Expedition to the Kingdom of the Lost Division--A Thousand Shots 3
At this time, Li Siye led the Mo knife team to kill, and Li Siye fought hard to kill Gu Heming and rescued Jiang Qian back to the round formation.
The Tang army fought bloodily and hard, resisted with all their might, and blocked the intersection, at this time, including the wounded Tang soldiers, there were less than 3,000 left. Some of the soldiers of the Shu Division are about to rush across the intersection and launch a decisive charge, and the situation is extremely critical.
In a hurry, a rumbling of horses' hooves came from behind the Shu Division, Gao Xianzhi led 4,000 horse troops to arrive in a hurry, followed by more than 5,000 foot soldiers on horses and cars, followed closely behind. The army heard the rumbling sound of hooves, as if thousands of troops and horses were coming to the sky, and the army's heart collapsed in an instant.
When the confidence of the soldiers collapses, that is, when the soldiers are slaughtered, only the best elite soldiers can not see its chaos in defeat, and the retreat can still be kept strictly organized so that the enemy has no chance to take advantage of it.
The cavalry of the Tang army entered the camp of the Shu division army, and more than 10,000 enemy soldiers broke down and cried, throwing down their shields and blades, taking off their armor and helmets, hoping to reduce the burden, hoping to escape from the slaughter, but only a few lucky ones could escape from the encirclement.
However, most of the generals and soldiers of the Shu Division wanted to rush through the intersection that Li Siye held and fled, but not only did they work in vain, but they also trampled on each other and died, and there are countless people.
The Tang army beheaded more than 15,000 people in this battle, more than 8,000 people were captured, and less than 2,000 people escaped, including the main general Lost Limu, more than 1,500 military horses, countless military equipment, and less than 4,000 casualties.
When the whole army collapsed, Gu Heming, the general of the Shu Division, killed himself to be loyal. Li Siye found Gu Heming's body in the chaos of the army. In order to show his loyalty and bravery, Gao Xianzhi buried his loyal remains on the Chihuan Mountain, and carved a stone to remember it.
Jiang Qian was seriously injured and ordered to be treated by the army doctor in the Chinese army. Gao Xianzhi transferred the Anxi generals to make up for the losses.
The Tang army rested for a day, because there were too many dead horses and injured horses, so the whole army ate horse meat, and the rest was made into horse jerky by the army to fill the army food.
A day later, the whole army marched to the city of Garona, and now set up camp ten miles from the city, preparing siege equipment for the coming day to attack the city.
Bot did not see the defeated army of the lost army and returned, and he was furious and wanted to behead him, and the generals were dismissed.
There were more than 5,000 troops left in the city of Garona, and more than 1,000 defeated soldiers were gathered, but due to the lack of manpower to defend the city, they forcibly recruited the old and weak men in the city, and barely scraped together an army of more than 10,000 people.
In addition, he sent people to urgently order more than 20,000 soldiers to defend the northern town and rush back to the city of Garona.
The lord of the Shu Division, who was confronting the Tocharian Kingdom, was especially good, and the fire rate turned his troops and rushed towards the capital.
The Tocharian army then pursued, intercepted and killed the soldiers behind the palace of the Shu Division, and got in touch with the Tang army, the Tocharian general Kabapani led 30,000 generals, sent spies to find out whether there were garrisons in the castles along the way, and then forced to surrender the larger castle, if they did not surrender, they sent troops to surround but not fight, bypassed the small castle that did not surrender, and quickly chased the return of the Shu division.
The Tang army saw the head of the city of Garona, the number of defenders was still large, Gao Xianzhi knew that the poor rat and cat were in a hurry, and the whole city was defended, and the Tang army ordered to capture the city of Garona, and it would also lose its troops, so it surrounded the city without fighting, and waited for the Tocharian allies to arrive.
Led by the main general You Jia Erlu, the division of the Shu division came from a long distance, and it took only eight days to complete the ten-day journey, and arrived outside the city of Gallona, and saw that the Tang army had surrounded the city of Gallona, and the water did not leak, and the impact was several times, but they could not advance an inch, but lost their troops, so they stopped the attack and led the army to leave the city thirty miles to go down to the village to observe the situation.
Within two days, Kabapani also led an army of 25,000 to the back of the Ergar Elous.
In this way, layer upon layer, a stalemate is formed.
Bot was not frightened by the previous battle of the Great Wooden Bridge, so he did not dare to leave the city. You Jia Elu repeatedly made appointments to attack, but all of them ended in failure because Bote did not dare to leave the city.
After less than a month of stalemate, You Jia Erlu not only lost his soldiers and suffered injuries, but also attacked by the Tocharian general Kabapani, who suffered many casualties and demoralized, so he turned against him.
Seeing that reinforcements had fallen and that his own forces were weak, King Shushi surrendered in February 751.
After Gao Xianzhi entered the city, he imprisoned and released Sujia, made Sujia the king of the Shushi Kingdom, and put the original king Bert and some ministers and princes pro-Tubo into the prisoner car, ready to bring them back to the Tang Dynasty and sent them down by the saint.
In addition, Gao Xianzhi secretly extorted a huge amount of gold and jewelry from the new king Sujia, on the one hand, he comforted the Tocharian allies and rewarded the meritorious generals and warriors of the Tang Dynasty, and on the other hand, he bribed the prison army Bian Lingcheng, and Gao Xianzhi himself was also full of private pockets.
This has caused a rather bad result, that is, the eunuch Bian Lingcheng of the prison army has raised his appetite, and there is a way that it is difficult to fill the desire. Although Bian Lingcheng has no desire for men and women, he has endless greed for gold, silver and money, and once this greed is provoked, he can no longer be satisfied, even if the country is in danger and the society is ruined, he cannot shake his idea of accumulating excessive wealth until the last moment comes・・・・・・
Gao Xianzhi ordered Cen to participate in the book and sent someone to carry a heavy gift, Pegasus made a special trip to the Tocharian king Lost Rigal, the text praised the exploits of the Kabapani general, the Tocharian king lost the Rigala was very happy, and praised Kabapani, Kabapani was happy and was very polite to the Tang generals, and the two sides formed a friendship of life and death.
After Gao Xianzhi sent the Tocharian Allied army to retreat, he slowly marched towards the four towns of Qiuzi, and returned to the Anxi Protectorate Gao Xianzhi sent people to repair the book and table, and offered prisoners to ask for merit.
Because of Gao Xianzhi's two expeditions, he went through hardships and dangers, repeatedly surprised his troops, and completed the Tang Dynasty imperial court orders with a small number of troops, and it was not easy to raise the prestige of the Tang Dynasty in a foreign land. Since then, the countries of the Western Regions have been shocked, and the two great powers of Dashi and Tubo have also become more vigilant about the Tang Dynasty's involvement in the Western Regions, and they are preparing for a huge collision in the future...
Gao Xianzhi is famous far and wide, and has a great reputation in the Western Regions, as if he has become the most shining star of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions.
He Jingzhi saw the means of a generation of famous generals in these two expeditions, so in addition to practicing martial arts, he also devoted himself to studying the application of the way of generals and Gao Xianzhi's tactics, and from time to time participated in research and discussion with the judge Wu Xiushu and the secretary Duan Xiushi and Cen Shen, not only gained a deeper understanding but also formed a deep friendship with these outstanding staff officers.