Chapter 261: The Siege of Ma Yi (3)
After Li Xuan repeatedly explained the key points of use, Zhang Shigui asked the guards of the city, Ding Zhuang, to take the iron thunder in his hands, light it, and throw it far away into the dense Turkic army that had just been assembled and arranged under the city.
Soon, the explosions and screams came one after another, and the Turkic army was blown up all over the ground with corpses and rivers of blood, and they screamed and shouted to throw away their weapons, and turned and fled to the rear of the army.
Above the city, Li Xuan proposed to the Tang Emperor Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, we should do one thing now. β
Li Shimin looked thoughtful and asked with interest: "What is it?" β
Li Xuanlang replied: "The cavalry charged, taking advantage of the victory to pursue." β
Li Shimin suddenly realized, just thinking that there were 20,000 elite Turkic cavalry under the city, and there were only four or five thousand soldiers in the city, Ding Zhuang, the Turks were attacking, and the Tang Dynasty was defending the city, but he forgot that now the Turks are desperately fleeing for their lives, and this is the best time for the cavalry to charge and pursue.
Zhang Shigui also hurriedly knelt down and said to Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty: "Your Majesty, now that the Turkic army is rushing to flee for their lives, the formation is out of order, and it is a good time for the cavalry to charge and pursue. The situation of this battle has taken a sharp turn, and the changes are too fast, why did the minister forget it? It's still King Yong'an who sees it clearly. The minister asked for orders to lead my Tang cavalry to charge and pursue. β
Tang Emperor Li Shimin immediately agreed. Zhang Shigui happily walked down the city, and with him walked down the city were more soldiers from Mayi City.
Tang Emperor Li Shimin looked at Li Xuan in surprise, he didn't expect: Li Xuan, who has never commanded the army and has fought in a war, has such an accurate grasp of the battle situation, and the people who have been in charge of the army for a long time with Zhang Shigui have not seen Li Xuan clearly? He couldn't help but secretly admire Li Xuan's improvisation and accurate grasp of the battlefield situation.
Li Xuan smiled slightly, without words. He secretly said in his heart: "Artillery fire, cavalry rush." This is the tactic that Napoleon, the god of war and the first emperor of France, is best used at. As a later generation, how could Li Xuan, who was familiar with "The Biography of Napoleon", not know that after the artillery bombardment, it was the best opportunity for the cavalry to charge? In later generations, there was a war maniac who also learned from Napoleon's tactic of "bombarding with artillery and charging with cavalry", and used a blitzkrieg that first bombarded indiscriminately with aircraft and artillery, and then charged with a tank group, and achieved a series of results, and that war maniac was the notorious FΓΌhrer of the Third German Reich and the leader of the Nazi Party, Hitler.
Zhang Shigui quickly gathered 2,000 cavalry, which was all the cavalry in Mayi City. They quickly assembled under the city gates. The column was formed in four horizontal rows. Because they were going to rush out of the city to kill the Turkic cavalry who had repeatedly invaded them, the faces of every soldier were full of excitement and sorrow, and their friends and family members in the city looked at them with hope, looking forward to their triumphant return.
As soon as the city gate opened, Zhang Shigui, the Taishou of Mayi, took the lead and rushed out of Mayi City, followed by Fang Zhizhi and two thousand soldiers, shouting loudly, following their respected general and slaughtering into the black wild. Killed the Turkic cavalry, who were busy fleeing.
Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, also asked the guards to change his armor for him, and he also had to fight under the city, but was stopped by Li Xuan, the king of Yong'an, who was afraid of revealing his identity and attracting the siege of the army of Jieli Khan, and Sun Wuji, the eldest son of Wenxuan Shilang of the Ministry of Officials.
Li Shimin had no choice. Extremely depressed, he snatched the drumstick from the sergeant's hand, and beat the war drum vigorously with both hands, although Li Shimin was wearing a Tang Dynasty merchant robe, with wide robes and large sleeves. When he played the drum, it was very inconvenient, but he still beat the drum with passion. The sound of drums resounded throughout the night sky of Mayi City.
Li Xuan and eldest grandson Wuji stood together, looking at each other and smiling bitterly at each other.
Tang Emperor Li Shimin belongs to the battlefield, he is the darling of the god of war on the battlefield, whenever he appears on the battlefield, he is like a superstar suddenly descending, with his resourcefulness, military exploits, prestige, attracted the attention of everyone on the battlefield and almost blind worship, he is so dazzling, so impressive, so willing to follow him, follow his footsteps, towards the battlefield, death does not spin. Fight for him, die for him, everyone follows him wholeheartedly, step by step to victory, step by step from one glory to another greater glory. The battlefield needs a hero like Li Shimin, and the battlefield also has a natural and fatal temptation for Li Shimin, Li Shimin likes the kind of state of being free to gallop on the battlefield and invincible.
Li Xuan, the king of Yong'an, asked the guards to tightly protect the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, who was happily beating the drum, in the middle to defend against the sneak attack of the Turkic people.
Looking at the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, who was excited to beat the drum, Li Xuan also felt the difficulty of the Tang Emperor, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, for the sake of the Tang people, the Tang Dynasty commander who loves military affairs gave up his beloved battlefield, suppressed the ** impulse in his heart, and strictly demanded himself, to calm down, and try to handle government affairs carefully. Without today's events, how could Li Xuan know that the Tang Emperor Li Shimin would be so restrained and suppress himself so much? Only in the face of the battlefield, his most beloved battlefield, will he be so abnormal and so excited from the heart.
The shouting outside the city finally quieted down, and gradually subsided. The drums of war grew smaller and stopped.
Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, put the drumstick aside, shouted, and said: "Happy, I haven't been so happy for a long time." β
The horse's hooves were obtained, and Zhang Shigui, the Taishou of Mayi, appeared under the city gate with a big knife and the soldiers who were partial to the general, Fang Zhizhi and the triumphant soldiers, and there were tsunami-like cheers from the city wall. Zhang Shigui proudly threw more than a dozen Turkic heads to the ground, and Fang Zhizhi and the soldiers who followed him also threw the Turkic heads they had captured on the ground like Zhang Shigui.
A colonel lit a torch and began to count. After a while, the colonel reported to Zhang Shiguiyu: "Report to Lord Taishou, this time our army killed more than 5,000 enemies, and some of our soldiers were wounded, but none of them were killed in battle!" β
Zhang Shigui nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand, and motioned for the colonel to retreat.
Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty looked enviously at Zhang Shigui, who was riding on a horse and returned triumphantly, sighed, and said to the guards around him: "I hate that I can't go to the battlefield in person and behead the enemy!" It's sad, it's sad. β
Li Xuan and the eldest grandson Wuji stood behind Li Shimin, only smiling bitterly. (To be continued......)
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