Chapter 99 Windfall
The right wing of the Sui army was deployed on the battlefield on the eastern front, with the main general Pei Xingyan and the deputy general Xie Yingdeng. They led 15,000 Sui cavalry against Xue Yantuo's 40,000 troops.
Since Xue Yantuo was defeated in Dali City in the early years of Daye, he has disappeared.
But they were just silent, but did not die. On the contrary, under the protection of the Turks, they gradually recovered their vitality. After more than ten years of reproduction and continuous annexation, they already had 200,000 tribes and 100,000 troops, becoming the most powerful among the Tiel tribes.
The Turks supported Xue Yantuo just to use them to deal with the Uighurs who had been uneasy, and deliberately distributed half of the Uighurs' pasture to Xue Yantuo to create conflicts between them. The Turks' plan to alienate each other was very successful, and Xue Yantuo and the Uighurs did become mortal enemies.
But Xue Yantuo hated the most not the Uighurs, but the Sui Dynasty. To be precise, it was the Fengzhou army led by Yang Yuanqing. They never forgot the hatred they had more than a dozen times ago. This time, Xue Yantuo came to take revenge and avenge his shame.
Xue Yantuo's 40,000 army continued to launch a crazy attack on the right-wing Sui army, with heavy casualties on both sides. Khan Yinan's youngest son was killed, and eight ten thousand captains also killed four people, with more than 20,000 casualties.
For the grassland army, more than half of the casualties were usually unable to hold on, but Yi Nan knew very well that if he was defeated at this time, he would not be able to obtain the rich spoils of the Central Plains, and Xue Yantuo could not wipe out the shame of Dali City.
"Persevere, defeat the Sui army, and each person will reward a hundred sheep!" Yi Nan rewarded and inspired his army with great profits.
At this time, the Sui army also suffered huge casualties. Deputy General Xie Yingdeng was shot in three arrows and was rescued by his personal soldiers. The main general Pei Xingyan was also injured and bleeding a lot, so he could hardly hold on.
"Old Pei, take it down and leave it to me!" Cheng Yaojin's eyes were red with anxiety and shouted loudly.
Pei Xingyan gritted his teeth and asked a personal soldier to pull out the arrow from his right arm for him. He shook his head, "You don't have the experience of commanding the army. I'm not at ease to leave it to you!"
Cheng Yaojin was so angry that he looked down on him so much. He couldn't help but curse, "When is it? You still care about this. I tell you, I will die until the last person in battle, do you believe it?"
He turned around and shouted to more than a dozen generals: "You say, believe me!"
More than a dozen generals lowered their heads and no one said anything. At this time, Pei Xingyan felt dizzy and had no strength left on his body. He could not hold on anymore. He could only say in a low voice: "Wait for your order!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Yuanqing's personal soldiers rushed over and raised their arrows and shouted: "Your Highness the King of Chu has an order. General Cheng Yaojin will take over the command of the right wing. Be sure to persevere until the reinforcements arrive!"
Cheng Yaojin was overjoyed. He stepped forward to take the order arrow, turned around and stared at Pei Xingyan, his eyes shining. Pei Xingyan had no choice but to order a dozen generals around him: "Abide by General Cheng's command, those who violate the order will be killed!"
The generals bowed and bowed together. "Abide by the order!"
At this moment, Cheng Yaojin suddenly became serious and said to everyone: "Although I, Cheng Yaojin, had no military achievements and had a bad reputation, your highness still used me as the chief general. This trust left me with nothing to say, and I could only die to repay His Highness's kindness for the King of Chu."
He waved his axe, "Come with me and let the dog-good Xueyantuo people taste the taste of my old Cheng's axe!"
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At this time, the snowflakes in the sky became bigger and bigger, and the vision in the distance began to become confused. Behind Xue Yantuo's army, Li Jing led 15,000 troops to arrive.
Li Jing's thug curtain covered the falling snowflakes and stared at the Xueyantuo army back team a mile away. He knew that the success or failure of the entire war would be here.
Li Jing took a deep breath, turned around and looked behind him. Five thousand heavy armored cavalry were neatly arranged behind him. They were like five thousand statues, standing quietly among the flying snowflakes, covered with thin layers of snowflakes.
General Xue Wanche was at the front of the team. He held a horse spear in his hand and stared at Li Jing, his eyes full of desire for a war. Li Jing understood the expectation contained in his eyes and nodded slowly, "Let's go!"
Xue Wanche raised his horse spear high, which was the order to go to the expedition. Five thousand heavily armored cavalry began to set off. They were in a row of hundreds of people and ran forward slowly, in a neat line, and the horse's hooves made neat and rhythmic sounds.
Behind the heavy armored cavalry, there were five thousand light cavalry on the left and right, and they were also ready to go, waiting for the order to attack.
It is impossible for heavy armored cavalry to be launched far away from the enemy. Their war horses cannot support too long distances. If they are launched one mile away, they can produce the best impact effect.
But in this way, the attacks of heavily armored cavalry were easily discovered by the enemy. In fact, Xue Yantuo's patrol had already discovered the Sui army that appeared behind.
This news surprised Khan Yinan. While sending people to ask Jie Li Khan for help, he also deployed the last five thousand troops in the rear camp and used dense bows and arrows to fight the upcoming attack.
Xue Yantuo's bows and arrows were not obtained from the Turks, and the Turks would not give them excellent weapons. Xue Yantuo exchanged a large number of livestock for 30,000 bows and arrows from the Goryeo, which were all good riding bows made by the Sui Dynasty military weapon supervisor.
In the distance, the black and heavily armored cavalry of the Sui army were getting closer and closer, and many Xue Yantuo soldiers showed horror in their eyes. Before the Sui army cavalry entered the range, they began to shoot arrows blindly.
The heavy armored cavalry had already reached three hundred steps away. Xue Wanche held a giant shield and raised the horse spear high again. The five thousand heavy armored cavalry suddenly accelerated.
They rushed towards the enemy in line with dense rain of arrows, faster and faster, the sound of horse hooves was like thunder, and the momentum was like storm, destroying everything, invincible, and rushed towards the 5,000 Xueyantuo cavalry who were densely defending with an unstoppable violence.
Xue Yantuo's cavalry was extremely frightened. They had been fighting for more than two hours and were exhausted. The fighting spirit was greatly weakened. The vigorous and powerful cavalry like a crazi wave made him tremble and turned around and fled in chaos.
Khan Yinan's face changed drastically. He turned out to be a heavy armored cavalry. In the 20th year of Kaihuang, the Sui army had seen the powerful impact of such heavy armored cavalry during the Northern Expedition.
But he knew that he could not retreat at this time, so Yi Nan pulled out his knife and shouted: "Push up to me!"
Some of the five thousand Xueyantuo troops stepped forward with spears and some retreated desperately. They hesitated between fighting and fleeing, and became even more chaotic. The cavalry in the front row was so scared that they shouted.
The fierce horses were galloping and murderous intent soared into the sky. Five thousand heavily armored cavalry were only a few dozen steps away from the enemy. Xueyantuo's army finally collapsed at the last moment. They turned their horses and ran desperately into the wilderness.
At this time, ten thousand Turkic reinforcements also arrived. They stood in front of Xueyantuo's army, but the Turkic army was also frightened by the heavy armored iron cavalry's momentum, and they were extremely frightened. The soldiers in front had nowhere to escape and could not retreat. They were pushed and hugged by the soldiers behind them. They had to raise their spears, close their eyes, and scream in despair.
"boom!"
Five thousand heavily armored cavalry rushed into the enemy group with a devastating force. The Turkic cavalry in the first row was smashed to pieces, dozens of corpses and war horses flew out, and countless people were trampled under the iron hooves by war horses, unable to even scream. The groups of people were cut down like wheat, with flesh and blood foils and plasma everywhere.
The huge impact force of the heavy armored cavalry instantly broke through the formation of the Turkic reinforcements. At this time, Xueyantuo Khan Yi Nan was behind the Turkic army.
He watched helplessly as the dense walls of Turkic soldiers were like broken porcelain. They broke into millions of pieces, with bones flying everywhere, and minced meat splattered everywhere. A cavalry with iron-armored red blood appeared in front of him. The war horse was like a monster, with thick white smoke spraying on his nose. His eyes rushed towards him with red eyes.
"ah!"
Yi Nan cried wildly in fear and gains and losses. The hundred guards beside him could no longer rescue him. He watched their Khan be dragged under the hooves by the Sui army's iron cavalry and trampled into meat paste.
The heavily armored cavalry assassinated Feichao, and they were invincible and had a bloody road.
Behind them, Li Jing led 10,000 Sui cavalry to break into Xueyantuo's position along the bloody path they split. Xueyantuo's army collapsed first, and the cavalry fled in the heavy snow, crying and shouting.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, from thin snowflakes to snowballs, and the world became gray.
On the battlefield on the Western Front, the Uighur chief Pei Sa squinted his eyes and looked at the heavy snow in the sky. At this time, Tu Midu rushed over and shouted anxiously: "Chief, the reinforcements of the Sui Dynasty are coming, Xue Yantuo has been defeated. Chief, let's retreat quickly!"
Pei Sa glanced at the Turkic camp again. At this time, the balance in his heart finally shifted from the generous benefits of the Sui Dynasty to the freedom of the Uighurs.
He smiled coldly, "The Turkic era is over, and the Warring States Period of the grassland is coming."
He waved his hand, "Let's withdraw!"
The Uighur Army on the Western Front quickly evacuated the battlefield, but Luo Shixin refused to forgive him. He led his army to chase after him. At this time, an officer rushed over and shouted loudly: "General Luo! General Luo!"
Luo Shixin held back the war horse and turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
The officer rushed up, raised an arrow and whispered: "Your Highness has an order, don't pursue the Uighurs, concentrate troops to attack the side of the Turks."
Luo Shixin suddenly woke up and turned around and shouted loudly: "The whole army obeys the order and attacks the Turks!"
At this time, Cheng Yaojin on the eastern front also received an order to give up chasing the defeated Xue Yantuo, and joined forces with Li Jing to launch an attack on the west side of the Turks.
Li Jing's reinforcements reversed the situation at the most critical moment. With Xue Yantuo's defeat and the withdrawal of the Uighur army, the morale of the Turkic army began to collapse, and the heavy snow all over the sky caused them to fall into despair.
"Khan, withdraw quickly!"
A Turkic commander led more than 3,000 people to come and anxiously urged Jie Li Khan to retreat north. Surrounded by hundreds of guards, Jie Li Khan knelt on the ground, his head buried deep in the soil, and cried in a low voice.
At this moment, despair, anger, unwillingness, and all kinds of emotions distorted his heart. He could no longer control his emotions. He was like a person who pushed his life on the gambling stage. At the last moment, he lost and completely lost.
He suddenly raised his head, tears had flowed over his face. He raised his hands high and shouted to the snow in the sky, "Oh my God! You have mercy on the Turks!"
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‘Dong!Dong!Dong!’
The Sui army's counterattack drum began to rumble, and the drum sounded trembling. The morale of the Sui army soldiers was high and launched a final counterattack. The Turkic army began to be defeated on the whole line.
The Sui army blocked the killing behind, killing the defeated Turkic army, causing heavy casualties, piles of corpses, and blood stained the grassland red.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, the cold wind was howling, sweeping heavy snow, covering the sky and rushing towards the earth, and the world became gray. The north, which had been drought for nearly half a year, finally ushered in the first blizzard.
......(To be continued...)
Chapter completed!