Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 439

The Geluolu people originally belonged to a branch of the Tiele people.

Like the Uyghurs, Basmis, and Oghuzes, they are nomadic peoples who speak the ancient Turkic language.

However, it may not be accurate to say that the Geluolu people are nomadic people. It can only be said that most of them are in a nomadic state, but there are still a small number of people who have learned farming.

Of course, the biggest reason for this is that the global climate temperature was more suitable during the Tang Dynasty, and small-scale farming could also be carried out in the north of the Altai Mountains.

And when the Little Ice Age came at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Geluolu people had to migrate south due to the bitter cold weather.

Everyone went south, with more people and less land, there would inevitably be turmoil, and then they, together with the Uyghurs and Basmi, attacked the Western Turkic Khanate.

In fact, not only was the Central Plains Dynasty vulnerable to attacks by the grassland peoples during the Little Ice Age, in fact, before that, the grassland peoples had already undergone a round of survival of the fittest.

However, the demise of the Western Turks did not allow the Geluolu people to come to power. They were headless, but after Pang Teqin moved westward, they surrendered to the Uighurs and became an important part of the Kara Khanate.

And because the area where the Geluolu people live has always been north of the Altai Mountains and east of Lake Balkhash, the climate here is cold and dry, and the living conditions are difficult.

Therefore, in addition to giving the Ge Luolu people the two characteristics of being hospitable and brave and good at fighting, they also endowed them with the most cruel characteristics of the grassland nation.

simply put.It is their favorite operation is to hug the thigh.

In the eyes of the grassland people, this is nothing more than the wisdom of survival, but in the eyes of others, especially Han people like Zhang Zhao, the biggest characteristic of the Ge Luolu people is that they are repeatedly untrustworthy.

They backstabbed Gao Xianzhi, the envoy of the Four Towns of Anxi in the past, and the Western Turkic Khanate that took them over.

So when preparing to kill Saktu and the [-] Geluolu cavalry in Tingzhou City, Zhang Zhao didn't make any plans, because he didn't intend to subdue many Geluolu people at all.

. . . .

Xianquan Town is about forty miles away from Tingzhou. This distance is not too far for cavalry. If you don't spare your horsepower, you can arrive within an hour.

So Zhang Zhao didn't appear to be in a hurry, but after feeding the soldiers at the first moment of Yinshi, the whole army was mobilized at the end of Yinshi to approach Tingzhou City.

Of course, there is another reason why Zhang Zhao is not impatient, that is, his main purpose of this battle is to swallow the entire Gaochang Uyghur Khanate.

For the Geluolu people who are far away in the land of seven rivers, Zhang Zhao is not currently planning to bring them into his rule.

These guys have a total of more than [-] tents in the Land of Seven Rivers, and they are quite a force in Anxi at this moment.

If Zhang Zhao brought them into the scope of his rule, it would be difficult to effectively block and restrict them.

Once these people have a way to obtain ironware through Anxi, they may become a huge threat to Tingzhou, so Zhang Zhao simply does not plan to recruit them.

In this way, a blockade against the Ge Luolu people can be formed in Tingzhou and Luntai, which is near Urumqi.

Even a small piece of iron is not allowed to flow into their tribe, so as to weaken and control the Gelulu people.

. . . .

As a grassland nation, the Geluolu people's favorite color is black, and many grassland peoples have this preference.

Because on the grassland, the best and most conspicuous color is black, and red is still too extravagant for them.

So when Bai Congxin and Murong Xinchang arrived in Tingzhou with two thousand elites each, the first thing they saw was not the low city walls of Tingzhou City, but the black-topped tents slid along the Baiyangshui outside the city.

As a very warlike grassland nation, the Ge Luolu people did not all shrink in Tingzhou city.

Because they are all cavalry, if they are trapped in the city, how can they maneuver.

Therefore, there are only 2000 people of Saktu's most confidantes in the city, and the rest are camped outside the city.

According to the arrangement at the time of departure, Bai Congxin led his troops, first lurking about five miles away from the Ge Luolu camp.

Murong Xinchang handed over a thousand cavalry from Zuo Yulinwei to Bai Congxin, and he personally led a thousand fine cavalry to go around to the other side.

Then the two sides agreed to attack together from the southwest and northwest directions.

For Murong Xinchang's 1000 people, all the hooves of the war horses were wrapped with thick animal skins or white cotton cloth, which really tested the training level of the war horses.

Because for a normal horse, if you wrap its hooves, its first reaction is fear and fear, at least it wants to shake off the things on the hooves, and it cannot obey orders at all.

But Murong Xinchang's two thousand war horses have long been accustomed to this, and none of the horses were restless.

At the same time, a thousand cavalrymen all had a wooden stick with their names engraved in their mouths. After arriving at the designated place, the first thing the officer checked was whether the wooden stick in the soldier's mouth was still there.

Anyone who is absent will be deprived of one rank of honor, and those without rank will be sent to death squads. If they can survive, their crimes will be offset, but it is generally difficult to survive.

At the same time, when the person holds the stick in his mouth, the horse's mouth will also be bound to prevent them from making too loud a cry.

. . . .

All the 3000 people under Bai Congxin got off their horses. They tacitly took out soybeans fried with salt and began to feed the horses. Bai Congxin himself took out a very well-made hourglass.

This is the timer that Zhang Zhao began to promote among senior military officers after he arrived in Liangzhou.

Compared with the popular diarrhoea-type engraved glass, the hourglass, a timer that takes about 100 years to appear, has one of the biggest advantages, that is, it is rarely affected by the weather.

The main thing is that it will not evaporate and freeze, which will affect the accuracy of timing

The batch of hourglasses that Zhang Zhao asked the Ministry of Industry to make were more accurate than ordinary ones. Even the weight and particle size of the sand inside had been screened and weighed by the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, and the error was extremely small.

Bai Congxin looked at this small hourglass. It was an hourglass for a quarter of an hour. When it finished, no matter how long Murong Xin was, Bai Congxin would launch an attack immediately.

If Nobunaga Murong arrives ahead of time, a characteristic fire mine will be detonated as a reminder.

It was the end of Mao time, that is, seven o'clock in the morning, and the Ge Luolu people by the Baiyangshui began to get up and move around.

The first thing the officers did when they got up in the morning was to check whether the small group of cavalry who had been guarding outside had returned.

People from Ge Luolu generally have three surnames - Mou Luo, Ta Shili, and Chi Tang.

After Saktu arrived in the Land of Seven Rivers, he promoted the weakest of them, the Muluo Tribe, to his confidant.

From then on, the Moubu tribe has become a staunch supporter of Saktu, so most of the people who live with Saktu in Tingzhou are from the Moubu tribe.

Genalao is waking up from a dream. He is a short but muscular 'strong man'.

People of this size are often the best riders. They are strong but small, and they are born for horseback.

As the little prince of the Mou tribe, he was also one of the first people to take refuge in Saktu. Therefore, after Saktu became the de facto Ye Hu of the Geluolu people, Genalao received a very generous reward.

The herdsmen under his command quickly expanded from two thousand tents to seven thousand tents.

There was a low sobbing sound coming from beside him, Genalao didn't care at all, instead he grinned loudly.

This is the eldest daughter of the governor of Gaochang Uighur Tingzhou. After Saktu entered the city, regardless of whether the girl was married, she was rewarded to Ge Naluo.

"You Uyghurs have lived too many good times. Women can't bear even this kind of grievance. I hope your sister is not so delicate and tender that she can't help pampering her."

Hearing Ge Naluo's words, the crying woman hugging a cotton quilt suddenly widened her eyes.

This is a small white-skinned beauty, in stark contrast to the dark and ugly Panzi-like Genalo.

"No!" The little Uighur beauty suddenly exclaimed, "Yina is only 13 years old, you promised me that I would not bully her!"

Genalao turned around and smiled, "I promised, but now I have changed my mind.

Our 13-year-old girl Ge Luolu is already married, and you Uyghur 13-year-old girl still needs the protection of her elder sister, she is so fragile. "

"You promised me, you promised me!"

The little Uighur beauty on the bed was still at the stage where her sense of security was completely shattered, screaming in panic.

Genalao had already put on his clothes, he turned his head and smiled lewdly.

"Tonight, I need to see a well-dressed Yi Na, otherwise, no one can save your father's life."

"Yinale, the five teams of ten on the northwest and northeast sides did not come back today. Ahad Subash wants to take five hundred riders to scout."

At this moment, the shouts of the guards came from outside the door.

Yinale means prince, and it is used by the Oguz and Geluolu people to refer to the leader of their own people, and Subash is a name for the general who commands the army.

Genalao walked out of the tent quickly, and he frowned. The two centurions that went out on patrol the day before yesterday did not come back. At this time, the five ten-man teams that were guarding outside lost contact.

Then this cannot be explained by going out to plunder, it must be that the enemy has appeared somewhere.

"Hurry up and report to Ye Hu, let Subash take 1000 people, 500 people are not..."

Before Ge Naluo finished speaking, he heard a loud bang.

He rushed out of the tent in surprise and looked up to the sky. There were a few white clouds floating in the sky in the morning, and there was no sign of rain at all. Where did the thunder come from?

However, he no longer had any doubts, because the sound of neat horseshoes sounded, and even the ground seemed to be trembling slightly.

Genalo's camp was set up on a low hill, because it would be convenient for him to command, and he snatched the guard's horse, and Genalo galloped out of the main tent.

One or two miles away, two cavalrymen lined up in a neat formation and rushed towards the two sides like thunder, leaving only a passage for his main tent to the west.

Murong Xinchang sneaked all the way to the place where the Lige Luolu people's camp was less than two miles away, and then he gave a signal and rushed over with his army.

At this time, the tents of the Ge Luolu people were arranged in a shape, with the main tent in the middle of the higher-lying area.

Outside the main tent, some scattered tents stretched out on each side, serving as a barrier for the main tent, which can be used as a barrier when the enemy attacks.

But Murong Xinchang and Bai Cong chose extremely boldly, they chose to pass through the gaps of the scattered barrier tents, and went directly to the main tent.

The advantage of this is that most of the people in charge of the chaos can be quickly squeezed out of this advantageous place.

But the disadvantage is that it is equivalent to plunge into the stomach of the enemy.

While it is possible to mess up the enemy, it is also possible to be eaten by the enemy.

The 1000 people approached first were Murong Nobunaga, because Bai Congxin was waiting for his signal at a position of about five miles away, but Murong Nobunaga launched an attack at a position less than two miles away.

So he rushed into the Ge Luolu camp before Bai Congxin.

The reaction of the Ge Luolu people was also very fast. After the initial panic, the scattered tents that had not suffered a direct impact quickly reacted.

Of course, there is another reason for this fast response, and that is that the fighters in the scattered tents outside them basically have no armor.

Their weapons are nothing more than a bow, a pot of arrows and axes and hammers made of various materials, so the reaction speed can be very fast.

As soon as he opened his eyes, stepped on the horse and took the bow, it was considered that the preparations were completed.

Of course, this method is convenient, but the lethality is still very poor.

They saw Murong Xinchang's 1000 people slipping through the gap, and immediately whimpered and attacked from both sides.

The rain of arrows flew all over the sky, but the 500 people in front of Murong Xinchang were all half-suited, that is, the cavalry wore cotton armor, and the horse was protected by a piece of armor hanging down from the abdomen.

The weight of the overall man vest does not exceed fifty catties, so that it not only has a certain degree of defense, but also does not sacrifice speed to the greatest extent.

As for the Ge Luolu people, many of them don't even have enough iron arrows, and they seem to be shot like locusts all over the sky, but apart from causing a little bit of psychological tension, they don't even shoot a single knight off their horses. Come.

And the five hundred riders behind Murong Xinchang were commanded by his confidant Zhang Xibao.

These five hundred cavalry are light armored cavalry wearing three layers of composite cowhide armor and chain mail on the outer coat.

Although these chain mails were seized from Saman Persia, they were improved to a certain extent after arriving in Hexi, and the gaps between each iron chain were even smaller.

This made the Persian-style chain mail, which was originally liked to be hung by arrows, become more dense, and even ordinary armor-piercing arrows could not easily penetrate the small holes of the chain mail.

The composite cowhide armor inside greatly reduces the impact force of the arrow.

What Zhang Xibao and the others were holding was also a relatively light horse bow.

This kind of bow for immediate combat is generally only six or seven buckets. The advantage is that it can greatly increase the number and speed of arrows fired by the rider, but the disadvantage is that the power is too small.

However, it is enough to shoot Ge Luolu people who don't have these armors.

Moreover, the power of the arrow depends on the strength of the bow, and there is another indicator, that is, the quality of the arrow shaft.

Generally speaking, the straighter the shaft, the more power it can carry.

The arrow shaft is crooked and crooked, and often during flight, most of the kinetic energy given by the bowstring will be consumed.

The quality of the flying posture is also one of the decisive factors in determining the power of the arrow.

So this is the reason why a bow of the same strength can sometimes pierce armor with one arrow, and sometimes it can't even hang with one arrow.

Similarly, in ancient times when there were no industrial machinery such as lathes, to make the arrow shaft straight, it was entirely dependent on the personal experience and skills of the craftsman, which is also a manifestation of the comprehensive national strength of a country.

The arrow shafts in Zhang Xibao's hands are far straighter than Ge Luolu's, and the arrows are also made of fine steel.

So even though the arrows were also shot by the horse bow, Zhang Xibao's lethality exceeded that of the Ge Luolu people by an order of magnitude.

The Ge Luolu people were shooting at the five hundred cavalry led by Murong Xinchang, while Zhang Xibao was shooting at the Ge Luolu people on both sides.

The former has almost no harm, and the latter's harm can only be described as horror.

The Ge Luolu people gathered in a mess were constantly shot down on the ground, and after losing more than a hundred people and unable to bear the casualties, they collapsed with a bang, and let them stop them with their lives. This is not Ge Luolu at all. Lu people's habits.

Genalao, who was in charge of the Shanbao tent, saw that more than [-] people below were shot and scattered by [-] cavalry, and immediately knew that the person coming was definitely not a good thing.

He has two choices, one is to hold the camp and wait for the support of the two thousand cavalry from Saktu in Tingzhou City, or the other is to attack now to defeat the enemy in front of him.

But at this time, Murong Nobunaga and the others came too fast, and Genalao couldn't form a team in a hurry, and it was not very realistic to attack.

Thinking of this, Genalao immediately ordered Subash Ahad to lead a thousand guards to delay the enemy at the gate, while he returned to gather the troops and the whole team.

After Genalao finished speaking, he ran back in a hurry, but Ahad, who had been clamoring to take five hundred elite cavalry to investigate earlier, was a little scared.

Just looking at those people on the opposite side, the rain of arrows shot from more than [-] people passed through, and there were not even a few arrows on the armor, and it was immediately known that these people were all wearing precious armor.

With such an iron cavalry, what can Ahad's cavalry wearing cowhide armor do to resist?

But he didn't dare to disobey Ge Naluo's order, so he quickly thought of a "little trick!" '

Ahad dismounted all the cavalry under his command to form an infantry formation.

Because if all the members mount their horses to intercept, they will be approached quickly at the speed of the opposite side.

With the equipment on them, if they were slashed by the armored cavalry, Ahad might have to die here.

But it would be different if they got off their horses. These cavalrymen were obviously rushing towards the large tent of the Chinese army, and they didn't care about their slow-footed infantry at all.

At that time, if Genalao organized a defense, he would get on his horse and charge to fight more.

Genalao didn't gather many soldiers and horses, so he had a complete system and the horses were still there, so it was always no problem to escape.

As soon as he said it, Ahad quickly sent two ten-man teams to guard the horses, while he himself lined up with seven 800 people gathered to form an infantry phalanx.

Murong Xinchang rushed in, thinking that he would be blocked by enemy cavalry. After all, there are at least seven thousand people in the main tent of these Ge Luolu people. How can they organize hundreds of thousands of cavalry first? Delay your own attack.

As a result, when he bumped in, he was shocked.

In addition to the frightened guys running around, he unexpectedly encountered a phalanx of hundreds of infantry.

A few of them were holding long wooden spears, and most of them were holding infantry bows, looking at themselves nervously.

For a moment, Murong Xinchang was a little suspicious. He didn't rush into the camp of the Ge Luolu people, but plunged into the camp of the late Jin army.

Scattered arrows shot over, just as Ahad expected, Murong Nobunaga's goal was the Chinese army's tent, and he wanted to capture the thief first and the king first, which is a bit of a surprise for this kind of weird infantry phalanx. Not interested.

These five hundred and a half armored cavalry were not even interested in returning a wave of bows and arrows, so they just rushed past them.

Ahad had just given up his breath and was about to catch up with the whole army to see the situation, but Zhang Xibao's five hundred cavalry just happened to charge over again.

Zhang Xibao's task is to create chaos, and the 800 people gathered together in an organized manner are the biggest enemy of chaos, and he will certainly not be soft-hearted.

The iron cavalry galloped past like a whirlwind, and a rain of arrows flew over. Ahad's tribe, who was about to mount their horses, immediately encountered a catastrophe.

The armor was tattered, there were no shields, no crossbows, no obstacles, and the formation was about to move.

The infantry gathered all the elements for the cavalry to be passively beaten in one fell swoop.

Zhang Xibao originally just wanted to scare this group of people away, but the behavior on the opposite side was simply the perfect target.

This made Zhang Xibao feel that if he didn't fight, he would be sorry for the favorable time and place.

Five hundred light armored cavalry circled around Ahad's infantry phalanx, spinning and shooting from all directions.

The Ge Luolu people crowded together in a mess, being knocked down to the ground by the flying arrows, screaming one after another.

Zhang Xibao and the others threw five rounds of arrow rain in an extremely fast time, and these unlucky Ge Luolu people couldn't hold back immediately.

I don't know who screamed, and took the lead to run out of the small gap left by Zhang Xibao and the others. The formation, which was barely maintained, suddenly collapsed, and there were figures running around everywhere.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Xibao immediately changed the team from riding and shooting in a circle to a scattered formation of impact, and then the first two rows were equipped with horse spears, and the rest were equipped with sabers, and suddenly slammed into them.

The fleeing Ge Luolu people were hit by Ma Qian's left hammer, and soon fell into even more chaos.

This allowed Liangguo's rear cavalry to mobilize their horses, and with a single wave, they could easily kill the Ge Luolu people who showed their backs to them, while their own side suffered almost zero casualties.

Murong Xinchang, who was advancing, still encountered some obstacles in the maze-like Ge Luolu people's main tent.

However, the unarmored cavalry can't stop them at all, and often only needs a sprint, and these Ge Luolu people will retreat with heavy casualties.

However, when he arrived at the main tent where the banner of Ye Hu, a symbol of the Ge Luolu people, was erected, Genalao had already gathered four thousand cavalry in the chaos, and they ran in a relatively orderly formation-
Still a fucking infantry phalanx.

hum!Genalao sneered twice, I can't think of it, I don't want to play riding and shooting with you.

You war horses are carrying tens of kilograms of iron armor, and you have run for more than five miles, and you are still galloping at high speed. Can you still punch through my three thousand bows now?
Genalao didn't dismount everyone, but left 1000 people as cavalry to distribute on both sides, and made a mobile force to dispatch at any time.

Nobunaga Murong grinned, what the hell, it's the classic Tang tactics or the Central Plains tactics!

The main force of the Chinese army consists of infantry forming a large crossbow formation, with elite cavalry on both wings.

Seeing this situation, not only Murong Xinchang laughed, but also Wu Guoer, Yue Saonu and others around him laughed.

Zuo Yulinwei fought on foot, that's not bragging, because they were separated from Regret Mountain Capital.

"Zhang Xiaobiao, Wen Buchao, you two will pay attention to the cavalry harassment on the left and right flanks.

The rest of the people waited, set up a large array of bows and crossbows, the archers with divine arms were in front, and Yue Saonu led Feihuo to prepare the pear flower gun! "

Murong Xin gave orders loudly, Zhang Xiaobiao from Baima Village was also in Murong Xin's army, he wanted greater military merit.

If he can reach the No.40 fourth rank, the eighth-rank Shumuro known as the ambassador, his son can be sheltered and enter the Imperial College, where he can study with the future prince and princess.

At that time, when he went to the Zhang family of Baima Village, he would touch the edge of the Wu Xun family from the warrior family.

Wen Buchao thought the same way, he was one of the twelve elite riders who followed Zhe Deyuan into Yunzhou City.

And his ambition is bigger, he is quite Zhang Tianwang's brother-in-law.

This was the highest reward given by Zhang Zhao when he set out. He would choose five warriors with the highest merit from the army, and marry his five younger sisters to them regardless of their backgrounds.

Although he is a Tang family, everyone knows that the immediate family members of the Tianwang family are weak, and he has no biological sister at all.

These cousins ​​were received by Zhang Tianwang to live in Yongxun Palace in Liangzhou, and they will marry according to the specifications of Tianwang's sisters. Everyone can have the title of princess and a corresponding dowry, which is similar to that of a real sister.

At the beginning, Genalao didn't know what the enemy on the other side was laughing at, but he knew it as soon as the fight started.

The 500 people on the opposite side are nothing like soldiers, they are simply killing machines.

When the bows and crossbows were shooting at each other, the [-] archers of his central army were shot by the [-] archers on the opposite side, and soon they couldn't stand it anymore.

Especially the hundreds of people who were facing the front were quickly dented by the shot.

The reason is very simple. Not only is the armor thick on the opposite side, but also a very fast and strange crossbow. It looks like a bow, but its power is similar to that of a crossbow.

The two sides shoot at each other, and on my own side, ten arrows cannot hurt one person on the other side, and ten arrows on the other side can't wait to kill ten people on my side. No one can bear this kind of terrible damage ratio.

Genalao had no choice but to wave the flag and order the cavalry on the left and right wings to attack.

But the two generals Murong Nobunaga arranged on the left and right wings were almost all top killing machines selected from all over Liangguo.

Zhang Xiaobiao, who shot and killed more than one hundred soldiers of the Dingnan Army, and Wen Buchao, who dared to pass through the formation of the Khitan army with twelve horsemen, are typical examples.

It's not easy for such a ruthless person to fight the cavalry of the Geluolu people.

The two-winged cavalry came obliquely, and Zhang Xiaobiao and the others showed no fear at all. The arrows shot by the God Arm Bow were still more than a hundred steps away, and the momentum of Ge Luolu's attack was stopped.

When the cavalry had rushed to twenty or thirty steps ahead, they didn't panic. They only heard a loud bang, and the flames ejected from the pear blossom gun lit up the not very bright morning.

The Ge Luolu cavalry horses who charged over were frightened by this, and suddenly made a mess.

Some warhorses who are stressed can easily think that such violent noises and shiny things are the arrival of large predators such as tigers.

Yes, there are tigers on the territory of the Geluolu people. Near rivers, lakes and some mountains, on the grasslands to the east and south of Yibohai (Lake Balkhash), there are a large number of tigers called Persian tigers in later generations. .

The speed of a war horse that is not well trained, or has never seen the pear blossom gun, collapses far beyond human estimation.

Think about it, even if it is a dog at home, or even a cow, what kind of state is it after being frightened?
The presence of large herd animals such as war horses will only become more intense.

With a shrill scream, he ran around, threw down the cavalry on his back, turned back and trampled on his own army formation.

Even Murong Nobunaga did not expect that two rounds of pear blossom guns could produce such a terrifying effect.

Surprised, Murong Xinchang pulled out a pair of iron whips that he carried with him, roared, and was the first to rush towards the Ge Luolu infantry phalanx.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Ge Luolu people being attacked by their own horses, they completely defeated them.

The Pear Blossom Gunner under Yue Saonu also immediately fired the Pear Blossom Spear in his hand, which did little damage, but the atmosphere of terror increased sharply, and even Ge Naluo could hardly control the situation. 4000 people were shocked by 500 people opposite. wobbly.

He was about to stabilize the front when Zhang Xibao and the others arrived just in time after killing hundreds of Ahad's men. They even changed their horses specially, and the impact was strong at this moment.

As soon as they arrived, Genalao knew it was over. This Geluolu Yinale did nothing, took off the conspicuous armor on his body, let the guards throw away the military flag, left the army and ran away up.

When he ran, Ge Luolu's army, which was still pouring in soldiers, completely collapsed.

On the other side, Bai Congxin's 3000 people also finished cleaning up the thousands of Geluolu people on the other side, and attacked the main tent.

The total collapse of the Ge Luolu people came.

　Seven thousand six hundred words combined into one.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)