Chapter 159: A Great Victory
When the cavalry charges, as long as it forms a cone-shaped queue and does not stop up and down, then even if the opponent has more people than you, we can still win.
Huo Quzhi and Li Guang led their men to attack from the left and right, Li Xiang led Ma Chao and others to attack from the middle, and the three-way cavalry shuttled back and forth in Tuyuhun's army like three arrows.
There were still some soldiers in the middle who wanted to organize a defensive line, but unfortunately Li Xiang and them all had a chain of crossbows in their hands, as long as they found that more than a hundred soldiers had gathered together, they would shoot arrows at them.
Over time, the soldiers of Tuyuhun also discovered that if you want to live, it is better to run away by yourself, if you assemble into a queue, then it is easy to attract the attention of the Tang army, when the Tang army pays attention to you at this time, it will be a disaster, they will never let go of any assembled soldiers, most of the corpses on the ground are assembled soldiers.
Li Xiang and they killed too hard, although they had predicted their victory before, but they didn't expect to kill like this, the scene was really full of corpses, many Tuyuhun soldiers had no fighting spirit, and all of them knelt on the ground one by one, just thinking that the Tang Army could spare their lives, and they didn't even have the strength to escape.
Li Xiang gasped and finally stopped, he shuttled back and forth with his cavalry four times, all the troops of Tuyuhun could not organize an offensive, and now except for the people kneeling on the ground, I am afraid that they are people lying down and waiting for death.
"Rest for a while, then count the battlefield and catch it alive."
Li Xiang felt that his voice was already hoarse, and when he rushed to kill with his brothers just now, he loudly ordered his brothers to do things and shouted loudly.
"Your Royal Highness, Uncle Yu Dan has run away."
When he rushed in just now, Huo Qubing thought about capturing the thief and capturing the king first, no matter where Yu Dan was, he took his men to kill him first, but Yu Dan had already run away, although there was a bright yellow frame in the team, but there was no one on it.
"Even if he is an old boy and smart, but it is useless for him to run back, he has brought out his elite, after this battle, the number of soldiers in his hands will never exceed 10,000, just because he has such a big defeat, it is estimated that Tuyuhun Khan will not spare him, he has lost too many troops."
Li Xiang said with a smile, the Ronggong tribe is the third largest tribe in Tuyuhun, and there are many people who can fight well, but after this battle, most of the generals and soldiers of the Ronggong tribe are lost here, and the people who ran out with Yu Dan are a few after all, which is a great defeat for Tuyuhun, and it is strange that Tuyuhun Khan can spare him.
"What the prince said is right, this guy is a general under Yu Dan, I whipped him twice just now, what should be said and can't be said is said, Tuyuhun Khan did not let Yu Dan lead the troops to the battle, when he found us, he had to gather all the surrounding troops, and now it is estimated that the people from the fifteen tribes around him are rushing here."
Li Guang rode a horse and pulled a person over, this person was Yu Dan's general, and he said anything in order to survive at this moment.
According to what he said, Yu Dan pulled out a total of nearly 40,000 people, except for the 6,000 cavalry of the headquarters just now, the others did not run out, mainly because his people were in the core position, and when the shelling began, his men were still able to gather together, and as for the other armies, they were already chaotic at the beginning of the shelling.
"How many people are there in your tribe?"
Li Xiang looked at the black-pressed captives around him, and expected that there should not be many people in the Ronggong tribe.
"Back to the prince, there are nearly 40,000 people in our tribe, but 30,000 of them are women, old people and children, they don't have much combat effectiveness, but the people from the fifteen nearby tribes should have gathered in our tribe, and they can send nearly 30,000 troops in total."
This guy said honestly, he is usually a man on the grassland, and it is impossible for him to betray his tribe, but there are too many people who died today, which makes him feel that the Tang army is invincible, so even if he continues to resist with his subordinates, there will be no good results in the end.
To put it bluntly, the belief in the heart collapsed, especially when the Tang army rushed over, they had never seen such a brave cavalry, although some warriors of their tribe also rushed up with knives, but as those routs said, our weapons are completely different from the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, no matter how much strength you have, there is no way to resist the steel knife in the hands of the Tang army, they can cut off your weapon with one sword, how can we resist such an army?
So in this case, even the most courageous Tuyuhun warriors, they also have doubts in their hearts, could it be really as Tang Jun preached, they are the people of the Celestial Empire, and we are just southwestern barbarians, if we want to confront the people of the Celestial Empire, then the final result is only one death, which is already destined by God.
People in this era generally have a bit of feudal superstition, when the Tang army has not yet arrived on the grassland, this doctrine has begun to circulate in the grassland, coupled with the Tang army's successive victories, these people can't help but not believe it, which is also a reason why there are so many prisoners today.
Li Xiang thought about it in his heart, the other party gathered 30,000 cavalry again, if it is said that it is not impossible to fight, but the problem is that there are at least more than 20,000 captives in front of him, if these people are killed, it is really too evil, one or two thousand were not in the eyes before, but now there are 20,000 captives!
It is not possible to take these people to fight, so Li Xiang can only return to Liangzhou City first, if he takes these people to fight, he will also divide troops to guard them at that time, which is definitely a bad strategy.
"Send someone to put the soldiers and horses in order, tie up all these people for me, ten people as a group, and if anyone dares to escape, kill ten of them for me."
After a simple thought in Li Xiang's mind, he immediately found the most beneficial direction of action for himself, that is, to take these people back to Liangzhou City as quickly as possible.
"We're not going to fight the Ronggong tribe anymore?"
Huo Quzhi's face was disappointed, he had been sharpening his knife for a long time just now, and he was about to attack these captives, and we could continue to fight after killing them......