Chapter Thirty-Three: A Thousand Miles of Corpses (I)
The art of war: strike at the enemy at a time and place that he can't think of, and in a way he can't think of!
The current war of the Tang Army is the best interpretation of this important point.
The arrival of Li Guangbi's army was very good at a very good time, in Abu? As soon as the Muslims thought of it, they arrived at the time when they didn't have time to deploy, so they immediately threw themselves into the battlefield and launched an overwhelming offensive against the Great Food Army from behind, making the Great Food Army cry and call their mothers, without the slightest power to fight back.
The reasons for this situation are: First, Li Guangbi completed a surprise attack, rushed to the battlefield without the slightest defense of the Great Food Army, and threw himself into the battlefield, taking the Great Food by surprise.
The second is that the Great Food Army was dragged down and exhausted by Li Changguo, and after several days of fierce fighting, the Great Food Army was sleepy and was hit by Li Guangbi, where could they have the strength to fight back?
The third is that Li Changguo did not miss the opportunity, and immediately led the Tang army into the battlefield to oppress the Great Food Army from the front, so that the Great Food Army could not take care of its back and could not concentrate on dealing with Li Guangbi.
Fourth, Li Guangbi and Li Changguo entered the battlefield at the same time and launched the most fierce offensive against the Great Food Army, which was a front and rear attack, not to mention the exhausted Great Food Army, even the Great Food Fresh Army, which was full of energy, was powerless in this situation.
As soon as the war broke out, it was one-sided, and the Tang army pressed the Great Food Army to fight.
The performance of the Great Food Army is no longer the world-famous elite, but like a group of frightened sheep, at the mercy of the Tang Army.
That's right, it's a massacre! Absolute slaughter!
The Tang army was as brave as a tiger, as soon as it rushed into the big food camp, it was like a storm and clouds, and there was no decent resistance, where the Tang army passed, there would not be a panting big food soldier, and the big food soldier died so much that he could no longer die, either becoming a broken corpse or turning into minced meat.
The soldiers of the Great Food were frightened and uneasy, regardless of military discipline, and fled. The question is, where to escape, the elite Turkic cavalry is waiting for them outside. As soon as they escaped, they were pursued by the Turks.
The Turks grew up on horseback since childhood, can live their lives on horseback, are good at riding and shooting, it is not much use to use them to charge the battle, and it is best to use them to chase and kill the escaped big food soldiers, it is just right, and their riding and archery can be fully utilized.
Compared with horse shooting, there is no one in the world who can surpass the Turks, they chase and kill sharply and abnormally, and the big food soldiers flee quickly, hoping that their father and mother will have two more legs, but they can't escape the pursuit of the Turks, and they suffer heavy casualties.
Under the attack of the Tang army on both sides, the Great Food Army was driven to the center, dense, like straw in the field, shoulder to shoulder, heel to heel, it was difficult to turn around.
Tang Junmo's knife hand went down, and he often had to kill three or five. Under normal circumstances, it should be three or five Mo knives to kill one, but now it is the other way around, which is really amazing.
Looking at the fallen cannibal soldier as if the piled rice had been toppled, Abu? Muslims have bloodshot eyes, redder than rabbit eyes, clenched fists, and gritted teeth, but they can't say a word.
He has fought a battle all his life, and he has never encountered a battle that makes him so aggrieved as in front of him, he is powerless to fight, and it is impossible to escape, this is a real desperate situation. You can't stop him from being angry, but what if he gets angry?
"My lord, you have to run away! Quickly let the heavy cavalry rush through a passage. Ziad was still calm, and hurriedly reminded loudly.
The Tang army has already surrounded it, and if the Great Food Army does not flee again, there will be no chance. If the Tang army slashes and kills for a while, the casualties of the Great Food Army are too large, and there are fewer and fewer survivors, then the encirclement of the Tang army will be more dense and will go up several layers. At that time, the Great Eclipse army will be surrounded by a heavy circle, and there will be no chance of escaping.
If you want to break through the encirclement of the Tang army, you can only use heavy cavalry.
Heavy cavalry is Abu? The heart of a Muslim, the brainchild of his heart, he absolutely does not want to use it here. However, in this situation, can he still have a choice?
"Order, heavy armor, rush west!" Abu? Although the Muslim was extremely reluctant, he knew that now was not the time to hesitate, as long as he took the army out, even if all the heavy cavalry were destroyed, he could rebuild.
The heavy cavalry received the order and began to line up. However, Jean Abu? Muslims were depressed, because there were too many people, and it was difficult for the heavy cavalry to line up, so how could they line up if there was no space? In order to exert the maximum power of the heavy cavalry, they must be in formation in order to carry out an overwhelming attack.
"Ask them to let it! Kill if you don't let it! "Abu? The Muslims gritted their teeth and were ruthless, and gave the order for the massacre.
Attack on your own soldiers, this is in Abu? The Muslims had never encountered a war in their lives, and this was the first time in their lives that they were depressed.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way. Kill if you don't let it. The heavy cavalry roared loudly, but no one paid any attention to them. In such chaos, how much more can military orders do?
"Kill!" The heavy cavalry faithfully executed Abu? At the order of the Muslims, the Damascus horse in his hand slashed down at the Great Food Soldiers, hacking and killing many of the Great Food Soldiers, and finally vacated a vacant land.
However, the things that made them depressed followed, and the space that had just been cleared was soon filled up again by the Great Food Soldiers, so they had to start from scratch and clean up from scratch.
In the face of the overwhelming offensive of the Tang army, the soldiers of the Great Food Diet were cornered, and they would squeeze wherever there was space, or they would not be able to fill it.
With great difficulty, the heavy cavalry cleared enough space and formed a formation.
"Rush!" Abu? With a wave of his right hand, the Muslim gave a loud order.
"Rumble!" Tens of thousands of heavy cavalry rushed towards the west, preparing to break through Li Guangbi's army and open a way for the Great Food Army to survive. However, when I saw a group of Tang troops rushing towards us, they were not afraid at all and wanted to fight to the death with the heavy cavalry.
The charge of the heavy cavalry was strong and unstoppable, and the Tang army actually wanted to fight with the heavy cavalry, which was still bold enough, Abu? Muslims are somewhat dismissive. To his surprise, the Tang army really entangled the heavy cavalry.
Looking at the heavy cavalry fighting hard, Abu? Only then did the Muslims suddenly realize that the heavy cavalry had been disabled by Li Changguo, and although they had rested for a few days, they had not fully recovered, and their combat strength had not reached their peak.
Despite this, the heavy cavalry was a heavy cavalry after all, and after hard work, after paying more than half of the casualties, it finally broke through the encirclement of the Tang army, and a way of life was opened.
"Run! Run! ”
If you don't escape again, there is no chance, the big food soldier shouted, and rushed to the west like a splash of wind, looking at their fast momentum, it was much faster and faster than when they were driven away by the Tang army.
Looking at the big food army that broke out, Tang Jun was very angry and yelled: "Big food dog, leave." ”
"General, catch up." A general reminded Li Guangbi.
"There's no hurry. Look closely, the big dogs are so tired, where can they flee? "The blood-dripping horizontal knife in Li Guangbi's hand is not the same thing.
The generals saw that if this was the case, the soldiers of the Great Food were exhausted, and even if they escaped from the encirclement of the Tang Army, they would not be able to escape far, and they would soon be caught up by the Tang Army.
"Right now, our most urgent task is to kill all the big dogs in the encirclement." Li Guangbi patted the horse's back and rushed forward again.
Li Guangbi said it right, killing the big food army in the encirclement is the first priority, after all, it is the majority of those who are surrounded, and the few who escape, how can there be a reason to give up more and less.
Li Changguo also had the same view, commanding the Tang army to rush and kill bravely, and the Great Food Army fell in pieces, the blood on the ground became thicker, and the air was filled with a strong bloody atmosphere, which made people almost sick.
The massacre lasted a day and a night before it ended.
Abu? No less than 300,000 Muslim-led armies died in this battle. When the battle was over, Li Changguo looked around, and everywhere he looked, there were corpses everywhere, and the corpses were layered with each other, I don't know how many, and I couldn't see the end at a glance.
Moreover, the corpses were soaked in a lake of blood.
This is the real blood lake, a blood lake formed by the convergence of human blood and horse blood.
The lake of blood is not shallow, and there is no problem in soaking a corpse, and it can drown the corpse completely.
Li Changguo was covered in blood, and the war horse under his crotch was covered in blood, bloody people and bloody horses, indescribably weird. Li Changguo wiped it with his hand, and five finger prints appeared on his face, and finally showed his original flesh color, and the rest of the place was blood-red, and at first glance, it looked like a devil.
Not only Li Changguo, but also Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Li Mi, An Lushan, Shi Siming, and Tang soldiers, which one is not so? Hundreds of thousands of Tang troops were dyed red with blood, and at first glance, it looked like hundreds of thousands of devils, this was a demon army.
"What a kill!"
The soldiers burst into laughter and exclaimed joy. It's just that their mouths are open, and the bright red on their bodies is contrasted, giving people an eerie feeling, like the devil is laughing.
"The Great Food Elite has been lost, and we have achieved good results. However, the war is not over yet, and we must not let up. Li Changguo's eyes widened, he glanced at Tang Jun, and spoke loudly.
"Please give the order!" The soldiers knew very well that although they had won a good victory, the battle was not over yet, and there was still one thing to do, and that was to pursue the Great Eclipse army.
"The whole army obeyed the order: with 10,000 people as a team, pursue to the west. You must chase after you, and you can't get off the horse until you reach Talas! Li Changguo ordered in a deep voice.
"Long live Datang!"
Li Changguo's order made the soldiers rejoice, and a shocking roar erupted. The soldiers rejoiced not to pursue the Great Eclipse army, but to march to Talas.
Talas is an important town in the East, thousands of miles away from Qiuzi in the territory of Dashi.
Li Changguo's order is tantamount to an order to attack Dashi, which is the first order to counterattack in Dashi since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
Since the Great Food and the Tang Dynasty met in Central Asia, the two countries have been fighting for decades, and the Tang Dynasty has not penetrated into the territory of the Great Food. Don't say that you have gone deep into the territory of the Great Food, even if you have reached the border of the Great Food, you have never done anything. Li Changguo's order was not only to penetrate deep into the territory of Dashi, but also to attack Talas, so that the soldiers would not be happy.
"Chase!" Li Changguo patted the horse's back and rushed out first.
"Rumble!" Hundreds of thousands of troops followed, and a sea of people poured towards the west within a radius of hundreds of miles.
(To be continued)