"The whole army is deployed, the two wings are forward, and the formation is sparse" Wu Xiao issued the first order

With the dense drumming and flags on the city wall behind, countless small circles on the two wings were scattered forward, and the small circles in the middle moved to the sides, and the original crescent moon formation was completely reversed.

In the case of an enemy assault with a full army and therefore cavalry sorties, an overly dense formation will only make it easier for the enemy to kill.

"Cavalry attack" Wu Xiao said

After receiving the order, the cavalry phalanx did not meet the enemy in the whole phalanx, but divided into 14 columns, and scattered towards the enemy in an arc, and the battle was about to break out.

The leader of the Turkic Oghuz tribe is a fat man, his real name is rarely called, and the shouts all call him Gaha, Gaha means fat pig in Turkic language, but if you think that he only has a body of fat, which is wrong, he is invincible in the Oghuz tribe, and is the second son of the tribal leader.

This time, the Great Khan issued a summoning order for the southern expedition, and he brought 10,000 warriors from the Oghuz tribe to him, and he made outstanding achievements in the previous battles of Choshu, killing countless enemies.

It's just that today, he found that the combat style of the Tang army is very different from the past, this time the cavalry of the Tang army slid like loaches, and they couldn't catch it, they touched and left, and they didn't face it head-on, and when they were praising their strength and wanted to make a big fight, they slipped away from you.

Gaha had to summon the clansmen around him to chase the horses again, and unconsciously chased into the position of the enemy's infantry army, and countless Tang Dynasty soldiers stood in large circles and small circles next to the horse team.

What kind of hell formation is this, Gaha cursed while fighting with the enemy, and the cavalry team behind slowly pulled into a thin snake, winding forward in the middle of these large and small circles, and the speed of movement also slowed down.

The serpentine queue of the cavalry became thinner and thinner, and in some places began to break the column, dividing into two thin snakes, and when Gaha found that there were fewer and fewer people following behind, he looked up and looked around, he no longer knew where he was, and he had gone far into the enemy formation, and there were only more than a thousand people behind him.

The other parts were also trapped in the middle of these large and small circles like him, and they didn't know where to impact, but these circles of the Tang army turned faster and faster, like countless winchs, slowly grinding his cavalry into powder.

At this time, he wanted to gather his troops and form an effective impact, but found that it was completely impossible, they were stuck in a big quagmire, and they could only fight with the nearby Tang army, but it was obvious that the cavalry, which could not move quickly, had no advantage over the infantry at all.

Of course, there were also sober generals, and Gechila was the most sober, and he soon realized that the situation was not right, changed his strategy, and let his subordinates form a dense formation, and followed him back and forth on the battlefield to kill in a straight line. Gechila's bravery is unmatched.

Wu Xiao, who was sitting on the high platform, was not as relaxed as he imagined, he issued instructions intensively, and the control and scheduling of various parts of the battlefield were endless, and the combination of multiple local changes was a change in the overall pattern.

Where to lead each force, when to concentrate forces to strangle which force, when to get out of the way for the enemy to pass, and when to close the passage for the enemy to take a detour.

These individuals in the battlefield can't feel it, but the generals of the Tang Army found that every time they encountered the enemy was a bone to gnaw, and this battle was completely without the huge pressure of yesterday.

The cavalry and infantry worked very well, and on the battlefield that the cavalry wanted to reach, the infantry had already opened the passage for them, and they only had to rush all the way through and harvest which small groups of Turkic troops.

Soon after they finished their work, new orders arrived, and they moved on to the next battle.

The most irritated was Gechila, who had found that his tribe had actually killed very few enemies, unlike the results of yesterday's battle.

He ran back and forth on the battlefield all morning, and no matter how he rushed, he did not rush in a straight line, and from time to time a cavalry rushed out from behind to cut off a section of his troops, and then he did not know where he was lost.

Gechila saw Wu Xiao on the high platform, he knew that if he continued like this, he would definitely be defeated, he was not a python, and he ordered the whole army to withdraw and retreat to the main camp at noon.

A burst of Jin Ge sounded, and the Turks who were fighting seemed to suddenly wake up, and they turned their horses' heads one after another and retreated to their own formation.

But it was too late, the Turkic cavalry looked up, there was not much friendly cavalry left, and after a morning of fighting, the Turkic cavalry had already consumed more than half.

At this time, Wu Xiao gave the order to strangle, and a horn that shook the sky opened the prelude to the general attack.

Which large circles and small circles on the battlefield accelerated and swam, and even opened their mouths, surrounding a group of Turkic cavalry in the middle to hunt, everywhere was blood, stumps, horse corpses, and the sand outside Changzhou City was soaked with too much blood, turning into sand and mud, and if you step on it, you can not go over the upper of your shoes.

But the fierceness of the Turks was also manifested in front of the Tang army at this time, Gechila gave up retreating, he ordered the whole army to fight freely, and he led the elite cavalry, constantly harassed the troops, formed a group army, concentrated superior forces, and constantly harvested the living forces of the Tang army on the battlefield.

A real bloody battle was engulfed outside the city of Choshu.

The fatal blow to the Turks came in the evening, and when Gechila found out, he saw a fire rising into the sky at the foot of the distant mountains, stretching for more than ten miles, almost forming a burning horizon.

"It's our big camp, and it's been burned," said one of the generals beside Gechira, trembling.

Gechira looked at a flash of fire in the sky, and his right hand, which was holding the sword, slowly loosened and pressed it on the horse's back, while the sides of his horse were already bloody and fleshy, and his nose was panting heavily.

The camp was burned, the supply of grain and grass was all gone, and they had to retreat after holding out for three days, but he couldn't figure out how he left 20,000 foot troops to guard the camp, why was it so easily burned by the Tang army.

The last straw of the camel was that under the light of the fire in the distance, Chen Chong, the general of Hexi, led 10,000 elite iron cavalry of Hexi, slowly appeared in the north of the battlefield, blocking the retreat of the Turks.

Gechila turned back to Changzhou City and saw that this big city in the middle of Mobei had been so close to him, but it seemed that he had to give up.

He turned his head to look at the young Tang Army general on the high platform, at this moment, he was full of curiosity about this little hairy doll, he hadn't even fought with him.

At this time, Wu Xiao slowly started fighting, and he was also looking at him, and the entire battlefield stopped at this moment, and everyone noticed the change in form.

Gechila turned his horse's head and said slowly: "The whole army retreats", and then rushed to the northwest of the battlefield like an arrow.

The armies of the two sides fought together again in an instant, and Wu Xiao stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Gechila's retreat: "The whole army is pursuing"

To the sound of war drums on the city wall, he stepped on horseback, took the lead, and pursued in the northwest direction, and the Tang generals followed him closely, harvesting the defeated Turkic army all the way.

The last sunset sprinkled on the ground, printed with a piece of smoke and dust rolling, all the way to the north, Wu Xiao led the seventeenth cavalry, all the way to the north to pursue the remnants of the Turks, three days and three nights pursued more than 100 miles, along the way to recover the lost territory, to the fourth day of Qingchen arrived 20 miles north of Fengzhou City, met the Turks came to meet the troops.

Gechira gasped heavily, and looked back to see only a few dozen horsemen behind him.

In the distance, Wu Xiao was surrounded by 10,000 cavalry, looking at him quietly, and the two didn't say a word from beginning to end.

Gechila, under the escort of the receiving troops, slowly walked to the depths of the grassland, the Tang army was still in pursuit, but was stopped by Wu Xiao, he looked at the endless grassland in front of him and said: "Sooner or later we will return here, but not now"

After a while, I don't know who led the way, the seventeen cavalry generals dismounted one after another, knelt down on one knee in front of Wu Xiao, lowered their heads, and waited quietly for something.

Wu Xiao helped them up one by one, and the generals got on their horses again and returned triumphantly to the south, and the lost territory of Mobei was completely recovered, and Wu Xiao also established a supreme reputation in the Mobei army.