Chapter 128: It's completely reasonable
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"Marshal, the offensive of the Tang army is very fierce, we can't resist it!"
A bloodied Zhonglang general, Pegasus ran to Sun Xiaozhe's side, crying and reporting the situation.
Seeing that the several resistances he personally organized were easily crushed by the Tang army, Sun Xiaozhe's confidence had been completely destroyed, and when he heard the report of this lieutenant general, he no longer had the fighting spirit, and the war knife in his hand fell to his side with a clatter, and his eyes looked at the Tang army rushing not far away, without words or movements.
"Dashuai, let's run away! If you don't run away, the Tang army will kill you!" Sun Quan, the captain of his personal guard, pleaded: "There are more than 100,000 Tang troops attacking the camp, we can't resist, big marshal, retreat quickly, it's too late." Let's withdraw to Luoyang and make a decision after your majesty is revealed!"
Sun Quan's request has been made several times, since the first wave of resistance organized by Sun Xiaozhe himself was defeated by the Tang army, and more than 5,000 soldiers either fled or surrendered, Sun Quan said that he had made such a request. With the second wave of 3,000 troops and the third wave of 4,000 men and horses being defeated by the Tang army, Sun Quan, who had also been in battle for a long time, knew that it was impossible to turn the tide of the battle with their current strength, and the disorganized sergeants could no longer organize effective resistance. If Sun Xiaozhe didn't escape while there were still more than 3,000 people around him, and the Tang army didn't rush to the vicinity, it would have been too late.
But I don't know if Sun Quan's words touched Sun Xiaozhe, or if his blood was suddenly ignited, Sun Xiaozhe suddenly became furious, and suddenly pulled out the sword given by An Lushan on his waist, and shouted at the three or four thousand soldiers around him who were focused on protecting him: "Brothers, follow me to kill the past, you must drive the Tang army out of the camp, kill!"
Saying that, he rushed over first, and after Sun Quan was stunned for a moment, he could only swing his knife and kill him. Sun Xiaozhe's guards reacted quickly, shouting and rushing over, followed by thousands of other sergeants.
Soon, Sun Xiaozhe's men and horses fought with the Tang army who were coming over.
led the army to kill, and the Tang army that encountered Sun Xiaozhe's department was Pang Zhong's personal leader.
Although he did not receive the task of leading the front army to attack first this time, the Pang Zhong division that followed Yang Xi to lead the Chinese army was not slow, he followed Wang Sili's front army to attack, and the direction of his attack was from south to north, almost when Wang Sili's army rushed to the middle of the rebel front army camp, his men and horses also began to plunder the camp. The speed and effect of his attack were no worse than that of Wang Sili's department, and he easily broke into Sun Xiaozhe's Chinese army camp, and rushed to kill as if he had entered a realm of no way.
After Pang Zhong led the army into Sun Xiaozhe's Chinese army camp, he also quickly encountered the first wave of strong resistance, about 5,000 rebels rushed over in an organized manner, but under the repeated impact of more than 10,000 men and horses of his Pang Zhong and several generals under his command, they quickly scattered the more than 5,000 rebels and eliminated one, the rest of the rebels threw their weapons and surrendered, and some people scattered and fled.
It was not uncommon for thousands of men and horses to surrender during the fighting, especially the rebels. They were all the army of the Tang Dynasty before, but they rebelled with An Lushan, if the situation was not right, they would surrender immediately, at least they could save their lives, and they could even continue to live as usual. But if you resist, it may be a head-to-head landing and ending up in a different place. This situation exists on both sides, surrendering can save the surname in many cases, and needless resistance will give away the surname, and it will be after surrendering, behaving a little better, and even obtaining military merit.
In the Battle of Shaanxi, more than 30,000 rebels who were incorporated into the Tang army's array after surrendering also participated in the attack on Sun Xiaozhe's troops this time, and their performance was also very brave, and they did not show the slightest mercy because their opponent was their "brother" a few months ago, but were more ferocious than other Tang troops. They want to reap military merit, they want to be rewarded, they want to prove their ability.
There were many rebels who surrendered, but no one paid attention to them, and the Tang army led by Pang Zhong and his generals continued to charge and kill.
After three successive waves of rebel resistance of thousands of people were defeated, Pang Zhong's men and horses never encountered effective resistance, and they were almost close to the Chinese army's camp. When he was about to rush to the end, he finally encountered resistance from a group of thousands of people again. Pang Zhong, who was a little unpleasant to kill, was overjoyed when he saw it, and immediately ordered the people around him and the neighboring people to follow him to kill him. The two sides of the people and horses soon came into contact with each other, Pang Zhong was close to about 10,000 people, several times the number of the other party, he didn't take this people and horses in his eyes at all, he estimated that this rebel army and horses would still be the same as the people and horses that had encountered before, and they would collapse at the touch of a button, and they would also rush and kill the past with confidence and boldness.
However, the situation after the encounter still surprised Pang Zhong, the resistance of this rebel army was still quite resolute, and there was no situation of collapse at once, but this aroused his fighting spirit, and shouted loudly for the sergeant to rush to kill, and the rebel army that dared to resist on the opposite side must be eliminated.
After Pang Zhong's continuous order was issued, the men and horses around him accelerated the pace of attack one after another, and the men and horses of the two sides were completely strangled together. Because Pang Zhong's men and horses had an advantage in numbers, some of the grenades thrown by the sergeants also exploded in the rebel sergeant formation, which destroyed the fighting spirit of the rebels to a certain extent and frightened the opponent's horses.
"Marshal, we can't resist it, let's escape, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" Seeing that his men and horses were once again completely defeated, Sun Quan asked Sun Xiaozhe again after cutting down a Tang army sergeant who rushed to the nearest place. If you don't retreat, you won't be able to go again. Now there is no Tang army behind them, and under the desperate resistance of the sergeants, these guards can protect Sun Xiaozhe to escape.
But Sun Xiaozhe, who was red-eyed, ignored it, and roared angrily to order the sergeant to continue fighting, and he himself rushed forward with a sword, and quickly cut down several Tang sergeants who rushed to his vicinity.
Sun Xiaozhe has always been known for his bravery, his archery and knife skills, and swordsmanship are very good, if he hadn't been injured a few days ago, ordinary people would not be his opponents. But even so, it was difficult for ordinary people to get close to him, and the guards around him were closely guarding him, if he hadn't been vigorously attacking, those unlucky Tang Army sergeants would not have been able to rush close to him.
However, just when Sun Xiaozhe waved the sword in his hand, cut down several Tang army sergeants who rushed desperately, and was about to continue to rush and kill, several simple grenades were thrown to his side, with a deafening explosion, Sun Xiaozhe screamed, fell off the horse, and the sword in his hand also flew away, and his frightened war horse, after throwing him down, galloped desperately.
However, the horse's leg was also injured, and after only a few steps, it fell to the ground, knocking one of the guards off the horse.
Sun Xiaozhe fell off his horse, and his guards were all shocked and came to the rescue desperately, but at this time, more grenades were thrown over, and the Tang army also took advantage of the situation to rush up. Soon, even bloodier carnage unfolded within the camp.
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Completely different from Sun Xiaozhe's "feat" of desperate resistance, Tian Qianzhen, who was first attacked by Wang Sili's troops of the Tang Army, did not resist desperately after knowing that the general trend was gone. He organized several resistances, but to no avail, and when he saw several Tang troops rushing to his tent, he immediately ordered 3,000 guards and cronies around him to flee to the east.
When Tian Qianzhen fled, the camp of the former army was already completely chaotic, and there were screams of crying fathers and mothers everywhere, and the Tang army rushed to kill in the camp as if they had entered a no-man's land, and groups of rebels threw their weapons and knelt down to surrender. When the Tang army entered the camp, they shouted in unison that Sun Xiaozhe and Tian Qianzhen had surrendered or been killed, and these shouts further destroyed the fighting spirit of the rebels.
Wang Sili, who didn't know that Tian Qianzhen had slipped away, was a little bored by the success of this attack on the camp, and in the process of leading his troops into the front camp of the rebels, it was like entering a no-man's land, and he did not encounter any resistance at all, and many rebels directly chose to surrender after his men and horses continued to rush into the camp. Some of the rebels are running away with their heads, only hating their parents for giving birth to two fewer legs. This made Wang Sili feel very unpleasant.
It took less than half an hour for Wang Sili to lead his troops to rush through the entire front army camp, and in the process of rushing and killing, he killed five sergeants, guarding his charging guards, and killed not many rebel sergeants, because the number of rebels who took up arms to resist was too small.
"This battle is not very interesting!" He made a quick charge again, rushed back to the edge of the rebel camp, and Wang Sili, who stopped his mount to watch the battle, raised his sword and sighed. He knew Tian Qianzhen's name, and he knew it before the rebellion. When he was in the north, Tian Qianzhen's performance was good, and from time to time he had military exploits, and after following An Lushan's rebellion, Tian Qianzhen performed well, leading the army to capture many cities, and also had a good performance in the battle of Lingbao, but how could this be the case this time? Completely turned into a soft egg, unable to organize decent resistance?
Wang Sili was more worried before the war, in the end the combat effectiveness of the rebels was very good, most of them were good at fighting the border army, whether it was Sun Xiaozhe or Tian Qianzhen, or Yin Ziqi, they were all battle-hardened generals, and their strategies were outstanding. But I never dreamed that it would be a bit like a dream to enter the camp so easily and not encounter any resistance. But the earth-shattering shouts of killing in his ears told him that it was all true, that the assault camp under his command met little resistance, and that the rebels surrendered en masse.
The Tang army's attack on the camp went so smoothly, of course, there was an element of luck in it.
They chose the time to attack the camp well, launching the attack when the rebels were preparing to have dinner, and the previous several raids on the camp by the special task force and countless scouts were hunted down, which to a certain extent hit the morale of the rebels, and also made it impossible for the rebels to detect the Tang army attacking the camp as soon as possible.
It is completely reasonable that the war will be one-sided! (To be continued.) )