"General Lang, the chasing soldiers are near, and there are still twenty miles" "General Lang, the chasing soldiers are near, and there are still fifteen miles" "General Lang, the chasing soldiers are near, and there are still ten miles" "Stop the back formation and change the front formation, and wait for the battle" As soon as Tian Ainu gave the order, the Tang army that was marching in a hurry immediately stopped, and the entire army reversed its direction, and the rear formation changed to the front formation, and rested in place.
They had already sent cavalry back to Mingweishu to ask for reinforcements, but Mingweishu only had 2,500 cavalry, and they were still uncertain whether the defenders would dare to risk the possibility of being swallowed up by the other side with an extra force of fresh force, so that Mingweishu could further defend the danger of being emptied.
Whether reinforcements come or not, without reinforcements now, they will have to rely on themselves.
On the avenue, only those old and weak soldiers and the men who were originally only responsible for feeding the horses and cooking continued to march quickly in the direction of Mingweishu, and everyone else stopped, and the original rear formation was densely packed with archers and crossbowmen, followed by melee infantry such as jumping and strange soldiers.
The whole army is arranged in echelons, this is not out of the orders of Tian Ainu, but the Tang army's habitual formation to meet the enemy, each echelon of the Tang army is like a phalanx, but inside each phalanx, spearmen, sword and shield hands, etc., form a small wedge-shaped formation.
In fact, even though Xu Yisheng was hit by an arrow in the buttocks and didn't want his subordinates to see his embarrassment, it was a bit strange that he still refused to show up at this critical juncture, but now all the Tang troops were nervously looking into the distance, waiting for the Turkic soldiers who rushed over, and no one thought about this unreasonable place.
Tian Ainu tugged at the corner of the curtain and looked at the movement outside.
The reason why they retreated in a hurry was because they heard that the other side had an army of 100,000, which was far from being able to resist with his 5,000 soldiers and horses who had no danger to defend, and the soldiers already knew this, so before the Turkic soldiers arrived, they had already taken the lead, and the officers and men of the Tang army were a little worried.
Tian Ainu frowned when he looked at it, and said in his heart: "It is said in the war book that the two armies clash, the first thing is morale, how can this look resist the attack of the Turkic cavalry?"
She thought about it for a while, and said loudly: "Gu Zhou, Liang Si'er" At this time, Deputy General Xiao had already gone to the front to personally command, and the other Tang Army generals Tian Ainu really didn't know, but fortunately, Fang Cai still remembered the names of these two pro-soldiers, so he shouted at them.
These two people are Xu Yisheng's personal soldiers, and they are really standing nearby, as soon as they heard her shout, they immediately ran over, and Tian Ainu said: "The enemy is now, the brave live, the fearful die, I am afraid that what is the use of making the brothers stand up their chests, sing a song to listen, and strengthen our courage" "Whoa" Tian Ainu didn't know what songs they usually sang, but they knew that there must be military songs in the army, and sure enough, Gu Zhou and Liang Sichuan gave the order to go, and after a while, the mighty and majestic singing sounded through the snowfield: "The four seas are the emperor's wind, and the water is clear for thousands of years; Rong Yi is not even better, today I finished looking back at Qin Sai as low as a horse, and gradually saw the Yellow River flowing straight north.
Tianwei rolls up the jade door stopper, and the Hu people are full of Han songs The four seas are surrounded by the emperor's wind, and the water is clear for thousands of years; Rong Yi is not even more weary, today he has succeeded in the Lord Holy Kaichang calendar, and the ministers are loyal to Dayou; After you look at the Yange, it is the Taiping Autumn" Groups of warriors raised spears, war bows, and sabers, and even struck each other with swords and shields, beating the beat, and sang the mighty and majestic "Great Array Music" with their rough and heroic voices The singing rushed to the night with a heroic spirit, and the morale of the officers and men of the three armies was suddenly greatly boosted.
In the song, a black line appeared on the horizon of the distant snowfield, and in the song, the black line turned into a rolling torrent surging, in the song, the horse was like a dragon, the man was like a tiger, and the hoof was like a war drum In the song, the crossbowmen and archers shot out the arrows that had been stored in their hands for a long time, either flat or upward, and the arrows shot towards the Turkic army that pounced on them like a storm.
Dead bodies were everywhere, and the war horses that had lost their masters no longer rushed forward desperately, blocking the way for the rear knights to charge, making their momentum slow down slightly, Xiao Ningfeng had a hideous smile on the corner of his mouth, waved his hand down, and roared: "Shoot again" The banner rolled up, and the second rain of arrows shot out again.
The Turkic soldiers on the opposite side attacked a distance closer, and at the same time, a large number of Turkic soldiers were shot dead, and the corpses and ownerless war horses further frustrated their attack speed, their original attack speed was simply unstoppable, but at this time, it was no longer the kind of momentum that could make people have no courage to resist, and the original sharp attack formation also became scattered.
The Turkic cavalry roared loudly, and the Turkic cavalry, who were riding their horses forward, suddenly divided left and right, and rushed towards the vast snowy field.
Seeing this situation, Xiao Ningfeng couldn't help but show a smug smile in his eyes, he ordered loudly, with an order, the battle flag waved, and the Tang army on the left and right wings expanded forward, expanding into an arc, protecting the two wings of the army, stretching his bow and arrows, and waiting for the battle.
The two Turkic cavalry, like two sharp scimitars, stabbed diagonally away from the avenue and followed an arc towards the snowfield, and if their original foothold was the starting point, the end point of this arc was the middle and front section of the retreating Tang army.
It seems that they also know that the Tang army left in the back is the weakest in combat strength, and at the same time, cutting off a long dragon Tang army is equivalent to copying the back road of the Tang army.
The two Turkic soldiers who were diagonally copying towards the snow field were whipping like rain, desperately whipping the mount under the crotch, but found that no matter how they urged, the speed of the mount under the crotch was getting slower and slower, as if the horse's hooves were stuck in the mud, and they couldn't run forward.
The Turkic cavalry were a little startled, and their momentum suddenly slowed down, but this situation did not go away, and there were constantly collapsed holes on the snowfields on both sides, like the huge mouths of monsters, and suddenly swept into several men and horses.
It's so horrible that you don't know what you're up against, and you don't know when it's going to happen.
The Turkic cavalry, which frantically copied to the left and right, reined in their horses in panic, and looked at the flat snowfield in front of them in horror, the snow was endless as far as the eye could see, and the wind blew the snow as smooth as a mirror, and there was nothing abnormal on it, but who knew if it would be swallowed by the monsters underground as long as it stepped out.
The Turkic soldiers in front ushered in the third rain of arrows, and they used their lives to fight for further opportunities for their comrades behind, but the Turkic soldiers behind did not take advantage of this opportunity, they all reined in their horses, looked left and right in horror, and did not know what was happening.
On this snowy area, there are now two lakes of Baiting Sea and Xiutuze, but these two lakes were originally connected, at that time it was called Yuhaizi, and the whole lake was very huge and magnificent, but then the water source gradually dried up, and the land was exposed in the middle, and it was divided into two lakes.
The original large area of the lake has since become saline-alkali land, and the section of the road that Tang Jun is now walking on was originally flanked by embankments at the higher part of the lake, and the road surface in this place is the least solid, and there are many roads that look normal and flat, but in fact they are a layer of soil formed by the condensation of sand and salt soil over the years, and the bottom is empty.
And the hole below is not only one layer, it may be a honeycomb terrain formed by the superposition of many layers of hollows, the situation below is very complicated, you don't know how deep it is, so if someone falls, even if they don't die, there is no way to save them, they can only sit back and ignore them.
The garrison here and the people nearby knew the situation of these ghost domains, and they didn't dare to approach them at all, so Xiao Ningfeng showed a smug smile in his eyes as soon as he saw them rushing towards the Death Ghost Domain, sometimes a little shepherd boy driving a sheep in this kind of ghost place can disappear with a "bang", and it is strange that these Turkic soldiers gallop on fast horses without accidents.
The panicked Turkic soldiers tried to turn their horses back, but in some places they were fine when they came, and there were clear horseshoe prints on them.
This suddenly frightened the Turkic army like headless flies on the snowfield, and walked with fear where there were horseshoe prints, and even more fearful where there were no horseshoe prints, and they walked cautiously, for fear that they would trample a big hole in the ground as soon as they got up.
At this time, the soldiers on the left and right flanks began to shoot and hunt all the time, they did not hurry, they aimed at the target accurately and then shot an arrow, these border soldiers were good marksmanship, every time the arrow hit, the Turkic soldiers who did not flee and did not fight were shot off their horses.
Seeing this scene, the Turks on the front avenue also knew that there was something strange in the snowy fields on both sides, and did not dare to send soldiers into the field again, but mobilized archers with strong arms to shoot at the Tang army.
As soon as they opened their bows, the archers and crossbowmen of the Tang army immediately retreated, and the men holding the foot shields more than one person high rushed forward, erecting a large spear into a strong wall, and the crossbowmen of the Tang army hid behind and shot out from the gap, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
Tian Ainu sat in the car, listening to the battle report sent by Gu Zhou, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, she pretended to be vague just now, and had already asked Liang Si'er, knowing that such a dangerous saline-alkali ground was only two miles in radius, and the Turkic cavalry would have a headache to deal with whether they came around from a distance or repeated their old tricks on the way to continue to retreat.
The problem is that the Turks don't know how big such a collapse area is, and they don't dare to send troops and horses to try indiscriminately, so that there are two natural dangers on both sides to block the pursuing troops for her, and it will be much easier to do it with only one passage behind.
Tian Ainu immediately ordered: "Leave the rear team but the enemy, and the rest of the men and horses continue to retreat."
When Gu Zhou heard this, he said in surprise: "General Lang, don't we care about those brothers who stayed in the back?"
Tian Ainu was in a good mood at the moment, and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Stupid retreat calmly, don't panic, take a hundred steps back, line up to open a bow and crossbow to wait for the enemy, and then order the remaining men and horses to retreat to a hundred steps behind us and line up to wait for the enemy, the two teams cycle back and forth, slowly retreat and there is, and then order the post soldiers, and quickly go to Mingwei to move the rescuers."
To be continued: