Chapter 322

The 8000 cavalry on both wings had to attack and intercept, so as to give time for the rotation and repair of each square array of the infantry array.

The Tubo army saw that the Tang army's step array began to repair and rotate, and the whole array slowed down, so it gave up the continuous impact, but increased the offensive against the newly established military stronghold in front of it again.

The commander ordered the troopers of the Tubo tribe to dismount and fight, carrying crossbow carts, stone catapults, ladder ladders and car crashes from the city, and carrying low morale servants to attack together.

An attack wave of 5000 people almost filled all the ground space faced by the stronghold, making every position of the stronghold attacked at the same time, and the pressure on the garrison increased greatly.

The military stronghold was originally small and made of bamboo and wood. Its defense power was limited. It was only used to block roads, and only 5000 soldiers were stationed inside. Facing the crazy charge of the Tubo army almost on the edge of despair, they repelled four waves of attacks with strong bows, hard crossbows and rolling stones, killing countless Tubo troops.

But the madness of the other party is extremely terrible. That's the so-called don't stop it when you return to the teacher. They knew that they had only such a way to survive. Naturally, they did their best, regardless of casualties, and their combat effectiveness was amazing.

The garrison was suppressed by the superior forces assembled by Tubo. When the morale was slightly low, there were major mistakes.

Finally, the Tubo army broke through the stronghold, but they only opened the gate of the stronghold, and the whole army rushed to it. There was no street battle with the defenders in the stronghold. As long as the garrison does not take the initiative to intercept, even standing near them, these Tubo troops have no power to come forward and kill.

Zhao Xuanqing personally led the cavalry with a horse in his hand and pursued with his tail while the other party scrambled for the narrow channel of the stronghold gate. This wave of killing, because the Tubo army's war heart has been vented, the war results are quite outstanding.

First of all, those servants who turned into soldiers and the troops of Tubo headquarters were almost all captured. At the same time, Zhao Xuanqing led people to burn most of the food and grass in the military camp in Tubo.

But at least 8000 of the elite cavalry of Tubo headquarters escaped. Most of the servants did not even have a horse ration, and those who stepped down to fight even died under their own horses.

In the last wave of escape, the Tubo people were very crazy, especially the headquarters of the Chinese army, almost left on their own bodies.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Xuanqing did not pursue immediately, but reorganized his troops and horses and asked the infantry to gather all prisoners of war.

I personally led all the cavalry, chased behind the Tubo army, kept a certain rhythm, tightly oppressed and harassed step by step, and made sure that their horsepower could not rest.

Although there were still 8000 Tibetan troops who escaped, in fact, many of them were injured, and the physical loss of war horses was quite large. Many surplus horses were robbed by Zhao Xuanqing in the course of the battle just now.

Now, facing the harassment of Zhao Xuanqing all the way, these Tubo soldiers and horses are miserable. The Lord general forcibly ordered a thousand to ride out and delay Zhao Xuanqing and others. Then the rest of the people rushed West.

More than 200 miles from michuan county to kuozhou City, the war horse runs naturally fast, but the horsepower consumption is also huge. In addition, from time to time, people on the road fell off their horses due to serious injuries, and some took the opportunity to find a path to leave the army.

Of the more than 8000 Tibetan troops and horses, less than 5000 came down.

Now the Tubo troops and horses arrive on the great plain outside the city of kuozhou and get off the horse for a little repair. The Tubo leader saw the flag waving above the city of kuozhou, but it was not his own flag. He couldn't help crying.

His subordinates comforted him by saying that since the Tang army guard General of kuozhou city didn't go out of the city to intercept, he didn't take this opportunity to escape, otherwise he would be hard to go if he was caught up again.

After thinking about it, he did not dare to think about kuozhou City, and hurriedly continued to the west along the Bank of the Yellow River.

At this time, a thousand cavalry soldiers ambushed in the woods suddenly ran out. Because the branches were tied behind the horse's tail, the dust was high and many flags were hung when the horse galloped.

The Tubo people mistakenly thought that there were a large number of troops ambushing here, and they had no intention of fighting. They were like frightened birds. They didn't resist at all, so they stepped on the horses and fled.

Although these 1000 cavalry are new troops, they are actually riding infantry trained by Wei Ran. Their riding ability is very poor, so they can only chase the defeated soldiers. Therefore, when they came out of the ambush position, they pretended to be suspects and pretended to be loud and powerful, which once again hit the morale of the enemy.

However, Tubo sergeants did not need to be attacked at all. They had already become frightened birds. Now the 1000 horses chasing the tired horses and the 5000 horses fearing are like chopping melons and vegetables. But even if they tried their best, because of their poor riding skills, they could only stay behind the Tubo army and harvest the defeated soldiers who lost a lot of horsepower.

Then the Tubo army fled for dozens of miles, and suddenly rushed out from the flank to ambush a thousand good horses. They didn't care about being suspicious soldiers. A thousand riders are a thousand riders. They come straight in the shape of a front arrow array. They don't look like the cavalry chasing behind. They seem to have a large number, but they are actually very careless.

At least the five hundred cavalries in front of them, who are the main force of the front arrow, are masters of riding. They even ride and shoot first when charging. After three arrows, they quickly put on their lances and stabbed them straight. Their faces are full of hatred.

The original 500 horsemen were the Dangxiang and Qiang people captured by Wei Ran in Jishi juntunbao. They were nomadic people. They were naturally very good at riding. They had an old feud with the Tubo people and were eager to take credit in front of the new Lord. They naturally worked very hard during the war.

Even if the 1000 cavalry suddenly rushed out and the 500 cavalry behind them were somewhat disconnected, they still cut the Tubo army in half and chased the thousands of cavalry who pretended to be suspicious soldiers from the rear array, surrounded them by these cut-off Tubo soldiers and horses, and allowed the other half to continue to escape.

The Tubo master tried his best to fight his horse and run away, ignoring his companions behind him. He continued to run more than ten miles, and the horse under his crotch was foaming, so he quickly changed into another standby horse.

This is basically the case in their army now. Many war horses have been quickly abandoned, but only a few have spare war horses.

These troops and horses of Tubo headquarters with strict military discipline on weekdays even fought with each other for spare horses. It's not even useful for the master to stop him. I don't know who started the knife first.

Then the white knife went in and the red knife went out, which naturally caused people to be in danger. They pulled out the knives one after another and were on guard against each other. The prestige of the Tubo leader general has been lost because of this defeat. The soldiers did not pay attention to the leader general at all for their own survival, except for the hundreds of close soldiers around him.

Customers can't care so much. If they want to fight for spare horses, let them fight. In short, I have to escape from kuozhou and go to the Tubo people's own territory, that is, the hometown of Tuyuhun. There is a green grassland. I'm not afraid of the Tang army's dare to pursue. So he wanted to lead his own soldiers to escape first.

At this time, the ground suddenly shook, and the sound of horse hoofs running straight ahead could be heard.

The Tubo leader and his subordinates looked forward in pale despair, and saw a Tang general holding a Xuanhua axe and making public his attitude. He even followed two beautiful women in purple and yellow.

Behind the three of them, there was a fierce and elite cavalry of the Tang army, all riding spears in their hands, shouting and fighting! On the one hand, the flag of the Tang army with thousands of horses wrote the three characters of fenglinjun in a strange font that Tubo people could not understand, and on the other hand, it clearly wrote the huge characters of Wei in official script!

Thousands of horses swept across, swords and guns crossed!