The old general regretted it, feeling that he had done something wrong, even though it was too late for him to find out, but he still thought so, and he thought that if he hadn't done this, perhaps, it would have been a good ending.

The reason why the old general has such an idea, the main reason is Du He, the Tang army led by Du He saw the thick black smoke at the first glance, there was an ominous premonition, the vanguard army general Chi Baolin with a 5,000-strong iron cavalry rushed to charge, just to remind the main force of the rebel army that was already at war with the official army to beware of the use of tactics by the official army, Du He pointed out sharply that although the rebel army was outnumbered, there was no doubt that it was a rabble, and it was extremely easy for experienced generals to see the flaws. Crippled in one fell swoop.

The Tang army and the eastern rebel army coalition army were strongly resisted by the Persian government army when attacking the last fortress of the Persian imperial city, this government army has a large number of people, most of them are the same as the previous Persian army, a rabble, but there is an army of 20,000 or 30,000 people is extremely tenacious and good at fighting, Du He was a little light at the beginning, and only used 5,000 light horses to capture the fortress after the main force of 100,000 people was annihilated, and the result was beaten back with a blue nose and swollen face, Du He was shocked and angry, and personally led the army with artillery to attack the city.

Facts have proved that the defeat of five thousand light cavalry is not without reason, this Persian army is indeed quite tenacious, repelled the first wave of the Tang army without artillery to help the attack, of course, this is only Du He's tentative attack, after this time, Du He ordered the use of artillery to bombard the city wall, first use solid iron bullets to completely destroy the city wall, and then use flowering shells to attack the soldiers, after a round of heavy bombardment, the Tang elite formed a military formation to move forward steadily, originally thinking of falling in one fell swoop, but still encountered stubborn resistance.

The vanguard general Chi Baolin personally led 3,000 commandos into the city and engaged in fierce street battles with the Persian defenders. As a result, he was beaten out three times, and Duhe was furious, personally put on armor and went into battle with his own guards, and was almost beaten out by the Persian government army, Duhe felt extremely shocked. In his opinion, the combat effectiveness of this Persian army was far inferior to that of the Tang army, but their spirit and their tenacious will to fight shocked him, and he witnessed a Persian army with intestines flowing out of it bite off the neck of a Tang soldier, and then died of exhaustion.

What kind of troops did these Persians belong to? This must not be an ordinary Persian army, it must be the elite of the elite, who will be their master? Who is their commander-in-chief? Where exactly do they come from?

The Anxi army of the Tang Dynasty, which had never been defeated in a hundred battles, suffered a severe defeat here, and three of the five armies of 90,000 people were concentrated here. But it was blocked by the remnants of the Persian army with less than 20,000 people for five whole days, until the last Persian troops were killed in battle, and the Tang Dynasty lost more than 8,900 soldiers, which was the largest battle loss in a single battle since the establishment of the Anxi Army, and the largest battle loss under the dominant force shì, looking at the fortress that had been completely destroyed, Du He's expression was solemn.

What happened to these Persian soldiers?

This suspicion and ominous feeling was even stronger when Du He saw the thick black smoke with his own eyes. What he feared most had happened, and the Persian defenders in the city must have taken advantage of the rebels' defenselessness. The sudden attack and the use of fire to attack the rebels were a surprise, if the well-trained army was fine, the rebels would be a complete rabble, and the intelligence also said that the rebels still had a large number of family members who numbered more than the combatants, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and so on. Is this the army?

Once this kind of army is attacked by fire, even if the army is not chaotic, those old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children will collapse, right? Once women and children collapse, can men not panic? Can you still accept the command of the commander and resist in an orderly manner? It must have been a collapse, just like when Lu Xun burned the joint venture. The well-trained and capable Shu soldiers under the personal command of Emperor Liu Bei still collapsed, let alone these rabble.

Immediately, Du He immediately ordered the vanguard general Chi Baolin to lead 5,000 light cavalry to the scene of the incident to support those Persian rebel army, although they are all rabble, but if they are used well, the Tang army can destroy the Persian regime without much effort, otherwise if the Tang army attacks in person, it is estimated that the result will not be very gratifying, and the Tang army, which has just encountered the sworn resistance of more than 20,000 Persian remnants, is not suitable for a tough battle immediately.

But it was too late, Yu Chi Baolin encountered an ambush on the way to advance quickly, the Persian army from nowhere attacked the Tang light cavalry with a bow and crossbow, the Tang light cavalry lost more than 200 cavalry in a hurry, Yu Chi Baolin immediately decided to lead the cavalry to retreat quickly, and the enemy situation could not advance arbitrarily, this is the Anxi military law established by Du He, even if it is a retreat, there is no crime, and it is a crime to advance rashly even if it is a victory.

Retreated to a safe place, Yu Chi Baolin ordered the cavalry to organize the sentinel to touch the past again, to investigate the situation, because he was in a hurry, so he did not send a scout to explore the road, but he encountered an ambush, this time it will not be, Yu Chi Baolin let the scout go first, and he took the main force to follow up behind, and the well-trained scouts moved forward in the dense forest on both sides of the road, and soon found the location of the Persian ambush, the green signal flare rose into the sky, and Yu Chi Baolin immediately ordered the cavalry to dismount and become infantry, Draw your melee knife and rush into the woods to pick up the ambushes.

Facts have proved that the decision made by Wei Chi Baolin is right, or that the military university and the general staff headquarters are correct in their basic solutions to various basic problems that may be encountered during the march, because no matter what the situation is, the root cause is the same, and a motive can evolve into thousands of ideas, but the solution does not seem to be as cumbersome as a thousand things. Don't stick to the rules.

Wei Chi Baolin's head is not very good, or his IQ is not very high, he reads less, and he is often in a state of being bullied in a group of friends, but even if it is a piece of wood, he can be honed into an excellent general in the military academy for three years and seven or eight years in the army, this kind of thing can be dealt with even if it is a rule of thumb, Yu Chi Baolin immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare to deal with it according to the marching rules, but it was a little more delay.

However, then Wei Chi Baolin found that although his speed was relatively fast, he could encounter ambushes on the march every once in a while, and the number of ambushes was very small. At least a few dozen men at a time, but he succeeded in slowing down the speed of the five thousand light cavalry, so that Wei Chi Baolin lost more than 400 soldiers before the battle, he was very angry, and immediately realized that this was the enemy's tired strategy, although he was stupid. He doesn't read much, but that doesn't mean he doesn't understand these basic military knowledge.

He ordered the whole army to assault at full speed, divided into three teams, two teams of 800 people on the left and right, and 3,000 people in the middle. After dealing with it and catching up, he won't choose to stop anyway, for cavalry, speed is life, and for the mission, speed is the guarantee of success.

Sure enough, after the implementation of this strategy, the Persian ambush soldiers were very uncomfortable with this. Three ambushes in a row were unsuccessful, but rather fiasco. The main force of 3,000 iron cavalry under the command of Yu Chi Baolin finally arrived at the predetermined place within the scheduled time, and even encountered a 1,000-person Persian iron cavalry on the way. But when they arrived at the intended location, what they saw was not what they wanted to see.

The devastation was full of smoke, the ground was full of potholes, and there were many deep pits that were not buried. Persian soldiers could be seen faintly coming and going, such a terrain was no longer suitable for cavalry, especially light cavalry operations, Wei Chi Baolin decisively ordered to stop the advance, dismounted to fortify, and then sent a quick herald to inform the commander Du He of what they had seen, as well as the information that the terrain was not suitable for cavalry and large-scale corps group charges.

But even so, they were suspicious of these situations, they didn't even know what was going on here, it seemed that after a catastrophe-level battle, Yu Chi Baolin's keen sense of smell even sniffed out the smell of blood that was hidden in the thick smoke of gunpowder, there must have been a disaster here, or a disaster that killed many people.

"General, you see that those people seem to be filling in those pits, aren't those pits used to stop our cavalry?" A personal guard beside Yu Chi Baolin showed a puzzled look, and asked Yu Chi Baolin, Yu Chi Baolin took a closer look, hey, don't say it, it's true, and according to common sense, the pit against the cavalry is not so big, looking down from a high place, it even feels very deep, the black hole is hollow, the smoke is coming out of it, and you can see the flames, what are they burning? Isn't that supposed to be a pit for cavalry?

"What you said is indeed reasonable, so be it, it's not easy for us to get close to the lone army, and if we can't figure out the situation, it's not to start a war immediately, you wait for people to quietly touch it, see what they're doing, be careful, don't be discovered, otherwise you will ask for more blessings!" Yu Chi Baolin looked like I would never save you.

The guards were dumbfounded, so they had to admit that they were unlucky, and they took a team of scouts and touched them, sneaking around, for fear of being discovered, and not daring to be discovered, they looked carefully for a while, and one of the scouts frowned and exclaimed: "Did they throw people in?" Do you look like a dead man? ”

The guard's eyes widened, and he looked at it, not to mention, it really looked like ...... No, that's what Nima is!

So, inside that big pit, all the corpses? Is this battle over? The guard's head was in chaos, so he had to hurry back to report to Yu Chi Baolin, who was also full of confusion, but since the matter could not be judged, for the sake of the safety of the army, he would retreat a distance and wait until the Duhe army came before deciding other things.

Du He's army soon arrived, and Du He himself had already received the report from Yu Chi Baolin, and looked at Yu Chi Baolin who came forward with a frown, and asked: "What do you mean by the Persian soldiers throwing corpses into the pit and burning them?" And that black smoke is the smoke from the burning of corpses? Where did that much smoke come from? How many people died to burn like this? ”

Wei Chi Baolin said that he could not do anything: "There are many pitfalls near there, which is not conducive to the gallop of the horse army, and the last general is really powerless, I don't know, and I ask the commander to punish him." ”

Du He nodded and said: "Ben Shuai understands, you have done a lot, I really didn't expect such a thing to happen, so it seems that their uprising army has been defeated, it is really a rabble, the fire is burning, it must be more than auspicious, it looks like we are going to fight alone, pass the order, artillery preparation, for Ben Shuai to blast this imperial city open, in addition, the horse army dismounts and walks, you can't ride horses here, and the rest, let's discuss it later!" ”

The generals promised in unison: "No! (To be continued......)