Chapter 61: The First Confrontation with the Great Cannibal
At the first moment of the explosion, Yusuf, the governor of the East who was a big cannibal, heard it, because there were too many people on the battlefield, he couldn't see the consequences of the explosion, so he still regarded these loud noises as a means used by the Tang army in battle.
Just like their lion team, they can't scare people, but it's okay to scare war horses.
As long as his 10,000 people can support one day, his remaining 50,000 troops will surround from all sides and strangle this Tang army in the land of Sassanid Persia, and the corpses of these Tang troops will become a clear proof of his great martial arts of the governor Yusuf, as well as a threat to further eastward advance.
Therefore, his order was clear, hold on, hold on, and as long as it is supported until the arrival of the main forces of the army, they will win.
Cavalry is called cavalry when it runs.
Cavalry is called cavalry when it attacks.
It is clear that the governor of Yusuf asked the cavalry to defend.
Liang Ying, who saw this scene, was ecstatic, he knew very well what he saw, and after throwing a gunpowder bomb to blow up a gap, he took a hundred of his men to kill through the gap.
The war horse of the big cannibal has slender lines and beautiful colors, but in terms of weight it is not comparable to the war horse of the Guanzhong horse and the horse of the Western Regions after the Tang Dynasty cavalry, the war horse of the big cannibal generally weighs no more than 800 catties, and the war horse of the Tang cavalry weighs more than 1,100 catties.
Therefore, when the Tang cavalry quickly entered the battle formation, they could squeeze out a way out of the chaotic army with the speed and weight of the honor guard, so that the follow-up cavalry could continue to rush forward.
The Tang cavalry that is tied up in front will naturally fight and fight on both sides, and the subsequent cavalry will continue to rush forward, once the Tang cavalry penetrates this battle formation, it represents the victory of the Tang cavalry.
Liang Ying's cavalry resolutely fought to the left after breaking through a gap, and he believed that the Tang cavalry that followed him would know what to do.
Sure enough, thieves from all walks of life from Datang continued to rush forward along the gap that Liang Ying had torn apart.
For a time, the neighing of the war horses, the wails of the war horses before they died, the sound of the cavalry falling to the ground, and the sound of gunpowder shells exploding in the crowd spread throughout the battlefield.
The old thief in Qishan cursed while fighting, but the spear in his hand was played by him like a poisonous dragon, walking through the battlefield.
These old thieves unanimously despise this kind of foolish face-to-face combat, and they believe that they should hide in the dark, hide in the difficult terrain, and deal a fatal blow to the enemy while they are defenseless.
After being slashed twice by the scimitar of the big cannibal, Cho Poison wanted to run, but just looked to both sides, and gave up this idea, there were more big cannibals on both sides, so it was better to continue to attack forward.
As for retreating, he didn't dare to think about it, that demon god-like Wannian County Venerable, he rode a horse and held a horse lance behind them to supervise the battle, after dealing with this famous county lord of the Tang Dynasty these days, he knew that if he dared to deliberately take a step back, the county venerable's horse lance would pierce his throat without accident.
At this moment, the old thief Huo Yao, who continued to charge forward on horseback, regretted for the first time that he came to the Western Regions to make some bullshit money.
In the entire army, the most loyal to Yun Chu was the group of bad people from Wannian County who were composed of government soldiers, followed by the group of people from the Western Regions led by Lao Shi.
The bad people in Wannian County may still have some personal insistence in front of Yun Chu, these servants recruited by Yun Chu from the Western Regions have never had any doubts about Yun Chu, as long as the master speaks, they will carry it out.
The battlefield of more than 10,000 people is too big, but fortunately, the Tang army's team is relatively dense, and it can drill into it like an awl under the action of force.
Gunpowder bombs, oil bombs exploded in the crowd from time to time, or raised large bursts of flames, which made the awl of the Tang Army seem to be anointed with oil, and the speed of progress is faster.
Yusuf had already seen the military flag of the Tang people, which made him vaguely uneasy, especially when he saw that the Tang army was advancing in the direction where he was, so he immediately gave the order to retreat!
The Great Eclipse Cavalry, who was originally under the double torture of gunpowder bullets and oil bombs, immediately executed this order after hearing the clarion call to retreat, but when it was executed, they did not arrange the candidates for the rear, so that the Great Eclipse Cavalry retreated back in a chaotic manner.
Seeing that the big cannibal began to retreat, Yun Chu urged the jujube red horse to cross the exhausted Liang Ying and them, and began to lead people to personally launch a more violent attack, at the same time, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty Mansion, who had been maintaining their strength in the rear, also crossed a group of old thieves, raised their spears and horses, and followed Yun Chu to launch a more fierce attack on the big cannibal.
The role of the fierce general is to tear apart the enemy's defense line, Yun Chu is undoubtedly the fierce general of the Tang Dynasty, he has experienced life and death since he was a child, and he struggled to survive in the chaotic army when he was a teenager, and when he grew up, he led the army to exalt himself outside the territory, and he has long developed all the characteristics required by the fierce general.
After experiencing a lot of life-and-death battles and killing enough people, Yun Chu didn't look down on others very much, so the pitch-black horse lance in his hand became a sickle for harvesting life.
Under Yun Chu's attack, seeing that the Great Cannibal retreated faster and faster, as long as the last few Great Cannibals around him who were still fiercely resisting were killed, Yun Chu believed that the rout of the Great Cannibal would really take shape.
The horse lance struck heavily on the spear of a big cannibal general, the soft horse lance pole bent down under the force, and the sharp horse lance head cut off the ears of the big food general, firmly thinking that this guy's resistance was deformed, but unexpectedly, this big food general did not retreat but advanced, stood up from the back of the beautiful big food horse and tried his best to block the horse lance tail pushed by Kai Yunchu, and roared at his embarrassed subordinates: "Fight, my brother." ”
Before he could say a second sentence, Yun Chu's sharp horse lance cut off his neck.
This dead Great Eclipse General should be very respected on weekdays, although most of the Great Eclipse are still retreating, there are still sporadic Great Eclipse cavalry shouting angrily and rushing towards Yun Chu.
Yun Chu's horse speed had slowed down, so it was natural to get out of the way, and immediately, those big cannibals who were still resisting sporadically were overwhelmed by the Tang Mansion soldiers.
The sound of gunpowder bomb explosions sounded intensively, and the speed of the big cannibal's retreat finally changed from the speed of retreat to the speed of escape, which made the speed of the pursuit of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty faster.
At this time, the Western Regions Hucong, who carried the horses prepared by the Tang Army, rushed into the battlefield, and some of the Tang people who were lucky enough not to die changed their horses, and Liang Ying, the cavalry who participated in the war at the earliest, also replaced their tired horses.
And so, a great pursuit began.
Yun Chu kept staring at the banner of the Governor of Great Food, it was a beautiful banner composed of lions and stars and moons, Yun Chu approached this banner twice, and could even distinguish the blue picture on it, it should be dyed by a dye made of lapis lazuli, this should be a very rich governor.
Every time Yun Chu approached the Governor, the Governor would always assign some people to stop Yun Chu, which made Yun Chu very annoyed.
When Liang Ying changed his horse to catch up, he naturally helped the prince disperse those enemy troops, and he hoped that his prince could capture the governor alive.
For, as the prince had said before, the harvest of this satrap might be greater than the abundance of gentleness in digging up the restored treasures of the Sassanid Persians.
However, on the battlefield, the happiest thing is the group of old thieves of the Tang Dynasty, the battlefield is full of ownerless big food war horses, everywhere are dead big food cavalry, big food war horses because of beautiful, lightweight, is the favorite riding horse of Chang'an ladies, as long as you catch one, it is not a problem to get a thousand times in Chang'an, those big cannibal iron armor, also because of the strange shape, plus they have the habit of using precious metals such as gold and silver on the armor, as well as pearls and gems for decoration, in Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty, can also buy a good price.
It's a pity that the army is now going all out to pursue the big cannibals, and they have to hold back their greedy hearts, follow behind the Tang army, expel them, and chase after those defeated big cannibals.
The Tang Army's continuous killing made the Great Cannibal completely forget that he was still a soldier and that he could still turn back and resist.
As more and more big cannibals were caught up and killed by the Tang army, they finally dispersed in a hurry.
The remaining thousands of people were first split into a team of several hundred people, and soon split into a team of 100 people under the impact of the Tang army, and when these people found that the Tang army was still chasing them, they immediately split into a gang of ten people, and they scattered and fled.
Yusuf's team was undoubtedly the largest of them all, so Yun Chu gave up chasing those squads and focused all his attention on the battle to hunt down Yusuf.
In the process of retreating, Yusuf constantly summoned his subordinates to move closer to him, but whenever he gathered some people, the Tang troops who were chasing them would throw something like thunder and scatter the army that had been assembled with great difficulty.
Yun Chu also saw Yu Sufu at this time, this guy was riding a war horse under his crotch that a fool could tell was BMW.
The horse galloped at a very large pace, and if it weren't for Yusuf's desire not to break away from the group, he would have run far a long time ago.
Yun Chu threw a short spear, which flew a distance of more than a dozen zhang before falling to the ground, only two zhang away from Yusuf.
This was the first threatening attack of the Tang army against Yusuf himself, and for fear reasons, Yusuf increased the speed of his horse and gradually threw off his subordinates.
A stone-throwing Wuduo hung down from Yun Chu's hand, and in the leather pocket under the Wuduo was a gunpowder bullet that had ignited the fuse.
The jujube red horse stretched its neck and ran forward hard, its long mane flying, looking very excited.
And Wu Duo in Yun Chu's hand has begun to rhythmically draw circles in his hand, and when Wu Duo rotates almost only the afterimage, Yun Chu let go of his head, so a sparkling gunpowder bullet crossed a high arc in the air and chased after Yusuf who was running wildly.