Chapter 6: Holding a Sword (nine times) After the death of Little Burke Usumi, the Turkic warriors involved in the formation became more and more confused. Some abandoned their companions and rushed out of the formation desperately, while others waved their scimitars in despair and stayed in place.
Circling back and forth, there was also a small group of young warriors who were entering the battlefield for the first time. They cried and jumped off their horses, raising their scimitars above their heads with both hands. They were all ordinary people who had no ability or qualification to fight against the people chosen by Changshengtian. If Changshengtian wanted to
Let them become slaves attached to the Lord, and they will have to accept their fate
Liu Jizhen led the horse thieves to approach Li Xu. Along the way, he saw the Turks kneeling to pray for surrender, so he chopped them down without mercy. "Men who grew up eating wolf milk are not as cowardly as you!" While slaughtering, he
He was still looking for excuses for his behavior, as if the other party's image had disgraced all the grassland peoples.
"Master Liu, please don't be reluctant to fight. Hurry up and organize your brothers to rush through the middle of the military formation!" A Boling Army junior colonel couldn't see it and ran forward to say hello loudly.
"Call me Great Khan! I am the real Great Khan of Tuli!" Liu Jizhen glared at the Boling Army Major who blocked him and ordered angrily.
"Liu Dahan, Lord Liu, hurry up and move towards the Great Wall. The enemy troops are coming from the valley entrance!" The small school commander had no choice but no time to reason with this rough guy, so he couldn't wait to greet him.
"Come on, kill him!" Liu Jizhen shook his head with three pigtails and responded carelessly. He followed the direction of the small school's blade and saw countless battle flags pouring towards the valley, "Grandma
Oh, why are there so many people!" Liu Jizhen rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, stretched his neck and looked carefully this time. He finally saw clearly that countless Turks who had been angered by the bloody battle in the valley were rushing into the valley desperately to meet them.
It was difficult for the war horses to charge up the steep slope, so they abandoned their horses and walked forward on foot. In a moment, the black battle flags had occupied less than half of the valley.
"Grandma, I killed the two wolf cubs and brought out the alpha wolf," Liu Jizhen yelled, "Grandma's Bone Tolu, hundreds of thousands of people can beat me to thousands, and I don't feel embarrassed. Brothers, hurry into the city, enter the city, and destroy this place."
Leave it to General Li. He is the nemesis of the Turkic Wolf Cavalry. I think back then, one person could defeat five hundred!"
After that, regardless of whether others responded or not, he took his cronies and headed directly towards the Boling Army's formation. Li Xu saw it from a distance, so he had to wave the command flag and order the brothers to clear a passage and let the horse thieves pass at full speed.
Adhering to the principle that a good man never suffers immediate losses, other horse thieves who were entangled with the enemy also gave up their opponents and followed the brigade to retreat towards the Great Wall. The Turkic warriors who were thrown away had not recovered from the bloody battle just now and watched helplessly.
The horse thief broke away from himself and merged into the Boling Army formation
"Tie up the magpie's tail formation, shrink the two wings, and the archers in the center hold down the formation!" Seeing that the horse thieves had almost retreated, Li Xu issued a new order accompanied by the sound of horns. Boling's soldiers quickly retreated and marched, and the soldiers on both wings were advancing.
The levels were divided, and those holding shields and swords stood at the end, followed by Mo Dao, and Chang Shan again. The entire military formation slowly merged along the valley bottom into a magpie-tail shape with a wide front and narrow back. On both sides, the archers
They rearranged themselves into three horizontal lines, bent their bows and fired outwards, shooting down all the Turkic warriors who had not had time to run far, as well as those who were unwilling to pursue them.
"Woo---Woo--Woo!" The Chinese army blew the horn and ordered the entire army to retreat slowly. The soldiers could not see the road behind them clearly, but relied on the guidance of their companions behind them to avoid obstacles under their feet.
Dozens of wolf riders who retreated and entered the valley again were still unconvinced. They rushed up the hillside diagonally, then turned back down in an attempt to use the mountain to speed up the horses, and then broke into the Boling army formation. The archers fired arrows at their heads.
The rain sent them all back to the depths of the grassland
Seeing that the infantry had retreated into the protection range of the archers, Li Jiancheng suddenly waved his command flag. His confidant Lei Yongji immediately leaned out half of his body from behind the battlements and fired a hammer with pure white tail feathers.
"Squeak" toward the city. The feathered arrow drew a white line in mid-air, and shot straight to twenty steps in front of the Boling Army's formation. The white goose feathers trembled back and forth behind the arrow shaft.
"Squeak————" More than a hundred Ming Dy carefully crafted by craftsmen during the heyday of the Sui Dynasty were shot down at the same time, drawing a zigzag white line in front of the Boling army formation. "Those who cross the white line will stand immediately."
Kill!" Li Jiancheng pointed to the city and shouted loudly, "Anyone who crosses the white line, kill immediately!" Thousands of archers from Hedong, holding long bows, shouted fiercely at the Turkic wolf cavalry under the Great Wall.
Even if they did not understand the Central Plains dialect, the Wolf Riders knew that Li Jiancheng was shouting a warning to them. The defenders on top of the city were all armed with rifles and bows, and their position was condescending. If the brothers stepped forward rashly, they would definitely not get any good results.
Seeing the fat sheep they had obtained being snatched away, the Wolf Riders were extremely unwilling. The sudden appearance of the horse thieves not only burned a large amount of their food and grass, but also discovered all the soldiers and horses hidden near Huanghuahuozi.
If these people are allowed to enter the fortress safely after they come out, it will be hard to swallow.
Under the angry eyes of the Turkic warriors, Li Xu began to slowly gather his troops. With the protection from the city head, the archers he led could withdraw into the Great Wall first. After the archers withdrew, the long archers also began to retreat.
, followed by Mo Daoshou and Pu Daoshou. Before the Wolf Cavalry finds a suitable countermeasure, everyone is completely confident that they can safely enter the fortress.
How could the Turks, who had strong soldiers and horses, suffer such a big loss? Seeing that most of the horse thieves and the opponent's archers had already entered the city, several leading Burkes waved their scimitars at the same time, urging their soldiers to start a new round of charge. More than 300 cavalry were walking along
Four rows were lined up on the slopes on both sides of the valley, and they suddenly slapped the horses' butts with the back of their swords. This time, they had an acceleration distance of nearly fifty steps. The pained horses spread their hooves and rushed towards Li Xu desperately.
As soon as the first row of horses approached the white line, Li Jiancheng launched a counterattack and said, "Let go!" He drew his bow in person and shot an armor-piercing cone at the enemy's more than a thousand archers. At the same time, he leaned out from behind the crenel and lifted his hand from the bowstring.
Boom, boom, boom." With a crisp sound like exploding beans, more than fifty war horses fell to the ground.
The second row of wolf cavalry, regardless of life and death, braved the oncoming arrows, stepped over the corpses of their companions, and continued to charge forward. They only charged three or four steps more than the first row of cavalry. Then, the second wave of arrows followed.
The rain will fall, and anyone who crosses the white line will be shot.
In the third and fourth waves, after costing the lives of more than a hundred warriors, wolf cavalry finally approached within twenty steps of the retreating infantry formation. In order to prevent accidental injury to their own people, the archers did not dare to be casual anymore.
The few surviving wolf riders shouted loudly and raised their sabers at the nearby infantry.
"Pu Daoshou, squat down with long hands, stop, stand up!" As the corner flag was waved, the orderly shouted the commander's order loudly. The retreating Boling Army suddenly stopped moving. Pu Daoshou squatted on the spot.
The body, Changshou and Modaoshou immediately stretched the weapons in their palms forward diagonally, the front edge pointed at the wolf rider, and the rear end was firmly inserted into the mud.
A steel jungle was born out of thin air. The galloping wolf rider had no time to change his tactics and ran directly into the steel jungle, leaving holes all over his body. "Ah——" The warriors struggled on the front, wailing "唆————"
The war horse whined in pain as it was pierced by both swords and swords at the same time.
The force of the impact was shared by several long spears at the same time. The force borne by each Boling soldier holding the spear was not too great. Except for a few very unlucky ones who were crushed by dying horses or warrior corpses, most of the brothers were almost unscathed.
Under the command of the commander, they silently shook off the corpses from their weapons, helped up the injured Pao Ze, arranged their formation, and continued to retreat slowly.
Three hundred Wolf Riders didn't even pop out a bubble when they hit the opponent's formation! Inside and outside the Great Wall, onlookers were all moved. Li Jiancheng asked himself whether his soldiers could not stand still in front of the horses coming back at high speed. The brothers of Dou Jiajun were even more surprised.
Understand, let alone maintaining the formation, they can't even do the posture of standing diagonally or squatting on the spot.
What was most shocked was that for a long time, the Turkic leaders, the Burkes, could not even muster the courage to organize the next wave of attacks. The valley was narrow and could only accommodate a few hundred war horses at a time to charge forward.
Against the steel jungle of the Boling Army, a mere few hundred people would be seeking death. If horseback shooting tactics were adopted, the range of the cavalry bow was far inferior to that of the infantry bow. Moreover, the archers of the defenders were still in a condescending position.
To kill or injure a Han Chinese, the archer on horseback would probably have to take at least three arrows.
There is no way to continue fighting like this! Several young Burkes looked at each other, and they all saw fear in each other's eyes. But the legendary possessor was right in front of them, and he was a prey worth several cities and tens of thousands of slaves! If he watched helplessly
Let him go, and it will be difficult for Gutuolu Khan to explain.
In desperation, several young Burkes came up with a compromise strategy that would not offend Ashina Gutoru. They blew their horns, ordered the wolves around them to dismount, and approached the Boling Army's main formation with their shields, but walked away.
When they were ten steps away from the fold line drawn by Bai Yu, they stopped moving forward and formed a huge square formation that could block the valley.
The few Burkes leading the army could not muster the courage to confront the Central Plains soldiers who were armed to the teeth, nor could they bear the cost of doing so. The Turkic wolf cavalry was famous for its skill on horseback, attacking others with its own shortcomings.
Even if the Central Plains soldiers who retreated to the Great Wall were not completely wiped out in the future, the Turks would still have to pay five times or even more.
They had a better way to keep Li Xu. When the army formation was established, a burly man with a bare head immediately rushed out from behind the wolf cavalry who was fighting at his feet, and ran a few meters along the perimeter of the line of death.
step, and then started shouting loudly
"Uaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh as
-----" The strong man yelled and slapped his chest, then picked it up with his thumb and turned it down.
"Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas outs---" Thousands of Turkic people shouted in unison in a language that the other party did not understand, as if the louder the shouting, the more they could demonstrate their abilities.
Li Xu was the only one in Boling's army who could understand Turkic language. Seeing the enemy's arrogance, he frowned and coldly ordered: "Daniu, go and bring his head to me!"
"Here!" Zhou Daniu, who had long been displeased with the other party, heard this and immediately rushed forward with his Mo Dao.
Only then did everyone understand that the Turks were going to fight one on one, and couldn't help laughing loudly. The two armies were fighting each other. No one's generals were more strategic, and whose soldiers were braver, but they were using different weapons to attack each other. This was simply making everyone in the Central Plains stupid.
None of the princes will use this tactic. What can you do if you don't use your generals? Ten of my soldiers will form a group and fight, and I will still beat you to the ground! Only the savage tribes close to Baiyue will use the one-on-one method.
to resolve disputes over water sources or farmland allocations
Amidst the laughter, Zhou Daniu had already walked close to the white line and nodded slightly to the other party. The Turkic warrior also stopped making noise, galvanized his horse and walked twenty steps away, turning around at a relatively high position.
"Shameless, shameless!" curses rang out from up and down the Great Wall. The Turkic warriors had already taken a huge advantage by facing each other on horseback, and they were charging through the hillside. They were treating the warriors as idiots and silently watching the battle.
He probably also felt that his behavior was not honorable enough, so the shouting gradually weakened, and was finally completely suppressed by the shouts and curses of the soldiers from the Central Plains.
Facing the enemy general, Zhou Daniu stretched out his ten-foot-long Mo Dao with one arm, exposing his empty chest. The Turkic warriors opposite him saw the advantage, and immediately knocked on their stirrups. The war horses, whose blood was boiling with the shouts of killing, let out a long neigh.
With four hooves spread out, he rushed toward the bull like the wind. The distance between the enemy and us was instantly closed. The Turkic warrior on horseback swung one arm diagonally and struck a bolt of lightning in the air. "Ah!" he shouted, sheathed the knife, and ran away with a grin.
With one sweep of the knife, there was no one left alive. With many years of experience, the Turkic warrior was sure that he had killed the enemy. As he ran, he raised his ears and listened, preparing for the landslide and tsunami-like shouts of the robes, but the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
You can even hear the mountain wind blowing through the treetops
What's going on? The Turkic warrior suddenly turned around and saw Zhou Daniu still standing there, with the sword in his hand motionless, and his body standing upright like a mountain, as if the fight just now had never happened.
"Ah!" The Turkic warrior was furious, roaring and charging towards the enemy again. This time, he stared at the opponent with his eyes fixed on him, no longer allowing for any omissions. He saw that before the light of his sword passed by, the enemy suddenly lifted the hilt of Mo's sword.
He stood upright on the ground, then bent his knees and leaned back. His whole body fell down along the sword shaft, just in front of the sharply slashing saber. Then he straightened his body steadily and stretched out the sword in his hand again.
Knife in the air
"Blast the drum!" Li Jiancheng, who was watching the battle on the top of the city, was so excited that he couldn't help but order loudly. At this time, he also understood that if Li Xu refused to accept the duel, the Turks would rather pay several times the loss.
After Li Xu accepted the duel to cause a certain amount of damage to the Boling army, the Boling infantry could calmly retreat into the Great Wall during the entire battle. Even if the Turks were unwilling, they would not be shameless to pursue them.
Therefore, Zhou Daniu twice avoided the enemy's sword but was too lazy to fight back. He needed to risk his life to buy time for his brothers. But why did the Turks propose a duel? Is it just to improve morale? Li Jiancheng
Can't believe my guess
In the valley under the Great Wall, sweat was already visible on the forehead of the Turkic warrior. Two attacks failed to hit the target, which made him unable to raise his head in front of his tribe. For the third time, he decided to fight Zhou Daniu desperately and not miss the opponent again.
He and his horse rammed directly into the opponent.
"Yes, yes, yes" the sound of horse hoofbeats was like thunder, beating on the chest of every spectator. Li Jiancheng held his breath and watched the distance between the barbaric Turks and Zhou Daniu getting closer and closer. "Be careful!" Brothers on the Great Wall
They couldn't help shouting in unison, reminding Zhou Daniu not to confront the enemy head-on. The Turkic warriors weighed hundreds of kilograms, including men and horses. If the two sides collided, the one who stood still would definitely suffer.
In the midst of this flash of lightning, Zhou Daniu, who had been standing still, moved the Mo Dao in his hand and suddenly dropped it. With a little force on the tip of the knife, he flew into the air like a kite with the support of the knife pole. The Turkic warriors and warriors were rushing towards him.
His horses lost their target and were at a loss. Before the Turkic warrior could turn the horse's head, Zhou Daniu, who was hovering on the sword pole, suddenly stretched out his legs, and kicked the Turkic warrior's shoulders heavily with two huge cowhide boots.
"Ah——!" The Turkic warrior who was looking for the enemy exclaimed and rolled down from his horse. Zhou Daniu retracted his legs, landed on the ground, and took advantage of the situation to pull out the Mo Dao. The blade was cleanly stuck on the warrior's neck.
"Kill him, kill him!" the soldiers of the Boling Army shouted loudly. The Turks on the other side of the white fold line closed their eyes at the same time, helplessly accepting the fate of their companions.
"If I don't kill you, you are no match for me. Go back home!" Zhou Daniu, who had always been decisive in killing, suddenly changed his temper, put away his sword, and said softly to the Turkic warrior who was waiting for death with his eyes closed.
"What are you going to do?" The Turkic warrior asked in surprise as he could not understand the Central Plains dialect. According to the rules of the grassland, Zhou Daniu should cut off his head and smear it with his blood in the next step.
