Chapter 40: The Battle of Baiba (Finale)

Guo Ying's goal is very clear, that is, to directly take the Chinese army.

Not to mention that if you don't talk about crying and hiding, you will be forced to move back dozens of steps, which is also a great achievement.

It's just that he ignored one point, they are now infantry, not cavalry with strong mobility capabilities, and it is not easy to take advantage of them in full view.

However, the changes on the battlefield are often instantaneous, and Guo Ying only hesitated for a moment, and saw that the Tubo army began to retreat like a tide.

What do you say?

It turned out that the leaders of the party departments in the rear army saw that the Tubo army was twice as large as the Tang army, and that it was difficult to separate from the Tang army, so they had already had the idea of retreating, but they did not dare to act rashly because of the great situation of the Tubo army.

At this moment, seeing that the reinforcements of the Tang army have arrived, the tribe is in danger of overturning, and they can't take care of it so much, they have always judged the situation, but they will not be stupid to put the life of the whole clan Ding Zhuang on the line for a little bit of wealth stolen from Wenzhou.

And Guo Ying's move just gave them an excuse to escape, so all the tribes fled one after another in the name of aiding the Chinese army.

This directly triggered a chain reaction, the Tubo army formation, which was still struggling to hold on, was completely out of control, and the generals couldn't stop the retreat no matter how they scolded and reprimanded, first the Han soldiers, followed by the native soldiers on both wings, and finally even Sun Bo's soldiers scattered and fled.

On Weeping Zang watched the soldiers under his command collapse into an army, his eyes were about to split, he knew that the way of the Northern Route Army was over.

In this case, the Tang army chased and killed, and he could chase as far as he wanted.

He hates!

People who hate the party only know how to fly and dog, and they are selfish.

But he can't do anything, these party clans are right now on the border of Tang and Tibet, if they don't handle it properly, let them surrender to Tang, Zampu will not be able to punish him all.

Similarly, he couldn't change the situation of the battle, and in the end, he could only leave in a hurry with Shang Yelu under the protection of his personal guards.

……

"Big win! What a victory!

In the two-day bloody battle, our army slaughtered nearly 9,000 Tibetan soldiers and horses, annihilated its elite heavy armored soldiers, captured more than 3,000 people, and captured tens of thousands of soldiers.

Li Du, this great victory, can be reported to the imperial court to know. ”

After the victory, the Tang army swept away the decadence of the past few days, and the soldiers happily discussed how the imperial court would reward them.

"There is no need to report success, every time there is a small victory, he will stop and ask the court for merit and reward, what is the difference between this and those chaotic ministers and thieves in Heshuo?"

Unexpectedly, Li Sheng rejected Quhuan's proposal, which seemed very popular to Guo Ying and others.

When the generals heard this, they looked at each other and did not report the victory, how did the Son of Heaven know the merits of the soldiers.

As if he had guessed everyone's thoughts, Li Sheng said slowly: "In this way, you will copy a copy of the booklet of the Marquis of Zhongyu in your general, and hand it directly to the center, so that they can prepare early." ”

Guo Ying thought about it when she heard this, but after all, she didn't understand the deep meaning of Li Sheng's adaptation, so she simply didn't think about it anymore.

Immediately, after the Shence soldiers guarding the water brought the wine and meat requisitioned from Jinggu into the big tent, Li Sheng rewarded the three armies with a rare reward.

Even the big tent of the Chinese army set up a banquet, after three rounds of wine, and five flavors of food, Li Sheng put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked at the generals sitting on the left and right, and said slowly: "Although we won this battle, the situation in Xichuan is still grim.

Therefore, we can't delay too much, at most we will rest for a day, and the day after tomorrow we will cross the river and take the road of Jiange, Mianzhu, and Brazil to Shu. ”

Winning more with less, breaking the soldiers and horses of Tubo all the way in the field battle, the morale of the officers and men of the Tang Army has been improved, and Li Sheng also wants to take advantage of this momentum to enter Shu to repel the Tubo Middle Route Army and the South Route Army that entered the Kou.

Again, Chengdu Mansion is an important town in Jiannan, in case it is really broken by Tubo, it is not possible to ensure that Tubo Zampu will increase troops in Jiannan.

At that time, if the Tang army wants to expel them again, I am afraid that it will have to take a lot of effort.

In this regard, the generals and officials had no objection.

It was originally recruited into Shu Chi to aid Jiannan!

……

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, the Tang army, which had rested all night, began to work again.

Busy with what?

Transport of baggage, wounded.

In order to enter Shu and march faster, Li Sheng sent a letter to Shulizhou as a general, and requisitioned thousands of people from the three counties of Miangu, Jinggu and Yichang under his jurisdiction to transport grain and grass.

For the time being, those wounded soldiers will also be arranged to be sent to the three counties, and the county government will arrange for them to be taken care of by the households, and the army will provide them with two rations every day, one for the wounded soldiers and one for the reward.

There is no remuneration for the people, only one meal with the army.

On October 30, the army officially set out for camp.

The straight-line distance from the vicinity of Baiba, where the army is stationed, to Chengdu is about 400 miles, but because of the many mountains and rivers on the road to Shu, the actual marching distance is of course much longer.

It's just that this section of the journey is quite peaceful, and the prefectures and counties along the way have already received the edict of the imperial court, and the supply of materials is not ambiguous at all.

Although Shu is not as good as before, after all, the foundation is there, and most of the counties are richer than Jingzhou.

Of course, this is not that the governors of the states and counties are well aware of the righteousness, but that they are afraid that the army will cross the border, and they will not be well entertained and cause some kind of trouble.

In these years, it is really impossible to find an army that "freezes to death without breaking the house, starving to death without plundering".

What's more, the Shence Army has long been notorious.

The sentence in Du Fu's poem "Three Quatrains" "Although the soldiers and horses in front of the palace are strong, the arrogance is slightly the same as Qiang." I heard that most of the women were in the official army", which describes the criminal acts of the Shence army in killing the people and abducting women.

The march was still as boring as before, but Guo Ying was not idle, but followed Li Sheng through his relationship with Li Sheng's fifth son, Li Xun, and learned from him about leading troops to fight those things that were not in the military books.

Li Sheng is also happy to see this, just with the relationship between his son and Guo Ying, he has no reason to refuse Guo Ying's initiative to worship his subordinates.

Moreover, Guo Ying's previous performance on the battlefield was not bad, although he was not outstanding, but he was also impressed by the calmness he showed when commanding the battle.

After a few days of contact, Li Sheng found that Guo Ying was not only strong in martial arts, but also very keen in judgment of the overall situation, especially his grasp of the enemy situation was extremely accurate, and it was rare to have Lu Meng's studious appearance, so he gradually cherished his talents and began to teach him his experience in leading troops to fight.

It's just that Guo Ying doesn't know whether Li Sheng has left a hand, just like Murong Shaozong took precautions against Hou Jing's apprentice.

Of course, thinking like this is a bit of a villain's heart.

Guo Ying is not the only one who learns, every time he finishes learning the scriptures from Li Sheng, he will gather Wei Gao, Fan Ze, Hao Jue, and Sijie Chixin, and then tell them what he has learned and understood.

Over the past ten days, everyone's military views have made considerable progress.