On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 478

Thousands of horses are galloping, raising yellow sand all over the sky.

The cavalry on both sides confronted each other, and the fight took place in an instant, with the sound of weapons clashing and the screams of soldiers.

The pre-experiment army passed by the Tiele knight, leaving only the fallen knight howling in the field.

Su Dingfang turned his horse's head, raised his spear and shouted:

"To die for Wang Xiao, today!"

All the cavalry who survived the first wave of charge echoed loudly, and amidst the shouts, the cavalry of the Eastern Sui Dynasty launched a second wave of attack.

Su Dingfang galloped ahead, changing from jogging to sprinting, like a sharp arrow off the string, violently clearing the way ahead, vowing to break through all obstacles in front of him.

After the second wave of cavalry charged, the Eastern Sui cavalry all shouted:

"General Su is mighty!"

Su Ding was sinking like water, and he ordered:

"The whole army gave up their long weapons and replaced them with sabers."

After all, he was the first to discard the horse lance that he regarded as a treasure, and pulled out the saber at his waist.

The cavalry soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty acted according to the order, and threw away the long weapons in their hands one after another, and used sabers to kill the enemy.

The pre-experiment army was wearing solid armor and carrying long and short weapons with them. The horses carried such a heavy weight that they were close to exhaustion after launching two waves of charges.

They cannot be expected to sprint back and forth tirelessly.

And Su Dingfang ordered his subordinates to change to short weapons, in order to turn the cavalry into a close combat.

Although it is one inch long and one inch strong, there are so many cavalry fighting together, and everyone is crowded in a small area, there is no room for you to wield long weapons such as horses and spears freely.

Compared with horse lances and spears, sabers are obviously more suitable for large-scale cavalry hand-to-hand combat.

When the cavalry pawns of the two sides met for the third time, the tragic fight began immediately.

The blood on his face covered Su Dingfang's immature face. He was like a god of killing, mercilessly slashing at every enemy in front of him, mercilessly harvesting the lives of the Iron Knights.

"Who can kill him for me!"

Ashina Duoji pointed at Su Dingfang and shouted.

A Turkic cavalry general appeared out of nowhere and replied loudly:

"I kill thieves for the prince!"

Su Dingfang didn't understand Turkic, but some vocabulary, such as khan, prince, etc., was memorized in his heart, in order not to let the big fish slip away from his nose in the future.

Therefore, he couldn't understand what the person who killed him was saying, but he clearly heard the word "Prince".

After roughly guessing the identity of the person who spoke first, Su Dingfang memorized the direction from the previous voice in his heart, and ordered the cavalry to step up to protect him, and then put the saber into its sheath.

Su Dingfang took off the longbow on his back, held his horse and stretched the bow, and shot the galloping general off his horse with one arrow.

Amidst the cheers of the soldiers, Su Dingfang threw the longbow straight away. He didn't even want to delay the time to draw the bow. After pulling out the saber again, he shouted:
"Capture the thief first and capture the king first, the enemy chief is right in front, all the soldiers, follow me to kill the thief!"

After finishing speaking, he once again urged the horse to kill in the direction of Ashina Duoji.

The cavalrymen of the Eastern Sui Dynasty, who were fighting fiercely with the enemy, heard Su Dingfang's call and abandoned the enemy one after another, and followed him to Ashina Duoji.

Ashina Duoji's face was pale, he never expected, he shouted twice, but revealed his position twice.

The cavalry of the Eastern Sui Dynasty approached, even though there were Tiele knights chasing behind them, their goal was extremely firm.

This time, Shi Shu and Hu Xi no longer allowed Ashina Tuoji to be willful, and forcibly mounted the opponent on horseback, wanting Ashina Tuoji to avoid the edge temporarily.

Not far away, Su Dingfang saw that Ashina Tuoji was about to escape, and hurriedly touched his shoulder, but the shoulder was empty, and Su Dingfang remembered that he had discarded the longbow.

"Bring the bow!"

During the gallop, Su Dingfang roared at the left and right riders.

Immediately, a knight took off the longbow from his back and handed it to Su Dingfang.

Su Dingfang immediately set up an arrow, stretched the longbow like a full moon, and pointed the arrow pointing directly at Ashina Duoji's back.

Shi Shu Hu Xi turned his head to see this scene, his eyes were tearing apart in shock, and he shouted:
"Prince beware!"

However, it was too late, the arrow whizzed away from the string, and nailed heavily in Ashina Duoji's back.

After Ashina Tuoji screamed, he fell off the horse.

As Ashina Duoji fell off his horse, there was a moment of silence on the battlefield, and then shouts erupted everywhere.

"The prince has fallen!"

"The prince was shot by the Sui people!"

"The prince is dead, everyone run away!"

The Turkic language kept coming and going, and the word 'Prince' was particularly clear. A smile appeared on the corner of Su Dingfang's mouth, and he shouted:

"Murderer! Jizhou Su Dingfang!"

In a blink of an eye, the situation reversed. The general was shot and fell from the horse. He didn't know whether he was alive or dead. The Tiele people no longer had the will to fight.

The reason why they belonged to Qimin Khan was that Yang Su defeated Datou Khan of the western Turks, and the Tiele tribe was afraid, so they turned their backs on Datou Khan, attached themselves to the Sui Dynasty, and were sent to Qimin Khan under the command of

Even though the Tie Le knights still had the numerical advantage at this time, they did not dare to fight any longer. At first, the [-] soldiers who followed Ashina Tuoji to challenge Su Dingfang collapsed, and soon it spread to Tie Le, who was besieging Yuchi Jingde. Step and ride.

Seeing these Tie Le people running around, but Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde were unable to chase them any more.

Just as they regretted that they could not prevent the Tiele people from breaking up, those Tiele infantry fled back in a panic.

Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde were amazed until they saw countless Eastern Sui cavalry soldiers coming from all directions.

It turned out that after Cui Che joined the five hundred horsemen Su Dingfang left behind to guard the captives, women and children, and after listening to the report, he already felt that something was wrong.

Facing the 1000 elite cavalrymen of the pre-accounting army, Ashina Duoji wanted to be the rear, and would not send only a small army of [-] people anyway. How could these people alone be able to stop the pursuers? .

If things go wrong, there must be demons, Cui Che was worried, so he left [-] Khitan soldiers with silver saddles to guard the supplies and guard the prisoners together with the [-] cavalry.

At the same time, the war horses and walking horses of these left-behind soldiers were recruited and handed over to the remaining [-] accounts of the former army, [-] Boling cavalry, and [-] silver saddle Khitan Zhi, one man and four horses, and he went into battle lightly, chasing Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jing Germany.

When Cui Che rushed to the battlefield, the battle was coming to an end, all he could do was to dispatch all the cavalry under his command to drive away the defeated soldiers in all directions.

The battle between Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde's [-] pre-war soldiers and Ashina Duoji's [-] Tie Le Bu riding in the desert finally came to an end.

Cui Che came to the center of the battlefield, looked at the corpses all over the place, and was in a daze. There were Turkic people, Tiele people, and some elite soldiers who were regarded as treasures by him.

Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde knelt in front of Cui Che to plead guilty.

Although they won the battle, the two of them underestimated the enemy and rushed forward and fell into the opponent's ambush, causing heavy losses to the troops, so how dare they take credit for it.

Cui Che was not in a hurry to send them off. When Wei Zheng hurried over, he couldn't wait to ask:
"How's the result?"

Wei Zheng's expression was mixed, and he answered truthfully:

"This battle was a great victory. More than [-] people were beheaded and more than [-] people were captured."

As for the nearly [-] Tiele people who disappeared, they naturally disappeared in the vast desert.

Cui Che didn't care about the number of sacks, he said indifferently:
"Tell me about the loss."

When Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde heard the words, their hearts were raised in their throats.

Wei Zheng sighed and said:
"Loss of soldiers. 500 people."

Cui Che's face darkened, and Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde didn't even dare to raise their heads.

The prisoners were captured by the reinforcements, which means that the two of them killed 500 enemies with [-] casualties.

It seemed that the battle was fought beautifully, but the 500 people lost belonged to the pre-account army, the most elite cavalry under Cui Che's command.

Facing this group of Tiele people who had already been psychologically shadowed by Cui Che, they actually had a 1:2 battle loss ratio, which made them feel ashamed.

Cui Che remained silent, Wei Zheng gave Cui Che another wooden box and said:

"The head in the box is the son of Qimin, Ashina Duoji."

Hearing this, Cui Che finally dispelled the cloud in his heart.

He took the wooden box and opened it to see that it was a strange head.

Cui Che had never met Ashina Duoji before, so he asked Wei Zheng:
"Can you confirm the authenticity?"

Wei Zheng replied:

"Many captives have been found to identify the head in the box is indeed Ashina Duoji."

Ashina Duoji's name is very strange in later generations, but his khan name is very loud, that is, Shibi Khan.

Including Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, and the Central Plains separatist forces Xue Ju, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong, Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu, Li Gui, Gao Kaidao and others, even if they called themselves emperors, they all professed their ministers to Shibi Khan. , by the title of his Little Khan.

At its peak, as a grassland force, it had nearly a million elite soldiers. According to historical records: "Rong and Di are so strong that they have never existed in ancient times." '

With such a strong strength, but failed to enter the Central Plains, this person's intelligence is not superior.

The reason why he was able to revive the Turks and subdue the heroes of the Central Plains was that it was a good time. When he was in charge of the East Turks, it was the time when Yang Guang was struggling in the country.

But no matter what, Cui Che's mood improved a little after getting Ashina Duoji's head, he put down the wooden box, and said to Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde:
"Get up."

The two looked at each other, and hurriedly got up according to the words. Cui Che continued:

"What makes me angry is not that the two of you have lost troops and lost generals. The military situation is dangerous, so how could there be fewer casualties.

"But the two of you underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, have you forgotten how I explained it before you set off!

"I'm going to tell you that you two don't get entangled with the enemy, just delay the speed of the opponent's march.

"Ashina Tuoji left behind a small group of old and weak rear troops, so you can't go around! The army will arrive later, and these rear troops will be dispersed to ensure your retreat.

"In the final analysis, you two were greedy for merit and had to kill the people behind the palace, so you fell into an ambush by the Turkic people!"

Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde didn't dare to refute. In fact, what Cui Che said was correct, they were indeed greedy for credit, and they followed behind, so they didn't deserve as much credit for killing the enemy.

The two pleaded guilty again, Cui Che waved his hands and said:
"Thanks to the victory today, otherwise I would not have spared you two lightly."

Hearing these words, Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde felt at ease, and hurriedly thanked them.

Cui Che shook his head and said:
"Su Dingfang, you shot and killed the Turkic prince with one arrow in the chaos, turned the tide of the battle, and made great achievements. I should have rewarded you heavily.

"But as the chief general, you disobeyed orders, underestimated the enemy's carelessness, and almost caused the death of the soldiers under your command. Now that your merits and demerits are balanced, you will not be rewarded or punished. Are you convinced?"

What Su Dingfang was most worried about was that Cui Che would transfer him out of the frontline army. Now that he disobeyed orders and was greedy for meritorious service, it was already a fluke to get one who would not be rewarded or punished. How could he dare to protest:
"Being forgiven by the king, I will be grateful in the end, so there is no reason to be dissatisfied."

Cui Che then looked at Yuchi Jingde again, and said in a deep voice:
"Yuchi Jingde, regardless of life and death, you turned around and rushed into the siege to rescue the troops. I am very pleased with this.

"You have lived up to the appreciation of me and Su Guogong (Mai Tiezhang).

"But as a lieutenant general, you can't persuade Su Dingfang to fulfill his duties as a lieutenant general. Instead, you underestimated the enemy with him and caused the army to ambush. Can you admit it?"

Yuchi Jingde said in shame:
"I will be convicted at the end."

Cui Che went on to say:
"Because you delayed the main force of the enemy army, fought bravely, and contributed a lot to today's great victory. Now that your merits and demerits are equal, and you will not be rewarded or punished, are you convinced?"

Yuchi Jingde suddenly said:
"The final general will be convinced."

After Cui Che dealt with the two, he turned to Wei Zheng and said:
"The merits of the two of them can be deducted, but the rest of the soldiers are not guilty, they just obeyed orders.

"The meritorious service of the soldiers cannot be buried. You should count their military exploits alive. When you return to the court in the future, I will ask for rewards for the soldiers.

"There should be no shortage of pensions for dead and disabled soldiers."

Wei Zheng bowed and said:
"The minister takes orders."

Then he left with Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde to count the military exploits of the soldiers.

Not far away, Wei Zheng whispered to the two of them:
"The two generals are complaining about the unfair rewards and punishments of the king."

Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde shook their heads and waved their hands repeatedly, saying:

"The two of us disobeyed His Majesty's instructions. Now that His Majesty has given you grace and allowed us to balance our merits and demerits, why should we be dissatisfied?"

Seeing that their attitudes did not seem to be fake, Wei Zheng said with a smile:
"The two generals really annoyed the king this time, if they were replaced by others, they would have been abandoned long ago.

"However, Your Majesty kept the two generals in front of the account to serve the army, which shows that Your Majesty loves the two generals.

"The two generals don't need to be discouraged. There will be more opportunities to make contributions in the future. Besides, according to the king's temperament, when he returns to Jinyang, he will definitely find a reason to reward the two generals."

Su Dingfang and Yuchi Jingde looked at each other upon hearing this, their eyes were full of unconcealable joy.

However, Wei Zheng said:

"But the two generals still have to keep in mind today's events. If there is another time, I'm afraid they will have to leave the army, bury their files, and become a county magistrate."

Both of them had bitter expressions on their faces, and it was not embarrassing for them to hold the pens while holding the hands of the sword and bow.

After comforting and beating the two of them for Cui Che, Wei Zheng began to make up with Su.Yuchi Jingde got down to business and asked the two of them to repay the merits of the soldiers under his command.

And Cui Che continued to send sentry cavalry to the north when the army was resting, searching for the whereabouts of the women and children of the Qimin tribe.

　gone today

　　
　
(End of this chapter)