Chapter 441: The Fall of Xue Yantuo

Su Dingfang, who made Zhang Yunwen worried, was walking slowly in the direction of Pyongyang at the moment. After completing the combat mission against Xue Yantuo, Su Dingyi sent a battle report to Pyongyang. At the same time, he led the remaining soldiers to Pyongyang for a mission.

In this operation, Su Dingfang encountered unprecedented pressure. Although he himself was a fierce general, when he attacked the Eastern Turks, he dared to attack the Turkic tent with 200 elite horsemen. But now, instead of the imminent defeat of the Jieli Khan, he is facing an ambitious pull.

After arriving in Yingzhou, Su Dingfang mobilized 3,000 soldiers and horses from all over Yingzhou, and fought with Xue Yantuo's vanguard in the White Wolf River, breaking it. In this battle, the Tang army beheaded more than 1,500 people and captured more than 2,000 enemies.

After the battle of the White Wolf River, the momentum of Xue Yantuo's southward movement was suddenly contained. Even the leader of the troops did not expect that the Tang Army's actions would be so fast.

Su Dingfang led the army to the White Wolf River, and did not rush to attack, but dragged the battle like this. Until ten days later, a total of 6,000 people from Pingzhou, Jizhou, and Youzhou came to Baiwolf River to wait for Su Dingfang's dispatch.

Su Dingfang saw that the reinforcements had arrived, and his own men and horses had reached 17,000, and he was even more confident, so he immediately led his troops to attack.

And Na Ba Zhuo was eager for quick success, thinking that as long as the Tang army was defeated in one fell swoop, Yingzhou Youzhou, when there were no soldiers to defend, let it gallop. He wanted to fight to the death with Su Dingfang. Unexpectedly, in this battle, Ba Zhuo hit Su Dingfang's ambush plan, just when the two sides led the army to fight, Su Dingfang ambushed in advance of a 3,000 cavalry ambush to take advantage of the momentum to kill, straight to the location of the big tent.

This Bazhuo hurriedly sent troops to intercept it, but he couldn't stand this iron horse. In a hurry, he actually caused the banner to move back.

The knights of Xue Yantuo, who were fighting in the front of him, saw his Great Khan's banner moving back, and thought that he was defeated, and he suddenly lost his morale. And at this moment, Su Dingfang led the cavalry who knew Turkic and shouted: "Bazhuo is defeated, Bazhuo is defeated!" ”

The knight Xue Yantuo, who didn't know the truth, believed it and turned around and fled immediately. However, when the two armies fought fiercely, how could it be so easy to escape from the battlefield? For a time, the beheaded Xue Yantuo cavalry was not counted.

In this battle, Su Dingfang's army beheaded more than 5,000 people, captured 20,000 enemies, and the rest fled. And the losses of the Tang army were also quite a few, with a thousand killed in battle.

As soon as Bazhuo fled, Su Dingfang didn't think about it, and led the army to pursue to the northwest. This chase has been pursued to Mobei.

The north of Yingzhou was originally the pasture of the Xi people, and the tooth tent of the king of Xi was set up in the governor's mansion of Raole Du, and the king of Xi also led the official position of the governor of Raole. However, when Xue Yantuo's army attacked, Xi sent 20,000 troops to fight with one, and nearly half of his troops were broken, so he no longer dared to fight with Xue Yantuo. The king of Xi even trotted to Yingzhou with his family.

However, when Su Dingfang broke through the Bazhuo army and won a great victory, the king of Xi immediately ran out of Yingzhou, re-commanded 20,000 soldiers and horses, and followed Su Dingfang to pursue the remnants of the army. Seeing that this King Xi was willing to clear his back, Su Dingfang was also happy.

Seeing that the Tang army was chasing after him, Bazhuo also fled to Mobei desperately, and after running and chasing, he actually ran to Mobei and arrived at Xue Yantuo's tooth tent.

Along the way, the Tang army's supplies ran out early. In order to continue fighting, the Tang army also turned into robbers, and when they encountered cattle, sheep and livestock along the way, no matter which one, they grabbed them directly, plucked the skin, removed the internal organs, roasted them on the fire, and stuffed them into their stomachs. If any tribe dared to resist in the face of the Tang army, then Su Ding conveniently ordered this tribe to be razed to the ground and robbed of its horses, thinking that it would be a substitute.

In this way, he killed all the way to Xue Yantuo's tooth tent.

Bazhuo, who had just returned to the tooth tent, heard that the Tang army was coming, and he was furious, this surnamed Su chased Lao Tzu from Yingzhou to Mobei, chasing for more than a thousand miles, and now he still doesn't give up, he actually chased Lao Tzu's hometown, it is really too deceitful!

Ba Zhuo immediately led the army to fight with the Tang army.

If the Tang army is a tired army from afar, then Xue Yantuo's army is no better, they have returned to the tooth tent for less than a day, and they have not rested well. However, when it comes to morale, Xue Yantuo's army is more than one step behind the Tang army.

The battle still ended with Xue Yantuo's defeat. Ba Zhuo led the three hundred guards around him to flee in confusion, and the rest of the soldiers all surrendered.

After the end of the battle, as soon as the results of the battle were counted, Su Dingfang was taken aback, and a total of more than 70,000 men, women, and children were captured by Xue Yantuo in this battle, and the cattle, sheep and horses were not counted. At this point, this task of completely destroying Xue Yantuo is completed.

However, it doesn't end there. Three days after the Tang army attacked Xue Yantuo's tooth tent, envoys and armies from the Hui Hui, Servant Gu and other Tiele tribes came to the tooth tent. At first, Su Dingfang thought that they were here to avenge Bazhuo, but after talking, he realized that these people were actually here to ask for Xue Yantuo's cattle and sheep.

Su Dingfang rejected their request on the spot.

The tribes of Hui and Servant Bones came with 30,000 troops on the same day, trying to force some people and livestock to return to the tribe, less than 20 miles away from Xue Yantuo's tent. When Su Dingfang heard this, he sneered, and led the army to a big battle with the Tiele coalition army.

In total, 2,000 were beheaded and 7,000 were taken prisoner. After this battle, no steppe tribe dared to come to the idea of attacking the population and livestock in the hands of Su Dingfang. The name of Su Dingfang is also famous in the grassland because of these four battles.

Su Dingfang was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he hurriedly rushed the 70,000 people and livestock to move south.

And the Bazhuo who escaped from Xue Yantuo's tent was killed by the Hui people when he arrived at the Hui.

The 70,000 people of Xue Yantuo who went out and were taken away by Su Dingfang, and the people and horses in Xue Yantuo and other places together were less than 80,000. Xue Yantuo was reduced from a super tribe in Mobei to a weak tribe. Seeing that Xue Yantuo's power was weakened, the Hui Hui and the servants were not polite at all, and launched troops and horses to conquer Xue Yantuo's tribes, and finally devoured Xue Yantuo.

Su Dingfang led 70,000 people and livestock to travel less than 60 miles a day, but after walking for more than 20 days, he finally brought these people and livestock to Yingzhou.

Zhang Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, already knew the results of Su Dingfang's battle, but when he saw these people and livestock, he couldn't help but feel excited, and then his face was sad, this 70,000 population is not a small number, how to arrange it?

Su Dingke didn't care about this, he completely handed over these things to Zhang Jian, and went to the barracks to dismiss the army.

In this battle against Xue Yantuo, more than 600 of the 8,000 soldiers he brought were killed, while more than 1,600 soldiers recruited from various state capitals were killed. From this, we can see the difference between the combat effectiveness of conscription and government soldiers.

When Su Dingfang was about to leave, Zhang Jian asked, "Wait, General Su, since this battle has ended, why don't you see the battle report coming?" ”

Su Dingfang immediately showed a strange look on his face, and held back for a long time before he said, "Forget!" "It turns out that this Su Dingfang was just a general before, and he was not qualified to write a military newspaper. Even during the period of fighting in the Western Regions, his military reports were written by the officials under the account. He didn't care about it. Now that he is leading the army, he has no scribes under him, so no one reminds him of this military report.

Zhang Jian couldn't cry or laugh, and immediately asked people to make up the battle report and send it to Pyongyang City. When Su Dingfang heard that Goryeo was pacified, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Ah, Goryeo was pacified so quickly? I, the Tang Heavenly Army, are really extraordinary! ”

Zhang Jian said with a smile: "To pacify Goryeo, General Zhang, the younger brother of General Su, can be regarded as an indispensable contribution!" ”

Su Dingfang immediately became interested and asked Zhang Jian to talk about the Goryeo war. Zhang Jian did not shirk it, and spoke in detail from beginning to end. You must know that now that Su Dingfang has the merit of destroying the country, maybe once he returns to Chang'an, there will be a steady stream of high-ranking officials. Zhang Jian is also a shrewd person, and he is also very polite to Su Dingfang now.

After listening to Zhang Jian's narration, Su Dingfang couldn't help but praise Zhang Yunwen's good tone. said that if he hadn't met Yuangai Suwen at the end, this trip would have been in vain.

Zhang Jian heard Su Dingfang's words, but he was speechless, and he didn't know what to say. After all, Su Dingfang and Zhang Yunwen are sworn brothers, and they have much less scruples when they talk to each other.

Throwing the rest to Zhang Jian, Su Dingyi took the remaining 7,000 soldiers to Pyongyang. However, what Su Dingfang didn't know was that in Pyongyang City, some people took his merits as a bet, but the bet was on a third-grade official position.

Before the report of the battle reached Pyongyang, the investigation center of Pyongyang City had already learned the results of the battle. Immediately, the steward of the Pyongyang City Investigation Institute told Zhang Yunwen of the results.

After Zhang Yunwen saw this information, he suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed.