Chapter 197: Swallowing Thousands of Miles
The brutal and fierce fierce battle opened on the battlefield about three miles wide, and the 12,000 Tang army and the more than 10,000 Great Food Alliance troops fought together.
The Tang Army's 6,000 lancers and cavalry are the main force, and the 6,000 archers are divided into two flanks, always maintaining a complete formation, compared to the complete formation of the Tang Army, although the Tang Army's formation is simple, but it is aimed at the weakness of the Great Food Alliance, their weakness is temporary patchwork, lack of overall coordination, and the balance of strength is different.
In response to this weakness, Li Qingan adopted the strategy of fighting as a whole, first attacking the weak and then attacking the strong, and broke the Great Food Coalition Army.
Due to the lack of integrated training, the Great Food Coalition Army is much more scattered, except for more than 3,000 Great Food Troops forming a phalanx, Shi [***] and Tuqi Shi have been completely scattered, each in their own formation, but Judier also knows his weakness, he ordered the Tuqi Shi people who like to fight skirmishers to deal with the Tang Army lancers on both sides, and the Shi [***] team also formed a phalanx, which should be beside him.
The two armies were like huge waves slapping together, slamming into each other, swords and guns protruding, iron horses neighing, roars, screams, screams, broken bones, and wails before death.
Li Fei Shouyu led 2,000 cavalry archers to gallop on the left side of the Great Food Army, and the arrows were like dense rain, shooting towards the Great Food Army's array, effectively responding to the frontal battle of Duan Xiushi's main force.
The brothers Bai Xiaode and Bai Xiaojie were responsible for dealing with the Tuqi Shi people, although they were Qiuzi nobles, but they were brave and skilled in bows and horses since childhood, and they each led a thousand cavalry archers to suppress the impact of the Tuqi Shi people on the two wings of the Tang army with strong bows and crossbows.
Li Qing'an and Du Mozhi are 'old friends', after many years of dealing, Du Mozhi's son Du Luoxian died under Li Qing'an's arrow, he knows the Tuqi Shi people well, knowing that the Tuqi Shi people are fierce and timid, happy and regret their lives, although Du Mozhi has a revenge against himself, but he will never lose his roots because he wants to avenge the killing of his son, his land is not land at all, but his tribes, and he will not die for anyone.
They are wolves on the grassland, the special surname of the wolf is that they are afraid of the strong and the weak, they will never lag behind when they encounter the weak, their claws are sharper than anyone else, and they will avoid them far away when they encounter strong enemies, Du Mozhi is such a wolf.
It is precisely because of a thorough understanding of the Turgish people that Li Qingan did not put too many troops on the Turgish people, he knew that as long as there was a slight wind and grass, Du Mozhi ran faster than anyone else, in terms of understanding the Turgish people, Li Qingan was obviously stronger than Judil, and Judier ordered the Turgish people to attack the Tang army from the side, but he didn't know that the reason why Du Mozhi was able to live from the era of Sulu Khan to the present is because Du Mozhi has a set of rules for self-preservation.
As Li Qing'an understood, although Du Mozhi was violent, he did not do his best to attack the Tang army, he ordered his subordinates to gallop back and forth on the side of the Tang army, shouting loudly, creating an earth-shattering momentum, but never organized a large-scale assault, just ordered a small number of cavalry cavalry to test the attack, once the Tang army counterattacked with bows and arrows, he immediately turned his horse back, fought for nearly an hour, his loss was less than 600 people, and he always retained his strength.
Du Mozhi commanded the attack, while observing the situation of the two armies, this time the Beiting Army pressed the border, it is very likely that the Tang Dynasty is going to restore the rule of the broken leaves, and the Great Cannibal Civil War is in full swing, how can they resist the Tang Dynasty's westward advance, Du Mozhi knows that his territory will not be guaranteed, but he is unwilling, eager to use the power of Judil to drive away the Tang Army, but the current situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Great Food Army, Du Mozhi is already beginning to think about the way back.
The Tang Army is attacking the weakness of the Great Food Coalition with all its might.
Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun each led a cavalry, such as a knife and an iron fist to impact the left and right wings of the Great Food Army and Shi [***], the purpose was to break up its joint phalanx, Nan Jiyun's big iron spear was as long as one foot and five feet, extremely sharp, dancing like a storm, rushing left and right in the enemy formation, unstoppable, the spear pierced the enemy's chest, and flew high, and the screams were long in the air, at this time a big food enemy will burst from the side, the iron spear slid through, the two were close to each other, Nan Jiyun held the gun in his left hand, and pulled out the horizontal knife in his right hand, The backhand slashed away with a lightning sword, cutting off half of the head of the Great Food General, and the war horse dragged the dead body and fled.
"Kill!" He shouted like thunder, and the morale of the two battalions of Tang troops beside him was high, and he was like an extremely sharp boning knife, instantly cutting the Great Food Army Formation and the Shi [***] Formation into two sections.
The Tang army's war drums suddenly sounded, the drums rumbled like thunder, and the Tang army's ant extermination tactics were launched, which was carried out by Lei Wanchun, who led four battalions of 2,000 cavalry, aiming directly at the weak stone [***].
Lei Wanchun is known as the first fierce general of the North Court, brave and abnormal, he is majestic, riding on a tall war horse, like a giant spirit god descending to earth, holding two big hammers weighing fifty pounds each, the hammer flies, the strong wind blows on the face, the hammer shadow is like snow flakes flying, fierce as a bear, there are a hundred hammer cavalry around him, all of them have big shoulders and round waists, and the strength is endless, they all carry two iron hammers, follow Lei Wanchun around, form a hundred hammer array, the place where the hundred hammer array passes, the stone [***] all have brains bursting, bones and tendons are broken, and the death is extremely miserable,
Lei Wanchun led two thousand Tang troops to kill all the way, the momentum was like a devastating and decaying, and the Shi Guo cavalry was killed to the ground, and the blood flowed like a river.
Prince Shi's face turned pale, and the strength of the Tang Army made him realize that the Great Food Army was very likely to lose in this battle, so what would be the consequences of Shi Guo joining the Great Food Army in the war, he didn't dare to imagine.
"Second prince, we can't resist it, the defeat is decided, surrender!" A bloodied general of the Stone Kingdom rushed to Yuan En and shouted loudly.
"Surrender!" Yuan En was at a loss, could he surrender?
"Surrender! Otherwise, our stone country will be finished. ”
As soon as the general's words fell, he suddenly let out a miserable scream, and a spear leaked out of his chest, and Raschel, the general of the Great Food who supervised the battle of Shi [***], said with a hideous face: "You dare to bewitch the hearts of the army!" ”
He pulled out his spear, glared at Yuan En angrily, and said, "Fight to the death, and no one is allowed to retreat!" You know? ”
Yuan En looked at the tip of his bloody spear and nodded timidly, and Raschel said to another sergeant: "Quickly ask the general for help, saying that Shi [***] is in danger." ”
Without waiting for his sergeant to report the news, Judir, the general of the big food in the back, had already seen that the situation was critical, and the Shi [***] team was likely to retreat first, so he hurriedly turned around and said to the deputy general Hussein: "You continue to command the battle,"
He also gave an order to the five hundred guards, "Come with me to support Shi [***] quickly." ”
The 500 elites who have been following Judir have been mobilized, they have all changed into the Mingguang armor captured from the Yiwu army, riding the Arabian war horses with incomparable horses, each equipped with 20 flying spike short spears, these 500 people are brave and good Bedouins, all of them are immediately heroic, in the Kaiyuan period when Judir participated in the suppression of the Sogdian Sharik uprising, these 500 Bedouins defeated the 3,000 rebel army in one fell swoop, slaughtering the rebel army and their families nearly 10,000 people.
In the battle that defeated the Yiwu army a few days ago, it was these five hundred Bedouin who took the lead in defeating the Shatuo people, and then killed Han Zhi, the main general of the Tang army.
Five hundred Bedouins rode their horses together, and Saladin's eagle banner flew in the air, a sign that the Great Eater would move.
Li Qing'an has been paying attention to this big flag, only to see the big flag moving towards the stone [***] array, this is Judier personally came to save the stone [***] danger, in order to deal with this sharp Arab cavalry, Li Qingan took out the secret weapon he specially prepared for it.
He turned back to Li Fei Yuanli and shouted, "You can go to war." ”
At this time, Li Fei Yuanli was heavily armored, holding a one-foot eight-foot Mo knife, when he was in Anxi, he was the deputy lieutenant of Li Siye's Mo knife battalion, after coming to Beiting, he selected a thousand tall and high-arm sergeants from the Han Navy, and prepared to train into the Beiting Mo Knife Army, but unfortunately the Mo knife is difficult to cast, and the North Ting only made six hundred Mo knives within a few months, and temporarily formed the Mo Dao Battalion.
These 600 heavy armor troops were hidden among the 6,000 lancers, and they were the secret weapon that Li Qing'an used to deal with the 500 Bedouins.
With an order, the six hundred heavy armor Mo sword army followed Li Fei Yuanli to the enemy's handsome banner, Li Qing'an also urged the war horse, led hundreds of personal soldiers, and rushed to the battlefield of Shi [***], at this time, Shi [***] is the weakness of the Great Food Army, and its defeat is directly related to the victory or defeat of the entire Broken Leaf War.
As soon as the Bedouins appeared, they showed their swiftness and fierceness, they rushed around the Tang army like a violent wind, using the captured Tang army shields to resist the Tang army's arrow rain, but their short spears were like poisonous snakes, they would suddenly shoot out, giving people a fatal blow, and more than a dozen people had died under the flying spears in the Hundred Hammer Array.
The arrival of the commander of the big food greatly boosted the morale of Shi [***], and more than 4,000 Shi cavalry gradually gathered to resist the assault of the Tang army, Judier loudly commanded Shi [***] to rearrange the formation, and at this moment, the six hundred Mo sword army of Lifei Yuanli arrived.
They were like an iron wall between the Hundred Hammer Array and the Bedouins, the Mo knife flew towards the Bedouin cavalry, the spear stabbed like hail Ding Dingdangdang, shot on the heavy armor of the Mo Dao Army, but could not penetrate, the Mo Dao Army's steps were as dignified as a mountain, step by step towards the Bedouins to kill, more than a hundred Bedouins did not know how powerful, they shouted, holding spears to kill the Mo Dao Army, trying to pierce the chest of the heavily armored soldiers with a strong impact.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the two armies came into contact, the snowy Mo knife flew over, and more than 100 cavalry companies and horses were cut into pieces.
Judier was taken aback, and urgently ordered to withdraw the troops, at this moment, the Tang army behind the Mo knife launched an attack again, a hundred hammer cavalry followed Lei Wanchun with the power of ten thousand jun, to kill the Shiguo cavalry, two thousand Tang troops followed, Lei Wanchun was like a giant spirit god descending to earth, killing into the dense enemy army, the sledgehammer slammed left and smashed, the Shiguo soldiers under his hammer all burst their brains, all the internal organs were rotten, and a hundred subordinates also followed the hammer wave, for a time the hammer shadow was pervasive, the enemy suffered heavy casualties, and the strong impact of the hammer cavalry destroyed the stone [***] The formation that the team had just assembled, Shi [***] was killed so much that people turned on their backs, and they were about to collapse.
Judir was in a hurry, and he shouted sharply, "Formation! No retreat is allowed. ”
His order had no effect, Shi [***] had been killed by Lei Wanchun to the point of chilling, Judier suddenly turned his head and stared at Lei Wanchun, if they didn't kill this person, they would definitely be defeated.
He pulled out a swarthy short spear from the horse bag, made of stainless steel, extremely sharp, his eyes narrowed, his gaze was fixed on Lei Wanchun's chest, he remembered the moment when he shot the main general of the Tang army with his own hands a few days ago, that wonderful arc, the short spear shot into the chest of the Tang general, nailing him to the ground, the stimulation of that moment made him unforgettable.
His short spear slowly raised, locking on Lei Wanchun, who was slaughtering the stone [***] thirty paces away, and at the moment when he was about to throw the short spear, an iron arrow shot like lightning, and he saw a black spot suddenly enlarged in front of him, and there was a sharp pain between his eyebrows, and his eyes turned blood-red, and then there was a death-like black silence.
The iron arrow shot through Judir's head, the short spear fell to the ground, he turned over and planted it from his horse, eighty steps away, Li Qing'an slowly withdrew the fire bow, and couldn't help but smile at the sky, he hadn't shot for a long time, and today he shot the big food boss, and he had a feeling of returning to Anxi Fort.
"The boss of the big food is dead, and those who return from the handsome flag will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!"
The Tang army thundered with joy and fought bravely to be the first, and the Saladin eagle battle flag disappeared in a bloody rain.....
The news that Judir was shot and killed, Du Mozhi saw that the situation was not good, and took the lead in leading his subordinates to flee the battlefield, as the Turgish people fled, the Great Food Coalition Army completely collapsed, the Great Food Army and Shi [***] were defeated, pursued and killed by the Tang Army, and countless people surrendered on their knees, in this battle, the Tang Army killed nearly 7,000 enemy troops, and captured more than 5,000 people, only the Prince of Shi Yuanen fled under the desperate protection of more than 100 guards, and the Great Food Coalition Army was wiped out.
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In the bitter cold wind, the gates of Broken Leaf City were opened, and more than 200 Turkish nobles led by the Turgist Sherweitler Khan knelt on the ground, and behind them, more than 2,000 Turgish soldiers laid down their weapons and lined up to wait for disposal.
Inside the city gate, more than 1,000 Han people with broken leaves crowded at the city gate, they ate pot pulp, and waited excitedly for the arrival of the Tang army.
In the distance, the flag cloud of the Tang army appeared at the end of the grassland, and after two days of rest, Li Qingan led 8,000 Tang troops to officially take over Broken Leaf City.
The mighty Tang army is getting closer and closer, they are all in bright armor, majestic, Li Qing'an looked at this majestic city, his heart is infinitely emotional, 1,300 years later, this city disappeared in the dust of the years, this land has become a foreign land, but in the strong Tang Dynasty, here is the frontier of the Han people.
The procession stopped in front of the Turgish nobles, and Erweitel Khan held up the Great Seal and said: "The Tang Dynasty Bianjung Beichen Erweitler asks for surrender to the Beiting Festival!" ”
Li Qing'an turned over and dismounted, helped him up and said with a smile: "The Khan has a long-term vision, and you must know that the stability of the broken leaves depends on the Khan and the Tang Army to maintain together, and I hope that the Khan can live in harmony with the Tang Army." ”
He looked at the Turgish soldiers who had surrendered again, and then nodded and gave Li Fei Shouyu a look, and Li Fei Shouyu immediately led 3,000 troops to collect the Turgish people.
Erweitler Khan watched his army Tang Army take away, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, the disappearance of the army also means the disappearance of power, and from now on, the Broken Leaf Turquoise will become history.
He secretly hurt himself, so he said to Li Qing'an: "Envoy, I plan to take my son to Chang'an to meet the Heavenly Khan, I don't know if I can do it?" ”
Li Qingan smiled slightly: "It is naturally a good thing to meet His Majesty the Emperor, I will deal with the matter of broken leaves, and I will also return to Beijing to report on my work, so the Khan might as well go with me." ”
Erweitler Khan hurriedly said: "I understand the good intentions of the king, but I plan to set off the day after tomorrow and go first." ”
"Alright then!"
Li Qingan turned over his horse, turned around and ordered loudly: "Line up with me into the city and collect broken leaves!" ”
The Tang army lined up and began to officially enter the city of broken leaves, as the cavalry of the Tang army entered the city gate, the Han people of the broken leaves were jubilant, they swarmed up, scrambling to serve the bread and wine high, tears of excitement flowed all over everyone's faces, from the seventh year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty to the broken leaves lost the Tang Dynasty, this wanderer who had wandered outside for thirty years, and finally returned to its mother's arms.
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(To be continued)