Chapter 39: The Battle of Baiba (4)
On the 28th, the two armies fought again.
The Tibetan side was afraid of the obscenity of Shang Yuxi's father and son, and did not dare to disobey their orders, while the Tang army side had even more reasons to fight.
If the Tubo army in front of him is not disabled, then the rear road will be threatened from time to time, which is a situation that Li Sheng does not want to see.
So this battle is destined to never end.
The two armies lined up in front of the formation, waving flags to cover the sun, and the shouts of killing were deafening.
This battle, unlike yesterday's temptation, is a real battle.
On the Tibetan side, the five thousand households levied by Sun Boru, as well as the 10,000 soldiers of Duomi and Bailan were the main forces, and the Han soldiers and Dangxiang soldiers were auxiliary soldiers.
Sun Bo, also known as Subi, the female kingdom in the Book of Sui, has been a powerful tool for the expansion of Tibet's armed forces since Zhenguan conquered Songtsen Gampo in the seventh year of Zhenguan and established the administrative units of Ru and Dai, and has repeatedly made meritorious achievements on the battlefields of Helong and the Western Regions.
Once, Ge Shuhan, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, said, "Tubo is a strong reinforcement of the whole country, and the army is food and horses, and half of Sun Bo is out."
Although Duomi and Bailan are the Western Qiang species, because they have not been in Tibet for more than 100 years, they are no different from the real Tubo people, but the cultural customs are slightly different.
These soldiers were led by their respective Tusi, village owners, Pai Tou, and Shi Chang.
Because of yesterday's battle, both sides had a little bit of the enemy's reality, and in today's battle, there was no such caution, and the two armies almost at the same time the drums and trumpets sounded in unison, and launched an attack on the other side.
After the thunderous sound of golden drums and the usual projectile strike, the two torrents collided and became entangled in an instant.
The arrows are like flying locusts, and the swords and spears are like wild waves.
The guns poked, the guns poked, the knives slashed, and the killings returned him.
The shouting of killing rushed straight to Xiao Han for a while.
Guo Yingbu was assigned to the left army because of his meritorious service in yesterday's battle, although he avoided Sun Bobing, the elite legion of the enemy army, but the pressure was still not small.
Let's be honest.
In the large array of more than 10,000 people, there is actually not much difference between the ten generals and the small soldiers, because you don't know the deployment of the Chinese army, and you can't observe the latest situation on the battlefield, all you can do is to fight hard like the soldiers.
Guo Ying clenched the lance in his hand, swung away the spear that stabbed at him, and the lance in his hand took advantage of the situation to stab out and stabbed into the throat of a Tibetan soldier wearing chain mail.
Dress up.
It's probably a card head or a boss or something like that.
The lance was pulled out, and the pillar of blood splashed, and the enemy general's eyes widened and he fell to the ground with a bang.
However, the morale of the enemy army was not shaken by Guo Ying's beheading of an insignificant general, and it was not the death of Master Tusi.
Why panic?
Immediately, several native soldiers jumped out with their shields and slashed their swords.
Yes.
Swing your sword!
Different from the knives used by the Tang people, the Tibetan people loved the sword, and men, women and children were good at using the sword.
However, the Tang army's gun forest is not something they can break through if they want to break through, the soldiers are all from a town, and they cooperate very tacitly, seeing the enemy soldiers coming to kill, they immediately have a response, one person resists the shield, one pokes his lower limbs, and when his legs and feet are injured and he is unstable on his feet, he directly pokes out the gun, and his life is lost.
After a quarter of an hour or so of the battle, Guo Ying's side began to gain the upper hand, and the thin leather armor of the local soldiers on the opposite side could not resist the approach of the Tang army's gunlike array, and they fell one after another, like cutting wheat.
Perhaps because yesterday's battle allowed Yang Chaosheng to steal the limelight, Hao Ling was particularly scrambled today, leading his subordinates to turn into infantry cavalry to rush to the front of the whole army, and the two short spears in his hands were like spiritual snakes out of the hole, constantly harvesting the lives of the Tibetan soldiers.
And as the war intensified, he also became more and more courageous, and in the end he went crazy, and even the blood stains on the two short spears turned from red to black.
The general is the courage of the soldiers, and when the soldiers saw him descending from heaven like a god, they shouted the word kill to follow him, and kept moving forward.
Trailing behind Hao Yu was Sijie Chixin.
Although his martial arts are not necessarily very high, but the training of the soldiers on weekdays is also the most considerate to the sergeants, and he has won the hearts of the army.
Hao Jue is like a spear, brave and diligent, but he is also prone to impatience and rashness.
Sijie is as red as a shield, and he is old and serious, which just complements him.
It's just that although the Tibetan soldiers on the opposite side showed defeat, they did not disperse and retreat, and the military law of Tubo was very strict, in every battle, the front team died, and the rear team advanced, and the battle must be dismounted and marched into battle, and the death was handed over, and finally refused to retreat.
Even the native soldiers are no exception.
Second, its folk customs are proud of dying in battle, ashamed of fleeing, and fleeing from the battle, not only will they be punished heavily, but they will also be given a fox tail and put on their heads, indicating that they are as cowardly as foxes, which makes the people of Quandai laugh.
Finally, and most importantly, the Tubo battles were basically based on Dai and Zhai, and most of the soldiers were from the same Dongdai or the same official village, and they were familiar with each other and related to each other, which made their cohesion extraordinary, and generally did not abandon the soldiers of the same village and fled.
Guo Ying remembered that the Jurchen Meng'an Mouke system in history was also like this, with geography and relations as the link, they usually engaged in hunting, fishing and labor in the tribe, and in case of war, they brought their own weapons, military horses, and grain and grass to go out with their ministers.
Just like now, it is clear that their formation is chaotic, but they are still shouting complicated and incomprehensible words, and they will not retreat.
This is a world of difference from the Turkic army that only relied on cavalry and archery, saw the advantage and left, and left when it was difficult.
Of course, the Tang army's will to fight is by no means weaker than him, the battle of Xiangji Temple, the Tang army and the Anshi rebels fought for half a day, the battle losses of the two sides were equal, more than half of the rebels were killed and the formation could still be maintained, and there was spare strength to organize a breakthrough, which shows the tenacity of the Tang army's elite fighting will.
It's just that Guo Ying felt that it was not a way to hold each other like this, and he didn't dare to really go deep into the enemy's formation, so the battlefield situation was deadlocked.
And at this moment, there was a sudden earth-shattering shouting of killing from the rear, as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping in.
Guo Ying and the others looked at it in amazement, only to see dozens of feet away, suddenly smoke and dust billowed and the sky was full of dust.
A contingent under the banner of the Don Army was galloping from behind.
Dongchuan soldiers, it's here.
……
Seeing that reinforcements were coming from the rear of the Tang Army, he did not hesitate to issue an order for the army to take cover and withdraw alternately.
It's just that the two armies are in a fierce battle, where do you want to withdraw?
Fortunately, there was also a reserve in his hand - hundreds of heavily armored soldiers brought by Shang Yelu from his own miners.
This is the family soldier of the Chen family, all of whom were drawn from tens of thousands of slaves, wearing heavy armor and holding swords and shields, looking like the king of Bishamen in Buddhism, giving people an unshakable feeling.
More than 10,000 reinforcements from Dongchuan were intercepted by them in place, and it was difficult to overcome for a while.
However, the morale of the two armies could not be compared with before, the morale of the Tang army was greatly boosted, Guo Ying led his troops to launch a strong attack again, and finally defeated the thousand soldiers and horses that blocked the Tubo official village in front of him.
At this time, the Tubo Chinese Army also came into everyone's eyes.
There are no more than 100 guards under Daxu.
Guo Ying was immediately overjoyed.
"Kill the general and capture the flag, make immortal achievements, just in front of me, the second and third sons will kill with me!"