849 The Chase (Part II)
At the same time that the Ministry of the Yan Dynasty tried its best to recruit troops and horses to prepare for the war, the Tang Dynasty had already sent troops, and 20,000 elite iron cavalry rushed to that land, this army that had just ended the Western Turkic War with great achievements, did not pay attention to the army that had never heard of it at all, it was just a rabble, if this army was strong, why would it submit to Goguryeo? Why didn't even the Khitans dare to resist? Pure ignorance.
Will the Tang army, which can wipe out the Khitan, be weaker than them?
Are they brains punched through?
Su Dingfang didn't know how to evaluate this army, especially when he saw a ragged and disorganized cavalry unit appear on the opposite side, he couldn't cry or laugh even more: "This is the army of the Yan people?" Eldest Sun Chong, you sue the general, when you dealt with them at that time, they were also like this? ā
The eldest grandson Chong's eyes were full of disdain: "It is estimated that the clothes of different tribes are different before, so the clothes of this rabble are different, as for the queue and military formation, the last general is just the simplest cone formation to scatter them, so the last general thinks that they are still in the most primitive cavalry hedging tactics, and they don't know the cavalry formation of my Tang cavalry, and they don't know how to fight, but they will use brute force and what they think is skilled in bows and horses." ā
Li Boyao was even more disdainful: "Skilled in bows and horses? They still think that my Datang army is all recruits who can't run away on horseback? Their so-called skillful bow horse is just a joke, what kind of bow are they? What horse? It's nothing more than a rabble, General. The last general asks for an arrow array to attack them, so there's no need to talk nonsense with them! ā
Su Dingfang nodded, looked at the other party, and really couldn't raise the interest of fighting with them, so he raised his halberd and ordered: "The whole army listens to the order, bend the bow and arrow!" ā
Although the cavalry rode on horses, as long as they did not move and did not run, it was not difficult to bend their bows and arrows, but most of the Tang cavalry were equipped with lighter crossbows. In terms of range, it was no worse than the horse bow used in the past. On the contrary, after the improvement of the Ministry of Engineering, the firing range is even longer, and in case of a malfunction, the cavalry also has enough parts to repair on their own. It's not that hard.
And even the legendary art of running is difficult for many nomads to master. The Tang cavalry has been dominating the world for so long. Especially the cavalry under Su Dingfang's command who followed him to fight in the east and west and rushed thousands of miles to the Western Regions had already developed excellent skills, even if it was really shooting, at least 5,000 people in this 20,000-strong army could be mastered. Su Dingfang himself is a super master, others use a hand crossbow, and he uses an eight-stone strong bow, in the entire Tang army, there are only one who can use such a strong bow, except for him, there is only another monster-like guy, Xue Rengui, his bow is ten stones.
No way, Xue Rengui's strength is too great, more than four times that of ordinary people, this is innate, those generals who were defeated after the battle with Xue Rengui kept shaking their heads and sighing that Xue Rengui's talent is really good, if you can't become a peerless general, it's a capital crime, Lu Fengxian's character is not very good, but the bravery is still passed down through the ages, Xue Rengui's character and talent are obvious, if you can't come forward, it is really a strange injustice through the ages.
It is said that Xue Rengui can use the eight-bull crossbow alone, without a wheel, in order to test the limit of Xue Rengui's strength, everyone deliberately made a real yà n, and used the most terrible war machine qì eight-bull crossbow to try the limit of Xue Rengui's strength, and the result was that this eight-bull crossbow was successfully launched, and Xue Rengui had not used all his strength.
This guy is simply a human flesh war machine.
The strength of the generals directly promotes the strength of their soldiers, Su Dingfang is a powerful general, there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and the cavalry under his command is naturally all elite, whether it is dealing with the people of the Western Regions or dealing with the Tuyuhun people or the Tubo people or the Western Turks, his subordinates have never let him down, one can fight one game, and now it is the same, Su Dingfang bent his bow and arrows, and shouted: "Ben will release arrows, to hit the most extravagant guy in the middle of them, after Ben will hit, you must immediately release arrows." , Hear clearly! ā
The whole army shouted: "Hear clearly!" ā
The deafening roar made Changsun Chong and Li Boyao a little eye-opener, this is the real elite army, compared to the ragtag army that followed them north to Beiping, this is the real strong division, Rao is such a ragtag army can beat the Goguryeo Khitan people to cry wolf, and the combat effectiveness of the Tang army is also visible.
Su Dingfang looked at the guy who was protected by Tuan Tuan in the Formation of the Warriors, no matter who he was, anyway, he was the best dressed and the most tightly protected, and he shot him: "Die with me!" Su Dingfang shouted, the eight-stone strong bow was pulled into a full moon, and it was suddenly released, and with a bang, the long arrow with the three-edged armor-piercing cone as the arrow flew forward like electricity, with the sound of breaking the sky, which was enough to show its speed and strength.
And at the same time, the leader of the Su Mo Yan who was targeted by Su Dingfang and determined the life and death did not know this qiÄ, and a minute before that, he was still talking to the people around him about how to kill this group of Han people who did not know whether to live or die, and then take the rich water and grass land of the Khitan people as his own, always planting Although they can eat enough, but after all, there is not much meat to eat, they are the descendants of Baishan and Heishui after all, how can they not eat meat?
So he decided that after this battle, he would immediately start grazing, and there would be no place for them to graze on such a large piece of land. Isn't that a joke! This group of self-defeating Han Chinese troops actually dared to invade their ancestral land, they must be ruthlessly cleaned up and let them go back to their hometown!
When the leader laughed, he didn't know that Su Dingfang's deadly three-edged armor cone had been shot out, and when he heard the exclamation and turned his head to face Su Dingfang's direction, he only felt a chill, as if something very bad was about to happen, so the next second, in his stunned gaze, the three-edged armor cone penetrated his skull, shot into his brain from his eyebrows at an extremely precise angle, and then steadily pierced the back of his head and broke out.
The whole process was painless, and the leader was done with his life. In terms of some of the next encounters, he was the happiest, because his death happened in an instant, after being shot into the center of his eyebrows, the triangular armor cone destroyed his brain and brain stem with a very fast speed, ending his life in two seconds, his brain death speed was much faster than the speed of neural induction, so he left this world without the slightest pain.
Before waiting for his army to react, the Tang army on the opposite side shouted in unison: "The general is mighty!" ā
Su Dingfang raised his big bow. Shouted: "Release!" ā
Twenty thousand arrows shot into the sky. Then he turned around and rushed towards the rabble who didn't know what was going on, what is called a rain of arrows, at this moment. These people finally got it. The so-called arrows rained down. That's really a rain of arrows, it's all fatal, so. After one round of arrow rain, the second round of arrow rain will kill far fewer people than the first round of arrow rain, and by the third round of arrow rain, the Evil Legion has already collapsed.
Su Dingfang raised the halberd and shouted: "The whole army obeys the order!" Break the Spirit! Rush! ā
Su Dingfang, as the main general, rushed to the horse, took the lead, and rushed towards the people with indomitable momentum and absolute courage, Changsun Chong and Li Boyao finally knew what a general is, what is an elite, and what is a hearty battle, it turns out that this is!
That's what they're after!
So, without surprise, the two young generals, like other soldiers, rushed towards the chaotic and collapsed Tatar Corps as two soldiers, and the Tatar Corps was about to collapse at the touch of a button, and before the battle began, in fact, the battle was over.
Su Dingfang will not stay, in accordance with Qin Qiong's request, he wants to kill all the seven parts of the Yan Ya, they just came the first time and rushed to the second time, for these barbarian barbarians, Su Dingfang's understanding is sufficient, white-eyed wolves, they are all white-eyed wolves, they will not respect you because you know etiquette better than them, they will only fear you because your fists are harder than him, and it is better to make them afraid than to make them respect, so for them, don't look at them with the eyes of civilized people, they are barbarians.
Su Dingfang roared away with the army, chasing the qiÄ they needed, and Changsun Chong and Li Boyao also chased selflessly, chasing the qiÄ they dreamed of.
Along the way, there were soldiers killed in battle and hacked horses, as well as some trampled corpses, a mess and dirty, in order to deal with the aftermath, naturally someone will clean up the battlefield and burn these corpses, except for the corpses of the Tang soldiers, the rest of the corpses don't need to be taken care of, just burn them all.
This battle is over, and the next battle will start immediately, without any preparation and stopping, they don't have time to stop, in order to wipe out all these people and wipe them out, the Tang army has no time to rest, and the aftermath army prepared by Qin Qiong is also very tired, they need to take away all the loot and prisoners left by the main army and send them to where they should go.
The Tatar tribe was wiped out by the Tang army in this way, and there may be remnants of the tribe and population, but the main force has been wiped out without a retention, the most powerful army of the Black Water Tatar met with Su Dingfang in the process of galloping to help, after a chaotic battle, the Black Water Tatar was defeated by Su Dingfang head-on, and the five thousand fierce soldiers were all wiped out, of course, the Tang Dynasty also paid for the sacrifice of eight hundred people.
This is the largest loss in the battle of annihilation, Su Dingfang was very angry, this army actually dared to resist so strongly, angry, in order to avenge the eight hundred soldiers, burned the settlement of the Black Water Evil tribe, led the army to surround the entire tribe, came out one to shoot one to kill, one out to shoot one to kill one, either shot to death or burned to death, the whole Black Water Hair tribe was wiped out, completely disappeared in the dust of history.
Su Dingfang may not know that this unintentional move for Huaxia eliminated a great enemy who brought endless shame and harm to Huaxia in the future of another time and space.
Su Dingfang was in full swing in the northeast of the country, and in the more western part of the Western Regions, a new round of war was launched again, Du He's prophecy was fulfilled, as early as the early days of Guo Xiaoke's administration, Du He warned Guo Xiaoke that the countries of the Western Regions did not hand over military and financial power, they were still independent countries, they had troops and resistance forces, and the frequent rebellions in the past were secretly supported by these forces.
In the past, for the sake of the overall situation, I turned a blind eye, and I eliminated them once they appeared, but now the Tang Dynasty has swept away the scourge in the north, and next, it must be the westward march and the eastward crusade, and it is said that Goguryeo has rebelled in the east, not to mention the Western Regions, and the kings of these countries are not idiots, they must know the truth of the cold lips and teeth, in the past, there were great enemies who needed to rely on our strength, but now, they desperately want to get rid of us!
You don't know the intelligence of the blood droplets, those bastards have begun to seek the support of a bigger country further west, if we don't eliminate them, they are likely to join forces with the army of the bigger country in the west to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, at that time, our 40,000 soldiers and horses will have to consume more strength to extinguish their resistance, rather than waiting for them to rebel, it is better to be surprised.
Guo Xiaoke didn't agree, he stubbornly believed that if people don't offend me, I won't offend people, all the countries in the Western Regions are sovereign countries, they are all looking at Datang, if Datang does something to one of them, they will really start to rebel, it is Datang's persecution rather than their initiative, they occupy the righteousness! And we are not rightly named.
Guo Xiaoke did not agree to Du He's request, and Du He was very annoyed, and it was not until mid-September of the tenth year of Zhenguan that Gao Changguo first expelled the officials of the Western Regions Protectorate, that Guo Xiaoke realized that the situation had changed. (To be continued......)