Chapter 2065: The end of the barbarians?
"Attack the whole army! Chase and defeat the enemy. After half an hour, no matter what the result is, return immediately to assemble and continue heading north!"
"No!"
Xue Rengui issued an order to recover.
Being able to withstand the hail of bullets and suffer more than half of the casualties before collapsing and escaping, it is obvious that this is Xue Yantuo's elite. Such an elite must be completely eliminated. Even if it cannot be completely erased, its military morale must be completely defeated.
An army without the belief that it will win is just a ragtag army and is nothing to worry about.
On the contrary, if they are allowed to return to Mobei and make a comeback after regrouping, they will definitely be in trouble.
Therefore, even if it was delayed for some time, Xue Rengui still issued the order to pursue and suppress without hesitation, which was to completely cripple this elite force of Xue Yantuo people!
The cavalry guarding the two wings of the musketeers received the order, and immediately dispersed in groups of three and five, and began to chase and suppress the fleeing Xue Yantuo soldiers. Almost all of Xue Yantuo's soldiers dismounted and formed a formation, trying to use Han fighting methods to deal with the Han cavalry. However, the strategy that they thought was sure of success collapsed instantly. Nearly 20,000 elite soldiers were defeated and were driven away by the Tang army without even a chance to mount their horses. Cattle and sheep were generally divided, surrounded, and brutally slaughtered.
On the river, in the wilderness, under the heavy snow, the Xueyantuo people ran and cried, but they had no way to go to the sky and no way to the earth. They were overtaken by the Tang army's cavalry one by one and slaughtered mercilessly.
The white snow was filled with bright red blood and was covered with broken corpses.
It's like hell on earth!
On the north bank of the Nuozhen River, Qibukele, who was on horseback, felt his eyes go dark, shook his body, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
He knew that with the annihilation of the twenty thousand most elite soldiers of Xue Yantuo, his fate was also sealed.
The strong are respected on the grassland. Only victory can reflect ability and value. Losers will naturally be abandoned and are not worthy of worshiping the gods or living under the sky.
Even if he returns to Yu Dujun Mountain, what awaits him will be suicide.
The entire grassland knows his pride. How can he endure the humiliation and ridicule caused by failure?
What's particularly important is that more than 20,000 elite soldiers are mostly young warriors from the Qibi tribe. Back then, he and Qibi Heli parted ways, splitting the entire Qibi tribe. Qibi Heli took some of his tribesmen to defect to the big army. In the Tang Dynasty, the generation living in Ganzhou and Liangzhou may not be long before they are assimilated into the Han people.
Now he has ruined the rest of the elites in the Qibi tribe...
The Tiele people, who regard the indifferent and ruthless gods as omnipotent gods and the ferocious green wolves as their gods, have never thought of harmony and friendship. In their eyes, there is only survival of the fittest and the law of the jungle. Without these young and strong, the remaining old, weak, women and children will It will become a delicious meal for other tribes such as Bayegu, Huihe, Pugu, etc. There will be a gluttonous feast on the grassland due to the decline of the Qibi tribe. All the wealth of the Qibi tribe, cattle and sheep, will be divided up, and women will be enslaved. , the child will be killed...
Maybe it won't be long before there will be no more Qibi tribe on the grassland.
And he, Qibi Kele, will become the sinner of all Qibi tribe...
"Qu Shuai! Are you okay?"
"Commander Qu, retreat quickly, the Tang army is coming!"
The soldiers around him were shocked when they saw Qibinkele vomiting blood. They stepped forward to check and shouted to persuade him.
Qibi Kele shook his head, took a deep breath, and his stuffy chest felt a little relieved, and then he came back to his senses.
Not far away, the cavalry of the Tang Army were already chasing after them. Their horse hooves as big as bowls crushed the snow and ice on the river, and they looked like thunder with murderous intent!
Once upon a time, cavalry was the most advantageous weapon for the Hu people in the grassland to deal with the Han people. The Han people who lacked horses could only wait to be slaughtered when faced with the highly mobile Hu people.
However, since the emergence of horseshoes, the situation has suddenly changed dramatically.
In the past, the nails of war horses needed to be trimmed frequently. Otherwise, once the long nails broke, the wound would become infected, red, swollen or even suppurative, and the horse would be considered useless. However, after nailing the horseshoes, the growth of the horse's toenails was completely suppressed and the horse's hooves were perfectly protected. Even if it traveled thousands of miles, even if it was a gravel desert, it could still come and go like the wind.
Xue Yantuo had already learned how to nail horseshoes from Tang Jun. After all, this thing is difficult to create and has no technical content.
However, the tragedy is that the people of Xueyantuo do not know how to smelt iron...
The Turks, who are called "forging slaves" by the Rouran people, are the most skilled people on the grassland. However, as the Turks split, some of them surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Ashina Simo, and some of them followed Apok as early as that year. Khan defected to Datou Khan of the Western Turks. In the large area of Mobei controlled by Xue Yantuo, there were not many Turks to be found...
Without Turks, naturally no one would know how to smelt iron.
In fact, not even the Turks.
Xue Yantuo owned more than 200,000 horses?
Even the Turks could not smelt such iron, which was in such huge demand. You need to know that even for the tribe that is said to be the best at smelting iron on the grassland, the weapons forged by the Turks are not enough to use, and a large number of warriors still use sticks when going into battle...
Horseshoes that can protect horse hooves, weapons that spray spark smoke and fire lead bullets...
Each one is the nemesis of the prairie cavalry.
Perhaps from now on, instead of being able to take and take away the Han people as they have done for thousands of years in the past, the grassland peoples must always be on guard against the Han people coming to the grasslands to kill them?
Qibi Kele, who had read many Han military books, knew deeply that the unparalleled feats of Feng Lang Juxu and Le Shi Yanran had a fatal attraction for the Han generals and soldiers. As long as they had the slightest chance, they would become famous. My eyes ran to the grassland, trying to recreate the unparalleled achievements of Changping Liehou and the two champions!
There will never be peace on the grassland...
Seeing the Tang army rushing towards them with murderous intent, Qibi Ke pulled the reins, turned the horse's head, and ordered: "Retreat!"
All the soldiers on the left and right breathed a sigh of relief.
As a private soldier, he naturally knew how stubborn and proud his Qu Shuai was, lest he could not think about it for a while because of the tragic defeat, so he might just commit suicide to apologize.
According to the custom on the grassland, if the master of the family dies in battle, in fact, the slave’s personal soldiers must accompany him to death...
No one wants to die.
Chibi Kele didn't want to either.
Of course, he was not afraid of death, but he thought that today's defeat would inevitably lead to a sharp decline in the status of the Qibi tribe, and it would definitely be bullied and enslaved by other tribes on the grassland, turning the young and strong women into slaves, and the children would be brutally killed and eradicated. How could he die so peacefully?
It is not difficult to die, but what is difficult is to lead the people to bounce back in the face of adversity!
Chibicol has always been proud, so he chose the most difficult path to face the difficult life, instead of killing himself with a sword to gain pleasure.
"Withdraw!"
Qibi Kele roared and rode his horse straight to the north.
Behind him, more than a thousand cavalrymen followed, running like wolves and pigs, running for their lives...
The Tang army pursued and killed Xue Yantuo's elite soldiers for a while, then returned to their position, regrouped, and then led by Xue Rengui, crossed the Nuozhen River and headed straight north!
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Xue Wanche suffered heavy losses at the foot of Wuyang Ridge, especially the Mo Dao Formation, which made Xue Yantuo's soldiers cry for their fathers and mothers and bleed into rivers. When the battlefield was cleaned up after the war, there were corpses, limbs, broken arms, minced meat and organs, and the remains of men and horses. The soldiers of the Tang army couldn't help but vomit.
These corpses must be buried on the spot, otherwise when spring comes and the temperature rises, the rotting corpses will trigger a catastrophic plague that will ravage Shuozhou.
Xue Wanche was very proud of having achieved such a great success, and immediately prepared to go to Dingxiang City as planned in the evening, drinking to cheer up the army and reward the three armies!
However, when he tidied up the battlefield and arrived at Dingxiang City, the news came that made him dumbfounded.
Fang Jun actually went out of his way to attack Mobei? !
Mother!
Who gave him the courage?
Xue Wanche's face turned pale with fright, and he immediately yelled: "Shu Zi! Once you become the commander-in-chief, do you really think that you are the boss and he is the second child? It is simply lawless!"
In the current Tang Dynasty, who doesn’t know that the Eastern Expedition is an unshakable national policy?
Dadushu led his army into the Tang Dynasty and hunted down the allies of the Tang Dynasty. Even though he was defeated, the Tang Dynasty was in control after all, and Xue Wanche also believed that this battle was just Dadushu's brain cramping, and it was definitely not a barbarian attack. The male Khan's order can naturally be alleviated through diplomatic channels afterwards, and it will definitely not cause the two countries to go to war.
But when Fang Jun broke into Mobei, the situation was completely out of control! No matter how much Xue Yantuo could endure, he would never tolerate the Tang army entering their territory unscrupulously!
(End of chapter)