lazy tang

Chapter 263 Tragic breakout

The darkness before dawn devoured the light, and even the most basic vigilance of the Turkic soldiers.When the crossbow arrows were overwhelming, harvesting lives like a death scythe, many people were still asleep.

If the Turkic camp fails, stones will be thrown from the sky.There was a rain of crossbow arrows shooting towards the ground, and the Turkic leather armor obviously couldn't resist the power of the triangular piercing cone.The sound of metal piercing into flesh came and went, making one's scalp tingle.

As one of the most skilled generals among the Turkic people, Kang Jiaoli suddenly jumped up from the ground.He snatched the guard's shield with his hands, and arrows hit it with "bang" and "bang".The guard next to him was just stunned for a moment, and received two arrows in the head.In an instant, blood covered his cheeks, and gray-white brain matter flowed out from the back of his head.

"Get on the horse, get on the horse! Get out!" Kang Jiaoli shouted, running towards his mount.An ancient Turkic saying, the closer you are to your war horse, the better.Kang Siaoli followed this set of instructions, and his mount was only three or five steps away from him.Just at the distance of three to five steps, there are two more crossbow bolts on his shield.

Facts have proved that there are many Turkic people who follow the group training.In the light of dawn, the Turkic soldiers quickly found their horses.As long as they get on the horse, their hearts will be much more at ease.A few thoughtless people even planned to rush out and kill those bastards who dared to harass them with crossbow arrows.

But the guy who did this, in the end, both humans and horses became like hedgehogs.Apart from attracting the enemy's crossbow bolts, it didn't seem to have any effect.

From the moment he was awakened by the attack, Kang Siaoli had no intention of fighting back.It was obvious that the guy on the other side was a man who knew how to be forbearable. He waited all night in the cold wind, just to wait for the moment when he could relax.Clearly, his patience paid off.In the first moment of the attack, many Turkic soldiers were killed.There were so many that Kang Jiaoli couldn't estimate it. In the hazy sky, there seemed to be only a thousand cavalry following him.

In other words, nearly half of him has been damaged.

Yun Hao glanced at the direction in which Kang Jiaoli was running away, and sneered in his heart.He stands on a high place, and nothing can escape his eyes.There are a hundred guys behind them, throwing stones the size of human heads down.After throwing away the stones that can be found nearby, move the corpses of the Turkic scouts on the ground and throw them down.A cliff more than ten feet high, dead people are also very powerful.

Yunhao arranged this pocket very carefully. The place where Kang Jiaoli was going to break out was definitely not a good place.The ground there was almost covered with triangular spikes, and hundreds of crossbowmen were arranged on the trees.Even if Kang Xie used the corpses of people and horses to create a big ditch with a width of two feet, it was enough to make him desperate.

Not to mention, the wide gully is covered with straw and kerosene.As long as there is a spark, Yun Hao can guarantee that the heat can be felt in a radius of ten feet.

And behind the ravine is Duan Zhixuan who is ready to fight.This guy will not let any Turkic leave alive from his hands.Layer upon layer of ambushes, Yun Hao felt that he had Han Xin's determination!

If he were to advise Kang Siaoli, he would like to advise Kang Siaoli to go another way.There were two thousand crossbowmen there, and there were only a few triangular nails on the ground.If there are heavy casualties, it seems that a few people can be rushed out.

Kang Jiaoli couldn't hear Yun Hao's suggestion, so he plunged into a dead end.The reason is also very simple, this road is the widest and best to go.

First, the horse fell to the ground screaming, and then the soldiers who fell to the ground screamed miserably.The voice was piercing, as if suffering great pain.This is true whether it is a man or a horse. The howls of dozens of Turkic soldiers are mixed together, and the sound will make the ferocious wolf tremble.

Kang Jiaoli hurriedly reined in the horse, but luckily the horse just started running.Otherwise, the inertia will make it carry its master on its back and plunge headlong into the ocean of triangular nails.

"Go that way!" Kang Jiaoli charged in the other direction as soon as he turned his horse's head.In the darkness, crossbow arrows shot over from time to time, and the horse was hit by two arrows, and the painful horse became more and more crazy.

He had just galloped out a hundred paces, followed by a sharp whistle.The Turkic cavalry installed a metal wall made of arrows, and countless crossbow arrows smashed towards them densely.The hundred or so riders who ran in the front turned into porcupines in an instant.The worst one had no less than fifty crossbow arrows stuck in the body of the man and the horse.There were as many as three or four sticks inserted into one face alone.

The first wave of arrow rain had just finished distributing, and the second wave of arrow rain rushed over, and the ferocity seemed to be stronger than before.Then came the third wave, and the fourth wave... The crossbow arrows of the Jinyang Army seemed to be firing continuously, and the shooting never stopped.Kang Jiaoli found sadly that if his own people wanted to break through from here, there might not be a few of them left.

The Turks are a tribal society, and the soldiers are actually the middle-aged men in the tribe.If all the young and middle-aged people of this tribe are dead, it will not be far away from being swallowed up by other tribes.Up to now, it doesn't matter whether it is to capture Xiongkuohai or conquer Jinyang City.The most important thing is to escape with more tribal sons.

"Go back!" Contrary to the arrow rain that never seemed to stop, Kang Shanli decided it was better to go back the same way.Although that road is dangerous, there are not many crossbowmen.They are all old ranks on the battlefield, as you can tell from the size of the arrow rain on the opposite side.No less than [-] crossbowmen were ambushed here. When Li Yuan started an incident, all the soldiers were taken to Guanzhong.

There are not many soldiers left in Shanxi, and Kang Jiaoli, who has been in Li Yuan's army for a long time, knows this very well.It is even less likely that there are many people who attacked him.Since there are so many crossbowmen ambushing here, there must not be many of them when they hit the road just now.The densely packed barbed wire on the ground is proof.If there are many people, there is no need for so many barbed wire.

This time, Kang Jiaoli stabilized his mind and ordered dozens of soldiers to dismount and hold shields to open the way for the army.The Turkic knights on the horse followed behind, and as long as they found traces of the Jinyang army, the arrows would fly over like locusts.They are all prairie people who are good at riding and shooting, and their arrows are both accurate and ruthless.But after a cup of tea, shrill screams came out one after another from the trees.

The Jinyang army ambushing on the tree fell from the tree like dumplings.Fortunately, he did not die, and those who wanted to escape were shot like targets, and died in a miserable state.

It seems that due to the prestige of the Turkic cavalry, no one from the Jinyang army who besieged Kang Jiaoli came out to fight melee.The battle between the two sides is done with bows and crossbows.

Yun Hao knew that he was suffering because they were old, weak and disabled soldiers.It's okay to use a crossbow, but if you use a bow, there are not many people who have the strength to draw a bow now.To expect these people to rush up and fight Kang Jiaoli hand-to-hand would be suicide.If a group of capable heavy armored spearmen rushed up at this time, Yun Hao was [-]% sure that not one of Kang Jiaoli's army would be left behind.

But now, I can only rely on the advantage of three times the number of enemy troops to snipe with bows and crossbows.The Turkic people gradually got used to the rhythm of the battlefield, and the round shields used to protect them were blocked from time to time, often causing the crossbowmen to return without success.More than a thousand remnants of the Turkic army began to slowly break through.Those guys with giant shields quickly cleared a path.The brigade of our Turkic cavalry fled along the cleared road.

Soon someone fell into the two-foot-wide fire ditch, but the two-foot width could not stop the Turks from escaping.After experimenting without triangular nails, the Turkic cavalry relied on their super high riding skills to drive their horses and jumped over the trench.

"Light it up!" When more than a hundred Turkic cavalry ran up and crossed the fire ditch, Yun Hao gave the order to launch rockets. No matter how elite Duan Zhixuan's Xuanjia army was, they might not be able to stop the envious Turkic cavalry. .More than a hundred archers ignited the rockets in their hands, and shot the rockets at a 45-degree angle into the ditch covered with firewood and kerosene.

Orange flames suddenly drilled out from the ground, like tentacles in hell.It swallowed the knight jumping in the air at once, and the horse fell into the ditch in fright.In an instant, both the man and the horse turned into a fire man and a fire horse, engulfed in flames struggling, screaming and howling, the sound seemed to come from hell.

Seeing more than a hundred riders galloping towards him, Duan Zhixuan picked up his horse with a grin.After putting down the ferocious visor, he was the first to charge towards the Turkic cavalry.Although the Turkic cavalry has superb riding skills, their style is fierce.But the Xuanjia Army has more than 500 people, five times their number.Duan Zhixuan is confident that even if he stomps on them, he can trample these Turkic reptiles to death.

The Turkic cavalry, who were terrified by the flames and screams, suddenly saw Duan Zhixuan who looked like a demon god.Immediately panicked, Duan Zhixuan's Xuanjia army pierced into the chaotic enemy group like a sharp sword.

The long horse lance danced like a pear blossom in full bloom, and a Turkic warrior opposite him swung his mace to hit it, but it hit nothing.There was a sharp pain in the chest and abdomen, and the body was already lifted into the air by Ma Qiang.

Even Duan Zhixuan couldn't stand the fat body, he threw away Ma Qian and drew out the horizontal knife like lightning.The movement of drawing the knife drew an arc, splitting the head of a Turkic man.Then, with a horizontal pull, a large gash was opened in the rib of another Turkic man.When the two horses pedaled wrongly, Duan Zhixuan even saw Sen Bai's ribs.

A saber does not need to be cut horizontally and vertically, the speed of the horse is already very fast.As long as you hold a horizontal knife and use the horse's posture, you can easily make a fatal cut in the human body.

Five hundred xuanjia were like fierce tigers descending down the mountain, and a hundred panicked Turkic cavalry were like fine sand thrown into the sea.Without even a ripple, it was engulfed by the berserk Xuanjia army.

Kang Shanli, who was separated by the fire and the trench on the other side, did not know what happened to his men.But judging from the screams one after another, the people who passed in the early stage were already in danger.

Rows of crossbow arrows began to shoot from behind. I don't know how the Jinyang Army arranged them.The arrows didn't seem to need to be wound, and they shot in waves.It's like the waves are lapping on the shore, never stopping.Kang Jiaoli even suspected that the Jinyang Army had invented the continuous-firing crossbow arrows.

Yunhao stood on the cliff, looking at the battlefield below as if watching a play.It's a pity that the eight-ox crossbow is too heavy to move quickly.Otherwise, if there is a volley at this time, there will definitely be a bloodbath in the dense and long Turkic team.Seeing that the soldiers stood in three rows and kept shooting in turn.Yun Hao let out a sigh of relief, after all, he is a veteran of all battles.Although physically weak, discipline on the battlefield is still good.

At least my training these past few days was not in vain, linear shooting technique.It can be said that it is the most sustainable long-range strike tactic in the army. Now it is used in the right place to deal with the Turks.

Knowing that his time is running out, once all the crossbowmen gather around.The remaining remnants of him will all be shot to death in the quilt, and the rear road will be tightly sealed by crossbow arrows.There was only one way to go now, and that was to rush across the burning ditch to the other side.

Kang Jiaoli shouted: "Warriors of the Great Turks, the bravest fighters of the Ashina family. The way to life is ahead. If you want to return to the grassland alive to meet your family, wife and children, you should fight with me!" Regardless of many.As soon as the reins of the war horse were mentioned, the first one rushed into the flames and crossed the ditch.

The Turkic soldiers behind them shouted and rushed forward.Some successfully jumped over the fire ditch, and some fell into the fire ditch and were burned to death with their horses.As expected of the descendants of the wolf tribe, the screams from hell did not stop them in the slightest.One after another, the Turkic men, whose hair was curly from the heat, successfully jumped to the opposite bank with their bodies covered in heat.

But what was waiting for them was Duan Zhixuan's cold horse and shiny horizontal knife.

A fish-belly paleness appeared in the east, and then an orange-red sky shot out from the horizon.The sun poked its head out quietly, with an orange flame like a huge egg yolk.The sky and the earth are rendered into a red ocean.

The bonfire in the fire ditch has been extinguished, and wisps of smoke are still rising from the remains of the man and the horse.Duan Zhixuan was covered in blood, and the ground was full of mutilated corpses of Turkic people.They were the only ones fighting the Turks in the early morning battle.With the fire ditch as the dividing line, when the people on the other side of the fire ditch died, they all had arrows stuck in their bodies.But the body is still intact!

But when it comes to Duan Zhixuan, there are all kinds of corpses.Lying in a variety of positions, anyway, they don't seem to care much about what happens after the death lamp goes out.

The Turkic people's desperate breakout still caused a lot of casualties to Duan Zhixuan and the others.Duan Zhixuan was hit with a mace on the arm, and the tiger's head of the shoulder guard was smashed.This guy is now hanging his arms, leading his men to search for Turkic people who are pretending to be dead.

In fact, such things as risking one's life still have some effect on the battlefield.At least Kang Jiaoli thought so. Two thousand soldiers under his command disappeared, but he was alive after all.It's just a bit miserable, with two crossbow arrows stuck in his body.He was also slashed on the face, and there were less than a hundred people following behind him.

(End of this chapter)