Chapter 29: Rushing and Advancing Without Retreating (1)
Just a hundred, and it will be counted in no time.
By such a time, the dust from the collapse of the city wall had calmed down a little, and it was possible to see some gaps in the moonlight.
As expected, the height of the walls of the castle was limited and the number of earthworks was small, so even after the fall, the slope of the gap would still allow the horses to pass through.
Almost at the same time, Zhang Tiezhu just shouted:
"Ignition~"
Suddenly, dozens of wounded veterans of the Anxi Army, after struggling to support their bodies, quickly ignited more than 200 camels with torches in their hands, as well as the tails of war horses.
Because the bodies of war horses and camels have been drenched with fire oil early on, it can be said that as long as these tails are stained with a little spark, they will immediately burn violently.
The sudden sharp pain made these originally docile animals immediately burst into crazy wildness.
Instinctively, they rushed towards the gap in front of them.
Head-on, he collided with a group of Tubo people outside the city who were planning to compete for the first merit of breaking the city, and were currently killing in with a fanatical face.
In the blink of an eye, these Tubo people were knocked to the ground, trampled by dense hooves, and trampled to death on the spot.
Then the frenzied horses and camels went on.
Under the slashing of the swords and guns in the hands of the Tibetans, they forcibly knocked out a way in the crowd.
And at the moment when the head horse rushed out of the city wall, Zhang Tiezhu, who had already turned over on the horse, raised the horse lance in his hand, which was said to have cost most of his belongings to buy, and shouted loudly:
"Chong, Xuange camp has advanced but not retreated~"
As he spoke, his legs kicked the horse's belly hard, like an arrow-like leader, at this moment, this almost 70-year-old man, where is there still a little old.
The waist pole that had been bent down was once again straight.
It's like a few days ago, when Hu Biao and the others just saw them.
Seeing this, the others also whipped the horses under them one after another, and hurriedly followed, rushing out of this city that was about to fall......
Bowing his head and bending over, Hu Biao lay on the body of the war horse.
The left hand grabbed the mane on the neck of the war horse, and the whip in the right hand kept whipping the war horse, making the ground under his feet retreat rapidly.
Relying on such an embarrassed and ugly posture, Hu Biao was not thrown off the bumpy horse.
It was also able to keep up with the second cavalry squad and move forward at a frantic pace.
Because he was protected in the middle of the entire team, and there was a protective Mingguang armor on his body, Hu Biao was currently the safest of all.
It is also the only one in the entire second cavalry team, who still has a little leisure and leisure in the current situation to observe the development of the entire battlefield.
So even many years later, he remembers the details of this breakout battle quite clearly.
It's as if it happened yesterday, it's still fresh in my memory.
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At 9:52 p.m., the first war horse with its buttocks on fire rushed out of the city wall with a high-pitched scream; With a large number of big companions behind it, it crashed headlong into the army of Tibetans rushing in.
The group of Tubo people who were attacking the city outside the city never thought that the Tang army in the city would actually break through at this moment.
After all, in their opinion, hiding in the city can live a little longer.
And more than two minutes ago, more than 200 cavalry of the Anxi Army who opened and blocked the city gate, under the leadership of Guo Xin, an opponent they hated to the core, took the initiative to kill.
Up and down the Tibetan army, no one thought that the commanders of these opponents were just a bait.
When they saw the big banner with the word 'Guo', and the man under the big banner Guo Xin, who was wearing a blood-red cloak and a shining bright armor, he was cursed by them countless times.
Suddenly, almost the entire battlefield of the Tubo, as well as the lackeys under their command, went crazy.
Whether it's for great merit or revenge on former enemies.
A large number of cavalry that were originally cruising on the battlefield immediately rushed towards the two hundred or so horsemen.
Even the infantry around the city gate couldn't care about continuing to attack the city for a while, and they opened their legs one after another, killing Guo Xin, a more valuable target.
It can be said that Guo Xin, the coach of the Anxi Army, used such a death charge to attract the attention of the opponent for Hu Biao.
Therefore, in the face of Hu Biao and others, the breakthrough with fire horses and fire camels as the forerunner was very successful.
At least in the early days, it was quite successful.
The Tibetans in this area seemed to be a little caught off guard, especially the hundreds of Tibetan infantry in front of the gap, who immediately became extremely frenzied.
No one was stupid enough to stand in front of these crazy animals, and they all fled for their lives on both sides.
But even so, some of the unlucky ones who couldn't dodge were knocked to the ground one after another, and then trampled by the dense hooves, turning into a puddle of flesh.
Seeing this, the infantry on both sides rushed frantically, but their legs were comparable to four legs.
Even if the personnel who are closer are blocked in time, it is just to deliver food.
Zhang Tiezhu and the other veterans didn't slash wildly, they just held the blade and put it on the horse's back.
As the horses staggered by, the sharp blades easily cut the leather armor of those Tibetans, leaving a fatal wound on their bodies.
In the other hand, he held a small round shield to block the arrows that were shot at him.
In short, the Tibetan warriors who tried to keep them were soon reduced to corpses that had fallen to the ground.
For a while, for this small cavalry team that suddenly rushed out of the gap, there was no way to stop the Tubo people who were more than ten times the number of people in the gap.
It's just that when Hu Biao looked in front of the city gate, he painfully found that an area there was now almost surrounded by a large number of Tibetan cavalry.
This means that Guo Shuai and they are besieged by dozens of times the opponent, and the war horses can't rush at all.
Today, they have lost the most important ability to maneuver; It means that soon, Guo Shuai and others will be besieged and killed.
It's just that under the siege of dense hands, the two big banners of 'Tang' and 'Guo' are still held high, and they continue to be unfurled with the strong night wind after nightfall.
It is like the belief that the Anxi army will never compromise with foreign enemies.
Occasionally, in the reflection of the blades under the moonlight, Hu Biao could even faintly see such a scene:
Guo Shuai, who is already in his 70s, waved a horse lance in his hand, and one after another Tubo people were picked up from their war horses and fell to the ground, which was really like a gun.
Sure enough, as Zhang Tiezhu said in the past, Guo Shuai, who was born in the top generals of the Tang Dynasty, has good martial arts......
Three minutes later, Hu Biao and the others were shocked to find that their eyes were empty.
It turned out that before they knew it, they had already killed through the two enemy formations that the Tubo infantry under the city had hastily laid out.
It's a pity that animals are cattle after all, and those crazy horses and camels are not controlled at all, and in the face of the vast wilderness, most of them have now run away.
There are less than half of the large animals left, and after the scale is not completed, it has been greatly reduced in terms of impact power.
In the position of the Chinese army on the Tibetan side, the horn of the military order was constantly sounding; Under such an order, one cavalry after another, slaughtered this small force.
Among them, the fastest one rushed to the position, and at this moment it was already outside the position of Rich.
Soon after, the last 27 members of the second cavalry squad of the Xuange Battalion will usher in a more difficult and crucial battle.
Between the cavalry charging each other, the victory and defeat can be determined in a very short time, but the battle is extremely tragic.
Suddenly, as if he felt something, Hu Biao suddenly looked towards the city gate.
I saw that the battle there was over, and only a big banner with the word 'Tang' was still erected.
The reason why the banner did not fall was that it was a man wearing a red cloak and bright light armor, supporting the flagpole with his body.
The blood-red cloak was no longer flowing, and the armor covered in gaps and blood no longer reflected the fire.
Therefore, the owner of this body should have died, but looking at the pile of corpses around him that had been piled up high by the soldiers of both sides after the battle.
What's more, the momentum on the man's body that cannot be described in words, and no one dared to step forward with the many Tibetan armies on the side.
After seeing this scene, Hu Biao couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.
In the end, all the fiery emotions in his heart were replaced with one sentence: "Chong, Xuange camp has advanced and retreated~"