Chapter 240
In fact, the subsequent battles also proved Baili Wuji's worries.
Taking advantage of the high morale of the initial victory, the new army launched an attack on the city of Minzhou.
And there were only 3,000 defenders in Minzhou City, and seeing that the 10,000 troops outside the city were wiped out in an instant, how could they still have the slightest fighting spirit, opened the north city gate, and fled.
After Baili Wuji entered Minzhou City, he interrogated the Tibetan captives and learned that they belonged to the Jiaoguo Luo Division, and Jiaoguo Luo had reached an alliance with the Luo Wang.
I can't ask anything else, which also confirms Baili Wuji's speculation, and the two tribes from Jiaoluo and Luo Wang, who attacked the four states of the Ming Kingdom.
Now that Minzhou has been occupied, and Minzhou is only a day's journey from Weizhou in Zhou, Baili Wuji sent a messenger to Weizhou City, and Weizhou told Chai Rong his own march route and asked Chai Rong to send troops to respond.
Baili Wuji rested in Minzhou City for a day, and then set off for Luqu, the target of the scheduled meeting with Xu Shouren.
It was also the time of this day, Baili Wuji missed the hope of turning back, if Baili Wuji stayed in Minzhou City for one more day and saw the messenger who came to report, then, many things would not have happened.
Xu Shouren did not have the good luck of Baili Wuji, and set out from Longzhou to attack Songzhou, Songzhou since the Tang Dynasty, is the place where Tang and Tubo must fight, Tubo Eight Alliances and Eight Rebellions, the first to fight for Songzhou.
In peacetime, Songzhou was also the trade hub between the Tang Dynasty and Tibet.
The Tibetans exchanged their own livestock such as yaks, horses, camels, and sheep for silk, cloth, tea, and other goods in Songzhou and the Central Plains.
So, Songzhou City has gone through hundreds of years. By this time, there were no walls left, and it was like an undefended city. Whoever comes, it will be whomever it comes.
Xu Shouren led 30,000 special combat troops to easily occupy Songzhou, and more than 1,000 troops in Tubo had already fled.
Subsequently, Xu Shouren attacked Misang in the west according to the original plan, but after leaving Songzhou City, he was harassed by the Tubo cavalry all the way and struggled.
As many as 3,000 and as little as 1,000 Tibetan rangers followed them like a shadow, constantly coming to harass them.
Once the special operations army stopped and prepared for battle. They fled quickly.
At this time, the special operations army, because of Baili Wuji's idea of using this army to fight the Liao army in the north.
The establishment of the special operations army is only musketeers and cavalry, and the cavalry ordnance of the special operations army is still the original configuration. It was not changed as in the Forces nouvelles, with knives, crossbows and grenades, and was not equipped with muskets.
Therefore, Xu Shouren had no choice but to order the cavalry on both sides to open the way for the forward forward. The sedan musketeers are in the center. The cavalry pressed the formation.
This arrangement was correct, and the arrangement of the cavalry in the front and rear made the Tubo army lose the possibility of attacking, but slowed down the marching speed of the special combat army.
Songzhou to Misang, originally a two-day journey, the special operations army walked for four days before coming to the outside of Misang City.
The cities of Tibet are basically not high, and they are all clay walls.
Xu Shouren was fully confident that he would quickly take down Misang City with the combat power of the special operations army and the firearms deployed.
But what Xu Shouren didn't expect was. Misan City has long been heavily armed.
All the Tibetan cavalry that disappeared along the way gathered in Misang City, and there were even Tibetan cavalry from Luoqi City.
When the scouts came back and reported that there were probably more than 80,000 cavalry assembled in the city of Misan. Xu Shouren was stunned.
A local battle that was originally thought to be a self-defense counterattack war turned out to be a decisive battle between Tubo and the Ming Kingdom.
This was completely beyond the expectations of Xu Shouren and even the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom.
More than 50,000 troops go on the expedition, and the materials and ordnance that need to be mobilized are an astronomical amount, and it is completely impossible to achieve without the support of strong national strength, that is to say, the appearance of such a large Tubo army in Misang City is not accidental, but premeditated, thinking of this, Xu Shouren was terrified in his heart, and he had goosebumps.
Now the only correct way is to lead the special operations army to withdraw to Longzhou, report to Jinling on the one hand, and contact Yunyang to protect Chengdu Mansion on the other.
But Xu Shouren immediately thought that Misang City was like this, and it was conceivable that Dalang's situation was not much better, thinking of this, Xu Shouren would never order the withdrawal of troops.
Xu Shouren's dream is to become the shadow of Baili Wuji, if Baili Wuji is gone, then there is no hope.
In Xu Shouren's heart, anyone in the Ming Kingdom can die, including himself, and even his father-in-law, but Baili Wuji can't die.
With such an awareness, Xu Shouren sent 30,000 special combat troops into the tiger's mouth.
Xu Shouren quickly wrote the letter, ordered the scouts to carry the message back to the east, and ordered the cavalry of the first battalion of the special operations army to escort him.
Subsequently, he ordered the transport troops to lay fences, mines and other objects in front of the formation, the musketeers lined up, and the cavalry responded on both sides.
Xu Shouren was ready to fight the Tubo army outside the city of Misang.
In fact, Xu Shouren had no choice, he knew that if the special operations army withdrew, even if it could be safely withdrawn, there were only two directions for the Tubo army in front of him, one was to pursue the special operations army to the west, and the other was to go north to encircle other Tubo troops for hundreds of miles.
This is definitely not what Xu Shouren wants to see, so he can only fight to the death.
In the time that Xu Shouren had arranged all this, the Tubo army in Misang City had already completed its assembly.
The scouts of the special operations army did not misestimate the number of Tubo troops in Misang City.
Misang City gathered more than half of the cavalry of Tubo, a full 80,000 people.
The Tibetan cavalry rushed out from the northern, southern, and western gates, forming formations while running.
When they ran outside the gate of the western city, the vanguard of the army began to charge, and gradually the whole army began to charge.
The ordnance of the Tibetan soldiers was not very good, but the leather armor made of yak leather was quite good for defense, and the most important thing was that the Tibetan soldiers were born riders.
The 80,000 Tibetan cavalry swept away towards the special combat army twenty miles away like the tide at high tide, carrying wave after wave of huge waves.
In the eyes of the soldiers of the Tibetan army, this group of Han people will be torn apart by themselves.
30,000 special operations troops are enough to be called a large army.
But in the sea of 80,000 cavalry moving, it was just a small thing.
But the Tibetan army was too underestimated as the elite of this Ming army, and they now had no idea what price they would pay for their mistakes.
The distance of twenty miles was less than a moment for the charging cavalry.
The two armies did not immediately clash, but laid mines, fences, thistles and other materials to play a stubborn role in deterring the enemy.
The explosion of the mine instantly disintegrated the momentum of the Tibetan army's charge in front of it.
Immediately, the special operations musketeers began to shoot.
The three-stage attack was like starting a nightmare for the Tibetan cavalry who had reduced their speed.
The non-stop firing of the musketeers wiped out the Tibetan cavalry, which was close to 20 zhang.
And the cavalry of the special operations army on both sides has also started a battle with the cavalry of the attacking Tubo army.
The configuration of cavalry grenades in the special combat army is eight, but according to military regulations, only seven are allowed to be used in each battle, and the last one cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary. (To be continued......)