18. The tomb recounts the national mourning
An hour later, the camp in the north of the city in the west and the camp in the east of the city collapsed one after another, and the soldiers of the eastern border army felt that the great discussion Shang Jiezan must have been defeated, and the enemy's banner was also replaced on Tiehua Mountain, and there was fire everywhere, so they began to flee as well.
The water flows through the south and east of Huating City, and a canal called "Hui Canal" was dug to the northeast highlands of the city to irrigate the fields on it, but now it has become a place for the soldiers to rush to the wolves, people and horses trample on each other, corpses block the canal, and the water of the Hui Canal does not flow.
And the headquarters of Fuyu Huai and Zhang Yufei also happened to attack from the direction of Huiqu, and after intercepting the fleeing brigade of soldiers, they were killed!
Before noon, Shang Jiezan and Xu Li began to rout, at first they and thousands of Dongdai forbidden soldiers could still maintain the order of fighting and retreating, but the Tang army attacked and killed from several sides, and slowly Zampu gave Shang Jiezan's nearly 30 thousand soldiers The forbidden army organization began to collapse: some of the commanders were killed and wounded, and some of the soldiers were wounded and died, so one battalion after another, and finally went to annihilation.
At dusk, Gao Yue did not have time to enter Huating City, but directly commanded the mule army to pursue to the northwest of Huating City thirty miles away, he looked back, the road was full of corpses of Tibetan soldiers, as for the abandoned war horses, calves, camels and other livestock, and armor, flags, and staff are countless, a round of blood-red remnant sun wandered on the peak of Tiehua Mountain, but Gao Yue still ordered: Mi Yuan and Ming Huaiyi led the cavalry, continued to pursue, and did their best to kill all the soldiers.
So Ming Huaiyi chased straight to Sanliang Palace, and met Liu Changbu's Xuanwu soldiers who also ran down from the mountain hill and Dao Palace, and this group of soldiers also carried a lot of heads in their hands, shouting and meeting with Ming Huaiyi's cavalry:
Only then did a large number of defeated soldiers go back from Sanliang Palace over Longshan, and they were almost slaughtered by the Xuanwu soldiers, and their headless bodies were lying under the blue-gray cliffs.
"Seeing the great treatise of Xifan, Shang Jiezan, and his frog flag?" Ming Huaiyi asked.
Several Yu Marquis of the Xuanwu Army stood with knives and looked at him, and then shook their heads.
Liu Chang, the middle of the imperial history of the school, received Ming Huaiyi in Sanliang Palace, and asked his subordinates to feed the cavalry horses pursued by Feng Xiang and Xingyuan, saying that he had not seen Shang Jiezan and Xu Li, presumably like rats in the cave, and escaped from other mountain roads and trails.
At this time, Gao Yue's subordinates, who were behind to clean up the battlefield, that is, foot soldiers, crossbowmen, and mule soldiers, encountered Hun Yang and Liu Haibin, who had been killed from Diaoyao Gorge, and they also intercepted more than 3,000 fleeing soldiers, killed most of them, and captured all the rest.
Under the attack from all sides, Shang Jiezan nearly 30,000 soldiers, very few of them hid in Longshan alive, and the cleaning and making of the battlefield was carried out until the morning of the next day:
On the north bank of the river, the corpses of 1,700 soldiers were laid out, and hundreds of others were lying on the cold bottom of the water, and they were washed away at the Weishui Gorge on the side of Wuma Mountain;
In the nameless mountain pass west of the city, the 500 Western Fan armor horsemen who were originally in ambush escaped no more than a few dozen, and the rest were killed;
Later, in the camp of the Fan army in the west of Huating, there were 3,800 corpses;
In the north and northeast of the city, in the plains and highlands through which the Huiqu flows, nearly 3,000 corpses are poured;
At the foot of Tiehua Mountain in the east of the city, most of the camps besieged by the Fan army were burned, and 1,200 corpses were found at the point;
Huating City reached the Sanliang Palace of Xiaolong Mountain for dozens of miles, and 2,500 soldiers were chased and killed, or because of the trampling of their own men and horses, they died along the road;
The Hun Xuan Division, which came from Diaoyao Gorge, also killed 2,100 soldiers.
In total, more than 15,000 heads of the Tibetan soldiers were captured, 3,000 war horses, thousands of pack beasts, armor battles were piled up, and more than 3,000 prisoners were captured.
The Tang army also paid a heavy price, there were more than 1,300 generals and more than 900 archers killed in the battle of Yining and Dingwu, and the other 3,400 people were missing, but they should have died in the earliest river-crossing raid, mixed in the corpses of the soldiers, and rushed to the Weishui Gorge together.
As for Huating City, there were 2,000 archers before the war, and more than half of the casualties after the war, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded.
In fact, in the head-to-head battle, Tang Fan's casualties were comparable, and most of the losses in Western Fan were all generated after the rout.
After hearing the number of his son's deaths, Gao Yue couldn't hold back, covered his face with his sleeves, and began to cry.
He stood at the high post of Wunian Mountain, looking at the scene of the convergence and burial of his own children under it, and wept silently, the other marshals called the soldiers "children", maybe it was just a customary title, but these sons and daughters who died in battle were all cultivated by him, they had built a city with themselves in Baili City in the past, some were recruited from the side of the party and the city, and there were also young people recruited from the states and counties of Xingyuan, they were real children of Gao Yue......
Gao Yue understands the glory of victory, but also understands the heaviness of sacrifice.
On this day, the clouds were low, and the distant mountains of Huating were hidden, and they were particularly blurred in the turbid clouds and fog, and it was impossible for the disciples of Fengxiang and Xingyuan who died in the battle to transport their corpses back to the mansion, so they could only bury them in simple coffins on the spot.
When the expedition was set, the Dingwu army had prepared a thousand coffins, which were first placed in the stone nose barrier, and then transported to Huangyang City by Fengxiang Shaoyin Xue Baijing, but now the number is still insufficient.
The people near Huating also came, digging graves and building coffins for the sacrificed Yining and Dingwu children, and the white flags erected surrounded the Wunian Mountain, everywhere, and the tomb marks and mounds looked at from a distance, and they were overlapped.
When Gao Yue walked down the mountain, and when he came to the camp, he saw the armor piled up like a mountain in front of the wooden fence, and tears flowed down again.
The armor was draped in front of the sacrificial children, and it was required that the armor be stripped from them before they were buried in the tombs......
To the west, four days later, Shang Jiezan, Xu Li, Qizang Shasha, Soma and others, like frightened birds, rushed from Jizi Road and Baiyaling to the Wating River at the western foot of Longshan Mountain to the abandoned city of Shuiluo, only to meet the host soldiers and horses who came to meet them.
Shang Jiezan's face was as white as paper, covering his face, ashamed to see people.
Because he was afraid that the soldiers and horses who answered him would ask him, where had all the other soldiers gone?
Now Shang Jiezan is not even counting the casualties, and there is a good chance that the group of clerical officials will die under Huating City......
It didn't take long for Qinzhou, Weizhou, Shanzhou and other places to erect black sacrificial flags in front of almost every household, and the women and children of the Tibetan people knelt under the flag, crying day and night.
In particular, the Subi tribe, who migrated the most to Longyou Dongdao, suffered the most serious losses, and the adult males who could be "Gui" lost two-thirds.
And the Dongdai forbidden soldiers that Zampu gave to Shang Jiezan were even more than three or four, and the wooden slips that reported the funeral were also handed over to the bird envoy and sent to the plateau fast horse.
Shang Jiezan was afraid that the Han people in the host country would take the opportunity to rebel, so he did not return to Shanzhou, where Jiedu was located, but stopped in the palace fort in Qinzhou, so that all the remaining soldiers could clean themselves and suppress the situation.
However, even more terrifying news came: Hun Ying and Gao Yue took advantage of the aftermath of Huating's great victory, led thousands of cavalry over Longshan, and went to the vicinity of Shuiluo City to challenge Shang Jiezan!