Chapter 637: The Price
The sun was setting, and there was a solemn darkness between heaven and earth. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Several long, low horns sounded over the city, breaking the solemn silence of the setting sun. With the sound of these horns, the dense Tubo soldiers and horses gathered in the school yard inside the city gate began to pour out from the slowly opening city gate.
The scene of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses gathering together was numb, and the streets of the squares inside and outside the city gate were full of black and oppressive human heads, and the crowded water could not be drained. War horses neighed, people were noisy, and smoke and dust were flying. Even after the pre-scheduling, the scene was still chaotic.
As the vanguard army, Wangmu's 60,000 cavalry was the first to leave the city. Surrounded by the generals, Wangmu galloped out of the city on a tall green horse, and stood on the dark wilderness outside the city gates, his eyes coldly scanning the cavalry that galloped out. More than a dozen Beichuan generals led their horses to gallop back and forth, shouting loudly at the cavalry under their command, arriving at their respective positions and setting up their formations.
An hour later, when it was completely dark, Wangmu's 60,000 cavalry had all left the city and set up a formation in the land of Lixu, east of the city. Ahead, the fires in the Tang Army camp are dotted, and there is the target to be leveled today.
In the rear, the 100,000 soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of Ernaragu were quickly exiting the city through the three city gates. The long line slowly gathered behind him, converging into a sea of black and oppressive people. 30,000 of these cavalry were to charge as the second echelon after Wangm. The 30,000 light cavalry was followed by 30,000 light cavalry, and then the final crushing of the 40,000 infantry.
Wangmu fully understood Enargu's thoughts, and he also knew that Enargu's intention to let him charge in front was nothing more than to preserve his strength and let his soldiers and horses be cannon fodder. But even if Wanmu knew this, he didn't care. Even if the 60,000 soldiers and horses under his command suffered heavy casualties, Wang Mu would not even blink an eyelid. If a soldier dies, he can recruit again, but he only has one chance, and the current situation here is his chance. As long as he wins this battle, he will have a great chance of sitting on the throne of the general of Beichuan Prefecture. Once the general is successful, his position as a great general needs to rely on the accumulation of soldiers, horses and heads under his command. Therefore, in order to win, Wang Mu is willing to be this charging character, and is willing to pretend to be confused to be the cannon fodder of the ancient country, because he has already obtained Zampu's promise that as long as this battle can annihilate the Jiannan army, his future will be bright.
"Go and report to the Enagu, and say that my vanguard is ready to attack. Let him speed up, otherwise before his soldiers and horses can get their formation in order, the sky will be bright. Wangmu said in a deep voice to one of the guards beside him.
The guard said yes, and rode his horse away into the rear of the black-pressed army. Wangmu turned his head to the generals around him and said, "Everyone is ready, the show is about to begin." ā
One of the generals asked, "General Wangmu, how are we going to charge?" Is it a roundabout attack on three sides according to the order of the general, or a frontal onslaught? ā
Wangmu sneered: "There is no need to take a detour, there is no need to listen to him." The Tang army dug fortifications on three sides, which was to prevent us from attacking from the north and south in a roundabout way. In this way, their already small number of soldiers and horses will definitely be divided into three sides of defense, and the troops on the front will be much less. Let's take a plan, give them a hard fight, directly impact the front, and crush them with absolute strength. ā
"Yes!" The general nodded in response.
Pegasus, the guard who had returned to deliver the message, came and reported: "Report to General Wangmu, the general has an order, and his 30,000 cavalry has been completed, and they will charge behind us." General Wangmu can attack at any time. ā
Wang Mu smiled slightly, slowly reached out and pulled out the scimitar from his waist, raised it high in the dark night sky, and shouted coldly: "Attack!" ā
The 60,000 Tibetan cavalry slowly rode their horses, at first like a shadow slowly moving on the ground, with a faint sound of hooves like thunder, towards the Tang army camp. As it got closer and closer to the Tang army camp, and when it reached the range of Lixu, the slowly moving shadow of the regiment had turned into a storm in the dark night that quickly rushed towards the Tang army camp. The scene of tens of thousands of cavalry charging together can be described as earth-shattering resounding throughout the four fields, the whole land is shaking slightly, and the birds and beasts in the mountains more than ten miles away are all frightened by this sound and fled, which shows the majesty of the people.
In order to achieve the effect of overwhelming and ferocious attacks, Wangmu was unusual, and the 60,000 cavalry did not make arrangements for charging in batches, but came like a torrent of brains, in a vain attempt to flatten the Tang army's camp at once. But this is actually one of the taboos of cavalry charges, and it is well known that charging in dense formations will pay a great price. In the past, Wang Mu would never do this, but now Wang Mu's heart has been extremely inflated since Zi Ah Nam Co Lake annihilated the Tang North Route Army, he didn't think that the Tang Army would do anything under the crushing of 160,000 soldiers and horses, he only hoped that the victory in this battle would come as quickly as possible, so he chose this kind of extremely light enemy brainless charge formation.
In front of the city, a horse is flat. The cavalry ran as fast as the wind, and soon reached within 300 paces of the Tang army. This is already within the range of the strongbow's fire. All the cavalrymen subconsciously shrunk their necks and hid behind their horses' necks, their ears recognising the sound of feathered arrows flying through the air in the noisy hooves and the wind.
However, before they heard the whistling of Tang Jun's arrows, they heard the more gruesome sound of bones breaking. Immediately after that, countless horses began to stumble and roll, and the knights on the horses were thrown high into the sky, falling heavily on the hard ground, and fell half to death. In the dim light, in the sight of the bustling woman, the Tibetan cavalry who rushed forward finally found the culprit, which was the rows of wooden horses placed on the ground. From south to north, from east to west, as far as the eye can see, it is densely packed with wooden horses. A horse rushed to Pingchuan, and the extremely fast war horse could not brake at all, so it could only hit it straight, the horse's leg was broken, and the knight flew into the sky, which was the inevitable result.
No one knew why these horses were here, and just before the attack, the scout cavalry of Pibo City made one last reconnaissance that ventured closer. The result of their report was that the Tang military camp was a flat and gravel land, with only wild grass and wildflowers, and some small green shrubs. And these rejections were obviously prepared by the Tang army to hide. When the Tibetan army began to launch, the Tang army quickly deployed these thousands of rejecting horses within 200 paces in front of the battle.
Hundreds of Tibetan cavalry fell to the ground and rolled with their horses, and the direct consequence was that almost all of them fell half to death, and some directly broke their necks and became the first batch of people to sacrifice their lives for the country. But the indirect consequences were even more terrible than the direct consequences, and they directly affected the other cavalry who rushed behind. Many people didn't have time to dodge and crashed directly into them, so they also turned into rolling gourds. In order to avoid this trampling and collision as much as possible, the cavalry, which was originally running at full speed, had to urgently rein in their horses and slow down, so as not to join the rolling battle.
Like a fish swimming rapidly in the rapids, it suddenly swam into the viscous grease, and the murderous cavalry charge team suddenly had to slow down two hundred paces in front of the Tang army's formation. The cavalry in the rear rushed quickly, but the front had to avoid the impact of the cavalry who rejected the horses and rolled, and the dense cavalry formation within a radius of two or three miles began to compress rapidly, forming a black ribbon spread on the ground two miles wide from north to south and only a few hundred steps from east to west. This black ribbon was made up of densely packed together and slow Tibetan cavalry.
Seeing this, Wangmu screamed that it was not good. Isn't this formation a formation that wants to kill people, and at such a distance, a dense formation is not the favorite of the archers of the Tang Army.
"Rush, rush, no slowdown, no slowdown." Wangmu roared and gave the order, but it was too late. When the formation converged, there was a uniform humming sound in the dark and dreary Tang Army camp. It was like the sound of countless bees vibrating their wings, which penetrated into the ear drum in a low voice, almost making the entire ear drum tremble. The battle-hardened soldiers knew what it was, it was the quivering sound of the bowstring firing.
Countless black dots fell densely in the night sky, like a god in the sky swaying beans down. It's just that the beans spilled did not become soldiers, but turned into sharp arrows, poured from the air, and poured through the formation of the Tibetan vanguard army.
The scene of nearly 30,000 bows and arrows firing in a salvo is spectacular, the neat bowstring is pulled, and the feathered arrows shot converge into a dark cloud and then fall on the opponent's head, such a kill is not a point kill, but a piece kill. After a round of arrow rain, nearly 1,000 Tibetan cavalry were hit by arrows, and the screams resounded in the night sky, and the men and horses fell to the ground one after another.
Round 2! Round 3! Buzzing! Buzzing!
The terrifying sound of bowstrings was still ringing, and rounds of arrows rained down on the crowd of Tibetan soldiers and horses, and piles of cavalrymen were shot and fell off their horses, and there was no way to hide, and there was no way to hide. After a few rounds, almost none of the thousands of Tibetan soldiers who rushed into range were able to sit on their horses alive. Those who sat on the horses were also prostrate on their horses, with a few arrows stuck in their bodies.
Wang Mu scolded repeatedly, not because of the loss of these thousands of soldiers and horses, but because the entire charging formation came to an abrupt end in front of the formation. Most of the Tibetan soldiers in the back reined in their horses and did not dare to enter the range of the Tang army's bows and arrows. Except for the dead Tibetan soldiers in the front, most of the Tibetan soldiers retreated to a safe position, and the whole army and horses were huddled together. That's what makes Wangmu angry.
A seasoned cavalry team, once they launched a charge, even if there were cliffs, swords, mountains and fires in front of them, there was nothing to stop them from charging. But the 60,000 cavalry were good, and after encountering the sniping of horses and bows and arrows, they actually braked stiffly. Hiding outside the range is really incredible. This is the reason why there are too many recruits in the army, and the recruits have not undergone training, and they don't know where to go when they encounter such a tragic situation on the battlefield.
"Rush, rush. A bunch of fools, if anyone takes a step back, I'll cut off his head. Wangmu yelled. More than 100 guards around him stepped forward, their scimitars flashing in their hands, in wartime, they were the Overseers, and anyone who retreated would be killed immediately.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses readjusted for a moment, and more than a dozen generals also gave death orders, so the Tibetan cavalry began to charge again from hundreds of paces away. It's just that at such a short distance, and in the face of the rejection of horses all over front of him, it is simply impossible to speed up the charge. The charge, which was supposed to be as fast as lightning and thunder, turned into an equestrian show in front of the Tibetan cavalry. The trotting horses even jumped up to avoid the half-man-high rejection of the horses.
Such a speed gave the Tang archers ample time to shoot. The bows and arrows of the Tang army were ruthlessly shot out in rounds, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the Tibetan soldiers in waves, and countless lives were eternally peaceful in this short quagmire of hundreds of steps.