The north wind suddenly rose, and the Xianbei army attacking the south gate was walking against the wind. So from the head of Heisha City, they could only hear the music and the noise of the people there intermittently. The sound and melody were quite Western-European, which made the grassland feel like it had changed.
After a while, a Turkic man shouted something on the top of the city, and then he murmured and heard the sound of the sour wood rubbing. With a loud bang, a fireball threw it into the air.
The burning fireball fell to the ground and flashed in the dust, like a long pole poking into a hornet's nest. A large group of people rushed from hundreds of steps away.
The crossbows and catapults on the city drove all the way, and the flying arrows were burning in black smoke, as if a volcano in Black Sand City suddenly erupted for a while.
Many knights were unfortunately hit by crossbow fireballs and rolled down in the black smoke. Some were not dead and rolled around on the ground with screams.
But this casualties were not enough to make the Xianbei front army retreat. The cavalry charged very quickly and rushed to the city in a blink of an eye. The two armies then shot at each other with bows and arrows.
The fire broke out on the city wall, and the Turkic defenders were able to ignite with arrows wrapped in oil cloth and attacked with rockets. The cavalry troops rushing over were inconvenient to ignite the fire and could only ride and shoot. The two types of arrows were actually not much different in places up and down Black Sand City, but the rockets were more dazzling and easily attract attention. In fact, it was a psychological tactic: they all seemed to be rockets flying down from the city.
When the war broke out, the Xianbei cavalry did not take any advantage.
The dense stair shooting on the top of the city caused a large number of casualties to the soldiers under the city like raindrops; the cavalry of the Xianbei people was not as dense as infantry, and the cavalry shooting was even more sparse, and they suffered a great loss when attacking from the top.
Many people and horses ran past under the city walls, shouting loudly across the sky, and many people on the war horses were already caught falling, only the horses were still running with the brigade.
The Turkic defenders used bows and arrows to shoot nearby enemies, and fired crossbows and threw fireballs and stones into the distance, threatening the depth of the Xianbei people.
The siege battle had just begun, and the Xianbei army was in an extremely unfavorable situation before it really started to attack the city.
But the attack continued, and it was not easy to change the order after the battle on the battlefield. Murong Xuan's central army was in the rear and seemed to have no orders to retreat.
At this time, the infantrymen who were preparing to attack the city of Xianbei Army had advanced to the city, and began to climb from all over the place, with cavalry running back and forth nearby to cover.
The fortifications in Heisha City were short and broken compared to the important towns of the Tang Dynasty. However, the Xianbei was suppressed by firepower when siege the city, and the losses were very heavy. However, halfway through the ladder was splashed with tinder oil and fell into many arrows. They died so much that they could not die again.
There were countless corpses sitting horizontally and vertically under the wall.
Seeing this, Tosi on the top of the city laughed loudly, and was so happy that he almost danced with his feet. He shouted loudly: The Xianbei dogs under the city are about to retreat, and ordered all the left and right cavalrymen to come out, forcing two other enemy troops to enter the battle!
Li Shizhi's way: If the former had not been the Khan's timely ordering the cavalry to retreat and preserve their strength, there would be no fighter opportunity now.
Tosi praised him because he was in a good mood: Mr. Li has better advice.
The words of the little Khan and Li Shizhi's upset expression made the Turkic ministers around him feel a little unhappy, as if the credit was all his own.
Unable to speak, Shi Yugu observed everyone's performance at this time and thought to himself: Li Shizhi is extremely wise, but he is a little too fond of showing his temperament.
The left and right cavalry of the Turks were next to the city, and the command center was high above the city, which increased their speed of transmission. After a while, the cavalry that was huddled behind the city side was dispatched.
The endurance of the northern horses is indeed good. At this moment, the Turkic cavalry ran vividly and showed no sign of weakness.
They tried to attack left and right in the middle, but the three front tribes in Xianbei arranged in the shape of a Pin character would not let them succeed.
At this time, the left and right divisions of the Xianbei Front Army saw the Turkic cavalry dispatched, and pushed forward without waiting for orders to resist them.
The cavalry fought again, and the situation was different: in the beginning of the field war, the three Turkic units fought against the three Xianbei units, and the 10,000 Turkic cavalry were divided into three parts and one part with only more than 3,000 people; and now after the Turkic cavalry was integrated, one part had four or five thousand people, and Heisha City served as the central position, so that their cavalry had no disadvantage in numbers when facing each other.
The troops in the middle of the Xianbei Army suffered a defeat and seemed to be out of place when they did not receive the order to retreat and showed signs of retreating.
Murong Xuan still did not order a retreat, but asked another group of troops near the central army to support him, intending to use the rear reserve team to seize the black sand as support with the left and right cavalry to protect the middle route.
The changes on the battlefield were not always as expected. At this time, the Xianbei left-wing cavalry performed weakly, and the war horses were still in conflict and were scattered by the Turkic hordes, and there was a danger of collapse with the rising casualties.
A minister advised Murong Xuan: If the left wing collapses and the Turkic cavalry attacks the middle route from the flank, the situation will be dangerous.
Murong Xuan immediately ordered: If the central army is transferred, the person who retreats will be punished for death!
Murong Xuan's central army had bright armor. It was an elite heavy cavalry with the functions of a royal guard. Under his personal leadership, he turned to the west to press the left wing.
When the heavy iron cavalry in horse armor launched a charge, it was indeed as sharp as a chariot. Many Turkic soldiers were dead and retreated and were compressed back near the city wall.
Unexpectedly, it was suddenly reported that one of the right wing lost and was rushed back by the Turkic cavalry.
At this time, Murong Xuan's heavy cavalry battalion was still in Xicheng, and his mobility was slow. It would be too late to switch to Dongcheng in time. He had to order: The front of the middle road was ordered to stop siege and retreat backward to avoid being attacked on both sides; the rear of the middle road was reinforced by the right wing to stabilize the position.
Before Murong Xuan's order was fully conveyed, the military situation changed instantly.
Shizhonglu's rear army received an order to turn to the right wing, but the front army siege had not received any news yet. The troops behind the formation moved, and the cavalry that covered the siege ran back, showing signs of collapse.
At this moment, the right-wing cavalry were defeated before the reinforcements arrived. The large group of cavalry turned around and ran away, and many were dragged back.
Arrows flying in the air, the sound of wind and strings screams became even more terrifying.
The light cavalry ran very fast, but the right-wing Xianbei cavalry did not suffer a devastating blow; but the Turkic cavalry did not chase him far away, but turned around and hit the middle.
After the Xianbei siege troops retreated, Tosi personally led the infantry archers guarding the city to order the city gate to open and rush out.
The Xianbei people's middle lane had about 10,000 people retreated in the face of two attacks. The people behind ran the fastest and crossed the river, which was a situation of great defeat.
Seeing this, someone from Murong Xuan's army hurriedly advised: The situation is already in chaos, let's quickly retreat and make plans.
There are few Turkic people, so it is impossible to surround us and eat us. There is no need to panic when the situation fails.Another person said.
Murong Xuan was very angry, so he led the heavy cavalry to charge towards the middle of the South Gate. The Turkic bows and arrows killed only limited damage to the well-equipped royal heavy cavalry.
But Murong Xuan's men were soon blocked by the seemingly messy infantry and cavalry. After they turned the attack, the left wing collapsed almost instantly, either casualties or escaped.
Murong Xuan was defeated by 30,000 troops, but at this time it became an unfavorable situation of attacking the masses with few people, and was besieged and killed and suffered a lot of losses.
Seeing that he could not win, he had to sigh and lead his subordinates to retreat.
At that time, the left-wing Turkic light cavalry detoured south to intend to surround the heavy cavalry and swallow it.
There was another melee. After a while, a Tuyuhun minister who crossed the river gathered some horse soldiers and turned around and killed them. Murong Xuan's army took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack, defeating the group of Turkic horse soldiers behind him and escaped.
The Turkic cavalry then joined the army and left the defenders who had left the city to cross the river and chase south.
At this time, the five troops under Murong Xuan were in chaos, and coordination and dispatch became almost impossible to accomplish. They retreated all the way, and there were many dead.
The soldiers who lost their horses could not find their mounts for a while, and they could not escape without a place to hide. They could only wait for death in this foreign country. Once they were caught up by the Turkic horse team, they would be cut to the point of blood.
Murong Xuan's army was chased for more than ten miles before the Turks slowed down because nightfalls. The horses could easily be confused when they could not see the road at night, and the pressure of the Tuyuhun army eased slightly.
The soldiers protected the Khan King Murong Xuan occupied a hill to gather the remaining soldiers near the left to stand up, and sent scouts everywhere to search for the defeated generals to convey the news.
The next morning, the Tuyuhun Camp roughly counted the deaths and half of the seriously injured people, and the food and supplies were also lost most of the retreat, and their morale was declining and their combat effectiveness was greatly damaged.
But seeing that the Khan looked depressed, the ministers advised one after another: Victory and defeat are common, our army is rushing to high mountains and high roads and unfamiliar places, so the Khan does not need to worry too much.
Murong Xuan sighed with a deep emotion: This battle is not a war between us Xianbei people. The failure to make contributions is nothing more than a nominal punishment from the court. I just sigh that the warriors who followed me for thousands of miles away abandoned their bodies, and even their bones could not be buried in their hometown. I felt quite heartbroken.
The minister said: Another day, the heavenly soldiers of the Shang Kingdom (Tang Dynasty) captured Heisha City. We will search for the corpses of the soldiers and transport them back to Tuyuhun to restor their loyal souls.
Others also advised: At this time, our army could not continue to fight, so we should retreat into the territory of the three cities of the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible to repair it to avoid unnecessary losses.
Murong Xuan believed it and had to retreat to the south unwillingly with people's desire to fail.
When the ministers mentioned the court, they also sounded a wake-up call to Murong Xuan. If he had not had a backer, his foundation would probably turn into internal conflicts when the foreign war failed, and it would be possible that the Khan position would be incapacitated.
Of course, he doesn't have to worry about this problem now. His sister is still in charge of Tuyuhun Royal City. She is Xue Chongxun's concubine. Who dares to touch her?Unless those ill-hearted rebel ministers are really capable of resisting the Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.
In the cool morning breeze, the grassland returned to its calm again, and there was no trace of Turkic soldiers and horses for the time being. The land seemed to have nothing to happen, but there was a faint feeling of blood in the wind.
After a while, a Turkic man shouted something on the top of the city, and then he murmured and heard the sound of the sour wood rubbing. With a loud bang, a fireball threw it into the air.
The burning fireball fell to the ground and flashed in the dust, like a long pole poking into a hornet's nest. A large group of people rushed from hundreds of steps away.
The crossbows and catapults on the city drove all the way, and the flying arrows were burning in black smoke, as if a volcano in Black Sand City suddenly erupted for a while.
Many knights were unfortunately hit by crossbow fireballs and rolled down in the black smoke. Some were not dead and rolled around on the ground with screams.
But this casualties were not enough to make the Xianbei front army retreat. The cavalry charged very quickly and rushed to the city in a blink of an eye. The two armies then shot at each other with bows and arrows.
The fire broke out on the city wall, and the Turkic defenders were able to ignite with arrows wrapped in oil cloth and attacked with rockets. The cavalry troops rushing over were inconvenient to ignite the fire and could only ride and shoot. The two types of arrows were actually not much different in places up and down Black Sand City, but the rockets were more dazzling and easily attract attention. In fact, it was a psychological tactic: they all seemed to be rockets flying down from the city.
When the war broke out, the Xianbei cavalry did not take any advantage.
The dense stair shooting on the top of the city caused a large number of casualties to the soldiers under the city like raindrops; the cavalry of the Xianbei people was not as dense as infantry, and the cavalry shooting was even more sparse, and they suffered a great loss when attacking from the top.
Many people and horses ran past under the city walls, shouting loudly across the sky, and many people on the war horses were already caught falling, only the horses were still running with the brigade.
The Turkic defenders used bows and arrows to shoot nearby enemies, and fired crossbows and threw fireballs and stones into the distance, threatening the depth of the Xianbei people.
The siege battle had just begun, and the Xianbei army was in an extremely unfavorable situation before it really started to attack the city.
But the attack continued, and it was not easy to change the order after the battle on the battlefield. Murong Xuan's central army was in the rear and seemed to have no orders to retreat.
At this time, the infantrymen who were preparing to attack the city of Xianbei Army had advanced to the city, and began to climb from all over the place, with cavalry running back and forth nearby to cover.
The fortifications in Heisha City were short and broken compared to the important towns of the Tang Dynasty. However, the Xianbei was suppressed by firepower when siege the city, and the losses were very heavy. However, halfway through the ladder was splashed with tinder oil and fell into many arrows. They died so much that they could not die again.
There were countless corpses sitting horizontally and vertically under the wall.
Seeing this, Tosi on the top of the city laughed loudly, and was so happy that he almost danced with his feet. He shouted loudly: The Xianbei dogs under the city are about to retreat, and ordered all the left and right cavalrymen to come out, forcing two other enemy troops to enter the battle!
Li Shizhi's way: If the former had not been the Khan's timely ordering the cavalry to retreat and preserve their strength, there would be no fighter opportunity now.
Tosi praised him because he was in a good mood: Mr. Li has better advice.
The words of the little Khan and Li Shizhi's upset expression made the Turkic ministers around him feel a little unhappy, as if the credit was all his own.
Unable to speak, Shi Yugu observed everyone's performance at this time and thought to himself: Li Shizhi is extremely wise, but he is a little too fond of showing his temperament.
The left and right cavalry of the Turks were next to the city, and the command center was high above the city, which increased their speed of transmission. After a while, the cavalry that was huddled behind the city side was dispatched.
The endurance of the northern horses is indeed good. At this moment, the Turkic cavalry ran vividly and showed no sign of weakness.
They tried to attack left and right in the middle, but the three front tribes in Xianbei arranged in the shape of a Pin character would not let them succeed.
At this time, the left and right divisions of the Xianbei Front Army saw the Turkic cavalry dispatched, and pushed forward without waiting for orders to resist them.
The cavalry fought again, and the situation was different: in the beginning of the field war, the three Turkic units fought against the three Xianbei units, and the 10,000 Turkic cavalry were divided into three parts and one part with only more than 3,000 people; and now after the Turkic cavalry was integrated, one part had four or five thousand people, and Heisha City served as the central position, so that their cavalry had no disadvantage in numbers when facing each other.
The troops in the middle of the Xianbei Army suffered a defeat and seemed to be out of place when they did not receive the order to retreat and showed signs of retreating.
Murong Xuan still did not order a retreat, but asked another group of troops near the central army to support him, intending to use the rear reserve team to seize the black sand as support with the left and right cavalry to protect the middle route.
The changes on the battlefield were not always as expected. At this time, the Xianbei left-wing cavalry performed weakly, and the war horses were still in conflict and were scattered by the Turkic hordes, and there was a danger of collapse with the rising casualties.
A minister advised Murong Xuan: If the left wing collapses and the Turkic cavalry attacks the middle route from the flank, the situation will be dangerous.
Murong Xuan immediately ordered: If the central army is transferred, the person who retreats will be punished for death!
Murong Xuan's central army had bright armor. It was an elite heavy cavalry with the functions of a royal guard. Under his personal leadership, he turned to the west to press the left wing.
When the heavy iron cavalry in horse armor launched a charge, it was indeed as sharp as a chariot. Many Turkic soldiers were dead and retreated and were compressed back near the city wall.
Unexpectedly, it was suddenly reported that one of the right wing lost and was rushed back by the Turkic cavalry.
At this time, Murong Xuan's heavy cavalry battalion was still in Xicheng, and his mobility was slow. It would be too late to switch to Dongcheng in time. He had to order: The front of the middle road was ordered to stop siege and retreat backward to avoid being attacked on both sides; the rear of the middle road was reinforced by the right wing to stabilize the position.
Before Murong Xuan's order was fully conveyed, the military situation changed instantly.
Shizhonglu's rear army received an order to turn to the right wing, but the front army siege had not received any news yet. The troops behind the formation moved, and the cavalry that covered the siege ran back, showing signs of collapse.
At this moment, the right-wing cavalry were defeated before the reinforcements arrived. The large group of cavalry turned around and ran away, and many were dragged back.
Arrows flying in the air, the sound of wind and strings screams became even more terrifying.
The light cavalry ran very fast, but the right-wing Xianbei cavalry did not suffer a devastating blow; but the Turkic cavalry did not chase him far away, but turned around and hit the middle.
After the Xianbei siege troops retreated, Tosi personally led the infantry archers guarding the city to order the city gate to open and rush out.
The Xianbei people's middle lane had about 10,000 people retreated in the face of two attacks. The people behind ran the fastest and crossed the river, which was a situation of great defeat.
Seeing this, someone from Murong Xuan's army hurriedly advised: The situation is already in chaos, let's quickly retreat and make plans.
There are few Turkic people, so it is impossible to surround us and eat us. There is no need to panic when the situation fails.Another person said.
Murong Xuan was very angry, so he led the heavy cavalry to charge towards the middle of the South Gate. The Turkic bows and arrows killed only limited damage to the well-equipped royal heavy cavalry.
But Murong Xuan's men were soon blocked by the seemingly messy infantry and cavalry. After they turned the attack, the left wing collapsed almost instantly, either casualties or escaped.
Murong Xuan was defeated by 30,000 troops, but at this time it became an unfavorable situation of attacking the masses with few people, and was besieged and killed and suffered a lot of losses.
Seeing that he could not win, he had to sigh and lead his subordinates to retreat.
At that time, the left-wing Turkic light cavalry detoured south to intend to surround the heavy cavalry and swallow it.
There was another melee. After a while, a Tuyuhun minister who crossed the river gathered some horse soldiers and turned around and killed them. Murong Xuan's army took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack, defeating the group of Turkic horse soldiers behind him and escaped.
The Turkic cavalry then joined the army and left the defenders who had left the city to cross the river and chase south.
At this time, the five troops under Murong Xuan were in chaos, and coordination and dispatch became almost impossible to accomplish. They retreated all the way, and there were many dead.
The soldiers who lost their horses could not find their mounts for a while, and they could not escape without a place to hide. They could only wait for death in this foreign country. Once they were caught up by the Turkic horse team, they would be cut to the point of blood.
Murong Xuan's army was chased for more than ten miles before the Turks slowed down because nightfalls. The horses could easily be confused when they could not see the road at night, and the pressure of the Tuyuhun army eased slightly.
The soldiers protected the Khan King Murong Xuan occupied a hill to gather the remaining soldiers near the left to stand up, and sent scouts everywhere to search for the defeated generals to convey the news.
The next morning, the Tuyuhun Camp roughly counted the deaths and half of the seriously injured people, and the food and supplies were also lost most of the retreat, and their morale was declining and their combat effectiveness was greatly damaged.
But seeing that the Khan looked depressed, the ministers advised one after another: Victory and defeat are common, our army is rushing to high mountains and high roads and unfamiliar places, so the Khan does not need to worry too much.
Murong Xuan sighed with a deep emotion: This battle is not a war between us Xianbei people. The failure to make contributions is nothing more than a nominal punishment from the court. I just sigh that the warriors who followed me for thousands of miles away abandoned their bodies, and even their bones could not be buried in their hometown. I felt quite heartbroken.
The minister said: Another day, the heavenly soldiers of the Shang Kingdom (Tang Dynasty) captured Heisha City. We will search for the corpses of the soldiers and transport them back to Tuyuhun to restor their loyal souls.
Others also advised: At this time, our army could not continue to fight, so we should retreat into the territory of the three cities of the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible to repair it to avoid unnecessary losses.
Murong Xuan believed it and had to retreat to the south unwillingly with people's desire to fail.
When the ministers mentioned the court, they also sounded a wake-up call to Murong Xuan. If he had not had a backer, his foundation would probably turn into internal conflicts when the foreign war failed, and it would be possible that the Khan position would be incapacitated.
Of course, he doesn't have to worry about this problem now. His sister is still in charge of Tuyuhun Royal City. She is Xue Chongxun's concubine. Who dares to touch her?Unless those ill-hearted rebel ministers are really capable of resisting the Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.
In the cool morning breeze, the grassland returned to its calm again, and there was no trace of Turkic soldiers and horses for the time being. The land seemed to have nothing to happen, but there was a faint feeling of blood in the wind.
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