Chapter 116: These Han People Are True Warriors
Old Tang died heroically, he was worth it, he was really worth it. The Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Turks had a full 20,000 horses, and they only laid down an empty city. The charcoal in the brazier burned very strongly, and soon the entire warehouse was set on fire, and in this dark night of wind and snow, I saw the flames of Yanmen Pass soaring into the sky, and the raging fire spewed out a heat wave, as if to illuminate the heavens and the earth into daylight.
More Turkic cavalry rushed madly, but the twenty men on duty formed a wall of flesh with their bodies and fiercely held the gate of the granary.
Many of them were already dead, but they struggled to fall at the door before they died, and more than a dozen corpses were blocked there like arhats, and the door of the granary was not too big, and they couldn't get in and out of it by these corpses for a while.
The middle-aged man was the last to die in battle, he was stabbed with four arrows and three stabs, and his blood was almost dry. When he looked back at the granary, he found that Tang Dashi had completely ignited the inside, and the dry grain was burned violently by the fire, coupled with the heavy wind and snow tonight, it was really a fire that borrowed the wind, and the wind helped the fire, and nothing could extinguish the fire in the granary.
"Brother Tang, it's so good!" He screamed, slashing a Turk to death with his sword, feeling like he could no longer muster any strength.
He clearly saw a Turkic soldier flying up, and he clearly felt the scimitar of the other party grazing over his neck. He didn't dodge, but just grabbed the other party with the last remaining strength, and pushed the other party with his body and rolled into the flames.
The Turkic soldier desperately wanted to struggle, but was hugged by the middle-aged man, the raging fire quickly swallowed the two, but the middle-aged man didn't seem to feel pain, he laughed wildly in the flames, and roared angrily in the sky: "My Han family man has never been afraid of life and death, this is our Central Plains, here is the land left to us by our ancestors and ancestors, you Turkic dogs want to invade, we can only fight to the death, ahahaha, happy ......"
Thundered! A bang! The burning granary collapsed suddenly, overpowering the middle-aged man's voice and masking everything.
Not far away, a figure frantically rode a horse, the Turkic general on the horse was handsome, but no matter how fast he sped up, it was useless, seeing the granary burning in the blazing firelight, and constantly having huge wooden beams collapsing and falling, the Turkic general roared angrily, and the scimitar in his hand slashed wildly, and actually cut several Turkic soldiers around him.
"Damn, why don't you stop it? There are only a few dozen Tang dogs, why let them burn the granary. "This person is known as one of the steppe eagles of Ada, he is the adjutant of the vanguard army of Jieli Khan, although he is at odds with Khuborchi, but it is just a private thought, as a general he also wants to win the war.
Now that Yanmen Pass has been laid, but it is only an empty city, how can they feed the war with war if they lack food?
Countless soldiers slowly lowered their heads, they didn't dare to look at Ada's fire-breathing gaze, and everyone felt red. In the first battle of the granary, there were less than twenty emaciated Tang people, but they had hundreds of cavalry, and the final battle situation was that they failed to stop the Tang people from burning grain, which made the Turkic people who were proud by nature how to raise their heads.
Although street fighting is not conducive to the performance of cavalry, this cannot be an excuse after all, losing is losing, winning is winning, and there are only two outcomes in the war.
Without the food supply of the military city of Yanmen Pass, with their Turkic family background wanting to continue to march into the Central Plains, the pressure of logistics supply can be imagined.
Not far away, a dull "click" of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and Kubolchi rode a war horse and slowly appeared in front of everyone. He didn't look at Ada, nor did he look at the Turkic cavalry, his eyes were cast on the corpses of the soldiers on duty stacked at the door of the granary, and suddenly he raised the scimitar in his hand and struck it heavily on his chest.
This is a very high etiquette on the steppe, and it is generally used by the most respectful people, but now Khuborchi gave this respect to the soldiers who died on duty.
Ada said angrily, "Kubolchi, what are you doing? He angrily pointed to the corpses of the soldiers on duty and shouted, "These damned Tang dogs burned down the granary, but you salute them, you are still not a descendant of the Celestial Wolf God." ”
Kubolchi didn't look at Ada, he turned around directly after saluting, and the sound of the horse's hooves sounded, and soon disappeared at the exit of the lane. Yanmen Pass has been laid, and he still has a lot to do as a leading general, the granary has been burned, and no matter how much he is entangled, it is useless.
However, although the others left, there was an order left, and although the voice was low, it gradually resounded in the hearts of many Turkic cavalrymen:
"These Han people are real warriors, don't touch their corpses. If you don't know how to respect this kind of national bravery, our steppe clan will never be able to win the war. ”
The horse's hooves clattered, and the voice of Kubolchi faded away, and several Turkic soldiers looked at each other, and suddenly raised their scimitars together and struck them heavily on the chest against the corpses of the soldiers on duty at the gate of the granary.
"Are you stupid?" Ada was furious, he roared wildly, and scolded angrily: "Khuborchi is a madman, and you are also stupid, this is a war between peoples, how can we be allowed to respect our opponents? You don't think about how to kill and plunder, but you respect your opponent here, it's damn ridiculous. ”
He suddenly waved his horsewhip and struck a Turkic soldier who was saluting the corpse of the guard team, and shouted: "Put away your etiquette, step on your warhorse, and follow me to kill and plunder!" This is the Yanmen Pass of the Han people, not the steppe of my Turkic people, here we need to cut the scimitar at the opponent, not knock on our own chest, the thin Tang people are not worthy of ......"
When he said this, his eyes swept everyone fiercely, and he said coldly: "If I find anyone like this again, be careful to cut him with a knife." Roll over all of them and search the city. Although the Han people burned down the granary, there must still be grain in the people's homes, so you go and grab it all, and if you stop it, you will be killed. ”
The Turkic soldiers were suddenly commanded, after all, it was war, and staying alive was the most important thing. Everyone rode on their horses, roared, and followed Ada to kill people and grab food.
The boundless snow night is cold and the wind is angry, and the fire is shining in all directions. The poor hero died namelessly, who died for thousands of years.
Yanmen Pass fell into the hands of the Turks, the people in the city were slaughtered, and all the grain was looted and collected as the military rations of this vanguard army.
In the early morning of the next day, the dark horn sounded in the north, and Jieli Khan led a large army into Yanmen Pass, officially opening the curtain of the invasion of the Central Plains.
Wang Lingyun finally stood beside Jieli Khan, with a smile on his face, like the most gentle and elegant son in the world, he whispered softly in Jieli's ear, but what he said was all a poisonous plan to destroy the family. Jieli laughed wildly, and Wang Lingyun's face was indifferent.
In the afternoon of the same day, hundreds of thousands of troops rushed out of Yanmen Pass, and Jieli Khan still took Khuborchi as the vanguard and Ada as the adjutant, and ordered the two to lead 30,000 cavalry to continue the attack.
There was no resistance along the way, and the Turkic cavalry pushed several small cities across the country, almost a hundred miles a day, and approached Chang'an in a few days.
It's a pity that there was no food on the way, Li Shimin adopted Han Yue's strategy of clearing the wall, and had already strictly ordered the villages along the way to burn everything, coupled with the promulgation of the order to kill Hu, the closer the Turks got to Chang'an, the more fierce the resistance they encountered.
Many outlaws rushed to the army for the sake of money, and there were rangers who fought with swords and sang in the mountains and forests, and the Turks felt the charm of guerrilla warfare thousands of years in advance.
On this day, the Turks finally arrived in the valley where Han Yue had set up an ambush.