Chapter 303
Li Shimin's words silenced Du Ruhui for a moment. He could feel Li Shimin's ambitions. If he hadn't seen Li Shimin this back then, he wouldn't have followed Li Shimin.
But when I heard these words at this time, Du Ruhui felt inexplicably sad. Du Ruhui was more than teenagers than Li Shimin. In ancient times, these teenagers were equivalent to one more generation, so Du Ruhui could be said to have watched Li Shimin grow step by step into the current Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
He believed in Li Shimin's ambitions, but Li Shimin, who had such ambition, was going to die here. God, how unfair!
But Du Ruhui would not say much. If Li Shimin was asked to elect him again, he would probably come to see Huo Gang again.
But no matter what, even if Du Ruhui died here today, he naturally would not regret it.
Jie Li and An Xinggui have obviously made their promise. Although their previous idea was good, they should build a defense line here to avoid the enemy's advantage to the greatest extent. However, if the other party refuses to exchange his life for his life, even if five or six people exchange their lives, they cannot afford it.
The sun was setting west, and Du Ruhui looked up at the sky. He wished that it would be night now. At night, the enemy would at least take a night, and the advantage over them would be greater at night.
While Du Ruhui was watching, Huo Gang was also looking at the sky.
"It's almost three hours left to dark. Is it enough?" Huo Gang glanced at him, then asked Ma Yuan and Gongsun Lin.
Their location at this moment is only 10 miles away from the Turkish camp, which is close enough. The attack at this distance is already considered a raid. Tens of thousands of troops were not like modern ancient troops in ancient times. If no one was in a whole team, this distance was approached by cavalry, which means a raid!
"Enough! Before dark, the Turkic people who must kill will be killed will be thrown away!" Ma Yuan said in a deep voice.
The main combat force this time is naturally Ma Yuan’s Western Liang Iron Cavalry, but Gongsun Lin’s White Horse Yicong will assist in encirclement and suppression from the periphery.
"Remember, drive all the enemies to the east, Gongsun Lin, your people are responsible for staring at An Xinggui's men, as long as they don't lose them." Huo Gang said.
"yes!"
"Well, I'm ready!" Huo Gang nodded, and then he chose to summon all the remaining cavalrymen in his mind without hesitation!
When Huo Gang made this choice, the voice of the Yumen Spirit in his mind instantly sounded: "After the selection, it was detected that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Baima Yicongcheng Legion had been summoned. Whether the relevant military flag was awarded. Once the military flag was awarded to a unit, the unit will gradually have its own military soul. Note that after the relevant military flag is awarded, the name of the army will be officially changed."
This prompt made Huo Gang slightly stunned. He did not expect that there would be such changes after completing the corps' summoning. There are many types of military flags, just like the previous one, the Han military flag with Chinese characters written on it, which represents the entire Han flag. In addition, each legion has its own army flag.
It’s just this military soul... Huo Gang didn’t know whether this thing was in shape or a... a spiritual concept. But no matter which one it was, it was obviously useful.
At present, all troops use the military name of the Han Dynasty, but it is not very suitable in this era. After all, what Huo Gang wanted to build a brand new Han Dynasty.
"Grant the relevant military flag!" Huo Gang made a choice directly in his mind.
"After the selection is completed, the Western Liang Iron Cavalry is officially renamed the Suzaku Army of the Four Elephant Holy Beasts. The Southern Suzaku belongs to the fire, and the main destruction is granted the legion's characteristics: invasion is like fire! The Suzaku Army will arrive within 10 minutes!"
"The White Horse Yichen officially renamed the White Tiger Army of the Four Symbol Holy Beasts. The West White Tiger belongs to the metal, and is responsible for killing and fighting. He is granted the Legion's characteristics: as fast as the wind! The White Tiger Army will arrive within 10 minutes."
Huo Gang was slightly stunned for a moment. This... Huo Gang didn't expect it to be named directly after the four holy beasts in ancient times. In this way, the Hu Ben Army should be the Xuanwu Army? Legion characteristics: as if it is not moving as a mountain?
Then should his own personal guard cavalry belong to the Qinglong Army? Legion characteristics: Xu Rulin? Of course, Huo Gang was speculating on these, but he felt that there was a great possibility that this was the case.
But what surprised Huo Gang was that when Huo Gang made a choice, Gongsun Lin and Ma Yuan in front of him looked at each other and knelt down on one knee. Then Gongsun Lin said in a deep voice: "Report to the leader, although we, the White Horse Yicheng, have been imitating Gongsun Zan's White Horse Yicheng during the Three Kingdoms period of the Han Dynasty since the beginning of the establishment of the general."
"Although our Han Dynasty is not large in size now, the leader has the ambition to swallow mountains and rivers. Therefore, our Han Dynasty will surely surpass the Han Dynasty in history. From now on, I hope the leader can give us a new name!"
"Our army is not to imitate the White Horse Righteousness to live, but will die to protect the leader and protect our current Han people! Therefore, please give the title to the leader!"
"Please give me a name!" Ma Yuan and Gongsun Lin both knelt down at the same time and spoke.
Huo Gang looked at them silently, and after a long time, Huo Gang said in a deep voice: "Okay, from today on, you are named after the stars and holy beasts in the sky in the sky, like the holy beasts in the four directions of the Han Dynasty, guarding the four directions! Gongsun Lin, you are officially given the name: White Tiger Army. Ma Yuan, you are officially given the name: Suzaku Army."
"Yes! Thank you, the leader."
When Ma Yuan and Gongsun Lin got up from the ground, Hongyun next to him suddenly raised his front hooves and sniffed, and behind Huo Gang, there were a series of low sounds of horse hooves.
The horse's hooves were not loud, but they were like thunder. When Huo Gang turned around, he soon saw that wherever he saw the distance, there were all white cavalry, and the cavalry in the front were carrying several large flags.
The front is a huge flag, with the same style as the previous military flag. It has a Chinese character written on it, and at the back there are several black backgrounds and white surfaces, with a huge white tiger painted.
Behind the White Tiger Army is a red-bottomed black armor, and under the crotch, the Vermilion Bird Army is full of maroon war horses. The same flag is the same as the White Tiger Army. The only difference is that it is painted on it with a sacred bird spreading its wings like a phoenix.
After seeing the flags of these army, Gongsun Lin and Ma Yuan couldn't help but look at each other. It seemed that the leader had already considered it. Even the military flag was ready, but he didn't know how their army lurked in.
However, the two of them soon stopped thinking about these questions. They had already seen the magic of the leader. This was a magical method like a god. Now the most important thing for them is to win this battlefield and kill all these Turks!
When the two cavalry approached, Huo Gang, Gongsun Lin and others got back on the horse. Although the terrain here was very flat, there were still some ups and downs in the middle of the terrain at such a long distance, so the Turks could not see the situation on Huo Gang and the others.
They naturally didn't find it.
"Ma Yuan, you lead the Suzaku Army to follow the White Tiger Army. When you are in front of the enemy, Gongsun Lin, you will directly lead the army to raid on both sides and get out of the central army position. Ma Yuan, you will directly attack from the central army!" Huo Gang said in a deep voice.
"Yes!" Gongsun Lin and Ma Yuan both spoke in a deep voice.
They didn't need any tactics, the reason was very simple. Although there were tens of thousands of Turks, according to Li Shimin and their current terrain, there was no use for so many Turks, so these Turks could not always be riding horses and were in a state of war readiness.
If they want to consume Li Shimin and others, some of them must be prepared for combat, while most of them must rest and be ready to replenish and enter the battle at any time.
Heavy cavalry like the Vermilion Bird Army is almost invincible even on the front battlefield. Unless the enemy is prepared to prevent cavalry in advance, Huo Gang, the Turkic people, dare to guarantee that they would never have expected that 20,000 heavy cavalry would be directly hit on their faces now.
They could not make any preparations to prevent cavalry, because the Turks themselves were all cavalry, and some tactics against cavalry were restricted by themselves. As long as they were not prepared and were advanced by the Suzaku Army, there was no need to think about what would happen to them.
Huo Gang was at the forefront of the team. When the White Tiger Army behind Huo Gang had arranged an orderly team, Huo Gang directly pulled out the long knife in his hand and said, "Go away!"
With Huo Gang's movements, the Hongyun under his crotch instantly understood his intentions and took his own steps directly, but it did not run very fast, but maintained the same speed as the same kind on both sides of it.
"Bang!" "Bang!" The dull sound of horse hooves instantly resounded throughout the earth like thunder. The white horse's righteousness has never increased to rapidity, because now is not the time to attack the enemy, so you can just use the horsepower-saving running speed.
As Huo Gang and the others began to advance, the distance between them and the enemy was approaching rapidly.
The Turks on the ground did not react so quickly, but Li Shimin and others on the top of the mountain were actually the first to react. After all, they were several hundred meters higher than the ground.
"Your Majesty, look!" Chang Lin, who was beside Li Shimin, suddenly screamed, jumped up directly from the ground, and shouted in the distance.
Chang Lin's voice attracted everyone around Li Shimin. When they followed Chang Lin's fingers, they all stood up from the ground with surprise.
Because in the distance, where their sight was reaching, a rolling stream of smoke and dust swept in this direction like a yellow dragon, but the wind today is not strong, and it is impossible to stir up such a large amount of sand and dust.
"It's a cavalry! A large number of cavalry!" Du Ruhui next to Li Shimin called out in surprise.
"Where did this come from?" Li Shimin was also surprised. He was ready to die in battle. He wanted him to surrender, but what Li Shimin never expected was that they were trapped here, and in just one day, a rescue cavalry arrived.
"This... we cannot have such a number of cavalry in Liangzhou. All cavalry have been allocated to General Li Jing to lead the army to attack Tuyuhun. General Li Jing cannot lead the cavalry here in one day no matter what. There are only a small number of cavalry among the soldiers in Guazhou, Liangzhou, and they are also defenders of border cities. Only Huo Gang can take out such a number of cavalry." Gao Shilian next to him was calm enough and spoke directly.
"Huo Gang... is it impossible? Unless Huo Gang is a god descending to earth and set out in advance, otherwise, how could he get here in one day?" Du Ruhui was a little stunned.
"Remember Huo Gang's horse?" Li Shimin suddenly spoke.
"Uh... remember, it was a group of real thousands of miles of horses. The problem is that Huo Gang's horse is a thousand miles of horses. Even if he can travel thousands of miles a day, his cavalry is not." Du Ruhui was a little unbelievable. This was not something Huo Gang came alone. According to the current situation, these were at least tens of thousands of cavalry!
"No, do you remember what General Li Ji said? The white horse cavalry under his command and his personal guards are almost all thousands of horses. However, according to information, the number of cavalry under his command is only 3,000... Now it seems... this is not the case!" Li Shimin also calmed down. He shook his head slightly and spoke seriously.
"This... tens of thousands of horses?" Du Ruhui was a little confused. What a joke, what is a thousand horse? Just like the red rabbit horse of Lu Bu during the Three Kingdoms period, it was a treasure horse that was chosen from thousands of horses! Tell me that Huo Gang now has a BMW that was chosen from tens of thousands of miles away? Is this still a BMW?
"If this is not the case, why would Huo Gang dare to sell thousands of excellent war horses like us? Those war horse pharmacists have seen them. Although they dare not say that they are thousands of horses, they are definitely good horses among war horses." Li Shimin said.
"This...but these Turkic people didn't react like this. If such a large army came, it would be impossible for the Turkic scouts to react." Du Ruhui was a little shocked.
"Do you think the Turkic war horses can match theirs?" Gao Shilian asked back.
"Uh...that's the case."
"If that's the case... Chief Huo seems to be truly aligned with me, the Tang Dynasty." Du Ruhui thought for a while before saying seriously.
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Not long after Li Shimin and the others saw it, the Turks below had already heard the tremors of the earth. The heavy sound of horse hooves was very familiar to the Turks on the horse's backs, especially the sound of horse hooves of this large-scale cavalry operation.
The entire Turkic camp became turbulent in an instant. As Huo Gang guessed, most of the Turkic people were resting. When the sound of horse hooves came, all the Turkic people were in chaos in an instant.
Many Turks picked up the long sword next to them and rushed towards their war horses. But in this state, how could they organize their formation in a short while?
While discussing the follow-up matters with An Xinggui, Jie Li was stunned for a moment when he heard the report from the guards outside, and then stood up suddenly and rushed outside without saying a word.
An Xinggui was stunned for a moment and rushed outside.
After the two rushed out, they immediately turned over to the horse. On the horse's back, Jie Li had already seen the rushing dust coming from afar! The dull sound of horse hooves even made the earth start to tremble.
Looking at the dust rushing over, Jie Li and An Xinggui's faces changed wildly!
Chapter completed!