Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Back Road of the Tibetans
—— The smoothness of the war was something that no Tang army general except Yang Xi had ever imagined.
Because for so many years, the Tang army and the Tubo army have faced each other, winning and losing half, and if they lose, they are all defeated very miserably. Even if the battle is won, it is almost a miserable victory. These generals under Yang Xi's command originally estimated that the battle of Dafeichuan would be a vicious battle, and the resistance of the Tubo people would definitely be very tenacious, and even turned into a positional battle with heavy losses on both sides, which lasted for a very long time!
"The Tubo people turned out to be so virtuous, so defenseless, let us slaughter!" This is the emotion in his heart when he led the army into the camp and couldn't help but feel when he rushed to kill. Although he has experienced countless battles, he has never fought such a smooth battle.
But in Yang Xi's opinion, everything is not surprising. An Lushan's rebel army, which is like a wolf and a tiger, composed of a good fighting border army, will not be lower than the Tubo army that is also an army and a people, and the more than 100,000 horses of Sun Xiaozhe, the general under An Lushan, have been completely defeated by the surprise army under his command, as long as the opportunity is grasped, the Tubo people will definitely be caught off guard.
Attacking by surprise is the war dogma that Yang Xi has always believed in, attacking at a time when the opponent can't think of it, in an unexpected place, in a way they can't think of, as long as the attack is successful, the results will be very brilliant. The tactics he deployed this time must have been unexpected, launching an attack on the Tubo people in a season that was very unsuitable for the use of troops, and avoiding the detectives of the Tubo scouts, attacking the camp with tens of thousands of troops when the Tubo people were not prepared.
The effect of the surprise attack on Sun Xiaozhe's department during the counterinsurgency surprised everyone, and the effect of this surprise attack was even more amazing, almost like a few people who were prepared and fully armed, holding sharp weapons to deal with a few people who were sleeping soundly and did not have any precautions. A few strokes can knock the opponent down, or even kill them. At this time, no matter how powerful the sleeping person is, there is no chance to stand up and resist.
After receiving the news from various ministries that he had successfully broken into the Tubo camp, Yang Xi felt that it was taken for granted, and at the same time, he was greatly relieved, he knew completely that the Tubo people's camp had become a hell on earth, but he should not stop there, he must completely eliminate the Tubo people's armament!
In the land of Qinghai, there can no longer be Tibetan people.
There are still tens of thousands of people led by Yang Xi. When receiving the reports from the various departments, these tens of thousands of horses had already galloped quickly to the outside of the Tubo camp, and Yang Xi decisively issued an order for the follow-up men and horses to enter the attack. With his order, Hun Shizhi, Liu Guangting, Gao Fucheng and others heard the news that the raid was successful and the Tubo people were quickly defeated.
"Kill!" The earth-shattering roar of the Tang army soldiers drowned out the sound of the running horses.
They brandished their sabers in their hands. Loudly urging the war horses under him, he rushed towards the firelight and fierce fighting in the Tubo camp. At this moment, both generals and soldiers were filled with the joy of victory in their hearts. After thousands of miles of arduous marching, we can finally reap the fruits of the battle, and the dawn of victory is just around the corner, and no matter how hard the experience is, it doesn't matter. The final victory belonged to the Tang army.
The continuous fires in the Tibetan camp persuaded that the camp was basically destroyed, and the victory of our army was a foregone conclusion, and no one would doubt the victory of this battle.
As the commander of the whole army, Yang Xi did not directly lead the army to rush and kill. After ordering his generals to lead the army to charge and kill, he led the 5,000 men and horses of the escort team directly under the marshal to separate from the army that was about to charge and kill, and galloped quickly to a high slope to check the situation on the battlefield. As the commander of the whole army, he doesn't need to lead the army to directly charge and kill, this is not what he needs to do, he just needs to formulate the correct strategy and tactical arrangements, and he will go to charge and kill the soldiers under his own command.
After Yang Xi ordered 5,000 men and horses to guard the hillside, he galloped to the top of the hillside with more than 300 of his own guards, and Le Ma picked up a telescope to inspect the situation on the battlefield. The Tibetan camp was all plunged into a sea of fire, and there were figures of our army rushing and killing everywhere, as well as scenes of the Tibetan rout fleeing in all directions. This somewhat surprised Yang Xi, he couldn't imagine that the men and horses led by Shang Jiexi, a famous Tubo general, would be defeated so quickly after being attacked by our army. The situation on the battlefield became one-sided, and the Tubo battalion almost became the slaughterhouse of the Tang army.
The situation in the Tubo camp not only surprised Yang Xi, who was observing the situation, but also Hun Shizhi and others, who led the army to reinforce and then entered the battlefield, were very surprised. The camp was full of fires, and everywhere you could see the Tibetan routs running around, many of whom were not even properly dressed, let alone holding weapons, and when they saw our soldiers rushing towards them, all they thought of was to flee or kneel on the ground and surrender. The Tang army that stormed the camp basically did not need to pay attention to the Tubo people who came to stop them, they only needed to avoid the burning tents.
The fires that were set out everywhere dealt heavy blows to the Tibetans, but they also affected the safety of our army that rushed to kill in the Tibetan camp.
The attack camp of tens of thousands of soldiers of Hun Xuan, Fugu Huai'en, and Wang Sili has given the Tubo people a fatal blow, and the subsequent several people, including the Gao Shi Department, the Hun Shi Department, the Gao Fucheng Department, and the Liu Guangting Department, have made the Tubo people even worse, and they can't take care of each other.
Yang Xi didn't know where the 30,000 horses led by Chen Huiguang and Hao Tingyu had traveled to the back of Dafeichuan before the war, and if their 30,000 horses successfully reached their destination, the Tubo people would be almost completely surrounded, and there would definitely not be many of these hundreds of thousands of people who could escape and ascend to heaven. However, there was no movement coming from the southwest of the Tubo camp, and Yang Xi was a little worried about the 30,000 horses.
The means of communication were backward, and command operations were very restricted, and it would be nice if there were such advanced means of communication as in later generations, even if there was only telegraphs from World War I or World War II...... But these are certainly not possible now, and there is not even a good way to improve them.
"Report ......" Just when Yang Xi was holding a telescope to inspect the battle situation in the camp, a sergeant shouted, and ran to the top of the hill where Yang Xi was standing, and ran to Yang Xi surrounded by a group of Yang Xi's guards, panting, and immediately reported the news he had just received: "Report to the deputy marshal, our army has burned the grain and grass of the Tubo people......
Yang Xi hurriedly looked in the direction pointed by the sergeant, and he saw that in the depths of the Tubo camp far away from the direction where he was standing, there was a place where a fire was burning to the sky, and it seemed that it was the place where the Tubo people piled up grain and grass. Even if the 30,000 horses of Chen Huiguang and Hao Tingyu could not be outflanked in time and let some of the Tubo people flee, how could the Tubo people, who had lost grain and grass and could not get supplies, survive on the icy Qinghai Plateau?
After the sergeant left, there were sergeants who continued to rush over to report the situation to Yang Xi, and all they reported was that our army was progressing smoothly, and basically did not encounter organized resistance from the Tubo people, which made Yang Xi feel even more proud in his heart.
At this time, the sound of grenade explosions coming from the Tubo camp was less than at the beginning, but the shouts of killing were louder. The sky was full of the shouts of our army, as well as the sound of war horses running, of course, the screams of the Tubo people were also mixed in it, this sound made Yang Xi's blood boil, if it weren't for the sense of mission on his body, he would have led his troops to rush in, and he would have been addicted to fighting.
According to the sergeant's report, tens of thousands of Tibetans surrendered, including the third son who was still alive, the former deputy commander of the army, Xinuoer. Shang Jiexi's son, after our army quickly rushed in, did not put up any resistance, and soon surrendered, and after surrendering, he also promised Wang Sili, who accepted his surrender, that he would definitely persuade his father to surrender.
Sudden attack on the camp at night or in bad weather, the unguarded opponent does not know how many of our men and horses are attacking the camp, the soldiers are panicked, how can they organize effective resistance in panic, and escape or surrender is the best choice. Silnoer's choice is quite wise, otherwise it would be very tragic to end up in a different place-
On the west side of Dafei Sichuan, the 30,000 people led by Chen Huiguang and Hao Tingyu quietly arrived at the back of the Tubo camp, and after choosing a sheltered valley to set up camp, they paid close attention to the movements of the Tubo camp a few miles away.
The place they chose to camp was very good, the 30,000 people were not crowded at all, and after seizing a few commanding heights on the side, they did not have to worry about being attacked by the enemy. From this place to the Tubo camp, the straight-line distance is only two or three miles, and the actual distance is only five miles.
What's more, there were no Tibetan scouts in this direction, and the dozens of members of the Einsatzgruppen who arrived before them did not even attack or kill any of the Tibetan scouts after they arrived. It seems that the Tubo people did not expect that the Tang army would copy their rear roads, and did not add any precautions in the southwest direction.
After ordering the whole army to camp and rest, Chen Huiguang and Hao Tingyu ordered the members of the special task force to monitor the situation of the Tibetan camp at all times and report any movement immediately. Not worried about the attack of the Tibetans, Chen Huiguang and Hao Tingyu ordered the sergeants under their command to seize the time to rest, replenish food and water, and be ready to fight at any time. After replenishing food and water, the soldiers slept soundly and regained their strength.
In the middle of the night, members of the special task force who were closely observing the situation in the Tibetan camp came with news that other units of our army had begun to attack the camp.
After receiving the news, Chen Huiguang and Hao Tingyu immediately gave the order, and the whole army immediately prepared for battle.
About a quarter of an hour after Chen Huiguang and Hao Tingyu's orders were issued, there were already several teams of men, led by the Zhonglang General or Lang General who led the team, quickly passed through another valley and killed them in the direction of the Tubo camp. (To be continued......)