Chapter XXII: After the War
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The noise gradually subsided after more than an hour, which also indicated that the war, which threatened the safety of Chang'an, had entered the next stage with Li Tang's temporary victory. This is mainly because after being attacked by Jieli decisively retreated the whole army, which greatly reduced the effect of follow-up pursuit, and the army was forced to retreat after chasing less than five miles, and the real confrontation in the whole battle was just more than an hour, and when the Turkic cavalry began to rout and flee, Jieli began to collect the deserters in the rear. For more than an hour, the army guarded the young men and women to clean up the battlefield.
Most of the displaced people who were forced to come by the Turks gathered in the city of Gyeongju, and Li Xiucai selected 5,000 strong men among the tens of thousands of men and more than 10,000 people who came with the elite soldiers of Tiance Mansion. At that time, Li Xiu's idea to Li Shimin was that all people over the age of 15 and under the age of 60 should go out of the city. Cleaning the battlefield and cutting off the heads of the Turks as quickly as possible, this is pulling out all the men and women in the city, and there are only some sick and real old and young women and children left, which is also due to the excess persecution of the Turks, and the people of the north know that it is difficult to save the lives of the Turks if they do not retreat, and who in these years and months does not kill their fathers, brothers, husbands, brothers, sons, and even grandchildren with the Turks, otherwise with Li Tang's reputation in the north, he may not be able to mobilize the whole city in one day.
This is also for fear that Jieli will gather 10,000 cavalry to charge the battle, and there are many people outside the city, at least to scare the newly defeated Turks. It is also possible to leave all the soldiers vacant to face the enemies that may appear. What Li Xiu didn't know was that Jieli almost came to defeat this night, and the Turks fought a lot under the instigation of the former Sui, and the steppe wolves have always been a character who dares to fight hard as long as the enemy is too strong. (That is to say, if you don't beat him to his knees and call his father, he will dare to continue to carry the knife with you and continue to shine the knife.) ļ¼
And what made Jieli give up this action was the little Khan of Tuli who had just betrayed Jieli, and this old boy immediately made a big profit after getting the first-hand information. Took away a lot of cattle, horses and sheep, and at this time, Tuli did not immediately withdraw from the battlefield completely, but retreated twenty miles and simply stationed down, wanting to see if there was any advantage to take advantage of. This also made Jieli decisively send some elite cavalry out to spy on his nephew.
Although in the ancient cold weapon battle, the most effective pursuit of the enemy's vital force did not appear, but it was worthy of this sneak attack.
In this battle, the Tang Army sent 10,000 elite infantry from Tiance Mansion, 8,000 elite soldiers from the Women's Army, 2,000 elite cavalry, 3,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry, and 5,000 elite infantry and more than 1,000 cavalry each led by Duan Youde and Wei Chigong in the first sneak attack. Finally, there is the 5,500 spear phalanx of Li Xiu's cottage, and the 20,000 young men who went out of the city to help clean up the battlefield, and 35,000 women.
The Turks, on the other hand, had 30,000 elite cavalry of about 20,000 cavalry led by Tuli himself, 30,000 tribal cavalry from various tribes, 20,000 beggar soldiers from the small eastern tribes brought by Tuli, and more than 30,000 slaves of various tribes who were gathered together to be responsible for grazing on the battlefield.
(Note: The steppe tribes will bring some live cattle and sheep to the battlefield, and war horses also need to be taken care of, and bringing some slaves or criminals to deal with some chores and serve as cannon fodder is something that every ancient military operation will have.) ļ¼
In this battle, the Turks lost more than 6,000 cavalry from all parts of the city, more than 5,000 beggars from the east, plus more than 10,000 slaves. In the siege of the city in the past few days, although the women's army occupied the advantage of defending the city, it also lost about 3,000 people, plus more than 2,000 local government soldiers who assisted in the defense. In yesterday's ferocious attack, even King Qin's Heavenly Ce elite lost hundreds of people.
In the sneak attack in the dark night, the two armies led by Duan Youde and Wei Chigong lost more than 2,500 foot soldiers and more than 400 cavalry. This was mainly a slight wave when Jieli retreated backwards to gather his army, if it weren't for Jieli's concern for those scattered armies, and Tuli's actions with the possibility of their armies being scattered.
The Xuanjia cavalry that launched a desperate charge also suffered heavy losses, with the loss of nearly 2,000 horses, about 500 soldiers killed in direct battle, and more than 200 people who were seriously injured and could not fight again, (in the cold weapon cavalry battle, the seriously injured and fallen horse is not able to lie on the ground and wait for rescue, so it is normal for the wounded soldiers to be less than the battle dead) More than half of the remaining people have mild to moderate injuries, and those with only a little bruises and bruises on their bodies are embarrassed to say that they are wounded. Such heavy casualties mainly stem from the first chiseling battle, which is the Xuanjia Cavalry, the king's guard, which has fought old hard battles, ruthless battles, and vicious battles, and ordinary elite iron cavalry is enough to break up.
In addition, the elite soldiers of Tiance Mansion lost nearly 2,000 people, and the elite of the Women's Army also had more than 1,500 casualties, which was also thanks to the fact that Tuli seized the opportunity to sneak attack the stable and took away nearly 20,000 war horses, turning the elite Turkic cavalry into a small sample of infantry, otherwise the Turks who rode on horses in the case of a surprise attack in the night battle could still be one enemy and two enemies, otherwise this big night would be a typical example of being slapped in the face and not being reversed.
Compared with this, the loss of hundreds of people in the spear phalanx and the killing and wounding of more than 100 people who went out of the city to help the war were not worth mentioning. However, even with such heavy losses, the results in exchange for them are incomparably fruitful.
In this battle, more than 10,000 elite soldiers were defeated, and more than 20,000 cavalry soldiers who went out of the city stared at his little family and fought to the death. The grassland tribe coalition lost more than 5,000 people, and after the subsequent escape was discovered, more than 1,000 people who asked for surrender were killed, and the rest of the scattered ran directly back to the grassland, and most of them were regrouped by Jieli.
The 20,000 slave soldiers were mostly Han or the descendants of Han slaves who were plundered by the grassland, and seven or eight thousand people surrendered and were guarded. The rescue of more than 10,000 Han women, children and children captured by the Turks mainly came from the invasion led by Jieli. Tens of thousands of sheep and cattle were seized, and most importantly, thousands of war horses and more than 10,000 wounded horses and camels were obtained.
The big head of the horse let Tuli take it away, but this is also the main reason why he can contain the auspicious, the herdsmen in the east of the poor mountains and bad waters are not easy to get along, in the past, it was Jieli who had absolute force, and could oppress them, these poor people who were not well fed and clothed, but now they want horses and horses to have sheep and sheep, at this time Tuli's prestige is high, and Jieli dares to come and rob them hard. Don't doubt the desperate determination of the people who want to starve to death, Qiang Qin began his journey of collapse under the attack of a group of peasants who wanted a full bite to eat. What's more, it is a grassland hungry wolf who often fights to death for a piece of grassland and a water source.