Chapter 128: Killing the Enemy
Murong Zhong's judgment was right, the reason why Tubo's rear formation was chaotic this time was mainly because of the arrival of reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty, after many days of marching, Xue Rengui's army finally came to the front line, but they did not feel the slightest fatigue, especially when they finally saw the enemy army that they had not seen for a long time.
"General Ashina, you lead your headquarters to attack the enemy's left flank, General Guo, you lead your headquarters to attack the enemy's right flank, and Ben will personally lead the army to attack its army...... Well? This General Guo is just too anxious. ”
It turned out that when Xue Rengui was issuing the order, he saw that Guo Zhifeng had already led his headquarters soldiers to rush to the front of the enemy army, and he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
Although he was dissatisfied with Guo Beifeng's non-stop scheduling and unauthorized marching, after all, now was not the time to care about these things, Xue Rengui saw that Guo Beifeng had taken the lead in launching an attack, so he had to temporarily adjust the offensive plan, so that Ashina Daozhen still attacked the left flank of Tubo, but he turned to attack the right flank of the enemy, and the task of attacking the Chinese army was forced to be handed over to Guo Beifeng.
"Kill!" Although he had not fought for several years, Xue Rengui still had a belligerent factor in his bones, and he personally charged forward and led the army to launch a fierce attack.
This is a battle without suspense, first of all, the Tang army has more people than the other side, with 50,000 to 30,000, almost two to one number of people; Secondly, the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was much stronger than that of the Tubo soldiers, because these were the most elite government soldiers near the Beijing Division; Third, the generals of the two sides are not comparable, the chief general of the Tubo army is just a brave man, while the Tang army has super-first-class generals in history like Xue Rengui, in addition to Xue Rengui, there are also first-class generals such as Guo Zhifeng, in fact, don't talk about these two, even if there is a gap between Ashina Dao's real ability to command the army, it is far from being comparable to the main general of the Tubo army, Mangji.
Ashina Daozhen and Xue Rengui led the army to attack the left and right flanks of the Tubo army respectively, and quickly cut the enemy army into three parts. is completely like a lamb to be slaughtered, and can only helplessly bear the slaughter of the Tang army. And more than 10,000 people in the outermost periphery, under the leadership of the enemy's main general Mangji, launched a desperate breakthrough, and as for the soldiers who were surrounded behind, they couldn't care about it at this time.
"Brothers, follow me to fight a way out, and now we can only have hope if we fight hard!" Since Mangji was able to be selected as the vanguard by Zanpo and was given the heavy task of attacking the city, he naturally also had two brushes, he saw that the Tang army was strong and could not resist the enemy, so he decisively decided to retreat, and at this time he saw that the retreat was blocked, so he decided to fight against the water, put it to death and come back to life, and encouraged the soldiers to fight desperately out of the encirclement.
The soldiers around Manji also knew that rushing out bravely was their only hope, so they all fought hard and fought hard.
Although Guo Beifeng can be regarded as a generation of famous generals, but there are only thousands of heavy soldiers around him, and his combat effectiveness is relatively weak, coupled with his strategic mistakes, he did not leave a way for the enemy army to survive as usual, in order to break the morale of the enemy army, but blocked all the enemy's retreat routes, resulting in the enemy's desperate efforts, and it was difficult to stop for a while, and soon the enemy army tore a gap, so the besieged Tubo soldiers were like a flood, swarming out of this pass.
Guo Beifeng had guarded Shancheng before, in fact, he still knew a lot about the combat effectiveness of the Tubo soldiers, knowing that most of these were rabble, as long as the formation was chaotic, no matter how many people's army would immediately collapse, it was based on this understanding that he took the initiative to lead the crowd to attack the front of the enemy army, the purpose was naturally to grab merit with Xue Rengui, but what he didn't expect was that the enemy's combat effectiveness was so strong that he led the crowd to attack, and did not scatter the enemy's formation, but his own formation began to scatter, If it weren't for the strong offensive on the left and right flanks of the Tang army and only caring about breaking through, it is estimated that Guo Beifeng would have suffered heavy losses in this battle.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, someone stepped forward and finally plugged the gap.
And this person who stepped forward is Li Xian, who has the highest position in the name, but the actual authority belongs to Guo Zhifeng!
According to the original battle plan, Li Xian was actually just a spectator, and the three hundred palace guards he commanded were only private soldiers, and the task was just to set up a position to scare people, but fortunately this spectator, because when Guo Beifeng's army was in danger, Li Xian rode out and led Tang Xiujing, Zhang Wuchen, Gao Sheji and other generals to quickly kill hundreds of Tubo soldiers who wanted to break out of the encirclement, which stabilized the situation.
In fact, Mangji, the chief general of the Tubo army, can indeed be regarded as a competent general, because when the army retreated, he took the initiative to lead his own soldiers, but this time he did not expect that his behavior, which should have been praised, brought immeasurable disasters to himself.
Because he soon found out that the army that had broken through to the outside had for some reason stagnated.
"What are you doing up ahead? Why not break through quickly? Seeing this, Manji couldn't help but be furious and yelled at the front.
It didn't take long for someone to report the reason to him, it turned out that a team of three or four hundred people rushed out of nowhere, and actually blocked the retreat of the army, and no matter how the soldiers broke through, they could not move forward.
"What do you mean? Only three or four hundred people blocked the retreat of more than 10,000 of my people? What are you eating? Mangi was even more angry when he heard this, but at this time he didn't care to blame the soldiers, so he had to ride his horse to the front of the formation, ready to open the gap himself.
This Mangji is the first brave general under Zanpo, with an iron thistle bone in his hand, that is, a long-handled mace, seeing that the soldiers were really blocked by a team of Tang troops with bright armor, at this time he happened to see a Tang Dynasty soldier not far away was slaughtering his soldiers, so he was furious in his heart, and immediately rode forward, brandishing the iron thistle bone to the Tang army soldier slammed over.
The Tang Dynasty's little soldier Tang Army was struggling to kill the enemy, he didn't expect that he would provoke an enemy general, let alone encounter a sneak attack, and when he heard a dull sound of breaking the air, he found that he was in danger, but at this time he had no way to avoid it.
The little soldier thought that he was going to die, but he didn't expect that suddenly there was a sharp sound of breaking the air from behind him, only to hear a loud bang, the general sighed strangely, and almost at the same time, the iron thistle bone of the general fell into the air.
Just as the soldier was glad that he had saved his life, he heard the sound of horses' hooves passing by, and then heard a man say, "How could you be so careless?" Go to the back first, and sweep the battle for me. ”
"The King." As soon as the little soldier heard this voice, he knew that he was Li Xian, the king of Zhou, and he immediately felt excited, but he saw Li Xian lightly jumping over him, and then shouted loudly: "The enemy general dares to bully a small soldier under my account, and he has the ability to rush into the future." ”
But said that Mangji was going to smash the Tang Dynasty soldier to death, but he didn't expect to be hit by a flying feather arrow and deviated, causing the soldier who should have died to pick up a life, and couldn't help but be annoyed, and when he heard the other party shouting like this, he didn't show weakness at all, and asked loudly: "Is it Xue Rengui who came?" ”
saw that the other party shook his head and said: "No, I'm just an ordinary general, how can I use General Xue to deal with a reckless man like you?" Thief general, don't talk nonsense, let's take your life. ”
When Mangji heard this, he immediately laughed and said: "If you are Xue Rengui, I will let you have three points, but you, an unknown young general, dare to be wild in front of me, and you really don't put me in your eyes, since you are looking for death, I will fulfill you, and suffer death." ”
Mangji did not wait for the other party to shoot, he should be the first to step forward, brandishing the iron thistle bones, directly towards the other party's top door smashed over, Mangji's move is vigorous, as Mount Tai pressed the top, so the name "Mount Tai pressed the top" is his usual trick, he used this trick to kill the Tang Dynasty's Liangzhou Governor Zheng Guang and other more than ten generals, it is expected that the young general in front of him will also be difficult to resist his own stunt, and the more than ten generals, will eventually die here.
And the other party's next move also strengthened his judgment, because he saw that the other party actually raised the spear in his hand to the top of his head, ready to take his own blow.
"Hmph, ignorant fool, I am known for my strength, and I have two hundred pounds of strength to say the least, how can you take it? Even if you can catch it, how can you hold the shaft of your spear? ”
Meng Ji originally saw that Li Xian's archery skills were outstanding, and he was still a little jealous in his heart, but now when he saw that the other party dared to do such a stupid thing, he couldn't help but sneer secretly, and in the process of sneering, he naturally increased his strength and was ready to smash the other party to death in one fell swoop.
But the moment his thistle bone touched the opponent's spear shaft, he immediately realized that he had been fooled, because after the two weapons came into contact, there was a huge metal impact sound, and then he felt that his arms were numb, and even the tiger's mouth was cracked, and the iron thistle bone in his hand was almost unable to hold it.
"This spear shaft is made of iron! This, how much strength should this Don have? Mangji's face suddenly turned like earth, and then he knew that the other party's strength was far greater than his own, no wonder he dared to take his own blow.
But it was too late to regret it by this time, because at the moment he was stunned, he saw the man wielding the iron spear with a light weight, and pierced his throat like lightning, and he slammed into the ground without even feeling pain......
But even so, the Tang general still did not let him go, only to see that the man picked up his corpse with an iron spear, and then shouted loudly: "Listen to the Tibetan soldiers, the main general is dead, and it is useless to fight any longer, it is better to surrender quickly, and you can save a life, if you continue to resist, this person is an example for you!" (To be continued.) )