Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 348 Battle Eighteen
"Decree! The newspaper will publish the three battle reports in detail and report them truthfully." After receiving congratulations from everyone, Li Shimin issued an order.

"I obey the order!" Yu Shinan quickly took the battle report and asked someone to copy it immediately.

"Your Majesty is wise! As long as the battle report is published, it will definitely inspire people's hearts, and there is no need to worry about the instability of the people's hearts." Changsun Wuji agreed.

"Haha! What the auxiliary machine said is very true. As long as the people's hearts are safe, I will have no worries." Li Shimin said happily. He is most worried about the people's hearts these days.

If there is bad news from the front that affects the hearts of the people, they are afraid of being taken advantage of by those who want to take advantage of it. If they take advantage of the opportunity, it will easily cause great changes.

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"Woo! Woo! Woo!" The desolate and low-pitched sound of the horn sounded in the already desolate land of Yizhou, adding some chill to early winter.

The bitter cold wind blew the flags and rattled, 20 Turkic people lined up at the foot of the hill according to their tribes, and another [-] herdsmen formed a team facing the city of Yizhou. There were also many women in the team. A half-grown child with a naive face, an old man with a wrinkled face that can kill mosquitoes.

Although they are old and weak, women and children, Datang will not underestimate them. Turkic people, whether they are women or children, old or weak, dare to kill as long as they can wield weapons, especially when they are covering the main force for a decisive battle. They will work harder.

Grassland tribes, whether it is the Huns in the past or the Turks now, when there is heavy snow in winter and lack of food and clothing, more and more old people will automatically take off their coats in order to let others survive, and walk into the vast snow. Hope to keep future generations, this is their barbaric and helpless way of survival, there is no right or wrong.

Datang also lined up on another small hill, with an army of 11, plus [-] from Yizhou, for a total of [-] elite cavalry.

Li Ji organized all the heavy armor to form 1 heavy cavalry. Although these [-] people are heavy cavalry, only [-] horses are armored, and the remaining [-] horses have no armor, and the knights have full armor.

The remaining [-] cavalry were divided into ten squares, led by ten generals, standing quietly at the foot of the mountain, leading the horses, silently doing the final inspection, only occasionally neighing by the horses, reminding the world that something big is about to happen.

"Kill!" The Turks took the lead in attacking!Two million people rushed out from left and right.

"Kill!" The flag was waved, and Pang Xiaotai and Li Daliang rushed out with a team of ten thousand people.

The first wave of battle was not only a test, but also a competition. How could Li Ji show weakness.

The four teams were distributed around the battlefield and approached quickly.

"put!"

"crossbow!"

The two sides shot at each other at the same time, the Turks fired arrows, and the Tang soldiers fired crossbows.

This moment showed the gap, shooting arrows requires both hands, while hand crossbows can be shot with one hand, and one crossbow shoots five arrows in a row.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" The Turkic people have never seen a continuous crossbow launch on the frontal battlefield. The rain of arrows formed by [-] arrows fell on the heads of the Turkic people's sluggish eyes like this, and there was no way to avoid it. avoid.

In this way, 2000 people in front of the [-]-man team screamed and fell off their horses.

As for the arrows shot by the Turkic people, as the elite of the Tang Dynasty, the front row is full of assault armor, and there are cotton-padded clothes and leather armor in the back. You only need to protect your head with your hands. The saddle stabilized the body, and a scene that the Turks couldn't believe appeared. With [-] arrows, no one fell from the horse in Datang.

The battle will not be suspended because of something, riding on a horse to hedge, and there is only one chance to shoot an arrow, and the two sides will soon approach.

The soldiers of Datang hung up the hand crossbow, clamped the extended spear tightly with their arms, bent slightly, and held it firmly with both hands.

The Turkic people almost cried when they rushed close, they were too bullying, only then did they realize that Datang's weapons were so long, the spears one and a half feet long, like tree trunks, and like horse repelling formations, stretched far away There, the knife in his hand couldn't cut anyone at all.

When the war horse charges up, it doesn't dare to stop at all. If it stops, it will kill the people behind, and it will also kill itself. Of course, the Turkic people also understand this truth, so they have no choice but to close their eyes and wave their weapons indiscriminately. He crashed into the Datang army formation head-on.

The extended spear, under the fast horse galloping, will often penetrate several people. Of course, it cannot be pulled out at this time. The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty threw away the spear, pulled out the horizontal knife, and continued to slash. At this time, there was no extra thought, only Keep killing and killing until you penetrate the enemy's formation.

Shebei Daguan and Nu Shibi witnessed all this from a distance, and opened their mouths in disbelief, never expecting that a team of [-] people would be wiped out so easily.

"What, what should I do?" Shebei Daguan asked stammeringly with a blank mind.

"Patriarch, only the whole army presses up and disperses, so that the casualties of the crossbow arrows will be reduced, and the spears will not hurt so many people." Cui Tao said hastily, thinking about it.

"Yes! Yes!" Shebei Daguan and Nubi lost their heads, nodded quickly, and then ordered the trumpets to be blown, and the whole army charged, leaving only [-] troops for preparation.

Li Ji rode his horse and stood on the hill, and saw all the opponent's actions clearly through the binoculars. He didn't expect that the Turks knew to leave a reserve team, and immediately left 1 people behind, and the rest of the army was dispatched. The heavy cavalry advanced in the middle.

The battle became fierce from the very beginning, and after the rain of arrows, it was a head-to-head battle. Li Ji stood at a high place and kept issuing orders. The Tang army often rushed into the Turkic formation from multiple sides, and let the Turkic people follow him.

This reflected the gap between the commanders of the two sides. The Shebei Daguan and Nu Shibi had almost no extra orders, but just watched their subordinates play freely.

However, Li Ji was adjusting, adjusting, and commanding the direction with a command flag from a high place.

The leaders of the Tang Dynasty are all famous generals, and they have all experienced battles, big and small. They only need to look at the command flag in their spare time, and they will know which direction they should move closer to, and often form a situation of fighting more and fighting less.

When the heavy cavalry launched an assault, it was like a bulldozer, knocking the Turkic people and their horses into the air. The long saber in their hands did not require any extra movements.

The light cavalry on both sides are constantly mobilized under the command, and the Turks are compressed to gather in the middle, and the heavy cavalry will advance towards the crowded place and continue to advance.

Shebei Daguan and Nu Shibi also discovered their own weakness, but there was nothing they could do about it. They were really powerless to command the 20 troops. Tang rushed forward where he was weak, and Nu Shibi was unwilling to reconcile that Cui Tao watched from the side, wrapping him with a knife and charging together.

Cui Tao never expected such a result, a bitter feeling welled up in his heart, but he was forced to draw his sword under the threat of Nu Shibi, and took the lead in the charge.

(End of this chapter)