Chapter 488: The Great Chaos
When the Turkic army approached the Khitan military camp, Yang Lun and Deng Haoye, who were commanding the north gate of Longshan City, had discovered it and asked the soldiers to assemble urgently and conveyed the news that "King Wei led the Turkic army to attack the Khitan camp".
The streets running through the north and south gates of the city were densely covered with cavalry, and several side streets were also full of troops, with as many as 20,000 to 30,000 troops.
These soldiers include both the Youzhou Army and the Jizhou Army. The former are elite soldiers, while the latter are young men recruited by Yang Lun from the people of Jizhou under the orders of Yang Guang. The other part are soldiers from the local military government.
The Jizhou Army had not been established for a long time, and its strength and combat experience were not as good as those of the Youzhou Army. However, the land of Hebei, including Jizhou, was a gathering place for the descendants of the six-town frontier army. The people were fierce and difficult to control, and were far less easy to govern than other places.
When Yang Liang rebelled, the powerful people in Qi gathered together. First, they had restless "genes" in their bones. Second, at the beginning of the founding of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, in order to gain the full support of the Guanlong nobles, distinguished the old areas of Northern Qi. This gave the Northern Qi officials hidden among the people the opportunity to make trouble; there were many people who were dissatisfied with the Sui Dynasty. Although the court won the victory in the end, the huge hidden dangers in the old Northern Qi land forced Yang Guang to consider it.
While considering the stability of Hebei and appeasing the people, Yang Guang also planned to lead the "Qi Army" to check and balance the "Zhou Army". Therefore, at the beginning of his drastic reform of the Beijing Army, he planned to supplement the Beijing Army with Qi soldiers.
It was precisely for this reason that Yang Guang asked Yang to step down from the position of Grand Administrator of Yanzhou and change his position to the Grand Administrator of Jizhou, allowing him to quietly recruit troops and train elite soldiers.
The elites in Hebei have been neglected by the imperial court for more than 20 years. There are many elites who are "unappreciated". Although they dare not rebel, they are extremely dissatisfied with the imperial court. When Yang Lun gave the order to recruit troops, those who were eager to make meritorious deeds The young men suddenly felt their eyes light up, and responded to the call one after another and signed up to join the army. Everyone hoped to make meritorious service on the battlefield and win a bright future with their talents and achievements.
The Jizhou Army is a brand-new army, and Yang Lun strictly implements the policy of "evaluating talents based on their talents"; officers below General Lang are all selected from among the best young men.
This move made the whole army rejoice, and their support for the Sui Dynasty and their desire to return home reached unprecedented heights.
Now that I have won the battle for more than ten days, I am even more confident.
When they were ordered to assemble, officers at all levels conveyed the news that "King Wei led the Turkic army to attack the Khitan camp". At this time, when they heard the trumpets blasting outside the city and the sound of killing, their blood was boiling.
I wanted to rush out of the city immediately.
On the city, Yang Lun, who was wearing Mingguang armor, stood first. Behind him, there was a tall soldier carrying Yang Lun's horse, and another person held high the battle flag with the word "Sui". The red flag was torn by the strong wind, and Hunter hunted. Noisy and majestic.
"General manager, the soldiers have been waiting for a long time. When will we go out?" A general saw a group of Khitan troops in the west camp in the distance. The Turkic troops poured into the camp like a stormy wave and drove the Khitan troops to the front camp. Suddenly I couldn't hold it any longer.
"Today's Khitan army camp is in chaos, and the situation is not clear yet. If our army attacks rashly, it will not only fail to achieve the effect of annihilating the enemy, but will risk a melee with the Turkic army." Yang Lun stared at the battle situation with his head turned. He ordered without reply: "Open the city gate and let the soldiers assemble outside the city first. As for when to attack, just listen to the sound of the war drums."
"Here!" the general responded, ran to the bottom of the city, ordered the defenders to open the city gate, and asked the cavalry to leave the city and wait for orders.
Immediately, groups of cavalry filed out of the city gate and formed formation on the grassland outside the city.
Not long after the 30,000 cavalry formed a formation, Yang Lun's eyes suddenly lit up on the city.
I saw the Khitan troops in the front camp leaving the camp one after another and heading northeast, while the banner leading them out stood motionless on a hill.
Next to him, Deng Hao clenched his fist, waved his big hand, and said loudly: "General manager, the Khitan army is ready to assemble; our army only needs to kill in the direction of the banner, it will be another battlefield, and we will not mess with the Turkic army." ."
Yang Lun didn't say anything, but squinted his eyes and stared closely at the Turkic white wolf-headed banner. When he saw the banner stopped in the north camp, and the Turkic soldiers chasing the Khitan rebels were led by the banner , turned around one after another and entered the camp again, and they realized that the "Turkic Army Commander" used Dahu as the boundary to divide the battlefield.
When several red flags were erected next to the white banner, Yang Lun ordered the flag soldiers: "Let our army's flag lead the army to kill to the northeast."
The flag soldiers immediately waved the big flag on the city, and the big flag below the city immediately moved to the northeast. When the military flag command saw this, they also waved the flags.
All the armies turned around according to the order, with their horses' heads pointing to the northeast.
Seeing that the soldiers were ready, Yang Lun punched the battlements and shouted: "Blow the drum and go to war!"
"Dong dong dong dong..." The rumbling war drums sounded on the city. Thirty thousand Sui cavalry were divided into three teams and rushed towards the Khitan army's assembly point with murderous intent.
The soldiers and horses who were ready to attack were like dragons, overwhelming the sky, and instantly defeated thousands of Khitan troops who rushed to fight.
In the battle involving tens of thousands of people, the atmosphere changed very obviously. Whenever there was commotion and panic somewhere, it would cause a series of chain reactions. During the siege battle that lasted for more than ten days, the Khitan army was exhausted and its morale plummeted. The Turkic army's sudden attack made them even more frightened and heartbroken.
Chief Xiwandan Zhangke and other high-ranking generals were killed first. At this time, no one came to restrain them. The sudden attack of the Sui army caused the Khitan soldiers to flee in all directions and desperately fled to the northeast. Fortunately, veteran generals such as Fu Fuyu and Xirong decisively abandoned the camp, quickly gathered the elite soldiers of the front army under the banner, and sacrificed several troops who had been cut off from the rear, finally calming down the turmoil a little.
Fufuyu Xirong sent several generals to the rear to collect the defeated troops and let them assemble the army in the rear, while he was on the hill, commanding the Khitan front army to fight the Sui army.
He pulled out his sword from its sheath and shouted loudly: "Fight!"
The thousands of soldiers at the front of the Khitan army were divided into four columns. They raised their bows and arrows and faced the front. They formed an airtight arrow formation in the wilderness.
"Thanks to Chief Fu Fuyu, otherwise the consequences would have been disastrous!" A captain of ten thousand men gasped in admiration.
Fu Fuyu Xirong did not respond to his flattery, but looked solemnly at the approaching Sui soldiers, his face gradually turning pale.
The soldiers of the Sui army were all wearing armor. They rushed in without hesitation and with contempt for everything. Once they tore apart the Khitan horse archers, what awaited them would be a one-sided massacre!
Fu Fuyu Xirong secretly thought, "Can our army withstand such a powerful Sui army?" Thinking like this, he silently retreated to the rear, but he was still in a very forward position.
The reason why he dared to fight under unfavorable circumstances: First, he had to fight. Once the order to retreat was given, it would be a crushing defeat and he would never be able to gather the army. After that, each tribe would be defeated by the Sui army and the Turkic soldiers.
He slaughtered as much as he wanted; secondly, he expected that the Turkic army would not participate in the Sui army's battle to avoid accidental killing by the two armies, so he gritted his teeth and endured.
The Khitan army archers in front, under the command of the generals, uniformly raised their bows and arrows at an angle. Following the command of "shoot arrows", arrows flew into the sky like dark clouds, densely packed toward the charging Sui army.
The soldiers came to shoot.
Faced with this terrifying rain of arrows, the cavalry charging at full speed naturally could not retreat and charged forward without hesitation. The arrows hit the thick armor and made a "dinging, clanking" sound.
Some cavalrymen were hit by arrows while running at full speed. They suddenly fell off their horses and were submerged in the rolling torrent of cavalry. The cavalrymen in front quickly crossed the "shooting place", even if they were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.
They were unable to rescue the Paoze and had no time to avoid it. The only thing they could do was to kill more enemy soldiers and avenge those Paoze who were trampled into mud because they fell from their horses.
The Khitan army was already close at hand, and they could clearly see everyone's face and eyebrows.
"kill!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The soldiers of the Sui army held up their war spears and spears and slammed into the queue of the Khitan army with great ferocity, sending waves of blood flying all the way!
Fufuyu Xirong was as immovable as a mountain in the army, acting as the anchor of the army. Behind him, the Khitan soldiers nervously looked at the scenes in front of them, with men and horses neighing and blood and flesh flying everywhere.
The Khitan front army is the elite of the Khitan elite, and they have inherited to some extent the tactics taught to them by Gao Baoning. Their overall quality is quite good, not to mention that Fu Fuyu Xirong has gathered the most elite soldiers around him, etc.
When the Sui army tore apart the front array and was about to enter a fierce battle with the Chinese army, it was time for him to launch a desperate counterattack.
At this moment, the front army can be in chaos, the left and right wings can be in chaos, but the center army must be stable! And his front army must also delay time for the center army and create the best opportunity for the center army to attack, and his center army must also provide the opportunity for the center army to attack.
The rear army creates opportunities to form formations.
However, the Sui army's cavalry was extremely fierce and outnumbered. When the cavalry in front opened a gap, they drove straight into the Chinese army, like a red-hot sharp knife cutting into condensed lard. Nothing could do it.
Blocking their forward momentum, the two tens of thousands of troops on the left and right flanked them from both sides.
The three directions of the battlefield here quickly turned into a sea of blood hell. Regardless of the Sui soldiers or the Khitan soldiers, both sides fought desperately in this Shura field. Everyone waved their spears and knives, roaring and fighting in the field.
Together.
Compared with the Khitan Army, the soldiers of the Sui Army were proficient in battle formations and were not fighting blindly. Each brigade was a small formation. The ten soldiers in the front were responsible for killing the enemy, and the soldiers behind were responsible for releasing arrows and pouring arrows on the enemy.
Behind the front army, in order to disrupt the enemy's formation.
They fought together and combined their superiority in strength to gradually close the encirclement.
But this is not the most fatal thing. What is fatal is that a "Turkic Army" numbering five to six thousand people bypasses the battlefield here and goes directly towards their rear army.
After this "Turkic army" was in position, they did not attack immediately. Instead, under the command, they tore open their outer robes and took off their leather hats, revealing armor and helmets whose colors were different from those of the Sui army in front.
Fu Fuyu Xirong had been to Daxing City several times to pay homage, and he recognized this impressive army at a glance. He couldn't help but exclaimed in shock: "It's actually the most elite Twelve Guards soldiers of the Sui Dynasty?"
Just as his mind was spinning, the Sui soldiers, like an arrow from the string, shot into the chaos behind the battlefield from the side, killing the rebels gathered by several generals at the rear and scattering them in all directions.
escape.
The Sui soldiers on the frontal battlefield changed their formations again. The soldiers on the periphery quickly left the battlefield, "slid away" from both sides, drew two arcs, and got into the rear of the enemy group. After reorganizing their formation, they marched from the northeast
Fangchao Fufuyu Xirong's rear army came to attack, desperately squeezing the Khitan army into a range where they could not use it.
The generals of the Khitan rear army led the army and fought against the Sui army. Suddenly, people were turned upside down and corpses were scattered everywhere.
In the wilderness, a war broke out again.
Time passed quickly. Although the Khitan army fought back bravely, in every aspect, it was not as powerful as the Sui army soldiers who were outnumbered, well-equipped and waiting for work. In just half an hour, the Khitan army including Fu Fuyu Xirong
The army was completely slaughtered by the Sui army.
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The Khitan army camp south of Bailangtou Dahu was the battlefield of the Turkic soldiers and the first battlefield to kill. It was completely plunged into a melee. However, the Khitan's defeat was determined, and it was only a matter of time before they were completely defeated.
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Chapter completed!