After he landed on the ground, he rolled forward and jumped onto a hill where corpses were piled up. Looking at his subordinates who were in the sea of fire, he couldn't help but be stunned. Even the stray arrow he had just jumped into the air was stunned. Forgot to pull it out.
What kind of hell scene is this? With the impact point as the center, the flames spread out in all directions, and all the surrounding creatures were involved in the sea of fire. He could usually name each of these. Some of the subordinates could not even struggle, so they were engulfed in the sea of fire and disappeared without a trace.
Just when he was about to make some command, something happened that made him desperate. Several more fireballs rained down from the sky. The target was still his army, and they were all far away from the attack point. The places had not been affected by the flames just now, but the Xiqi coalition cavalry in these places were obviously frightened, and they all wanted to retreat in unison.
If they are brave and good at fighting, in the face of the threat of death, no matter how brave the warrior is, they will become cowards. After these guys saw the second round of attacks coming, they immediately retreated, but there were still many people. Being swallowed up in the sea of fire, some people were lucky enough to escape from the sea of fire, but they became burning people. They fell to the ground with their horses and men before they could run far and stopped moving. Others, although they ran away at first, But with the blessing of the night wind, the fire spread very quickly. In the end, they would still be overtaken by the fire and swallowed whole. This caused great panic. The Xiqi coalition cavalry, which had been charging bravely just now, was retreating. The cause of the most casualties among them was not the attack of these fireballs, but the stampede caused by their own retreat. At this time, the officers' command has lost its effect. No, to be precise, because of the continuous bombardment of fireballs falling from the sky, even the officers fled one after another. Except for the original tenth formation where Ba Yeya was located, there were three formations of Xiqi Allied Cavalry at this moment. Within the attack range of the Tang Army's large catapults, among them, the Baye cavalry and the Xi tribe's forwards were killed by stray arrows and traps. The remaining people were basically all killed in the first few rounds of bombing. A small part of the sixth formation of Xi cavalry outside escaped, and the rest were all devoured by the sea of fire.
Where is Banaya? At the moment when all the troops of the Banye Division were wiped out, although he escaped by hiding on the pile of corpses and was not swallowed up by the sea of fire, he knew that the situation was over. Even if the Xiqi Allied Forces saw a turn for the better, he was finished with the Battle of the Yemi, and he could only He died here and accompanied his colleagues to Jiuquan, not to mention that he had been hit by several arrows and was unable to recover. In the end, he killed himself with his own saber and fell straight into the sea of fire.
Baiquan, who stood at the highest point and watched all this silently, couldn't help but let out a sigh. He had to say that Batanoya was indeed a general, and his talent was extremely high. When he killed Batanoya before, he was soft-hearted and let him go. He was almost punished by Ye Qingcheng later. Just now, at the moment when all the Banye tribe was annihilated, Banyemi had lost his value. Just when he was hesitating whether to take action or not, Banyemi had already committed suicide, which made him admire him. However, as a mortal, Ba Yemi is indeed worthy of admiration. At least in his opinion, if Li Huaixiu dies, Ba Yemi is the most suitable to become the chief of the Khitan. Under his leadership, I am afraid that the Khitan will become It is even more powerful than when Li Huaixiu was there, but now it is useless to say anything.
After a bombardment by a large trebuchet, the passage from the dock to the Tang Army's camp and the nearby plains were already engulfed in a sea of fire. Fortunately, the Tang Army dug two ditches nearby to limit the fire to one It did not spread within the range, otherwise the area would have been engulfed in flames.
The pier was crowded with the remnants of the six previous formations who had retreated. They now had no fighting spirit. They were all trembling with their horses, and they kept chanting the words "The sky fire is coming, the sky fire is coming". , after all, the scene just now was too terrifying, and it was very likely to leave an eternal shadow in their hearts.
The cavalrymen of the seventh formation were smart enough to only come over a small part, and the rest were still waiting on the other side of the river. They could see the scene clearly, and they couldn't help but feel glad in their hearts that they were a few formations behind. Otherwise, he will die without a burial place like his colleagues before him.
When the news reached Wang Zhongsi, everyone, including him, could not help but be stunned. Even Ye Qingcheng probably did not expect such a situation to arise. In the past history, trebuchets were mostly used in siege battles and city defense battles. Most of the ammunition used were boulders and the like. Such things have great impact and destructive power. For armies with formations, It is said to be a very threatening weapon. If a huge stone hits a crowd, it will cause considerable casualties. But in a place like the Sanggan River, it is not easy to collect huge rocks, so Wang Zhongsi did not pay too much attention to the trebuchet when setting up the defense line at first. However, Huan Chenyu pointed out a way for them in the intelligence sent before. It's kerosene. Yes, as one of the most powerful weapons of their Tang Army, kerosene, even if it is not a huge stone, as long as it is a relatively large stone, after being wrapped in flammable cloth and coated with burning kerosene and thrown out, it can attack the enemy. People cause great damage, and this damage will spread with the fire. Huan Chenyu only said that the fire would spread, but he did not point out that fueled by the night wind on the grassland, the fire would be so violent that tens of thousands of people would be killed by the flames before the Tang army was dispatched. Devoured.
What's more important is that among them, there are probably a thousand or so Tang Army heavy armored infantry who survived the fierce battle with the Xi Qi coalition cavalry. They may not have expected to die in the hands of their own weapons.
What made Wang Zhongsi feel a little confused was that when the Tang army generals in front of him learned that tens of thousands of people had been killed in the Xi Qi coalition and the remaining soldiers had retreated to the dock, except for the old soldier and Li Lin, they all They were all excitedly discussing the power of kerosene and trebuchets, and planned to continue studying this aspect after returning to their respective military towns. However, no one asked about the fallen Tang Army soldiers, which not only made him shake his head. , I don’t know if it was for the Northern Yi or the Tang army.
