A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 545
Outside the tent, the new wind howled like a howling wolf.

In this cold winter when you have to pee outside with a stick, it is really a pleasure to drink a bowl of hot radish stew soup in a cowhide tent, especially with a lot of ginger slices in the soup, which makes people's stomach warm Yes, the sweat on his body penetrated from the top of the sky to the tailbone.

An Lushan became the flag of the team, and it was changed to the leader of the team and the flag holders.

Yuwen, a young man from Shuofang, also came from Chengdu. He and the team leader claimed that he was from An Lushan.

Yuwen Chengdu is two years younger than An Lushan, but he came to Wu Huaiyu earlier than An Lushan, and An Lushan usually calls Chengdu his senior brother.

One has the blood of Sogdian Hu, and the other has the blood of Wulu mixed Hu. With similar backgrounds and experiences, the two teenagers usually get along very well.

"Why is senior brother here?"

"I'm here to send an order, and I came here to see you." Yu Wencheng looked An Lushan up and down, and stretched out his hand to pull it, "Is it not hurt?"

"No, they're all Turkic mobs, they didn't hurt me, but they gave me thirteen heads," he said, and he also took out a necklace for his left ear, showing off a little.

Yu Wencheng, who is only 14 years old, is very envious. Although he is not short, and he grew up in the Poyetou tribe when he was young, he also grew up on horseback. This time, he didn't get the chance to go to the battlefield.

"I really envy you, I can only send orders everywhere, when will I be able to go to the battlefield."

"Wait for two years,"

An Lushan took Yuwen Chengdu to sit together, and narrated his experience on the battlefield. He was always young at heart. He worked hard to be mature in front of the team leader, but he couldn't help being overwhelmed in front of the younger brothers.

The more Yu Wencheng listened, the more envious he became.

"It's getting late, I should go back, take care of yourself, after the war is over, I'll treat you to a drink at the Shuofang Guild Hall on Tanzhou Street, Youzhou City."

"Okay, you should also pay attention to safety on the road, by the way, is Aye okay?"

"Very good, but I guess tonight is another sleepless night, and Aye hasn't slept much these days."

"Please take care of Aye."

"Do not worry."

Although the two teenagers were not formally adopted sons of Wu Huaiyu, they were also said to be fake sons of Lord Yi. They knew how well Lord Yi treated them, so they took them out of the frontiers of Shuofang and taught them martial arts and tactics. I respect and appreciate Lord Yi in my heart, and regard him as a reborn parent. The teenagers are willing to go through fire and water for Lord Wu, and are willing to block swords and guns.

Compared with the adopted sons of Li Keyong and Wu Sigong, who were officially accepted by Mr. Wu, these two bearded teenagers have a better relationship.

An Lushan put a cloak on Yuwen Chengdu and sent him outside the tent.

The north wind howled outside the tent, and the cold wind was like a knife.

"Come back, it's cold outside."

Yu Wencheng waved his hand.

From the other side of the mountain came the sound of a whining horn, piercing through the new wind.

The two listened with pricked ears.

"Sure enough, as Aye expected, Jieli's evil wolf really came to attack at night." Yu Wencheng laughed, "It's a pity that everything can't escape what my foster father expected, and I should be able to kill more wolf cubs tonight .”

Before the words were finished, more horns sounded.

"war!"

Badger's mouth was the first to ignite the beacon, which was so obvious in the night sky.

Soon, beacon fires were also lit on the tops of other passes in Yehu Ridge.

But Yu Wencheng didn't panic after watching it, "The wolf cubs really divided up their forces to attack each pass, and fell into the plan of the foster father again. Hahaha, it seems that we can fight more wolves tonight."

Every beacon fire represents a mountain pass that is being attacked by the Turkic people at night.

Every time there is only one beacon, it is not a call for help, but it represents safety, and everything is under control. Unless three beacons are lit, it means danger and needs reinforcements. If five beacons rise together, it means that the pass is here Already lost.

In this cold night, on Feihuling Mountain, which is more than [-] miles away, it is the fastest and most effective way to transmit signals with beacon fires, allowing Wu Huaiyu to sit in Badger's mouth and grasp the overall situation in the first place.

The fierce night battle began.

Yuwen Chengdu rode back on his horse and returned to his command, and An Lushan also returned to his tent.

The team leader and the flag bearers are putting on their armor again.

Although there is no order, since the horn is sounded and the beacon is lit, one should be ready for battle at any time.

Stand by.

Everyone helped each other put on the armor, then checked the shields, spears, bows and arrows, etc., and finally took out a sharpener to sharpen the knife. After all this was done, the team leader packed up and lay down on the dog skin mattress

"Go to sleep and recharge your batteries,"

An Lushan knew that this was the experience of a veteran, so he could accumulate his physical strength at any time, so he also lay down.

Lying down in iron armor is actually very uncomfortable, but no matter how uncomfortable it is, at least it is in the tent, there is no wind like a knife to shave your face, and there is not even a rain of arrows and knives and guns falling all over the sky.

Close your eyes,

Still can't sleep.

An Lushan played back the battle experience during the day over and over again in his mind,

The snoring sound of the burly team leader was heard next to him, and then the tower-like giant bannerman, and even the lean team lieutenant also snored.

Badger mouth north mountain pass.

No matter how fierce the night battle here is, Jieli changed his tactics this time. Not only did he launch an attack on all the passes at the same time, but also sent additional troops to the main battlefield Badger's mouth this time. Elite Turkic soldiers, 3000 people at a time, and additional archers were sent behind to cover them,
Even behind the 3000 people, there was another 3000 people, almost without interruption.

He tried to take advantage of the darkness to increase his troops and break through in one fell swoop.

During the daytime, Wu Huaiyu deliberately backed away from the [-]-step Huanerzui Mountain, giving way to [-] steps.
This gave Xieli the confidence to continue betting.

As long as you work harder, you can defeat Tang Jun and take down the mountain.

Under the night.

Arrows from both sides flew randomly, fighting in the dark. For both attackers and defenders, this kind of battle seemed very difficult, and the casualties were even greater.

But no one will give up.

Wu Huaiyu was wearing armor all over her body, sitting on the top of the mountain, with the Qingyi army flag still behind her.

The mountain wind howled, and the lights were lit. The two sides in the battle could not be seen clearly, but the sound of fighting could tell that it was intense.

The Turkic people had only one goal, and they kept attacking up the mountain until they reached the top of the mountain, while the Tang army also had only one goal, to hold their position, to chop anyone who came, and to stab anyone they saw.

The Turkic offensive was fierce, but the Tang army was well prepared.
Every half an hour, new troops stepped forward to take over the line of defense, and even moved back slowly between attacks.

An hour, about a hundred steps back.

The horse's sharpened post, barbed wire, and the crossbowmen in the rear are constantly consuming the Turkic people.

These Youzhou soldiers did not disappoint Wu Huaiyu. This night battle did not become a chaotic battle, it was still an orderly chaos, and the Tang army always controlled the rhythm.

For every hundred steps the Turks advanced, they had to pay thousands of casualties.

It was too dark, and the crossbowmen could only use the team as a unit to carry out collective lobbing and long-range fire support. Those strong men with long arms would switch defenses collectively after shooting a hundred arrows and retreat to the rear to rest.

The bow and crossbow teams took turns to play.

Shooting a hundred arrows in a row is actually not a problem for archers.

The elite infantry archers in the government soldiers are required to shoot sixty arrows in a row, while the cavalry is to shoot three arrows in a row at a [-]-meter impact, so-called three arrows per horse.

Elite archers are on the battlefield, and the enemy shoots arrows at sixty paces, and retreats behind the spear and shield soldiers with three arrows before the battle.

But on a battlefield like tonight, standing on the hill behind the shield infantry was no different from standing on the top of the city and firing arrows, and the lob shot did not require precise aiming.

Generally, it takes three seconds for archers to launch a shot, but it takes about ten seconds for the enemy to charge [-] steps before the battle, so there are three arrows before the battle.

Usually archers only carry thirty to sixty arrows, ordinary infantry carry thirty arrows, and crossbowmen carry at least sixty arrows.

In this battle, Wu Huaiyu asked the logistics battalion to prepare a hundred arrows for each crossbowman at a time.

Shoot ten arrows and rest for half a minute,

In fact, if there is no rotation, and an elite archer has enough arrows and a solid position to protect, it is no problem to shoot a thousand arrows a day. Of course, it will definitely be affected the next day.

The main thing that affects archers' arrow matching is the weight they carry, not the strength of archery. A pot of thirty arrows is already very heavy. There are several kinds of arrows for professional crossbowmen, and some armor-piercing arrows are even heavier. .

Bow and crossbow teams shot blindly one after another, facing the direction in front of the formation, covered by arrow rain,
A hundred arrows were quickly exhausted, and then they retreated. Another group of archers came up to replace their wheels with two bags of arrows on their backs. This kind of extravagant shooting method can only be done by the Youzhou Army. No one dares to shoot like that.

Wu Huaiyu prepared enough arrows in advance. After each archer finished shooting a hundred arrows, he took turns to rest, and after resting, he took a hundred arrows to go forward and take turns.

keep shooting,

Arrows don't want money.

Although the hit rate of lob shots in this kind of night is not high, the continuous rain of arrows is still very effective in blocking the enemy. The infantry in front not only has a large shield of Peng Pai, but also has a ten-foot-high spear. Will stand up to resist the horse, sprinkle barbed thorns to block the enemy,
This will cause the Turkic people to attack close, and they will always gather very densely, which greatly increases the damage of the arrow rain of the archers. Even in the dark night, they can take away a few in each round.

The arrow rain support from the crossbowmen relieved a lot of pressure on the spear infantry.

Horses, caltrops, shields, spears, arrows,
The sound of fighting resounded through the night.

"Report, sweating, and move forward a hundred steps!"

"Report, push another hundred steps."

"Khan, the people of Tang took another hundred steps back."

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At the foot of the mountain, in the Turkic camp and in the Golden Wolf camp, there was constant 'good news'. After the Turkic army changed its strategy, it really made good progress and kept moving forward. The Tang army was 'retreating steadily'.

But after the initial joy, Ke Jieli slowly frowns.

Because under normal circumstances, if the Tang army is really retreating steadily, then they should quickly collapse, but now the Tang army has been retreating fifty steps, one hundred steps, but has never collapsed, and the battle has been stalemate. He found that it was more like Tang Jun was always in control of the rhythm.

The Tang army was not repelled, but was gradually retreating.

Badger's Mouth at [-] paces takes [-] paces during the day,
That night they took fifty steps to the left and one hundred steps to the right, but in the middle of the night they only advanced three to five hundred steps.

Jieli didn't pay attention to the casualties just now, but now he had to call Zhao Deyan, "Let Zhishenli count the casualties,"

"There are other pass attacking troops. Why haven't they made any progress? Doesn't it mean that the rest of the passes are empty, why haven't they taken them yet?"

Xieli has gone from complacent to anxious.

(End of this chapter)