Beigong is an ancient Qiang surname. As early as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a Qiang leader named Beigong Boyu separatized Liangzhou and raised troops to respond to Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Uprising. He joined forces with Xiliang powerful Song Yang and others to launch a rebellion. , coerced Han Sui, Bian Zhang and others to join the rebellion against the Han, and the Qiang family of Tuyuhun general Beigong Wu was a descendant of Beigong Boyu.
Beigong Wu was highly skilled in martial arts and was Murong Yong's right-hand man. After Murong Yong led his army to the west, he ordered him to lead an army of 20,000 to guard the very important camp of Tuolai River. But what Murong Yong never dreamed of was that Bei Gongwu, who was located in the protruding part, not only did not see his beacon smoke, not only did he not receive the order to stand still and wait for reinforcements, but he also resolutely carried out the order to attack the Sui army's camp.
Bei Gongwu urged the army to hurry up. A few days ago, Murong Yong gave him a combat order, ordering him to break through the Sui army camp, occupy Huangyang Valley, and push the troops to Zhangye County, thereby forcing Yang Ji to withdraw troops. However, these days, no matter how they challenged him, no matter how they insulted him, the notorious Li Daliang remained behind closed doors, leaving him helpless.
Although it is possible to attack the enemy camp by force, the Sui army's ability to defend is well known all over the world. Unless it is absolutely necessary, Bei Gongwu will definitely miss the cities, camps and passes guarded by the Sui army soldiers. He mobilized all his troops this time because the war could no longer continue. No, in order to fulfill the orders from above, we must attack the enemy camp as quickly as possible by force.
"General." As they were marching, a scout galloped over and reported loudly on horseback: "The soldiers of the Sui army stepped out of their turtle shells and came out of camp one after another to fight."
This news made Beigong Takeda overjoyed, and he asked with surprise and joy: "Really?"
"That's true!" the scout shouted.
"I underestimated this Li Daliang. I thought he would continue to be a coward, but I never thought that he would dare to come out. Good thing, good thing!" After hearing the scout's decisive reply, Takeshi Kitamiya laughed loudly and turned to the left and right. Said: "While the Sui army has not yet launched its formation, we should advance quickly to catch him off guard. If we can take advantage of the situation to capture Huangyang Valley and enter Zhangye County, it will be a great achievement."
"General, Li Daliang has avoided fighting for many days, but he suddenly took the initiative to send troops this time. Is this a fraud?" A general next to Bei Gongwu frowned and said, "Although I don't understand the art of war in the Central Plains, I also know that the Sui people are abnormal. The woman is cheating, and there is a gourd mouth in front of her, and the mountains on the left and right are the easiest to set up an ambush."
"The Sui army is under the surveillance of our scouts. If there is any movement, the scouts will report it as soon as possible." Beigong Wu shook his head and said, "Although the terrain ahead is gourd-shaped, the mountains on both sides are gentle. , the open terrain in the middle is not suitable for ambush at all. If you want to ambush the large army, firstly, the Sui army is insufficient in strength, and secondly, there are so many people ambushing on both sides, and it is absolutely impossible to hide our army's scouts. Even if there are so few ambush troops, it will not affect the overall situation. "
However, despite Beigong Wu's words, out of caution, he still sent two additional teams of 1,000 people to investigate the conditions of the mountains on both sides. When the generals saw his arrangement, they stopped talking and ordered the soldiers to advance at full speed after returning to their respective armies.
The distance of several miles passed quickly under the feet of the cavalry. As soon as we entered the mouth of the gourd, our eyes suddenly opened up.
When Bei Gongwu heard that the Sui army was waiting in front, he quickly ordered his soldiers to prepare an offensive formation and led three thousand direct troops to ride out. However, the scene in front of him shocked him greatly. He saw that the Sui army occupied the upper-east direction of the northeast. Nearly a thousand military chariots were placed in front, while behind were banners that blocked the sky and the sun. The banners flying to the southwest blocked everything behind him, so that he could not see even a single Sui soldier. Beyond this strange Sui army further to the northeast was a well-equipped cavalry force, numbering about three thousand, and behind them were banners that were also covering the sky and the sun.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Beigong Wu frowned deeply. He is a veteran in his forties. He once entered Liangzhou during the Kaihuang period and fought many battles with the Sui army. He knew that the Sui army's military chariot formation was composed of vehicles transporting logistical equipment. This formation is a traditional strategy used by the Central Plains army to deal with cavalry, which can effectively hinder the powerful impact of cavalry. But he didn't know what the purpose of the flags behind the chariot array was. Could it be that they were used to cover the troops and crossbow array behind?
"Mysterious!" Beigong Wu was puzzled, but he saw that the Sui army's lineup was not spacious.
, completely capable of crushing them from the front and the left and right wings. He drew his sword, pointed directly at the Sui army formation in front, and said sternly: "Fearless Tuyuhun warriors, kill all the enemies in front of me, and everything in the Central Plains will belong to you. Here you go. I'll kill!"
"Hoo ho ho, ho ho ho..." In order to intimidate and drive away wild beasts when hunting, the Tyuhun people would often shout, in order to destroy the will of the wild beasts to attack. At this moment, countless voices gathered together to form a powerful sound wave. , the sound was echoed by the mountains on the left and right, and then became even louder. They roared and shouted while killing forward with an unstoppable force. The murderous aura seemed to destroy everything in the world.
On the high platform behind the banner, Li Daliang's eyes were cold. He had 11,000 troops, and all 6,000 baggage troops were arranged for him as crossbowmen. The five thousand elites were divided into two. The cavalry that Beigong Wu saw was actually only three thousand. The two thousand soldiers behind the cavalry were actually infantry operating small catapults; that is to say, he There are only three arms now, and there are no spearmen on the front specifically to deal with cavalry.
This kind of battle formation with a single type of arms and weak defense is actually quite dangerous when faced with more troops than one's own. If the enemy general knows the true situation, he can break through the chariot formation and weak cavalry without any worries, and defeat the weak cavalry. Six thousand crossbowmen and three thousand infantry with only short swords were crushed into clay. Li Daliang was afraid that the enemy would see through the reality, so he placed thousands of banners in front of him, pretending to be mysterious.
When he clearly saw that Tuyuhun was about to enter the range of the crossbow, he coldly ordered: "Shoot!"
"Dong dong, dong dong dong" drums beat loudly, and two thousand crossbow arrows were suddenly fired. The arrows passed through the flags, forming a black arrow cloud, roaring towards the Tuguhun cavalry. In an instant, the Tuguhun cavalry formation was turned upside down. Immediately after the Sui army's second row of crossbow arrows came, Tuyuhun soldiers kept screaming and falling to the ground during the charge; the third row of arrow clouds roared in, and the dense rain of arrows shot through the Tuyuhun soldiers like a gust of wind. The shields and leather armor caused the Tuyuhun soldiers rushing forward to roll off their horses and fall to the ground, and were trampled into pulp by the dense hooves of horses from behind.
The three rows of crossbowmen skillfully opened, loaded and fired the crossbows, and fired in turn. In just three rounds each, the Tuyuhun soldiers lost three to four thousand people. The heavy losses caused the Tuyuhun cavalry to quickly lose their vigor and pile up. The corpses of the men and horses in front also became obstacles for the subsequent soldiers to charge, and the formation began to be messy. Since the beginning, the powerful arrows have been sweeping in with overwhelming force. The powerful arrow array is like shooting at a group of sheep blocked by them.
No matter how the Tuyuhun soldiers roared, roared, and shouted, they still couldn't get within a hundred steps. The fierce offensive of the Tuyuhun soldiers fell into Li Daliang's cold eyes, but they were just crazy prey.
"Let the catapults throw fireballs." Li Daliang ordered with a sneer.
Beigongwu's attack method was the same as that of the Turks, using cavalry to break the formation. As long as their superiority in cavalry and archery could be resisted, they would be a bunch of lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Moreover, Bei Gongwu did not consider the actual situation of wind direction and wind strength. Today, let them see the power of the Central Plains' art of war.
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Huge fireballs tied with rattans soared into the sky. These fireballs were filled with dead branches and leaves poured with kerosene. The core of the ball was a round stone, which seemed very big, but the overall weight was only more than ten kilograms. Under the influence of the wind, not only does it burn more intensely, but a small catapult controlled by only two people can throw it more than 150 steps away.
Under the horrified gaze of Bei Gongwu and the Tuyuhun soldiers, they saw these fireballs dragging long flames over the heads of the Sui cavalry and falling towards their own side. The fireballs landed on the ground among the soldiers, and then shattered and splashed. The fire that arose took advantage of the wind and quickly burned the hair of the soldiers' mounts, causing chaos in the Chinese army.
A thousand fireballs exploded in the Tuyuhun army, causing smoke and flames to billow in the northeast of the Tuyuhun army. The thick smoke was blown by the strong wind and quickly swept towards the Tuyuhun army in the southwest, quickly sealing off the entire army. As thousands of fireballs in the second, third, and fourth rounds fell into the army, Tuyuhun The army is at a disadvantage
The whole area was shrouded in thick smoke, and the sight of the men and horses could not exceed ten steps. Those war horses were burned by the fire and smoked. They screamed in panic, trampled and jumped around, and the Tuyuhun army collapsed without a fight.
The Sui cavalry immediately swooped down. They held individual crossbows and fired crossbow arrows into the depths of the smoke, causing the enemy troops to become more chaotic.
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Dugu Pingyun, who was far away from the east mountain of "Hulu", also launched an offensive. As early as when Li Daliang was preparing for the battle, he led 10,000 fine cavalry over the gentle mountains and ran to the east to ambush him several miles away.
In this battle, Dugu Pingyun's mission was to prevent Tuguhun's defeated troops from sending news to the Muli Camp, but he had so many troops that there was no need to put 10,000 people on the road to intercept the defeated troops. So based on the fact that the road to the east was not very open, he divided the 7,000 soldiers into 70 hundred-man brigades, and asked the soldiers to use the brigades as combat units to kill and contain the enemy's broken troops in the east. Scout; and he himself took three thousand cavalry to guard outside the battlefield.
When all the soldiers of the Tuyuhun Army entered Hulukou, Dugu Pingyun went around to the rear of the enemy. Seeing the enemy's chaos at this time, he led his troops towards the rear of the Tuyuhun cavalry and used the crossbows in his hands to trap them in the valley.
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The fire in the "gourd" is actually not very big. The real fatal thing is the billowing smoke. The thick smoke that "can't be seen" is enough to kill people, and the Sui soldiers added a lot of fireballs. All the plant leaves with a pungent smell were burned this time, which made the Tuyuhun soldiers burst into tears and have difficulty breathing. The Tuyuhun soldiers were confused and confused, instinctively thinking that the smoke was poisonous. The second fatal thing was the burning war horse, and the third was the crossbow arrows that made them more chaotic.
The three superimposed, and then led more troops in Tuyuhun to "blow up the camp". At this time, not counting the arrows fired by Sui soldiers, there were countless soldiers who were trampled and kicked to death by frightened horses and killed each other.
The Tuyuhun soldiers actually wanted to escape from the thick smoke array, but everyone in the chaos wanted to escape. In the end, no one could escape. Even if someone was lucky enough to escape to the upper wind, the two thousand cavalry would use arrows to entertain them. As long as one of them rushes out, they will attract an arrow; if they rush out as a group, they will attract a cloud of arrows. The soldiers fight individually in the thick smoke, making it difficult to form an effective attack lineup.
There was a soft sound of "咻", and a stray arrow shot out, hitting his helmet to the ground, and a strand of hair at the temples immediately fell away. The soldiers around him were shocked when they saw this. They quickly covered themselves with their cavalry shields and shouted: "General, the soldiers are in chaos. We may be involved in the chaos, so we should rush back!"
"The situation of the enemy in the rear is unknown, so we cannot retreat." Takeshi Kitamiya shouted anxiously: "We can only have a chance of survival by charging to a high place upwind. Everyone, follow me and kill!" After that, Takeshi Kitamiya took the lead and launched his attack. They rushed towards the side hillside of the Sui cavalry like crazy.
After finally getting out of the thick smoke, Beigong Wu found that except for a few personal soldiers, he no longer had any soldiers. The situation in front of him made him beat his chest and feel extremely regretful. Now let alone the whole army to fight again, it was still unknown whether he could avoid being trampled by the defeated troops and being pursued by the Sui army. He glanced around with red eyes, trying to find The direction of the breakout.
"General, look ahead!" A soldier next to him screamed in horror.
When Bei Gongwu raised his head, his face turned pale. Not far in front of him, a black-armored general stared at him coldly. Behind him was a dark cavalry holding a powerful crossbow. He knew this person. It was Li Daliang, the Sui army commander who fought many wall battles.
Bei Gongwu smiled miserably and said in blunt Chinese: "Li Daliang, you win."
As early as when the enemy army was in chaos, Li Daliang handed over the command to Yuwen Xie who was accompanying him. When he saw the enemy's commander's flag running towards this direction, he led his soldiers to greet him face to face, looking at Beigong in front of him. Wu, he said coldly: "Surrender, I won't kill you!"
A look of struggle flashed in Beigong Wu's eyes. He was silent for a long time, and suddenly said sternly to Li Daliang: "There is no son in the Beigong family who is afraid of death! If I surrender to you, it will be a shame to the Beigong family. I will never surrender. .”
Before he finished speaking, he put the sword in his hand on his neck, and with a sudden force of his right arm, blood spattered, and his burly body fell off the horse with a "bang".
"General, wait a minute.
OK! "Beigong Wu's few remaining soldiers looked at the miserable state of their commander, and they all roared and killed themselves with swords.
Li Daliang looked at these corpses, sighed, and ordered to his soldiers: "They would rather die than surrender, rather than dishonor the honor of a soldier. Find a place to bury their masters and servants together."
"Follow your orders!" More than a dozen soldiers dismounted and carried away the corpses of the Beigong Martial Lord.
