Seeing that the Tang army was tightly arrayed, neatly lined up, and enveloped in a murderous atmosphere, and occupied the high ground, the strong attack was really uncertain, and he wanted to retreat but was unwilling, and he was also worried that the Tang army would cover up from behind, but he soon found that the right flank of the Tang army, the Later Turkic army, was in disarray, and after he discovered this, he immediately realized that opening a gap from the Later Turkic army was the only option and the best choice, and the Bashimi army did not pause at all under his leadership, Directly to the right flank of the Tang Army, the rear Turkic army was killed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing this situation, Zhao Ziliang knew that the trouble was not small, and he didn't know if the 3,000 people and horses of the Later Turks could stop it, so he immediately ordered: "The Chinese army does not move, and the rear Turkic army on the right flank tries its best to resist, and orders the 3,000 Tang troops on the left flank to attack quickly, and slash into the middle of the charging Ba Ximi army, divide them into two, divide and annihilate them!" Order the rear of the Chinese army to move a hundred steps to the right, and then move forward, blocking between the Shuaitai and the rear Turkic army formation! ”

"Obey!" The herald immediately issued an order, the flag was waved, the drums were rumbled, and the three thousand Tang cavalry on the left flank heard the drums and saw the flag dancing, and after receiving the order from the flag, they immediately plunged diagonally into the middle of Ba Simi's army under the leadership of Brehan, and the rear of the infantry also began to move to the right flank, and then moved forward after a certain distance.

Facts have proved that before the formation is completely opened, the soldiers are not fully prepared physically and psychologically, it is difficult to block the enemy's surprise attack, this time the 6,000 men and horses used by Ishkhan are all elite cavalry of Ba Simi, although the military discipline is not very good, and do not pay attention to the neatness and practice of the military formation, but these 6,000 Ba Simi cavalry are all extraordinary, brave and good at fighting, when they rushed to the front of the chaotic army formation of the Later Turks, the front of the Later Turkic army was about to collapse, Ishkhan and his cavalry quickly entered the middle of the post-Turkic army.

Although the Khan of Ish-Khan had little theoretical knowledge in military affairs, he was also rich in fine salt in battle, and knew that only by breaking down the Shuaitai protected by the Tang Army's central army could he defeat the Tang Army's rice, so he immediately took the lead after entering the Later Turkic Army formation and plunged into the Tang Army's Shuaitai.

At this time, Brehan had also taken three thousand elite Tang cavalry from the diagonal opposite side, and cut off the six thousand elite cavalry of Ishhan Khan, making him weak, the impact weakened, and the speed slowed down.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the rear of the Ba Simi cavalry saw that Brehan led the army to outflank them in the absence of the command of the general, and wanted to encircle them.

Ish-Khan Khan rushed left and right, covered in blood, and finally came out of the Later Turkic army, but at this time there were less than 2,000 elite horsemen behind him, and the others were basically surrounded by the cavalry, infantry and post-Turkic armies of the Tang Army.

When Ishkhan returned to the camp in embarrassment, he found that only half of the 6,000 cavalry he had brought with him had returned, and he was so anxious that he almost didn't come up in one breath.

By this time, Ba Simi had lost 5,000 men and horses, compared with the Tang and Turk coalition forces, even in terms of troops, it was no longer much advantageous, after two consecutive small defeats, the morale of the Ba Simi army was very low, and the Tang army's losses were very small, but the post-Turkic army suffered a lot of losses after this raid by Ba Simi, and the attrition reached more than one-third.

After returning to the camp, Ishikhan immediately convened his commanders and commanders to discuss matters, and after two consecutive defeats, he was very frightened of the Tang army and Zhao Ziliang, and he decided to leave behind the old and weak women and children of the tribe and livestock, and led his troops to retreat to the north with light equipment to preserve the vitality, but this decision was strongly opposed by the shaman and several commanders.

I saw the shaman in the Bashimi tribe saying: "Khan, this matter must not be done, if we retreat, the old and weak women and children abandoned by us will be finished!" ”

Ish-Khan said: "Don't worry, the Tang people regard themselves as benevolent and righteous, and they will not be unfavorable to those old and weak women and children!" ”

The shaman immediately retorted: "Other Tang generals may not embarrass those old and weak women and children, but this surnamed Zhao is a butcher and a demon!" Has the Khan forgotten how he treated the old and weak women and children of the Xi and Khitans? Kill them all, and leave no one behind! ”

Ish-Khan: "This".

Seeing that Ishhan Khan was speechless, the shaman continued: "Even if we can escape from the pursuit of the Tang army, the old and weak women and children who remain are afraid that they will not be saved, even if they will not embarrass those old and weak women and children, does the Khan still think that the Tang army will return their livestock to us?" And without our people and livestock, we can't stand on this prairie at all, and now that winter is about to begin, what do we eat and drink? Without women, how can we reproduce? We will die one less and one less, and besides, to the north are the Uighurs, and Guli Peiluo is a wolf, if we retreat to his territory, can the Khan guarantee that he will not embarrass us? ”

When the shaman said this, Ishhan was so anxious that he said angrily, "Then what do you say?" If we don't retreat, with our current strength and morale, we are afraid that we will not be able to stop the attack of the Tang army! ”

Shaman comforted and appeased: "The Khan will never mess up at this time, the Tang army seems to be strong, but there are not many of them, one less to die, Zhao Ziliang wants to swallow us all, he doesn't have such a good mouth, he will definitely not fight with us, now he needs to wait, waiting for the opportunity to annihilate us, as long as we show flaws, he will pounce on us like a wolf, but as long as we are careful and do not show flaws, he can't do anything about us, the Han people have a saying called 'kill 10,000 enemies, Eight thousand self-inflicted losses', this kind of thing doesn't take much advantage at all, Zhao Ziliang won't do this, and we also need to wait, wait for the armies from other places to come and join us, our strength will grow, and wait for the envoys sent by the Khan to persuade the Hui and the Eastern Qarluqs to come and join us to defeat the Tang army! ”

Hearing these words, Ish-Khan was a little relieved, but still worried, and asked, "What if the converging people and the Qarluqs don't come?" ”

"Even if they don't come, as long as our troops from other places come, we don't need to be afraid of the Tang army, and the Tang army will naturally retreat at that time!"

After the shaman's persuasion and persuasion, Ishhan decided to confront the Tang army in the same place after thinking about it, not fighting easily, restoring morale on the one hand, and waiting for reinforcements on the other.

For more than ten days, the Tang army and Ba Ximi confronted each other, the two sides often exchanged fire, but the scale was not large, the losses were not large, the Tang Turk coalition army still had more than 8,000 soldiers, and Ba Ximi still had more than 11,000, and the gap in strength was getting smaller and smaller.

However, this is not a good thing for Tang Jun and Zhao Ziliang, because Zhao Ziliang's plan is to let Guli Peiluo and Wuli be the main offensive force and raid from behind, but more than ten days have passed, and the Hui and Qarlu people still have not moved.

"These two guys aren't going to be untrustworthy, are they? It can't be, they can't be unmoved by such a big bait, and they're not stupid, can't they see that they will suffer the catastrophe of destruction after Basami digests the Turkic legacy? That night, Zhao Ziliang walked around the big tent with his arms crossed, thinking about it, as time dragged on, his heart became more and more anxious, but he couldn't show it on his face, so as not to affect the stability of the army's heart.

At this moment, a fast horse galloped to the front of the tent, and a knight turned over and dismounted and ran into the tent and bowed: "Report - there are a large number of shouts and killings in the northwest and north of the Basimi camp, and it seems that two groups of men and horses have rushed into the Basimi camp, and the Basimi people in the camp are in chaos, and the flames are rising everywhere!" ”

Zhao Zi's conscience was overjoyed, could it be that Guli Peiluo and Wuli led the army to raid the camp of the Ba Ximi people? In addition, there didn't seem to be any big forces around him who had this ability, so he immediately ordered: "Come here, order the whole army to assemble urgently!" ”

"Obey!"

Zhao Ziliang decided to lead his troops to fight with Guli Pei Luo and Wuli in the front and back to fight Ba Ximi, and he was not worried that this was a trick trap laid by Jie Chuan Yi Khan, because it was only twenty miles from here to Ba Ximi's camp, and the middle was very empty, and the wild grass was eaten clean by the war horses and livestock of both sides, and there was no place to set up an ambush along the way. However, for his sake, it was decided to leave the infantry behind to protect the grain, grass and livestock.

When the later Turks gathered, the Tang army had all been assembled, and only a small number of them yawned and walked out of the tent to look for horses, how could such a gathering speed keep up with the pace of the Tang army? Zhao Ziliang immediately abandoned the Hou Turks, left the infantry to defend the camp, and quickly rushed to the camp with all the cavalry.

Just halfway through, Zhao Ziliang, who was galloping in front of the horse, found that the front was chaotic and running a large group of cavalry, because he couldn't see clearly at night, Zhao Ziliang was worried that the front was coming to the Hui and the Qarluq, so he took out the golden nail jujube yang lance and shouted: "Zhao Ziliang, the commander of the Tang Army, again, what is the fast stop ahead!" Otherwise, you won't be killed! ”

The rebel army in front heard Zhao Ziliang's voice, and someone shouted in Tiele language: "Oh, it's the Tang army that has killed you, run away!" ”

Zhao Ziliang happened to have Tie Le Hu by his side, Ba Ximi is one of Tie Le's nine surnames, and he also speaks Tie Le, this Hu Cong immediately said to Zhao Ziliang after hearing it clearly: "General, the front is Ba Xi Mi Rebellion Army!" ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately pointed forward with the golden nail jujube yang lance: "Soldiers, the people of Ba Ximi are enemies, kill them with me!" (To be continued.) )