Chapter 957: Riding the Victory and Pursuing
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In the military array, although Xia Hongsheng did not have much high martial arts, with the help of Qi Yong and a few people, and with the golden silk soft armor obtained from Youji in the inner lining, he also killed a lot of enemy soldiers.
It's strange to say, if he taught Xia Hongsheng to take a knife and stab someone else's body on weekdays, he would never do it. But at this moment, I don't think about it so much. If you don't stab him, he'll stab you. What else do you want to do so much? Just poke it up and pull it out!
Qi Yong and the other pro-soldiers helped Xia Hongsheng block the Tuyuhun barbarians who rushed over, Xia Hongsheng picked out the leak, and took advantage of the Tuyuhun barbarians to be blocked by Qi Yong or other pro-soldiers, and immediately stabbed over. Fortunately, the long knife was sharp and tough, killing people was like cutting vegetables, and blood gushed out and poured on Xia Hongsheng's body, hot and rusty.
"Childe be careful!" Qi Yong pierced a Tuyuhun barbarian with a long lance in one hand, and the horizontal knife in the other hand slashed down diagonally, cutting several bows and arrows to the ground. Xia Hongsheng only felt that his waist was hit, but he didn't feel any pain, thinking that he couldn't cut through the golden silk armor, so he immediately turned around and slashed at the neck of a Tuyuhun barbarian.
The sound of mortars around them was still roaring, and there were no more Tuyuhun people around them - they saw that the "monster" made a loud thunderous noise, spewing fire from its mouth, and then a group of Tuyuhun people were blown up and flew into the sky, and the scene of blood and flesh spilling all over the ground immediately lost their courage.
The frightened Tuyuhun people were indeed as Xia Hongsheng expected, seeing that there were "monsters" in front and on both sides, and began to run back one after another.
The Tuyuhun army was in chaos, scattered and fled, the mortars could no longer hit the bombardment, and Su Dingfang's front army could only chase and cut down on horseback and harvest the lives of Tuyuhun soldiers.
However, many more of the Tuyuhun soldiers did not even dare to flee, and they fell to their knees on the ground, their foreheads pressed against the ground, their faces buried in the earth, and their mouths kept chanting something, as if begging for forgiveness from the gods.
The power of the artillery fire was too intense.
The Tang cavalry crisscrossed the entire battlefield, and black bumps kept running out of their hands, and as soon as those black bumps landed, they would also blow up a piece of flesh and blood.
Tuyuhun's soldiers resisted a few times at first, and then found that it was something that could not be resisted at all.
The great army gathered on all sides and gathered in the center.
Tuyuhun's 100,000 army became the sword of the Tang Dynasty soldiers and prisoners in front of the tent.
"Take prisoners and put the army in order. Count firearms, projectiles, casualties. Duan Zhixuan's face was still expressionless, the same as before, and he ordered lightly.
The divisions in the army went to count, and Xia Hongsheng kept them in the tent.
"Today's victory in the first battle is due to the lives of all the soldiers led by you. The old man immediately sent a letter to His Majesty and asked for merit for the soldiers. Duan Zhixuan said to everyone, and then said: "All the soldiers fought hard to defeat the tenfold army, and they should have been rewarded." However, the defeat of Tuyuhun at this time is an opportunity for our army to take advantage of the victory to catch up, and it cannot be delayed. You will pass it on to the soldiers for the old man, and when Tuguhun is destroyed, you will reward the three armies together! ”
"Yes!" The generals replied.
Duan Zhixuan nodded, and said, "Today's first battle was won, what do you think of the next step?" Deputy Chief, let's talk about it first. ”
Thinking of what had happened in history, Xia Hongsheng replied: "Back to the Grand Governor, if I were Fu Yun, I would have seen that the army ten times larger than the Tang Dynasty had been beaten so badly in this battle, I am afraid that I would not continue to fight the army of the Tang Dynasty head-on." Instead, he immediately fled with the crowd, away from the Tang army, and at the same time lit fires everywhere along the road and burned the grassland, so that the Tang army that caught up had no pasture available. In this way, the Tang Dynasty soldiers could not carry out expeditions, and they could not chase deep alone. had to withdraw the troops. And once Datang withdraws, I will turn around and come back. ”
Duan Zhixuan frowned, thought for a while, and said, "It's not that this is not impossible. If the grass is burned, the war horse will have no grass to eat, and the foot strength will not be able to catch up, so the only way to return to the court is the class teacher. ”
In the original history, after Duan Zhixuan's great victory, Tuyuhun used such a scoundrel method. Duan Zhixuan's prudence chose to return to the dynasty.
After that, Tuyuhun turned back and invaded the Tang Dynasty again.
Then Li Jing went out, and after Li Daozong achieved some victories, Fu Yun used the same strategy as he used to deal with Duan Zhixuan, burning the grass and escaping. The vast majority of Li Jing's subordinates believed that there was not enough pasture and that it was an adventure to go on an expedition and suggested withdrawing troops. But Hou Junji objected, pointing out that this was an opportunity to destroy Tuyuhun. Li Jing adopted the strategy of Hou Junji, divided his troops into two armies to attack the northwest and southwest, and achieved success.
This time, it doesn't take twice to attack Tuyuhun.
"Boss, I'm afraid that the Tuyuhun people won't be able to come up with such a method, right?" Li Junxian said.
"Fu Yun can't think of it, but the Heavenly Pillar King can." Xia Hongsheng said with certainty: "According to the previous spy report, this person has always been a scoundrel and treacherous, and he must have come up with such a method." The last general suggested that when the spies sent back the information from the Tuyu Hun tooth tent, if Fu Yun really wanted to flee with the crowd, then he would divide the troops into two ways. All the way out of the southwest, all the way to the northwest. Pursue in both directions. Fu Yun fled with the crowd, and the group was definitely unstable. The spy can create some trouble and try to slow down Fu Yun's escape. ”
"Divide the army into two ways?" Su Dingfang asked: "Deputy Commander, since it is a pursuit, why do you divide the troops?" We have few people, and now we have to divide people to guard the prisoners, and if we divide the troops again, I am afraid that we will fall into passivity. ”
"I expect Fu Yun to flee in two ways." Xia Hongsheng said: "Tuyuhun is too close to Tubo to the west, one is worried that Tubo will take advantage of the fire to rob, and the other is that Tubo is extremely high, and ordinary people will get sick after going up, so Tuyuhun will not go directly to the west." The Tang army pursued it on the east side, so Fu Yun could only flee in the southwest and northwest directions. It was a fugitive, but its army was already in turmoil, its morale was broken, and the people were mixed in it, dragging their families and mouths, and their combat strength must be lower. And the Datang elite cavalry is well-equipped, and our ammunition is still very sufficient, even if we divide the troops, we are not afraid of Tuguhun. The chief can pursue first, and wait for the information of the spy to decide whether to divide the army or not. In addition, Fu Yun is old, and the king of Tianzhu and the son of Fu Yun, Murong Shun, the king of Daning, are extremely discordant. Now that the Tuyuhun army has been defeated, the prestige of the Tianzhu King has been greatly reduced, and the spies may be able to contact Murong Shun and rebel against him. ”
Duan Zhixuan listened to Xia Hongsheng's words, thought for a moment, and ordered: "Okay! According to the deputy governor's words. The order was given, and after the army was counted and rectified, it immediately began to pursue the Tuyuhun rout! (To be continued.) )