Chapter 69: The Southern Expedition 4

When Li Yu was in high spirits in Anton, Xue Rengui, who was stationed in Dafeichuan, was full of sadness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

After Xue Rengui heard that Guo Beifeng's troops were defeated and withdrew from Wuhai to Dafeichuan, the Tubo army tightly surrounded him. In two months, the Tang army and the Tubo confronted each other on the Dafei River, and fought dozens of battles, but Xue Rengui was never able to seize the opportunity to defeat the main force of the Tubo army.

The Tibetan Prime Minister Qin Ling personally led the army to be stationed dozens of miles away and did not move, and only sent a partial division to entangle with the Tang army.

In the past two months, Tibet's reinforcements have continued to come from the west and south, in order to take advantage of the encirclement of the Tang army. Xue Rengui can not retreat in the middle of the Dafei River, the north is the Dafei Ridge, the mountain road is steep, if you retreat, you will be pursued by the Tubo army, and the retreat may become a rout of the whole army. What's more, Xue Rengui has been looking for a fighter in his heart to defeat Tubo in a battle and reverse the defeat.

Xue Rengui, who became famous on the battlefield of Goguryeo two years ago, faintly has the posture of the first general of the Tang Dynasty. Since Li Ji's death, the Tang military has been the best in the military circles, and he has never been defeated in the battlefield in his life, how can the arrogance in his heart easily return to Datang in a panic because of the defeat of Guo Zhifengshan's own action?

What's more, the 30,000 elite cavalry of the main force of the Tang Army on this expedition did not suffer much loss, and in Xue Rengui's eyes, there was still the possibility of reversing the fighter. Although Guo Beifeng lost a lot of grain and grass, he still left a lot on Dafeiling, and Xue Rengui captured a large number of cattle, sheep, grain, and grass from the Tubo army in Wuhai to survive until now.

But at the moment, Xue Rengui couldn't wait, the Tubo army strictly guarded Xue Rengui and couldn't catch the fighter, and the endless Tubo army was surrounded on three sides, so that Xue Rengui couldn't retreat if he wanted to retreat at this time.

When the army ran out of food and grass, Xue Rengui gathered all the generals and prepared for a decisive battle with Tubo in recent days.

In order to defeat Xue Rengui, in order to entangle him, he did not hesitate to lose troops in two months, and suffered more than 20,000 casualties in vain. However, compared with the current reinforcements and the upcoming results, 20,000 people are just a small piece of skin on the yak's body, not to mention that they are all Tuyuhun people.

With an army of 400,000 troops, Qinling almost poured into the country, and even most of the soldiers and horses who entered the Western Regions were transferred back.

Qin Ling looked at the Tang army camp with deep eyes, and said to the left and right generals: "In the next few days, Xue Rengui will go out of the camp to fight a decisive battle with our army, and order the whole army to prepare to defeat the Tang army in a battle. ā€

"Obey the Prime Minister's orders."

Two days later, Xue Rengui led the whole army out of the camp to fight with Tubo in Dafeichuan. In addition to the Dafei Ridge in the north, the black and oppressive Tubo army entered the battlefield from the southeast, west, and west, and more than 430,000 Tang and Tubo troops in Dafei and Sichuan were killed in the dark, the sun and the moon were dark, and the corpses were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river.

The largest battle between two armies on the roof of the world since the beginning of the world.

The two armies of Tang and Tu fought for two days in a row, and the battlefield was covered with the corpses of soldiers of the two armies, and even more were the corpses of Tubo soldiers, and more than half of the more than 30,000 Tang troops lost.

Xue Rengui was also wounded by more than a dozen, if it weren't for his superb martial arts, courage and excellent archery skills, maybe he would have been killed by the Qing army with an arrow when he led the army to charge.

On the third day, tens of thousands of corpses on the battlefield of the previous two days of fighting were not cleaned up, and the two armies of Tang and Tu clashed fiercely here, and the soldiers on the battlefield were intertwined, shouting and screaming, and the sound spread for more than ten miles.

After several days of fighting between the two armies, there were only a few thousand left in the Tang army, and everyone thought they were determined to die. They were besieged by hundreds of thousands of Tibetan troops, and there were more than 200 miles of mountain roads from the nearest Shancheng, and they must have been surrounded and intercepted by the Tibetan army on the way to retreat.

For Tubo, there is no doubt about the victory of this battle, but the soldiers and generals in the Tubo camp are gloomy and gloomy, wailing all over the field.

The 400,000 army fought fiercely with the Tang army for several days, killing only a few thousand Tang troops, but their own casualties exceeded a quarter, and the battlefield was stacked on top of each other, and almost all of them were the corpses of Tibetan soldiers.

Although this battle was a victory for Qin Ling, it could only be described as a tragic victory, and the price was so great that he was unwilling to bear it. Even if the remaining thousands of Tang troops are eliminated, I am afraid that at least tens of thousands of soldiers' lives will be paid.

What worries Qin Ling is that after looking at the battalions of the army, almost no joy of imminent victory can be found in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the whole army, and the soldiers have a fear of the Tang Army, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a soldier who has no fighting spirit.

The third brother of Qinling proposed to negotiate peace with the Tang army and end the battle as soon as possible.

"The battle lasted several months, and the result was not only a huge loss of soldiers, but also an astronomical consumption of grain and grass. In addition, when hundreds of thousands of troops were levied, it was summer, which was the season when herdsmen graze and farmers grow grain. At present, there are only a few thousand left in the Tang army, and it has no impact to negotiate and let them go back, the Tang **** law is very strict, Xue Rengui led an army of 50,000 to come, and only a few thousand people are left to go back, and they will be severely punished by the Tang Emperor. How much more is that our purpose is attained, so why should we die with him here? ā€

After hearing this, Qin Ling pondered for a night, and finally agreed with the third brother's opinion, and sent an envoy to Xue Rengui, and the two armies negotiated peace, and Tubo made way for Xu Xue Rengui to lead the army back to China.

Xue Rengui also had this intention, so after discussing peace with Qinling, he led thousands of his subordinates who escaped from the distance of the Tubo army to set foot on the north of Dafei Ling, and the Tubo soldiers showed a happy look.

Xue Rengui, who was walking in the loop, sighed: "This year is the year of Gengwu, Lou Xing is on duty, and he should not go to the west to fight. ā€

In contrast, Li Yu looked in the direction of Dafeichuan in the eastern city of Pyongyang, thousands of miles away, and estimated that the battle of Dafeichuan would come to an end at this time.

"Hey, I can't change the outcome of the Battle of Dafeichuan, it's not that if I cross over, I will definitely be able to change the direction of history, and if there is a slight mistake, it will be doomed. It's a pity Xue Rengui. ā€

Xue Ingui was demoted to civilian exile after the defeat of Daefeichuan, and although he was reactivated to the Xiongjin Prefecture to lead troops to resist Silla due to Silla's invasion of Baekje, he was repeatedly defeated in the battle with Silla and was again demoted and exiled to Xiangju.

For more than ten years after the Battle of Dafeichuan, Xue Rengui did not win again, until the third Turkic rebellion, and the famous general Pei Xingjian was reactivated as the commander by Li Zhi when he died and there were no generals available. With the name of the great man who once fought on the grassland, he took off his hat and retired from thousands of enemies, and set the last victory in his life after more than ten years.

Now that Wu Li Yu has come to Andong to stir up the situation, and the situation is favorable to Datang, it is basically impossible for Xue Rengui to be sent to the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion to lead the army next year. For Xue Rengui, my arrival is still a good thing for him, and he will not lose his prestige in front of Silla after the fiasco of Dafeichuan like in his previous life. ’