Chapter 10: Veterans Don't Die
Under the Red Mountain Fort, the soldiers of the Tang Army were excitedly cleaning the battlefield.
Of course, due to the cold weather, the battlefield is not so easy to clean. The blood that had already coagulated froze the mutilated corpse into one with the ice and snow. The first level that could have been easily obtained, but it took a lot of effort to get it.
Despite the great effort required for each head, slashed with a knife and prying with a spear, the battlefield was cleaned very hard. However, at this time, the soldiers of the Tang Army were like farmers in the harvest, and no one would be tired.
The soldiers of the Tang Army cleaned the battlefield very thoroughly, not only peeling off the armor on the corpses, but also the tattered leather robes on the Turkic soldiers. The soldiers of the Tang Army carried the carcasses of the horses collected from the battlefield to the Red Mountain Fort on the ice. These Tang Army soldiers are shrewd. Although the tattered armor and inferior swords and guns of the Turks are not eye-catching, the iron is very expensive, even in Chang'an City, a pound of fine iron is sold for hundreds of dollars. No matter how broken a knife is, it can be sold for hundreds of dollars.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.
A Don soldier held a dagger and fiddled between his rotten heads. The Tang Army counted merit by its first rank, and as long as it was an unrecognizable head, it would not be counted as military merit. However, in this cavalry melee, there were many Turks whose heads were crushed by the horses' hooves, and there was no way to identify them, and they would not be counted as military merits.
This made the officers and men of the Tang Army cry out for pity.
The Tang soldier struggled to dig out a gold tooth from this rotten watermelon-like head, and shouted excitedly.
In front of the Hongshan Fortress, Luo Shixin looked at the soldiers cleaning the battlefield at the bottom of the mountain, while nibbling on a piece of roast mutton the size of a palm. Although Luo Shixin's armor was already covered with blood and gray-white brains, Luo Shixin was not uncomfortable at all.
"The sentry can be placed at least thirty miles away, so that we can leave a quarter of an hour to prepare!" Luo Shixin said to Zhang Shigui: "It's best to put the sentry horse into the Thin Bone Law City!" ”
Zhang Shigui said: "General Luo, don't worry, I will personally go and keep an eye on it, and I guarantee that nothing will go wrong!" ”
"You don't have to go!" Luo Shixin said: "The battlefield is about to be cleaned, you go to count the results of the battle and record the military exploits for the soldiers!" ”
"Yes!"
Zhang Shigui commanded the Yue cavalry army to ride about 100 horses and galloped towards the city of thin bones.
Duan Zhigan complained to Luo Shixin: "General Luo, Hongshan Fort is too small to garrison a large army, and it is already up to the sky to garrison five hundred people here. ”
"No, five hundred is too little!" Luo Shixin said: "Once the Turks counterattack, five hundred people are simply not enough to defend the Red Mountain Fort!" You should know the real purpose of this battle. In fact, we are all bait, but Manager Chen has repeatedly warned me to wait, so as to avoid losing my wife and losing my soldiers! ”
Originally, Chen Ying wanted to replace Luo Shixin and personally command the tactics of transferring flowers and trees, but Chen Ying's riding skills were really flattering, so he had no choice but to let Luo Shixin replace him.
"What then?" Duan Zhi said: "We won't fight the Turks in the field, right?" ”
"Field warfare is naturally not good!" Luo Shixin said: "There are too many Turks, we will suffer a big loss in the wild!" ”
"Let's do this, build corpses as a wall!" Zhang Shigui thought for a while and said: "There are so many corpses of the Turks, we can also use them, in fact, not only the corpses of the Turks, but also those tattered blades!" ”
Duan Zhi was surprised and said, "How to use it?" ”
"It's easy!" Zhang Shigui casually picked up a thick mace, stuck the handle of the mace obliquely into the snowdrift, poured urine on it, and after a while, it was frozen as hard as iron.
"Okay, that's it!" Luo Shixin should be the decision.
The soldiers of the Tang Army began to get busy again, more than a dozen cauldrons kept boiling water with coal, and buckets of steaming hot water were poured on the corpses, which was better than the solidification effect of cement.
The mutilated corpses of the Turks were collected and built into a wall around the Red Hill Fort. Outside the wall are the soldiers abandoned by the Turks on the battlefield, and the long spears were fixed on the snow surface by the Tang soldiers with hot water. The blade, glowing with cold light, was unified at a sixty-degree angle to the ground, facing the outside.
Fortunately, tens of thousands of catties of charcoal are stored in Hongshan Fort, otherwise boiling water will become a problem.
Just when the corpse wall was three feet high, Zhang Shigui handed over the counted account book to Luo Shixin.
Luo Shixin didn't answer, and said coldly: "Read!" ”
Zhang Shigui suddenly realized.
"There were only one thousand one hundred and fifty-one beheadings in this battle. Four hundred and fifty-two pairs of intact armor were seized! There are more than 2,000 long and short blades, more than 50,000 arrows, and 2,413 war horses, of which more than half are wounded, disabled, and dead! ”
"What a pity!" Luo Shixin said: "Kill all the injured horses, crippled horses, all of them, we are not barbaric, not so poor and exquisite, add dinner today, and the horse meat is full!" ”
When the soldiers heard this, the cheers were like thunder.
At this time, the soldiers felt full of strength again, and they worked faster.
……
Bogu Law City, there is an inconspicuous small snow bag three miles away. However, this is not actually a snow bag, but a leather-stick snow plough that acts as a mobile beacon. A group of ten Tang soldiers were stationed here.
The entire snow plough is wrapped in white silk to form a natural snow bag. Observe the whistle, with white silk as thin as cicada wings, fine Luo acts. It can not only block the wind chill and maintain the heat in the leather shed. Unless an open fire is lit in a leather shed, it is not easy to spot this fake snow bag.
The leader of this gang is called Lao Niu. As his name suggests, he is like an old cow, working hard and complaining, but unfortunately, he has been in the army for more than 30 years, but he has not been properly promoted.
Several Tang army sentry cavalry were dangling at the gate of Bogulu City, and suddenly more than a dozen Turkic cavalry rushed out of Bogulu City and rushed towards the Tang army sentry cavalry.
Seeing this, the Tang cavalry hurriedly retreated and chased out of Lixu, and the Turkic cavalry saw that they could not catch up with the Tang army's sentinel cavalry, so they returned on horseback. The Tang military post watched the Turkic cavalry return to the city and followed unhurriedly.
As soon as the Turkic cavalry saw that the Tang sentry cavalry was catching up, they turned their horses around and began to drive away the Tang sentry cavalry.
The two sides chased after me, running back and forth five or six times.
However, just when the Tang army's sentry cavalry gradually lost its vigilance, these dozen Turkic cavalry suddenly exerted force. One hundred and fifty steps away from the Tang army sentry horseman, he drew his bow and arrows.
A small soldier with a spear in his arms, Xiao Liuzi, said with a smile: "Niu Tou, come and see, this Turk is really crazy, one hundred and fifty steps is only a little more, and he actually released an arrow." I thought they were condor shooters! ”
The old bull head leaned over to the observation port to take a look, and felt that something was wrong.
The bows of these dozen cavalry cavalry were obviously one size larger than the ordinary short cavalry bows, and the shafts of the arrows were all black.
"Boom, Boom......" Several piercing sounds sounded in the air. The Tang army's sentry cavalry fell from his horse in response, but in fact, one of the sentry riders was hit by four or five arrows in the back, and he tried to struggle to get up, but was chased by more than a dozen Turkic cavalry and hacked to death.
"Not good!" The old bull head shouted: "The Turks are going to send troops!" ”
Sure enough, a large force of Turkic cavalry emerged in Bogulu City, and the scale of this Turkic cavalry was much larger than expected.
"Enemy attack! Ignite the beacon fire! "The old cow threw himself into the fire pit in the middle of the leather shed, gathered the charcoal that had been spread out and dried into a pile in a few moments, picked up the fire knife and flint, and hurriedly lit the fire." Come and help and drag the horse manure basket over! ”
However, no one moved for a long time.
Lao Niu raised his head and felt a strange atmosphere, and a group of ten people all looked at Thin Bone Law City in a daze, and did not respond.
This stunned kung fu has already rushed out of at least five or six thousand horsemen from the city of Thin Bone Law.
"Ignition, quick!"
"Bang, the pale-faced little Liu'er knelt down for the old cow, "Captain Niu, Master Niu, you can't light a fire!" There are too many Turks out of the city, and a few of us don't have enough to stuff people's teeth! When they're all gone, let's run away. ”
Such an unobstructed plowing car, as long as the beacon fire is lit, the rear will receive the news. But they will be killed by the angry Turks. was originally worried about death, but suddenly there was hope for life, and the old cow was also happy. Suddenly, he thought of something, the joy on his face flashed, and in two or three flashes, he gritted his teeth: "Light the fire!" ”
"You can't light a fire, if you light it, we'll be finished!"
"Captain Niu, we can't seek death by ourselves!"
Several soldiers persuaded him to talk nonsense, and Xiao Liu'er, who was usually the most clever and likable to the old cow, knelt on the ground and grabbed the hem of the old cow's shirt.
Looking at these panicked young soldiers, Lao Niu's tears fell: "Sixth son, don't be afraid, Master Niu will accompany you to the Hades Palace!" ”
"No, Master Niu, I don't want to die!"
"I don't want to die, but I can't!" The old cow snot and tears flowed down his face. straightened his waist a little rickety, his eyes became firm, no longer a drooping old man, but like a majestic general, "A few of us are dead, there are Turks to bury us, if a few of us live, none of the thousands of brothers will survive, you say, this fire, can you light it?" ”
The soldiers began to silently sweep up charcoal and prepare horse manure. Xiao Liu'er, who was the most scared just now, suddenly saw that his hands were no longer shaking, his throat was no longer dry, and even his heart didn't seem to be beating so violently, he didn't say anything, he took the fire knife and flint in Lao Niu's hand, and knocked it one by one, and knocked it again and again.
The white cloth of camouflage was torn off by all hands and feet. However, the Turks did not notice anything abnormal, until a huge pillar of smoke rose into the sky, like a dragon breaking through its shackles, and slammed into the sky with its teeth and claws!
A Turkic commander led his headquarters to angrily pounce on the old bull's gang.
It wasn't until the smoke rose that Liversher knew that his plan for a quasi-surprise attack on the Red Hill Fort had failed. This trip is likely to be a no-brainer.
The old bull head clenched the horizontal knife in his hand, and shouted with all his might: "Datang Wansheng! ”
"Datang Wansheng~!"
There is a man who is alive, and he is dead. Some people died, but he is still alive in people's hearts.