"Actually, Brother Liu and the others are quite nice people. They are not bad people. The real bad people are the guys who force them to become horse thieves!" Li Xu looked around and replied in a low voice.
"There is no distinction between good and evil among successful kings and defeated bandits. But they are not the masters of great things. Brother, you are so capable, why don't you get some fame immediately? Being reduced to a reckless life may not be a long-term solution!" Zhang Liang shook his head and whispered.
He said. Li Xu's lukewarm performance made him slightly disappointed, but his years of wandering in life have made him indifferent to emotions and anger.
"Brother Zhang, please let me think again!" Li Xu put down a tied straw man and grabbed another handful of grass. If Liu Hongji hadn't invited him first, he might have really agreed to Zhang Liang. But
Now that two people were showing their solicitation intentions at the same time, he didn't know how to deal with it.
"Don't worry, we'll wait until we enter the Great Wall!" Zhang Liang hunched over and slowly moved forward. The Turkic wolf riders on the other side of the river had already begun to put sheepskin rafts into the water. The battle was imminent, and he couldn't spend too much attention on Li Xu.
"Let's talk after we enter the Great Wall!" Li Xu responded in a low voice. His body began to tighten again, his nostrils opened and closed, and his breath was filled with the smell of blood. He knew that the Turks were coming again, but this time, he
I don't want to be scared out of my mind again. Either I die or they die. In this case, there is only one choice.
There were more than 300 Turkic wolf riders crossing the river, and they seemed to be from the same tribe. The tribal leader was so angry that before most of the people could blow up the sheepskin rafts, he ordered people to drive the horses into the water first. Horses are born to swim.
The animals were just timid and refused to swim across the river without anyone pulling them. Several Turks wearing black leather armor whipped them hard with whips, and the war horses were forced down the river one after another.
"There is no conscience. People who treat animals badly will also be treated badly by animals!" Niu Jinda muttered in front of Li Xu, holding a horned bow. As a veterinarian, he has a deep affection for horses, and he hates others mistreating animals.
"The more horses they drive across the river, the more profit we will make!" Liu Jizhen sneered and shook his head. From the color of his opponents' clothes, he could see that these were the same cavalry that intercepted him in the morning. They were more than 20 brothers.
He had to avenge himself, and he was very confident in the serial plan proposed by Li Xu.
Li Xu put down the straw man and picked up his bow and arrow from his side. Whether he could stun the enemy or not depended on the first three rounds of volleys. All horse thieves, whether they were responsible for attacking or those responsible for confusing the enemy, were required to participate in the first three rounds.
Round shooting.
War horses climbed up the bank one after another, and walked in groups here and there to graze close to the river beach. Some animals blocked the view of the horse thieves, but everyone could not drive them away. The purpose of this battle was to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible.
, no one can take any action without Liu Jizhen’s order.
More and more Turkic soldiers walked onto the river beach, swearing and taking off their wet clothes. The river water was already very cold in autumn, and the leather coats soaked by the water felt cold and hard against their bodies. There was no need for everyone to suffer this.
It’s all the fault of a bunch of damn Han people. They actually dared to work together inside and outside to steal horses from Mr. Queyu’s new camp, and finally set fire to Mr. Queyu’s camp. This is an insult to all Turkic people. How can we tolerate it? Especially after learning that they
With less than a hundred people, the Wolf Riders had to defend Lord Queyu's dignity.
Li Xu gently put the feather arrow on the bow string and slowly opened the bow arm. He was still a little nervous, but tried his best to adjust his breathing. The tribal leader and the general of the Turkic Wolf Cavalry, under the guidance of the minions,
With help, he had stepped onto the river bank and hid at the end of the crowd, about 150 steps away from him, which was a bit far. However, if he was shot and killed, the losses to his companions in the subsequent battle would be much smaller.
The careless Turks began to trim their clothes and armor, and they divided into several groups in a noisy manner. Some people walked down the river beach to lead their horses, and some people's figures were already less than 60 steps away from the hiding place of the horse thieves. Li Xu heard his heart beating wildly, and his nostrils
The air he exhaled was uncomfortably hot. Almost his whole body was trembling, but the hand holding the bow was as steady as a mountain.
"Shoot!" Liu Jizhen suddenly jumped up, raised his hand and released a loud arrow.
The feather arrow let out a long and shrill cry, drew an arc, and smashed directly into the outermost wolf riders. The wolf riders who were taking off their clothes were stunned, holding up their pants and making a mess.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." More than sixty feather arrows flew into the crowd at the same time, and more than twenty wolf riders were immediately knocked down on the river beach. Before the other party could react, the horse thieves released another shot.
Two waves of feather arrows and sharp triangular pyramids pierced the breastplate, taking away more lives.
"Don't panic, line up--" the Turkic general waved his sword and shouted at the innermost layer of the team. There wouldn't be many people on the other side. As long as everyone lined up and raised their shields, they could completely rush through this distance.
His order was always held in his throat, and an arrow flew from a distance beyond the normal range and shot directly into his throat. The Turkic general struggled, twitched, his body went limp, and he fell on his back.
Go down.
Li Xu put down his bow and raised the first straw man next to him. The third row of arrows had been shot, and the wounded jumped up from their hiding places one by one, and arranged more straw men into a long queue. Some of them could not get up.
The Seriously Wounded, who was fighting with his companions, was lying on the ground, his arms waving the big flag made of clothes.
Further away, the horse thieves were driving more than twenty horses, each with a battle flag made of rags hanging from its body. Looking from the riverside, it seemed as if dozens of teams were rushing over for reinforcements.
The Turkic wolf cavalry were stunned. They never expected that the horse thieves had thousands of accomplices on the other side of the river. The cavalry who had not had time to get ashore quickly turned their sheepskin rafts and paddled towards the road with all their strength. The cavalry who had already come ashore tried their best to pick up as many people as they could.
The deflated sheepskin rafts jumped into the river in a swarm. Those whose sheepskin rafts had been deflated had no way to retreat, so they had no choice but to wave their scimitars in a panic, like a group of rams waiting to be slaughtered.
With short horns.
"Kill, leave no one alive!" Liu Jizhen shouted, grabbed the horn from the hands of the minions beside him, and started blowing "Woo-Woo-Woo". This battle was a bargain and he made a lot of money. He actually had a man on his side.
The unlucky Leng Touqing shot the opponent's general from such a long distance. How brave is the general's soldiers, how can a soldier without a general start a fart fight?
Liu Hongji and Wu Heita each led more than 20 horse thieves, one on the left and one on the right, and rushed onto the river beach. The two neat teams formed a wedge shape and pierced into the chaotic crowd, knocking over the Turkic warriors in front of them one by one. Those
The warriors who were not blocking the road were squeezed by the formation of the horse thieves and had to retreat into the river.
The water in the river turned red in an instant. The Turkic wolf riders who were used to wielding swords on horseback were not used to fighting on foot at all, let alone their legs were still wrapped in cold water and could not move forward. Often, they would be defeated by their opponents in one confrontation.
The next moment they were struck, their blood had melted into the red river water.
Both sides were suddenly attacked, and the panicked Turks had to move their troops closer to the center. And in the center, more weapons were forced over. A small attack square composed of more than thirty horse thieves advanced step by step, swords flashing
Like snow, anyone standing in the way will only die.
Zhang Liang and Niu Jinda brandished scimitars and rushed to the front of the frontal attack team. There was only one area that was most suitable for swimming, so they found their position very well. Under their leadership, the attacking phalanx smashed heavily into the
Among the wolf riders who lost their horses, the sounds of weapons clashing, blades rubbing against bones, screams, and gunshots suddenly became audible.
The war horses grazing on the river bank were stunned by the scene in front of them. Without anyone to look after them, they did not know how to escape or help their masters to defend themselves. They watched helplessly as their masters were chopped down by horse thieves who suddenly emerged from the ground.
, the body was washed down by the current and washed away without a trace.
"Anyone who can copy the guy, come to me!" Liu Jizhen dropped his horn and jumped out of the grass with a large horse that was as wide as a door panel. There was no need to pretend to be suspicious anymore, all the Turkic wolf cavalry had long been frightened.
They could not organize any effective resistance. Those who had climbed to the other side did not dare to look back and fled away on foot. Those who had no chance to jump into the river retreated to the middle of the river at all costs, forgetting that they could not swim.
The horse thieves didn't know what mercy was in their hearts. They waded in to catch up and knocked over the fleeing Turks one by one from behind. There were also clever horse thieves who picked up the riding bows dropped by the Turks from the ground and stood on the shore to shoot water.
Living targets inside. On the edge of the river, there were Turkic soldiers who couldn't swim and surrendered on their knees. Their weakness failed to earn any reward from their opponents...
The battlefield situation has turned into a one-sided massacre. There are clearly more wolf riders than horse thieves, but no one has the rationality to take a look at the "ambushes" in the grass and in the distance. Since the war began, the "ambushes" have not been seen at all.
They had not advanced even half a step. The Turks fought in groups of three and five, using the blood of themselves and their companions to delay the end of their lives. The horse thieves were very patient, spinning in circles, and their positions changed every time.
, all of which reduced the diameter of the circle by several feet...
Wu Heita and a few horse thieves forced more than 20 struggling Turkic soldiers into a blind corner. Behind them was the river. Hearing the screams of their companions in the river, the Turkic soldiers refused to retreat and fought back with gritted teeth.
return.
A small Turkic leader with thick bones howled and rushed out of the team and rushed towards Wu Heitai. He obviously found the wrong target to attack. Before the scimitar in his hand fell, Wu Heitai's boot had already kicked his lower abdomen. The leather armor suddenly
Slumping back inward, the little leader stumbled back more than a dozen steps, opened his mouth and spat out a pool of black blood, and then his body fell limply on the shallows.
Wu Heita didn't want to stop here. He twisted his body and the sword light swept into the abdomen of a wolf rider. Then, he struck directly with his left fist and hit the neck of another wolf rider.
"Click!" The sound of broken neck bones was horrifying. The two wolf riders fell down at the same time, leaving a three-foot gap around Wu Heita. The last complete queue of the Turks collapsed, and the horse thieves shouted angrily.
They squeezed in, scattered the wolf cavalry, and chopped them into pieces.
Wu Heitai found two other wolf riders. He waved his sword like the wind, never leaving the enemy's vital points. The Turkic wolf riders who had no way to escape let out desperate screams, supporting each other and struggling to the death.
A scimitar was knocked into the air by Wu Heita. He took a step forward and thrust the tip of the knife forward. The Turkic man with empty hands knew that he would die today, but he refused to run away. He yelled and pushed Wu with his body.
The scimitar in Heitao's hand. The blade pierced the armor, pierced the clothes, and pierced the wolf knight's chest. The wolf knight, who was on the verge of death, folded his arms and hugged Wu Heitao's body tightly.
"Ah--" Another wolf rider, with blood-red eyes, rushed behind Wu Heita. Several weapons hit his body, but he ignored them and howled, slashing with his scimitar.
"Cang" a huge black scimitar was placed across Wu Heitai's body, and the blow he was determined to win was blocked abruptly. The seriously injured Turkic Wolf Rider was stunned and fell straight down.
"Save it with your little brat!" Wu Heita got rid of the body and turned around to curse. Li Xu smiled at him, turned around and rushed into another wave of melee.
"If I hadn't lost the steel fork..." Wu Heita looked at the scimitar in his hand and said angrily. The scimitar was shorter than the steel fork. If the steel fork he had just held was a steel fork, the Turks would never have had a chance.
Hug yourself.
Raising his head, he saw that Li Xu had blocked someone else's knife and chopped down an exhausted Turkic soldier. Then, carrying the ridiculously long scimitar, the young man rushed towards the more densely populated area.
"Come back, you are going to die, who can I ask for any favors from you!" Wu Heitai cursed loudly and rushed towards Li Xu.
Note 1: The Tuohuchen River, the Laoha River, has basically stopped flowing.
Note 2: This is a Han ruler. The height from the hoof to the withers of a horse is called the body height, and the body length from the chest to the buttocks. The requirement for a war horse is that the shoulder height is greater than the body length. The average Mongolian horse's shoulder height is about 1.3 meters, and the Salu Zi in the Tang Dynasty
The height is about 1.70 meters today.
Note 3: Teller Piao, a thoroughbred Turkic breed in the Tang Dynasty, is said to be a sweat-blooded horse. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once got one, and he fought continuously for several days, and the horse was not tired. It later became one of the Six Horses of Zhaoling. Li Shimin commented on it: "
Respond to the plan and soar into the sky, inheriting the voice of half a man; destroying the enemy due to natural dangers, taking advantage of danger to help others!"
Note 4: Horse face, a bulge on the city wall in the Tang Dynasty, was used to offset defensive blind spots and form a flanking advantage for the siege.
Note 5: "Tongdian·Biography of Northern Turks": "The Khan is still the Shanyu in ancient times, and his wife is called Kehedun, which is also the Yan family in ancient times. His descendants call him Special Qin, and those who lead troops in other tribes call him Special Qin.
The senior officials of Zhe were Qu Lu, Abo, Zhilifa, Tutun, and Qijin. It is estimated that Zhi was equivalent to the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty. Usually it was held by special Qin. Tutun was equivalent to being in charge of a general.
The civil affairs officials of the county are similar to the prefects in the Central Plains. Burke is usually a noble or general. Mei Lu is the general manager.
Note 6: Liu Hongji, a native of Chiyang, Yongzhou. He used Yin to complement the Youxunshi of the Sui Dynasty. At the end of his great career, he conquered the Liao Dynasty and was exhausted. He traveled to Fenyin and spent the later period and was executed. Then he broke the law and ridiculed the officials. Years old
Yu, in order to atone, because he fled and stole horses to support himself. "Book of Tang" (to be continued)
