Chapter 0397: Brave General Li Sheng
Shudun City is less than 30 miles away from the Camel Bridge, backed by Baimei Mountain on the north bank of the Yellow River, facing the Dafei River with abundant water and grass, it is like a wedge into the corner of the Dafei River, after the Tang army occupies Shudun City, it can use this city as a stronghold, and enter the Dafei River at any time.
Therefore, for Tubo, Shudun City is a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and it is unpleasant if it is not pulled out.
During the day, the 5,000 Tibetan army launched several rounds of attacks on Shudun City, but found that the defenders in the city did not seem to be affected by the rebellion of the Tang army in Da Momen City, and did not easily abandon the city and flee.
After seeing that several rounds of attacks were fruitless, the main general Samba had to temporarily withdraw his troops and camp five miles outside the north gate to wait for the arrival of Dazarugon's main force.
After nightfall, Samba sent people to the city to play the horse-head harp, and the sound of the harp was poignant and earnest, like a whimper, and those who heard it were easily aroused by homesickness, and their mood became depressed and heartbroken. With this move, Samba attempted to further demoralize the Tang army in the city.
The Tang army at the head of the city was in this bitter cold place, looking at the cold moonlight in the sky, listening to the mournful sound of the piano in the night, many people's emotions were really infected and became very depressed, and some even sang homesick songs in a low voice.
Li Sheng, who was the envoy of the Jin Tian Army, saw this situation and secretly said that if the enemy was allowed to play this huqin under the city, the soldiers would be homesick and sleepless, and their hearts would be sad, which would definitely have a great impact on their combat effectiveness.
Li Sheng discussed with his lieutenants, and decided to treat them in the same way, he let the Tang army in the city plug their ears, and then let people beat the cowhide drum at the head of the city, the rumbling war drums not only overshadowed the sound of the huqin outside the city, but also made the Tubo camp five miles away so shocked that it exploded.
After Samba heard the sound of war drums, his first reaction was that the Tang army had launched a night attack out of the city, and he hurriedly ordered all 5,000 of his men to rise up to fight.
On such a night, although it had not yet snowed, the wind was blowing, and the Tibetan soldiers got up from their warm quilts and shivered with cold. Some shouted, some yelled, and the whole camp was in chaos.
finally waited for the Tibetan soldiers to assemble and prepare for battle, but found that the war drums of the Tang army had stopped, and it was quiet outside the camp, and the Tang army was not attacking at all.
Samba was angry and angry, and there was a feeling that stealing chickens and rice would not be lost, if he hadn't sent someone to play the huqin under the city, it is estimated that the Tang army would not have responded with drums.
He had no choice but to order the soldiers in the battalion to disband, and at the same time to withdraw the people who played the violin in the city.
But this time the Tang army refused to give up, and not long after the Tubo people fell asleep again, there was another rumbling war drum from the city, and it was more dense than the previous one, like thousands of troops and horses from the city.
Frightened, the Tibetans hurriedly got up again. As a result, except for the rumbling war drums, there was still no Tang army coming.
At this time, the Tibetan soldiers scolded everywhere, and Samba also regretted it, first, he regretted that he should not have sent someone to play the huqin under the city, if he had killed the Tang army; The second is to regret that the camp should not have been so close.
His camp was only five miles away from Shudun City, such a close distance, if the Tang army came to attack at night, and when the police post he set up outside the city came back to report, the Tang army would also be killed. Therefore, with the drumming of the Tang army, they had to get up in a hurry, so as not to be caught off guard by the Tang army.
Now it's okay, the Tang Army is just thundering and not raining, so tossing back and forth, it's infuriating!
The second round of drumming finally stopped, and after the Tubo soldiers fell asleep again, no one got up again when the Tang army drums sounded for the third time, and after a while, the war drums of the Tang army stopped again.
The Tang army was like fighting for the Tubo people, every once in a while, they beat the drum, and the Tubo people listened too much and no longer took it seriously. By the fourth watch, the Tang army was probably tired of knocking, and finally stopped knocking.
Samba secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and after he ordered the soldiers on duty to strengthen their vigilance, he fell asleep with confidence, but he had just fallen asleep when he was awakened, and this time it was not the war drums of the Tang army that woke him up, but the dull sound of horns.
He scrambled to his feet, and heard the sound of horses' hooves coming straight to his tent.
"Report! General Samba, the Don Army is coming! The Tang army is coming......."
The sentry guarding outside the city gate flew back, and the anxious shouts spread throughout the camp.
Immediately afterwards there was a thunderous sound of iron hooves, and the ground began to tremble slightly, from which it could be judged that this was no longer three or two horses, but hundreds of iron horses galloping.
That's right, at this moment, Li Sheng was rushing out of the north gate with a thousand iron horses, and immediately rushed towards the Tubo military camp.
The flat grassland, the distance of five miles is nothing for the cavalry, and it will be there in a moment.
Li Sheng tossed the Tubo people in the middle of the night with the sound of war drums, making the Tubo people numb, and only then chose to attack the camp at the fourth watch when the people were most sleepy. This can make Samba pit miserable, he ordered people to blow the assembly horn as if burning his eyebrows, but the soldiers who were tossed for most of the night were just asleep at this time, and they were sleepy, and they were numb by the sound of the Tang army's war drums before, and now they can't even wake up to their own horns.
"The enemy is coming! Get up! Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle! Samba ran and howled, shouting at the soldiers who were on duty.
The scene was chaotic. One by one, the Tibetan soldiers who were dozing off and not fully awake turned over on their horses in a panic, and some of them flipped off from the other side of the horse's back as soon as they flipped up, embarrassed.
Finally, when the 500 men and horses of Tubo were welcomed out of the camp, Li Sheng and 1,000 Tang army iron horsemen had already roared, the night was boundless, the fire was scattered, the iron hooves were clanging, the sand was shocking, and the murderous spirit destroyed the mountain.
"Kill!" Li Sheng is a rare fierce general, I saw him take the lead, holding a long horse lance in his hand, constantly urging the war horse to step down, like a wind swept into the Tubo cavalry array.
"Peng!" With a bang, the oncoming Tubo people were provoked by him and flew upside down, crashing into the enemy rushing behind, the war horses neighed, and the people howled miserably.
Li Shengyong was unstoppable, and his horse lance blade was two feet long, and like a sword, it had eight sides. The lance has a hideous armor-piercing edge, and the ordinary fish-scale chain mail and iron armor are broken with one blow under his horse lance!
The oncoming Tubo people were like wheat, allowing him to harvest, in the firelight, but when they saw the blood and rain splashing, they screamed miserably. The Tang army behind shouted excitedly while digging him into the enemy formation:
"General Li is mighty!"
"General Li is mighty!"
“……….”
The Tubo soldiers and horses that came out in a hurry were already a little scattered, and when they were killed by Li Sheng's fierce rush, they were so shocked that they fled one after another, and they were suddenly defeated.
A thousand Tang troops were like huge waves rushing into the sand, sweeping through, flying sword light, earth-shattering roars, killing the Tubo people crying for their fathers and mothers, and wolves rushing to the pigs.
The 500 men and horses who left the camp were defeated in one face, so that the Tibetan soldiers who had just rushed out of the tent in the camp were cold, and they all screamed and scurried, and the whole camp was like countless headless flies flying, roaring and roaring.
Samba didn't expect his men to become like this, he shouted desperately, but in the middle of the night, the shouts were so loud that even the horn of the herald was useless, and how many people could hear him shouting.
The soldiers around him shouted to him impatiently: "General! It's too late, it's too late, the Tang army is too fast, let's withdraw quickly, in the future, it's too late if we don't leave......"
As if to confirm the words of the pro-soldier, Li Sheng led a thousand iron horsemen to enter the camp with a devastating and decaying camp, and the fierce sound of horses' hooves and boiling shouts rushed to his face.
The Tibetan soldiers scurrying in the camp were overturned piece by piece, and one by one the tents were set on fire, burning brightly, and the light was in the air.
The people were sloppy, the horses were like dragons, the Tang army rose up, began to divide the troops, rushed back and forth in the camp, one by one the heads flew up in the sword light, and a puff of blood spurted out in the firelight!
It's so fast! Everything came too quickly, and a full 5,000 Tibetan soldiers and horses were killed in this way without any power to fight back, and one by one they only knew their lives and fled from the camp.
"How so? How can this be!! Samba still couldn't believe that he had failed so badly.
He did everything he had to do, arranged a police post outside the city gate, and blew the horn to report whenever the Tang army moved. Moreover, he also arranged for 500 people to be on duty in the battalion, and the Tang army attacked them as soon as they came, but the 500 men and horses were vulnerable, and the Tang army rushed into the camp so quickly that the soldiers in the camp who had just climbed up did not have time to assemble.
What the hell is going on here? Samba, under the protection of his own soldiers, fled while beating his horse, and asked painfully in his heart, why did he lose so quickly and so miserably? Is it because he arranged for someone to go to the city to play the horse-head harp?
Li Sheng, who was happily chasing the enemy, didn't expect that tonight's attack would be so smooth, the Tubo people had police posts and soldiers on duty, but they were all like strained, weak, and crushed with one blow, could they all be tossed by their own drums?
Whatever, kill him first!
The tents of the enemy camp were burning, and in the firelight, one by one the Tibetan people were holding their heads and scurrying, killing! Kill! Kill!!! The horse lance is like a plow, and if it is ploughed by the momentum of the war horse, it is a bloody storm.
The Tang army, which was divided into several roads, staggered impact, looted and killed, and the camp was full of corpses and muddy blood.
Then the Tang army chased out of the camp, flew and galloped in the night, and continued to chase and kill the fleeing enemy. After chasing ten miles straight out, after the enemy basically fled, Li Sheng was willing to black.
After the happy killing, Li Sheng couldn't take a break, and immediately arranged for his lieutenant Deng Qiyuan to take two hundred men and horses, change into the clothes of the Tubo people, and disappear into the vast night.
At the same time, Li Sheng didn't even bother to clean up the battlefield, so he took the remaining 800 men and horses to kill in the direction of the camel bridge.
Shudun City is only more than 20 miles away from the Camel Bridge, where there are still 2,000 Tibetans who are attacking Li Guangbi's troops on the north bank. Li Sheng didn't do it, and he didn't stop fighting, with the power of a big victory, he was ready to kill and Li Guangbi to fight back and forth.
On this side of the camel bridge, the men and horses of the Tubo general Nie Chi attacked several times, and each time they saw that they were about to attack the mountain, but in the end they were always driven down by the Tang army.
Nie Chi was about to give the order to rest and wait for dawn to make plans, when he received an urgent report from the scouts at this time, the Tang army of Shudun City was coming, and it would be there soon!
Hearing such a report, Nie He was shocked, they had been fighting hard for half the night, all of them were tired and half dead, if they were attacked by the Tang army from both sides at this time, where would they still have physiology? (To be continued.) )