This tragic encounter was finally decided at dawn the next day, as the Tang army put the five hundred thunderbolts that had just arrived into the battle, the powerful chain bed crossbow and the terrifying heavenly thunder bullet became the turning point of the war, and the Turkic slave army of the right wing cavalry of the Tang army fought fiercely under the alternating blows of bed crossbows and heavenly thunder bullets, lost more than half of them, and was the first to collapse, their escape from the battlefield directly triggered the comprehensive rout of the Great Food Army, the Tang Army chased and killed more than ten miles, and the Great Food Army was killed on their backs and corpses all over the field, In the end, Mayali only led less than 5,000 remnants of the army to flee back to General Peiluo's city, and the Tang army also suffered nearly 5,000 casualties in this battle, paying a heavy price.

However, this battle also changed the situation of the entire war, more than 30,000 Tang troops and 80,000 coalition troops composed of more than 20 small countries such as Shule, Gaochang, and Qiuzi who had just arrived entered General Peiluo's city from the south, putting the Great Food Army in an embarrassing situation of being attacked by the enemy on its back.

At this moment, the 60,000 troops of Mabe, who had arrived from Suzaku City, crossed Geling and appeared ten miles east of General Peiluo City; Under the leadership of Wang Siyu, the 50,000 army of Broken Leaf also approached General Peiluo City from the north, but the west was the insurmountable Broken Leaf Mountain Range, so that the 130,000 Great Food Army was besieged by more than 200,000 Tang troops in a narrow corridor ten miles long and five miles wide, and all the heavy weapons were abandoned outside Broken Leaf City, and what was even worse was that the food they carried was only less than ten days left.

On November 25, the fifth year of the Great Rule, on the third day of the siege of the Great Food Army, a rare snowstorm came unexpectedly. Sweeping across the Shattered Leaf Valley, the blizzard arrived at noon, extremely violent, with wild cold winds sweeping the snowflakes. Destroys and ravages everything on the ground. Dust and gravel were swept away by the wind and snow, flying between the gray sky and the earth, the tents tilted and groaned under the pressure of the wind and the ground, and the tents were swept away by the slightly unstable piling, and people could not stand. You can only crawl on the ground to the corner of the leeward.

The blizzard raged for two days, and the Leaf Shattering War came to a standstill under the blizzard, and two days later, when the blizzard gradually subsided, the earth was white, and the snow was knee-high, and it was difficult for men and horses to walk, despite this. The Tang army was extremely vigilant, and kept an eye out for the possible breakthrough of the Great Food Army at any time.

"Dashuai, I think you're a little worried, how can the Great Food Army survive with such a thick snow." A group of people was struggling to walk in the snow. At the forefront is coach Wang Siyu. Behind him was the servant Shi Wu Yuanheng, and Broken Leaf received an edict from the emperor. Wu Yuanheng rushed to deliver the letter early in the morning, but met Wang Siyu inspecting the sentry.

Wang Siyu glanced back at him. said with a smile: "Then you said that it was snowing heavily in Bahan, and everyone thought that the Tang Army would not sneak attack in the snow, but our Tang Army succeeded in sneak attacking." ”

Wu Yuanheng couldn't keep up with Wang Siyu's pace, he ran a few steps out of breath, and defended unconvincedly: "The sneak attack on Bahan is not a lot of snow in the first place, and it is after the snow, the Tang army's war horses can gallop on the snow, if it is today's snow, General Shi will also not be able to go south." ”

Wang Siyu heard that he was quite unconvinced in his tone, so he smiled and said: "Okay, let me give you another example, more than ten years ago, when I was a junior lieutenant, I went to Tianbao County, Wuwei County with Your Majesty, and we didn't stay there for much time before we took Wuwei, do you know how to take the land?" The blizzard was even more violent than this, we walked in the blizzard for three days and three nights, more than a hundred miles of mountain roads, the kind of cold was more terrible than the ghost of Hades, we gritted our teeth in the blizzard, and finally succeeded in the surprise attack on Wuwei. ”

"And that kind of thing?" Wu Yuanheng was extremely surprised, he scratched the back of his head and said, "Didn't the documents of the imperial court say that His Majesty's entry into Wuwei was Wei Ge's initiative to give up?" How did it turn into a sneak attack on a snowy night? ”

"Wee took the initiative to give up?" Wang Siyu sneered disdainfully, "Joke, at that time, Wei Ge wanted to slaughter us all, would he give us Wuwei?" Since the imperial court wants to write like this, I have nothing to say, but we fought that battle with great difficulty, but if it wasn't for the sneak attack on the snowy night like that, our strength would indeed not be able to win the martial arts. ”

As he spoke, Wang Siyu came to a sentry point, where dozens of soldiers were repairing the sentry tower that had been blown down by the snowstorm, "How about it, the brothers here are all fine!" ”

All the soldiers turned around together, and when they saw that it was the marshal who came, they were so frightened that everyone knelt down and saluted, "See the marshal." ”

One of the team members said again: "Returning to the marshal's questioning, a brother in the sentry tower was broken by the snowstorm, and he has been sent back to the broken leaf for healing, but other than that, there are no casualties." ”

"It's good that there are no casualties." Wang Siyu nodded, and asked again: "Is there a situation on the side of the Great Food Army, I mean did you find anything abnormal?" ”

A word reminded the team, and he quickly nodded and said, "Yes!" We captured a surrendered Bakhana soldier, also a sentry, who came to us in the blizzard to surrender. ”

"Oh? And that kind of thing. Wang Siyu was very interested, and hurriedly asked: "Where is this soldier from the surrender place, bring him to see me!" ”

The team hurriedly got up and ran to the tent in the distance, shouting a few loudly, and in a moment, two soldiers brought a man in his thirties, who could be seen from the appearance to be a Turkish, he stepped forward and knelt on the ground, saying something loudly in Turkic, a soldier who knew Turkic translated: "This person said that there is a crisis in the food of the Great Food Army, they can only eat a little bit every day, and they are not allowed to kill horses, they are really hungry, everyone guesses whether it is Bahan's accident, he is worried about his family, so he escaped by taking advantage of the wind and snow, He said he didn't want to fight anymore. ”

Wang Siyu pondered for a moment and said to the soldiers: "You ask him, how many Bahan people are in the Great Food Army?" ”

The soldier asked a few questions in Turkic, and then replied: "He said that there are more than 4,000 people, and the station is not far from here, about four or five miles away, and they are stationed with Shi and Shi Wang Siyu, who are silent in thought. This unexpected discovery made him know that the food of the Great Cannibal was running out, and in such a situation, the Great Food Commander would inevitably favor one over the other, which made many of the soldiers of the co-eater country begin to be dissatisfied. If what the soldier said was true. This was an opportunity to divide the enemy's forces, but the road was extremely difficult, so how could the other Bahans know the news?

He glanced at the soldier and said to the interpreter, "Tell him if he is willing to go back and deliver the news for me." When the war is over, I will reward him with a thousand sheep and ten horses, and you ask him if he is willing? ”

The soldier translated the handsome dialect to the person who was in Bahan, his eyes gradually lit up, and he nodded heavily, and Wang Siyu knew that he was willing to do so, so he nodded slightly, and said a few words to this person, and then ordered someone to release him. The man walked south with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and gradually his figure disappeared into the trees.

At this time, Wu Yuanheng came over and said, "Dashuai, I thought that this person alone might not be able to achieve the effect that Dashuai wanted." We should send more people to copy the Turkic scriptures. Tell them that if they surrender immediately, they will be released with food, and that if they resist, they will be punished as slaves in the Broken Leaf Silver Mine for twenty years. We're going to send the message to the enemy's positions, I think. It's like a bird can't resist the temptation of a poisonous snake, and many people will obediently come out and surrender. ”

Wang Siyu nodded again and again, "Your suggestion is very good, I'll go back and order someone to copy it, but I have to think about what method to use to send the book to the enemy formation." ”

Wu Yuanheng looked up at the wind direction in the sky, and said with a slight smile: "Don't worry, you don't need to worry, I have a good solution." ”

At night, 2,000 Tang soldiers lined up more than 500 barrel-shaped things on the snow, each barrel was about one zhang high, the Tang army worked in pairs, two people picked up the barrel on the left and one on the right, and the other lit a fire stick, close to the bottom of the barrel, boom! There was a light sound, and a fire was lit below, and it could be seen in the firelight that it was a fire-repelling board box filled with fire oil, and under the box there was a bamboo basket, which was full of hand-me-downs written in Turkic and Sogdian, and as the fire ignited, those huge barrels slowly rose, and the two soldiers loosened the penny, and the barrels rose higher and higher, and finally rose to twenty zhang high, and under the blowing of the north wind, they took the books in the bamboo basket to the position of the Great Food Army, and more than 500 Kongming lanterns filled the sky, The high sky is like a swarm of fireflies in summer, which is particularly strange and dazzling.

There is a city in the narrow strip besieged by the Tang army, called General Pei Luo City, this is the Acropolis of Broken Leaf Land, although it is an Acropolis, but the city is not small, it can garrison about 10,000 people, plus the original thousands of households have been emptied, General Pei Luo's city can even accommodate 20,000 or 30,000 troops, at present, more than 20,000 Khorasan troops are stationed in the city, they enjoy an adequate supply of food, on the periphery of the city, there are nearly 30,000 Egyptian troops and more than 10,000 Turkic slave troops, they enjoy a half-full food supply, and the outermost Kangguo, Anguo, Shi Guo and other co-servants of about 60,000 troops have a low status, poor equipment, and extremely weak combat effectiveness, so the treatment is also the worst, they can only eat one meal a day, and the supreme commander also issued a strict order, prohibiting the killing of horses, and those who violate the order will be punished with death.

Unfair treatment and hunger tortured the morale of the Xiecong Army, coupled with the snowstorm, the vast majority of the officers and soldiers of the Xiecong State thought that there was no hope of breaking through, and they gradually became hopeless about the future, just at this time, a sky lantern that fell from the sky came to the position of the Xiecong Army with a message of looking at the Tang Army, and the severe punishment of the uprising, surrender and stubborn resistance of Bahan violently impacted the hearts of every soldier, and the morale began to disintegrate rapidly, rumors flew all over the sky, and there were soldiers gathered together and whispering, There is only a paper left from the complete collapse of the army's heart, the situation is like boiling oil, only a tiny spark can ignite a large-scale wave of surrender, and at this time, General Pei Luo's city is quiet, the tall city wall seems to be made of fire plates, and the flames that are about to explode on the periphery are not felt at all, at this moment, a long-lasting Kong Ming lantern flew into General Pei Luo's city, and several personal soldiers took the Tang Army's handbook and ran into the commander's room that was holding a meeting in fear. ^^, UC eBook, first release ^^

Bang! There was a loud bang on the ground, and Alain slapped it on the table, and his most beloved Syrian gold pot was also shaken over, and fell heavily to the ground, with a large piece of the bottom of the pot recessed, but he didn't care, he roared loudly: "Send someone to search immediately, and anyone who dares to hide the documents will be put to death." Go now. ”

"Yes!" A Khorasan legionary commander said yes and turned around to go out to deal with the accident, and when the commander was angry, he hurriedly whispered, "General." This matter cannot be handled lightly. I was afraid that a mutiny would be provoked. ”

"And what do you want me to do?" Alain turned his head sharply to stare at him and said, "Do you want me to appease them?" What do I take to appease, there are only five days left for food, of course, priority must be given to ensuring a strong fighting army, these miscellaneous armies are not loyal to the caliphate in the first place, what can they do without high-pressure means? "Alain was furious.

"General, please calm your anger. The subordinates suggested that they should be allowed to kill their horses in order to temporarily solve the lack of food, and then wait for the situation to calm down a little, and then switch them to the Egyptian army, so that they could be placed in the middle to prevent them from defecting to the enemy. ”

Alain's anger eased slightly, killing horses is a taboo in the army, and he has always been resolutely opposed. But judging from the current situation, it is impossible to escape completely, so simply let the Xiecong National Army become a stepping stone for the Khorasan Army, and it is better to have no horses, so let them drag the Tang Army behind. Alain finally nodded slightly. "Alright! I agree with them to kill horses to solve the food problem, but I can't blindly appease. It is necessary to be lenient and severe, and the order I have just given will not change. Anyone who dares to conceal a document shall be put to death. ”

After the order, Alain sat down very tired, he never thought that he would be in this predicament today, a sudden snowstorm disrupted his battle plan, Alain Messain, the famous general who had accompanied the Rashid Caliphate on the expedition to Byzantium, known as the guardian of the Green Dome Palace, would have to face extremely serious consequences, the life and death of the 130,000 army, so far, Alain did not think that he had made any strategic mistakes, yes, God had given him more than two months, but he could not capture Shattered Leaf City, The Great Cannibal has always had congenital defects in the siege, whether it is the Umayyad Dynasty or the Abbasid Dynasty's weakness in the siege of the city, it has besieged Constantinople four times in hundreds of years, and the siege of the city has failed four times, so the siege failure of the Broken Leaf is not accidental, in the final analysis, it is the decision-making level of the Great Eclipse who underestimated the difficulty of attacking the Broken Leaf City, and also underestimated the tenacity of the Tang Army to defend the city, and even underestimated the determination of the Tang Dynasty to win the Battle of Broken Leaf with all the strength of the country, God will not give him two more chances, Since Alan couldn't take down the broken leaves for more than two months, the opportunity naturally passed to the hands of the Tang army, which was justified and fair, and a snowstorm in favor of the Tang army fully illustrated this.

There was a lot of silence in the commander's room, and several senior generals were waiting for the commander's next lecture, Alan seemed to be aware of it, he immediately woke up from his contemplation, waved his hand and said, "Let's continue the meeting, and now discuss the possibility of breaking through from the east road." ”

The Tang Army's local rumors had completely disturbed the morale of the soldiers of the Xiecong State, and in almost every military camp of the Xiecong State there were people openly talking about how to surrender the Tang Army, and the officers also had their own agendas, and they did not pay any attention to the increasingly dangerous atmosphere in the barracks.

In the camp of the Bahanna Xie's army, a sentry was standing on a big rock and shouted to thousands of soldiers, "I almost died in the heavy snow, fortunately I was rescued by the Tang army, they told me that Bahana has undergone a great change, the Tang army sent troops from the city of Ashibulai, burned the army rations of the great cannibals, annihilated the lackeys of the Samanid family, our king has risen up, officially split with the cannibals, and threw himself into the Tang Dynasty, do you brothers know that when we belonged to the Tang Dynasty, they never levied a penny tax on us, And the Great Cannibal and Samanid families have extorted our family, forcibly seized our pastures, and forced us to renounce our beliefs, such rulers are still working for it, brothers, listen to me, we surrender to the Tang Dynasty and help our king. ”

The sentry's words resonated with countless soldiers, and even many officers had a strong desire to surrender, and even their king rebelled against the Great Eater, so what reason did they have to serve the Great Cannibal here.

"The Khorasans are coming!" I don't know who shouted, but I saw a murderous army rushing from the gate of the camp, there were hundreds of people, all in iron armor and iron helmets, holding scimitars, all with fierce faces, all the soldiers were frightened and their faces changed greatly, and they retreated one after another, they were like a group of sheep who were used to being oppressed, and they were afraid of the evil wolf of the Khorasan people from the bottom of their hearts.

In order to collect the messengers from the hands of the Xiecong army, the Khorasan army sent ten patrol teams of 100 people each, and this team happened to find the camp of Bahanna.

"What are you doing here? Want to rebel? The squadron leader of the Khorasan Army in the lead shouted loudly and cursed like thunder. He saw the soldier standing on the boulder preaching, and pointed with his hand: "This man is a rebel, arrest him for me." ”

Immediately a dozen Khorasan soldiers rushed towards the preaching soldiers, and the Bahana soldiers timidly retreated. They still lack the courage to resist. When the soldier saw the Khorasan people running rampant, he was so angry that he cried out: "Brothers, why don't you resist, do you really want to let the Khorasan kill me?" ”

"Kill him for me!" The Khorasan squadron leader viciously gave the order to kill.

More than a dozen Khorasans surrounded the boulder. They all drew their swords and slashed at him, and when the soldiers saw that there was no way to retreat, he roared, drew his sword and pounced, and a sword pierced the chest of one of the Khorasan soldiers, but the other swords had already fallen on him, and he was covered in blood, and stumbled and fled. The blood of the soldiers finally ignited the blood in the hearts of the people of Bahan, and their sheep-like cowardice disappeared, and the enraged soldiers suddenly shouted, drew their swords and pounced, surrounding more than a hundred Khorasans and slashing them. The soldiers of Bahanna, who were in the tent, also rushed out. The four thousand people were like a wave of anger, quickly engulfing more than a hundred Khorasans.

"Kill it. Surrender Datang!" The roar of the Bahans spread throughout the garrison of the Concordant Army, and countless Bahana soldiers scrambled to flee to the north. In the end, even their regimental commander took off his military uniform, blended in with the soldiers, and fled north together.

The rebellion of the Bahans was a spark that ignited boiling oil, and the herd effect they inspired was immeasurable, and the entire outlying position was out of control, and the vast snowfield saw dense black dots running for their lives, to the north, east, or south, and the weariness of the war, the despair of the future, and the unbearable hunger drove them to kill the Khorasan patrols, and threw themselves into the Don army in droves, in large numbers, spontaneously and without any human organization, and when the order to kill horses was transmitted to the outlying camps, the camps were already empty, Of the 60,000 members of the national army, only four or five thousand old and weak soldiers and wounded soldiers were left.

The collective defection of the Xiecong National Army completely changed the situation of the war, that night, the Tang army pressed on from three sides, more than 500 captured heavy trebuchets slowly approached the city of General Pei Luo from the south under the traction of camels, thousands of large fire oil bombs poured towards the enemy position, the entire General Pei Luo City, the entire Great Food Army position became a sea of fire, making it a hell on earth, the screams and scorching smell permeated the sky above the Great Food Army, more than 30,000 soldiers were burned alive by the fierce Greek fire, and countless people rushed out to surrender, Adjutant General Hyali also surrendered to the Don army.

However, the commander of the Great Food Army, Alan led 20,000 Khorasan cavalry to break through from the east, and was intercepted by the 60,000 Tang army in Beiting, and then Wang Siyu led the army to copy from the rear, cutting off all the escape routes of the Khorasan army, and the disparity in strength between the two armies was huge, and after two hours of fierce fighting, the last Khorasan cavalry was all annihilated by the Tang army, and the commander Alain Mesain committed suicide in despair.

Since then, the Battle of Broken Leaves finally ended with the complete victory of the Tang Army, the battle from the Qarluq people to the south, to the end of November of the following year, after a full year and two months, both countries have done their best, the Great Food Army has mobilized 300,000 people to participate in the war, the treasury is exhausted, and the Tang Dynasty also mobilized nearly 200,000 troops, nearly one million Han people and the people of the Western Regions, allocated 10 million stone of grain, 4 million yuan of money, the final result is that the Great Food Army was all annihilated, more than 100,000 surrendered, and the entire Geluq people perished.

The impact of this battle is extremely profound, marking the exchange of offense and defense between the two countries in the west of the Green Ridge, the Tang army has the upper hand, Bakhana and Shiguo have thrown themselves to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's forces advanced to the Yaozhi River Valley, nearly 100 cities, including Talas, were occupied by the Tang army, the whole country was shaken, and the Caliph Rashid urgently transferred 80,000 of the most elite guards to reinforce Samarkand, and canceled the unequal treaty signed with Byzantium ten years ago, and reached a reconciliation with Byzantium, So that the troops stationed in Syria and Armenia were able to go south, and at this time, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was also exhausted, unable to carry out the westward expedition, plus Tocharian was still controlled by the cannibals, and the wolf heart of the Hui people did not die, the Tang Emperor Zhang Huan ordered the Tang army to stop at the Yaozhi River and not advance westward for the time being.

But at this moment, a shocking change occurred in Huifu! Continued,UCTXT,)