Chapter 768: Interspersed, cut, surrounded, annihilated
Li Xuan stood under the city gate, surrounded by thousands of guards, on both sides, and on the avenue in front of him, there was a wail.
I don't know how many Tibetan cavalry were suddenly thrown down by the thistle terrestris to make people turn on their horses, blood flowed for a long time, a miserable scene.
Even the Brenzan blade on the other side was shocked when he saw this scene.
Brunzan's face was completely gloomy, and he was now keenly aware that he seemed to have done something wrong in front of him.
He shouldn't have gone directly to the city gate, now don't look at only the king of Nanchang and Qianniuwei under the city gate, but in the invisible place, how many means they have, who knows.
Brenzan Blade is not a person who is easy to give up, turned sideways, gave an order, and the next moment, a team of cavalry in white cloaks beside him had already rushed across the stone bridge like the wind, and a series of orders had been quickly transmitted to the ears of the Tibetan cavalry in front.
Soon, all the Tibetan cavalry turned over and dismounted, and all the cloaks on their bodies were torn off by them, wrapped in long knives, and then swung vigorously towards the ground.
On the ground in front, the thistle terrestris had been completely swept aside.
The trebuchet on the city wall had stopped moving, after all, even if Li Xuan had prepared thistle terrestris in advance, but after the trebuchet threw it down several times, the entire ground had almost been filled, and there was no extra thistle terrestris at all.
The Tibetan cavalry used their cloaks and clothes as brooms to sweep aside all the thistles.
In a very short period of time, these thistles have been caused to be pushed one by one, and at the same time, they have also opened up their road to Li Xuan.
At the moment when the thistle terrestris on the ground was about to be completely swept away, a cold voice sounded again: "Archer, shoot!" ”
Li Xuan gave an order, and the next moment, in the courtyards on both sides, the crossbowmen who had reloaded the crossbow machine raised their crossbow arrows again.
The next moment, countless crossbow arrows had been directly excited into the air, and in the blink of an eye, two handfuls of arrows had been formed, one left and one right, one south and one north, flying towards both sides.
Everyone above and below the city wall saw the rain of arrows falling on the Tubo cavalry who were about to sweep away the thistles, bringing countless blood and casualties in an instant.
But more people also noticed that this time the crossbow shooting directly ignored the Tubo cavalry in front and began to hunt the Tubo cavalry on the north and south sides.
At the moment when the Tubo cavalry on the north and south sides was blocked, Li Xuan's cold voice sounded: "Thousands of oxen are heavily ridden, attack." ”
With a "boom", the heavily armored Qianniuwei had already lifted his lance and rushed directly towards the Tubo cavalry in front.
At this moment, between heaven and earth, more roaring footsteps sounded.
Farther away, under the city walls in the north and south directions, there were 750 cavalry each, rushing towards the back of the Tubo cavalry at full speed.
Iron Rider of the Right Guard.
The 1,500 right guard iron horsemen who had been hidden for a long time finally appeared.
Or it is not accurate to say that among the 1,400 iron cavalry, 1,000 are well-trained right guard cavalry, 100 are Jinwuwei of Chang'an, and 400 are selected from the 3,000 Hangzhou guards, and the soldiers who are the best at cavalry vertical and horizontal.
They couldn't hide before, but now, they all ran out at once.
From behind the Tibetan cavalry, a fierce surprise attack came out.
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On the other side, when he saw the appearance of more than a thousand cavalry troops, his originally dignified expression was completely relaxed, and even flashed a trace of disdain and sneer: "I took out all the last hole cards so early, I really don't know how to die." The herald ordered that the cavalry of the north and south outflanked the cavalry of the Tang Army from behind, and they must be completely annihilated. ”
As soon as the Brenzan blade gave the order, there were immediately personal soldiers who led the order, and quickly rushed away in the north and south directions.
Of today's 3,000 Tibetan cavalry, 500 were originally left upstream to attack the south gate; In addition, there were 500 cavalry, going down the Tao River, crossing the Tao River from the stone bridge on the north side, to threaten the north gate of Taozhou.
Brenzan now had only two thousand cavalry in his hands, and then more than a thousand of those two thousand cavalry had been thrown into the opposite riverbank, more than half of which had been destroyed.
Now the cavalry around Brenzan Blade is no more than a thousand, but he still did not hesitate at all, and with a wave of his hand forward, more Tubo cavalry had already rushed onto the stone bridge and killed the Tang army on the opposite bank directly.
Go straight ahead and don't have to turn.
Because in front of them, the 10000 Niu Wei heavy cavalry led by Li Xuan had already returned to the vertical column, and rushed fiercely towards the front of less than 200 cavalry.
Thousands of oxen ride heavily, if you don't move, you can do it, and if you move, you will be as fast as thunder.
Less than twice as long as the face to face, the Tubo cavalry, who had been trapped in the bow and crossbow and the pit, and the tortured spirit was very tired.
The sudden action made the Tubo cavalry a little unresponsive, they had just drawn their longbows in their hands, and they didn't have time to put their bows on the arrows.
At this time, the heavy armored cavalry had already rushed in front of them, and the eight-long lance blade penetrated the chest of the Tubo people in an instant, and then smashed them up.
The blood mist immediately flew up in mid-air.
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The battlefield was cut into several pieces in an instant, and the two hundred Tubo cavalry in front of Li Xuan, and the left and right sides, each with more than two hundred or so Tubo cavalry.
On the stone bridge, the cavalry that was rushing across the bridge quickly, and on the other side of the stone bridge, there were less than a thousand cavalry led by Brenzan.
On the north and south sides, the upper and lower reaches are outflanking a thousand cavalry towards Taozhou City.
It can be seen that Brunzan is very patient, he is using the two thousand cavalry under his command to directly attract Li Xuan's attention, and then calmly mobilizes a thousand cavalry up and down to hunt the north and south, and stabbed hard from the back of the last 1,500 right guard cavalry in Li Xuan's hand.
Originally, Li Xuan was besieging and hunting the Tubo cavalry on the battlefield, but now it has become the right guard iron cavalry of the Tubo cavalry to hunt Li Xuan from the periphery.
I don't know why, Li Xuan, who was very patient at first, began to be a little impatient at this time.
He personally led the heavy cavalry to kill the Tibetan cavalry in front of him from the gap of the one-zhang-wide pit.
The lance flashed, and in a blink of an eye, it had passed through the throat of one Tibetan cavalryman, and then fell lightly on the throat of another Tibetan cavalryman like a dragonfly.
As soon as the blood flew up, the heavy cavalry had already rushed forward, and before more Tibetan cavalry could see clearly, the person had already fallen off the horse, only a little red in his throat.
In order to avoid crossbow arrows, the Tibetan cavalry was very scattered.
The cavalry charge was already relatively scattered, and there were not many people like Li Xuan's Qianniuwei, who had very strict requirements for the formation type.
In a very short time, it has been listed in a column.
At the beginning of Li Xuan, the Zhangba long lance in his hand rushed to open the way, and the long lance in the hands of the Qianniu guards on both sides was raised at the same time, and then fiercely stabbed into the Tubo cavalry on both sides.
They did not disperse in the slightest, but followed Li Xuan, who was fighting at the front, and rushed forward, forward, and towards the stone bridge.
From a distance, it looks like a centipede with a scythe raised.
Through the blood that was spilling up, Li Xuan's gaze fell on the opposite Brenzan blade.
At this moment, Brenzan's face showed incomparable horror, he had already figured out Li Xuan's goal, he was going to rush onto the stone bridge and block the stone bridge.
As long as the stone bridge is blocked, the reinforcements of the Tubo cavalry cannot be sent, then on the other side of the stone bridge, the cavalry of the Tang army, in a short period of time, has formed an absolute advantage with 1,500 to 500, and the Tang army can kill wantonly.
As long as the Tang army kills these 500 Tibetan cavalry, then at that time, more than 1,500 Tang cavalry will face the remaining less than 2,000 Tibetan cavalry.
With the city as their backing, they are almost invincible.
This is the real purpose of the king of Nanchang.
Up and down the city, the people who saw this clearly showed incomparable horror in their eyes.
The lance went straight forward, and a Tubo cavalryman had already been stabbed by Li Xuan and flew out.
The huge force swept away, and several Tubo cavalry next to him had been directly swept down.
The next moment, the long lance stabbed forward again, and the Tubo cavalry who had just rushed out of the stone bridge was directly stabbed by a lance and flew back in an instant.
Countless Tibetan cavalry were frantically sprinting, trying to rush across the stone bridge and join their companions, but they were stopped by Li Xuan and Qianniuwei's heavy cavalry.
The cavalry that has been disconnected and the cavalry that is still linked together are two different concepts.
Once the stone bridge is cut off, it means that the Tang cavalry formed a cutting encirclement of the Tubo cavalry, and then exterminated, but without being cut off, it is still more than 1,500 Tang cavalry, against the Tubo cavalry of almost the same size.
Not only that, the Tubo cavalry in front of him are all real veterans of a hundred battles, but those Tang cavalry, although they are the elite of the right guard, do not really go to the battlefield to fight very often, and with the same number, the Tubo cavalry has a great advantage.
But now, this advantage has been completely neutralized, and there is only one person for all this, and that is Li Xuan.
"Rush, rush, rush!" Brunzan Blade roared frantically, his eyes full of blood: "Kill him, as long as we kill him, we can kill all the Tang people." ”
The stone bridge was narrow, allowing only three cavalry to charge at a time.
Although Li Xuan was standing at the head of the bridge, there were nine heavily armored cavalrymen beside him, and the Zhangba long lance in his hand kept stabbing forward, and then retracted.
Li Xuan was nailed to the bridgehead, when the other cavalry charged, he rested, and when the other cavalry retreated, he blocked all the pursuers.
In just a moment's effort, a pile of dead bodies had fallen on the bridge, including the Tubo cavalry, the Qianniuwei cavalry, and more war horses.
At this moment, the one hundred thousand bull iron cavalry behind Li Xuan, except for leaving more than ten people to assist Li Xuan, the other cavalry had already frantically killed the Tubo cavalry on both sides, and at the same time, the sound of horse hooves also sounded behind the Tubo cavalry.
The main force of the cavalry of the Tang Army reached the battlefield.
The lance was raised, and the blood was filled.
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With a "ding" sound, a short arrow passed through the body of the cavalry in front of him, and then shot fiercely towards Li Xuan's cheek.
Li Xuan quickly turned his head, and the short arrow was directly nailed to Li Xuan's tiger head pocket, and the powerful force made Li Xuan can't help but turn his head more sideways.
At this moment, the two long knives had already slashed towards Li Xuan's chest.
But at this moment, Li Xuan didn't even look at it, and the long lance in his hand had jumped up quickly, stabbing into the chests of the two Tubo cavalrymen in front of him like lightning.
The man took a slight step back, avoiding the long knife that slashed in front of him.
The arrows of the Tubo people are not a single one, but most of them are directly blocked by Li Xuan's Mingguang armor, and the only thing they can really attack is Li Xuan's face, but unfortunately, Li Xuan's reaction is too fast, and the Tubo people's bows and arrows can't hurt him at all.
But fortunately, under the non-stop bow and arrow, Li Xuan finally retreated.
Li Xuan retreated, and with one step back, he had already withdrawn from the stone bridge.
The faces of the Tibetan cavalry showed ecstasy.
At this time, Li Xuan's cold voice sounded: "Order, crossbowmen, attack." ”
Li Xuan gave an order, and almost in the blink of an eye, the sound of the drums of the city gate changed suddenly.
The next moment, on both sides of the city gate, in fact, the courtyard gate was opened at the same time, and thousands of crossbowmen with crossbows had rushed out at a rapid pace.
Just like the heavenly maidens scattering flowers, it's just that what they scatter is the life of the Tibetan people.
(End of chapter)