More than thirty miles away from Dongshan County and four miles south of the South Pass of Qingliang Mountain, is a military fortress called Kaiyuan Town. Kaiyuan Town was an important military area during the war. At other times, it was a place where the people of Liaozhou and the Khitans traded with each other. Since news of the war reached Liaozhou, Yan Xun and Huangfu Wuyi moved the people of Kaiyuan Town to Dongshan City. Only the young and strong were left to assist the state soldiers in setting up defenses.
The four miles between the South Pass and Kaiyuan Town are surrounded by gentle mountains that spread out to the left and right, like two arms looking southward. They disappear in front of Kaiyuan Town.
At this time, the "arms" have become the world dominated by the bone bonding army. Most of the Khitan soldiers have already left the pass and are gathering in this area to wait for the follow-up soldiers.
When Yang Jian was still the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Khitan people were under the command of Gao Baoning of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Together with the Northern Qi army and the Mohe people, they resisted the Northern Zhou Dynasty and annihilated the Northern Qi Dynasty. At that time, there were many troubles in the Central Plains, and various forces were fighting for a certain governor or chief historian in the hometown of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Yang Jian stepped up his efforts to replace Zhou Li Sui. This resulted in the Northern Zhou Dynasty having no time to attack Gao Baoning, so he had to send a letter to appease Gao Baoning. But Gao Baoning was from the Northern Qi clan. He refused to surrender to the "Northern Zhou Dynasty" and took advantage of the chaos that arose shortly after the Northern Zhou Dynasty occupied the Northern Qi Dynasty. He seized the time to train the Khitan army in the Central Plains' art of war and battle formations, hoping that one day they could make a comeback.
When Yang Jian usurped the Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty, the Northern Dynasty fell into chaos for a period of time. Gao Baoning immediately led the well-trained Khitan army and Mohe to go south, and easily occupied Liaozhou, Yanzhou, and Yingzhou, which he had governed for many years, and pushed the war to the The Great Wall at the junction of Yingzhou and Pingzhou.
Although Gao Baoning was loyal and successful in the early stage, Yang Jian sent two big perverts to deal with him. One of them was Yin Shishi's father Yin Shou. Yin Shou soldiers left Lulong Sai and entered the territory of the Xi tribe, and then followed Xuanshui went south and gave Gao Baoning a fatal blow from behind.
The other person was Yang Ji's father Yang Shuang; Yang Shuang was a military genius. He realized that the Turks were very likely to sponsor Gao Baoning. After accepting the order, he did not follow the order to participate in the severe Liaodong battlefield, but instead tried his best to Against all odds, he led the army out of the Youzhou Wall and went directly to Baidaochuan from Zhangjiakou and Juyongguan in later generations. He came to surround Wei and rescue Zhao. He killed Turkic corpses all over the field and blood flowed into rivers, leaving no time for him to support Gao Baoning's Turks.
Gao Baoning can be said to be the No. 1 commander of the Northern Qi clan after Gao Changgong. What is rare is that he is extremely loyal to the Northern Qi Dynasty. However, they met Gao Wei, a prodigal son, so they were always relegated to the Liaodong region, in the dilemma of having nowhere to use their talents. Seeing that the Turkic reinforcements had not entered the battlefield for a long time, he realized that nothing could be done. In order to preserve his strength, he decisively gave up Liaozhou, Yanzhou, and Yingzhou and returned to Khitan.
After that, Gao Baoning took the time to train the Khitan youth with the tactics of the Central Plains Dynasty and the die-hard Northern Qi soldiers. This also led to the Khitan being deeply versed in the art of the Central Plains battle formations, which was no different from the Central Plains army.
If the Khitans had persisted according to Gao Baoning's foundation, their army would have been an elite division with good training and strict military discipline. However, after Gao Baoning's defeat and death, the Khitans returned to the free and loose habits of the grassland people. When the older generation trained by Gao Baoning gradually grow old, the newcomers are no different from other nomads.
To this day, there is no trace of the Central Plains army. When they arrived at the predetermined spot, they dispersed.
Tens of thousands of people stopped at the South Pass, gathering in small and small groups to brag. They seemed to be in chaos and without any precautions.
"Chief, more than 60% of the soldiers have left the pass. The open space in front of us can no longer accommodate more people. Do you want to rush to Kaiyuan City immediately to fight the Sui army?" A Khitan general rode forward and asked Dahe Du Luo asked for instructions.
When Dahe Duuluo was in the pass sandwiched between two mountains that was more than ten miles long, his heart was always tense. Every step he took was cautious, for fear that Sui would lay an ambush on the mountains on both sides. At this time, it was safe. After leaving the pass, my anxious heart finally calmed down.
He glanced around and saw tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry gathered in one place. Looking around, it was completely dark.
In an instant, an indescribable pride spurted out, and he roared: "Raise the flag and blow the trumpet!"
As the flag representing the will of the Khitan soldiers was raised and the rally horn sounded, the chaotic Khitan soldiers returned to their respective groups. There was some order, but it was only a group of people, and it was still generally chaotic.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Just as Da He Duo Luo was reorganizing his army and preparing to lead his army to attack Kaiyuan Town, bursts of landslides and ground cracking explosions suddenly came from the mountains behind.
He was startled and looked back in panic, only to see piles of rocks and logs of different sizes falling from the sky on the mountain wall to the west of the pass.
The rocks were as small as a fist and as big as a wheel; and the huge logs rolled along the mountain, getting faster and faster as they went down. Some of them hit the huge rocks and were thrown by the bullet. It came forward and smashed into the air at the Khitan cavalry in the pass. Every time it was hit, the men and horses turned into meat patties molded into a lake of flesh and blood.
Nearly 10,000 rear army soldiers were unsuspecting and were walking forward chatting and laughing. Unexpectedly, rolling logs and rocks suddenly tumbled down the mountain. Those who were hit by rolling logs and rocks would have their bones broken and their tendons broken at the slightest, or turned into meat cakes and minced meat at the worst. In an instant, the Khitan army screamed in agony and mourned all over the place.
With every breath and every moment, soldiers and war horses were hit by boulders and rolling logs. Their heads were bruised and bloody. They screamed and fell from the horses with broken legs, and then were killed and smashed by the subsequent wave of rolling logs and rocks. broken.
The fresh air was soon filled with the fishy smell of earth and rocks and the strong smell of blood. When it fell on the official road and among the messy piles of stones, rolls and logs, bright red blood soon gurgled out from the gaps. ; At first glance, it looks like a stone or log bleeding, which is extremely scary.
Some of the luckier soldiers were walking close to the Liao River. When the legs of their horses were broken by the rolling logs and rocks, the soldiers on horseback rolled into the Liao River that flowed southward. However, this section of the Liao River passes through the confluence of the Ruoluo River and the Nansu River. The water volume is large and the water is turbulent. Once the Khitan soldiers who cannot swim are pressed by horses or caught in stirrups, they will not be able to escape the fate of death. .
The tragic scene before him and the shrill screams made Da He Duo Luo's hair stand on end and his scalp numb. The Khitan soldiers who had already left the pass and were about to go south were even more confused, screaming and running in panic.
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Everything in front of him made Da He Duoluo's face turn pale. He was careful and cautious all the way. When they passed the most dangerous pass, his heart that had always been hanging finally returned to its true place; the remaining soldiers, I think so, otherwise I wouldn't have slacked off.
Unexpectedly, the Sui army did not ambush in the most dangerous and precipitous place, but unexpectedly set up an ambush in a relatively flat and wide area. Who would have thought of this?
Da He Duo Luo shuddered violently, and then stared at the mountains on both sides behind him. Suddenly he saw figures shaking and light and shadow flashing on the mountain walls on both sides. He immediately pointed the long knife in his hand and roared: "Shoot for me." Kill them!"
When a sharpshooter rode out on horseback, bent his bow and set an arrow, a few arrows flew out like meteors chasing the moon. However, the distance between the two was too far, and the arrows running diagonally upward were lost before reaching their destination. At the end of his powerful crossbow, he fell powerlessly from the sky.
"Crunch~Crunch..." At this moment, there were bursts of heart-wrenching sounds, and stones as heavy as millstones, weighing hundreds of kilograms, flew up from the mountain, making strange screams that broke through the air. It hit the crowd of rebels hard, and the boulder fell to the ground, splashing blood.
Generally speaking, the main function of the trebuchet is to smash down the city wall and kill the dense enemy formations attacking the city. However, because the ground cannot withstand the power of the stones falling from the sky, once they fail, most of them will stop on the ground and sink into the ground. The stones thrown by the trebuchet are not very effective in killing the enemy, but the tragic scenes caused by the lethality of the stones can make enemy soldiers tremble with fear, panic, and plummet in morale.
When the first round of huge rocks rained down, disrupting the situation of the Khitan army, the Sui soldiers on the mountain hugged the rocks into fireballs. The fireballs were made of dry rattan and bamboo strips soaked in oil and woven into a cage shape. It is filled with sulfur, hay, wheat straw, straw and other flammable materials.
Fireballs with a diameter of three or four feet were ignited one by one, and then rose into the sky. The fireballs were just smoking at first, but under the influence of wind and gravity, they quickly turned into open flames several feet long. They all burned. When the fireball hit the ground, the crispy and charred outer cage immediately shattered, causing the flammable things inside to scatter and become countless fires.
When Da Heduuluo raised his head, he saw dazzling fireballs flying over his head. One of the fireballs hit his position. He was so frightened that he turned his horse and ran away. He only heard a loud bang and the fireball When it hit the ground, the bamboo cage suddenly shattered, and the ignited cloth strips and firewood stained with oil flew everywhere. Many soldiers were caught in the flames and shouted and shook them off. The war horse of Da Heduluo was also tied around its neck by a loose straw rope. The flames quickly ignited the horse's mane. The horse neighed in pain and almost knocked off the horse.
At this time, the ground that seemed to be covered with hair before was also burned, and a pungent smell of oil and sulfur filled the air. Although the fire on the ground was not big and the highest point was at most a foot high. , it would not cause harm to the soldiers, but the fire burned the legs, tail and hair of the war horses.
And this is also the most terrible place.
Although war horses have been specially trained and are more adaptable to war in various environments than ordinary horses, beasts are beasts after all. When a war horse is on fire, they scream in horror, and the pain makes them crazy. Unable to extinguish the fire under his body and belly, his only thought was to run and crash as hard as he could.
Regardless of humans or animals, if they are hit, they will be seriously injured or killed.
As huge fireballs rained down from the mountain, the scene became even more chaotic.
"Hush, rest, rest, rest, rest, rest..." At this moment, I saw bursts of fighting sounds coming from the "arms", and bursts of arrows rose into the sky, drawing an arc, and fell hard on the dense And in the chaotic riding formation.
"Puff puff~" The cold arrows tore through the leather armor and penetrated deeply into the muscles of the Khitan soldiers. The soldiers who were hit by the arrows fell off their horses one after another and were trampled into mud by the rushing horses.
In an instant, screams were heard one after another in the "arms", ringing into the sky; the screams of humans, the neighing of war horses, the sound of bows and crossbows leaving their strings, the sound of horns, and the shouts of the Sui ambush troops... gathered on the battlefield. Into a symphony of death.
The crisis of death finally made the Khitan soldiers, who were like headless flies, sober up. They leaned down in fear, hugged the neck of the jumping war horse, and tried hard to control the horse to rush forward.
"Quickly send the order, let the soldiers rush forward!" Even the stupidest person knows at this moment that he is trapped in a heavy siege and cannot do anything. When the retreat is cut off, Dahe Duuluo decisively and smartly gives the order. The order to move forward; as long as they walked out of "open arms", they could still stop and reorganize.
The dark Khitan cavalry, with the flags waving and the horns playing on Da Heduluo's side, changed their blind charge into a chaotic formation charging forward.
Seeing this, Da Heduoluo didn't feel the slightest bit happy, but instead his heart was filled with worry and horror.
Judging from the loss of arrows shot from the mountain, there are actually not many ambushes on both sides. It can be seen that the Sui soldiers on the left and right sides and the rear mountain wall are not the main force of the Sui army. They are just a branch division, only responsible for disrupting the formation of one's own army. , is only responsible for defeating the mental defenses of one's own soldiers.
The real main force of the Sui army was actually waiting for them at the front.
In fact, just like the gentle and low mountains with open arms to the south, just sending two suicide troops to rush up the mountain at the risk of death can suppress the Sui army archers, thus giving the soldiers below a chance to reorganize and breathe; But after all, the Khitan army was not a well-trained and disciplined Sui army soldier; and the war horses, which were originally their best combat partners, now became their biggest burden and most deadly weapon.
Therefore, Heduluo knew that there were not many ambushes on the three sides and that the front was more dangerous, but he was unable to change anything; his only hope was for the soldiers to burst out several times more fighting power in order to survive.
Only in this way can they have a way to survive and a chance to turn defeat into victory.
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