Chapter 103 The three armies go into battle
The rumbling sound of horse hooves was deafening.
Li Chongjiu suddenly woke up, as if he was thinking of something, and immediately took the horse past and headed towards the military tent where Li Yuan was...
Li Shimin and Li Zhiwan were all aside. After hearing what Li Chongjiu said, Li Yuan looked solemn, and Li Shimin and Li Zhiwan both showed expressions of agreement.
"I'll try this matter for now." After Li Yuan finished speaking, he immediately walked into the military tent.
The three of them were in a wait. Fortunately, Li Yuan had returned not long after. He smiled and said, "Mr. Fan is already stunned at the moment. As long as he proposes any strategy to defeat the Turks, he has always agreed. So, this matter will be left to Shimin. Chongjiu, you will assist Shimin one or two."
"Dad, I'm going to go too." Li Zhiwan said.
"Nothing!" Li Yuan shouted angrily, "This matter is extremely risky, and it is not something that your daughter can do."
Li Yuan walked in the tent and said, "For the sake of the country, I, Li Yuan, will never ask for your back, but your eldest brother and second brother are still there, where will it be your daughter's turn to come forward?"
Li Zhiwan said firmly: "My daughter's life ambition is to be a good match for her wife, Mulan."
Li Shimin stepped forward and said, "Dad, the third sister is skilled in archery and horses, and she is also helping. Please rest assured, I will protect Sanniang carefully." Li Chongjiu also stepped forward and said, "Please rest assured Mr. Tang, I will protect Sanniang without any harm."
Li Yuan sighed and said, "If you find out for your mother, you will blame me."
After hearing Li Yuan's answer, Li Zhiwan was overjoyed.
In front of the Central Army's tent.
Li Shimin held a bowl of wine in his hand, raised it high above his head, and said to the dark armored soldiers below, "Tomorrow he will be ordered to take the tent of the Turkic Khan, this is a grand event that will be recorded in the inscriptions of all ages. You all drink a cup of wine."
Everyone was fine at first, but when they heard Li Shimin say they wanted to take it straight tomorrow, the Turkic Khan's den changed their qualities.
Where Shibi Khan was located, the Turks were heavily guarded by the most elite army, and they were only a few hundred of them. Isn’t it a death?
Seeing that everyone was embarrassed, Li Shimin stopped drinking the cup and immediately drew his sword in his hand, saying, "How are you afraid? I am the son of Mr. Tang. Compared to you, who is the respectful person? I am not afraid of death, why dare you cherish your life?"
After hearing what Li Shimin said, Li Chongjiu below and Li Shimin's confidants below took the lead in raising their arms and shouting, "Swear to take the head of Shibi!"
When the soldiers saw Li Shimin's appearance, they all shouted, "Swear to take the head of Shibi!"
For a moment, hundreds of soldiers in the central army raised their arms and shouted together.
Seeing the scene, Fan Zigai couldn't help but feel a little nervous and looked at Li Yuanyan and said, "Your Duke Tang is sure of this."
Li Yuan was not very confident, but he still smiled and said, "Let me see the younger generation defeat the thief tomorrow."
Fan Zigai's mind was settled a little bit.
The next day it was bright.
One hundred thousand Sui troops set up formations on the Shannan Plain.
The Sui army set up its formation, and the chariots and cavalry were out, guarding the chariots and cavalry were hidden in the chariots. This was also the usual tactics of the Sui army.
This is because of the fact that the proportion of cavalry is too small. Even in the border counties, there are only more than 10,000 cavalry, which is no more than 200,000 Turkic cavalry, and there are more than one person and a few horses.
During the battle yesterday, although the Sui cavalry had high combat qualities, the Turkic rangers were numerous and powerful, suppressing the Sui cavalry.
Although most of the Sui army were recruited temporarily, there were also soldiers who could fight. For example, the four thousand counties under the command of Rengong, the Mayi County Prince, were elite soldiers. Yesterday's battle was like a mainstay, supporting the overall situation, otherwise the Sui army would have been defeated long ago.
The war is imminent, and the murderous aura around it is still as real.
Li Chongjiu was wearing light leather armor, carrying three stone bows and a long sword, and slowly moved with the army.
The Turkic horse under his crotch swayed left and right, rubbing against the two dazzling bows of the star-picking bows on the left and right leather bags. The eagle feathered arrowheads placed on the saddle of the horse were even filled with six large arrow bags.
The flags of the two-horned swallowtails are winding, and the trumpets are blowing one after another.
Li Chongjiu controlled the reins and came to Li Shimin. Li Shimin and Li Zhiwan's brother and sister looked solemn.
As the commander of hundreds of iron cavalry, Li Shimin didn't need much. Li Zhiwan also had sweat dripping from her forehead, which obviously caused the evil aura of the hundreds of thousands of troops before the battle, so she almost couldn't breathe.
At this time, 200,000 Turkic cavalry also moved together, with sounds like thunder, and they were circling left and right.
Unlike the formation of the Sui army, nomadic peoples set up their formations without a fixed method. Their tactics are mostly hunted on weekdays. The rangers seem to be quite free and scattered, with a cluster in the east and a bunch in the west, but when they hear the orders, they are like a gust of wind, and the Turkic cavalry will beat the Sui army in single combat.
The Sui army is now setting up a formation, and the Turks will not give the Sui army a chance to set up a position.
The left and right cavalry moved and inserted into the side flank of the Sui army diagonally.
For a moment, there was a scene of thousands of horses galloping in front of me. The Turks, the nation on the horse's back, showed various riding skills on the horse's back.
After the horn, the whistle and arrows were heard, and the Turkic cavalry in front whistled in unison and rushed to the front.
The war horse repeatedly bit the horse and chewed it. Li Chongjiu watched from side to side and suddenly heard a strange beat. The soldiers wearing brown and yellow war clothes on both sides suddenly held their breath.
The wind flies and the flags rise, and the horns blow and sharpen swords and guns!
The Sui army men on both sides shouted in unison, their faces fluttering red.
First there were hundreds of people, then thousands, tens of thousands, and the three armies called out!
The sky is vast and the wilderness is vast. The blue sky is dormant and the tiger is rising!
Even Li Shimin and Li Zhiwan were no exception. The Sui army had 100,000 children, and their singing was majestic and bold, breaking through the sky.
This is the song of the big horn. From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, Han men from the inner and outer gates sang this song, trampling through the Helan Mountains, attacking the Turks, Tuyuhun, Gaochang, laughing and drinking the blood of the Huns, and swallowing thousands of miles of a tiger!
The singing was so strong that Li Chongjiu was refreshed, and all his previous nervousness and worries were abandoned.
In the face of the war, Li Chongjiu looked at these sincere men of the Sui Dynasty and couldn't help but emerge. Compared with the country, his personal honor and disgrace had nothing to do with his personal gains and disgraces.
Before the song could stop, Turkic wolf cavalry flocked to him.
"Prepare the crossbow!"
"shoot!"
The war horses intertwined, and the arrows were like rain.
What a great battle to sacrifice one's life.
In the direction of Fenyang Palace, the Great Sui Imperial Guards still broke through the mountain and were intercepted by Turks.
Like yesterday's battle situation, under the Central Golden Wolf Crown, the Turkish Shibi Khan and the Fuli Army remained unmoved.
In fact, there are 200,000 Turks divided into three parts: Li, control the string, and Tuojie.
Fuli, in Turkic terms, means wolf, which is the entourage of Khan's tent, and the personal soldiers of the Ashina clan are the most elite.
In the Turkic army, only the support of Li was allowed to wear iron armor, and the rest were not allowed.
There were only a few soldiers from the Li family, but there were only tens of thousands of people. Guanxian was the main body of the 200,000 Turkic army. Guanxian was composed of Turkic herdsmen and soldiers of the vassal tribe.
The leaders of the vassal tribes were named Shijin or Jie Lifa, and there were officials such as Tutun. In order to manage the grassland tribes, the Turk Khan was appointed by the special service children of the Ashina clan, and even Xiao Kehan controlled the command.
For example, the Turks called Tuli in the east, and from time to time, they set up Tuli Khan to assist Turkic Khans and govern tribes such as Xi and Khitan.
Tuojie is the Hu people in the eyes of the Turks, such as the nine surnames of Zhaowu in the Western Regions, and even depend on the Han tribe of the Turks.
Although Tuojie is not large in number, it is also very resistant to war. At the moment, the two armies are fighting, and the Tuojie cavalry composed of Guanxian and Tuojie are sweeping towards the Sui army like a strong wind.
Chapter completed!