The fierce exchange of fire continued, but the duel between five hundred crossbowmen was so brutal that it sent shivers down the spine of Renyu Khan.
The speeding crossbow arrows constantly pierced the chests and abdomens of the soldiers on both sides. Even three-layer armor would be killed by a few arrows, not to mention that the crossbowmen themselves would not wear too thick armor.
Of course, this is also determined by the special terrain, if it is not a river bend full of rocks that is not conducive to running, but a normal plain or mountainous area.
The crossbowman could only fire two or three shots before the enemy had already rushed to the front of the formation. Naturally, there was no exchange of fire, but here, the cruelty and cruelty of the crossbow arrows were magnified countless times.
Gradually, the god-arm archers of the Guiyi Army gained the absolute upper hand. Although their number was only about 40% of the opponent's, the speed of stringing the god-arm bow was more than three times that of the horn bow crossbow, and the difficulty of stringing was much lower.
Under the blow of this violent storm, the four hundred Uighur left tent crossbowmen suffered an astonishing loss of more than one hundred people in less than a quarter of an hour.
At first they dared to shoot at the god-armed archers of the Guiyi Army, but later on, the speed of the crossbowmen moving forward became slower and slower.
Finally, when a certain type of crossbowman couldn't bear the fear of stepping forward to die, the left tent crossbowman collapsed. Even the officer didn't stop him. Because he couldn't stop him, he even wanted to run away.
Renyu Khan's heart was bleeding, and his anger finally blinded the Uighur Khan's mind.
These horned crossbows are extremely precious to the Ganzhou Uighurs who do not have much manufacturing capacity. If they cannot defeat the Guiyi Army on the opposite side, this loss alone will cause his prestige to plummet.
‘Choke!’ Renyu Khan drew out the long sword from his waist, “beat the drum and march, with thousands of households on the left and right of the imperial tent as sharp blades, attack!”
Zuo Dayehu wanted to persuade him at this time, but everyone else in the battle formation fell into a collective frenzy. With 9,000 people fighting against less than 5,000 people on the opposite side, even if it was an infantry battle, the advantage was still obvious.
What's more, the Guiyi Army and the Ganzhou Uighurs have been enemies for hundreds of years, especially in the past twenty years.
First, twenty years ago, the Ganzhou Uighurs attacked Dunhuang City and forced Zhang Chengfeng to appoint Renmei Khan, the Ganzhou Uighur, as his father.
Then ten years ago, after Cao Yijin's tenth birthday, he recruited all the strong men who returned to the rebel army, gathered an army of eight thousand, and broke through Ganzhou City in one fell swoop.
He forced the then Ganzhou Uighur Khan Diyin to death and appointed Aduoyu, who was willing to marry Cao Yijin's daughter, as Khan.
The hatred between the two sides lasted for ten days and ten nights. After Renyu Khan ordered the entire army to attack, the battle at the river bend directly changed from the original trial of each other's shooting and the action of pulling out the stone wall of the rebel army.
It turned into a brutal hand-to-hand fight.
The gray-black double amplifiers suddenly collided together, and large and small phalanxes were strangled together immediately, just like they did twenty years ago or ten years ago.
Fifteen miles north of the battlefield, the city wall of Suzhou City can already be vaguely seen here. This is a long and narrow flat land between the Golden Pagoda Mountain and Suzhou City.
In the past, this place should have been a sign of busy farming. About 40% of Suzhou's spring wheat was produced in this narrow plain area. The golden towers and mountains blocked the cold air from the south, and the Beida River brought abundant irrigation water.
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But here now, this fertile plain is still dead silent, and the land that has just been sorted out shows no signs of cultivation. As soon as Zhang Zhaogang led his army to arrive here, he was stunned by what he saw.
A small village located in the northernmost part of the plain has been completely destroyed, with at least more than 70 or 80 houses destroyed.
Countless corpses were strewn across the road, all of them farmers wearing coarse linen and linen clothes.
As for the peasant woman and others, Zhang Zhao only heard Bai Congxin roaring, "Beasts!" and rushed out of the largest room.
"Military envoy, what a tragedy! Those Ganzhou beasts killed all the women who had been raped. There were at least forty corpses in that big room alone!"
"Military envoy, the water in the well is undrinkable, and there are countless bodies of children floating in it." Ma Shacai, who went to inquire in front, also rode over with a tragic look on his face.
Anger suddenly exploded from Zhang Zhao's heart. It was normal to kill people in wars, and even retaliatory massacres were considered normal in this era, but this kind of killing purely for the sake of bestiality was absolutely intolerable.
"Madam is born in the world, and there are things you can do and things you should not do. You should remember that our sons in the rebel army can be arrogant, domineering, and even ruthless, but they cannot be reduced to beasts!"
Zhang Zhao pointed to the big houses and said, "Guo Guangcheng, lead your Pontic soldiers to stay here, dig a big hole, and bury them all!"
After saying that, Zhang Zhao yelled, "Xin Zhang'er, Cun Hui'er, and Lie Cheng'er, each of you will lead a general's cavalry to pursue you. If you escape a Ganzhou beast, I will question you!"
Murong Nobunaga responded loudly with eyes full of anger. For the first time, he did not care about Zhang Zhao calling him Nobunaga'er. However, Zhang Liecheng's words of "I will obey my father's military orders" next to him made him somewhat embarrassed.
"The whole army marched with their horses until the beginning of the Shen Dynasty. After they had eaten and drank enough, they overran those Ganzhou gangsters!"
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‘Ding! Ding! Ding!’ A harsh golden sound sounded at the third quarter of Shenshi. The Ganzhou Uighurs spent one day uprooting the stone walls and village gates built by the Guiyi Army, and spent another two days conducting a tentative attack.
It was not until the fourth day that the Guiyi Army found any ambush or backhand, and then the Ganzhou Uighurs began a large-scale attack.
The two sides fought from sunrise to sunset yesterday, each paying hundreds of lives.
Today was even more intense. The two sides fought for six consecutive battles for most of the day, and they only paused slightly now because the timing had arrived.
Gu Yan
Shenshi is from 3pm to 5pm. In this era of only eating two meals, it is called Bushi, which is the time to eat the second meal.
The Ganzhou Uighur warriors who had fought six battles today, wearing dozens of kilograms of armor and fighting six times in a row, were all exhausted.
Therefore, Renyu Khan hurriedly asked for gold and prepared the most caloric stewed fat lamb and mutton fat pancakes to replenish the physical strength of these soldiers.
Renyu Khan is very adaptable to playing several rounds in a day.
In the battle between the Ganzhou Uighurs and the Guiyi Army, there was never a time when they could defeat each other in one go, because both sides were poor and unruly.
Especially in the Battle of Dunhuang twenty years ago, the two sides fought from the north to the west of Dunhuang, and finally to the east. They fought continuously for five days, with a total of more than twenty battles.
It was not until the general of the Guiyi Army, Zuo Shence, who led the escort Zhang Anzuo was killed in battle, that the winner was decided.
"Khan, the Shazhou thieves are dead! We are finally going to defeat them!"
Zuo Dayehu stepped forward with excitement on his face. Although they suffered more casualties in these six formations, they still had the upper hand due to their numerical advantage.
More importantly, they have Suzhou City here that can continuously provide logistics, especially cheese rice, stewed mutton and mutton pancakes, all of which are hot and can quickly restore the soldiers' strength.
However, due to the "mistake" made by the Guiyi Army beforehand, after the retreat was cut off, they were unable to obtain firewood from the Black Mountain in time, so that there is now very little smoke rising from the kitchen.
Zuo Dayehu just took the risk to take a closer look. The soldiers of the Guiyi Army were all eating dried meat strips and dry biscuits.
Don't underestimate the difference in food. The soldiers wore dozens of kilograms of heavy armor and fought hard. A little dried meat and dried biscuits can't replenish their physical strength.
Renyu Khan's face showed joy for the first time. He and Zuo Dayehu had the same view. The difference could not be seen now, but it would be obvious after a few more rounds.
"Let the warriors have enough to eat. Let's beat the Shazhou thieves for a while today, and beat them even harder tomorrow until they are completely defeated. I want none of them to escape."
Renyu Khan roared loudly, Mei's eyebrows flew up.
If he defeats the traitors in Shazhou on the opposite side, he can occupy the two states of Guasha. The next step is to send a marriage envoy to the Tang Dynasty to ask for a princess from the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He will also marry everyone in the Yaogeluo family.
Changed his surname to Li.
By then he will be Li Renyu. In another ten years, the next target will be the Pugu family's Gaochang Khanate.
Humph! The Yaogeluo family is the real Uighur royal family, and the Pugu family is just the Yaogeluo family’s dogs, and they dare to be the Khans!
After annexing the Gaochang Uighurs, it was the turn of the descendants of Pang Teqin who were defeated by their ancestors. I heard that these distant relatives of his established a large khanate in Anxi.
If I can recapture them, maybe I can become the real khan of all the Uighurs when I am fifty years old. By then...
"Khan! What do you think that is? Why did the Shazhou thieves put up so many flags?"
Renyu Khan narrowed his eyes in dissatisfaction. He was having a pleasant dream, but was interrupted by someone. It was really unpleasant. He looked in the direction of his nephew Yao Geluosiyi's finger.
Huh? It's a bit strange. Why do these Shazhou thieves raise so many red flags in the formation? It's a bit like they are sending a signal to someone.
Sending a signal? The usually cautious Renyu Khan was startled, as if he had not heard the sentry sent by his fourth brother Yao Geluo Tongshun for a long time.
Yaoge Luotongshun's five hundred cavalry is You Yiqi who is on guard outside. He wouldn't dare to go somewhere to have fun at this time, would he?
At this moment, a burst of horse hoofbeats suddenly sounded, and the sound became more and more obvious from far to near.
Everyone around them raised their heads and looked around. Renyu Khan's hair stood on end. He immediately ran to the high platform built by the river to see for himself. At the same time, the warning horn horn sound from the top of Suzhou City also sounded rapidly.
The sound of horse hoofbeats was getting closer and closer, and Renyu Khan finally discovered the direction from which the sound was coming. He looked to the north of Suzhou City. About three or four miles away from them, an overwhelming number of cavalrymen were heading towards the eye-catching Sanchen flag.
The river bend roars in.
At the front, Renyu Khan saw his younger brother Yao Geluo Tongshun. Tongshun was leading dozens of horsemen to run away in panic. Behind them, a white-robed young general was chasing after them.
In the dim sunlight of the setting sun, the white robe of the young man in white robe seemed to be coated with a layer of gold. He took advantage of the moment when the horse was bumping up and down, and quickly and continuously fired his bow, constantly shooting the knights around Tongshun to the ground.
Almost at the same time, three drums sounded from the Hewan rebel army, and large groups of soldiers in black armor came out of the stronghold and began to approach the Uighurs.
Only then did Renyu Khan understand why they had been chewing biltong and eating biscuits just now. It turned out that it was for the convenience of going out to fight immediately.
And his soldiers had taken off their armor and were enjoying the greasy mutton soup.
"Hurry! Put on armor! Everyone put on armor and retreat to the foot of Suzhou City. The five hundred soldiers of Yehuolu tribe will go to the left to intercept!" The anxious Renyu Khan almost fell off the high platform.
He shouted while running. Although he didn't know where those cavalry came from, he knew that if they couldn't withstand the opponent's thunderous blow, they would be doomed.
This chapter has been completed!