Chapter 52: Captured Alive

"General, what should we do next?" Qi Song Detsen asked nervously, although he was only twelve years old and had no knowledge of military affairs, he had already realized that the current situation of the Tubo army was extremely bad.

Shang Jiexi sighed secretly, what should I do? What else can I do? It's powerless, heir.

At that moment, Shang Jiexi said again: "Shang Jiezan, protect the heir and the prime minister, hurry up, leave quickly!" ”

At this time, Shang Jiezan didn't care about singing against Shang Jiexi, and asked in a panic: "The question is where should I go?" Do you go to Yangtong to join Zanpu, or retreat to Shannan's hometown? ”

"Go to Shannan, let's go to Shannan Pibo City first." Shang Jiexi sighed.

For some reason, Shang Jiexi always felt that the Zampu army that went to Yangtong was also more auspicious, so it was undoubtedly safest to go to Yangtong to protect his heirs and go to Yangtong.

Zhong Bajie was puzzled and said: "General, isn't this that the winner has not yet been finally decided?" ”

"Prime minister, the defeat of the Tubo army has been decided." Shang Jiexi sighed, "Please also ask the great minister to protect the heir and go to Shannan as soon as possible, and then gather the Shannan nobles after arriving at Pibo City, and mobilize the army to fight for a counterattack as soon as possible." ”

"Has it really come to this point?" Zhong Bajie asked in amazement.

"Prime minister, please leave quickly!" Shang Jiexi said, "If it's too late, you won't be able to leave." ”

"General, what about you?" He asked with concern.

"The minister is the commander of the garrison, how can he abandon the army and leave."

Shang Jiexi straightened his head, and his face was solemn.

……

Shang Jiexi wanted to send away Song Dezan, but it was too late.

Because Li Siye had already reacted first.

Summoning Li Zuoguo, Cui He, Lu Wen and other Anxi army generals and colonels to him, Li Siye said loudly: "The sons and daughters of the Anxi army, we are the elite of the Tang Dynasty, and we can't even compare with the civilian army, right?" ”

"The Tubo People's Army has already defeated the heavy cavalry of Tubo, and will soon defeat the Tubo Heavy Infantry Army."

"Next, it's the turn of our Anxi Army, pass on my general's order, and the Anxi Army will attack!"

Li Siye's military order was quickly issued, and the 8,000 Anxi Army, who had been waiting a little impatiently, parted ways.

The Anxi army ignored the infantry of the Tubo army, which had fallen into the heavy encirclement of the Tubo people's army, but directly aimed the spearhead at the main formation of the Tubo army, which was thousands of steps away.

The Anxi Iron Army, which is cavalry on horseback and can fight on foot when dismounted, is the first strongest army in the world.

This time on the Tubo war horse, the 8,000 Anxi army immediately turned into 8,000 iron cavalry, divided into left and right roads, and detoured towards the main formation of the Tubo army like a whirlwind.

The Tubo infantry on the front line found out, but they lacked skills.

The only ones who could still be put into battle were the more than 10,000 Tibetan light cavalry that remained on the two flanks of the formation.

Accompanied by the continuous sound of horns and war drums, more than 10,000 Tubo light cavalry also fought out on the left and right,-for-tat towards the Anxi army's iron cavalry.

Although the number of Tubo light cavalry still occupies an advantage, but the equipment and the quality of soldiers have been crushed by the Tang Anxi Army, the Anxi Army is mostly equipped with strong black hammer armor, as well as a small amount of Mingguang armor, and the Tubo light cavalry is mostly equipped with leather armor, in addition to the Tang Anxi Army in addition to the excellent armor, weapons and equipment are also varied, in addition to the main weapons such as Mo knife or horse lance, there are also crossbows, bones, horizontal knives and horn bows and other secondary weapons.

Every Anxi army in Datang is almost a humanoid arsenal.

The 8,000 Anxi troops who followed Li Siye to attack Luo for thousands of miles each strengthened a crossbow.

The weapons and equipment of the Tubo light cavalry are relatively simple, except for the spear scimitar, there is only one horn bow per person, but the killing power of the horn bow is far less than that of the crossbow, and it cannot shoot through the black hammer armor of the Tang army.

Therefore, in the rain of arrows before the two armies met, the Tibetan light cavalry suffered a big loss.

Then, when the two armies were less than fifty paces apart, the Anxi army replaced the horn bow with a crossbow, and the casualties of the Tubo light cavalry increased dramatically, and thousands of cavalry were shot down in this wave alone.

Put away the crossbow, the Anxi army changed the crossbow again, and the Tubo light cavalry suffered thousands of casualties.

Finally, when the two sides were less than twenty paces apart, the cavalry of both sides invariably threw away their bows and crossbows, and then took out their horses' lances, knives, or spears from the side of the saddle, and began to hedge.

In the last wave of hedging between the two armies, the Anxi army had an absolute advantage.

Purely in terms of equestrian level, the Tubo light cavalry is actually slightly better, but the fault tolerance rate of the Tubo light cavalry is almost zero, once the body is stabbed by the horse lance or swept by the Mo knife, it is either seriously injured and falls from the horse, or is directly killed on the spot, so the casualty rate of the Tubo light cavalry is a bit ridiculously high.

However, the Anxi Army's margin for error is relatively high.

Because the Anxi army was draped in solid black hammer armor, or Mingguang armor, unless it was stabbed vertically by the spear of the Tubo army, it was possible to be stabbed through the armor and die, but as long as the angle was so slanted, the spear of the Tubo army would definitely slide to the sides, so that it could not cause damage to the Anxi army.

This is the crushing advantage of iron armor over leather armor.

I'm wearing iron armor, and I can make a lot of mistakes.

And you only have leather armor, and if you make a mistake, you will die!

First, the rain of arrows attacked, then the two waves of crossbows and crossbows, and then there were unflattering frontal hedges, three waves of blows in a row, so that more than 10,000 Tibetan light horsemen were directly killed and wounded.

However, the casualties of the Tang Anxi army were negligible, but only a few hundred horsemen.

After the Anxi army chiseled the cavalry formation of the Tubo light cavalry, they did not turn around and charge, but directly killed the main formation of the Tubo army, and their intention was very clear, that is, the main formation of the Tubo army!

The remaining thousands of Tibetan light horsemen fell into disarray.

I don't know if it's better to turn around and charge, or to directly kill the main formation of the Anxi army?

In the end, the Tubo generals gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and decided to make a change, anyway, it was too late to go back to save the main formation, so it was better to simply attack the main formation of the Anxi army, and maybe they could kill the commander of the Anxi army.

At that moment, the remaining more than 4,000 horsemen roared towards the main formation of the Anxi army.

However, it is very regrettable that there are still Modao soldiers in the main formation of the Anxi Army.

Li Siye left a group of Mo sword soldiers to protect the formation, which just came in handy.

This regiment of 200 Mo sword soldiers formed a formation with their backs against Luo and set up a horizontal formation.

The Tibetan light riders surged like a tide, but they exploded like waves hitting a reef.

That scene was really bloody, and the Tubo light cavalry rushed up one after another like crazy, but under the Mo knife of the Tang Anxi Army, all the men and horses were broken.

……

"Let's go, protect the heir, go quickly!"

Shang Jiexi took the whip and whipped it violently on the stock of the horse, and the horse of the horse suddenly raised its head and neighed in pain, and then shook off the horse's hooves and galloped forward.

"Take care, General." Zhong Bajie hugged his chest and chased after him.

Then Shang Jiezan and other Tibetan nobles also beat horses and followed.

Shang Jiexi began to organize the last tens of thousands of slaves, ready to fight to the death.

However, the reality is very cruel, and the tens of thousands of slaves who withdrew from Jishi Mountain with Shang Jiexi, although they don't know what happened to the hundreds of thousands of slaves on the other side, but these hundreds of thousands of slaves suddenly became so brave and good at fighting, they all saw it, so they all lost their fighting spirit for a long time.

Therefore, no matter how hard Shang Jiexi tries, he can't drive these tens of thousands of slaves.

The Anxi Iron Cavalry was close to within 500 steps, and before they even began to release arrows, the formation had not yet been set up for the 50,000 or 60,000 Tubo slaves to collapse in an instant, and the chaotic slaves rushed Shang Jiexi's hundreds of personal soldiers, and even Shang Jiexi himself was knocked to the ground by the panicked slaves.

More than 50,000 slaves were crushed at the first touch, but the Anxi army did not stop.

After cutting through the Tibetan slaves, the Anxi Iron Cavalry launched a pursuit of the fleeing Tibetan nobles, although the Tibetan nobles had about a quarter of an hour more time to escape, but this was useless, because their horses had lost weight after more than three months of thousands of miles of long marching.

In the end, including the Tibetan heir Song Dezan and the great minister Zhong Bajie, none of the hundreds of Tibetan nobles ran away, and all of them became prisoners and were captured alive by the Anxi army.

When the Anxi army returned with a hemp rope leading the nobles such as Song Detsen and Zhong Bajie, the large-scale melee of nearly 400,000 people outside the city of Luo Qi had also ended, and as a result, the army that was still alive was completely annihilated.