Chapter 361: The Battle of the Clear Water River (4)

"Dashuai, you see the colorful fireworks over there coming towards us." Liu Xuan didn't care if Wan Yi beside him could hear his voice in the rumbling cannon at this time, and pulled Wan Yi to point to the sky in front of him, only to see a colorful firework suddenly rising on the horizon in the distance and coming towards his side at a rapid speed, although the sky was much darker in the evening, it stands to reason that Wan Yi should have seen it, but under the fireball mapping of the continuous explosions on the front line, it was really possible not to see it, so he hurriedly reminded him.

"Gao Si has arrived." Wan Yi nodded, and Gao Siji's army finally arrived on schedule after defeating the southern tribes of the Tatars several times in a row during the two-month long journey. They raised the smoke and rockets at this time, which meant to remind Wan Yi that they had joined the battlefield and joined the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army to encircle the Gaochang Uighurs.

"Order Xue Wanli and Qian Ning to give me two wings to encircle, the artillery battalion to give me extended shooting, press the footsteps of the troops in front to move forward, and the reserve team will arrange the rear blocking position for me to go to the rear army, and let the mechanical crossbow go to the rear army to arrange." Wan Yi's order made Liu Xuan on the side a little puzzled, mobilize the reserve team to go to the rear army to set up a blocking position, could it be that the Guiyi army on the other side of Guazhou will appear to flank us? There's no news from Xuan Yingwei's side?

Wan Yi ignored Liu Xuan's doubts, and turned around and walked back after giving the order. Liu Xuan already had the experience of commanding large armies, and at this time, Gao Siji's entry into the battlefield would inevitably soon affect the entire Uighur formation, and those Uighurs who rushed into the position and fought with the reserves would become a source of water if they lost the addition of the follow-up troops, and they would soon be completely annihilated, and the counterattack of Qian Ning and Xue Wanli's troops was equivalent to forming a joint encirclement with Gao Siji to completely surround the Uighurs. At this time, there is no repetition of the battlefield situation, and it is no longer meaningful for him to be absent, not to mention that with the new generation of generals constantly entering the army, Wan Yi also knows that young people should be trained more at this time, and the pace of the Tiance Army will not stop so easily, and the army needs a steady stream of fresh blood to join. Although Wan Yi himself is only in his forties, he is indeed a full old man in the Tiance Army system built by Li Xuanqing, and at this time, leaving the opportunity to young people and younger generations is also an important task that Li Xuanqing gave to these first-generation generals.

After Wan Yi left, Liu Xuan no longer paid attention to his own incomprehension, and directly followed Wan Yi's order to let the trumpeter and the trumpeter convey the instructions, and Xue Wanli and Qian Ning on the front line immediately got up and took the lead in launching a counter-charge after receiving the order. Moreover, as the artillery battalion's artillery fire began to extend, the 10,000 cavalry concentrated by Tieliang's heavy cavalry battalion, which had been holding its position in the front, began to pour out of the position and pressed into the stabbing upwards, while Tieliang did not even wait for the reserves to annihilate all the Uighur cavalry that had broken into his position.

"How can there be smoke rockets over there in Guazhou? My God, it can't be the deputy chief of staff with the Anxi battalion attacking the city, right? Liu Xuan had just given the reserve team an order to retreat to the rear army and turn into defense on the spot, when he saw a rising multicolored rocket suddenly appear in the direction of Guazhou. However, at this time, Liu Xuan, who couldn't think of a reason, directly let the mechanical crossbow shoot at the 3,000 Uighur cavalry who were preparing to pursue the reserve in the field, and actually relied on tens of thousands of crossbow arrows to kill all the remaining thousands of cavalry in one fell swoop, and the explosions one after another even made the retreating reserve team themselves tremble. The mechanical crossbows were really murderous, and the Uighurs who had just fought with themselves so well that they were even constantly killing the soldiers in charge of the frontal battle were all killed by a round of crossbow arrows.

After Liu Xuan's side stiffly adjusted the formation of the army, the entire Western Expeditionary Army was divided into two parts, and after the main force countercharged, the remaining Uighur troops surrounded the main battlefield that was already full of corpses and rivers of blood, and in the sound of artillery fire, the shouts of more than 100,000 troops were earth-shattering, so that the people in the artillery battalion did not dare to shell freely in the sky, for fear of blowing up their own people.

At this time, in addition to the anomaly on the front line, in fact, Qibi Heli had already found that a large force of Tiance Army had appeared in his rear, and he was actually reversed by the other party in an instant, although he had suffered heavy casualties, but after all, he belonged to the offensive side, and some troops had already broken through to the opponent's position, but it was so inexplicably reversed by the other party, so that he had no time to think at all.

"Prince, let's break through quickly, this is the classic tactic of the Tiance Army - encircling on all sides." Whether or not Qibi Heli reacted Zadler didn't know, but he himself understood the intentions of the Tiance Army, which was clearly anticipating his arrival, and the other party actually had troops appear from his rear to show that he had been planning for a long time. At this moment, Zadler didn't have any heart to fight to the death at all, all he could think of was to take advantage of the fact that the opponent's encirclement was not completely completed, and immediately lead his troops to break through.

"Break through, where to break through?" Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Zadler, and directly began to shout at the chaotic Uighur Chinese army in the surrounding area: "Horn, immediately notify the troops in front to break through to the south, and all units will retreat with the Chinese army as the center." After finishing speaking, he didn't care whether he understood it or not, and directly asked the guards around him to erect the flag of the Chinese army and rush south.

I have to say that Zadler's reaction is still very fast, if he goes south, on the one hand, he can quickly approach the core territory of the Guiyi army, and the most important thing is that he understands that Zhang Chaofeng's troops are rushing here in their south, as long as this is the only way to survive. It's just that what he didn't expect was that the wonderful breakthrough route he came up with in such a short period of time plunged headlong into the pocket of the Tiance Army. There is a force in the south that has been hiding in the vast grass for a whole day since the beginning of the battle.

In fact, Li Tianyi was a little stunned when he saw the Uighur brigade coming towards him, and before the battle began, Wan Yi told him not to care about the changes in the main battlefield, and to focus on the left flank wholeheartedly, guarding against the possible Guiyi troops. But the Guiyi did not wait, but waited for the Uighur breakout force. But at this time, he did not have time to react, these Uighur cavalry protruding from the gap in the encirclement recklessly attacked, so that he had to give the order to attack in an instant, and in order to curb the speed of the opponent, Li Tianyi immediately ordered the mechanical crossbows that had been following behind his position to fire with all their might, and hit the Uighur peaks overwhelmingly. In an instant, 5,000 crossbow arrows roared, and in addition to being knocked to the ground by the crossbow arrows on the spot, the ensuing explosion caused the panicked Uighur cavalry around them to be blown to the ground again by the secondary explosion. Up to now, the Uighurs were unable to cope with the long-range attacks of the Celestial Army, and for a moment many people thought that their gods were punishing them by the hands of the Celestial Army.

Because he was led by Zadler to break through, the first wave was knocked to the ground by the crossbow arrows, but he was only killed by the crossbow arrows, but then the explosion of the crossbow arrows made him be overturned again by the corpse of the ruthless war horse, and he fainted directly.

The remaining Uighurs were even more confused, and although Zadler was lucky not to be killed, how could he restrain the Uighurs, who had lost their fighting spirit and morale, like headless flies.

"Order the whole army to assault and fight me." Li Tianyi decisively threw the whole army into a counterattack, and personally commanded the mechanical crossbow to attack the head and tail of the Uighur cavalry, which made them completely irrational, and the consequence of this was that these defeated Uighur cavalry began to be forced into this small area, scurrying around.

"Go and deliver the order, surrender and avoid death, otherwise there will be no mercy." Li Tianyi had his guards start shouting surrender in Uighur language, preparing to capture the prisoners. You must know that the large-scale construction of the interior needs manpower in particular, and these captives are the greatest driving force for the development of the empire.

Li Tianyi's decisive move laid the victory of the main battlefield, but there was almost an accident on the side of Guazhou City a hundred miles away, although Wang Houchun's plan can be regarded as thorough, but he ignored one point, that is, the Anxi battalion under his command has only been in a short period of time from the commander Zhang Sheng to the ordinary soldiers to join the Tiance Army, and they have not gone through systematic learning, and the use of firearms is only limited to how to shoot, and they have not played with explosives or anything at all. The violent explosion not only made Wang Houchun almost shout, but also reminded the defenders of Guazhou, who were originally guarding near the city gate. Wang Houchun, who heard the news, while letting his personal guards go up to carry out the bombing mission, decisively ordered Zhang Sheng to start the attack, and personally took Sima Daoxin, the governor of Guazhou, to command his troops on the spot anyway, and joined forces with Zhang Sheng to attack Cao Rengui's army left in Chengcheng.

In fact, if it weren't for Cao Rengui leading his troops to walk out of more than ten miles at this time, relying on Zhang Sheng's previous actions would be to find death, once the main force of the Guiyi Army was attracted back, then Zhang Sheng and they would not have the slightest room to survive.

The bombardment carried out by Wang Houchun's personal guards naturally did not have any accidents, and the explosion set off by the explosive bags that were constantly thrown down from the city tower was not inferior to the explosion of the shells of the main army, and the huge fireball that rose into the air made it impossible for the Guiyi army in the city to organize an effective defense in a hurry, and after Zhang Sheng led his troops to clear the defenders on the city wall, the troops of the Anxi battalion began to kill the city tower and concentrate on attacking the urn city. At the same time, Wang Houchun, just in case, let Xuan Yingwei's people assassinate Shi Mansion in the city, and also began to arrest Guazhou Assassin Shi, preparing to go hand in hand on both sides.

Wang Houchun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Zhang Sheng leading the team to kill in the urn city, the combat effectiveness of this Sima Daoxin's county soldiers is really not good, the troops of several thousand people beat the other party by surprise and were pressed by the regular troops of the Guiyi Army and couldn't raise their heads, if it weren't for the continuous explosion of explosive bags, it is estimated that this battle is really hanging. However, after Zhang Sheng appeared in Wengcheng, in fact, Guazhou's side had reached the most critical moment, with Zhang Sheng's Anxi battalion and explosives packed, there should be no problem under the surprise attack. Seeing that the battle situation shifted towards victory, Wang Houchun also decisively asked his guards to erect a ballista hidden in the city of the Anxi camp, and then loaded a smoke rocket and pointed an arrow at the night sky, and the piercing sound of breaking the air accompanied by a bright light like day resounded through the night sky, heading towards the extremely high air.

After doing this, Wang Houchun breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Sima Daoxin, who was about to lead the team to fight in person: "Lord Sima, after this battle, I will promote you to be the assassin of Guazhou and let you be promoted to the third level." His words made Sima Daoxin stunned, and then he was ecstatic, he was originally only coerced to join the Tiance Army, but he was still very happy to be promised by the other party to be a direct assassin. The war knife in his hand also became powerful in an instant, and he rushed down with his own guards and smiled at Wang Houchun, who came down with him: "Thank you for your appreciation, rest assured, Sima Daoxin will definitely not let you down." However, Sima Daoxin was very curious about the young man beside him, and the other party directly promised that this must be an extraordinary status.

Wang Houchun followed behind Sima Daoxin and ignored the killings around him, directing Sima Daoxin to attack various key points of the Guiyi Army as if he were strolling in a leisurely court, and through his actions, the command system of the defenders in the city continued to collapse.

"Listen, the Guiyi army in the city has defeated the Uighurs and is attacking Cao Rengui, and now that the Guazhou Assassin has been awarded, when will you wait if you don't surrender at this time?" Wang Houchun was originally thinking about the follow-up battle, and suddenly found that a smoke rocket rose from the side of the Thorn Shi Mansion, and he suddenly understood that Xuan Yingwei had succeeded, and suddenly became angry, and a majestic voice came out, which simply suppressed the sound of the fighting on the scene, making the Guiyi Army who were still fighting endlessly stunned.

"Surrender immediately, or there will be no mercy." After Zhang Sheng heard Wang Houchun's voice, he immediately understood what was going on, and immediately let the people around him immediately shout in unison, and the deafening sound of surrender made these Guiyi soldiers stop waving the weapons in their hands.

"Brothers of the Guiyi Army, the Tang Dynasty has now come to Anxi, isn't our Guiyi Army already the military town of the Tang Dynasty? There is no need for us to go against the imperial court, this is a rebellion. Let's quickly lay down our weapons and strive for the court's leniency, otherwise the family will be ruined and people will die. Sima Daoxin suddenly felt blessed at this time, and one sentence made all the soldiers of the Guiyi Army suddenly understand that the opponent in front of him was the army of the imperial court. To be honest, in this era, the orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty may have almost died out in other places in the northwest, but after all, the Guiyi Army has always been proud of being the northwest barrier of the imperial court since the era of Zhang Yichao, and then after Zhang Huaishen and others, all of them are appointed by the imperial court to make the Guiyi Army, and the banner of the Guiyi Army is hung under the banner of the Tang Dynasty.

"Bang Dang" didn't know whose weapon fell to the ground, which was extremely harsh in the quiet urn city at this time, but it made all the originally tight strings in his heart loosen at once.