Chapter 3: Beacon Fire (Three Strikes) Just as he was praising the wisdom of his fathers, a fast horse rushed towards him with a diagonal thrust. "General Li orders your troops to continue attacking and expand the results of the battle." The messenger on horseback shouted, high
He raised a command arrow and said, "The central army is going to join the right wing! The general has orders, and the rest of the left wing will be left to you!"
The Flying Tiger Army was not under the control of Li Xu, and he had no right to issue orders to the Second Young Master. Changsun Wuji frowned, and was about to scold him, but was surprised to see that the Second Young Master, who was usually unwilling to be subordinate to others, took the order flag without hesitation, and then
Point the tip of the knife straight forward
"Brothers, kill the thieves!" Li Shimin pointed his machete at the defeated tribal warriors and shouted loudly
"Kill the thieves! Don't give them time to breathe!" Hou Junji, who was always smart, seemed to be stupid at this moment. Instead of protesting to the messenger, he followed Li Shimin closely. Two thousand flying tiger soldiers immediately took over the Chinese army's attack.
The mission was to rush diagonally from the flanks to the front and become the main force in chasing down the enemy. The Chinese army team that was originally responsible for the frontal attack slowly slowed down under the leadership of Li Xu. After the left wing troops and horses completely took over their mission,
, turn right
The tribal warriors who fled in embarrassment did not even notice that the number of enemy troops behind them had been reduced by two-thirds. They fled for their lives like frightened silly roe deer, not daring to look back at their pursuers and take a look at the pursuers of the Flying Tiger Army behind them.
Under the command of Li Shimin, they controlled the rhythm of the attack like the main force. Whenever the fugitives slowed down, they immediately pounced on them like wolves, tearing open the throats of the slowest runner. Whenever the enemy fell into chaos again, they quietly returned.
Tighten the horse's reins
This was a completely one-sided massacre. The Flying Tiger Army hardly had to take any risks. After chasing the footprints of the tribal warriors for half a mile, Changsun Wuji finally understood Xu Zi’s intentions. Although the messenger from the Chinese army behaved rudely,
At this moment, whoever Asahi entrusts the task of chasing and escaping is equivalent to giving away a lot of military exploits in vain.
"After all, he is the person whom Duke Tang values." Changsun Wuji, who understood the other party's good intentions, thought sarcastically. Taking advantage of the moment when the attack rhythm slowed down, he turned around and looked around, and saw the fire of the Shili Alliance Group behind him rising into the sky like a six thousand-sided army.
Passing through the flames, nothing can block their fierce figures
The Hu** Camp, which had been plowed twice by the Central Plains cavalry, had been turned into a hell on earth. Countless mutilated corpses lay there. Some were assassinated by the cavalry with long spears, and some were trampled to death by horse hooves.
The people who escaped were holding a bunch of stolen pots and pans, squatting next to the burning fire and shivering. They were completely frightened and did not know how to escape. Even if they heard the thundering sound of horse hooves, they could not escape.
I don't know how to stand up and avoid the bright front
Xu Zi did not stay in the smashed camp. Those guys who were lucky enough to escape under the horse's hooves were no longer worthy of tarnishing his black sword. He rushed to meet Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin, both of whom were under Qijun.
My disciple, Xuzi once promised Zhang Xutuo to try his best to bring these simple brothers back to Henan, so he is not willing to let the county soldiers bear too much sacrifice.
He didn't believe in the bravery of Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin. In fact, it was precisely because Qin and Luo were so brave that it made people even more worried that Xuzi, who had been guided by Zhang Xutuo for nearly two years, no longer simply considered how to defeat the enemy.
What he thought more about was how to minimize the sacrifice of his own family while defeating the enemy. As Li Shimin and the warrior Xun discovered, he was no longer the brave general who only knew how to fight for his life, but in actual combat,
Slowly mastered all the skills of being a commander of an army
These were all things that Master Yang had never recorded in his notebook. Unknowingly, Xu Zi had broken away from that notebook and entered a completely new realm. Counting this, he had studied under Master Yang, Sun Jiu, and
Coppersmith Master, Qian Shixiong, Liu Hongji and Zhang Xutuo, but now the things taught by these people have slowly been integrated, disappeared, and finally belong to him.
Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin advanced very quickly. With their skillful cooperation and strict formation, they trampled all the large camps into dust. No one could withstand the parallel impact of these two iron triangles. The tribal warriors who hurriedly jumped on their horses
Almost before they had time to discern the direction, the saddles were cut off by the horizontal sword. More tribal warriors did not even have a chance to mount their horses. They were naked, carrying scimitars, and saw two huge triangles heading towards their heads.
Pressing down, I saw groups of companions being chopped into pieces by the Iron Triangle, and then trampled into pulp by the cavalry that rushed up.
"Mom!" The timid ones cried in the crowd, not caring about wearing boots and clothes, or the looted property. Amid the howling ghosts and howling ghosts running around, the brave ones also lined up with weak legs.
The Great Sui cavalry were like a pack of furious wild wolves, with blood dripping from their teeth, launching fatal attacks on any living creature that dared to stand in front of them. They didn't know how to pause, and they didn't care about being injured. As long as their bodies didn't fall, they wouldn't close tight.
The fortresses of the tribal alliance were roared and torn apart by them, biting into pieces, and turned into a pile of fire and corpses.
In the past, Luo Shixin was always discouraged by Zhang Xutuo and Qin Shubao from killing and surrendering soldiers on the grounds of "harming Tianhe" or "the general must have compassion". But tonight, Qin Shubao not only did not say a word,
And he also went on a killing spree. Luo Shixin personally saw in a quick glance that the second brother Qin, who had always been kind-hearted, used all his weapons to knock down several tribal warriors who had abandoned their weapons. The newly recruited border guide next to him was very powerful.
He screamed and pounced on him, one knife after another, until the fallen man could no longer move, and then he ran towards the next opponent with the broken horizontal knife.
"His grandma is more ruthless than me!" Luo Shixin was shocked by several recruits in the team who killed the escapees, and murmured.
"Revenge!" The recruit who was killing the enemy seemed to hear his words, turned back suddenly, and widened his blood-red eyes.
They were originally a group of honest border residents, and their highest goal in life was to live peacefully. They had lived at the foot of the Great Wall for generations. After hundreds of years of intermarriage, it was difficult to tell whether they were Han Chinese with their family trees.
Or the blood of barbarians?
They had no good impression of the imperial court, and often ignored the grain and taxes assigned by the government. During the Sui Dynasty, they even fled outside the Great Wall to avoid military service. But today, they had to take up the sword.
Because the invaders did not care whether they were Hu people or Han people, whether they were loyal to the court or idle clouds and wild cranes, they robbed all their property, killed their wives and children, and burned down their houses without distinction.
Therefore, they have to defend their right to survive. It is not because they are violent, but because the invaders force them to face up to the differences between each other and face up to the bloodline and ethnic affiliation that they usually ignore.
"Keep the formation!" Luo Shixin emphasized loudly, "The only way to kill more is to keep the formation!" He waved his long spear that had been moistened with blood, and stabbed it into the heart of the defeated soldier in front of the horse.
The two groups of cavalry always maintained a complete formation. Anyone caught in the middle of the iron triangle, whether human or animal, had no chance of survival. The terrified tribal warriors who were killed tried their best to flee to both sides to avoid the oncoming attacks.
In order not to become the next prey, they did not hesitate to use scimitars to cut a bloody path between their companions. Some people simply rode their horses over the heads of their companions and escaped into the darkness by stepping on the body of Pao Ze.
The wilderness in the dark is the safest. Although the behavior of escaping from battle will be ridiculed by the tribe for life, they dare not look back and listen to the screams of the robes. The attacks of the Central Plains people are too sharp. Standing in front of them is tantamount to committing suicide.
Several white feathers suddenly flew from the darkness, shooting the fleeing war horses and the riders on their backs to the ground. "Woo-woo-woo-woo!" The shrill horn sound tore through the darkness, followed closely.
, tens of thousands of war horses rushed out of the night and ran across the chaotic battlefield.
In an instant, both the enemy and ourselves were stunned for a few breaths. The tribal warriors who had been killed were frightened as if they had seen an adult's child, crying and running towards the galloping horses. It was their reinforcements, the one closest to Guo County.
The support army has arrived. The flag with the wolf's head is too friendly. As long as you escape under the flag, it means eternal safety.
"Change the formation, close the forwards, unfold the rear troops, head north, sharp edge!" Qin Shubao also noticed the changes on the battlefield immediately, shouting loudly and sounding the trumpet like a tiger roaring and a dragon roaring. Hearing his own military order, he was in the enemy camp.
The two thousand county soldiers who were rampaging suddenly turned in a beautiful arc. The triangular formation converged into a square formation. Then the center of the square formation quickly bulged, and the two wings sloped back. A brand-new blade formation was quickly completed in the running and fighting.
This is an emergency plan that has been rehearsed hundreds of times by the county soldiers, and has been tested countless times in actual combat. The newly-killed Turkic troops were blocked by their own insurgents and could not immediately enter the battle. They had to watch the Sui army in action.
Less than 200 steps ahead of him, Ye Hu, who was adjusting his formation, looked at each other in shock. He couldn't believe that what he saw was really in their memory. There had never been any cavalry on the grassland that could suddenly change in battle.
Queue, let alone fighting like this, changing formations, and changing the direction of attack.
Before they could recover from the shock, the Sui army in front of them launched "Kill, let them taste our power!" Qin Shubao rode his horse, danced with his spear, and led his brothers to stab the most eye-catching wolf-headed banner.
