"Whew!" In the early morning, at the foot of the mountain, the horses scraped the ground and neighed uneasily. The army of 90,000 men, as it had been yesterday, was divided into three formations, each in the shape of an awl, the head of which pointed to the earthen fort on the hill.

It can be seen that the Western Turks are about to attack. Without the barricades, the cavalry would have gone up the hill much faster.

The gentle slope of the hill is good for setting up multiple barricades to defend against the enemy, and if the barricades are cleared, the gentle hillside is an advantage for the enemy, because it is more conducive to the cavalry charge!

The horses neighed restlessly, and a dull smell of blood could be faintly smelled in the air.

The Tang army had already been alarmed by the Western Turks, and the soldiers stood behind the earthen wall, nervously looking at the cavalry under the mountain.

If yesterday was the other party's small test, then today the other party is going to play for real.

"The archer stepped forward, and after the enemy moved, he shot him with an arrow to kill a son of a bitch! After three rounds, give up the position in the front row, withdraw to the back and continue to release the arrows, the front row of thunderbolt throwers, remember, each person is only allowed to throw one, not so many people are allowed to throw at the same time, give me a cross throw, the maximum damage! When you throw it away, give it to me to the back and listen to my orders. The spearmen set up a spear formation behind the earthen wall, and the axemen assisted me........"

Hou Junji stood on the guard tower and gave orders one by one, and the Tang army acted according to his orders, and soon, a defensive formation formed around the earthen wall took shape, just waiting for the cavalry below to attack.

But can they really take the onslaught of the Western Turkic cavalry? The soldiers have no bottom in their hearts, the generals have no bottom in their hearts, and Hou Junji has a ...... in his heart There is no bottom.

The difference in numbers is too great, and the so-called sophisticated equipment and perfect war are insignificant! Whether it's a win or a loss, maybe it depends on which side God is on!

"Warriors of the tribe! Rush! Destroy this Don army! The prairie is ours! Kill! Lust Gu Shi shouted violently.

Hearing the order, the soldiers rushed to speed up, screaming and waving their weapons, towards the hill.

"Shoot the arrows!" Hou Junji roared.

At the moment when the Western Turkic soldiers rushed to the foot of the mountain, tens of thousands of bows and arrows from the Tang army camp shot at them.

The Western Turks are known for their ferocity, in the face of the Tang army's tens of thousands of arrows shot in the shadow, the face does not change, those with shields are covered with shields, and the speed without shields does not decrease, and they rush up in the face of the rain of arrows, and not only do they not retreat when they are hit by the arrows, but they stimulate the ferocity in their bodies, and they rush up the mountain with knives and screams.

After the Tang army released three rounds of arrows, the Western Turkic cavalry also rushed into the range of the thunderbolts, the archers retreated to the back and continued to fire arrows, and the people in the front row lit the thunderbolts and threw them at staggered intervals towards the enemy.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The thunderbolt exploded repeatedly, and the attacking team suddenly heard a terrible howl, apparently seriously injured by the explosion.

The horses neighed, the soldiers shouted bitterly, and as the Tang army expected, as soon as the thunderbolt fired, the enemy's formation was in chaos, and there was a lot of commotion.

Just when the Tang army was relieved about this, the dense fog produced after the explosion suddenly rolled, and then a soldier rushed out of the smoke on a war horse.

The Western Turkic soldiers were not scattered by the thunderbolts, they rushed up!

The thunderbolt that has been tried and tested suddenly doesn't work this time! The Tang army finally had a trace of panic, the enemy's momentum was like a rainbow, but they were panicked, which was fatal on the battlefield!

Hou Junji is worthy of being a veteran of the war, and after being slightly stunned, he immediately regained his composure and commanded the soldiers loudly: "The throwers are withdrawn, and the spearmen and swordsmen are up!" The archers aimed at the enemies who climbed the wall, and if someone came up, they would shoot at Lao Tzu! Throwers on standby, throw me a thunderbolt wherever there is a gap and a large number of enemies are pouring in! ”

The Tang army's brief panic was contained in time under the command of Hou Junji, and the soldiers had also experienced countless bloody battles, so they quickly adjusted their mentality, and as Hou Junji said, they quickly changed their formation.

The spearmen approached and stabbed the enemy who tried to climb up the wall, and the Western Turks, not to be outdone, engaged the Tang army on the wall with bows and arrows, or long-pole weapons.

Some of the ruthless Western Turks even slammed their horses into the earthen wall, intending to collapse the fragile earthen wall.

When they found that this method worked, they didn't care about the crotch of the horse, and urged the horse to slam into the wall, and the earthen wall shook, and a lot of dirt fell down.

It was a makeshift earthen wall, which was not very strong, but could only act as a block, and the enemy would crack and crumble when he slammed into it.

The Western Turks even found the trunks of the trees that had been cut down by the Tang army and made into barricades, and several people carried the trunks as battering rams and slammed them into the earthen walls.

There was a muffled "bang", and a large piece of uneven "dirt bag" rose behind the earthen wall. Hou Junji's face immediately changed, if there was no cover of the earthen wall, their 10,000 people would be completely exposed to the cavalry of the Western Turks. And they don't have war horses, they don't carry heavy armor, how can they fight each other? It's almost a sure defeat!

"! What about Thunderbolt? Wherever anyone breaks the wall, throw a thunderbolt out! Blow up his son of a bitch! ”

"Boom!" Outside the earthen wall, a thunderbolt exploded in the crowd, and at such a close distance, everyone within three feet of the explosion was torn apart by the powerful impact force and the pieces of iron that flew out after the explosion.

However, there are too many Western Turks, and although the thunderbolts are fierce, they can't stand the large number of people on the other side.

There were people attacking in three directions, and the people inside the earthen fort were a little difficult to support.

Hou Junji couldn't control it so much, he no longer treasured the thunderbolt fire, and wherever there was a need, he would thunderbolt the fire, and there were explosions outside the earthen wall one after another, and the Western Turks were killed and injured countless times.

The Tang army also suffered a large number of casualties. The archery skills of the Western Turks were no joke, and the Tang army, which was standing outside the earthen walls, was always careful to dodge the arrows they fired. I managed to dodge the arrows, and I had to be careful if the guy at the foot of the wall would suddenly come up and give you a cold gun......

War has always been brutal. Blackened corpses that had been blown up, and corpses that had been shot by arrows piled up at the foot of the earthen wall.

As time passed, Hou Junji became more and more anxious, the number of casualties on his side was too large, and at this casualty rate, I am afraid that he would not even be able to survive today!

Fortunately, the casualties of the other side were also very large, and after the two sides attacked and defended for another half an hour, the Western Turks left thousands of corpses and temporarily retreated.

This made Hou Junji breathe a sigh of relief. However, when he looked down, the tragic situation in the earthen fort made him frown and worry.

The loss of a few thousand soldiers by the Western Turks was a small number for their army of 90,000 men, but the loss of a few hundred men on their own side was not a small number. There were only more than 10,000 of them in total, and they lost seven or eight hundred people on the first day, and there were thousands of wounded soldiers. How many more days will he last?

"Alas! Hopefully I made the right decision to send the horses away, and I must... Hold on until the day reinforcements arrive! Hou Junji said silently.

(End of chapter)