0969 Idi Beasts
After the Khan of Wood Pole fled the battlefield with his troops, the defeat of the Turks became more and more irreparable.
At this time, the fighting on the battlefield was still very fierce, but the entire battlefield was not uniform. These Turkic soldiers not only fought on their own, but in some places even killed each other.
All kinds of chaotic orders are constantly heard, and the chieftains scattered on the battlefield are all vying to give orders, trying to gather more soldiers for their own use, but the result is the opposite.
The Turkic soldiers who were roaming and fighting on the battlefield did not regroup, but even the soldiers who had been ordered by these chieftains left the ranks one after another after seeing the supplies scattered all over the battlefield and the cattle and sheep and livestock roaming indiscriminately.
On the other hand, the officers and men of the Western Wei Dynasty were still maintaining the offensive of the formation before the military order to strike the war was issued. And this organized battle mode is undoubtedly the existence of overwhelming combat power in the face of the Turkic stragglers.
As the Turkic army was defeated, Li Tai also withdrew from the sequence of front-line operations, and the battlefield at this time was chaotic, and the focus was no longer on leading the troops to charge into battle for the generals, but to make effective coordination instructions in this chaotic battle, so that the whole battle could develop in a more favorable direction for his own side.
Since ancient times, the development of any power is easy to annex but difficult to cohesion, and the performance of the Turks on the battlefield at this time is also a perfect reflection of this.
Due to the multiple divisions of troops and different positions, there are only a few thousand Western Wei soldiers on the battlefield at present, including Yang Zhong, who took the lead in attacking the center of the Turkic camp before. However, there were still tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers active on the battlefield, but they were completely suppressed by these thousands of elite soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty, and there were very few who could really carry out effective counterattacks.
These tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers are unfamiliar with each other, lack of tacit understanding, although there are many soldiers, but they are completely unable to coordinate operations and carry out various tactical cooperation, but from a cadre of powerful chieftains to those individual soldiers, they are all full of their own ideas, but in this way, instead of helping each other, they drag each other down.
In fact, the real crisis from the opponent is not very big in this kind of large army with a large number of soldiers, and its own organizational and coordination ability is the real factor that really affects the performance of combat effectiveness.
The reason why Li Tai dared to lead his troops north to attack the Turks was also because he believed that the current Turkic organizational strength and cohesion were far from keeping up with the development of his own forces. Once it encounters a real high-intensity blow, its internal organization will inevitably crack and even collapse.
It is true that the rise of the Turks in history has been somewhat unstoppable, but it is undeniable that the rise of the Turks also occurred without strong external interference.
Once the Central Plains Dynasty completed its integration and refocused its attention on the Saiwai Mobei, even if the Turks were already a powerful steppe empire at that time, they were still exhausted in the face of various diplomatic means and continuous military attacks, and it was difficult to maintain their internal unity and strong form.
However, although the Turkic command system and military organization on the battlefield had been destroyed at this time, the fighting continued for a long time, and small group battles were still all over the battlefield.
These Turkic soldiers are still very strong-willed, whether they are fathers and sons, or brothers, they are still collecting as much material as possible scattered on the battlefield, and they are trying to get out of the battlefield as they fight. Their tenacious and aggressive nature was evident, but the breakdown of order prevented them from escaping the battlefield by other Turkic soldiers who shared their temperament and purpose.
In the second half of the battle, the Western Wei soldiers gradually wandered to the periphery of the battlefield and began to focus on intercepting and killing those Turkic soldiers who tried to escape, but the battle in the Turkic camp was still very fierce, and these Turks killed each other.
Seeing that there was no hope of escape, coupled with the long period of running and fighting until their physical strength was exhausted, the Turkic soldiers began to abandon their weapons and surrender.
In contrast to the ferocity of the previous battles, the Turks were particularly submissive when they chose to surrender, slicing the bowstring with the knives they carried with them, and the remaining arrows plunged deep into the earth
, and then threw the weapon far away, and finally fell to the ground on his knees, his limbs clinging to the ground, trying his best to show his harmlessness and obedience.
"Hu is brutal and aggressive, but he is also afraid of strength and death, and once he is invincible, he will inevitably lose his will and wagging his tail and beg for life."
Yu Wengui rode his horse to Li Tai, pointed to the Turkic soldiers who were lying on the ground and asked for surrender, because he saw that Li Tai was still frowning and silent, so he talked about the cruel methods of these steppe Hu tribes in dealing with the enemy by deception, which were often brutal torture and killing, and even if one of the tribes fled, the other members of the tribe, regardless of gender, old and young, would be killed.
Because of these cruel methods, the grassland Hu people are often aggressive, even if the situation is unfavorable, they will not surrender easily, but once they lay down their arms and surrender, it means that they have completely lost their stubborn resistance.
They are accustomed to using force to solve problems and achieve goals, but once their force is not effective, they will turn to extreme groveling.
Li Tai had no experience of fighting with these steppe Hu tribes before this, and he still had some reservations about this in his heart, but when the soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, the respectful performance of these Turkic soldiers couldn't help but open his eyes.
Originally, these Hu soldiers were still fighting with each other for supplies and livestock, but when the Wei soldiers ordered them to collect all the materials on the battlefield and put them in a fixed position, these Hu soldiers obediently carried out their orders, and even took the initiative to hand over the items they had originally collected.
There were also Hu pawns who were whipped and punished for not carrying out their orders properly, and even beheaded on the spot, but all the Hu pawns around them bowed their heads silently, even if the Hu pawns themselves were indifferent to this, and they may show sadness, but there is no resentment.
After Li Tai saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel that it was really one side of the water and soil to support the other side.
Sometimes, it is really not a disparagement but a simple statement, a person's living environment and way of making a living are different, then the accepted ethics and morals and the behavior patterns they develop will be different, and it is difficult to understand them across ethnic groups and beyond backgrounds.
But it should be said that the disposition of these Turks provided a lot of convenience for cleaning the battlefield. The entire Turkic camp stretched for more than ten miles, and due to the escape of people, horses and livestock, the scope of the battlefield was more than doubled, and it was very difficult for a group of Western Wei soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield, and the soldiers were exhausted after a fierce battle.
But with the addition of those Turkic pawns, the battlefield was cleaned up much more efficiently. In addition to the materials scattered on the battlefield were quickly collected and gathered, the fleeing cattle, horses, livestock, and Turkic soldiers were also trying to help drive and capture.
The soldiers would also kneel and ask for permission to use the lasso to trap cattle and horses scattered around the battlefield. Even if they had already brought in their horses and turned over and rode up, they were only to catch livestock farther away, even if there were no Wei soldiers guarding them, and they had already run a long distance, but they would drive the cattle and horses back to the camp and would not flee without permission.
Li Tai also experienced the battlefield for a long time and fought many victories, but he also had to admit that the Turkic prisoners of war were the most obedient and the most worry-free. They will try to complete the tasks assigned to them, and try their best to show their deference and harmlessness, and when the tasks are completed, they will gather spontaneously, but they will never engage in any conspiracy.
Seeing these captives behaving like this, Li Tai also vaguely understood why the Turks were able to rise and grow so quickly. Because the annexation cost of the grassland tribes is much smaller than that of the Central Plains, as long as the tribes themselves accumulate and develop to a certain extent and can win one or two battles, then the tribal power will snowball.
It is no wonder that in history, although the Sui and Tang dynasties won a certain stage of victory in the war against the Turks, they often continued to raise tigers in the future, because these Turkic prisoners of war were so useful.
Thanks to the effectiveness of these Turkic soldiers, the battlefield was quickly cleared. When Li Tai came to the Turkic Khan where Yang Zhong and others were stationed
At the time of the tent, seeing the tired appearance of the soldiers of Yang Zhong's subordinates after the bloody battle, he was also relieved in his heart, and stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Thank you for your hard work!"
Yang Zhong was already exhausted at this time, but he still stepped forward to worship with the support of his own soldiers: "The last general and others have been ordered to come here, and fortunately they have not disgraced their orders. It's a pity that the enemy is outnumbered, and he can't capture the wooden pole Khan in battle, so that he can lead his troops to flee......
"There is more than one person in this matter who continues to make meritorious contributions, and An Lugong and others have fought so far, and they have already made great achievements!"
Li Tai hurriedly helped Yang Zhong up, and asked the soldiers who were fighting here to disarm and enter the account and rest, and then Yu Wengui and other generals checked the personnel and checked the harvest.
Thanks to Yang Zhong and others attacking in the center of the Turkic camp, which caused chaos within the Turks, the main army led by Li Tai was able to break through from the periphery so smoothly and then control the entire battle situation.
Although the biggest target of the wooden pole khan was lost on the battlefield, there were still many Turkic magnates captured in this battle, and there were hundreds of powerful chieftains of all levels, such as Ye Hu, Special Service, Dagan, and Meilu.
At this time, the wooden pole Khan had just led his troops to rush out of Gaoqueshu and continued to flee north along the gap in the mountain.