Chapter 435: Dama Camp Grass Beach
After crossing Longying Mountain, there is an endless mountain grassland in the west.
To the south is the Qilian Mountains, which run through the entire Hexi Corridor, and standing on the grassland, you can still see the white snow on the high mountains in the distance.
It is this thick snow that gives birth to the entire Hexi Corridor, including the grassland in front of you.
The snow water flowing down from Qilian Mountain converges into small rivers and crosses the entire set, so that there is such a pasture suitable for raising war horses, cattle and sheep in this big mountain.
When Liu Kui led the army to arrive here, the grassland was peaceful, and the cattle, sheep, and horses everywhere were slowly chewing the tender green pasture.
Even if this belongs to the edge of the grass beach of Damaying, in the eyes of Liu Kui and other soldiers, it is also a very good pasture, and I am afraid that only the pasture under the Songzhou Governor's Mansion can be comparable to here.
However, compared with Songzhou, the transportation here is more convenient, and it is close to the Hexi Corridor.
Seeing this, Liu Kui made up his mind in his heart that he must lay down this place, make it the largest military horse farm in Datang, and provide a steady stream of high-quality war horses for Datang's iron horses.
When the Don army arrived at the edge of the pasture, the small tribe here was preparing lunch.
Most of these small tribes' duties are to raise war horses here, and this is located in the middle of nowhere, with mountains in the east, north, and south directions, and there are heavy guards from the khanate, so these small tribes do not have to worry about war.
Outside the tribe, cows, sheep and horses are grazing leisurely, while herders let them play. In the tribe, women are boiling broth and beckoning men and children to eat.
In this peaceful environment, on the eastern side of the grassland, rows of small black lines suddenly appeared, and then turned into black oppressive patches, rushing down the hillside.
It was 20,000 cavalry, and the rumbling of horses' hooves alarmed the herdsmen who were eating, and one by one they rushed out of their tents, either riding on their horses or jumping up to look out.
Soon the herdsmen were screaming, and the young men took up their arms and mounted their horses, hurrying to meet the enemy.
However, when they came to the outside of the tribe, after seeing the black and oppressive enemy in the distance, they all turned pale, and the war horses under their crotches were restless.
Their tribe is a small tribe, and there are only three or four hundred adult men in total, because they are responsible for the task of raising war horses, and the war in Ganzhou did not draw men from this tribe.
At first, they thought that there were not many cavalry attacking, but after seeing the scene in front of them, none of them had the courage to fight again.
This is hundreds or thousands of people, this is at least tens of thousands of cavalry, where are they opponents!
"Run!"
The leader ordered in a panic.
But the Tang army on the opposite side had already begun to attack, and the two thousand cavalry broke away from the large army and roared out, and a dense rain of arrows shot at the warriors of this small Uighur tribe, and before they could fight together, the warriors of this small tribe suffered heavy casualties.
The tribal warriors did not choose to fight, but fled on horseback, but where could they escape the pursuing Tang cavalry, in less than a stick of incense, most of the tribal warriors were killed on the spot, and only a small part chose to surrender.
When they saw the strange cavalry surrounding the entire tribe, the women and children of the tribe screamed, but they all subconsciously protected the children behind them.
Some old men and women held all kinds of weapons across their chests, but their hands and feet trembled in the face of the wolf-like iron rider in front of them.
"Governor Liu, do you want to take them all... Shang Guangming came to Liu Kui's side and looked indifferently at these old and young women and children in front of him who had no power to fight back.
"Forget it!" Liu Kui shook his head, "Keep them first, otherwise there are so many war horses, and our soldiers can't take care of them." Zhong Wei! ”
"Humble duty!"
Zhong Wei, who was not far away, rode out and approached.
"Your chamber is responsible for clearing the small Uighur tribes around and along the way!"
"Yes, Dudu!"
With Zhong Weibu in charge of dealing with these, Liu Kui directly led the rest of the army directly to the grass beach of Damaying.
All the tribes along the way were wiped out, and when Liu Kui's army reached the core of the grass beach in the big horse camp, seven or eight tribes of all sizes were wiped out along the way.
Because of the two-horse attack, and the fact that few of the warriors of these tribes escaped, when Liu Kui's army arrived at the grass beach of the Dama camp, the Uighur royal court did not know that a large and warlike cavalry had been killed.
It was not until Liu Kui's army attacked the Uighur establishment at the Caotan of Damaying and killed 3,000 resident soldiers that news of the Tang army's attack spread.
However, at this time, most of the Damaying grassland was swept by the Tang army, and all the war horses raised in the territory also fell into the hands of the Tang army, which was tens of thousands of war horses.
When the news of the Tang army's attack reached the royal court, the entire Uighur court was thrown into chaos.
At this time, the elite of the Uighurs in Ganzhou were all transferred to Ganzhou to fight against the Guiyi army, although many troops were left behind.
But there were very few standing armies, and the others existed in the form of tribal warriors, who had to be conscripted by order of each tribe.
But where is this time!
The Tang army has basically captured the grass beach of the Damaying, and the front of the army is directed at the royal court.
The officials who remained behind in the royal court immediately ordered the nearby troops to withdraw to the royal court and hold the city, while at the same time recruiting the young men of the various tribes.
He also sent someone to inform the Great Khan that if the Guiyi army was defeated and the royal court was lost, it would be more than worth the loss for their khanate.
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"Heavy cavalry attack!"
Seeing that the battle situation was very unfavorable to his side, Yao Luo Ge Renmei directly gritted his teeth and sent all 6,000 guards, including the 3,000 heavy cavalry.
The Uighur army was all cavalry, but the Guiyi army was not, Zhang Huaiding led 45,000 men, only 35,000 cavalry, and the rest were infantry.
Seeing that the Uighur army had been consumed a lot by Li Mingzhen, Zhang Huaiding did not hesitate at all, and directly let the 5,000 elite cavalry that he regarded as his hole card be the vanguard, and led 30,000 cavalry to kill the Uighurs, while the 10,000 infantry followed behind the cavalry to reinforce the cavalry.
However, when he saw the heavy cavalry in the Uighur camp, Zhang Huaiding's face also changed.
"What's going on? How could the Uighurs have heavy cavalry? How come we don't know anything at all? Zhang Huaiding said angrily.
"This..."
Suo Xun and the others next to him didn't know how to answer, because they didn't know about it, and they didn't expect the Uighurs to form such a heavy cavalry in a cold manner.
Although Zhang Huaiding's 5,000 cavalry were also considered heavy cavalry, some of the Uighur heavy cavalry were obviously heavy cavalry with armor for their horses.
At this time, Zhang Huaiding could not order a retreat, and soon the two cavalry collided together in the field, and a fierce battle began.