Chapter 787: Decisive Battle in Doma Town
The thick snowflakes gilded the vast town of Doma with a layer of miserable brilliance, and the cold snow fell into a hazy sense of cold silence and slaughter, and the sound of the wind and the neighing of desolate horses made people feel desolate in the atmosphere.
Yang Tong actually likes the clear blue and bleak of the plateau, he thinks that people are lonely ascetics between heaven and earth, and only in this atmosphere can he feel that people and heaven and earth are not divided between you and me, and they are integrated, and only by standing in the position closest to the sky can he deeply experience the tranquility in loneliness.
It's a pity that this tranquility still breaks the 'like' cannibalism and human life after all.
The chaotic cattle and sheep snatching incident envisioned by Yang Tong did not happen, and the commander of the Tubo army, Lu Keer, obviously knew what kind of virtue the soldiers under his command were, and the army entered the Doma Valley for an hour and a half, until they heard the news that the cattle were heading north and the Sui army was 'helpless' before they went north to kill.
However, Yang Tong was not disappointed, just because he used the trick of using horses, cattle and sheep to induce the greedy nature of the Tubo people on the Xi people a few years ago, and the reason why it was successful in the past was not that the Xi people were stupid, but that they thought that those cattle were borrowing money and were not wary of the Sui army.
Now that the two armies are facing each other, they are obvious enemies, and if there will be chaotic snatching of livestock, then the Tubo people who cross the plateau are too brainless.
Hearing that after Tubo entered the valley, Yang Tong gave up the idea of 'luring the enemy into chaos with profit' and decided to fight this tough battle seriously.
Yang Tong was wearing silver armor at this time, holding a sky-splitting lance, hanging from his waist towards the dew treasure knife, and the crotch was the same color as the arrow from the string, and the white big sword was hunting and flying in the wind, as if it was integrated with the snow.
He was surrounded by Niu Jinda and Wang Xiongdan, followed by 5,000 cavalrymen wearing heavy armor, also known as armored cavalry, all of whom wore heavy armor and had been trained for many years. The war horse is the strongest mixed-breed Liaodong horse, the heavy cavalry are tall and burly, brave and strong, they hold a horse lance, waist hanging a Miao knife that looks like a seedling, and immediately have two crossbows, which can be described as well-equipped.
This time, Yang Tong showed this heavy cavalry army because he decided to adopt Yang Su's tactics.
Long before Yang Su, when the Central Plains army was fighting with the northern nomads, because they were worried about the fierce impact of the other side, they all adopted a battle formation in which military vehicles, cavalry and infantry cooperated with each other.
When Yang Su confronted the Turks, he thought that the chariot formation was too heavy on defense and light on offense, so he directly gave the initiative in the war to Hu Cai, who came and went like the wind, and left as soon as he touched it, even if the Central Plains army that focused on defense won, it was difficult to achieve major results, and Hu Cai, who had little loss, was soon able to use the benefits of cavalry to constantly drag and collapse the Central Plains army, and then stepped forward like a pack of wolves to tear the Central Plains army apart.
It is precisely because of the fatal shortcomings in the Central Plains tactics that since ancient times, few Central Plains armies have fought in the grasslands, and most of them have fought on the border; Either directly let Hu cavalry enter, use the main force to stand by to break the enemy, send the division to attack and harass the enemy, cut off his food route, gradually weaken the enemy's strength, and create fighters for victory, however, Yang Su hated the second method of warfare, and he did not deny that this was a good strategy to break the enemy, but what about the losses?
How do you calculate it?
If the soldiers and horses and the people retreat in the city and let the horses wreak havoc in the fields of the towns and villages, will the people still have to live? If even the people can't shelter them, then they will simply lose the country.
At that time, he thought that the Great Sui had been fighting for 20 years, and the Sui soldiers were well-fed, well-trained, and well-equipped, so why didn't they fight against the grassland Hu cavalry? If you don't fight with Hu Qi in a dignified manner, then the Central Plains army will be at a psychological disadvantage forever and for generations, and he wants to start with him, so that the Great Sui army is no longer afraid of Hu Qi and break the shackles of this mentality.
However, Yang Su's idea was opposed by all the generals who went out to fight, and finally used the authority of the commander to override the public opinion, and finally implemented the tactics of riding against cavalry, heavy breaking cavalry, and infantry auxiliary warfare, and defeated the Turkic army of more than 100,000 in a simple and clean manner, and achieved a major victory.
After that, the Sui army unloaded its defenses and no longer regarded Hu Qi as an invincible existence. The Sui army, which unloaded its ideological baggage, took the initiative to attack under the leadership of famous generals such as Yang Shuang, Yu Zeqing, He Ruobi, Han Baohu, and Yujuluo, and won brilliant victories one after another.
"Holy Lord, the Condor is here." Shui Tianji, who was also dressed in silver armor, held a war knife in her hand, and she said suddenly.
Yang Tong raised his head, only to see the golden eagle that had grown huge and friendless circled and flew over, the golden eagle chirped a few times in the air, and flew out of an arc route, Yang Tong understood the meaning of this flying posture, and said to the generals around him: "The Tubo army is rushing towards our army with a charge. β
"Holy Lord, the last general will ask for battle." Wang Fubao appeared behind Yang Tong like a ghost, his cold and gloomy eyes flashing with terrifying murderous intent.
Hearing that the Tubo army did not succeed, Wang Fubao not only did not disappoint, but had a little more excited expectations, although the hard battle was cruel, but the hard battle was full of blood, and it could raise the name of the Ninth Army.
"Exactly." Yang Tong nodded slightly.
"The end will go." Wang Fubao saluted and rushed to the south with more than 100 personal guards.
"......" Yang Tong, under the escort of thousands of Shura guards, and Wei Fengwu, Shui Tianji, Yin Mingyue, Yang Qinfang, Du Ruhui, and Liu Renliang rode forward on horseback, and climbed the watchtower of the rear army together.
Niu Jinda and Wang Xiongdan also slowly followed with heavy cavalry.
"Woo, woo, woo......" With Wang Fubao leaving, the flag soldiers blew the horn, and the low horn sounded on the grassland, which was the horn sound before the big war.
The 30,000 soldiers of the Ninth Army were divided into the middle army, the left and right wings, and the banner army in the vast grassland south of Doma Town, while the heavy cavalry lined up in the sky of the banner army, and then the Xuanjia army and the 50,000 Xiaoguo army, and the entire battle array stretched for several miles.
Thousands of banners were distributed on the battle line, the wind blew the banners, the soldiers of the Sui army who were ready were high in morale and murderous, and even the war horses seemed to feel the tension before the big war, shaking their heads and neighing and snorting.
At this time, the earth began to tremble, the rumbling hooves of horses came from the south, and all kinds of desolate sounds came from far and near, touching the heartstrings. With the desolate sound, a wave of black shadows rolled in.
Yang Tong took the telescope and looked into the distance, and saw that on the vast land in the distance, a cavalry was surging like a torrent on the grass of a flat river, and they did not stagnate, and swept towards the Sui army with overwhelming momentum.
He smiled at Du Ruhan beside him: "The news that the scouts in front have found out is true, and the 50,000 Tubo troops have finally entered the 'hub', and it is not in vain that I have made an emergency deployment." β
I heard that the Tibetan army was out of the nest, and was not tempted by cattle and sheep, but waited for the livestock in Doma Town to be driven away before marching slowly, so he also quickly changed his tactics, the whole army was dispatched, and the soldiers were hidden with banners in the sky, which was to prepare to use the two tall natural barriers of the east and west mountains to annihilate the Tubo army that entered the valley.
Looking back at the army behind the banner, Du Ruhui also showed a cold smile on his face: "The 50,000 Tubo army is going to end." β
"I hope not 50,000 corpses, but 50,000 living laborers." Yang Tong said to himself.
"This request of the Holy Lord is a bit excessive." Du Ru smiled.
"It's not a bit excessive, it's very excessive. The strength of my soldiers does not allow it. β
Yang Tong smiled and stopped talking.
He looked up at the gloomy sky and saw clouds rolling over the sky, and he sensed that an even bigger blizzard was coming.
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The distance of two miles is the best range for cavalry to charge, and the Tubo army slowly stopped when it reached this range, and under the command of generals at all levels, they quickly lined up a neat phalanx.
He knew that there must be crossbowmen of the Sui army hidden in the dense army, and he also knew that the range of the hand crossbow was also longer than that of ordinary bows and arrows, and the lethality was strong.
If the Sui army is equipped with a large number of crossbows, even if the archers of Tubo are placed together, there is no way to cause damage to the Sui army, after all, the gap in range is not something that archery can make up.
It is precisely with this understanding that Cole conforms to the people's hearts and sets out in the snowstorm, trying to take advantage of the weather to make the opponent's crossbow arrows not exert their due power. However, he still planned to send an army to attract and suppress the Sui army's crossbows first.
"Sakochi." Cole shouted.
A burly and sturdy captain came out and said, "I am willing to serve the general." β
"Do you see the armor and swords, spears, and horses on the other side? That's all good things, especially the Mingguang armor in our Tubo, a set of riding armor can be exchanged for 20,000 good horses, and now the Sui army has sent it to the plateau. He slowly pulled out his sword, pointed at the Sui army and said: "I will let you fight the first army, if you don't die, I will give you three sets of armor, as for the iron armor and weapons, you will pick away forty percent first." β
Like the nomads, they did not lack cattle, sheep and horses, but silk, porcelain, tea, salt, but even more iron.
Compared with the northern nomads who had communicated with the Central Plains for hundreds of years, the newly rising Tibetans were poorer. An iron pot is a symbol of abundance in Tibet, and it is even more remarkable if a Tibetan warrior has a strong and intact iron armor, which is not only a life-saving thing, but also a symbol of status.
However, due to the limited terrain, it was difficult for the Tubo people to even obtain an iron pot, let alone armor. Now the more than 30,000 Sui troops in front of them are not people, but wealth, but 30,000 pieces of exquisite armor and countless sharp weapons.
The morale of the Tibetan army was high, and they were even thinking about capturing a few more trophies.
At this time, as soon as they heard that Cole had promised to pick out forty percent of their weapons after the war, many generals looked at Sakeqi's eyes, full of envy and jealousy, and they were eager to replace him.
Sakochi smirked, "Thank you, General, for giving me this opportunity." β
On the wave of the Cole sword, "Fight!" β
"Yes!"
Sa Keqi returned to his main formation and shouted loudly: "Sons, since the Sui army dares to kill and climb the plateau, we must be prepared to be killed, and today I must let these Sui people know that I am very powerful in Tibet." Give it to me, kill all the Sui people, their sturdy armor and sharp weapons are ours. β
"Kill all the Sui people, their sturdy armor and sharp weapons are ours."
"Kill all the Sui people, their sturdy armor and sharp weapons are ours."
The 10,000 Tibetan elite soldiers roared on horseback like wild beasts with excitement, looking at the neat lineup of the Sui army, their eyes were full of greed.
"Woo-" With the low sound of the horn blowing in the Tubo array, the Tubo phalanx composed of 10,000 elite soldiers suddenly launched, the momentum was like a rainbow, like a flood that was high and rushing, shouting and shouting to sweep towards the Sui armyγγγγγ
As the main general of this battle, Wang Fubao stood on the command tower in front of the banner army at this time, and he couldn't help but sneer when he saw the Tubo cavalry surging and killing.
The enemy tactics are simple and obvious!
It is planned to use 10,000 elite horsemen to disperse their military formation, and then the army will cover it, which is also the usual tactic of the nomads.
"Shoot as planned." Wang Fubao gave an order to the banner soldiers beside him.
Hu Benlang, who was in charge of commanding 5,000 crossbowmen, saw the banner and shouted: "Prepare to shoot!" β
Ordinary crossbows do fail in the middle of a blizzard, but what about large crossbows?
Nature is not afraid of these storms.
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Just when the first wave of the offensive was still about a mile away from the Sui army, Ronkoll gave the order for a general attack, and his war knife pointed forward, and he hissed and shouted: "The whole army presses and tears the damned Sui army." β
"Woohoo."
The desolate trumpet sounded, and the 40,000-strong army launched an offensive at the same time, like a black wave, surging towards the north.
On Kohl can't see the Sui army behind the banner in the sky, thinking that it is the usual fancy of the Central Plains people, so he thinks that his biggest advantage is that there are many people, and he will not send troops to fight with the Sui army with strong armor and sharp blades little by little, so as not to be broken by the other party one by one, only when the army is all killed, can give full play to his advantages.
The momentum inspired by the 50,000 army is really amazing, but these Sui troops are all selected elites, and the most enemy troops have been beaten, and 50,000 people are not enough to make them afraid.
The five thousand crossbowmen in front of them were calm and calm, and looked at the Tibetan strikers with a playful gaze.
Two hundred zhang.
One hundred and eighty zhang.
One hundred and fifty zhang.
Baizhang ......
The forward general Sakeqi knew that his side was in a situation of headwind northward, and with the strength of the Tibetan bow, he could not let the arrows play a role in the wind, so he simply adopted the traditional tactics of suppressing the opponent with momentum, blood, and bravery.
Sackeqi, who rushed ahead, brandished his spear and looked excitedly at the Sui army that was getting closer and closer, the row of big swordsmen in front of him could not stop the impact of the Tubo warriors at all, and the ridiculous Sui people would pay the price for their ignorance!
However, at this moment, the sitting war horse suddenly sank, and Sakeqi hurriedly pressed his palm on the horse's back, and the burly body jumped up from the horse's back with light and flexibility, and landed firmly on the ground.
After Sakeqi was safely settled, he dropped his spear and fled to the east, so as not to be trampled to death by the war horse that came later, and at the same time looked at his beloved horse, only to find that the ridiculous thing that the horse had lost its front hooves had happened to such a skilled Tibetan warrior as himself?
When Sa Keqi looked at the ground, he suddenly found that the ground was full of bowl-sized pits, distributed on the grass in an irregular way, and his own war horse stepped into a pit, which caused the horse to lose its front hooves.
I'll just say?
Sa Keqi, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly thought of something, his face changed drastically, he finally understood the purpose of these pits, and just wanted to drink his subordinates, but it was too late.
I saw a high-speed galloping war horse stepping on the grass full of pits in a kind of forward and backward momentum.
"Sigh law~" The imposing army fell and stumbled in front of the horses in the neighing of the horses.
Under the action of inertia, the hind hooves turned forward, and fell on their backs to the sky, and the warriors who were thrown out danced and fell forward from the air in arcs, and before they had time to get up, they were trampled into meat by the second, third, and fourth war horses that followed.
Then the second horse fell into the pit in front of him, and threw his master out of his back as before, and was trampled to death by the second, third, and fourth horses......
Sakochi watched as the warriors of his clan rushed into the meadow full of pits.
The whole army was turned on their backs without any attack, and the skilled warriors were able to jump from their horses in time like him, but they were not as lucky as themselves, and were soon trampled to death by the horses behind them. And more people broke their necks directly when the war horse fell to the ground, or were crushed to death by the war horse facing the sky.
The army he brought out was ahead at high speed in this way, as if it had encountered a huge wave of an invisible reef, the invisible reef was safe and sound, and the giant romantic sky bloomed!
"Ahhh......h
Sa Keqi, who had been watching this spectacle from the side, watched the heroic clansmen die one after another, only to feel a sense of depression, and roared angrily: "Despicable Sui people, what kind of heroes are the pit diggers? Have the ability to go head-to-head! β
"Shoot the arrows!"
Looking at the Tubo people who wanted to get out of the horse pit, Wang Fubao on the command tower had a cold glint in his eyes.
The Tibetan army was more than 20 miles away from here, and the war was over when the news of the Sui army's attack on the town of Doma reached the main generals such as Non Keer. The time it took for them to send out their troops was added to the more than an hour they stayed...... There were about two hours, enough for the Sui army, which was full of people, to dig these traps.
It turns out that the nomadic soldiers, who lost their war horses, were nothing in the face of the advanced weapons and equipment of the Central Plains dynasty.
As Wang Fubao's order reached the front army, a dense array of crossbow arrows shot at the chaotic Tubo army.
Five thousand crossbow arrows burst out of the string at the same time, and the power of the arrows was extremely powerful, and they instantly shot into the chaotic group of Tibetan soldiers. Although the crossbow arrows fired by the powerful crossbow machine were slightly deviated under the strong northwest wind, there were still thousands of Tubo troops in front, and the dense crossbow arrows could finally get good results. Just a wave of crossbow arrows kicked up a bloody mist in the crowd, and the screams rang out.
The casualties of the front army were not without the slightest effect, at least they filled the trap with flesh and blood, paving a smooth path for the army behind.
Zhou Zhan saw the Tubo cavalry rushing over, and said with a cold face: "Three shots, the first row fires." β
It was a hand crossbow just now, but the crossbowmen now fired bed crossbows, a total of two thousand five hundred, each with ten arrows.
With his order, the first row of bed crossbows began to exert power, crossbow arrows like dense rain, flying to the Tubo cavalry, this row has thousands of planes, can fire 10,000 arrows at a time, and then under the power of the strong mechanism, even if it is a Tubo soldier with amazing riding skills, hide his body on the side of the horse, but the strong bow and crossbow can easily penetrate the people and horses, and in an instant there are screams everywhere, constantly people and horses are hit by arrows, and the fallen war horse throws the cavalry out, and the powerful crossbow arrow pierces the wooden shield of the Tubo soldiers, and Yu Wei continues to move forward into the face and chest of the cavalry, But the Tibetan soldiers had also been killed, and they rushed forward regardless of life and death.
Immediately followed by a burst of bangs, the second row of bed crossbow arrows like rain and arrows like flying locusts, overwhelmingly shot at the Tubo cavalry, but the Tubo army is also a brave and good soldier in a hundred battles, they rushed to the Sui army position at any cost, even if the power of the three-stage attack was amazing, but the Tubo army still forced to rush to the front of the battle regardless of losses.
At this time, the crossbowmen who had completed the three-stage attack had already retreated, revealing the big killer weapon of the Modao Army.
Su Wu, who was in charge of commanding this Sui army, snorted coldly: "The Modao army is attacking. β
"Brush!"
The snow-white sword light came out, and the Mo knife hand wearing heavy armor took a step, and the six thousand Mo sword soldiers lined up closely, like an iron wall. The soldiers in the front row plunged the end of the sharp Mo knife handle deep into the ground, and the tip of the knife was intensively aimed at the Tubo cavalry who were roaring and rushing.
The Tubo cavalry, who was lucky enough to avoid the crossbow array, had rushed to more than a dozen steps away, and there was no way to retreat at this time, so they could only close their eyes in despair, scream and continue to move forward, and suddenly collided with the dense Mo knife, and suddenly the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the blood mist was filled.
The Tibetan charge was thwarted in front of a wall of flesh made of corpses and bones, and began to be in chaos.
Wang Fubao ordered: "Pass my order and let the heavy cavalry attack the Tibetan army." β
"Yes." The bannermen waved the command flag, the drums were beating, and the 5,000 heavy cavalry heard the news and launched an attack from the gap to the front.
After the tragic trap pit, crossbow array, and the triple killing move of the Mo Dao Army, the monstrous murderous spirit of the Tubo soldiers has disappeared less than one percent, they were originally herdsmen of the Tubo tribes, and they did not have the iron will of the Sui army, nor did they have complete military discipline, all relying on the bloody defeat of the enemy army, their morale was high and faded quickly, and when the dream was shattered, the morale retreated like a tide.
At this time, the heavy cavalry of the Sui army was like an invincible man-devouring monster, and the corpses were all over the field and the blood flowed like a river, killing the Tubo army to the point of fear, and some soldiers turned around and fled, but they were cut down to the ground one by one by the warlords.
Wang Fubao saw that the time was ripe, and immediately said, "The whole army is attacking!" β
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
The drums of the general offensive were loud, and the Xuanjia Army and the Xiaoguo Army, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, were divided into two, rushed out from behind the banner, avoided the frontal battlefield, and overwhelmingly killed the enemy troops on both sides from the east and west, and then surrounded from the south with the momentum of hugging, and the Tubo army that was surrounded by the north and south fell apart in an instant, and was killed to the point that the army was collapsed and mourned.