Chapter 660: The Battle of the Sanggan River is over

Although there were many ships parked on the docks on both sides, the Tang army's side had been damaged when the Xi Qi coalition army was forced back by the sea of fire for the first time, and their side was later destroyed by the Hexi army, making it impossible for them to escape downstream by the river. In addition, the giant tree has been broken by Huan Chenyu, they can't cross the river, plus the trampling, many people jumped straight into the Sanggan River, there are a lot of floating corpses floating in the river, both people and horses, and the entire river is almost filled with corpses, which allows these remnants to flee to the camp of the army on the opposite bank.

But what awaits them is still ruthless killing, because it is late at night, although then the firelight can see that the battle is also going on in the camp of the Xi Qi coalition army, but these remnants of the army who are desperately fleeing can only flee towards their own camp, who knows that there are also countless people on their docks at this moment fleeing towards the river, and the two waves of people are crowded and stampede again, and the Tang army and the Hexi army on both sides have formed a two-way attack situation, driving these people towards the river from the two docks respectively, and a small number of people are still fighting with them in the camp of the Xi Qi coalition army。 The most tricky thing is the original 500 garrisons in the northern camp and the 3,000 elite soldiers of the Tuoba Department who were separated from the real Li Huaixiu to guard the camp, although these guys have no one to lead, but they have exerted extraordinary combat effectiveness, and it seems that they want to save the entire Xiqi coalition army, they are like a sharp sword tearing apart the ranks of the Hexi army, and the cavalry of the Hexi army everywhere they go shows a one-sided defeat.

"Envoy, do you want me to help?" Huan Chenyu frowned and asked Ye Tingcheng, in his opinion, Ye Tingcheng's heart is towards the Tang Dynasty, and he should not see so many Tang army casualties, so it is necessary for the Tuoba Department to stop them.

However, unexpectedly, Ye Qingcheng just stretched out a hand to stop him, and said coldly: "No need. ”

"Don't you have to?" Even Chenyu, who had always been as calm as Huan Chenyu, felt a little surprised, and he thought that Ye Qingcheng would like him to go to these people.

"Well, no, although we want to help the Tang Dynasty respond to this battle, but we can't do too much, if the whole process is handled by us, and we come to the rescue, then the Tang army will inevitably have a kind of dependence psychology, this is not what I want, although the cavalry of the Tuoba Department is strong for a while, but they are few after all, but there are only three thousand people, and the tens of thousands of Hexi troops who encounter the same strong will be exterminated sooner or later. Victory cannot be ushered in by sitting still, it requires blood, only 3,000 Tuoba cavalry, if even they can't beat them, then the Hexi army is just that. ”

Huan Chenyu nodded, and stopped speaking for Tang Jun, he was a cold-blooded and ruthless guy, if he didn't think of Ye Tingcheng, the ghost wouldn't bother to pay attention to Tang Jun, and he also agreed with Ye Tingcheng's point of view. If the army is afraid of even bloodshed, then it is really just a waste army, fortunately the Tang army is not like this, otherwise if it really falls into the need for them to take action, then he really looks down on the Tang army.

And the situation also developed as Ye Chengcheng expected, although the Tuoba cavalry fought very bravely, wanting to at least seize the dock of the Xiqi coalition army and clear the way for the remnants of the river, but in the end they were still outnumbered and defeated by the Hexi army that came like a tide. Obviously, the number of people is about the same, and even the number of rear troops of the Xiqi coalition army is more than that of the Hexi army, and the combat effectiveness is also one point higher, but under the action of various factors, there has been a one-sided rout, which has to be said to be a miraculous phenomenon.

The Tang army on both sides was simply red-eyed, even if the Xi Qi coalition army knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but knowing these Beiyi's murderous personalities, they rode past them without even blinking an eye, and at the same time cut off the heads of these guys and flew away, the same scene is constantly being staged in the Xi Qi coalition camp, and the defeat of the Xi Qi coalition army, which was originally like a rainbow, has been decided, and it is powerless to return to the sky. In addition, the chain of command has long since collapsed, their big chiefs have been controlled by puppet worms, and the rest of the generals have been killed, no matter how high the overall quality of the army that has lost the command system, it will only be like a headless fly that can only run around, and nothing can be done.

On the second day, the battle, which lasted only a few hours, was divided, and the end was so fast that it even exceeded the expectations of the generals of the Tang Army, including Wang Zhonghei, although they knew that the battle had a great chance of victory, but they did not expect it to be so easy that they only glanced at the number of casualties reported by the heralds and did not look at it again, it was an incredible number, on the battlefield of 400,000 people, such a number can only be said to be a miracle, not to mention the generals who were the victors, except for the Hexi Army, they did not even lead the troops, which can be recorded in the history books。

For example, it is recorded in the "X Book of Tang" that in mid-February of the early year of Tang Tianbao, Shuofang Jiedu led 200,000 cavalry from various towns, and fought with the Xi Qi coalition army in the Sanggan River, three battles and three victories, the Xi Qi coalition army was annihilated, and the two great chiefs Huaixin Wang Li Yanzhong and Li Huaixiu were captured, and they were captured in Chang'an afterwards.

Although I wanted to say this, but in fact, this time, because of Ye Tingcheng's suggestion and Wang Zhonghe's orders, the Tang army was extremely ruthless, and it was really intended to make these two departments have no strength to raise troops for decades, so they had to pull out all their men, and in the end, the Tang army captured only thousands of prisoners.

Among them, it is necessary to select some people who are passable-looking and not seriously injured to be sent to Chang'an for prisoners, coupled with the Tang Army's unwillingness to treat the wounded soldiers, these thousands of captives are afraid that they will all die in the end. This is not the cruelty of the Tang army, which has always boasted of being a benevolent and righteous teacher, the reason why they want to exterminate these two ethnic groups is because they are indeed the border of the Tang Dynasty, and often raid the border, at that time they did not pity the Han people, but now they have a lot of Han slaves in the camp of the Xiqi coalition army, and it is impossible for them to let these guys go with this anger.

Soon after, in the shocked eyes of the Tang soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield and disposing of the corpses, Huan Chenyu and Ye Chengcheng swept straight across the mountains of corpses piled up on the river and landed at the Tang Army Wharf on the opposite bank.

These Tang troops have great respect for these people in their hearts, if it weren't for them, the Tang army killed and wounded in this battle would be at least several times, even if they can defeat the Xi Qi coalition army, they may be able to retreat back to their respective tribes to recuperate, and make a comeback after a few years, but the Tang army is not assembling such an army if it wants to assemble, there are very complex factors in this.