Chapter 343: Bloody Massacre (Part II)
The escort who was waiting did not arrive, but what was waiting was an impenetrable rain of arrows, and the blood-red Tubo deputy general looked at the young man in Xuanyi in front of him and scolded: "King Shou, you are so despicableγ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»!" β
Before the next shouting and scolding was spoken, he was pierced through the chest by arrows, and he couldn't die anymore, Li Qing's eyes flashed with a touch of pity, but Li Qing did not regret it, although he had the intention of loving talents, but Li Qing also had his own principles, for the deputy general of Tubo who betrayed the country and betrayed the country, Li Qing has always been disdainful, how could he take it under his command?
Under the circumstance that there were countless crossbowmen on both sides of the Tang army before the back road had been blocked, nearly a thousand Tubo troops who had already lost their fighting spirit were wiped out in less than a quarter of an hour, smelling the thick vomiting blood in the air, waving their hands to call Maozhou to join the army and order: "Send someone to clean up their corpses!" β
Thinking that the fire outside the city had almost burned, Li Qing looked back at the generals of the various armies and said: "Immediately gather all the armies, go out of the city with this king, and capture the Qinling, doesn't he want the head of this king, this king wants to see how he can compete with this king when the three armies have been lost!" β
Hearing Li Qing's words, he looked at the corpses of the Tubo soldiers piled up not far away, and the generals were speechless, and said unnaturally: "Your Highness is heroic, this time you will definitely be able to capture the Qinling Tomb and become famous in the first battle!" β
Although as the generals of the Tang Army, they were naturally very happy to see such a large casualty in the Tubo army, but they had just witnessed the methods of King Xuanyi Shou in front of them, and they naturally shuddered, especially when all this was still the prince of the empire in front of him, who seemed to be elegant and humble, pampered and pampered since childhood, and had not experienced a single killing, the shock to them could be imagined?
If tonight's order were to be replaced by any other famous general who had been famous in battle, everyone would definitely not be the slightest surprised, after all, it has to be said that although this order seems cruel and impersonal, and there is no faith at all, there is no one in the army who is a stubborn person who only knows the way of Confucius and Mencius and talks about morality and ethics and ignores his family and country. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this moment, there are not many troops stationed in Songzhou City, which has just experienced a bloody battle, and it is necessary to divide troops to pursue the Tubo Commander on Qinling, and the remaining soldiers in the city are even more stretched, if they rashly leave this thousand elite Tubo soldiers and horses, it is tantamount to planting a time bomb for Songzhou City, if it is learned that the main force of Songzhou City is exhausted, God knows what kind of disaster this Tubo army will give Songzhou City, which has just experienced a life-and-death killing, in the morning!
And if it is to suppress this surrendered army, give up the opportunity to go out of the city to pursue the Qinling, not to mention that Li Qing will not agree even if it is a group of generals, after all, although this battle was completely victorious, and in one fell swoop smashed Tubo's coveting of Songzhou City, but if he can take the opportunity to capture the Tubo commander, the merit of this battle will undoubtedly have a qualitative improvement, in order to talk about the reputation of Qinling in Tubo, not to mention the feudal marquis and worship the prime minister, when the time comes, the official will be added to the knighthood, and the bounty and reward will naturally not be a problem, how can everyone let go of such an opportunity.
It is precisely because of such comprehensive consideration that I have to say that although the order issued by King Xuanyi Shou just now is a little cruel, it is reasonable and clearly understands the demands of the soldiers of the whole army!
γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ» outside Songzhou City, the bloodless face of the Qinling looked at the monstrous fire in front of him, under the reflection of the firelight, the small eyes that were originally full of breathtaking light were also very gloomy at the moment, this fire not only buried all the elite in his hands, but also buried all the hopes of the Qinling, so that his contest with the Tang Shouwang ended in his own complete defeat, how could he not be angry in his heart.
Not only was the angry Tang Shou King despicable and shameless, he tried his best to show weakness to the enemy, lured the elite soldiers and horses of his forward battalion into the city, and took the opportunity to let himself send the reserve men and horses into the trap he had already prepared, and buried his two thousand elite soldiers and horses alive in the sea of fire, none of them were spared!
On Qinling is even more angry with himself, angry at his own desire to win, and repeatedly negligent, so that the Tang Shouwang can take advantage of the opportunity, as long as he calms down a little, he can detect the smell of fire oil in the air!
The army who followed the Qinling looked at the main general in front of him who was in pain of self-blame, helped him onto his horse and said: "General, the Tang Shouwang is scheming, now that the defeat is decided, we are powerless to recover, it is only right to return to the camp immediately, if we wait until the Tang army in the city frees up our hands, it will be even more difficult for us to escape at that time!" β
Although the Qinling is an authentic Tubo people, it admires the Tang culture of the Central Plains very much, reuses the Han people, and also has some positions in the army that can only be found in the Tang army.
Looking at the Qinling Tomb, who had not spoken for a long time, he couldn't care about his own soldiers who were still struggling in the sea of fire at the moment, looked at the fire spreading towards him, and looked at the two thousand elite cavalry behind him and said: "The commander has an order, the whole army will return to the camp!"
The house leak happened to be rainy, it seemed that even God wanted to get along with the down-and-out Lun Qinling at the moment, the march was less than half a mile, and there was a rout of about 300 people in front of him, seeing clearly the leader of the defeated team in front of him, the remnants of the army were uneasy, glanced at the Lun Qinling beside him, patted his horse and stepped forward, looked at the rear camp commander who should have guarded the camp, and said: "Why did the general appear here, and he was so embarrassed?" β
Wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, the battalion commander said: "Join the army, just an hour ago, a heavily armed Tang army cavalry raided our army's camp, they are numerous, plus there are at least 3,000 cavalry behind them and countless infantry, plus their surprise attack, our army can't resist at all, just half an hour, our 3,000 men and horses will either die or surrender, and now only these 300 people are left behind me!" β
As if to prove that it was not his own mistake, the rear battalion commander in front of him opened his mouth again and explained: "This soldier and horse is far from being comparable to the Tang army that appeared on the battlefield in the past, and from the banner they played, I can vaguely remember that this Tang army that suddenly appeared in Songzhou is probably a Hanzhou soldier and horse." β
Originally, I didn't care much about it, but when I heard that the soldiers and horses of Hanzhou suddenly appeared in Songzhou, the eyes of the soldiers and horses of Songzhou were slightly condensed, and the soldiers and horses of Songzhou did not appear sooner or later, but they appeared in the embarrassing situation that their soldiers and horses had just suffered a big defeat and almost annihilated the whole army, just like a snake hitting seven inches, completely pinching the fatality of their own side.
And as soon as he appeared, he attacked his garrison camp, if it was a few hours ago, even if these Hanzhou soldiers and horses appeared on the battlefield where the two armies were fighting, they would have the certainty of victory, but at this moment, the appearance of Hanzhou soldiers and horses was obviously planning to take advantage of their illness to kill themselves.
Returning to the front of the Qin Ling, he saluted and looked at the main general whose eyes were back in focus at this moment, and said: "General, the commander of the rear camp has just reported that the soldiers and horses of Hanzhou in Jiannan Province have just attacked our army's military camp and burned all the grain and grass, what are we going to do now?" β
Speaking of this, joining the army is also a helpless face, who would have thought that before the expedition, he led 20,000 elite troops to the expedition Jiannan thought that he would be able to capture a trivial matter, but now it has fallen into the embarrassing situation of only the remnants of 2,000 soldiers and horses with nowhere to run, all of this is due to one person, an unheard of, infamous Tang Shou King! (To be continued.) )