Section 106 The First Battle
Early the next morning, Feng Xiaobao and Tang Tian took a ball and set off first! And Cheng Boxi followed up with the second regiment, and the officers of the third and fourth regiments followed by the second regiment, they were watching the battle and seeing how the relatively experienced regiment fought!
"Ahead was a tribal camp with thirty-two tents, almost 160 men! (An average of five people in one account is counted)" Fan Wuxian summoned the main officers to introduce the enemy situation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"The commander has an order: our combat method is archery, the first brigade (hundreds) charges, around the camp to release arrows, the second brigade is on guard in the back, don't take the initiative to fight, just archery!"
"Whoa!" The officers commanded.
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The Tang cavalry showed their tracks on the side of the mountain, and saw a tribal camp close below, and when the cavalry rode down, there was a commotion in the tribal camp.
People bark at dogs, they have a bit of courage, although there are few people, but they also dare to gather people to fight back, no matter how old or young, as long as they can get on the horse, they all get on the horse, with bows and arrows and sabers to face the Tang cavalry, and even women... This is where the horrors of nomads lie ... All the people are soldiers, and if there are two horsemen who leave in a hurry, they should go to the tribe behind to report the news.
Fan Wuxian did not care about the two horsemen who had escaped, and arranged for fifty men to wait behind them to catch the fish, and his brigade (one hundred men) attacked forward with twenty-five men head-on, divided into four platoons, and advanced at a medium speed.
Feng Xiaobao was also caught in the middle of it, obeying Fan Wuxian's orders, and he did not deprive Fan Wuxian of his command because he was the supreme commander.
The four regiments participated in the battle together, then he was the commander, and now he and Tang Tian were both ordinary soldiers who participated in the war.
Both sides were hundreds of horsemen, and the Tubo people rushed to the place on horseback, and when they saw the Tubo people, they braided their hair, wore leather clothes and belts, and some wore cloaks and shawls. A big mess.
Nearly 100 steps!
The Tibetans were the first to release arrows, but the arrows were weak and fell in front of the Tang army, and no one was injured.
On the far right, Fan Wuxian calmly looked at the terrain in front of him and estimated the distance between the two sides, and when he was about the same, he waved his hand, and the flag bearer next to him immediately raised the flag and turned first
"Turn, turn!" Fan Wuxian shouted, so all the people followed the flag bearer to leave in four columns at a 45-degree angle to the opponent's oblique, and the movements were neat and uniform, like flowing water!
"Raise your bow and arrows!"
With an order, all the men raised their bows, and the outermost shot was direct, and the other three rows were fired upward.
"Put!"
An astonishing scene appeared, an order to "release", not all of them released arrows together, but in turn, almost none of the arrows missed, all within the killing range.
"Whoosh ......"
The Tibetans on the opposite side fell by at least a third!
Feng Xiaobao and Tang Tian were on the far left to meet the enemy, and the two of them released arrows and easily shot down the oncoming Tubo people, without any technical content.
After firing the first batch of arrows, the Tibetans returned fire, but they were unlucky not to hit the Tang cavalry.
Fan Wuxian commanded the military flag to be unfurled again, and the Tang army came to the second turn!
Or a diagonal attack, Qi Qi pulls the bow and releases the arrows, swishing and swishing! Arrows swept over the Tibetans like machine-gun fire, and this time half of them died.
The Tang army drew a beautiful arc under the command of Fan Wuxian, and swept past the Tubo people in front of the cavalry formation, and the Tubo people shot arrows, but they still did not shoot accurately, and none of the Tang troops were hit by arrows.
The remaining half of the Tubo people chased after them angrily, and at this time, the Tang army made a third turn, and still drew a beautiful arc, and this arc was the line of death!
It slashed through the Tibetans, and the glittering arrows took the lives of more than twenty percent of the Tibetans.
The original Tubo people who rode more than 100 horses only had more than 20 horses, and they actually had no gains, even though two or three horses of the Tang army were hit by arrows, but they did not fall off their horses!
The armor of the Don army resisted the penetration of the arrows, and those who were hit by the arrows were wounded and did not die.
The Tubo people finally knew that they were afraid, and they immediately scattered as birds and beasts!
They fled in all directions, and the direction was chaotic, making it difficult for the Tang army to pursue them.
However, how could such an old veteran like Fan Wuxian let them get their wish, and the flag bearer showed the flag three times, and immediately the troops were divided into ten squads to chase and kill the Tubo people in a fan shape.
Feng Xiaobao led one of the squads, and he had turned around three times before, shooting three people, and that's it, it was not particularly outstanding.
He realized from this that in the army, everyone is a cog in a huge machine, playing his due role, but it is impossible to mobilize the army to fight.
The guarantee of victory is the team, and the overall strength of the army is brought into play, that is victory!
But in the pursuit of the team, Feng Xiaobao showed his might, relying on the fast horse and shooting, galloping like the wind, chasing behind the Tubo people, and after shooting three people in a row, he stagnated.
Cut, there is no technical content, it was all shot by him in the back of the heart, and my dignified leader still doesn't want to follow the soldiers
None of the Tibetan people who escaped escaped!
One in the east and one in the west, there are corpses of Tibetan people everywhere!
None of the Tibetans were able to escape the encirclement, and they were all chased and shot.
Then they attacked the camp, they did not rush directly into it, but lit torches and threw them into the camp, and soon the wind blowing on Qinghai Lake burned the camp tent into a large torch!
The old and young of the Tubo people and the women fled in panic, and then the Tang army looked at them, and the men and the old were all shot and killed!
In the end, there were only twelve Tibetan girls who fell into the clutches of the Tang army, as well as nearly a thousand sheep and hundreds of horses.
Feng Xiaobao's two hundred slaves were brought up, and they received these captures and took care of them.
After cleaning the camp, I got some silver of low purity, and almost nothing else was gained.
Capture their bows and arrows, and throw them away at a glance, although the nomads are good at riding and shooting, but their bows and arrows
The tribes were very poor, and their greatest wealth was livestock, and then the population.
Only maidens and beautiful women will survive, and everyone else will be killed!
This is Feng Xiaobao's order, and everyone agrees with his words: "The enemy who dies is the best enemy!" ”
Feng Xiaobao planned to send them and their livestock to the rear for auction after collecting a certain amount of money to help make up for the military expenses.
It was a textbook attack, so beautiful that the Tang army, armed to the teeth, attacked a small Tibetan tribe and annihilated them all.
There were also troops of the third and fourth regiments in the second regiment that had been following, and they listened to Sima Jing Dongling in the army show them the whole process one by one: "...... Our army will crush the enemy in three turns, mainly thanks to the good command of Captain Fan, and our Hexi Horse! ”
"The speed of the Hexi horse is faster than that of the Tubo horse (due to the mountainous area, the Tubo horse breed is smaller, and the short legs can't outrun the Hexi horse with long legs), so we have to give full play to our advantages!"
"At the end of the end, according to the teachings of Lord Du Wei (Feng Xiaobao): If you can shoot arrows, don't send people to go, sweep the camp, send shield-wielding infantry as much as possible, and in a more complicated camp, the cavalry must be careful to avoid unnecessary attrition!"
Listening to his words, everyone nodded again and again.