Tang Zhangwei's Tang army did not always avoid fighting the Khitan army, but he adopted cunning wolf pack tactics.

Once the offspring of an agrarian nation learns the tactics of the enemy, they will be a hundred times more powerful than the enemy.

Tang Zhangwei's troops fought more and more, albeit in a general battle.

Tang Zhangwei adopted the methods of guerrilla warfare and raid warfare, and the Khitan Great Khan took the camp tent and searched everywhere for the base camp of the Tang army.

It's a pity that the Khitan grassland is the base camp of the Tang army everywhere, but it is not everywhere.

Tang Zhangwei himself did not expect that his troops could defeat the Khitan tribes individually, and rebelled against many tribes on the grassland that were oppressed by the Khitan Khan.

In fact, the Khitan people's way of ruling is relatively rough, after all, they are a group of people who have directly transitioned from the military alliance of the primitive society and the slave society, and the gap between them is more than 108,000 miles compared to the Tang officials and soldiers who are skilled in ruling the country.

In the past, the generals and local officials of the Tang Army did not regard these barbarian tribes as human beings. In addition, these tribes rebel and descend from time to time, which is really a headache.

Fortunately, now Tang Zhangwei has adopted a new ruling strategy.

The people on the grassland were naturally willing to hug the thigh of the Tang Army, and seeing that the grassland people came to vote, Tang Zhangwei said to Bai Cunxiao: "This grassland nation also knows the righteousness. ”

When the Tang army tortured the troops of the Khitan Khan, he finally began to officially send troops to the decisive battle.

An army of 300,000 and a grassland servant army of 50,000 Datang gathered together.

Tang Zhangwei's Tang army sent troops from the east and west of the Khitan steppe at the same time, and along the way, Tang Zhangwei's Tang army captured many scattered Khitan tribes and armies.

Tang Zhangwei ordered the army to gather the captured Khitans together, one team for every thousand people.

Tang Zhangwei saw those Khitans kneeling on the ground, and he didn't dare to come out, and he felt a burst of happiness in his heart.

The combat effectiveness of the Khitan cavalry is good, but it is not enough compared with the newly recruited Tubo army of the Tang Dynasty and the cavalry of the Western Regions.

What's more, when the Tang army fought, they fought in groups, with heavy cavalry charging, light cavalry attacking, and finally the infantry consolidating their positions.

The Khitan tribes who tried in vain to stop the advance of Tang Zhangwei's army paid a heavy price.

Many Khitan tribes disappeared forever in the steppe.

The army of the Tang Dynasty was in the Khitan grassland, and finally the north and the south met.

Tang Zhangwei's subordinates sang happily. At the same time, Tang Zhangwei began to encircle the Khitan Great Khan's territory.

The Khitan Khan was not afraid, he said: "The Tang army dodged and refused to fight with us, today we finally captured the main force of the Tang army, we have to give them a little bit of a good look." ”

The 500,000 troops of both sides fought in the Shangjing generation of the Khitan steppe, and Tang Zhangwei's troops had exceeded 400,000.

All kinds of bows and arrows and strong crossbows were ready, and Tang Zhangwei gave an order, and the most elite army of five thousand plates of armor was deployed in turn.

This is Tang Zhangwei's secret weapon, plate armor as a high-end protective equipment, because of the high manufacturing cost, has always been regarded as the self-defense equipment of top generals.

Wei Zhuang organized craftsmen to attack the top, dismantled the manufacturing process of plate armor into steps, and then gathered nearly 10,000 craftsmen to set up a special plate armor manufacturing factory in Yingzhou.

Finally, the plate armor division was successfully disassembled and manufactured; Finish.

Wei Zhuang will equip each of the 10,000 craftsmen with an apprentice, so that the master can help learn, once the land is out of the master, the master can get 100 Kaiyuan Tongbao.

After these apprentices left the school, they were distributed to various states and counties under Tang Zhangwei's rule.

Therefore, on Tang Zhangwei's territory, 10,000 pairs of plate armor have been manufactured.

This time, Tang Zhangwei concentrated 5,000 plates of armor, which was used to deal with the Khitan army.

As Tang Zhangwei's hands were lowered, Tang Zhangwei's troops shot bows and arrows at the Khitan army, and then the Greek fire of the Tang army also shot out in turn.

The Khitan Khan sent an army of 50,000 to meet the battle, and after suffering more than 4,000 casualties, they finally managed to hold their ground.

However, the Khitan army was also disgraced and embarrassed by the Tang army.

Tang Zhangwei ordered 60,000 Guiyi troops to rush towards the Khitan array, and the two sides fired thousands of arrows.

The soldiers of the Tang army raised their shields and desperately protected themselves, and the Khitan soldiers also hid behind ox carts and carriages, afraid of being shot by a rain of arrows.

However, there are still many soldiers who have become the ghosts of the battlefield.

After an hour of fighting, the two sides withdrew their troops.

Don't wait for the Khitan army to catch its breath. Tang Zhangwei's hand waved down again, and the 5,000 ironclad army crushed the defense line of the Khitan army.

The oncoming Khitan troops were easily repelled by the ironclad army, and those who dared to resist stubbornly were all picked up by the Tang army.

Seeing that a gap in the Khitan array had been torn apart, Wei Youji and Yu Feiyan rushed towards the camp of the Khitan army with their respective troops.

The Khitan Khan desperately tried to stabilize the ranks, but the 400,000 Tang army relied on the superiority of troops, the bravery of the soldiers, and the endless emergence of various new weapons, which made the Khitan army dizzy.

The trebuchets of the Don army threw stones, and the stones whistled and smashed so that the officers and Khitan khans who were directing the battle behind the camp could not find a safe place.

The Khitan army was finally in chaos, and the Great Khan could no longer control the order.

Tang Zhangwei arranged for the Tang army on both sides of the Khitan camp to put knives on the necks of the Khitan prisoners, making them shout: "The Khitan is defeated!" ”

The Khitan soldiers fled one after another, and the Khitan Khan tried to stabilize the ranks, but failed.

The Khitan army fled to Mobei, and the Tang army launched a pursuit.

That night, the Khitan army camped six times, and was scattered by the Tang army six times.

The Khitan Khan burst into tears, and the Tang army pursued due to Bai Cunxiao's leadership.

On the same day, the Tang army annihilated and captured 100,000 Khitan troops, and the remaining 100,000 broke and fled.

A week later, when the Khitan Khan fled two thousand miles into the far north, they finally escaped from pursuit. However, at this time, the Tang army also chased after them, and there were only 500 people left.

Wei Zhuang established a firm rule in the Khitan steppe, and they recruited the Tang people and displaced people to cultivate in those places suitable for farming, and let the Tang Dynasty's Guiyi army take care of these grassland tribes in those places suitable for grazing.

The officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, all bachelors who do not have wives can apply for a Khitan woman, or a woman from other tribes on the grassland to be a wife.

Yu Feiyan said to Tang Zhangwei: "You have made great merits and solved many people's marriage problems. ”

Tang Zhangwei said: "After a war, many widows and orphans and widows were born, I don't let these soldiers of the Tang Dynasty help them, who will?" Only if you let everyone live and live, will everyone support you. ”

On the Khitan steppe, countless new families were born.