Chapter 125: Yumen Snow (10)
"Ready—shoot!"
The advancing Tubo army suddenly heard a heavy wind coming from their heads, and when they looked up, they saw countless sharp arrows showing their bloodthirsty fangs.
After the three drums, the Tubo army that was caught off guard had already fallen a large number, especially the archers, and Shi Jingfeng, who had suffered from the bird's spirit, regarded the archers as the key targets. It was also the Tubo army that was bigger, thinking that * really had no arrows, forcing the city to line up, they were just shooting at the pass, and * occupied the geographical advantage on the pass, the range was much farther than the Tubo army, and the protection level of the Tubo army was low, so as soon as it was shot down, the archers of the Tubo army were killed and wounded.
"Ready—shoot!"
Countless arrows shot down like crows, reaping a large number of human lives. Under the command of Li Jiyan, *'s bow and arrow seemed to have eyes, and they shot at the place where the Tubo army was concentrated. After the second shot, the third, fourth, and fifth shots followed. In a very short period of time, * completed eight shots. Suddenly suffering such a dense blow, the Tibetan army panicked from top to bottom, and was unable to organize an effective counterattack. Many of the advancing Tibetan soldiers ran under the city wall in a panic, hiding in the dead corner of the bow and arrow strike, and actually escaped the initial salvo, attracting a large number of imitators, but unfortunately they forgot to escape in time and became the dead souls under the rolling stone and nail boards.
"Tang people, Tang people are too cunning!"
Shang Tazang, who was close to the command, was also hit by a stray arrow in the arm, in a hurry, he was escorted by the deputy general with his own soldiers to retreat, and when he retreated, he was hit by an arrow in the butt of the war horse, and ran all the way under the pain, carrying Shang Tazang back to the barracks, Shang Tazang was in front, and the deputy general took his own soldiers to carry the banner and followed behind, and the soldiers of the other departments saw that the commander was gone, and when they saw that the commander was running to the barracks, they only said * There was a big move, so they looked at one, looked at two, and ran wildly. Seeing Shi Jingfeng slamming the wall fiercely on the close, he said:
"If I have 500 cavalry ambushed under the pass, I will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and I will definitely be able to kill him with a big defeat and loss, and I will not be able to turn over."
When he said this, he completely forgot the embarrassed appearance of being almost attacked by the Tubo people just now. Now that the time has come, it's really unwilling to watch it slip away. The ancient precept said that it was not too late to make amends, and Shi Jingfeng ordered the cavalry to gather at that time and prepare to go out of the city to pursue. It's a pity that in order to prevent the Tubo people from attacking, the gate in front has been blocked, Shi Jingfeng had to order three hundred cavalry, and went around the gate at the back, only to catch the tail of the Tubo army, and chased and killed for a while unhappily, only killing three or five hundred remnants, and seeing that the Tubo army had gathered the formation, he retreated.
When Shi Jingfeng was pursuing, Li Jiyan was not idle, and ordered 500 soldiers to ride out of the east gate on horseback and go to clean up the battlefield. Li Jiyan ordered:
"When you encounter someone who is still angry, you will cut it off directly. The key is to seize the time to pick up more arrows and come back, and put weapons or something in the back row. When Sturt comes back from pursuit, you should stop being greedy and retreat to the pass. ”
Another 200 soldiers were ordered to clean up the gates, collect the bodies of their comrades who had died in battle, and the bodies of the enemy were thrown into the city. Naturally, some people also received the arrows shot by the Tibetans, and the good ones were directly allocated to the closed for use, and the broken ones were sent to the craftsman's camp for repair. This cleaning packed up a lot of arrows, but Li Jiyan was very dissatisfied and said:
"I knew that I would have learned Zhang to guard Suiyang, and I would have made some scarecrows to receive arrows on the gate."
It turned out that most of the arrows shot at Shangguan hit wood, bricks, and stones, and how could the arrows still be used under the violent impact? Only a few arrows are still in good condition. The soldiers who cleaned the battlefield under the city put the bundled arrows in the hanging baskets, because when they were picked, they were picked and picked, and they could still be used, but the number was not much, only five or six thousand arrows, and together with the city found, less than 10,000. If it is sent to the craftsman camp for repair, Li Jiyan estimates that it will only be 10,000 yuan.
With less than 20,000 arrows combined, how can you hold this fortress? Li Jiyan and Shi Jingfeng, who came back, were a little worried.
Not to mention that Guan Shang is worried about the arrows, Shang Tazang's side, the already black face is getting darker and darker. Shang Tazang's war horse ran wildly in pain, he had an arrow in his right arm, and it took a lot of effort to restrain the war horse, and when he stopped to look back, there was already a rout behind him, Shang Tazang had a black face and wanted to ask why the general wanted to flee, and immediately realized that he was the first to "escape" from the battlefield. In a fit of rage, Shang Tazang jumped off his horse, pulled out the arrow from his right arm, drew his sword, and pointed at the war horse:
"Brute, my army has been defeated!"
After saying that, he actually raised his sword and cut off the horse. He did not say that his misjudgment caused the army to suffer heavy losses, but he put all the blame on the horse. This horse is Shang Ta Zang defeated the Sogdians, usually very cherished, seeing Shang Ta Zang even love the horse killed, the deputy general and others are frightened, persuade Shang Ta Zang to go back to the camp to bandage first, Shang Ta Zang refused, the deputy general had to order the soldiers to lead another good horse for Shang Ta Zang to ride, and led his own soldiers to play the banner of Shang Ta Zang, in the formation behind Shang Ta Zang. Seeing that the commander was here, the defeated soldiers couldn't help but slow down, and quietly went to Shangta to hide behind the headquarters and found the original position of the headquarters to stand, and after a while, a large array actually formed again.
Seeing that the rout was gathering more and more,* but there was not even a shadow of the pursuers, and the Tibetan army from Shang Tazang downwards had a fever on their faces. Shang Tazang said angrily:
"If the enemy really catches up, not more, only 3,000 people, our army must be annihilated."
Finally, I saw the pursuers from a distance, only a few hundred horsemen, and saw that the Tubo army had stopped the rout, and after watching for a while, they retreated. One after another, there were squads of soldiers and horses returning to the battle with red faces, and some reported the movement of *, and heard that * sent soldiers to clean up the battlefield, Shang Tazang seemed to think of something, and suddenly laughed. The adjutant general was puzzled and asked:
"General, our army is not victorious today, how can you still laugh?"
The adjutant general asked very tactfully, but everyone could hear the frustration. Shang Tazang was not annoyed, and said:
"Well, I see,* there really aren't any arrows left this time."