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Chapter 457
The Wuhou Qinshui River is not a vast grassland.

On the east side is a vast forest, and three miles away from the right wing, a mountain ridge rises, blocking the line of sight.

After Qin Qiong's [-] soldiers crossed the river, he immediately ordered [-] infantry to seize the mountain ridge first and gain the commanding heights.

After the five hundred pawns got the order, they immediately searched forward together.Because they were worried about the Turkic ambush that would appear at any time behind the mountain ridge, the five hundred infantry all walked slowly in armored formations.

After a while.Five hundred pawns crossed the mountain ridge, and then a beam of smoke rose from behind the mountain ridge to show that there was no enemy situation ten miles north of the mountain ridge.

Seeing this, the soldiers under the mountain were also relieved, and the soldiers on the mountain began to station on the top of the mountain, and guarded the north.

Seeing that there were no enemy troops behind the mountain ridge, Qin Qiong was not worried. He ordered to search in the direction of the dense forest.

Turkic wolves rode it to dominate the grassland for a hundred years, and it was elusive and erratic. Qin Qiong dared to be careless, and immediately led [-] cavalry to search in the direction of the dense forest.

Three hundred cavalry slowly approached the dense forest. At this moment, the dawn had passed, and the sun rose slowly through the mist like a cloud of smoke.

The cavalry passed by shaking their hoofs, and a group of reddish-brown sand chickens flew up from under the willow tree beside them. between.

After only a few miles away from the dense forest, Qin Qiong suddenly reined in his horse and ordered the whole army to stop advancing.

Lieutenant General Ying Yalang immediately stepped forward and asked, "Why did General Qin stop?"

Qin Qiong pointed at the dense forest with a horsewhip and said: "Isn't it very strange that the birds around a certain watch see my cavalry passing by, they all get up in surprise, but they don't fall down and rest in the forest?"

General Yingyalang was taken aback when he heard this, but he saw that the forest was completely silent, he didn't even hear the sound of birds, which was really abnormal.

"What the general said is true, there may be an ambush in the forest."

Qin Qiong immediately ordered the whole army to dismount, and then said to the eagle breeder: "Investigate Linnei."

"Yes, General."

After speaking, the falconer put on the holster on his arm and yelled a few times. The goshawk pecked its wings, and then with a puff, it flapped its wings and flew towards the dense forest.

The goshawk flew extremely fast, and soon it was hovering over the forest.

Seeing that Goshawk was normal, General Yingyalang breathed a sigh of relief and said to Qin Qiong: "General, maybe we are worrying too much."

As soon as the words fell, the goshawk in the forest suddenly let out a long cry, and stopped circling and soaring in the forest, but beat its wings sharply, soaring straight into the sky.

General Yingyalang, all the falconers' faces changed, and when the goshawk flew straight up, an arrow caught up from behind and hit the target.

The goshawk suddenly felt weightless in the air, and fell vertically.

The falconer's face was pale when he saw it, his eyes were tearful, and he wailed loudly.

Seeing this, Qin Qiong ordered the soldiers to mount their horses together, and immediately retreated to the riverside.

Just now Qin Qiong saw everything in his eyes, and while riding his horse, he asked the falconer: "What's going on?"

The falcon breeder said: "My falcons are very sensitive. Generally, archers on the grasslands can't shoot them down, unless only the Turks are attached to them."

"What is attachment?" Qin Qiong asked.

"The bodyguard of the Turkic Khan, the bravest warrior on the grassland."

"Attachment!"

While speaking, Lin Nei whistled loudly.

Immediately afterwards, a strange sound of breaking wind sounded from the forest, and an arrow shot into the air.

Qin Qiong knew that this was the Ming Dy shot by the Turkic people, and summoned the Turkic soldiers around him.

The cavalry in the forest filed out, Qin Qiong looked back at him immediately, but saw that the enemy cavalry were all wearing black wolf skins, there were dozens of them, they seemed to be the elite Turkic cavalry attached to them.

Soon two or three miles around the dense forest, cavalry seeped out of it one after another.

The eagle breeder at the side said: "Damn it, not only the Turks' attachment, but also the cavalry of the Xi tribe, they are all ambushing in the forest."

Qin Qiong didn't dare to neglect, and ordered the three hundred cavalry to withdraw quickly. At this time, Luo Shixin also led the three hundred cavalry to cross the river and came to join Qin Qiong.

Luo Shixin pulled up his horse and asked Qin Qiong, "What's wrong?"

Qin Qiong scolded: "Turks are such thieves, they are ambushing in the forest, and want to plot against Lao Tzu, if they hadn't taken a step earlier, hehe."

Luo Shixin's face changed when he heard that, not only Luo Shixin, but also Qin Qiong's [-] cavalry knew it. If Qin Qiong hadn't seen the opportunity quickly and found an enemy ambush in the forest one step in advance, otherwise, once the [-] cavalry approached the forest, there would be nothing to do when the enemy came out. fortunate.

At present, Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin joined forces, and the six hundred cavalry rallied to lean on the five hundred infantry that had already formed formation on the mountain ridge. As for Qin Qiong's other two hundred infantry, they were auxiliary soldiers and retreated to the river bank early.

Turkic, Khitan, and Xi cavalry in the forest gathered more and more, and there were five or six thousand cavalry.

They didn't seem to be upset about losing the opportunity to wipe out Qin Qiong's three hundred cavalry. After the troops gathered, the Turkic and Xi cavalry came together like a black cloud.

Thousands of cavalry covered the grassland airtight, the horses neighed and hooves rumbled.

The leading general of the Turkic army was obviously also very organized. He dispersed the cavalry into several groups and rushed towards Qin Qiong's [-] soldiers, surrounding them in a half-moon shape.

The five hundred infantry on the mountain ridge had already laid down the horse-rejection posts, scattered the barbed wire, and erected the big scull, and the five hundred infantry also raised their bows and crossbows.

Qin Qiong Luo Shixin's [-] cavalry were not in danger, and they joined the [-] infantry.Thousands of Turkic and Xi cavalry at the foot of the mountain also stopped in front of Zhao Jun's formation.

The arrow array of the Han army is famous all over the world. Turkic generals have fought against the Sui army for many years, so they know the strength of the Han army's crossbow array.

When Yang Su led the army out of the fortress, the Sui army first suppressed it with crossbow formations, and then swept across with armored cavalry, breaking through 10,000+ Turkic cavalry.From then on, the Turkic cavalry were very afraid of the Sui army's arrow formation, and they were not completely sure, so they didn't need the cavalry to attack the Sui army's infantry who had completed the formation.

Only the Xi clan, the Khitans didn't know how deep they were, used cavalry infantry to forcefully overwhelm the Han army's solid position in the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, and suffered a disastrous defeat.

Qin Qiong scolded: "The Turkic people are cunning, they know how powerful I am with arrows."

He originally planned to lure the Turkic cavalry to within the range of the bows and arrows of the Han infantry, and plot against them. Unexpectedly, the Turkic people were very alert and retreated out of the range early, which made Qin Qiong lose his plan.

Hearing Qin Qiong's scolding, Luo Shixin immediately guessed that the other party was afraid of his own arrow array.At that moment he said in a deep voice: "Brothers, dismount from my horses and sit at the front of the formation. Don't attack without my order."

As soon as Luo Shixin's order came out, all the soldiers were in an uproar.

The general Ying Jilang in Qin Qiong's army hastened to remonstrate: "The Turkic army is in front, and my six hundred soldiers are already worried, but the general has nothing to fear. He is so confident in front of the enemy. If the Turkic cavalry comes to attack, Are our cavalry advancing or retreating?"

Luo Shixin glanced at the other party, and said: "What do you know, Brother Qin and I are here, where can you talk?"

Because of Luo Shixin's words, Ying Jilang couldn't help but get angry, and was about to speak out, but received a whip on the head.

It was Qin Qiong who whipped the whip, and suppressed the other party's anger back into his stomach.

Qin Qiong said: "What are you talking about, General Luo Lang's words are my Qin's words, you follow orders and do it."

Hearing what Qin Qiong said, Ying Jilang complained repeatedly in his heart, but he could only obey orders.

After listening to the order, the six hundred cavalry had no choice but to dismount.

All the soldiers discussed, and one said: "It's really terrible. If the Turks see through that I'm just bluffing and charging, our army will collapse. I, Old Xu, are not afraid of death, but it's not worth it to be afraid of death."

One person said: "Okay, okay, originally the matter of crossing the river was a death lottery, but now that these two foolish generals do it, I have no hope of returning to the south bank."

Everyone was cursing, only one or two said: "What do you know, General Qin is brave and resourceful, otherwise he wouldn't have seen the Turkic strategy just now."

"That's General Qin, what is General Luo Lang? Seeing how young he is, with a few hairs on his mouth, he doesn't care about Turkic people?"

Someone else said: "Perhaps, it's not that General Luo Lang is confused, but an empty plan he laid out."

The soldiers talked a lot, but Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin didn't care, they simply took off their helmets and armors while sitting in front of the horses, and picked up the jug together, and they drank with each other.

When General Ying Chi Lang and his soldiers met, they couldn't help but all fell down collectively.
On the other hand, the Turkic cavalry was also suspicious when they saw Qin Qiong Luo Shixin and the [-] cavalry under his command.After fighting for so many years, I have never seen a Sui general who dismounted and drank wine instead of wearing armor to fight.

The Turkic people did not act rashly, they stationed their horses in front of the battle, neither stepped forward nor retreated.

The distance between the two armies was less than one mile, and they confronted each other in such a silent manner. Soon after, the Turks sent out several waves of cavalry at the same time, rushing across the mountain ridge one after another, obviously sending out distant scouts to see if there was any Zhao army in ambush.

All the troops were beating their hearts when they saw it. Once the Turks saw through Zhao Jun's details, they would be in danger.

When Luo Shixin saw the Turkic people splitting up their horses, he just took a look and continued to drink without paying attention.
Seeing that Zhao Jun didn't seem to respond, the Turkic cavalry immediately sent dozens of horses forward to test it out. The Turkic cavalry rode their horses past hundreds of paces from time to time, and the horseshoes kicked up sand and dust, rolling up smoke and dust all over their bodies.

Zhao Jun had received strict orders a long time ago, so no one fought back. After several times of probing, the Turks became more and more daring. Seeing that Zhao Jun still did not move, they approached hundreds of steps and cruised directly in front of Zhao Jun's formation.

The faces of the Turkic people were already clear, the distance between the two armies was only a few hundred paces, the Zhao army's infantry's noses had already seen sweat, hanging on the tip of their noses, but no one dared to erase them at this time, they just started to move forward. The crossbow aimed at the Turkic cavalry in front of him.
Soon after, three groups of Turkic cavalry were dispatched, one of which sent a signal from behind the mountain ridge, saying that there was no enemy ambush behind the mountain ridge.

Luo Shixin saw clearly that a Turkic cavalry galloped up to a Turkic man wearing a gray wolf fur coat and reported everything to him.

Luo Shixin lowered his voice and said: "I bet this person must be a high-ranking Turkic official, maybe it's just some kind of Tutun."

Qin Qiong grinned, wiped the wine stains from his lips, and said with a smile: "Then what are you waiting for?"

Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong exchanged glances, then suddenly got on the horse, and the two of them leaped forward together.

(End of this chapter)