Chapter 980: Scorched Earth Battle
Zhao Xuanhu secretly turned around and returned to the living room excitedly, and reported to Yang Yue after saluting: "Your Majesty, a great victory, a great victory on the front line, the spies report, General Li led the troops to fight hard for a night, and successfully recovered the surrendered city."
When Yang Yue heard this, he only nodded slightly, and his face did not have much joy.
"Li Yucheng led the troops to recover the surrendered city, which is gratifying.
However, he led 30,000 elites in battle, carried many firearms, and attacked the city overnight when the Yan elite cavalry first entered the city, and it would be too much of a failure if he couldn't recover the city."
Compared with the battle that took place in the surrendered city of Zhongshou, Yang Yue cared more about the Liwang Department of Zuogu who led the army back to the grassland.
Through the news sent back by the spies and the reminder of Adenolan, Yang Yue knew that the king of Zuoguli was the king of the Turkic young lord with a different surname.
Together with the left and right kings, the right valley Li King was named a royal family, all with the help of the past great military exploits.
This is a veteran who can fight well, and his elite cavalry is brave and strong, with rich combat experience, and he is by no means an idle person.
Zhang Shaoming, Lin Kaiyue led 100,000 Tang troops into the grassland, Yuan Mingsha led the army to intercept and kill overnight, and the news has not yet been transmitted, Yang Yue is entangled and nervous.
Turning to the spies and asking, "Last night, Yuan Mingsha led the army to the north to lurk, is there any news back?"
When the spy heard this, he replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, General Yuan has not yet sent back the news, but General Luo is leading his troops to attack the Dongshou Surrender City, and successfully pinned down the elite of Yan Xing's army, and King Liwang of Zuogu will not have reinforcements."
When Yang Yue thought about it for a while, he waved his hand and said, "Go down and rest for the reward!"
Yan Xing's army was entangled by Luo Shishang, and he was cowering in the city of Dongshou, and it was impossible to send reinforcements to the king of Zuogu Li.
Zuo Xian's royal army was tragically monitored by Zhao Xuanhu, Nandao Ming, and Ye Qinghu, and there was no chance to send troops to help.
At present, the situation in the north is changing in the direction of Datang.
Ye Qinghu noticed Yang Yue's melancholy face, bowed down and saluted: "Your Majesty, General Zhang is a veteran in the army, with rich combat experience, and once led the army to successfully block the invasion of the Tang Dynasty by King Zuo Guli, General Lin has followed the emperor for more than ten years, and is good at cavalry combat, they will go to the north, and there will be no accidents."
"I hope so!" Yang Yue turned around and walked to the desk, picked up the teacup and sucked lightly, and said lightly.
After thinking for a moment, his face gradually became stern, and he ordered: "Zhao Xuanhu, you personally lead 30,000 elites from Fengzhou to the north, looking for Lin Kaiyue and Zhang Shaoming's traces, if they win, they will chase and kill the remnants of the Zuogu Liwang non-stop, and bring back the head of the Zuogu Liwang. If the Tang army is defeated, desperately block the attack of the Liwang army of Zuogu and protect the remaining Tang army to move south safely."
"Yes!"
Zhao Xuanhu clenched his fists and bowed away.
If Yang Yue doesn't believe Zhang Shaoming and Lin Kaiyue, in fact, under the current situation, Tang Jun does not dare to have any accidents.
Hundreds of thousands of Tang troops were concentrated on the western front, and the king of Shu and He Hengrui did not send back the news of the great victory, and the Tang army was in the middle of the two lines of Tubo and Turkic, and the situation was confusing.
The Sassanid side has been slow to send troops to the east to conquer the Turks, and once Yiran and Timur lead their troops south, the pressure on the Tang army will suddenly increase.
If the Tang army failed to resist the Turks, he suspected that Yelu Yao of the Khitan would not be able to bear it and lead his army south to conquer the Tang Dynasty.
In this battle, the Tang army should consume as much of the Turkic living force as possible to prepare for the battle against Yiran and Temur.
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The scorching sun at noon shrouded the earth, and the grassland was filled with a strong smell of blood.
Zhang Shaoming led the army to ambush the wilderness of the Liwang Department of the Left Valley, with stumps and broken arms, corpses and corpses, and only a few ownerless war horses neighing.
However, no one has yet collected the bodies of soldiers who died on the battlefield.
After all, in the southern battlefield, there are still rumbling explosions and cold shouts of killing.
The Don army, the Turks are still fighting to the death.
In the center of the battlefield, the king of Zuogu Li rode his horse to kill the enemy, and the red blood flowed down from the armor, dyeing the red crotch and the war horse.
In his Quartet, Andaru, Duanmuze had already been injured, but he still led the troops to fight to the death, and there was no sign of giving up.
From the early morning when he led the army into Zhang Shaoming's ambush, Andaru led the army to charge, but encountered the Tang army's earth-shaking thunder, the divine fire and the crow bombardment, and was shot by a dense rain of arrows!
Even though Andaru led the army to fight back, under the strong offensive of the Tang army, the Turkic elite cavalry led by Andaru still suffered heavy casualties.
As a last resort, Andaru led his army south, trying to lead the army back to the southern city to redeploy.
Unexpectedly, Lin Kaiyue led his troops to kill from the southwest, and another burst of bombardment cut off the passage of the Andalu Department to the south.
At the critical moment, Duanmu Ze led his troops out according to the military order of King Liwang of Zuogu and fought to the death with Lin Kaiyue's troops.
From dawn to noon, the Tang Dynasty, the Turks, two very elite cavalry traveled dozens of miles, fighting along the way, the Zuogu Liwang was unwilling to be wiped out, Zhang Shaoming, Lin Kaiyue, but did not let go of the idea of the Zuogu Liwang Department.
Even though Duanmuze and Andaru led the troops to fight to the death, the initial ambush battle turned into a chase battle, compared to the previous easy elimination of the Turks, this battle was extremely tragic, but there was not much gain.
However, the Don army still had the upper hand.
Therefore, Lin Kaiyue and Zhang Shaoming led the army to bite the king of Zuogu Li and did not relax.
Raising his eyes to look at the Tang army coming from a mountain in the distance, Andaru was exhausted and angry, this group of Tang troops chased them endlessly like mad dogs.
Riding a horse close to the king of Zuogu Li, Andaru said angrily: "Lord Wang, our department has suffered too many casualties, almost half of the elite have been killed in battle, and if we don't get rid of the Tang army's pursuit, our army will be lost sooner or later."
King Zuogu Li didn't want to get rid of Zhang Shaoming and Lin Kaiyue earlier, but they had just gotten rid of Zhang Shaoming's department before, Lin Kaiyue led the army to kill them, and bit them to death, causing Zhang Shaoming to lead the troops from the rear to pursue.
Now, they are still far away from the surrender city in the west, the surrender city in the east, and Shengzhou in the south, and they are still far away, and they are still far away from the surrender city in the east, and they are still far away from returning to the royal court with their army.
The lonely army is like falling into a long wilderness, with no village in front and no store behind, and the situation is in unprecedented danger!
What's more, Lin Kaiyue led the army to kill from the south and cut off the way for the army to go south, according to the previous experience, King Zuogu Li was very suspicious that Yang Yue must still have ambushes in the south.
Even if they led the army to get rid of Lin Kaiyue and Zhang Shaoming, the army was afraid that it would still be ambushed by the Tang army in the south!
After returning to the Zhongshou City, the East Chengcheng became dangerous and unrealistic, and after hesitating for a long time, King Zuogu Li waved his hand to wipe the blood from his forehead, and ordered: "Andaru, you inform the three armies as soon as possible, and Duanmu Ze leads the three armies to break through in the direction of the West Surrender City, and strive to get rid of Lin Kaiyue and Zhang Shaoming, we will go to the West Surrender City to meet with Zuo Xian Wang, and then make plans!"
He didn't know how many elites he could save when he led the remnants of his army south, but at least on the way to the city of Xishou, he would not be ambushed by the Tang army!
(End of chapter)