Chapter 388: I'll Take You Home
Mountains are high peaks.
From a distance, the bottom of the blue-gray is a little bare in the middle, and the top is a white expanse.
This kind of beautiful scenery can not be seen in Datang, and many people, most people, it is difficult to see such a scene in their lifetime.
Snow Mountain, that's what I'm talking about.
It's a pity that along the way, the soldiers didn't have the heart to see these beautiful scenery, beautiful snow-capped mountains, winding roads, canyons, and all kinds of scenery.
The view is good, but the timing is not right.
Soldiers, professional soldiers.
The most adaptable person in the world, there is no one.
Two years of special training in Yazhou and two months in Tibet, such a long time, they have long been accustomed to the climate here, although sometimes they still feel very uncomfortable, but there are still no major problems in combat.
Ten days later, they returned to their homeland, to the position they had taken and abandoned not long ago.
The fortifications above are still there, not the slightest mess, it seems that no one cares about these at all, even Li Jing and the others didn't take a second look, but just sent some scouts to take a look, and after finding that there were no enemy troops, they asked the soldiers to go up and replenish the water.
A few days before the pursuit, Li Jing deliberately suppressed the speed of the pursuit.
Killing the enemy is important, but the soldiers' bodies are even more important, although they have also gone through a long period of rest when they were defending their positions before.
But when you break through, you go hungry, which consumes a lot of your body.
Therefore, in the first few days, it was basically guaranteed that the soldiers had at least five hours of sleep every day, which was enough.
Later, the time of sleep was changed, and the pursuit stopped after sunset, and everything was prepared before sunrise, and when the sky was slightly bright, the pursuit was carried out with all its might.
At this point, the baggage team behind has been thrown away for nearly a hundred miles.
Of course, Li Jing, who had learned the previous lesson, left the main force of 5,000 people to escort the grain, and the main force also carried half a month's worth of food, plus there was a transport team of 20,000 people behind, so it was almost impossible to encounter the same situation as before.
And this time, Li Jing made up his mind that he would not return the situation if he did not destroy Tibet.
'......'
The hand rose and fell, and the heavy horizontal knife, with the help of its own strength, with the help of the galloping power of the war horse, easily cut through the armor on the person opposite, and with it, it was a huge long wound, and the blood flowed sideways in an instant, making a crisp sound.
The so-called armor is made of some animal skins.
Tubo is very poor, so poor that it is unimaginable, and the Tang Army wearing Mingguang armor, everyone can make the other party envious to death.
Often killing a Tang army, countless Tubo people will rush up, not whipping the corpse, but stripping off the armor on his body.
Solving the enemy in front of him, Li Si continued to wave the horizontal knife in his hand expressionlessly, and with a fierce force under his crotch, the war horse could only continue to run forward with all his strength under the pain.
The main combat mode of the Tang army was to ride a horse quickly, quickly maneuver to a favorable position, and then dismount and engage in foot combat.
Although there is an improved version of the saddle and stirrups, there are still many problems, training a cavalryman, not only to be able to sit on a war horse, but also to include a series of complex problems such as the posture during battle, how to exert maximum strength under the premise of ensuring their own safety, how to dodge without falling off the horse, and so on.
All in all, it takes at least a year to train a qualified cavalryman, and at least two years to train a cavalryman who can calmly go to the battlefield and have high hopes.
And in these two years, there is no need to count on them to engage in foot combat.
Li Jing's Yazhou army is still mainly based on traditional foot combat, because he has no time to engage in those, although it takes a certain amount of time for cavalry to turn into infantry, and it may delay the fighters, but if the fighters are delayed, they will not let the soldiers die.
But this does not mean that Li Jing's Yazhou army does not have the ability to fight on horseback, although it is not as good as the orthodox cavalry, but in this special environment, the odds of victory are still greater than that of the other party.
With the advance of the army, the previous situation of being in a no-man's land is gone, and the news of casualties and ambushes continues to come.
The scouts sent out by Li Jing suffered heavy casualties, not because the scouts were careless, nor because their skills were inferior, but because they were calculated by heart and unintentionally, no matter how vigilant they were, there was always a time when they were hit.
"Boss, do you want to chase or not?" Crazy slaughter, on the armor, on the face, there was red blood everywhere, the tip of the knife was pointing down, and the blood was dripping along the blade, Li Si licked the blood left by the enemy on the side of his mouth, and looked back at his team.
"Don't chase it, take the brothers back!" The team shook his head, although in his heart, he really wanted to catch up, but he didn't have many people, only such a team of people, if he caught up, what if the other party was ambushed?
Li Si nodded, did not hesitate, did not question, and did not ask the reason, silently looked around, looking for his comrades-in-arms, and then took them back.
The captain died, the captain was injured, and he was promoted to the captain because of his exploits, although it was only temporary, he had just served as the captain for less than half an hour, and he had less than a cup of tea as the captain, but if nothing else, when the captain came back, he would definitely be promoted to the captain.
Li Si is not the kind of person who likes to get to the bottom of things, and his three-year military career has also made Li Si understand a truth.
The core point of the grassroots is to do more and say less, this temporary promotion, in fact, is also an opportunity, if you can't be promoted, at the end of the year, I am afraid that I will have to go home.
The Tibetans are frequently here, they are very intelligent, and the large army is not visible at all, but they are everywhere.
Many scouts have suffered here, because of the particularity of scouts, so the scale of their activities, most of them are one person, or two people, no more than three people, after all, it is easy to be found when there are more people.
But such a lone wolf has become the target of revenge and hatred of those Tubo people.
As if they had learned how to use their brains overnight, the Tubo people first let the scouts go over, and then came out and surrounded the scouts for strangulation, and the Tubo people, at least twenty or thirty people acted together, no matter how elite the scouts were, it was impossible to stop the encirclement and suppression of the next twenty or thirty people, or in the case of being surrounded.
So, the scout is still a scout, but not far behind him, with a team of people to protect, as long as it can support for a while, reinforcements will arrive.
Li Si was one of the teams responsible for protecting the scouts, and this group of about 30 Tubo people did not notice their team and surrounded the scouts in front.
Fortunately, the luck was good, and after killing two people, he was only slightly injured, and then the reinforcements rushed over, and then, the Tubo people of more than 30 people, in the face of the Tang army of more than 50 people, were naturally not opponents.
A charge killed more than ten people, but the cunning Tubo people actually left a back hand, just when Li Si and they rushed in, nearly two hundred Tubo people came out of the shadows, so there was such a small encounter between the two sides.
The final result was that the Tibetans were defeated, leaving behind more than 60 corpses, and the rest fled in a hurry, without any intention of fighting.
As for the Tang army, eight were wounded, six were lightly wounded, two were seriously wounded, and three died.
The lightly injured ones did not affect their combat effectiveness, and they could continue to go to the battlefield after bandaging them, while the seriously injured ones had to go back to rest, so this battle directly caused their team to lose five combat effectiveness, which had little impact, but it was not small.
Although more than 60 people were killed and more than 200 people were besieged, no one could be happy at this time.
According to the position in his memory, Li Si rode a war horse and ran there quickly, looking at the corpse on the ground with a very unnatural posture, looking at the familiar face, full of blood, and still open eyes.
Rao is Li Si, who is used to seeing dead people, and at this time, he can't help but be touched by this scene.
Because it was his old man who was lying on the ground, and from the day he entered the barracks, it was the old man who was taking care of himself.
A line of tears couldn't stop sliding down, and the horizontal knife in his hand didn't know when it slipped down, and when it collided with the ground, when it made a sound, Li Si realized that it was the knife that fell.
Turned over, dismounted, the ground was a little uneven, Li Si accidentally fell, but fortunately he didn't twist.
But Li Si didn't care about it, just stood up, and didn't even take pictures of the dust on his body, the steps under his feet seemed to be a little heavy, but he still stepped forward step by step.
The wound was still bleeding outward, but it wasn't much left, and the wound was dark red.
Li Si sniffed, wiped his tears with his blood-soaked hands, and planned to remove the bandages on his body, but hesitated, and finally did not take them off.
After pulling it twice, he took out a bag from the corpse, and then put it on his body, and kept muttering: "Old man, you don't need this thing anymore, Xiao Si will put it away for you, this ghost place is in short supply, it's better to keep it for others, but don't worry, Xiao Si won't just watch you go away in embarrassment......"
Tearing off a piece of cloth from his body, he didn't care whether he looked good or not after tearing it off, just like taking care of the wounded, he directly used this cloth to bandage the wound of the old guy, the bandaging was very rough, and it couldn't stop the bleeding at all, but the old guy who had been dead for a while, there was no blood flowing out of his body.
"Well, although it looks ugly, let's just take a look." looked at his work, a little dissatisfied, said self-deprecatingly, closed the old man's eyes, and then took out a handkerchief, poured some water out: "Come, wipe your face, after wiping this face, I'll take you home......"