Chapter 079: Guerrilla

The Tang army was small in number, and although it was given six hours of rest, it was really unbearable to fight for a long time after a long journey and continuous operations. The opponent's soldiers and horses are far superior to them, and fighting a war of attrition is a great disadvantage.

Thinking of this, Luo Tong was full of murderous intent in his heart, took a long breath, rode into the enemy formation, and slashed forward with his spear as if it were pouring wind. Every blow was fierce and domineering, so as to kill everyone in the middle of the spear, and stabbed down more than 20 people in a row, slaughtering the enemies within the range of the attack.

The Turks were also extremely brave, and some people surrounded and killed them. Luo Tong raised his hand to pierce the most ruthless Turkic soldiers, shook the momentum, threw the body into the crowd, and slammed into the Turkic soldiers who immediately swarmed him. It was an accidental trick he used, using the corpse as a weapon to throw at the enemy. A number of Turkic warriors suffered this blow, and immediately fell to the ground with broken tendons and fractures, struggling and convulsing, blood spurting wildly from their mouths, and they immediately shook their formations and made a mess.

The soldiers behind saw that the coach was not afraid of life and death, rushed to the front line, and behaved so bravely. Ignoring the feeling of weakness coming from his body, everyone was excited, and his eyes were red and dancing with a bright Mo knife, like a copper wall full of spikes advancing layer by layer, leaving a broken corpse wherever he passed.

The crossbowmen behind the Mo knife hand skillfully divided into three pulls, and pulled the crossbow machine to the front, left and right wings, supporting the brothers who were desperate to sacrifice their lives, and the target of their fire was not the enemy, but the sky in front of them, and the arrows that shot high in the air flew a considerable distance, and after drawing a large parabola, with the effect of gravity, it rained down on the Turkic team.

Although there was no specific target to aim, the range was quite wide, and wave after wave, without stopping - the Tang Army archers fired in three rows in turns, in a loop, forming an intermittent rain of arrows, which suddenly became a terrible nightmare for the Turkic soldiers.

With a terrible hiss, the Turks fell to the ground one after another, and most of the parts of the arrows were shoulders, heads, and limbs. These elite horsemen usually only shoot people, but they would have thought that there would be a day when they were shot like this, and they were caught off guard, and many soldiers were nailed to death with men and horses, which was miserable. Although they were also equipped with simple leather shields, they could not fully resist the rain of arrows falling from the sky. This sudden change also stunned the Turks, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

With the cover of the crossbow array, the speed of the three teams led by Luo Tong, Cheng Chuliang, and Almaty was amazing! It only took a moment to break through the defenses of the Tuojie, slaughtering them all.

Then, he easily broke through the interception of the Turkic guards.

Sure enough, the big tent of the Chinese army was right in front of them!

However, the banner in front of the Chinese army tent is no longer there, and the huge Chinese army tent is not defended by soldiers, but is empty, and the soldiers gather around, but there is no trace of the enemy general. Seeing this, Luo Tong was stunned at first, his mind was racing, and he transported his internal strength to the extreme, and shouted: "Ashina Simo is dead." He was full of energy, and this loud laughter could spread even on the battlefield where the sound of killing was blowing.

"Ashnasimo is dead."

The soldiers behind Luo Tong echoed loudly, and then such shouts came from all directions, and Qin Huaiyu and Luo Yuan, who were rushing to kill in the distance, also followed with a heart to let the soldiers cheer.

In just a few minutes, such shouts echoed over the entire Turkic military camp, and the voice became louder and louder.

Luo Tong couldn't find any trace of Ashina Simo, so he could only choose to kill in a crowded place.

The Turkic soldiers did not know how to respond to the enemy from three sides, and they were extremely passive. Until now, they have not yet figured out how many men and horses there are in the Tang army, they only know that there are them in all directions, and they can see the fierce Tang soldiers slaughtering their tribal warriors everywhere.

It's just that the Turks have always been brave, and they know that the Tang army is extremely fierce, but they also support it hard. They believed that Ashnasimo would lead the tribe's Tuchae and guards to support them and drive the enemy out of the camp.

But what they waited for was the news of the death of the Lord, and when they saw that Xuqi was not there, their morale suddenly dropped to the freezing point, and they became more and more panicked in the chaos, and with a "boom", they fled in the only direction where there was no Tang Army.

On the other hand, the Tang army became more and more energetic as they killed, and in the shouts of "Ashina Simo is dead", their morale became higher and higher, and they became more and more energetic.

"Pursuit, kill me all the way!" Even at this moment, Luo Tong waited for him, he deliberately left a gap and did not fight, just because he wanted the Turkic soldiers to have a glimmer of hope for survival. He had fought so many battles, he should have known. In the era of cold weapons, the number of casualties is limited, even in fierce battles. When a large number of casualties are really inflicted, and when there are large casualties, it is often in the pursuit battle.

The fleeing soldiers are completely irrational at all, they are bent on survival, regardless of the enemy pushing and trampling, even if the enemy catches up close, the soldiers who have lost their fighting spirit do not have the courage to turn back and resist, but continue to flee with the slightest possibility, and the result is naturally hacked to death on the spot.

Qin Huaiyu and Luo Yuan knew that they wanted to expand the results of the battle and kill and injure the Turkic soldiers as much as possible, and this opportunity must not be missed.

Let them chase and kill the soldiers and horses in three directions, and they became more and more panicked, rushing and squeezing around, trampling on each other, and dying because of this, there are four digits to say the least.

They chased and slashed all the way, floating corpses all over the field, and countless Turkic soldiers were killed.

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The barracks are a mile away!

Ashina Simo looked at the blazing barracks, and listened to the sound of "Ashina Simo is dead", and his heart fell to the bottom.

Under the enemy's overwhelming offensive, Ashina Simo made a decisive decision, decisively abandoned the battalion, led the guards here, and raised the banner, ready to reorganize the formation and launch a counterattack against the enemy! But as a result, his soldiers suffered a one-sided fiasco because of his unprovoked withdrawal! At this time, the Turkic soldiers only cared about fleeing for their lives, and even if someone passed by him, they did not hesitate to flee the same way, and no one stayed for a moment.

Ashina Simo looked at this depressing scene in a daze, only to know that the art of war and tactics he had learned were too much different from those of the Central Plains who were really familiar with military strength.

As a first-time commander-in-chief, in the face of this bad situation, Ashina Simo has gradually become at a loss.

His self-confidence was also greatly hit, and he wanted to resist and lead his people out of the predicament, but there was nothing he could do.

The lack of experience led to a lack of courage, and it was also difficult for him to make this difficult decision: in the end, the morale and fighting spirit of the Turkic soldiers disappeared little by little in the passage of time, and the last little chance to turn around was lost.

"Evacuate! Evacuate in the direction of the Horde! Ashina Simo knew that he couldn't do anything, and gave the order to retreat gloomily! If he knew that his tribe had also leveled the Tang army, he didn't know how he would feel.

The Tang army pursued for more than ten miles, and also returned one after another, and this battle killed the Turkic military camp to the point of a river of blood and a mountain of corpses.

Luo Tong was the most ruthless in pursuit, when he returned to the Turkic military camp, Qin Huaiyu and Luo Yuan had already returned, and everyone had no time to rest, so they escorted more than 10,000 war horses captured in this battle to move closer to Li Yehei.

"Brothers, how's it going!" After the convergence, Luo Tong, who was sitting on his horse, felt the admiring gaze of the soldiers from all directions, raised his spear and said, "Do you want to eat meat......

"Want to ......"

Before Luo finished speaking, the soldiers of the Quartet had already shouted in unison.

Luo Tong swallowed the words in his mouth and said in a loud voice: "Then what are you waiting for? General Qin Huaiyu, arrange for soldiers to guard! General Almaty, arrange for cavalry to cruise around! General Li Yesi, you are responsible for slaughtering sheep, General Luo Yuan, you divide a part of the people, and gather all the cattle, sheep, horses, and other living creatures for me with the people, and take them away tomorrow morning. In addition, some people are arranging for some people to boil water and make fires......"

One by one, the orders came out of Rotong's mouth.

He roared so loudly that the soldiers around him should be happy.

The high-spirited momentum made them forget the fatigue after the war, and happily carried out one order after another issued by Luo Tong.

It wasn't long before piles of torches rose from the riverside next to them, accompanied by the smell of meat.

Luo Tong sat by the campfire and beckoned the soldiers to eat meat.

Because the number of sheep was too much, it was not easy to hurry, so Luo Tong simply killed a batch on the spot, roasted and stewed, rewarded the three armies in advance, and let the soldiers who were eating dry food, eating hard cakes and drinking raw water all the way, have a good meal and enjoy it.

Taking turns to arm, take turns to rest, and take turns to eat meat, under Luo Tong's reasonable deployment, all the soldiers were fully supplemented with rest and food.

Rested for half the night, when dawn came. Luo Tong prepared his troops and horses and began to march. This is the case with guerrilla warfare, which is fought and withdrawn without delay. The reason why they chose to rest in place for half the night was also because the army had sufficient physical strength to better retreat.

Before noon, the troops were ready, and the long procession meandered in a southwesterly direction.