Chapter 500: Stepping on the corpse and moving forward
Li Xiangbu
After entering the grassland, Li Xiang was not idle for a minute, and directly led his own people to cross over, although Li Ke's location is not very sure, but he already knows a general direction, so it is difficult for Li Xiang, they have experience in marching on the grassland, plus there are sounding balloons, so it is easy to find Li Ke.
"Your Highness, come and see, this is our brother of the Tang Dynasty."
The sky is already gray, but there must have been a battle in this area, and there are many corpses around here that can be seen from the armor, this is our brother of Datang.
"Find someone to bury them."
Li Xiang knew that there was no need to find any survivors now, look at the smell on many people's bodies, it should have been many days, and we should have won here, after all, there are many corpses of Turkic people around.
The most taboo thing about fighting on the battlefield is to be greedy for merit, Li Xiang knows a little bit about this third uncle, and he should be very safe in peacetime, but because of the rise of his own foreign army, coupled with the confrontation between the two last time, Li Ge may lose his mind a little, it doesn't matter if you lose your mind, but you still have tens of thousands of soldiers under your command, if you lose your mind in this state, then you can ......
After entering the grassland, the two sides had a collision, and Li Xiang's army won the victory immediately, mainly because our cavalry carried a chain crossbow, one hand pulled the reins, and the other hand held a chain crossbow, although the cavalry did not have the opportunity to change the chain of poison, but each chain crossbow was able to shoot ten sleeve arrows, which was equivalent to a ten-round pistol, how could the enemy stop it? Wherever our cavalry went, the enemy fell like waves of wheat blown by the wind.
Since then they have not found any organized army in the steppe, and it is no wonder that the cavalry of 4,000 men has not even bubbled up, and if the rest of the people are still looking for their business, then the general is purely sick in his head, and it is better to hide far away, or to attack Li Ge's army.
"Looking at this sky, this should be the last time we can raise a sounding balloon, and if the enemy doesn't have torches at night, it's useless for us to raise it."
Su Dingfang looked at the surrounding grassland, which was yellow and bald everywhere, and had no information at all.
"The night also represents an opportunity, although the sight is better during the day, but we may not be able to find the person we are looking for, as long as there is a little fire at night, we people will have a goal, when they were in the Tuyuhun grassland, their royal court iron cavalry was destroyed in this way."
Li Xiang remembered a battle on the Tuyuhun grassland, we found their elite at night, as long as they have a little light at night, we can find the past, and after such a long time of practice, the evening sounding balloon is also familiar with the road, much better than before.
Just when Li Xiang and they were looking for Li Ke, Li Ke was already in a bitter battle here, although there was a mustard in the hearts of the people on the grassland, but as Xue Yantuo Khan said, everyone now has no way to retreat, we must take this opportunity to kill Li Ke's army, and then retreat to Mobei as quickly as possible, so that they still have a chance to live, if they don't do this, wait for Li Xiang and Li Ge to meet, the armies of both sides will kill them, and they will have no way to survive at all.
"Resist me, all the people resist, the glory of Datang is in your hands, as long as we can survive tonight, there will be our reinforcements tomorrow."
In desperation, Li Ke, the king of Wu, could only lie, he could only use this way to let his subordinates stimulate their combat power, there were attacking armies everywhere, dense arrows fell from the sky, and his men were injured wave after wave, but at this moment they could only resist, if someone retreated, then all of them would be finished.
Fortunately, the people under him are the elite of the Tang Dynasty, all of them are elite border troops and forbidden troops, if they were to bring some second-line troops, when facing such a cruel battlefield, it is estimated that those people would have already peed their pants, and now there will be deserters.
Defending on the grassland is an extremely difficult thing in itself, especially when our army is at a disadvantage, but Li Ke, the king of Wu, is still an excellent leader, he piled up everything that can be used in the military camp around him, and created a temporary camp with a relatively concave terrain.
Although this is the advantage of attacking them all around, but this is also the only way to keep them, if we start a night battle with the enemy's cavalry at night, especially when the enemy's cavalry is around, then our chances of winning are not at all, so Wu Wang Li Ke can only take this strategy, he also knows that the number of casualties will rise in a straight line, but at least this will still have some people to survive, if you take the way of attacking, the army will be scattered after dawn, and it will be scattered in such a steppe, Then let's not think about getting together.
The soldiers under their command also knew that it was the end of the moment, and they had to take out the ability to press the bottom of the box, although the casualties of the Datang army had exceeded 30%, but the casualties of the army that came to attack were not small, and the pressure in their hearts was also very great.
According to the expectations of some generals of Xue Yantuo, at most, it will take five hours for them to break through the military camp of Datang, but they did not expect that the military camp of Datang was shrunk together, although the casualties were large, but it also stopped them outside the barracks, and it was too difficult to kill them, and their arrow rain and Datang's arrow rain could even collide in the sky.
Both sides of this war are bound to win, if the Tang Dynasty wins, then the survival of Xue Yantuo and the Turkic tribes is extremely slim, King Wu's army has been walking on the grassland for a long time, they are also familiar with the situation on the grassland, if you keep these people, no matter how they escape, they may be caught up, there is such a group of people who are familiar with the grassland, this is their greatest sorrow.
So it is impossible for both sides to take a step back, the people in front are dead, and the people behind are on top, and many times the attack is to step on the corpses of their comrades, although this is a big disrespectful act, but now it can't be managed so much, if it is defeated, the way for both sides to survive is extremely slim, especially on the side of the Tang soldiers, they are now red-eyed......