Chapter thirty-six painting the ground as a prison
The battlefield is cruel, but it seems that God has played a fatal joke on people. The more people who look at death are, the more they will not die on the battlefield, and the more afraid they are, the more they will die. Faced with the attack of the Tang cavalry, the Turkic soldiers and Liang soldiers are all frightened.
At this time, Ashina Yizhen found that he had made a fatal mistake. He seriously underestimated the strength of the Tang army. This Tang Dynasty, which had been born in less than a year in a new year, was definitely not the same as the Sui Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty is so powerful that it is unwise to go to war with the Tang Dynasty.
Yang Ze, standing on the wall of Lingzhou, shouted excitedly: "God blesses the Tang Dynasty. If you get this good general, you will be very happy. After this battle, you will kill all these people. General Chen's invincible reputation has spread thousands of miles away. As long as General Chen holds the flag here, no barbarians dare to invade Lingzhou!"
Chen Ying led the Tang army cavalry to continue to follow the Turks and Liang State defeated troops to pursue. Suddenly, hundreds of Turkic soldiers appeared on the snowy field ahead. These Turkic soldiers saw that the Tang army's offensive was unstoppable and consciously dismounted and surrendered.
Looking at this scene, Zhang Shigui said: "Master, what should I do now?"
"What should I do?" Chen Ying was also in a very difficult situation. At this time, if the prisoners were surrendered, they would have to be divided into troops, but he only had more than 4,000 soldiers and horses in his hands. Now he had hundreds of wounded soldiers and had withdrawn from the battle. There were less than 3,800 soldiers who could fight. Chen Ying neither wanted to let these surrendered soldiers go for no reason nor the energy to send people to take care of them. But Chen Ying did not want to let them go like this.
At this moment, a strange smile appeared on Chen Ying's face: "Draw a circle on the ground and tell them that as long as you dare to go out of the circle, those who die!"
"Is the manager going to draw a yard as a prison?" Zhang Shigui certainly knew this allusion. According to legend, in society a long time ago, people were very self-disciplined and morally noble. If someone made a mistake, they would draw a circle on the ground to limit him to show punishment. Even so, even if there was no one around him, he would never step out of the circle in advance.
According to legend, in ancient times, the criminal law was lenient and slow, and circles were drawn on the ground, so that sinners could be placed in circles to show punishment, such as the prison of future generations.
Chen Ying nodded undeniably.
Zhang Shigui said: "These Turks fear power but not virtue. Relying on them to be self-disciplined is undoubtedly playing the piano against cows."
"Hmph, it's better if they dare to run!" Chen Ying said: "Killing prisoners is not good. If this general manager kills prisoners, he will definitely be impeached by the imperial censor. Just draw a circle on the ground. As long as they run out of the circle, the general manager will kill them again, and the censor will have nothing to say!"
Hundreds of Turkic or Liang soldiers appeared in front of them, kneeling on the ground to surrender.
So several Tang soldiers turned over and dismounted, neither confiscating the surrendered soldiers nor binding them. They directly drew a large circle on the ground with hooks and sickles.
"Those who cross this line die!"
These five words are said to the surrendered soldiers in Tang Yan and Turkic language. When Chen Ying led his troops to pass the surrendered soldiers, they would take away their horses. The Tang army needed to replace them, otherwise the cavalry charge would not be able to maintain the long-lasting horsepower. Of course, there would be no horses, and even if they were asked to run, they would not be able to run fast.
Then the Tang soldiers continued to rush to the defeated Turkic soldiers. However, the Turkic surrendered soldiers in the circle looked at each other and didn't know what to do.
"Run?"
However, no one dared to give it a message! So an extremely strange scene appeared on the battlefield. From the Loess Plateau in the sky, there were a large or small snow circle not far away. There were more or less Turkic people or Liang soldiers kneeling or sitting in the snow circle. Even if there was no Tang soldier guarding them, they still did not dare to take a step outside the circle.
They were all like fools, trembling in the cold wind. This is not to say that the Turks or Liang soldiers were timid and cowardly, but the shock brought to them by the charge of the Lancao regiment was too great.
When Poland founded the Winged Cavalry, it was when Poland almost lost its country and the race. They had two powerful enemies, the Teutonic Knights in the northwest and the Mongols in the east. Faced with the open terrain on the eastern front and the mobile Mongolian cavalry, the Polish army was vulnerable, and even the capital Krakow at that time was looted by the Mongols. In this case, the Poles learned from their mistakes and established Winged Cavalry that specialized in restraining light cavalry. Although in World War II, Poland used cavalry to chop tanks became a laughing stock in the world, it must be denied that in the era of cold weapons, Winged Cavalry existed invincible.
Although the lancers founded by Chen Ying were reduced versions of cavalry, they were more than enough to deal with Turks, who had not outstanding force. From the establishment of the Turks to the demise of the Chinese nation, they did not have much advantage in the face of the Chinese nation. During the Sui Dynasty, the Turks were abolished, and only in the late Daye and when the Sui Dynasty was full of wolf smoke, the Turks were considered to have gained advantage.
However, with the Battle of Dingxiang in the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Eastern Turks were destroyed.
Chen Ying's troops pursued the enemy, but the more horses they gathered, less than 4,000 cavalrymen, they actually collected nearly 20,000 war horses. On average, one horse remained five to six. If Yu Guni's troops were not good at controlling horses, these horses would probably have made Chen Ying fucked.
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Thirty miles northwest of Lingzhou, Wild Boar Ridge is one of the countless mountains on the Loess Plateau. Wild Boar Ridge has a mound raised on the Loess Plateau. Looking from the side, it looks like a huge wild boar lying on a piece of land. Wild Boar Ridge is high in the north and low in the south. At the waist and abdomen of the wild boar, it is a large valley that can block the cold current from the northwest. In the valley of Wild Boar Ridge, there are several small hot springs. In the bitter cold wind, this Wild Boar Ridge is a very good place to avoid the cold.
Stationed in Wild Boar Ridge is Asina Shibob, one of the four major Turkish leaf guards. People may not be familiar with this name. But if you want to say his title, you must have some impression that he is the last khan of the Eastern Turks, Tuli Khan.
Although Asina Shiboli was only sixteen years old at this time, he was really anxious. He was eight feet tall and had a beard on his face, which means he looked young at the age of thirty.
Although Asina Shibobro has never intervened in the war in Lingzhou, he has been paying close attention to the war in Lingzhou. When the Liang army collapsed and Asina Yizhen was defeated, he had already received news.
However, what Ashina Shibob most unexpected was that Yizhen was so desperate that she actually ran to Wild Boar Ridge with her defeated soldiers. Chen Ying led the Tang army to pursue the troops, biting the tail of Ashina Yizhen's troops and chasing them relentlessly.
Looking at the huge waves in the tent of the horse milk wine, without having to look with your eyes, Asina Shiboli could guess that the Tang cavalry coming from outside should be around 20,000. At this time, Asina Shiboli's face became very ugly.
"Ye Hu, what should I do?"
"What should I do if I know?" Asina Shiboli was furious and greeted the 18th generation of women of Asina Yizhen's ancestors.
A general said carefully: "The Tang people won a new victory and their morale is like a rainbow. It is better to avoid the edge for the time being!"
Asina Shiboli said indecisively: "If you retreat without fighting, you will let Yizhen and Shiliver make a joke!"
Chapter completed!