Chapter 868: Escape (Second Shift)
The 20,000 Qarluq cavalry who were charging heard the horn of retreat and were a little surprised.
Although the weapons of the Don army were powerful, they would rush in immediately, why did they suddenly order a retreat?
However, thinking of the previous agreement, these Qarluq generals signaled to their subordinates on the left and right.
The Qarluq cavalry, which was charging into formation, bypassed from the left and right in an instant, but with bad luck, not only suffered from the rain of shells and arrows, but also suffered a wave of guns, but fortunately, the losses were not large, and the main force still bypassed the battlefield, withdrew to the rear and drove away from the battlefield.
Seeing that the Falcon cavalry suddenly bypassed this time, the soldiers of the Right Shenji Battalion, who had fired a row of guns, and the soldiers of the Right Shenwei Army who were holding shields and spears in front of them were stunned, what was going on?
However, after seeing the smoke and dust in the distance, they understood that it was reinforcements coming, no wonder the enemy army ran so fast!
Fu Gulin, who was still fighting hard with the Tang army, learned that the Tang army's reinforcements had come and the Gelulu cavalry had escaped, and his head was full of smoke.
He didn't expect the helper he invited to be so unreliable.
The arrival of Tang reinforcements also made the Uighur army on the battlefield panic.
"Great Khan, we have been tricked! The reinforcements of the Tang Army had tens of thousands of cavalry, all armored cavalry! ”
"The Tang Army is here!"
For a time, the Uighur army was panicked, seeing that Qarluq had fled without a fight, while the Tang army had come with tens of thousands of elite cavalry.
Fu Gulin was very unwilling, but most of his army was entangled with the Tang Army's infantry phalanx.
"Great Khan, withdraw, Gelulu's people have run away, we can't stop the reinforcements of the Tang army now!"
"Where can we retreat? The Don Army had tens of thousands of cavalry in Xizhou! ”
"Great Khan, we still have Beiting, and Zhangbali, so that the green mountains are not worried about no firewood. As long as the Great Khan is here, we will have a chance to make a comeback.
We still have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Xizhou, and we have all withdrawn to Beiting. ”
After hesitating for a while, Fu Gulin finally gave the order to retreat.
"Withdraw!"
Saying this word, Fu Gulin used all his strength.
He knew what it meant.
He considered himself the pride of the heavens and could recreate the grandeur of the Uighur Khanate.
In the eleventh year of Qianning, he planned to annex the Zhongyun tribe and increase the strength of the Uighurs in Western Prefecture. However, in the end, under the joint counterattack of the Datang Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and the Zhongyun Ministry, the Harman Special Service was defeated, and Yizhou's vitality was greatly damaged.
Unwilling to fail, Fu Gulin gathered 70,000 troops again in the 12th year of Qianning, intending to destroy the Zhongyun army and defeat the Tang army, but the Qiuzi army escaped from the battle, resulting in a final defeat. The Hamman Special Service was killed in battle, and nearly half of the elite of the Fugulin headquarters was lost.
The third time, that is, this time, was the thirteen-year war in Qianning.
This war was not provoked by Fu Gulin on his own initiative, but the Tang Dynasty united Zhongyun and Khotan, intending to attack the Uighurs in Xizhou on a large scale. In order to protect himself, Fu Gulin agreed to many conditions, and borrowed 80,000 steps from Ge Lulu and Jiu surnamed Wuhu.
But at the critical moment, Qarluq's reinforcements ran away, and he was betrayed again.
The reason why the Uighur Khanate was unable to regain its former glory after the division can be seen in these two betrayals.
Now that the Tang army has more than 100,000 troops slaughtered to the Western Regions, if he escapes at this time, who else in the Western Regions can resist the Tang Dynasty's soldiers?
But Qarluq didn't even understand this truth, did he really think that if the Tang Dynasty eliminated the Uighurs in Xizhou, it would not attack Qarlu and the entire Qarakhanid Dynasty?
You must know that most of the territory of the Qarakhanid Dynasty was once under the jurisdiction of the Tang Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and now that the Tang Dynasty has returned to the Western Regions, it will definitely not let go of the Qarakhanid Dynasty.
But he didn't expect to lose again for the third time!
This defeat, even if it can be returned to Beiting, what will happen in the future?
Will Tang Jun let him go?
Fu Gulin looked up at the sky and roared silently.
At the beginning of his escape, there were more than 10,000 elite cavalry, including some of the Yanqi cavalry.
However, the Tang army sent 20,000 cavalry to pursue, and Fu Gulin had to divide a part to intercept it, but when he stopped it, these people disappeared.
Fu Gulin wanted to withdraw to Xizhou, but before he could reach Xizhou, he encountered the cavalry of the Right Shence Army led by Xue Atan.
At this time, Xue Atan's cavalry had just fought with Qarluq's 30,000 cavalry.
Odier didn't expect to encounter this Tang army on the way to retreat, and seeing that the number of Tang troops was not as large as his side, he wanted to bully it.
As a result, as soon as the battle began, the Right Shence army slaughtered the 30,000 cavalry of Qarluq.
In the Tang Dynasty military, everyone knows that don't mess with the Right Shence Army, the Left Tiance Army and the Shenji Battalion in a war.
In the early days of the Right Shence Army, it was expanded to the Tiance Army that started from the Holy Shang, and after the Holy Shang returned to Chang'an to grasp the power of the imperial court to the present ten years, the Right Shence Army has been making great achievements, although it has experienced several splits, but the strength is still one of the best in the forbidden army, especially the cavalry, and also has heavy cavalry.
In Hexi, those tribes were terrified when it came to the Right Divine Army.
The Tubo, Liugubu, and Ganzhou Uighurs in Hexi were all defeated by the Youshence army.
Although the 30,000 cavalry of Qarluq is not weak, it is not the regular army of the Qarakhanid Dynasty after all.
Especially Odil, he was very shocked by the bravery of this Tang army, and if he hadn't retreated decisively, most of the 30,000 cavalry might have to be confessed here.
In the end, however, Qarluq lost more than 10,000 cavalry.
The Qarluq cavalry fled with their lives, and Xue Atan couldn't chase them, so they ran into Fu Gulin's troops better.
So he found a place to vent, and directly cried for the rest of the troops in Fugulin, and in the end, less than 3,000 people followed Fugulin and fled north to Beiting.
The others were either scattered or beheaded by the Tang army!
Fu Gulin suddenly felt a little like when the Khanate was destroyed and those nobles left the Khan's court, and he was embarrassed.
When he looked back at his back, his heart was even colder—less than three thousand.
Is this the scene of the downfall of the Uighur Khan of Western Prefecture?
Suddenly, he thought of Odil.
If this guy hadn't let the 30,000 Qarlu army flee when he saw that the situation was wrong, he wouldn't have been defeated so badly.
He still had more than 60,000 troops in his hands at that time, plus the army of Qarluq, and he could not compete with the Tang army.
It was the other party's escape that put his army in a disadvantageous situation.
For Fu Gulin, who fled to the North Court, Xue Atan did not pursue him, but stared at Xizhou City.
On the main battlefield there, although Fugulin led his cronies to retreat, the remaining Uighur army still had tens of thousands.
The entire Gobi was littered with Uighur routs, and it would take a long time to clear them out.
Five days later, Liu Kui arrived at the city of Xizhou with more than 60,000 troops to join Xue Atan's army.
Although there were still 30,000 troops in Xizhou City, after learning that the Great Khan's servant Gulin had fled to Beiting, the defenders in Xizhou City opened the city and surrendered.
The concubines, heirs, and nobles in the city all became prisoners of the Tang army.
For the sake of stability in the Western Regions, Liu Kui issued a massacre order, killing all the Uighur nobles in the city, young and old, in front of the people of the city.
Zhou Dewei, Ding Hui, Zhang Lian and others saw Liu Kui's ruthlessness.
But Zhou Dewei also had to admit that although this move was hurtful, it was indeed conducive to Datang's control of Xizhou.
Without these nobles, it would be much easier to control the common people below.
After capturing the city of Xizhou, Liu Kui ordered to continue the offensive to the west and north to wipe out the remnants of the Uighurs in Xizhou.
Wan Baichuan led 15,000 cavalry of the Zuo Shence Army to attack westward, attacking the two important Uighur towns of Zhangbali and Yangji Bali; Zhong Wei led the Youshence Army, a part of the border army and the tribal cavalry coalition army with a total of 30,000 people to attack the north and attack the North Garden.