Chapter 172: Each has a ghost
In the distant sky, a large black shadow is rapidly approaching, and the trembling of the earth is faintly hidden in the battle of more than 100,000 cavalry.
Fifty thousand cavalry were running forward frantically, their faces showing endless exhaustion, they had forgotten how long they had been running?
I just felt that my stomach seemed to be turning out, and the long march made it a little difficult for the war horses to hold on, but they still had to continue to grit their teeth and persevere.
Looking at the battlefield that could not be seen at a glance, the army slowly stopped, and everyone did not expect such a result, how did the Turks fight with the Turks? Why are the Turks less powerful than the Don Army? Why?
"Brother! Something doesn't seem to be good! Liang Luoren frowned, and said with a secret worry in his heart.
"If it's not good, you have to fight, Jieli can't be defeated!" Liang Shidu looked at the battlefield in front of him viciously, and he had already scolded the Turks hundreds of times in his heart.
"It's hard to protect ourselves now, so what is the effect of our people putting in it? Do you want to put all the brothers in it? Liang Luoren's face was full of remorse, unhappy, and a little angry: "Brother, let's surrender, surrender to the Tang Dynasty, we can still return to Shuozhou." ”
"Surrender? Li Mi surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Mo surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, what was the ending? Liang Shidu looked at his cousin with some hatred, if it weren't for the current war, to stabilize the army's heart, Liang Shidu wanted to beat him directly.
"What our two brothers have done is enough for Li Shimin to cut off our heads a hundred times, do you really think he will let us go easily? Shuozhou is gone, and we have no way out! ”
Liang Luoren secretly hated Liang Shidu's back, and a thought came to him spontaneously, but he quickly dispelled this thought, now is not the time, and there is no chance.
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"I can't hold it!" A turri soldier slashed down an enemy soldier before being slashed to the ground by another one.
"Hold on! Resist! Tuli was covered in blood and shouted at the soldiers around him, this was already the first enemy he didn't know how many enemy troops he had cut down, so many that he couldn't even count himself.
His soldiers fought one after another and suffered heavy losses, but the results were also very fruitful.
Tuli, who has completely decided to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, doesn't care as much about his soldiers as he used to, and now he only cares about military exploits, as for these brothers, how many of them can survive has nothing to do with him.
Anyway, it is impossible to bring them to Chang'an, their fate, at most, is the Tang Dynasty's border army, except that they don't have to worry about running out of food in winter, they will freeze to death, starve to death, and they don't have to go south to grab things, everything else seems to have nothing to do with them.
"I can't bear it, I really can't bear it......"
One after another, the soldiers were cut to the ground, and the internal and external attacks made the Turks very uncomfortable, and the Tang army was busy clearing the enemy troops in front, and they were not in the mood to pay attention to the flanks at all.
With the urgent reports again and again, the Tuli Department was finally attacked by the Jieli Department and Liang Shidu, opening a huge gap.
In an instant, the Jieli Department that was encircled in the encirclement was like a chicken blood, the original situation of people and horses, the current situation of the people and horses, instantly recovered, a large number of Jieli soldiers escaped from the encirclement through the gap, and Liang Shidu led his subordinates to support and resist the counterattack of the Tuli Department.
In less than a quarter of an hour, about 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers of the Jieli Department escaped from the encirclement, and the frontal offensive pressure almost disappeared, and the Jieli Department had no sense of resistance at all.
"There is no offensive pressure in this formation, and the right army is ordered to plug the gap, and the rear army fills the gap!" That is, there was no offensive pressure or defensive pressure, and Li Yuanji directly ordered the right army to help the Turks plug the gap.
And seeing that the Tang army finally sent 10,000 infantry to support him, Tuli was also relieved, but looking at the 30,000 or 40,000 Jieli troops who had escaped, his heart was full of worry and unwillingness.
The troops and horses led by Zhang Gongjin are all elite troops, and the troops of Daizhou were originally used to fight back against the Turks, and the training was not bad, and it only took about a quarter of an hour for Zhang Gongjin to completely block the gap on the right.
However, before the gap could be closed, more than 10,000 more soldiers escaped.
The rest of the encirclement are either corpses, or wounded, or resisting, temporarily unable to escape, or unlucky people who have the opportunity to run but are not able to escape in time.
After calculating, there were about 10,000 Jieli soldiers in the encirclement who did not have time to run out, and the wounded were barely about 20,000.
In less than half a day, the battle annihilated about 30,000 troops of the Jieli Division, but counting those who remained, the Jieli Department had lost more than half, and he had lost the opportunity to dominate the grassland.
"Pass on the king's decree, surrender and don't kill ......"
"Your Highness, the Jieli Department has surrendered......"
"Uh...... Let them put down their weapons, let Li Jing lead the army to control the prisoners, recruit Yi Nan, Tuli, and Su Dingfang into the Chinese army to discuss matters. It seemed that in response to his call, as soon as the words fell, the soldiers who did not run away raised their hands and surrendered, which made Li Yuanji's face instantly full of embarrassment.
In this era, there are not many people in the concept of position, especially the grassland, a place where strength is king, even Jieli has run away, and the army has also run, leaving less than 20,000 remnants of the defeated army with combat effectiveness to resist the siege of the 200,000 army, as long as they are not fools, they will choose to surrender at this time.
After half a day of fighting, it finally ended with Jieli escaping, and the battlefield that was still fighting and killing before, suddenly there was no sound of weapons colliding, and the rest was just a continuous wail.
The soldiers of each department were rescuing the wounded of each department, and it seemed that they had long been accustomed to this kind of scene, and everyone knew what to do.
The least casualties, of course, was Li Yuanji's Tang Army, the cavalry unit had almost no losses, the advantage of ultra-long attack distance, so that they were able to put the Jieli Department far behind them to hang, there was a Tuli Department to attack first, after a period of consumption, only to take over the main infantry formation of the battle, under the attack and defense of a large number of shields and spears, the casualties were not large.
With just over 1,000 casualties, Li Yuanji's Chinese army became the biggest winner.
No, the biggest winner should be Li Jing's rear army, from the beginning to the end, almost never on the battlefield, finally had a chance, the battle also entered the end, the entire Tang army suffered less than 3,000 casualties, but annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, without absolute superiority in strength and arms, but at the minimum cost, won more than one-third of the battle.
Snowflakes gradually drifted in the sky, and the sky in March was supposed to be the season of spring flowers and the growth of all things.
As if to mourn the cruelty of this battle, or as if it was for something else.
"Why not pursue? Jieli has lost the ability to fight, and this is the best time to pursue, should he wait until they have recovered before fighting? Yi Nan's dissatisfied voice resounded throughout the Chinese army, and he was very dissatisfied and angry that Li Yuanji did not give the order to pursue.
"It's snowing, and this battle can't be fought!" Li Yuanji glanced at him lightly and didn't give him too much explanation.
Zhang Gongjin snorted, but finally kept silent, Li Yuanji was right, it was snowing, and this battle could not be fought.
Half a day of fighting, the soldiers were exhausted, there was not much food and grass in their hands, the pursuit was not the best choice, and the three armies were fighting together, Yi Nan obviously had a certain purpose, although Li Yuanji's decision was inappropriate, but it was the best solution.
"What's wrong with the snow? If I don't have any food and grass, I can give you some from my tribe, and I can't just let Jieli go, he will come back. Yi Nan still refused to give up the persuasion, and even did not hesitate to take out food and grass from himself to support the other two departments.
"The soldiers are so tired, how can they fight? If you want to chase you, you can go by yourself, don't pull us along. "Tuli is even more dissatisfied with Yi Nan's approach, you were the latest to send troops during the war, if you hadn't jumped out in the end, Lao Tzu really didn't know that there was a reinforcement from you.
Tuli is not a fool, he naturally saw Yi Nan's purpose, he was going to Chang'an to enjoy happiness, and the Tang army was going to retreat in the end, annihilating Jie Li, and then the entire grassland would not be Yi Nan's?
If you want someone to help you fight, why don't you give you some food and grass to solve it? Naive......
"Let's talk about the loot!" Li Yuanji stopped the quarrel between the two in another way, but instead of using a deliberative tone, he directly turned his head to look at Su Dingfang and said: "You go to the Turkic tent immediately, their supplies and population must still be there, take them all, and then escort them back, and this king will lead the army north to pick you up." ”
"No, I have to send 20,000 people to follow, what if Jieli runs back? His 10,000 cavalry wasn't enough. Yi Nan said positively again, saying that he was worried about being attacked, but in fact he was going to grab the loot.
"Ten thousand cavalry from each of the three sides, and a third of the booty and population on each side." Li Yuanji said with a final word.
"I ......" Yi Nan wanted to fight more, but as soon as he saw Li Yuanji's eyes, the whole person instantly withered, and nodded again and again: "I agree!" ”
Even if it is one-third, Yi Nan still earns, and if it is calculated, there must be at least hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, almost half of his own tribe. And Yi Nan's battle can be regarded as a leak, Li Yuanji's eyes also made him dare not be presumptuous, the current relationship is very ingenious, and the spoils of war are best divided, otherwise, the other two are likely to join forces to deal with the other one.
Yi Nan was already at a loss, and he didn't dare to say anything.
"What about the turf? How to divide it? "Don't fight for the spoils, Yi Nan set his sights on the land again, anyway, no matter how it is divided, even if it is still evenly divided, he has made a lot of money, from taking refuge to becoming the master, that is, only one-third, and this wave is not a loss.
"The north of the tooth tent belongs to you, and the south of the tooth tent belongs to the Tang ......"