Chapter 6 Red Mountain Fort
In the hot spring pool, the right guard led the mansion in the tent. Chen Ying reached out and clenched his right hand into a fist, and smashed it heavily on the table. Liang Zan saw Chen Ying's fist hitting the Thin Bone City on the map.
"We can no longer stay in this hot spring pool. We must move and look for fighter jets in the movement!"
Gao Yunquan looked at Chen Ying blankly. He never expected that Chen Ying would take the initiative to attack more than six times stronger enemies with a weak army.
"The general manager wise!" Wei Wenzhong said: "Our Xun Mansion first attacked to let the Turkic wolf cubs know that the Tang Dynasty is not a place where they can come whenever they want and leave whenever they want!"
Chen Ying said: "The manager sets the tone for taking the initiative. How to fight and how to fight, everyone can express their opinions!"
"The first battle is to let our Yue cavalry fight!" Luo Shixin said loudly: "I have an idea. Don't we still have a thousand down sleeping bags?"
Chen Ying nodded and said, "Not bad!"
Luo Shixin said again: "Will you freeze if you lie in the down sleeping bag for three hours?"
"Not to mention three hours, four hours are fine!" Chen Ying said: "How do you want to fight?"
Luo Shixin took out his whip and pointed at Bogulu City on the map and said: "The northeast of Bogulu City, about thirty or forty miles away from Lingzhou City, is called Hongshan Fort, which is the Lingzhou beacon tower in the pre-Sui Dynasty. It is currently occupied by Turks, and there are about 100 soldiers stationed here...I plan..."
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The northwest wind is very cold, even if it is clear and cloudless, the cold wind blows on the face, like a knife, making life hurt. Wherever you look, there are ice and snow everywhere, and people's eyes are prone to snow blindness.
Although the method was to create goggles for the soldiers of the entire army, Chen Ying took a compromise method, covering his face with thin silk as thin as a cicada's wings, which would not affect his vision, but also effectively prevent cold.
There is a ditch in Lingzhou called Bogulu Canal. This ditch was dug in the Helian Bobo era and irrigated thousands of fertile fields in Lingzhou.
However, at this time, the Thunderbolt Lu Canal had already frozen, and the snow was only slightly lighter than the official road. In the distant sky, a faint white line was vaguely moving slowly in the Thunderbolt Lu Canal. This white line was the army led by Duan Zhigan, deputy lieutenant of the Xun Second Mansion, the Xun Second Mansion, and the Yi Erfu Yi Regiment. This army consisted of more than 1,200 soldiers.
All the soldiers carried a bag of dry food for three days, plus armor and weapons, and each person was carrying a weight of more than 45 kilograms. In this era, wars usually did not hide their armor and clothes, and they also had to hold their own flags. Many soldiers did not understand Chen Ying's approach of hiding his behavior.
There are only more than a thousand down sleeping bags, and it is impossible to achieve one set for each person. In order for the soldiers to avoid frostbite, Chen Ying distributed two pieces of aries to each of them. Although sheepskin is not as warm as down, this is the only way to go.
This battle is currently annihilated the Turkish sermons, occupied the beacon tower of Hongshan Fort, and used the beacon fire to convey the news that reinforcements had arrived to Lingzhou City, strengthening the confidence of the defenders. Duan Zhigan's part was a three-row marching formation. The people behind the hall advanced with footprints in front, and the mop made of white in the back of the hall filled the footprints with snow.
Along the way, Duan Zhigan's troops suffered enough, but in their ants-like team, they were as powerful as rainbows.
Suddenly, the snow particles on the ground jumped, and without even turning back, we knew that it was a large cavalry that was running.
Duan Zhigan waved his hand urgently, and the soldiers of the army stopped moving forward alertly, leaned over the snow surface, and covered their whereabouts with snow. The white cloak was not much different from the snow realm. With the disguised snow, the Turkic cavalry, who were nearly dozens of steps away, did not find the Tang soldiers in the ditches.
It was not long, and the Turkic whistle riders, which had about a hundred cavalry, passed far away until the sound of horse hooves could no longer be heard. Duan Zhigan waved his hand and continued to move forward.
The one-day march also allowed Duan Zhigan to understand the movement rules of the Turkish whistle cavalry. The Turkic whistle cavalry patrols every half hour during the day, and once every hour in the first half of the night, and there was no patrol in the second half of the night.
Hongshan Fort finally arrived, and the location of Hongshan Fort is also excellent. On the one hand, Hongshan behind, the so-called Hongshan is actually a treasure mountain. It originally stored a large amount of coal. Later, due to the weather, the coal spontaneously ignited, forming a brick and stone full of red glazed stone.
Although the mountain is not high, Hongshan is one of the few hills in the Lingwu Plain. It is one of the indispensable passes in the era of the Beacon Biography.
Duan Shigan said: "Save the time to eat dry food and rest!"
In order to ensure that the soldiers can intake enough calories, Chen Ying changed the marching dry food of this era. Of course, this is not a high-tech invention. It is to fry the soybeans in a pot and grind them into bean powder. Add a small amount of salt and jerky meat, and when eating, you can mix a small amount of water and knead it into a ball and eat it directly. You can also add a large amount of water to stir it into a paste.
Although it looks bad and tastes average, it is the simplest military dry food.
Duan Shigan grabbed a handful of snow and took a bite of bean noodles. At this moment, the originally silent snow surface jumped again. Duan Zhigan commanded the troops to hide their whereabouts.
He himself stood up to observe, and a black line appeared at the end of his gaze. As he slowly got closer, he could finally see that the cavalry was wearing eye-catching Tang army armor. The cavalry team was not large, with only seven or eight hundred cavalry. The cavalry running in front were Tang army armor. All the horses were panting, and the cavalry soldiers on the horses were like steaming saunas, with heat rising above their heads.
"Damn it, you can only bully more people!"
Duan Zhigan was very angry. Relying on the thirty-mad, the Turks actually sent nearly two thousand cavalry to pursue the Tang army in front.
However, the war horses could not run in the snow, and the distance between the two cavalry did not get closer.
At this time, Luo Shixin, who was in charge, suddenly had a strange smile on his face. He tightened the reins. The front hooves of the war horse flew into the air and neighed. The other Tang cavalry also followed Luo Shixin's appearance and stopped at the same time.
"Go on the crossbow!"
As a creaking sound came out, seven or eight hundred cavalrymen put crossbows on strings at the same time and aimed the crossbow machine at the Turkic cavalry. After the Turkic cavalry entered the range, a rain of arrows shot away.
The cavalry pursuing Turks suddenly fell on the snow like dumplings.
"Despicable and shameless!" Bu Lugen almost wanted to bite the steel teeth, but he could do nothing. Some Turkic cavalrymen took out bows and arrows to fight back, but even more unfortunately, the arrows fell on the snow before they flew into the Tang army formation.
The Tang army's standard crossbow machine has a farther range than the Turkish cavalry bow, and the most concession for Lu Gen vomiting blood was that these Tang cavalry occupied the upper hand, and they could only hit the Tang cavalry unless they advanced fifty steps more than they could hit the Tang cavalry.
After Luo Shixin's attack, he didn't even have the interest in observing the results of the battle. He turned his horse's head and continued to move forward!
Bu Lugen screamed in anger and tried his best to move forward.
"Bite them and ask Ye Hu for help!" Bu Lugen roared and said, "You can't let them run away no matter what!"
A cavalry broke out of the formation.
Chapter completed!