Chapter 453: Invincible Might
As soon as the gun in Pang Lingming's hand rang out, a bullet followed his movements and used it frantically towards Salazi, only to see that at that moment, the Safar commander fell to the ground in the midst of this gunshot. His reversal was tantamount to announcing that the last spirit of the Safavid Army had been drained by the Tiance Army. Safe's Chinese army began to disorient sharply after his commander fell to the ground, and the other party killed his commander dozens of kilometers away, which made all the soldiers panic, and the weariness and fear that the previous days of fierce fighting had brought to all the soldiers broke down at this moment. And Pang Lingming took advantage of this opportunity to command the troops to frantically storm the opponent's headquarters, and at the same time began to call on his troops to roar angrily: "Salazie is dead, lay down your arms and surrender, otherwise there will be no mercy." After the lame local language sounded, in addition to making the other party's hearts more flustered, and even raising the morale of their own troops, these 3,000 troops were equivalent to poking a big hole in the opponent's heart, and with their sharp offensive, this damage was also getting bigger and bigger.
The Safarids lost their commander and were soon taken to the front line by the panicked soldiers to fight Zhang Sheng. Compared with the Chinese army, there can still be an adjutant general to forcibly suppress it, ordering the elite troops to step forward and fight to the death with Pang Lingming, because the Safard soldiers on the front line do not know what is happening on the Chinese side at all, the news that the commander is dead makes all the soldiers panic, and the front line also begins to waver, and even some of the front-line generals cannot suppress it. This situation was captured by Zhang Sheng and made full use of it, and immediately let the mortar detachment step forward to assist the troops to open the gap, and inserted it stiffly, and the bullets brought by a large number of soldiers frantically vented the firepower of the Tiance Army, and the 20,000 people almost pressed the other party to advance step by step. At the same time, the artillery in the rear also began to pay attention to the road of Zhang Sheng's charge, because they were flustered, so these Safars soldiers began to gather one after another, trying to avoid the attack of the Tiance army while beginning to inquire about what was going on on the Chinese side, because the continuous gunfire and surrender sound from the Chinese army made these soldiers more and more convinced that the information that was rapidly spreading from the rear was true. But this is tantamount to giving the artillery more opportunities to kill the target. The artillery of this era was all aimed directly, and it was impossible for Li Xuanqing to directly bring any more advanced sights, so the gunners didn't want to directly hit them with shells after seeing the enemies in front of them gather together, and the shells that fell from the sky completely shredded these Safarihs. This powerful killing, in turn, made the scene even more chaotic, and eventually led to the complete collapse of the entire front, as Zhang Sheng's troops charged almost at the point of impact of the artillery, driving the scattered Saffars towards the opposing Chinese army in a frenzied surge. On the battlefield, what I am most afraid of is this situation of "going to the bead curtain" to drive the opponent's defeated troops to attack the opponent's defense line, so as to completely defeat the opponent with a small number of troops. What's more, the situation of the Chinese army of the Safarid people at this time is not much better, and the deputy general stepped forward at a critical moment to try to save the defeat, but at this time, the soldiers of the Chinese army saw their commander fall in front of him, and the three thousand people of the other side were still shooting those hateful bullets in all directions, this kind of almost impossible close combat made the situation of the Chinese army collapse after Zhang Sheng drove the opponent's defeated soldiers arrived, and there was no recovery. Therefore, the opponent's lieutenant general was also very decisive, and immediately led his men to retreat after seeing that nothing could be done, in a vain attempt to use these defeated troops to block the pursuit of the Tiance army and buy time for himself to withdraw from the battlefield.
"The whole army assaulted me and chased me." Zhang Sheng saw the other party's handsome flag waving from a distance, and immediately understood that the general who was in charge of the command had broken his tail to survive and began to lead some men and horses to retreat, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to blow the trumpet of the charge, and the whole army launched a pursuit, and even ordered the disbandment of the organization in order to pursue speed, and let the two battalions under his command advance separately according to the unit, directly past the chaotic rout in front of the other party, and began to chase westward, throwing all the rout of about 20,000 people on the battlefield to Pang Lingming to solve.
At this time, the Safarid army on the battlefield was completely disrupted, the soldiers could not find their own officers, and those generals could not effectively command other troops except for the personal guards. And at this time, the mechanical crossbow behind him also came up, and the continuous continuous shooting of a large number of killing and injuring living targets made these chaotic and undisciplined routs completely collapse, which brought powerful conditions for Pang Lingming to capture the prisoners. The surrender order, which had been ignored before, also had an effect at this time, and many of the dazed Safarihs began to be captured by the soldiers of the Tiance Army nearby, throwing down their weapons and squatting obediently to the side. The effect of these people being driven to the side is very obvious, because in addition to not being attacked after surrendering, those Safarian soldiers who are still on the battlefield are mercilessly shot by the other side, on the increasingly clear battlefield, the artillery of the Tiance Army can even block this area, bombard the surrounding retreat roads with dense artillery fire, and forcibly drive these routs to the front of Pang Lingming, while the mechanical crossbow troops began to fire one after another after approaching, Cut the connection between these routs with forceful killing, so that Pang Lingming's soldiers could quickly drive the rout in front of them behind them and then forcibly capture them. This approach soon made the slightly more sober Safarid soldiers realize that if they did not surrender, they would be completely killed. Therefore, after this continuous artillery bombardment, those Safars who were close to Pang Lingming's troops began to spontaneously put down their weapons and quickly came to this side. In this way, Pang Lingming's manpower began to gradually disperse to escort prisoners, and its own combat capability gradually declined after the dispersion of troops. At this time, as long as there was an appealing general among the routs, even if he could not storm Pang Lingming's defensive line, he could forcibly withdraw some of the soldiers.
"The general will come forward, and all the prisoners will be handed over to me." Pang Lingming was obviously aware of this problem, and was about to send someone back to the city quickly when he heard a large group of people rushing up behind him, and it was Qin Kong who brought almost all the defenders in the city up, many of whom were slightly wounded with bandages. Qin Kong commanded more than 3,000 people to quickly take over the work of holding prisoners of war. And Pang Lingming, who had his hands free, began to attack with all his might, and with the selected dozen or so Safars rout, he stepped forward and directly ordered the other party to lay down his arms and surrender on the spot, and began to limit the time. This kind of coldness and even a little out of line with the heavens, the soldiers of the army directly shot and suppressed, and after suppression, most of the rout soldiers began to lay down their weapons and were escorted out one by one. There are probably less than a thousand people left, and they are still resisting, but the artillery behind them was directly blown into slices, because most of the people were escorted out, and a small number of people lost the cover of the brigade in an instant and were exposed in front of the Tiance Army, which gave the artillery the best opportunity to shell, so after two rounds of shells from dozens of artillery, it was almost impossible to see a few standing figures, and the rest were quickly killed by the soldiers of the Tiance Army, which took five days. Almost every day, the battle of more than ten hours of fierce battles began to end gradually under the Secret City. And after so many captives were concentrated in a hastily built camp outside the city, Pang Lingming originally planned to send troops to support Zhang Sheng, but after Qin Kong pulled him to see those exhausted soldiers, he dispelled this idea. The battle of protecting the secret Pang Lingming's troops fought almost day and night, all the soldiers were tense and did not relax at all, although the morale was high after the big victory, but the physical strength of the soldiers was exhausted, so Pang Lingming gave up after thinking.
However, although he had no way to go out of the city to support Zhang Sheng, Zhang Sheng frantically pursued the opponent for more than 300 miles at this time, and chased directly from Humi City to the west to Bohezhou, and fought again with the Safarians in Bolechuan, Bohezhou. At this time, the number of defenders who came to meet the Safarid army in the bowl and the state reached more than 30,000 again, while the number of troops that Zhang Sheng could concentrate at this time was only more than 10,000. However, Zhang Shengtie was determined to fight the invincible power of the Tang Dynasty in a battle, so he launched a direct attack without waiting for the other party to enter the city, forcing this army to retreat to the source of the Bole River, and a fierce melee ensued between the two sides. Because Zhang Sheng did not give the other party a chance to set up a formation to attack, relying on the powerful fire of the rifle and the close fire support of grenades, he completely defeated the opponent in just one hour, and then brutally killed almost all the Saffar soldiers, the bloody scene even made the residents of Bohe Prefecture a few miles away frightened, and the red blood and the corpses of the Safariads directly blocked the river surface of the Bole River. The soldiers of the Anxi Corps who came out of the blood followed their own commander and used the other party's head to pose a huge Jingguan in the source of the river, and in order to highlight the military strength of the Tang Dynasty, early the next morning, after taking the opportunity to capture Bohezhou, Zhang Sheng gathered the lost army while ordering a huge stone tablet to be erected next to the Jingguan, "Those who offend my Tang Dynasty, although they are far away, will be punished", nine large characters dipped in the blood of the Safavid people are written in the sun, exuding a chilling momentum for everyone. This scene was then quickly spread to other places by the people of Bohe Prefecture, and the news of the return of the Tang Dynasty began to spread around, and the invincible Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions a hundred years ago made all the subject countries surrender began to return to the eyes of the world with the word of mouth of those old people. The huge stone monument at the source of the Bole River and the Jingguan made of more than 20,000 heads made all the Safarid people tremble, and the brutal killing shocked everyone and the pace of the Safarid dynasty to the north. After this war, the Safavid Dynasty was divided internally, and the remnants of the Tang Dynasty began to emerge one after another and began to come to Bohe Prefecture, ready to feel the call from the East. You must know that although those Gumo Prefectures were only subordinate forces of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, they were proud to be part of the Tang Dynasty when they declared it to the outside world, and at this time, the suzerainty reappeared, and the slaughter that made everyone chill seemed to tell everyone that if they violated the orders and will of the central dynasty, they would have to pay the price of blood, which made these Safarid people who had just converted to the Heavenly Sect feel terrified from the depths of their souls. So much so that when the Tianfang Sect army from the west later entered the interior of Safar to prepare to attack the Tang Dynasty, there were voices of resistance within Safar, and even defected to the Tang Dynasty in the subsequent campaign, becoming a huge help for the Tiance Army outside the battlefield.
At this time, Zhang Sheng, who returned to protect the secret with the materials and wealth seized by the brigade, did not feel that his unintentional move would have such a big impact in the future. What he was thinking of at this moment was how to ensure that the bowl and state were under the control of the Tang Dynasty, so he delayed for two days, supported a family in the city that had been suppressed by the Saffar official to take over as the city lord of the bowl and the state, and asked him to form his own escort team to protect the bowl and the state, and told him that he would soon lead the main force of the army to come after his class. During this period, if the Safarids counterattacked, they could withdraw to the Protector. What he didn't expect was that his own method that was not a way played a big role, this group claimed to be a descendant of the Song family in the Central Plains, but in fact, Zhang Sheng couldn't see that there was a family of Han blood that actually built Bohezhou very solidly, and when the Safard army besieged Baohezhou, he sent a messenger to protect the secret and ask for help, and held on until the Tiance army arrived. Since then, Bohezhou has become the bridgehead of the Tiance army to the south, and this descendant of the Song family has really entered the sight of the military and political leaders in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty.
At the same time, he began to mobilize a battalion from Khotan City to protect the secret and merge the two battalions in his hands, a total of three battalions were all handed over to Pang Lingming's command, and the logistics team immediately transported a large number of materials from Khotan to protect the secret to strengthen the city defense to prevent the other party from attacking again. He took a temporary battalion of several thousand soldiers and wounded soldiers back to Khotan to recuperate and replenish at the right time. This battle also allowed Zhang Sheng to see the combat power of some of the Khotanese people, Zhang Sheng specially approved that they could directly join the regular army to fight with the Anxi Corps, which made the Khotanese headquarters army forcibly disbanded by Zhang Sheng after the original veterans saw the hope of going to the battlefield again, these people because of the long enlistment time as a soldier will hardly make a living, staying in the people will only be a big problem of social security, bringing endless trouble to the civil affairs officials of Khotan, but at this time Zhang Sheng took all of them to solve the big problem of civil affairs.
On June 17 of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Zhang Sheng led his army back to Khotan with a large number of prisoners after sending troops for more than half a month, and this time he was welcomed by 100,000 people in Khotan. Khotan had a bad relationship with the Saffar people in the south, and the two countries had fought several times before, although Khotan once had the upper hand, but its own power was not as strong as the Safarid Dynasty, and Khotan believed in Buddhism, and a large number of young people and wealth were used in Buddhism, which consumed their own strength in vain. However, since the Tiance army came to Khotan, not only have the policies for the benefit of the people been promulgated and implemented, so that all the people at the bottom have obtained tangible benefits, but also a large number of Buddhist temples and nobles in those territories have been coerced and lured by the civil affairs officials of the Tang Dynasty to spit out a large amount of land and land in their own names, which were distributed to the people and subdued by the people of Khotan in one fell swoop. And this time, when confronting the Khotanese enemy Safar, the Tiance army went out to win the victory again, and captured a large number of people from the other side, which made all the Khotanese people feel more angry, and they all went out of the city to welcome the general of the Tiance army, and also to see what these Saffars were like when they were captured. It can be said that this battle completely stabilized the situation in Khotan, and Zhang Sheng could finally rest assured that the regular army would be sent out of the country to fight instead of always guarding against a rebellion in Khotan, and the invincible power of the Tang Dynasty was successfully erected in the hearts of Safars and Khotanese people after this battle.