Chapter 446: Hanhai is Hard to Do (6)
"General Qiyu, there is an urgent report from the front, the Shule reinforcements have arrived fifty miles in front of our army, and the scouts on the other side have discovered our army's military formation." Due to the urgency of time, the dark guard directly sent the latest news of the tribal alliance on the Shule side to Tuoba Siji and Hamoud, who were at the forefront.
"It seems that this enemy's momentum is good, not only has it escaped the detection of your secret guards, but it can also send scouts to find out where our army is? Not bad. Because the previous battle had already ended when he arrived here, he didn't expect that the other party would detect that his side was stationed again because the previous rout provided specific military information, otherwise it would be impossible to escape the joint blockade of the secret guard and the reconnaissance detachment for only fifty miles. However, this section obviously Hammoud thought of it, so his eyes rolled and said: "General Tuoba, the news that our army is here should have been brought over by the previous rout, and it was our regiment that was stationed here alone, so they must not have expected that the general had already led the army to support me, so-" Before his words were finished, Hammoud wanted to hide his whereabouts and hand over the frontal battlefield to him, and then his own corps suddenly made a move to completely disrupt the opponent's deployment when the battle on the front line was stale. Thinking of this, Tuoba Siji couldn't help but glance at the other party, it seems that this famous Uighur general of Gaochang is really worthy of his reputation, and he is also very decisive, with his old-style cavalry of less than 40,000 people, he dares to resist the attack of nearly 100,000 people on the other side alone, this is a dangerous move, a careless may trap himself in it all, in the local army several times his own, if he wants to cooperate well with his troops outside, it is too difficult, but this also shows that Hammoud is indeed sincerely for the sake of the Tang Dynasty.
"It's okay, I'll immediately lead the army to make a detour from the left flank, and when the time comes, I'll let the herald follow you, and when the time comes, I'll fire smoke rockets to support each other. I guess the command will not let the Seventh Corps of the deputy marshal go into battle, so you and I must be prepared. Tuobas nodded and asked his personal guard to draw some men to follow Hammud, while he led his men to the south, preparing to make a detour and wait for the two sides to fight and then enter the battlefield from the southwest, and join forces with Hammud to defeat the other party. For this kind of tribal alliance, as long as the other party is dragged into the decisive stage, it is easy to do, the other side has no resilience at all, once it suffers major damage, it will inevitably be in chaos and flee in all directions, and without strong deployment and reorganization, it is simply impossible to go to the battlefield to fight a hard battle.
However, after Tubas left, Hammad's face also became extremely serious, Tuobas left all his cavalry artillery because he was going to launch a cavalry raid, and he had a corps of nearly fifty mortars that could be used after continuous combat, which was also the first time that Hammad had a close encounter with the figure of this legendary artillery with a very fast rate of fire, and after a little curiosity, Hammoud gathered them all together and arranged them behind a slightly raised mound behind him, as a surprise soldier, After all, the artillery shells of the cavalry artillery did not have time to be replenished when Tuoba Siji rushed from the previous battlefield non-stop, so they had to be used as surprise soldiers at critical times, intending to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop or surprise the main general of the opponent.
"Order the whole army to be on alert, this time I need all the soldiers of the army to show all the courage, my Uighur warriors can crisscross the northwest for a hundred years, then under the banner of the Tang Dynasty, we can also use the sword in our hands to fight our own dignity." After gathering several commanders and commanders in his hands around him, Hammud said in a deep voice: "This is the first battle we have fought to join the Tang Dynasty, all the brothers of the Tiance Army are watching us, and the tribesmen behind us are also watching us, we need to use our courage and strength to prove that our Uighur Corps will not be weaker than other colleagues, and also let our families know that our efforts are a better guarantee for them to live in the Tang Dynasty." "Almost most of the 40,000 Uighur soldiers selected by Hammud this time are from the Uighur people, who have witnessed the actions of Tuoba Si Zhi to protect the interests of their families when they were in Gaochang, and they all know that all the measures taken by the Tang Dynasty in Gaochang have brought changes to the lives of their families, a large number of livestock from noble ranchers have been allocated to them, and grassland pastures and those fertile fields have also begun to be distributed as they joined the Tiance Army to obtain household registration. Therefore, the middle and high-ranking generals, including these commanders and commanders, have also realized what opportunities this empire from the east has brought to their tribes, and the Uighurs, who have been rejuvenated after removing the slavery of the high-level people, are ushering in a new life.
"General, we joined the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty did not discriminate against us, and was able to distribute the cattle and sheep land and grassland pastures of those noble royal families to us, we Uighurs are men who know how to repay their kindness, I will use my blood and courage to prove to the Tang Dynasty that we will not live up to the expectations of the general, and will not live up to the hopes of all the Tang people." Yasutai, the commander of the 10,000 troops who had been with him from the front line and captured Jiamu last time, bowed down and said frankly that he, like Hammad, was a general who had climbed up from the death battles with his own material resources and courage, so he felt a lot more about the changes in the Uighurs today.
"This time, with my personal guard as the vanguard, pointing directly at the opponent's Daxu, the armies should tell all the warriors that there is no advance or retreat in this battle, give me the courage to fight my Uighurs in Gaochang, and let those cowards Ansi take a good look at the hope of the Uighurs in Gaochang and on us." Hammoud's face was solemn and waved his hand to ask his generals to immediately reorganize the army, and all the soldiers hurried to replenish their strength, and the food they were equipped with was urgently distributed, and they finished eating hastily before the other party came.
"General Qiyu, the Anxi army has already arrived five miles in front of our army." At this time, the scouts sent by Hammud galloped in and came with the latest news. Hammoud looked at the sky, and suddenly smiled, the northwest sky is very dark because it is located on the plateau, this is the time to fight, and when it is dark, Tuoba Siji can use the night to quickly approach the other party and join forces with himself. Now it depends on whether his own tactics and his men can rush over and inflict heavy losses on the opponent's Chinese army, and completely defeat the opponent's already weak command system.
"The whole army is ready, get on the horse." Hammoud looked at the dozen or so people who were only guarding his own personal guards and Tuoba Siji, and with a wave of his right hand, 30,000 cavalrymen quickly mounted their horses and lined up neatly behind Hammud to wait for the commander's order.
Hammoud did not care about the cavalry artillery, and let them choose their own targets for shelling, because the artillery shells were not enough, they had a limited role, and he was not familiar with these new weapons, so he simply let them play freely. He put all his energy on the alliance of the tribes of Shule, which had already risen on the distant horizon. And as time went by, a gray-brown wave gradually became used in the distance, and countless human heads began to appear in front of everyone's eyes accompanied by noisy shouts and neighing horses and horses' hooves. At this time, all the soldiers of the Uighur army saw that the opponent was so large that the boundless sea of people Hamoud quietly breathed a sigh of relief, the other party could not restrain the soldiers of the various divisions to advance according to the attack formation, it seemed that these tribal coalition forces did not have time to reorganize and were escorted to the front line by Ye, such an army is really the same as Tuoba Siji expected, once the battle is dragged to the stalemate stage, because there is no resilience of the complete army, it is impossible to consume this level of battle, and once it is copied by Tuobas, then it will inevitably collapse instantly. And what he has to do is to find a way to completely cut off the opponent's command system and disrupt the opponent's Chinese army to drive the rhythm of the entire campaign.
Hammud slowly raised the bow in his hand, and the war horse under his crotch also slowly moved forward, and in an instant, countless long arrows were detained in the hands of the Uighur soldiers, and horse archery was the best tactic of the steppe people. So when Hammoud decided to take a desperate gamble and lead the whole army to surprise the opposing Chinese army, this ancient and sharp tactic was brought back out.
And with Hammoud's movements, the entire Uighur army quietly began to accelerate, and the huge cavalry assault at this moment flew forward like the high flying Tiance army flag, and a huge array of arrows began to take shape quickly with the charge, and the leader was Hammud, who bent his bow and arrows, only to see him riding his horse and rushing to the other side's distance of three hundred paces, suddenly bent the bow, and then a wolf's tooth long arrow flew out in an instant, and roared towards the sea of people in front. And with his bow-bending shot, the 30,000 cavalry behind him also bent their bows and shot at the same time, and countless arrows rained down the sky that was extraordinarily brilliant in the evening, and then countless soldiers of the Shule tribe coalition who were also charging on horses were knocked to the ground by the roaring arrows.
Cavalry archery is not only the ability of the Uighur army, although the other side is a coalition army of various tribes, but their warriors are also very good, but first, the Hamoud side has already prepared, on the other hand, the other party's commander in the rear did not expect that the other side will face their superior forces when they will choose to attack at the first time, so they did not have time to give an order, so they were caught off guard and shot over a large area, countless cavalry in the gallop arrows fell off their horses and were immediately trampled into pulp by the companions who swarmed behind them. And when the soldiers who were not shot returned urgently, they found that the other party took this opportunity to brush and brush three arrows almost shot out in a row, and under the rain of arrows under the black canopy was the scimitar that had rushed to his side, and a fierce cavalry battle was launched in the haste of the Shule tribe coalition army.
Hammoud took the lead and rushed into the other party's sea of people almost immediately, the scimitar waved a bloody human head and rose into the sky, the spray of blood stained the mane of the horse sitting down, and the two thousand personal guards behind him followed closely and also rushed away in an instant The formation of the place that was disrupted by the rain of arrows before, followed his own commander to tear open a huge gap and rushed up, and the 30,000 cavalry behind him instantly followed, and the tragic fight resounded in this grassland after Hammoud led the army and the other party came into contact. Countless cavalry scimitars swung out and took away one life after another, and the red blood instantly infected this land of the Luntai grassland, which had been a strategic place in the northwest since ancient times. In the bloody atmosphere, countless figures struggled to move forward in the sea of people like fish swimming upstream, and with each step they took would set off bursts of killing.
Because it is time to win more with less, so Hammoud rushed into the opponent's battle formation and almost never stopped killing the opponent's depth, and anyone who stood in his way was slashed to the ground by him, because he had explained in advance, so almost all the Uighur soldiers rushed in the direction of the opponent's Chinese army regardless of the pace of their comrades in front, and even if they were cut by the other side, they would die with the other party. This kind of fighting style regardless of life and death made the opponent tremble, and at the same time, it also brought this army, which was originally going to carry out the decapitation mission, was extremely fast, and when the opponent had no time to adjust the deployment, it crossed the barrier of the front army, and fought out of the heavy army formation, and went towards the position of the commander of the battlefield with Daxu flying high in the distance.
Regardless of the fact that Hammud went directly to the opponent's Chinese army, the consequence was that the army that was originally arranged by the other party in front to charge for the charge instantly lost its combat target, and even because the troops in front came from the three tribes and had no horizontal communication with each other, there was almost chaos. The tribal army in the middle was caught off guard by Hamoud and had a huge confusion, and then was rushed by their own friendly forces, which was even more chaotic, and many soldiers were not killed in the fierce battle just now, but were dizzy by their own troops, and circled on the battlefield, thus seriously lagging behind the speed of encircling and suppressing Hamoud. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Hammoud's troops threw off all their burdens and scattered the Chinese troops that the other side used to urgently intercept them.
Speaking of which, the commander of the Shule coalition army this time still made the same mistake as the previous Maha of the Qiuzi reinforcements, and the first thing he thought about after breaking through the front army in the north was to mobilize the main elite of his Chinese army to intercept the other side, rather than integrating the front army and the two wings to go forward to encircle. There was some reason for Maha to do this before, his front army and the left and right wings and even the rear army were more commandful, as long as the Chinese army could block Hammad's offensive, it would inevitably be able to encircle the opponent, but what he didn't expect was that Hammoud didn't give him time at all. But at this time, the Shule coalition army also used this trick but did not play its due role at all, the original front army and the two wings of the soldiers and horses have enough, the real Hammoud killed and scattered people and horses are not many, at this time the most important thing to do is to place the Chinese soldiers and horses in front of themselves, defend the Chinese army, and then gradually mobilize the surrounding well-formed troops to come forward and fight with the opponent, this kind of tactics similar to the tactics of adding fuel can weaken the opponent's sharp spirit all the way to kill layer by layer, thereby delaying the opponent's progress, and finally encircling and annihilating the opponent in one fell swoop. However, in the coalition army, which was originally unsatisfactory in command and transfer, the officers and soldiers of various tribes had different efforts to implement military orders, and even many times those grassroots generals obeyed the orders of their own commanders and did not care about the highest orders from the Chinese army, so the result was that Hammoud could single-mindedly confront the Chinese troops in front of him, and the front troops behind him who were chaotic could not cause effective damage to themselves in a short period of time.
"Blow the horn, the whole army assaults, cut down the opponent's Daxu, kill the opponent's main general, and the victory or defeat is in one fell swoop." Hammoud shouted, his horse's front hooves raised under his crotch, and the impassioned horn of the bull kept conveying the will of the commander to the warriors behind him, and for a moment the Uighur army's will to fight and morale reached its peak with this roar.
"Give me an all-out artillery blast into the other side's chaotic area." When the horn of the whole army assault was sounded on Hammud's side, the cavalry artillery behind the mound also caught a rare fighter plane in an instant, and shelled the most chaotic area of the front army with all their might, and the rumbling artillery fire fueled Hammud's offensive, and the whole battle reached the most critical moment.