Chapter 625: Catching a turtle in an urn
The next day, Ge Biluo led the army to the northwest direction, straight to the meandering canyon, his team was stronger than before, so this time there were 10,000 more soldiers and horses of the Mu Kun Department and 10,000 soldiers and horses, led by Luo Kun and Groni respectively, the equipment of these two soldiers and horses was very bad, but Ge Biluo was very generous, provided them with weapons and armor, no way, if you want the horse to run, you have to give more grass, how can he be so generous, he just plans to let these 20,000 soldiers and horses play the vanguard, reduce the loss of his army, The fewer the losses, the greater the exploits, this is his mind.
And the scouts sent by Ashina Shabi also stayed on the top of the mountain for nearly a whole day, observing the movements in the Tang army camp at all times, but there was no movement in the Tang army camp at all, and the army was practicing in the camp, because it was too far away, it was not easy to see clearly.
In the evening, the scouts at the top of the mountain waved flags below, signaling them to prepare for a night attack, and Ashina Sabi immediately ordered the whole army to prepare.
And in the head of another mountain, Fan Lihua is also looking at the situation of the Western Turks with a telescope, she understands the flag language of the Western Turks, these flag languages are still invented by her, he learned them from the Tang people, and transformed them, so that there is the flag language of the Western Turks, and he clearly saw the flag language of the Western Turks through the telescope: "Prepare to attack." ”
So Fan Lihua quickly rushed down to the top of the mountain, and when she arrived at the camp, she ordered: "The whole army is ready, and the Western Turkic army will attack the camp tonight." Then she began to convey specific orders one by one.
After receiving Fan Lihua's military order, all the soldiers were a little confused, they didn't understand, how did Fan Lihua know that the enemy army would attack the camp, could it be that she still had eyeliner in the Western Turks? With this in mind, the army began to prepare, and Qin Huaiyu and the others were finally relieved.
Qin Huaiyu had been persuading Fan Lihua before, that is, he was afraid of being attacked by the enemy, under this kind of terrain, if he was attacked, there was nowhere to escape, but now the situation is different, they have taken the information advantage, knowing that the enemy is going to attack the camp, then they can counter the ambush, and then it is the enemy who will flee, and with such a terrain, it is not easy for the enemy to escape, he finally knows why Fan Lihua wants to garrison the troops with this, it turns out that it is to lead the enemy into the urn, and the biggest difficulty is to take the information opportunity.
Fan Lihua is expected to help with a telescope, naturally taking advantage of the information opportunity, knowing herself and knowing the enemy, invincible, she was originally a military wizard, and now she is hanging, if she wants to win the battle, it is like a joke, what she is pursuing now is not how to win the battle is so simple, but how to achieve victory with the least loss.
After dark, Ashina Shabi led the army along the meandering canyon all the way forward, towards the Tang army camp, when they were far away, they walked very fast, but after approaching, they slowed down, because this is the canyon, there is an echo, if it is still such a rapid march, the sound can be heard more than ten miles away, will give the Tang army time to prepare in advance.
At about two o'clock in the middle of the night, Ashina Shabi had quietly appeared five miles southwest of the Tang army camp with a large army, and the col where the Tang army was camped was the shape of a stomach, and the location where Ashina Shabi was now was the entrance to the stomach.
Ashina Shabi stood here and could vaguely see the firelight and figures in the Tang army camp, he saw that the distance was enough, he excitedly pulled out his scimitar, and shouted: "Kill!" ”
"Kill!" All the Western Turkic armies rushed out of the entrance and went straight to the camp of the Tang army, with the cavalry in front and the infantry behind, coming extremely quickly.
It took only a few minutes for the first wave of 8,000 cavalry to rush into the camp of the Don army, but after entering, when the first cavalryman swung his sword and beheaded a sentry soldier, he was stunned and shouted in Western Turkic: "It's a scarecrow!" ”
As he approached, the same voice sounded everywhere, and in the entire Tang Army camp, there were all scarecrows, not a single living person.
Ashina Shabi immediately rushed into the camp, and a cavalryman immediately came to report to him: "General, we have been fooled, this is an empty camp, there is no one in it, it is all scarecrows!" ”
"What!" Ash Na Shabi heard this, he felt dizzy for a while, and he was about to fall off the horse, well, this thing is estimated to have high blood pressure, maybe there is high blood lipids, who made him eat meat every day.
"Father! Father! Ashina Lulu hurriedly rode his horse to Ashina Shabi's side and asked worriedly, "Father, are you okay?" ”
"Call me General!" Ashina Shabi finally stabilized his body, glared at his son vigorously, and then ordered in a loud voice, "Withdraw!" Retreat! ”
All the army turned around and ran back, but when they had just rushed to the entrance of the "stomach", there was a sudden loud noise on the mountain peak, and the ground trembled, and when they got closer, they saw countless dark shadows rolling down from the mountainside, smashing the cavalry who were running out to the back of their horses, and many people were crushed into meat pies, although a dozen people escaped, but a burst of feathered arrows came from the darkness, and the dozen or so cavalrymen were also hit by arrows and fell off their horses.
In fact, these seem to be stones, but they are not stones at all, but they are large cement balls cast with cement concrete, each of which is more than one person high, and the weight is in tons.
Immediately afterwards, there were countless arrows raining down, forcing the Western Turkic army to retreat, Ashina Shabi realized that he was in ambush even if he was stupid, and hurriedly ordered to go to the mouth of the canyon in the north, and went out from there, but as soon as he arrived there, he saw countless huge stone balls rolling down from the mountainside from a distance, blocking the canyon here, Ashina Shabi wanted to scold his mother at the moment, he didn't know where the Tang army got so many round boulders, and asked the workers to chisel them? How many craftsmen do you need!
The canyon here is very wide, nearly 100 zhang wide, and it is common sense that even if there are stones pushed down the mountain, it is difficult to block the canyon completely, but if it is all round stone balls, it is different, these stone balls can easily roll into the middle of the canyon, blocking the entire canyon.
Ashina Shabi didn't have time to study where the Tang army got these many spherical boulders now, he just wanted to escape for his life now, he led his troops to withdraw to the Tang army camp, and carefully analyzed the situation and studied tactics with the generals.
Began to analyze the current situation, they are besieged here, then the Tang army must be ambushed around, here is bare, as long as there are a few trees at the foot of the mountain and the mountainside, he guessed, the Tang army is estimated to be ambushed at the foot of the mountain or on the mountainside, after all, although there are few trees, they can be hidden. They are now in the pocket array laid by the Tang army, and this pocket is a bit big, nearly ten miles long and about five miles wide, and the camp occupies most of the area, but now the Tang army has not launched a surprise attack on them, and the Tang army does not dare to fight hard when they think about it, there must be some conspiracy.
Ashina Shabi slapped the table with certainty, and said in a deep voice: "Although the current situation is bad, it is not yet desperate, fortunately, this place is very big, and the Tang Army's crossbow arrows can't shoot so far, wait until dawn to ......."
Before the words fell, there was a "bang", a huge feather arrow drilled into the tooth tent from the sky, slanted on the military case, piercing the map and the military case, the tail feather arrow was still trembling, this feather arrow was so big, it was almost as big as a spear, if it weren't for the feathers on the tail, no one would think it was an arrow at all.
The appearance of this arrow startled everyone, and it also slapped Ashina Shabi in the face, he just said that the Tang Army's bow and arrow could not shoot so far, look, the arrow came, and the face crackled.
All the generals turned their heads to look at Ashina Shabi, Ashina Shabi was very embarrassed at the moment, can you not be embarrassed, it will be embarrassing for anyone to come.
Ashina Shabi soon discovered that the embarrassment was actually nothing, because there was a more serious problem, the Tang Army's arrow rain came, which was fatal.
This time Fan Lihua led the troops to conquer the Western Turks, naturally brought a large number of siege baggage, including 400 bed crossbows, these bed crossbows have long been placed on the mountainside on both sides by Fan Lihua, today finally came in handy, the Tang army was ambushed on the mountainside, because there is a lot of snow hundreds of meters up the mountainside, so the mountainside is very cold at night, which is also the reason why Fan Lihua distributed cotton clothes to the soldiers.
Three huge arrows were placed on each bed crossbow at the same time, and four hundred bed crossbows were fired at the same time, that is, more than a thousand arrows, and the power of these arrows was not trivial, and one arrow pierced through two or three people as if it were a joke.
Under the merciless blow of the bed crossbow, the Western Turkic army lost seven or eight thousand people in a while, and the entire Western Turkic army was in a mess, and then, a bed crossbow shot out fire arrows, that is, arrows with fire, this is terrible, the Tang army camp sprinkled a lot of fire oil, originally so much fire oil, there should be a smell of fire oil, as soon as you enter the camp, you can smell it.
However, in order to attack at night, Ashina Shabi ordered all the soldiers to carry fire oil on their bodies, so they had become accustomed to the smell of fire oil along the way, and after entering the Tang army camp, they encountered drastic changes, so they naturally did not find that the Tang army camp was full of fire oil.
Countless fire arrows shot in the camp of the Tang Army, it was simply blooming everywhere, and fires began to burn everywhere, which could not be extinguished, some soldiers used water from the tank to extinguish the fire, and a bucket of water was splashed on the flames, and the flames rose more than a foot high.
Originally, the Tang army camp was full of fire oil, and those Western Turk soldiers still had fire oil on them, once those soldiers were burned by the flames, they didn't want to extinguish it again, they would definitely die, and the whole camp was crying wolves, like purgatory.
Fan Lihua stood halfway up the mountain, looking at the fire-like camp from afar, she slowly turned around, no longer looking, once, these Western Turkic soldiers were her comrades, and there were many soldiers who she trained single-handedly, however, now she had to kill them, and her heart was very sad.