Dazzling lightning flashed across the sky one after another. In the wind and rain, the Turkic cavalry, who had lost their bows and arrows, fled with their heads in their arms. They were defeated and fled all over the mountains and plains. , the raging wind and rain made it impossible for the soldiers of both sides to see the situation in the distance, but one side wanted to return home alive, and the other side wanted to expand the results of the battle and gain military merit. None of them refused to stop and wait for the wind and rain to subside. After a chase, the sound of shouting and killing merged with the thunder, which was deafening.
Under normal circumstances, it is of course impossible for the Sui army, which is dominated by infantry, to catch up with the Turkic army, which is almost all cavalry, but this time is different. The torrential rain interferes with the sight of the Turkic soldiers and horses, creating a huge havoc for the Turkic cavalry to flee. Many Turkic cavalry collided with each other and trampled on each other when they could not see the distance clearly. Many Turkic cavalry were tripped and overturned by obstacles such as ditches, trees, and rocks. They fell off their horses screaming. , It is impossible to achieve such a quick and orderly transfer as usual.
After being soaked by the torrential rain, the fields outside the city of Nao County became a nightmare for the Turkic cavalry. The muddy ground not only sank the horseshoes of the Turkic cavalry, but also greatly restricted the speed of the Turkic cavalry. Because of this, the impact on such ground was not very great, so even if they were chasing cavalry on foot, many soldiers of the Sui Army managed to catch up with many Turkic cavalry, stabbed them from behind, cut them down, and captured many, Moreover, because the heavy rain seriously interfered with the line of sight, the pursuers of the Sui army and the defeated Turkic soldiers were actually completely mixed together. There was me in you, and you in me, and they marched northward together at a very close distance.
Fortunately, Chen Yingliang had the experience of fighting in heavy rain before, and Chen Yingliang was well prepared for this situation. The 10,000 descendants of Qiao Peng who had never been on the battlefield were left by Chen Yingliang to prepare for the eventuality. After they had all rushed out of the Turkic camp, Chen Yingliang personally led Qiao Peng's Sui army to march northward, and asked Qiao Peng's soldiers to maintain a strict formation and move northward slowly, even if they walked slowly, there would be no confusion. Yin Shishi's supervisor team was left behind to supervise the cleaning of the battlefield.
At the same time, the defenders of the Sui Army in Nao County had also discovered the retreat of the Turks and cheered that the siege was finally lifted. At the same time, the ambitious second son of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Qi Wang Yang Hao, was unwilling to miss the opportunity and decisively dispatched half of the defenders. The army went out of the city to intercept the Turks, and also successfully stopped a group of Turkic defeated soldiers, and dealt a head-on blow to the Turkic cavalry who fled in a hurry. In normal times, the Turkic army would never pay attention to Yang Hao's two thousand-odd troops, but because of the Also because of the pursuit of the Sui army brigade, the Turkic army had no intention of fighting at all, and immediately detoured and ran away after encountering an obstruction, without even delaying a little time. His Highness raised a lot of face.
The wind and rain continued, and so did the Sui army's pursuit. Finally, they caught this great opportunity to earn credit for gaining experience. The armies of You Wuwei and Zuo Tunwei used all their strength to pursue and catch up. The Turkic soldiers slashed and stabbed them, cutting down and stabbing the defeated Turkic soldiers from behind in rows without mercy, and then fell with knives and axes, cutting these fallen Turkic soldiers to pieces, crying The screams continued. At the same time, because time is too precious and the battle is too tense, the soldiers of Youwuwei and Zuotunwei almost forgot that Chen Yingliang once explained that they should shout the order to surrender in Turkic, and missed many captures of prisoners of war alive. Chance.
No matter how hard we tried to kill the enemy, the 20,000 infantry chasing the more than 40,000 Turkic cavalry was still unable to deal a fatal blow to the Turkic army. The distance between the chasing soldiers and the association rate of Ashina, who took the lead in fleeing for his life, also gradually gathered a group of Turkic cavalry in the wind and rain, and at least regained the power to protect themselves. However, at this moment, the Turkic cavalry who rushed to the front suddenly A series of horses stumbled, fell and rolled over, screaming and falling off the horse.
"What's going on?" Ashina led the group and screamed, and the Sui army soldiers shouted and killed suddenly in the wind and rain ahead, and suddenly remembered the Sui army team that had gone around their own camp and rushed to the front. Shi Na's group leader immediately understood that the Sui army had prepared for a rainy day and made interception arrangements, and then Ashina's group leader did not dare to entangle with the Sui army team, rushed down the official road with the defeated soldiers, and fled northward in a detour.
Ashina quickly discovered that he had done a stupid thing. The roadside fields in the south of Nao County had been trampled and leveled, and even after being washed by the heavy rain, they would not be too muddy soon. However, the farmland in the north of Nao County The land is completely different. It has not been repeatedly trampled and compacted by the Turkic army, and it has also been soaked in rainwater for a longer period of time. The mud is as soft as a swamp. The Turkic cavalry trampled down with people and horses, and the mud can directly submerge half of the land. A horse leg, the Turkic cavalry don't say that galloping and fleeing for their lives on such a land, even if they want to advance normally, it is as difficult as climbing the sky.
The shouts of the Sui army behind them were getting closer and closer, and they had no choice. Ashina could only dismount and walk, led the horse and struggled back to the relatively hard and flat official road, organized the Turkic team to charge and break through, and directly fought against the enemy. Shouted: "Rush over, kill all the Central Plains barbarians blocking the way, and make a bloody path! Ayla! Ayla!"
"Ayla! Ayla!" The Turkic cavalry charged in a messy manner with strange shouts, but what greeted them was the dense stumbling rope on the road, which seriously interfered and delayed the momentum of the Turkic cavalry's charge. The inertial advantage of the Turkic cavalry's group charge was offset invisibly, and then the Sui army's spearmen lined up in a dense formation took the lead to intercept, and the Turkic cavalry rushed forward to fight hand-to-hand. First, they needed several or even dozens of spears and spears Neatly stabbed, countless heroic Turkic soldiers were buried under the spears of despicable Sui soldiers, and even more precious war horses were cut off by Sui soldiers, pierced through the front door, and fell to their knees and fell down, becoming a hindrance New barrier for Turkic warriors in the rear.
The raging wind and rain seriously interfered with the sight of the Turkic warriors, and also caused the Turkic generals to be unable to adjust their tactics in time to deal with the troubles ahead. Countless Turkic warriors were like moths to the flame, and they rushed towards the dense spear formation that the light cavalry feared most. , It was too late to realize that the situation was wrong. He was blocked by his fallen companions one after another, and was stabbed and knocked down by the fierce spears one after another.
The numerous lives proved that continuing to charge was just death in vain. After receiving the report of the defeated soldiers who were lucky enough to retreat successfully, Ashina had no choice but to change tactics and ordered a group of Turkic soldiers to dismount and go northward from both sides of the official road to outflank and attack the Sui army to intercept. The two wings of the team. Although unwilling to give up their horses easily, but in order to survive, a group of Turkic soldiers dismounted according to the order and walked northward from both sides of the road with difficulty. Go forward and fight head-on with the Sui army intercepting spearmen.
The fierce battle broke out again in the wind and rain. The Turkic infantry who were struggling to walk northward in the muddy land caused some troubles to the two wings of the Sui army. There were many casualties, guns and spears came and went at the front of the battle, blood gushed continuously, the fighting was extremely tragic, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate.
What changed the situation of the battle were the defeated Turkic soldiers who fled one after another. With the Sui army chasing closer and closer behind, the Turkic warriors who had nowhere to go could only move forward with all their strength, either walking or riding overwhelmingly towards the Sui army's interception position. With no other choice, these Turkic warriors also broke out with unimaginable fighting power, breaking down four Sui army defense lines one after another, breaking into the interior of the Sui army, and The soldiers of the Sui army started a melee.
The importance of the Jiangdu army was fully revealed at this moment. In the storm, the Turkic warriors from the grasslands and the Taiyuan Sui army from the Sanjin area were greatly affected, and they were not used to fighting in the wet rain under the rain. The Sui army from Jiangdu, who came from a rainy area, had to train and march in the wind and rain every two days, and went to battle to kill the enemy. In such an environment, it was like a fish in water. Relying on adapting to the environment and because of its short stature and low center of gravity, Jiangdu The soldiers are like fishes, swimming freely in the wind and rain, avoiding the clumsy attacks of the Turkic soldiers flexibly, stabbing the cavalry up and chopping off the horse's legs, and beating the Turkic warriors so that they can't stop crying. , It also caused one Turkic warrior after another to fall into a pool of blood with blood, and could never return to the grassland to mate with his stepmother and sister-in-law.
It is no exaggeration to say that if King Jiangduqin's army can arrive here to participate in the blocking battle, or let the 4,000 Jiangdu troops under the command of Wang Shiyun and his son rest for a day or two before going to the battlefield, then the more than 40,000 Turks in Nao County, including the Turks in Nao County Including Ashina Jiesheng, the chief general of the army, no one was able to break through the joint blockade of the Jiangdu Sui Army and the Taiyuan Sui Army and escape back to Yanmen.
If so, reality is reality. Although Jiangdu soldiers are very adaptable to the environment and climate at this moment, the excessive physical exertion still seriously weakens the combat effectiveness of Jiangdu soldiers. They cannot kill and wound enemies quickly and effectively as usual, and their efficiency is greatly reduced. At the same time, behind the interception position jointly built by the Sui Army in Taiyuan and the Sui Army in Jiangdu, there was also the unique cry of Aila from the Turkic army. An unknown number of Turkic Yanmen troops had come to reinforce them. The team under his command immediately fell into the dilemma of being attacked back and forth.
The possibility of the Yanmen Turks going south for reinforcements was already expected by Chen Yingliang and Li Yuan. Beforehand, Li Yuan also followed Chen Yingliang's request and urgently deployed a large number of tripping ropes in the rear to prevent and delay the charge of the Turkic cavalry. The cover received good results, tripped and tripped a large number of Turkic cavalry, and offset the group charge advantage of the Turkic cavalry invisible. Don't panic and face collapse.
The situation of the war was completely as expected, but a small detail surprised Li Yuan—in front of Li Yuan, Wang Renze asked Wang Shiyun in Hu language: "Father, we have been attacked before and after, what should we do? Shouldn't we retreat quickly to avoid too many casualties?"
It was clear that he was bullying Li Yuan who didn't understand Hu language, so Wang Shiyun also said directly to his son in Hu language: "You can't withdraw immediately, you can talk about it for a while, your uncle told you that Chen Xiaozei will be the coach of King Qin, and it will be of great benefit to our Wang family. Once it hurts, we must try our best to help him win the victory, help him secure the position of coach, deceive his trust, and then try to win the first victory of King Qin to suppress him. So we must not withdraw now, we must do our best Hold on, we can't retreat anymore, but fortunately our reinforcements are coming soon, we don't need to worry about too many casualties."
Wang Renze nodded, and then Wang Shiyun noticed Li Yuan who was listening beside him, he hurriedly laughed, and said in Chinese: "I made Ambassador Li laugh, our family is all Huren, we all speak Huyu at home, and we speak Huyu outside." When I was in a hurry, I was used to talking directly in Hu, and we didn't say anything, just discussing how to meet the enemy."
Li Yuan, who was of Hu blood, nodded, and then asked with a smile: "General Wang, the situation was too urgent just now, I haven't had time to ask you, what is the relationship between you and Marshal Chen?"
"My fifth younger brother Wang Shichong's daughter is married to Marshal Chen." Wang Shiyun explained smoothly.
"What? Wang Juncheng's daughter married Marshal Chen? But how did I hear that Marshal Chen has already arranged a marriage in Daxing?" Li Yuan asked in shock.
"It's a side room." Wang Shiyun replied again: "Of course my fifth brother knows about Chen Dashuai's official wife in Daxing, but my fifth brother appreciates Chen Dashuai's talent and learning, so he married his daughter to him as a side room."
"So that's it." Li Yuan nodded again, and didn't ask any more questions, but he couldn't help showing a little smirk, and said in his heart: "Pianfang? Little thief Chen? Deceived trust? Win the first meritorious service of King Qin? Wang Shichong's family, use value Not small."
At the same time, the fierce battle in the blocking position has reached its climax. The Sui army's front and rear positions are being attacked by the enemy. The Turkic army is charging at both ends, desperately trying to merge into a joint retreat. The situation gradually became critical, and the Sui Army in Jiangdu, due to the serious lack of physical strength, could not play a big role. At most, it only helped the Sui Army in Taiyuan to expand the results of the battle, but could not reverse the situation. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Yuan could only devote all his efforts The reserve team, with all their strength, counterattacked the Turks in Nao County from the north and south, and tried their best to suppress the momentum of the Turks in Nao County to buy time for the follow-up reinforcements.
Fortunately, when the wind and rain obviously began to turn down, the Youwuwei Sui Army led by Liu Changgong rushed to the southern end of the battlefield to reinforce, and joined forces with the Sui Army in Taiyuan and Jiangdu to attack the Turks in Nao County from north to south. Casualties increased rapidly. In order to survive, countless Turkic soldiers had to abandon their horses and walk into the muddy fields that were already swampy, bypassing the blocking positions of the Sui army and fleeing northward. In the swamp, Turkic soldiers fought desperately in the knee-deep muddy water. The scale of the fierce battle and the battlefield area became larger and larger. Sui army team.
Around the second quarter of Shenshi, Yun Dingxing's Zuo Tunwei team also rushed to the battlefield one after another, and joined in the ruthless massacre of the Turks in Nao County. Intercepting the defeated Turkic soldiers led Liu Changgong to send troops to do the same. As a result, the Sui army's battle line was widened to more than ten miles. Gradually be able to see the situation of the entire battlefield.
Yuan Tiangang’s Crow’s Mouth came true again. At about 3:30, the rain cleared and the clouds in the west shone through with golden sunlight, turning the battlefield where dead bodies were already strewn all over the field into a golden color. There are still fierce battles on the crowded official roads and swampy fields. The corpses of soldiers and horses piled up like mountains on the official roads, and the fields with severe flooding are also full of corpses and broken limbs. The soldiers of the two armies fought together in the muddy water. You Cut and kill, the fight was inseparable. The previous pursuit and blocking battles also unknowingly turned into a big melee. Fortunately, the previous wind and rain were too strong, which completely wet the Turkic soldiers. Therefore, the bows and arrows that the Turkic army is good at will not be useful for a while.
The pursuit and blocking battle gradually turned into a big melee. The key reason was that there were too many Turkic troops coming south from Yanmen for reinforcements, with a total of more than 20,000 people. When the Sui army in Taiyuan could not quickly break through the interception, the Turkic reinforcements Forced to spread out to the two wings and go south, unconsciously entangled with the Sui army team that also spread out to the two wings. In addition to the defeated Turkic soldiers who fled from Nao County, the number of Turkic troops has always maintained the same number as the number of Sui army troops. In the end, because the generals of the Sui army were greedy for merit, they spread out to the two wings to kill the enemy. The division of troops was too much to dilute the force, so before they knew it, the Sui army and the Turkic army were all entangled and stuck together.
Instead, the danger appeared to the Sui army. The result of being too entangled was that there was an enemy among the enemies, and there was an enemy among us. Aware of this situation, Ashina, who was defeated by accident due to the sudden heavy rain before, became greedy. Not only did he not try his best to break through, but he also decisively shot the white-haired beetle and ordered the army to move closer to him, wanting to quickly defeat him. Gather a group of troops to launch a counterattack against the Sui army, completely turning the situation on the battlefield from defeat to victory, but the Sui army has no leader. Li Yuan, Liu Changgong, Yun Dingxing and other important generals do not belong to each other. In the chaos, they do not know whose command to listen to. Instead, they fell into a predicament of fighting on their own.
Realizing that the situation was not good, Li Yuan, who was already leading his own soldiers to kill people with a knife, yelled, "Chen Yingliang, little thief, are you fucking going to fight? When is this, your Chinese army?" Why haven’t they come yet? If another Turkic reinforcements come, we’ll be finished, don’t you know?”
"Son, the situation is not good, prepare to run away." Wang Shiyun also impatiently told his son in Huyu.
"The smoke rises, the mountains and rivers look north, the dragon rises, the horse rolls, and the sword is like frost..."
At the critical moment, the familiar military song suddenly resounded loudly, neatly and loudly. In the majestic and mighty military song, the Baoguo Army, which had voluntarily withdrawn from the battlefield because of its heavy load, first appeared at the southern end of the official road, holding high the loyal The big flag of patriotism came trotting, and behind the patriotic army were the infantry of the Qiao Peng Sui army with bright armor, lined up in a dense formation, with the regiment as the unit, endlessly coming from south to north, the team Neat, slow like a forest, majestic like a mountain, the front team has arrived in front of the formation, and the rear team is still pouring in from the official road.
Seeing this scene, Ashina's last hope of forming an association was completely shattered, and the Turkic soldiers who were approaching his commander-in-chief also dispersed in a blast, and fled all over the mountains and plains in all directions again. The military spirit was excited to the extreme. Li Yuan sighed for a long time, shook his head and said to himself: "Shuai Cai, the real Shuai Cai, the last reserve team has arrived at the edge of the battlefield tomorrow morning, but they have been holding back until the most critical moment. Calm, how many people in the world can match the ability to capture fighters like this?"
After secretly sighing, Li Yuan suddenly hated secretly again, gritted his teeth and hated his son-in-law, hated this son-in-law who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, and sees people as inferior, otherwise...
There is no suspense in the ensuing battle. In front of Qiao Peng's elite soldiers who have been accumulating for a long time, the Turkic army, whose morale, morale and physical strength have been close to the bottom, has no will to resist, and the Turkic soldiers who have become a mess of twine have no time to fight. Opportunity to regroup and fight, without any strength to reach the group attack of the Sui army Qiao Peng's elite soldiers, they could only scramble north to escape, completely disintegrated, Qiao Peng Sui army easily defeated the Turkic rear team with a complete blow, and The Youwuwei, Zuotunwei, and Taiyuan Sui Army who were entangled with the Turkic army also took the opportunity to counterattack across the board, frantically massacring the defeated Turkic soldiers who had completely collapsed, and the number of gains directly rose to a new level.
The Turkic voice of “surrender without killing” sounded first in Qiao Peng’s Sui army, and led other Sui army to shout this slogan. Turkic soldiers who had nowhere to go knelt down and surrendered countless times. After the war, they all fled north with their heads in their arms. The Turkic troops who went south for reinforcements no longer had the heart to fight. Turkic soldiers, the Turkic army who were blocked from returning home had no way to go to heaven, no way to go to earth, and countless dead fell. In the end, even Ashina's association rate could only change into the clothes of ordinary soldiers, dismounted and fled into the forest beside the road , Take the forest path and flee to Yanmen to meet Shibi.
In this battle, under the serious lack of preparations, under the command of the coach Chen Yingliang, the Great Sui King Qin's coalition forces, relying on a sudden storm, smashed the Turkic army in Nao County, beheaded an astonishing 16,000 or more, and captured the Turks. There were more than 5,000 soldiers, thirteen Turkic generals were killed, four were captured, countless horses and luggage were captured, and the siege of Nao County was successfully lifted, and the second son of Yang Guang was rescued first. The victory also achieved the biggest victory of the Sui army against the Turkic army in the past 14 years.
In the middle of the night, the news of the great victory of the Sui Army in Nao County was sent to the Yanmen Battlefield 120 miles away from Nao County. Shibi Khan, who was preparing to launch a full-scale attack on the Yanmen Sui Army the next day, was taken aback. After the plan to siege the city with all his strength, another thing is to yell at the commander-in-chief, "Didn't our detailed work say that Yang Guangxin appointed this Central Plains army commander, Chen Yingliang, as a 19-year-old young man? This 19-year-old young man, How can it be so powerful? Remember the last time our Turkic army lost so badly, it was the time when we lost to Yang Su fourteen years ago? Is this nineteen-year-old young man as powerful as that barbarian Yang Su?"