The war has reached a fever pitch, hundreds of thousands of troops are fighting bloody battles on a grassland more than 20 miles wide, groups of cavalry are fighting one by one, swords and spears are stabbed, and war horses neigh.

A horse was overturned, and a bloodied face grinned, and the sharp spear was plunged into the chest of the fallen man, which pierced the chest and the fallen man let out a long miserable scream.

The bloodied face looked up and laughed wildly, the laughter suddenly stopped, a cold arrow pierced his throat, and a war horse galloped past him, the sharp sword slashed his neck, and the human head flew up, and the blood in the neck cavity burst out.

A few zhang away, the two cavalrymen were entangled and rolled off their horses together, the young Sui soldier strangled the Turkic man's neck, pressed his knee against his chest, pulled out an arrow, screamed madly, and plunged deep into the face of the Turkic man, the Turkic soldier screamed miserably, dying and struggling, he pulled out a short knife from his leather boots, and stabbed it into the chest of the Sui soldier......

The fiercest battle was the 4,000 pikemen led by Yang Wei, who were responsible for defending the banner, and were fiercely attacked by 12,000 cavalry of the Turkic Guards.

Especially for the steppe nomads, capturing the enemy's royal flag is a supreme honor, so from the beginning of the war, the Sui army's three-foot tall Phnom Penh Red Eagle Handsome Banner has become the focus of the Turkic cavalry attack.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, more than half of the Sui army was killed and wounded, and more than 4,000 Turkic cavalry were killed and wounded.

The corpses of the horses and men were piled up into mountains, and the bubbling blood merged into streams, which soon froze into ice. The grassland is littered with patches of reddish ice. But the handsome banner of the Sui army still stood upright, hunting and fluttering in the cold wind, inspiring the morale of all Sui troops on the battlefield.

The banner was surrounded by the corpses of fallen Sui soldiers. Yang Wei's camel had been shot to death, and he had been hit by three arrows, but he didn't pay any attention to it. He stood under the handsome flag, his eyes were red, covered in blood, and he clutched the handle of the hammer tightly in his hand, and the sledgehammer was stained with cerebral flesh and blood.

Although his voice was hoarse, he still desperately shouted loudly: "Maintain the formation, don't disperse!" ”

Yang Wei knew very well that the key to the pikemen being able to confront the cavalry was the dense spear formation. If the spear array is scattered, it will inevitably be slaughtered by the cavalry, not only Yang Wei knows. Every general, lieutenant, and brigade commander. They all knew, so no matter how fiercely the Turkic cavalry charged. The pikemen were scattered again and again, and again and again they were assembled.

"General Yang!"

A lieutenant pointed to the northwest corner and shouted, "Captain Qin, they have been dispersed. ”

Yang Yuanqing also saw that hundreds of pikemen in the northwest corner were rushed open, the formation was chaotic, and a Turkic commander was leading more than 1,000 cavalry to attack the circle, this Turkic commander was fierce and abnormal, and stabbed seven or eight Sui soldiers in a row, only a few zhang away from the commander's banner.

Yang Wei's blood rushed to the top of his head, he roared, picked up the sledgehammer and threw himself at the commander, at this moment, a cold arrow shot at him, 'Poof! The ground shot Yang Wei on the outside of his left leg, Yang Wei was shocked, his left leg was not supported, and he fell to the ground at once, supporting his huge body with a sledgehammer.

The Turkic commander laughed fiercely, the war horse galloped, he swung his spear sideways and stabbed Yang Wei's chest, Yang Wei suddenly roared hoarsely, actually stood up, and slammed the tip of the spear with his right hammer, 'dang', the tip of the spear was shaken open, and the left hammer smashed into the face of the Turkic commander like a violent wind, the commander couldn't dodge, only heard a loud bang on the ground, the head was smashed to pieces, and the body was planted from the horse.

The death of the enemy general stimulated Yang Wei's potential, he laughed wildly, swung his hammer and rushed towards the enemy group, the sledgehammer flew over, smashing the Turkic soldiers on their backs, and the Sui soldiers attacked from both sides, stabbing hundreds of Turkic soldiers to death, closing the gap that had been broken open again......

Yang Yuanqing commanded 50,000 Chinese troops, against the main force of the 120,000 Turkic army, including 100,000 elite Turkic guards, the Turks did not understand the art of war, they admired the steppe wolf, with the wolf as a totem, from the wolf, they also learned the wolf pack tactics, cutting, encircling, finding the enemy's weakness and then concentrating superior forces to besiege.

However, the Sui army was also well-trained, and they cooperated tacitly to improve combat efficiency, although they were divided into several pieces by the Turkic army, each piece became an independent combat body, and cooperated with each other, but surrounded the Turkic cavalry that divided them.

Although the Sui army was far inferior to the Turkic army, their tacit cooperation and flexible tactics enabled them not to fall behind at all, and stubbornly withstood wave after wave of crazy attacks of the Turkic army.

In particular, the 6,000 Mo knife army, invincible on the battlefield, they are like a copper wall, the Mo knife flies, everywhere they pass is all corpses all over the field, blood flows like a river, although the Mo knife army also paid more than 2,000 losses, but under their knife, more than 23,000 Turkic cavalry have been killed, making the Mo knife army the focus of the entire battlefield.

But the sharpness of the Modao army also prompted the Turks to change their tactics, they no longer attacked with the Modao army, but used the way of encirclement, the Turks used a unique rope sleeve as a weapon, far away to the body of the inflexible heavy armor soldiers, although the Modao can cut the rope, but it still brought great trouble to the Modao soldiers, effectively preventing the Modao army from expanding the battlefield.

But for the Modao army, their biggest enemy is not the rope noose of the Turks, but their own physical strength, two hours of battle, the Modao soldiers in heavy armor are exhausted, and the lethality they can exert is getting lower and lower.

With the passage of time, the casualties on both sides are increasing, but at this time, no one can withdraw from the battlefield, and whoever withdraws from the battlefield first means a crushing defeat, after more than two hours of fierce fighting, the war has become a contest of will and physical strength, and the subtle impact of the Sui scouts attacking the enemy camp last night was shown at this critical moment.

The physical strength of the Turkic army dropped very badly, and the consequence of the decline in physical strength was an increase in casualties, on the contrary, the Sui army became more and more courageous, fighting 50,000 against 120,000, not only did not fall behind, but slowly grasped the initiative on the battlefield.

Yang Yuanqing led 10,000 tiger troops against the 30,000 guards led by Jieli Khan, which became the core of the entire campaign, and the Turkic army had discovered the location of Yang Yuanqing, the commander of the Sui army, and Jieli Khan personally commanded his most elite 30,000 flag guards to besiege Yang Yuanqing's army.

And the 10,000 tiger army led by Yang Yuanqing is also the most elite of the Sui army, it is the old army of Fengzhou who has followed him for many years, and has participated in countless battles.

But the cruelty of the war lies in the fact that no one will be the lucky one forever in the war, the Sui army is a team of fifty people, and the Turkic army is a team of 100 people, surround the Sui army, both sides know very well, as long as they defeat each other, then who can achieve the final victory in the war, so they fought fiercely and fiercely.

From the morning to the afternoon, the Tiger Ben army has been killed and wounded more than 4,000 people, and the Turkic 30,000 guards have also lost more than 10,000, the two sides are still in a state of stalemate, Yang Yuanqing is in the middle of the team, he led the army to kill, the enemy army died under his lance has been countless, at this time he is also covered in blood, hoarse, the war horse is foaming at the mouth, the men and horses are exhausted.

Around him, more than 200 of the 500 guards were also killed, and the remaining guards guarded him in the middle, and he was not allowed to lead troops to attack, at this time, a cold arrow could cause irreparable serious consequences.

Yang Yuanqing had handed over the lance to his own soldiers, he was holding a sword in his hand to command the battle of the Tiger Benwei, he continued to mobilize the army to support the weak and critical, at this time, a soldier rushed to shout: "Your Highness, General Pei is seriously injured, and he can't support it anymore." ”

Yang Yuanqing was shocked in his heart, Xie Yingdeng had already been injured and left the battle, if Pei Xingyan couldn't support it anymore, then the right wing would be in danger, he quickly drew the order arrow and handed it to his own soldiers, "You go and pass the order, Cheng Yanjin will succeed him as the main general of the right wing, let him hold on until the reinforcements arrive." ”

"Obey!"

The soldiers rushed away after receiving the order, Yang Yuanqing was extremely worried, although he had psychological preparation in advance, this would be a hard battle that could not be tricked, but he still did not expect that the war would be so tragic, this is related to the will of the supreme ruler, which is enough to show the determination of Jieli Khan to defeat the Sui army.

What worries Yang Yuanqing is that the time dragged on too long, and in the end it was not good for the Sui army, although the current casualties are one to two, and the casualties of the Turkic army are twice as many as those of the Sui army, which is in line with pre-war expectations, but the Sui army has few troops after all, and in the end, the Turks will still have more than 100,000 troops, and they will still have combat effectiveness, but the Sui army will not be able to support it because of too few troops.

He stared at the northeast direction, both sides were exhausted, at this time, Li Jing's army should have appeared, at this moment, the soldiers around him suddenly had a slight commotion, and some soldiers shouted: "It's snowing!" ”

Yang Yuanqing looked up at the sky, only to see that the sky was indeed falling thin snow flakes, dense, with the north wind drifting down, he couldn't have imagined that the blizzard he had been waiting for for a long time would appear at this time, but he didn't know what the Turkic Khan would feel?

Yang Yuanqing's gaze looked to the north again, and he knew that Jieli Khan was not far from him.

About three miles away from Yang Yuanqing, in the main formation of the Turkic Guards, Jieli Khan held a blood-dripping war knife, and there was a commander lying beside him, who was already in a different place, Jieli Khan jumped like thunder, and shouted at a group of generals around him, "Whether it snows or not, defeat the Sui army for me, whoever dares to mention snow again will be his fate!" ”

He pointed his sword at another commander, and ordered in a hoarse voice: "At all costs, give me to defeat Yang Yuanqing's army and kill Yang Yuanqing!" ”