Chapter 1013 Everyone's destiny
All the generals gathered under the banner of Sanchen.
"Since the thief wants to be a coward, then just shoot him."
Chengqian watched for a long time, and saw that the Tuyuhun people did not have the slightest desire to attack and looked like they were sticking to the end, so he made a decision with a sneer.
"These thieves, discarding their strengths and choosing their weaknesses, want to play infantry with me? Hahaha, don't you know that I am the ancestor of infantry in the Central Plains. Let them see how infantry plays today."
Ten thousand Tang cavalry, the crown prince gave an order, and began to approach slowly.
The drummer beat the cowhide war drum vigorously, and the trumpeter blew the bullhorn.
The drums sounded like thunder, and the horns sounded long.
Facing the steadfast Tuyuhun army, Cheng Qian felt that he had met the best opponent, how could he still fight like this?
"shoot!"
Tang Qi approached a little bit, but the Tuyuhun tortoise remained motionless, just like a big tortoise.
Tang Qi holds a horn bow and shoots arrows on his horse.
Since he refuses to ride and fight, then shooting is over.
The two sides began to shoot at each other across the shallow Huangshui River. In terms of shooting ability, the Tang Army undoubtedly surpassed the Tuyuhun people. It is an elite from the Longyou Army.
Those are all strong and brave Guanzhong men who have been strictly selected, have undergone strict training, and are equipped with an army of sophisticated weapons.
Their riding and shooting skills are only stronger than the Tuyuhun herdsmen as a whole, and their bows and crossbows are also better, and even the armor on their bodies is unmatched by Tuyuhun.
From training to equipment, from personnel to weapons, this group of herdsmen in Tuyuhun crushed all aspects. The Tuyuhun people at their peak dared not work as hard as the Central Plains.
Now Murong Cheng wants to play hard.
The Tuyuhun people did not move in formation, they were dead targets. Chengqian didn't need to use cavalry to attack their tortoise formation, it was unnecessary.
Just shoot from a distance.
As a result, a very strange scene appeared on the battlefield.
The two sides were separated by a shallow frozen stream at the source of Huangshui, forming a line several miles wide, and you came and I shot non-stop.
Although the arrows were coming and going, the difference in strength between the two sides was quickly reflected. The Tuyuhun had more soldiers and horses, and was surrounded by mountains and valleys, but their defensive line was deeper vertically and horizontally. The number of soldiers and horses fighting with arrows is about the same.
The 10,000 cavalry of the Tang army were basically shooting their bows and arrows there, but the Tuyuhun army could only shoot from the front of the army formation, and the rear could never reach the range of the battlefield.
Both parties come and go.
King Xuan wearing golden armor is not all a fool, but although he is the prime minister, he is also Murong Cheng's father-in-law, but Murong Cheng has already made a deployment decision before the start of the war, and he will fight a tough battle today, and he will never attack lightly. It is necessary to prevent being divided and killed by Tang Qi to lure the enemy.
The shadow of him being defeated by Tang Qi's surprise attack is still there. Tang Qi charged so fiercely that many Tuyuhun people dare not face him head-on.
So it is best to fight against the enemy in formation, so as to ensure that the patchwork army of oneself will not collapse.
"King Xuan, our bows and crossbows are far inferior to the Tang people, and our armor is not as good as the Tang people. We are at a disadvantage when we shoot at each other like this. This battle is too dull. We have a numerical advantage, but we can't use it at all. We must send Cavalry attack!"
A Tuyuhun general advised King Xuan.
Can't fight like this, wouldn't it be a living target? Anyone who knows a little bit about fighting can also see that Tuyuhun will suffer too much if the fight continues like this.
King Xuan stared at the battlefield. The Tang people not only had cavalry charging fiercely, they were even better at archery. The main reason is that their bows and arrows are better, the bows can shoot farther, and the arrows are made of fine iron, and some heavy arrows can even easily break through their small number of iron armor.
On the contrary, their bows are not only not as good as Tang people's range, but they are often not lethal, and most of them are blocked by their shields or armor.
"We should send cavalry to outflank the two wings. Even if we can't cut Tang cavalry, we still have to disturb them. We can't let them shoot arrows so easily."
"The Great Khan has a strict order in advance, we are not allowed to attack easily!"
King Xuan said with a straight face.
"But the battle is not fought like this, we are too aggrieved!"
Fighting for a long time, Tuyuhun's line was shot into a sieve, causing countless casualties. On the other hand, the Tang people relied on the advantage of shooting range and the protection advantages of armor and shields. The casualties were not large, especially most of them were only minor injuries.
Murong Wei had no choice but to rush to the rear to ask Murong Cheng to change his formation. After Murong Cheng hesitated for a long time, he reluctantly agreed to send out two-winged cavalry.
When Murong Wei rushed back to the front of the front army, the Tuyuhun army lost thousands of lives and wounded.
The battle line was full of mourning.
Murong Wei, who was allowed, waved his golden flag and commanded the cavalry on the two wings of Tuyuhun in an attempt to outflank the Tang cavalry from the two wings and cut the Tang army.
Ke can counterattack the Tuyuhun people slowly, and Xi Junmai and others have already taken precautions.
As soon as the Tuyuhun cavalry was dispatched, two generals, Gao Kan and Gao Zhensheng, led a battalion each to intercept the counterattack.
Just as Murong Cheng was worried.
The cavalry dispatched by Tuyuhun was more than twice that of Tang's cavalry, but after losing most of the cover behind them, these cavalry were quickly retreated by Tang's cavalry on the Gobi Desert, and finally left thousands of corpses in vain , back in panic.
If Tuyuhun hadn't arranged many crossbowmen on the slopes on both wings, and there were spearmen with large shields arrayed in front, I'm afraid that these retreating light cavalry would roll back the bead curtain and bring the Tuyuhun army to collapse.
Tang Qi chased to the front of the formation, then stopped, turned his horse's head, and walked away triumphantly.
The light cavalry on the two wings were defeated, and they shrank behind the spear array and did not dare to show their heads again, so Tang Qi could continue to attack the Tuyuhun position with impunity.
The corpses piled up in front of Tuyuhun's formation are almost becoming a mountain.
Murong Cheng on the mountain behind also saw all the battle situation before the battle, anxious in his heart, but he had no countermeasures. Previously, tens of thousands of light cavalry were sent to attack with two wings, but they were easily beaten back by four or five thousand cavalry.
If he made a bold move and the whole army attacked, Murong Cheng didn't have the slightest confidence.
Murong Cheng's complexion was extremely bad, and he couldn't imagine how this battle ended like this.
The first defeat of the army, he insisted that it was caused by a surprise attack. The Tang prince did not talk about martial arts and sneak attacks, but he misjudged the number of Tang troops at that time, which led to missing the good opportunity to turn defeat into victory.
This time he learned his lesson, who knew that with several times the strength of Tang cavalry, he still couldn't win without giving the Tang people a chance to outflank or sneak attack from behind.
This battle is really useless.
Thinking that the newly married wife is still in the hands of Tang people, I guess my head is already green. The more I think about it, the more angry I am, and I almost burst into tears.
Bearing the bow and arrows of the Tang people for a day.
After sunset, the Tang people finally retreated.
"It's impossible to fight like this."
King Xuan came to look for his son-in-law wearing that golden armor. Today, more than 3,000 people were killed in the front line, and even more were injured. Although 3,000 people died, it seems not many for their base camp with no less than 200,000 people.
But the problem is that the Tang people have 10,000 riders today, and tens of thousands of them beat you, and they shot you more than 3,000, and they killed countless people. However, it is estimated that the number of Tang riders shot by Tuyuhun may not be 300.
In such a battle, whoever fights will be aggrieved.
Anyway, the morale of the Tuyuhun tribes is now plummeting.
"What is the prime minister's countermeasure?"
Murong Cheng regretted it very much. If he had known this, he might as well have smeared the soles of his feet yesterday and got away. Why did he stay here?
I thought I could get rid of my humiliation here, and even capture that arrogant Tang prince alive, but who knew that now he was pushed to the ground and beaten again.
Shit is about to be typed out.
"How about we sneak attack him at night tonight? Although the Tang people are elite and fierce, they have few soldiers! Even if the sneak attack fails, we must disturb them and prevent them from resting." King Xuan proposed a solution.
Murong Cheng felt that the Tang people might not give them a chance, but he had no other choice, so he nodded and tried.
King Xuan then went to recruit warriors and gave out a lot of rewards. Finally, he picked out a lot of brave men and divided them into many small groups of Qingqi to attack Tangying.
In one night, the killing sound shook the sky, and the flames shot up to the sky.
But after fighting all night, not only did they fail to enter the Tang camp, even the Qingqi sent out were almost damaged.
When it was almost dawn, the Tuyuhun people watched from the mountain here, and from behind the Tang people, many torches appeared, like fire dragons gathering.
Tang Army reinforcements have arrived.
Sure enough, at dawn, it was found that the flags of Tangying had increased a lot, and the number of tents had also increased a lot.
This news made Murong Cheng's face extremely pale.
Seeing that he wanted to kill Tang Crown Prince here, but now he is a victim of the urn, Murong Cheng wanted to run away.
"We can't sit here and wait for death, we have to break out!"
Murong Cheng was about to cry as he held his father-in-law's hand.
Murong Wei, king of Xuan, gritted his teeth, "Chenxi is still in the hands of the Tang people. If we don't defeat the Tang people, how will we regain Chenxi?"
"I don't care about these now. If we continue to confront each other like this, neither of us will escape. The current situation reminds me of the scene when Qin Lang trapped them in the Mustang Terrace a few years ago. At the beginning, we thought they were trapped." We defeated the Tang army, but in the end we were dragged back by the Tang people, and they led an army to annihilate us. We can’t repeat the same mistakes, we must break through, otherwise, no one will escape!”
"Khan, it's too early to say defeat, we still have strength!"
Murong Cheng couldn't listen to it anymore. His strength is nothing. He lost two battles. The first time he was attacked by surprise and he was unprepared.
The opposite side only had 10,000 cavalry yesterday, so they couldn't beat them. If reinforcements came today, how can they still fight? If it drags on, is it necessary to wait for all the 100,000 Tang troops to arrive and completely surround and annihilate them?
Murong Cheng didn't want to die, let alone be a prisoner.
"Don't say any more, I'm determined to divide the soldiers and horses into three parts later, one part pretends to attack and lures Tang Qi to make way for us, one part covers my Khan Banner to break through the siege, and the other part is in charge of the rear to stop Tang Qi Chase."
Murong Wei frowned.
"If we retreat like this, what will happen to the 100,000 women, children, old and weak, and countless livestock, cattle and sheep in our valley?"
"Everyone has their own destiny, scattered to break through, and whether they can break out, it all depends on luck."
Murong Wei didn't know how to answer. Originally, he mobilized all the tribes to send troops, and even brought the old and weak women and children with him. He dragged his family and drove the cattle, sheep, horses and camels. During the winter in the city, there will be countless gold and silver goods, countless food and cloth for everyone to use, and even countless Han slaves. After the spring, they will bring these countless goods and slaves back to the grassland tribes. .
Everyone believed it, and they really came here with the cattle and sheep, and now it was snowing, but Murong Cheng wanted to escape alone, and let other soldiers lure the enemy away and cover the rear for him, and he also ignored the women and children of the various ministries. The old man, regardless of everyone's tents, cattle, sheep and livestock, has to run away by himself.
What a ruthless person can say such a thing!
"Khan, let's gather all the horses, the old and the weak, women and children, and fight out together. As long as we work hard, the Tang people don't have many soldiers and horses now, and the reinforcements that came last night will not exceed 10,000 people. Qi, let's fight to the death, they can't stop us." Murong Xuan begged.
Run away like this now, even if Murong Xuan ran out, what about everyone?
Most of the tribe's population in Tuyuhun is here, if they are not needed, then even if Murong Cheng fled back, what kind of sweat is it? Whose sweat is it?
"Don't talk anymore, keep the green hills, don't worry about running out of firewood, the prime minister will follow me in a while!"
(end of this chapter)