Chapter Fifty-Nine: Grass on the Wall
The three hundred Anxi cavalry rushed out for about a mile, and Qi Yade's own soldiers rushed to the right flank and found the commander of the Zhaowu Nine ** team, Kang Panchen.
"Bold Kangpan, why don't you obey orders?"
"I was wronged! It was so chaotic that I didn't pay attention to it, and by the time I saw it, they had already rushed over. ”
"Then why don't you stop them?"
"I was wronged! I had already given the order to intercept it, but these Anthy dog thieves were too fast to give us time to react at all, and by the time we intercepted, they had already rushed over. ”
"Why not pursue?"
"I have been wronged, they are only three hundred men, and I have ordered three thousand cavalry to pursue them. Add to that the thousands of people pursued by the left wing, twenty dozen one, isn't it enough? ”
"You...... You wait to explain to General Ziyad! ”
“……”
Kang Panchen is the Kang royal family, the nephew of the Kang king. This 15,000-strong Zhaowu Nine ** team is mainly composed of the armies of three countries, Kang State, Mi State, and Xicao State. Kang Panyan had the highest status and the most ideas, so he was elected as the commander-in-chief of this servant army.
Kang Panchen is also an old man, how could he not pay attention to the flag of the Chinese army for a while. In fact, at the beginning, when Ziyad's guards sounded the flag and blew the horn to order him to open forward and cut off the retreat of the Anxi army, he caught a glimpse of it and heard it. But he deliberately pretended not to see it, not to hear it.
The reason is simple, he doesn't want to work for the big cannibal. He thought very clearly, the Anxi army came to the river under the banner of driving away the big cannibals for them, but in fact, they were fighting with the big cannibals for the land in the river. Anyway, the people of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu can't hold this land in the middle of the river, and they always have to recognize a master, between Da Shi and Da Tang, it is 10,000 times better to recognize Da Tang as the master than Da Shi!
As a high-ranking nobleman of Kangguo, he knew the history of the river. At first, it belonged to the Western Turks, and 90 years ago, it was occupied by the Tang Dynasty and became a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the life of the people of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms was the most comfortable, because Datang's policy here was to be autonomous and not take a penny.
It was only in those years that the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu truly became the masters of the land in the river, and there was no need to pay a single silver coin tax to anyone. Is there anything better than paying a tribute worth 10,000 silver coins to the Tang Dynasty and getting a reward of 20,000 or 30,000 silver coins? Moreover, the Tang Dynasty did not interfere in their internal affairs.
On the other hand, after the Great Food occupied the river, it simply regarded the people of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu as slaves, and everything had to be plundered. Not only did they rob them of their money, houses, land, but even their lives were not guaranteed in the slightest.
Compared with the two, even a fool will choose the Tang Dynasty! What's more, it's still a cunning old fritter like a fox like Kang Panchen. And it's not a big risk for him to do this, because it's not that he doesn't carry out the order, but only delays for a short time before executing the order, and the battlefield is so chaotic and the situation is so sudden, it's understandable that he can't react for a while.
(Here is one more sentence about Gao Xianzhi Shiguo Slaughtering City.) In February or March of the year before the Battle of Talas, in the summer of the same year, in May and June, a Shiite uprising broke out in the river, and they fought for 37 days in the city of Anguo, and finally the rebels were killed. After that, the king of Anguo was killed, the countries of the river rebelled, and they were defeated by the Great Eclipse, and the kings of Mi and Shi were killed. And Posilin began to slaughter cities everywhere in the river, and put down the rebellion in bloody means.
Almost all sources describe the cause of the Battle of Talas as follows: Gao Xianzhi slaughtered the city of Shiguo, and the prince of Shi asked for help from Da Shi, and complained to the other Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms about Gao Xianzhi's atrocities, so 'all the Hu were angry, and they lured the Great Appetite to attack the four towns together'.
This is funny, Shi Guo endangered the interests of the Tang Dynasty and was slaughtered by Gao Xianzhi, and all Hu were angry; A few months later, and he slaughtered dozens of other cities of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu in the river, and killed three of their kings, hundreds of dekhgans, and almost half of their population, and Zhuhu was not angry at all, and he wanted to lure the great cannibals who had just killed their relatives to attack the four towns of Anxi, with whom they had never had a holiday. Does that make sense?
Here, what I want to express is that at this time, except for the Shi Kingdom, the other Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms did not hate the Tang Dynasty, and even had their hearts set on the Tang Dynasty. )
However, only a small delay was enough for the three hundred Anxi troops to calmly break out.
Kangpan was proud here, but on the other side, Basel sued him in front of Ziyard. Basel was hit by an arrow in the right chest and injured his ribs, and by this time the arrow had been pulled out and bandaged. Although it was no longer a big problem, if he wanted to gallop on horseback, he couldn't, so he had to stay, and sent his personal guard captain Feida to command more than 2,000 Khorasan cavalry to continue the pursuit.
Qi Yad ordered someone to call Kang Panan, reprimanded him fiercely, and threatened his family. Kang Panchen was only if he was the only one, pointing to the day of the oath, saying that he was indeed an unintentional mistake, but his reaction was half a beat slower. Ziyad waved him back to the right flank and sent a group of fifty Khorasan warriors to supervise him closely.
Basel said indignantly: "General Ziyad, why didn't you kill him?" Don't you see that he did it on purpose! ”
Qi Yade sighed and said with a wry smile: "How can I not see it, but at this time, if you kill him, it will be to force this Zhaowu Nine ** team, and they are likely to defect." In normal times, it's nothing, just two or three thousand people can wipe them out. But now that the strong enemy is on the flank, if the Anxi army takes advantage of the situation to attack, we will be defeated by the enemy in front and behind. ”
"Do you want to just let this wall grass go?" Basel was still not reconciled.
Qi Yade sneered: "How is it possible! When the Anthy dog thieves are defeated, it's not too late to take them again. When the time comes, it's up to you how you want to deal with Kangpani. ”
Time passed quickly, and after half an hour, there was still no information from the pursuers. Qi Yad suddenly had a bad premonition, and he immediately sent ten guards to chase forward, ordering more than 2,000 Khorasan cavalry and 3,000 Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms cavalry not to continue the pursuit, and to return immediately.
After the guards were dispatched, Ziyad's bad feelings became stronger and stronger. This thing was so strange that it suddenly occurred to him that it was very likely that the three hundred Anxi cavalry did not panic and crashed into it, and it was very likely that they did it on purpose to lure us into pursuit, and then they set up an ambush on the road.
Thinking of this, Qi Yade couldn't help but let out a cold sweat, and he immediately ordered the whole army to advance at full speed and chase after the five thousand cavalry who were pursuing.
Even if there is an ambush ahead, hopefully they will be able to hold out until the large forces catch up.
Just as he was secretly praying, he saw two sentry horses galloping towards him. Qi Yade was shocked, the Anxi army really had a back move!
"Report, a group of Anxi cavalry was found in the left front of the army, numbering about five or six hundred, galloping towards the left flank of our army, driving the sentry cavalry along the way, like a bamboo!"
"Report, a group of Anxi cavalry was found in the right rear of the army, numbering about five or six hundred, galloping towards our Chinese army......"
"Leave them alone, each send five hundred Hurasan cavalry and the cavalry of the previous Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms to drive them away for two or three miles, and the other soldiers and horses continue to chase forward at full speed!" Ziyad said through gritted teeth.
At the same time, twelve or thirteen miles away from Qi Yade's central army, Xiao Qubing led three hundred Anxi cavalry to stop fleeing after running over a small hill. Behind them, more than 5,000 Great Eclipse and Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms pursuers also discovered that something was wrong.
On the other side of the hill, where the three hundred Anxi cavalry stopped in formation, two or three thousand Anxi cavalry who had been waiting for a long time suddenly turned out. On the side of the hill, behind the grove on the side of the road, two or three thousand Anxi cavalry also rushed out in a neat formation.
The captain of Basel's personal guard, Feida, was very anxious and nervous and began to form a team, and the pursuit was too fast, and the Khorasan cavalry ran together with the cavalry of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, and the line was too long. In the distance, he saw the young general in silver armor riding a sweaty horse and lecturing a lecture.
If he has good enough hearing and can understand Chinese, he can hear it, Xiao Quzhi is saying: "There are only two meals left, and before the enemy's main force arrives, we will kill more than two thousand cannibals!" The people of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu can lay down their weapons to avoid death, Prince Yama, you go and shout! ”