Chapter 18 The Sui-Hu War (Part 2)
A dark cloud swept from a distance, discoloring the world. The huge sound of horse hooves seemed to be muffled thunder mixed in the dark clouds. The earth was trembling, and the sound created by more than 100,000 Turkic cavalry was enough to destroy everything.
The war horse felt the fear of the war coming, and with a loud scream, his front hooves raised high, Yang Yuanqing also saw a black line about ten miles long in the distance appeared at the end of the grassland.
"Yuchi!"
Yang Yuanqing shouted, and Yuchi Wan hurriedly blew the eagle flute. The eagle flute made a sharp and harsh sound. The falcon roared with a crisp long sound, flapping its wings and hovering towards the south.
Everyone had no time to talk, so they turned their horses and ran westward with Yang Yuanqing. The few of them were as small as ants in the Turkic army of more than 100,000.
The eighteen Iron Guards in Yang Su also changed their color in horror, turned their horses to run westward, and quickly left the battlefield.
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At this time, Yang Su was already in the First Army. With his own feelings, the enemy was already not far away. He stared into the distance and felt a sharp murderous aura appear at the end of the grassland.
"Master, our eagle!"
Yang Su raised his head and saw a falcon circling and flying in. The red eagle legs were the symbol of their scout falcon. The falcon sang in the air and flew out an arc line. The scout just understood the meaning of this flying posture. He shouted: "Master, the eagle is here to report the news and find the enemy's situation ahead!"
Yang Su raised his hand and said, "The whole army formed a formation!"
The 80,000 troops were divided into four armies in the vast grassland, the central army, the left and right wings and the flag-garrison army, which stretched for several miles. At this time, everyone felt the earth trembling. The Turks were coming, and the war horses began to feel uneasy, snorting, and the soldiers clenched their spears and sweated.
A black line appeared at the end of the grassland, without stopping, covering the sky and overwhelmingly swept towards the Sui army with an unstoppable momentum. Yang Su's mouth showed a cold smile, and he was waiting for this moment.
"Boardman ready!" He gave the first order.
Ten thousand crossbowmen and five thousand bowmen stepped forward at the same time, with crossbowmen in front and archers behind, crossbowmen shooting from a distance, bowmen shooting from a near distance, and crossing from a distance.
Ten thousand crossbowmen were lined up in three rows, one meter away from each other, the first row was half squatted down, and three thousand crossbows were raised up on the ground, and coldly aimed at the Turkic army rushing over the sea.
The Turkic cavalry was getting closer and closer, and the murderous aura seemed to destroy everything in the world. Under the golden wolf-headed banner, Datou Khan raised his knife and shouted: "The fearless grassland warriors, kill all the enemies of the Central Plains, women and treasures from the Central Plains, everything belongs to you, kill!"
"Kill!"
The Turkic cavalry rushed into the Sui army's crossbow range in an instant. Yang Su waved his hand coldly, "Shoot!"
The huge drum sound of "dong!dong!dong!" was beaten, and three thousand arrows suddenly shot, forming a black cloud of arrows, whistling towards the Turkic cavalry. In an instant, the Turkic cavalry formation was overturned by people and horses, and nearly a thousand people were shot down. Then the second row of crossbow arrows of the Sui army were shot, and Turkic soldiers continued to scream and fell to the ground while charging, and the third row of arrow clouds came again. The dense crossbow arrows were like a storm, shooting through the Turkic shields and leather armor. Pieces of Turkic cavalry rolled down from their horses and were stepped into meat mud by dense war horses.
The 10,000-3 rows of Sui army crossbow soldiers were skilled in their movements, and they launched crossbows, fired them one after another. They shot out three rounds, and the Turkic cavalry lost more than 10,000 people. The heavy losses quickly made the Turkic cavalry's murderous aura faded, and their formation began to become messy. At this time, the vanguard had already rushed to sixty steps away.
The Sui army's crossbow soldiers retreated like a tide. The archers who had been waiting for a long time began to shoot vigorously. The archers used long bowmen arrows. The arrows were two feet and three inches long and the steel clusters were sharp and shot out at an elevation angle. Five thousand arrows were dense like rain and strong, and they could shoot through people and horses. Ten thousand Turkic cavalry and war horses rushed past the front and fell to the ground. The corpses were piled up. The Sui army's arrows were extremely fast, causing the Turkic cavalry to rush forward and were shot overturned. With the crossbow soldiers' cooperation in firing, the Turkic cavalry could not rush into within forty steps, and the casualties were severe, and the Turkic cavalry began to be in chaos.
Seeing that there was an opportunity, Zhou Luohu, the commander of the First Army, immediately asked Yang Su, "I am willing to be the vanguard!"
Yang Su said coldly: "You lead 4,000 heavy cavalry to attack the Turkic central army. If you lose, come and see you!"
"Abide by the order!"
The Sui army's attack sounded loudly, and the blue flag was waving. Four thousand of the most elite heavy cavalry were launched. People were wearing heavy armor, horses were wearing heavy armor, and iron serpents were waving their iron sterns, following the blue battle flag to kill the Turkic cavalry. This was the armored cavalry equipment that the Great Sui Dynasty spent twenty years to build with the best war horses, the strongest soldiers, and the most ferocious weapon.
This army rarely went to war to defend the capital, but Yang Su threw them into battle in the first battle, and he wanted to use the most powerful heavy armored cavalry to destroy the morale of the Turks.
After the fierce battle of bows and arrows, the initial murderous aura of the Turkic cavalry had disappeared less than 10%. They were originally herders of various tribes. Without the steely will of the Sui army, they all rely on one round to defeat the enemy. His morale was high and faded quickly. When the dream of plundering the enemy's property was shattered, they began to hesitate and began to miss their wives and children and lambs at home. Now it is early spring, and it is the time when the ewes gives birth to cubs, and his wife and father are unable to take care of them.
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The four thousand heavily armored cavalry were like an invincible iron fist. Wherever they passed, the Turkic cavalry corpses were everywhere, and blood flowed into a river, killing the Turkic cavalry so much that they were all jealous. A tribe began to turn around and escape first.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Yang Su immediately ordered, "Press up my entire army, and those who retreated would be killed!"
The drums were loud and the battle flags were flying. The 80,000 Sui troops, who had been preparing for power for a long time, attacked the Turkic cavalry. The Turkic army collapsed instantly and turned around and fled. The army was confused and unknown to the reason, and fled. More than 100,000 Turkic cavalry completely collapsed, and were killed so hard that they cried and screamed.
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Yang Yuanqing led his subordinates to intercept the outside like thousands of other scouts. They galloped and thrust the arrows, and shot the fleeing Turkic cavalry one by one to the ground.
Yang Yuanqing and the others were swimming outside the Central Army. At this time, the fat fish suddenly shouted behind him: "That's Yuwen Taibao!"
Yang Yuanqing also saw it from afar. Yuwen Chengdu waved his phoenix wings and gilded borons, galloping in the enemy group, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. Turkic cavalry died when they were next to each other, and when they were touched, they killed them so hard that blood and flesh flew everywhere, corpses were everywhere around him, and blood flowed into a river.
But Yang Yuanqing's eyes were attracted by something else. The golden wolf-headed banner of the Turkic Khan fled in the chaos not far away, and Yuwen Chengdu came to it.
The man's passion for competition for me was boiling in his chest, and Yang Yuanqing shouted, "Brothers, follow me to kill Hu Kei and make meritorious service!"
He waved his long spear and led his subordinates to the group of Turkic cavalry. At this time, the Turkic cavalry were like frightened birds. They threw their armor and fled in the vast grassland. They had no will to resist. Yang Yuanqing flew over the horse's spear, unsheathed his sword, and slashed his sword, leading his companions to open a bloody road. Yang Su's eighteen iron guards appeared beside them without realizing it, fighting side by side with them, killing the Turkic cavalry's heads and corpses everywhere.
Yang Yuanqing killed the siege and had surpassed Yuwen Chengdu. He clearly saw Datou Khan wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, running away desperately under the escort of hundreds of iron armored personal guards, but his iron armored cavalry was too dense. If they rushed in like this, their companions would inevitably be killed or injured.
Yang Yuanqing's thoughts changed. He hung up a long spear, drew his bow and took the arrow, rushed from the slanting thrust, and pulled the bow and shot an arrow at Datou Khan. His bow was extremely powerful. Datou Khan was not prepared and was shot through the armor on his back by an arrow. Blood light burst out. Datou screamed and turned over and fell off his horse.
Yang Yuanqing was overjoyed and swung his long spear and rushed away, "Hu thief, take your head!"
When Datou Khan's personal soldiers saw that the Khan was caught in an arrow, they were all scared to death. Several personal soldiers dragged him up and fled. More than a dozen other people roared and came to Yang Yuanqing. Yang Yuanqing waved his spear to fight, and was extremely brave. In an instant, he rolled the six people off the horse. The others were so scared that they turned around and fled. At this time, the seriously injured Datou Khan had already fled far away and was beyond reach to chase.
Yang Yuanqing's eyes flashed, and the Qianfu, the personal guard of Datou Khan, was riding a divine war horse. The fiery red war horse seemed to be Datou Khan's mount. The Qianfu was trying to get the golden wolf-headed flag that fell to the ground. He fought with the divine horse under his crotch. The horse was extremely fast. A beautiful iron-plate bridge picked up the flag and ran back.
At this time, Yang Yuanqing was too late to take the bow and arrow. Without thinking, he waved his arms and threw the long spear in his hand away. The long spear drew a black arc in the air, penetrated the back of the Turkic commander. The commander screamed and was nailed to the ground.
Yang Yuanqing took advantage of the horse's speed to rush, and he jumped up, grabbed the flagpole of the flag that had not yet landed in the air, and sat steadily on the horse of a thousand men. He pulled out his horse, roared to the sky, and held the golden wolf-headed flag of the Turkic Khan, and galloped in the wind.
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In the spring of the 19th year of Kaihuang, Yang Su, the commander of the Western Route Army, led 100,000 Sui army to fight against the 130,000 troops of the Western Turks, Datou Khan north of Wuyuan. Yang Su gave up the traditional tactics and defeated more than 100,000 troops of the Western Turks, killed nearly 40,000 enemies in front and back, and captured 10,000 alive. The Western Turks army left with wailing and crying. Datou Khan was seriously injured in the chaos and fled. The Golden Wolf-Tou Khan's banner was taken away. This was the first time the Western Turks army suffered a crushing defeat.
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Chapter completed!