Chapter 29: Hu Nuzhen Fengyun (12) The Battle of Yamaguchi (2)
It is about thirty miles west of the Shashar Pass and about twenty miles away from the Snow Valley of the Sikh River. There is a rare open area with narrow and rugged terrain on both sides of the Sikh River.
The open land is located on the south bank of the Sikh River, about three miles long and about thirty meters wide. It is already one of the few good places on both sides of the Sikh River. Moreover, compared with the overall low river bank roads, this open land is obviously higher, just like a long high platform.
Yang Shouyu, Nie Feng, Geng Sidu and the horse thief were compressed onto this high platform by Larudoji's pursuers.
This was planned by Larudogi in the morning. The average altitude is about 5,000 meters in the snow valley. There is only a narrow road on the south bank. Although the snow valley has entered winter, the river water will have to wait for half a month to freeze. It seems that there is a layer of thick ice covered with snow, but it is actually very thin. Once people step on it, there are traps everywhere.
If Larudoji's men fought against horse thieves on the trail, they would not have taken much advantage, because the road was too narrow and the number of Tubo people could not be fully utilized.
But when you get to a high platform, it is different. First of all, the high platform is about three meters taller than the road and is very wide. In a hurry, the horse thieves have no reason to abandon this high platform that is conducive to defense.
Of course, this "favorable for defense" is also relatively good. It is just three meters high and the platform with slopes on both sides is only relatively easy to defend.
After seeing all the horse thieves onto the high platform, Larudogi appeared.
It turned out that he personally led 150 cavalry to follow him. His familiarity with this land was far greater than that of the Tang army, and even more than the descendants of the Xiangxiong nobles who followed Nie Xudanxi's escape, because he was the leader of the standing army in charge of the Aksaichen area of the Xiangxiong Wanhu Mansion of the Tubo Kingdom - the Thousand Commander of the Aksaichen Thousand Masters.
After successfully taking over the Wei Long Kingdom, Larudoji suddenly had a new idea, which was to apply to Qiongbuzanpo, the head of the Wanhu Mansion of Xiangxiong, at this time, to let him permanently guard the Wei Long Kingdom. This situation is so many in the Tubo Kingdom. Just like in the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo king would marry his royal daughter to a general with excellent performance to conquer the newly enfeoffed small and medium-sized countries. Qiongbuzanpo was a nobleman of the "Shang" and he was the son-in-law of the Tubo king. Naturally, Larudoji did not have this qualification, but it was common for the Tubo king to recognize Qiongbuzanpo's daughter as his adopted daughter, and it was common for him to marry him again.
Therefore, in order to make this "shocking" merit, Larudogi brought a total of 300 cavalry this time. In his mind, 300 cavalry were divided into two groups, and it should be easy to deal with just a few dozen horse thieves.
The only thing to worry about is that although there is only one exit to the west of the Snow Valley where the Sikh River is located, if you are willing and persistent, there are still some channels that can directly reach the Aksaichi Basin. However, in Larudoji's eyes, after the horse thief at the moment missed the last possible channel, he believed that everything was under control.
On the platform, the length of three miles, the width of dozens of horse thieves is not satisfied with it. If you want to attack the platform, Larudoji can rely on a path about three feet wide. According to Nie Xudanxi's calculation, "Although the platform is wide, the two ends are still very cramped. As long as you guard both ends, there will definitely not be many people coming up at one time. I will be shooting arrows at both ends leisurely. Let's see what you do?"
But Larudogi is obviously much more powerful than the horse thief leader who has been carried to the Palacio Plateau since he was five years old. Although the roads at both ends are only three feet wide, these cavalry carried shields. They invested twenty people at one time on the three feet wide path, and gradually approached the platform with two people in rows of shields.
Then, the most fierce slave soldier under Larudogi rushed forward with a shield and a heavy weapon in the other!
What made Nie Xu Danxi frightened was that Larudoji's men rushed to the platform in half an hour. At this time, he only lost four slave soldiers!
After opening the gap in the high platform, Larudoji came immediately on the Tubo with long hair.
However, after both of his men rushed to the platform, they found that there was a slightly higher platform near the snow-capped mountains in the middle of the platform, which was naturally much narrower than the place below, but it had occupied about twenty people on it - Nie Xudanxi's men had a total of forty-eight people. After being defeated by Larudoji, nearly twenty people were lost in a very short time, and only more than twenty people were left.
Nie Xu Danxi was pulled back to this high platform by Yang Shouyu.
There seemed to be ruins on this high platform, which was obviously a station or small fort set up by Xiangxiong people here in the past. However, it was later abandoned, with an area of about two or three acres, which was exactly conducive to the defense of these more than 30 people.
But what is not conducive to them is that the height of this small platform is smaller than the large platform below, only two meters away!
Not long after, Larudogi set up some scouts at the west end of the snow valley to prevent outsiders from breaking in, all the remaining 200 riders were on the high platform!
Larudoji was a thirty-year-old thin man. Unlike other Tubo and Xiangxiong nobles, he was a devout Bon and completely believed that as long as he died for Qiongbuzanpo, he would be promoted to a higher aristocratic status in his next life. Of course, if he could achieve it in this life, he would not miss it. In any case, he was one of the few generals among the Tubo and Xiangxiong nobles who could lead by example and lead by example.
There are not many people like him in Xiangxiong's old place, especially after the old place was almost stabilized by the Tubo people. This is because Xiangxiong's old place (Ali area) is considered remote even in the Qinghai-Tibet area. No enemy is interested and then invades the area at the risk of great logistical pressure. Therefore, when the Tubo Kingdom set up Wanhu Mansion here, there has been no major war in nearly a hundred years. In this case, it is naturally a luxury to want the soldiers to continue to maintain their strong combat power.
But Larudogi did it, and he kept his troops fighting by constantly patrolling the vast Aksaichi area and constantly raiding small countries like Weilong Kingdom.
Looking at the horse thieves on the high platform, Larudoji's eyes shone with fierceness and greed. According to the primitive Bon religion of Xiangxiong people, Nie Xu Danxi is a great figure who can assist him in "cultivating" secret skills. If his skin and bones are made into magic weapons, they are much better than those ordinary slaves!
In the third line of Xiangxiong Kingdom, that is, the lineage of Nie Xu's restoration, the king deliberately left the Qiongbu, who usurped the throne in the middle, held a grand live sacrifice ceremony every year, and made their bodies into magic tools to punish their usurpation.
Of course, even if he was caught, Larudoji was not qualified to perform a live sacrifice ceremony on him. In the entire Xiangxiong Wanhu Mansion, only the son-in-law of the Tubo king and the commander of the Wanhu Mansion, Qiongbuzanpo, had this qualification. However, according to Larudoji's contribution, he might be able to give him an arm bone.
It was still the same old practice. The cavalry dismounted and covered the horse with shields, and surrounded them to approach the platform. However, this time Larudogi was a little disappointed. This platform obviously had traces of human repairs. Although it was only two meters high, except for the exit in the middle, the rest of the area was vertical, and it was impossible to rush up like before.
But Larudoji still had a solution. As the horn made of yak horns in his personal soldiers sounded, about ten people soon gathered in front of him. All of them were carrying large bows on their backs. Look at the appearance, they were mostly large bows with a force of more than one stone.
At this time, whether in Tubo or in the Tang Dynasty, those who can pull a horn bow with one stone are the elites in the army. If they can reach more than two stones, they must be the "strongman" level. People like Yang Shouyu, Sun Xiurong, and Bai Xiaode are always above three stones, so they are naturally geniuses.
But Larudoji definitely believed that there were no more than five figures in the horse thief team who could use a horn bow of more than one stone. Therefore, he asked these ten people to ride a horse to approach the platform and stopped at a distance of sixty steps (about one hundred meters). It made sense for them to do so.
The effective range of the horn bow with one stone can reach fifty steps, but if it is a projectile, it can reach more than sixty steps. All those who can use a strong bow with one stone as their regular weapons are archery masters in the army, and their accuracy is also considerable.
The only disadvantage is that the wind in the Karakoram Mountains is very strong and it has a great impact on archery.
"call out!"
Not long after, the arrows in the hands of ten cavalrymen left the string with a light roar and rushed to the platform in a small arc!
After seeing this scene, Larudogi said in his heart, "It's over, everything is over. After his ten people shot out ten rounds of arrows in succession, the horse thief on the stage will be surrendered. At that time, let the warriors attack the exit directly, and the battle can be ended with a charge."
The ten rounds of arrows were shot quickly. Since the people on the stage were hiding behind the ruins, not many people were shot by the arrows, but the horses were not lucky. A lot of losses were lost in these ten rounds of shooting. During this period, Larudogi's warriors had already rushed to the only gap in the platform with shields and clumsy weapons!
Seeing that the overall situation was settled, Larudoji couldn't help but feel a little excited. The next scene was tried and true in many battles in which he raided and finally won Wei Long Kingdom. Wei Long Kingdom also had a city wall, but the city wall was very short, which was similar to the high platform in front of him. However, when he led 1,500 troops to break through the city, his subordinates lost less than a hundred people in total. It can be seen that Larudoji had an effective way to attack enemies who were defending based on the city wall or special terrain.
"call out……"
Just as Larudogi was about to turn his horse's head and go to the shelter to rest, the scream of a bow and arrow cutting through the air came from the platform.
When Larudogi heard this voice, he couldn't help but become serious.
This is a sound that can only be made by a strong bow with at least three stones!
"There are such talents among the horse thieves?"
He immediately ordered the ten cavalry to retreat. At this time, he stood about fifty feet away from the platform. In this place, it was very difficult to hit the target with a bow and arrow in this world at the moment, but the ten cavalry stood thirty feet away. Although it was difficult to shoot, he still had to be careful.
But his order had not been transmitted yet, and an accident happened. In about ten breaths, a man stood there and shot ten arrows from the middle of the platform!
Ten deadly heavy arrows!
In just ten breaths, eight of his ten riding and shooting masters have been dismissed!
"How is that possible?"
Chapter completed!