Ye Zide hurriedly took off his armor and touched the arrow wound on his shoulder blade. He grimaced in pain and started sweating. After all, the arrow cluster was still in his body. Every move made him cry...
He finally took off the armor while running and endured the pain, and just threw it away. With a thought, he stuffed the armor into the hands of a soldier beside him and ordered: "Put it on and lead the others away separately!"
The soldier's face turned ashen...
But he didn't dare to disobey, so he put on his armor with fear, and then Ye Zide pulled it casually, circled more than 20 people: "Follow him over there!"
The soldiers he drew in the circle looked horrified, but they could only bite the bullet and follow the armored soldiers to separate from Ye Qide. Ye Qide fled to the southeast, while they ran north towards the Tianshan Mountains. .
The soldier ran away with his men for a long distance. When he looked back, he saw that the Tang army was following him and was chasing him. He couldn't help but secretly complained that he had become a target for the Tang army! The broken soldiers were everywhere. He gritted his teeth and took off his armor and threw it to the ground. He said to the twenty soldiers: "Go ahead and accept your destiny!"
After saying that, he turned around and got into the group of broken soldiers, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
The rest of them looked at each other, disobeying Ye Zide's order would have extremely serious consequences, but considering that the army was defeated like a mountain at this moment, no one could care about anyone, and no one would be able to hold them accountable for escaping halfway. Immediately, these people looked at each other in tacit understanding, dropped their weapons, pretended to be ordinary soldiers, and fled in panic among the broken troops.
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After Xue Rengui hit the armored general among the enemy with an arrow, he led his cavalry and drove straight in. The gold-plated phoenix wings in his hands flew up and down, invincible, and he cut a bloody path straight towards the enemy general. However, there were broken soldiers everywhere in the enemy camp. Many of the broken soldiers could not even tell the situation. They ran into each other while running. Although they were all killed and retreated, it seriously hindered the speed of pursuit.
After he led his troops and chased them dozens of feet away, repelling a wave of defeated troops, he looked up and found that there was no trace of the armored enemy general in his sight...
Xue Rengui knew that the other party must have taken off his armor and ran away, and he cried out in his heart that it was a pity that such a big fish slipped away from his hands.
Not willing to fight at that moment, he led his troops to rush out from the enemy camp. When they broke through the siege, looking back, the entire enemy camp was already in flames. Countless enemy troops were in disarray and running around in chaos. The victory was determined. !
He let out a long sigh of relief, knowing that the enemy army would never be able to recover from this situation, so he naturally became more and more unwilling to take risks. If he charged in and was surrounded by broken troops, his cavalry would lose their mobility. Sex can easily lead to a big defeat.
Then he led his cavalry according to the established plan, constantly harassing the flanks of the enemy camp, and dividing the enemy's broken troops into pieces that were not controlled by each other.
The cavalry on the left and right wings of the Tang army continued to attack and harass, making the defeat of the Dashi army impossible to contain. Many generals initially tried to organize their soldiers to deploy defenses to challenge the Tang army, but after several attempts, no results were achieved, and they could not get any help from Ye Zide. After receiving the order, he had no choice but to slowly retreat with his direct troops, leaving the rest of the soldiers to run around like headless chickens.
Heavy snow fell from the sky, and the Dashi army camp had turned into a hell on earth. Not only did the Tang army's air raids cause a large number of casualties, but also countless people trampled on each other because of the collapse of the army.
The army of more than 100,000 people was defeated like a mountain.
Soon, the Chinese infantry led by Fang Jun arrived at the enemy camp. Seeing this situation, they were too lazy to make any adjustments. They went directly to the battlefield and rushed into the enemy camp.
The cavalry on both wings immediately moved closer to the center, protecting the left and right positions for the infantry, allowing the infantry to crush them all the way from the front, completely defeating the Dashi army.
Even Fang Jun never expected that a hot-air balloon air attack on the enemy camp would have such a good effect. Firearms damage was second, and the most important thing was that this type of warfare was unseen and unheard of by the people. Not only were they completely stunned, but also Not only fear arose from the bottom of my heart, but the morale of the army completely collapsed.
Even before the cavalry of the Tang Army arrived, the army of Dashi was defeated and there was no way to recover...
The Tang army fought bravely all the way, but the morale of the enemy troops in front of them collapsed and they had no formation, allowing them to be slaughtered, and they went straight into the enemy camp where the central army was.
Fang Jun also knew that the entire army of Dashi was defeated and that its general Ye Zide must have escaped, but he still ordered people to search carefully near the Chinese army. As a result, he caught a few waiters around Ye Zide who had no time to escape. Sure enough, De abandoned the army and fled when the Tang army's cavalry came to kill...
Although it is a pity, this battle has completely defeated more than 100,000 Dashi troops. The battle was successful, and there is no need to be too demanding. However, the enemy must not be given a chance to collect the defeated troops. Fang Jun immediately ordered the cavalry on the left and right wings to stop the harassment, and immediately pursued the enemy's defeated troops together, either capturing or killing them. He must ensure that the enemy was not given any chance to breathe. , firmly establish the victory and eliminate future troubles forever.
Chasing down defeated armies is what the cavalry troops love to do most. Their powerful mobility is enough to catch up with any enemy, and when the enemy escapes, they are in such chaos that they cannot organize an effective defense at all. They can only encounter a unilateral massacre. This is A great opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
Xue Rengui and Wang Fangyi were so excited that they immediately led their cavalry to roll up the snow foam in the sky, and chased them southwest along the road at the foot of Tianshan Mountain. After catching up with the defeated troops along the way, they first slashed and killed all the stubborn ones. The surrendered ones were left aside and waited for the infantry to catch up before being captured. They chased the tail of the food army non-stop and killed them.
As fast as the wind and as aggressive as fire, it kills the enemy to the point where they pee and scurry away with their heads in their hands.
Fang Jun stationed his troops in the enemy camp and commanded his soldiers to clear out the defeated troops in the camp, either by disarming them without killing them or by beheading them on the spot, but he tended to capture as many prisoners as possible. The Great Eater's physical fitness is not bad. Although he is much lazier, he is still hardworking and diligent under the whip, sword and gun. Escorting him back to the country will be an excellent labor force. He can repair the Great Wall and build it for His Majesty Li Er. Be it mausoleums, or even digging mountains, paving roads, and digging river channels, it can greatly ease the burden of corvee work on the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, now that rice from Linyi and Annan is continuously imported into Guanzhong, the food shortage in Datang has basically been lifted. It is foreseeable that there will be a wave of population growth in the next few years. It will not be difficult to feed more cannibal slaves. .
It's just that there are too many defeated soldiers in the military camp. These soldiers can't find their generals, and they don't even know where their troops are, but they don't dare to flee. They are running around like headless flies. It takes a lot of time to arrest them. A lot of effort.
Fang Jun didn't care about this for the time being. He immediately ordered people to seize the baggage camp and planned to move all the baggage back to Gongyue City. In this way, even if the enemy army could revive, it would lose all the baggage and it would be difficult to reverse it.
As a result, when the soldiers opened the door of the baggage camp and saw the empty tents, they were a little confused...
When Fang Jun heard the report, his heart skipped a beat and he hurried to the baggage camp to check. He was a little confused when he saw that there were only tens of thousands of stones of food in the continuous tents.
Did the enemy take advantage of the chaos to transport the food when they were defeated, or did the cannibals simply have so much food left?
He had several prisoners who were guarding the supply camp captured and interrogated, but still no clue was found.
According to the prisoners, because the Tang army attacked and burned most of the food and supplies in the battle outside Suiye City, Ye Zide has always been very strict about the supervision of the supply camp. He not only strictly prohibited other troops from approaching, but also sent out his direct troops. be blocked. These soldiers who guard the baggage camps are actually only responsible for keeping accounts of the food shipped out of the warehouse.
However, according to the prisoners, the proportion of food shipped out of the warehouse every day has been decreasing over the past few days. The soldiers in the army have already reduced their meals from two meals a day to one meal a day. They cannot eat enough at all. Therefore, the resentment among the army is rising and the morale of the army is rising. Unstable...
In this case, the food army must have really run out of ammunition and food. After this defeat, they retreated all the way without even carrying a grain of food.
Fang Jun nodded with satisfaction and put down his worries.
Since there is no food on the body, even if the Tang army is not overtaken by the Tang army during this rout, the soldiers will definitely starve to death on the way. Even if a few lucky ones survive, the entire army will be considered dead.
In this way, even if the Caliph of the Great Food Kingdom was brooding and dissatisfied with the disastrous defeat in this battle, he would not be able to launch another Eastern Expedition in the short term.
If it were placed under a highly centralized power system like the Central Plains Dynasty, it might be possible to fight here in a short period of time by devoting the entire country's efforts like the Eastern Expedition. After all, the whole country is united as one and only obeys the emperor's orders, which can maximize the effectiveness of the campaign. unleash its war potential. However, the nominal co-owner of the Great Food Country is the "Caliph", but the real power in the country is the leaders of various tribes and the governors of major cities. The authority of the "Caliph" is more of a spiritual symbol...
