Chapter 217: Battlefield
"What a cunning Han Chinese!" Shi Xiutu cursed indignantly, the surrounding guards blocked the Han cavalry that came up from all directions for him, and the Uighurs who were still on horses in the chariot formation were getting fewer and fewer, he cheered up and was about to charge again, "Father, father!" The sound penetrated the ear hole again, this time it was certainly not an illusion, Shi Xiutu couldn't help but loosen the reins of his horse, looked up, and saw that in a prison cart twenty or thirty steps away, his parents, wife and children were caged, and his son seemed to have just cried once, his little face was full of flowers, and he was crying out pitifully, the whole family looked at him worriedly, but Shi Xiutu was more worried about their safety, right next to this prisoner cart, the Han heavy infantry and the Uighur cavalry who were struggling to rush inward were still fighting fiercely, and from time to time sharp arrow feathers flew by, Shi Xiutu noticed that several Uighurs, old and young, had been shot by stray arrows in the prison carγ For a moment, he only felt that the world was spinning, and he was full of resentment, but he didn't know where to vent, and on the battlefield, from the core of the Han chariot array, the Han soldiers began to shout loudly in Uighur: "Those who descend will not die!"
At this point, Shi Xiutu looked up to the sky and sighed, put down the blade in his hand, and was captured. Seeing that the main general had lost the spirit of war, the guards around him no longer resisted, and it was the most elite warriors of the Ganzhou Uighurs who broke into the chariot formation, and after a hard battle, there were only more than 1,000 people left at this time, sitting on their horses with bare hands with complicated faces, watching their own cavalry on the periphery attack the Han people's outer chariot formation in vain, and on the farther mountain tops, the royal banner of the Ganzhou Uighurs seemed to be slowly moving backwards.
When the Uighur warriors broke into the Han chariot formation and the Han cavalry began to retreat, he almost thought that victory was within reach, and even asked his guards to speed up the rhythm of the drums to urge the rear cavalry to rush forward quickly. Yao Luoge Jingqiong saw with his own eyes when he was young, a group of hundreds of heavy infantry of the Guiyi Army in order to cover the evacuation of the people scattered by the burning and killing of the Tubo, at the mountain pass to block the attack of thousands of Tubo cavalry for an hour, guns and bayonets cut to the death and did not retreat, and finally the Tubo cavalry relied on this person to slaughter this group of heavy infantry, but missed the opportunity to chase and kill the Han people. Yao Luo Ge Jingqiong led the Uighur knights through the battlefield, and stripped off the armor of the Han soldiers who died in battle, and the front pages of each armor were torn and torn, but the back was almost undamaged.
Therefore, when the Lanzhou army gathered a heavily armored infantry army to block the exits of the outer perimeter of the chariot array, Yao Luoge Jingqiong had an ominous premonition in his heart, and sure enough, no matter how the Uighur cavalry inside and outside the chariot array attacked, these foot soldiers stood like a reef, until the overwhelming Han cavalry resolved the battle in the chariot formation, they let go of the exit, and the well-formed Han cavalry began to chase the defeated Uighur cavalry. In the brief battle, the bravest warriors of the Ganzhou Uighurs either fell in front of the Han Chinese sharp arrow rain or were thrown into the chariot formation, and now they turned and fled only a few defeated soldiers who had lost confidence in battle. With only about 2,000 hussars in pursuit from the north and south, the Uighur cavalry, which was several times his size, was forced to flee desperately into the valley.
Yao Luoge Jingqiong also turned over the saddle and got on his horse surrounded by the guards, and fled to Suzhou. With some hatred, he took one last look at the Wuzi general flag in the center of the Han people's car formation. Under the banner, the commander of the Lanzhou army was coldly watching the Uighur banner slowly retreating from the mountain, and under the banner of the king, the mountains were full of Uighur routs. "From now on, the master of this land beyond the river will no longer be you. β
Nearly 10,000 horses were captured, armor and blades were piled up, and the prisoners were hordes, and the sergeants shouted loudly to drive the soldiers to carry the spoils, and the number of prisoners was counted in a procession, and the noble Uighur nobles were screened on the spot, and they were fortunate enough to ride in a prisoner cart with their families, so that they could not suffer from fatigue. If Jingqiong Khan still wanted to rely on Ganzhou to defend for a while, Wu Yingying didn't mind reimbursing these soldiers under the city of Ganzhou. According to Yu Furen's understanding of the steppe tribes, it is estimated that less than 1,000 Uighur soldiers and horses fled back to Suzhou with Jingqiong Khan, and most of the others were scattered.
In order to encourage morale, Wu Yingying took two personal guards, patrolling the battlefield with his sword, and everywhere he went, there were sergeants cheering loudly towards him, and Wu Yingying smiled kindly. The population and land of Hexi far exceed that of Lanzhou, and after the complete pacification and occupation of Hexi, probably each sergeant will be assigned to dozens of more than dozens of cute households, and in one fell swoop from food and clothing to a well-off, everyone's faces are beaming. As for how to hunt down the nomadic population of the Uighur tribes in and around the Hexi Corridor, that was a matter for the captains of the battalions, and these tribes, which had lost the protection of the Great Uighur Khan of Ganzhou, were to be submissively regarded as moe households, and those who rebelled were slaves, otherwise they had to migrate. After careful calculation, the climate in Mobei or Qingtang is even worse, and there are still strong enemies watching, and these subordinates might as well stay in Hexi to be cute households. After the wars of Tibet and Uighurs, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and Wu Yingying also planned to recruit some Han people from the four roads of Shaanxi to come in through a caravan, and select strong and daring warriors as soldiers, and the rest lived together with the Hu people who were subdued to cultivate and graze.
When Wu Hero traveled to the place where the Uighur prisoners were concentrated, the atmosphere changed again, and many Uighur nobles were still counting on the rescue of Jingqiong Khan's army, but who knew that a tough battle was encountered, the corpses of the Uighur army were all over the field, and the losses of the Lanzhou army were negligible, and the most courageous eagle of the Ganzhou Uighurs, Shi Xiutu, was now also locked in a cage with his parents, wife and children.
Shi Xiutu's face was covered with sweat and blood, and he was protected by the child who was so frightened by the cruel battlefield that he couldn't cry silently, the armor and blades on his body had been taken away, and his white stacked robe was covered with dust. Although the outcome was decided, he was still immersed in the battle that Shicai had lost so much. The Han Chinese army marched into the gorge unsuspectingly, and the Uighur warriors pounced like wolves, and the Great Khan himself raised the king's banner to help, but was defeated.
Is it because of the turtle-like arrow array of the Han archers? Shi Xiutu's tightened eyebrows twitched slightly, and the crescent-like arrow array behind the rain of arrows in the sky, like the scythe of death, harvested the bravest Uighur warriors. Also because of the swift and fierce Wuhou crossbow, after being captured, Shi Xiutu secretly observed the crossbows equipped by the Lanzhou army, because the components were delicate and complex, after the battle, the crossbow machine was covered with black lacquered wooden boxes. Shi Xiutu heard the Han soldiers proudly call it the Wuhou Repeater. Shi Xiutu was familiar with military books, and Zhuge Wuhou's crossbow had also heard of it, which was a peerless weapon to restrain the elite cavalry of the Wei State. Or was it the Han Chinese infantry army desperately blocking the passage of the Uighur cavalry pouring into the chariot formation, isolating the Uighur athletes who were like rainbows, and the inside and outside could not correspond? Or were they those fierce and fierce hussars and armored cavalry? Shi Xiutu shook his head in pain, and he understood that the strength of the army in front of him was not comparable to that of the Hexi Uighurs. His wife and parents did not dare to disturb his thoughts when they looked at him unyieldingly.