Chapter 1093 Howling
One hundred thousand Qiang soldiers moved eastward for forty miles, and quickly deployed according to Liu Lancheng's instructions.
Kang Luo of the Sangli Tribe and his team were assigned to the center of the battlefield, located at the most prominent part of the Chinese infantry's three-line formation.
His horse, bow and arrows were all taken away, and even the family cowhide armor given to him by his uncle was taken away. He was left with only two spears, a horizontal knife, and a piece of leather. shield, and two short spears and spears.
Although these young but inexperienced Xiaoqiang tribe herdsmen don't know the overall deployment above, they don't really think that they are some kind of elite. After all, which elite stands in this central position without even armor Save one for them.
There are no horses, no bows and arrows, no armor, just two spears, two spears, a horizontal knife and a leather shield. Everyone is wearing sheepskin robes, which are like bait to lure the enemy, especially in the opposite direction. The front stands out so much.
Young soldiers are not restless, but military orders are like mountains.
One army battalion team flag stands on the battlefield, there are law enforcement and supervising light cavalry running in the formation, those who make loud noises will be cut off, those who talk to each other will be cut off, those who look left and right will be cut off, and those who dare to retreat privately will be cut off...
Kang Luo was extremely nervous, his palms were full of sweat, but he didn't dare to speak nonsense. Just now, a member of the same team just said loudly that they were sent to die, and then he was immediately beheaded by the supervising cavalry who heard it. Really cut.
With a swing of the broadsword, the skull fell to the ground, blood spattered, and then the cavalryman held the head and showed it in front of them, and everyone fell silent.
The nervous heart was beating violently. Fortunately, there were soldiers in all directions, and a hundred thousand horses had already drawn onto the battlefield. The battle line was ten miles wide to the left and right, and ten miles in front and back. Feeling the overwhelming Qiang soldiers and horses, it made him feel a little I feel more at ease.
Especially after hearing that this was a battle formation set up by Qin Taiwei himself, it gave the young man a little more confidence.
On the hillside to the left of the battlefield, Liu Lancheng has taken over the commanding power of Tuoba Chici and others on the battlefield. A big Tang flag stands tall, and the sun, moon and stars represent the Tang army.
The left leading general, the governor of Fuzhou, and the Jingbian army put these three flags beside them, and they can be seen on the entire battlefield.
Not far away, Yu Guni, Qiu Xinggong, and Han Wei, the generals of the Tang Army who rushed to Qingqi detour ahead of time, although they were on the battlefield at the foot of the mountain, they also planted their own flags here.
You Yi Army, Tabai Army, Zhenyuan Army...
"The Tibetans are coming soon?"
"The Qingqi from the Tuoba tribe reported back. The Tubo vanguard was ten miles away. The Qingqi of the two sides began to fight. After an hour, they will almost arrive. About 50,000 elite Tibetan soldiers have arrived." Han Wei said.
Liu Lancheng smiled, "It seems that Chou Fan is really in a hurry. They didn't expect us to chase so fiercely this time, and they didn't expect that he could only stop us for a day with 30,000 people in the rear. Now I guess they can't wait to have two more Here come the legs."
Everyone laughed.
Han Wei looked at the dark army array spread out at the foot of the mountain, "Is there any name for Taiwei's army array? And how to break it?"
Liu Lancheng is very confident in Qin Lang's army formation. Although there are Qiang and Tibetan soldiers at the foot of the mountain, after all, the number is there. The Tubo people are rushing here now, and their soldiers and horses are exhausted, but they arrived yesterday Here, rested for the night here, and now the well-fed array is out in the wild.
Although the time was tight, and Liu Lancheng didn't ask them to dig any trenches and erect any barriers, it is not so easy to break through such a narrow place with 100,000 people here.
As for saying that the middle is weak and the two sides are strong, this is the ultimate move of this army formation.
Originally, the cannon fodder was deliberately arranged in the middle to attract the Tubo army to storm the middle and consume their combat effectiveness.
This is a total of three fronts, and each line has three more lines. The front is the weakest, but it is being strengthened layer by layer.
"Just after it is easy to break, it is like a shield. Even if you are a steel shield, if you hit it violently with a sledgehammer, it will be easily damaged. But if you cover the shield with cowhide or even sandwich it in the middle Wooden heart, then this shield is more resistant to smashing..."
"In fact, there are not so many mysteries in practical soldiers. Didn't the Taiwei say that they should concentrate their forces to attack the weak points of the enemy, avoiding the real and attacking the weak, and defeat them one by one. Good steel is used on the blade, and elite soldiers are also used at the key points. You can't spread the big cake." , the bigger the cake stand, the thinner and crispier it is.”
Han Wei nodded and admitted, "That's true, but I'm still worried that these Qiang people will have diarrhea at critical times."
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Sun rise.
The Tang army faces the sun, which is unfavorable. Fortunately, Liu Lancheng thinks this is not a big problem. The Qiang soldiers can fully make up for this advantage when they recharge their batteries for a long time.
They didn't wait much.
Garmang Xiangsong rushed over with the Tubo striker.
The rangers of the Qiang tribe have been fighting with the Tubo scouts all the time, retreating all the way to the battlefield.
The Tubo army stopped a few miles away from the Qiang army, and began to assemble the whole team, and Liu Lancheng did not send a large army to attack, but only sent a few Qingqi to harass them.
Garmang Xiangsong, covered in dust, rode his horse up a side of the hillside and looked at the formation of the Qiang coalition army from a high position. Looking from a distance, he saw countless people and horses crowded on the valley plain.
Flags fluttered one after another, and army formations one after another were neatly placed on the battlefield. The width was ten miles from east to west, and ten miles from front to back. There were soldiers everywhere.
Seeing this army formation, Prime Minister Garmang frowned greatly. The number of these Qiang soldiers was exactly as they expected, but the formation they put up was completely different from what they expected. , clearly well-trained, not even weaker than the Tubo army.
"What do you think?"
Gal asked Sanguo Miqin that this fierce general is now his lieutenant general, and he came to commit crimes and meritorious deeds. After looking at it for a long time, he also had a dignified expression.
"This is more like a Tang army!"
"Dangxiang Qiang and others were defeated by the Tang Dynasty. They followed the Tang army to conquer Tuyuhun twice, and also conquered the Turks in the Western Regions. Maybe they learned some Tang people's formation methods, but they were not the Tang army after all."
The two carefully observed the formation of the Qiang army, and seemed to find a flaw.
After watching for a long time, I felt that it seemed a bit difficult to defeat them with the 50,000 exhausted army that had traveled a long distance.
"Why don't you wait for Zamp?"
"You can send a cavalry to try the Qiang army formation first, and see the reality."
Senguo Michen asked for a fight without hesitation, "You don't need to go out in person, just send a general to go, we will observe here."
A warrior in Tibetan tiger uniform rode down the mountain to deliver the order, and soon a cavalry leader of the Tubo army attacked.
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In front of the Qiang army.
Seeing the Tubo army coming from the black crows, Kang Luo became even more nervous. He hadn't killed anyone, and he hadn't really fought a battle. He had only been trained for two months. Before that, he was only transported by horses in the gold mine. , although the ability of riding and shooting is not bad, but after all, he is a young man who has never even participated in tribal conflicts.
Now seeing the arrival of these countless Tubo troops, my heart almost jumped out of my throat.
Seeing a cavalry soldier coming out of the Tubo army and coming straight towards them, the veins in his hands were exposed, and his legs began to tremble even standing there.
From the corner of the eye, he secretly looked at the teammates of the same clan on the left and right of the team, and found that they were all similar, their complexions were either pale or purple, and they were all nervous.
No one dared to make a noise.
Kang Luo thought to himself, calm down, how can you calm down with a shield that can only cover half of your body in your hand, without even a piece of leather armor against arrows.
If the Tubo cavalry charged directly, he estimated that he would not be able to last a round with the four long and short spears on his shield.
But no one dared to run. The supervising team had killed several of them just now, and they were killed for disturbing the morale of the army by making loud noises. If they dared to run, they would definitely be even more deadly.
The sound of rumbling horseshoes is getting closer.
The Tubo cavalry really charged directly at them. Standing there, he could only see a line of Kuroshio in front of him, and then slowly all the Tubo cavalry appeared in his field of vision. Finally, his sight was completely occupied, and he didn't know how many there were.
"Hold on!"
The clan grandfather shouted in a trembling voice.
The sound of horseshoes became louder and louder, and the earth trembled accordingly.
"Ready to throw spears!"
Kang Luo can also use Udo, and it’s not bad, and it’s okay to change it to a spear. He quickly pulled out a short spear from his back and grabbed it in his hand, posing like everyone else.
The Tubo cavalry who charged closer and closer made him almost faint.
Time seems to be frozen.
Finally, he seemed to have heard the loud order of throwing, but he was not sure. After hesitating, he saw that his companions on both sides had thrown short spears forward one after another, and subconsciously followed suit.
Countless short spears roared and flew out.
The next moment, more bows and arrows flew in the air. They were bows and arrows shot by the galloping Tubo cavalry on their horses, making people mistakenly think that the short spears just thrown flew back.
Kang Luo was stunned for a moment after throwing the spear, as if he didn't know what to do, and then he just came back to his senses, and saw the sound of whirring in the air, and the next moment, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder , he was shot.
A Tubo iron arrow hit his shoulder fiercely, and the impact even drove him back a few steps.
Severe pain struck, and Kang Luo felt as if time had returned to its original speed.
The sound of feathered arrows piercing the air, the sound of spears piercing the air, and the sound of shouting, all became a mess.
"Raise the gun!"
The grandfather of the clan shouted loudly under the team flag, his voice trembling even more.
Kang Luo quickly grabbed his spear from the ground and followed his usual training, squatted on the ground, holding the spear sideways, and stabbed obliquely into the air.
Picked up his shield again to protect his front.
The rest can only be resigned to fate.
One by one spears stand up.
The Tubo cavalry rushed closer and closer, their bows and arrows flying horizontally, and they were about to crash into the forest of spears and guns, but before they could barely hit each other, they split into two groups and ran to the left and right.
They ran and shot, and the arrows kept shooting into Kang Luo's formation.
The Tubo cavalry were very close, and their casualties continued to increase, and Kang Luo was hit by another arrow.
But not the point.
The sound of hooves went away, and the Tubo cavalry had already ran away from both sides.
He watched carefully.
Then he found that the leader of the clan grandfather standing in front of him was hit by several arrows and fell to the ground. Even the standard bearer behind him was shot to death.
The fire chief behind him pulled out the arrow on his body, went to the front and held up the team flag in the hands of the flag bearer, and then shouted at Kang Luo, "Kang Luo, come here, from now on I am the team leader, and you are the flag bearer of this team." Come here, hold up the flag, and stand behind me!"
The new leader of the team is his uncle in terms of seniority, a man from the Sangli tribe who is good at harnessing horses. He is not tall and a little thin, but he has a hot temper, and his fighting skills surpass that of the uncle who just died in battle.
He yelled loudly, ordering the undead soldiers in the team to re-arrange to fill the vacant positions, and then pointed to the second wave of Tubo cavalry that rushed over again.
"Prepare to throw a spear and stab the **** dog to death!"
Another round of fighting between life and death, Kang Luo added another color, and then he was still alive, leaving several corpses of Tubo cavalry before the battle.
After he glanced, he found that his team had a hundred Qiang soldiers. After two rounds, more than a dozen had fallen, and the rest were basically defeated.
He gritted his teeth, thinking that he might not be able to survive today.
Flashed in his mind was his mother's face, as well as his father's and brother's appearance, which had long been blurred. The boy wanted to cry.
The two spears were all thrown, and they did not dare to go out to pick them up without an order.
Suddenly, cheers came. It turned out that the Tubo people did not charge any more.
"Retrieve the spear, treat the wounded, and rest quickly." The clan uncle ordered loudly.
Kang Luo also grinned and cheered. This was the first time they fought, and they won. Although he knew that the Tibetans might rush over again at any time, after all, he survived the first round and survived.
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Garmang Xiang Song Nang's face became more serious.
In this round of temptation just now, many things have been explored.
The army formation laid down by the Qiang soldiers was indeed very clever. The elite cavalry on both sides protected the two wings, and the Qiang people in the middle dismounted and formed an infantry formation, defending with long-horned swords.
"It's a little strange. They are strong on both sides and weak in the middle. The cavalry on the side is the strongest. The infantry in the middle is also strong on both ends and weak in the middle. Is this weird?"
Sanguo Michen was puzzled.
The awn phase pine sac was also seen just now.
"Could it be a trap, with some old and weak people deliberately placed in the front to lure us to attack the middle, but the front is actually the bait, but the back is full of elite and tough soldiers?"
"Very likely, this battlefield is open and flat, but there is a river on one side and mountains on the other, and there is no possibility of an ambush. The soldiers and horses are all placed on the battlefield, which is clear at a glance. The army formation of the Qiang bandits is unreasonable, so it is indeed very important. It might be a trap." Mang Xiangsong concluded.
But no matter what the possibility is, they also found that these Qiang soldiers were indeed much stronger than expected during the test just now. Anyway, the tentative attack of thousands of Tubo cavalry just now did not take advantage of half of it.
Dropped more than 300 cavalry corpses in front of the formation, but didn't even tear through a layer of defense.
"Take a break and try again. This time, we will also test the two wings clearly. We must find out the bottom line of the Qiang people before the Zanpu army arrives and joins up to launch a real attack. If we don't attack, we must break through. We have no There are too many opportunities, and the Tang people are chasing after them!" Gar was worried.
(end of this chapter)