Chapter 65 The torrent of steel swept down
Chapter 65 Steel Torrent Swallows Down
Liangzhou City was already looking at the distance, looking at the "Li"-shaped flag that was still flying on the top of Liangzhou City. Chen Ying was obviously relieved.
According to his so-called "Li" no Turkic man was given the surname Li, and the name "Li" proved that Liangzhou City was still safe and sound. After eleven hours, more than 640 miles were rushing over. At this time, the first feeling of the soldiers must be that they would fall asleep and sleep in a dark place.
Looking at these passionate men, they created a miracle of marching that had been running for less than a day and a night, and were almost exhausted. But they still looked at their expression with bright eyes. Chen Ying couldn't help but move and wanted to be moved. However, his face turned cold, and he finally held it back.
The Turks have not retreated and the revolution has not yet succeeded, so comrades still need to work hard.
Chen Ying was also very tired. Whether it was the soldiers of the cavalry or the soldiers of the Modao, each of them was dirty and smelly. After all, they were not a nation on the horse's back. It would be difficult to eat, drink, and urinate on the horse's back. Many soldiers urinated their pants while peeding. At least it was even more difficult to poop. It was definitely not possible to poop on the horse's back. They had to do tactics like completing the tactical movements of hiding in the stirrup. On the side of the war horse, many of them even fell off the war horse and fell to their bruised faces.
Despite this, they persisted.
Chen Ying took a deep breath. In fact, he was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist. But he knew that after a day and a night of forced marching, the soldiers' fighting will was still high, but their physical strength was at the end. If they were given time to rest, they would completely lie down. They would not be able to recover for a day or two. Now they should work hard and complete the task of defeating the enemy before their will decline.
With this hardship, this miraculous long-range raid will be the birth of an iron-blooded strong army, with an elite force different from the original Dingyuan Army's left and right guards.
Chen Ying looked at the generals and said, "Brothers, do you still have the strength?"
Luo Shixin raised his arm and shouted, "I can't die!"
Chen Ying nodded and said, "The entire Western Regions are in the palm of our brothers! Since we are here, this is our territory! Whoever wants to make trouble here should ask our brothers whether to agree! Now, the Western Regions are waiting for our military prestige! Liangzhou is not our end, but our starting point. Now I order..."
When the soldiers heard this, they looked serious.
"Zhang Huaiwei, Gao Feiyang, Zhang Anshi, Qin Yong!"
"The last one will be here!"
"You can't rest yet. You can bypass Liangzhou and arrive at the north of Qilian Mountains from Liangzhou North Jinsha Beach to set up a defense line at the General Platform. Without the order of this general, no soldier or soldier is allowed to cross the General Platform. I understand that it is not!"
"Abide by the order!"
"The six Zhechong Mansions of the Xiao Cavalry, all of whom were in battle, took this General as the left wing and Luo Shixin as the right wing, and attacked forward!"
Chen Ying took out a piece of ginseng from the dry food belt and chewed it. At this time, he was not energetic and could only rely on ginseng to barely refresh his spirit. The bitter juice just entered his mouth. Chen Ying felt that ginseng was actually more bitter than coptis chinensis, but he gritted his teeth and still struggled to swallow the ginseng juice into his stomach.
A burst of excitement arises naturally.
The flying master is six hundred miles away, and the flying general in Longcheng deserves his reputation!
In fact, Chen Ying is also taking risks.
However, he had no choice but to attack desperately.
In fact, there are more than one dozen Turkic armies, which are far more than this number. If the number of servants under the command of Ye Hu Khan will exceed 200,000. There are more than 500,000 horses, and more than one million cattle and sheep accompanying the army (heads). Western Turkic march without a car, but directly carry them with horses.
However, tens of thousands of high-cars from the high-car tribe were recruited. When they arrived in Liangzhou, Liangzhou had not had time to harvest in autumn, so tens of thousands of fertile land outside the city and nearly 100,000 stones of grain became the treasure of Tongye Hu Khan.
However, no matter what the outcome of this war is, it will have a fatal impact on Liangzhou. There are not only fertile fields outside Liangzhou City, but also a large area of forests and grasslands, 500,000 war horses and millions of cows, concentrated within a radius of dozens of miles. Not to mention trees, even the grass roots will be eaten up. Next spring, I am afraid there will be no way to grow grass.
Liangzhou has a great influence. Of course, once it wins, millions of cattle and sheep can be seized, and Liangzhou can also be farmed and developed in an expanded manner. Once hundreds of thousands of cattle are plowing land, at least Liangzhou can reclaim tens of thousands of more fertile land.
Two hundred thousand soldiers and civilians, the Khan of Tongye Hu set up a huge formation of two wings flying together, with Liangzhou City as the top, to the foot of Qilian Mountains in the south and to the Alxashan Platform in the north, hundreds of large and small camps stretched backwards on the left and right wings, and powerful troops gathered at the top and both wings. The more they went in the middle, the more empty and weak they became. In the middle and behind, they were either servants or herders, and camp prostitutes. If the Tang army could go around them to attack, it would form a terrible ** effect - but the two wings of the formation of two wings were very long, and it was almost impossible to do this under the surveillance of tens of thousands of cavalry.
However, Chen Ying directly asked Zhang Huaiwei to detour the Golden Beach. The so-called Golden Beach is the desert in the northern part of the Alxa Platform. It marched along the edge of the desert, which can not only avoid the surveillance of the Western Turkic cavalry, but also have surprising effects.
The key to this battle is whether the Modao Army can successfully detour behind the Western Turks, and whether it can stubbornly block the crazy counterattack of the 200,000 Turkic troops. This is the problem Chen Ying is worried about.
In order to support Zhang Huaiwei's actions, Chen Ying could only grit his teeth and act as a bait to attract all the attention of Tongye Hu Khan. Only the fiercer he beats, the more fiercely he beats, which made Zhang Huaiwei safely arrive after the Western Turkic army.
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This was a national war. When Chen Ying and his reinforcements appeared in sight, the Khan of Tongye Hu understood the intention of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty had no intention of having a peace talk with him. It was just like that, when friends came, there was good wine, and when the enemies came, we had General Chen.
This is the only chance for the Western Turks to enter Guanzhong east. Once Chen Ying is defeated, the military and civilians in Liangzhou will inevitably be discouraged, and they will definitely lose the will to resist to the end. However, once the Western Turks are defeated, hundreds of tribes and hundreds of thousands of string-controlling men who surrender to the Western Turks will immediately turn against each other.
Therefore, when he learned that Chen Ying led the army to arrive, the Khan of Tongye Hu urgently stopped the plan to attack Liangzhou City, scattering thousands of scouts within a radius of 100 miles, looking for the actual number of Chen Ying's army and the route of march.
Tong Ye Hu looked at the silence of nearly an hour as if he was looking at his husband's stone. Finally, at noon, he finally waited for news from the scout commander.
"How many people did Chen Ying bring here this time?" Tongye Hu asked impatiently.
The scout leader bowed and replied: "We discovered the traces of Chen Ying's army in Changsong County an hour and a half ago. At that time, Chen Ying had more than 30,000 cavalry under his command!"
"More than 30,000 cavalry?" Tong Ye Hu smiled faintly: "Chen Ying is really a kind of person. Even if he dares to come to Liangzhou, he is really a person who is not afraid of death!"
At this moment, a middle-aged man dressed in Han people bowed and said, "Dear Khan, you must be careful of Chen Ying's tricks. Be careful that this is just a cover for Chen Ying. There must be other elites under his command!"
The middle-aged man was no one else, but Li Zhongyan, the second son of Li Gui, the former Changle King. In the first year of Wude (618), Li Yuan was about to attack Xue Ju, so he sent envoys to Liangzhou and issued a letter of consolation to comfort him, calling Li Gui the cousin. Li Gui was overjoyed and sent his younger brother Li Mao to the court. Li Yuan appointed Li Mao as the general and returned to Liangzhou. He issued an edict to Zhang Qide, the young minister of the Honglu, to hold the ceremony to claim Li Gui as the King of Liang and the general manager of Liangzhou, and gave him a promotion to Yu Bao. At that time, Li Gui usurped the title of emperor and established the year of the year as Anle, and appointed his son Li Boyu as the crown prince, and the chief secretary of the Changshi Cao Zhen as the Left Pushe of Shangshu, and captured Hezhou.
Li Tang and Li Gui officially broke off diplomatic relations. Later, after destroying Xue Ju of the Western Qin Dynasty, Li Daozong raided Liangzhou and destroyed Li Gui. Li Gui and his eldest son Li Boyu were captured to Chang'an. In the second and fifth year of Wude, Li Yuan was beheaded in Chang'an. However, Li Zhongyan escaped and hid in the Tuyuhun tribe. Later, Tongye Hu Khan led the Western Turkic army to attack Liangzhou. Li Zhongyan thought that the opportunity to take revenge came, so he brought dry food and salutes to join Tongye Hu Khan.
But being a traitor also requires capital. Li Zhongyanwu cannot get on the horse and kill the enemy, Wen cannot govern the country and ensure stability, and Ye Hu is not a fool. Although he lets Li Zhongyan go in and out of the tent, he only treats him as a dog. When he is happy, he will reward a piece of bone.
Tongye Hu Khan's face turned a little gloomy: "What trick does Chen Yinger have?"
"Khan doesn't know that this Chen Ying's son is famous for being insidious and cunning!" Li Zhongyan said: "When Chen Ying was supporting Lingzhou, he only led 4,800 soldiers on the surface, but secretly tens of thousands of troops followed him. At that time, Shibi Khan and Chuluo Khan suffered a great loss. Khan, I have to do it!"
It would be fine if Li Zhongyan didn't say this, but once he said this, Tongye Hu Khan was not happy.
How to compare Ben Khan with the two useless people in the Eastern Turks?
Tongye Hu Khan's face became more and more gloomy: "Batur!"
"Khan!"
Tongye Hu Khan did not attack rashly. He could lead the Western Turks toward strength, but not because of his hot head and luck. But because of his caution. After thinking about it, Tongye Hu said, "Let your people try Chen Ying and see how much he has!"
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A northwest wind blew, and the air was filled with the tempting aroma of barbecue. Standing on the gentle north mountain of Qilian Mountain, Chen Ying turned his head and saw Luo Shixin's stomach roaring.
Chen Ying smiled and said, "The Western Turks are so considerate. They already know that the grandpas are hungry, so they have prepared the whole roasted lamb for us in advance."
The soldiers burst into laughter when they heard this.
Chen Ying shouted: "Soldiers, come with me and eat roasted whole lamb!"
The sound of horse hooves is like thunder, breaking the tranquility in the air.
A Western Turkic man who was grilling the whole sheep happily and humming a small song in his mouth was suddenly alarmed by the sound of horse hooves. He looked at a tide of black cavalry in the distance in the sky. The black cavalry tide slowly spread towards his wings, and the dark hook and sickle spear emitted a creepy cold light.
The Turkic cavalry looked at all this in shock.
We haven't had lunch yet, are you too active?
The Turkic cavalry kicked the tie and hit the ties. The Turkic cavalry randomly stuffed some half-baked mutton into their mouths, then stepped onto the war horses in a mess and put on their backs with bows and arrows.
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When he learned that Chen Ying appeared in Qilian Mountains, Tongye Hu Khan spurted out blood.
Chen Ying was so fucking unexpected. How could war horses go up the mountain? How could you launch an attack from Qilian Mountain?
However, vomiting blood is of no use.
Because vomiting blood will never spit out Chen Ying, hurry up and support the right wing front battalion, this is the main business.
Chapter completed!