Qin Wenyuan received an urgent report from the scouts of the front army, so the whole army paused and took out the map to stare at it. After a while, he guessed the intentions of the Khitan and Xi troops. The two armies must have passed through the valleys close to the Huihe tribe on their way forward.
It was a good idea to launch an ambush against the Qin family's army. Once the Qin family's army rashly walked into this narrow valley, the consequences can be imagined. At that time, there was really no way to advance or retreat, and they had to be slaughtered by others.
After discussion, the generals led their troops and marched for another half a day before setting up camp in an open area not far from the entrance of the valley to prepare for defense and rest.
In the Chinese army's tent, Qin Wenyuan sent hundreds of Turkic soldiers who were familiar with the local customs out of the camp to find the local residents, and stood in front of the map to think about how to deal with the current enemy.
In the evening, a Turkic soldier brought back an old man and a young man dressed in Uighur costumes. Qin Wenyuan invited them into the military tent. After some gentle words to dispel their fear, he took out some silver coins and gave the old Uighur man some money. He asked if the old man could
There was another road that went around the valley. The old man hurriedly returned the silver to Qin Wenyuan, saying that if he wanted to lead the way, he would have to save the lives of the accompanying young man.
The old man's name was Jiang Qing. He was originally a Han who helped people transport goods between "Songmo" City and the grassland. More than ten years ago, he was robbed by Khitan soldiers while transporting goods. After he picked up his life from the pile of dead people, he heard something not far away.
The old man followed the sound of a baby crying and saw many corpses of Sui officers and soldiers on the road in front. Among them was a female corpse wearing noble clothes. Her body covered the swaddled baby and was crying loudly. Jiang Qing couldn't bear it and picked up the baby among the corpses.
I found some dry food and melted it with water, and then I saved the young man's life. Because I lost the goods, I didn't dare to go back to my hometown to meet the owner of the goods. From then on, I made a living by hunting in the mountains near the Huihe tribe and raised my children.
Listening to the old man's self-narration, Qin Wenyuan was in awe of the old man who had become like a Uighur. He swore that if the old man could lead an army around the valley, he would treat the young man well and take him to Pingzhou for resettlement. The old man agreed with tears.
But it turns out that there was a plank road for traders during the Sui Dynasty next to the dense forest in the valley. Because the road was slightly detoured and tigers, leopards, snakes and insects were rampant in the mountains and forests, over time someone opened a trail in the current valley. With more people walking, it gradually became various.
The tribesmen and merchants went to "Songmo" city to enter the main road between western and eastern Liaoning.
Upon hearing this news, Qin Wenyuan was overjoyed. He placed the old man and the young man in the army to rest, and ordered the generals to enter the tent and give instructions.
"At dawn tomorrow, Zhou Cang and Lu Qingling will quietly enter the plank road with their own guards and go around to where the Khitan and the Xi tribe join forces to look for an opportunity to attack. Kilisu Gu, Luo Shiyi, Cheng Chumo, Yuchi Baolin, Fang Yiai and other generals
After seeing the red signal flare, you need to be alert to the movements in the highlands on both sides of the valley before leading your entire army to attack, and remember not to act rashly."
After receiving the order, all the generals returned to their camps to make arrangements for tomorrow's raid.
When dawn tore through the darkness and the outline of the earth loomed under the morning light, a group of hundreds of elite soldiers wearing strange camouflage colors advanced slowly among the trees not far from the valley.
On the mountain road, under the guidance of the guide Jiang Qing and the young man, the entire team fought through thorns and thorns. After nearly three hours of marching, as the road began to level out under their feet, they could hear the faint sound of horses neighing in front of them.
Qin Wenyuan ordered hundreds of his guards to hide and stop. He jumped up onto a big tree and used a telescope to observe where the sound came from. He saw that there were many military tents about a kilometer away. Judging from the size of the camp, the number of enemy troops in front should be tens of thousands.
After observing for nearly a stick of incense, he jumped down from the big tree and first called his guards to bring a hundred taels of silver to Jiang Qing, and told him to take the young man out of here quickly. Jiang Qing took the silver taels and knelt down, thanking him tremblingly.
On the contrary, the young man looked at Qin Wenyuan very curiously, with an excited look in his eyes. He wanted to say something, but he was too shy to speak.
But it turns out that since the thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy came to the Qin Army's barracks, he saw the might of the Qin Army's cavalry and was envious of his heart. He had already thought of joining the army. Today, seeing the uniforms of the Qin Army's personal guards and the unknown weapons in their hands, especially
He was very curious about the telescope on Qin Wenyuan's chest, and he didn't want to leave the team.
Seeing the young man standing on his own despite Jiang Qing's urging, Qin Wenyuan was also a little surprised. After asking lightly, he knew what the young man was thinking. He saw that the young man was tall and handsome, and his eyes were smart, so he accepted him.
He handed the jade token he carried with him to the young man and said.
"How about you go home with Old Man Jiang and think about it first, and then take this token to Songmo City to find me?"
The young man took the jade token and returned it to Qin Wenyuan, knelt down and kowtowed.
"The boy has been hunting with his grandfather in the mountains since he was a child. In his spare time, he makes a living by grazing with other people's families. He has no fixed place to live. Today he wants to follow the general to kill the enemy and beg the general to take in the boy and grandson."
Qin Wenyuan felt pity after hearing what the young man said, so he nodded in agreement, took back the jade token, waved his hand to summon his bodyguard, and told him to try his best to protect the safety of his grandfather and grandson when the war started, and then ordered the bodyguard and others to advance in secret...
Among the trees and grass, hundreds of personal guards quietly approached the camp of the Xi tribe and the Khitan coalition. They stayed only three to four hundred meters away from the enemy camp. They chose favorable terrain to build bunkers around them, and snipers, machine gunners, and mortar operators arrived one after another.
Get in position.
Qin Wenyuan jumped up and landed on a slightly higher ground with a sniper rifle in hand. Using the cover of a few rocks on the high ground, he used a telescope to observe again. At noon, he saw a large number of Khitan cavalry and Xi cavalry coming out of their tents to replenish food and grass.
At this moment, the sniper rifle in his hand was aimed at the big man in general's uniform among the Khitan soldiers and he pulled the trigger.
With the gunshot in Qin Wenyuan's hand, dozens of mortars opened fire on the position, and the shrieking shells instantly fell into the barracks of the Khitan and Xi coalition forces. Amidst the series of "rumbling" gunfire, fire and smoke
Rising, the explosive air waves tore apart everything in the camp.
The sudden blow caused chaos to the Khitan and Xi coalition forces. The horses in the military camp were frightened by the sound of cannons and ran around. I don't know how many soldiers were killed and injured. There was a loud cry for fathers and mothers. For this unknown artillery fire, who was pious in his heart?
The Khitan and Xi soldiers thought it was a punishment from the gods, and they knelt down and prayed loudly.
In the panic of the Khitan and Xi cavalry, three red signal flares were launched into the sky, and the gorgeous red trailing gray and black smoke pierced the sky.
The sound of machine guns "thud, thud, thud" was loud, and in conjunction with the mortars, a full-scale strafing attack was launched on the enemy. Amidst the crisp sound of "thud, thud, thud", the Khitan and Xi tribesmen dressed in general uniforms were all inexplicable.
Fall off the horse.
The crossbowmen of the Xi tribe who were ambushing on both sides of the valley and preparing to attack the Qin army heard the sound of artillery fire and saw smoke rising from the military camp behind them. They were shocked and didn't know what had happened. When the scouts reported, they realized that there were still some soldiers left who wanted to intercept the Qin army head-on.
The main cavalry of the Khitan and the Xi tribe was attacked, and the leading general suddenly felt that the situation was critical. If his camp was destroyed, the ambush troops on both sides of the valley would lose their supporting troops.
The Xi tribe generals had no idea what was causing this powerful sound of guns and artillery. They secretly wondered if the enemy army would call upon the wind and rain to attract the thunder god from the sky to attack our army? The situation in the military camp must be very critical now.
The sound of continuous gunfire caused the Xi infantry ambushed on both sides of the valley to stir up chaos. Several leading generals had to scout and report that the Qin army stationed outside the valley still stood still. Knowing that the intention of the ambush was revealed, the Qin army summoned the thunder god and caused the mountain to rise.
The firemen were helpless and ordered the ambush army to retreat quickly, no longer caring about the important task of blocking the Qin army from passing through the valley.
Seeing three red flares in the sky, Cheng Chumo, Kilisu Gu, Luo Shiyi, Yuchi Baolin and Fang Yiai and other generals of the Xu Army knew that the general had launched an attack on the enemy. Amidst the rumbling cannons, the Qin Army was not surprised.
, knowing that it was a strange weapon that could only be possessed by the general's bodyguards, but the Turkic cavalry such as Cheng Chumo, Kilisu Gu, Luo Shiyi, Yuchi Baolin and Fang Yiai felt very frightened. After hearing the explanation of the general of the Qin family army, they felt somewhat understanding.
, put away the shock and fear and ordered the army to search and advance in sections, quickly passing through the valley.
When the nearly 10,000 cavalrymen of the Qin Army had just rushed out of the valley, all they could see were the defeated Khitan and Xi cavalry, and all they could hear were the "bang, bang, chug" of gunfire and the "boom" of artillery fire.
Through the telescope, Qin Wenyuan saw that the army had left the valley. After repelling another wave of enemy cavalry who reacted to the sound of gunfire and wanted to seize the high ground where the guards were bunkering, he ordered the guards to stop shooting and quickly join the army.
The merger launched an all-out campaign against the Khitan and Xi armies.
After receiving the order, the personal guards quickly put away their firearms and advanced down the slope to defend the Qin family's cavalry.
At this time, Cheng Chumo, Kilisu Gu, Luo Shiyi, Yuchi Baolin and Fang Yiai began to lead their troops to charge against the enemy, and thousands of cavalry, mostly one person and two horses, went to where Qin Wenyuan and others were descending the mountain to support them.
The cavalrymen who were joined by the guards quickly mounted their horses. Jiang Qing and the young man also found the ownerless horses from the battlefield and mounted them, following closely behind the Qin family's guards.
Qin Wenyuan climbed on the back of the "Red Rabbit" horse, and the personal guard took the magic weapon "Palm-pole Square Heavenly Halberd" from his hand and ordered the buglers to blow the bugle for an all-out attack.
With the sound of bugles, the Qin army began to kill the Khitan and Xi cavalry with all their strength. Although the Khitan cavalry was brave, they lost their momentum under the attack of artillery fire and were charged by the Qin army. In the chaos, they had no time to take care of themselves and left the Xi cavalry behind.
Most of the tribe's cavalry scattered and fled.
The battlefield was almost one-sided. Qin Wenyuan waved his halberd and led his troops to pursue them all the way. He killed thousands of Xi tribe's cavalrymen like herding sheep. Corpses were scattered all over the field, which was really miserable.
The Xi tribe cavalry, following their general Li Zijun, fled frantically along the foot of Yin Mountain, intending to reach several Xi tribes gathered in "Yunzhou".
At that time, the chief of the Xi tribe had already led his tribe to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin gave the chief the surname Li and managed the Xi tribe for the Tang Dynasty. Li Zijun was the brother of the chief, so it was just right for him to flee in the direction of "Yunzhou".
My brother told me that if the war goes against the odds, we can use the power of the general guard at the "Gubeikou" of the Great Wall to stop Xu's army.
This was the plan that the Dahe Alliance made with Xiao Yu when they encouraged the Xi clan to send troops. The reason was that Qu Tong, the general guarding the gate at Gubeikou, was a member of the Xiao family, and he had received a secret order from the family to provoke Youzhou.
The conflict between the army and the Xu army was so that Changsun Wuji could use this as an excuse to instigate Wei Xiaojie to set up a trap to embarrass Qin Wenyuan, prevent the caravans from western Liaoning from trading in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, and create resistance to the development of western Liaoning.
Just when Qin Wenyuan led his army to pursue the Xi cavalry and approached the "Gubeikou" pass in Youzhou, Qu Tong, the general guarding the pass under Wei Xiaojie's command, led his army out of the pass and let go of the Xi cavalry who fled toward "Yunzhou" in the northwest.
After that, he ordered his sergeants to form a formation and set up horse-blocking stakes on the road to prevent the Qin army from pursuing.
During the pursuit, the cavalry of the Qin family army saw soldiers holding the flag of the Tang Dynasty blocking the way. They didn't know how to deal with it for a while, so they reined in their horses. The former soldiers Cheng Chumo and Kilisu Gu saw this and stepped forward to ask. Qu Tong was on horseback holding a spear in his hand.
He pointed at the two of them and shouted loudly.
"This is the boundary of Youzhou, why did you send your army here!"
When Cheng Chumo saw that the other party was a general of the Tang Dynasty, he replied angrily on horseback.
"A certain person is the Tang army under the command of the Ping Liao envoy. He led his army to pursue and kill the enemies outside western Liaoning. Why did the general set up a blockade? Could it be that he had some connection with the Xi people?"
"Hey! The Xi people are also my subjects of the Tang Dynasty. They can go to the land of the Tang Dynasty naturally. Why bother us? No matter what the reason is for a certain family to start a war, you must obtain the governor's token to pass through.
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Just when Qu Tong was talking to Cheng Chumo, Qin Wenyuan led his army to arrive. In the dust and smoke that shook the earth, the Qin family army, full of bloody evil spirit, was ready to attack without waiting for the general's order. The Qin family army doesn't care who you are, anyone who dares to challenge you
The enemy is:
"kill!"
Qin Wenyuan waved his halberd to halt the formation of the army, pointed his halberd at Qu Tong and shouted loudly.
"What do you mean, guy? Why did you set up a barrier here to block our army? I can't give you a reason. Don't blame me for being ruthless."
When Qu Tong heard the young general of the "Qin" army yelling at him, he didn't know that he was the young marshal of the Xu family army, Qin Wenyuan. This guy, Wei Xiaojie's confidant, had been tyrannical in Youzhou for a long time, so how could he take him seriously?
He had completely forgotten Xiao Yu's words to be careful and guard against this son, and he started to curse in anger.
"What kind of bastard dares to scream in front of grandpa? You don't know whether to live or die. A certain family advises you to rush your troops back to the station in western Liaoning before grandpa gets angry..."
Before the man finished speaking, Zhou Cang next to Qin Wenyuan heard such insulting words about his master and shouted loudly with anger:
"Looking for death! Grandpa wants to see how you get angry."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Cang used his horse to hit the guy with a long iron stick...
Qu Tong suddenly saw a big man like an iron tower coming towards him with his weapons and horses. He was frightened and angry and used his spear in his hand to fight the enemy. The soldiers guarding the gate drew their bows and arrows to kill Zhou Cang when they saw the general fighting.
Ruan Xiong, the deputy guard of the "Gubeikou" border gate, saw that something was wrong and shouted loudly to the soldiers to put down their crossbows. In fact, he was very puzzled by the general's intention of letting the Xi cavalry go to hinder the Tang Dynasty's pursuing army. He wanted to guard the border for these years.
I have long hated the bullying of the people of the Tang Dynasty by foreign soldiers.
Ruan Xiong suddenly opened his mouth to stop the soldiers from acting rashly, not knowing that he was saving so many lives. If these soldiers dared to shoot sharp arrows, how could a mere thousand of them withstand a charge from the Xu family's cavalry?
No more gossip, let’s watch Zhou Cang’s battle with Qu Tong.
The two generals came into contact in front of the formation. Qu Tong thrust a red cherry spear directly against the iron rod in Zhou Cang's hand. Unexpectedly, Ren Bantu was enlarged. He quickly grabbed the spear with one hand and used the momentum to pull it back.
, a strong pull caused his body to tilt forward, and then he hit himself with the iron rod in his hand.