Turbulent Times Chapter 303: No one’s life is much more noble than others
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Of course, if the person is so sick that he doesn't even have the strength to ride a horse, that's another matter. In fact, they have seen at least 7,000 sick Xue Yantuo soldiers along the way.
So, Wang Junlin was not in a hurry at all, and they only had 2,000 people, and the other party had about 20,000 people, and at least 10,000 of them were not sick. Besides, counting the time, Zhou Hu of Gaotai City and Shangguan Hu of Shabengguan should lead people to stand in front of Xue Qiluo. He needs these two tiger generals under his command to make greater contributions, otherwise he will cleanse Zhangye County soldiers After the generals, what are the few vacant Captain Guoyi positions under his command to grab from the court.
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"Enemy attack! The enemy is coming." A scout sent by Xue Qiluo shouted from a distance, and a cavalry behind him was like a torrent, rushing straight towards them.
The exclamation of Xue Yantuo's army who was on the way suddenly rang out. The confidant, even took the lead in running for his life. Except for Xue Yantuo's direct cavalry, none of them even asked the commander Xue Qiluo for instructions.
"Don't run, don't run, the number of the Sui army will never be too many, our strength is several times theirs." Xue Qiluo mustered up his strength to ride in front of Habagou, the leader of the dark horse who was running past, and shouted He ordered, "Hamagou, stop here. Take your tribal warriors and let's fight and retreat. You can't run like this, run like this, no one can escape!"
Habagou gave him a cold look, turned the horse's head, and prepared to go around.
"You—" A feeling of being humiliated rushed straight to Xue Qiluo's forehead, and he drew out his weapon with his backhand, ready to kill someone.
With a clang, Habagou knocked his weapon away with another blow, turned his head, and walked away with more than a thousand tribal warriors.
"It's wrong, it's wrong, come here, take him down for me, take him down, and execute the law on the spot!" Xue Qiluo was frightened and jumped half a foot away, and then shouted to the soldiers to come forward and arrest Haba hook.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, there was a low sound of horns in his ears.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...
The sound of the horn is like the north wind in the middle of the night, blowing into people's hearts.
"Whoosh, whoosh—" Hundreds of fire arrows descended from the sky, leaving bright trails of flame in the night sky.
It was the Sui army who attacked in the dark. In fact, they didn't look down on their specific position. While using rockets to kill people, they used them as flares.
The night sky was suddenly illuminated, and after the rocket, a rain of arrows fell on the place where Xue Yan's army was densest. And in the rocket, the rocks in the rocket cast jagged shadows by the flames, sometimes long and sometimes short, sometimes bright and sometimes dark. Immediately afterwards, the mountains farther away suddenly appeared, jumping and shaking, as if they had turned into ferocious beasts.
"The Sui army has an ambush here, run!"
"Run, the Sui army is going to catch us all!"
Among the tribes of the Eastern Turkic Khanate, the soldiers of the Xueyan tribe, who claimed to be invincible except for the Ashina royal family where Qiming Khan belonged, screamed and wailed, and ran like wolves. With the weapon in his hand, he didn't know where to swing it.
"Swish, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." More fire arrows mixed with eagle feather arrows landed from mid-air, and hundreds of Xue Yantuo soldiers screamed and were shot off their horses, and the screams continued to deepen Seeing the panic in the hearts of the soldiers of Xue Yantuo's department.
Actually, it can be seen from the arrows shot by the Sui army that the number of the Sui army will not exceed 3,000, and there are more than 20,000 people in their Xue Yantuo department at this time. There are thousands of people. However, at this time, the morale of Xue Yantuo's troops has been completely lost, and the morale is even more gone. The courage of the soldiers to kill the enemy has been wiped out by the fear brought about by the invisible epidemic and other reasons.
No tribal leader is willing to stop, organize his team, and face the enemy. No general was willing to stay behind. Surrounded by the soldiers and personal soldiers of the direct tribe, the leader and the generals pushed away any companions who dared to stand in their way, and ran wildly.
Ordinary soldiers who had lost their backbones ignored each other and ran along the mountain road with their heads in their hands. Unexpectedly, someone slipped and fell to the ground, and dozens of pairs of big feet stepped on him immediately. In a blink of an eye, the fallen person was trampled unconscious, and flames danced near the shaft of the arrow, illuminating his body covered with footprints and his face full of despair. As for those who had diarrhea and fever, they just lay on the ground waiting to die, laughing or crying miserably.
"Don't run, don't run, stop and fight! There are not many Sui soldiers, and there are not many of them!" Xue Qiluo climbed on the horse with empty hands, and with the help of his own soldiers, he shouted hoarsely, but No one listened to him.
The sum of the two waves of rockets and the feathered arrows behind them will not exceed 3,000, and the casualties caused to Xue Yan's tribe are actually not many. Xue Qiluo is very clear that at this time, Tai Sui does not have many troops to support However, he couldn't make the soldiers who were running for their lives believe him anymore.
The Turkic cavalry is extremely fierce in fighting against the wind, but because they do not have strict discipline and the military system is loose, as long as they lose the battle, the situation will become bad, and they can disperse the army in a very short period of time. A group of wolves even turned into a group of sheep who only cared about fleeing for their lives.
What's more, they not only experienced defeat at this time, it was as simple as fleeing for their lives in embarrassment, they experienced the devastation and torture of the epidemic, this invisible fear frightened the Turkic people more than losing a battle. What's more, Xue Qiluo may be a smart person, but he is definitely not a person who can establish prestige in the army.
At the beginning when Xue Qiluo deliberately weakened the strength of the various ministries and preserved the strength of his lineage, his prestige in the army had already been doubled. When he redeemed the captives, he still chose to redeem his direct subordinates first, and abandoned all the wounded soldiers on the road, his prestige was reduced by half again, and when he was also seriously ill, His prestige has been completely wiped out.
"Stop, stop and fight, some people will die, otherwise no one will be able to escape!"
Think beautifully! No one is a fool, this is the thought of almost all Xue Yantuo people except Xue Qiluo's personal soldiers at this time.
No one is willing to give their life to a heartless, ungrateful, paper-based, irresponsible, selfish, sick guy who is about to die.
No matter how noble his bloodline is, no matter how decisive his actions are, he will not be able to do so. The life of the great chief's son is one life, and the life of the herdsman's son is also one life.
In the face of death, no one's life is much more noble than others.
PS: Today is still the fourth update———