Chapter 268: Dafeichuan Defeat

The sunset in the desert is as huge as a wheel and as red as blood.

The wind blows the banner, the hunting sounds, a huge camp slowly marches on the vast Dafeichuan grassland, with the solemn breath of death in the twilight, the earth trembles slightly at their feet, and the sound of iron hooves stepping on the ground is still clearly audible even from miles away.

Don with blue and gold letters on one side. The banner of the army fluttered high, leading 30,000 iron horsemen through the Dafeichuan grassland. The drums and horns roar, the armor is sonorous, the flag is flying, the weapons are shining, the horses are strong, the eerie and fierce and mighty when the vertical horse advances, it constitutes a majestic momentum like a mountain, and tens of thousands of fine horsemen are like a moving forest, which makes people shake at a glance.

Xue Rengui, the general of the march of Luosa Road and the general of the left guard, rode a majestic war horse, staring at his huge battle formation, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Gar. Qinling led 400,000 Tubo troops to besiege us, and the Dafeichuan grassland is a good ambush location. Now, we have not encountered the slightest resistance, and it seems that the Tibetans have no idea that my army has suddenly arrived, and that they are going to attack their rear base Wuhai City again. ”。 The right guard, the foreign general, Ashina Daozhen, laughed with a steel fork.

Xue Rengui smiled slightly and said, "Order." Camp next to the Buha River, eat on the third watch, launch an attack at dawn, and attack Wuhai City! Snatch back the grain and grass that they have taken from them. ”

"Yes!"

The order was quickly conveyed, and the roofs of the camps were erected along the red-and-sun-drenched Buha River, and the mushroom-like tents were built more and more, and soon became a huge camp, and the white tents were bathed in soft sunlight. You can't see the edge.

The red sun is setting in the west, and the twilight is gradually spreading over the grassland. Cooking smoke rises over the steppe and drifts leisurely to the surface of the bucha river.

The moon had risen, and the frosty moonlight spread over the land, and the occasional neighing of horses could be heard in the quiet barracks.

On the day of the third watch, the barracks were busy, and the non-commissioned officers hurriedly got up amid the roars of the captains and lieutenants. Feeding the horses, cooking, tidying up, and preparing for the early morning attack, the people in the barracks shouted and neighed, and there was a commotion.

But suddenly, the noisy barracks fell silent, with some soldiers hugging weeds and others dragging firewood. They stood there staring at each other, motionless.

"Boom~~~~"

"Woo~~嗷~~~~"

The earth trembled, and in an instant a loud roar and a strange roar reached the ears, and the horses stirred in terror, and the soldiers on the turf felt the trembling of the soles of their boots.

"Oh my God! How many centaurs are attacking us? Before anyone could give the order, the soldiers threw down their belongings. Draw your sword and charge at your own warhorse.

"Don't panic! Bai Gong and Lu Huai immediately circled to the two wings. Attack the enemy's flank, Ashina Daozhen, bow and arrow array to block the enemy; Li Sheng, integrated the heavy cavalry of the station, and prepared to counter-charge; Wang Song's department is reserved, and the Chinese army must not move! ”

Xue Rengui walked out with steady steps while tying up a wide belt, and gave orders in a loud voice.

On the grassland battlefield, there are not many conspiracies available, there are roads everywhere if you want to escape, and there is nothing to rely on if you want to attack, almost all of them are based on real real strength.

It is even more difficult to sneak attack an army that is ready to fight, the horse herd is more than ten miles away, it is enough to arouse the vigilance of the other party, and Xue Rengui's army is deep into the enemy territory, and when resting, people do not untie their belts and horses do not unsadd, and before their army rushes over, there is enough time to prepare.

"Boom~~~~", the strange sound is getting closer and closer, Xue Rengui Tima stood on the high slope by the river, under the moonlight, a black wave in the distance rushed towards his military formation standing like a mountain, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help jumping.

Wang Song couldn't hold his breath and said: "Chief Administrator, listening to the sound of the horses' hooves of the Tubo people, they seem to have dispatched all the iron horses, do they already know that the Chief Administrator is here?" Know that our workhorse is here? ”

"No, yes, yes! Even so, they dared to abandon the two-wing defense line and let Bai Gong and Minister Lu Huai drive straight in? Xue Rengui immediately retorted, but the black pressure on the iron horse that could not be seen at a glance really made him fall into confusion.

"Order, launch an attack immediately, and stop the other party from casting a chisel through the formation!" Xue Rengui viciously ordered.

"Woo~~Woo~~", a powerful horn suddenly floated over the entire battlefield, announcing the beginning of the battle.

Xue Rengui let out a sneer: "Charge fast horses, can you resist my sharp arrows and heavy cavalry?" The Tibetans are crazy! ”

Ashina Daozhen calmly gave the order: "Bow and arrow ready!" ”

Eight thousand archers took arrows, built bows, and opened the strings.

"Shoot!"

"Hum~~!" The bowstring was noisy, eight thousand bows pointed diagonally into the sky, and the sharp arrows were like a shower, rushing out of the night with boundless murderous aura, shooting into the vast night.

"Bow and arrow ready!"

The bowstrings of countless warbows were still buzzing and trembling, and the second round of sharp arrows was ready to be fired. Three rounds of arrow rain, countless ghostly howls came out in the night sky, more than 20,000 arrows believed to kill at least thousands of enemy horses, but the other party seemed to have the idea of fighting for his life, the steel-like torrent did not hesitate at all, and countless iron hooves still rolled in.

Ashina really sneered and ordered loudly: "Retreat!" Heavy cavalry ready! ”

Eight thousand archers calmly retracted their bows, turned on their horses, raised their broadswords and spears, and instantly transformed from an archer into a brave light cavalry. In front of them, three thousand heavily armored iron horsemen rushed forward with their reins and began to slowly accelerate towards the black waves that rushed towards them. On the grassland, only the powerful and wealthy Tang Dynasty can afford to raise heavy cavalry.

Ordinary light cavalry could not fight head-on with the heavy cavalry, and the baptism of three rounds of arrow rain had already caused great losses to the chargers, who would break their heads at the feet of the heavy cavalry. Then, the light cavalry in front, and the light cavalry that had circled the left and right flanks, would wipe out the sneak attackers who were charging forward.

However, when this heavy cavalry team gradually accelerated, and finally like heavy stone balls thrown out by the return cannon, they 'smashed' at the enemy formation with a huge momentum that was invincible, they were stunned to find that it was not the Tibetan warriors who rushed towards them, but the yak herd.

Tens of thousands of strong yaks, with countless sharp arrows hanging on their bodies at the forefront, rushed over like crazy, like a monstrous wave, completely swallowing up this heavy cavalry of 3,000 people in an instant.

Even if the yak herd is driven by people to run wildly, it is not enough to clash with the opponent's army, they have no sense of fighting, under normal circumstances, they only need to avoid it sideways, they can let it pass, or even get a large number of yaks for nothing, and they will not suffer much damage at all.

But the cover of the night and Xue Rengui's preconceived judgment made his warriors take the initiative to provoke a completely harmless opponent like the stupid knight who rode a donkey to challenge the windmill. Moreover, the dense formation organized in order to prepare for the charge and launch a counterattack made his soldiers even more victims of this inexplicable battle, and there was no way to escape it.

Wailing and wailing, knights and horses fell at every moment, trampled into a mud by the swarming yak herd, and the unstoppable yak herd immediately rushed into the hussar ranks waiting behind, and even more terrible cries echoed in the night sky one after another, and the whole land became a demon-infested Shura field.

When Xue Rengui discovered the truth and was forced to order the army to flee and retreat in order to avoid these hundreds of thousands of crazy yaks, the light cavalry on the left and right flanks had already completed the process of vertically leaving, forming a team, and recoiling, and slaughtered back violently.

Bai Gong and Lu Huai were half-leaning over and galloping on their horses, seeing the people in front of them turning on their backs, it was obvious that the enemy's sneak attack of the iron cavalry had completely rushed into the formation, and they couldn't help but feel anxious.

Closer, closer, as the two generals shouted, the well-trained knights immediately drew their sharp sabers almost at the same moment, and the speed of the war horses running and the four hooves flying just happened to increase to a level where it was easiest to charge, and the two cavalry rushed from the left and right flanks into the melee torrent that was more than half a mile wide and more than ten miles long.

The terrifying screams of killing quickly turned into screams and shouts of terror, and tens of thousands of troops and more than 100,000 yaks were stirred into a pot of frustrating broth. Qin Ling personally led 100,000 elite horsemen to cover the killing

Xue Rengui invaded Tibet, Gar. Qinling drove yaks as the vanguard at night on the banks of the Buha River, and Xue Rengui was in chaos and was forced to retreat in a hurry. Qinling took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, and Xue Rengui's army was completely defeated.

Immediately, the first battle was won by the imposing Gar. The Qinling army dui went around to Dafeichuan and cut off the Tang. The army retreated, and under the internal and external attacks, the right guard of the foreign general Ashina Daozhen 20,000 Tang. The army and cavalry were all annihilated. Guo Beifeng, the general of the Left Guard, who got the news, hurriedly retreated, and was chased by the Tubo army and was defeated for thousands of miles.

The situation in the steppe has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and the new general of Tibet, Gar. Qinling, prestige is at its peak. Poor Kou Mo let it go! Gar. Qinling did not give Xue Rengui a chance to breathe at all, and sent out 400,000 Tibetan elite soldiers to besiege Xue Rengui Yu Dafeichuan. For more than a month, he was outnumbered, Xue Rengui was defeated repeatedly, and Gar. If Qinling has divine help, he will attack and kill every enemy plane first, and he will be invincible in more than 100 battles of all sizes, and he will not lose the first general in Tubo.

Xue Rengui, who had lost his troops, was forced to gather the right guard, the foreign general Ashina Daozhen, the left guard general Guo Zhifeng, and the soldiers of the headquarters, with a total of only a few thousand soldiers who could fight, and deployed in Dafeiling, posing a posture of fighting to the death with the Tubo army here.

Altitude sickness, no danger to rely on, no food and grass supply for military supplies, outnumbered, encountered the first general of Tibet, Gar. Qinling and other unfavorable factors were intertwined, and finally led to the 50,000 Tang led by Xue Rengui. The elite of the army was almost wiped out in Dafeichuan.

Xue Rengui and others had to "make peace with Qinling". This was the biggest defeat in foreign warfare since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. After the war, the Tibetan army occupied the four towns of Anxi. Tuyuhun was also incorporated into Tubo and became its other department.

A red sun hung halfway in the sky, reflecting a golden yellow on the desert.

The reeds on the horizon swayed in the wind, like clusters of burning flames.

The "Dafeichuan fiasco" shocked the whole Tang Dynasty!