Chastity Layman

All the generals gathered under the banner of Sanchen.

"Since the thief wants to be a coward, then just shoot him."

Chengqian looked at it for a long time, and saw that the Tuyuhun people really didn't have the slightest attack, and they looked like they were sticking to the end, so he made a decision with a sneer.

"These thieves, abandoning their strengths and taking their weaknesses, want to play infantry with me? Hahaha, don't you know that I am the ancestor of infantry in the Central Plains. Let them see how infantry actually plays today."

Ten thousand Tangqi, the crown prince gave an order, and began to approach slowly.

The drummer beat the cowhide war drum vigorously, and the trumpeter blew the bullhorn.

The drums sounded like thunder, and the horns blared.

Facing the Tuyuhun army that was standing still, Chengqian felt that he had met the best opponent, how could he still fight like this?

"shoot!"

Tang Qi approached little by little, but the Tuyuhun remained motionless, just like a giant tortoise.

Tang Qi holds a horn bow and shoots arrows on his horse.

Since he refuses to ride and fight, then shooting is over.

The two sides began to shoot at each other across the shallow Huangshui River. In terms of shooting ability, the Tang Army undoubtedly surpassed the Tuyuhun people. It is an elite from the Longyou army.

They are all strong and brave Guanzhong men who have been strictly selected, have undergone strict training, and are equipped with an army of sophisticated weapons.

Their riding and shooting skills are only stronger than the Tuyuhun herdsmen as a whole, and their bows and crossbows are also better, and even the armor on their bodies is incomparable to Tuyuhun.

From training to equipment, from personnel to weapons, this group of herdsmen in Tuyuhun crushed all aspects. The Tuyuhun people at their peak dared not work so hard like the Central Plains.

But now Murong Cheng wants to play hard.

The Tuyuhun people did not move in formation, they were dead targets, Cheng Qian didn't need to use cavalry to attack their tortoise formation, it was unnecessary.

Just shoot from a distance.

Ever since, a very strange scene appeared on the battlefield.

The two sides were separated by a shallow frozen stream at the source of Huangshui, forming a line several miles wide, and you came and I shot non-stop.

Although the arrows were coming and going, the difference in strength between the two sides was quickly reflected. The Tuyuhun had more soldiers and horses, and was surrounded by mountains and valleys, but their defensive line was deeper vertically and horizontally. The number of soldiers and horses fighting with arrows is about the same.

The 10,000 cavalry of the Tang army basically shot their bows and arrows there, but the Tuyuhun army could only shoot from the front of the formation, and the rear could not reach the range of the battlefield.

Both sides come and go.

King Xuan wearing golden armor is not all a fool, but although he is the prime minister, he is also Murong Cheng's father-in-law, but Murong Cheng has already made a deployment decision before the start of the war, and he will fight a tough battle today, and he will never attack lightly. It is necessary to prevent being divided and killed by Tang Qi to lure the enemy.

The shadow of him being crushed by Tang Qi's surprise attack is still there. Tang Qi charged so fiercely that many Tuyuhun people dared not fight him head-on.

So it's best to fight against the enemy in formation, so as to ensure that the patched army of oneself will not collapse.

"King Xuan, our bows and crossbows are far inferior to the Tang people, and our armor is not as good as the Tang people. We are at a disadvantage when we shoot at each other like this. This battle is too dull. We have a numerical advantage, but we can't use it at all. We must send Cavalry attack!"

A Tuyuhun general advised King Xuan.

If you can't fight like this, wouldn't you become a living target? Anyone who knows a little bit about fighting can also see that Tuyuhun will suffer too much if the fight continues like this.

King Xuan stared at the battlefield. Not only did the Tang cavalry charge fiercely, but they were even better at archery. The main reason is that their bows and arrows are better, the bows can shoot farther, and the arrows are made of fine iron, and some heavy arrows can even easily break through their small number of iron armor.

On the contrary, their bows are not only not as good as the Tang people's range, but they are often not very lethal, and most of them are blocked by their shields or armor.

"We should send cavalry to outflank the two wings. Even if we can't cut Tang Qi, we still have to disturb them. We can't let them shoot arrows so easily."

"The Khan has a strict order in advance, we are not allowed to attack easily!"

King Xuan said with a straight face.

"But the battle is not fought like this, we are too aggrieved!"

After fighting for a long time, Tuyuhun's line was shot into a sieve, causing countless casualties. On the other hand, the Tang people relied on the advantage of shooting range and the protection advantages of armor and shields. The casualties were not large, especially most of them were only minor injuries.

Murong Wei had no choice but to rush to the rear to ask Murong Cheng to change his formation. After Murong Cheng hesitated for a long time, he reluctantly agreed to send out two-winged cavalry.

When Murong Wei rushed back to the front of the front army again, the Tuyuhun army lost thousands of lives and wounded.

The battle line was howling.

Murong Wei, who was allowed, waved his golden flag and commanded the cavalry on the two wings of Tuyuhun in an attempt to outflank the Tang cavalry from the two wings and cut the Tang army.

But against the slow counterattack of the Tuyuhun people, Xi Junmai and the others had already taken precautions.

As soon as the Tuyuhun cavalry was dispatched, two generals, Gao Kan and Gao Zhensheng, each led a battalion to intercept the counterattack.

Just as Murong Cheng was worried.

The cavalry dispatched by Tuyuhun was more than twice that of Tang's cavalry, but after losing most of the cover behind them, these cavalry were quickly retreated by Tang's cavalry on the Gobi Desert, and finally left thousands of corpses in vain , back in panic.

If Tuyuhun hadn't arranged many crossbowmen on the hillsides on the two wings, and there were spearmen with large shields in front, I'm afraid that these retreating Qing cavalry would roll back the bead curtain and bring the Tuyuhun army to collapse.

Tang Qi chased him to the front of the formation, then stopped, turned his horse's head, and walked away triumphantly.

The Qingqi on the two wings were defeated, and they shrank behind the spear array and did not dare to show their heads again, so Tang Qi could continue to attack the Tuyuhun position without restraint.

The more Tang Jun shot, the more energetic he became, but the Tuyuhun people couldn't calm down after being shot.

The corpses piled up in front of Tuyuhun's formation were almost becoming a mountain.

Murong Cheng on the mountain behind also saw all the battle situation before the battle, anxious in his heart, but he had no countermeasures. Previously, tens of thousands of light cavalry were sent to attack with two wings, but they were easily beaten back by four or five thousand cavalry.

Murong Cheng didn't have the slightest confidence if he gave it a go and the whole army attacked.

Murong Cheng's complexion was extremely bad, and he couldn't imagine how this battle ended like this.

For the first defeat, he insisted that it was caused by a surprise attack. The Tang prince did not talk about martial arts sneak attacks, and he misjudged the number of Tang troops at that time, which led to missing the good opportunity to turn defeat into victory.

This time he learned his lesson, who knew that with several times the strength of Tang cavalry, he still couldn't win before the Tang people had the opportunity to outflank or sneak attack from behind.

This is a really useless battle.

Thinking of the fact that his newly married wife is still in the hands of the Tang people, he probably already has green hair on his head, the more he thinks about it, the more angry he is, and he almost burst into tears.

Forcibly carrying the bow and arrow of the Tang people for a day.

After sunset, the Tang people finally retreated.

"It won't work like this."

King Xuan came to look for his son-in-law wearing the golden armor. Today, more than 3,000 people were killed in the front line, and even more were injured. Although 3,000 people died, it seems not many for their base camp with no less than 200,000 people.

But the problem is that there are only 10,000 Tang cavalry today, and tens of thousands of cavalry will beat you, and you will be killed by more than 3,000, and you will be killed countless times. However, it is estimated that the number of Tang cavalry that Tuyuhun shot may not be 300.

In such a battle, whoever fights will be aggrieved.

Anyway, the morale of the Tuyuhun tribes is now plummeting.

"What is the prime minister's countermeasure?"

Murong Cheng regretted it very much. If he had known this, he might as well have smeared the soles of his feet yesterday and got away with it. Why did he stay here?

I thought I could get rid of the humiliation here, and even capture that arrogant Tang prince alive, but now he was pushed to the ground and beaten again.

The shit is about to come out.

"How about we sneak attack him at night tonight? Although the Tang people are elite and fierce, they have few soldiers! Even if the sneak attack fails, we must disturb them and prevent them from resting." King Xuan suggested a solution.

Murong Cheng felt that the Tang people might not give them a chance, but he had no other choice, so he nodded and tried.

So King Xuan went to recruit warriors and offered a lot of rewards. Finally, he picked out many warriors and divided them into several small groups of light cavalry to attack Tangying.

Overnight, the killing sound shook the sky, and the flames soared into the sky.

But after fighting all night, not only did they fail to enter the Tang camp, even the Qingqi sent out were almost damaged.

And when it was almost dawn, the Tuyuhun people watched from the mountain here, and from behind the Tang people, many torches appeared, like fire dragons gathering.

Tang Jun reinforcements arrived.

Sure enough, at dawn, it was found that the flags of the Tang camp had increased a lot, and the number of tents had also increased a lot.

This news made Murong Cheng's face extremely pale.

Seeing that he wanted to kill Prince Tang here, but now he would be a victim of the urn, Murong Cheng wanted to run away.

"We can't sit here and wait for death, we have to break through!"

Murong Cheng held his father-in-law's hand and was about to cry.

Xuan Wang Murong Wei gritted his teeth, "Chenxi is still in the hands of the Tang people. If we don't defeat the Tang people, how will we take back Chenxi?"

"I don't care about these now. If we continue to confront each other like this, neither of us will escape. The current situation reminds me of the scene when Qin Lang trapped them in the Mustang Terrace a few years ago. At the beginning, we thought they were trapped." We defeated the Tang army, but in the end we were dragged back by the Tang people, and they led an army to annihilate us. We can’t repeat the same mistakes, we must break through, otherwise, no one will escape!”

"Khan, it's too early to say defeat, we still have strength!"

But Murong Cheng couldn't listen to it anymore. His strength is nothing. He lost two battles. The first time he was attacked by surprise and he was unprepared.

The opposite side only had 10,000 horses yesterday, so they couldn't beat them, and today they came to reinforce the army, how can they still fight, and if it continues, do we have to wait for all the 100,000 Tang troops to arrive and completely surround and annihilate them?

Murong Cheng didn't want to die, let alone be a prisoner.

"Don't say any more, I'm determined to divide the soldiers and horses into three parts later, one part pretends to attack and lures Tang Qi to make way for us, one part covers my Khan Banner to break through the siege, and the other part is in charge of the rear to stop Tang Qi Chase."

Murong Wei frowned.

"If we retreat like this, what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of women, children, old and weak, and countless livestock, cattle and sheep in our valley?"

"Everyone has their destiny, scattered to break through, whether they can break out, it all depends on luck."

Murong Wei didn't know how to answer. Originally, he mobilized all the tribes to send troops, and even brought the old and weak women and children with him. He dragged his family and drove the cattle, sheep, horses and camels. During the winter in the city, there will be countless gold and silver goods, countless food and cloth for everyone to use, and even countless Han slaves. After the spring, they will bring these countless goods and slaves back to the grassland tribes. .

Everyone believed it, and they really came here with the cattle and sheep, and now it was snowing, but Murong Cheng wanted to escape alone, and let other soldiers lure the enemy away and cover the rear for him, and he also ignored the women and children of the various ministries. The old man, regardless of everyone's tents, cattle, sheep and livestock, has to run away by himself.

What a ruthless person can say such a thing!

"Khan, let's gather all the horses, the old and the weak, women and children, and fight out together. As long as we work hard, the Tang people don't have many soldiers and horses now, and the reinforcements that came last night will not exceed 10,000 people. Qi, let's fight to the death, they can't stop us." Murong Xuan begged.

Now that he ran away like this, even if Murong Xuan ran away, what about everyone?

Most of the tribe's population of Tuyuhun is here, if they are not needed, then even if Murong Cheng escapes back, what kind of sweat is it? Whose sweat is it?

"Don't say any more, keep the green hills, don't worry about running out of firewood, the prime minister will follow me in a while!"