Chapter 652: Battle of the Sanggan River (62)

After he fell to the ground, he rolled and jumped on a hill of corpses, looking at his subordinates in the midst of the fire, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and even the stray arrow that he had just jumped into the air forgot to pull out.

What kind of hellish scene is this, I saw that with the impact point as the center, those flames spread out one after another, and all the creatures around were swept into the sea of fire, and some of these subordinates who could be named by him on weekdays couldn't even struggle, so they were swallowed by the sea of fire, and the whole person disappeared.

Just when he was about to make some command, something that made him desperate came, and several fireballs fell from the sky, the target was still his army, and they were all far away from the attack point just now, these places had not been affected by the flames just now, but the cavalry of the Xiqi coalition army in these places had obviously been frightened, and they all had the intention of retreating.

If they are brave and good at fighting, in the face of the threat of death, no matter how brave the warrior is, they will become cowards, these guys saw the second round of attacks coming, and immediately retreated, but there are still many people who are engulfed in the sea of fire, some people are lucky to run out of the sea of fire, but become fire people, they can't run far before even people and horses fall to the ground, no longer move, and some although they ran away at the beginning, but under the blessing of the night wind at night, the fire spread quickly, and they will still be caught up by the fire in the end, and the whole will be swallowed up。 This caused a great deal of panic. The cavalry of the Xiqi coalition army, which had been charging bravely just now, had a great retreat, and the reason for the most casualties among them was not the attack of these fireballs, but the stampede caused by their own retreat, and at this time, the command of the officers had lost its effect. No, to be precise, because of the continuous bombardment of this fireball falling from the sky, even the officers fled one after another, except for the original tenth formation where Bayno Mi was, at this moment, a total of three formations of Xi Qi allied cavalry were within the attack range of the Tang Army's large catapults, among which the cavalry of the Baye Department and the forward of the Xi clan were killed by stray arrows and traps, and the remnants were basically all killed in the first few rounds of bombardment, only a small half of the sixth Xi cavalry at the outermost part of the range escaped, and the rest were all swallowed up by the sea of fire。

At the moment when the whole army of the Bano Department was annihilated, although he hid on the pile of corpses and escaped, he was not swallowed by the sea of fire, but he knew that the general trend had gone, even if the Xi Qi coalition army ushered in a turning point, but he was already finished, and he had to die here to accompany his colleagues to Jiuquan, not to mention that he had been hit by several arrows in his body, and he was powerless to return to the sky, and in the end, he killed himself with his own saber and plunged straight into the sea of fire.

Bai Quan, who was standing at the highest point and silently watching all this, couldn't help but let out a light sigh, he had to say that Baye Ya was indeed a general, and his talent was extremely high, when he killed Bayno Ya before, he also let him go for a while, and then he was almost punished by Ye Tingcheng. Just now, at the moment when the whole army of the Baye Department was wiped out, Bano Ya had lost his value, just when he was hesitating whether to make a move or not, Bano Ya had already committed suicide, which made him admire, as a mortal, Bano Ya is indeed worthy of admiration, at least in his opinion, if Li Huaixiu dies, Baye Ya is the most suitable to become the great chief of the Khitan, under his leadership, I am afraid that the Khitan will become even stronger than when Li Huaixiu was there, but it is useless to say anything now.

After a bombardment by a large trebuchet, the passage from the dock to the Tang army camp and the nearby plain have been caught in a sea of fire, but fortunately, the Tang army first dug two ditches nearby, limited the fire to a range, and did not spread, otherwise the vicinity would have been engulfed by flames.

The dock was crowded with the remnants of the retreating soldiers in front of them, they were now completely demoralized, one by one trembling with their own horses, and kept chanting the words "the fire is coming, the fire is coming", after all, the scene just now was too terrifying, and it was very likely to leave an eternal shadow in their hearts.

The cavalry of the seventh formation was very clever and only half of them came, and the rest were still on the other side of the river, and they could see the scene clearly just now, and they couldn't help but rejoice in their hearts that they were fortunate to be in the back formation, otherwise they would have died like those colleagues in front of them.

When this news was conveyed to Wang Zhongsi, everyone, including him, Wang Zhongsi, couldn't help but be dumbfounded, it is estimated that even Ye Chengcheng did not expect such a situation. In the past history, trebuchets were mostly used in siege warfare and city defense warfare, and most of the ammunition used was boulders and the like, which had great impact and destructive power, and was a very threatening weapon for the army in formation. However, in a place like the Sanggan River, the boulders are not easy to collect, so Wang Zhongsi didn't pay much attention to trebuchets when he arranged the defense line at first, but Huan Chenyu pointed out a path for them in the information he sent before, that is, fire oil. Yes, as one of the strongest weapons of their Tang army, the fire oil, even if it is not a boulder, as long as it is a relatively large stone, after being wrapped in flammable cloth and coated with burning oil and thrown out, it can cause great damage to people, and this kind of damage will spread with the fire. Huan Chenyu only said that the fire would spread, but he did not point out that with the help of the night wind on the grassland, the fire would be so fast that tens of thousands of people, before their Tang army could be dispatched, those guys were engulfed in flames.

What's more important is that among them, I am afraid that there are still more than a thousand Tang Army heavy infantry who are still surviving and fighting fiercely with the cavalry of the Xi Qi coalition army, and they may not have expected to die at the hands of their own weapons.

What made Wang Zhongsi feel a little confused was that the Tang army generals in front of him, when they knew that the Xi Qi coalition army had lost tens of thousands of people and the remnants of the soldiers had retreated to the dock, except for the old soldiers and Li Lan, they were all excitedly discussing the power of fire oil and trebuchets together, and planned to continue to study this aspect after returning to their respective military towns, and no one bothered to ask those Tang army soldiers who had died, which not only made him shake his head, but also didn't know if it was for those Beiyi or Tang troops.