Chapter 175: Capturing Erwei Khan
For the thousands of turk warriors, the northern gate of the city was too small, and everyone wished that they could grow a pair of wings to fly out of the city and escape, but this could only be a moment in the moment of crisis, and when they woke up in the cruel reality, they sadly found that even such a wide city gate still did not have a passage for them to pass through.
The crowd of routs behind them crowded towards the city gate in waves, and many rout soldiers in the city gate cave were squeezed here and couldn't move, which was the result of crowding each other and grabbing the road, under the feet of the routs, there were countless soldiers who were pushed down and trampled to death and injured.
"Get out of the front, get out, don't block the gates, bastard!"
The turks who were so anxious that they couldn't help but curse, and some people turned around and scolded: "It's blocked, don't we want to go out?" ”
As soon as the last fleeing rout soldiers saw the situation in front of them, they were anxious on the spot, and they couldn't care about anything, and they waved their knives to kill the people blocking in front, and the scene suddenly became even more chaotic, and a mutual killing was staged again at the city gate.
The sound of shouting and killing, screaming, and crying was endless, and with the neat pace of the Tang army behind them, the routed soldiers at the city gate slashed each other more fiercely and faster, and now everyone's only thought was to kill a bloody way to escape from the city gate, and escape into the darkness to survive.
Erwei Khan and his guards were also blocked at the city gates, and with the pursuers approaching behind him, Erwei Khan had to order the guards to fight a way to escape.
Finally, the city gate was loosened, like a flood that burst the embankment, and soon poured out of the city, seeing that the city gate was no longer congested, and the routs behind were no longer fighting each other, but abandoned their armor and fled into the darkness outside the city, they only knew that anything on their bodies at this time was a burden, which would slow down their escape.
Zhao Ziliang, Gao Xianzhi and King Asirotan led their troops to chase and kill five miles outside the city before stopping. There are more people killed along the way than in the city, and most of these escaped turks have discarded their weapons and protective gear, which makes it more convenient for the pursuers to cut and kill, and after the weapons and protective gear that were thought to be cumbersome were discarded, the defeated soldiers had no combat effectiveness at all, and the Tang army chased and killed these defeated soldiers as easily as slaughtering pigs and killing dogs.
"Law-" Zhao Ziliang reined in the reins, and the war horse Wuli immediately stopped, and Gao Xianzhi and Ah Silan, who were running nearby, also stopped their horses.
"Two, our mission has been completed, and the rest is General Fumeng's business!" Zhao Ziliang said.
King Asilan nodded and said, "Not bad." Isn't it time for us to go back to the city to capture the prisoners, collect the loot, and count the wounded? ”
Zhao Ziliang said to Gao Xianzhi: "General Gao, Zhao got a message when he attacked the military camp near the West City Gate, Sulu Khan's Kedun and Jiaohe Princess Ashina are in the city of Yujian thirty miles west at the moment, taking advantage of the fact that the soldiers have not run far now, Zhao wants to lead people to take it before the news of the fall of Hengros City leaks to Yujian City, time is pressing, Zhao has no time to report and ask General Fumeng for instructions, if General Fumeng asks, and bother General Gao and King Asiran to say to General Fumeng!" ”
Gao Xianzhi was surprised: "Isn't Princess Jiaohe in Broken Leaf City?" How to build a city in Troll? ”
"Between the decisive battle between the fire spitting fairy and our army, he sent Modo to lead five thousand men and horses to the city of Hengross. And the princess of Jiaohe also brought it along! Zhao Ziliang said.
"I see, General Zhao, don't worry, Gao will definitely report this matter to General Fumeng! I wish General Zhao a smooth victory in taking the city of Lujian," Gao Xianzhi said.
"Farewell!" Zhao Ziliang arched his hand to the two of them, and waved to Li Siye, Wei Meng, Chu Ge and Wang Can and others behind him: "All the soldiers." Follow General Ben to raid the city! Departure"
"No!" Li Siye and others agreed with a bang.
In this battle, the 1,000 men and horses led by Zhao Ziliang lost more than 100 people, and there were more than 800 people left, which was the advantage of raiding the city at night. As long as the command is proper and the control is good, not only can you kill and injure a large number of enemy troops in the chaos. It also allows you to minimize your losses.
In fact, the reason why Zhao Ziliang chose to take people to raid the city of Lujian now, on the one hand, was that it was much easier to take the city of Lujian when the morale of the soldiers was at its peak, and on the other hand, it was also for the Kedun of Sulu Khan, that is, the Ashina clan, anyway, she was also the princess of Jiaohe canonized by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. There is another reason, that is, Zhao Ziliang does not want his soldiers to stay and see the scene of the Tang army not sealing the sword for three days in Hengros City, as long as he does not stay, he and his soldiers will look out of place with the other Tang army, so as to avoid embarrassment, so as not to hinder the affairs of others.
Soon after Zhao Ziliang led his army away, Erwei Khan was worried that he would be ambushed by the Tang army if he fled directly to the west, after all, there was a Tang army entering the city from the west gate, who could guarantee that there would be no Tang army in the west? Therefore, to be on the safe side, he fled with more than a thousand defeated troops, preparing to flee first into the desert and then to the west, and then to find a safe haven for the other tribes of the Crossbow.
Khorvi Khan never expected that Fumeng Lingcha had already calculated that he would flee north with the remnants of the defeated army, so he set up an ambush in the grove on the edge of the desert in the north, and if Erwei Khan wanted to escape into the desert, this grove was a must.
When Erwei Khan arrived at the grove with more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated army, ten thousand arrows suddenly fired in the grove, and Erwei Khan, who was at the forefront of the rout, was shot on the spot, and his mount was also shot to the ground, and the other rout soldiers were shot into a wolf howl, and the rout soldiers were shot down in pieces.
The rout soldiers couldn't react at all, and they were fired five or six arrows in a row by the Tang army, after these arrows were missed, the rout soldiers who could still stand were less than forty percent, and under the order and leadership of Fumeng Lingcha, the Tang army in ambush in the grove quickly rushed out and fought with less than forty percent of the turk cavalry routs.
The routs who were originally like frightened birds were ambushed again, a few arrows were shot down, and the loss was more than sixty percent, where is there still combat effectiveness at all, after the Tang army rushed out of the woods, the remaining turks scattered again, the Tang army chased all the way, and few could escape.
The wounded Erwei Khan was captured, unlike his brother Charizovian Khan, who had to surrender in a desperate situation, but Erwei Khan's surrender was unbearable, he was shot with an arrow in the chest, he was seriously injured, and his horse fell down again, and he couldn't escape if he wanted to.
After more than an hour of pursuit, Fumeng Lingcha returned with his army, collected the prisoners, counted the spoils of war and rescued the wounded, and when he arrived at the north gate of Hengros City with his men and horses, Gao Xianzhi and Asirand Dagan had already taken care of the affairs of the city and came to the north gate again to greet them.
The two bowed down to Fu Meng Lingcha and said loudly: "Congratulations to the general for successfully ambushing Erwei and capturing him alive!" ”
Fu Meng Lingcha happily dismounted and helped the two of them up and said with a smile: "You have also done a good job, not only did you break into the city so easily, but also killed the enemy army to the point of urine, otherwise General Ben would not have captured Erwei so easily." Hey, what about Zhao Ziliang? ”
Gao Xianzhi and Ah Xilan glanced at each other, and before the two had time to speak, Kang Huaishun shouted: "This Zhao Ziliang is too unruly, the general is coming, he doesn't know how to come out to greet him, what else is bigger than the arrival of the general?" General, this Zhao Ziliang is really too disrespectful, he is a supreme official, and he is at a loss to the general who does not hesitate to promote him, this kid is not grateful at all! ”
Wang Tao, the official of the line, pulled his sleeve beside Kang Huaishun and persuaded: "What the hell is going on, I still don't know, General Kang can't talk nonsense!" ”
Kang Huaishun turned his head to look at Wang Tao, and said dissatisfiedly: "What, is it true that someone in my Kang is wrong?" ”
At this time, Gao Xianzhi had a chance to say: "General, General Zhao has already led his troops to raid the city of Lujian!" Due to the urgency of time, General Zhao did not have time to report to the general, so he asked the two of us to report to the general."
How do you know that Kang Huaishun shouted: "What? He led his troops to raid the city of Lujian? Do you think I don't know where the city is and what the situation is? The city was thirty miles to the west, and there were no walls at all, so it could be brought down without much effort, so didn't he even have time to report to the general? He clearly didn't take the general in his eyes, and made it clear that he wanted to cut first and then play, hum, it's really unreasonable! ”
Gao Xianzhi hurriedly explained: "General, General Zhao got the news that the Kedun of Sulu Khan, that is, the Princess Jiaohe who His Majesty the Emperor canonized back then, is in the city of Jiaohe at the moment, but there are a thousand soldiers and horses there, and now the army is scattered, if the news of Hengros City leaks to the city of Jiaojiang, the turks of the city will definitely take the princess of Jiaohe away, and it will not be easy for us to welcome back the princess of Jiaohe at that time, so General Zhao has no way, if we let outsiders know that we know that Princess Jiaohe is in Jiancheng, but we have not welcomed him back, There will definitely be people in the DPRK who are not afraid of big things to chew on the root of their tongues, and then the general will be to blame, and General Zhao is doing this completely for the general! ”
Fumeng Lingcha couldn't help but be afraid for a while when he heard this, he was not afraid of fighting on the battlefield, but he couldn't stop someone from making trouble for him in the court, and he slandered in front of the emperor, he immediately said: "Well, Ziliang has done a good job, this matter really can't be delayed!" General Ben will not enter the city, and will camp directly outside the north gate! ”
"No!" Kang Huaishun saw that his husband Meng Ling had set the tone, and he didn't say anything bad about Zhao Ziliang anymore, and immediately arranged for people to camp outside the north city gate.
Because Fu Meng Lingcha had promised that as long as the city of Hengros was captured, the soldiers would be allowed to move freely in the city for three days, and the military discipline and military regulations would all be invalid within these three days, so most of the soldiers poured into the city and began to loot on a large scale.
For a time, Hengros City emitted a sky-high fire in the night, and the soldiers of the Tang Army who lost control burned and robbed, raped and plundered in the city, and screams and cries were heard everywhere in the city. (To be continued.) )