Chapter 37: The Battle of Baiba (2)

"Kill, kill, kill!"

When the corporal under the command of Yang Chaosheng of the front man ran into the gun forest of the Tubo Chinese army with a big shield, the two wings of the Tang army immediately erupted into thunderous shouts of killing to strengthen its momentum.

Yang Chaosheng has been the vanguard of the infantry army all the year round, and his subordinates are all elite veterans, who know how to fight the battle, and are not afraid of the enemy army.

Some of them are quick to see and move, and the brave soldiers of the masters of the art even directly use their big shields to resist the spears stabbed from the opposite side, while cutting the barrels of the guns with knives.

Don't say it, this trick really works, the spear of the Tubo people is thin and long, and it is almost broken with two knives in the elite jumping hand of the Tang Army, at this time, the pressure in front of him has dropped sharply, and the sword and shield hand holding a small round shield has taken advantage of the situation to jump out and kill the opposite side.

The Xianghan soldiers also started a new round of upward shooting under the command of Li Sheng, and arrows rained down.

Most of the Han soldiers under the command of Tubo were temporarily recruited, where there was armor, where there was an iron will to fight, but they were afraid of the military law of Tubo and did not dare to escape.

But it is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, after a few rounds of arrow rain, the formation of the front of the Tubo Han army has been completely chaotic, and Yang Chaosheng's department easily tore a hole in the middle of the army, and then rushed in.

The military formation of the Tubo Han army adopts a phalanx, and it is difficult to change hands between people, so they can jump left and right, flash and move, and in the face of the Tang army jumping in suddenly, they are almost powerless to fight back.

And these Tang Army foot soldiers who rushed into the formation were like tigers and wolves, every time they pounced, they brought up stumps and broken arms all over the ground, and the long knives were directed, and the blood splattered, and for a while they were like broken bamboos.

Guo Ying and Zhang Tingzhi's two divisions were a little behind Yang Chaosheng's department, and when they saw this, they also followed the gap they tore open, and swarmed in, completely disrupting the military formation of the Tubo Han army.

At this time, Li Sheng, who was sitting in the Chinese army, also issued a military order for the left and right wings to turn the oblique column into a horizontal team and lay the pressure on it.

It's just that the response of the Tubo side is not slow, and the veteran weeping Tibetan saw that the Tang army suddenly changed its formation, and immediately divided the party and horse soldiers into more than 1,000 each, hitting the left and right flanks of the Tang army, and ordered the party infantry to 10,000 to hit the Tang army.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to say more about the military system in Tibet and the status of the party members in Tibet.

When it comes to the military of Tibet, it is natural to bypass the military organization called "Wuru Sixty-one Dai" established by Songtsen Gampo in imitation of the military system of the Tang Dynasty.

Just like mentioning the Jurchen military system, you can't bypass Meng'an Mooke, and when you mention Mengyuan, you can't bypass Temujin's 95,000 households.

The so-called "Five Ru and Sixty-one Dai" is actually equivalent to the "Fifteen Dao and Three Hundred and Twenty-eight Prefectures" of the Tang Dynasty, but the Ru (also known as the wing, equivalent to the Dao) and Dai (the full name of the Dongdai, equivalent to the Thousand Households) of the Tubo people are not simple administrative units.

Ru is divided into two parts, there is Ruben, that is, the general, who manages the troops on the horse and governs the people on the horse.

There is Dai under Ru, and the chief of Dai is called Qianhu, and the Tubo people call it "Dongben".

There are small thousand households under Dai, that is, 500 households are long, and below 500 households are 100 households, and the Tubo people call it "Lequkan".

There are small hundred households under the hundred households, that is, the fifty captains, the Tang people call the team leader, and the Tibetan people call the general head or "Geer".

Finally, there are ten households, and the ten households are called "Lekan".

Occasionally, there will be a military organization of four people, one is the team leader, called "Zuben", and the other is the deputy leader, called "Oben", which are two combatants, and the other two are auxiliaries, the cooking soldier is called "Zhenpu", and the other is a servant, called "Zhenpu".

Soldiers are divided into two types, "Katsura" and "Yong", and Katsura refers to those who own slaves and property among their subjects, and are those who can organize strong men to participate in war, that is, samurai.

"Yong", also known as more, refers to the general term of ordinary people engaged in various ordinary occupations (agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, etc.), mainly responsible for production with the army and ensuring logistics.

There are also two kinds of slave class.

Yanggen (slave under slave), equivalent to coating.

Ninggen (slave under slave slave), equivalent to Ahha, the lowest level of existence in Tibetan society, has no personal freedom, is completely subordinate to the slave owner, and is driven, gifted, and bought and sold by the master, without any rights.

Even when Gui went on the expedition, he was often used as Gui or Yong's servant.

In addition to the Wuru Sixty-one Dai, an administrative unit that integrated the military and the government, under the rule of the Tubo Dynasty, there was also the establishment of irregular armies.

That is, tribal soldiers, they may implement the policy of drawing one out of three, two out of five, and three out of seven.

Ten people are what, ten tithes are cards, ten cards are villages, five villages to ten villages are ditches, and ditches are directly subordinate to local officials.

Even has a long, the card has a head, and the village ditch has a master.

In the event of a major war, the local local Tusi, local officials, and village owners must all recruit strong men to participate in the war.

In addition, there were eighteen extraordinarily noble fiefdoms (i.e., fiefdoms) in the interior of Tibet, of which only two belonged to the royal family.

The remaining sixteen fiefs belong to the military aristocracy, and the nobles have the right to collect taxes and levy troops in their own fiefs, but they also have to undertake combat missions in wartime, which is a bit like the nobility of the Spring and Autumn Period.

However, the tribes, the five rus, sixty-one dais, and the eighteen mining provinces are all in the interior of Tubo, south of Qiangtang.

In the border areas, Tubo adopted the same system as the Tang Dynasty, with five sections, each of which had several sub-sections under his command, and several states had a history of stabbing in several states.

In addition to these places under its direct jurisdiction, Tibet also had many vassal states and vassal tribes, such as Nibora in the south, Humi and Xiaobolu in the west, and Dangxiang and Qiang tribes in the east.

Although these vassals had a certain degree of autonomy, they also had to send troops to conscript in the event of a major war.

It can be said that it is an important part of Tubo to maintain such a huge empire, of course, the status is just like that, if it sounds good, it is a servant, and if it is bad, it is cannon fodder.

However, with the decline of the Tang Dynasty in recent years and the rise of the Tubo state, the centripetal force of the Hequ Party for Tubo has increased a lot.

The awe of Datang has gradually faded.

Hearing that Lun Weeping Zang had ordered, more than 10,000 Dangxiang tribesmen, under the leadership of their respective leaders, launched an attack on the two wings of the Tang Army and the Shannan Army, which was still a short distance away from the Chinese army.

In people's impressions, the tribal soldiers fought without any rules, and there was no concept of fighting after battle, all by virtue of blood and bravery, and then they rushed up in a swarm, fighting separately.

But this group of party cavalry is obviously different, after seeing that the Tang army has hundreds of elite cavalry on each flank, they decisively gave up the two wings, turned their horses' heads and went straight to the flank of the Chinese army, it seemed that they wanted to break down the archer array.

When the cavalry generals of the Shence Army and the Youzhou Army on the left and right flanks saw the enemy like this, how could they not understand their intentions, and immediately scolded angrily, and then, they took the initiative to break away from the two wings and kill the party cavalry.