clean them up with one hand tied.
From time to time, the Western Turkic right-wing army sounded the sound of shouting, which was shouted out by thousands of cavalry, and the sound was so loud that it was ten miles away.
In Liangzhou City, dinner has already been opened at this time. The rice is naturally soft dry rice, mixed with a little beans, and a pickle, although the oil and water are insufficient, it is not bad, at least you can eat enough, and the generals can even drink the broth.
In peacetime, the Liangzhou army does not have such good food, and it is good to be full, but this is a war, and the Liangzhou dynasty is not safe, Li Daozong knows that there is a lot of food in the city, and he is worried that once the city is lost, it will either be burned or the Western Turks will be cheap, so he will supply food openly, not only ordinary Liangzhou army soldiers, but even the people who go to the battlefield to help the Tang army kill the enemy or collect the corpses and treat the wounded, can also be full.
Li Daozong, as the governor of Liangzhou, his food is naturally excellent, and Li Daozhen sent hundreds of canned beef produced in Liangzhou. In the early days of the Li Tang Dynasty, he attached great importance to agriculture and forbade the slaughter of cultivated cattle, in fact, an adult strong cow could be sold for 6,000 to 8,000 yuan, but beef was more than 100 yuan a catty, and if the cattle were killed and sold for money, it was two or three times that of a live cattle.
However, there is no mercy to be said about the law of the law. However, Lingzhou is located at the junction of Han and Hu, and can buy Nunai cattle or yaks from the Qiang, Di and even Tubo people, these canned beef are luxury goods in Chang'an, and the canned beef of less than eight taels was sold for a full 200 yuan.
The guards boiled the canned beef in water, then pried it open and took out a large piece of oily beef.
However, Li Daozong had no appetite.
The casualties in Liangzhou were too great, especially the detachment of the army, which caused more than 2,000 casualties in Liangzhou in just one hour, not counting the people, if you add the people, it is estimated that there are more than 3,000 people. The smell of blood fills the entire city.
The soldiers looked at the food in front of Li Daozong, especially the canned beef covered with rice, he only felt that his stomach was rumbling all the time, and his saliva was secreting wildly......
Li Daozong unintentionally saw that his soldiers were secretly drooling, so he said: "This manager is not hungry, you can take it and eat!" ”
The soldiers were ecstatic and hurried to pick up Li Daozong's meal.
But I didn't expect that at this time, a faint voice came: "Tongye Hu Khan, there is a kind of one-on-one for this general!" ”
"Slow!"
The pro-soldier froze there with difficulty, drooling as he watched a few pieces of canned beef in the field.
Li Daozong pushed open the window, and at this time, he heard it more clearly: "Tongye Hu Khan, there is a kind of one-on-one for this general!" ”
When Li Daozong heard this, a look of ecstasy appeared on his face: "Heaven bless, our reinforcements are here!" ”
Not long after, the news of the arrival of reinforcements spread throughout Liangzhou City. The military and civilian soldiers of Liangzhou were greatly invigorated, and the morale of the soldiers, who had been depressed due to heavy casualties, also rose in an instant.
…… Hahaha
Hearty laughter resounded in the entire Liangzhou city, and the gloom suppressed on the heads of the soldiers and civilians in Liangzhou instantly dispersed. General Chen is here.
We're saved.
"Who is General Chen?"
"Don't talk to me, I don't know you, you don't even know General Chen!"
……
In fact, Chen Ying let people shout that Tong Ye Hu had a kind of one-on-one fight with me, just to inform Li Daozong in Liangzhou City. At this time, there was no telephone, and Liangzhou City was surrounded by the Turks again, of course, if Chen Ying led the Xiao cavalry army to attack a special attack, he could break through the encirclement of the Western Turkic army and successfully reach the city of Liangzhou.
The key is that the four gates of Liangzhou City have now been blocked by corpses, and it is not a matter of time to open the passage of the city gate.
But in this gap, more and more Turks surrounded the right wing camp and arrived first, naturally, the most elite Western Turkic army of 30,000 kings, and then tens of thousands of Western Turkic commanders, including Byzantine slaves, dead soldiers, and servant armies of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions.
Luo Shixin was the first to see more and more Turkic cavalry surrounding, and Luo Shixin saw that everywhere the black pressure could see, there were dense Western Turkic cavalry everywhere, and he was a little panicked: "General Chen, the Western Turks have come to reinforce the army, and there are a lot of troops, what should we do?" ”
This is indeed a very tricky problem, the Western Turkic cavalry that came to help has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, plus the remnants of the right wing battalion, there are more than 100,000 horses, and the cavalry of the Xiao cavalry army, even if you count the personal guards Zhichong Mansion, is only seven Zhichong Mansion, and 10,000 has just begun. Moreover, just after a battle, the casualties were also several hundred, and now there are less than 10,000 soldiers who can fight. There is a huge disparity between the enemy and the enemy.
However, Chen Ying was not worried at all. He pointed to the war horses of the Chinese company in the battalion, plus the captured war horses, which totaled more than 40,000 horses.
In the face of such a complicated enemy situation, he gave the simplest order: "Attack the tent, tie ten war horses together, and set fire to the horse formation!" ”
Luo Shixin understood Chen Ying's intentions as soon as he heard it.
During the Battle of Luoyang, Wang Shiyun relied on 5,000 cavalry and 3,000 ploughing cattle to defeat the 100,000 Tang troops under Qu Tutong at one time.
Luo Shinobunaga sighed and said, "It's just a pity for these war horses!" ”
"It's a pity!" Chen Ying pointed to the dense war horses outside and said, "Are you still afraid that there will be no horses?" Don't worry, you can ride ten of these horses a day, and you won't be able to ride them for a lifetime! ”
For the Western Turks, war horses are their best companions, and if they can not kill horses, they try not to kill them. But for the Han people, the war horse is a tool, which can be used whenever it can be used, and everything can be used. Although the Tang Dynasty does not have as many war horses as the Turks, it is not too short of horses.
The tents of the Western Turks were made of cowhide, and in order to prevent water, butter was stuffed into the crevices of the cowhide. This kind of tent is full of treasures, not only can it protect itself from the wind and rain, but it can also be cooked and eaten when there is no military rations. Of course, it is also an excellent material for killing people and setting fires.
The tough cowhide tent was cut into palm-wide strips of cowhide by the soldiers of the Xiao cavalry, and then knotted into ropes, such cowhide ropes are not easy for war horses to break. Soon the cavalry of the cavalry began to tie the captured horses together every ten, and smeared butter on the tails of the horses.
Everything is ready for the east wind.
After the Turks had eaten and drunk enough, they began to blow the desolate horn.
And Chen Ying also led the Xiao cavalry army to rub their hands in front of the fire horse array: "There are a lot of cavalry, and it will be enjoyable to string them with hook and sickle spears......
The distance between the two armies is getting closer and closer, and the murderous aura bursting out from the Western Turkic army is getting stronger and stronger, which makes the heavens and the earth lose color. Chen Ying didn't know how many elites the Western Turks had come, and as far as the eye could see, there were a large number of surging banners, a large area of snowy sword light.
Chen Ying looked at the Turkic cavalry and said sincerely: "Angry horses and strong bows, coming and going like the wind, worthy of being a strong force in a hundred battles!" As soon as the hand was raised, the drummer knocked three times in a row, and the whole army raised its feet together, and then fell together, turning from movement to stillness, condensing like a mountain!
Tongye Hu Khan saw it clearly, and nodded slightly: "Immovable as a mountain, invaded like fire, this is the real elite division!" ”
Baturtai rubbed his palms and laughed: "Such an opponent is enough to fight!" ”
Zhenzhu Tong was dumbfounded and said, "What are they doing here?" Destroy my tent! ”
Tongye Hu Khan said with a smile: "Chen Ying Xiao'er was already scared when he saw the might of Ben Khan's army, they knew that they would definitely lose if they fought, so they were destroying the tent, they were afraid!" ”
Baturtai spat and said angrily, "Mobilize 50,000 cavalry archers to come forward, first shoot them with bows and arrows, and then use the heavy cavalry of the attached army to attack, kill them all over the field, see if they are still arrogant!" ”
Without waiting for the Western Turkic archers to start charging, Chen Ying laughed and said, "Let the Turks see the chain of horses of this great general!" ”
At this moment, the tail of the horse in front of him was ignited by the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Army. The grease-soaked horses ran forward in fear, but the more they ran, the faster the horse's tail burned.
So he called more than 20,000 war horses with the might of destroying the world and destroying the world, just like the army formation of the Western Turks who rushed forward bravely.
When the Western Turkic archers who had not yet had time to wind up saw this scene, their brains did not listen to the call of their hands and feet, but the horses they stepped on raised their horses' hooves, turned around and ran.
These serial fire horses, the speed is getting faster and faster, directly like an avalanche, with the power of destroying the world, those Turkic cavalry who have no time to dodge, were knocked away by the serial fire horses, as long as the soldiers who fell from the horse, or the war horse that fell to the ground, there was no life at all, thousands of horses' hooves stepped on, and the blood and mud were turned into mud.