In mid-August, the fall in the broken leaf area was high and dry. Even in the early morning, there was a lot of moisture missing from the air, which caused a layer of dry skin on the lips of the soldiers who stayed up late on duty. Li Siye rested his head on the quiver and opened his mouth leisurely.
With his eyes closed, what he saw was the deep blue sky.
He stood up, folded the quilt he was wearing into a backpack, hung it on the horse, then took off the knife and took off the cloth cover, and stood up with the knife, which attracted the side glances of the soldiers around him.
"Don't look at me! Look ahead. If I predict correctly, the enemy forces in Suiye City will break out of the city today."
The Tang army used the Crescent Moon Formation to face the city gate and actively retreated to the 500-step position. This was to take care of the range of the ballistae and ensure that during the 500-step charge from the moment the troops left the city to the time when they met the enemy, the Tang army could reach 300 steps.
Receive arrow strikes at 60 degrees without blind angle. Five hundred steps away is within the shooting range of the crossbow, 360 steps away use the Fuyuan crossbow, more than 120 steps away use the Zhang Zhang crossbow, etc.
Within a range of approximately sixty steps, the entire army can use longbows to kill the enemy. Even if the vanguard in the front blocks the enemy and forms a first-line formation, the soldiers in the rear who are not in contact with the enemy can still hide behind their comrades and continuously shoot arrows.
Everyone, whether infantry or cavalry, has a bow and a horned bow.
Everyone waited patiently under the sun. The city gate suddenly opened, and about a few hundred Tuqi Shi cavalry rushed out of the city gate, tentatively charging towards the Tang army's formation. But here, the formation was already ready, and the crossbow convoy commander immediately waved his flag and arrows.
After a round of volleys of fire, five or six horses were hit by long arrow shafts at the beginning, and both men and horses fell to the ground. The light cavalry rushing out from behind hurriedly turned their horses' heads, turned around and fled back to the city.
Hearing the noise coming from the distance, the Tangqi team came to report. It turned out that there were Tuqishi cavalry rushing out from all the city gates, and then quickly turning back. This was considered a small falsehood by Tuqi Shi.
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However, the shouts of killing in the east direction of the city did not stop. It became more and more violent. You could even faintly hear the scene of the weapons of both sides clashing. The sound of fighting was like waves crashing on the shore, and it did not stop for a long time.
Now it was certain that the fire-breathing Immortal Khan's breakthrough direction was He Mo's troops in the east of the city. Next, it was up to the Chinese army to give orders and quickly lead people there to block reinforcements.
Thousands of soldiers looked nervous, and the swords and guns in their hands were slowly tilting forward, ready to attack the enemy.
However, the order for reinforcements was not issued for a long time, and there was no movement in the south of the city where the Chinese army was located. Everyone stood on the ground and looked at each other. The officers of each branch of the army shouted on the spot: "No one is allowed to act rashly without a military order. Lao
Stay still!"
Not to mention the soldiers of the Tang Army, not even Li Siye, the regimental commander, the superintendent and the general Yuhou understood the intentions of their superiors.
Li Siye's eyes suddenly opened up, and he suddenly understood why Gai Jiayun had not given the order for so long. Judging from the experience of the eighth regiment under his command, Gai Zhongcheng was a shady man who could even trick his own people. He Moda could not be tricked.
It's really not his style.
It's just a very simple strategy to make the snipe and the clam fight and reap the profits. Gai Jiayun wants to deal with the sudden cavalry and the two surnames of black and yellow.
From a short-term perspective, the weakening of Tuqi Shi's troops will be beneficial to the four towns of Anxi. However, in the long run, the weakening of Tuqi Shi's troops will affect the strength of the entire Tang Dynasty camp in Central Asia and will be detrimental to curbing Dashi's power in Central Asia.
There is no benefit to expansion.
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Fire-breathing Immortal Khan personally led all the troops in the city to rush out and attack Hemo Dagan's military formation. The Tuqi Shi people were good at offensive formations, but the defensive formations struggled. The Dumo Chi cavalry launched two charges,
He almost broke up Hemodagan's formation.
Hemodagan really didn't expect that Dumozhi, a lunatic, would lead an army to break out from him, waving a straight knife in his hand and shouting: "Stabilize the formation, don't mess up, kill me! The other three gates are coming soon."
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But within the next hour, Gai Jiayun did not issue any rescue orders. It seemed that the fighting on the battlefield east of Suiye City had nothing to do with their Tang army.
Fumeng Lingcha, who was guarding the west side of the city, couldn't bear to wait. The fighting in the east of the city had already begun. How could he sit calmly? He explained to the generals on the left and right, and led his horse directly to the Chinese army outside the south city.
Go find Gai Jiayun.
Gai Jiayun sat firmly in his tent, holding the cup of tea in his hand and tasting it slowly, with a contented look on his face.
Fumeng Lingcha dismounted in front of the tent, entered the tent, bowed and crossed his hands: "Fumeng Lingcha has come to see Zhongcheng."
Gai Zhongcheng said slowly: "Lingcha, if you don't wait in line in the west of the city, what are you doing here without leaving the guard?"
Fumeng Lingzha pointed to the east of Suiye City and asked, "Has Zhong Cheng heard the sound of fighting coming from the east of the city?"
"Not only did I hear it, Tang cavalry came to investigate just now. The black fire-spitting fairy Khan has led his army to fight out from the east gate of Suiye City and started a desperate fight with the Hemo tribe."
Fumeng Lingcha crossed his hands and said: "Since the Fire-Tumbling Immortal Khan has left the city and Fumeng has come to receive the Zhongcheng Order, I am willing to lead the left and right Yuhou to help Hemo's tribe and destroy the Fire-Tumbling Immortal's army in the east of the city."
Gai Jiayun invited him to sit down and said confidently: "As a general, how can you be so impatient? There are more than 30,000 people in the Hemo tribe. How can they be defeated so easily by the fire-breathing Immortal Khan? You and I can't be so calm."
Wait patiently here, and when the fighting between the two sides reaches a stalemate, we only need to send three thousand cavalry to attack in a roundabout way, and we can determine the outcome in one fell swoop."
Fumeng Lingcha had no choice but to sit down patiently. Every other tea time, Tang cavalrymen came to report the battle situation. Gai Jiayun just nodded calmly and ordered them to go down to investigate again and report again.
Fumeng probably also guessed what his boss was thinking, which was to seriously injure the strength of both Black and Yellow, which would be beneficial and harmless to the four towns of Anxi.
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The Tang army here was as solid as a rock and did not move at all, but the stone king Hemodu Tutun who was guarding the north of Suiye City could not bear it anymore. He was not only a Tuqi Shiren, but also a staunch supporter of the Huang surname. Seeing that the Tang army refused
He would never give up his fellow sect without rushing for reinforcements. Du Tutun immediately led his troops to break away from the military formation and kill towards the east of the city.
Unfortunately, the Shi Kingdom's military strength was weak. There were only more than 4,000 troops brought this time, and there were only 3,000 light cavalry to fight. The remaining 1,000 were slave soldiers who were responsible for grazing cattle and providing food for the army.
On the battlefield in the east of the city, a total of 60,000 troops were invested by both sides. Du Tutun led his troops to surprise from the rear, which really caused Dumo's formation to be confused for a while. At this critical juncture, the Fire-Tumbling Immortal Khan led the troops from the rear to suppress the formation.
He went on the battlefield in person and quickly defeated Shi Guo's cavalry.
Du Tutun brought the remnant soldiers and the He Mo tribe together. The cavalry of both camps had been strangled into a group, and the infantry had also penetrated into each other, forming a criss-crossing situation. However, the tug-of-war was still clearly divided. But from the perspective of the overall battle situation, Huang surnamed He
Mobu is already at a disadvantage.
Hemoganda was still steady at the rear, but his face was extremely anxious. His army formations on the left and right sides of the big banner were still neat, but a hundred steps away it was already in chaos. The cavalry led by Du Mozhi occasionally fired arrows.
A few feet in front of him, the horse was so frightened that it backed away.
Du Tutun rode a war horse close to him and asked him with a sallow face: "Hemo Khan, there is still no movement from the Tang army's reinforcements! What are you going to do?"
He Moda waved his riding whip in the air and cursed: "Gai Jiayun, this despicable villain! He wants to make my Tuqi Shi tribe attack each other, so he can reap the benefits!"
Tututun asked loudly: "What should we do now, or else we will lead the army to retreat! Let the fire-spitting fairy run away! This Gai Zhongcheng will regret it!"
"No, the enemy and we are already in a stalemate. Once I signal my retreat, the entire army will be defeated!"
Hemo Dagan gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum to help the battle! Kill me! Du Mozhi and Fire Spitting Immortal can't hold on any longer!"
Unfortunately, the Fire Breathing Immortal thought so too. The two sides fought tooth and nail on the wasteland east of Suiye City. Except for the personal guard army where Da Zhu was still in a stable formation, the rest of the army had fallen into a melee.
A general led the supervising team to continuously provide assistance to weak areas in the rear. Dozens or hundreds of cavalry were temporarily formed in the rear to form a front-line arrow formation, forcing their way in from the fighting battlefield on both sides, trying to change the situation by charging and daring to death.
The situation may even lead to a direct attack on the opponent's banner, seizing the flag and killing the general to determine the outcome.
It's a pity that the troops rushing out like this are like weak arrows. They are unstoppable at first. The front troops use their spears to open up the passage, and the back troops use their blades and horn bows to kill the approaching enemies. Once they fall into the enemy's army, their speed gradually slows down.
, then someone was shot by random arrows and turned into a hedgehog and fell from his horse. As the formation became unstable, he was gradually swallowed up by the enemy's sea of people and disappeared on the way to the charge.